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4 Are you frequently hoarse? Do you have that annoying ticklftig in your throat? Would you feel relieved if you could raise something? Does your cough annoy you at night, and do you raise more mucus in the morning? Then you should always keep on hand a bottle of Ayer’s Cherry pectoral If you have a weak throat you cannot be too careful. You cannot begin treatment too early. Each cold makes you more liable to another, and the last one is always harder to cure than the one before it. Dr. Aijer’s Cfterrs Pectoral Plaster protects tDe Mags from coids. Help at Hand. If you have any complaint whatever and desire the best medical advice you cau pos sibly obtain, write the doctor freely. You will receive a prompt reply. Address, DR. J. C. AYER, Lowell, Maas. A. N. WOOD, BANKER, does a general Banking and Exchangt business. Well secured with Burglar- Proof safe and Automatic Time Lock. Salcty Deposit Boxes at moderate rent. Buys and sells Stocks undBonds. Buys County and School Claims. Your business solicited. WINTER IS GONE AND SPUING IS HERE OUT I COME TO STAY. I want to sell you fine Beef. Pork an Steak, and with me you had better stay. When Summer comes 1 will have cold Ice and Beef delivered at your door in small or larire iiuantltles. I will also have fresh Country Product-, (thickens and Ejctr* when they can he bought. 1 ImvoGarden Seedsof all kinds, t anned Goods of a variety and Cigars and Tobacco of the best quality. My Tennessee Pigs will not be in until the 10th of next month. I will have forty head then. Call and see L. W. McGUINN. ’Phone No. 60. Burnott Block. fSTTAKik out for fine shad Friday. WALLACE & OTTS, - LAWYERS. - office over, Bridges & Beason’s Store. Practice In till courts Stale ami Federal. Piedmont Saving ar.d investment Co. Creecvilie, S. C. The loan ] lat of this company will l»e found far more dctdrcable In every way than the plans of Building & Loans Associations. Our plan is a definite contract at reasonable rates. Loans made an approved property. J. C. jKD-KF.ttlKS, Local Attorney. GalTuey, S. O. Ilie Pearl Steam Laundry I*opcrntliiir on full time and turning out tlrst-elusH work. Rcmeinltcr us when you want work done. We wdl call for your package*. We also have In operation A First-Class Grist Mill. We respectfully solicit your patronage and ask the people out of town to bring their corn along when (hoy come In to do their shopping. Will make your meal while you are hu- here and you will lose no time. McLemore Bros., Prop’s. SWORD OF ELEAZAR. IT INSPIRES DR. TALMAGE TO A POW ERFUL SERMON. As the Soldier of Old Gripped Ills Weapon, So Should We Hold the Bible —Grasp Tightl) the Two ICdued Sword of Truth. [Copyright, 1SS9, by American Press Asso ciation.] WAKniNGTON, April 9.—In the first notice concerning Dr. Tnluiage that Pastor Charles H. Spurgeon of London wrote the great English minister said he was glad to find a preacher that be lieved something. This discourse of Dr. Tulmage is in that vein and urges close adherence to the old gospel; text, II Samuel xxiii, 10, “And his hand clave onto the sword. ” What a glorious thing to preach the gospel 1 Some suppose that because I have resigned a fixed pastorate I will cease to preach. No. no. I expect to preach more than I ever have. If the Lord will, four times as much, though in manifold places I would not dare to halt with such opportunity to declare the truth through the ear to audiences and to the eye through the printing press And here we have a stirring theme put before us by the prophet. A great general of King David was Eleazur. the hero of the text The Phil istines opened battle against him. and his troops retreated. The cowards fled. Eleazar and three of his comrades went into the battle and swept the field, for four men with God on their side are stronger than a whole regiment with God against them “Fall back I” shout ed the commander of the Philistine army The cry ran along the host. “Fall backl" Eleazar, having swept the field, throws himself on the ground to rest, but the muscles and sinews of his hand had been so long bent around the hilt of his sword that the hilt was imbedded in the flesh, and the gold wire of the hilt had broken through the skin of the palm of the hand, and be could not drop this sword which he had so gallantly wielded. “His hand clave unto the sword. ” That is what I call magnificent fighting for the Lord God of Israel And we want more of it Held In Firm Grasp. I propose to show you how Eleazar took hold of the sword and how the sword took hold of Eleazar. I look at Eleazar's hand, and 1 come to the con clusion that he took the sword with a very tight grip The cowards who tied had no trouble in dropping their swords. As they fly over the rocks I hoar their swords clanging in every direction. It is easy enough for them to drop their swords, but Eleazar’s band clave unto the sword. In this Christian conflict w« want a tighter grip of the gospel weap ons. a tighter grasp of the two edged sword of the truth. It makes me sick to see these Christian people who hold only a part of the truth and let the rest oi the truth go. eo that the Philleflne* teeing the loosened grasp, wrench the whole aword away from them. The only safe thing for ns to do is to put oar thumb on the book of Genesis and sweep our hand around the book until the New Testament comes into the palm and keep on sweeping our hand around the book until the tips of the fingers clutch at the words “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. ” I like an infidel a great deal butter than I do one of these uamby pamby Chris tians who hold a part of the truth and let the rest go By miracle God pre served this Bible just as it is, and it is a Damascus blade. The severest test to which a sword can be put in a sword factory is to wind the blade around a gun barrel like a ribbon, and then when the sword is let loose it flies buck to its own shape So the sword of God’s truth has been fully tested, and it is bent this way and that way and wound this way and that way. but it always comes back to its own shape Think of itt A book written near 19 centuries ago, and some of it thousands of years ago. and yet in our time the average sale of this book is more than 90,000 conies every week and more than 1.000,000 copies a year! 1 say now that a book which is divinely inspired and divinely kept and divinely scattered is a . eapon worth holding a tight grip of Bishop Coleuso will come along and try to wrench out of your hand the five books of Moses, and Strauss will come along and try to wrench ont of your hand the miracles, and Renan will come along and try to wrench ont of your hand the entire lift of the Lord Jesus Christ, and your as sociates in the office or the factory or the banking bouse will try to wrench out of your hand the entire Bible, bnt in the strength of the Lord God of Israel and with Eleazar’s grip hold on to it Von give np the Bible, yon give up any part of it. and you give ap pardon and peace and life and heaven. Friend of All Good. Do not be ashamed, young man. to have the world know that you are • friend of the Bible. This book is the friend of all that is good, and it is th« sworn enemy of all that is bad An elo quent writer recently gives an incident of a very bad man who stood in a cell of a western prison. This criminal had gone through all styles of crime, and he was there waiting for the gallows The convict standing there at the win dow of the cell, this writer says, “look ed ont and declared. *1 am an infidel. He said that to all the men and women and children who happened to be gath ered there. ‘I am an infidel ’ ” And tbs eloquent writer says. “Every man and woman there believed him. ” And the writer goes on to say. “If he bad stood there saying. *1 am a Christian,’ every man and woman would have said. ‘He is a liar!’ ” This Bible is the sworn enemy of all that is wrong, and it is the friend of all that is good. Oh. hold on it I Do not take part of it and throw the rest away Hold on to all of it There are so many people now who do not know You ask them if the soul is Immortal, and they say “1 guess it is: I don’t tnow. Perhaps it is; perhaps it isn’t.” Is the Bible true? “Well, perhaps it ie, • ml perhaps it isn’t. Perhaps it may be, figuratively, and perhaps it may be partly, and perhaps it may not be at all.” They despise what they call the apostolic creed, but if their own creed were written out it would read like this: “I believe in nothing, the maker •f heaven and earth, and in nothing which it hath sent, which nothing was born of nothing and which nothing was dead and buried and descended into nothing and arose from nothing and ascended to nothing and now sitteth at the right hand of nothing, from which it will come to judge nothing. I believe in the holy agnostic church and in the communion of nothingarians and in the forgiveness of nothing anil the resurrection of nothing and in the life that never elinli be. Amen I” That is the ereed of tens of thousands of people in this day. If you have a mind to adopt such a theory, I will not. “I be lieve in God the Father Almighty, Mukttr of bwuven and earth, and in Jeena Christ and in the hely catholic church and in the communion of saints and in the life everlasting. Amen!” Oh, when I see Eleazar taking such a atont grip of the sword in the battle against sin and for righteousness, I coma t« th# conclusion that we ought to taka a stouter grip of God’s eternal truth—the aword of righteousness. Forget Self. As I look at Eleazar’s hand I also notice his spirit of self forgetfulness. He did uot notice that the hilt of the aword waa eating through the palm of his hand. He did not know it hurt him As be went out into the conflict ho was so anxious for the victory he forgot himself, ami that hilt might go never so deeply into the palm of his hand, it could not disturb him. “His hand clave unto tha sword. ” Oh, my brothers and sisters, let us go into the Christian con flict with the spirit of self abnegation. Who cares whether the world praises us or denounces us? What do we care for misrepresentation or abuse or perse cution in a conflict like this? Let us forget ourselves. That man who is afraid of getting his hand hurt will never kill a Philistine. Who cares whether you get hurt or not if you get tbs victory ? Oh, how many Christians there are who are all the time worry ing about the way the world treats them! They are so tired, and they are ■o abusad, and they are so tempted, when Eleazar did not think whether he had a hand or an arm or a foot. All he wanted was victory. We see how men forget themselves in worldly achievement. We have often seen men who, in order to achieve worldly auccess, will forget all physical fatlgua and all annoyance and all ob- ■tkcl*. Just after the battle of York- town in the American Revolution a musician, wounded, was told ho must have his limbs amputated, and they were about to fasten him to the sur geon’s table, for it was long before the merciful discovery of anaasthetics. He said: “No; don’t fasten me to that ta ble. Get me a violin. ” A violin was brought to him, and he said, “Now, go to work as I begin to play,” and for 40 mlnnUa, during the awful pangs of amputation, he moved not a muscle nor dropped a note, while be played acuta aweet tune. Oh, is it not strange that with the music of the gospel of Jeaua Christ, and with this grand march of the church militant on the way to become the church triumphant, we cannot forget ourselves and forget all pang and all sorrow and all perse- cation and all perturbation? W«*k CkrtatiAM. W* Imw what man MtMapliah un- tan vantfflr opposition. Mon do not oknink Wok Ur antagonism or for hard ship. Ton havo admired Prescott’s “Oonqnoat of Mexiao, ” as brilliant and beautiful a bistory as waa ever writ ten, but some of yon may not know un der whet disadvantages it was written —that “Conquest of Mexico”—for Prescott waa totally blind, and he had two pieces of wood parallel to each other fastened, and, totally blind, with his pen between those pieces of wood, he wrote the stroke against one piece of wood telling how far the pen must go in one way. the stroke against the other piece of wood telling how far the pen must go the other way. Oh. how much men will endure for worldly knowledge and for worldly success, and yet how lit tle we endure for Jesus Christ 1 How many Christians there are that go around saying, “Oh. my hand: oh. my hand, my hurt baud! Don’t yon see ther# is blood on the sword?” while Eleaaar, with the hilt imbedded in the flesh of his right hand, docs not knbw it Mult I be oarrtvd to the gkiea . On flowery beds of eune, While others fought to win tho prise Or lolled through bloody seas? What have we suffered in comparison with those who expired with suffoca tion or were burned or were chopped to pieces for the truth’s sake? We talk of the persecution of olden times. There Is just ns much persecution going on now In various ways. In 1649. in Mad agascar, 18 men were put to death for Christ’s sake. They were to be hurled over the rocks, and before they were hurled over the rocks, in order to make their death the more dreadful in antici pation. they were 'put in baskets and swung to and fro over the precipice that they might see how many hundred feet they would have to be dashed down, and while they were swinging in thoae baskets over the rocks they sang: Jesus, lover of my soul, Let me to thy bosom fly, While tho billows near me roll, While the tempest still Is hiiih. Then they were dashed down to death Oh, how much others have en dured for Christ, and how Little we en dure for Christ! We want to ride to heaven in • Pullman sleeping car, our feet on soft plush, the bed made up early, so we can sleep all the way. the black porter of death to wake us up only in time to enter the golden city. We want all the surgeons to fix our band np Let them bring on all the lint and all the bandages and all the jalve, for our hand is hurt, while Elea- tar does not know his hand is hurt “His hand clave unto the sword.” Strike Hard For Illffht. As I look at Eleazar’s hand I come to tho conclusion that he has done a great deal of hard hitting. I am not surprised when I see that those four men—Eleazar tnd his three companions drove back the army of Philistines—that Eleazar’s •word clave to his hand, for every time he struck an enemy with one end of the sword the other end of the sword wounded him. When he took hold of the sword, the sword took hold of him Oh, we have found an enemy who cannot be conquered by rosewater and soft speeches. It must be sharp stroke and straight thrust There is intemper ance, and there is fraud, and there is gambling, and there is lust, and there are 10,000 battalions of iniquity, armed Philistine Iniquity. How are they to be captured and overthrown ? Sott sermons in morocco cases laid down in front of an exquisite audience will not do it. You have got to call things by their right name. You have got to expel from our churches Christians who eat the sacrament on Sunday and devour widows’ houses ad the week. We have got to stop our indignation against the Hittites and the Jebusites and the Gir- gnshites and let those poor wretches go and apply our indignation to the mod ern transgressions which need to he dragged out and slain. Ahabs hero, Herods here, Jezebels here, tho mas sacre of tho infants here. Strike for God so hard that while you slay tho sin tho sword will adhere to your own hand. I tell you, my friends, we want a few John Knoxes and John Wesleys in tho Christian church today. Tho whole tendency is to refine on Christian work. Wo keep on refining on it until we send apologetic word to iniquity wo are about to capture it. And we must go with sword silver chased and presented by the ladies, and we must ride on white palfrey under embroidered hous ing. 'putting the spurs In only just enough to make the charger dunce gracefully, and then we must send a missive, delicate as a wedding card, to ask the old black giant of sin if he will not surrender. Women saved by the grace of God and on glorious mission sent, detained from Sabbath classes be cause their new hat is not done. Churches that shook our cities with great revivals sending around to ask some demonstrative worshiper if he will not please to say “amen” and “halleluiah” a little softer. It seems as if in our churches we wanted a baptism of cologne and balm of a thousand flow ers when we actually need a baptism of fire from the Lord God of Pentecost. But wo are so afraid somebody will criticise our sermons or criticise our prayers or criticise our religions work that our anxiety for the world’s re demption is lost in the fear we will get our hand hurt, while Eleazar went into tho conflict, “and his hand clave unto tho sword. ” Strong to the End. But I see in the next place what a hard thing it was for Eleazar to get his hand and his sword parted. The mus cles and the sinews had been so long grasped around the sword ho could not drop it when he proposed to drop it, and his three comrades, I suppose, came up and tried to help him, and they bathed the hack part of the hand, hop ing tho sinews and muscles would re lax. Bui no. “His hand elave unto the sword. ” Then they tried to pull open the fingers and to pull back the thumb, but no sooner were they pulled back than they closed again, “and his hand clave unto the sword.” But after awhile thsy were successful, and then they noticed that the curve in the palm of the Land corresponded exactly with the curve of the hilt “His hand clave unto the sword. ” You and I have seen it many a time. There are in the United States today many aged ministers of the gospel. They are too feeble now to preach. In the church records the word standing opposite their name in “emeritus. ” or the words are “a minister without charge. ” They were a heroic race. They bad small salaries and hut few kooks, and thay swam spring freshets lo meat tfasir acpeiotmenta, but thay dti la tMk 4* * w«rk ft* GhuL Thof teak •€ zbom of tke haa4a of TkMetioe iaifvitf than you oould aonnl from to tnadown. Tea pat that old nalnlator of the gospel now into a prayer meeting or occasional pulpit or a aick- room where there is some one to be com forted. and it in the same old ring to his voice and the same old atory of pardon and peace and Christ and heavan. His hand has so long clutched the sword in Christian conflict he cannot drop it “His hand clave unto the sword.” I had in my parish in Philadelphia a very aged man who in hia early life had been the companion and adviser of the early presidents, Madison and Monroe. He hud wielded vast influence, but I only knew him as a very aged maa The most remarakble thing about him was his ardor for Christ When he ccnld not stand up in the meetings without propping, he would throw his arm around a pillar of the church, and. though his mind was partially gone, his love for Christ was so great that all were in deep respect and profound ad miration and were moved when he spoke. I was called to see him die. I entered the room, and he said, “Mr. Talmage, I cannot speak to you now. ” lie was in a very pleasant delirium, aa he imagined he had an audience before him. He said. “1 must tell these people to come to Christ and prepare for heav en. ” And then in this pleasant deliri um, both arms lifted, this octogenarian preached Christ and told of the glories of the world to come. There, lying on his dying pillow, his dying hand clave to his sword. No Itellrlnsr From the Conflict. Oh, if there ever was any one who bud a right to retire from tho conflict, it was old Joshua. Soldiers come back from buttle have the names of tho bat tles on their flags, showing where they diutingni.-hed themselves, and it is a very appropriate inscription. Look at that flag of old General Joshua. On it Jericho, Giboon, Hazur. city of Ai, and, instead of the stars sprinkled on the flag, the sun and tho moon which stood still. There he is, 110 years old. He is lying flat on his back, but he is preach ing. His dying words ere a battle charge against idolatry and a rallying cry for the Lord of Hosts os he says, “Behold, this day I go the way of all the earth, and God hath not failed to fulfill his promise concerning Israel.” His dying hand clave unto the sword. There is the headless body of Paul on the road to Ostea. His great brain and his great heart have been severed. The elmwood rods had steng him fearfully. When the cornship broke up, he swam ashore, coming up drenched with the brine. Every day since that day when the horse reared under him in tho sub urbs of Damascus, as the supernatural light fell, down to this day, when he is 08 years of ago and ill from the prison cell of the Mamartine, he has been out rageously treated, and he is waiting to die. How does he spend his last hours? Telling the world how ladly he feels and describing tho rhenmutism that he got in prison, the rheumatism afflicting his limits or the neuralgia piercing his temples or the thirst that fevers his tongue? Oh, no! His last words are the battle shout for Christendom. “I am now ready to be offered, and the time of my departure is at hand; 1 have fought the good fight. ” And so his dy ing hand clave unto the sword. It waa in the front room on the sec ond floor that my father lay n-dying It was Saturday morning, 4 o’clock. Just three years before that day my mother had left him for the skies, and he hud been homesick to join her com pany. He was 83 years of age Minis ters of the gospel came in to comfort him, but ho comforted them. How wonderfully the words sounded out from his dying pillow, “I have been young and now am old, yet have I never seen the righteous forsaken or his seed begging bread.” They bathed his brow and they bathed his hands and they bathed his feet and they succeeded in straightening out the feet, but they did not succeed in bathing open the hand so it would stay open. They bathed the hand open, but it came shut. They bathed it open again, but it came shut. What was the matter with the thumb and the fingers of that old hand? Ah, it had eo long touched the sword of Christian conflict that “his hand clave nnto the sword.” Tlie Grlv of Truth. I intend this sermon an a tonic. I want you to bold the truth with in eradicable grip, and I want yon to strike so hard for God that it will react and while you take the sword the sword will take yon. You notice that the offi cers of the northern army every year assemble, and yon notice that the offi cera of the southern army every year assemble. Soldiers coming together are very apt to recount their experiences and to show their scara Here is a sol dier who pulls up his sleeve and says, “There; I was wounded in that arm,” and shows tho scar. And another sol dier pulls down his collar and says, “There: 1 was wounded on the neck.” And another soldier says. “I have had no use of that limb since the gunshot fracture.” Oh, my friends, when the battle of life is over and the resurrec tion has come and our bodies rise from the dead, will we have on us any scars showing our bravery for God? Christ will bo there all covered with scars, years on the brow, scars on tho hand, scars on tho feet, scars all over the heart won in the battle of redemption. And all heaven will sob aloud with emotion as they look at those scars. Ignatius will be there, and he will point out tho place where tho tooth and paw cf the lion seized him in the Coliseum, and John Huss will be there, and he will show where the coal first scorched the foot on that day when his spirit took wing of flamo from Constance. M’Mil- lun and Campbell and Freeman, Amer ican missionaries 1b India, will be there—tho men who with their wives and children went down in the awful massacre at Cawnpur, and they will show where the daggers of the sepoys struck them. The Wnldenses will be there, and they will show where their bones were broken on that day when the Piedmontese soldiery pitched them over the rocks. And there will be those there who took csre of the sick and who looked after the poor, and they will have evidences of earthly exhaustion. And Christ, with his scarred hand wav ing over the scarred multitude, will say: “You suffered with me on earth. Now be glorified with me in heaven.” And then tho great organs of eternity will take up the chant, and St. John will play, “These are they who came out of great tribulation and had their robes washed and made white in the bieod the L^sah.” ben it**u h/wu streets of heaven that eo earth we ehrenk haek feoaa nil toll and eacriflce and hardship? No sears to show the heavenly soldiery. Not eo much aa one ridge on the palm of the hand to show that just once in all this battle for God and the truth we grasped the aword so firmly and struck eo hard that the aword and the hand stuck together and the hand clave to the sword. Oh, my Lord Jesus, rouse us to thy service. Th/ Mints lu all this glorious war Hhall oontjubr, though the/ die. The/ utm the triumph from afar And sole* It with the eye. When that Illustrious da/ shall rise And all th/ armies shine In rubes of victor/ through the ski on, The glory shall be thine. Tke Automobile In Burgerjr. In taking X ray pictures at tho pa tient’s bouse tt Is no longer necessary in large cities to transport largo elec tric batteries from tho office. New York physicians call up an automobile over the phone, and as it stands at the door attach to its storage battery wires lead ing to the sickroom, and the skiagraph is taken without further trouble.— Medical Record. Eroo Flits. 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As the season of the year when pneumonia, la grippe, sore throat, coughs, colds, catarrh, bonebitis and lung troubles are to bo guarded against, nothing “is a tine substitute,” will “answer the purpose,” or is ‘ just as good” as One Minute Cough Cure, That is the one infallible remedy for all lung, throat or bron chial troubles. Insist vigorously upon having it if “something else” is offered you. Cherokee DrugOo.. Gaff ney, 8. C., undll. 8. Withers, Blacks burg, 8. C. Every time you forgive a man you lower him in his own estimation. “Give me a liver regulator and I can regulate the world.” said a genius. Tho druggist handed him a bottle of Dewitt’s Little Early Riser 8 , the fa mous little pills. Cherokee Drug Co , Gaffney, S. C., and It. 8, Withers, Blacksburs, 8. C. MONEY TO LOA.v IMPROVED TOWN PROPERTY. AUdrchS Mrs. E. A. EixznDR, No. lis, llcynuifl Street, J»-l-tf Asheville. N. C. HONEY TO LEND!! On lonsr time mid easy tiiruiw. Kecuml l>y Ural, liiortinure on Improved farms. Apply to F. II. Iln/FMAN. 4 UowlltiK Oreoen. or to J.C, JavrBMiKH. New York City. GalTue/s, 8. C., for information. -fi-Otuo pd. REVOLT ON NECROS QUICKLY PUT OOWN flandits Itiao and Kill Several Island Officials. CAPTURED BY AMERICANS HlHtnry (iuvcnior (Drill h lit ports to Otis That 11* 1( <8 QuvlleU itn Uprls. Ing mill Made I'rlsoner.Aof Would-lit 1 It. volutloiitsts. Manila, April 0.—Colonel Smith, the governor of the island of Negros, re ports that a number of bandits, beaded by a man named Papaissio, attempted a rebellion on March 27 and kilied several officials of Jumamayulau. He also cap tured other officials and issued a procla mation calling upon tho natives to rise and exterminate the Americans and S]>aniards. Major Simo and twe cempanics of the Crtliforuia regiment were dispatched by water to the scene of tho disturbance ami Colonel Duboce and two other com panies of troops wore sent overland. On April 2 this force marched 12 miles and captured Lulidiz, the headquarters of Ibo bandits, and destroyed the town. The troops also captured 35 prisoners and scattei M Papaissio’s forces, thus effectually quelling tha rebellion at the outset. There nas been a week’s respite in the hostilities, chiefly in order to rllow the Filipinos to digest the proclamation of the United States commission. The rebe s remain remarkably fluiet. Tho sharpshooters of Genotai Lawnon’s Hue have borrowed tho Filipino tactics and are harr.issing the rebels at night, picking off some of them nightly. Malolos is resuming its natural as pect. business is going on. preparatiaus are being made to establish % permanent camp for the troops there and the eoL diers ace cleaning the city. PLAN TO SWAP TERRITORY. For frost bites, burns, indolent sores, ezema, skin disease, and esne- cinlly piles, DeWilt s Witch Hu/.el Salve stands first and best. Look out for dishonest people who try to imi tate and counterfeit It. It Is their endorsement of a good article. Worth less goods are not imitated. Get De- Witt’s Witch Hazel Salve. Cherokee Drug Co , Gaffney, S, C., and R. 8. Witters, Blacksburg, 8. C. Hope is a pleasing acquaintance, but one can seldom depend upon him. For a quick remedy and one that is perfectly safe for children let us recommend One Minute Cough Cure, It is excellent for croup, hoarseness, tickling in the throat r.nd coughs. Cheroken Drug Co., Gaffney 8, C., and R. 8. Withers, BlacsKburg 8. C. Beauty la Blood Deep. Clean blood means a clean skin. No beauty without it. Cascarets, Candy Cathar tic clean your blood and keep it clean, by atirring up the lazy liver and djiving all im- I mrities from the body. Begin to-day to janish pimples, boils, blotches, blackheads, and that sickly bilious complexion by taking Cascarcts,—beauty for ten cents. Ail drug gists, satisfaction guaranteed, 10c, 25c, 50c. D. R. Runeati. C. I’. .Handers. W.S. Hall, Jr. DUHCAH, SANDERS & HALL, Attorneys-at-Law. Office two doors above Ledger Office. All business attended to carefully and promptly. Special attention given to collec tions. Real Estate For Sale. For sale, on liberal terms, five tracts of land adjoining Limestone property. Tracts vary In acreage from 10MI to 70 3-10. Also eight lots of the hotel property at Limestone. Excellent building sites and cheap. The old hotel and lot la also for sale. Apply to R. G Sams. TllOS. B. HlTTf ek. IIenkt K. OsnonxB BUTLER & OSBORNE, ATT OH «YiS-/VT-IwX\V. Gaffney, S. C. Very careful and prompt attention given to all business entrusted to us. CBY~|>ractlce tn all the courts. Great Interest In the Proposition That We Trade With Kiiglnrid. Wasiukotok, April 6.—Public raon here are discussing with unabated in terest tho proposition that tho United Statos and Great Britain enter into an agreement by which tho United Statos shall turn tho sovereignty of tho Phil ippines over to Great Britain in return for the British West Indies. It is spparout that such &u exchange would be vsry popular in the United States and the only question in the minds of most of the men with whom your correspondent has talked is whether Great Britain could be induced to part with her West Indian possessions. It is suggested, however, that the posses sion of the Phillippines would give Great Britain such an advantage in the for east, where tha fivnVrr between the ■ntoyeoa sattewe lev we4e ie ee efc**», that eke ought eonslder thoee UMmAs mnoh sere vaVnable than her West £a- dlsn possessions enn possibly be. It is believed that Great Britain would insist on retaining possession of some of the strongest intrinsic) points iu the West Indies, but the United States would be jwrfocrly willing to have her do so, while this oc*ntry would retain a strong naval base iu the Philippines. HARD TO SECURE A JURY. $p«olt»l Venlra of ftlxtcen >I«u Call oil In tlis Gsorge Cass. Caktojj, O., April &—The morning hours of tho trial of Mrs. George gave indications of protracted delay in com pleting tho Jury panel. A special venire of 10 men had been called and inquiries as to qualifications wore resumed. The first man called was incapacitated on account of defec tive hearing. The next qualified and Schoolteacher Liud wos peremptorily challenged by the defense. The next three were barred by positive opinions held ou the merits of the case. Two wouldn’t do because of views against capital and { muishmont, tho next was over the age Imit and the next would only vote for the death penalty under direct evideuce. Courtroom scenes were obout the same as before, the room being crowded to its capaeitv. Mrs. George was dressed as before and had tlie same friends with her. Auother bouquet was brought to her by one of her friends. At 10 o’clock the defense bad 11 peremptory chal lenges and only ten names were ou the venire. There is doubt about Securing a jury today. I’ntltiwn For Jlgr. Clinpnile. Nkw Orleans, April 6 —In the pres ence of a congregation which crowded the old St. Louis cathedral to the doors the pallium, the insignia of ofiioe of an archbishop, was conferred today upou Monsignor Chapelle, archbishop of New Orleans The prelate was escorted from the archie pi scnpal residence by civil and military organizations to the cathedral The pallium was conferred by the Right Rev. Fitzgerald, bishop of Litvlo Rock and senior bishop of the province of which tho soo ot New Orleans is the ecclesiastical front. Rulel<!««l ll*for<* Ills Fnmiljr. Brunswick, Ga., April 8.—News has reached hero of the suicide of George W. Fleming, a prominent farmer of Camden county. Fleming blew out bis brains in the presence of his wife and five little children. He had been drink ing for several days and was ou the verge of delirium tremens. I’urtrll to MfM SvnnlHii. Mkmpius, April 6. —Patsy Purtell of Kansas City and James Svaulan of Pittsburg, who recently fought a 20- routid draw here, have been rematched. The content takes place during the pres ent monih, (ho date not yet being set tled lliitil'i&lon Succeeds klitglcr. Washington, Apiil tl —The president today appointed Colonel Adalbert I. Buffington to be brigadier general and chief of the bureau of ordnance, to suc ceed the late General Flagler. • To Cure Conutlimtlon Forever. Take Cascaiets Candy Cathartic. 10c or ate. If C. C. C. foiUocure.draggisUrefund mmi. y. -+J. C. JEFFERIES4- OAFFNEV, S. C. Attorney and Counrellor at Law. Practices in All the Courts. Collections n Specialty. Dr. C. T. LIPSCOMB, Dentist, Office over R. A. Jones ft Co ’e Store. Cau bo found at office six days in the week CLINE BROS., Livery, Feed and Sale Stables, Opposite National Bank. First-el»ss turnouts; prompt attention; and courteous attendants. t38f~U r o solicit your patronage. J, E. WEBSTER, Attorney-A.t> l_v;\ w. Office in Court House. (Probate J udge’s office) Gaffney City, S. C. Practices in uli the courts. Collec tions a specialty. W. L. JOHNSON, -TEACHER OF- Vocal and Instrumental Music. TERMS REASONABLE, and METHODS LATEST ADOPTED IN OINCINNATTI COLLEGE OF MUSIC. SPECIAL RATES TO SCHOOL OR CHURCH CLASSES IN MIGHT READING and SINGING. 3-28-3(110 SOUTHERN RAILWAlQ need fteheHale of Pi lo Effect Oct, 18. IMS Orecnabci’o.. CFarlette . Oustoaia I Gags Mt Hackshui'x •• Gaffneys Bpartauburg. Greenville.... Central •caeca Wesfiu luster. Tooooe Mt. Airy Cornelia S Ltjla. . 4 it Biueeville... 41 aford Koreress.. ,. ■ Atlanta, E. T. . Atlanta, O. T. »M> a •» p!»M U5M!W»r R53ITrMT U Ar Dali; y Sx oept , eea traTHme .eastern time Sunday. . Atlanta, e - • Kororees, Worerons. east era ilfua.^! Ar Atlanta, central flee.. 13^ iWli- " rnr J4U udom or* in doily service tere. ton and Strath- *rs ewe* <vv WU IUCUa KTflTUftffir western Vestibule Limited. Throufh Pnhmaa •Ircptna ears between Hew York oad New Or leans, via Washington, Atlanta and Montfom- aryiend aloe between New York and Memlh via W aabiny ton .Atlanta and Blnalathan. rli elass thorcSjukfare coaches betwe* Waakin ton and Atlanta. Dining ears serve all a an route. Pullman drawls between Greens need on at Forfo._ . v arriving there tn time for breakfast. Noa 86 and 88—United States Past MaO runs solid between Washington and New Or leans, via Southern Railway, A. ft W. P. R. R., and L. ft N. R. R., beiav composed of baggage ear and coaches, through witnout change for passenger** of all claasaa Pullman drawls E a sleeping ears between New York an r Orleans, via Atlanta nod Montgomery ring Washington each Wednesday, a loans sleeping car will run through between Week Ington and ban Francisoo without nhanrt Noa 11,37, M and 12—Pullman sleeping car between Richmond and Charlotte, vu PanvUit S southbound Noe. 11 and 87. northbound Net i and 13 RANKS. GANNON. J. M CULP, lilrd V P. ft Qen. Mgr., Traffic*!'g*r- •r a - - WaehlngtoA, IX O W. A. TURK, 8. H. HAKDmOK, Qen 1 Pass Af 4 , Ass't Gen’1 Pass. Ag't., Washington, y. Q. AGant^Qk