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THE LEDGER: GAFFNEY. S. C„ OCTOBER U, i8J>8. ^ HUNTED ROEBUCK. REV. DR. TALMAGE DRAWS A LESSON FROM THE CHASE. Sinn Ik I.iWe tlie Karl Klerlngtr From llur Dauw—1‘urKiiftI by Sla. lie kinds Safety and Refreshment In the Wa ter* of Kternal Life. [Copyright. U.9S, by American Press Asso ciation.] Washington. Oct. 2.—Dr. Talmapo. drawiuK his illnstratious from a deer hunt, iu this discourse calls all the pai- sued and troubled of the earth to come and slake their thirst at the deed river of divine comfort; text, Psalms xlii, 1, “As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God.” David, who must some time have seen a deer hunt, points us hero to a hunted stag making for the water. The fasci nating animal called iu my text the hurt is the same animal that in sacred and profane litemture is called the stag, the r^tmek, the hind, the gazelle, the rein deer. In central iSyria, in Bible times, # here werevi hrle pasture fields of them, fas Soloni^flU" Suggests when he says, “I 'charge y^L. by the hinds of the field.” Their antlers jutted from the long grass as they lay down. No hunter who has been long in “John Brown’s tract” will wonder that in the Bible they were classed among clean animals, for the dews, the showers, the lakes, w’ashed them as clean as the sky. When Isaac the patriarch longed for venison, Esau shot and brought home a roebuck. Isaiah compares the sprightliness of the re stored cripple of millennial times to the [eng and quick jump of the stag, say- /ng, “The lame shall leap as the hart.” Solomon expressed his disgust at a hunt er who, having shot a deer, is top lazy to cook it, saying, “The slothful man roasteth not that which ho took i« hunting.” But one day David, while far from the home from which ho had been driven, and sitting near the month *»f a lonely cave where he had lodged, and on the banks of a pond or river, hears a pack of hounds in swift pursuit. Because of the previous silence of the forest the clangor startles him, and he says to himself, “I wonder what those dogs are after.” Then there is a crackling iu the brushwood, and the loud breathing of some rushing wonder of the woods, and the untiers of a deer rend the leavas of the thicket and by an instinct which all hunters recognize the creature plunges into a pool or lake or river to cool its thirst and at the same time by its capacity for swifter and longer swimming to get away from the foam ing harriers. David says to himself: “Aha, that is myself! Saul after me, Absalom after me, enemies without number after mo; I am chased; their bloody muzzles at my heels, barking at my good name, barking after my body, barking after my soul. Oh, the hounds, the hounds 1 But look there,” says Da vid to himself; “that reindeer has splashed into the water. It puts its hot lips and nostrils into the cool wave that washes its lathered flunks and it swims away from the fiery canines and it is free at last. Oh, that I might find iu the deep, wide lake of God’s mercy and consolation escape from my pursuers! Oh, for the waters of life and rescue) ‘As the hurt panteth after tbq water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God.’ ” . The Uiltle True to Xntnro. The Adironducks are now populous with hunters, and the deer are being slain by the score. Talking one summer with a hunter, I thought I would like to see whether my text was accurate iu its allusion, and as I heard the dogs hay ing a little way off and supposed they were tin the track of a deer, I said to one of tho hunters iu rough corduroy, “Do tho deer always make for water when they are pursued?” He said: “Oh, yes, mister, ton see they are a ho» and thirsty animal, and they know where the water is, and when they hear dan ger in the distance they lift their ant lers and sniff the breeze and start for tho Ituquet or Loon or Saranac, aud wo get into oar uedur shell boat or stand by the ‘runaway’ with riflo loaded aud ready to blazo away. ” My friends, that is one reason why I like the Bible so much—its allusions are so true to nature. Its partridges aio real partridges, its ostriches teal ostrich es and its reindeer real reindeer. I do not wonder that this antlered glory of the text makes tho hunter’s eye sparkle aud liis cheek glow and his respiration quicken. To say nothing of its useful ness, although it is the most useful of all game, its flesh delicious, its skin turned into human apparel, its sinews fashioned into bowstrings, its antlers patting handles on cutlery and the shavings of its horn used as a pungent restorative, tho namo taken from tho hart and culled hartshorn. Bnt putting aside its usefulness, this enchanting creature sdemsmade out of gracefulness and elasticity. What an eye, with a liq uid brightness as if gathered up from a hundred lakes at sunset I The horns, a coronal branching into every possible curve, and after it seems complete as cending into other projections of ox- qnisiteness, a tree of polished bone, up lifted iu pride or swung down for awful combat. The hart is velocity embodied; timidity impersonated; tho enchant ment of tho woods. Its eye lustrous in life and pathetic in death. The splendid animal a complete rhythm of mnscla ami bone and color and attitude aud locomotion whether couched iu the grass among the shadows or a living bolt shot through tho forest, or turning at bay to attack tho hounds, or rearing for its last fall under the buckshot of the trap per. It is a splendid appearance that the painter’s pencil fails to sketch, and only a buutor’s dream on a pillow of hemlock at the foot of St. Regis is able to picture. When 20 miles from any set tlement it comes down at eventide to tf? lake’s edge to drink among the lily pods and with its sharp edged hoof shat ters the crystal of Long lake it is very picturesque. But only when after miles of puKcit, with heaving sides and loll ing tuugue and eyes swimming in death the sierg leaps from the cliff into upper Saranac can yod realize how much David had suffered from lus troubles aud how much be wanted God when he expressed himself in tho words of the text, “As the hart panteth after tho wa ter brooks, so panteth my soul after Vht^ %ii God.” Like a Derr at Hay. Well, now, let all those who have ©nuing after them the lean hounds of poverty, or the black hounds of persecu tion. or the spotted hounds of vicissi tude, or the pale hounds of death, or who are in anywise pursued, run to the wide, deep, glorious lake of divino solace aud rescue. The most of the men and women whom I happened to know at different timea, if not now, have had trouble after them, sharp muzzled trou bles, swift troubles, ail devouring trou bles. Many of you have made the mis take of trying to fight them. Somebody meanly attacked yon, and you attacked them; they depreciated yon, yon de preciated them, or they overreached you in a bargain, aud yon tried, iu YVull street parlance to get a corner on them, or yon have had a bereavement, aud instead of being submissive you are fighting that bereavement. You charge on the doctors who failed to effect a cure, or you charge on the carelessness of the railroad company through which tho accident occurred, or you are a ctorouio invalid, aud yon fret and wor ry and scold and wonder why you can not be well like other people, and you angrily blame the neuralgia, or the lar yngitis, or the ague, or the sick hmd- ache. • The fact is you are a deer at bay. Instead of running to the waters of di vine consolation aud slaking your thirst and cooling your body and soul in the good cheer of the gospel and swimming away into the mighty deeps of God’s love you are fighting a whole kennel of harriers. N I saw iu the Adirondack® a dog lying across tho road, anti he seemed unable to get up, and I said to some hunters near by, “What is tho matter with that dog.’” They answered, “A deer hurt him. ” And I saw ho had n great, swollen paw and a battered head, show ing where the antlers struck him. And tho probability is that some of you might give a mighty clip to your pur suers, you might damage their business, you might worry them into ill health, you nii^ht hurt them as much as they have hurt you, but after all it is not worth while. You only have hurt a hound. Better ho off for tho upper Sar anac, into which the monutainsof God’s eternal strength look down and moor their shallows. As for your physical dis orders, tho worst strychnine you can take is freti'ulness, and the best medi cine is religion. I know people who were only a littl# disordered, yet have fretted themselves vote complete valetudinarianism, while others put their trnst in God aud come up from the very shadow of death aud have lived comfortably 25 years with only tiiiu long. A man with one lung, but God with him, is better off than a godless man with two lungs. Some of you have been for a long time sailing around Cape Fear when you ought to have been sailing arounti Capo Good Hope. I>) not turn back, hut go ahead. The fleei will accomplish more with its swift iw/than with its horns. XVntrrM of Comfort. 1 saw w hole chains of lakes in the Adirondacks, and from one height you can see >H, and there arts said to be over 800 in tho groat wilderness of New York. So near are they to each other that your mountain guide picks up and carries the boat from lake to Jake, the email distance between them for that reason nailed a “carry.” And the realm of God’s word is <me long chain of bright, refreshing lakes, each promise a Ixke, a very short carry between them, aud though for ages tho pursued have been drinking out of them they are full up tw the top of the green hanks, aud the same David describes them, and thev seem so near together that in three different places ho speaks of them as a continuous river, saying, “There is a river the streams whereof shall make glad the city of God:’’ “Thou shalt imrke thorn drink of tho rivers of thy pleasures;” “Thou greatly enrichest it wirb the river of God, which is full of water. ” But many cf yon have turned your back on that supply and confront your trouble, aud you are soured with your circumstances, and you are fighting so ciety, aud you are fighting a pursuing world, ayd troubles, instead of driving you info the cool lake of heavenly com- fiTrt, have made you stop aud turn around and lower your head, and it is umiply uiptler against tooth. I do not blame you. Probably under the same circumstances 1 would have done worse. But you are all wrong. You need to do as the reindeer does in February aud March—it sheds its horns. The rabbin ical writers allude to this resignation of antlers by the stag when they say of a man who ventures bis money in risky en terprises, “He has hung it on the stag’s horns, "and a proverb in the far east tells a man who has foolishly lost his fortune to go and find where the deer sheds her horns. My brother, quit the antagonism of your circumstances, quit misauthrophy, quit complaint, quit pitching into your pursuers, he as wise as next spring will tie all the deer of tho Adirondacks. Shed your horns. The HedtM-iner'M llewnrd. But very many of you who are wronged of the world—and if iu any assembly between here and Golden Gate, Sun Francisco, it were asked that all those that had bueu sometimes badly treated should raise both their bunds aud full response should be made, (hero would be twice as many bands lifted as persons present—I say many of you would declare, “Wo have always done t)» best wo could and tried to be useful, and why we should become the victims of muligmueut or invalidism or mishap, is inscrutable.” Why, do you know the finer a deer and the more elegant its proportions, aud tho more beautiful its bearing, the more anxious the hunt ers and the hounds are to capture it? Had the roebuck a ragged fur aud broken hoofs aud an obliterated eye aud a limping gait the hunters would have said, “Pshaw, don’t let us waste our ammnnition ou a sick deer.” And the hounds would have given a few sniffs of the scent aud then darted off in nn- cdher direction for better game. But when they see a deer w ith antlers lifted in mighty challenge to earth aud sky, aud the sleek hide looks as if it had been smoothod by invisible hands, aud tho fat sides inclose the richest pasture that could be nibbled from the banks of rills so clear they seem to have dropped oat of heaven, and the stamp of its foot defies the jack shooting lantern and the rifle, the horn and the hound, that deer they will have if they must needs break their necks in the rapids. So if there were no noble stuff in yonr make up, if you were a bifurcated nothing, if you were a forlorn failure, you would be allowed to go undisturbed, but the fact that the whole pack is in full cry after yon is proof positive that you are splen did game and worth capturing. There fore sarcasm draws on you its “finest bead.” Therefore the world goes gun ning for you with its best Maynard breechloader. Highest compliment is it to your talent or your virtue or your usefulness. You will be assailed in pro- portiou to your great achievements. The best and the mightiest lieiug the world ever saw had set after him all the hounds, terrestrial and diabolic, and they lapped his blood after the Calva- rean massacre. The world paid nothing to its Redeemer but a bramble, four spikes and a ckss. Many who have done their best to make tho world better have had such a rough time of it that all their pleasure is iu anticipation of the next world, and they could express their own feelings in the words of the Baroness of Nairn at the close of her long life, when asked if she would like to live her life over again: Would you bo young again? So would not I; One tear of memory given, Onward I’ll hie; Life's dark wave forded o’er. All but at rest on shore. Say, would you plunge once more, With home so nigh? If you might, would you now Retrace your way? Wander through stormy wilds. Faint and astray? Night's gloomy watches fled, Morning all beaming red. Hope's smile around us shed, Heavenward, away! Master »f the Hounds. Yes, for some people in this world there seems no let up. They aio pursued from youth to manhood aud from man hood into old age. Very distinguished are Lord Stafford’s bounds, the Earl of Yarborough’s hounds and the Duke of Rutland’s hounds, and Qncen Victoria pays $8,500 a year to her master of bnckhounds. Bnt all of them put togeth er flo not equal in number or speed or power to hunt down the great kennel of hounds of which sin and trouble aie owner and master. But what is a relief for all this pur suit of trouble and annoyance and pain and bereavement? My text gives it to you in a word of three letters, but each letter isachariot if you would triumph, or a throne if you want to be crowned, or a lake if you would slake yonr thirst —yes, a chain of three lakes—G-O-D, tho one for whom David longed, aud the one whom David found. You might us well meet a stag which after ite sixth mile of ruuniug at the tapmost speed through thicket and gorge, and with the breath of the dogs ou its heels, has come in full sight of Scroon lake, and try to cool its projecting and blistered tongue with a dcop of dew from a blade of grass as to attempt to satisfy an immor tal soul wheu flying from trouble aud sin with anything less deep and high aud broad aud immense and infinite aud eternal than God. His comfort—why, it embosoms all distress. His arm, it wrenches off all bondage. His hand, it wipes away all tears. Ills Chxistly atonement, it makes us all right with the past and all right with tho future, all right with God aud all sight with man aud all right forever. Lamartine tells us that King Nimrod said to his three sous: “Here are three vases, aud one is of clay, another of umber aud another of gold. Choose now which you will have.” The eldest son, having first choice, chose tho vase of gold, on which was written the word “Empire," aud when opened it was found to contain human blood. The second son, making tho next choice, chose the vase oi am ber, inscribed with the word “Glory,” and when opened it contained the ashes of those who were once culled great. Tho third sou took the vase of clay, and, opening it, found it empty, hut ou the bottom of it was inscribed tho name of God. King Nimrod asked his courtiers which vase they thought weighed the most. The avaricious men of his court said tho vaso of gold. Thu poets said the one of umber, but the wisest men said the empty vase, because one letter of the name of God outweighed a universe, liod’a Promise. For him I thirst, for bis grace I beg, ou his promise I build my all. Without him I caurot be happy. I have tried the world, aud it does well enough as far as it goes, but it is too uncertain a world, too evanescent a world. I am not u prejudiced witness. I have noth ing against this world. I have been one of the most fortunate, or, to use a more Christian word, one of the most blessed of men—blessed in my parents, blessed iu the place of my nativity, blessed in my health, blessed iu my field of work, blessed in my natural temperament, blessed iu my family, blessed iu my op portunities, blessed in a comfortable livelihood, blessed iu the hope that my soul will go to heaven through tho par doning mercy of God, and my body, un less it be lost at sea or cremated in some conflagration, will lie down in the gar dens of Greenwood among my kindred and friends, some already gone aud oth ers to come after me. Life to n any has boon a disappointment, but to me it has been a pleasant surprise, aud yet I de- j clare that if I did not feci that God was | now my friend and ever present help I ; should be wretched and terror stricken, j But I want more of him. I have thought over this text aud preached this sermoa i to myself until with all the aroused energies of my body, mind and srinl I can cry out. “As the hart panteth after tho water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God.” Through Jesns Christ make thw God your God. aud you can withstand any thing and everything, and that which affrights others will inspire you. As in 1 time of an earthquake wheu an old 1 Christian woman was asked whether she was scared, answered, “No, I i\ui 1 g.ad that I have a God who can shake 1 the world.” or, as in a financial pania, ; when a Christian merchant was asked if he did not fear he would break, an- I swered: “Yes, I shall break when the Fiftieth Psalm breaks in the fifteenth : verse, ‘Call upon me in the day of trou ble; I will deliver thee and thou shalt glorify me.Oh, Christum men aud women, pursued of aunov^ict s and ex- 1 asperatious, remember that this hunt, whether a still hunt or u hunt iu full | cry, will soon he over. If ever a whelp | looks ashamed and ready to slink out of j sight, it is when in the Adirondacks a deer by one tremendous plunge into Big j Tapper lake gets away from him. The disappointed canine swims iu a little j way, hut, defeated, swims out again ! and cringes with humiliated yawn at i the feet of his master. Aud how abashed : and ashamed will all yonr earthly tron- , hies he when yon have dashed into the i river frem under the throne of God. and | the heights aud depths of heaven are 1 between you and your pursuers. The Eternal IlrookH. We are told in Revelation xxii, 15, I “ Without are dogs, ” by which I con- [ elude there is a whole kennel of hounds j outside the gate of heaven, or, as when a master goes in through a door his dog lies on tlie steps waiting for him to come out, so the troubles of this life may follow us to the shining door, but they cannot get in. “Without are dogs!” I have seen dogs aud owned dogs that I would not be chagrined to see iu the heavenly city. Sotne of tho grand old watchdogs who are the constabulary of tho homes in solitary places and for years have been tho only protection for wife aud child, some of the shepherd dogs that drive back the wolves and bark away tho flocks from going too near tho precipice, and some of the dogs whose necks and paws Landseer, the painter, has made immortal, would not find me shutting them out from the gate of shining pearl. Some of those old St. Bernard dogs that have lifted perishing travelers out of the Alpine snow, the dog that John Brown, the Scotch essay ist, saw ready to spring at tbo surgeon lest in removing the cancer he too much hurt the poor woman whom the dog felt bound to protect, and dogs that we ca ressed in our childhood days or that in later time lay down ou the rug in seem ing sympathy when our homes were desolated. I say, if some soul entering heaven should happen to leave tho gate ajar and these faithful ereatures should quietly walk in it would nut at all dis turb my heaven. But all those human or brutal hounds that have chased and torn aud lacerated tho world—yea, all that now bite or worry or tear to pieces —shall be prohibited. “Without are dogs!” No place there for harsh critics or backbiters or despoilers of the reputa tions of others. Down with you to the kennels of darkness aud despair! The hart has reached the eternal water brooks, and the panting of the long chase is quieted in still pastures and “there shall nothing hurt or destroy in all God’s holy mountain.” Ob, when some of you get there, it will be like what a hunter tolls of when pushing his canoe far up north in the winter and amid the ice floes and 100 miles, as he thought, from any other human beings! He was startled one day as he heard a stepping on tho ice, and ha cocked tho rifle, ready to meet any thing that tame near. He found u man, barefooted and insane from long expo sure, approaching him. Taking him into his canoe aud kindling fires to warm him, he restored him and found out where he had lived and took him to his homo aud found all the village iu great excitement. A hundred men were searching for this lost man, aud his family and friends rushed out to meet him, and, as had been agreed at his first appearance, bells were rung aud guns were fired and banquets spread and the rescuer loaded with presents. Well, when some of you stop out of this wilderness, where you have been chilled aud torn and sometimes lost amid the icebergs, into the warm greetings of all the villages of the glorified and your friends nUib out to give you welcoming kiss, the news that there is another soul forever saved will call the caterers of heaven to spread the banquet and the bollme.1 to lay hold of tho rope iu the tower, and while tho chalices click at the feast and the bells clang from the turrets it will be a scene so uplifting I pray God I may bo there to tqko part in the celestial merriment “Until the day break and the shadows flee away be thou like a roe or a youug hart upon the mountains of Bother.” A Severe Thump. He—I was reading somewhere the other day that no woman should ever marry a genins. She—Ob, well, don’t let that worry you. Even if the girls were disposed to heed such advice the burs would still be down for you.—Chicago News. « « Tlie kry to lietdtli In In tlu» kidneys ;md liver. Keep the<o i r^'ins active ami yon Intve lieitllli, hirenvih mill vhe-rful .-.plritK. Piuck'.Y Ash Hittk n In a Mlinnl.i'it inrtlie kulnnyit, re:rn'Mt»M the I viv. Mtomin'li mid Imiwi-In. a koWIou houselioiii remedy. K<>r Hale hy Cherokee ilmv Co. DUmsm or the Blood and Her***. No one need «uffer with neuralgia. Tlilt disease is quickly and permanently cured by Browns’ Iron Bitten. Every diaea*« of the blood, nerves and stomach, chronic or otherwise, suecmnbs to Browns’ Iron Bitten. Known and uaed for nearly a quarter of a century. It stamW to-day fore- most among our most valued remedies. Browns’ Iron Bitten ie sold by all dealers. MAKING WOOD ALCOHOL. The Deadly Hohstance That Thirsty Topers Sometimes Drink. It is necessary first ho convert wood into liquid. The strongest hydraulic pressnro would not squeeze one-half of 1 per cent of the moisture from dry worsl, bat by putting the same material into an iron retort and converting it iulo charcoal by means of heat the gases aud smoke, to the extent of fully 05 per cent of the weight of tho weod, may be condensed into pyroligneous acid, from which are obtained wood alcohol, acetate of lime and wood tars. A cord of wood weighing 4,000 pounds produces about 2,650 pounds of pyroligneous acid aud 700 pounds of charcoal. The pyroligne ous acid from one cord of wood pro duces 9 gallons of 82 per cent crude wood alcohol, 200 pounds of acetate of lime and about 25 gallons of tar, besides 85 bushels of charcoal. After Hie pyro ligneous acid is neutralized with lime the wood alcohol is distilled tiff, the lime holding tho acetic acid iu solution. After the separation of the wood spirit the remaining liquid is boiled down iu pans to a sugar, which is dried, aud be comes the acetate of lime of commerce. Acetate of lime is used for making acetic acid. Fhlly three-fifths of all tho wood al cohol aud acetate of limo produced iu the world are made iu the United States. Over 15,000 acres of forest per year arc cleared iu tho United States. Wood al cohol affords a perfect substitute for grain alcohol for manufacturing aud mechanical purposes, and at less than oue-thirdthfccost. It is used principally us a solvent iu the making of shellac varnish aud in making celluloid and photographic paper. It makes beuultful dye tints, is antiseptic and is used for liniments and for skin rubbing in bath houses.—Wiuo and Spirit Gazette. LOCATING A COUPLET. A Familiar quotation ANvrilied to flntler is IMnertl. Few popular quotations have more engaged tho pens of critics than the fol lowing: Fi r lie that flirhts anfl runs away Will live to light another day. Those linos.are almost universally supposed to forma part of “Hudibras,” and so confident have even scholars been on the subject that iu 1784 a wager was made at Bootle of 2U to 1 that they were to be found iu that inimitable pooin. Dotisley was referred to as the arbiter, when lie ridiculed tlui idea of consulting him on the subject, saying, “Every fool knows they are in‘Hudi bras.’” George Solwyu, who was present, said to Dodsley, “Pray, sir, will you bo good enough, then, to inform auoldfon), who is at the same time your wwo worship’s v<>ry humble servant, iu what canto they arc to he found?" Dodsley took down tbo volume, but bo could not find tho passage. Tho next day came, with no better success, and tho sage bibliophile was obliged to con- fe.-s “that a man might? bo ignorant of tho author of this well known couplet without being absolutely a fool.” But ler has indeed two or three passages somewhat similar. The one that comos nearest is the following, in “Hudibras, ” book 8, canto 3, verso 243: For those that fly may llijht again, Which he can ntK-er do that's slain. The fact, however, is that the couplot, thus erroneously ascribed to tho author of “Hudibras,” occurs iu a email vol ume of mise.t llaunous poems by Sir John Mennes, written in tho reign <d Charles II.—Exchange. In the XVroiiK Place. A characteristic story of General Scott is told iu connection with tlie sword presented to him by the state of Louis iaua, through tho legislature, at tho close of the Mexican war. Ho was ajeosted one day by a man who said: “General Hcott, I bad tho honor of doing most of tho work on tho sword presented to you by the state of Louisiana. I should like to ask if it was just as you would Lave chosen/’ “It's a very fine sword, sir, a very fine sword indeed, ” said tho general. “I am proud to have it. There is only ono thing I should have preferred differ ent. The inscription should have been on tho blade, sir. Tbo scabbard may be taken from us, but tho sword, never!” The sword cost about $500, the prin cipal expense being in the scabbard, which was richly chased aud ornament ed.—Exchange. Incident of Trolley Travel. “What tho dash are you hero for?” said an angry passenger, stopping down slowly from tho footboard of a trolley ear. He thought the conductor should have looked out for him aud stopped the car where ho wanted to got off, a block buck. “I’ll show yon what I’m hero for,” said tho conductor, reaching for the bellcord (ting, ting!) as he spoke, aud “Zip, zip, zip,” came the sound of the motorinau’s lever tnruiag in the notches, and “Bz-z-zz-zz-zz!” sang tho trolley, and before he knew it the passenger found himself standing alone iu the middle of tho road.—New York Sun. C URE rheumatism by taking Hood's Sarsaparilla,which by neu tralizing tlie acid in tlie blood perma nently relieves aches and PAINS. FOR Up-to-Date Job Print ing, call at the LEDGER Office. Gaffney, S. C. Catarrh is Not Incurable But it can not bo cured by sprays, washes and inlmling mixtures, which reach only the surface. The disease is m the blood, and can only be reachP<i through the Mood. S. S. 9. is the only remedy which can hove any effect upen Catarrh; ,it cures t,he disease perma nently and forever rids the system of every trace of the vile complaint. Miss Josie Owen, of Montpelier, Ohio, writes: "I was af flicted from infancy with Catarrh, and no one can know the suffering it produces better than I. . The sprays and washes *2^ prescribed by the doc- iKf tors relieved me only temporarily, and w. though 1 used them constantly for ten years. the disease had a firmer hold than ever. 1 tried a number of blood remedies, but their mineral IngredientH settled In my bones and gave me rheumatism. I wa- 1 in a lamentable condition, and after ex hausting all treatment, was declared incurable. Seeing S. S. S. advertised as a cure for blood diseases, I decided to try it. As soon nS my system was under the effeot of the medicine, I began to impiove. aiui after taking it for two months I was cured completely, the dreadful disease was eradicated from my sys tem, and I have had no return of it.” Many have been taking local treat ment for years, and find tliejnselYrM worse now than ever. A trial of sss ror The Blood will prove it to be ?he right remedy for Catarrh. It will cure the most ob stinate case. • Rooks piaHqd free .to any p.ddjvgs by Swift Specific Co., Atlanta,' Ga. Piedmont Saving ar.d Investment Co. Greenville. S. C. I^O A The loiin plan of this company will he hunnl far more deslicable in every way than the phins of Hnildin,'Loiins Av-oeiiitions. Our phi ii i» ii dell nit e c. nt nirt ;i I icav iiuhlo rates. Loans made an approved property .1. C. .1 KFl't'KIKS. Local Attorney, Uiittncy. S. (\ v yr CLINE BROS. & CO., Livery Feed and Sale Stables, Opposite National Bank. First-class tnrnouts: prompt attention; and com Icons ai tendants. fW'We solicit yonr patronage. THOMPSON & WARREN, Blacksmithing and Repairing, Horseshoeing a Specialty. Shops and office on Kut ledge Street. First- class work at living prices. Tlie Pearl Steam Laundry Ts opera! lug on full time and lunilng out lirst-elas.s work. Keinemhcr us when you want work done. We will call tor your package. We also have in operation A First-Class Grist Mill. We respectfully solicit your patronage and ask the people out ol low n to bring their corn along when they conic in to do their shopping. Will make your meal w hile you are Ousy here and you will lose ‘ no time. Riclianjson Bros. You should ket'j) posted on the issuus of the doy. Don't worry vour neiiilibor by borrow- in^ bis paper when you f:iii ”ft Tnk Lkooer for % year, 50c for sii months, or 2. r )c for thre( months. It will keep yoi posted, so order it ai once. Don't delay. ■ c, ■ DR. J. F. GARRETT, Dentist, Gaffney, - - - S. C. Office over J. R. Tolleson’s new store In office from lat to 2(»th of each month; At Blacksburg Thursday morning each week, returning to office at 2 :30 J. E. WEBSTER, Attorney - 1 - fltsc In Court I If use. (I’robato .1 udge'soffiec Gaffney ity, S. C. Practices in all the courts. Colleo- tions a specialty. - nmm wr' ■ ■ WT1 m ■. DR. S. H. GRIFFITH, Physician and Surgeon In iiddlthin to ii genera) practice, makes a specialty .if diseases peculiar to the eye, cur, nose and ttinuil; Is fully prepared and equipped for performing nil operations com ing within the scope of modern aural, nasal and opilialmlc surgery. Glasses lilted with scientific skill and accuracy. Office over J. B. Tolleson’s store. T’hone No. 71.