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1 r <L THE EYKOK A NEEDLE V DR. TALMAGE SPEAKS FOR WOM- ** EN WHO TOIL. Vti* t«n«l t|i«- III'Kltt nf ||<hIj *«i<l ^onl 1 |>«»n IIm* 1«.i« l\ >I«‘Iii»ihI Wntn- m\ W lli^li« «t Atlorii- Br<v*ki.yx, .1 u»«*IL—H< v. T. Witt TalniiiK*', who is now on his round tin* World journey, Inis chosen ;is fln snhjcct for today “Martyrs of the Needle,” tin* t^xt heintf Matthew xix, •Jl, “It is waxier for a camel to through the «*ye t/f a needle. ” Whether this “eye of the needle” lx* the small pate at the side of the bin •rate at the entrance nf the wall of the ancient city, as is generally interpreted, or the eye of a needle such as is now handled in sewing a garment 1 do not say. In either case if would be a ti)»ht tiling for a camel to «o thron^h the eye of a needle. Hut tin re are whole cara vans of fatigues and hardships piiu*' rtimuKh the eye of the sewing woman’s lieeille. Very lon^» apo the needle was busy. It was considered honorable for women H> toil in olden time. Alexander the (Ireat stood in his palace showinp par- inenfs made by his own mother. T he flnest tajM'Stries at IJayeux wiri'*T..ade by the fpieen of William the('on«|ueror. Augustus, the emperor, would not wear •nv pariueiits except those that were fashioned by some member of his royal family. S> h ) the toiler everywhere lie respected! The greatest blessinp that could have happened to our lir. t parents was 1m*- inp turned ont of Kilen after they had done wrong. Adam and Kve, in their perfect state, might have pot along without work or only such slight em ployment as a ]M*rfect garden, with no weeds in it, demanded, lint as soon as they hud sinned the In'st thing for them was to 1m* turned out where they would have to work. We know what a wither ing thing it is for a man to have noth- ingto do. (ommI old As1»1m*1 (ireen, at fourscore years, when asked why he kept on working, said, “I do so to keep ont of mischief.” We sec that a man who has a large amount of money to start with has no chance. Of the thon- annd prosperous and honorable men that yon know, il'.ti* had to work vigorously at the lN*ginniug. Tlie Idle XVoiimn. But I am now to tell you that indus try is just as imjiortant for a woman's safety and happiness. The most unhap py women in our communities today are those who have no engagements to call them up in the morning; who, once having risen and breakfasted, lounge through tie* dull foretuMiti in slipjMTS down at tin* heel and with disheveled hair, reading the last novel, and who, having dragged through a wretched foreniMiii and taken their affermMiit x’.ccp, and having spent an hour and a half at their toilet, pick up their eardeaso ipirt go out to make rails, and who pasn thcly evenings waiting for somelMsly to conn* in and break up the monotony, AralM-lla Stuart never was imprisoned in mi dark a dungeon as that, There is no happiness in an idle wom an. It may 1m* with hand, if may Iw with hrain, if may 1m* with fiMit, lint r work sin* must or be wretelusl forever. The little girls of our families must Is* started with that idea. The rurse of our American soeiety is that our voting women are taught that tin*first, second, third, fourth, tifth, sixth, seventh, tenth, fiftieth, thousandth thing in tkeir life is to get so'.aeliiMly to fake care of them. Instead of that the first lesson should 1m* how, under <;<m1, they may take care of themselves. The simple fact is that a majority of them do have to take rare of themselves, and that, Mmi, after having, through the false no tions of their parents, wasted the years in which they ought to have learned how Kueccssfully to maintain them selves. We now and here declare the inhumanity, cruelty and outrage of that father and mother who pa" their daugh ters into woiii^^hkmI. having given them no facility for earning their liveli- IiimmI. Mine, de Stael said, “If is not these writings that I am proud of, hut the fact that I have facility in 10 occu pations, in any one of which ] could make a livelih<Mid. ” A Won I to l'ar«'iit<*. Yon say you have a fortune to leave them. Oman and woman, have yon not learned that, like vultures, like hawks, like eagles, riches have wings and fly away? Though yon should 1m? successful in leaving a competency 1m- hind yon, the trickery of executors may swamp it in a night, or some elders or deacons of our churches may get up fictitious company and induce your or phans to put their money info if. and |f it Is* lost prove to them that it was eternally decreed that that was the way they were to lose it, and that it went in the most ortInmIox and heavenly style. Oh, the damnable schemes that pro. fessed Christians will engage in—until tiiMl puts his fingers into the collar of the hypocrite's toIm* and rips it clear down to the bottom! Yon have no right, Isenuse you are well off, to conclude that your children are going to 1m* as well off. A man died, leaving a large fortune. His son fell dead in a Phila delphia grogshop. His old comrades came in and said as they l»*nt over his corpse, “What is the mutter with you, Boggscy?” The surgeon standing over him said: “Hush up! He’s dead!" “Ah, he is dead!” they said. “Come, Imys, let ns go and take a drink in memory of poor Boggsey!” ^Hnve you nothing better than money ^ve your children? If you have not, f< send your daughters into tin? world with empty brain and unskilled hand, yon are guilty of assassination, homi cide, regicide, infanticide. There are women toiling in our cities for and f 4 per week who were the daughters of merchant princes. These suffering ones now would 1m* glad to have the crumbs that once fell from their fathers’ table. That woniout, broken sIkm* that sho wears is the lineal descendant of the |I2 gaiters in which her mother walked, •nd that torn and faded calico had an cestry of magnificent brocade that swept Broadway clean without any ox- \ pense to the street commissioners. , Though you live in an elegant residence and fare sumptuously every day, let your daughters feel it is a disgrace to them not to know how to work. ( de- popm-c the idea, prevalent in siM*iety, that, thoggh our young women may em broider slippers and crochet and make piats for lam|i^ to stand mi without flisgraee, the idil of doing anything for a livelihood is / ^mirahle. It is a •h/ ue fur a to a large tuuiny, to lie ii;< inee iu wnen the father toils his life away lor her support. It i> a shame fora daughter to he idle while b* r motl-ir foils at tim washtiib. It i- as boa. ;!.!* t > ,-wi p house, make 1* ds er tiini hat-as it is to twist a watch chain. I'inicjftl Notion'*. As far its 1 .can understand, the line of respectability lies between that which is iwtul and that v ab h is n^e less. If wnricn do that \ ii<*’,i is of no value, their work is houo*, ;b!e. If tlmy do practical work, it is di.-hot orable. That our young women may e.-< po the censure of doing dishonor;*Ido work 1 shall particularize. You may knit a tidy for the back of an armchair, but by no means make tin* money wberev. itIt to buy the chair. You may, with delieatc brush, beautify a mantel ornament, but die rather than earn enough t>> bay a marble mantel. You may learn artistic niiisic until yon can sipiall Italian, but never sing “Ortonville or ' <>11 Hun dred.” Do nothing practical if yon would in the eyes of retim’d society pre serve votir respeetabiMty. I scout these finical notions. I tell you no woman, any mure than man. has a right to oc cupy a place in this world nnh ss site pays a rent for it. In the course of a lifetime y. u con sume whole harvests and drov s of i* p- th*. and every day you live hr atlm to hogsheads of good pure air. N mi must by some kind of usefulness pay for all this. < >ur race was the last th.ng eri at- *■1—the birds and fishes on the foirth day, the eiittle and lizards on th<* liltli day and man on the sixth day. If geol ogists tire right, the earth was a million of years in the possession of the in-* ••ts. Insists and birds before our rare came n|mui it. In one sense we w n* inno vators. The cattle, the lizar 's and the hawks had pre-emption right. The question is not what we are to do with the lizards and summer iiis-rts, but what the lizards and summer inserts are to do with ns. If we want it place in Ibis world, we must earn it. The parti due mala s its own nest before it occupies jg Tin* lark by its morning songi-ams its break fast before it eats it. To J’ible gives an intimation that the ti* t d iy of an idler is to starve when it ay-if he “will not work neither shall !i *cat.” Idleness ruins the health, and \a ry soon natm says: "This man ha- r* fu < d t** pay his rent. Ont xvitli liiiii!” Til. Toil of tin* Woiltr. SiK*iety is to be reeoiistrueted on the subje<*t of woman's toil. A \ a-t iicijnrity of those wit'i would have woman indus trious shut her up to a few kinds of work. My judgment in this matter is that a Woman has a right to do anything she can do well. There shmild be node partment of merchandise, nierehani: in, art <>r science barred agaiii.-f her. If Miss Ilosnier has genius for sculpture, give her a chisel. If Rosa Bonheur has a fondness for delineating animals, let her make “The Horse Fair." If Miss Mitchell will study astronomy, let her mount the starry ladder. If l.ydia will 1m* a merchant, let her sell purple. If Lnerctia Mott will preach the gospel, let her thrill with her womanly cliM|ticiicc the Quaker meeting house, It is said if a woman i-. given stteli opportunities she will occupy places that might bo taken by men. I say if sin* have more skil• and aduptedm -s for any position than a man ha L t her have it. She has as much right to her bread, to her apparel and to her home as men have. But it is said that her nature issodeli- eatc that she is unfitted for exhausting foil. I ask in the of all |ia>r hi- tory what foil on eartb i-, more severe, exhtmsting and treim tideus than that toil of the needle to which for ages she has been subjected? Tin* battering ram, flu* sword, tho carbine, the battle- ax, have made tc» siteli havoc as the needle. I would that these living sepul chers in which women have for ages Im'cii bnried might be opened, and that some resurrection trumpet might bring up these living corpse- to the fresh aw and sunlight. (»o with me, and 1 Nvill show von a woman who by hardest toil -uppurts her children, her drunken husband, her old father and mother, pays her house rent, always has wholesome food on the table, and when she can get some neighbor on the Kahhath to conic in and take rare of her family appears in rlinn U with hat and cloak that are far from indicating the toil to which she i- subjected Tri;iN of WniiMMi. Such a woman as that lias body and soul enough to tit her for any position. She could stand beside tin* majority of your salesmen and dispose of morn giMids. She could go into your wheel wright shops and beat one half of your Workmen at making carriage.-. We t ; ,]k alMiut woman as though \ve had r<-igned to her all the light work, and ourselves had shouldered the heavier. Rut tin* day of judgment, which will reveal tin* suf ferings of the .-take and inquisition, will marshal before the throne of Cod and the hierarchs of heaven the martyrs of washtuh and needle. Now, 1 say, if there 1»* any prefer ence in (M-cupation, let woman have it. (iod knows her trials are the severest. By her aeuter sensitivene-s to misfor tune, by her hour of anguish, J demand that no one hedge up her pathway to a livelihiMMl. <>h, the meanness, the de- spicability of men n ho beg nidge a wom an the right to work anywhere in any honorable calling! 1 go still further and say that women should have equal conqu-u-tition with men. By what principle of justice is it that women in many of our cities get only two-thirds as much pay as men, and in many*cti-es only half? Here is the gigantic injustice—that for work equally well if not better done woman m’eives far leitMeonipcnsatrou t hail man. Start with the national government. For a) mg while women clet k- in Wash ington got ss'.ioo for doing that for which men received*l,son. To thou -nd - of youii ’ worn' n i i on cities fiMliiv there i - on 1 v tlos ale rna! i ve —starvation or dishonor. Manv of the largest mereantile establtshni' nf;of our cities are accessory to tb* -e abomina tions, and from tln ir large i -tabli-b- nienfs there tire score of souls being pitched off into death, and their cm- ' ploycrti know it! Tli«' of Woliiiiiilioofl. Is there a < Iod/ Will tliere be ;i judg ment? I tell you, if < iod rise- up to re dress woman's wrongs, many of our (nrge establishment-; will b* -w:illow* d pp quicker than a South \mrriean earthquake ever took tlown ,w itj» (iod will catch tlc se opjiri ■ •n - b i"^. n thi i two millstones of his wrath and grind j them to jMiwder! | hear from till this land tho wail of J u'ooooiIhmmL Man hits notljqjg to an- *44*44* D swer to that wail but llatteries. Ho says she is an ang' l. She is not. She knows she is not. Sin is a human being, who gets hungry when sin* lias no food and cold when she has no lire, (live her no more flatteries, (live her justice! There are about .V>.000 sewing girls in New York and Brooklyn. Across the darkness of this night I hear their death groan. It is not such a cry as comes'-* from those who are suddenly hurled out of life, hut a slow, grinding, horrible wasting away, (iather them before you and look into their faces, pinched, ghast ly, hunger struck! Lssik at their lingers, noodle pricked and blood tipjNsl! See that premature stoop in the shoulders! Hear that dry, hacking, merciless cough! At a large meeting of these women, held in a hall iu Philadelphia, grand speeches were delivered, hut a needle woman took the stand, threw aside her faded shawl, and with her shriveled arm hurled a very thumh-rlmlt of elo quence, speaking out tho horrors of her own experience. A I’lrture. Stand at the corner of a street in New Yniiv in the very early morning as the women go to their work. Many of them had no breakfast <*xcept the crumbs that were left over from the night before ora rrust tlmy chew* on tln ir way through the streets. Here they eonie—the work ing girls of tin* rify! These engaged in beadwork, these in flower making, in millinery, enameling, cigar making, liookbinding. labeling, feather pieking, print coloring, paper l«>x making, hut, most overworked of all and least compensated, the sew ing women. Why do they not take tin* city cars on their way up? They rannot afford the 5 cents. If, coin hiding to deny herself something else, sin* gets into tin* ear, give her seat. You want to see how Latimer and Ridley appeared in the tire. Look at that woman and behold a morn horrible martyrdom—a hotter tire, a more agonizing death. One Sabbath night, iu the vestibule of my church, after service a woman fell in convulsions. Tin* diM*tor said she needed medicine not so much as some thing to eat. As sin* began to revive, in her delirium sin* said gaspingly: “Eight cent-! Eight cents! Eight cents! 1 wish I could get it done! 1 am so tired! 1 wish I could get some sleep, hut 1 must get it done! Eight cents! Eight cents!'’ We found afterward that she was making garments at H cents apiece, and that she could make but three of them in a day. Hear it! s are l! Hear it, men who have back upon the useless, giggling, paint ed nonentity which s<M*icty ignominious- ly acknowledges to lie a woman and ask (iod to make yon a humble, active, earnest Christian. A I wlrsM I,if*-. What will become of this gislless dis ciple of fashion? What an insult to h**r sex! Her manners arc an outrage upon There tin* XO.tMMI pupils in the pllldie schools of (ieriuany who st utter. The I lent Mum - for the |.«*iii>t .Money, I* tunes women Tim and homes! Some of the worst villains of the city are the employers of th>*se women. They beat them down to the last jM'imy and try to cheat them out of that. The woman must deposit s| or>jc* lM*foreshe gets the garments to Work on. When the work is done, it is sharply inspected, the most insignificant flaws picked out and the wages refused, ami sometimes the £1 deposited not given back. The Women’s Evufectivo union reports a ease where one of these poor souls, find ing a place where sin* could get more w ages, resolved to change employers and went to get her pay for work done. The employer says, “I hear you are going to leave me?" “Yes,” she said, “and 1 have come to get what yon owe me.” He made no answer. She said, “Are you not going to pay me?” “Yes,” he said, “1 will pay you,” and he kicked her down stairs. Wmiiimii \*;ailisf \Vi>m«-*i. How art* these evils to lie eradicated? What have you to answer, you who sell coats anti have >hiM*s made anil con tract for th<* southern ami western mar kets? What he Ip is there, what panacea, what redemption? .Some say, “(live women the ballot. ” What effect such ballot might have on other questions 1 am not here to discuss, hut what would Ik* the effect of female suffrage uimhi woman's wages? 1 do not Im-Hcvc that woman will ever get justice by woman's ballot. Indeed women oppress women as much ns men tin. Do not women as much its men beat down to the lowest figure the woman who sews for them? Arc not women its sharp as men on washerwomen ami milliners anti man- tua makers? If a woman asks $1 for her work, does not her female employer ask if she will not take Do cents? You say, "Only 10 cents difference. ” But that is sometimes flu* difference between heav en and hell. Women often have less commiseration for women than men. If it woman steps aside from the path of virtue, man may forgive—woman never! Woman will never get justice done her from woman's ballot. Never will she get it from man's bal lot. How, then? (hid will rise up for her. (iod has more resources than wo know of. Tin* flaming swortl that hung tit Eden's gate when woman was driven out will cleave with its terrible edge her oppressors. A Sour* ** of st r<-ii|ft It. But there is something for our wom en to do. Let our young ]>eoph* prepare to excel in spheres of work, and they will Ik* able alter awhile to get larger wages. If it he shown that a woman can in a store sell more giMMls in a year than a man, she will soon l»e able not only to ask hut to demand more wages, itiul to demand them successfully. I'n- skilled ami incompetent lalMir mu* > take what is given. Skilled and competent labor will eventually make its own standard. Admitting that the law of supply and demand regulates these things, I contend that the demand for skilled laltor is very great and th. sup ply very small. Start with the idea that work is hon orable and that you can do some one thing better than . ny one else. Re-olve that, (*od helping, you will take care of yourself. If yon are after awhile called into another relation, yon will all the better be qualified for if by your spirit of self reliance, or if you are call- t il to stay as ymi are you can Im* happy ami self supporting. Roots art* fond of talking al/out man as an oak anti woman the vim* that climbs it, hut I have seen many a tree fall that not only went down itself, hut tiMik all the vines with if. I ean tell you of something stronger than tin o;»k lor an ivy to climb on, and that is the throne of tin* great Jehovah. Singh* or afliaiieod, that woman is strong who leans on God and does her lM*sf. The needle may break, the factory hand may slip, the Wage- may fail, hut over every giMMl woman's head there tire spread the (wo great, gentle, stii|M*n*loiH wings of the Almighty. Many of you will go single handed through life, and you will have to choose, lift ween twoeharaeters. Young I am sure von will turn vo**** decency. She is more thoughtful of the attitude she strikes upon the carpet than how she will ltM*k in the judgment, more worried nliout her freckles than her sins, more interested iu her bonnet strings than iu her redemption. Her ap parel is the poorest part of a Christian woman, however magnificently dressed, and no one has so much right to dress well as a Christian. Not so with the gtMlh*ss disciple of fashion. Take her ro!k‘S, and you take everything. Death will come down on her some day, and rub the bistre off her eyelids, and the rouge off her ch«*eks, and with two rough, bony hands scatter spangles and glass Iteads and rings and ri bis tin and lace and brooches and buckles and sashes and frisettes ami golden clasps. The dying actress whose life had 1m*cii vicious said: “The seem* rinses. Draw the curtain.” Generally the tragedy comes first and th** farce afterward, hut in her life it was first the farce of a use less life and then the tragedy of a wretched eternity. A M**tli**r In l»nwl. Compare the life ami death of such a one with that of some Christian aunt that was once a blessing to your house hold. 1 do not know that she was ever offered a hand in marriage. She lived single, that uiitr:imm<*led she might 1m* rvrrylKHly’s blessing. Whenever the sick were to 1m* visited or flu* ]mm>r to 1m< provided with bread, sin* went with a blessing. She could pray or sing “R*M*k of Ages” for any sick paii]M rwlm asked her. As sin* got older then* wen* days when she wtis a little sharp, hut for the most part auntie was n suntM-am—just the one for Christmas eve. Sin* knew lM*tter than any one else how to fix things. Her every prayer, as GimI heard it, was full of every I tody who hud trou ble. Tin* brightest things iu all the house dropjied from her fingers. Sin* had iM*culiur notions, hut the grandest notion sin* ever had was to make you happy. She dressed well—auntie al ways dressed well—hut her highest adornment was that of a meek and quiet spirit, which iu the sight of G<*1 is of great price. When sin* died, you all gathered lovingly alMtuf her, and as you carried her out to rest the Sunday comfortable *sc}usil class almost coverts! the coffin with juponicus, ami the jsior jssiph* sftKMl at the end nf tin* alley, wth their aprons to fh**ir eyes, sobbing 'utterly, and the man of the world said, with Solomon, "Her price was alsive rubies," and Jesus, ns unto the maiden in Jtuhca, commanded, “I say unto tins*, arise!*’ - _ /g® [B^m. Mr. George W. Tuley Beniamin, Missouri. Good Advice Quickly Followed Curwd of Rheumatism by Hood’s Sarsaparilla. "C. I. Hotxl L ( '«., Lowell, Ma<n.: "I was taken tlown with rheumatism over • year ago. I was sh*k for over six months Often I would have such pains that I could hardly endure them. A friend came to ins and advised me to trj Hood's Sarsaparilla. 1 took Mm at Ms wont ami cot a hottle of it, and sines lists taken eight hotiles of it. It Has Cured Me Wfcsn the do<*tors could do in** no good what- stsr. After being hendlted so much from this msdleln* I describe Hood's Sarsaparilla as a wsaderhil in.v'ioinc. I also advise every ons Who It troubled with rheumatism not to l>s with- HoodVp>Cures sat Hood's Sarsaparilla. I am a farmer, and the msdlclno lias given me much energy and strength to perform my work." (H'okok W. Tvlit, Benjamin. Missouri. Mood’s Pills are hand made, and perfect la proportion and uppearuiiet'. "V. a boa. M iss i iphelia Iasi week, in AIsii ghnl Im Works Always. Tin* import lining of beggars is be coming an tmmitigutcil miisanee. At aiiv hour of t In* night or early morn ing one is not exempt from thisafllic- lioit. l Hie of Ihese gent ry Iackle*l a hem *vole til - look lug woman o*i Main sireel. As she litttnleil ti n e*nls In him from a well-fille I poekelbook she remarked: ' You are the fifth man who has braced me within two blocks. “You are gnnd-lnok i ng enough, ma'am, lo be embraced,” was lln* ready rejoinder, ami tin* benevo lent-looking old lady smiled as she walked aw ay. Evident ly gallant ry is not one of l In* lost art s. Algood News Notes. [('orrespotnleliee of Tut: I.i:im:i i;. | Ai.oimhi. S. Jiine 1.—Mi«s Rox ana Gardener, who has been at Glen dale for -auiif time, is til home now. Mrs. II. I’arris is visiting her daughter. Mrs. Jim Moore. Mrs. Enwlcr. nf Greenville, i-paving her daughter. Mrs. Win. Gardner, a visit. \\ e are glad to set Young, w ho wits sick tbe seo<droom again know that Nannie Harris is able to lake her place in her classes again. The Corinth nine met a nine, which called itself 1 'ow pens, and had a match game of hall. The game was played near Mr. A. S. Waters'. Cor inth gained the victory, but Cow pens look tin* tho defeat like gentlemen. Mr. Leo Smll lidoesn't intend that his neighbors who have boon buying organs, etc., sball gel ahead >f him along the music lino. He received last week, not tin organ, but an Etc. Si i t here is Music in the liniisc, music in tin* bouse. Music at Mr. Smith s b\ a baby's mouth. Mr. and Mrs Smith, of course, think a great deal of their musical insl riimcnt. Farmers who have wheat should remember that Mr. A. S. Walters, by t be roller process, ean make as large, if not a larger quantity from the sumo wheat, and a better quality of flour tban any other mill. Try him with a load of wheat. Rut you say, “I'm not making much wheat this year.” If you are not making much, you want as much as good flour out of it as you can got. don't you? Mr. Walters e.in in ke it. It farmer woibl prepare for it nnd r d>e more wheat than liny do. lliu-- cn**Mtiragc men to invo»l money iu more such mills, we could have as while ami a far bet I er flour than we buy. Rut as it is litth* preparation is iiade not much wheat so ved. onn- squcntly not miieh made. Solliereis lit i lc encourage for a man to put iu a good mill unless he raises a great deal of wheat himself and puls it up to grind his own crop. Eel s have sot.ui good reform along the line of of wheat raising. A Reform Democratic f'luh was organ i/rd at Center View o|| the :Rm| 1 lust. l, t , CARROLL & STACY, I $«l Ilkoi'SrL Tiiitismt ,t ficiH'i'HI liiinkiii” I »U s | IICs* . C.irHiti uiH'lit ton to ridli'et ions mi .ill points. S;it«*lV I b posii |(o\i*s I iisidr. |''in* I’roof Vault lop Unit. Your patronage Solicited. .X. .X. WOOIK I 4 A >* lv i*;k, Gaffney, - - S. C. I laving just |hit’eliascd a HERRING-H ALL-MARVIN BURGLAR-PROOF SAFE —with — Automatic Bolt Work — \ \ |»— Tinn* Lock ami Salctv l>c|*osj| I fcoxo I will Im* Ertit'i' |H't*|>ar«*il than (“ver to take ran* oi myrtistoiinTs luml.s. Safrtv IM Mis it l>o\rs at Hioilrratr, trill . ( 'oiiuty rlaitlls hoilgllt . I'.xrliaiigr bought ami sold. Livery and Feed Stables. Ilcndipinrtrrs for drivers and Farm ers, who want to buy.sell nrexeliaitgc. i make a Specialty ot Feeding Stock. Firsi-elass turnouts at reasouahl rates. Cattle and Hogs bought and sold. J. G. Spencer, Proprietor. Wdltiltll THE STRONG POINT ■ the cures by Hood's JUrsao* that thrv •— - shout .in— • REAL ESTATE, LJ \ \ I\G opened a Real Estate E\- • * •hiinge in thi- city I invite the patronage of any and all parties hav ing Real Estate to Retd, Sell or Ex change. I’rompt'at I cut ion given to the ml- lert ion of relit s, rt e. Those wishing to pent or purchase real estate should eonsull me hefoj closing eoiilniets, I am prepared to lib liens, ii| gages. I It les el e. Surveying a specially Office in i ...i , " RuiJdin/* S4|il«;ikl $6, v^Bollom Waterjtrool. $4 and $3.50 I'.*|ti.il (ti>iGin work, < c img . $3.50 Police Shoe, I’m ,'t W .liking Is) K >L i I Ills I . $2.60, and $2 Shoes, Uucqniillol at lli»: j.iim. Boys $2 & $1 .75 School Shoes ^ Arc lilt J*« l l-.t LADIES’ $3, $2.50 $2, $l.7r» ft m > lifh. I** rf« * » I'iftiiiKaiMl r\ i«f.’thlt .l** in tl»«* worltl. All >t \ I* liiniMt upon lia\in^ . I Douglas* >lio« UIHI pri« < ft.. ntp« <1 on hot!oin. lir*M kloii >la*^. Sho e im » ^ tit r#f^ HEw ^ u: DEALERS who push the sale of \\ . L. Douglas Shoes gain i iislotm i which helps to increase the sales on their full line of good-. Tii. \ ..«n nfT.ir.l t«* m**II nt H l**«M |.r<ilil. ;ni.t **•• l>«*li«*v** j*ei «*:*ti *:*%■•• iikiik v to l.'i.Gnj; <*H your fo<»*wpi*r *»f 111** *l**i*l*-r/Mlvertix**.! I»**low. Cutaiui;up fr**** ii|><*ii itiqilicaliou. l^oc 1 >v II^KIXSS 15. I >vi I *1^ I Drugs, Medicines, Paints and Oils, Tinted Leads, Dyes, Etc. GAFFNEY BROKERAGE AND COMMISSION CO. Real Estate and Insurance Agents. Merchandise Brokers and Dealers in Cotton and Guano. P. O. Building. Robinson St. Gaffney. S. C. The Gaffney City Land and Improvement Company Offer for Sale Ruilding Lots in this l''loiiri>liinu Town c« a i' x io c' i r w Also Earms near by and in reach of the sclmols of Einiesioii' Springs and of this place in lots of from l><< to I < to acres on libera I linn rales. Also Agrieiiltural hands to rent for farm purposes. Eor full particulars apple to MOSES WOOD, Agent. V R. — All trespassing on lands of this ('ompany eiilliii'j and removing timber, fishing or hunt ing are forbidden undi-r penally "I law. L. BAKER, CONTRACTOR AND BUILDER mo \ i.iok i > Sash, - Blinds, - Doors and all kinds of RICHMOND & lUWII.i.l. mil.ROAD. Kanim-I S|M*n«***r. I , \V . Ilui.l. k.i|i< r n,| lleiilH II l osli r, lie. ■ 11 i-r.. 1 ‘ ai l Wl \ « ( II \iu on i in; i inr IU VISION. Building Materials. Plans and speeilieal ions for build ings made on shorl notice. CoMlKXSKIi >< HI Ill’l l • 'I I* V I N , I II I H.v I \ in lari i i vi»\ i aia. i k<i». vi*.-. I.in, I i M.iil A I A ho 1 *rotion irom I>v I^iro |s lo insure with the most reliable eompanies. I represent the .Etna of Hart ford, with assets ol |Hi.siiT.bbT : Ameriean Eire, id Philadelphia, with asset s of Ig.tis:!. I !.►: Hartford, of Hartford. < onn.. with assets of IT.JTS.uil'J: Home, of New York with assets ol .>);•.».iKis.sfll; Penn Eire, of Philadelphia, wilb as sets of .fg.S.V.I.O.'iK. I can place any reasonable risk y ou may have. Don't fail to call before contracting for your insurance. F. G. STACY. Knrt hlMtiin<l. as Ne .**l» No. l*i Dnttv II. i ly Mullv Lv Atlmita ' t iMm t»OI \ M ■i.mi jin S.IMI .1111 ■* Atlanta ►; simr* 1 "M | Ml ]|. im pm :i.ih .till •* Nuirre" >« ... pm '.14 am *• lllllnril 11.is pm ii.ju .tm ■' iaiuesi i lie ".la Mai 11. 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