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Washington, April 23.—Ono of the
most notablo characters of onr time is
the subject of Dr. Tulniage’s discourse,
and the lessons drawn are inspiring;
text, II Samuel ill, 88, “Know ye not
that then* is h prince ami a great man
fallen this day in IsraelV”
Here is a plumed catafalque, followed
by King David and n funeral oration
which lie delivers at the tomb. Con
cerning Abner, tho great, David weeps
ont the text. More appropriately than
when originally uttered we may now
utter this resounding lamentation,
“Know ye not that there is a prince and
a great man fallen this day in Israel Y”
It was 30 minutes after (5, the exact
hour of sunset of the Sabbath day, and
while the evening lights were being
kindled, that tho soul of Stephen J.
Field, tho lawyer, tho judge, the pa
triot, tho statesman, tho Christian,
ascended. It was sundown in the home
on yonder Capitol hill, as it was sun
down on all tho surronnding hills, hut
in both cases the sun et to be followed
by a glorious sunrise. Hear the Easter
anthems still lingering in the air, “The
trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall
rise. ”
Onr departed friend came forth a boy
from a minister's home in New Eng
land. He knelt with father and mother
at morning and evening prayer, learned
from maternal lips lessons of piety
which lasted him and controlled him
amid all the varied and exciting scenes
of a lifetime and helped him to die in
peace an octogenarian. Biot out from
American history the names of those
ministers’ sons who have done honor to
judicial bench and commercial circle and
national legislature and presidential
chair, and yon would obliterate many
of the grandest chapters of that history.
It is no small advantage to have started
from a home where God is honored and
the subject of a world’s emancipation
from sin and sorrow is under constant
discussion. Tho Ten Commandments,
which are tho foundation of all good
law—Roman law, German law, Eng
lish law, American law—are the best
foundation upon which to build charac
ter, and those which the boy, Stephen
J. Field, so often heard in tho parson
age at Stoekbridgu were bis guidance
when u half century after, as a gowned
justice of the supreme court of the
United States, he unrolled his opinions.
Bibles, hymn books, catechisms, family
prayers, atmosphere sanctified, are good
surroundings for hoys and girls to start
from, and if our laxer ideas of religion
and Sabbath days and home training
prodnee as splendid men and women as
the much derided Puritanic Sabbath
and Puritanic teachings have produced,
it will bo a matter of congratulation
and thanksgiving.
Do not pass by tho fact that I have
not yet seen emphasized that Stephen
J. Field was a minister’s son. Notwith
standing that there are conspicuous ex
ceptions to the rule—and the exceptions
have built np a stereotyped defamation
on tho subject—statistics plain and un
deniable prove that a larger proportion
of ministers’ sons turn out well than
are to bo found in any other genealogic
al table. Let all tho parsonages of all
denominations of Christians where chil
dren are growing up take the consola
tion. See the star of hope pointing
down to that manger i
Member of Itoyal Fnmlly.
Notice also that onr departed friend
was a member of a royal family. There
were no crowns or scepters or thrones
in that ancestral line, but the family
of tho Fields, like tho family of the
New York Primes, like the family of
the Princeton Vxandors, like a score
of families that 1 might mention, if it
were best to mention them, were “the
children of tho king” and had put on
them honors brighter than crowns and
wielded influence longer and wider than
scepters. That family of Fields traces
an honorable lineage back 800 years to
Hnbertr.u do la Feld, coadjutor of Wil
liam the Conqueror. Let us thank God
for such families, generation after gen
eration on tho side of that which is
right and good. Four sons of that coun
try minister, known tho world over for
extraordinary usefulness in their
spheres, legal, commercial, literary and
theological, and a daughter, tho mother
of one of tho associate jnstices of the
supremo court. Such families counter
balance for good those families all
wrong from generation to generation—
fanalies that stand for wealth, unright-
eou»r got and stingily kept or wicked
ly squandered; families that stand for
fraud or impurity or malevolence; fam
ily names that immediately come to
every mind, though through senso of
propriety they do not come to tho lip.
The name of Field will snrvivo ceutn-
ries and be a synonym for religion, for
great jurisprudence, for able Christian
journalism, as the names of the Pha
raohs and the Cicsars stand for cruelty
and oppression and vice.
While parents cannot aspire to have
such conspicuous households as the ono
tho name of whose son we now cele
brate, all parents may by fidelity in
prayer and holy example have tbcL
sons and daughters become kings and '
queens unto God, to reign forever and
ever. But tho work has already been
done, and I could go through this coun
try and find a thousand households
which have by the grace of God and
blessing upon paternal and maternal
excellence become the royal families of
America.
Let young taen beware lest they by
their behavior blot such family records
with sonie misdeed. We can all think
of households *ho names of which
meant everything honorable atnl con
secrated for a long while, hut by the
deed of ono son sacrificed, disgraced
and blasted. Look ont how yon rob
your consecrated ancestry of the name
they handed to you unsullied I Better
us trustee to that name add something
worthy. Do something to honor the old
homestead, whether a mountain cabin
or a city mansion or a country parson
age. Rev. David Dudley Field, though
I 82 years passed upward, is honored to
day by the Christian life, tho service,
the death of his sou Stephen.
lullurnco of it Good Katlirr.
Among the most absorbing books of
the Bible is tho book of Kings, which
u^aiu and again illustrates Unit, though
piety 1h not hereditary, the style of
parentage has much to do with the
style of descendant. It declares of King
Abijnm, “Hi 1 walked in all tho eins of
his father which he had done before
him,” and of King Azarinh, “He did
that which was right in the sight of
the Lord, according to all that his fa
ther Amaziah had done. ” We owe n
debt to those who have gone before in
onr line as certainly ns we have obliga
tions to those who subsequently appear
in the household. Not so sacred is your
old father’s walking stuff, which yon
keep in his memory or the eyeglasses
through which your mother studied the
Bible in her old age as the name they
Iku'c, the name which you inherited.
Keep it bright, I charge you. Keep it
suggestive of something elevated in
character. Trample not underfoot that
which to your father and mother was
dearer than life itself. Defend their
graves as they defended your cradle.
Family coat of arms, escutcheons, en
signs armorial, lion couchant, or lion
dormant, or lion rampant, or lion com
batant, may pttrnct attention, but bet
ter than all heraldic inscription is a
family name which means from gener
ation to generation faith in God, self
sacrifice, duty performed, a life well
lived and a death happily died and a
heavin gloriously won I That was the
kind of name that Justice Field aug
mented and adorned and perpetuated—
a name honorable at the close of the
eighteenth century, more honored now
at the close of the nineteenth.
Notice also that onr illustrious friend
was great in reasonable and genial dis
sent. Of 1,042 opinions he rendered,
none were more potent or memorable
than those rendered while he was in
small minority and sometimes in a mi
nority of one. A learned and distin
guished lawyer of this country said ho
would rather be author of Judge Field’s
dissenting opinions than to be the au
thor of the constitution of the United
States. The tendency is to go with the
multitude, to think what others think,
to say and do what others do. Some
times the majority are wrong, and it
requires heroes to take tho negative,
but to do that logically and in good
humor requires some elements of make
up not often found in judicial dissent
ers or, indeed, in any class of men.
There are so many people in the world
opposed to everything and who display
their opposition in rancorous and ob
noxious ways that a Judge Field was
needed to make the negative respected
and genial and right. Minorities under
God save the world and save the church.
An unthinking and precipitate “yes”
may he stopped by a righteous and be
roio “ro. ” The majorities are not al
ways right. Thq old gosped hymn de
clares it:
Numbers nro no mark that men will right bo
found;
A few were saved in Noah's ark to many mil
lions drowned.
IIin DlHhcntiiiK Opinion.
The declaration of American Inde
pendence was u dissenting opinion. The
Free vhnrch of Scotland, under Chal
mers and bis compeers, was a dissenting
movement. Tho Bible itself, Old Testa
ment and New Testament, is a protest
against tho theories that would have
destroyed the world and is a dissenting
as well as a divinely inspired book. Tho
decalogue on Sinai repeated ten times
“Thou shalt not.” For ages to eome
will be quoted from lawbooks in court
rooms Justice Field’s maguiticent dis
senting opinions.
Notice that onr nscended friend had
such a character as assault and peril
alone can develop. Ho had not come to
tho soft cushions of tho supreme court
bench stepping on cloth of gold and
saluted all along the lino by handclap
ping of applause. Country parsonages
do not rock their babes In satin lined
cradle or afterward send them out into
the world with enough in their band to
purchase place and power. Pastors’ sal
aries in the early part of this century
hardly ever reached $700 a year. Econ
omies that sometimes cut into tho hone
characterized many of tho homes of the
New England clergymen. The young
lawyer of whom we speak today arrived
in San Francisco in 1840 with only $10
in his pocket. Williarastown college
was only introductory to a post gradu
ate course which our illustrious friend
took while administering justice and
halting- ruflianism amid the mining
camps of California. Oh, those “forty-
niners.” as they were called, through
what privations, through what narrow
escapes, amid what exposures they
moved I Administering and executing
law among outlaws never has been an
easy undertaking. Among mountain
eers, many of whom had no regard for
hnman life and where the snap of pistol
and bang of gun were not unusual re
sponses, required courage of tho highest
metal.
Behind a dry goods box surmounted
by tallow candles Judge Field began
his judicial career. What exciting
■cenes ho passed through! An infernal
machine was handed to him, and inside
the lid of tho box was pasted his de
cision in tho Pueblo case, the decision
that had balked unprincipled specula
tors. Ten years ago his life would have
passed out had net an officer of tho law
shot down his assailant. It took a long
training of hardship and abuse and
misinterpretation and threat of violence
and Hash of assassin’s knife to fit him
for tho high place where he could defy
legislatures and congresses and presi
dents apd the world when he knew he
was right. Hardship is the grindstone
that sharpens intellectual faculties, and
the swords with which to strike effect
ively for God and one’s country.
The reason that life to so many is a
failure is because they do not have op
position enough and trials enough or
because they ignominously He down to
be run over by them instead of nsing
them for stairs on which to pnt their
foot and mount. Those “born with a
gold spoon in their mouths” are apt to
take their last medicine out of a pewter
mug. Have brave heart in ail depart
ments, ye men of many obsL'clesi Tharo
is no brawn or character without them.
The roughs glaring and growling around
about tho shed of a courtroom in Marys
ville, Cal, had as much to do with
Judge Field’s development as Mark
Hopkins, the great Williamatown col
lege president. Opposition develops
courage. I like the ring of Martin Lu
ther’s deiiauco when ho said to tho
Duke of Saxony, “Things are otherwise
ordered in heaven than they are at
Augsburg.”
Honor of (lie Jnilieinr)'.
Notice also how much onr friend did
for Hie honor of the judiciary. What
inomentotiH scenes have been witnessed
in onr United States supromu court, ou
the bench and before tho bench, wheth
er, far back. It held its sessionaln tho up-
jferrooniof t 1 e Exchange at New York,
or afterward for ten years in the city
ball at Philadelphia, or later in the
cellar of yonder capitol, the place where
for many years tit*; Congressional library
was ki-pt, a sepulcher where books wore
buried alive, tho hole called by John
Randolph “the cavo of Trophoniusl”
What mighty men stood before that bar
pleading in immortal eloquence on ques
tions of national import! Edmund Ran
dolph and Alexander Hamilton and
Pinkney and Jeremiah Mason and Caleb
Cashing and the weird and irresistible
Rufus Choate mid Gecrgo Wood and
Charles O’Conor and James T. Brady
and Francis B. Cutting and men now
living just ns powerful.
How suggestive tho invitation which
William Wirt, the great Virginian,
wrote his friend inviting him to yonder
supreme courtroom: “Tomorrow a
week will come on the great steamboat
question from New York. Emmett and
Oakley on one side, Webster and myself
on the other. Como down and hear it.
Emmett’s whole soul is in the case, and
ho will stretch all Ids powers. Oakley
is said to be ono of tho finest logicians
of the ago, as mneb a Phocion as Em
mett is a Themistocles, and Webster is
us ambitious as Caesar. Ho will not be
ontdono by any man if it is within tho
compass of Ids power to avoid it. Come
to Washington. It will be a combat
worth witnessing.” Tho supreme court
has stood so high in England and tho
United States that the vices of a few
who have occupied that important place
have not been able to disgrace it, nei
ther the corruption of Francis Bacon,
nor tho cruelty of Sir George Macken
zie, nor tho Sabbath desecration of Lord
Castlereagh.
To that highest of all tribunals Abra
ham Lincoln called our friend, but ho
lived long enough to honor the supremo
court more than it had ever honored
him. For more than 34 years ho sat in
tho presence of this nation and of nil
nations a model judge. Fearlessness,
integrity, devotion to principle, char
acterized him. No bribe ever touched
his hand. No profane word ever scalded
his tongue. No blemish of wrong ever
marred his character. Fully qualified
was he to have his name associated in
the history of this country with the
greatest of the judiciary.
As at 13 o’clock day by day on yonder
hill tho gavel falls in the supreme
courtroom and it isunuonneed that the
chief justice of the United States and
the associate jnstices are about to en
ter, and all counselors at the bar and
all spectators rise to greet them, and
the officer with the words, “Oyez,
oyez, oyez I” announces that all is now
ready for a hearing and exclaims, “God
save tho United States of America,” so
I wish wo could in imagination gather
together those who have occupied that
high judicial place in this and other
lands, and they might enter and after
the falling of some mighty gavel had
demanded attention wo could look
upon them--Marshall, the giant of
American jurisprudence, and John Jay,
of whom Daniel Webster said in com
memoration, “When the spot less ermine
of the judicial robe fell on John Jay, it
touched nothing less spotless than
ttHolf,’’ and Rutledge and Cushing and
Ellsworth and Joseph Storey, called the
Walter Scott of common law, and Sir
Matthew Halo and Lord Eldon and
Lord Tenterdcn and Sir James McIn
tosh and Mansfield and the long lino of
lord chancellors and tho great judges
from both sides tho sea—and after they
had taken their places in our quickened
imagination tho distinguished cases of
centuries which they decided might
again be called on, after the assembled
nations had ejaculated, “God save the
United States of America,” “God save
Great Britain.” “God save the na
tions. ”
The Sanctity of Law.
Ah, how the law honors and sancti
fies everything it touches! Natural law.
Civil law. Social law. Commercial
law. Common law. Moral law. Eccle
siastical law. International law. Oh,
tho dignity, the impressiveness, the
power of law I It is the only thing be
fore which Jehovah bows, hut ho hows
before that, although tho law is of his
own making. Tho law! By it worlds
swing. By it tho fate of centuries is
decided. By it all the affairs of time
and all the cycles of eternity will bo
governed. We cannot soar so high or
sink so deep or reach ont so far or live
so long as to escape it. It is tho throne
on which the Almighty sits. To in
terpret law, what a profession! What
a responsibility I What an execration
when the Judge bo a Lord Jeffreys!
What a benediction if he he u Chancel
lor Kent!
In passing, let mo say that for this
chief tribunal of onr country congress
should soon provide a better place. Let
mme of tho moneys voted for improve
ment of rivers which are nothing but
flry creeks and for harbors which will
never have any shipping and for monu
ments to some people—whom it is not
at all important for ns to remember—bo
voted fur the erection of a building
worthy of our United States supreme
court. John Buskin, in “Stones of
Venice,” calls attention to the pleasing
lact that in the year 813 tho dogo of
Venice devoted himself to putting up
two great buildings—Ht. Mark’s, for tho
worship of God, and a palace for tho
administration of justice toman. In its
appreciation of what Is best let not
I 18UV lie behind 813. With such granite
in our quarries and such architects ca
pable of drafting sublime structure and
such magnificent sites on which to build,
let not another year pass before we hear
the trowel ring ou tho cornerstone of a
temple to be occupied by tho highest
court of tho land.
Have yon over realized how much
God has honored law in the fact that
all up and down the Bible he makes tho
judge a type of himself and employs
the scene of n courtroom to set forth the
grandeurs of tho great judgment day T
Book of Genesis, “Shall not tho judge
of ftU the earth do right?” Book of
Deuteronomy, “Tho Lord shall judge
his people.” Book of Psalms, “God is
Judge himaelf.” Book of Acts, “Judge
of quick and dead.” Book of Timothy,
“Tho Lord the righteous Judge. ” Nev
er will it he understood how God honors
judges and courtrooms until tho thun
derbolt of the last day shall pound tho
I opening of the great assize -tho day of
trial, tho day of clearance, l ho day of
doom, the day of judgment. Tho law of
tho case on that occasion will be read
and the indictment of ten counts, which
are the Ten Commandments. Justice
will plead the case again t ns, hut onr
glorious advocate will plead in our be
half, for “wo have an advocate with
tho Father—Jesus Christ, the fight-
•Hr
i'on)i.” Then tho case will ls> decided in
onr (learancc. aft tho Judge announces
"There is now, therefore, no condem
nation to them who nro in Christ
Jesus " Under the crowded galleries of
cloud on that last day, and under tho
swaying upholstery of n burning heav
ens. and while the Alps and Himalayas
and Mount Washington are falling flat
on (heir faces, wo will be able to under
stand the significance of those Scripture
passages which speak of God as Judge
and employ the courtroom of earth as
typical of tho scene when all nations
shall he brought into triMuml.
S«*rvlcv*i fc'iiltlifiilly I'erformed.
To have done well, all that such a
profusion could ask of him. and to have
made that profession still more honor
able by his brilliant and sublime life,
is enough for national and international,
terrestrial and celestial congratulation.
And then to expire beautifully, while
the prayers of his church were being
offered at his bedside, the door of heav
en opening for his entrance as the door
of earth opened for his departure, the
sob of the earthly, farewell caught np
into raptures that never die. Yes, lie
livid and died in the faith of the old
fashioned Christian religion.
Young man, I want to tell you that
Justice Field believed in the Bible from
lid to lid, a hook all true‘either as doc
trine or history, much of it tho history
of cvi ills that neither God nor man ap
proves. Our friend drank the wine of
the holy sat l ament and ate the bread
of which “if a man eat he shall never
hunger. ” He was the up and down, ont
and out fri< ml of the church of Christ.
If there had been anything illogical in
our religion, he would have scouted it,
for he was a logician. If there had been
in it anything unreasonable, he would
have .rejected it, because he was a great
reasontr. If there had been in it any
thing that would not stand research, he
would have exploded tho fallacy, for
his life was a life of research. Young
men of Washington, young men of
America, young men of the round
world, a religion that would stand the
test of Justice Field’s penetrating and
all ransacking intellect must have in it
something worthy of your confidence.
1 tell you now that Christianity has not
only the heart of tho world otj its side,
but the brain of the world also. Yo
who have tried to represent the religion
of the Bible as something pusillani
mous, how do you account for the
Christian faith of Stephen J. Field,
whole shelves of the law library occu
pied with his magnificent decisions?
And now may the God of all comfort
speak to the bereft, especially to her
who was the queen of his life from the
day \vb a as a stranger he was shown
to her pew in tho Episcopal church to
this tiaio of the broken heart. lie
changed churches, but did not change
religions, for the church in which ho
was horn and the church in which he
died alike believe in God the Father Al
mighty, Maker of heaven and earth,
and in Jesus Christ, his only begotten
Son, and in th« corn muni on of saints,
and In the life everlasting. Amen.
The body of our friend sleeps in tem
porary resting place. Hearts over
whelmed with grief cannot just now
decide where that sacred and silent
form shall hear the trumpet that wakes
the dead. Three places are proposed,
and nil appropriate. Some say 'et it ho
in some God’s aero near this capital,
where tho pillows of dust are already
embroidered with spring (lowers. How
appropriate some cemetery near this
city, which was so long his residence,
and so near the place where he sat in
judgment, holding evenly the balances
that God put in his hand I It would be
well for ns sometimes to go out and
read his epitaph and recall his virtues.
Borne say let him rest on the Pacific
slope, where he achieved so much for
the new state and fitted himself for so
great eminence, and it would ho beau
tiful to let the whole nation bow at his
passing catafalque, a funeral reaching
from ocean to ocean and 3,000 miles
long, the Alleghanics and the Rockies
and the Bierra Nevadas echoing the
thunders of the rail train taking him to
his last earthly home.
But equally as appropriate is another
proposal that he be put to rest amid the
graves of father and mother and re
nowned brothers and the New England
friends of the family in tho cemetery
at Btockbridge, Mass. After a life of
toil and struggle he needs some quiet
place. Old men who were his schoolfel
lows would lean heavily upon tho staff
and watch as he was brought through
the gates (f the place in which they
also will soon lie down to rest. Far
away from the jostle and contention
and rush and activities of the great
cities ho would sleep the calm sleep of
the jtnt. The hyacinths and calla lilies
of the spring planted there would typify
tho resmTection, and the snows of win
ter banked there would suggest the
robes made whito in the blood of the
Lamb.
Good by, my dear old friend of mere
than 30 years. Your words of personal
encouragement and good cheer give
me tie* light to offer words of commem
oration. Blit I mr.it leave to others his
place i f burial. This city might choose
Rock Creek and Oak Hill, and Ban Fran
cisco might ( house Lone* Mountain; yet
if 1 had i.*y i hoice I would say let it ho
the cemetery at Btockhridgo. lie would
lx* at home there and it would be u
family reunited, but whatever be tbe
place, h t me sprinkle over the newly
made grave this handful of heather
from the Scotch highlands, in the hymn
which tho people of that land of An
drew Melville and John Knox are apt
to sing on their way to the* grave of
some ono greatly beloved :
N« tgliljcir, irx-ejit our j urting soiitf.
Tin* rcnil l-* F.horf, *!.n u st (m Imi^.
Tiii* Lo;-<i Lions/,ht Is;*•, (ho Lord takeshonco;
This Is no homo of iieneunouco.
On broad of n.irth and brood of tonrs
Tim j llgrini f( d (Is . o s hcokored j < srs.
Now, laudord world, )h;:t to (ho door;
Thy Kucst It gono forever inoro.
(ionn to tho hind of sweet repose,
Ht* eoinrnde* blr«v him an ho geos.
Of toll rod moil the dny wn* fnll.
A good Bleep now—4be niaht Is cool.
Yob, village bolln, ring softly, riiiR,
And In tho blessed gnhbuth bring
Which from this weary workday tryKt
Awuiin God's folk through Jokuh Christ.
have piles, cure them. No
inning horrible operations
lIuokli-n'H Arnica Halve.
Tho Best fv.lve in tho world for
Outs, Bruises, Boros, Ulcer. Salt
Rheum, Fever Bores, Tetter, Chapped
Hands, Chilblains, Corns, and all
Skin Eruption, and posllvely cures
Piles or no pay required. It Is guar
anteed to give perfect satisfaction or
money refunded. Price 2o cents per
box. For sale by The Dui’re Drug
Co.
If you
use undo
that simply remove the results of tho
diseusn without disturbing the dis
ease itself. Place your confidence in
DeWitt’s Witch Hazel Salve. It has
never failed to cure others; it will
not fail to cure you. Cherokee Drug
Co., Gaffney, S. C.. and R. S. With
ers, Blacksburg, 8, C.
No-To-IJac for Fifty Cent*.
Guaranteed tobacco habit cure, maU«s weak
men strong, blood pure. 50c, $1. All drut'gists.
“Both my wife and myaelf have been
using CASCARETS and they are the best
medicius we Rave ever bad in the houee. Last
week my wife was frantic with headache for
two days, she tried some of yourCASCARETS,
and they relieved the pain in her head almost
Immediately. We both recommend Cascarets."
Chas. Stedefoku,
Pittsburg Safe & Deposit Co., PitUburg, Pa.
CANDY
i CATHARTIC ^
luftcoaeki
TRAOf MASK RfGl&TIREO
Pleasant, Palatable. Potent. Taste Good. I>o
(lood, Never Sicken, Weaken, or Gripe. 10c, kjc. U)c.
... CURE CONSTIPATION. ...
Sterling Item.iff Conpnn;, I blr.Ro, Montreal. Nett Tart. 317
N0aT0>RAC 8 ! >,d “"Ifcyi'rj"teed by alldruB-
flU* I U*BHW uists to Ct’HK Tobacco Habit.
D.K.Duncan. C. P. Sanders. W.S. Hall, Jr.
DUNCAN, 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 Sate.
For sale, on liberal terms, five tracts of
land adjoining Limestone property. Tracts
vary in acreage from 104 to 70 k-10.
Also eight lots of the hotel property at
Limestone. Excellent building sites and
cheap. The old hotel and lot Is also for sale.
Apply to
R. O. Sams.
Notice to Contractors.
Sealed bids will be received by tbe under
signed at the office of N. Lipscomb. County
Supervisor, in the city of Gaffney. Cherokee
County. 8. C., until noon, May 4h, 1899. for
the erection of a two-story brick jail and
jailer's residence. Jail department to be
tire-proof, according to plan and speeitica-
tlons now on file in aboye described office.
Each bidder will bo required to file with
bid a certified check for live hundred dol
lars payable to undersigned and agreeing to
forfeit same should be not sign contract and
make bond in five days from time contract is
awarded for faithful compliance of contract
according to plan and specification.
Each bidder will also lie allowed to furnish
with bid steel and iron specifications, show
ing nr explaining construction of cell work
and metal lie proposes to use in construction
of steel and iron work.
The undersigned reserves the right to ro
jeet any and all bids.
N. Lipscomb,
4-lR-tf County Supervisor.
TUOP. U. litm.EK. llF-NUY K. OSBOHNI
BUTLER & OSBORNE,
A'l^roit T* (f Y H-A.T-I* AW.
Gaffney, S. C.
Very careful and prompt attention given
> all business entrusted to us.
tSTTractice In all tho courts.
C. JEFFERIES*-
GAFFNEY, S. C.
Attorney and Counsellor at Law. Practice* in
All the Courts. Collections a Specialty.
Dr. C. T. LIPSCOMB,
Dentist,
Office over R. A. Jones & Co’s Stere.
Can be found at office six days In the week
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fragkttl&aJ>. Atlanta, Ok
“Tliat Pretty Young Girl”
That Laura Joan Libby
wrote about created a sensation in tbe literary world, but the
ensation I am creating in Gaffney by tbe manner in which I
ell
GROCERIES, CONFECTIONERIES, CIGARS, &c.,
is proving to be of greater local interest than anything now
transpiring. You can get no better goods anywhere than I sell,
and you cannot buy them any cheaper than I sell them. All
goods guaranteed or money refunded.
■Walter- Baker-.
_OUR STORE-,
is equal to many of the big department stores of the larger cities
in that it embraces almost anything needed in tbe family. Oiir
lYPV are °* ^ ie l iu08t <in ^ Newest patterns and in this
1/1J UUUUO department you will find anything you may want
from tbe cheapest to tbe best. Our
MilliflPFV * s uc ' v an d the bats and bonnets we trim for the
mllllllulj ladies will remind you of a Fifth Avenue estab
lishment. Our
KAtiATI nAAflytlTIArit i s complete and wo can save \’oti dollars
nUUUll UCpdllilltilll and cents in anything in the notion
ino. Our
OjiAAfl are made for comfort and service and you can get no
UilUuD better shoo anywhere for tbe money than wo sell. We
handle
Men ani Mk’i Clothing
before buying your summer suit. Our
Grocery, Furniture and Drug Departments r; 1 ;.?,
thing kept in a first-class department store.
Call on us for anything.
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'rmc cx>ivii?ay;ivy stores.
Goods delivered free of charge in tbe city.