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THE LEDQEK: GAFFNEY* S. C., AUGUST 18, 1898. RISE TCTO SUNSHINE. REV. DR. TALMACE PREACHES-A E-R MON TO THE TROUBLED. S*M*k Christ For Oon»oW»tlon When Sortlj PVMMd by the TrtaU of Mfe—A Help Kii Lessou Drawn Frotn Jonathan’* Vlr tory Over Dlfflcnltlea. ICopyrlght. 1898. by American Proas Asso ciation. 1 Washington, Autf. 14.—This dis- coarK! of Dr. Talmage is full of cncour- agenH?nt for those who know not which way to turn because ol aocninulatod misfortunes; text, I Samuel xiv, 4, “There was a sharp rock on the one skle and a sharp rock on the other sido. ’ Tho cruel army of tho Philistine? must ho taken and scattered. There is just ouo man, accompanied by his body guard, to do that thing. Jonathan is the hero of tho scene. I know that Da vid cracked the skull of tho giant with a few pebbles well slung, and that 300 Gidoouites scattered 10,000 Amalakites by tho crash of broken crockery, but hero is a more wonderful conflict Yon der are tho Philistines ou the rocks. Here is Jonathan with his bodyguard in the valley. On tho one side is a rock called Bozca; on the other side is a rook called Seneh. These two were ae fa mous in olden times as in modem times are Plymouth Rock and Gibraltar. They were precipitous, unscalable and sharp. Between these two rooks Jona than must moke his ascent. The day comes for the scaling of the height. Jonathan, on his bands and feet, be gins the ascent With strain and slip and bruise, T suppose, but still ou and up, first goes Jonathan, and then goes his bodyguard. Boae« ou owe side, Seoeh on the other. After a sharp tug and push and clinging I see the head cf Jonathan above the hole in the mountain, and there is a challenge aud a fight and a supernatural consterna tion. These two men, Jonathan and hi? bodyguard, drive back and drive down the Philistines over the rooks and open a campaign which demolishes the ene mies of Israel. I suppose that tho over hanging and overshadowing rocks ou either side did not balk or dishearten Jonathan or his bodyguard, but only roused and filled them with enthusiasm as they went up. “There was a sharp rock on tho ouo side ai>d a sharp rock on the other side.” When Calamity Cornea. My friends, you have been or are now some of you in this crisis of the text. If a man meets one trouble, he can gc through with it He gathers all his vu ergies, concentrates them ou one point, and in the strength of God or by bn; own natural determination goes throiLgh it But the man who has trouble to the right of him and trouble to the left o< him is to be pitied. Did either trouble come alone ho might endure it, but two troubles, two disasters, two overshadow ing misfortunes, are Bozaz and Seneh. iJod pity him. “There is a sharp rook •Von the one side and a sharp rock on the other side. ” In this crisis of the text is that man whose fortune and health fail him at tho same time. Nine-tenths of all our merchants capsize iu business before they come to 45 years of age. There i.- some collision iu commercial circles, aad they stop payment. It seems ns if every man must put his name on the back of a note before he learns what a fool a man is who risks all bis own property on the prospect that some man will tell tho truth. It seems as if a man must have a large amount of unsalable goods on his own shelf before be learn.- how much easier it is to buy than to sell It seems as if every man must be completely burned out before ho learns tho importance of always keeping fully insured. It seems as if every man must be wrecked in a financial tempest before he learns to keep things snug iu case of a sudden euroclydou. When tho calamity does come, it i.: awful. Tho man goes home in despair, and he tells l>is family, “We’ll hare to go to the poorhouse. ” He takes a dolor ous view of everything. It seems as if he never could rise. But a little time passes, and he says, “Why, I am not ea badly off after all; I have my family left.” Before tho Lord turned Adam out of paradise he gave him Eve, so that when ho lost paradise he could stand it. Per mit one who has never read but a few novels in all his life, and who has not a groat deal of romance in his composi tion, to say that if when a man’s for tunes fail ho has a good wife—a good Christian wife—ho ought not to be de spondent. “Oh,” you say, “that only increases the embarrassment, since yon have her also to take cure at. ” You are an ingrate, for the woman as often sup ports the man as the man supports the woman. The man may bring all the dollars, but the woman generally bring? tho courage and the faith in God. A New Chapter. Well, this man of whom I am speak ing looks around, and he finds his fami ly is left, and ho rallies, and the light comes to his eyes, and the smile to bill [face, and the courage to his hourt. Iu [two years he is quite over it. He makes lis financial calamity the first chapter a new era of prosperity. Ho met that one trouble—conquered it. He nut down for a little while under tho grim shadow ol the rock Bozez, yet ho soon rose, and began, like Jonathan, to climb. But how often is it that physical ailment comes with financial embarrassment! When the fortnne failed, it broke the man’s spirit His nerves wove shatter ed. His brain was stnnncd. I can show you hundreds of men in our citie? whose fortune and health failed at the same time. They came prematurely to the staff. Their hand trembled with incipient paralysis. They never saw a well day since the hour when they cnll- ed their creditors together for a com promise. If such men are impatient and peculikr and irritable, excuse them. They Aad two troubles, either one of Whjcbpthcy could have met successfully. It, when the health went, the fortune Rad been retained, it would not have tsjen ho bad. man (<oald have txraght the very k“?t medical advice, and ho could Ifuvtf RtnV the very best ut- Undance, and long lines of carriages would have stopped at the front door to inquire as to h» welfare. But poverty on the one nidi' and sickneea on the other arc Bozez and Seneh, and they interlock thoir shadows Mfft drop them upon the poor man’s way. G<xl help him! “There is a ahnrfi rock on the one side and a sharp rock on t!«e other aide. ” Now, w hat is such a man to do? In the name of Almighty God, I will tell him what to da Do as Jonathan did— climb; climb up into tho sunlight of God's favor aad consolation. I can go through the churches and show you men who lost fortune and health at tho same time and yet who sing all day and dream of heaven all night. If you have any idea that sound digestion and steady nerves and clear eyesight and good hearing and plenty of friends are necessary to make a man happy, you j have miscalculated. I suppose that these 1 overhanging rocks only made Jonathan scramble the harder and the faster to get up and out into the sunlight, and this combined shadow of invalidism and financial embarrassment has often pent a man up the qaicker into the sunlight of God’s favor and the noonday of his glorious promises. Win a (*od h Boaffbt. It is a difficult thing for a man to feel his dependence upoa God when ho has 110,000 iu the bank and $50,000 in government securities and a block ul stores aud three ships. “Well,” the man says to hitt^tJf, “it is silly for me to pray, ‘Give-toe this day my daily bread, ’ when my pantry is full and the canals from the west are crowded with breodetatfs deotiuod for my store houses.” Oh, my friends, if the com bined roisforttatsse and disasters of life have made you climb up into tho arms of a sympathetic and compassionate God, through all eternity you will bln* him that iu this world “there was a sharp rock ou the one side and a sharp rock cu the other side. ” Again, that man is in the crisis of the text who has home troubles and outside persecution at the same time. The world treat* » man well just as long as it pays to treat him well. As long as it con manufacture success out of his bone and brain and muscle it fa vor* him. The world fattens the horse it wants to drive. But let a man see it his duty to cross the track of the world, then every bush is full of horns aad tusks thrust at him. They will belittle him. They will caricature him. They will call hi* generosity self aggrandize ment aud his sauctimoniousness. Tho vory worst persecution will some times come upon 4*m from those who profess to be Christians. John and good John Milton—so far forgot himself as to jiray in so many words that his enemies might Ikj eternally thrown down into the darkest aud deepest gulf of hell and lie tha undermost atn^ most dejected aad the lowest down vassals of perdition Aud Martin Luther so far forgot him self as to say in regard to his theolog ical opponents, “Put them in whatever sauce you please, roasted, or fried, or baked, or stewed, or hoiick, or hushed, they are nothing Thtpt asses.” Ah, my friends, if John Milton or Martin Lu ther could come dawn to such scurrility what may you uoV expect from less ele vated opponents? Now, sometimes tin- world takes after them; the newspapers take after them; public opinion takes alter them, and the unfortunate man is lied about miti-Lriill the dictionary of Billingsgate is exhausted ou him. You often see a man whom you know to b» good and pure and honest set upon by the world and mfhflcd by whole com inanities, while vicious men take cu a supercilious air in ftuidcmnaticn of him, as though Lord Jeffreys should write an essay on gcntleirees or Henry VIII talk about purity or King Herod take to blessing little children. An Inspiration. Now, a certain amount of persecution rouses a man’s defiance, stirs his blood for magnificent battle and makes him 50 times more a man than be would have been without the persecution. S4m it was with the great reformer when h ■ said, “I will not hb put down; I will be heard. ” And so it was with Millard, the preacher, in the time of Louis XI When Louis XI sent word to him that unless he stopped preaching in that style he would throw him into the river, ho replied, “Tell tho king that I will reach heaven Booner Ijy water than he will reach it by fast horses. ” A cer tain amount of persecution is a tonic and inspiration, but too much of it and too long ccutiuue4. becomes the rock Bozeg tlirowing a <Wk Rhadow over a man’s life. WhaVrs he to do, then ? Go homo, you say. Good advice that. That is just the plaoe for a man to go when the world abuses bim. Go Home. Blessed be God for our quiet and sympathetic homes! But there is many a man who has tho reputation of having a home when ho has none. Through unthiuk- ingnesa or precipitation there are many matches made that ought never to have been made. An officiating priest cannot alone unite a couple. The Lord Al mighty must proclaim banns. There are many homes in which there is no sym pathy and no happiness and no good cheer. The clamor of the buttle may not have been heard outside, bat God knows, notbwithstundiug all tho play ing of the “Weddiug March,” and all the odor of the orange blossoms. r*:d the benediction of the officiating pastor, there has been no marriage. So some times men have awakened to find ou one side of them the rock of persecu tion and on the other side of them the rock of domtxdio infelicity. What Khali such a one do? Do as Jonathan did— climb. Get np the heights of God’s con- soiafion, from which yon may look down in triumph upon outside persecu tion and homo trouble. While good and great John Wesley was being silenced by the magistrates and having his name written ou the board feneep of London in doffucrol. at that very time his wife was making bim os miserable as sfcui I cor.ld. acting as though nhe were paw- ' sessed by the devil, as I suppose she was, never doiifg him a kindness until | the day she run away, so that he wrote j in hid diary these words; “I did not forsake her; I have not dismissed her; | I will not recall her.” Planting oix- foot upon outside persecution and the ' other foot ou home trouble, John Wes- I l?y climbed up into tho heights of j Christian joy. nisi, after preaching 40,- , 000 sermons and traveling 370, OOo i miles, reached tho heights of heaven, \ though in this world he had it hard | enough—“a sharp rock on tho one side and a sharp rock ou the other.” Glorious Promiso. Again, that woman stands in the cri- | sis of the text who 1ms bereavement and i a struggle for a livelihood at the same time. Without mentioning names I { speak from observation. Ah, it is a hard thing for a woman to make an honest living, even when her heart is not troubled and she has a fair obeek and the magnetism of an exquisite pres ence. But now the husband or the fa ther is dead. The expenses of the obse quies have absorbed all that was left iu the savings bank, and, wan and wasted with weeping and watching, she goes forth—a grave, a beano, a coffin behind her—to contend for her existence and the oxistence of her children. When I see such a battle as that open, I shud der at the ghastliness of the spectacle. Men sit with embroidered slippers nud write heartless essays about women's wages, but that question is made up of tears and blood, aud tliereis more blood than tears. Oh, give woman free access to all the realms where she can get a livelihood, from the telegraph office to the palpit Let men’s wages be oat down before hers are cut down. Men have iron in their souls aud can stand it Make the way free to her of the broken heart. May God put into my hand the odd, bitter cup of privation and give me nothing but a windowings hut for shelter for many years rather than that after I am dead there should go out from my home into the pitiless world a woman’s arm to fight the Get tysburg, the Austerlitz, the Waterloo of life for bread. And yet how mnny women there are seated between the rock of bereavement on the one Ride and the rock of destitution chi the oth er. Bozez and Seneh interlocking their shadows and dropping them upon her miserable way. “There Is a sharp rock on the one side, and a sharp rock on the other side.” What are such to do? Somehow let them climb up into the heights of tho glorious promise, “Leave thy fatherless children, I will preserve them alive and let thy widows trust in me. ” Or get up into the heights of that other glorious promise, "The Lord preserveth the stranger and relieveth' the widow and the fatherless. ” Oh, ye sowing women, on starving wages! Oh, ye widows, turned out from the once beautiful home! Oh, ye female teachers, kept on niggardly stipend! Oh, ye despairing women, seeking in vain for work, wan dering along the docks and thinking to throw yourselves into the river last night I Oh, ye women of weak nerves, ami aching sides, and short breath, and broken heart, yon need something more than human sympathy, you need the sympathy of God. Climb up into his arms. Ho knows it all, and he loves yon more than father or mother or hus band ever could or ever did, aud instead of sitting down, wringing your bands in despair, you had bettor begin to climb. There are heights of consolation for you, though now ‘'there is a sharp rock on one side, and a sharp rock ou the other side.” An Invitation. Again, that man is in the crisis of tho text who has a wasted life on the one side and an unilluminated eternity on the other. Though a man may ali his life have cultured dehleration and self poise, if bo gets “.to that position, all his self possession is gone. There are all the wrong thoughts of his exist ence, all tire wrong deeds, all ti\o wrong words—strata above strata, granitic, ponderous, overshadowing. That rock i call Bozez. Ou the other side are all tho retributions of the future, the thrones of judgment, the eternal ages, angry with his long defiance. That rock I call Seneh Between these two rocks 10,000 times 10,000 have per ished. O man immortal, man redeemed, man blood bought, climb up out of those shadows I Climb op by the way of the cross. Have your wasted life for given ; have your eternal life secured. This hoar jnet take one look to the past and see what it has been, and take ouo look to the future aud see what it threatens to be. You can afford to lose your health, you can afford to lose your property, you can afford to lose your reputation, but yon cannot afford to lose your soul. That bright, gleaming, glori ous, precious, eternal possession you must carry aloft in tbc day when the earth burns up aud the heavens burst. You see from my subject that when a man gets into the safety and peace of the gospel he does not demean himself. There is nothing in religion that leads to meanness or nnnxuiliiHtss. Tho gos pel of Jesus Christ only asks yon to climb as Jonathan did—climb toward God, climb toward heaven, climb into the sunshine of God’s favor. To become a Christian is not to go meanly down; it is to come gloriously up—up into tho communion of saints; up into the peace that posseth ali understanding; up into tho companionship of angels. Hu lives upward; he dies upward. Oh, then, accept the wholesale invi tation which 1 make this day to all the people 1 Come up from between your invalidism and financial embarrass ments. Come up from between your bereavement* and your destitution. Come up from between a wasted life and an unillumined eternity. Like Jou- athan, climb up with all your might, instead of sitting down to wring your bends in tire shadow and in the dark ness—“a sharp rock on the one side and a sharp rock ou the other side. ” ALLIGATORS AT PLAY. 1 now the t/Ngalniy Cr*<»tnrv» Conduct a Game of Did you ever see the zoo alligators play pyramid or any other of their famous games? They wrestle like old tiuie Greco-Roman boys aud strain and struggle in all sorts of ways at it. When finally one wins by getting the other ou his hack, a funnier thing oc- rurs. Tho vie tor makes a sound like es caping steam, then the others make sounds like escaping steam—alligators’ applause, if you please. Then they all become still and watch tho vanquished brother squirm to get off of his hack and on to his legs again. If he's longer iu doing it than the gang think is prop er, they move up in single file aud give him a jab with their jaw in his up turned belly. When finally he gets him self righted, all hands again set up the steam escaping racket, cheering him long and as loud as they did his victor. Their meaning no fight is shown by their never hurting each other. Another of the great midsummer pastimes of these zoo alligators is play ing pyramid. The gators play pyramid several times a day. To see it done you’d declare that the ugly things had been trained to it. But no. It’s just oue of the ways of the sporty side ol their life. The game comes on by one of the bigger alligators uttering the steam hissing noise. This calls tho oth ers to attention. Then the big oue says a lino or two of alligator talk and stretches himself full length in the oeu- ter of the pen. No sooner is this done than a little bit smaller alligator crawls on top of the other and stretches out length wise, but head to tail with the other. The second oue beiug settled, he lets off a little steam talk, and a third, a little smaller alligator, climbs up on top of the second aud settles down as tho second did. They keep this up un til six or seven have builded themselves into as strange and wonderful a pyra mid na ever an eye beheld. After each one has settled on top of the other be lies perfectly motionless, so that when the pyramid is completed it appears as some marvelous carving. But this effect lasts only about two minutes after the pyramid is finished. Then comes a new chapter of the act. The Saudow ’gator underneath all starts to crawling. He heads for np and down places in the pen, the game clearly be ing to sec how long it will take him to jolt his strange pyramid load to pieces. And right, here develops what appears to be a strict rule of the game. Hav there are seven in the pyramid, and the sixth from the bottom jostles off first, taking, of course, the seventh one with him. You'd naturally thiuk the game done for that sixth and seventh alliga tor. But not at all. It seems that the sixth oue is in disgrace for having boon shaken off before the seventh ouo, who was top of the heap. Therefore, whst does the seventh do but cling to tho back of the feixth after they’ve fallen off and proceeds to ride Mr. Alligator No. 0 arounr the pen until Mr. Sandow Alligator has succeeded in damping the whole shooting match. If the fourth is shaken off before the fifth, the fifth, like the seventh, proceeds to ride his disgraced “next” until Sandow gets rid of all iiis loud, and another game is started.—Cincinnati Enquirer. Made the .Paper Pay. Papa Cobb, the old Harvard athlete, who returned from Dawson on. tho Roanoke with a big hng of gold, tells the following story about patriotism for tho stars aud stripes at Dawson: “One day a man showed up in camp with a single copy of a newspaper con taining the first account of Dewey’s victory at Manila. This single paper was the first intimation we had of the great things our navy had been doing, and it was sought after more eagerly than gold. “An enterprising Yankee purchased it for $10 and then hired Tammany hall for tho evening. He charged 50 cents and packed ; ie hall. He read tho paper to the crowd, and after every sentence there was a regular warwhooie It made the walls of the building tremble. The success of tho venture was so pronounc ed that he rented the hall for the next night aud reaped another harvest. He made $400 off that one newspaper aud sold it to a minor who was going into tho diggings for $50.”—Seattle Post- Intelligencer. Every Ballet Its Ovru Doctor* In spite of the terrible increase in the destructiveness of modern warfare the tendency of the times ii to make a con flict as humane as ]>rMcticable. For tbi? reason the use of copper covered bullets has been frowned upon, and a Philadel phia physician has a plan that he claims will wonderfully mitigate tho suffering of a man whose body has been perforat ed by the modem small caliber bullet It is well established that the velocity and penetrating force of these bullet- are uo great that unless they chance to strike a bone they will pass entirely through a man's body without his know ing it. The physician’s idea is to attach a small wad of uuiscptic cotton to the rear of the bullet. This would be cover ed by the shell of the cartridge and could not interfere with loading or fir ing. As tho bullet passes through a per son the wad will autisepticize tho wound and prevent consequent suppuration. It may bo possible to so nicely adjust the adhesion of tho wad to the bullet that as tho missile passes out it will leave the wad to plug the hole aud stop bleed ing. Ultimately this system might do away with the necessity of a large med ical corps, as each bullet would carry medical treatment for the unfortunate it wounded.—Philadelphia Keoord. Troth and Fiction. "Struwwelpeter, ” oue of the pic tures, represents a little maiden, supine iu bed, very ill—aud no wouder—with an immense cherry tree growing out of her mouth. This was the sad result of swallowing the stones along with the fruit, in spite of all warnings. But we all know that trnth is stranger than fiction, and the Petersburgskaya Gazeta of June 26 aud July 6, 1S97, quotes the following exemplificatiou of this saying from the foreign papers: “A little girl 7 years of age, Amelia L., whose father worked at the sawmills in Belgard (Ain), was at play the other day, when she managed to push the seed of a plane tree deep into her ear Shortly after she began to experience acute pains, and it was found that the seed had taken root iu the waxy secre tions of the ear and was growing apace The father proceeded to cautiously up root the intrusive plant, aud the girl has now recovered.” If this story is true, it is to be hoped that Miss Amelia L , now’ that her ear Is ouce more free and in working order, will incline it to hearken to the exhorta tions of her elders end will not go on planting plauB^trccs iu such obviously uncongenial soil.—Notes aud Queries. Position In Society. To all those who spend their time Wondering how’ other people live we would suggest that an examination of the plaintiff’s petition in the case ot Schneider versus Hosier, 21 Ohio St !)S, might throw some light on the sub ject. It was a suit under a civil damage act, and tho plaiutitf alleged in her pe tition that she “was the wife of one Zimri Hosier, on whose good conduct, frugality aud personal labor she was dependent for the support of herself and their seven minor children, for the proper culture and moral training of the latter, aud, to a good extent, for her own position in society. The said Zimri Hosier, when not intoxicated or laboring under the effects of intoxica tion, was an industrious laboring man aud regularly earned and received for his labor $1.50 a day. ” There’s man agement for you. Seven children and a wife supported, the children properly cultured and morally trained aud tho wife’s position in society maintained— all ou $1.50 a day. Perhaps there may have been extenuating circumstances iu the intoxication of Zimri.—Law Notes. Corn Oil. Some of tho manufacturers of glucose iu Chicago have turned their attention to the production of com oil, an article extracted by pressure from the germ of the grain by a method similar to that used in the manufacture of linseed oil, leaving a residuum not unlike in its character the oil cake of commerce'. It seems that in the production of glnooeo it was a matter of uecoesity first to ex tract tho germ, this, for a long time, involving a waste. As against this, a company now turns out some 850 barrels of corn oil per day. Most of the oil goes to England for soapmakiug. It is shipped in seoandhaud oil barrels, each of a weight, when filled, of 400 pounds, rated at the facton’ at 8 cents per pound. Some of the oil is used iu this country principally in mixing cheap paint and for adulterating linseed oil. It is regarded as a rapid “drying” oil. A Dug Full of Rrrfttli. The “pneumatopbor, ” nu Austrian invention for enabling miners, firemen, etc., to breathe when surrounded by after damp, smoke or noxious fumes of any kind, consists of an airtight rubber bag contaiuiug a steel bottle of pure oxygen at a pressure of 100 liters aud a metal protected glass bottle containing a 25 per cent*solution uf caustic soda. Tho oxygen can be admitted by a hand screw into the bag and drawn into the mouth through a rubber tube, the nose beiug closed by a clip. The turn of an other hand screw breaks the glass bottle, allowing the caustic soda to fiow out and be absorbed by a knitted network iu the bag to absorb the carbonic acid exhaled, allowing the oxygen to be re breathed, the apparatus beiug capable of furnishing oxygen enough to last from 80 to 00 minutes, as has been at tested by numerous experiments. Hobson im a Kicker. “Lieutenant Hobson,” says Today of London, “whose sinking of the Merri- mac before Santiago has made him fa mous, was at one time a resident iu Paris, and was among the first to join the White Rovers’ Football club, who pioneered the association game into France. W. H. Sheator, who was oue of the founders, and who gave me this little bit of information, did not speak very highly of Hobson’s play. He re marked: ‘HohMoo always played as though he did nut know on which side he was on. He kicked all over the place, and among the most celebrated of these kicks was one that pnt a prom inent member of our club to bed for six weeks. ’ ” FGut-Smellitig Catarrh, Catarrh L one of the most olistinnt® diseases, and hence the most di|Hcult to get rid of. There is but one way to it. The disease «s in the blood, and all tho sprays, washes and inhaling mixtures in the world cun have no permanent effect whatever up< u it. Swift’s Spe cific cures Catarrh permanently, for it is the only remedy which can reach the disonse and force it from the blood. Mr. B. P. McAllister, of Harrodsburg, Ky., hud Catarrh for years. He writes: •■I could sso no improvt merit Vbntever, though I was constantly tresteri with spray* and trashes, and diflsB ont inhaling r»in- dies— in fact. 1 C9uld feel that each winter I \vr4 wors* than the year previous Jly Arithmetic and Medicine. It is an honest quackery that confesses its own blunders, still ignorant that they are nothing worse. A whaling skipper, in the old days, carried a medicine chest aud a table of directions. One of tho rules ran, “For sore throat with fever, give a table- spoonful of No. 15.” “Well, it so happened,’’ explained the captain, “that No. 15 was all used up, so 1 gave the man a dessertspoonful of No. 5 and another of No. ID, aud 1 don’t thiuk the chap that drew up tho table coaid have been good at figures; or else, what’s just as likely, the medicines were all shams. Either way, it was bard on poor Bill. He died in half an honr, with a dreadful pain in his inside. ”—Exchange. Look! A Stitch in Time Saves nine. Huglies’Tonic (new Improved, tase pleasant), iitkcn in early Sprint; and Fall prevents Chills. Dengue and Malarial Fevers. Acts on the liver, tones up the sys tem. Better than quinine. Guaranteed. Try it. At Druggists. IxK; and Jl.Ou bottles. Ruy your sneetaeles in Spartan burg fron II. K Goodell, scleiilltic optician. Exami nations of tilt) eye free. - *- - —— An Uncertain Disease. Th.’re is no disease more unoertnih in its nature than dyspepsia. Physicians say that ihc symptoms of no two cases agree. It is there .ere most difficult lo make a comet oiagnosis. No matter fcow severe, or under wiu-.t iuisedyspepsia attack- you. Brown.,’ Iron Bitters will cure it. Invaluable in s!l diseases of the stomach, blood and nerves. Browns’ Iron Bitters is sold by ali dealers. •Final It w a I brough t to my n o t i c < tliat Catarrh was a blood dtsf-ow. and nfter think ing over the matter. 1 saw it wasunrearonabl* to expect to be cured bj remedies which on!* reached the Hurfaee. I “then decided to try B. 8. S', and after a lew bottle, were used. I no ticed a perceptible improvement. Continuing the remedy, the disease was forced out of mj Bystem, and a complete cure was the result l udvijte til who have this dreadful disease to abandon their local treatment, which has nevei done them any good, and take 8. 8. 8., a rem edy that van reach the disease and cuse it.” To continue the wrong treatment fol Catarrh is to continue to suffer. Swift’s Specific is a real blood remedy, and cures obstinate, deep-seated diseases, which other remedies have no effect whatever upon. It promptly reaches Catarrh, and never fails to cure even the most aggravated rases. S.S.S. r fh,Blood is Purely Vegetable, and is the only mood remedy guaranteed to contain no dangerous minerals. ' Books mailed free by Swift > S{fbciflo Company, Atlanta, Georgia. FORMAN - UNIVERSITY, GREENVILLE, S. G. Thorough courses leading to the degrees of B. Lit.. Ii. S.. B. A., and M. A. The Faculty has been enlarged. Especial attention to English. Elocution, and Pedagogics. New courses in Biology, History. Latiu. Modem Languages, and physics. A new Graduate Department. Early application forroojns in the Mess Halls should be made to Prof. B. E. GEER, Secretary of the Faculty, (♦t-sar’s Head, S. ('. Add ress A P MONTAGUE, 7-21-^’mo Greenville, 5- C. Piedmont Saving and Investment Go. Greenville, S. C. i^oiytvs;. The loan plan of this company will bo found far moi e desiivuliie in ei cry w ay )lian the plans of Ituil liug A. Loans Associations. Our plan is a definite contract .-it reason,a hie rates. Loans made an approved prop ri v. J. V. .Iki- i ritits. Local Attorney. Gatfnoy. S. (’. CLINE BROS. & CO., Liverv Feed and Sale Stables, Opposite National Ea/Uc. First-class turn-silts: prompt attention; and courteous attendants. iaerw e solicit your patronage. THOMPSON & WARREN, Blacksmithing and Repairing, Horseshoeing a Specialty. Shops and office on Rut lodge Street. F.irst- c’.ass work at living prices. The Peari Steam Leiimlre Is operating on fail t ime and turning out first-class work. Remember us n heu you want work done. We will call foryour package. We also have in operation A First-Glass Grist Mill. We respectfully solicit your pntrejiag; and ask the people out of town to bring tin ircorn along when they come in toon tln-ir shopping. 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