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V t* THK LEDGER: GAFFNEY, S. C., APRIL 7, I8{)8. THE FIELD OF DLOOI). AN CFFtCTIVE SERMON ON GAMBLING GY DR. TALMAGE. Tin' Downward l*ntl> of tho Oninrnt<-r I'ointt'il Out With Slartliin; Kiilt-lltv. The Churcli Not (iuill. •»» T!io Itettiug IlnMt ^(odrrn (Sift KiitrriirUm. {Copyright, t>y Anu-rlcan I’n-ss Asso ciation. | Washington, April 3.—The spirit of hazard in this eennou is arruipiud by Dr. Talmage, and tho downward path of the gamester is plainly pointed out; text, Acts i, 1W, “Aceldama—that is to say, tho field of blood.” Tho money that Judas gave for sur rendering Christ was used to purchase u graveyard. As the money was blood money the ground bought by it was called in the Syriac tongue * ‘ Aceldama, ’’ meaning “tho field of blood.” Well, there is one word I want to write today over every race course where wagers are staked, and every poolroom, and every gambling saloon, and every table, public or private, where men and wom en bet for sums of money, large fir email, and that is a word inearumlined with the life of innumerable victims— Aceldama. Tho gambling spirit, winch is at all times a stupendous evil, ever ami anon sweeps over the country like an epi demic, prostrating uncounted thou sands. There has never been a worse attack than that from which all the villages, towns and cities are now suf fering. While among my hearers and readers are those who have passed on into the afternoon of life, anil tho shadows are lengthening, and the sky crimsons with tho glow of the setting sun, a large number of them arc in early life, and the morning is coming down out of the clear sky upon them, and the bright air is redolent with spring blossoms, and the stream of life, gleaming and glanc ing, rushes on between flowery banks, making music us it gees. Some of you aro engaged in mercantile concerns as clerks and bookkeepers, and your whole life is to be passed in the exciting world of trallie. Tho sound of busy life stirs you us tho drum stirs tho fiery war horse. Others arc in tho mechanical arts to hammer and chisel your way through life, nud success awaits you. Some aro preparing tor professional life, and graud opportunities aro before you—nay, some of you already have buckled on the armor. But, whatever your ago and calling, the subject of gambling about which I speak today is pertinent. Some years ago, when an association for tho suppression cf gambling was or ganized, an agent of tho association came a prominent citizen and asked him to patronize the society. He«aid: “No, I can have uo interest in such au organization. I am in nowise affected by the evil. ” A t that very time bis *ou, who was his partner in business, was one cf the heaviest players in a famous gambling establishment. Another re fused his patronage on the same ground, not knowing that his first bookkeeper, though receiving a salary of only ?4,000, was losing from $i30 to $100 per night. The president of a railroad company re fused to patronize the institution, say ing, “That society is good for the de fense of merchants, but wo railroad peo ple are not injured by this evil,“not knowing that at that very time two of his conductors were spending three nights of each week at faro tables in New York. Directly or indirectly this evil strikes at tho whole world. Whact la Gambling? Gambling is thu risking of something more or less rjtluublo in the hope of winning more than you hazard. The instruments of gaming may dificr, but the principle is the same. The shuttling and dealing curds, however full of temptation, is not gambling unless retakes aro put up; while, on the other .hand, gambling may be carried on without cards or diuu or billiards or a tenpin alley. Tho man who bets on horses or elections, on battles, the man who deals in “fancy” stocks or conducts a business which hazards extra capital or goes into transactions without fonn- dation, but dependent upon what men call “luck,” is a gambler. Whatever you expect to get from your neighbor without offering an equivalent in money <ur time or skill is cither the product of theft or gaming. Lottery tickets and lottery policies come into the same category. Bazaars for the founding of hospitals, schools and churches, conducted ou tho rnfiliug sys tem, come under the same denomina tion. Do not, therefore, associate gam bling necessarily with any instrument or game or time or place or think the principle depends upon whether you play Cor a glass of wine or 100 shares ol railroad stock. Whether you patronize “auction pools,” “French mutuals” or “hookmakiug,“ whether you employ faro or billiards, rondo and keuo, cards or bagatelle, the very idea of the thing is dishonest; fur it professes to bestow upon you a good for which you give no equivalent. This crime is uo newborn sprite, but a haggard transgressiou that comes stag gering down under u mantle of curses through many centuries. All nations, barbarous and civilized, lave been ad dicted to it. But uow tho laws of tho whole civi lized world denounce the system. Enact ments have been passed, hut only par tially enforced and at times not en forced at all. Tho men interested in gaming bouscsamiin jockey clubs wield such influence by their numbers aud afilucucu that the judge, thu jury and the police officer must bo hold indeed who would airay themselves against these infamous establishments. The bouse of commons of England actually adjourns ou Derby day that members may attend the races, aud in the host circles of society in this country today utre many hundreds of professedly re- ■Dectuble men who are acknowledged * gamblers. Hundreds of thousands of dollars in this land are every day being won aud lost through sheer gambling. Says a traveler through the west, “I have trav- | eled 1,000 miles at a time upon the I western waters and seen gambling at | every waking moment from the com mencement to the termination of the ; journey.” The southwest of this coun try reeks with this sin. In some of those I cities every third or fourth house in j many of the streets is a gaming place, 1 and it may he truthfully averred that ( each of our cities is cursed with this evil. Abundance of Opportunities. Mon wishing to gamble will find places just suited to their capacity not only in the underground oyster cellar, or at the table hack of the curtain cov- ! sred with greasy curds, or in tho steam- j boat smoking cabin, where tho bloated j wretch with rings in his ears deals out his pack and winks in the unsuspecting traveler—providing free drinks all around—but in gildod parlors and amid gorgeous surroundings. This sin works ruin, first, by providing an unhealthful stimulant. Excitement is pleasurable. Under every sky and in. every ago men i have sought it. Wo must at times have ^ excitement. A thousand voices in our nature demand it. It is right. It is healthful. It is inspiriting. It is a do- | sire God given. But anything that first j gratifies this appetite and hurls it hack in a terrific reaction is deplorable aud wicked. Look out for tho agitation that, like n rough musician, in bringing out the tune plays so hard ho breaks down tho instrument. God never made a man strong enough to endure the wear and tear of gambling excitements. A young man having suddenly inher ited a large property sits at tho hazard tables and takis up in a dice box the es tate won by a father’s lifetime’s sweat and shakes it and tosses it away. In temperance soon stigmatizes its victim, kicking him out,a slavering fool, into the ditch, or sending him, with the drunk ard’s hiccough, staggering up the street 'where his family lives. But gambling does not in that way expose its victims. Tho gambler may lie eaten up by the gambler’s passion, yet you only discover it by the greed in his eyes, the' hardness of his features, the nervous restlessness, tho threadbare cniat and his embarrassed business. Yet he is ou the road to ruin | and no preacher’s voice or startling warning or wife’s entreaty can make him stay for a moment his headlong ea- ' reer. Tho infernal spell is on him. A giant is aroust d within, and though you hind him with cables, they would part like thread, ami though you fasten him seven i times around with chains, they would I snap like rusted wire, and though you piled up in his path heaven high Bibles, tracts and sermons, and ou tho top should set tho cross of tho Sou of God, over them all tho gambler would leap like a roe over the rocks on his way t« perdition. “Aceldama, tho field cl blood!’’ Again, this sin works ruin by killing industry. A man used to reaping scon.* or hundreds of dollars from the gaming table will not he content with slow work. He will say, “What is the use of trying to make this sf.lO in my store when I can make dive times that in half an hour by thu dine. ” You never knew a confirmed gambler who was industri ous. The men given to this vice spend their time not antively employed in the game iu idleness or intoxication or sleep or in corrupting new victims. This siu has dulled tho carpenter’s saw, and cut the hand of tho factory wheel, sunk the cargo, ibrokeu the teeth of the farmer’s harrow, and sent a strange lightening to shatter the battery of tho philosopher. Tho very first idea in gam ing is at war with all the industries of society. Any trade oroooupatiou that is of nso is ennobling. Tho street sweeper *«d- vances the interests of society by tho cleanliness effected. The cat pays for tho fragments it eats by clearing thu house of vermin. The fly that takes the sweetness from tho dregs of tho oup compensates by purifying tho air und keeping hock the pestilence. But thu gambler gives not anything for that which ho takes. 1 recall that sentence. Hu does make a return, hut it is dis grace to the man that ho fleeces, despair to his heart, ruin to his business, an guish to his wife, sluuno to bis children and eternal wasting away to his soul. He pays in tears and blood and agony aud darkness and woe. What dull work is plowing to the farmer when iu the village saloon in one night he makes aud loses the value of a summer harvest! Who will want to sell tapes and measure narkoeu and cut garments aud weigh sugar when iu a night’s game he makes and loses and makes again aud loses again the profits of a season? An Ksample. John Borack was sent as a mercantile agent from Bremen to England aud this country. After two years his employers mistrusted that all was net right. Ho was a defaulter for $87,000. It was found that he had lost in Lombard street, Loudon, $29,000; in Fulton street, New York, $10,000, and in New Orleans, $8,000. He was imprisoned, but afterward escaped, and went into the gambling prufession. He died iu a lunatic asylum. This crime is getting its lover under many a mercantile house in our cities, and before long dowu will come the great establishment, crushing reputation, home comfort and immortal souls. How it diverts and sinks capital may be inferred from some authentic statement before ns. The ten gaming houses that once were authorized iu I’nris passed through tho hanks yearly j 2 5,000,000 francs. Furthermore, this sin is tho source of dishonesty. The game of hazard itself is often a cheat. How many tricks and deceptions iu thu dealing of the cards! The opponent’s hand is ofttiines found out by fraud. Cards arc marked so that they may he designated from the hack. Expert gamesters have their accom plices, and one wink may decide the game. The dice have been found loaded with platiaa so that doublets come up every time. These die# are introduced by the gamblers unobserved by tho hon est men who have come into tho play, aud this accounts for tho fact that 99 out of 1U0 who gamble, however wealthy when they began, at the end are found to bo poor, miserable, hag gard wretches that would not uow ho allowed to sit iu tho doorstep of tho house that they once owned. In a gaming house iu San Francisco a young men having just come from the mines deposited a largo sum upon tho ace aud won $22,000. But the tide turns. Intense anxiety comes upon the countenances of all. Slowly tho cards went forth. Every eye is fixed. Not a sound is heard until the ace is revealed favorable to the bulk. There are shouts of “Foul! Foul!” but the keepers at thu tables produce their pistols, and the uproar is silenced, aud the hank has won $95,000. Do you call this a game of chance? There is uo chance about it. Notice also the effect of this crime upon domestic happiness. It has sent its ruthless plowshare through hun dreds of families, until the wife sat iu rags and the daughters were disgraced aud thu sons grew up to the same infa mous practices or took a short cut to destruction across the murderer’s scaf fold. Home has lost all charms for the gambler. How tame are the children’s caresses aud a wife’s devotion to tho gambler! How drearily tho tire burns ou the domestic hearth! There must bo louder laughter and something to win and sometiiiug to lose, an excitement to drive tho heart faster, fillip tho blood aud fire the imagination. No home, however bright, can keep hack tho gamester. The sweet call of love bounds hack from his iron soul, aud all endear ments are consumed in tho lire of his passion. The family Bible will go after all other treasures arc lost, and if his crown iu heaven were put into bis hand he would cry: “Here goes! One more game, my boys. On this one throw I stake my crown of heaven.” A young man in London, on coming of age, received a fortune cf $120,000, and through gambling iu three years was thrown ou his mother for support. An only son went to New Orleans. Ho was rieh, intellectual and elegant in manners. His parents gave him, on his departure from home, their last bless ing. Tho sharpers got hold of him. They fluttered him. They lured him to the gaming table nud let him win al- ! most every time for a good while, and , putted billion the backaud said, “First rate player.” But, fully in their grasp, ! they fleeced him, and his $80,000 were ‘ lost. Lust of all, ho put up his watch i aud lost that. Then be begun to think of his homo and of his old father aud mother and wrote thus: “My beloved parents, you will doubt less feel a momentary joy at the recep tion of this letter from the child of your Losom, on whom you have lavish ed all the favors of your declining years. ! But should a feeling of joy for a mo- t ment spring up iu your hearts, wheu you should have received this from mu, cherish it not. I havu fallen duep, never : to rise. Those gray hairs, that 1 should have honored and protected, 1 shall bring dowu in sorrow to the grave. I will not curse my destroyer, hut, oh, may God avenge the wrongs and impo sitions practiced upon tho unwary in a way that shall best please him ! This, my dear parents, iu the last letter you will ever receive from me. I humbly pray your forgiveness. It is my dying prayer. Long before you will have re ceived this from me the cold grave will have closed upon me forever. Life tu me is iusapportable. 1 cannot, nay, I will not, suffer the shame of having ruined you. Forget and forgive is the dying prayer of your unfortunate sou.” The old father came to the postofiiee, got tho letter and fell to the floor. They thought he was dead at first, hut they brushed hack the white hair from his brow aud fanned him. He had only fainted. “Aceldama, the field of blood!’’ Wheu things go wrong at a gaming table, they shout, “Foul, foul!” Over all thu gaming tables of the world I cry out: “Foul, foul! Infinitely foul!” Gift Enterprini-a. “Gift stores” are abundant through out the country. With a book or knife or sewing machine or coat or carriage, there goes a prize. At these stores peo ple get something thrown in with their purchase. It may he a gold watch, or u set of silver, a ring or a farm. Hliarp way to get off unsalable goods. It lias filled tho laud with fictitious articles aud covered up our population with brass finger rings, and despoiled the moral sense cf the community, and is fust making us a nation of gamblers. Tho church of God bus not seemed willing to allow thu world to have all the advantage of these games of chance. A church bazaar opens, and toward the close it is found that some of the more valuable articles are unsalable. Forth with, the conductors of thu enterprise conclude that they will raffle for some of the valuable articles, an ’ under pre tense of anxiety to make tneir minister a present or pleatiu some popular mem ber of tho church, fascinating persons aro dispatched through the room, pencil iu hand, to “solicit shares,” or perhaps each draws for his own advantage and scores of people go home with their trophies, thinking that it is all right, for Christian ladies did thu embroidery aud Christian men did the ruffling, and the proceeds went toward a new com munion set. But you may depend on it, that us fur as morality is concerned, you might us well have won by thu crack of tho billiard hull or the turn of the dice box. Do you wonder that churches built, lighted or upholstered by such processes us that come to great financial and spir- i ituul decrepitude? Tho devil says, “I { lelped to build that housu of worship and I have as much right there us you have,” and for once tho devil is right. We do not read that they bud a lottery for building the church at Corinth, or , at Antioch, or for gutting up an em broidered surplice for St. Paul. All thia I style ecclesiastical gambling. More than one man who is destroyed can say that his first step ou thu wrong road was wheu buwou something at a church fair. The gambling spirit has not stopped for any indecency. There transpired iu Maryland a lottery in which people drew for lots iu a burying ground. The modern habit of betting about every thing is productive of immense mis chief. Tho most healthful and innocent amusements of yachting and baseball playing have been the occasiou of put ting up excited and extravagant wagers. That which to many has been advan tageous to body and mind has been to others the means of financial and moral loss. Tho custom is pernicious in tho extreme, where scores of men in respect able life give themselves up to hotting, now ou this beat, now on that; now ou this hall club, now on that. Betting that once was chiefly the accompani ment of the race course is fast becoming a national habit, and in some circles any opinion advanced ou finance or pol itics is accosted with the interrogation, “How much will you bet cu that, sir?” This custom may make no appeal to slow’, lethargic temperaments, but there are in tho country tens of thousands of quick, nervous, sanguiue, excitable temperaments, ready to he acted upon, and their feet will soon take hold ou death. For some months, aud perhaps for years, they will linger iu the more polite and elegant circle of gamesters, but after awhile their pathway will anno to the fatal plunge. Career of t!ic Gambler. Shall I sketch tho history of tho j gambler? Lured by had company, ho finds his way into a place where honest men onght never to go. Ho sits down to his lint game, hut only for pastime and the desire of being thought socia ble. The players deal out tho cards. They uncouecicusly play into satau’s hands, who takes all tho tricks and both tho players’ souls for trumps—he being a sharper at any game. A slight stake is put up, just to add interest to the play. Game after game is played. Larger stakes aud still larger. They begin to niovo nervously on their chairs. Their brows lower and eyes flash until now they who win and they who lose, fired alike with passion, sit with set jaws and compressed lips and clinched fists and eyes like fireballs that seem start- ' iug from their sockets to see the final turn before it comes; if losing, pale with envy and tremulous with uuutter- ed oaths cast buck redbot upon the heart; or winning, with hysteric laugh —“Ha, ha! I have it!” A few years have passed, and he is only the wreck of a man. Seating him self at tho game, ero he throws the first card, he stakes the last relic of his wife —tho marriage ring which sealed the solemn vows between them. The game is lost, ami staggering hack in exhaus tion he dreama 1 he bright hours of the past mock his agony, and iu his dreams fiends with eyes of lire aud tongues of flame circle about him with joined hands, to dance and sing their orgies with hellish chorus, chanting, “Hail, brother t” kissing his clammy forehead until their loathsome lucks, flowing with serpents, crawl into his bosom and sink their sharp fangs and suck up his lifeblood, and coiling around bis heart pinch it with chills and shudders unut terable. Take warning ! You «ro no stronger than tens of thousands who have by this practice been overthrown. No young man iu our cities cau escape be ing tempted. Beware of the first begin nings 1 This road is a dowu grade and every instant increases the momentum. Launch not upon this treacherous sea. Splint hulks strew the beach. Everlast ing storms howl up and down, tossing unwary craft into thu hull gate. I speak of what I have seen with my own eyes. To a gambler’s deathbed there comes uo hope. He will probably die alone. His former associates come not nigh his dwelling. Wheu the hour comes, his miserable soul will go out of a miser able life into a miserable eternity. As his poor remains puss the house where he was ruined, old companions may look out for a moment and say, “There goes the old carcass—dead at last,’’ hut they will not get up from the table. Let him dowu into his grave. Plant uo tree to cast its shade there, for thu long, deep), eternal gloom that settles there is shadow enough. Plant no “forgetme- nots” or eglantines around the spot, for ; flowers were not made to grow on such a blasted heath. Visit it not iu tho sun shine, for that would ho mockery, hut in tho dismal night, when uo stars were out, and the spirit of darkness come down, horsed on the wind, then visit the grave of thu gambler. H«'a m Lobster. The expression “He’s a lobster,” which has now become to general in colloquial use about town as to couvey a clear cut message of contempt or de rision, has a somewhat peculiar origin. There is nothing about a lobster, which the elder Dumas, it may ho recalled, described as “the cardinal of the sea,” to invite derision, hut a few years ago wheu all winter racing was a customary thing in thu vicinity of New York, es pecially in neighboring New Jersey, a mud horse that failed to realize the ex pectations of those who bet money upon it was culled a “lobster, ” an allusion to its modo of progression. Horses which had been generally defeated were lobster horses, and us this colloquial ex pression got to be more general iu use on the race tracks it began to he applied not ouly to horses, hut to men aud things as well. A lobster car was a car that made slow time. A lobster heat was a boat in which rapid time could nut be expected. A lobster calculator was a man who took too long, in the judg- Kicnt of his critics, to add up an uo ount. and so gradually the name lob ster has come to he accepted as a desig nation of sloth or inferiority, aud “He’s u lobster’’ has come to he regarded as a phrase of disapproval.—New York Bun. FEW DOSES OF PRICKLY ASH BITTERS AT INTERVALS DURING THE MALARIAL SEASON WILL SAVE YOU MONEY, TIME, SUFFERING. Don't wait for disease to fasten Itself In your body. Ge t a bottle of I’ricklt Asn Bittkrs at once, keep it in the house, J and whenever you fe£l bilious, dull, constipated, or your ’ stomach Is weak take a few doses. It will save you ^ doctor bills, time lost In sickness and much misery. SOLD BY ALL DRUGGISTS. Price $i.oo Per Bottle. ^JP'Cherokee Drug Co. Special Agents. The leading liniment of the age, rapidly cures Rheumatism, Neuralgia and all pains. For Cuts, Sores, Burns, Sprains and Bruises it is invaluable. SALVATION OIL should be in every house, it costs only 25 cents. Insist on getting it. Take no other. Chew LANGE’S PLUGS. The Great Tobacco Antidote. 10c. Dealers or mail.A.C.Mever 1 Co..Baltc..Mil. Cure a Cold m One Day. Take Laxative ItrorniiQuIulncTuhtctK. All ilruinn't* n fund money |f It falls to cure. dUe. The trenufiie lias L. H.if. on each tattle!, 1 luPrw iuux 1 it. 14 -• - KdacataVour itnwcU With fuerareM. Candy Cnthnrtlc. ruri* constipation forever, 10c, dOc. If C C C. fall, UruKK'ew refund money. CANDY CATHARTIC 10c 25c 50c ALL DRUGGISTS m. DR. CBAS. A. JEFFERIES, Bonds, Physician and Surgeon. lor < ifli ■•■I h—Juill r lals,FNeeti tors. A«l- niliilstriitors’ ami Contractu: s.ui short notice. SPK< M A LTI F.S:-SF KGEKY. EYK EA It and THROAT. Office over Rrldires ,‘c HeusonV Telephone No. 4'J. C. JEFFERIES,*- GAFFNEY, S. C. Attorney »nd Counsellor at Law. Practices i All the Courts. Collections a Specialty Dr. C. T. LIPSCOMB, Dentist, Office over R. A. Jones & Co's Stcre Can be found at office six days In the week. J. E. WEBSTER, A^ttorney-A.!:- l^iwv r . Office in Court House. (Probate Judge’s offiec( Gaffney City, S. C. Practices in all the courts. Collec tions a specialty. For Sale K EJ AJCSTAXG I lot 80x200 ft. on Logan street. Flie Dr. Ilomessroom house with fine gar den. stables and out buildings att aCheu! > room cottage on Limestone street. 1 room cottage on Gaines street, with splen did garden. V: vacant lots on Gaines street. 1 splendid farm containing 50 acres miles from City Hall. 1 house and 5 acres located at Limestone Springs. 1 new ti-room Cottage Fast Logan street 50-acre farm within city limits, at a bargain. 80-acre farm 1 mile from flie city. stock:© 14 shares Gaffney City Land ami Improve ment Co., stock. 5 shares Blacksburg Land and Improvement ( Co., stock. 1 10 Shares Lockhart Cotton Mill Stock, • I 8 Shares Richland Cotton Mill Stock. 8 Shares Victor Cotton Mill Stock. 50Shares Limestone Springs Lime Co. stock. 74 shares stock Gaffney Mfg. Co. O. L. SCUUMPKHT. Titos. B. Bcti.kk. Wm. McGowan. SCHUMPERT, x BUTLER * & * McGOWAN, A/TTOKN « VH-AT-I. AW. Union and Gaffney, 5. C. Very careful and prompt attention given to all business entrusted to us. tiri’r: u’tice In all t,he courts. a DR. J. F. GARRETT, Dentist, Gaffney, - - - S. C. Office over J. R. Tolleson’s new store In office from 1st to 20th of each month; At Blacksburg Thursday morning each week, returning to office at 2:30 Insurance ! I represent none hut the best of Fire l.if,- und Accident Insuranc'' Companies. Am prepared to furnish cyclone and tor nado Insurance at moderate l ost. Your patronage will be duly appreciated 1^. Or. R. O. SAMS, Real Estate, Fire and Life Insurance. Wm. Mrsuo, a I'nloii. s. c .1 AS. Mt'MtO, Cnlou, S. c. .1. B. Rk.i.i., Gaffney. S.C. mi :x 1*0 ■A.TTOU »«c VH-AT-I .aw. OAK KIN CSV, ». O. Will practice In sill the courts of th<‘State and lulled States. All huslnesseiitrusted to us will receive prompt attention. The Best Is always the cheapest, and you cun always get the best Sash, Blind., Door, and all kind, of Building Material, including No 1 Heart-pine Shingle, from L. linker ehruper for easli than on tlmo. I buy for i'iikIi and consequently get bargains, und will give my customers the same advantages. I Will Hake >our Ultimate, fur Material, Free of Charge. Very itespet., Iw. KiVICKHL 1 lots on Ifiuv st ri'et. > lots on Victoria Avr ■ lots on Kilt ledge St lot.on Fairvlew St, ■ lots on .Tolllist-i) st. ■ lota on Buford st. lota on .-e . it h St. ’lots on Coiitiiiuntfi.n 1 lots on L< gun street, lot non I '1 pot si reef. lot on Limestone and Office over FeagloA Price’s furniture store. Office days. Mondays and Saturdays, and other days when not engaged. I offer the following real estate for mte: 1 beautiful residence lot Cor. Llmt stoni and Buford stteets, 2 Uuiutlful residence 4 beautIful reside.ice in heautltul residence 25 lieuutllul residence 4 Ismutlful residence Is beaut Iful residence 42 Uututiful residence 11 beaut iful residence Frederick street. 2 beautiful residenci It beaut iful n sldcnee 1 beautiful residence Montgomery streets. 3 lots on Mills Gap road. 2 7-10 acres each tine locution. 1 cottage fronting Montgomery strm t. I cottage fronting Logan stre. t. ltd lots near continuation of Limestone St in easy walk of the factory. 125 acres near Cnlon road, 2 miles from Lt»;c atone lnslituw*. IJ02 acres, well wooded, on Fnlon road, 4'. miles from Gaffney. 18“ acres near Broad Elver, by magnificent water power. • tracts, well watered. 2‘ mill * from Guff ncy. on road to fiucolct. 18 1-2 acres q mile from corporate limits, in 2-3 acres '» mile from eorimr.iic limits. 52 acres Just outside the corporate limits. 1 bouse and lot, convenient to business, ur Depot street. 2i) lots on Buford, Jefferies and Montgom ery streets. 122 acres, finely settled, Just beyond corpo rate limits mi shares Gaffney Land nud Improvement Company. Your buslni s» In these lines Is respectfully »oi idled. -Ik ■ .