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THE LEDGER: GAFFNEY, S. C., AUGUST >, I8J)7. 5 THE SI>; OF GAMBLING i CR rALf/!AGE SAYS IT IS OF ROPE STRENGTH. CAR1 One" the TTahlt Is Contracted It Is Hard to Ilreuk Away—There Is bnt OneWay to Ho Cored aud That Is by the (jrivoe of <»od—Hope f’or the 1’rouigal. W ash I n cit< )N, Atig. 1.—Dr. Talniittro in Iria Bortuon dcpicta the insidious inodes by which evil habit yams hu- preinacy aud shows how splendid men are cheated into ruin. Text, Isiah v, 18, “Wee unto tiiem that sin, as it trore with a cart rop*. ” There are some iniqnities that only nibble at the heart. After a lifetime of their work the mau stillstands upright, respected and honored. These vermin have not strength enough to gnaw through a man’s character. But there are ot’her trr.nsgr< ssions that lift them* selves up to gigantic proportions and seize hold of a man and bind him with thongs forever. There are some iniqui ties that have such great emphasis of evil that he who commits them may be said to sin as with a cart rope. I tup- pose yon. know how they make a great rope. The stuff out of which it is fash ioned is nothing but tow which yon pull apart without any exertion of your lingers. This is spun into threads, any of which you could easily snap, but a great many of these threads are iutcr- wonnd—then you have a rope strong enough to bind an ox or hold a ship in a tempest I speak to yon of the sin of gambling. A cart rojje in strength i* that uiu, and yet I wish more especially to draw your attention to tbe small threads of inftw euee out of which that mighty iniquity is twisted. This crime is on the ad vance, so that it is well not only that fathers aud brothers and sons be inter- ested in such a discussion, hut that wives and mothers and sifters and daughters look out lest their present home be sacrificed or their intended home be blasted. No man, no womsu, can stand aloof from such a EuMeofc as this and say, “It has no practical bear ing upon my life,’’ for there may he in a short time in your history an expert ence in which you will find that the discussion involved three worlds—earth, heaven, hell. There are gambling estab lishments by the thousands. , Th otimmA* of OiMnhl«r*, There are about 6,600 professional gamblers. Out of all the gambling es tablishments how many of them do you suppose profess to bo honest? Ten— these ten professing to be honest be cause they are merely the antechamber to those that are acknowledged fraudu lent There are first class eetablish- ments. You step a little way out of Broadway, New York. You go up the marble stairs. You ring the bell. The liveried servant introduces you. The ws»lls are lavender tinted. The mr.ntvle are of Vermont marble. Tho pictures are YJephthall’s Daughter” and Dore's “P*ntr” and Virgil's “Frozen Region r t fp ” a neff sppr r pri'’*'c •'dc' tie'j, this last for ^be place. There is the r< -th tte table, th^ Hi, st, f astlust, most exquisite piece of furniture in the Unit ed States. There is the banqueting room, win re, free of chr.rgo to the gm -ts, you may find the plate and viands and wines and c igars sumptuous beyond parallel. Then yon come to tho second class gambling esiahli dim nit. To it you are introduced by a card through some “roper in.” Having ntered, you must either g .inlihi or 1 {hr. .nanded eaids, dice loaned with quicksilver, poor drinks mixed v. ith i:\ot • poor drinks will soon help yo« to {• t rid of ail your money to a tupe in short meter with staccato passages. You wanted to see. You saw. The low villains of that place watch you as you < mo in. Docs not tho panther, squat in the gras-, know a calf and lari your wi’i vh }y t 1 ; t»r*^ 4' t'' it ? him lace, r your I r dy ■dv into tlie street or dead inta ti e rivr r. Ac. Appropriate) I»o<>r. You go along a little farther and find tlie policy establishment. In that place you Ik t on mini hers. Betting on two numbers is culled a “saddle”; Letting on three numbers is called a “gig;” bet ting on four numbers is called a “horse,” and there arc thousands of our young men leaping into that “fud dle” and mounting that “gig” and be hind that “horse” riding to perdition. There is always one kind <if sign on tlie door, “Exchange,” a most appropriate title for tho door, for there in that room a man exchanges health, peace and heaven for less of health, lots of i)o it, )—f" l *> i— * '* i uX . soul. Exchange sure enough and iu- sfinico enungh. Now you acknowledge that is a rar f - rope of Ciil,'at yon want to know what are the small threads out'Of which lit is made. There is in many a disposi tion to hazard. They feel a delight in walking n er a precipice becawc of fhe ■nnse of danger. There are people who gc upon Jungfrau, not for the largeness of tho prospect, bnt for tho fooling that tiny havo of tuiuking, “What would happen if I should fall off?” There are persons who have their blood filliiied and accelerated by skating very near an airhole. Ti'erc are men who find a positive delight in drivng wifhii. t-^o inchos of tho edge of a bridge, it in tins disposition to hazard that finds develop ment in gaming practices. Hero are ^■6b'>. 1 u;iV’ f)l.lk.' th* i.'i. It i l’ them, I may lose them, but I may win fa,000. Whichever way it turns I have Lex* 3 it e raiit hazard. tii X'lib'jue it. ''hu'lle t!a * ..1 Heart tho Tup*.': Ur'r* dizz'’ A* —just to gratify tins desire for The IH-itlrt) For <laia. Then tho< nr" others who go into this s n Mircugh sheer <!« ire -or g *iu. It is esgi i inlly so with p: ufer-sicnal ** * ..ij 1 ,says sec, *,o-. - .it 1 } never diiuk euo .gh to uiibalanou their ^pdguieiit They d »not ■ < tl dici so much as they see the dollar beyond the dice, uua for that they watch as tho spider in tho web, looking as if dead until the ny passes. Thousands of young men in the hope of gain go into these practices. They say: "Well, my salary is not enough to allow this luxury. I don’t get enough from my store, offico or shop I ought to have finer aj art- trienfs. I ought to have better wines. I ought to have more richly flavored ci gar;. I ought to he able to entertain my friends more espt nr.ively. I won’t stand this iwiy longer. I cun with ono bril liant strdke make a fortune. Now, here goes, principle cr no prim iple, heaven or hell. Who cares?” Vfki*i a young man makes up his mind In live beyond his income, satun has boogbt him out ami cut, and it is caly m question of time when the goods am &» Is delivered. The thing is done. You plant-in the way all the bat- teniVsj ui truth aud righteousness; that mail l* bqnnd to go on. When a man nmktm $l,k00a year and spends $1,200, when a young man makes $1,600 spends $1,700, all the harpies of d upfh cry out, “Ha! ha! we have him!” And they have. How to get the extra $600 nr the extra $2,000 is the question. He says: “Here is my friend who start- i ed out the other day with tut little money, and in one night, so great was Ids luck, ho rolled up hundreds and 1 thousands of dollars. If he got it, why not I? It is such dull work, this adding up of long lines of figures in the count ing house, this pulling down of a hun dred yards of goods And selling a reni- 1 nant, this always waiting upon some- 1 body else when I could pat $100 on the ace a«4 fiefc np $1,000.” Aii In«l<llf>un Sin. This eiit works very insidiously. Other sius sound the drum, and flaunt tlui li^g. sard gaiher their recruits w ith wild huzwi, but this marches its piocee- sjon of Yiktinis in dead of night, in sileuM, Mtd when they drop into the gntvs tfcurs Is not so much sound as t»m click of a dio*. Oh, how uiauy bav* ' gone dowu ruder it! Look at those msn who wsv« onoe high!y prospered. Now their fotehead is licked by a longue of flame that will never go out In their souls arc plunged the beaks which will | nevsr k« Hftod. Hwing open tbs door of that AM**'* heart and you sco a coil of TfrljfgMng their indescribable | horror until you turn away and hide your face and ask Gcd to help you to forget it. The most of thia evil is unad- vertised. The community does not hear of it. Men defrauded in gaming estab lishments are not fools enough to tell of it Qsmm in awhiK however, there is an mpmmm, «*< when iu Boston the po lice swooped upon a gaming estublish- ajarf la it the representatives of all classes of citizens, from the first merchants on .State strest to the low Ann street gambler; an when Bullock, the cashier of the Central Railroad of Qeoigi*, was found to have stolen $1 OS,000 for the purpose of carrying on gam es; as when a young man in one of the savings banks of Brooklyn many years ago was found to have sto le* $40,Q00 to carry on gaming prac tices; as when a man connected with a Wall street insurance company was found to have stolen $108,000 to carry ip - .: -n’r’ng practices. But that is exceptional. Tlie I as* Dollar. Generally the money leaks silently from tl»' merchant's till into the game ster’s wallet. 1 believe that one of the main pip*s 1* ailing to this sewer of in iquity is the excitement of business Ijfv. fis HVwrt u signilicant fact that th* 1 majority of the day gambling houses in N *vv York ar<i in proximiiy to Wall s/m t? M< n go into the excitement of stock gambling, i.i.d from that they plunge into tho g-onbliug houses, as, when men are intoxicaud, they go into a liquwt to g* t move drink. The ugjtjiticjn that is witnessed in the stiK-k market wilt'll ‘Tie chair announced the word “Northwestern,” or “Fort Wayne,” or “Rock Island,” or “New \ork Central,” and the rat, tat, tat, of baiv. ti t»v-i. i v*. . .*> 1 | VAil> • A* citr uent of milking “corners,” and getting up “pools,” and “carrying stock,” ami t, “break” from 80 to 70, and the cuf itement eif rushing around in curbstone brokerage, and the sud den cries of "Buyer three!” “Buyer ten!” “Take ’em!” “How many?’’ and the makTtig or losing of $10,000 by one operation, unfits a man to go home, and so he go*« up the flight of stairs, amid business offices, to the darkly curtained, wooden shuttered room, guyly fur- nishad inside, and take s his place at the roulette or the faro table. But I cannot tell all the process by which men get into this rvik A man went to New York He was a western merchant. He went inio a gaming bouse on Park plane, Erffove morning he had lost all ..it mu.. ’ tl'I- *.i.r jm* riK v,d around about with that dollar in his hand, and after awhile, caught still more powerfully under the infernal in f HtuaDon, bo came up and put down the dollar and cried oat until they heard him through the saloon, “One thousand miles from home, aud my iaet dollar ou the gaming table. ” Lm? Property oatf feral*. Many y< ars ago for sermonic pur poses aud in company with the chief of police of New York I visited one of i the most brilliant gambling houses in that oily. Jt was night, aud as we came up in from all seemed dark. The bliu.ls w^re down, iho d or was guarded, but nftci a whispering of the officer with I tho guard at tho door wo were admitted into tho hall, and thence into tho par I Inrs. nround one table firidimz emht or toil ait u iu liiiUi.ie, weir messed—ail the v/ork going on in silence, save tho noise of the rattling “chips” on the g. .nii-g tabic ii on purler and thu re- ’t in; b'iM r f <’ e j ul t‘“ table mi the other parlor, borne of these men, wo vero told, hud served terms in prison, A'mt! win* shipv-reeked bankers and brokers and mor- y dealers, an 1 sonio wore going their firet rounds of vice— L, li un ! up . i tiro tj.*. ic, ».i ln.,ic or small fortunes moved up and dow n bef.,rr ihcm. Ch, '!i ve vr. • f. m'thing awfully solemn in the silence—the in tense gaze, the suppressed emotions of the players. No ono looked up. They all had ujr«»y in the rapids, and I liavo | no doubt sr.mo saw', as they sat there, horses and carriages, and houses and lands, aiid heme and family rushing down into tho vortex. A man’s life would not have Lieu worth a farthing iu that pr< t nee had he not been ac companied by the police, if he had been supposed to he on a Christian errand of observation. Some of tin so men went by private key, some went in by care ful introduction, sorno wire taken in by the patrons of the establishment. Tho officer of the law told me, “None gets in here except by police mandate or by some letter of a patron.” While we were there a young man came in, put his money down on the roulette table and lost; put more money down on the roulette table and lost; put more money down ou the roulette table aud lost; then feeling in his pockets for more money, finding none, in severe silence he turned his back upon the scene and passed out. While wo stood there men lost their property and lost their souls. Oh, merciless place! Not once in all the history of that gaming house has there been one word of sympathy uttered for the losers at the game. Sir Horace Walpole said that a man dropped dead iu ono of the clubhouses of Loudon. His body was carried into the clubhouse, and tlie members of fbo club begun immediately to bet us to whether he were dead or alive, and when it w as proposed to test tho matter by bleeding him, it was only hindertd by the suggestion that it xj-ould be un fair to some of flio plnyrrs. In th«wa gaming houses of our cities men Lave their property wrung away from them, and then tlwy go out, some of them to drown their grief in strong drink, sobm to ply the counterfeiters pen, and ao restore their fortunes, some resort to tbs suicide's revolver, but nil going down, and that work proceeds day by day and night by night. “That out rope,” says some young man, "ban never been wound around my soul.” But have not some threads of tliat our* rtqie been twisKid? Gift KnU>rprtiM*a ArnkigneA. I arraign before God tho gift •nter- prises of our cities, whioh have a tead- euny to make this a nation of gamblers. Whatever yon get, young man, in such a place ns that, without giving a proper I'quivalent, iu a robbery of your own soul and a robbery of the conmmmiity. Yet how we are appalled to see men who hare failed in other enterprises go into gift concerts, where tbe chief ■*- traction is not music, but the pHaas distributed among the audience, or to sell books where tho cbief attraction is not tho bock, but the package that j goes with the book. Tobacco dealers ! advertise that on a certain day they will put money into their papers, so that the purchaser of this tobacco in Cincinnati or New York may unexpect edly come upon a magnificent gratuity. Boys hawking through the cars poafc- i ages containing nobody knows what, until you open them and find they oon- 1 tain nothing. Christian men with pic tures on their wall gotten in a lottery, and tho brain of community taxed to find nnt soma new way of getting things I without paying for them. Oh, young men, these ara the threads that make the cart rope, mid when a young man consents to these practices he is being bound hand aid foot by u habit which has already destroyed “a great multi tude that no man can number.” Sjidi times these gift enterprises are carried ou in the name of charity, and some of you remember at the close of our civil w ar how many gift enterprises wore on f<x>t, the proceeds to go to tho orphans cud widows of the soldiers and sailors. What did the men who had charge of those gift enterprises care fnr the orphans and widows? Why, they would have allowed them to fiee/c to death upon their steps. I have no faith in u charity which for the sake of re lieving tin - 'tit suffering opens a gaping hand, not clinched as if to -n.jto, but outspread as if to drop a I 'm diction. Other seas have a shore aud may he fathomed, but tlie sea of God's love— eternity has no plummet to strike the bottom, and immensity no ironbound shore to confine it. Its tides are lifted by the heart of infinite romj.us.-iou. Its waves are the hosannas of the re deemed. The argosies that sail on it drop anchor at last amid tho thunder ing salvo of eternal victory. Bui alas for that man who sits down to the final game of life and puts his immortal soul on the imv, while tho angels of God keep the tally board, and after kings and queens, and knaves, and spades aro “shuffled” and “cut,” and the game is ended, hovering aud impending worlds discover that lie has lost it, the faro bank of eternal darkness clutching down into its wallet all tbe blood stained wagers. I rffC-iT 1 ' V ■*••• - ^ V-v ■ “.r ■ •" • ■ '• ■ > ■ ■ XSgk 00 YOU FEEL '•‘l An-ne-nie- k*-«* Ne-^aw-we K«w-«-ilib. There is meaning in the old nantes that cling to certain localities of our land. The Indians did not bestow these names arbitrarily, and when they gave to a certain sand hill in Michigan a ti tle that means Thundering tiaud hill they knew what they were about. White men today call it Tlmnder mountain. Chief Simon Pokagou, in a letter to Popular Science News, says that this particular hill is one of a number of sand duties that stretch for 300 miles jylong the east idtOM at Lake Michigan^ Tbi y aj** fbnm.'d by drift sand from the lake u«d vary from 60 to 200 feet in height, being generally covered wi^h scrub timber, evergreen and hardwood. This luurticuiar bill has a character rtf its own. It is literally a tbuudercr. New sad again it lifts up its voice and speaks with low, muttering thunder. Its eloquence is irregular. It will be gin ui«l thunder for six or ten seconds, then paiiM» and iu two or tliree seoonds begin again, us if talking. Sailors, while punidiig along the coast, frequent ly report having heard the voice of thunder above the roer of the waves dashing on the tlinre. One who vithtd the hill ray* that when he reused thu top it began to mutter and shake, like a creature of life that wue suffering from an ague obilL Tl>u air rushed oat of tlie sand cu if tbe mound were breathing with great labor. And yet the mound seems in composi tion So be no different from its neigh bors. M I have been the whole length of Lake Michigan,” says the writer, “aud failed to murk any difference in the general appearanbe aud quality of the sand of which these hills ore composed. Onr Algonquin fathers naturally thought this one was the wigwam of tbe M&uito or spirit that presided over Mi-she-gum—Luko Michigan—n name whioh means monstrous lake.” BILIOUS, DROWSY, LOW SPIRITED, DODY AND BRAIN V/EARY? PRICKLY ASK BITTERS. RELIEVES AND INVIGORATES. It cleanses tho llvt-r an.’ bowols, strenrjtbens t’.ie k neys a:'.<! aids <“ ;<-6tlon, t'.ius r ■ syctcm 1; regulated ni;il j L the body fortified to resist ills' use. i VALiYCLE p.rirr/ to kit? r t:.t house. SOLD BY ALL DRUGGISTS- . ^ PrUo f i.oo Pst L ittle. ' ■ ^BF’Oherokce Drig Co. Special Agents. KEEP YOUR BOWELS STRONG ALL SUMMER L (ANDY CATHARTIC . lav- ♦hut L'is sv,':»iloi^' d di'vn *0 murh of the virtue and good principle of the community. Young man, have nothing to do with these things. They only sharpen yor.r appetite for games ef chance. Ho one of two things—be hon est or die. When* Safety I.Ick. I have accomplished my object if I put you on «hc lookout. It is a givat deal easier to fall than it is to get up again. The trouble is that when men hi gin to go astray from the path of duty they aro apt to say, “There’s no use of my tryiug to get bark. I’ve sacrlfici-d mjrespectability, I can’t return.’’ And they go on until they ar* utterly de stroys . I tell you, my friends, that God this moment, by his Holy Spirit, run change your entire nature ao that yon will be a different man in a min ute. Yunr great want—what is it? Moi« salary? Higher social position? No, no. I w ill tell you the great want of every man if he has not already obtained it It is the grace of God. Are there any who have fallen victims to the sin that I have been reprehending? You are in a prison. Yon rush against tlie wall of this prison and • ry tag* t oat and you fail, aud yon turn around end das’! against the otmr wall until there is bloixl tm the grates and blood on yoor soul, You will never get out in this way. There is only one way of getting out. There is a key that can unlock that prison heme, it is the it. y of the house of David. It is the key that Christ wears at his girdle. If you will allow him to put that key to tho lock, the bolt will shoot back, and tho door will swing open, and you will he a free man m Christ Jesus. Oh, prodigal, what a business this is for you, feeding swine, when your father stands in thu front door, straining his cyi sight to ~atoh the first glimpse of your return, •ml the calf is us fat as it will be, and .he harps of heaven are all strung, aud the feet free. There are converted gamblers in heaven. Tho light of eternity flashed Jpon iLc ^tei n baize of ihdx bill mid saloon. In tho lavcr of God’s forgive ness they washed off al} their sin. They quit trying for earthly staLes. They tried for heaven and won it. There stretches a hau<! from heaven toward tbe bead of thu worst offender. It is a ▼ frIaMi of riiRlUh ToImw-oo. A retail eliop on Forty si cond ptreot, New York, does quite a business in im ported English tobaccos. Its windows are gay with the advertising cards of certain manufacturers in England. Now, no one will pretend that Eng lish smoking tobaccos aro as good as American. Th*' raw h af from which they nre manufactured has first tube brought into England from ibis country, and the United States is not sending its best hogshead tobacco abroad. On account o? tho tariff tlw imported Efig'.ish to baccos are much dearer than those which are rnannfactured in this coun try, amT'chive, as I have said, the, home product is so much hi tter than the for eign it is not easy to explain why there should bo any demand for the English gosils in this city at all. I asked the dealer if he sold much of the English tobacco, and lie answered that the de mand was quite large and quite steady. “if you ask mo how it conns that I am able to sell these goods, 1 shouldn’t be eblo to tell you, i ncej’ing i:a the theory tliat those who buy it arc Anglo maniacs, who love English things be cause they are English. They fancy that every time they buy a package of this English pipe tobacco they advertise the fact that they have been in England and have acquired the taste there. But since they advertise it only to me, who don’t care a rap whether they have been in England cr not, I can’t for the life of me see why they doit.”—Tobac co Trade Journal. CURE CONSTIPATION } !? AlL t 2s*so* ohwigists • A tablet now and thon will prevent dlarrha**. <1r«#-nt*rv. a II summer fompjftintfi. ffausinir easy, nal mr** ! A r*PUlU. H&niple and bookltt frt'e. Ad. STKKLING HEME.>Y ( 0.,0. .rairo, Monti t ill, Can , t.i New Y«.:w *.»>, The National Bank of Gaffney. C-AIM'TAJL, S'VO.OOO. This bank is now open for business unil soliell s tlie pat ronage of the people of (,nt)u* > rind surrounding eountry. Ii will extend to it-, rustor.iers every necotatuo'luMiMt sistenl with safety. Money to loan on approved seeurity. 1 >. C. Caalticr. I*”. O- i-i'r.'VC”'', j'ic-nkt* isr j. o. w.'VKniw’vw, \ r ie'C-I *ri*»i«tcnt. 1>I W I CCD'OItf !S. ■T A. rARKOT.I,. President Cherokee Palls J. 1. w AKRATT. 'ler.-hant anil I’nru.. i Mfir. co. | Hon. WM. JKFFF.ltIF>, Farmer Homi S r il. I*. \\ II K AT. r reasuri i liall'ney Mf;;. Co. i Ibni. c. U . W 111.-\ ,\ \ f, vieieuunt anil I'ono If. M. AVILKINS. Fate of Wilkinsllros.. Mer- i c. Wilkie-'.’Ii" c. ehiints. 1 IIKNItY M. MeAIlF.N. Capitaiist. \N . C. CAHPENTEK. of Carroll A. Carpenter, i vide. < . M rehants. I OF. AVI LKI NS. of O. F.. Wilkins \ Hui.. Lrufl .1. Ii. W A HI 11, A W. See’ry, Oalfney Manf. Co. 1 ney. S. C. Gaffney. i F. G. 8TAGY. c. n i Stacy. Gaffney. ff.C? In 3 Bn Omililv* In < >ur B >Oci5inj^H. is what we Guaramce when you buy your I)ni<fs, StaEiom ry, Paiiiis. < »;K, otc., frvm t>~. Give us a call. UospecUullv, DUPRE DRUG CO. 0>on't 'I'iitit ? i&r A Violation of Law. Kvery law provides a penalty fortho.se w ho disregard it. |S|ek:iess is the penalty that nut lire inlliets on those who violate her laws. Inillsrrotlons of the appetite, negleet of the bowels, worry.overwork, these ate violations of law and the penalty is disordered diges tion. torpid liver and hilliousness. When sl.c.. . ‘Inn iti, ;ni.h«- I a; ; ‘a- .. ee .. / sliould he i|tili kly r«*moveil. otherwise more serious troubles ;-re sure to develop. A reliable system torde Is i he retr.edy to use, and where can you lind a better than PliICK* I.V Asu PlTTKtis- It streinMhens the kid neys. eleanses and n-trulates the liver, tom x up the stomach and digestion, and |jurities 1 he bowels, thus restoring aetlvlty In all t be vUnl organs and vigorous bodily health. I > r sale by Cherokee ItrugCo. . -«•*• —-—■— Don't ToWro Spit ■nd fimokf Vour I.lfe Away. To quit tobacco easily and forever, lie mac neiic. full of Fte, nerve and vigor, take No-To ll ac. the wonder worker, that makes wen’.: men sirotig. All druggists. .V)c or 91. Curoguaran teed. lioolclet and sample free. Address Sti rling Kernedy Co , Chicago or New York. p - i;3r s a Sna 1 * kcop flu* nii i st ;:ii<l fivslu sf Juiw of ^roccric- in the city, thorn up when you need ieuy, Hat their groceries ami ^et iai. ANDREWS’ ANNUAL JULY ^REDUCTION SALE m Furniture, Carpets, Rugs, Mattings, Curtains, Baby Carriages, Sideboards, Bedroom Suits, &c. & ob*c A I'III GAFFNEY^SEMINARY A Iligh-Gratio School for Boys! ami Girls, will open its ses sion on Wednesday, */ • Am', ’ioth. For terms and particulars addrekM W. F. McARTHUR, Principal. Ciaffney, S. C. 7-ai-tf Every department of my immense establish ment teeming with the best and newest goods a + Redur^d durinj the month of July. ~rx^A GRAND CPPOnTUNITY FOR YOUj^- If you can’t eomo and see lor yourself, write for Catalogues Prices. IF I? P FP>. ?r*\ 57^ Largest Dealerin Furniture, Carpets, Pianos and Or^ansintbeStat£. CHARLOTTE, N. C.