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1 THE HOMEMAKERS.
DR. TALMAGE PLEADS FOR A REI^N
OF EROS.
The Snopi*«liionh o r the MnrriftK«‘
litm—ItoliKiiin In die lloini* I'IppIc.
Tin? Itcl.’ition of IliiNlmnil mitl Wife.
How Ilomeat Are Mmle.
[Copyrlplit, 1S9S, by American Prers Asso-
ciation.l
Washington, Oct. 23.—Dr. Tnlmage
in this discourso sets forth radical theo
ries, which, if adopted, would brighten
many domestic circles; text, John xx,
10, “The disciples went away again un
to their own homes. ”
A church within a church, a republic
within a republic, a world within u
world is spelled by four letters—home!
If things go right there, they go right
everywhere. If things go wrong there,
they go wrong everywhere. The door-
sill of the dwelling house is the founda
tion of church and state. A man never
gets higher than his own garret or low
er than his own cellar. Domestic life
overarches and undergirdles all other
life. The highest house of congress is
the domestic circle. The rocking chair
in the nursery is higher than a throne.
Georgo Washington commanded the
forces of the United States, but Mary
Washington commanded George. Chrys
ostom’s mother made his pen for him.
If a man should start out and run 70
years in a straight line, he could not
get out from under the shadow of his
own mantelpiece. I therefore talk to
you about a matter of infinite and eter
nal moment when I speak of your home.
As individuals wo are fragments.
God makes the race in parts, and then
he gradually puts us together. What I
lack you make up. What you lack I
make up. Our deficits and surpluses of
chnrnctei being the cogwheels in the
great social mechanism. Ouo person
has the patience, another has the cour
age, another has tho placidity, another
* as the enthusiasm. That which is lack
ing in one is made up by another, or
made up by all. Buffaloes in herds,
grouse in broods, quails in flocks, the
human race in circles. God has most
beautifully arranged this. It is in this
way that he balances society. This con
servative and that radical keeping things
even. Every ship must have its mast,
cutwater, taffrail, ballast. Thank God,
then, for Princeton and Andover, for
the opposites.
I have no more right to blame a man
for being different from mo than a driv
ing wheel has a right to blame the iron
shaft that holds it to the center. John
Wesley balances Calvin’s “Institutes.”
A cold thinker gives to Scotland tho
strong bones of theology. Dr. Guthrie
clothes them with a throbbing heart and
warm flesh. Tho difficulty is that wo are
not satisfied with just the work that God
has given ns to do. Tho water wheel
wants to come inside the mill and grind
the grist and tho hopper wants to go
out and dabble in the water. Our use
fulness and the welfare of society de
pend upon our staying in just the place
that God has put us or intended we
should occupy.
Our Ellen of OrniiKe IHumhoiiin.
For more compactuess and that we
may bo more useful we are gathered in
still smaller circles in the home group,
and there you have the same variety
again—brothers, sisters, husband and
wife—all different in temperaments and
tastes. It is fortunate that it should bo
so. If tbo husband be all impulse, tho
wife must bo all prudence. If one sis
ter bo sanguine in her temperament, tho
other must ho lymphatic. Mary and
Martha are necessities. There will be no
dinner for Christ if there bo no Martha.
There will be no audience for Jesus if
there be no Mary. The homo organiza
tion is most beautifully constructed.
Eden has gone, the bowers are all broken
down, tho animals that Adam stroked
with his hand that morning when they
came up to get their names have since
shot forth task and sting, and growled
panther at panther, and midair iron
beaks plunge, till with clotted wing
and eyeless sockets the twain come
whirling down from under the sun in
blood and fire. Eden has gone, but there
is just ouo little fragment left. It float
ed down on tho River Hiddekel out of
paradise. It is the marriage institution.
It does not, as at the beginning, take
away from mar a rib. Now it is a ad
dition of ribs.
This institution of marriage has been
d:famed in our day. Socialism and po
lygamy, and the most damnable of all
things, free lovism, have been trying to
turn 'iis earth into a Turkish harem.
While the pulpits have been compara
tively silent, novels—their cheapness
only equaled by their nastiness—ate
trying to educate, have taken upon
themselves to educate, this nation in re
gard to holy marriage, which makes or
breaks for time and eternity. Oh. this
is not a mere question of residence or
wardrobe 1 It is a question charged with
gigantic joy or sorrow, heaven or hell.
Alas for this new dispensation of
George Sands! Alas for this mingling
of tho nightshade with the marriage
garlands! Alas for tho venom of adders
spit into the tankards! Alas for tho
white frosts of eternal death that kill
the orange blossoms! The gospel of
Jesus Christ is to assert what is right
and to assail what is wrong. Attempt
has been made to take the marriage in
stitution, which was intended for the
happiness and elevation of the race and
make it a mere commercial enterprise;
an exchange of bouses and lauds and
equipage; a business partnership of two
stuffed up with the stories of romance
and Iqiight errauts and unfaithfulness
and feminine angelhood. The two after
awhile have roused up to find that, in
stead of the paradise they dreamed of,
they have got nothing but a Van Am-
burgh's menagerie, filled with tigers
and wildcats. Eighty thousand divorces
in Paris in one year preceded the worst
revolntiou that France ever saw. And
I tell you what you know as well as I
do. that wrong notions on the subject
of Christian marriage are the canse at
this day of more morn! outrage before
God aud man tliau any other cause.
There are some thiugs that 1 want to
bring before you. I know there aro
those of you who have had homes set
up for a great many years, aud then
there aro those hero who have just es
tablished their home. They have ouly
been in that home a few mouths or a
few y^ars. Then there are those who
will, lifter awhile, set up for theiinselvos
a home, and it is right that I should
speak out upon these themes.
Have God For a GurM.
My first counsel to you is, have God
in your new homo, if it be a new home,
and let him who was a guest at Bethany
be in your household. Let the divine
• blessing drop upon your every hope and
plan aud expectation. Those young peo
ple who begin with God end with
heaven. Have on your right hand the
engagement ring of tho divine affection.
If one of you be a Christian, let that
one take the Bible aud read a few versos
in the evening time and then kneel
down and cqmmend yourselves to him
who setteth the solitary iu^Families. I
waut to tell you that the destroying
angel passes by without touching or en
tering the doorpost sprinkled with
blood of the everlasting covenant. Why
is it that in some families they never
get along and in others they always get
along well? I have watched such cases,
aud have come to a conclusion. In the
first instance nothing seemed to go
pleasantly, and after awhile there came
a devastation, domestic disaster or es
trangement. Why? They started wrong.
In the other case, although there were
hardships and trials aud some things
that had to he explained, still things
went on pleasantly until the very last.
Why? They started right.^
The Anirol In tin* iTounc.
My second advice to yon in your home
is to exercise to the very last possibil
ity of your nature the law of forbear
ance. Prayers in the household will not
make up for everything. Some of the
best people in the world aro the hardest
to get along with. There are people
who stand up in prayer meetings aud
pray like angels who at home aro un
compromising and cranky. You may
not have everything just as you want
it. Sometimes it will bo the duty of
the husband aud sometimes of the wife
to yield, but both stand punctiliously
on your rights, aud yon will have a
Waterloo with no Blucher coming up
at nightfall to decide the conflict.
Never be ashamed to apologize when
you have done wrong in domestic af
fairs. Let that be a law of your house
hold. Tho best thiug I ever heard of my
grandfather, whom I never saw, was
this, that once having unrighteously re
buked one of his children, he himself
having lost his patience, and, perhaps
having been misinformed of tho child’s
dojugs, found oat his mistake and in
the evening of the same day gathered
all his family together aud said: “Now,
I have one explanation to make aud one
thing to say. Thomas, this morning I
rebuked you very unfairly. I am very
sorry for it. I rebuked you in the pres
ence of the whole family, and now I ask
your forgiveness in their presence.” It
must have taken some courage to do
that. It was right, was it not? Never
be ashamed to apologize for domestic
inaccuracy. Find out tho points—what
aro the weak points, if I may call them
so, of your companion, and then stand
aloof from them. Do not carry the fire
of your temper too near tho gunpowder.
If the wife ho easily fretted by disorder
in the household, let the husband be
careful where ho throws his slippers.
If the husband come home from the
store with his patience exhausted, do
not let the wife unnecessarily cross his
temper, but both stand up for your
rights, and I will promise the everlast
ing sound of tho warwhoop. Your life
will be spent in making up, aud mar
riage will be to you au unmitigated
curse. Cowper said:
Th« kindest and the happiest pair
Will find occasion to forbear
And somethinK, every day they live,
To pity and perhaps forgive.
I advise, also, that you make your
chief pkasare circle arouud about that
home. II is unfortunate when it is oth
erwise. If the husband spend the most
of his nights away from homo of choice
and not of necessity, he is not the head
of the household. Ho is only the cashier.
If the wife throw the cares of tho house
hold into tho servant’s lap and then
spend five nights of the week at the
opera or theater, she may clothe her
children with satins and laces and rib
bons that would confound a French
milliner, hut they aro orphans. It is
sad when a child has no one to say its
prayers to because mother has gone off
to the evening entertainment! In India
they bring children and throw them to
the crocodiles, and it seems very cruel,
but tho jaws of social dissipation are
swallowing down more little children
today than all the monsters that ever
crawled upon the banks of tho Gauges.
I have seen fhe sorrow of a godless
mother on tho death of a child she had
neglected. It was not so much grief
that she felt from the fact that the
child was dead as the fact that she had
neglected it. She said, “If 1 had only
watched over and cared for the child, I
know God would not have taken it."
The tears came not; it was a dry, blis
tering tempest—a scorching simoom of
the desert. When she wrung her hands,
it seemed as if she would twist her fin
gers from their sockets; when she seized
her hair, it seemed us if she had, in
wild terror, grasped a coiling serpent
with her right hand. No tears! Com
rades of the little one came in aud wept
over tiie coffin; neighbors came in aud
the moment they saw tbo still face of
tbo child the shower broke. No tears
for her! God gives tears as the snmmer
rain to the parched soul, but in all tho
universe the driest and hottest, the
most scorching and consuming thing, is
a mother’s heart if she has neglected her
child, when once it is dead. God may
forgive her. but she will never forgive
herself. The memory will sink the eyes
deeper into the sockets, and pinch the
face and whiten the hair aud eat up the
heart with vultures that will not be
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THE LEDGER: GAFFNEY, S. C„ OCTOBER 27, 1898.
satisfied, forever plunging deeper their
iron beaks. Oil, you wanderers from
your home, go back to your duty! The
brightest flowers in all tho earth aro
those which grow in tho garden of n
Christian household, clambering over
tho porch of a Christian homo.
The Wife Slade Man.
I advise you also to cultivate sympa
thy of occupation. Sir James McIntosh,
one of* tbo most eminent and elegant
men that ever lived, while standing at
the very height of his eminence, said to
a great company of scholars, “My wife
made me. ” The wife ought to bo tho
advising partner in every firm. She
ought to be interested in all the losses
and gains of shop and store. She ought
to have a right—she has a right—to
know everything. If a man goes into a
business transaction that he dare not
tell his wife of, you may depend that
he is on the way either to bankruptcy
or moral ruin. There may be some
things which he does not wish to trouble
his wife with, but if he dare not tell
her, he is ou the road to discomfiture.
On the other hand, the husband ought
to be sympathetic with tho wife’s occu
pation. It is no easy thiug to keep
house. Many a woman who could have
endured martyrdom as well as Marga
ret, the Scotch girl, has actually been
worn out by house muuagemout.
There are a thousand martyrs of the
kitchen. It is very annoying, after tho
vexatious of the day around the stove
or the register or the table, or in the
nursery or parlor, to have tho husband
say: “You know nothing about trou
ble. You ought to bo iu the store half
auhour. ” Sympathy of occupation! If
the husband’s woik cover him with the
soot of the furnace, or tho odors of
leather cr soap factories, let not tho
wife be easily disgusted at the begrimed
bands or unsavory aroma. Your gains
are one, your interests are one, your
losses are ouo. Lay hold of the work of
life with both hands. Four hands to
fight tho battles, four eyes to watch for
the danger, four shoulders ou which to
carry the trials, (t is a very sad thing
when the painter has a wife who does
not like pictures. It is a very sad thiug
for a pianist when she has a husband
who does not like music. It is a very
sad thing wheu a wife is not suited un
less her husband has what is called a
“gentsel business.” So far as I under
stand a “genteel business,” it is some
thing to which a man goes at 10 o’clock
iu the morning and from which he
comes home at 2 or 8 o’clock in the
afternoon and gets a large amount of
money for doing nothing. That is, I be
lieve, a “genteel business, ” and there
has been many a wife who has made
the mistake of not being satisfied until
the husband has given up *he tanning
of the hides, or the turning of tho ban
isters, or the building of the walls and
put himself in ciicles win re he has
nothing to do but smoke cigars and
drink wine aud get himself into habits
that upset him, going down in the
maelstrom, taking his wife and children
with him. There are a good many trains
running from earth to destruction.
They start all hours of the day aud all
hours of tho night. There are tho
freight trains. They go very slowly aud
very heavily, and there are the accom
modation trains going on toward de
struction, and they stop very often aud
let a man get out when he wants to,
but geuteel idleness is an express
train, satau is the stoker aud death is
the engineer, and, though ouo may come
out in front of it and swing tho red flag
of “danger” or tho lantern of God’s
word, it makes just one shot into perdi
tion, coming down the embunkraeut
with a shout and a wuil and a shriek
—crash, crash! There are two classes of
people sure of destruction—first, those
who have nothing to do; secondly,
those who have something to, but who
are too lazy or too proud to do it.
Lrt Broil ItelKn.
I have one more word of advice to
give to those who would have a happy
home, aud that is let love preside iu it.
Wheu your behavior in tho domestic
circle becomes a mere matter of calcu
lation, when the caress you give is
merely the result of deliberate study of
tho position you occupy, happiness lies
stark dead ou the hearthstone. When
the husband’s position as head of the
honseholcfts maintained by loudness of
voice, by strength of arm, by lire of
temper, the republic of domestic bliss
has become a despotism that neither
God nor man will abide. Oh, ye who
promised to love each other at the altar,
how dare yon commit perjury? Let no
shadow of suspicion come ou your affec
tion. It is easier to kill that flower than
it is to make it live again. Tho blast
from beirthat puts out that light leaves
you iu the blackness of darkness foi-
ever.
Hero are a man and wife. They agree
iu nothing else, but they agree they
will have a home. They will have a
splendid house, aud they think that if
they have a house they will have a
home. Architects make tho plan, and
tho mechanics execute it, tho house to
cost *100,000. It is done. The carpets
are spread, lights are hoisted, curtains
are hung, cards of invitation sent out.
Thu horses iu gold plated harness prance
at the gate, guests enmd in aud take
their places, the flute sounds, the dan
cers go up aud down, and with one grand
whirl the wealth and the fashion and
the mirth of the great town wheel amid
tho pictured walls. Ha! this is happi
ness! Float it ou the smoking viands!
Sound it iu the music! Whirl it in the
dance! Cast it in the snow of sculpture 1
Sound it up the brilliant stairway!
Flash it in chandeliers 1 Happiness in
deed!
Let us build ou the center of the par
lor floor a throne to happiness; let all
the guests, wheu come in, bring their
flowers aud pearls ard diamonds, and
throw them ou this pyramid, aud let it
be a throne, and then let happiness, the
qnceu, mount the throne, and we will
stand around, aud, all chalices lifted,
we will say, “Drink, O queen; live
forever!” But the guests depart, the
flutes are breathless, the last clash of
the impatient hoofs is beard iu the dis
tance, and tho twain of the household
come back to seo the queen of happiness
on tho throne amid tho parlor floor.
But, alas, as they come back, the flow
ers have faded, tho sweet odors have
become the smell of a charnel house,
and instead of tho queen of happiness
there sits there the gaunt form of an
guish, with bitten lip ind sunken eye
and ashes in her hair. Tho romp of tiie
dancers who have left seems rumbling
yet, like jarring thunders that quake
tho floor and ratrle the glasses of tho
feast rim to rim. Tho spilled wine ou
the floor turns into blood. Tho wreaths
of plush have become wrig£ljpg rep
tiles. Terrors catch tangled in the can
opy that overhangs the couch. A strong
gust of wind comes through the hull
and the drawing room and the bed
chamber, iu which all tho lights go out.
And from the lips of the wine beakers
come the words, “Happiness is not in
us!” Aud the archesrespoud, “Itisnot
in us!” Aud the silenced instruments
of music, thrummed ou by invisible
fingers, answer, “Happv'iss is not in
us!” And the frozen of anguish
break open, and, seated on tho throne
of wilted flowers, she strikes her bony
hands together and groans, “It is not
in me!”
lledeemeil by Love.
That very night a clerk with a salary
of £1,000 a year—ouly 81,000—goes to
his home, set up three mouths ago, just
after the marriage day. Love meets him
at the door, love sits with him at tho
table, love talks over the work of the
day, love takes down the Bible and
reads of him who came our souls to
save, and they kueel, aud while they
are kneeling—right iu that plain room
ou tho plain carpet—tho angels of God
build a throne, not out of flowers that
perish and fade away, but out of gar
lands of heaven, wreath on top of
wreath, amaranth ou amaranth, until
the throne is done. Then tho harps of
God sounded, and suddenly there ap
peared one who mounted the throne
with eye so bright aud brow so fair
that the twain knew it was Christian
love, and they knelt at the foot of the
throne, and, putting one hand on each
head, she blessed them, and said, “Hap
piness is with mo!” And that throne
of celestial bloom withered not with
tho passing years, and the queen left
not the throne till one day the married
pair felt stricken iu years—felt them
selves called away, aud knew not which
way to go, aud the queen bounded from
tho throne aud said, “Follow me aud I
will show you tho way up to the realm
of everlasting love." And so they went
up to sing songs of love, and walk on
pavements of love, and to live together
in mansions of love, and to rejoice for
ever in the truth that God is love.
Cable Cattlme In War.
Although not a cable laying nation
and with a strangely apathetic policy
toward projecting new lines of sub
marine telegraph in tho past, our war
with Spain has demonstrated that tho
Washington authorities were keenly
alive to tho importance of cutting or
controlling the cables connecting Cuba
with Spain. Of tho many naval prob
lems which this modern war is expect
ed to solve, that of testing the relative
value of cables in deciding tho fate of
combatants is not the least. Tho isola
tion of Cuba from Spain was ouo of the
first steps undertaken by our naval
authorities, aud the success of the work
has demonstrated its feasibility.
From a strategic point of view tho
cables are therefore of inestimable valne,
and if earlier in the conflict tho United
States had severed ail communication
between the blockaded island and tho
mother country the war would have in
all probability been shortened. A na
tion shut off from communication with
the rest of the world is effectively block
aded ; hut, so long as cable messuages
can be transmitted back and forth, the
most rigid blockade of ships is some
what doubtful in obtaining the desired
results.—G. E. Walsh in North Ameri
can Review.
A Coiiinit-rcial Batlinntc.
Cyrano de Bergerac was “a gentle
man with a very largo nose.” But was
the nose really as large as that of Sig
nor Rubhi. au opera singer of 70 years
ago? Ho was singing in Dublin the part
of Fiorcllo iu “Tho Barber of Seville.”
When he had snug “Piano, pianissimo, ”
a voice cried from tho gallery, “Mis-
ther Ruby !” The singer stopped a mo
ment, and then again sang his “Piano,
pianissimo.” Again the cry, “Mistber
Ruby!” The singer, at a loss, looked at
the gallery and at tho leader. He was
about to sing the third time when tbo
voice cried, “Bcdad, Misther Ruby, the
full of your nose of snuff would be
worth sixpence.”—Boston Journal.
A Illlnd I’nidlicy-
Kokomo, Ind., has a blind prodigy
who took his cottage organ to tho court
house square, tore it down and pnt it
together in three hours. The organ con
tains 295 pieces, inclnding keys aud
reeds. After he reconstructed the organ
he played upon it. Not long ago the
town clock in tbo city hall tower got
out of order, and tho blind man climbed
to the clock, 185 foot, and repaired it.
His name is William Brinkman.—Ex
change.
Carson** Term nnd Salary.
Mr. Cuzron’s term as viceroy of In
dia will last five years. His salary is
about $100,OUO a year, with all ex
penses paid by the goverumeeut, and he
is expected to live in great magnificence.
This salary and perquisites seem small
compared with the incomes of three of
the native princes who are allies of
Great Britain, each of whom has $15,-
000,000 a year.
Dr. Bull’s Cough Syrup furnishes most sub-
slantliil ciintfort and relief to consumptives:
It works most remarkable cures. Iton’t dls-
pulr. Relief can certainly lie bad: ncure Is
possible with this wonderful remedy.
. — ' A-
Dr. C. T. LIPSCOMB,
Dentist,
Offics over R. A. Jones A Co's Stcrs.
Can be found at office six days In the week
HOW VENEERS ARE MADE.
The Woods Tsed—Smveil nml Cut Ve
in-ers—Tin* Marvelous Sllec-r.
Veneers aro cu* from almost all the
finer woods, both native and foreign,
including mubog.uiy, birch, rosewood,
ebony, satiuwood, cedar, tulipwood,
Hungarian ash, sycamore and others,
veneers being used on pianos and other
musical instruments, on furniture, doors
and so on.
Some veneers are sawed and some are
cut from the log by means of a knife.
Tho sawed veneers aro tho better and
more desirable, and they cost twice as
much as cut veneers. More cut veneers
are used, however. Twenty years ago
75 per cent of veneers were sawed aud
25 per cent cut, but now these percent
ages have been reversed.
Some woods can be worked for veneers
under tho saw only, some can be either
sawed or cut, and of such both kinds of
veneers aro made, but there are woods
that practically are made in knife ve
neers only.
Veneers may be made of almost any
degree of thinness, as, say, one one-huu-
dre< 1 h of an inch. They are most com
monly made for the many uses to which
they are put in sawed veneers of a
thickness of 26 to 80 to the inch and
iu cut veneers of a thickuestf^JKagiiig
30 to the inch. Of sawed veneers of
such thickness but 12 to 13 can be pro
duced from an inch of solid wood. Tho
rest is lost iu sawdust. There is no
waste of material iu making cut veneers.
Sawed veneers are cut, a single sheet
from the log at a time, by a circular
saw of between five and six feet in di
ameter, of a kind spjcially made for the
purpose. Tho inner side of this saw—
that is, the side toward the body of the
log—is flat. Tho outer side of the flange,
which is the disk of the saw, to which
the teeth aro attached, is made slightly
concave, so as to throw the veneer a
little clear of the saw as it comes along.
If it were permitted to hug the saw,
the thin sheet of wood would bo burned
or scorched by the friction. The saw is
of course adjusted to run with the
greatest nicety, and the squared log
that is to bo sawed into veneers is rig
idly secured to the frame that carries it
to tho saw.
The cut veneers are shaved off ou a
simple but powerful aud costly machine
called a slicer, in which tho log, secure
ly held on a moving frame, is brought
against a knife held rigidly. The knife
of a slicer is perhaps 17 feet iu length,
made in two parts each 8^ feet in
length, but perfectly joined, making
one continuous knife 17 feet long. The
knife is set horizontally, edge upward,
iu the face of what is called tho knifo
bed, which is a ponderous casting im
movably set. Extending along over the
top of the knife bed aud above tho level
of the knife edge is a massive casting
called tho cap. Attached to the front of
tho cap, horizontally, just above tho
knife edge, parallel with it and adjust
ed at a line hack from it the thickness
of tho veneer that is to be cut, is what
is called the pressure bar. The kuifo
and the pressure bar so held, constitute
in effect a gigantic plane, which is not
moved to cut tho thick shaving that it
is made to produce, but which is held
securely while the log from which tho
shaving is taken is brought against it.
The squared log from which tho ven
eers are to bo cut is rigidly secured
horizontally by means of clamps to tho
face of what is called a stay log, this be
ing in effect a log frame that is placed
not horizontally, but with its face in a
vertical position aud opposite to that
part of the machine iu which the knife
is held. There are many slats along in
the stay log, at the top and bottom of
which are clamps that aro moved iu
their openings as may be required to
clutnh and hold firmly tho log stretched
along its face. The stay log moves in a
veitioal plane, but iu a diagonal direc
tion, on heavy slides.
Motion is communicated to tho stay
log by means of an arm attached to a
rocker shaft, which thrusts tho stay log
upward aud pulls it down ou tho slides
with regular alternations. The motion
of the stay log being diagonal iu its di
rection, the wood is brought against the
knifo with a slicing movement. The
stay log is adjustable with relation to
the knife by moans of a wheel some
thing like a steering wheel, set at ouo
end of the stay log apparatus.
To ouo unaccustomed to it the opera
tion of the slicer seems almost marvel
ous. Tho stay log is thrust upward on
tho slides nnd drawn downward about
as rapidly us a me*- would work a jack
plauc.
UOOD’S Sarsaparilla is the Ont
*■ True Blood Purifier, Great Nerve
Tonic, Stomach Regulator. To thorn
sands its great merit Is KNOWN*
FOR $20 GASH
You can buy one of M. L. Alexander's
Favorite
Silent and Light Running Sewing Machines
And The Ledjrer for one year. Full de-
seri|it ion of tnnehin'* can lie had at
this office.
This machine Is guaranteed for five years
by M. L. Alexander, the dealer in I'lunos
and Organs. Greenville. H.
Send money to the Ledger by Lx press or
Money Order and the mncldne will Is*
shipped on ten days trial. If machine is
not satisfactory we will pay return freight
and refund the money.
Doctors Can’t
Cure It!
Contagious blood poison is absolutely
beyond the skill of the doctors. They
may dose a patient for years on their
mercurial and potash remedies, but he
will never be rid of the disease ; on the
Mher hand, his condition will grow
iteadily worse. 8. S. S. is the only cure
[or this terrible affliction, because it is
Ihe only remedy which goes direet to
the cause of the disease and forces it
from the system.
their treatment faith
fully. In fact, I seemed
to get worse all the
while. I took almost
every so-called blood
remedy, but they did not
seem to reach the dls
ease, and had no effect
whatever. I was dis
heartened, for It seemed
that I would never he
cured. At the advice of
a friend I then took
8. 8. 8.. and began tolm
. -. I continued the
me completely, build
prove.
medicine, and It cured me c—
Ingupmy health and increasing my appetite
Although this was ten years ago, 1 have never
ret had a sigu of the disease to return.
W. R. Nbwnan.
Staunton, Va.
It is like self-destruction to continue
to take potash and mercury; besides
totally destroying the digestion, they
dry up the marrow in the bones, pro
ducing a stiffness and swelling of the
joints, causing the hair to fall out, and
completely wrecking the system.
S.SS.%, Blood
is guaranteed Purely Vegetable, and is
the only blood remedy free from these
dangerous minerals.
Book on self-treatment sent free by
Swift Specific Company, Atlanta, Ga.
A. N. WOOD,
BANKER,
does a general Banking and Exchange
business. Well secured with Burglar-
Proof safe and Automatic Time Lock.
Safety Deposit Boxes at moderate
rent.
Buys and sells Stocks andBonds.
Buys County and School Claims.
Your business solicited.
CLINE BROS. & CO.,
Livery Feed and Sale Stables,
Opposite National Bank.
First-clnss turnouts: prompt attention;
and courteous attendants.
{Af Wc solicit your patronage.
The Pearl
Steam Laondry
Is operating on full time nnd turning out
tirst-class work. liememler us wlien you
want work done. We will call for your
package. We also have in operation
A First-Class Grist Mill.
We respectfully solicit your patronage]
and ask the people out ol town to briug)
their corn along when they come in to d<c
their shopping. Will make your meal
while you are busy here and you will lose
no time.
Richardson Bros.
You shouk
keep posted on the issues!
of the day. Don’t worry.]
your n< ighbor by borro\4
ing his paper when yoij
can get The Ledger fg
$1 a year, 50c for si
months, or 2oc for thr«|
months. It will keep y<!
posted, so order
once. Don’t delay.
DR. J. F. GARRE’
Dentist,
Gaffney, -
Office over J. R. Tolleson’s newi
In office from 1st to 26th of
month;
At Blacksburg Thursday me
each week, returning to office atl
J. E. Webster!
A-ttoriiey-A.t- l_,i
ffleo Iu Court House. (Probate Judge’*
Gaffney City, S. C.
Practices in all the courts,
tions a specialty.
DR. S. H. GRIFFI]
Physician and Snrgeon
In addition to a general practice,
specialty of diseases peculiar to
car. nose and throat; La fully pre
(shipped for performing all opera
ing within the Moopeof modern a
and optlialrnlc surgery. Glasses
scientific skill nnd accuracy. .
Office over J. K. Tollcsou'a sto