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Him. Dr. TilImuKe, In liin Christman
Sermon, TcIIn (lie Story of the In-
enrnntion In n New Way—1'rncticul
I'npn of liie I’estivn!.
[Copyright, Louis Klopsch, 1809.]
Wasiiincton, Dec. 24.—The story of
the incarnation is here told by Dr. Tab
mage in a new way, and practical use
Is made of these days of festivity; text,
Matthew i, 17, “So all the generations
from Abraham to David are 14 genera
tions, and from David until the carry
ing away into Babylon are 14 genera
tions. and from the carrying away into
Babylon unto Christ are 14 genera
tions.’'
From what many consider the dullest
and most unimportant chapter of the
New Testament I take my text and
find it full of practical, startling and
eternal interest. This chapter is the
front door of the New Testament,
through which all the splendors of
evangelism and apostolicity enter.
Three time 14 generations are spoken
of in my text—that is, 42 generations—
reaching down to Christ. They all had
relation to him, and at least 42 genera
tions past affect us. If they were good,
we feel the result of the goodness. If
they were bad, we feel the result of
their wickedness. If some were good
nnd some were had, it is an intermin
gling influence that puts its mighty
hand upon us. And as we feel the ef
fect of at least 42 generations past we
will in turn influence at least 42 gen
erations to come, if the world shall last
a thousand years. So, you see, the
cradle is more important than the
grave.
I propose to show you some of the
shadows upon the Christie cradle of
Bethlehem and then the sunshine that
poured in upon the pillow of straw.
Notice among the shadows on that in
fant’s bed that there was here and
there a specimen of dissolute ancestry.
Beautiful Until his ancestress? Oh,
yes! Devout Asa one of ids forefa
thers? Oh, yes! Honest Joseph ills
father? Oh, yes! Holy Mary ids moth
er? Oh, yes! But in that genealogical
table were idolatrous and cruel Am
nion and oppressive Ueboboani and
some men whose abominations may
not be particularized. So you see bad
men may have good descendants. One
of the most consecrated men I ever
knew was the son of a man who lived
and died a blasphemer, in the line of
an oppressive Hehoboam comes a gra
cious and merciful and glorious Christ.
Great encouragement for those who
had in the 42 generations that preced
ed them, however close by or however
far back, some instances of pernicious
and baleful and corrupt ancestry.
KftVetH of Ancestry.
To my amazement, I found in those
parts of Australia to which many years
ago felons were transported from Eng
land that the percentage of crime was
less than in those parts of Australia
originally settled by honest men and
good women. Some who are now on
judicial benches in Australia, and in
high governmental positions, and in
learned and useful professions, and
leaders in social life, are the grandsons
and granddaughters of men and wom
en who were exiled from Great Britain
to Australia for arson and theft and
assault and fraud and murder. So you
see it is possible for the descendants of
those who do wrong to do right.
Since we are all more or less affected
by our ancestry, we ought to lie patient
with those who go wrong, remember
ing that they may be the victims of un
happy antecedents. How lenient it
ought to make us in our judgments of
the fallen! Perhaps they had 42 gen
erations back of them pushing them
the wrong way. Five hundred years
before.they were born there may have
been a parentage of iniquity augment
ed by a corrupt parentage 200 years
ago. Do not blame a man because he
cannot swim up the rapids of Niagara.
Do not blame a ship captain because
he cannot outride a Caribbean whirl
wind. The father of tlds man who does
wrong may have been all right nnd ids
mother all right, but away back in the
centuries there tuny have started a bad
propensity which lie now feels. One of
the Ten Commandments given on
Mount Sinai recognizes the fact that
evil may skip a generation when the
commandment speaks of visiting “the
iniquity of the fathers upon the chil
dren unto the third and fourth genera
tion,” but says nothing about the sec
ond generation, and If evil may skip
one generation why not two nnd three
nnd four and live generations, making
a mighty leap nnd alighting very hard
upon the head and the heart of some
poor victim? Better bo a little merci
ful toward the culprit, lost after awhile
some hereditary evil born In the year
1000 or 1700, having skipped the cen
turies, alight Just as heavy upon you.
Meanwhile Uoop-earofully your fam
ily records. The old place for the fam
ily record In the Bible, between the
Old and New Testaments, is a most ap
propriate place. That record, put in
such impressive surroundings of chap
ter, bounded on one side by the prophe
cies of Mitlachi and on the other side
by the gospel of Matthew, "'ill receive
stress and sanctity from its positioq.
That record is appropriately hound up
with the eternities. Do not simply say
in your family record, "Born at such a
time and diet] at such a time,” but If
there has been among your ancestors
some man or woman especially conse
crated and useful make a note of It for
the eheourugement of Hie following
generations. Two family records of
the Bible—the one In Matthew reach
ing from Abraham to Ghrlst nnd the
one In Luke beginning with Joseph and
reaching hack to the garden of Eden -
with the sublime statement “which
was Hie son of Adam, which was the
son of God.” I charge you to tills duty
of keeping the family record by the 42
generations whiij) are past and the 4J
generations which are to porno. It is
a good tiling—Hie new liahli abroad of
seeking for one’s pedigree.
SIiimIook on tin* Crnillr.
Auotiio)' shadow on the Christie cra
dle was (hat it Stood under a depraved
king. Herod was at that time ruler
and the complete Impersonation of all
depravities. It was an unfavorably
time for Innocence to expect good treat
ment. So dark was the shadow drop
ping on the cradle from that iniquitous
throne that the peasant mother had to
lift her babe out of It and make hasty
flight. Depraved habits of those Ju
•authority are apt to tie copied by sun-
Jects, and from the Immorals of tb«
Herodlc throne 1 judge of the immor*
nls of a nation. There was a malaria
of sin in the air when the Infant Christ
first breathed it. Thickest shawl could
not keep the babe warm when in that
wintry month with his mother ho be
came a fugitive.
Historians say that it was at a time
of peace that Christ was horn, but his
birth aroused an antagonism of which
the Bethlehem massacre was only a
feeble expression. War of the mighti
est nation of the earth opened against
that cradle! The influence that came
forth that night from that surrounding
of camels nnd sheep and oxen challeng
ed the Iniquities of all the centuries
and will not cease until it has destroy
ed them. What a pronunciainento
went forth from that black and bar
barian throne, practically saying, “Slay
all the babes under 2 years of age, nnd
that wide slaughter will surely include
the death of the one child that most
threatens my dominion.” Awful time
was it for the occupant of that cradle!
If he escape the knife of the assassin,
then the wild beast’s paw or the ban
dit’s clutch or the midnight chill be
tween Bethlehem of Judiea and Cairo,
Egypt, will secure his destruction. All
the powers of earth and all Hie demons
of hell bombarded that cradle.
A FnmoiiM Town.
Another shadow upon that Christie
cradle was the obscurity of the place
of birth. Bethlehem was an obscure
village. David, the shepherd boy, bail
been born there, but after be became
general and king he gave it no signifi
cance, 1 think never mentioning it hut
to ask for li drink of water out of the
old well to which he used to go in
childhood—the village so small and
unimportant that it had to be separat
ed in mind from another Bethlehem
then existing, and so was called Beth
lehem of Judaea. There was a great
capital of Jerusalem; there were the 15
beautiful cities on the beach of Galilee,
any of them a good place to be born
in; there were great towns famous at
that time, but the nativity we today
celebrate was in a village which Christ
intimated had been called by some
“the least among the princes of Jiula.”
Christ himself was to make the town
famous for all time and all eternity.
() men and women of Messianic op
portunity, why do you not make the
place of your nativity memorable for
your philanthropies—by the churches
you build, the free libraries you open,
the colleges you endow? Go back to
the village where you were born, as
George IVabody went back to Danvers,
Mass., anil with your wealtli bless the
neighborhood where In childhood you
played and near by where your father
and mother sleep the last sleep. There
are scores of such villages In America
being generously remembered by pros
perous men during life or helped in
their hist will and testament, and there
are a humired neighborhoods waiting
for such benediction from their pros
perous sons. By some such charity in
vite the Bethlehem angels to come back
again and over the plain house of your
nativity ring out the old anthem of
“Good will to men.” Christ, born in an
obscure place, made it so widely known
by ids self sacrifices and divine charity
that all round the earth the village of
Bethlehem has its name woven in gar
lands and chanted in “To Dennis” and
built in houses of prayer.
Kniittliiin* IIrcitUs TliI'oiif^li.
But it is time we see some of the sun
shine breaking through the shadows
on that cradle. For we must have jubi
lance dominate the Christmas festival.
That was Walter Scott’s opinion when
in “Marmiou” he wrote:
A ('hrwtimtH gambol oft would clioor
A poor man's heart through half tho year.
It was while Hie peasant and ids
wife were on a visit for purposes of en
rollment that Jesus was born. The Bi
ble translators got the wrong word
when they said that Joseph and Mary
had gone to Bethlehem to be "taxed.”
1‘eople went no farther then to get tax
ed than they do now. The effort of
most people always has been to escape
taxation. Besides that, these two hum
ble folk had nothing to tax. The man’s
turban that protected his head from
the sun was not worth taxing; the wo
man’s sandals which kept her feet
from being cut by tin* limestone rock,
of which Betfdohcm is mostly made
up, were not worth taxing. No; tho
fact is that a proclamation had been
made by the emperor tiiat all the peo
ple between Great Britain and I’arthia
and of those lands included should go
to some appointed place and give their
names In, be registered nnd announce
their loyalty to the Homan emperor.
They had walked So miles over a
rough road to give their names and
take the oath of allegiance. Would wt 1
walk 80 miles to announce our alle
giance to our king, one Jesus? Cscsar
Augustus wanted to know by the rec
ord on which that man and that wo
man wrote their names or had them
written, Just how many people in Ida
empire lie could depend on in case ot
exigency. How many men would un
sheathe sword for the Homan eagle
and how many women could lie de
pended on to take care of the wounded
on battlefields? The trouble is that in
tho kingdom of Christ we do not know
how many can be depended on. There
are so many men and women who
never give In their names. They serve
the Lord ol. the sly. They do not an
nounce their allegiance to the king
who, in tlie battles to come, will want
all his troops. In all our churches
there are so many half and half disci
ples, so many one-third espousers.
They rather think the Bible is true, at
any rate parts of it, and they hope that
Somehow Christianity will disenthrall
the nations. They stay away from
church on communion days and hope
when they have lived as long an they
can in tlds world they can somehow
sneak into heaven. Oh, give in yoiq
names! Be registered on the church
record down here and in the Lamb’s
Book of idle up there. Let all tliu
world know where you stand, If you
have to go as far as Joseph and Mary
walked, If you have to go 80 miles be
fore you find just the right form of
worship and .just the right creed.
HDIdc
Another gleam of sunshine striking
through tho shadows above that < 'brist
le cradle was the fact of a special di
vine protection. Herod was deterniln-
i;d Upon jlie child's destruction. Tho
monster put all his wl|s together in
stratagi'iit for tho stopping of that
young life just started. Iio dramatized
piety; he suddenly got religious; hu
would leave Ids palace and take char*
lyt and have steeds whipped up, ^<j
that lie could kneel at that cradle. 'Wo
have to smile at what tin* Imperial vil
lain said when he ordered, “Go and
search diligently for the young child,
and when ye have found him bring me
word, that I may go and worship him
also.” Do re’s picture of the “Massacre
of the Innocents” at Herod’s command
—a picture full of children hurled over
walls and dashed against streets and
writhing under assassin’s foot—gives
us a little Impression of the manner in
which Herod would have treated tho
real child if ho could once have got his
hand on it. But Herod could not find
that cradle. All the detectives lie sent
out failed in the search. Vet it had
been pointed out by ilushligbt from the
midnight heavens. All tin* neighbor
hood knew about it. The angelic cho
rus in the cloud had called musical at
tention to 1*. No sentinel guarded it
with drawn sword, passing up and
down by the pillow of that Bethlehem
caravansary. \\ by, then, was it that
the cradle was not despoiled of its
treasure? Because it was divinely pro
tected. There were wings hovering
that mortal eye could not see; there
were armed Immortals whose bran
dished sword mortal eye could not fol
low; there were chariots of tho Omnip
otent the nimble of whose wheels only
supernatural:; could hear. God had
started through the cradle to save our
world, and not hing could stop him.
You cannot reasonably account for
tlmL unhurt cradle except on the the
ory of a special, divine protection. And
most cradles are likewise defended.
Can you understand why so many chil
dren, with all the epidemics that as
sault them, and all their climbing to
dangerous heights, and all their peril
ous experiments witli explosives and
their running against horses’ hoofs,
and daring of trolleys and carts fast
driven, yet somehow get through, espe
cially boys of high spirit and that are
going to amount to much? I account
for their coming through all right, with
only a few wounds and bruises, by the
fact that they are divinely protected.
All your charges of “Don't do this” and
“Don’t do that” and “Don’t go there”
seem to amount to nothing. They are
the same reckless creatures about
whom you are constantly anxious and
wondering what is the matter now.
1 dvinely protected!
<• 1<><I1!IN «)f LHlllt.
Another gleam of light, scattering
some of the gloom of that Christie pil
low iti Bethlehem, was the fact tiiat it
was the starting place of the most won
derful of all careers. Looking at
Christ’s life from mere worldly stand
points it was amazing beyond nil ca
pacity of pen or tongue or canvas to
express. Without taking a year’s cur
riculum in any college or even a day at
any school, yet saying things that the
mightiest intellects of subsequent days
have quoted nnd tried to expound!
Great literary works have for the most
part been the result of much elabora
tion. Edmund Burke rewrote the con
clusion of liis speech against Warren
Hastings 10 times. Lord Brougham
rewrote his speech in behalf of Queen
Caroline 20 times, hut the sermon on
tho mount seemed extemporaneous.
Christ was eloquent without ever hav
ing studied one of Hie laws of oratory,
lie was the greatest orator tiiat ever
lived. It was not an eloquence Demos
thenic or Cicerouic or like that of Jean
Baptiste Massillon or like that which
William Wirt, himself a great orator,
was overcome witli in log cabin meet
ing house of Virginia, when the blind
preacher cried out in liis sermon, “Soc
rates died like a philosopher, but Jesus
Christ died like a God.”
Christ’s oratory was unlike anything
that went before or came after. Even
the criticism of the world said, “Never
man spake like this man.” Dramatic?
Why, he took up a child out of the au
dience and set him on a table and by
the embarrassed look of the child
taught humility. He sent the prose
cutors of a poor, sinful woman, blush
ing and confounded, out of the room
by one sentence of sarcasm. Notice
his power of emphasis and enunciation
when he revealed himself after ids res
urrection, by the peculiar way he pro-
nounced the oue word “Mary,” liis
power of look shown by the way Peter,
the great apostle, wilted under it. The
book says, “The Lord turned and look
ed upon Peter.” It was an omnipotent
facial expression. Ho looked upon Pe
ter. Power of distinct utterance, so
that every one could hoar. “He opened
liis mouth, saying.” No mumbling and
indistinct utterance. Iio opened ids
mouth. Ills voice, which had been de
veloped by open air speaking, was a
resonant ami sonorous voice, or lie
would not have taken the top of tho
rocks of the Mount of Beatitudes for a
pulpit, for tiiat pulpit is so high, as 1
declare from observation, that no
speaker that I have ever known could
have from tiiat point made any audi
ence hour one word of a sermon. Ills
power of hyperbole: A camel trying to
crowd its hump through the eye of a
sewing woman’s needle and ail tiiat
learned talk about a gate culled the
“needle’s eye” only belittling the hy
perbole. Power of sarcasm: The hypo-
prites styled by 1dm “the whole who
need not a physician.” His power of
peroration: The crashing of the tim
bers of the poorly built house on tho
beach of the Mediterranean. Power to
take advantage of circumstances:
When an auditor asked him whether
they ought to pay taxes to Crnsar,
Christ practically said, "if any gentle
man in tlds audience has in his pocket
a Homan penny, 1 wish lie would just
hand it up to me.” And some one
handed him a penny, sucli as you can
now find In some of the museums, Hie
obverse of It hearing tho face of Ti
berius, the emperor, and tho reverse
the words "Putillfex Maximus,” tho
other title of tin* emperor, and then
came the overwhelming answer of
Christ, "Hender to Ciesar tho tilings
that are Ciesar’s and to God tho things
tiiat are God’s.”
But wo iimst not only look at him
from a worldly standpoint. How he
smote whirlwinds Into silence, nnd
made the waves of the sea Ho down,
nnd opened doors of light Into tho mid
night of those who had boon horn
blind, and turned deaf ears into gal
leries of music, and with quo touch
made tho scabs of Incurable leprosy
fall off, and renewed healthy circula
tion through severest paralysis, and
made the dead girl waken and ask for
her mother, nnd at liis crucifixion pull
ed down the clouds, until at 12 o’clock
tit noob it was as dark as 12 o’clock at
night, and starting an Influence that
will go on until the last desert will
grow roses nnd tho last wok lung
muku full iuhulutlou, uuU tho it easy
of paresis take healthful brain, and
the last illness become rubicund of
chock and robust of chest and bound
ing of foot, and tho Inst pauper will
get his ptilace, and the hist sinner
taken unto the warm bosom of a par
doning God! Whore did all this start?
In that cradle within sound of bleat
ing sheep and bellowing cattle and
amid rough bantering of herdsmen and
camel drivers. What a low place to
start for such great heights! O artists,
turn your camera obscura on that vil
lage of Bethlehem! Take it all iu-
tho wintry skies lowering, tho flocks
shivering in the chill air, Mary the pale
mother, and Jesus the child.
An Ktcrnul Jubilee.
So T have shown you the shadows
and the sunshine of that Christie cra
dle of Bethlehem. In these Christmas
times I realize that there are many cra
dles under shadows. Oh, the story of
empty cradles all up and down the
earth, in cabins and palaces! There
are standing In garrets or in store
rooms cradles that will never rock
again. “Hachcl mourning for her chil
dren nnd will not be comforted be
cause they are not.” But through all
the shadows break gleams of sunsliiue
as the clouds of the Chrtstic cradle
were cleft by glorious light. Escaped
from tho struggles through which we
have all passed and must yet pass,
those little ones took heaven at one
bound. Instead of an earthly career
it is a heavenly career, with capacities,
with velocities, with opportunities be
yond our comprehension. Instead of cel
ebrating on earth the Saviour’s birth
they stand in the Saviour’s presence.
Instead of the holiday celebrations of
the old homestead it is to them eternal
jubilee at a table where the angels of
God are the cupbearers and amid fes
tivities that resound with a laughter
and a music and blaze with a brilliance
and a glory “that eye hath not seen
nor ear heard.” No use in wishing
them a merry Christmas, for the mer
riments of heaven ring out upon them
from temples that are always open,
amid pleasures that never die. Oh, it
is not a dull heaven, but a lively heav
en, for there are so many children
there! They throng the streets. They
look out of the “House of Many Man
sions.” They stand on the beach to see
the fleets cast anchor within the vale.
They crowd the gates with greetings
when the old folks come in. They clap
their hands in an eternal gladness.
They dance in an eternal glee. See
you not the sunshine that pours into
the shadows of tiiat cradle until they
are all gone?
But shadows have their uses. There
must be a background to every good
picture. Turner always put at least a
fleck of cloud on ids canvas, and the
clouds of earth will he the background
to bring out more mightily the bright
ness of heaven. And will it not be glo
rious if after all this scene of earthly
vicissitude we meet again in our Fa
ther’s house and talk over the past iu
an everlasting holiday? But mean
while look out for the cradles. How
much they decide for tills world and
tho next! When Wellington was born
at Morulngton, England, that decided
Waterloo and saved Europe. When
Handel was born in Halle, Saxony,
that decided the oratorios of “Judas
Maecaba?us” and “Esther” and “Israel
In Egypt” and “Jephthah” and “Mes
siah.” When Eli Whitney was born at
Westboro, that decided the wealth of
all the cotton fields of the south. When
Gutenberg was born at Metz, Germany,
that decided the libraries of all Chris
tendom. When Clarkson was born in
Cambridgeshire, England, that decided
the doom of human bondage. When
Morse was born at Breed’s Hill, Mass.,
that decided that the lightnings of
heaven should become galloping couri
ers or stretch a throbbing iron nerve
clear under the sea. When Washing
ton was horn at Westmoreland, Va.,
that decided American independence.
When Christ was born at Bethlehem,
that decided Hie redemption of the
world. Oh, look out for the cradles!
May a Bethlehem star of hope point
down to each one of them and every
hovering cloud bo tilled with chanting
nngels of mercy.
Property Near Limestone.
Three tracts, within one-half
mile of the College.
1 will sell the lands of the
estate of J. A. Corry on Wed
nesday, February 14th. This
is the old Dr. Knott place and
lies ' Galfney and Lime
stone.
Three tracts on the Metal
Road, from 5 to 7 miles of (tall-
ncy.
One tract of i<S7 acres near
the Macombson Shoals on Broad
River.
Apply to
R. 0.
Cabinet and Job Work
Done witli ncatnrxs and (leKnat'-b.
Furniture Ueiialrltig. Turulnie and Spindle
Work for li id Is.
Shop Limes tom: Street, opposite eotton mill
office.
W. H. CABANISS.
Now For Christmas.
I have line lieef. Pork, Sausage and Mutton
always on hand, and Country Produce and
Vegetables when they can he gotten.
Heavy and Fancy Groceries, Confection
eries, Cigars nnd Tobncuo; ('aimed Hood* of
all varieties, Fruits of all kinds, tlno North
ern Apples. Oranges, Cocanuts and Itanan-
nas; Fireworks, mid plenty of candy of nearly
all varieties.
Fresh Fish regular »*very Friday.
The public Is Invited and welcome to come
n*' 1 ! see for tin msclvcs.
W him you are m need of uuytldiig call and
sen us or phone No, til).
L. W. McGUINN.
Burnette Block.
A SLUGGISH BRA!N ....
Is caused by Imperiect Digjsflon and Disorder
hi the Liver and Bowels.
JPRICIQLY ASH BITTERS]L
IS A BOO/4 TO BRAIN WORKER?. ^
It purifies the fcov/els, strengthens nnd regulates the'
liver, aids digestion, promotes vigor of body,
cheerfulness and mental activity.
SOLD BY ALL DRUGGISTS.
PRICE *1.00 PER BOTTLE.
»
Cherokee Drug Co. Special Agents.
Cherokee Fulls Chroiiiclliiga.
^Correspondence of The Ledger.)
Chlkokek Falls, Dec. 28.—On
taut Sunday Mr. William If. Bachler
led to the marriage alter Miss Alice
Beil where they were made “one
flesh,” Mr. R. Torrence, T. J., offi
ciating. May their voyage across
the sea of life be one of bliss. The
contracting parties were both of
Cherokee Falls.
Miss Inez Austin, of Charlotte, is
visiting her sister, Mrs. D. V. Bran
non, of this place.
W. Ed Whelchel.wife and children,
took a flying trip to seo Mr. Eb.
Whelchel last Sunday, returning
Monday. ‘‘Big Ed” reported a good
time and plenty to eat. He said it
would have made un elephant turn
green with envy to have seen him
when he got his pedal extremities
placed under Mr. Whelchel's table
and himself lowered in his chair so
as to bring the opening in his head
on a bee-line with his plate. Those
who are acquainted with ‘‘Big Ed”
can surmise the rest.
Wakhkn.
A Frightful liluii<I<*r
Will often cause a horrible Burn,
Scald, Cut or Bruise. Bucklen’g
Arnica Salve, the best in the world,
will kill the pain and promptly heal
it. Cures Old Sores, Fever Sores,
Fleers, Boils, Felons, Corns, all
Skin Eruptions. Beat File cure on
oartl). Only 2o cents a box. Cure
guaranteed. Sold by Cherokee Drug
Company.
Smhh-n Dviitli of u Cliilil.
The little eon of Mr. and Mrs. It. R.
Blackwell, of Lawn, died Wednesday
morning of membranes croup. The
little fellow was sick but a few hours
and died before a doctor could be
summoned. The remains were in
terred at Druytonville yesterday
at noon. The* sorrowing parents
have the deepest sympathy of a host
of friends in this county.
W HEN YOU are feeling tired and
outof sorts you will liiid Hood’s
Sarsaparilla will do you wonderful
good. Be sure to GET HOOD’S.
Dr. C. T. LIPSCOMB,
Dentist,
Office over R. A. I or. ^3 & Co.’a Store.
Can he found at office six days in t he week
Tax Notice.
The tax levy for Cherokee County for fiscal
year Isidl Is as follows:
For Slate purposes 5 mills
For Constitutional School Tax. J mills
For Ordinary County I mills
For Poor House and Jail I mill
ForCounty Hoads 1...1 mill
For Townships Limestone, White
Plains, Morgan and Cherokee, In
terest K. It. Bonds I mill
For Townships Limestone, White
Plains and Morgan, Sinking Futid.“ mills
For Townships Druytonville and
Gowdeyville. Interest R. R. Ronds.2 mills
For Townships Draytonville and
Gowdeyville, Sinking Fund l^mills
For Cherokee Township, Sinking
Fund. I'/initlls
For Townships Limestone, White
Plains and Morgan, Spartanburg
Jail 1 mill
For Graded School District, Blacks
burg, No, 9 :i mills
For Graded School District. Gatl'ney,
No. 10, 2!4rallls
I will he at t he following places for the
purpose of collecting taxes:
At office from November Hi to December:!!
J. R. JoNI.S,
County Treasurer.
Gaffney. S. ('., Sept. 14th. Ik'.i'J
Clerk’s Sales.
Statl or Soi'Tii Caiioi.ina, 1 In Conrl of
Coir.NTV or Clintonkk, 1 Common Pleas.
Peyton R. Love, Plaintiff',
against
J. G. Love, ct. al., defendants.
111 obedience to an order made ht rein. 011
October Cth, Is'.iii, for purtilion, I will sell at
Gaff ney, S. <'., before the Court house door,
during the legal hours of sale, 011 salcsday,
Tuesday, January 2nd, I'.mhi, (Monday, the
tirsi day of January, Is'ing *1 legal 'holiday),
the follow ing described property, to-wit :
All of the minerals and mineral interest in
a certain tract of land In Count y oft 'hcrokec
and State of South Carolina, know 11 as "Flint
Hill Gold Mine,” being the mineral interest
iu said tract of land which is bounded on the
North by lands now or formerly belonging to
Frank Smith, formerly known as “Kennedy
Lands;" hounded on the South by lauds of
.1. G. Love; on the East by Rroad River; and
on the West by lands of .1. N. Jefferies, con
taining two hundred and eighty acres, more
or less.
Terms of stile: Cash; purchaser to pay for
all papers and revenue stamps.
No bid will be received for less than Five
Thousand Dollars, ($5,t»)0.(>0).
In case of non-compliance for one hour, a
resale same day at purchaser’s risk.
J. Eb. jRnrr.iiiRH,
Clk\ C. V. Pis.
December 15th, IKOD.-Jt,
Petition for Homestead.
Tin: :■* A IT, O) SOI Til Cakouna, *
< 'OUNTY or CmatoKCK. 1
Ex-Parte,
S G. Sarratt, \V. J. Sarratf ami Inez Surratt.
Notice Is hereby given that S. G. Sarratt,
W’.J. Surratt and Inez. Sarratt have applied
tome, by petition, to have u homesl< ud in
the iMTsomi I estate of their deceased father,
A. A. Sarratt, si I off' to them and Ihelr fol
lowing named brothers ami sisters: Clara
Hocy Surratt, Annie I’ Sarratt, Anthony
Uurrutl, Ethel Sanatt, and Vlvlon Sarru't.
Said 1 trillion will come up for a hearing
Iteforc me on the I'ilh day of January, 1900.
J. Eh. J kkkkkirs,
elk. C. c. Pis.
Duccuibcr 15th, IsW.-It,
Tax Returns.
I will open the books for taking returns of
property for the year 1900 at my office, iu the
town of Gaffney, on Monday, the 1st day of
January, 1900. I will be In the office til! the
Cth. and will attend the following phices at
the following dates from 10a. m. till 0 p. m.
each day for the purpose of receiving returns:
At Moore School House, on Monday. Sth
January, liKW.
At Grove, on Tuesday, the 9th day of Jan
uary, 1900.
Al King’s Creek, on Wednesday, 10th Jan
uary, 1900.
At Cherokee Fall, on Thursday. 11th Jan
uary, 1900.
At Blacksburg, on Friday and Saturday.
12th and 1.5th January. 1900.
At Grassy Pond, on Monday, January 15th,
1900.
At Maud, on Tuesday, Pith January. 1900.
At Ezell's, on Wednesday, 17th January,
l!**).
At Macedonia, Thursday, isth January,
1900.
At White Plains, Friday. 19th January, 1900.
At Thickety Station. Saturday, 20th Jan
uary. hmn).
At Draytonville, Monday'22d January, 1900.
At Vv ilkiusville, Tuesday, 2id January, I'.KM).
At Surratt's (Prldmore’s). Wednesday. 24th
January, 1900.
At Asbury (T. I). Littlejohn's), Thursday,
25th January, Iboo.
At Ravenna (Brown’s Store), Friday, 20lh
January, 1!mni.
At Timber Ridge, Saturday, 27th January,
1900.
At Alien, on Tuesday, 29ih January. l!Mi0.
And at t he office until the 20th February,
1900. after which time the 50 per cent, will at
tach to ail who neglect or refuse to make re
turns. All jM-rsons are requested to give iu
any real estate, either bought or sold, who
from or to; also in what School District they
live.
1 have made arrangements with my assist
ant, M. I!. Ross, to he in t he office to taKe re
turns during the time that I am out of the
office, for the accommodation of all that may
call at t lie office.
W. D. CAMP,
1228-1:1 w-2-20 Auditor Cherokee Co.
DR. J. F. GARRETT*
Dentist,
Gaffney, - - - S. C.
Offico over J. It. Tolieson’s new store
In office from 1st to 2Gth of each
month;
Probate Judge’s Sale
for January, 1900.
STATE <>E SOUTH CAROLINA.)
COt.'NTY OF CHKKOKKK. r
OFFICE OF PhoBATK J I'DOE. )
Lemuel R. Ross, in his own right, ami as :
Administrator, with the Will annexed, |
of the estate of John W. Ross, deceased.
Plaintiff,
against
J a cob R. Ross, Amy June Gaffney, John j
W. Ross, Lucy C. Holcombe. M. J,. Ross.
Mary 10. Hamlin. Wm. II. Ross, and John
<.'usliion and Ernest < 'asliion.
Defendants. j
By virtue of a Decree rendered in tho Pro-
bale Court of < hcrokec County, State of South
Carolina, on the first Monday, 4th Instant, In
December. Is99, ] wil! sell at public auction
to the highest bidder, before the Court House
door in Cherokee County, Gaffney, South
Carolina, on the lirst Tuesday, salcsday, in
January next. I!nn), being the 2d day of said
month (the tirsl Monday being the first day
of the month and a legal holiday), during the
legal hours of sale, the following described
lands and real estate of John W. Ross, de
ceased, *ind on the following terms:
All that tract or tracts, parcel or parcels of
la lid lying and being In Limestone Township,
Cherokee County and State aforesaid, on w a
ters of Cherokee Creek, and known as and
being the estate lauds of John W. Ross, de
ceased. and Imumled on the South by lands of
F. S. Nort hey and the Gaffney City L ud and
Imprin t ment Company, on the East by estate
lands of Wm. U. Gaffney, deceased, and es
tate lands of Wells Gaffney, deceased, on the
West, by lands of M. I,. Ross and L R. Ross,
and on the North by estate lands of Thomas
W. Gaffney, deceased, and R. E. Linder, and
Containing, as per plat made by R. O. Sams,
surveyor, on Oetolier 1st, ls94, four hundred
nnd eighty-eight (48S) acres.
Also two (2) lots of land, with buildings
thereon, lying in the town of Gaffney, State
and Coni 'v aforesaid, on Granard Street, In
t he northern portion of said town (a conve
nient distance from the Southern R. K. depot),
each fronting (liti) sixty-six feet on said Gra
nard Street and running back 200 feet, the
one know n as tlie“Lytton Lot" running buck
on alley to another alley; the other, known
as the “Elliot Lot," running back on Mills
Street to said last named alley, said lots ad-
Voiding each other, and Itoumled by Granard
and Mills Streets and said two alleys, and on
each lot there is a five-room dwelling house,
each lot containing i:i,200 square feet, more or
less.
Tin* town lots ulxive described will In* sold
in four lots, so as to give ouch of the two lots
fronting on Granard Street *10 feet front on
said street, and running back 125 feet, ami
the two rear lots t(i'i.\7."> feet, with a five-room
dwelling house on eaeh of said lust named
lots.
The farming lands (iss acres) will In' sold in
t hree t raot s; that East of t 'herokue creek, con
taining 150 acres, more, or less, will In- sold us
the liis) tract; that embracing the late resi-
deneoof said John W. Ross, deceased, ami
lying West of Cherokee < 'reck and South of
the Southern R. R.. will be sold as the second
tract, and containing 2(15!acres, more or less;
and tlial lying North of said railroad, contain
ing 75 acres, more or less, will Ik* sold as tin*
third Iract.
Plat of said lauds may he seen in this office
on day of sale.
Terms of Sale: Purchasers of the Town
Lois will he required to pay one-half purchase
money In cash, balance Iu twelve mouths,
will* I n teres t from day of sale, eredll |s>r! ion
to In sec u la si by lionh of purchaser and mort
gage of tic premises sold. Purchasers of t he
ol In r lands above dexci died will Is* required
to pa) onc-t bird i'.J cash, balance In one and
I wo year*;, equal Instalmeuts, witli Interest
iioiu day ol sab , credit [lorthm to be secured
b> ImhiiI of purchaser mid mortgage of tho
pn nils' s sold. Pureiiaser to pay for papers,
slumps, recording of mortgages ami to have
the privilege of paying all cash.
J. E. Wkumtkh.
llce.H, IS99. Probate Judge.
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