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ONLY A CUP OF
Give it Out in the
Re v. Alex W. Bealei
"And whoaoovcr shall give to drink f
unto one pi these little ones a oup of j
cold watet poly, in the name of a dis-1
ciplo, verily I say unto you he shall
in no wi?e lose his reward."
I had often road these words,
spoken by our .Lord, but not until
last week did I fully appreciate their
meaning. {.*$
It was on the Georgia-Southern and
Florida railroad. As I entered the
coaoh at Maoou I saw several seats
filled with children of different ages,
but, thinking it was only some Geor
gian moving to a new home, I paid
little attention to them. A little girl
was looking out of the window, and s
little boy was playing with a basket
he held in his hands. Those two I
noticed, bat nothing else1' attracted
my attention, as the depot was dark,'
and I could not see very distinctly.
The train pulled out into the Sun
light, and I was soon absorbed in ?be
news of the day, readi?g from ? daily
paper. The voises of the children
sounded in a hum behind me, but I
paid no attention to what they were
talking about. The train pulled up at
the brickyard en the outskirts of
Macon, and I heard, the little girl
say: "This mustbe Cordele. Johnny,
you had better get your things ready,
for when the train stops they won't
wait long." )./[': '$
It was hot Cordele, however, and
the train sped along its way. At the.
next stop the child again cautioned
Johnny to get ready to. leave the
train as soon as the conductor called
Cordele. Tho conductor passed down
the aisle, and th? little girl said:
"Tell us when" we get to Cordele,
'oause that's.where Johnny gets off fo
see his mamra?."
Turning to the conductor with a
smile, I said: "Don't forget to let
It seems to be a matter of life and
death who him. F m afraid ho will
get left." The conductor smiled ,
back at me and continued on his j
way. v7 * j '
We passed yssvoral stations, and
nothing was heard from the little girl.
Suddenly, as We rolled out of one, of
the little villages, I felt a soft hand
on my shoulder, a child's breath on
my cheek and the hair of a little girl
brushing my faoe. At the same time
a child's voice said in my ear in ?
tone of entreaty: "Mister, will you
please tell us when we get tc Oor
dele? You see Johnny, ho ,/ : .? off
at Cordele, and he wants to see his
mamma. We go on down the road to
Moniao."/ \ :
"You just watoh me, little daugh
ter," I said. "I get off at Cordele.
When you see me pick up my grip
and s tar t for the door y ou may know
that we have.reached Cordele.' '
"But I can'fc mister," she said, and
there was.'..'a'tone of sadness in her
voioe, j?Bt a little plaintive quaver.
" 'Cause, you see, I'm blind, and
little Buddy, he's blind, too, and
Johnny; he's blind, too."
With 9 pang of,pity in my heart, ?
turned {and-? looked; It waa j?st as
she had said. The pitiful, helpless
stare of the blind was on ter. little
faoe and on tho faco of. the brother
whp sat on the seat beside her; and
there behind them sat little blind
Johnny, and .behind them weroj ever
bo many more, and they were all I
blind.
It flashed ftoroas my mind in a mo?
went. They were pupils fxoc the
blind academy at Mao?h and they
were going home. The littldgirl was
?ery bright and friendly. Seeing
tbat 1. was interested in her she
told m^; her name and the name of her
brother;: and then she Volunteered the
information that her father
*be lacfttic asylum ?cd that h?r
ffloSher Was working to make a living {s
for her. and her litsle blind: brother
?nd for ?nother brother who w*a at
some and' who could see.
"D.o'Voa over feel that you would
.like %p ?ne?? ?; asked, my-heart
touched with pity at their helpful
ness. . ,
"I can i'iwe;* IltUe bit," ?s?? fcW
i'^^;nls. romog eyes to11
!glorious naj^g^^
-flooding the fields; with bessfey. "?
J*b tell whea we pass the fcughei?.
?ore, /?oir^-.5lfe-; 'aif?. passing some
toehea right now," ?ed a look ?f
^Bmphiwept over his fam.'
: : I sai'::??L9BV:.be8?de' theai' ah3 .they
f??d rae of what,;<Sey had been study
l*?, an?-?f how they woald spend^iie
"m? wn^gVslsy- .g?s home. .ISvery'
and then the little girl with a
?istfai look in her; face would reach
JP her littlo hand *nd psk my oheek.
?irccUy, Ja a timid hort et way, she , f
;ttjea.?^|^foS^iii^: getting her t%
*^nkof:?-r. .U
, I told ?rifc would give mo ple&n- t
[*c.?tbea j; thoagnVtiiie {othmla
COLD WATER.
Master's 2STarae<
ia Atlanta Journal. i
did not want some, too. They all
replied in the affirmative and I felt as
if I were literally fulfilling tho scrip
tural injunction as I watered those
blind children on the train. The
task having been done io the Master's
name, I roscmed my seat in front of
them. Soon I felt the little hand
stroking my face and the little girl
said: "I wish I eonld see." She
caught hold of my cap and tried to
pull my head backward. The cap
came off. She hastily replaced it and
"Said: "Now I've pat your cap baok.'
Then the little hand reached around
and pressed my forehead. I saw what
aho was after. Her ien arm wae on
the back of the seat and she was pull
ing my head back to rest upon it. I
let the head go baok until it rested
on the little arm and there, perfectly
contested,, she stood on her feet happy
in the thought that she was doing
some service to the man who had aid
ed her in giving her the drink of
Water and who had .seemed. to be in
terested in her and her affairs*
It was a strain upon my heok, but I
let the head rest for a few min
utes on the arm and then I said as I
raised up: "Now, I'vebad a good rest.
I must not kesp my head there any
longer. It will tire your arm."
"Oh, no, sir," she said, "it doesn't
tire me. I love for you to rest your
head on ray arm."
She busied herself in looking after
the needs of her little brother and I
settled myself down fora nap. My
head was resting on the. back of the
seat. I felt tho little arms beneath
my head and I permitted her to lift it
up and then, after placing one of her
aims ' on the back of the seat she
gently, with tho other lowered head
upon it and there she stood for five
minutes or more stroking my faoe with
the hand that was at liberty and toll
ing me, in a confidential sort of way
the secrets of the family and the
many useful things she had learned
uf, tLo school in Manon. And she
asked me. all about my little girl and
my boys and I had to tell her how
many dolls they had and how they
pleyed togethr during the long months
of vacation.
I found myself feeling in my pocket
fQr some money. I f ouud two Coins.
They were not large for I had just re
turned from the Southeru Baptist
convention, and that is a great de-1
stroyer of money. My friend, Joe
Win a, of Gainesville, says Peter had
just returned from tho first Baptist
convention, the great meeting at Pen*
teoost, when they said to 'ff?gi beggar:
"Bilvcr and gold have I none." Bo
that as it may, 1 gav4 each one of
them a coin and I was more than re
jjaid for the brightness that lie up
their little yearning faces.
After tawhile the . train was ap
proaohing Cordele and Johnny was in
the hands of the conductor. The
little girl asked me my nameV She
said she wanted t? t?ll 'her. mamma
about mo. I gave her my card and
there was a g?nuine joy in my heart
is I told her and her little brother
S?od-byo, and felt that I had indeed
received a rich a reward in giving
the cop of cold water"only to those
poor little Wind children I mot upon
the train.
- ' -. .
Ye?jt?rday a friend came ) to see me
in my study, a oountry preacher, one
of nature's, noblemen, and ho too was
rejoicing over a cup of cold water
mat he had given in the name of a
lisoiple. He was enjoying his re
gard. ;
Before he, began to preach ho was
(faking on the; railroad. Ho ?vas a
Christian and felt that he n^t honor
lis Lord in every possible way*. He
if as in charge of a section gang, one
hat had'just heen give* tojhina. He
laid nothing the first day but allowed
ho men tb work as they bad been ac?;
lustcme.d to working under the oli
mas. Ho noticed that there was
auch idleness and much profanity
;nd **W where the ssrvi'co could he
lo&aidexably improved. The next day
to called the men - together and told
km ta?? hehad made a new rate,
roers *as to Ibe aore system ia the
rorfc and ^' i^faat^y was to ce a!
wed. Ho told them if they, could
|t ob?y these orders ho waa r^ady to
$y?>eaohman'vuis-iime. After some
Tumbling the men accepted his coa
litions and tho work wont on smooth
s' for ?e long ? time as ho had then*
a^cii?rgeJ;.^ : c., v\V' ?-Hi'Sf' V
tt W6S ? herd thing for this man to
o, to try to honor God among such
oogh men, hixt ho resolved to give
is cup Q? cold water to those with
Fho?u ho came in contact? Hctyon?d,
uavt; rot thorn a good example,
o it was ihat. every aigbt he
gai oot Ms littje toeiameat
e*e in hie caboose on tnc work is*Jn
nd'havoprayer''before he vfenfe to bed.
-sight 'th?.eh^ln^sr and the ftre;
man asked if they might not be allow
ed to join him in prayer. He gladly
ooo sented for they were not Chris
tiane. And every night after that
these three men, before retiring would
bare prayer together in the caboose.
Whenever the captain, as the boys
oalled my friend, would go to bis home
be would gather bis family about him
and lead them to a throne of grace.
He wonld set ?hem a good example if
he could not be with them muoh. Ii
was bis cop of oold water and he glad
; ly gave it in the Master's namo.
j Some months ago he learned that
one of the two men who Joined him in
family )<r>yer dated his conversion to
those little prayer meetings in the
caboose and bis heart was rejoiced.
His boys grew up and went away
from home to work. Recently one of
them, who was a fireman on a freight
train, was killed at Valdoate. He had
professed conversion some years bo
fore, and, as far as the father knew,
wa? leading a consistent life. But
after his death he received a letter
from ' a yo\?.ng man who was a friend
of his boy, one who had roomed with
him and who knew him and loved him
for his true worth. ?
"Ooo night," wrote tho young man,
"when I was propariug to read my
Testament and have prayer before re*
tiring, your boy asked me why he
oould not join me. He said his father
used to do that at home, and he bad
missed it very muoh since be bad
been away from borne. And from
that time forward, as long as we
were together, we always had family
prayer.*'
The father was rejoiced, for be felt
that bis praetioe of having family
prayer was, so to speak, his onp of
water. It had not been in vain, and
he bad not lost bis reward. It was a
reward that, filled his heart with glad
nes? at this dark time in his life.
Friend, look and see in what your
cup of cold water consists, and give it
out to those with whom you come in
contact. Give it oat in the Master's
name, and you shall in no wise lose
your reward.
Science And The Soul.
Science never iney be able to dis
cover and analyse the sonl, but in a
remarkable! oase in New .York the soul
has been awakened in, a human body
by simple surgery.
Jack Hany, although 10 years old
and well developed physically, was un
til two months ago mentally an inf ant,
possessing neither memory nor reason
ing power. His parents had years ago
resigned themselves to tho ornel
belief that Jaok was a hopeleES in- '
beeile. (
The ether day a physician discover- '
ed that JaeVa brain was not diseased, <
but that it was not properly connected
with the spinal cord, and all that .
wonld be required to restore arrested -
development would be to o?cot the
necessary union of cells. By OBteo- 4
pathio manipulation this is being slow
ly accomplished and the light of trea
son is'dawning upon the life along eon- 1
fined in the dark. "' , (
The boy is - rapidly learning the al- 1
ph?bet, finds his Way. about alone and 1
takes keen delight in tho unfolding of *
the world that was.dead to him. The 1
mind and soul born 16 years after th? f
body are becoming normal. f
Science has penetrated the veiled J
mysteries and solved one of the deep- 5
Bst seorets of Rife. '
The field of benefit to mankind in J
this direction is unlimited. Millions '
of demented and deficient little ob.il- ?
3ren suffer bondage in darkness from '
which science may yet find the way :
bo set them free. !
/ For the man who has unbalanced or *
shattered his brain by wrong living e
there may be no hope. > But if the in- *
locont little ones may have their minds c
?nd Boxifc opened to the light science 1
7?H have. done incalculable service. *
--Atlanta Journal, j
Owner of fine Apples. ||
Horace Parks, of Knssell, sometimes .s
tailed the sage of Russell, station c
tgont at thai village longer than any ?
>thsr man in a similar post in the om- c
rtoy.of the B; & A. railroad, took his r
ittlc grandson down on bin farm one M
Sunday afternoon after the boy had M
?tnrned from Sunday school, to show de
tist an apple tree that had been bear- a
eg fruit fer tho ?rai time.
On the way to the orchard the little
ellow asked, "Whom do thesb neide f
net woods belcng to, grandpa?'* ")m 8
"Why, to me," replied the grand- j *
* 'No, sir," <jraph?tioally replied the
oy; "tfcay belong to God."
The grandfather said nothing till
hey reached the apple tree, vvbsn be
aid: "Well, my boy,- whom foes
his #*e.belong to?" ?
"T^jiis was a poser, and for a moment
he boy hesitated, bot casting a lo&g- 0
sg look upon the apples, be replied: .e
'Well, graa?pi,-??? tree belongs tv V
iod, but tho apples are ours."??os- 11
an Herald. f
? Many men try to find the de- b,
erving poor by looking in a mirror. c'
? Happiness would bo 'bjjtab with- ?
at sow?" ib? background. *1
. A : rotherly religion will not ! avo f'
An Experiment in Negro Labor.
A dispatch from Wadcsboro, North
Carolina, to the New York Press an
nounces that George Singleton, "a New
Jersey millionaire," has given a con
tract for tho erection of a large silk mill
at that place. It ia proposed, accord
ing to the correspondent of the Press,
to operate the mill exclusively by ne
gro labor; and he adds that "this is
the first mill in the South to employ
negroes." If by "the first mill" the
correspondent meant the first silk mill,
he may for all we know be right; but
if his words aro to be taken in their
broader application, his assertion is
entirely without foundation.
There was a cotton mill in North
Carolina, whioh was built and operat
ed exclusively by negroes. Here in
Charleston, as all of our readers aro
aware, negro labor was at one time em
ployed exclusively in a cotton mill
and there have been, we believe, sev
eral other experiments of the kind
made in other parts of the South.
If; is said in tho dispatch to the
Press thst "the negroes are deserting
the farms and cotton fields for em
ployment in the towns and cities,"
and the "New Jersey promoters believe
suoh labor will prove satisfactory in
the mills." As a matter of fact suoh
experiments as have been made along
this line up to the present have led
toaoontrsry conviction. Time will
doubtless bring changes, but for the
present the negroes who are flocking
to the towns and cities from the cot
ton fields are as totally unqualified to
do the skilled tabor of the factories as
a tribe of Simians would be. Even
the members of their race who have
made some progress in the industrial
arts appear yet awhile to be lsoking
in some of the requisites thst go to
the making cf satisfactory and
effioiont mill help.
Experiment's suoh as the one con
templated at Wadeshoro are always
interesting. We are glad to see them
made by New Jersey or other million
aires who have a mind to make them.
As a matter of faot the exodus of the
negroes from the farms and ootton
fields to the oitiea and towns of the
South is tobe deplored from the stand
point of the negroes, from that of the
planters who need their services and
from thai of the communities in whioh
they congregate. But since' such an
exodus is in progress in spite cf rea
son and the interests of all persons
concerned, intelligent efforts to pro
vide employment for the negroes un
der their ehanging condition of hab
itation should not exoite, antipathy.
For our own part we shall watch the
results of the Wadesboro experiment
carefully and with keou interest, but
we do not anticipate oonspicnous suc
cess for it; nor do we expeot to see it
have any startling influence upon our
present system of mill operation.?
News and Courier.
Moonshiners Barely. Quit,
Col. Amos Owens, of Cherry Moun
tain, Rutherford County, was arrest
3d week- before last for retailing and
taken before a United States com
missioner at Rutherfordton. . The
wlonel has been in the Federal court
more thab a dozen times for moon
ihining. We are under the impres
sion that he has also served one or
two terms in tho Albany penitentiary
[or this offense.
/ But. the illicit traffic in liquor,
irhether in making or selling it, or
joth, has fasoination for men, and
lot many who engage in moonshinicg
init the illicit traffic permanently.
Their stills are broken up, but they
it onoe rig up others, sometimes one
s acquitted, on trial, and he goes
ttraightway from the courthouse back
;o the business; others, having been
lonvicted, serve out their sentence?
tad as soon as they get home seoute
m "outfit and go at it again. They
ake tremendous chances, but when
hey lose their operations are only
ntermpted?-only suspended until
iberty and opportunity wait on them
gain. It ia akin to the passion that
ards hold for the gambler; the habit
s as strong as that whioh morphine
stablishes upon the dope fiend or
a'za upon the liquor drinker. It is
jvery curious perversion, but any
ffioer of a United States court in a
ioOnshine district will verify these 1
Ut?ments.?Charlotte Observer.
|??A;?an,vV?^-^,:fw, *<i doctor <
nd a' ,woraeu her. '*v?rite preacher,
ut who ever XV < of any one having ?
favorite ?&ui?t r [ i
|? ?ISEA8E
_
The ideal breeding place for die
sse flores ia a weak storaaoh and
igestive ?[syaiern. The food, i t. stead
f beings assimilated, turns; into a
our, slimy, formettiag mass, eaua
jg gases, distress after eating, blrat
lg, nsneea and flatulency. The
oisonous germs that are given off
ora this undigested food enter the
bod, ami pimples, boils; and blotch- I
i skin is the result. Nervousness i
ad sleeplessness come more often
:om weakened digestion than from
ay other one cafcso.
No ordinary food ?digestive can give
A Collar Button.
A man advertising a trick collar
button has kopt a crowd about an un
tenanted store on a Broadway oorner
f r several days. Ho stands in tbo
window in bis shirt sleoves in front of
a looking glass as if dressing. First
he puts up a sign, "The Old Way."
He starts to put on a oollrr with an
old fashioned button. One end catch
es on easily. Then he begins strug
gling with the other buttonhole. It
won't slip over the button. He
wrenches and twists it. His faoe is
puckered up into an expression of
rage. His lips visibly givo utterance
to a concentrated "damn." He looks
at his watob; panio appears in his
eyes. He tries again. He writhes as
if he had a stomach ache. He danoes
in fury. His lips indioate whole
volumes of profanity. A> last be
dashes collar and button on the floor
and oollspses in an attitude of hope
less exhaustion.
Then he puts up the sign "The Now
Way."
This time he puts one hand behind
his back and with the other slips the
buttonholes into plaoe with the ease
and grace of a prestidigitator.
When he gets through at least half
a dosen people always make for the
door to buy.
"I thing I'll have to get a dosen of
them for Leo," said a fat woman to
i her friend as they joined the stream
after one of the performances. "He
aots just like that every morning, and
I'm afraid he'll give himself apoplexy
some day."?New York Sun.
Bot The Best of Sen. Butler.
During his boyhood Benjamin F.
Butler was a frequent visitor in the
town of Nottingham, N. H., where
an unole resided, and among the many
stories related of him is one concern
ing his examination of Fat Murphy, a
looal character.
Tim Dolan had been accused of sell
ing liquor, and the proseoution sum
moned Pat to testify in the case.
Now Pat was a job teamater, and But
ler endeavored to make him admit
that he had delivered liquor to the de?
fendant.
Butler aakc?. "Did you ever take
any froight from the railroad office
and deliver to Tim Dolan?"
"Yis. sor."
"Part of this freight was a barrel,
wasn't it?"
"Yis, sor."
"Pat, whaWas in that barrel?"
"I don't know, sor!"
"Don't know! Wasn't the barrel
marked?"
"Yis, sor."
"Then how dare you tell the court
that you don't know what was in it?"
'Because, sor, the barrel was mark
ed Tim Dolan on one end and bourbon
whisky on the other. How the devil
did I know whioh was in it?"?-Boston
Herald.
.... His Reference.
In the course of a conversation be
tween two men at the club last night
one of them jokiogly remarked that
man with "cheek" could get anything
he desired, and he backed up his
statement with the following story:
One Of his friends, a merchant, had
advertised for a porter. A.big, burly
Irishman applied for the job. After
looking him over the merchant was
satisfied with, his appearance. The
only objeotion was the question of
referenoeB and the Irishman did not
seem to have a very good one. "Can
you get no better roferenoe than
this?" asked the merchant. "Oh,
yis, son I kin git yo the very best
kind of a wan if teat's all ye want,
sor, and I don't have to go'far for it
either. Mo father and me mother,
sor, live down the sthrate, and they've
known me all me life."
And he landed the job.
? Even a miser will give you ad*
vice freely.
? Neve** judge the covers of a box
by its contents.
? A spoiled child is to be pitied
more than its parents. -
? Some men sre born' great and
become little of their own accord.
? When a man kees his. own conn'
Bel he hasn't muoh use for a lawyer.
? If haste makoi waste district
messenger boys will never come to
? Frequently aehorns girl's sua
sses depends upon her understand
lag.. ?
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Mr. R. E. Jone?, buyer for Parker & Bridget, whose large department stores are located a*}
?th 8t. and Penn. Avo., WaahluKUm, D. C., writes us, under dato of April 14th. 1901, as follow*?
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FOB SALE BY EVANS PHARMACY.
Wanted to Buy,
Good, Flat Land, in good state
of cultivation and well im- <*
proved..
Wanted to
132 acres, Hall Township?40 acres in bottom lands that will yield 10?$)
bushels corn. Fair improvement.
148 acres, Savannah Township, known as Evergreen place. Well ink
proved, good orchard.
84 acres, Hopewell Township. Tenant house, barn, &c. 45 acres 1st
cultivation, balance woods aud old fields.
152 acres, Beek Mills Township. Price ?1200.
96| acres, Broadway Township. Well improved. Price $2500
87i acres, Varennes Township?improved.
200 acres, Fork Township.
JOS. J, FKETWELL*.
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THE SOUTH S GREATEST SYSTEM I
Unexcelled Lining Car Service.
Through Pullman Sleeping Cars on alLTrains?:
ConvenientlSchednles on all Local Trains
WINTER TO?BIST RATES are now injetfect to all FloridaVPoia.a
For full information as to rates, routes, etc.,f[con8ult|,neareat Southern
Railway Ticket Agent, or
W. HUNT, Division Passenger Agent, Charleston, S, Ct
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ONE CAR OF HOG FEED.
Have just received one Car Load of HOG FEED
(Shorts) at veiy close prices. Come before they are
all gone. Now is the timo for throwing?
LIM?
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V Around your premises to prevent a ease of fever or
some other disease, that will cost you very much more
. than the price of a barrel of Lime ($1.00.) We have
a fresh shipment in stock, and will bo glad to tend yon
tome* If yon contemplate building a barn or any;
other building, tee us before buying your? *.
GEWEBT aad 1111%
As wo sell the very best qualifies only.
O? D. ANDER8??V
