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..i.,..,. i*. .. THE LBDOER: GAFFNEY, 8. C., JANUARY 13, 1898. TWO KINDS OF CLUBS. ^ REV. DR. TALMAGE ON THE GOOD AND THE BAD. Fnmouit Cluhtiot'.NMi in tlu< nijf C/ltir*. Kffert «f tl>«' CluT» fJ|ton llnnliii‘HM iunl Kt'llEloiM I.lfu — A Wnrnlns Vouns. [Copyright, by American l’rc*s As«o- clatl on.) Washington, Jan. 0.—Tliis discoarso of Dr. Talniago will lx* helpful to those who want to llnd places with healthful and improving surrounding:* ami to avoid places deleterious. His text is II Samuel ii, 14, "Let the young men now arise and play l)oforo us.” There are two armies encamped by the pool of (jiboou. The time bangs benvily on their hands. < )ne army pro- poses a game of sword fencing. Nothing could be moro healthful and innon nt. The other army accepts the chalh nge. Twelve men against \2 men, the sport opens. Hut something went adversely. Perhaps one of the swordsmen got an unlucky clip or in some way had his ire aroused, and that which opened in sportfuluess ended in violence, each one taking his contestant by the hair and then with the sword thrusting him in the side, so that that which opened in innocent fun ended in the massacre of all the 24 spnrtsmrti. Was there ever a better illustration of what was true then and is true now, that that which is innocent may be imvdc destructive? At this season of the year the club houses of our towns and cities are in full play. I have fouud out that there is a legitimate and an illegitimate use of the clubhouse. In the one case it may become a healthful recreation, like the contest of the 24 men in the text when they began their play; in the other case it becomes the massacre of body, mind and soul, ns in the case of these contes tants of the text when they had gone too fur with their sport. All intelligent ages have had their gatherings for political, social, artistic, literary purposes—gath erings characterized hy the blunt old Anglo-Saxon designation of “club.” Kainouii Clulxk If you Lave read history, you know that there was a King’s Head club, a Ben Jenson club, a Brothers’ club, to | which Swift and Boliughroke belonged; a Literary club, which Burke and Gold smith and Johnson and Boswell made immortal; a Jacobin club, a Benjamin Franklin Junto club—some of these to indicate justice, some to favor the arts, some to promote good manners, some to despoil the habits, some to destroy the soul. If one will write an honest history of the clubs of England, Ireland, Scot land, Franco and the United States for the last 100 years, he will write the his tory of the world. The club was an in stitution boru on English soil, but it has thrived well in American atmos phere. Who shall tell how many belong to that kind of club where men put purses together and open house, appor tioning the expense of caterer and serv ants and room and having u sort of do mestic establishment—u style of club house which in my opinion is far better than the ordinary hotel or boarding house? But my object now is to speak of clubhouses of a different sort, such us the Cosmos or Chevy Chase or Lincoln club of this capital, or the Union Leagues of many cities, the United Serv ice club of London, the Lotos of New York, where journalists, dramatists, eculptors, painters and artists from all branches gather together to discuss newspapers, theaters and elaborate art; like the Americus, which camps out in summer time, dimpling the pool with its hook and arousing the forest with its stag hunt; like the Century club, which has its largo group of venerable lawyers and poets; like the Army and Navy club, where those who engaged in war like service once on the laud or the sea now come together to talk over the days of carnage; like the New York Yacht club, with its floating palaces of beauty upholstered with velvet and paneled with ebony, having all the advantages of electric bell and of gaslight and of king’s pantry, ono pleasure boat costing $3,000, another $15,000, another $80,- 000, another $65,000, the fleet of pleasure boats belonging to the club having cost over $2,000,000; like the American Jockey club, to which belong men who have a passionate fond ness for horses, fine horses, as had Job when, in the Scriptures, be gives ns a sketch of that king of beasts, the arch of its neck, the nervousness of its foot, the majesty of its gait, the whirlwind of its power, crying out: ’’Hast thou clothed his neck with thnnder? The glory of his nostrils is terrible. Ho pow- eth in the valley and rejcicoth in his strength. He saith among the trumpets ‘Ha, ha!’ and ho smelleth the battle afar off, the thunder of the captains and the shouting;” like the Travelers’ club, the Blossom club, the Palette club, the Commercial club, the Liberal club, the Stable Gang club, the Amateur Boat dab, the gambling clubs, the wine clubs, the clubs of all sizes, tho clubs of all morals, clubs us good us good can be imd clubs as bad as bad can be—clubs innumerable. During the day they jire comparatively lazy places. Here uud there an aged man reading a newspaper or an employee dusting a sofa or a clerk writing up the accounts, but when the curtain of the night fulls on the natural day then the curtain of tho clubhouse hoists for the entertainment. Let us hasten np now the marble stairs. What an imperial hallway 1 See, here are par lors on the side with the upholstery of the Kremlin and the Tuileries and here are dining halls that challenge yon to mention any luxury that they cannot afford, and here are galleries with sculp ture and paintings and lithographs uud drawings from the best of artists, Crop- aey and Bierstadt and Church and Hart and Gifford—pictures for every mood, whether yon are impassioned or placid; shipwreck or sunlight over the sea, Sheridan’s ride or the noonday party of the farmers under the trees, foaming 4dcr pursued by the bounds in tho Adi* roudunks or tho sheep on the lawn. On this side there nro r* -ifling rooms where you find all newspapert* and magazines. On that side there is a library where yon And all books, fnun hermeneutics to the fairy tale. Coining in and out there ant gentlemen, some of whom stay ten minutt'S, other stay many hours. Some of those are from luxurious homes, and they have excused themselves for awhile fn»m the domestic circle that they may enjoy the larger sociability of the club house. These are from dismembered households, and they have a plain lodg ing somewhere, but they oome to this clubroom to have their chief enjoyment. One blackball amid ten votes will de feat a man’s becoming a member. For rowdyism, for drunkenness, for gam bling, for any kind of misdemeanor, n memiwr is dropped out Brilliant club house from top to bottom—the ebaude-’ liers, tho plate, the furniture, the com panionship, the literature, the social prestige, a complete enchantment. 1I«m1 Club*. But tho evening is passing on, and so we hasten through the hall and down the steps and Into the street, and from block to block until we come to another stylo of clubhouse. Opwiiug the door, we find the fumes of strong drink and tobacco something almost intolerable. These young men at this table, it is easy to understand what they are at, from tho flushed cheek, the intent look, the almost angry way of tossing the dice or of moving the “chips. ” They arc gam bling. At another table uro men who are telling vile stork*, ^'hey are three- fourths intoxicated, and between 12 and 1 o’clock they will go daggering, hoot ing, swearing, shouting cn their way homo. That is an only son. Ou him all kindness, all care, all culture has been bestowed. He is paying his parents in this way for their kimluoss. That is a yonng married man who, only a few months ago, at the altar, made promises of kindness and fidelity, every one of which he has broken. Walk through and see for yourself. Here are all the implements of dissipation uud of quick death. As the hours of the night go away tho conversation becomes imbecile and more debasing. Now it is time to shut up. Those who arts able to stand will get out ou the pavement and bal ance themselves against the lamppost or against the railings of tho fence. Tho young man who is not able to stand will have a bed improvised for him iu tho clubhouse, or two not quite so overcome with liquor will conduct him to his fa ther’s house, and they will ring tho doorbell, and the door will open, ami tho two imbecile escorts will introduce into the hallway the ghastliest and most hellish spectacle that over enters a front door—a druukou son. If the dissipating clubhouses of this country would make a contract with the inferno to provide it 10,000 men a year and for 20 years ou tho condition that no moro should be asked of them, the clubhouses oould af ford to make that contract, for they would save homesteads, save fortunes, save bodies, minds and souls. The 10,- 000 men who would be sacrificed by that contract v.’ould be bnt a small part at the multitude sacrificed without tbe contract But I make a vast difference between clubs. I have belonged to four clubs—a theological club, u ball club and two literary clubs. I got from them physical rejuvenation ami moral health. What shall be the prttciplo: If God will help me, I will lay down three principles by which you may judge whether tho club where yon are a mem ber or the dub to which yon have been invited is a legitimate or an illegitimate clubhouse. Club Influence. Fiost of all I want yon to test the dub by its influences on homo, if you have a borne. I have been told by a prominent gentleman in dub life that three-fourths of tho members of the great clubs of these cities are married men. That wife soon loses her influence over her husband who nervously and foolishly looks upon all examing absence as an assault on domesticity. How ere the great enterprises of art and litera ture and beneficence and public weal to be carried on if every man is to have bis world t-junded on one side by his front doorstep and on the other side by his back window, knowing nothing higher than his own attic or nothing lower than bis own cellar? That wife who becomes jealous of her husband’s attention to art or literature or religion or charity is breaking her own scepter of conjugal jiower. I know an instance where a wife thought that her bus- band was giving too many nights to Christian service, to charitable service, to prayer meetings and to religious con vocation. She systematically decoyed him away until now be attends no church and is on a rapid way to de struction, his morals gone, his money gone and, I fear, his soul gone. Let any Christian wife rejoice when her husband consecrates evenings to tbe service of God or to charity or to art nr to any thing elevated, but let not men sacrifice homo life to club life. I can point out to you a great many names of men who are guilty of this sacrilege. They are us gonial as angels at tho clubhouse and as ugly as sin at home. They are generous on all subjects of wine suppers, yachts and fast horses, but they are stingy about tho wife’s dross and tbe children’s shoes. That man has made that which might be a healthful recreation a usurper of his affections, and he has married it, and be is guilty of moral bigamy. Under this process tbe wife, whatever her features, becomes uninter esting and homely. He becomes critical of her, does not like the dress, does not like the way she arranges her hair, is amazed that he ever was so nnromautio as to offer her hand and heart She is always wanting money, money, when she ought to be discussing eclipses and Dexter and Derby day and English drags with six horses, all answering the pull of one ‘‘ribbon. ” I tell you there ore thousands of booses in the cities being clubbed to death. There are clubhouses where membership always involves domestic shipwreck. Tell me that a man has joined a certain club, tell me nothing more about him for ten yours, and 1 will write bis hist >ry if ho bo still alive. Tho man Is a wine guzzler, his v ifn broken L< arted or prematurely old, his fortune gone or reduced and his h< no a more name iu a directory. Here are six secular nights In tbe week. "What shall I do with them?” says tho futh.r and the husband. "I will give four of those nights to the improvement and en tertainment of my family, either at homo or iu good neighborhood. I will devote one to charitable institutions. 1 will devote ono to tho clulx. ” I congrat ulate jam. Hero is a man who says ; ”1 will mako a different division of the six night!*. I will take three for the club and three for other purposes. ” I trem ble. Here is a man who says, “Out of the six secular nights of tho week I w ill devote five to the clubhouse* and one to tbe home, which night I will spend iu scowling like a March squall, wishing I was out spending it as I had spent tho other five.” That man’s obituary is written. Not one out of 10,000 that ever gets so farou tho wrong road ever stops. Gradually his health will fail through lute hours and through too much stim ulus. He will bo first rate prey for ery sipelas and rheumatism of tho heart. Tho doctor coming in will at a glance see it is not only present disease he must fight, but years of fast living. Tho clergyman, for tho sake of tho feelings of tho family, on the funeral day will only talk in religious gcnoralties. The men who got. his yacht in the eternal rapids will not be at tho obsequies. They will send flowers to the coflln lid and send their wives to utter words of sympathy, but they will have engage ments elsewhere. They never oomn. firing mo mallet and chisel, and I will cut ou the tombstone that man’s epitaph, “Blesaod uro the dead who die iu tbe Lord.” “No,” yon say, “that would not bo appropriate." “Let mo dio the death of the righteous and let my last end bo like his.” "No,” you say, “that would not be appropriate.” Then give me the mallet and tbe chisel, and I will cut an honest epitaph, “Hero lies the victim of a dissipating clubhouse." I think that damage is often done by the scions of some aristocratic family who belong to one of these dissipating clubhouses. People coming up from humbler dassos feel it an honor to to- long to the same club, forgetting tho fact that many of tho sons end grandsons of the large commercial establishments of the last generation are now* as to mind imbecile, as to body diseased, as to morals rotten. They would have got through their property long ago if they had had full possession of it, but tho wily ancestors, who earned tho money by hard knocks, foresaw how it was to bo, and they tied up everything iu the W’ill. Now, there is nothing of that un worthy descendant but bis grandfather's name and roast beef rotundity. And yet bow many steamers there are which feel honored to lash fast that worm oat t n tug, though it drags them straight into the breakers. The Club In Baalne**. Another test by which yon can find whether your club is legitimate or ille gitimate—the effect it has on your sec ular occupation. I can understand how through such an institution a man can roach commercial successes. I know some men have formed their best busi ness relations through such a channel. If tho club has advantaged yon iu an honorable calling, it is a legitimate club. But has your credit failed? Are bargain makers more cautions bow they trust you with a bill of goods? Have tho men whose names were down in tho com mercial agency A1 before they entered the clnb been going down ever since in commercial standing? Then look out! You and I every day know of com mercial establish men ts going to ruin through tbe social excesses of ono or two members, their fortunes beaten to death with ball players’ tat, or cut amidships by the front prow of the regatta, or go ing down under tbe swift hoofs of the fast horses, or drowned in large pota tions of cognac or mouougahela. Their clnbbonsewas tbe “Loch Earn.” Their business house was the ”Villa du Havre.” They struck, and the “Villo du Havre” went under. A third test by which you may know whether the club to which you belong or tbe club to whose membership you are invited is is legitimate club or an il legitimate club is this: What Is its ef fect cn your sense of moral and religious obligation? Now, if I should take the names of all the people In any andience and put them on a roll and then I should lay that roll back of the organ, and 100 years from now some one should take that roll and call It from A to Z, there would not one of you answer. I say that any association that makes mo forget that fact is a bad association. Now, to many of the cities there are two routes, and you can take the Pennsylvania rail road or the Baltimore and Ohio; but suppose that I hear that on one route the track is torn np and the bridges are torn down and the switches are unlock ed? It will not take me a great while to decide which road to taka Now, here are two roads into tbofoturo, the Chris tian and tho un-Christian, the safe and the unsafa An institution or any asso ciation that confuses my idea in regard to that fact is a bad institution and a bad association. I had prayers before I joined the club. Did I have them after? I attended the house of God before I connected myself with the clulx Since that union with tho clnb do I absent mysi*If from religious influences? Which would you rather have in your hand when you oome to die, a pack of cards or a Bible? Which would you rath er have pressed to your lips in the closing moment, the cup of Belsbazza- rean wassail or the chalice of Christian communion? Who wonld you rather have for your pallbearers, tho ciders of a Christian church or the companions whose conversation was full of slang and innuendo? Wlfb would you rather have for your eternal companions, those men who spend their evenings betting, gambling, swearing, carousing and tell ing vile stories or your little child, that bright girl whom the Lord took? Oh, you would not have been away so much I nights, wonld you, if you had known she was going away so soon? Dear me. yonn house has never iieon tho satno plauo since. Your wifo has never bright ened up. SLo has not got over it; she never will get over it. How long the evenings are, with no one to put to bed and no one to t< 11 tho beautiful Bible story. What a pity it is that you cannot spend more evenings at home in trying to help h' r bear that sorrow! You can nova- drown that grief in tho wine cup. You can never break away from the lit tle arms that used to be flung around your neck when she used to say, “Pupa, do stay heme tonight—do stay home to night. " You will never bo able to \vi]>e away from your lips tho dying kiss of your little girl. Tho fascination of a dissipating club house is so great that sometimes a man has turned his batik on bis home when his child was dying of scarlet fever. He went away. Before ho got back at mid night tho eyes had been closed, tho un dertaker had done his work, and the wife, worn out with three weeks’ watch ing, lay unconscious in tho next room. Then there is u rattling of the night key in tho door, and tho returned father comes up stairs and sees tho empty cra dle and tho window up. He says, "What is tho matter?” In God’s judg ment day ho will find out what was the matter. Oh, man astray, God help yon! Tho influence which some of tho club houses are exerting is tho moro to bedo- plorofl Ih-o;uiso it takes down the very best men. The admission foe sifts out the penurious and leaves only tho best fellows. They are frank, they are gener ous, they are whole souled, they are tal ented. Oh, I begrudge tbe devil such a prize! After awhile tho frank look will go out of tho face, and the features will be haggard, and when talking to you, instead of looking you iu the eye, they will look down, and every morning tho mother will kindly ask, “My son, what kept you out so late last night?” ami he will make no answer, or ho will say, “That’s my business. ” Then some time ho will come to the store or tho bank cross and befogged, and ho will neglect some duty, and after awhile ho will lose his place, and then, with nothing to do, bo will come down at 10 o'clock in tho morning to curse tho servant bo- oanso tho breakfast is cold. The lad who was n clerk in tho cellar has got to be chief clerk iu tho groat commercial es tablishment, tho young man who run errands for tho bank has got to be cash ier, thousands of tho ' young men who were at tho foot of tho ladder have got to the top of the ladder, but here goes tho victim of tho dissipating clubhouse with staggering step and bloodshot eye and mud bespattered hut set sidewise on a shock cf greasy hair, his cravat dashed with cigar ashes. Look at him, pure hearted young man, look at him t The clubhouse did that I know ono such who went the whole round and, turned out of tbe higher clubhouses, went into tho lower clubhouses aud on down un til ono night ho leaped out cf a third story window to end his wretchedness. A Wurniug. Lot mo say to fathers who are becom ing dissipated, your sons will follow you. You think your sou does not know. He knows all about it. I have heard men who say, “I am profane, but never in tho preseueo of my children. ” Your children know you swear. I havo beard men say, ”1 drink, but never in tho presence of my children.” Yonr chil dren know you drink. I describe now what occurs in hundreds of households in this country. Tho tea hour has ar rived. The family uro seated at the tea table. Before the rest of the family arise from the table tbe father shoves bock his chair, says be has an engagement, lights a cigar, goes out, comes hack aft er midnight, and that is the history of 8C5 nights of tho year. Does any man want to stultify himself by saying that that is healthy, that that is right, that that is honorable? Would your wifo have married you with such prospects? Time will pass on, and the son will be 10 or 17 years of age, and you will be at the tea table, aud he will shove back and have an engagement, and he will light his cigar, and he will go out to the clubhouse, and you will hear nothing of him until you hear the night key iu the door after midnight. But his physical constitution is not quite so strong as yours, aud tbe liquor be drinks is more terrifically drugged than that which you drink, and so he will catch up with you on the road to death, though you got such a long start of him, and so you will both go to hell together. Tbe revolving Drummond light in front of a hotel, in front of a locomotive, may flush this way aud flash that upon tho mountains, upon the ravines, upon tbe city, bnt I take the lamp of God’s eternal truth, and I flash it upon all the clubhouses of those cities, so that no young man shall be deceived. By these tests try them, try them! Oh, leave tbe dissipating influences of tbe clubroom, if the influences of your clubroom are dissipating. Paid your money, have you? Better sacrifice that than your souL Good fellows, are they? Under that process they will not remain such. Mollusca may be found 200 fathoms down beneath tbe Norwegian seas, Si berian stag get fat on the stunted growth of Altaian peaks,hedysarium glows amid the desolation of Sahara, tufts of osier and birch grow on the hot lips of vol canic Sueehattan, but a pure heart and an honest life thrive in a dissipating clubhouse—pover. The way to conquer a wild beast is to keep your eye on him, but tho way for you to conquer your temptations, my friend, is to tum your back on them and fly for your lifa. Oh, my heart aches! I see men strug gling against evil habits, and they want help. I have knelt beside them, and I have hoard them cry for help, and then we have risen, and he has put one hand on my right shonlderond the other band on my left shoulder aud looked into my face with an infinity of earnest ness which the judgment day will have no power to make me forget os he has cried out with his lips scorched iu ruin, “God help me I” For such there is no help except in the Lord God Almighty. WILHELM’S DREAM. I am going to make n v* ry stout rope. You know that sometimes n ropemaker will take very Mnall threads and wind them together until after awhile they become ship cable. And I am going to take some very small, delicate threads and wind them together until they moke a very stout rope. I will take all the memories of the marriage day, a thread of laughter, a thread of light, a thread of music, a thread of banquet- I ing, a thnad of oongratulotici, and I 1 twist thorn together, and I have one strand. Then I take a thread of tho hour of tho first advent in your house, a thre.-wl of tho darkness that preceded, and a thread of tbe light that follow**!, and a thread of the beautiful i<cnrf that little child used to wear when she bounded out at eventide to greet you, aud then a thread of the beautiful dross in which you laid her away for tho res urrection, aud then I twist all those threads together, and I have another strand. Then I take a thread of the scar let robe of a suffering Christ, and a thread of the whito raiment of your loved ones before tho threne, and a string of tho harp cherubic, and a string of the harp seraphic, and I twist them all together, and I have a third strand. “Oh,“you say, “either strand is strong enough to hold fast a world!" No. I will take these strands, and I will twist them together, uud one end of that rope I will fasten, not to the communion ta ble, for it shall bo removed—not to tho pillar of tlie organ, for that will crum ble in the ogee—but I wind it round uud round tho cross of a sympathizing Christ, and having fastened quo end of tbe rope to tho cross I throw the other end to you. Lay hold cf it! Pull for your lifol Pull for heaven I The Emperor of Germany Thinks He Is Kins of England. It is rather curious to outsiders, w rites the London oorresjx)udcnt of Tho Times- Herald, and wholly unpleasant to the queen to know that the German emperor regards himself as the rightful snccessor to England’s throne. This L* a matter rarely spotfen of, though perfectly W’ell realized at court, aud it is a strenuous reason against her majesty’s ever abdi cating in favor of the Prince of Wales. So when next you bear that she med itates such a step do not believe it. She is safe to do nothing of tho kind, though she lives to 100 years. The erratic Ger man emperor bases his claim on tho not □unatnral assumption that his mother, bom princess royal and eldest child of Queen Victoria, is heir to that mother's crown, aud ho her im mediate successor. It is said that tbe kaiser is wildly in dignant because bis mother will not press her claim and take her rightful ? laoo os the future sovereign of England. 'hat the Prince of Wales is not tho Prince of Wales, but that tho kaiser is that as well as emperor of Germany, he has fully decided in bis own mind. When tho time comes for his conten tion, it is scarcely probable that be will hold his peace. Of course it is not for a moment to be supposed that England would endure William for its king. But tho case is a knotty one upon which even the constitutional lawyers cannot agree. While tbe queen remains sovereign this family unpleasantness is no^dikely to arise, but when sbo abdicates cB dies there is pretty sore to be an uncomfort able time for all parties concerned. Still, tbe English are certain to reject tbe kaiser, even though England has to resolve itself into a republic and then choose Albert Edward to be its rnler. Quite as strange things as this have happened in the history of the world and may chance again. In spite of ru mors and raillery of tbe prees in bygone times the Prince of Wales is well liked in tbe United Kingdom. Moreover, tbe English temper would not bear tbe German emperor’s ideas of “leae majesty. ” Here one may discuss the prince’s debts or the queen's penu riousness, and nobody interferes or minds in the least. In Germany one may not mention tbe kaiser’s name dis respectfully, because even the walls have spying eyes and listening ears, and “lease majesty” is sorely punishable. 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After T had taken four bottles, I began to get better, and when I bad finished eighteen bottles, I was cured sound and well, my skin was without a blemish, and I have had no return ol the disease. S.S.S.sared me from a life of misery.” S.S.S. {guaranteed purely vegetable) will cure any case of blood poison. Books on thedisease and its treat ment. mailed free by Swift Specific Co., Atlanta, Ga. V, sss 1 . W.L. DOUGLAS $3 SHOE the e Wor7d. For 14 year* tbl* »hoe. by merit alone, ha* dUtanceil all competitor*. W. I,. Douglas S3.50, 04.00 aud SS.OO shoes are the production* of skilled workmen, from the best material possible at these price*. Also 8W.SO and 09.00 shoes for men. 09.50, 09.00 aud 01.75 for boys aud youths. W. L. Douglas shoos are Indorsed by over I.IUMWO wearers as the best in style, lit and durability of auy •hoe ever offered at the prices. They are made In all tbe latest shapes and styles, and of every varl ety of leather. If dealer cannot supply you. write for cat* k>guc to W. L. Douglas, Brockton, Mass. Sold by O. E. WILKINS & BRO., GAFFNEY. S. C. Bonds, notice. hor Officers—Judi Cltlls.ExiVUtolli. Ail- miriist rators’ Con true tors, at short For Sale kicai* esttatg: 1 lot 80x200 ft. on Logan street. Die l»r. Homes 8 room house with fine gar den.stubies and out buildings attached. 5 room cottage on Limestone street. 1 room cottage on Gaines street, with splei*- dld garden. S vacant lots on Gaines street. 1 splendid farm containing 50 acres mi!** from City Hall. 1 house and 5 acres located at Limestone Springs. 1 new ti-room Cottage Fast Logan street. 50-acre farm within city limits, at r. barg l*. »0-aere farm 1 mile from the city. » TOG I£S 14 shares Gaffney City Land and Improve ment Co., stock. 5 shares Blacksburg Land and Improvement Co., stock. 10 Shares Lockhart Cotton Mill Stock. 3 Shares Kichland Cotton Mill Stock. 3 Shares Victor Cotton Mill Stock. 50Shares; Limestone Springs Lime Co. stock. 74 shares stock Gaffney Mfg. Co. Insnrance! 1 represent none but the best of Pint Life and Accident Insurance Companies. Am prepared to furnish cyclone and tor nado Insurance at moderate cost. Your patronage will be duly appreciate* Irr\ G. R. O. SAMS, Real Estate, Fire and Life Insurance. Oltice over Feagle it Price’s furniture store. Office days Mondays and Sat urdays, aud other days when not engaged. Your business in these line* is respectfully solicited. FOR Up-to-Date Job Print ing, call at the LEDGER Office. Gaffney, S. C,