The ledger. [volume] (Gaffney City, S.C.) 1896-1907, January 13, 1898, Image 5
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THE LBDOER: GAFFNEY, 8. C., JANUARY 13, 1898.
TWO KINDS OF CLUBS.
^ REV. DR. TALMAGE ON THE GOOD
AND THE BAD.
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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.
German students, I am told, are driven
to alluding to his mightiness as “Herr
Johannes Schmitf” or “Squire Nemo”
in order to save themselves from punish
ment for anything that may be ooo-
btrued as “lose majesty.” In short,
there is no such thing as freedom of
speech in tbe German empire, and such
an active, inquisitive, curious man is
William that, it is said, he keeps care
fully posted on everything that goes on
in our country as well as his own.
The Surprise of All.
Mr. James Jones, of the drug firm
of Jones & Son, Cowden, III., in
speaking of Dr. King’s New Discov
ery, says that last winter his wife
was attacked with La Grippe, and
her case grew so serious that physi
cians at Cowden and Pana could do
nothing for her. It seemed to de-
velope into Hasty Consumption.
Having Dr. King’s New Discovery in
store, and selling lots of it, he took
a bottle home, and to the surprise of
all she began to get better from the
first dose, and half a dozen dollar
bottles cured her sound and well.
Dr. King’s New Discovery for Con
sumption, Coughs and Colds is guar
anteed to do this good, work. Try it.
Free trial bottles at DuPre Drug
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Don’t Neglect Yonr K.lT»r.
Liver troubles quickly result in serious
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liver has little repard for health. A bottle
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will keen the liver in perfect order. If the
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Browns’ Iron Bitters ia sold by all dealers.
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Contagious B’ood Poison has been ap
propriately called the curse of maukimi
It is the one disease that physicians can
not cure; their mercurial aud pota:b
remedies only bottle up the poison i»
the system, to surely break forth in»
more virulent form, resulting in a total
wreck of the system.
Mr. Frank B. Martin, a prominent
jeweler at 926 Pensylvania Are., Wash
ington,D.C.,say«
I was for a long
time under treat
ment of two ol
the best physi
cians of this city,
for a severe case
of blood poison,
but my condition
grew worse all
tbe while, not
withstanding the
fact that they
’^1 charged me three
iRHIlHf /If hundred dolixrs.
/ / My mouth wax
filled with eating sores; my tongue was
almost eaten away, so that for three
months I was unable to taste any solid
food. My hair was coming out rapidly,
and I was in a horrible fix. I had tried
various treatments, and was nearly dis
couraged, when a friend recommended
S.S.S. After T had taken four bottles, I
began to get better, and when I bad
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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
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vegetable) will cure any case of blood
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Specific Co.,
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