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"FT*’ W! sy "'•s' REV. DR. TALMAGE ON WOMAN AND HER SACRIFICES. Glowing Word f’loturea u to Womnn’a Mlsfortnncfl r.uil l!<>p FSonl Reward A Sermon For the KarheUt and the Debo- raha, and the Ahlfalla. Washington, July fi.—In his sermon |o«lay, starting from a brilliant Bible scene. Dr. Tnlmago discourses upon womiui’s opportunities and the wrongs ■he sometimes suffers. His text was Es ther i, 11, 1»: "To bring Vashti the qu’en bt'foro the king with the crown royal to show the people and the princes her beauty, for she was fair to look on. But the queen Vashti refused to come at the king’s commandment by his chamberlains; thcroforo was the king ▼cry wroth, and his anger burned in him. ” Scrnr lu tho Palace. Wo stand amid the palaces of Shu- shan. The pinnacles are aflame with tho morning light The columns rise fes tooned and wreathed, tho wealth of em pires flashing from the grooves, tho ceil ings adorned with images of bird and beast and scenes of prowess and con quest Tho walls are hung with shields and emblazoned until it seems that the whole round of splendors is exhausted. Each arch is a mighty leap of architec tural achievement Golden stars shin ing down on glowing arabesqno. Hang ings of embroidered work in which mingle tho blueness of tho sky, tho greenness of the gl ass and tho whiteness of the sea foam. Tapestries hung on sil ver rings, wedding together the pillars of marble. Pavilions reaching out in every direction. These for repose, filled with luxuriant coaches, into which weary limbs sink until all fatigue is submerged. These for carousal, where kings drink down a kingdom at one swallow. Amazing spectaclel Light of silver dripping down over stairs of ivory on shields of gold. Floors of stained marble, sunset red and night black and inlaid with gleaming pearl Why, it seems us if a heavenly vision of ame thyst ami jacinth and topaa andchryso- prasus had descended and alighted npon Shushun. It seems as if a billow of ce lestial glory had clashed clear over heav en’s battlements upon this metropolis of Persia. In connection with this palace there is a garden where tho mighty men of foreign lands are seated at a banquet. Under the spread of oak and linden and acacia tho tables arc arranged. The breath of honeysuckle and frankincense fills tho air. Fountains leap up into tho light, tho spray struck through with rainbows falling in nystallino baptism upon flowering shrubs, then rolling down through channels of marble and widening out hero and there into pools swirling with tho finny tribes of foreign aquariums, bordered with scarlet anem ones, hypericums and many colored ranunculus. Meats of rarest bird and boast shioking up amid wreaths of aromatics. The vases filled with apri cots and almonds. Tho baskets piled up with apricots and dates and figs and oranges and pomegranate*. Melons tastefully twined with leaves of acacia. Tho bright waters of Eultrus filling tho urns and sweating outside the rim Iq flashing beads amid tho traceries. Wine from the royal vats of Ispahan and Shiraz, in bottles of tinged shell, and lily shaped cups of silver and flagons and tankards of solid gold. Tho music rises higher, and tho revelry breaks out into wilder transport, and the wine has flushed tho cheek and touched tho brain, and louder than all other voices are tho hiccough of tho inebriates, the gabble of fools and the song of the drunkards. VHshtr* Refusal. In another part of tho palace Queen Vashti is entertaining tho princesses of Persia at a banquet. Drunken Ahnsne- res says to his servants, "You go out and fetch Vashti from that banquet with tho women, and bring her to this ban quet with tho men, and let me display her beauty. ” Tho servants Immediately start to obey tho king’s command, but there was a rule in oriental society that no woman might appear In pnblic with out having her face veiled. Yet here was a mandate, that no one dare dis pute, demanding that Vnshti come in unveiled before the multitude. How ever, there was in Vushti’s soul a prin ciple more regal than Almsenrns, more brilliant than tho gold of Shnshan, of more wealth than the realm of Persia, which commanded her to disobey this order of tho king, and so all the right eousness and holiness and modesty of her nature rims up into one sublime re fusal She says, "I will not go into the banquet unveiled. ” Of courso Ahnsuc- rus was infuriate, and Vashti, robbed of her position and her estate, is driven forth in jaivcrty and ruin to suffer the scorn of a nation and yet to receive tho upplauso of after generations who shall riso up to admire this martyr to kingly insolence. Well, tho hist vestige of that feast is gone; tho last garland has faded; tho last arch has fallen; tho lost tankard has boon destroyed, and Slmshan is a ruin. Bat as long as the world stands there will bo multitudes of men and women, familiar with the Bible, who will come into this picture gallery of God and admire tho divine portrait of Vashti tho qneen, Vashti tho veiled, Vashti tho sacriflce, Vashti tho silent Nobis Women. In the first place, I want you to look upon Vashti tho queen. A blue ribbon, rayed with white, drawn around her bforehead, indicated her queenly posi- hjNU, It was no small honor to be queen i rcalm as that Hark to the r^tloo^ 0r «oTrTr^li:^k’A-e other jewels! Aud yet, my friends, it is not necessary to have palace and regal robe ill order to be queenly. When I see a woman with strong faith in God put ting her foot upon all meanness and selfishness aud godless display, going right forward to serve Christ and tho race by a grand and glorious say, * ^Thut woman is a the ranks of heaven look over the battle ments upon the coronation, and whether she come up from the shanty on the commors or tho mansion of 1 he fashion able square, I gm‘t her with the shout: "All hail! Queen Vashti.” What glory was there on the brow of Mary of Scot land, or Elizabeth of England, or Mar garet of France, or Catherine of Russia, compared with tho worth of some of our Christian mothers, many of them gone into glory — or of that woman men tioned in the Scriptures, who put all her money intfl the Lord’s treasury—or of Jephthah's daughter, who made a dem onstration of unselfish patriotism—or of Abigail, who rescued the herds and flocks of her husband—or of Ruth, who toiled under a tropical sun for poor old, helpless Naomi—or of Florence Night ingale, who went at midnight to stanch the battle wounds of tho Crimea—or of Mrs. Adoniram Judson, who kindled tho lights of salvation amid the dark ness of Bunn ah—or of Mrs. Hcmans, who poured out her holy soul in words which will forever be associated with hunter's horn and captive’s chain and bridal hour and lute’s throb and cur few’s knell at tho dying day — and scores and hundreds of women, unknown on earth, who have given water to tho thirsty and bread to the hungry and medicine to the sick and smiles to the discouraged—their footsteps heard along dark lane and in government hospital and in almshouse corridor and by prison gate? There may bo no royal robe— there may bo no palatial surroundings, bho does not need them, for all charita ble men will unite with tho crackling lips of fever struck hospital and plague blotched lazaretto in greeting her as sho passes: "Hail! Hail! Queen Vashti” Blodrtt Merit. Again, I want you to consider Vashti tho veiled- Had sho appeared before Ahasuerus and his court on that day with her face uncovered she would have shocked all the delicacies of ori ental society, and tho very men who in thyir intoxication demanded that sho come in their sober moments would have despised her. As some flowers seem to thrive tiest in tho dark lane and in tho shadow and where tho sun does not seem to reach them, so God ap points to most womanly natures a re tiring and unobstrusivo spirit God once in awhile does call an Isabella to a throne, or a Miriam to strike the tim brel at the front of a host, or a Marie Antoinette to quell a French mob, or a Deborah to stand at the front of an armed battalion, crying out: “Up, up! This is the day in which the Lord will deliver Sisera into thine band.” And when women are called to such outdoor work and to such heroic positions God prepares them for it, and they have iron in their souls and lightning in their eye, and whirlwinds in their breath, and the borrowed strength of tho Lord Omnipotent in their right arm. They walk through furnaces us though they were hedges of wild flow ers and cross seas as though they were shimmering sapphire, and all tho har pies of hell down to their dungeon at tho stamp of her womanly indignation. But these' are the exceptions. Generally Dorcas would rather make a garment for the poor boy. Rebecca would rather flU tho trough for tho camels. Hannah would rather make a coat for Samuel The Hebrew maid would rntlier give a prescription for Naaman’s leprosy. The women of Barepta would rather gather A few sticks to cook a meal for fam ished Elijah. Phcebc would rather carry a letter for tho inspired apostle. Mother Lois would rather educate Timothy in the Scriptures. When I see a woman going about her daily duty, with cheerful dignity pre siding at the table, with kind and gen tle but firm discipline presiding in tho nursery, going out into the world with out any blast of trumpets, following in tho footsteps of him who went about doing good, I say, "This is Vashti with a veil on.” But when I see a woman of unblushing boldness, loud voiced, with a tongue of infinitoclitter clatter, with arrogant hxik, passing through the streets with the step of a walking beam, gayly arrayed in a very hurricane of millinery, I cry out, "Vashti has lost her veil!” When I see a woman of comely features, and of adroitness of intellect, aud endowed with nil that the schools can do for one, and of high social position, yet moving in society with superciliousness and hauteur, us though she would have peo ple know their place, and an undefined combination of giggle and strut and rhodomontadc, Endowed with allopathic quantities of talk, but only homeo pathic infinitesimals of sense, the terror of dry goods clerks and railroad con ductors, discoverers of significant mean ings in plain conversation, prodigies of badinage and innuendo, Isay: "Look, look! Vashti has lost her veil ” A Sacrificing Spirit. Again, I want you to consider Vashti tho sacrifice. Who is this I see coming oat of that palace gate of Bhushau? It seems to mo that I have seen her before. Bho comes homeless, houseless, friend less, trudging along with a broken heart Who is she? It is Vashti tho sac rifice. Oh, what a change it was from regal position to a wayfarer’s crust! A little while ago approved and sought for; now none so poor as to acknowl edge her acquaintanceship. Vashti the sacrifice! Ah, you and I have seen it many a time! Here is a home empulnced with beau ty. All that refinement and Looks and wealth can do for that home has been done, but Ahasuerus, the husband aud the father, is taking hold on paths of sin. He is gradually going down. After awhile ho will flounder and struggle like a wild beast in tho hunter’s not— farther away from God, farther away from tho right. Boon the bright apparel o<*«.4tin ebildren will turn to rags; soon the bouschoi. £, nK w ju become tho sob bing of a broken »*>«. ^ ^ old hU oyer again. Brutal cenuiu* „ tUn marriage feast fall of outrage nation, while trudging Joj-th from tho palaoe gato are Vashti umj bur children. There i no om HLorv over , ami amt r are koines that in danger of THE LEDGER: GAFFNEY,''S. C., JULIT 9, 1890. inch a breaking np. Ob, Ahasuerus, that you should stand in a home, by a dissipated life destroying the peace and comfort of that homo. God forbid that your children should ever have towring their hands aud have people point their finger at them as they pass down tho street and say, “There goes a drunk ard’s child.” God forbid that the little feet should ever have to trudge the path of poverty and wretchedness. God for bid that any evil spirit born of the wine cup or tho brandy glass should come forth and uproot that garden, and with a lasting, blistering, all ccnsuming curse shut forever tho palace gate against Vashti and the children. During tho war I went to Hagerstown to look at the army, and I stood in tho night on a hilltop and looked down up on them. I saw tho campfires all through tho valleys and all over the hills. It was a weird spectacle, those campfires, and I stood and watched them, and the soldiers who were gather ed around them were, no doubt, talking of their homes and of tho long march they had taken and of the battles they were to fight. But after awhilo I saw these campfires begin to lower, and they continued to lower until they were all gone out and tho army slept It was imposing when I saw the campfires; it was imposing in the darkness when I thought of that great host asleep. Well, God looks down from heaven, and he sees tho firesides of Christendom and the loved ones gathered around those firesides. These nro the campfires where wo warm ourselves at tho close of tho day and talk over tho battles of life we have fought aud the battles that are vet to come. God grant that when at fast these fires begin to go out and coutinno to lower, until finally they are extinguished and the ashes of consumed hopes strew the hearth of tho old home stead, it may bo, because wo have Done to sleep that laat long sloop From which none ever waio to weop. Now wo are an army on tho march of life. Then wo will bo an army biv ouacked in the tent of tho grave. Watting. Once more I want you to look at Vnshti tho silent You do not hear any outcry from this woman as sho goes forth from tho palace gate. From the very dignity of her nature, you know there will be no vociferation. Some times in life it is necessary to make a retort; sometimes in life it is necessary to resist, but there nro crises when tho most triumphant thing to do is to keep silence. The philosopher, confidant in bis newly discovered principle, waiting for the coming of more intelligent gen erations, willing that men should laugh at tho lightning rod and cotton gin and steamboat — waiting for long years through tho scoffing of philosophical schools, in grand and magnificent si lence. Galilei, condemned by mathe maticians and scientists, caricatured everywhere, yet waiting and watching with his telescope to see tho coming up of stellar re-cnforccraents, when tho ■tars in their courses would fight for tho Copcruican system, then sitting down in complete blindness and deaf ness to wait for tho coming on of the generations who would build his mon ument and bow at his grave. - Tho reformer, execrated by his con temporaries, fastened in a pillory, tho slow fires of public contempt bnrning under him, ground under tho cylinders Of tho printing press, yet calmly wait ing for tho day when purity of soul and heroism of character will get the sanc tion of earth and tho plaudits of heaven. Affliction, enduring without any com plaint the sharpness of the pang, and tho violence of the storm, and the heft of tho chain, and of tho darkness of night. Waiting, until a divine hand shall be put forth to soothe tho pang aud hush tho storm and release the cap tive. A wife, abused, persecuted and a perpetual exile from every earthly com fort—waiting, waiting, until tho Lord shall gather all his dear children in a heavenly home, aud no poor Vashti will ever be thrust out from tho palace gato. Jesus, in silence and answering not a word, drinking tho gall, bearing tbo cross, in prospect of the rapturous con summation when AnsHu thronged his rharlot wheel And boro him to hU throne, Then swept their golden harps and sung The glorloa* work is done. Oh, woman! Does not this story of Vashti tho queen, Vashti tho veiled, Vashti tho sacriflce, Vashti tho silent, move your soul? My sermon converges into the one absorbing hope that none of yon may be shat out of tbo palace gato cf Leaven. You can endure tho hardships, and the privations, and tho cruelties, and the misfortunes of this life if yon cun only gain admission them Through the blood of tho ever lasting covenant you go through these gates or never go at all God forbid that you should at lust be banished from tho society of angels and banished from tho companionship of your glorified kindred and banished forever. Through the rich grace of our Lord, Josus Christ, may you bo enabled to imitate tho ex ample of Rachel, and Hannah, and Abi gail, and Deborah, and Maiy, and Es ther, and Vashti Amen. NOT THE ENEMY'S CAMPFIRES. lelng Vegetables For Shipment. "One of tho most remarkable new departures in the freight business,” said Mr. Omar H. Bartlett, general freight agent of the Louisville and Nashville railroad, "is tho idea of icing vegetables for shipping long distances. It bos been tried spasmodically in other years, but never until this year was tho plan car ried out to any extent. Now tho New Orleans shippers are icing their vegeta bles right along. We have already this season hauled 2t> curs to New York city alone that contained iced vegetables, and the shipments to Boston, Buffalo, Pittsburg, Baltimore, Philadelphia and in fact to all the northern chics have followed out this new idea. You know, the shipments of cucumbers, cabbages, beans and all kinds of garden stuff have grown very rapidly in tho past few years, and now the |iroduoers have found it necessary to ice them. The process of packing is quite interesting.” •—New Orleans Timoa-Democrat Tbe Mistake of a Recruit Whose Imagtaa- tlou Was Stimulated. At the beginning of tho war there were a lot of "raw” soldiers, who, though ardent fellows and good fight ers, were not np to the West Point standard on military matters. At War- renton, Va., one of the new companies happened to bo stationed early in tbe conflict, and many were the lessons that bad to be learned by the earnest but ignorant southerners, who had but a slight idea of tho rigid rules of warlike discipline. Bnt on the whole they did well It was one balmy September evening, just that time of the year when the cool breeze is laden with the rich odors of the dying leaves and fall of an exhila rating crispiuess that seems to fill one’s blood with dreams of love and happi ness. Tho moon was jnst peeping from behind a bank of clonds resting on the crests of tbe Blue Ridge, and the line of light crept down tbe sides and crawl ed across the fields of waving corn and the meadows full of chirping insects. About in the field were scattered tbe white tents of the Confederates, and be neath them tbe tired men wore deep in slumber. One of the most ignorant men had been pnt out us a picket, and for honrs he trod his beat, watching with eager eye the lights from the distant farm houses, lest some fire of an enemy’s camp break ont into the gloom. The afr was warm aud fragrant, and the sol dier’s mind was fall of tbo romance of tho sitnation. Presently the moon sank behind the dark billows of tho cloud bank and the world was wrapped in silence and dark ness. But in each bush there sparkled a glowworm, and about in the air cir culated some of the bright insects known os "lightning bugs,” whose tiny tails ore seemingly pointed with fire. Now the sentry sndddeuly became alarmed and gave the signal, and the camp was soon in turmoil The men, hastily awakened from their sleep, be gan to saddle np, and were full of de light at tho thought of meeting the ene my, whoso campfires, so the sentinel said, had jnst gleamed ont from a dis tant hill Tho men were ranged np to begin their march, the colonel exhorted them that this was the “time to win their spurs, ” and all was excitement, when the sentinel crept up to tho colonel "Colonel,” said the fellow in a dis comfited voice, "I am mighty sorry, bnt I have made a mistake—there is no campfire of the enemy—it’s a lightning hog—yon see, I am a bit nearsighted.” Aud tho man crept back to hide under the flap of his desolate tent, while the disgruntled men took themselves again to slumber.—Philadelphia Times. LOVE AS CONSIDERED NOWADAYS. Two Men Asked Advice About It and Then Rejected It. There is no use of opposing a love af fair, not oven when the actors play into yonr own hands. I know what I’m say ing. I’ve hud tho experience with two —the yonug and tho old man. My first experience was with a young man, who didn’t know his mind and asked me what be had better do, and I, like a fa ther, told him he’d better not marry tho girl he was courting. He went right off aud married her. An old man from tho country came into tho car where I was reading ray morning paper aud sat down at my side. "Beg your pardon, sir,” he said. "Did you ever court a grass widder?” "Oh, yes,” I said. ‘‘I’ve courted a dozen or more. Why?” "Did yon ever marry one?" "Yes.” "Waller, p’r'aps yon kin give a chap 'a point or two?’’ "Oh, certainly, all the points yon want.” - "Are they any different from other women?” “Say, old fellow, I’ve conrted all sorts of women, both mar *ied and un married, aud they are all just alike. They do all the courting aud generally propose before you have courted them a week.” "Waller, what’s your opiu’n?” "It is this—the man who marries one is n jackass. ” Tbe old follow scratched bis head for a moment, and after be had got his idea racked in the right spot he said: "Wal ler, hain’t I as much constitutionally right to bo a jackass as yon have? Wal ler, I guess, and I’m gain ’cept her pro posal by wire. Write it ont for me, won’t yon?”—New York Herald. Lincoln's Modesty. The Tribune has received a letter from Mr. George Kluetsch, editor of the Lincoln (Neb.) Freio Presso, setting forth that he has in his possession a let ter in tbe handwriting of Abraham Lin coln, written in lUuO, of special histor ical importance. Mr. Klaotsch received the, letter from T. J. Pickett, at one time editor of the Republican paper in Rock Island, Ills. Tbe letter is as fol lows : BPRmanu.D, Ills., April 10, 1880. T. J. Pickett. Esq.: Mv Dbau Bih—Yours of the 13th U Jnst re ceived. My uiiRufrcincnte sre such that 1 can not, nt any r<-ry early day, visit Rack Island to deliver a lecture or for any other object. Ax to the other matter you kindly mention, I must, in candor, say I do not think myaelf fit for the presidency. 1 certainly am flattered and sratllied that some partial friends think of me In that connection, but 1 really think it best for our cause that no concerted effort such as you suKRost should be made. Let this be coiMiderod confidential. Yours very truly, A. Linooui. —Chicago Tribnue. W bat She Was Meant For. A lady of great beauty and attractive ness, who was an ardent admirer of Ire land, ouoe crowned her praise of it at a partv by saying: ”1 think I was meant for an Irish woman.” "Madam,” rejoined u witty son of Erin, who happened to be present, "thousands would back me in saying that yon were meant fur an Irish man. ” —Strand Magazine. RELIGIOUS THOUGHT AN EPITOME OF THE SERMONS OF A WEEK. What the Faators of the Country Are Thinking and Saying—Thought For the Life That la and the Life That Is to Come. (Edited by Will M. Clemens.] Following is a summary of tho prin cipal sermons recently delivered in the United States and Canada by the lead ing clergymen, priests, prelates, reli gions teachers and professors of the Christian faith. In every instance the full text has been carefully read and abbreviated: What Chisago Needs. What Chicago needs is not a revival of business, bnt a revival of conscience. —Rev. Kittrcdgo Wheeler, Baptist, Chicago. . Lora. Lcvo Is tho greatest and grandest foundation stone upon which the human character is built Lacking it a man is a moral zero.—Rov. O. J. Davies, Epis copalian, Haddonfield, Pa. Beuvou. Heaven is but another word for har mony ; hell, for discord. In harmony is blended all that is good and true, and harmony means happinesa.—Rev. Dr. Mitchell, Methodist, Kansas City. No Creeds. Love of God and love of man are the only requisites of religious faith today. The only test of tho religion tho world cares for today is tho word character.— Celia P. Wooley, Independent, Chicago. A National Bin. Every sacred thing is sacrificed on the altar of cc vetousness—duty, honor, re ligion, patriotism. Is it not becoming tho national sin?—Rev. Washington Gladden, Congrogationalist, Colum bus, O. Coe of Waultk. A man with honestly acquired wealth, using it for the benefit of his race, is one of tho grandest sights of all ages. Gold is only current to tho grave.—Rev. George R. Wallace, Congregationalist, Chicago. The Ministry. The Christian minister should bo the most manly of men. He should be re spected for his manhood, and not feared for his priesthood or laughed at ■for ghosthood.—Rov. Cortland My era, Bap tist, Brooklyn. Ed seat ion. There is a moralizing influence in learning. Tho educated man 1a by vir tue of his education, more likely to bo pure and true and good than the illiter ate.—Rov. L. F. Marten, Baptist, As- bury Park, N. J. Parental Authority. Wo want liberty for man, woman and child, but wo wont tho child under sub jection while under parental authority, so that they may bo under control ns a citizen.—Rev. J. F. P. Bradley, African Methodist, Dallas. Qod*a World. This is not onr world. Wo did not make it; we bring nothing into it; wo take nothing away with us; it was all hero before wo came and will remain after wo leave.—Rev. Dr. Weld, Inde pendent, Baltimore. Sueceaa. It is not lack that enables men to climb to positions of merit and attain ments ; it is tho natural consequence pf high and nob] j purpose coupled with industry.—Rev. M. G. Coleman, Meth odist, Bcordstown, 111a Science. Science is simply inquisitiveness— the thinker seeking some reason for un answered enigmas. The astronomer in his investigations is trying simply to think God’s thoughtA—Rev. Howard Dufficld, Presbyterian, New f York. The Law. The discovery of law as operative in the natural world lias made possible true science. Lawfulness is synonymous with progresA Sequence and order are the fundamental features of law.—Rev. A Z. Conrad, Congregationalist, Boston. The Dlhle. The best answer to criticism of Scrip ture ip Scripture. Know your Bible from cover to cover. Tho tidal wave of oppo sition to the church is best met by a clear presentation of gospel truth.— Rev. Waylond Hoyt, Baptist, Philadel phia Religion* Life. Never was tho religions life of a peo ple more intense and throbbing with energy than it is nt this moment among the Americans, and they are tho most in telligent and progressive people in tho world.—Rev. IL B. Steelman, Baptist, Salt Lake City. The Flag. A flag’s respectability depends npon what it stands for. Tho stars and stripes stand for a government of the people, the liberty of tho people. Tho flag stands for freedom and for honor and right.—Rev. C. L. Thompson, Presby terian, New York. Society and the Church. The Christian church is not a reli gious club, which meets weekly tar pur poses of mutual acquaintance and im provement Sociability is a good and needed thing, but tho church is not a mutual admiration society.—Rev. W. T. McElveeu, Congregationalist, Brook- iyn. Charch Growth. The church is numerically stronger than ever before; tho Influence of the church and pulpit is stronger than ever before; Christian principles are influone- iug tho minds of men more deeply and in more ways than ever before.—Rev. F. W. Hamilton, Univonalist, Roxbury, Mosa THE LITTLE ONES Are the joy and sunlight of our homes. Use all care to keep the little ones in health. Do not give them nauseous doses. You can overcome their troubles with Dr. King's Royal Germetuer. They all like to take it because it does not taste like a medicine, but like a lemonade. It cures colic in young children, overcomes all bowel troubles, gives good digestion, and quiet, healthful sleep. As a tonic for weak children and as a remedy for use in teething, it is the greatest in the world. Unsold by Druggists, new package, large bottle, 108 Doses, One Dollar. Manufactured only by tin Atlanta Chemical Co. r Atlanta, Cl Writ* tm 48-Faff* Book, Halted Fm. DOOR DIGESTION leads to ■ uervousnvM, chronic dyspepsia and great misery. The best remedy is MOOD’S SARSAPARILLA* drOCH I Until the 15th of August I will cut prices 20 per cent, on all FRUIT AID ORIAIEMTAL TREES. My customers and friends are invited to take advantage .of this and improve their property Don’t forget that "Triumph” is the earliest yellow peach in the world. Respectfully, J. L. ALEXANDER. J. E. WEBSTER, Attorney-A.t> JL**wv» Gaffney City, S. C. Practices in all the courts. Collec tions a soecialtv. DR. I. M. 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