The ledger. [volume] (Gaffney City, S.C.) 1896-1907, July 18, 1899, Image 3
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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.
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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
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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,
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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.
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Greenville, S. C.
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Steam Laiiatiry
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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. Begin to-day to
banish pimples, boils, blotches, blackheads,
and that sickly bilious complexion by taking
Cascarets,—beauty for ten cents. AH drug
gists, satisfaction guaranteed, 10c, 25c, 50e.
*4 J. C. JEFFERIES**
GAFFNEY, S. C.
Attorney and Counsellor at Law. Practices in
All the Courts. Collections a Specialty.
gitllKy’ f
quest ion,
THE OLD RELIABLE
in
BET Yot'U SASM. DOOUk. BLINDS
AND ALL KINDS OP lilTLDINU
MATERIALS FROM ME.
Polished Oak Cabinet Mantels
To Suit Ail Classes
FINEST BEAUT PINE SHINGLES
IN THE MARKET. FALL AND
SEE THEM.
Very Kcspct.,
L. BAKER.
D.It.Duncan. C. I’.Sanders. W.S. Hall. Jr.
DUEAN, SANDERS & HALL,
Attorneys-at-Law.
Office t wo doors alxive Ledger Office.
All business attended to carefully and
promptly. Special uttciitlonjflvcn tocollec-
tlnns.
W. T. THOMPSON,
Blacksmith and Wood Shop.
All kindh of work done on sbort notice.
Hlioclng, Tire Self Ing. Wheels In lioiliiignl)
n Specialty. Wood 4 feet long. Hickory,
Oak. 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
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a
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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
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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,