The ledger. [volume] (Gaffney City, S.C.) 1896-1907, September 16, 1897, Image 5
THE TjEDGEK : GAFFNEY, S. C„ SEPTEMBER 10, 1897
AVI^VT IS YOUR LIFE?
REV. DR. TALMAGE DISCUSSES THIS
MOMENTOUS QUESTION.
Tlie Kind of Ufo Tlmt Is Not Worth lav
ing and the Kind That Opens Into Kter-
nity- TIm- Struggle For Wealth, Position
and Happiness,
Washington, Srpt. 12.—In this sit
turn Hcv. Dr. Talrnnge discusses a sub-
j*ct vital to all, and never more timely
than now, when the struggle for power,
position, wealth and happiness is so ab
sorbing. The text, is James iv, 14,
“What is your life?”
If we leave to tho evolutionists to
guess where we came from and to the
theologians to prophesy where we are
going to, wo still have left lor cousid-
eraticn tho important fact that we are
here. There may he some doubt about
where the river rises and some doubt
about where the river empties, but
there can he no doubt about the fact that
vc arc sailing on it. Ido I am not sur
prised that everybody asks the ques
tion, “Is life worth living?”
la Fife Worth Living?
Solomon, in Lis unhappy moments,
says it is not. “Vanity,” “vexation of
spirit,” “no good,” are his estimate.
The fact is that fc'clomou was at one
time a polygamist and that soured his
disposition. One wife makes a man
happy; more than one makes him
wretched. But Solomon was converted
from polygamy to monogamy, and the
last words he evt r wrote, as far as we
can road them, were the words "moun
tains of spices.” But Jeremiah says life
is worth living. In a bock supposed to
be doleful and lugubrious and sepulchral
and entitled “Lamentations,” he plain
ly intimates that the blessing of merely
living is so great and grand a bless
ing that though a man have piled on
him all inisfortums and disasters he
has no right to complain. The ancient
prophet erics out in startling intonation
to all lands and to all centuries,
“Wherefore doth a living man ccim-
plain?”
A diversity of opinicu in our time as
t well as in oldc n time. Here is a young
man of light hair and blue eyes and
sound digestion and generous salary
and happily albanet (I and on the way
to become a partner in a commercial
firm of which he is an important clerk.
Ask him whethe r life is werth living.
Ho will laugh in year face and say,
“Yes, yes, yes!” Hero is a man who
has come to the forties. Ho is at the
tiptop of the hill of life. Kvery step
has been a stumble and a bruise. The
people ho trusted have turned out de
serters, and the money he has honestly
made lie has: bet n cheated out of. His
' * nerves are out of tune. He has poor ap
petite, and the food he does eat does
not assimilate. Forty miles climbing
up \\\4 hill of life have been to him like
climbnng tho Matterhorn, and there arc
40 limes yet to go down, and deset nt is
alvrtfyo more dangeious than ascent.
Ask him whether life is worth living,
and he w ill draw l out in sliivcring and
|» lugubrious and appalling negative,
“No, no, no!”
How are wo to decide this matter
righteously and intelligently? Yen vill
find the fiamc man vacillating, oscillat
ing in hia cpiaic u fic.m dt jt ctirn to i x-
uheranee, and if he be very mercurial
in his tempt rairci.l it will depend very
much on which way the wind Hows.
If the wind blow from the northwtst
and you ask him, lie will say, “Yes,”
and if it blow from the northeast and
yon ink him he will ray, “No.” How
are we, then, to get the question right
eously answered? fciupi o: e v. c call all
nations to.;* :Ft r in a gieat convention
oucasttrn orvts: rn htinisphere, and
lot till the.so who are i'i the allirmative
gay, “Aye,” and all thero who are in
the negative say, “No.” While them
would Lo hundreds of thousands w ho
would tatswt r in t'e afTirmalive, thero
would be more millions who would an
swer in flit 1 negative, and Lecaux! of
the greater number wi n have sorrow
and misfortune and Double the nett;
would have it. The unsvtr I shall give
will be different 1i< jji either, and yet it
will commend its* If t till who hear me
this day ns tho right answer. If you
ask me, “is life worth living?” I an-
vwer “It all depends tipion the kind of
life yon live. ”
Money Getting.
. ^ In the first place, I r< mark that a iifo
of mere money getting is always a fail
ure, because you will never get as much
as you want. The poorest people in this
country are the millionaires. There is
not a scissors grinder on tlie streets of
New York cr Brooklyn who is so anx
ious to make money as these men who
have piled up fortunes year after year
in storehouses, in government securi
ties in tenement houses, in whdle city
blocks. You ought to see them jump
when they hear the lire bell ring. You
ought to Eco them in their excitement
when a bank explodes. You ought to
see th<ir agitation when there is pro-
jiosul a reformation in tho lariff. Their
nerves tremble like harp strings, hut no
music in the vibration. They read the
reports from Wall street in tho morning
with a concernment that threatens par
alysis cr apoplexy, or more probably
they have a telegraph or a telephone in
their own house, so they rateli evi ry
breath of change in the money market.
| Tho disease of aceumnlation has eaten
into them—eaten into their heart, into
their lungs, into their spleen, into their
liver, into th< ir hones.
Chemists have sometimes analyzed
tho human body, and they say it is so
I much magnesia, so much lime, so much
chlorate f'i' potassium. If some Chris*
tiun chemist would analyse one of these
financial h* h* ninths, he would liud ho
lis made up of copper and gold and si!
|Ver and zinc and lead and coal and iron.
IThut is not a life worth living. Them
Isni too maliy earthquakes in it, teo
Ijkuny ugonitt! in it, too many perditions
w it. Thi n build their castles, and
they open their picture galleries, aud
they summon prima donnas, aud they
wfir every inducemeut for huppiuess to
come and live there, but happiness will
uot come. They send foctmanned aud
postilioned equipage to bring her. She
will not ride to their door. They send
princely escort She will uot take their
arm. They make their gateways tri
umphal arches. She will not ride under
them. They set a golden throne before
a golden plate. She turns away from
the banquet. They call to her from up
holstered balcony. She will uot listen.
Mark you, this is the failure of those
who have had large accumulation.
And then you must take into consid
eration that the vast majority of those
who make the dominant idea of life
money getting fall far short of affluence.
It is estimated that only about two out
of a hundred business men have anything
worthy the name of success. A man
who spends his li/.i with the one dom
inant id< a of financial accumulation
spends u life not worth living.
Worldly Approval.
So tho idea of worldly approval. If
that he dominant in a man’s life, he is
miserable. Kvery four years the two
most unfortunate men iu this country
are the two men nominated lor the
presidency. The reservoirs of abuse and
diatribe and malediction gradually fill
up, gallon above gallon, hogshead above
hogshead, and about midsummer these
two reservoirs will ho brimming full,
aud a hose will be attached to each one,
and it will play away on these nom
inees, aud they will have to stand it
and take the abuse, and the falsehood,
aud the caricature, and the anathema,
and tho caterwauling, and the filth,
and they will be rolled in it and relied
over aud over in it until they are
choked and submerged and strangulated,
aud at every sign of returning con
sciousness they will he Larked at by ail
the hounds of political parties irom
ocean to ceean. And yet there are a
hundred men today struggling for that
privilege, and there are thousands of
men who are helping ti:< m in the strug
gle. New, that is not a life woith liv
ing. Y’on can g< t slandered aud abused |
cheaper than that. Take it on a smaller |
sivile. Do not be so ambitious to have a
whole reseivoir rolled over cu you.
But what you see in the matter of i
high political preferment you see in ^
every community iu the struggle lor |
what is called social position. Tens of i
thousands of people trying to get into j
that realm, and they are under terrific |
tension. What is social position? It is a !
difficult thing to d< fine, hut we all j
kuow what it is. (icod morals and iu- J
telligenec are not necessary, hut wealth, j
or a show of wealth, is absolutely in- j
dispensable. Tlure are men today as !
notorious for their libertinism as the j
night is famous for its darkness who |
move in what is called high social posi- i
tion. There are hundreds of out and cut i
rakes in American society whose names
are mentioned among the distinguished
guests at the great levees. They have j
annexed all the known vices and are j
longing for othi r worlds of diabolism ,
to conquer, (iced morals are uot ueecs- |
sary in many o? the exalted circles of
society.
Neither is intelligence necessary. \
Y’cu find in tbt.t realm men who would !
not know an adverb from an adjective
if they met it a hundn d times in a day,
and who could uot write a letter of ae- !
eeptauee or regrets without the aid of a |
secretary. They buy their libraries by
the square yard, only anxious to have j
the binding Russian. Their ignorance
is positively sublime, making English ;
grammar almost disreputable. And yet |
the finest parlors ejen before them, j
(ioc.d morals and intelligence are uot |
necessary, but wealth or a show of
wealth is positively indispensable. It
does not make any dilferenee Low you
got your wealth, if you only got it. ;
The !» s!: way for you to get into social
position is for yon to buy a large amount
on credit, tin n put your prop* ity m j
your wife’s name, have a f« w ] refi ireri ;
credit* is, and then make an assignment.
Then disappear from the community
until t!.e bi.eze m ever ami come Lack
and start in the same business - . Dy you
not see P* \v beautifully that will put j
cut all the pi nplc who are in competi
tion with you and trying to make an
hem st living? How quii k!y it will g* t
you into high social pesitii n? What is
the ust; of toiling 40 or 50 years when
you can by two or three bright strokes
make a great fortune? Ah, my fri* mis, j
when you really lose your money how ,
quickly they will let you drop, and the
higher you get the Imidtr you will drop. ;
Thero are thousands today in that
realm who are anxious to keep iu it. I
Thero are thousands iu that realm who i
are nervous for fear they will fall out
of it, aud thero are changes going cu
every year, ami every mouth, aud every
hour which involve heartbreaks that
are never reported. High social life is
constantly in a flutter about the delicate
question as to whom they shall let iu
aud win mi they shall push out. ami tho |
battle is going on—pier mirror against
pier mirror, chandelier against chande
lier, wine eellar against wine cellar,
wardrobe against wardrobe, equipage
against equipage. Uncertainty and in
security dominant in that realm, wretch
edness enthroned, torture at u premium
and a life not »vorth living!
All IK-hiI Failu-ca.
A life of sin, a life of pride, a life cf
indulgence, u life of wcrldliness, a life
rievi t(d to ti e world, the 1. sh and tho
dev.l, is .me, a dead f-ilure, an in
finite failure. I. care not how many
presents you send to that cradle or how
many garlands you semi to that grave,
you need to put light under the name
c*ii the tombstone this inscription: “ B» t-
ter for that man if lie hud never been
born.”
But I ahull show you a life that is
Worth living. A young man says: “I
uni here. I uni uot responsible for my
ancestry. Others decided that. I am
not responsible for my temperament.
Clod gave me that. But hero I am iu
tho evening of the nineteenth century,
at 2U years of age. I am here, and I
must take an account of stock. Here I
have a body, which is u divinely con-
■tructed engine. I must put it to the
very best uses, and I must allow noth
ing to damage this rarest of machinery.
Two feet, and they .mean locomotion.
Two eyes, and they mean capacity to
pick out my owu way. Two ears, and
they are telephones of communication
with all the outside world, aud they
mean capacity to catch sw eetest music
and the voices of fricudship-*-the very
best music. A tengue, with almost in
finity of articulation. Y T es, hands with
which to welcome or resist or lift or
smite or wave or bless—hands to help
myself and help others.
Here is a world which after fi.OOO
years of battling with tempest and acci
dent is still grander than any architect,
human or angelic, could have drafted.
I have two lamps to light me—a golden
lamp and a silver lamp—a golden lamp
set on the sapphire mantel of the day,
a silver lump set on the jet mantel of
the night. Yea, I have that at 20 of
age which defies all inventory of valu
ables—a soul with capacity to choose or
reject, to rejoice or to suffer, to love or
to hate. Pluto says it is immortal. Sen
eca says it is immortal. Confucius says
it is immortal. An old book among the
family relics, a book with leathern
cover almost worn out and pages almost
obliterated by oft perusal, joins the oth
er Locks in saying I am immortal, i
have 80 years for a lifetime, 00 years
yet to live. I may uot live an hour, but
theu I must lay out my plans intelli
gently aud for a long life. Jpixty years
added to the 20 I have already lived—
that will bring me to 80. I must re
member that these 80 years are only a
brief preface to the five hundred thou
sand millions of quintillions of years
which will be my chief resiu nee and
existence. Now, I understand my oppor
tunities and my responsibilities. If there
is any being in t.ie universe all wise
and all beneficent who can help a iuxu
in such a juncture, I want him.
The old hook found among the family
relics tells me there is a (4od and that
tor the sake of his sou, <% - e Jesus, he
will give help to a man. To him I ap
peal. (iod help me! Here I have 00
years yet to do for myself and to do for
others. I must develop ibis body by all
industries, by all gymnastics, by all
sunshine, by all fresli air, by all good
habits. And this soul I must have swept
ami garnished and illumined and glo
rified by all that I can do for it and ail
that I can get Hod to do for it. It shall
te u Luxembourg cf fine pictures. ,It
shall be an orchestra of grand - har
monies. It shall he a palace for Cod
and righteousness to reign in. I wonder
how many kind words I can utter in
the next 60 years? I will try. I wonder
how many good deeds I ean do in the
next CO years? I wil! try. God help me.
A Life Worth Living.
That young mat: enters life. He is
buffeted, ho is tried, he is perplexed. A
grave opens on this side and a grave
opens on that side. Ho fulls, but ho
rises again. He gets into a hard battle,
but he gets the victory. The main
course of hit* life is in the right direc
tion. He blesses everybody he comes in
contact with. God forgives his mis
takes and makes everlasting record of
his holy endeavors, aud at the close of
it God says to him: “Well done, good
and faithful servant. Enter into the joy
cf thy Lord. ” My brother, my sister,
I do not earn whether that man di»s at
JO. 40, 60, 60, 70 or 80 years of age;
you ean chisel right under ids muno on
the tombstone these words, “His life
was worth living. ”
Amid the hills cf New Hampshire, i:i
olden times, there sits a mother. There
are six children iu tne household—four
hoys and two girls. Small farm. Very
rough, hard work to coax a living out
of it. Mighty tug to make the two ends
of tho year meet. Tb * boys go to soluol
in w inter and work the farm in sum
mer. Mother is the chief presiding
spirit. With her hands she knits all the
stockings for the little Let, and she is
the muntuu maker for the boys, and she
is the milliner for the girls. Tliiro is
only otic mu-ical instrument in tho
house, the spinning whi rl. The food is
very plain, bur it is always well pro
vided. The winters; are wry cold, but
are kept out by the blankets she quid
ed. On trundiiy, when she appears in
the village church, her children aicui'd
In r, the minister looks down and is r*
minded of the Bible description ol a
g<:< d housewife, "Her children arise up
and rail her blessed; her husband also,
and he praiseth her. ”
Some years go 1 y, aud the two oldest
bov-s want a collegiate education, and
the household economies are severer,
ami the calculations are closer, aud un
til these two boys get their education
there is a hard battle for bread. One of
these boys enters the university, stands
in a pulpit widely influential aud
preaches righteousness, judgment and
temperance, and thousands during his
ministry are blessed. The other lad
who got the collegiate edueutiou goes
into the law, and thence into legisla
tive hulls, and after awhile ho com
mands listening senates as he makes a
plea for the downtrodden and the out
cast. One of the younger boys becomes
a merchant, starting at the foot of the
ladder, but climbing on up until his
success and his philanthropies urj rec
ognized all over the land. The other
son stays at home because lie prefers
farming life, and then he thinks he
will be able to take care of father aud
mother when they get old.
Of the two daughters, when the war
broke oat, one went through the hospi
tals of Pittsburg Lauding and Fortress
Monroe, cheering up the dying aud the
homesick and taking the last message
to kindred far away, so that every time
Christ thought of her lie said, as of old,
“The same is my sister and mother.”
The other daughter lias a bright home
of her own. and iu the afternoon—tho
forenoon having been devoted to her
household—she goes forth to hunt up tho
sick and to encourage the discouraged,
leaving smiles aud benediction all along
the way. ,
But one day there start five telegrams
from the village for these five absent
ones, saying, “Come, mother is dauger-
ooslyill. ” But before they can be ready
to start they receive another telegram,
laying, “Come, mother iidcud.” The
old neighbors gather in tho old farm
house to do the last offices of respect.
But as that farming son, aud the cler
gyman, and the senator, and the mer
chant, and the two daughters stand by
the casket of the deadmothir taking
tho last look, or lifting their little chil
dren to see once more the face of dear
old grandma, I want to ask that group
around tho casket one question, “Do
you really think her lifo was worth liv
ing?” A life for God, a life for others,
a life of unselfishness, a useful life, a
Christian life, is always worth living.
Kight Living.
1 would not find it hard to persuade
you that the poor lad, Peter Cooper,
making glue for a living, and then
amassing a great fortune until he could
build a philanthropy which has had its
echo in 10,000 philanthropies all over
the country—I would not liud it hard
to persuade you that his lifo was worth
living. Neither would I liud it hard to
persuade you that the life of Susannah
Wesley was worth living. She sent out
one son to organize Methodism and the
other sen to ring his anthems ail
through the ages. I would net find it
hard work to persuade you that the life
of Frances Deere was worth living, as
she established in England u school fer
the scientific nursing of the sick, aud
then when the war broke out between
France and Germany went to the front
and with her own hands scraped the
mud off the bodies of the soldiers dying
iu the trenches and with her weak arm
—standing one night in the hospital—
pushing back a German soldier to his
.couch, us, all frenzied with his wounds,
he rushed to the door and said, “Let
me go, let me go to my licbe mutter,”
—major generals standing hack to let
pass this angel of mercy.
Neither would I have hard work to
persuade you that Grace Darling lived
a life worth living—the heroine of the
lifeboat. Y’ou are not wondering that
the Duchess of Northumberland came
to see her aud that people of all lands
asked for her lighthouse aud that the
proprietor of the Adelphi theater in
London offen d her if 100 a night just to
sit in the lifeboat while some shipwreck
scene was being enacted.
But 1 know the thought in the minds
of hundreds cf you today. You say,
“While I know all these lived lives
worth living, I don’t think my lifo
amounts to much.” Ah, my friends,
whether you Jive a life conspicuous or
inconspicuous, it is worth living, if
you live aright. And I want my next
sentence to go down into the depths of
all your souls. You are to he rewarded
uot according to the greatners of your
work, hut according to the holy indus
tries with which you employed the tal
ents you really possessed. The majority
of the crowns of heaven will not be
given to people with ten talents, for
most of th; m were tempted only to
serve themselves. The vast majority of
the crowns of heaven will Lo given to
pfopb* who had om* talent, but gave it
all to God. And remember that our life
here is introductory to another. It is
the vestibule to a palace, but who de
spises the door of a Madeleine because
there are grander glories within? Your
life, if rightly lived, is the first bar of
an eternal oratorio, and who despises
the first note of Haydn’s symphonies?
And the life you live now is all the
more worth living because it opens into
a life that shall never end, and the last
letter of the word “time” is the first
letter of the word "eternity!”
To Chance; a Current For Cliinatr'a Sake.
A Tokyo journ il is responsible for the
following: “Vladivostok, being the
terminus of the hiLeriuu railway, is a
most important port in Russia. Not
withstanding this fact over four
months during the cold season the port
is bkoked with ice and spring traffic is
«utirely impossible, and therefore tho
railway lost s much cf its advantages.
The Russian authorities have endeavor
ed ii r many y* ::rs to conquer nature,
ami seme y* ars ago ice breaking ships
were intnidiK ed to break open the ice,
hut i* has 1 * * n found that tho eperatit n
is useli ss,
“A icrtaiu engineer lias hit upon the
rather wonderful idea of leelaimiug the
narrowest pait of the Tartar strait, be
tween isaghalicn anti the Russian main
land. He is of opinion, if this is done,
tlie cold current that enters the Japa
nese sea from the arctic via Bering
strait will he cheeked and the passage
of tlie warmer tide, coming from the
south through the bnyshima strait,
will make the water ou the coasts of
Japan as well as at Vladivostok warm
er, and the latter will he warmer all
the year around. This scheme was pre-
ecutcd to tho Russian government for
approval, and it is now engaged iu its
investigations. There is u probability
of this piece o: smart engineering being
entered upon after the completion of
the Siberian railway.”—Portland Ore
gonian.
Tlie Hltchrork*.
The grandfather of Ethan Allen
Hitchcock, the new minister to Russi. ,
was Judge Samuel Hitchcock, one of
the most eminent citizens of Burling
ton, Vt. He was the first attorney gen
eral of that state, holding office from
171tu to 17UJ, and u presidential elector
iu I7i)2, when Washington received his
second election. In the some year he
Was appointed judge of tho United
States district court, becoming later
judge of the circuit court*of the second
circuit of the United States, receiving
the appointment from John Adams.
Mr. Hitchcock’s father was the first at
torney feneral of Alabama, whither he
had gone from Vermont ns a young man.
Later he was chief justice of the state.
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We have sonic of the most desirable lands for i * -cdi mv- any
where to he found. , i'on can select just what you w iut. You
will not be surrounded by disagreeable neighbors. You can se
lect it so that you will have no town taxes t«» pay. It i< located
within 250 yards of Southern depot, (’heap prices and easy
terms.
X. II. LITTLEJOHN, w
LIMESTONE * SPMK » USE * WORKS.
CARROLL & CO., Lessees.
Manufacturers of
BUILDING, * PLASTERING * AND * AGRICULTURAL * LIKE,
-And Dealers In-
Coal, Shingles, Lathes and Platser Hair.
Dvmamite. Blasting Powder. Fuse and Dynamite Caps.
Bayer or Seller,
F'or t*4alo (|
('.ii urn .', of lunii half a mile frmn rorpo. ate limits of
Caffney City nri Mill's tSiip rnud. |*u. lag of four rooms.
Our and half acres of land ou \’ir;.,i:i A v enue frin.ting
W. II. Richardson.
One lot on Victoria Avenue, near S. M. I ittle.joim’s.
One lot in rear of above nuni* d lot si\:3X) f*-< *
On* lot fronting Victoria Avenue opposite K. O. Sams’.
■ fttxtMO. Good dwellltttr on same
One lot fronting Victoria A l enue feet. Dwelling
of four rooms, opposite D. A. Thotna.-*'
Lipscomb Hotel and lot. fronting Logan .street, t - .; feet,
and Depot street g’UUfeet.
House and lot Vietorla A venue liWi feet fr'int. one aero.
House ami lot fronting Logan street I L - J feel and Depot
CONSULT WITH
street Jun feet.
Lot Logan street Ftl 1 ,\?00feet.
Lot on Depot street :SWxi;i2 feet, opposite .1. !. Surratt’s.
House and lot 'i*, acres near Corry > residence.
4*1 acres on Horton's Ferry road,
dr? acres on I’nion road .Vj miles frotu tin-city.
1ST acres near Ninety-Nine Islands no Bio.td River.
.->? acres fronting Mill’s Gap road, just out of town,
tine valuable farm near I'nfon road, 2V, miles from
Gaffney. I*, from Limestone; well watered; well wooded.
Two lots. Johnson st ieet. 1T(I\?IU feet, fronting mountains.
One farm. TO acres. 2*. miles from Gaffney on I'aeulet road.
Two lots, uaxic* feet each, near S. L. Hopper's residence;
J-room cottage.
One lot. f.!'i\;’n»i feet, on Cranard street; three house,,,
tine lot fronting Frederick street. IP* feet, running hock
gsi feel to Robison street : S-room house; within :.1**i yards
of business part of town.
P-rooni dwelling, new. front big :Mfi feet on De;>',i strec'.
1* acre 1**1 above tefforth > milI.
Oof* *rt Ids in ill and ti \t ures and Ml acres of laud.
41 oi-res Im-Iow Goforth's tnill.
.Viacres known as the Hu • ,ey tract,
it acre ; near Beulah ehui.-h.
F* resilience lots fronting Falrvlew Avenue
* " ” *’ .lohusiiu Strce
1" ” " " Rutledge
l Race
Limestone *•
House and lot • Montgomery
27-10acres. Mills Cap rood.
" -1 acres near Mills Gap road mil ■ from
corporate DrnDs.
|s acres near Mills Gap road ', mile fr*>'ii corporate lit lit
Lot - i-In acres. * \ eel lent for residence. Mills Gap mad
pi I..-100 acres, well watered, just beyond town iiutils
Three store lots fronting Limestone strcc., next I* low
Brown's store
acres divided Into I .ii lots, fronting continuation of
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Limestone street and less than 1 mile from town Units
■ I."* acres on Broad river, splendid water powr. 7 miles
rry roads, -ct-
froni Gaffney and crossed ny Fills' Ferry roa
IIMJ acres on Smith's Fort! aud Howell's I rry
tied and well watered
shares Gaffney i'ity Laud and Improvement I'd stock
4d lots on Smith. Meadow, Buford and Frederick S:s.
7« s -li* acres •*', miles from Gaffney on I’aeulet road
IS aeres *, mele from Island Ford road. 1 mile from State
Line eliureli, 9 miles from Gaffney.
4 lots near Mills Gap road front big city,
bin acres on Snead branch and Thickcty crook
:t tracts from ho to 100 acre* of tlie HigSurv.-y m ar tho
t’owpens battle ground.
Kor Itcnt—
Gottage on Victoria A venue. *