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fl' • THU IEDGER: GAFFNEY, S. C., FEBRUARY IT. 185)8. FOR COMMON PEOPLE. DR./TALMAGE’S WORDS OF CHEEF^ f FOR THE LOWLY. Th© Hank and File of the Lord’s Rc!- diery Need Especial Help—Let Us Ho Content WK.h Cod’s Gifts -Tlio Penalty of Greatness Outweighs tho Joy. iCopyrlght, 1SJ8, bj,’ American Press Asso ciation.] Washington, Feb. 13.—Dr. Talmnge iu this disconrse calls tho roll of faithful meu and nohlo women in all departments who aro unrecognized and unrewarded and sounds encouragement for those who do work iu spheres incon spicuous; text, Romans xvi, 14, 15, "Sa lute Asyucritus, Phlegou, Hernias, Pa- trohas, Hermes, Philologus and Julia.’’ Matthew Henry, Albert Barnes, Adam Clark, Thomas Scott and all tho com mentators pass by these verses without any especial remark. Tho other 20 peo ple mentioned iu the chapter were dis tinguished for something and were therefore discussed by the illustrious ex positors, hut nothing is said about Asyucritus, Phlegou, Hernias, Patrobas, Hermes, Philologus and Julia. Where were they born? Ho one knows. When did they die? There is no record of their decease. For what were they distin guished? Absolutely nothing, or the wait of character would have been brought out by tho apostle. If they had been very intrepid or opulent or hirsute or musical of cadence or cras-i of style or iu any wise anomalous, that feature would have been caught by the apostolic camera. But they were good people, be cause Paul sends to them his high Christian regards. They wero ordinary people, moving in ordinary sphere, at tending to ordinary duty and meeting ordinary responsibilities. For tho Hank and File. What tho world wants is a religion for ordinary people. If there be iu the United States 70,000,000 people, there aro certainly not more than 1,000,000 extraordinary, and then there are (JO,- 000 000 ordinary, and we do well to turn our backs for a little while upon the distinguished and conspicuous peo ple of the Bible and consider iu our text i o seven ordinary. We spend too much of our timo iu twisting garlands for remarkables, and building thrones for magnates, and sculpturing warriors, and apotheosizing philanthropists. The rank and filoof the Lord's soldiery need especial help. The vast majority of people will never lead an army, will never write a state constitution, will never electrify a senate, will never make an important invention, will never introduce a new philosophy, will never decide tho late of a nation. You do not expect to, you do not want to. You will not bo a Moses to lead a nation out of bondage. You will not bo a Joshua to prolong the daylight until you can shut live kings in a cavern. You will not bo a St. John to nuroll an Apocalypse. You will not be a Paul to preside over an apostolic \50llege. Yot. will not bo a Mary to Tmother a Christ. You will more proba- ! bly bo Asyucritus, or Phlogon, or Her nias, or Patrobas, or Hermes, or Philol ogus, or Julia. Many of you are women at the bead of households. Every morning you plan for the day. The culinary department of the household is iu your dominion. You decide all questions of diet. All the sanitary regulations of your house are under your supervision. To regulate the food and tho apparel and the habits and decide the thousand questions of homo life is a tax upon brain and nerve and general health absolutely appalling if there be no divine alleviation. Needs of tUo Human Kace. It docs not help you much to bo told that Elizabeth Fry did wonderful things amid tho criminals at Kowgato. It docs not help you much to bo told that Mrs. Juf.roa was very bravo among the Bor- uesiau canni’Aals. It does not help you very much to be told that Florence nightingale was very kind to tho wounded in tho Crimea. It would be better for mo to tell you that tho divine friend of Mary and Martha is your friend, and that he sees all tho annoy ances and disappointments and abra sions and exasperations of an ordinary housekeeper from morn till night, and from tho first day of tho year until tho last day of tho year, and at your call ho is ready with help and re-euforcc- ment. They who provide tho food of tho world decide the health of the world. You have only to go ou some errand amid the taverns and the hotels of tho United States and Great Britain to ap preciate tho fact that a vast multitude of the human race are slaughtered by incompetent cookery. Though a young woman may have taken lessons in music and may bavo taken lessons in painting and lessons in astronomy, sho is not well educated uuless sho has taken les sons in dough. They who decide tho apparel of tho world and tho food of tho world decide the enduranco of the world. An unthinking man may consider it a matter of littlo importance, tho cares of tho household and the economies of domestio life, hut I tell you tho earth is strewn with tho martyrs of kitchen and nursery. Tho health shattered woman hood of America cries out for a God who can help ordinary women in tho ordinary duties of housekeeping. Tho wearing, grinding, unappreciated work goes on, but the same Christ who stood on the bank of Galilee in tho early morning and kindled tho tiro and had tho fish already cleaned ?nd broiling when the sportsmen stepped ashore, chilled and hungry, will help every wo man to prepare breakfast, whether by her own hand or the band of her hired help. The God who mado Indestructible eulogy of Hunuab, who mado a coat for Hamuel, her son, and carried it to the tetnplo every year, will help every worn- u in preparing the family wardrobe. t^God who opens tho Biblo with the of Abraham's entertainment by Itjjbrae angels on the plains of Mamre aelp every woman to provide bos- pi fall ty* however raro and embarrass ing. If is high time that some of tho attention wa have been giving to tho | renia’kab.w women of tho Biblo—re- 1 markable for their virtue or their want I of it or remarkable for their deeds— Deborah and Jezebel and Hcrodias and i Athalia and Dorcas and the Marys, ex- j celleut and abandoned—it is hig'i time | some of the attention wc have been giv- j ing to these conspicuous women of the I Biblo bo given to Julia, an ordinary ■ woman, amid ordinary duties and mo t- | ing ordinary circumstances, attending i to ordinary responsibilities. Work For Christians. Then there are all ’lie ordinary bnsi- ness meu. They need divino and Chris- j tian help. When we begin to talk about ! business life, we shoot right off and talk about men who did business ou a large j scale and who sold millions of dollars \ of goods a year, and the vast majority | of business men do not sell a million ! dollars of goods, nor half a million, nor quarter of a million, nor the eighth part j of a million. Put all the business meu ; of our cities, towns, villages and neigh- ! borhoods side by side, and you will find that they sell less than a hundred thou- j sand dollars worth of goods. All those j meu iu ordinary business lifo want di- \ vine help. You sec how the wrinkles j are printing on the countenance the story of w orriment and care. You can not tell how old a business man is by looking at him. Gray hairs at 30; a man at 45 with tho stoop of a nouoge- narian. No time to attend to improved dentistry; the grinders cease because they aro few’. Actually dying of old ago a£ 40 or 50, when they ought to be at the meridian! Many of these business mep br.”o bodies like a neglected clock to which you come, and when you wind it up it begins to buzz and roar, and then the hands start around very rapid ly, and the clock strikes 5 or 10 or 40, and strikes without any sense, and then suddenly stops. So is the body of that woruout business man. It is a neglect ed clock, and. though by some summer recreation it may bo wound up, still the machinery is all out of gear. Tho hands turn around with a velocity that excit 'H the astonishment of the world. Meu cannot understand tho wonderful activ ity, and there is a roar and a buzz and a rattle about these disordered lives, and they strike 10 when they ought to strike 5, and they Strike 12 when they ought to strike 3, and they strike 40 when they ought to strike nothing, and sud denly they stop. Postmortem examina tion reveala tho fact that all the springs and pivots and weights and tr.lauce wheels of health aro completely de ranged. Tae human clock is simply ruu down, and at tho time when tho steady hand ought to be pointing to the industrious hours on a clear and sunlit dial the whole machinery of body, mind and earthly capacity stops forever. Oak Hill and Greenwood have thousands business men who died of old ago at 30, 35, 40, 45. Wants of BaotnoM Life. Now, what is wauted is grace—di vine graco for ordinary business men, meu who aro harnessed from morn till night and all tho days of their life— harnessed iu business. Not graco to leso $100,000, but graco to lose $10. Not grace to supervise 250 employees in a factory, but grace to supervise the book keeper and two salesmen and the small boy that sweeps out tho store. Graco to invest not the $80,000 of net profit, but tho $2,500 of clear gaiu. Graco not to endure the loss of a whole shipload of spices from tho Indies, but grace to en dure the loss of a paper of collars from the leakage of a displaced shingle on a poor roof. Grace uot to endure tho tardi ness of the American congress iu pass ing a necessary law, but grace to endure the tardiness of an errand boy stoppiug to play marbles when he ought to de liver the goods. Such a graco as thou sands of business meu have today— keeping them tranquil, whether goods sell or do uot sell, whether customers pay or do not pay, whether tariff is up or tariff is down, whether tho crops are luxuriant or a dead failure—calm iu all circumstances and amid all vicissi tudes. That is the kind of graco wo want. Millions of men want it, and they may have it for the asking. Some boro or heroine comes to town, and as tho procession passes through the street tho business men come out, stand ou tiptoe on tbeir store step and look nt some one who in aYctic clime, or iu ocean storm, or iu day of battle, or iu hospital ago nies did tho brave thing, uot realizing that they, the enthusiastic spectators, have gone through trials in business lifo that are just as great before God. There are men who have gone through freezing arctics and burning torrids and awful Mareugos of experiences with out moving five miles from their door step. ChrUt'a Friendship. Now, what ordinary business men need is to realize that they have the friendship of that Christ who looked after tho religious interests of Matthew, the custom house clerk, and helped Lydia of Thyatira to sell tho dry goods and who opened a bakery and fish mar ket in the wilderness of Asia Minor to feed tho 7,000 who bad come out on a religious picnic and who counts tho hairs of your head with as much partic ularity as though they were tho plumes of a coronation, and who took the trou ble to stoop down with his finger writ ing on the ground, although tho first shuttle of feet obliterated the divine caligraphy, and who knows just how many locusts there were in the Egyp tian plague, aud knew just how many ravens were necessary to supply Elijah’s pantry by the brook Cherith, and who, as floral commander, leads forth all tho regiments of primroses, foxgloves, daffodils, hyacinths and lilies which pitch tbeir tents of beauty aud kindle their campfires of color all around the hemisphere—that that Christ and that God knows the most minute affairs of your business life and however incon siderable, understanding all thj affairs of that women who keeps a thread and ueedle store as well as all the affairs of • Rothschild and a Baring. Then there aw all the ordinary farm ers. We talk about agricultural life, and wo immediately shoot off to tulle about Cincinuatus, tho patrician, who went from tho plow to a high position, and after he got through tho dictator ship iu 21 days went back again to the plow. What encouragement is that to ordinary farmers? The vast majority of them—none of them will be patricians. Perhaps uouo of them will bo senators. If any of them have dictatorships, it will b 0 ver 40 or 50 or 100 acres of tho old homestead. Wb;;t these men want is graco to keep their patience whilu plowing with bulky oxen aud to keep cheerful amid the drought that destroys tho corn crop and that enables them to restore tho garden the day after the neighbor's cattle have broken in aim trampled out the strawberry bed and gone through the Lima beau patch an 1 eaten up tho sweet corn iu such largo quantities that they must bo kept from tho water lest they swell up and die. Noble Husbandmen. Grace in catching weather that en ables them, without imprecation, to spread out the hay the third time, al though again and again and again it has been almost ready for the mow. A grace to doctor the cow with a hollow horn, and the sheep with the foot rot, aud tho horse with tho distemper ami to compel tho unwilling acres to yield a livelihood for the family, and school ing for tho children, aud littlo extras to help the older boy in business, and something for the daughter’s wedding outfit, aud a littlo surplus for tho time when the ankles will get stiff with age, and tho breath will be a littlo short, and the swinging of tho cradle through the hot harvest field will bring on the old man’s vertigo. Better close up about Ciucinnatus. I know 500 farmers just as noble as ho was. What they want is to know that they have tho friendship of that Christ who often drew his similes from tho farmer’s life, as when ho said, “A sower went forth to sow,’’ as when he built his best parable out of tho scene of a farmer hoy coming back from his wanderings, and the old farm house shook that night with rural jubi lee, aud who compared himself to a lamb in the pasture field, aud who said that the eternal God is a farmer, de claring, “My Father is the hu c band- man.” Those stone masons do not want to hoar about Christopher Wren, the ar chitect who built St. Paul’s cathedral, it would bo better to tell them how to ca. - ry the hod of brick up tho ladder with out slippiug, aud how on a cold morn ing with the trowel to smooth off tho mortar and keep cheerful, and how to be thankful to God for the plain food taken from the pail by tho roadside. Carpenters standing amid tho adz, and the bit, and tho plane, and tho broadux need to ho told that Christ was a car penter, with his own bund wielding saw aud hammer. Oh, this is a tired world, and it is an overworked world, and it is an underfed world, and it is a wrung out world, aud meu and wom en need to know that there are rest and recuperation iu God aud iu that religion which was not so much intended fur extraordinary people as for ordinary people, because there aro more of them. Next to God. The healing profession has bad its Abercrombies and its Aberuethys and its Valentino Motts and its Willard Parkers, but the ordinary physicians do the most of the world’s medicining, and they need to understand that while tak ing diagnosis or prognosis or writing prescription or compounding medica ment or holding the delicate pulse of a dying child they may have tho presence aud tho dictation of the Almighty Doc tor who took the case of the madman aud after he had torn off his garments in foaming dementia clothed him again, body aud mind, and who lifted up tho woman who for 18 years had been bent almost double with the rheumatism in to graceful stature, and who turned the scabs of leprosy into rubicund complex ion aud who rubbed the uumbuess out of paralysis, and who swung wide open tho closed windows of hereditary or ac cidental blindness until the morning light came streaming through the flesh ly casements, and who knows all the diseases and all the remedies and all the herbs and all tho catholicons and is monarch of pharmacy and therapeutics, and who has sent ten thousand doctors of whom the world makes no record, but to prove that they are angels cf mercy I invoke the thousands of men whose ailments they have assuaged and the thousands of women to whom iu crises of pain they have been next to God in benefaction. Come, now, let us have a religion for ordinary people in professions, in occu pations, in agriculture, in the house hold, iu merchandise, in everything. 1 salute across tho centuries Asyucritus, Phlegou, Hsrmas, Patrobas, Hermes, Philologus and Julia. Unpretentious People. First of all, if you feel that yon are ordinary, thank God that you are not extraordinary. I am tired and sick and bored almost to death with extraor dinary people. They take all their timo to tell us how very extraordinary they really are. You know as well as I do, my brother aud sister, that the most of the useful work of the world is done by unpretentious people who toil right cn, by people who do not get much ap proval, and no cne seems to say, “That is well done.’’ Pnenomena are of but little use. Things that are exceptional cannot bo depended on. Better trust tho smallest planet that swings in its orbit than ten carnets shooting this way ami that, imperiling the longevity of worlds attending to their own business. For steady illumination better is u lump than a rocket. Then if yon feel that yon aro ordinary remember that your position invites tho less attack. Conspicuous people how they have to take it! How they aro mis represented and abused and shot at! The higher tho horns of a roebuck the easier to strike him down. What a delicious thing it must be to be a candidate for governor of a state or president of tho United States! It must be so soothing to the nerves. It must pour into tho soul of a candidate such a sense of serenity when ho reads tho blessed newspapers. I camo into tho possession of tho abusive cartoons in tho time of Napoleon I, printed while ho was yet alive. Tho retreat of tho army from Moscow, that army buried in tho snows of Russia, one of tho most awful tragedies of tb<’ centuries, represented under the figure of a monster called General Frost shav ing tho Fre-ncb emperor with a razor of icicle. As Satyr aud Beelzebub he i; represented, page after page, pago affi ” page. England cursing him, Spain cursing him, Germany cursing him. Russia cursing him, Europo cursing him, North and South America cur.->in ,• him. The most remarkable man of hi ■ day aud tho most abused. All those meu iu history who now have a halo around their name on earth wore e crowu of thorns. Tate the few extraor dinary railroad men of our time aud s what abuse comos upon them, wbll thousands of stockholders escape. I.V.v York Central railroad had 9,2(55 stcK - holders. If anything in that railroad affronted the people, all the abuse can;', down ou one man aud the 9,2(54 es caped. All tho world took after Thomas Scott, president of tho Peunsylvuui. railroad, abused him until ho got under the ground. Over 17,000 stockholder-, in that company. All tho blame on om man. The Central Pacific railroad—tv o or three men get all tho blamo if any thing goes wrong. There aro 10,000 in that company. Penalties of Prominence. I mention these things to prove it is extraordinary people who get abuseri, while the ordinary escape. Tboweathrr of lifo is not so severe on tho plain as i: is ou the high peaks. Tho world never forgives a man who knows or gains or does more than it can know or gain or do. Parents sometimes give confection ery to tbeir children as an inducement to take bitter medicine, aud the world’s sugar plum precedes tho world’s aqua fortis. The mob cried in regard to Christ, “Crucify him, crucify him!” and they had to say it twice to bo un derstood, for they wero so hoarse, anu they got their hoarseness by crying a little while before at tho top of their voice, “Hosanna.” The river Rhone is foul when it enters Lake Leman, bu; crystalline when it comes out on tho other side. But there are men who hr.' e entered tho >right lake cf worldly pros perity crystalline and come out terribly riled. If, therefore, you feel that you aro an ordinary, thank God for tho de fenses and the tranquillity of your posi tion. Then remember, if you havo only what is called an ordinary heme, that the great deliverers cf tho world havo all come from such a home. And there may be seated, reading at your evening stand, a child who shall bo potent for the ages. Just unroll the scroll of men mighty in church aud state, and you will find they nearly all came from log cabin or poor homes. Genius almost al ways runs out iu the third or fourth generation. You cannot find in all his tory an instance where the fourth gen- cation of extraordinary people amount to anything. In this country we had two great men, father and sou, both presidents of the United States, but from present prospects there never will bo in that genealogical line another president for a thousand years. Colum bus from a weaver’s hut, Demosthenes from a cutler’s cellar, Bloomfiedd and Missionary Carey from a shoemaker’s bench, Arkwright from a barber's shop, and ho whose name is high over all iu earth aud air and sky from u manger. Be Content. • Let us all he coutent with such things as we have. God is just as good in what ho keeps away from us as iu what ho gives us. Evtu a knot may bo useful if it is at the end of a thread. At an anniversary of a deaf and dumb asylum one of the children wrote upon the blackboard words as sublime us tho “Iliad,” tho “Odyssey” aud tho “Di- vina Commedia” all compressed iu one paragraph. The examiner, in the signs of tho mute language, asked her, “Who made tho world?” Tho deaf and dumb girl wrote upon the blackboard, “In the beginning God created the heaven aud the earth.” The examiner asked her, “For what purpose did Christ come into tho world?” The deaf aud dumb girl wrote upon the blackboard, “This is a faithful saying aud worthy of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners.” Tho exam iner said to her, “Why were you born deaf and dumb, while I hear and speak?” She wrote upon the blackboard, “Even so, Father, for so it seemeth good in thy sight” Oh, that wo might be baptized with a contented spirit! Tho spider draws poison out of a flower, tho bee gets hooey out of a thistle; but happi ness is a heavenly elixir, and tho con tented spirit extracts it not from tho rhododendron of the hills, but from the lily of the valley. Mr. F. C. ITelbig, a prominent druggist of Lynchburg. Ya., says: “One of our citizens was cured of rheumatism of two years standing, by one bottle of Chamberlain’s 1'ain Balm. This liniment is famousforlts cures of rheumatism; thousands have been delighted with the prompt relief which it affords. For sale by DuPre Drug Co. No-To-Bac for Fifty Cents. Guaranteed tobacco habit cure, riaUe* weak mcustrouK, blood pure. 60c. tl. Ail Uruiuiste. An Old Idea. Every day strengthens the belief of emi nent physicians that impure blood is the cause of the majority of our discuses. Twenty-five years ago this theory wok used as a basis for the formula of Browns’ Iron Bitters. The many remarkable cures effected by this famous old household remedy are sufficient to prove that the theory is correct. Browns’ Iron Bitters is sold by all dealtra. SPORTS OF THE HINDOOS. Curious Amusement* In the East With Bufl'aloes, Hams and Cheetah*. Racing and polo tenuin and billiards have become more congenial to tho ra jah and tho nawab of today than the elaborate sports ami pastimes that whiled away tho long days of his ances tors. In some of the Rajput states, how ever, an effort is still made not to allow tho ancient hal its to fall wholly into desuetude. Of all the great dynasties of the continent the Rajputs boast the proudest descent, and ihe origin of the sovereign houses is hidden in the mist of time. In Ulwur tho maharaja, who, by his kindliness of disposition and alertness of intelligence, gives tho most hopeful promise of future fame, is still a minor, and his territory is under the immediate control of a capable officer of the Indian government. No state’ in Rajput ana has a greater reputation for its breed of horses. It used in tin; old days to be a famous place for fights be tween wild beasts and birds, and though the contests are now quite free from all stain of cruelty tho show’ is carefully kept up. One afternoon of my stay there I saw in the palace grounds a full exhibition of the old kind. The princely mansion, built iu the old residency style, stands in a charming “compound,” or park, with exceptional surroundings, in that it has before it a large expanse of real turf, kept green by constant flooding, that pleasantly sets off its white walls and its red sun blinds. First of all there was a parade of the show horses aud ponies, Arab and coun try bred. One by one, as in a circus, they were put through their tricks and paces by the superintendent of the sta bles, a fine old Mussulman, with red whiskers, who had been all his life in the service of the maharaja’s family. A big piebald was particularly clever at walking ou his hind legs aud hopping ou three, holding up the near fore leg. Afterward came a performing parrot, which, by a nice adjustment of weights, was made to twist a loaded stick round and round until I thought his neck would be wrung off. Then followed some more “business” on the same lines. This was but the preliminary to the ex hibition of the afternoon, for, led along the road, there marched two by two buffaloes, rams, black buck and, in the rear, a single cheetah. The last named was purely for show. Tho other sorts not long ago had to fight out their bat tles to the bitter end. Now the horns aro muffled and tho contest has become a game, which tho animals are as well drilled in as a hand of acrobats. Two rams, half black, half white, are led to either side of the grass plot and then let go at one another full speed. With a terrific bang their heads come together. You would think that their skulls must he broken, but instead they rebound trom the encounter not one pmny tho worse, and after a few such trials of hardness they are led quietly’ away. After them the black bucks come to the front aud wrestle with their horns interlaced until their keepers think they have had enough of it. In like manner the old buffaloes struggle and struggle, not able to do more than tho champion of the modern ring with the gloves on. The cheetah was not asked to display his prowess, hut I was told that when some little timo before he was put ou quarry he had been so idle that he absolutely refused to do his work. In some states, how ever, cheetah hunts still take place, but as the cheetah generally takes the smaller buck no real interest makes tip for tho cruelty of the sport. Cooks and quails, with their fighting power gone, followed the animals into the arena. The spurs of the cocks were carefully covered, while the quails wero separat ed the moment they began to fight in real earnest. As for the quails, for sheer pugnacity and desperate courage, they carry off tho palm. It is true they had a stimulant uot given to the other fight ers of tho palace, for in their sanded circle was placed a hen, for whose favor they evidently believed they were con tending. How far their gallantry would have carried them if they had been al lowed to peck at one another’s eyes in real earnest I know not, but it is prob able that they would both have been bftfordead had not their keepers called “time” at the crucial moment. Nobody can complain that the fighting aristoc racy of the Rajput race clings with natural pride to its ancestral pastimes, which are but ill supplanted by tho alien and borrowed amusements of our own people. —London Telegraph. vim Rice’* Oooso Grr*se Llnument, core* all aches uud pain*, hold ind iruarnnU-ed bjr CUEHoaxx Uucu Co. UOOD’S Sarsaparilla is the One True Blood Purifier, Great Nerve Tonic, Stomach Regulator. To thou sands its great merit Is KNOWN. Tax Returns FOR THE YEAR 1898. According to the law, the tax tiooks for the returns of the real unu personal property tor the fiscal year IsdS. will open on January 1st and dose February JOth, IM»*. after which time the fifty per cent penalty will attach to till property IxMh real and nersonnl whose owners have failed to list for taxa tion. For Hit' accommodation of the tax payers of Cherokee county for said year Issi*. 1 will attend at the followingpltiees at the follow- I11K dates below named, to receive tax re turns: The Auditor's office. In Gaffney, from Monday January Jlst. to February 9)th, at which time the books will dose and the fifty per cent penalty will attach. The poll tax attaches up to (10 years of a«e. except Confederate Soldiers where said taxes at- tiches up to .» years of atfe All land owners are requested to ascertain the num ber of acres t hey own on the 1st day of Janu ary l*MH. and Its value, the number of hulld- Inp’s and their value, all new structures and their value, also all real estate Isniirlit or .old, who from or to. and price paid or re ceived for same, all mere ban tea ud hanker* are required to makethelr returns on blanks furnished from this ofltce and are requested to cull uttlie office for them. w. r>. uami'. Auditor t nerokee Oo. Am Imsspious Disease. "N TTtdne-- direaro is dr.n Korou ; b's’ntt.v of I’.j c- qsg rlbly Insidious character. i 3 It in oiiliy becomes firmly fixed Hi the Uxly laffore ho: ynp- Uunn nro violent ennudi to tsj nlarrrtior iJlsordcrod iilpc: ttoa, v/akofulnose at night, head «In s, SO'-bno p---r-r, r cxDtti’* ^ * t tho urine, Kly dlJSli 'l: t butter- P i r .tcnt backache are symptomsnotii'.dy to cause much alarm, especially wh"; tho Victim Is btill hie to :rct through his dally duties, 'b.r iikwaiii; ; They are fraught with cleope -t irc anir". The khlucya are suffer!: 1 g, the blood Is b< Ing poisoned, the strength Is fr.tling, and soon tiiu troub! ■ vdU extend to ( very w.r •w 1 r»rif}n»|r* part o# theh-dy fL . ^ an?only by the Wi/jW-vmost careiul neauncut can thedani or- ous stage of t..o llbease thou bo avert e< l. At tills critic?.! time the great kidney slremrthei.tagand re=torrt- tiro )’x>w<Tof Pr’ckly Ash Bitter* Is urgently demanded. Tills rem- SiSOES! BCiiJkll ui edy contains all of tho best cura tive agent : that ex perience has found to '10 valuable In the, y treatment of kidney diseases It hasa four fold effect. Tho kid- . toys are Ivalod and > trengtlien ed, tho liver Is regulated, tin ' st>. machtoned up.and the bow olscleansei l. The rc suit of which Is tho resumption of functional i * processes and early restoration i vA of health. Price Sl.oc Per Bottle Scid by ALL DRUGGISTS. -Cherokee Drug Co.. Special Agents. \ R. O. SAMS, Real Estate, Fire and Life Insurance. Office over Feagle&Price’s furnituresitwr.. Office days. Mondays and Saturdays, amt other days when not engaged. I offer the following real estate for sale: 1 beautiful residence lot Cor. Limestone and Buford streets. 2 beautiful residence lots on Race street. 4 beautiful residence lots on Victoria Are. to beautiful residence lots on Rutledge St. 2."> beautiful residence lots on Fuirview St.. 4 beautiful residence lots on Johnson St. Is beautiful residence lots on Buford St. 12 beautiful residence lots on Smith SL J beautiful residence lots on Continuation Frederick street. 2 beautiful residence lots on Logan street., !i beautiful residence lots on I lepot street. 1 beautiful residence lot on Limestone and Montgomery streets. !! lots on Mills Gup road. 2 7-10 aci^seai-H, IlnSf joctition. 1 eotfiagv fronting Montgomery street. 1 cottage fronting Logan street. 140 lots near continuation of Limestone At in easy walk of the factory, j 125 acres near Union road, 2 miles front Lunv— stone Institute. J02 acres, well wooded, on Union road. _ miles from Gaffney. 1ST acres near Broad River, by magui&eefjt water power. 2 tracts, well watered. 2H miles from Gaff ney. on road to I’acolet. IK 1-2 acres H mile from corporate liwits. 10 2-8 acres q mile from corporate Hants. 52 acres just outside the corporate limit*. 1 house and lot, convenient to busimws. on Depot street. 20 lots on Ruford, Jefferies and MonkjsMc— cry streets. 122 acres, finely settled. Just beyond carpn-- rate limits. KO shares Gaffney Land and Improvcmcnf Com puny. Your business in these lines is respectfully solicited. Notice. The Ixioks of McArthur & Sums and of Mr- Artbur. Tankcrsley & Sams are in thcluiiKi* of .1. D. Jefferies. Ksq., who is empowevad u> collect accounts due. Parties owing wiwtid do well to call and settle and save suit- \V. F. McAkthvx. 1-20-tf R. o. Sams. Letters of Administration. OrriCE oe Pkobatk Jr doe. i State of South < aroliua. - County of Cherokee. * Ry Mon. J. K. Webster. Esq. Probate Judge of Cherokee County. Whereas. Charles (,*. Wehlier, peti tioner, has filed u petition iu my office praying that Letters of AdminislrmtWa on all and singular, the goods and ebattel*, rights and credits of ChurIe-, Webber.dev-’d. late of said county, should he granted tu him. These are therefore to cite and admoakdi all and singular the kindred and creditors0/ the said deceased tu he and appear before mv at my office, at Gaffney City. (CherokeeaaaBt house), on Monday. Feb." 21st. lx!*-, aju 11 o’clock a. m.. to show cause. If any they have, why the administration should not he grant ed. J. E. W ebster. 2-!i-2t Probate Judge. The Best Is always the cheapest. and you can always get the Is-st Saah. Blind*. Doors an^ all kinds of Bidldtag Material, including No 1 Heart-psae Shingles from L. Raker cheaper for cash than on time. I buy for cash and cotoequentljr yet bargains, and will give my cu-domers the same advantages. I Will flake your Estimates for Materials Free of Charge. Very Ucspct., 1^. HiVKJtCK. A. N. WOOD. BANKER, does a general Banking and Eichoogv business. Well secured with Burglar- Proof safe and Automatic Time Lock. Safety Deposit Boxes at modetaU rent. Buys and sells Stocks andBoain Buys County and School Claim*. Your business solicited.