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AN'ANl'JKNT KPKJltAM DR. TALMAGE FOUNDS HIS SERP/tON ON AN OLD SAVING. Hr 1 Hen It to lllvintrote thr l.mlir:oii:4 Urlinv ior «>i '1 11onr WIio Sltlllil SllIN lltlll Much In liittlc. mSD^ And is it not due to nervous exhaustion? Things always look so much brighter when \vc are in good health. How can you have courage when suffer ing with headache, nervous prostration and great physical weakness? Would you not like to be rid of this depression of spirits? How? By removing the cause. By taking (Copyright, Lo Washington, .Inly course, founded on tfinm repeated by Christ, l>r. Talmage illustrates the folly of beiiec very i>.ir- ticulnr jiboiit lusiguilleant tilings, while neslectful of vast concerns, 'i he hrinjr souls to .Jesus Christ, and I lind that without u single exception they comectated their w it and their humor to ( luist. Klljnli used It when lie ad- | vised the Baalites, as they could not : niai:c their god respond, to call louder, | as their go:| might he sound asleep or I gone n-huiiting. .lob used it when lie id to Ids self conceited comforters, ■i :> re Grout < ties. “Wisdom will < lip willt you ft Christ not only used H in tlio text, lint when Kk'psi il, 1SU9. ] ho ironit •ii Uy <* mtipliincnti'd tit L* cof- i<;.- lit litis dls- n:pt Fit: It iSt( s, stiyUfit . “Tiie wltole nn ancient ('l)i- need not it pli> slt'iiin.” and when By It gives activity to all parts luct carry away useless and poisonous materials from your body. It removes the cause of your suffering, because it re moves all impurities from your Mood. Send fer our took on Nervousness. To keep in good health you must have perfect action of the bowels. Ayer’s Pilis cure con stipation and biliousness. VJrtta to our Ucofors. Porliapi you r-ouM tiko to consnlt some eminent ptiyslelaiu atmut your condition. Thou write u< freely nil tho particulars in your esse. You v.ill re ceive u prompt reply, without mist. Andress, DK. J. C. AYER. • Lowell. Mass. J. Cl.OITUII WAI.Ii.U K. .1. ( OHNia.II S OTTS. WALLACE & OTTS, LAWYERS. All hasiiic s ini riistcd to u*. given prompt, ami vigorus a11eiit ion. Oflico up st m irs, ii(*.\t to It. A. Jones A «’o. 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 and Bonds. Bays County and School Claims. Your business solicited. * PlGsimotii Saving aiiii liivestment Co. Greenville, S. C. Tho Pearl Steam Laiiatiry < €1 , F c 5 r fa 3 vO Tiio loan plan of lids company will be found far more dcslrcaldc in every way t han tlic plans of building & Loans Associations. Our plan is a definite contract at reasonable rates. Loans made an approved property. ,1. C. .TKFFEKJEfl, Local Attorney. UalTney. S. (J. Real Eeiate For Sole. for sale, on liber;il terms, five tiets of -land adjoinii.,.' Limestone proji. rly. Tracts vary In acreage from lor, tu yn ;,-lo. Also eight, lots of the hotel property at Limestone. Lvcollcnt iniilding sties and clieap. The <dd hotel and lot is also for salu. Apply to K. O. S .ms. DR. J. F. GARRETT, Dentist, Gaffney, - - - S. C. Office over J. R. Toileson’s new store In office from 1st to 2btli of each month ; In oporawng on lull time and turning out first - clusd work. Ki'nieinlicr ns when you want work don(‘. Wo w ill call for your package. We also have in operation A First-Class Grist hliil. Wo respectfully solicit your patronage mid ask t he people out of town to hrltiu! their corn along wlicn they cmee in to do their shopping. Will make your meal while you are. busy horc and you will lose no time. Corn ground lust as soon as received every day In the week. McLemore Bros., Prop’s. text i* Matthew xxiil, -1: “Ye blind gwi.it's, which strain at a gnat and swallow a camel.” A proverb is compact wisdom, knowl edge in chunks, a library in a sontenco, the electricity of many clouds dis charged in one bolt, a river put through a mill race. When Christ quotes the proverb of the t(*At, lie means to set forth the ludicrous be havior of those who make a great bluster about small sins and have no appreciation of gnat ones. In my text a small insect and a large quad ruped are brought into comparison—a gnat and a camel. You have in mu seum or on the desert seen the latter, a great awkward, sprawling creature, with back two stories High and stom ach having a collection of reservoirs for desert travel, an animal forbidden to the Jews as food and in many lit eratures entitled “the ship of the des ert.” The gnat spoken of in the text is in the grub form. It Is born in pool or pond, after a few weeks becomes •I chrysalis and then after a few days becomes tho gnat as we recognize it. But the insect spoken of in the text is in its very smallest shape, and It yet inhabits thy water, for my text is a misprint and ought to read “strain out a gnat.” My text shows you the prince of in consistencies. A man after long ob servation has formed ti.e suspicion that in a cup of water he is about to drink there is a grub or the grand parent of a gnat, lie goes and gets a sieve or strainer, lie takes the water and pours it through the sieve in the broad light. He says, “I would rather do anything almost than drink this water until this larva be extirpated.” This water is brought under Inquisi tion. The experiment is successful. The water rushes through tho sieve and leaves against the side of the sieve the grub or gnat. Then the nuui care fully removes the insect and drinks the water in placidity. Buf going out one day and hungry, he devours a “ship of the desert,” the camel, which the Jews were forbidden to eat. The gastron omer has no compunctions of con science. He suffers from no indiges tion. lb' puts the lower jaw under the cnnulY. forefoot and Ids upper jaw over the hump of the camel's back and gives one swallow, and the dromedary disappears forever. lie strained out a gnat; he swallowed a camel. CJiI'.nPh Seai,>«-I. While Christ's audicn e was yet smiling at the appositeness and wit of ids illustration—lor smile they did, un less they wei'o too stupid to under stand the hyperbole—Christ practical ly said to them, “That is you.” Punc tilious about small tilings; reckless about all a irs of great magnitude. No subject ever winced under a surgeon's knife more bitterly than did the Phari sees under Christ's scalpel of truth. As an anatomist will take a human body to pieces and put the pieces un der a microscope for examination, so Christ tiuds Ids way to the heart of the dead Pharisee and cuts it out and puts it under tho glass of inspection for all generations to examine. Those Pharisees thought that Christ would flatter them and compliment them, and how they must have writhed un der the red hot words as he said, “Ye , fools, ye whited sepulchers, ye blind 1 guides, which strain out a gnat and swallow a camel.” There are In our day a great many ] gnats strained out and a great many j camels swallowed, and it is the object j of this sermon to sketch a few per sons who are extensively engaged in that business. First, I remark, that all those minis ters of the gospel who are very scru- pulousabout the conventionalities of re ligion, but put no particular stress up on matters of vast importance, are photographed in the text. Church serv ices ought to be grave and solemn. There is no room for frivolity in re ligious eon vocation. But there are il lustrations, and there are hyperboles ilko that of Christ In the text, that will irradiate with smiles any intelli gent audience. There are men like those blind guides of the text who ad vocate only tliose things in religious service which draw the corners of the mouth down and denounce all those things which have a tendency to draw the corners of the mouth up, and theso men will go to Installations and to presbyteries and (ri conferences and to associations, their pockets full of fine sieves to strain out the gnats, while in their own churches at home every Sunday there are f»0 people sound asleep. They make their churches a great dormitory, and their somniferous sermons are a cradle and the drawled out hymns a lullaby, while some wake ful soul in a pew with her fan keeps the flies off uncoiMK-ious persons ap proximate. Now, 1 say it is worse to sleep In church than to smile in church, for the latter implies at least atten tion, while tho former Implies the In difference of the hearers and the stu- i pidity of the speaker. ,In old age or from physical infirmi ty or from long watching with the sick drowsiness will sometimes over- | power one. but when a minister of the I gospel looks off upon an audience and finds healthy and Intelligent people i struggling with drowsiness it Is lime , for Inin t» givo out the doxology or pronounce the benediction. The great ! fault ol church services today is not | too much vivacity, but too much | somnolence. The one is an Irritating I gnat that may be easily strained out; ; 'ho other is a great, sprawling and sleepy eyed camel of the dry desert. In ail our Sabbath schools, in all our Bible classes, in all our pulpits we IK’ed to brighten up our religious mes sage wit a such Christliko vivacity as we find in tiie text. \\ il aiiil it iimor, 1 take down from my library the biographies of ministers and writers j( the past ages, inspired and unin spired, who have Uoul.' the most to one word he described the cunning of j Herod, saying. “Do ye and tell that j fox.” Matthew Henry’s commentaries ; from the first page to the last cor- ! n i sen ted with humor, as summer clouds with lient lightning. John Buityan’s writings are as full of humor as they are of saving truth, and there is not an aged man here who has ever read “Pilgrim's Progress” who does not remember that while reading it he smiled as often as he wept. Chrysostom, Deorge Herbert, Robert South, Deorge Whitetleld. Jere my Taylor. Rowland Hill, Ashael Net- tletoiV Charles D. Finney and all the men of tho past who greatly advanced the kingdom of Dod consecrated their wit and their humor to the cause of Christ. So it lias been in all the ages, and 1 say to all our young theological students, sharpen your wits until they are as keen as selr.dters and then take them into tills holy war. It is a very short bridge between a smile and a tear, a suspension bridge from eye to lip. and it is soon crossed over, and a snide is sometimes just as sacred as a tear. There is as much religion, and I think a little more, in a spring morn ing than in a starless midnight. Re ligious work without any humor or wit in it is a banquet with a side of beef iind that raw and no condiments and no dessert succeeding. People will not sit down to such a banquet. By all means remove all frivolity and all bathos and ail lightness and vulgarity; strain them out through the sieve of holy discrimination; hut, on the other hand, beware of that monster which overshadows tho Christian church to day. conveiitionaMty, coming up from tho Dn at Sahara desert of ecclosi- astioism. having on its lack a hump of sanctitnonious gloom, and vehement ly refuse to swal'-'W that camel, i’sii-ticiilar Moult Snuill Tliinigs. Oh, how particular a great many peo ple are about the mtiniusimals, while they are quite rorklcss about ’lit* mag nitude.-.! What did Christ say? Did he m t excoriate the people in his time who were so careful to wash their bauds l.efore a ineai, but did not wash their hearts? It is a bad thing to have unekan bands; it is n worse thing to have an unclean heart. How many people there are in our time who are ve ry auxioi s that after their death they shall be buried with their face toward the east and not at all anxious that during their whole life they should come up in the resurrection of the just whichever way they are buried. How many there are chiefly anxious that a minister of the gospel siiali cons' in the line of apostolic suc cession, not caring so much whether ho comes iron) Apostle Paul or Apos- Do down into tne pumic library, in the nading tennis, and see the news paper reports of the crops from nil pints of the < unitry, and their plmmic- ology is very much the same, and nie same ineti wrote them, methodically and infamoi" ly carrying out the huge lying about tin.' grain crop from year to year and IY,r a score of years. Aft- I er awhile there will be a “corner” in ' Hie wheat market, and men who had J a contempt for petty theft will bur- I glarize Cue wheat bin of u nation and j commit larceny upon ilia American 1 corn crib, and some of tho men will sit i In churches and in reformatory insti tutions trying to strain out the small | gnats of seouiidrelisin, while in their j grain elevators and in their store I houses they are fattening huge camels | which they expect after awhile to j swallow. Society lias to be entirely re- ! constructed on this subject. \Yo are 1 to find that a sin is inexcusable in pro- | portion as it is great. 1 know in our 1 time tiie tendency is to charge fell- j gious frauds upon good men. They | say, “Oh, what a host of frauds you ! have in the Church of God in this day!” And when an elder of a church. ! or a dea?ou. or a minister of the gos pel, or a superintendent of a Sabbath school turns out a defaulter what dls- | play beads there are in many i>f the ! newspapers. Great primer type. Five | line pica. “Another Saint Abscond- j ed,” “Clerical Scouudrelism,” "Reli- j gion at a Discount,” "Shame on tiie Churches,” while there are a thousand scoundrels outside the church to one Inside the church, and tin* misbehavior of those who never see the inside of a church is so great that it is enough to tempt a man to become a Christian to get out of their company. But in all circles, religious and Irreligious, the tendency is to excuse sin in proportion as it is mammoth. Even John Milton in ins “Paradise Lost,” while be con demns Satan, gives such a grand de scription of him you have hard work to withhold your admiration. Oh, tins straining out of small sins like gnats and this gulping down great iniquities like camels! (taUcpj- of IMctiiro.N. This subject does not give tiie pic ture of one or two persons, but is a gallery in which thousands of people may see their likenesses, l or instance, ail those people who, while they would not rob their neighbors of n farthing, appropriate the money and the treas ure of the public. A man has a house to sell, and lie tells his customer it is worth S'dn.ooo. Next day tiie assessor comes around, an^l the owner says it is worth $ 1 .">,i■<Ml. The government of the I'nited States took off the tax from ! personal income, among oilier reasons because so few people would tell the truth, and many a man with aii in come of hundreds of dollars a day made statements which seemed to im ply he was about to be handed over to tiie overseer of the poor. Careful to pay their passage from Liverpool to New York, yet smuggling in their Sar atoga trunk ten silk dn sses from Paris and a half dozen watches from Gene va, telling tiie custom house oiliccr on the wharf, “There is nothing in that trunk but wearing apparel,” and put- tner more insignificant In comparison with tiie latter than a gnat is Insig nificant when compared with a camel. We dodged the text. We said, “That does not mean me, and that does not mean me,” and with a ruinous benev olence we are givin„ tiie whole sermon away. But let us all surrender to the charge. What an ado about tilings here. What j lioor preparation for a great eternity. As though a minnow were larger than a behemoth as though a swallow took wider circuit than an albatross, as though a nettle were taller than a Lebanon cedar, as though a gnat were greater than a camel, as though a min ute were longer than a century, as though time were higher, deeper, broader than eternity. Ko the text which bashed witli lightning of wit as Christ uttered it is followed by the crashing thunders of awful catastro phe to those who make the questions of time greater than the questions of the future, the oncoming, overshadow ing future. Uli, eternity, eternity, eternity! s. They have a way of meas- gntit until it is larger than a tie Jir uring cam 1. Again, my subject photographs all those who are abhorrent of small sins, while they ere reckless in regard lo magnificent thefts. Y'ou will find many a merchant who, while lie is so careful that he would not take a yard of cloth or a spool of cotton from the counter without paying for it, and who, if a bank cashier should make a mistake and send in a roll of bids $0 too much, would dispatch a messenger in hot lim e to return the surplus, yet who will go into a stock company, in which after awhile he gets control of the stock and then waters the stock and makes lhn.000 appear like $200,000. lie only stole $100,000 by tiie opera tion. Many of the men of fortune made their wealth in that way. One of tliose men engaged in such unrighteous acts that evening, the evening of the very day when lie wa tered the stock, will find a wharf rat stealing a daily paper from the base ment doorway and will go out and catch the urchin by the collar and twist the collar so tightly the poor fel low has no power to say that it was thirst for knowledge that led him to the dishonest act, but grip the collar tighter and tighter, saying: "1 have been looking for you a long while. You stole my paper four or live times, haven't you, you miserable wretch?” And then the old stock gambler, with a voice they can hear three blocks, will cry out, ‘Tolice, police!” That same man the evening of the day in which lie watered the stock will kneel with ids family in prayers and thank God for the prosperity of the day, then kiss ids children good night with an air which seems to say, “I hope you nil will grow up to be as good as your father!” Prisons for sins in sec tile in size, but palaces for crimes drome- darinn. No mercy for sins animalcule in proportion, but great leniency for mastodon Iniquity. A poor boy slyly takes from the basket of a market wo man a choke pear, saving some one else from tiie cholera, and you smoth er him in the horrible atmosphere of Raymond street jail or New York Tombs, while Ids cousin, who has been skillful enough to steal $.")<>,000 from the city, you make a candidate for the state l( gisluture. Om ul pot e n i I nil iff n a I ion. There is a good deal of uneasiness and nei vaiisness now among some peo ple in out- time who have got uu righteous fortunes, a great deal of un easiness about dynamite. 1 tell them that God will put under their un righteous fortunes something more ex- plosive than dynamite, the earthquake of Ids omnipotent indignation. It is time that we learn in America that sin is not excusable in proportion as it de clan s large dividends and lias outrid ers in equipage. Many a man is rid ing to perdition postilion ahead and lackey behind. To steal one copy of a newspaper is a gnat; to steal many thousands of dollars is a camel. There is many a fruit dealer who would not consent to steal a basket of peaches from a neighbor's stall, but who would not scruple to depress the fruit mar ket, and as long ns I can remember we have heard every summer the peach crop of Maryland Is a failure, and by the time the crop comes in the misrepresentation makes a difference of millions of dollars. A man who would not steal one basket of pouches steals 50,000 baskets of peaches. “The Impcndiuu' Crislii” Man, Hinton Rowan Helper cf North Car olina, author of “The Impending Crisis." is still living quietly in Wash ington at the age of 70. He published his prophetic work in 1857, and from that time lie was an exile from his na tive state. Mr. Helper diiYoml much from the old northern abolitionists, but was powerful in bringing the crisis he had predicted. Today lie would settle the race question by deporting the African. He said in a recent iuter- \ low: “I can recommend today what I ad vocate'! in 1857—deportation to Africa. We do not even want the negro in the West India islands. If I could have seen the first slave trader who ever landed on this continent and had the power, i would have killed him and al so his captive—Hie former for his hor rible crime of man stealing and the latter for the weakness which made it possible for him to be a slave.”— Springfield (Mass.) Republican. ting a got id piece in ids hand to punctuate the statement. Described in the text are all tliose who are particular never to break the law of grammar and who want all their language an elegant specimen of syntax, straining out all the inaccura cies of si»'ocli with a line sieve of lit erary criticism, while through their conversation go slander and innuendo and profanity and falsehood larger than a whole caravan of camels, when they might better fracture every law of the language and shock their intel lectual taste, and better let every verb seek in vain for its nominative, and ev ery noun for its government, and let every preposition lose its way in the sentence, and adjectives and partici ples and pronouns get into a grand riot worthy of the Fourth ward of New York on election day than to commit a moral inaccuracy. Better swallow a thousand gnats than one camel. Such persons are also described in the text who are very much alarmed about tiie small faults of others and have no alarm about their own great transgressions. There are in every community and In every church watch dogs who feel called upon to keep their eyes on others and growl. They are full of suspicions. They wonder if this man is not dishonest, if that man is not unclean, if there is not some thing wrong about the other man. They are always the first to hear of anything wrong. Vultures are always Hie first to smell carrion. They are self appointed detectives. I lay this down as a rule without any exception that those people who have the most faults themselves are most merciless In their watching of others. From scalp of head to sole of loot they are full of Jealousies and hypereritieisms. They spend their life in hunting for muskrats and mud turtles instead of hunting for Rocky mountain eagles, I always for sum.'thing mean instea 1 of j something grand. They look at their I neighbors’ imperfections through a J microscope and look at their own im perfections through a telescope upside down. Twenty faults of their own do not hurt them so much as one fault of somebody else. Their neighbors’ im perfections are like gnats, and they strain them out; their own imperfec tions are like camels, and they swal low them. TrenimrcM In llcnvrn. But lest too many might think they escape the scrutiny of the text I have to tell you that we all come under the divine satire when we make tiie ques tions of time more prominent than the questions of eternity. Come, now, let us all go into the confessional. Are not all tempted to make the question, Where shall 1 live now? greater than the question, Where shall I live for ever? How shall’ I get more dollars here? greater than the question, How shall I lay up treasures in heaven? ti.e question, How shall I pay my debts to man? greater than the question, How Khali 1 meet my obligations to God the question, How shall 1 j world? greater than the q What If i lose mj soul? the question, Why did Dud let sin come into the world? greater than the question, How slutII * get it extlipaled from my iia- j tuic? the question, What shall I do j with the 2o or -fi* or 70 years of my Kubluuar existence? greater than the j question, What shall 1 do with the millions of cycles of my post ter restrial existence? Time, how small it is! Eternity, how vast il is! 'lire for- “Fellow” In the Dilile. The New England papers are having u pleasant little battle over the origin and exact meaning of the word “fel low.” They have dragged forth ex amples from the four corners of litera ture, but by some strange freak they have missed the word as used by Tyu- dale. The free use of old days allowed him to write in translating Genesis xxxix, 2, “And the Lord was with Jo seph, and he was a luckie fellow.” That looks at least quaint to most of us, but the effect Is accentuated when we come to Mark iv, 11: “What felowe is this? For booth winds and see obey him,” and Mark ii, 7, “How doth this felowe blaspheme?” Again in John vi. 52. we read, “How can this felowe give us ids (leshlie to eat?” Let the people of New England study the early Bibles.—Philadelphia Press. Parti-idjLt'CN as Tame hn CliiekCUM. The idea that a partridge could not bo turned lias always been a prevail ing one, and that, too, not without foundation. The experiment has often been tried without any success. Mr. Joseph Golloway of this city, however, has made.an exception to this seem ingly natural rule, lie has a number of partridges about 2 years old which were hutched on his premises. They are perfectly gentle and are as do mesticated in their habits as the com mon chicken. They go about with tin' other fowls and in like manner brood and raise their young. Tills demonstrates tiie possibility of what has always been considered impossi ble, thinks Mr. Golloway.—Morristown (Tenn.) Gazette. Stiiffo UeiiliNni. Joseph Jefferson tells a story of a friend of Ids who was playing “Rich- i nrd III” on the Texas frontier. When it came to the wooing of the Lady Anne, an indignant cowboy jumped up md shouted: “Don’t you believe him, Mann! ITe’ve two Mexican wives flown in San Antonio!” “What might have been”—if that I little cough hadn't been neglected— 1 is tho sad reflection of thousands of ! consumptives. One Minute Cough I Cure cures coughs and colds. Cher okee Drug Co., Gaffney. S. 0., und It. S. Withers, Blacksburg, S’. C. Beauty Id Blood Deex*. Clean blood means a clean skin. No beauty without it. Cascarets, Candy Cathar tic clean your blood and keep it clean, by stirring up the lazy liver and driving all im purities from tbe bodv. 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Poplar and I'lne Lumber and all kinds of marketable prod nee taken In paynn nl for work. Come let us reason together. I or my representative alvuiys at shop. PJO feet west of dummy tine on Rutledge street. Woman’s Mis Surdrssful competition in any field depend\ 'if^Tr^AMILI X Shall women vote! ^ Shall they compete] JtYC " hatever woman's A ——i* must Ik; done for ner physical health. Ignorance, superstition and mystery sur round woman's delicate organism. Heroic efforts to endure pain is part of woman's creed. Man}' women's lives are a constant struggle with lassitude; many arc violently ill without apparent cause, and few indeed are in normal health. Tltis is all wrong and might be different if women would follow Dr. Hartman's ad vice. Perhaps tiie most practical printed talk to women to be found anywhere is in Dr. Hartman's book called “Health and Beauty,” which the Pe-ru-na Medicine Co., Columbus, <)., will mail free to women only, it is certain that Dr. Hartman’s Pe-ru-na has proved a perfect boon for women's diseases of tiie pelvic organs. It treats them scientifically and cures them •permanently. Ali druggists sell it. “ I received your book and commenced tho use of your medicine at once,” writes Mrs. il. I). A moss of Greensboro, Da., to Dr. Hartman. “I tool; live bottles of Pe-ru-na and two of Man-a-lin. 1 feel like a naw woman. When I commenced taking - Pe-ru-na I could hardly walk across my room; now I am doing my own work and can walk toehureh. i shall never cease to thank you for prescrib ing for me. 1 had been under tin* tr« ntment of two doctors but never received any benefit until I commenced taking your medicine. I wish every woman who was suffering as I was would send for one of your books. May Dod bless you and spare you many years to relieve women who are suffering as I was.” Fifty thou: and women will be counselled and prescribed for this year free of charge by I) . Hartman, president of the Surgical Hotel, Columbus, O. All women suffering from any disease of the mucous membrane, or any of the peculiar ills of women, may write to him and the letters will receive his personal attention.4*\Vrito for sp rial question blank for women. V. hen Umbrellas Were First Ubui. The introduction of the umbrella iu some places ban been regarded of suffi cient importance to ho included in tho local annals. About 1780 a red Leghorn umbrella was introduced into Bristol, and it created quite a sensation in tho city. It was about the same period that an umbrella was first carried in tho streets of Stamford, Lincolnshire. It was of Chinese manufacture and was brought to Stamford from Glasgow. Mrs. Stockdale, in 1770, is recorded to have brought from the island of Gra nada, in tho West Indies, the first um brella seen in Cartniel, Lancashire. In 1779 Dr. Spelts, a popular physi cian, carried an umbrella in the streets of Edinburgh, and ho is credited with introducing it into the Scottish capital. John Jameson, a Glasgow surgeon, vis ited Paris about 1781 or 1782 and brought back with him tin umbrella, which was tho first Kerb"?!) Glasgow, where it attracted unusual attention. William Symington was the first per son to carry an umbrella iu Paisley. It is related by Horace Walpole in his account of the punishment of Dr. Shebberero for libel, Dec. 5, 1758, that when ho was iu tho pillory a footman held over him an umbrella to keep off the rain. This has been described as an aristocratic style of bearing punish ment. Tho uudershcriff got into trou ble for permitting tho indulgence.— Fireside. Don't Tobacco Spit und Liuoko leer Life Auny. To quit lobarco easily an.l fore' ,: !t', be ina? netic, fiill of life, nerve and vitror, take No-To- Bac, the wonder work' r, that makes weak men f'trong. All druggists, DOe or Jl. Cure guaran teed Booklet and sample free. Address Sterling Remedy Co., Chicago or New York. “my wife and inyfeelf have been tevLi" CASCARETS and they are the Let*, medicine we have ever had in the house. Last week my wife was frantic with headache for two days, she tried some of your CASCARETS, and they relieved the pain in her head almost immediately. We hot It recommend Cascarets. •’ CttAS. STEDEFOItU. Pittsburg Safe & Deposit Co., Pittsburg, Pa. CANDY I ^ ^ CATHARTIC ^ TRADE MASK RCOISTIRCD Pleasant. Palatable. Potent. Taste Good. D< i Good, Never Sicken. Weaken, or Criee. 10c, ItSc. 50c ... CURE CONSTIPATION. ... Bterliag It.mrilj foiup.iir, (liteagn, Montr.*!, Sew Torlr. 3U Gun-shot wounds ar.d powder-burn, cuts, bruises, sprains, wounds from rusty mips, insect stings und ivy poisoning,—quickly healed by De- Witt’s Witch Hazel Salve. Posi tively prevents blood poisoning. Be ware of counterfeits. “DeWitt’s” is safe and srui:. Cherokee Drug Co., Gaffney, S. C.. and K. S. Withers, Blacksburg, S. C. Probably nothing dispels girlish illusions so quickly as marriage. J. V. Hobbs, M. D., Fort Valley, Ga., says: “I have been practicing medicine twenty-live years and know piles to be one of the most difficult of diseases to cure, but have known DeWitt’s Witch Hazel Salve to cure numbers of cases and do not hesitate to recomend it.” Be ’sure you get “DeWitt’s;” there are injurious counterfeits on sale. Cherokee Drug Co., Gaffney S. C., and R. S. Withers, Blacksburg, 8. C. K8-T0-BAC gists to l/FUim'ohacco"tlAbit* Dr. C. T. LIPSCOMB, Dentist, Office over R. A. Jones & Co.’s Stcre. Can be found at office six days in the week i SOUTHERN RAILWAY. Condensed Schedule of Pa.tenircr Trains. In ESect Juno 11th, iBUlt. Northbound. Lv. MONEY TO LEND!! On loner time and easy terms. Seeuled hy tirst mortgage on Improved farms. Apply to F. IL Hoffman. 4 Bowlin;: (■ recen. or to J.C. Jf.kkeiiies. New York City. Hatfneys, 8. C., for information. -r>-i»rno pd. Tornado Insurance. 1 am prepared to furnish Tornado instance in first-class companies. Avoid possible danger hy securing a policy before tin' cy clone comes. Can also furnish the most at tractive Dwelling House I’otlcy or other tire Insurance. Consult we Ix'fore insuring. My agency represents stn.euu.hto In capital and surplus. F. G. STACY. CLINE & LEMMONS, Livery, Feed and Sale Stables. MONTGOMERY'S OLD STAND. First-cli'ss turnouts; prompt attention: and courteous attendants. 14^"We solicit your patronage. Atlanta, C.T. Atlanta, E. T. Norcross Buford Gainesville... Lula Cornelia Mt. Airy Toccoa Westminster Benecu Central Greenville... Spartanburg. Gaffneys BloeksDurg.. King's Mt .... Gastonia Charlotte .... Greensboro I Ves- No. 12;No. 38 Dali} Daily. 7 f)U a 12 00 : | 8 50 a 1 1 no OilOnj ... 10 at a! 10 3) a 2 22 10 5m u| 2 42 11 25 it! 3 0J 11 3J a 11 53 a ’ a 30 12 31 m 12 62 p 1 :<s p 2 34 p 3 37 ]> 4 20 p 4 38 p 5 03 p 5 25 p 0 30 p 0 52 p No 18 Ex. Sun. 4 35 p 5 85 p n 2H p 7 08 p 7 43 p 8 lop M 35 p 8 40p 0 05 p 5 22 ii 13 (i 43 7 02 8 18 10 47 Fst.Ml No. 30 Dally. 11 50 p 12 50 A 1 3J a 2 25 a 2 50 a 3 42 a •4 20 a 4 37 a 5 02 a 5 50 a 0 45 a 7 25 a 7 42 a ! 8 05 ! 8 28 ; 0 25 12 Utl Lv.Greensboro. ! Ar.Norfolk . ....11 45 p| ....I 8 20 a Ar. Danville .. Ar. 1 itehmend . Ar.Was .ington..I. “ Hnltm ePHR.I. “ Philadelphia. . “ New York .. I Soutlibou ml. TT. S’. Y.,'P.n.Tv. “ Philadelphia Baltimore.... “ Washington. Lv. Richmond . 11 25 p 11 ro _pl : 0(10 a 0 00 a : G 42 Hi. 8 00 a ! . ,10 15 a . 12 43 in! 9 05 p H 25 p 2 50 a 6 23 a .Fst.Ml Veil. No.l i No. 35;No. 37 Daily Dally. Dally. 15 »!) a 4 30 p 1 3 50 a 0 55 p | 0 22 a 9 20 p ....... 11 15_a l0 45 p 12 Olnn 11 00 p'HOU p Thos. B. Bl’ti.eu. Hknuv K. Obbohnb BUTLER & OSBORNE, AT TOH T* ff VH-AT-I. AW. Gaffney, S. C. Very careful and prompt attention given to all business entrusted to us. fcOffPractice in all the courts. J. E. WEBSTER. Ajttoriitiy-A.t> Office In Court House. (Probate Judge’sofflee Gaffney City, S. C. Practices In all tiie courts. Collec- Uoua a specially. Lv. Danville 1 8 02 p! 5 50 a 010 n| Lv. Norfolk . ..U 35 p Ar Greensboro. 1 • ” ..| 5 15 a Lv. Greensboro. ! 7 21 p; 7 05 a 7 37 a Ar. Charlotte ... Iu 00 p 9 25 a 12 05m . . . • • a Lv. Gastonia 10 49 p 10 07 u 1 12 p • " King's Mt .. 138 p “ Blacksburg ,11 31 p 10 45 a 2 0”. p " Gaffne} s . 11 W p 10 58 a 2 24 p “ B part nil bun: 12 23 u 11 34 a 3 15 p “ Greenville... 1 25 u 12 30 p 4 30 p -NoIT. “ Central 1 5 32 p 8 00 3 18 3 37 0 00 p ! Hn ' , 0 30 p - 12 p 7 10 p 7 38 j) 8 28 p 4 50 n I 8 40 p 5 25 a | 9 15 It 10 a 4 55 p 10 14) j> ) 10 n 8 55 p 9 0) pi 8 30 a m. *‘M" noon. "N” night. Steamers iu daily sorvioe t> Uu a 0 80 a 0 35 a 0 57 a i 2J a 7 4« a 8 27 a 930 “ Belt oca ' “ Westminster “ Toc-ou “ Mt. Airy . “ Cornelia i “ Lulu ; “ (4ni:ifsvilia... “ Buford ** Nureross Ar Atlanta, R. T. Ar. Atlanta. C. T. — “A” a. in. "iPp < 1iesi|s*ak" Lite between Norfolk and Ha tiiuure. Nos. 37 and 38— Daily. Washington and South western Vestibule Limited. Through Pullman Bleeping eat s Is.-! ween New York and New Or leans, via Washington, Atlanta and Mont gout trv. and ..'iso between New York and Memphis, viaWushington.Atlanta und Birmingham. Also t-legaiit PCLLMAN LIBRARY OHSEBVA- TfiiN CARS Ixttween Atlanta and New York. First class thoroughfare coaches Is 1 tween Wash ington and Atlanta. Dining ears serve all uiealt rn route. Pullman drawing-room sleeping ears between Ureensltoro and Norfolk. Close eon ne.-tioti at Norfolk for OLD POINT COMFORT. X<i.s. 35 and 80—United Htntcs Fast Mai) runs solid Ixi’woen Washington and New Or leans, via Southern Railway, A. & W. P. R. It. ui: I L. \ N. R. B., being eotuiiosed of baggage rar und coaches, through without change for passengers of all classes. Pullman drawine room sleeping oars between New York ana New Orleans, via AtlHUtaaml Montgomery and 1 s'tween Charlotte and Birmingham. Alaa Pullman Drawing Room Buffet Sleeping Cart l etwi on Atlanta and Asheville, N.C. L.siving Washington each Tuesday and Friday, a tourist sloeplng car will run through hetweea Washington and Sun Francisco without ohuuga. Dining ears serve all meals ourouto. Nos. 11,33, 81 and 12—Pullman sleenhrg curt between Richmond und Chariot to, vu l>nu villa, southbound Nos. Ii and 33, northbound Noa. 84 and 12 FRANKS GANNON. J. M.CULP, Third V P. 4t Gen. Mgr., Traffic M'g’r. Washington, D. C. Washington. D. 01 W’. A. Tl RK, B IL HARDWICK. U(n't Pass. Ag't., Aitt't (iuu'i Pass. Ag't., WasLuugtvu, D. C. Atlanta,