Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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s A Ever makes v m throat more raw cough your and irritable. Every cough congests the lining membrane of your lungs. Cease tearing your throat and lungs in this way. Put the parts at rest and give them a chance to heal. You will need some help to do this, and you will find it in From the first dose the quiet and rest begin: the tickling in the throat ceases; the spasm weak ens; the cough disap pears. Do not wait for pneumonia and con sumption but cut short your cold without deiay. Dr. Ayer’s Cherry Pec toral Plaster should he over the lungs cf every per son troubled with a cough. Write to the Doctor. Unusual ofijwrtmiltlps anil li.ngnx- pcrienco eminently qualify us for ijivint' j 'ii meilieai auvice. AVrite freoly a* ' lie particulars in your case. Toil m -lint your experience lias been wit . our i'lierry Pectoral. You will receive a prompt reply, without cost Aililrcss, DK. J. C. AYKR. Lowell, Mass. JAM ICS A. WIUTvIS, Attornry-at-Law, e. Will practice in all thccourts of tills State. Ofllco over U. A. .limes Co.’s store. J. E. WEBSTER, jVt t oirne.v- A.t - I w, Olllce In Court House. (Probate J utlse’s offlee Gaffney City, S. C. Practices in all the courts. ColieC' tions a specialty DR. J. F. GARRETT, Dentist, Gaffney, - - - S. C. Office over J. R. Tolleson’s new st ore In office from 1st to 2Gth of each mouth; -*J. C. JEFFERIES 4- GAFFNEY, S. C. Commercial Law. Corporation Law Ktal estate Law. The liiiest lot of yellow and white pine shingles ever in (JalTney. Rest Georgia pine IToorln;', Celling and Weatherboardlnjr In the market. Just re ceived, a carload of Doors, Sash. Mantles, Brackets, Turned Columns, llalusters, &c. AlsoOtik Cabinet Mantles and Tileintf. Call and examine for yourtiilves, Prices to suit the times. Uespct., L. BAKER. A. N. WOOD, . BANKER, does a general Banking and Exchangt business. Well secured with Burglar- Proof safe and Automatic Time Lock. Safety Deposit Boxes at moderate rent. Buys and sells Stocks andBonds. Buys County and School Claims. Your business solicited. The fear! Steam Laundry Isopt-ruMri*on full tirno and tnrntnirout 11 rst-chivl work. K< iretaber us when you wunt work done. }S'e will call for your pack aim. We also I. a.e in operation A First-Class Grist Mill. We respectfully solicit your patronnae cud ask the people (Hit of town to hrlnif ttnwr corn nlniiu w lien • hey come In to do tbitr shopplnir. \\>• have enKiifrcd the HCrvUe-of W ii'.. IMillllpn, one of tbo best snlllerK In t)da st i'tlon. Mr. i’bllllps will !h> ivl I in' tii.il every day In I In- week and wo Kuaraiit.;,- prompt and cltlclent acr- vlco at all times. Richardson Bros., Props. tidll'S ETEltXAL 1’LAN. WORLD NOT GOVERNED AT HAPHAZ ARD, SAYS DR. TALMAGE. EnnniernteM Five Thlnirs Tlmt Have Drcii Settled liy Itiviuc Wisdom. FurnliTii-H Proof in the Past His tory of the World. [(•upyriclit, Louis Kiopiah. 1S09.1 Wasiiim.ion, Nov. U.- The Idea that tilings iit lids world are at loose ends and going at haphazard is in this dis course combated by Dr. Tahnage. The text is I'salins cxix. St). ‘‘Forever, O Lord, thy word is settled in heaven.” This world has been in process of change ever siuee it was created— mountains horn, mountains dying, and they have both cradle and grave. Once this planet was all 11 aid, and no being such as you or I have ever seen could have lived on it a minute. Our hemi sphere turns its face to the sun and then turns its back. The axis of the earth's revolution has shifted. The earth's center of gravity is changed. Once bowers giew In the arctic, and there was snow In the tropic. There has been a redistribution of land and sea, the land crumbling into the sea, the sea swallowing the land, lee and lire have fought for the possession of this planet. The chemical composition of it is different now from what it once was. Volcanoes once terribly alive are dead, not one throb of fiery pulse, not one breath of vapor—the ocean chang ing Its amount of saline qualities. The Internal liresof the earth are gradually eating their way to the surfaces—up heaval and subsidence of vast realms of continent. Moravians in Greenland have remov ed their boat poles because the advanc ing sea submerged them. Linnaeus records that in ST years a great stone was 100 feet nearer the water than when he wrote. Forests have been buried by the sea, and land that was cultured by farmer’s hoe ean be touch ed only by sailor’s anchor. Loch Nevis of Scotland and Dingle hay of Ireland and the liords of Norway, where pleasure boats now Hunt, were once valleys and glens. Many of the islands of the sea are the tops of sunken mountains. Six thousand miles of the I’aeiflc ocean are sinking. The diame ter of the earth, according to scien tific announcement, Is 1S1) miles less than it was. The entire configuration of the earth is altered, lldls are de nuded of their forests. The frosts and the waters and the air Lombard the earth till It surrenders to the as sault. The so called "everlasting hills” do not last. Many railroad companies cease to build iron bridges because the iron has a life of its own, not a vegetable life or an animal life, hut a metallic life, and when that life dies the bridge ftoes down. Oxidation of minerals is only another term for de scribing their death. Mosses and sea weeds help destroy the rocks they decorate. Earth's ClianKON. The cuanges of the inanimate earth only symbolize the moral changes. So ciety ever becomes different for better or worse. Boundary lines between na tions are settled until the next war un settles them. Uncertainty strikes through laws and customs and legisla tion. The characteristic of this world is that nothing in it is settled. At a time when we hoped that the arbitra tion planned last summer at The Hague, Holland, would forevershoathe the sword and spike the gun and dis mantle the fortress the world lias on hand two wars which are digging graves for the flower of English and American soldiery. From the presence of such geological and social and na tional and international unrest we turn with thanksgiving and exultation to my text and find that there are things forever settled, hut in higher latitudes than we have ever trod. "Forever, O Lord, thy word is settled in heaven.” High up in the palace of the sun at least live things are settled—that na tions which go continuously and per sistently wrong perish; that happiness is the result of spiritual condition and not of earthly environment; that this world Is a schoolhouse for splendid or disgraceful graduation; that with or without us the world is to be made over into a scene of arborcscence and purity; tlmt all who are adjoined to the unparalleled One of Bethlehem and Nazareth and Golgotha will he the subjects of a supernal felicity without any taking off. l*o you doubt my first proposition— that nations which go wrong perish. We have In this American nation all the elements of pormtim-nee • jd de struction. We need not borr w from others any trowels for upbuilding or torches for demolition. Elements of ruin—nihilism, infidelity, agnosticism, Sabbath desecration, inebriety, sensu ality, extravagance, fraud; they are ail here. Elements of safety—God wor shiping men and women by the scores of millions, honesty, benevolence, truthfulness, self sacrifice, Industry, sobriety and more religion than has characterized any nation that has ever existed; they are all here. The only question Is as to which of the forces will gain domiuancy—the.one class as cendant, and tills United States gov ernment, I think, will continue as long as the world exists; the other class as cendant, and the United States goes into such small pieces that other gov ernments would hardly think them worth picking up. Cemetery of Nnlior,n. Havp you ever notici d the size of the cemetery of dead nations, the vast Greenwood and Fere !e Chaise, where mighty kingdoms were buried’/ Opeq the gate and walk through this ceme tery and read the epitaphs. Hero lies Carthage, born J00 years before Koine, great commercial metropolis on the hay of Tunis, a part of an empire that gave the alphabet to the Greeks and their great language to the Hebrews; her arms lbo terror of nations, command' ing at one time 10,000 utiles of coast; her Hamilcur leading forth Rt) myriads, or 000,000 troops; her Hannibal carry ing out in manhood the oath he hud taken in boyhood to preserve eternal enmity to Home, leaving costly and im posing monuments at Agrlgentum a ghastly heap of ruins; Carthage, her colonies on every coast, her ships plow ing every sea; Carthage where nro her splendors now'/ All extinguished. Where are her swords? The Inst otto broken. Where are her towers and long ranges of magnificent architecture? Hurled under the muds of the Bn- gradus. 4s ballast of foreign ships much of her radiant marble has been carried away to build the walls of transmedlterranenu cathedrals, while other b! n ks have been blasted in mod ern times by the makers of the Tunis rnili>ay. And all of that great and mighty city and kingdom that the tour ist finds today is here and there a bro ken areh of what was once a o() mile aqueduct. Our talented and genial friend. Henry M. Field, in one of his matchless books of travel, labors hard to prove that the slight ruins of that city are really worth visiting. Carthage burled In the cemetery of dead nations. Not one altar to the true God did she rear; not one of the Ten Command ments hut she conspicuously violated. Her doom was settled in heaven when It was decided far back in the eternities that the nation and kingdom that will not serve God shall perish. nvee«loi» of Discord. Walk on In the cemetery of nations and see the long lines of tombs— Thebes and Tyre and Egypt and Baby lon and Medo-Bersian and Macedonian and Komun and Saxon heptarchy, great nations, small nations, nations that lived a year and nations that lived 500 years. Our own nation will he Judged by the same moral laws by which all oth er nations have been judged. The judgment day for individuals will probably come far on in the future. Judgment day for nations is every day, every day weighed, every day ap proved or every day condemned. Never before In the history of this country has the American nation been more surely in the balances than it is this minute. Do right, and we go up. Do wrong, and we go down. I am not so anxious to know what this statesman or that warrior thinks we had better do with Cuba and I’orto Rico and the Bhilippiiu’s as 1 am anxious to know what God thinks we had better do. The destiny of this nation will not be decided on yonder capltoliue hill or at Manila or at the presidential ballot box, for it will be settled In heaven. Another tiling decided in the same high place is that happiness is the re sult of spiritual condition and not of earthly environment. If we who may sometimes have a thousand dollars to invest find it such a perplexity to know what to do with it and soon after find that we invested it where principal and interest have gone down through ttoguery or panic, what must be the worrinient of those having mil lions to invest and whose losses cor respond in magnitude with their re sources! Beople who have their three or four dollars a day wages are just as happy as those who have an income of v500,090 a year. Sometimes happi ness is seated ou a footstool and some times misery on the throne. All the gold of earth in one chunk cannot pur chase five minutes of complete satis faction. Worldly success is an atmos phere that breeds the maggots of envy and jealousy and hate. There are those who will never forgive you if you have more emoluments or honor or ease than they have. To take you down is the dominant wish of most of those who are not as high as you are. They will spend hours and days and years to entrap you. They will hover around newspaper offices to get one mean line printed depreciating you. Your heaven is their hell. A dying president of the United States said many years ago in regard to his lifetime of experience, "It doesn’t pay.” The lending statesmen of America in letters of advice warn young men to keep out of politics. Many of the most successful have tried in vain to drown their trouble in strong drink. On the other hand, there are millions of people who on departing this life wifi have nothing to leave but a good name and a life Insurance whose illumined faces are indices of il lumined souls. They wish everybody well. When the fire bell rings, they do not go to the windows at midnight to see if it is their store that is on tire, for they never owned a store, and when the September equinox is abroad they do not worry lest their ships founder in a gale, for they never owned a ship, and when the nominations are made for high political ofllce they are not fearful that their name will he over looked, for they never applied for of fice. There is so much heartiness and freedom from care in their laughter that when you hear it you are compel led to laugh in sympathy, although you know not what they are laughing about. When the children of that family as semble in the sitting room of the old homestead to hear the father’s will read, they are not fearful of being cut off witii a million and a half dollars, for the old man never owned anything more than the farm of T5 acres, which yielded only enough plainly to support the household. They have more happi ness in one mouth than many have in \ whole lifetime. Would to God 1 had iLe capacity to explain to you ou how little a man can be happy and on how much he may he wretched! Get your heart right, and ail is right. Keep your heart wrong, and all is wrong. That is a principle settled In heaven. School of Life. Another tiling decided in that high place Is that this world Is a school- house or college for splendid or dis graceful graduation. We begin in the freshman class of good or evil and then puss into the sophomore and then into the junior and then into the senior, and from that we graduate angels or devils. In many colleges there is an “elective course,” where the student selects what he will study—mathematics or the languages or chemistry or philosophy—uud it is an elective course wo all take iu the schoolhouse or university of th. world. We may study sin until we are satu rated with it or righteousness until we are exemplifications of it. Graduate we all must, hut we decide for our- sclves the style of graduation. It Is an elective courre. We can study gen- eroslly until our every word and every at t and every contribution of money or time will make the world better, or we may study meanness until onr soul shall shrink up to a smallness un imaginable. We may. under God, edu cate ourselves into a self control that nothing can anger or into an Irascibili ty that will ever ami anon keep our faeo flushed with wrath and every nerve a quiver. Great old schoolhouse of a world In which we are all being educated for glory or perdition! Some have wondered why graduation day in college is culled “commencement day” whan it is the last day of college exercises, hut graduation days (ire propan/ called cptawwiceoieot day. To all The graduated it Is the commence ment of active life, and our graduation day from earth will be to us com mencement of our chief life, our larger life, our more tremendous life, our eternal life. But what a day commence ment day on earth is! The student nev er sees any day like It. At any rate, I never did. Old Niblo’s theater in New York comes back to me, the gowned und tassel hatted professors behind us, and our kindred and friends before us and above us, and the air redolent with garlands to be thrown to us. What a commencement day it was for all of us about to graduate! But mighthr day will it he when we graduate from this world. Will it be hisses of condemna tion or handclapping of approval? Will there ho flung to us nettles or wreaths? Will It be a resounding "Come!” or a reverberating “Depart?” In the real college, before graduation and commencement, comes examina tion day, and before our graduation ami commencement will come examina tion. It will be asked what we have been doing, what wo have learned un der the tutelage of years of joy and sorrow, and under the teaching of the Holy Ghost are we educated for heav en. Have we done our best with the curriculum of study put before every mortal and Immortal? Oh, this world is not tiie terminus of a journey! It is not a theater on whose stage we are enacting the tragic or comic. It Is a schoolhouse for splendid or disgraceful graduation, and death is commence ment. All that Is settled In heaven. Ciod'n G’nune, Another thing decided in the high places of the universe is that this world, with or without us, will be made over into a scene of arbores- cence and purity. Do not think that such a consummation depends upon our personal fidelity. It will be done anyhow. God’s cause does not go a-begging. If all the soldiers of Jesus Christ now living should become de serters and go over to the enemy, that would not defeat the cause. A large part of the Bible is taken up with tell ing us what the world will be. There is a large army, human and angelic, now in the field, hut God’s reserve forces are more numerous nud more mighty than those now at the front, and if he could in Gideon’s time rout the Midianites with a crash of crock ery, ami if he could in Shamgar’s time overcome a host with an ox goad, and if in Samson’s time he could defeat an army with a bleached jawbone, and if the walls of Jericho went down under a blast of perforated rain’s horn, and if in Christ’s day blind eyes were cured by ointment of spittle, then God can do anything he says he will do. As yet he has taken only tme sword out of a whole armory of weapons. Do not get nervous, as if the Lord were going to be defeated. The redemption of tlie.se hemispheres was settled in heaven, and Isaiah and Ezekiel and Habakkuk and Malachi and St. John only reported what the Lord God Al mighty had decided upon. My only fear is that our regiment will not get Into the light to do something worthy of the Christ who redeemed us and we ho left lu lazy encampmsnt at Tampa when wo ought to have been at San tiago. ,, Oh, that coming day of the world’s perfection! The earth will be so chang ed that the sermonology will ho chang ed. There will be no more calls to re pentance, for all will have repented; no more gathering of alms for the poor, for the poor will have been en riched; no hospital Sunday, for dis jointed bones will have been set and the wounds all healed, and the Incura ble diseases of other times will have been overcome by materia medica and a pharmacy and a dentistry and a therapeutics that have conquered everything that alliicted nerve or lung or tooth or eye or limb—healthology complete and universal. The poultice and the ointment and the panacea and the eatholieon and the surgeon's knife und the dentist's forceps and the sci entist's X ray will have fulfilled their mission. GomiicI InflncnvcN. The ‘social life of the world will be perfected. In that millennial age I imagine ourselves standing iu front of a house lighted for levee. We enter among groups filled with gladness and talking good sense and rallying each other in pleasantries and iu every pos sible way forwarding good neighbor hood; no looking askance, no whis pered backbiting, no strut of preten sion, no oblivion of some one’s pres ence because you do not want to know him; each one happy, determined on making some one else happy; words of honest appreciation instead of hollow flattery; suavities and genialities In stead of inflations and pomposities; equipage und upholstery and sculpture and painting paid for; two hours of mental and moral improvement; all the guests able to walk as steadily down the steps of that mansion as when they ascended them; no awaking next morning with aching head and bloodshot eye and incompetent for the day’s duties; the social life as perfect as refinement and common sense and culture and prosperity and religion can make it; the earth made better than it was at the stait, and all through gospelizing Influences, directly or in directly. I suppose the greatest tidal wave that ever rolled the seas was that which in 18(kS was started by the l‘e- ruvlan earthquake. At Arlca, Peru, the wave was 50 feet high and swung war ships a mile forward ou the land. At San Pedro, Cal., the wave was 90 feet high. It moved on to the Sandwich Is lands and submerged some of them and beat against the shores of New Zealand aud rolled up the beach of Ja pan and stopped not until it had en circled the entire globe. Oh, what a wave! But the earthquake that shook the mountain where our Lord died started a higher and swifter and mightier tidal wave tiiat will roll round and round the earth until all Its rebel lious und abominations have gone un der. That was an exciting scene after the battle of Bosworth, which was fought between Richard III and the earl of Richmond, the king falling aud the earl triumphing, when Lord Stanley brought the crown and handed It to the earl, seated on horseback, while the dying and the dead of the battle were lying all around. But It Is a more thrilling spectacle as we look forward through the centuries and see the last armed and Imperial Iniquity of the world slain aud the crown of universal victory put upon the conqueror ou the white horse of th« Apocalypse and all nations “hail the power of Jesus’ mime." That the whole earth will be redeemed is oue of the things loug ago settled In heaven. Go:r» I*lnn or Snlvoilon. • Another thing decided In that high place is that all who are adjoined to the unparalleled One of Bethlehem and Nazareth and Golgotha wd! he the sub jects of u supernal felicity without any taking off. The old adage says that “Loggers must not be choosers," aud the human race In its depleted state had better not be critical of the mode by which God would empalace all of us. I could easily think of a plan more complimentary to our fallen humanity than that which is called the “plan of salvation.” If God had allowed us to do part of the work of recovery and he do the rest; If we could do three-quar ters of it aud he do the last quarter, if we could accomplish most of it aud he just put on the finishing touches, many could look with more complacency upon the projected reinstatement of ’ the human family. No, no! We must have our pride subjugated, our stub born will made flexible and a supernat ural power demonstrated in us at every step. A pretty plan of salvation that would be, of human drafting and man- ufaeturlug! It would he a doxology sung to ourselves. God must have all the glory, not oue step of our heavenly throne made by earthly carpentry; not one string could we twist of the harp of our eternal rejoicing. Accept all as an unmerited donation from the skies, or we will never have it at all. “Now,” says some one, “if Christ Is the only way, what about the hea then, who have never heard of him?” But you are not heathen, aud why divert us from the question of our personal salvation? Satan is always introducing something irrelevant. He wants to take it out of a personality into an abstraction. Get our own Sal vation settled, and then we will dis cuss the salvation of other people. “But,” says some oue, “what percent age of the human race will be saved? What will be the comparative number saved and lost?’’ There satan thrusts iu the mathematics of redemption. He suggests that you find out the mathe matical proportion of the redeemed. But be not deceived. I am now dis cussing the eternal welfare of only two persons, yourself aud myself. Get ourselves right before we bother our selves about getting others right. O Christ, come hither aud master our case! Here are our sins—pardon them; our wou^s—heal them; our burdens—lift them; our sorrows—com fort them. We want the Christ of Bartimeus to open our blind eyes, the Christ of Martha to help us In our do mestic cares, the Christ of Olivet to liolp us preach our sermons, the Christ of Lake Galilee to still our tempests, the Christ of Lazarus to raise our dead. Not too tired is he to come, though he has ou his wfiTpped shoul ders so long carried the world’s woe and on his lacerated feet walked this way to accept our salutation. The Royal Ranqnet. By the bloody throes of the moun tain on which Jesus died, and by the sepulcher where his mutilated body was inclosed in darkened crypt, and by the Olivet from which he arose while astonished disciples clutched for his robes to detain him in their compan ionship, aud by the radiant and omnip otent throne on which he sits waiting for the coming of all those whose re demption was settled in heaven, 1 im plore you how your head In immediate aud final submission. Once exercise Borrow for what you have done and ex- j ercise trust in him for what he is will ing to do, and all is well for both worlds. Then you can swing out de fiance to all opposition, human aud diabolic. In conquering his foes he con quered yours. And have you noticed that passage In Colossians that repre sents him “having despoiled principali ties and powers, he made a show of them, openly triumphing,” so bringing before us that overwhelming spectacle of a Roman triumph? When Pompoy lauded at Brindisi. Italy, returned from his victories, he disbanded the brave men who had fought under him and sent them re joicing to their homes, and, entering Rome, his emblazoned chariot was fol lowed by princes In chains from king doms he had conquered, and flowers such as only grew under those Italian skies strewed the way, and he came under arches inscribed with the name's of battlefields on which he had tri umphed and rode by columns which told of the 1,500 cities he had destroyed and the 12,900,000 people lie had con quered or slaiu. Then the banquet v/us spread, and out of the chalices filled to the brim they drank to the health of the conqueror. Belisnrius, the great soldier, returned from his military achievements and was robed iu purple, und in the procession were brought golden thrones and pillars of precious stones and the furniture of royal feasts, and amid the splendors of kingdoms'overcome he was hailed to the hippodrome by shouts such as had seldom rung through the capital. Thou also came the convivialities. lu the year 274 Aurellau made his entrance to Rome in triumphal car, in which he stood while a winged fig ure of Victory held a wreath above his head. Zeaobla, captive queen of Pal myra, walked behind Ids chariot, her person encircled with fetters of gold, under the weight of which she nearly fainted, but still a captive. And there were in the procession 200 lions and tigers and beasts of many lands aud 1,000 gladiators excused from the cruel amphitheater that they might decorate the day, and Persian and Arabian and Ethiopian embassadors were in the procession and the long line of cap tives, Egyptians, Syrians, Gauls, Goths and Vandals. It was to such scenes that the New Testament refers when it speaks of Christ “having despoiled principalities aud powers, he made a show of them, openly triumphing.” But, oh, the dif ference iu those triumphs! Tito Ro man triumph represented arrogance, cruelty, oppression and wrong, hut Christ's triumph meant emancipation und holiness und Joy. The former was u procession of groans, accompanied by a clank of chains, the other a pro cession of hosannas by millions set forever free. The qnly shackled ones of Christ’s triumph will bo satan and his cohorts tied to our Lord’s chariot wheel, with ail the abominations of all the earth bound for an eternal cap tivity. Then will come a feast In which the chalices will bo filled "with the new wine of the kingdom.” Under arches comweiuoraUve of all the bat tles in which the bannered armies of the church militant through thousands of years of struggle have at lust won the day Jesus will ride, Conqueror of earth nud hell and heaven. There armies, disbanded, will take palaces and thrones. "And they shall come from the cast and the west and the north and the south and sit down in the kingdom of God.” And may you and I, through the pardoning and sanc tifying grace of Christ, be guests at that royal banquet! T. R. GAINES IS NO MORE. lit! OW'tl in ('()]miil)i:i VcKterdny Monitnt; After u Long lllnesK. A telegram was received in this city yesterday announcing the death of Mr Tillman Rowland Gaines, which occurred in Columbia yesterday morn ing. Mr. Gaines had been in feeble health for a number of years and his death has been momentarily ex pected for the past few months. He received a stroke of paralysis some months a^o and never fully re covered from it. Mr. Gaines was about sixty-seven years of age. He came to Gaffney about the year 1800 and for years was one of the brightest of th- constellation of stars that founded the progressive city of Gaff ney. Tillman Rowland Gaines was not a thrifty, money-making man, however, and when he became too feeble to be of service to the com munity his memory was almost a thing of the past. For more than twenty years he con tributed to the prosperity of the young village of Gaffney by contribu tions from his pen, ever praising the good tilings that he could see hut which ho could not attain, while others around him reaped the har vest. We remember Ids last feeble efforts in that direction. He hud the will and the ambition but lie lacked the means to carry out his project and it fell to the ground because of insufficient support. But he has now passed to the great beyond where he will no more dream of the glorious furure. He knows more now than wo poor earthly mortals. May Ids soul find that sweet pccicv and comfort that was detded him by thosj with whom he wished to labor on earth. Deceased leaves a wife and seven children and a host of friends to mourn his taking away. The remains tiro expected to arrive on the vestibule at 11 o’clock and in case they do the funeral will take place this afternoon from the late residence. In case the corps does not arrive on the vestibule it will ar rive on the 4:24 train and the funeral will take place tomorrow morning. The interment will take place in liimostone cemetery. At tlie Mourner’s Bench. Mayor Littlejohn was greeted with quite a little audience yesterday morning. Win. Henry Manning, celebrated for his ability to put his fist in Ids mouth and a follower of Terpsichore, paid $2 50 for taking on a little too much “fuss” X. Oscar Smith, better known as “Buzzard.” was fined $10 for disor derly conduct. Coy Sanders, another gentleman of ebony hue, was fined $10 for being drunk and disorderly. Ellen Cooper, a fair damsel who is noted for her winning ways among the tenderloin settlement of the col ored population, was fined $5 for disorderly conduct. Do not lie Misled by statements regarding the supposed curative qualities of tonics, nervine, cod-liver oil and iron compounds. Little permanent good result from their use. The greatest good comes by increasing the digestive power. Tyner’s Dyspepsia Remedy will do that. In simple indigestion it will give comfort at once; in chronic dys pepsia it will give quick relief, and, with a little perseverance, bring a permanent cure. I’rice 50 cts. per bottle. For sale by all druggists. To Organize a Fire Department. At a call meeting of the town coun cil Friday e\ening the committee ap pointed to secure a place for holding a muss meeting in the interest of or ganizing a fire department reported County Supervisor Lipscomb and Clerk of the Court Jefferies had kind ly consented to allow the meeting to be held in the court house. The council agreed that the meeting should be held next Tuesday evening at 7 :!)0 and a cordial invitation is ex tended to all the male citizens of the town to attend. The committee hav ing the matter in charge will arrange a suitable program and everybody is expected to exnress his views on the subject. Don’t forget the date and the object. Tlmt Throlilmig HrtHiuclie. Would quickly leave you, if you used Dr. King’s New Life Rills. Thousands of sufferers have proved their matchless merit for Sick and Nerveous Headaches. They make pure blood and strong nerves and build up your health. Easy to take. Try them. Only 25 cents. Money hack if not cured. Sold by Cherokee Drug Co. Clean blood means a clean skin, beauty without it. C’asearets,Candy Catli tie clean your blood and keep it clean, stirring up the lazy liver and driving all utilities from the body. Betun to-day banish pimples, boils, blotches, blackhea and that sickly bilious complexion by tak Cascarcts,—beauty for ten cents. All di gists, satisfaction guaranteed, 10c, 25c, 50c A Glianriing SUM'k of tin- latest delleaeles in cufi ll ei I jroxls, confectioneries, staple and fancy imwerles, cigars, tolcicco, el Is to tie found at my store. Any Young tody would appreciate it Ikix of my choice Ism Isms or fresh candy and there is no tilcci present to tie given. All goods Guaranleod to Is* Just as I n press nt them. Tom L. Brown. To ( lean M ilth.g Few tilings can bo used to clean matting, salt and soda l.avo been used, but experience has taught that the best way is to have the matting thoroughly swept, and then go over It with t*. solution of warm water with Gold Dust Washing J’owder dissolved iti it; it is best to use a woolen cloth; a tuhlespoonful of Gold Dust Wash ing Fowdcr to a quart of water is the proportion; wring the clothes almost dry and rub quickly, but the moment the water gets dir'y, change it for fresh; follow the wet cloth'with u d*y one. This cleans perfectly. Ilun’t Tobacco Spit and Smoke Your Life Away. 'i’o quit tobacco easily and forcotr, be inaiu netic, full of life, nerve and vir'or, take No-To- I>ac, the wonder-worker, that makes weak men strong. All druggists, 50c or 51. Cure guaran teed. Booklet and sample free. Address Sterling itemedy Co.. Chicago or New York. I Call at the Chcr- FREE! okee Drug Co. and got a free sample bottle of Dr. Wolford's Expecto rant. The greatest cough rem edy of the age. BAKE YOUR XMAS FRUIT CAKES NOW. We liiiic j list received an excellent line of FRUITS FOE CAKES, which we guarantee is as nice and clean a line as you ever s:i w. (>ur li*ii* consists of <■ vrrytliim tiiat goes to make up a delicious, rich cake, such as Raisins, Currants, Citrons, Figs, Spices, &c. No one has a nicer line than J. 1^. Ad 0>. Itreste with you whetter you continue r. ■ 'V-.k-iiti n toliaci o h;tiit. IVO-TO-llAtl^^ ivrnove., tht H. snvloi (..oaoco, NTflr r-'lpSS cut ucrviiu.-ai^truk., expHM,iucc-4«of|ii A 11 tme, purifies tho blood, ro-^gfK g U roj. (tores lost manhood. Arflfaf t! B bore* mikos you (troiisr^sgTISgA’r son mv, in health.nerve cartel *nd i.oek.t-^jV^ KSsA'iJO TO-BAC from A i own druggirt. who K I f BSIp *»H1 vouch for us. Tate it with Sr wlll.paii. ntly, persistently. One a bol.ti. UL'uaily cures; 3 boxes.*25*, WP~ guaranteed toeurc, or we refund money. Sterling Urmci'yCu., CMcn?o, Jlontreal, Acw fork. Clerk’s Sales. Statf. of South Cahoi.ina. i In Court of Countv of Chkhokf::. f Common Pleas. \V. N. Turner Plaintiff, vs. Boyce L. Tumor, ot. al., Defendants. I a obedience to an order made herein, for partition, I will sell at Gaffney, before the Court house door, during the legal hours of sale, on sale.sday, December 4th, 1S99, the fol lowing lands, to wit: All tiiat certain tract of land situated in Cherokee county, bounded by lands of Co lumbus Pettit, James Moore, Joel Pet tit and others,and known as the Holloway tract, containing one hundred acres more or less. Terms of sale:—One half cash; the balance on a credit of twelve months, with interest thereon from day of sale, to be se cured by a bond of the purchaser and a mortirajre of the premises. Purchaser to pay for all papers, revenue stamps and recording. .1. En. Jefferies. Clei k C. C. Pis. November Dili, tsi*9. at. Clerk’s Notice of Sale. The State of South Oarou> a, i hi the Com- Cocxty of Cherokee. f mon Picas. I. I*. Witherspoon, Agent, Plaintiff, against D. .1. Hopper and C. O. Hopper, as Adminis trators of W. Junius Hopper, deceased, et al., Defendants. Decree of Foreclosure and Sale. In olM-flience to the said Decree, I shall sell at public outcry, at Cherokee Court House (Gaffney), on the first Monday In December, ls!i'.i, the real estate therein described, as fol lows: "All tiiat tract of land in York County and said State of South Carolina,on Buffalo Creek, known as the *J. D. F. Duncan Home Place,’ containing two hundred and fourteen acres, more or less, and adjoining the lands of Dr. J. G. Black, D. M. Williams, W. II. Bridges. Goforth and others—the same land tins day deeded to me by W. Brown Wylie, Clerk Court York County." The said land is to be sold in two parcels, to-wit: the Bruce Hopper tract of forty acres, and the remainder of one hundred and seventy-four acres, the Bruce Hopper tract to be last sold, and its description in the de cree Is as follows: A certain piece or parcel of land "on wa ters of Buffalo Creek and running S. 84 E. 12 ch. to \\ m. Goforth’s corner, on pine, thence S. 5 F.. .'12 ch. to pine, Wm. GoTorth’s corner, thence s. It W. 4, 50 to stake on hank of rail road, thence S. 11. to sycamore on bank of creek, thence with meanders of said creek, to beginning, and contains forty acres, more or loss.” Terms of sale—One-half cash, balance on credit of twelve months, with interest from day of sale, secured by purchaser’s Ixiud and a mortgage of the premises, with leave to pay all cash; in case of non-compliance for one hour, a resale same day at purchaser’s risk. J. En Jefferies, Nov. bull, islfti.—Ill Clerk of Court. Say, Housekeeper, l*o you know that you can phono to us what you want in the way of Groceries, Confectionaries and Country Produce? and that we will deliver it right to your doors? Yes. that is what we will do. Try us and see for yourself. We carry a full line of Bread und Cakes frrsh every day from Pinckcu’s bakery. We li:m just iveelvod a barrel of pulver- iy.ed sugar for cake baking. We gel Fleisclimann's Compressed Yeast fresh every Tuesday. Phone No. ii. G. T, CLARY k GO. FIRE, LIFE AND ACCIDENT INSURANCE. When you need a Fire. Life or Accident Pulley call and get rates and information. Your business solicited. Prompt attention. JONES J. DARBY, Agt. Office two doors above Ledger offlee. Goods Cheap for Cash, I carry Dry Goods, Notions, Shoes, Huts, Table and Pocket Cutlery, Crockery and a general lino of merchandise, and will .sell you as cheap for cash as any house in upper South Caro lina. 1 will give you speciJ low prices on Shoes, Jeans Cloth and Underwear. 1 am expect ing to receive 10 Dozen of my host Axes soon. See my prices on all goods before buying. Yours respectfully, I. M. PEELER.