Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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If you are young you nat urally appear so. If you are old, why ap pear so? Keep young inwardly; we will look after the out wardly. You need not worry longer about those little streaks of gray; advance agents of age. will surely restore color to gray hair; and it will also give your hair all the wealth and gloss of earlv life. Do not allow tne falling of ? 'our hair to threaten you ongerwith baldness. Do not be annoyed with dandruff. Vi’e will send you oui book on the Hair and Scalp, free upon request. Write to the Doctor. If yotj <!<» M>t obtain ail the hAtiP- tit H Jon fxperted Irom tli*- (i** of the VI. , write th.' fleeter about It. 1'rob.tli there I* «fiin« ftiffleull* witii j ceueral irttefli which majr be .ii.ily rrmovea. A<iure»s, JiH. J. C. AVKtt, Iy>weil, Mas*. J. CtOCOU WAl.I.ACfc. J. COKNEMlri OTT8. WALLACE & CTTS, LAWYERS. All liitsiiii -s lilt rusted to ns. "ivi-n proiupt aii'l vif-umis iitUMitif)ii. < UHfe u|> stnirs, next to It. A. Jones .V < '<». 'Phone '7. THE QUEENS OF HOME DR. TALMAGE DISCOURSES ON THE RIGHTS OF WOMAN. Ilrr Dominion Im Home, mill Thero Mho Mhotilii IllKhtlr Hull*—Dtrootor of the Splrltaal I.tfe of the House hold—Comforter of the Sick. lUopyrlKht, Ixniis Klopach. Wakhimoton, Sejit. 10.—In tliitt dis* ccurso flu* opjiortniiitioH of uaefnlnesa for women nro net forth by Dr. Tal- ningo, and many syiupathios are stirred and memories recalleil. The text is Sol omon’s Songs vi, 8,. “There are three score queens. ” So Solomon by one stroke set forth the imperial character of a true Chris tian woman. She is not a slave, not a hireling, not a subordinate, but a queen. In a former sermon I showed yon that crown and courtly attendants and imperial wardrobe were not neces sary to make a queen, but that graces of the heart and life will give corona tion to any woman. 1 showed you at some length that woman’s position was higher in the world than man’s, and that, although she had <Jften been de nied the right of suffrage, she al ways did vote and always would vote by her influence, and that her chief desire ought to Vie that she should have grace rightly to rule in the dominion which she has already won. 1 began an enumeration of some of her rights, and now 1 resume the subject. In the fust place, woman has the special and the superlative right of blessing and comforting the sick. What land, what street, what house has not felt the smitings of disease? Tens of thousands of sick lieds! What shall we do with them? Khali man, with his rough hand and clumsy foot, go stum bling around the sickroom, trying to soothe the distracted nerves and allevi ate the pains of the distressed patient? The young man at college may scoff at the idea of being under maternal influ ences, but at the first blast of typhoid fever on his cheek he says, “Where is mother?’’ Walter Scott wrote partly in satire and partly in compliment: Oil, woman, in our hours of oasc, l.nciTtain, coy an<l hard to picas,', When I'uin ami anguish wring the blow, A ministering angel thou! I think the most pathetic passage in all Iho Bible is the description of the l;:d who went out to the harvest field of Khuuem and got sunstruck, press ing his hands on his temples and cry ing out, “Oh, my head! my head!” And they said, “Carry him to his mother.” And then the record is, “He tut on her knees till noon and then died." A MinlHtcrliiK Amgel. THE OLD RELIABLE,,. GET Vol’K SASH. I (OOP. 8. PUN US AND ALE KINDS OP Pl’IUUNG MATEUfAl.S FKOM ME. Polished Oak Cabinet Mantels ToSuit Ail Classes FINEST IIKAKT PINE SHINGLES IN THE MAKKE1’. CALL AND SEE THEM. Very JU-spct,., L. BAKER. A. N. WOOD, BANKER, docH a general iJankiugandExohangt business. Well secured with Burglar- Proof safe and Autonriatic Time Lock. Safety Deposit Boxes at moderate rent. Buys and sells Stocks andBonds. Buys County and School Claims. Your business solicited. D.It.Duncan. P.S:o,i!« is. W.S. Hall. Jr. DUKCAK, SAKDEKS i HALL, Attornoys-at-Law. ' W<) ,loo|S E< rpo I < lllh'i'. The Peaii Steam Laundry ISoyH-raMniron full tirr,< uml turntri?out SrkL-elim work. IP Ii.omu-r win „ you want work Con*'. We wdl i-nll for your package. Wc uIho have !,i opcrwtlou A First-Class Crist Mill. W<' respectfully nollelt your patroieife and iisk I lie people out of tow,, u> bring their eorn along w hen they come In todo tlielr shopping. Will inuke your mewl while you are busy here uud you will lorn- no time. Corn ground Just ax m»tu aw received every day In the week. Richardson Bros., Props. Dr. C. T. LIPSCOMB. Dentist, Ollic* over R. A. Jones ft Co's Store Gun he found at otllee mi x days In the week J. E. WEBSTER, At torai*v-A. t - I vii w, omeein Court Houmu. (Prohwte Judge'eoffice Gaffney City, S. C. Practices in all the courts. Collec tions a specialty It is an awful thing to bo ill away from home in a strange hotel, once in awhile men coining in to look at you, holding their hand over their month for fear they will catch the contagion. How ronghly they turn you in bed! How loudly they talk I How you long for the ministries of home! 1 know one such who went away from one of t he brightest of homes for several weeka’ Inihiuess a I (Hence at the west. A telegram came at midnight that he wan on bin di athhed far away from home. By expreHH train the wife and daughters went westward, but they went too late. He feared not to die, but he was in an agony to live until his family got there. He tried to bribe the doctor to make him live a little while longer. He said, “I am willing to die, but not alone.” But the pubes fluttered, the eyes closed and the heart stopped. The express trains met in the midnight, wife and daughters going westward, lifeless re mains of husband and father coming east want Oh, it was a sad, pitiful, overwhelming spectacle 1 When we are .-iok, wo want to l>e sick at home. When the time comes for us to die, we want to die at home. The room may l(e very humble, and the faces that look into ours may be very plain, but who cares for that ? Loving hands to bathe the temples. Loving voices to speak good cheer. Loving lips to read the comforting promises of Jesus. In our civil war men cast the cannon, men fashioned the musketry, men cried to the hosts, “Forward, march I” men hurled their battalions on the sharp edges of tbe enemy, crying, “Charge, charge!” but woman scraped the lint, woman admi littered the cordials, wom an watched by the dying couch, woman wrote the last message to the home cir- ele, woman wept at the solitary burial, attended by herself and four men with a spade. We greeted the generals home with brass bands and triumphal arches and wild huzzas, bat the story is too good to be written anywhere save in the chronicles of heaven, of Mrs. Brady, who came down among the sick in the swamps of theChickahominy; of Annie Boas, in the cooper shop hospital; of Margaret Breckinridge, who came to men who had been for weeks with their wounds undressed—some of them frozen to the ground, and when she turned them over those that had an arm left waved it and filled the air with their “hurrah!”—of Mrs. Hodge, who came from Chicago, with blankets and with pillows, until the men shouted: “Three cheers for the Christian commission! (iod bless the women at home!” then sitting down to take the last message: “Tell my wife not to fret about me, but D. meet me in heaven; tell her to train up the Ijoys whom we have loved so well; ti ll her we shall meet again in the good land; tell her to bear my loss like the Christian wife of a Christian soldier,” and of Mrs. Khelton, into whose face the convalescent soldier looked and said, “Your grapes and co logne cured me.” And so it was also through all of our war with Spain— women heroic on the held, braving death and wounds to reach the fallen, watching by their fever cots in the West Indian hospitals or on the troop- ships or in our smitten home camps Men did their work with shot and shell and carbine and howitzer; women did their work with socks and slipja-rs and bandages* and warm drinks and Scrip ture texts and gentle stroking of the hot temples mid stories of that land where they never have any pain. Men knelt down over the wounded and said, “On which side did yon fight?” Wom en knelt down over the wounded and said: “Whereare you hint. What nice thing can I make for you to eat? What makes you cry?” Tonight while we men are sound aslocp in onr beds there will ho a light in yonder loft; there will be groaning down thft dark alley; there will be cries of distress in that cellar. Men will sleep, and women will watch. Wurcur Ibv Drat i I u If. Again, woman haa a MpeO'ul right to take care of the poor. There are hun dreds and thousands of them all over the land. There is a kind of work that men cannot do for the jKHtr. Here comes a group of little barefoot children to the door of the Dorcas society. They need to 1(0 clothed and provided for. Which of these directors of banks would know how many yards it would take to make that little girl a dress? Which of these masculine hands could fit a hat to that, little girl’s head? Which of the wise men would know how to tie on that new pair of shoos? Man sometimes gives his charity in a rough way, and it falls like the frnit of a tree in the east, which fruit comes down so heavily that it breaks the skull of the men who is trying to gather it. But 'woman glides so softly into the house of desti tution and finds out all the sorrows of the place and puts so quietly the dona tion on the table that all the family come out on the front steps as she de parts. exacting that from under her shawl she will thrust ont two wings and go right np toward heaven, from whence she seems to have come down. O Christian young woman, if yon would make yourself happy and win the blessing of Christ, go nut among the destitute. A loaf of bread or a bundle of socks may make a homely load to carry, but the angels of God will come out to watch, and the Lord Almighty will give his messenger hosts a charge, saying. “Look after that woman; can opy her with wings and shelter her from all harm,” and while you are seat*-*! in the house of destitution and suffering the little ones around the room will whisper, “Who is she?” “Ain’t she beautiful ?” And if you will listen right sharply yon will hear drip ping down through the leaky roof and rolling over the rotten stairs the angel chant that shook Bethlehem, “Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will to men. ” The l,or<r» Krrnntl. Can you tell me why a Christian woman, going down among the haunts of iniquity on a Christian errand, never meets with any indignity ? 1 stood in the chapel of Helen Chalmers, the daughter of the celebrated Dr. Chalmers, in the most abandoned part of the city of Edinburgh, and I said to her as I looked around upon tbe fearful sur roundings of that place, “Do you come here nights to hold a service?” “Oh, yes!” she said. “Can it be possible that yon never meet with an insult while performing this Christian errand?” “Never.” she said, “never.” That young woman who has her father by her side, walking down the street, armed police at each corner, is not so well defended as that Christian woman who goes forth on gospel work into the haunts of iniquity, carrying the Bibles and bread. God, with the red right arm of his wrath omnipotent, would tear to pieces any one who should offer indig nity to her. He would smite him with lightnings and drown him with floods and swallow him with earthquakes, and damn him with eternal indigna tions. Some one said: “I dislike very much to see that Christian woman teaching those bad boys in the mission school. I am afraid to have her instruct them.” “8o,” said another man, "I am afraid too.” Said the first,“I am afraid they will use vile language lx*- fore they leave the place.” “Ah,” said the other man, “I am not afraid of that What I am afraid of is that if any of those boys shonld use a bad word in her presence the other boys would tear him to pieces and kill him on the spot.” That woman is the best sheltered who is sheltered by the Lord God Almighty, and yon need never fear going any where where God tells you to go. It seems as if the Lord had ordained woman for an especial work in the so licitation of charities. Backed np by barrels in which there is no flour, and by stoves in which there is no fire, and by wardrobe^ in which there are no clothes, a woman is irresistible. Pass ing on her errand, Gcxl says to her, “You go into that bank or store or shop and get the money.” She goes in and gets it The man is hard fisted, bnt she gets it. ' She could not help hut get it. It is decreed from eternity she should get it No need of your turning your back and pretending you don’t hear; yon do hear. There is no need of your saying yon are begged to death. There is no need of your wasting yonr time, and you might as well submit first as larit. You had better right away take down your checkbook, mark the number of the check, Gil up the blank, sign your name and hand it to her. There is'no need of wasting time. Those itoor children on the back street have been hungry long enough. That sick man must have some farina. That ronsnmptive must have something to ease his cough. I meet this delegate of a relief society coming out of the store of such a hard fisted man, and I say, “Did you get tbe money?” “Of course,” she says, “I got the money; that’s what I went in for. The Lord told me to go in and get it, and he never sends me on a fool’s errand.” Comforters of Dlutrens. Again, I have to tell yon that it is a woman’s specific right to comfort under the stress of dire disaster. She is called the weaker vessel, but all profane as well as sacred history attests that when the crisis comes she is better prepared than man to meet the emergency. How often you have seen a woman, who seemed to be a disciple of frivolity and indolence, under one stroke ot calamity changed to a heroine. (Ah, what a great mistake those business men make who never tell their business troubles to their wives! There conies some great loss to their store o/frune of their com panions in business play them a sad trick, and they carry the burden all alone. He is asked in tbe household again and again. “What is the mat ter?” But he believes it a sort of ( hris- tian duty to keep all that trouble with in his own soul Oh. sir. yonr first duty was to tell yonr wife all about it I She perhaps might not have disentangled yonr finances or extended your credit, but she would have hcljx'd you to bear misfortune. You have no right to carry on one shoulder that which is intended for two. Business men know what 1 mean. There ramo a crisis in your af fairs. You struggled bravely and long but after awhile there came a day when yon said, “Here I shall have to atop, ” and you called ip your partners, and yon called in the most prominent men in your employ, and yon said. “Wo have got to stop. ” Yon left the store suddenly. You could hardly make up your mind to pass through the street and over on the ferryboat You felt ev erybody wonld Ik* looking at you and blaming you and denouncing you. Yon hastened home. Yoq told your wife all abont the affair. What did she say? Did she play the butterfly? Did she talk about the silks and the ribbons and the fashions? No. Kho came up to the emergency. She quailed not under the stroke. She offered to go out of the comfortable bouse into a smaller one and wear the old clonk another winter She was the one who understood your affairs without blaming yon. You looked upon what yon thought was a thin, weak woman’s arm bolding yon up, but while yon looked at that arm there came into the feeble muscles of it the strength of the eternal God. No chiding. No fretting. No telling you about the beautiful house of her father from which yon brought her 10, 20 or 30 years ago. You said: “Well, this is the happiest day of my life. I am glad I have got from under my bur den. My wife don’t care; I don’t care. ” At the moment yon were exhausted God sent a Deborah to meet the host of Anifllekites and scatter them like chaff over the plain. There are sometimes women who sit reading sentimental novels, and who wish that they had some grand field in which to display their Christian powers. What grand and glorious things they could do if they only had an opportunity I My sis ter, you need not wait for any such time. A crisis will come in your affairs. There will be a Thermopylae in yonr own household where God will tell yon to stand. There are scores and hun dreds of households today where as much bravery and courage are demand ed of women as was exhibited by Grace Darling or Marie Anto.nette or Joan of Arc. Chrlatliin Women. Again, I remark it is woman’s right to bring to us the kingdom of heaven. It is easier for a woman to be a Chris tian than for a man. Why? You say she is weaker. No. Her heart is more responsive to the pleadings of divine love. She is in vast majority. The fact that she can more easily become a Christian I prove by the statement that three-fonrths of the members of churches in all Christendcm are women. So G<xl appoints them to be the chief agencies for bringing this world back to God. I may stand here and say the soul is im mortal. There is a man who will deny it. I may stand here and say we are lost and undone without Christ. There is a man who will contradict it. I may stand here and say there will be a judg ment day after awhile. Yonder is some one who will dispute it. But a Chris tian woman in a Christian household, living in the faith and the consistency of Christ’s gospel—nobody can refute that. The greatest sermons are not preached on celebrated platforms; they are preached with an audience of two or three and in private home life. A consistent, consecrated Christian service is an unanswerable demonstration of God’s truth. A sailor came slipping down the rat lines one night, as though something had happened, and the sailors cried, “What’s the matter?” He said, “My mother's prayer haunts me like a ghost.” Home influences, consecrated home influences, are the mightiest of all influences npon the soul There are men who have maintained their integ rity not because they were any better naturally than some other people, but because there were home influences praying for them all the time. They got a g*xxi start. They were launched on the world with the benedictions of a Christian mother. They may track Si berian snows, they may plunge in Afri can jungles, they may flee to the earth’s end—they cannot go so far uud so fast but the prayers will keeji up with them. Power Kor Good. I speak to women who have the eternal salvation of their husbands in their right hand. On the marriage day you took an oath before men and angels that you would be faithful and kind until death did you part, and I believe yon are going to keep that oath, but after that parting at the grave will it be an eternal separation? Is there any such thing as an immortal marriage, making the flowers that grow on the top of the sepulchsr brighter than the garlands which at the marriage banquet flooded the air with aroma? Yes. 1 stand here as an embassador of the most high God to proclaim the banns of an immortal union for all those .who join hands in the grace of Christ. O woman, is your husband, yonr father, your son, away from God? The Lord demands their redemption at your hands. There are prayeys for yon to offer, there are exhortations for you to give, there are examples for you to set, and I say now as Paul said to the Cor inthian woman, “What knowest thou but*thou shall save thy husband?” A man was dvinsr. and he said to his wife, “Rebecca, you wouldn’t let me have family prayers, you laughed about all that and you got me away into worldliness, and now I’m going to die, and my fate is sealed, uud you are the cause of my mini” O woman, what knowest thou but thou canst destroy thy husband? Are there not some of yon who have kindly influences at home? Are there not some who have wandered far away from God who can remember the Chris tian influences in their early home? Do not despise those in fin cnees, my broth er. If you die without Christ, what will you do with your mother's prayers, with your wife’s importunities, with your sinter's entreaties? What will you do with the letters they used to write to you, with the memory of those days when they attended you so kindly in times of sickness? Oh, if there l(e just one strand holding you from floating off from that darx sea, I would jnst like to take hold of that strand now and pall yon to the beach 1 For the sake of yonr wife’s God, for tbe sake of jour mother's God, for the sake of yonr daughter’s God, for the sake of your sister's God come this day and be saved. CrowMed In flrnven. Lastly, I wish to say that one of the specific rights of woman is, through the grace of Christ, finally to reach heaven. Oh. what a multitude of women in heaven! Mary, Christ’s mother, in heaven; Elizabeth Fry in heaven, Char lotte Elizabeth in heaven, the mother of Augustine In heaven, the Comitcsi* of Huntington, who sold her splendid jewels to build chapels, in heaven, while a great many others who have never b«*cn heard of on earth or known but little have gone into the rest and pence of heaven. What a rest! What a change it was from the small room, with no fire and one window (the glass broken ontj. uud the aching side, and wornoot eyes, to the “house of many mansions!” No more stitching until 12 o’clock at pigljt, n<> more t^rnstipg of the thumb by the employer tnrougn mo work to show it was not done quite right. Plenty of bread at last I Heaven for aching heads I Heaven for broken hearts 1 Heaven for anguish bitten frames I No more sitting until midnight for the coming of staggering steps! No more rough blows across the temple I No more sharp, keen, bitter curses I Some of you will have no rest in this world. It will bo toil and strugglo and suffering all the way up. You will havo to stand at your door, fighting back the wolf with yonr own hand, red with carnage. But God has a crown for you. I want you to realize this morning that he is now making it, and whenever you weep a tear he sets another gem in that crown, whenever you have a pang of body or soul he puts another gem in that crown, until after awhile in all the tiara there will be no room for an other splendor, and God will say to his angel, “The crown is done; let her np, that she may wear it.” And ns the Lord of righteousness pnts the crown npon your brow, angel will cry to an gel, “Who is she?” and Christ will say: “I will tell you who she is. She is the one that came up out of great tribula tion and had her robe washed and made white in the blood of the Lamb.” And then God will spread a banquet, and he will invito all.the principalities of heaven to sit at the feast, and the ta bles will blush with the best clusters from the vineyards of God and crimson with the 12 manner of fruits from the Tree of Life, and waters from the fountains of the rock will flash from the golden tankards, and the old harpers of heaven will sit there, making music with their harps, and Christ will point yon out, amid the celebrities of heaven, saying, “She suffered with me on earth; now we are going to lie glorified to gether. ” And the banqueters, no longer able to hold their peace, will break forth with congratulation, ‘‘Hail I hail!” And there will be handwritings on the wall—not such as struck the Babylonian noblemen with horror, bnt fire tipped fingers, writing in blazing capitals of light and love, “God hath wiped away all tears from all faces 1” Colonel IIcII’m Joke. Colonel Dell, the United States con sul at Sydney, recently appeared as a witness in the divorce court in that city on the point whether a certain certifi cate would be accepted in the Ameri can courts as formal proof of marriage. “You are a lawyer, I think, Colonel Bell,” remarked the judge. “Well, no, sir,” replied the colonel, with a Mark Twainlike drawl. “I was once, but 1 have reformed.” When the laughter had subsided, the bench settled the matter with the dic tum, “Once a lawyer, always a law yer." The colonel then pronounced the cer tificate valid from the legal American standpoint. lie Didn't See Georire. Nathan Tinker Draper of Grand Rap ids, Mich, is 103 years old. He was born in New London, Conn., has been married twice, but both wives are dead. The old man draws a pension of $12 a month because of the killing of one of his sons in the war of the rebellion, but never saw any service himself. Ho ban been a gardener nearly all his life and is still able to do a little “fussing” abont the yard, but not for any length of time. He says ho remembers Thomas Jefferson very well, but never saw Washington He has been a smoker all his life, bnt never to excess. Ho also drank liquor in his younger days, but never to an intemperate degree. Chopped It to IMecea. When a crowd of citizens of Beech- burg, Ky., enraged at the building of a Mormon church in that town were abont to set fire to it, they learned that the edifice had just been insured in view of this very contingency. They accordingly chopped the chrrch to pieces, taking care that no piece of tim ber could be used again, and if none of the splinters are used to make bonfires the elders will probably lose their in surance. lliiiinark'it Iron Nerve Was the result of his splendid health. Indomitable will and tre mendous energy are not found where Stomach, Liver, Kidneys and Bow els are out of order. If you want these qualities and the success they bring use Dr. King’s New Life Fills. They develop every power of brain and body. Only 25 cents at Chero kee Drug Co. Taking all civilized countries, the average age at which women marry is said to be 231 years. An Atlanta Hanker lias Word* of I'rttUe for a Home Dixtitutlou. Mr. Chas. E. Currier, of the At lanta National Bank, is very careful with his words, not only in financier ing. but in his conversation generally. Like the rest of us, he is sieV- some times; but, unlike many ot us, he knows how to get well. “I have used Tyner's Dyspepsia Remedy in attacks of acute indiges tion, and have always found it to give instantaneou 1 - relief. I consider it a medicine of high merit.” Price per bottle, 50 cents. For sale by all druggists. Mexico City is to have the largest bull ring ever built. It capacity will be 14,000 persons. DeWitt’s Little Early Kisers pro mote good health by keeping liver and bowels properly regulated. Pleasant to take, never gripe. “Best pills made; we will use no others,” says G. H. Applegate, J. P., of Clarksburg, X. J. Cherokee Drug Co., Gaffney, 8. C.. and K. 8. With ers, Blacksburg, 8. 0. A current report that tho end of the world is approaching has caused a panic In southern Russia. E. E. Turner, of Compton, Mo., was cured by DeWitt’s Witch Hazel Halve after suffering seventeen years and trying over twenty remedies. Physicians and surgeons endorse it. Beware of dangerous counterfeits. Cherokee Drug Co., Gaffney, 8. C., and It. 8. Withers Blacksburg, 8. C. Herr Hucblands, a German scient ist, has discovered that tbe aroma of tobacco is due to microbes. “They are simply perfect,” writes Rob’t. Moore, of La Fayette, Ind., of DeWitt’s Little Early Risers, the “famous little pills” for constipation and all liver ailments. Never gripe. Cherokee Drug Co., Gaffney, 8. C., and K. 8. Withers, Blacksburg, 8. C. MACK DORMAN ON MR. MILL’S PUZZLE, How the Latter Gets 12.000,- 000 Bales of Cotton WANT MARKET REPORT. Tli** ruhli*' Koa<i* Dmiu»r«*«l l>>- Kocvut K:t im*.--Tli«' ••K«*ni*»l" 'YhiiIm to ll«ar Trout Other forretipouti. ut*.—FersottaA rnriti;r;t|iliM from KtlM .Ittnt*. (Cortwtpondence of The Ledger.) Etta Jaxk, Sept., fi.—Mr. M. C. Dorman has solved Mr. Mills’ puzzle, how he gets 12,000.000 bales of cot ton in the United States as this year’s crop. Mack says he means round bales which average only 250 pounds each. Mack has it about right. He makes the crop about 0,600,000 bales, and that is plenty for this year. We have seen a copy of a paper published at Paris, Texas, which gives in the aggregate reports from about forty places in the cotton growing belt, half of which are in Texas, and all of them give the crop oil considerably. In some places not over 40 per cent, as compared with last year’s crop. We would bo glad if The Ledger would prepare and publish a weekly cotton market report. Farmers are mostly interested in it just now, and we are frequently asked why it does not. Chas. Bolt. Esq., James H. Bartles and Master Jimmie Bartles, of Union, who have been visiting in this and York counties, returned home yes terday. Good ruins have fallen in the various sections within the past few days and caught much fodder down and damaged it. James Eison and James Griffin have been running a saw mill for several days in this community. Mr. Willie Foster, who lias ’been sick with fever for two weeks, is get ting better. Miss Mamie Comer is also getting better. We hope both of them will soon be up and out again. Some casjs of diptheria are re ported among the colored people down in the fork of Pacolet and Broad river, some of which has been fatal. We spent a day with J. \V. Alex ander, Esq., magistrate, this week. He is a faithful and fearless officer and one who has a head and opinion of his own. We also called upon our old friend, Mr. Benjamin Purser, and found him enjoying his usual good health. He reads The Ledger and thinks it should give market reports weekly. The friends of Mr. Lester Mason, deceased, met and pulled nis fodder last Thursday. Mr. Mason was a young man full of promise, and his death is much regretted in this com munity where he lived. Our people have sown turnip seed but generally complain of bad stands. Housewives have a hard time get ting something to eat. This will go into history as a hard year—very few vegetables and no fruits. We have u few chills in our com munity now and then. Some people have made molasses. This year the crop will be short, as the cane is small and of an inferior quality. There was some talk of moving the school house at this place to a more convenient location. It does seem that the locating of schools i:* a vexe 1 question and one that will never be settled to the satisfaction of every body. The public roads iiave been con siderably damaged in places by the recent rainfall, and a timely working and cleaning out of ditches will save much trouble in the future, and es pecially this winter. There has been a good deal of sick ness among the cows in this section, and some have died. Our genial friend, Mr. G. B. Wright, was at Wilkinsville last Thursday. He says he don’t know whether ho will make enough to p iy for his rations or not, but he must have something to eat anyhow. Gad is a jolly fellow and one of the best farmers in Cherokee county. There is no danger of him falling behind on u crop issue. He only talks to hear himself. If all our farmers were as good us Mr. Wright the country would be safe. Austin Moore is working with J. X. Strain, and Edward Edwards is with T. J. Estes for the fall season. Late gardens will come out if they aro properly worked and cared for. Rev. Mr. Jennings will hold com munion at Halem next Habbath, 17th inst., a. in. The public are invited to attend all the services. We would be glad to bear from other sections of Cherokee county. What has become of ail our corres pondents? Let us hear from you brethren. We hope that every Hunday school in the county will be represented at Corinth on the 30th inst., the time of the meeting of the Cherokee County Interdenominational Hunday School Convention. We hope that ministers of the gospel, and others interested, will extend this notice. Those fail ing to receive report blanks will get them at Corinth, where they can be filled out and filed with the secretary of the convention. All persons friendly to the work will receive a cordial welcome and the good people of Corinth will do their duty in making visitors feel at home. Let the convention be no failure but let every one work for its success. J. L. 8. \ olt-Miilc Kruptloiiii Are grand, but Hkin Eruptions rob life of joy. Bucklen’s Arnica Salve cures them; also Old. Running and Fever Hares, Ulcers, Boils, lelons, Corns, Warts, Cute, Bruises, Burns, Scalds, Chapped Hands, Chilblains. Best Pile cure on earth. Drives out Pains and Aches. Only 25 cents a box. Cure guaranteed. Hold by Cherokee Drug Co. Kriaeats Your Mowela W ith Ciucoroto. Candy Cathartic, cure conitilpation forever. lOc.i&c. If C.C C. (ail, druftKiaurctuudiboavy. THE CORNER STONE LAID. Ci-remnnlr* Ity fit,* Hnptiat ConKrcffittloii Yf-lcrdMy, The laying of the corner stone of the new First Baptist church build ing took place yesterday afternoon at 5 o’clock. It was an occasion long to be remembered by the mem bers of the church and those of their friends who were present witness ihe corner-stone laying exercises. Tho program, as published in last Fri day’s Ledger, was carried out in full. The address by Prof. Lee Davis Lodge, was particularly appropriate. At times the speaker grew eloquent in his earnest appeal for the cause ho represented. Pastor Robertson’s prayer was but tho earnest expres sion of his heart for the welfare and good of his church and his people. He is ever zealous in his work and keeps at it with an energy that is indeed inspiring. The deacons then deposited the box containing the fol lowing articles that were deposited in the corner-stone: A list of the church members; a list of the church officers, the church manucl; a his tory of the church, history of the Ladies Missionary Society; minutes of the Sptrtanburg Association; minutes of the Broad River Associa tion ; copies of The Lodger, The Bap tist Courier, The South Carolina Bap tist, and The Foreign Mission Jour nal, The Baptist Union, The Junior Baptist Union; a photograph of the parsonage; catalogues of Limestone College and Furman University, list of the city officials and a program of the exercises. After the deposits had been made tl)e congregation sang a hymn, fol lowed by the benediction. And thus the corner-stone laying cere monies came to an end. At Home. On Wednesday evening last the pretty parlors of Dr. Fort’s house were filled with music and laughter. The occasion was complimentary to Miss Atahn. a lovely young lady of Chester, who is visiting Miss Fannye Fort. Woman’s Severest Trial. Until recent years woman’s severest trial has been the bringing of children into the world. Today nearly all the sickness, pain, discomfort and dread are avoided by those expectant mothers who use Mother's Friend, that wonder ful liniment made famous by the great good it has done. It is used externally. That is the only sensible and safe way to relieve morning sickness, headache, fighfness, swollen, hard or rising breast. The bearing of children need no longer be dreaded. Mother’s Friend has bom called a Godsend by mothers all over this land. Sold at drug stores for $1 a bottle, and by The Bradfleld ReznJator Co., Atlanta, Ga. * Before Write for our free illustrated book, entitled Baby is Born." Well, Do Not Forget i ;tni still hero sit my old stand. Ilurnett block, sclliiiif more lim* beef. Mutton. »Yc., than I ever have. As to Country Produce. 1 have an abundance fresh every day, such as Sweet Potatoes, Irish Potatoes, Cabbage, beans, Ate. Also a nice line of Fancy Groceries, Cigars and Tobaccos, and to cool you I have plenty of ice and Lemons. Fresh Fish every Friday and Sat urday on ice. When you want anything in my line come to see me or 'phone No. 60. LW.McGUINN. Do You Know what time it Is by that watch or clock that needs repairing? It is time you were having It repaired. HONEST work at honest prices is my motto. Gold and Silver soldering u specialty. J. R. COOPER. Shop at Carroll ft Carpenters. DR. J. F. GARRETT, Dentist, Gaffney, - - - S. C. Office over J. R. Tolleson’s new store In office from 1st to 26th of each month; Tornado Insurance. I am prepared to furnish Tornado Insurance in lirst-class companies. Avoid possible danger by securing a policy before the cy clone comes. Can also furnish the most at tractive Dwelling House Policy or other fire insurance. Consult me before insuring. My agency represents $40,*(00,000 lu capital and surplus. F. G. STACY. BiVOY must have a nhotograph made. 1 have a new camera, lenses and backgrounds. My picrrususoi of buildings, landscapes and group work can't be Is-at at the price**. Did you over see a Hash light picture TVYiVUIC at night? It Is Jolly good fun; try one. Huap-shot work should be made UKTWKIS1V nine a. m. and four p. m. to get the Is st results. Don't worry because the baby It Is natural for sonic people to kick alsmt their ulcturcs. 1 guarantee work manship and flntsh. Yours to please, JOHN GREEN. At the tent, next door to W. F. Thomas. -fj. C. JEFFERIES+- OAFFNEV, S. C. Attorney «nd Counselor at Law. Practicts in All tho Court*. ColloctioBO a tfxcialir