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/ THK LEDGER: GAFFNEY, S. C., FEBRUARY 2t, 181)8. TAD!AGE'S SERMOXS. DISTINGUISHED DIVINE TELLS HOW jY ARE PUBLISHED BROADCAST. T^ An LicUlresn Coinraeinoratlvo of the Two Thousandth Full I’ubllcation of Sermons. Glowing Tribute to the Press—Trials and Temptations of Newspaper Work. [Copyright. 1S98. by American Press Asso ciation.] Washington, Feb. 20.—For the first time Dr. Talmage in this discourse tells in what way his sermons have come to a multiplicity of publication such as has never in any other case been known since the art cf printing was invented; text, Nahum ii, 4, “They shall seem like torches; they shall run lika the lightnings. Express, rail train mid telegraphic communication are suggested if not fore told in this text, and from it I start to preach a sermon in gratitude to God and the newspaper press for the fact that I have had the opportunity of delivering through tho newspaper press 2,000 ser mons or religious addresses, so that I have for many years been allowed tho privilege of preaching tho gospel every week to every neighborhood in Chris tendom and in many lands outside of Christendom. Many have wondered at the process by which it has come to pass, and for tho first time in public place I state tho three causes. Many years ago a young man who has since become eminent in his profession was then studying law in a distant city. He came to mo and said that for lack of funds ho must stop his studying unless through stenography I would give him sketches of sermons, that ho might by the sale of them secure means for the completion of his education. I positive ly declined, because it seemed to me an impossibility, but after some mouths had passed and I had reflected npon tho great sadness for such a brilliant young man to bo defeated in his ambition for tho legal profession I undertook to serve him—of course free of charge. Within three weeks there came a request for those stenographic reports from many parts of the coutinent. Time passed on, and some gentlemen of my own profession, evidently think ing that there was hardly room for them and for myself in this continent, began to assail me, and became so violent in their assault that tho chief newspapers of America put special correspondents in my church Sabbath by Sabbath to take down such reply as I might make. I never made reply, except once for about three minutes, but those corre- spoudents could not wasto their time, and so they telegraphed the sermons to their particular papers. Organization of tho Sj-nrilrate. After awhile Dr. Louis Klopsch of New York systematized tho work into a syndicate until through that and other syndicates ho has put tho discourses week by week before more than 20,000,- 000 people on both sides the sea. There have been so many guesses on this sub ject, many of them inaccurate, that I ^now tell tho true story. I have not im- tacived the opportunity ns, I ought, but l^feel tho time has come when as a mat ter of common justice to the newspaper press I should make this statement iu a sermon commemorative of the two thousandth full publication of sermons and religious addresses, saying nothing of fragmentary reports, which would run up iuto many thousands more. There was one incident that I might mention in this connection showing how uu insignificant event might in fluence us for n lifetime. Many years ago on a Sabbath morning on my way to church iu iirooklyn a representative of a prominent newspaper met me and said, "Are you goiug to givo us any points today?” I said, “What do you mean by ‘points?’ ” He replied, “Any thing we can remember. “ I said to myself, “Wo ought to be makiug ‘poirts’ all tho time in our pulpits and not deal in platitudes and inanities. “ That one interrogation put to me that morning started in mo tho desire of making points ail tho time and nothing but poiuts. And now how can I more appropri ately commemorate tho two thousandth publication than by speaking of tho newspaper press us an ally of tho pulpit and mentioning some of tho trials of newspaper men? The newspaper is tho great educator of the nineteenth century. There is no force compared with it. It is book, pul pit, platform, forum, all iu one. And there is not an interest—religions, lit erary, commercial, scientific, agricul tural or mechanical—that is not within its grasp. All our churches, and schools, and colleges, and asylums, and art gal leries feel the quaking of the printing press. Tho institution of newspapers arose iu Italy. In Venice tho first newspaper was published, and monthly during tho time Venice was warring against Soly- mau the second iu Dalmatia it was printed for the purpose of giviug mili tary aud commercial information to the Venetians. The first newspaper pub lished in England was in 1588 and called Tho English Mercury. Who can estimate the political, scientific, com mercial and religious revolutions roused up in England for many years past bj’ tbo press? The first attempt at this institution in Franco was iu 1(131, by a physician, who published Tho News, for tho amusement and health of his patients. Tho French nation understood fully bow to appreciate this power. So early as iu 1820 there were iu 1’uris 100 jour nals. But iu the United States tho news paper has come to unlimited sway. Though iu 1775 there were but 87 iu tho whole country, tho number of pub lished journals is now counted by thou sands, aud today—we may as well ac knowledge it as not—tho religious and secular newspapers are the great edu cators of the couutry. Karly Strugglea of the PreM. But, alas, through what struggle the newspaper has come to its present de- ▼eldpnienti JnstAf soon as it began to demonstrate its power superstition and | tyrauuy shackled it. There is nothing that despotism so much fears and bates as the printing press. A great writer in the south of Europe declared that tho kiug of Naples had made it nusafo for him to write on any subject save nat ural history. Austria could not bear Kossuth’s journalistic pen pleading for tho redemption of Hungary. Napoleon I, wanting to keep his iron heel on tho neck of nations, said that tho newspaper was tho regent of kings and tho only safe place to keep an editor was in pris on. But tho great battle for tho free dom of tho press was fought in tho courtrooms of England and tho United States before this century began, when Hamilton made his great speech in be half of tho freedom of J. Peter Zenger’s Gazette in America, aud when Erskinn made his great speech in behalf of tho freedom to publish Paine’s “Rights of Man” iu England. Those were tho Mar- xthon and the Thcnnopyla? where tho battle was fought which decided tho .•'rceom of tho press in England and America, and all tho powers of earth and hell will never again be able to put upon tbo printing press tbo handcnfTs and tho hopples of literary aud political despotism. It is remarkable that Thomas Jeffer son, who wrote the Declaration of Inde pendence, also wrote these words, “If I had to choose between a government without newspapers and newspapers without a government, I would prefer the latter.” Stung by some new fabri cation iu print, we come to write or speak about an “unbridled printing press. ” Onr new book ground up in un just criticism, we come to ■write or speak about the “unfair printing press. “ Perhaps through our own indistinctness of utterance we aro reported as saying just the opposite of what wo did say, and there is a small riot of semicolons and hyphens and commas, aud we coma to write or talk about tho “blundering printing press,” or wo take np a news paper full of social scandal aud of cases of divorce, aud we write or talk about a “filthy, scurrilous printing press.” But this morning I ask yon to consider the immeasurable aud everlasting bless ing of a good newspaper. I find no difficulty in accounting for tho world’s advance. What has made tho change? “ Books, ” you say. No, sir. Tho vast majority of citizens do not read books. Take this audience or any. other promiscuous assemblage, and how- many histories have they read? How many treatises on constitutional law or political economy or works of science? How many elaborate poems or books of travel? Not many. In tho United States the people would not average one such book a year for each individual. Whence then this intelligence, this capacity to talk about all themes, secular and reli gious; this acquaintance with science and art, this power to appreciate the beautiful aud grand? Next to the Bible, tbo newspaper, swift winged and every where present, flying over tho fence, shoved under tho door, tossed into tho counting house, laid on the work bench, hawked through tho cars. All read it— white aud black, German, Irishman, Swiss, Spaniard, American, old and young, good aud bad, sick and well, be fore breakfast and after tea, Monday morning, Saturday night, Sunday and weekday. 1 now declare that 1 consider tho newspaper to bo the grand agency by which the gospel is to be preached, ignorance cast out, oppression dethron ed, crime extirpated, tho world raised, heaven rejoiced and God glorified. In tho clanking of the printing press, as tho sheets fly out, I hear tbo voice of tbo Lord Almighty proclaiming to all the dead nations of the earth, “Lazarus, come forth!" and to tho retreating surges of darkness, “Let there be light!” In many of our city newspapers, pro fessing no more than secular informa tion, there have appeared during the past 30 years some of the grandest ap peals in behalf of religion and some of the most effective interpretations of God’s government among the nations. Good aud Bad Newspapers. There are only two kinds of newspa pers—tho one good, very good; the other bad, very bad. A newspaper may be started with an nudecided character, but after it has been going ou for years everybody finds out just wbat it is, aud it is very good or it is very bad. The one paper is the embodiment of news, tho ally of virtue, the foe of crime, the delectation of elevated taste, the mighti est agency on earth for makiug tbo world better. Tho other paper is a brig and among moral forces, it is a be- slimcr of reputation, it Is the right arm of death aud hell, it is the mightiest agency iu tho universes for making the world worse and battling against the cause of God—the one an angel of in telligence aud mercy, tbo other a fiend of darkness. Between this archangel and this fnry is to bo fought the great battle which is to decide the fate of the world. If you have any doubt as to which is to bo victor, ask tho prophecies, ask God. Tbo chief batteries with which bo would viudicate tho right aud thun der down tho wrong are now unlimbor ed. The great Armageddon of tho na tions is not to be fought with swords, but with steel pens; not with bullets, but with type; not with cannon, but with lightning perfecting presses, and the Sumters and the Moultries aud tho Pulaskis and the Gibraltarsof that con flict will bo the editorial and reportorial rooms of our great newspaper establish ments. Men of the press, God has put a more stupendous responsibility upon yon than npon any other class of per sona What long si rides your profession bas made in influence and power since tho day when Peter Sheffer invented cast metal type, aud because two books were found just alike they were ascribed to the work of the devil, and books were printed on strips of bamboo, and Rev. Jesse Glover originated the first Ameri- cuu printing press, aud tho common council of New York iu solemn resolu tion offered $200 to any printer who would come there and live, aud when the speaker of the house of parliament in England announced with indignation that the public prints bod recognized some of their doings, until in this day, when wo have in this country many thousands of skilled stenographers and newspapers sending out copies by tho billion. Tho press and tho telegraph have gone down iuto tho same great harvest field to reap, aud tho telegraph says to the newspaper, “I’ll rake while yon bind, “and the iron teeth of tho telegraph are set down at ono end of tho harvest field aud drawn clean across, and tho newspaper gathers up ’the sheaves, setting down ono sheaf on tho breakfast table iu tho shape of a morn ing newspaper aud putting down an other sheaf ou tho tea table in the shape of an evening newspaper, aud that man who neither reads nor takes a newspa per would bo a curiosity. What vast progress since tho days when Cardinal Wolsey declared that either tho print ing press must go down or tho church of God must go down to this time, when tho printing press and the pulpit aro in hundreds of glorious combinations aud alliances! Trial* of Neti^paper Work. One of the great trials of this news paper profession is the fact that they are compelled to seo more of the shams of tho world than any other profession. Through every new spaper ofliee, day by day, go the weakness of tho world, tho vanities that want to bo puffed, tho re venges that want to be wreaked, all tho mistakes that want to be corrected, all the dull speakers who want to be thought eloquent, all the meanness th:-.t wants to get its wares noticed gratis in tho »».litorial columns iu order to save tho tax of tbo advertising column, all tho men who want to bo set right who never were right, al; tho crack brained philosophers, with story as long as their hair and as gloomy as their finger nails, all the itinerant bores who come to stay five minutes aud stop an hour. From tho editorial and reportorial rooms all tho follies and shams of tho world are seen day by day, aud the temptation is to believe neither in God, man, nor woman. It is no surprise to me that in your profession there are some skeptical men. I only wonder that you believe anything. Unless an editor or a report er has in his present or iu his early borne a model of earnest character or ho throw himself upon tho upholding grace of God ho may make temporal aud eter nal shipwreck. Another great trial of the newspaper profession is inadequate compensation. Since the days of Hazlitt and Sheridan and John Milton and tho wailings of Grub street, Loudon, literary toil, with very few exceptions, has not been prop erly requited. When Oliver Goldsmith received a friend iu his house, he (the author) had to sit on tho window, be cause there was only one chair. Lin naeus sold his splendid work for a ducat. De Foe, the author of so many volumes, died penniless. The learned Johnson dined behind a screen because his clothes were too shabby to allow him to diuowith the gentlemen who on the other side of the screen were ap plauding his works. Aud so ou down to tho present time literary toil is a great struggle for bread. The world seems to havo a grudge against a man who, as they say, gets his living by his wits, aud tho day laborer says to tbe man of literary toil, “Yon come down hero aud shove a plane, and hammer a shoo last, aud break cobblestones, and earn an honest living as I do instead of sitting there iu idleness scribbling.’’ But there are no harder worked men iu all the earth than the newspaper people of this country. It is not a mutter of hard times; it is characteristic at all times. Men havo a better appreciation for that which appeals to the stomach than for that which appeals to the brain. They have no idea of the immeuse financial and intellectual exhaustion of the news paper press. Oh, men of the press, it will bo a great help to you if when you get home late at night fagged out and nervous with your work you would just kueel down and commend your case to God, who has watched all tbe fatigues of the day aud the night and who has promised to be your God aud the God of your children forever 1 Perrerted Appetite*. Another great trial of tbe newspaper profession is tho diseased appetite for unhealthy intelligence. You blame tho newspaper press for giving such promi nence to murders and scandals. Do you suppose that so many papers would give prominence to these things if the people did not demand them? If I go iuto the meat market of a foreign city and I find that the butchers hang up on tbo most conspicuous hooks meat that is tainted, while the meat that is fresh and savory is put away without any special care, I come to the conclusion that the people of that city love tainted meat You know very well that if the great mass of people in this country get bold of a newspaper and there are in it no runa way matches, no broken np families, no defamation of meu in high position, they pronounce tho paper insipid. They say, “It is shockingly dull tonight.” I believo it is one of the trials of tho news paper press that tho people of this coun try demand moral slush instead of heal thy and intellectual food. Now you aro a respectable man, an intelligent man, aud a paper comes into your hand. You open it, aud there aro three columns of splendidly written editorial, recom mending some moral sentiment or evolv ing some scientific theory. In tho next column there is a miserable, contempti ble divorce case. Which do you read first? You dip into tho editorial long enough to say, “Well, that’s very ably written, “and you read tho divorce case from tho long primer typo at tho top to the nonpareil typo nt the bottom, and then you ask your wife if she has read it. Oh, it is only a case of supply and demand! Newspaper men are not fools. They know a. hat you want, aud they givo it to you. I believe that if tho church aud tho world bought nothing but pure, honest, healthful newspapers nothing but pure, bonest aud healthful newspapers would be published. If you should gather all tho editors and the re porters of this country in one great con vention and ask of them wbat kind of a paper they would prefer to publish, I believo they would unanimously say, “Wo would prefer to publish an elevat ing papier.’’ So long us there is an in iquitous demand there will be an in iquitous supply. I make no apology for a debauched newspaper, but I am say- j ing these tilings iu order to divide the j responsibility between those who print and those who read. Another temptation of tbe newspaper profession is the great allurement that surrounds them. Every occupation and profeseion lias temptations peculiar to ' itself, and tho newspaper profession is not an exception. The great demand, ; as you know, is ou the nervous force, and tho brain is racked. The blundering political speech must read well for the sake of tbe party, and so the reporter or the editor has to make it read well, although every sentence were a catastro phe to the English language. The re porter must hear all that an inaudible speaker who thinks it is vulgar to speak out says, and it must be right the next morning or the next night in the papers, though the night before the whole audi ence sat with its hand behind its ear in vain trying to catch it. This man must go through killing uight work. Ho must go into heated assemblages and into uu- ventilated audience rooms that are enough to take the life out of him. Ho must visit courtrooms which are almost always disgusting with rum and tobac co. He‘ must expose himself at the fire. He must write in fetid alleyways. Added to all that ho must have hasty masticatiou aud irregular habits. To bear up under this tremendous nervous strain they aro tempted to artificial stimulus, and bow many thousands havo gone down under their pressure God only knows. They must havo some thing to counteract the wet, they must have something to keep out the chill and after a scant night’s sleep they must have something to revive them for the morning’s work. This is what made Horace Greeley such a stout temperance man. I said to him, “Mr. Greeley, why are you more eloquent on the subject of tomperanco than any other subject?” He replied, “I have seen so many of my best friends in journalism go down un der intemperance.” Oh, my dear y.-otherof tho newspaper profession, what you cannot do without artificial stimulus God does not want you to do! There is uo half way ground for our literary people between teetotal- ism and dissipation. Your professional success, your domestic peace, your eter nal salvation, will depend upon your theories iu regard to artificial stimulus. I havo had so many friends go down un der tho temptation, their brilliancy quenched, their homes blasted, that I cry out this morning iu tho words of another, “Look not upon tbo wine when it is red, when it giveth its color in (he cup, when it moveth itself aright, for at the last it biteth like a serpent and it stingeth like an adder.” Who Preaches to Reporter*? Another trial of this profession is tbe fact no ono seems to care for their souls. They feel bitterly about it, though they laugh. People sometimes laugh the loud est when they feel tbe worst. They are expected to gather up religions proceed ings aud to discuss religious doctrines iu tho editorial columns, but who ex pects them to be saved by tbe sermons they stenograph or by the doctrines they discuss in tho editorial columns? Tbo world looks upon them as professional. Who preaches to reporters aud editors? Some of them came from religious homes, and when they left tbe parental root, whoever regarded or disregarded, they came off with a father’s benedic tion and a mother’s prayer. They never think of those good old times but tears come iuto their eyes, and they move through these great cities homesick. Ob, if they only knew what a helpful thing it is for a man to put his weary head down ou the bosom of a sympa- thetio Christ! He knows how nervous and tired you are. Ho has a heart large enough to take in all your interests for this world and tbe next. Gb, men of tho newspaper press, you sometimes get sick of this world, it seems so hollow and unsatisfying! If there are any people in all Jhe earth that need God, yon are tbe men, and you shall have him, if only this day yon implore his mercy! A man was found at tbo foot of Canal street, New York. As they picked him np from the water and brought him to the morgue they saw by the contour of his forehead that bo bad great mental capacity. He had entered the newspaper profession. He hui gone down in health. Ho took to artifidial stimulus. He went down farther and further, until one summer day, hot and buugry and sick and iu despair, he flung himself off tbo dock. They found in bis pocket a re porter's pad, a lead pencil, a photograph of some ono who had loved him long ago. Death, as sometimes it will, smoothed out all the wrinkles that hud gathered prematurely ou his brow, and as ho lay there his face was as fair as when seven years before he left his country home and they bade him good- by forever. The world looked through the window of tho morgue and said, “It’s nothing but an outcast,” but God said it was u gigantic soul that perished because the world gave him uo chance. Let mo ask all meu connected with tho printing press that they help us more and more in the effort to make tbo world betters I charge you in tbe name of God, before whom you must accouut for tho tremendous influence you bold iu this country, to cons* crato yourselves to higher endeavors. Yon are tho meu to fight back this invasion of corrupt liter ature. Lift up your right hand and swear new allegiance to tho cause of philanthropy and religion. Aud when at last, standing ou the plains of judg ment, you look out upon tho unnum bered throngs over whom you have had influence, may it be found that you were among tho mightiest energies that lifted men upon the exalted pathway that leads to tho renown of heaven. Better than to have sat in editorial chair, from which, with tbe finger of type, you decided the destinies of em pires, but decided them wrong, that you had been some dungeoned exile who, by tho light of window iron grated, on scraps of a New Testament leaf, picked np from the earth, spelled out tho story of him who taketb away the sins of the world. In eternity Dives is the beggar. Well, my friends, we will all soon get through writing aud printing and proof reading and publishing. What then? Our life is a book. Our years aro tbo chapters. Our months aro tho para graphs. Our days aro tho sentences. Our doubts are the interrogation points, our imitation of others tho quotation marks, our attempts at display a dash, death tho period, eternity tho perora tion. O God, whero will wo spend it? Have you heard the nows, more star tling than any found iu tho journals of tho last six weeks? It is tho tidings that man is lost. Havo yon heard tho news, the gladdest that was ever annonneed, coming this day from tho throne of God, lightning couriers leaping from tho palace gate? Tho news—tho glorious news—that there is pardon for all guilt and comfort for all trouble! Set it up in double leaded columns and direct it to tho whole race. AcknowletlgaH-nts to the Secular I'rrafl. And now before I close this sermon, thankfully commemorative of the “Two Thousandth” publication, I wish more full}' to acknowledge the services ren dered by the secular press iu tho matter of evangelization. All the secular news papers of the day—for I am not speak ing this morning of tho religions news papers—all the secular newspapers of the day discuss all the questions of God, eternity aud the dead, aud all the ques tions of the past, present aud future. There is not a single doctrine of theol ogy but has been discussed iu tho last ten years by tho secular newspapers of tho country. They gather up all tho news of all tho earth bearing ou reli gious subjects, and then they scatter tho news abroad again. Tho Christian news paper will be the right wing of the Apocalyptic angel. The cylinder of tho Christianized printing press will be tho front wheel of tho Lord’s chariot. I tako tho music of this day, and I do not mark is diminuendo—I mark it crescendo. A pastor ou a Sabbath preaches to a few hundred or a few thousand people, aud on Monday or during the week the printing press will tako tho same ser mon aud preach it to millions of people. God speed the printing press! God save the printing press! God Christianize tho printing press! When I see tbe printing press stand ing with tho electric telegraph on tho ono side gathering np material and the lightning express train on tho other side waiting for tho tons of folded sheets of newspapers, I pronounce it the mightiest force iu our civilization. So I commeua you to pray for all those who manage tho newspapers of tho laud, for all type setters, for all editors, for nil publish ers, that, sitting or standing iu positions of such great influence, they may givo all that influence for God and the bet terment of tbe hnman race. An aged woman making her living by knitting unwound the yam from the ball until she found in the center of tho ball there was an old pieoo of newspaper, bhe opened it and read an advertisement which announced that she had become heiress to a large property, and that fragment of a newspaper lifted her up from pauperism to nlllucuca And I do not know but as tho thread of time un rolls and unwinds a little farther, through the silent yet speaking news paper may bo found the vast inheritance of the world’s redemption. Jesus Khali reign where’er the sun Docs his b-uooeasive journeys run, His kingdom stretch from shore to shore Till suns shall rise and set no more. Clergymen Long Lived. The figures collated by tho life insur ance companies in the United States and England show that os a ru^o clergy men are long lived. Physicians aud sci entists agree that among tho elements which contribute to long life are sobrie ty, regular hours, outdoor exercise, some mental occupation, and above all serenity—tbe quality which qualifies one for honorary membership of a Don’t Worry club. Clergymen, perhaps, come nearer to complying with these condi tions than do people in ether walks of life. What is known asNeuville’s table cf professional men gave tho following averages of tbe length of life iu 1,000 oases taken of illustration: Physicians, 62 years; lawyers, 54; merchants, 57; teachers, 69; clergymen, 60. The aver age life of sailors in those countries in wbjch accurate records aro kept is 46 years, of mechanics, 48 and of farmers 65, though the average for farmers is unduly high perhaps. Long life among clergymen is rather the rule than the exception. Cardinal Mertel (he is a Bohemian and occupies at Rome tho office of vice chancellor of tho Sacred college) is 92, the pops is 87. Tho Very Rev. Henry Liddell of Ox ford, who died oa Jan. 19, was 87. Bishop Wilmer is 81, aud Bishop Wil liams of Connecticut is 80. A French statistician some years ago made tho discovery, corroboration of which has been afforded in tho United States of late years, that persons drawing pen sions live longer than those who don’t. What is known among insurance meu as Kasper’s table gives the percentage of persons of various professions iu Eng land who reach tbo age of 70 years as follows; Physicians, 24; teachers, 27; artists, 28; lawyers, 29; clerks, 32; soldiers, 82; merchants, 33; farmers, 40; clergymen, 42.—New York Sun. son l; THE KEY . . . To h-a!;?. Ir :’v Vrl.'y is k o fortify the syste. i tj^roreiiaiu; PRICKLY ASH BITTERS. ^ It strrnfTther.'. and re- stimulates t::e kidm ..., sionoc!) and diatsiiGii c.- bew' Is. Fax:: ti.oo rzj zzz: Sold by all Druggist:;. '.■-•vrtTjr" -jrryx tt— ■ <•■ ■ -— t**" Cherokee Drug Co.. Spei :;il Agent*. R. O. SAMS, Real Estate, Fire and Life Insurance. Office over FeagleA I'ri; i-’s furniture store. Ofliee (lays. Mondays ;in*l Saturdays, and other (lays when not engaged. I offer the following real estate for sale: lot Cor. Limestone lots on l!ace .street, lot*on Victoria Ave. lots oil Unt ledge St. lots on Fair view St. 1 ts on Johnson St. lots on Buford St. lot* on Smlt h St. lots on Continuation 1 beautiful residence and Buford sweets. 2 beautiful residence 4 hmutlful residence 10 beautiful residence J.% beautiful residence 4 beautiful residcnci is beautiful residence 12 tienutiful residence itlx-autiful residence Frederick st reel. 2 beautiful residence lots on Logan street. Ii beautiful residence lots on Depot street. 1 beautiful residence lot on Limestone and Montgomery streets. :i lots on Mills (jap road. 2 7*10 acres each, tine loeatiou. 1 cottage fronting Montgomery street. 1 cottage fronting Logan street. 140 lots near continuation of Limestone St In easy walk of the factory. 125 acres near Fnion road, 2 miles from Lime stone Institute. 302 acres, well wooded, on Union road, 4',i miles from Gaffney. 1N7 acres near Broad River, by magnificent water power. 2 tracts, wtdl watered. 2 1 : miles from Gaff ney, on road to I’acolct. IK 1-2 acres q mile from corporate limits. 10 2-3 acres mile from c< rporate limits. 52 acres just outside the corporate limits. 1 bouse and lot, convenient to business, on Depot street. 20 lots on Buford, Jefferies and Montgom ery streets. 122 acres, finely settled, jus: Leyoud corpo rate limits. KO shares Gaffney Land and Improvement Com puny. Your business in these lin s is respectfully solicited. Notice. The Iwtoks of McArthur X Sams and of Mc Arthur. Tankersley & Sams are in the hands of .1. U. Jefferies, Esij., who K empowered to collect accounts due. Parties owing would do well to call and settle and save suit. • W. F. McAktbuh, 1-20-tf R. O. Sams. The Best Is always the cheapest, and you can always get the liest Sash, Blinds, Doors and all kinds of Building Material, including No i Heart-pine Shingles from L. Baker cheaper for cash than on time. I buy for cash and consequently get bargains, and will give my customers tbe same advantages. I Will flake your Estimates for Materials Free of Charge. Very Respct., L,. BAKER. Notice. I HAVE the agency for Cherokee county of the celebrated Kings Improved Cotton Seed, the kind used by E. I). Thompson, by which he raised four bales to the acre by special cultivation. The seed sell for $2 per busiiel in lots less than in bushels: special prices for larger lots. Address Albert Bettis. 2-10-4t Blacksburg. S. (.’. Notice of Sale. THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA. f COUNTY or ( HEHOKEE, In tiie Common Fleas. I The Columbia Building and Loan Associa tion. of Richmond, Va.. Plaintiff, against J. Eb. JeYeries. Clerk of Ccurt. as Adminis trator of Vm. I). Arcf.er. deed.. Bessie Arch er, Sadie Archer, Harmon Archer, Lily Archer, Freddie Archer and Ho:*"*- Archer. Defendants. By vlrtureof the decree or foreclosure in the above cause, made Feb. Wtli. !*<>. 1 shall expose to public sale, at Gaffney, S. C., Cher okee court house, on the first Monday in March. 1s»k, (sulesday. 7th prox..) the follow ing described real estate, to wit: All that certain lot or parcel of land lying, being and situate iu the town of Gaffney <'ity. H. (J.. be ginning on iron pin at corner of Main and Johnson streets and running N. 35 E. 171 feet to iron pin: thmiee S. 55 K. 157 feet to stake: thence S. 35 W. fcq feet to stone: thence S. 3K>» W. lOS-fc feet to stone on said Main street: thence N. 55 W. l.'.O feet to iron pin. the be ginning point: containing 2ti.4u> square feet, more or less. mhI being tin* same conveyed toWm. I). Archer, by Sam'l. Jefferies, by deed dated 4tfi day of Feb’y.. 1K5G. Terms of sale cash. Purchaser to pay for all paper*. J. Eb. Jefferies, Feb., 14. IKSW.-St CV. C. C. Pis. and G. 8. An Election. Council chamber, i Gaffney, m. c„ Feb.. i5. is93.» An election is hereby ordered to be held in Gaffney. S. C., on Tuesday. March 1st, !«»•. beginning at 7 o'clock a. hi., and closing at 4 o’clock p. m..for the pai|K>se of electing an lutcndant and f- ur Wardens loservefor two years or until rhelr successors are elected and qualified. Win. Phillips. B.L.Hames and D. A.Thom as are hereby appointed to serve as managers o; election. L. Baker. a. N. Wood, town Clerk. lutcndant. Mr. F. C. Ilelbip, a prominent | druggist of Lynchburg, Yu., says: “One of our citizens was cured of rheumatism of two years standing, by one bottle of Chamberlain’s I’ain Balm. This liniment is famousforlts cures of rheumatism; thousands have been delighted with the prompt relief which it affords. For sale by Dul’re Drug Co. No-To-B»c for Fifty Cents. Guaranteed tobacco habit cure, make* weak men strong, blood pure. bOc. |l. All druggists. Rice's Goose Grease Llnameiit, euro# all aches and pains. Sold and guaranteed by CHtaoKEi Dmuo Co. Piedmont Savings ajid Investment Companj, GREENVILLE. 3. C. This company has money to lend on Gaff ney real estate. Our loan plan Is cheaper and more satisfactory than tin- plans of any building anil loan association offered in the State. For our loan circulars, which tell all About our loan plan, call on J C. Jatfertes. Etq., our local attorney. 6-1MX