Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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'zi M m Look at your tongue. Is it coated ? Then you have a bad taste in your mouth every morning. Your appetite is poor, and food dis tresses you. You have frequent headaches and are often dizzy. Your stomach is weak and your bowels are always constipated. There’s an old and re liable cure: Don’t take a cathartic dose and then stop. Bet ter take a laxative dose each night, just enough to cause one good free move ment the day following. You feel better the very next day. Your appetite returns, your dyspepsia is cured, your headaches pass away, your tongue clears up, your liver acts well, and your bowels no longer give you trouble. Price, 25 cents. All druggists. “ I have taken Ayer’s Pills for 35 years, aixl 1 consider them the host made. One pill does me more good than half a hox of any other kind I have ever tried.” Mrs. N. E. Tamiot, # March 30, IS'JO. Arrington, Kans. A. A ^ ^ ^ ^ A Plain Facts. I will soil you lor cash any thing in my line consisting of Dry (loods, Notions, Shoes, Hats, Groceries, Shelf IIaid- ware, and almost anything car ried in a general store, as cheap as any house in the city. When in need of goods see my prices. Yours to please, I. M. PEELER. D. U. Duncan. C. 1*. Sanders. W.S. Hall, Jr. DUNCAN, SANDERS & HALL, Attorneys-at-Law. Office over .1. it. Tolleson’s & Co.'s Store. 1 HOS. B. Bl’TI.KK. IlKKItV K. OSBORNK BUTLER & OSBORNE, LAWYERS. Prompt attention given all business eu- Uuated to us. .Notary Public in office. J. Ci/OUGH Wallace.. j. Cornelius Otts. WALLACE & OTTS, LAWYERS. All business Intrusted to us, given prompt and vlgorus attention. Office up stairs, next to K. A. Jones & Co. 'Phone 87. -*j. C. JEFFERIES 4~ OAFFNEY, S. C. Commercial f.avr. Corporation I.aw Jt« al 1C state l.aw. M< )ney to loan on approved security. JAMICH A. WIJLlvIH, Attorney-at-Law, H. e. Money to loan on Iteal ICstate. Office over It. A. Jones & Co.’s store. hardin & McWhorter, jVt torne % v« at Ws GAFFNEY, - - S. C. Money to loan on city real estate. Office over 1!. A. Jones & Co.’s Store. J. E. WEBSTER, Ataoriiev- iVt- Ottlcoin Court House. (Probate 1 Judge s office Gaffney City, S. C. Practices in all the courta. Collec- tfonts a specialty Rutledge St. Smith Shop. "W" can do your shoeing, tire setting, wheel oiling. VeliicIcH au‘1 liuplemenls repaired and painted. 1 XV r 'lllt IVfone> y'>ii to give rue a I rial. I.ame horses and muli » esainim^d fret' for all patrons. Vour will get you good vntue. ^'ours fttr pleasantness, 'VV. 'I'. A. N. WOOD, BANKER, dot* a general liatikiug tmd Exchange buaineaa. Well aecured wiw« Jiurglar* Proof aafe and Automatic Time Lock. Hafety Dopoait Boxes at moderate rent. Buys and sells (stocks acdBonds. Buys County and School Claims. Youf huilhffes loUi^iud. FOR YOUNG AND OLD. DR. TALMAGE PREACHES A SERMON ON HOME LIFE. Points Oat the Duty of Parents and Ar'monishes the Children — Don’t ! Stuff the Youiik People th Hell- Kion, Says the Great Divine. Wasuinqton, March 25.—This dis course of Dr. Talmuge will Interest young men, while It Is full of advice and encouragement to parents who are try! ig to bring up their children aright; text. Proverbs x, 1, “A wise son maketh a glad father, but a foolish son Is the heaviness of hls mother.” In this graphic way Solomon sets forth the idea that the god or evil be havior of children blesses or blights the parental heart. 1 know iliere are persons who seem to have no especial Interest in the welfare of their chil dren. The father says: “My boy must take the risks I took In life. If be turns out well, all right. If be turns out 111, be will have to bear the conse quences. He has the same chance that I had. He must take cure of him self.” A shepherd might just as well thrust a lamb into a deu of lions and say, “Little lamb, take care of your self.” Nearly all the brute creation are kind enough to look after their young. I was going through a woods, and I heard a shrill cry in a nest. I climbed up to the bird’s nest, and I found that the old bird had left the brood to starve. But that is a very rare occur rence. Generally a bird will pick your eyes out rather than surrender her young to your keeping or your touch. A lion will rend you if you come too near the whelps. Even the barnyard fowl, with its clumsy foot and heavy wing, will come at you if you approach its young too nearly, and Hod certainly intended to have fathers and mothers as kind as the brutes. Christ comes tbrougli all our house holds today, and lie says: “You take care of the bodies of your children and the minds of your children. What are you doing for their immortal souls?” 1 read of a ship that foundered. A life boat was launched. Many of the pas sengers were in the waters. A mother, with one band beating the wave and the other hand holding her little child out toward the lifeboat, cried out, “Save my child!” And that impassion ed cry is the one that finds an echo in every parental heart In this land today. “Sine my child!” That man out there says: “1 have fought my own way through life, 1 have got along tolerably well, the world has buffeted me, and I have had many a hard struggle. It don’t make much difference what hap pens to me, but save my child!” You see 1 have a subject of stupendous im port, and I am going, as Hod may help me, to show the cause of parental solic itude and then the alleviations of that solicitude. Prtreutul Solicitudr. The first cause of parental solicitude, I think, arises from the imperfection of parents on their own part. We all somehow want our children to avoid our faults. We hope that if we have any excellences they will copy them. But the probability is they will copy our faults and omit our excellences. Children are very apt to he echoes of the parental life. Some one meets u lad in the hack street, finds him smok ing and says: “Why, I am astounded at you! What would your father say if he knew this? Where did you get that cigar?" “Oh, I picked it up on the street.” “What would yoilY father say and your mother say if they knew this?” “Oh,” he replies, “that’s noth ing. My father smokes!” There Is not one of us today who would like to have our children copy all our exam ples. And that Is the cause of solici tude on the part of all of us. We have so many faults we do not want them copied and stereotyped in the lives and characters of those who come after us. Then solicitude arises from our con scious insufficiency mid unwisdom of discipline. Out of 20 parents there may he one parent who understands how thoroughly and skillfully to dis cipline; perhaps not more than one out of 20. We, nearly all of us, err on one side or on the other. Here Is a father who says, “I am going to bring up my children right; my sous shall know nothing hut religion; shall see nothing hut religion, and hear nothing hut re ligion.” They are routed out at 0 o’clock in the morning to recite the Ten Commandments. They are awakened up from the sofa on Sunday night to recite the Westminster Catechism. Their bedroom walls »re covered with religious pictures and quotations of Scripture, and when the !>oy looks for the day of the mouth he looks for it In a religious almanac. If a minister comes to the house, he is requested to take the hoy aside and tell him what a great sinner he Is. It is religion morn ing, noon ami night. Time passes on, and the parents are waiting for the return of the sou at night. It is i) o’clock, it is 10 o’clock, it Is 11 o’clock, it is 12 o’clock, It Is half past 12 o’clock. Then they hear a rat tling of the ulglit key, and George comes in and hastens up stairs lest he be accosted. Hls father says, “George, where have you been?” He says, “I have been out.” Yes, he has heeu out, and tie has been down, and he has started on the broad road to ruin for this life and ruin for the life to come, and the father says to ids wife, “Mother, the Ten Commandments are a failure; po use of Westminster Catechism; 1 have done my very l»est for that hoy; Just see how he has turned out.” Ah, my friend, you stuffed that hoy with religion; you had no sympathy with innocent hilarities; you had no common sense. A man at midlife said to me, “I haven't much desire for religion; my father was as good a man as ever liv ed, hut he jammed religion down my throat when 1 was a hoy until ! got disgusted wltii it, and 1 haven't want ed any of It since.” That father erred os one side. Wlir Diseltfllne FhIIs. Then the discipline is an entire fall- nr« in IDRUjr households because the fa ther pulls one way and the mother pulls the other way. The father says, “My sou, 1 told you if I ever found you guilty of falsehood again 1 would chas tise you, and 1 am going to keep my *omlse.” The mother says: “Don’t! i Mtt kith off thii time.” I -AJitbUyU-!'} jotogg/ that make mistake by too great severi ty in the rearing of their children. Now, I will let my hoy do as he pleases. He shall have full swing. Here, my son, are tickets to the theater and op era. If you want to play cards, do so; If you don’t want to play cards, you need not to play them. Go when you want and come hack when you want to. Have a good time. Go it!” Give a hoy plenty of money and ask him not what he does with it. and you pay hls way straight to perdition. But after awhile the lud thinks he ought to have a still larger supply. He has been treated, and he must treat. He must have wine suppers. There are larger and larger expenses. After awhile one day a messenger from the hank over the way calls in and says to the father of the house hold of which I am speaking, “The of ficers of the hank would like to have you step over a minute.” The father steps over, and a hank officer says, “Is that your check?” “No,” he says; “that is not my check. I never make an ‘H’ in that way; I never put a curl to the ‘Y’ in that way. That is not my writing. That is not my signature. That is a counterfeit. Send for the po lice.” "Stop!” says the hank officer. “Your son wrote that." Now the father and mother are wait ing for the son to come home at night. It is 12 o’clock, it is half past 12 o’clock, it is 1 o’clock. The son comes through the hallway. The father says: “My son, what does all this mean? I gave you every opportunity. I gave you all the money you wanted, and here in my old days I find that you have become a spendthrift, a libertine and a sot.” The sou says: “Now, fa ther, what is the use of your talking that way? You told me to go it, and I just took your suggestion.” And so to strike the medium between severity and too great leniency, to strike the happy medium between the two and to train our children for God and for heaven, is the anxiety of every intelli gent parent. ChildiNli SinfuIneaM. Another great solicitude is in the fact that so early is developed childish sin fulness. Morning glories put out their bloom in the early part of the day, hut as the hot sun comes on they close up. While there are other flowers that blaze their beauty along the Amazon for a week at a time without closing, yet the morning glory does its work as certainly ns Victoria regia. So there are sonic children that just put forth their bloom, and they close and they are gone. There is something super natural about them while they tarry, and there is an ethereal appearance about them. There Is a wonderful depth to their eye, and they are gone. They are too delicate a plant for this world. The Heavenly Gardener sees them, and he takes them in. But for the most part the children that live sometimes get cross and pick up had words in the street or are dis posed to quarrel with brother or sister and show that they are wicked. You see them in the Sabbath school class. They are so sunshiny and bright you would think they were always so, hut the mother looking over at them re members what an awful time she had to get them ready. Time passes on. They get considerably cider, and the son conies In from the street from a pugilistic encounter bearing on his ap pearance the marks of defeat, or the daughter practices some little decep tion In the household. The mother says, “I can't always he scolding and fretting ami finding fault, hut this must lie stopped.” So in many a house hold tnere is the sign of sin, the sign of the truthfulness of what the Bible says when it declares, “They go astray as soon us they he horn, speaking lies.” Some go to work and try to correct all tills, and the hoy is picked at and picked at and picked at. That always is ruinous. There is more help in one good thunderstorm than in five days of cold drizzle. Better the old fashioned style of chastisement, if that he neces sary, than the fretting and the scold ing which have destroyed so many. There is also a cause of great solici tude sometimes because our young peo ple are surrounded by so many tempta tions. A castle may not be taken by a straightforward siege, hut suppose there he inside the castle an enemy, and in the night he shoves hack the holt and swings open the door. Our young folks have foes without, and they have foes within. Who does not understand it? Who Is the man here who is not aware of the fact that the young people of tills day have tremen dous temptations? Some man will come to the young people and try to persuade them that purity and honesty and uprightness are a sign of weakness. Some man will take a dramatic attitude, and lie will talk to the young man, and he will say: “You must break away from your mother’s apron strings; you must get out of that Puritanical straltjacket. It Is time you were your own master. You are verdant; you are green; you are unsophisticated. Home with me. 1 will show you the world. I’ll show you life. Home with me. You need to see the world. It won’t hurt you.” After awhile the young man says: “Well, I can't afford to he odd; 1 can’t nfford to he peculiar; l can’t afford to sacrifice all my friends, I'll Ju^t go and see for myself," Farewell to In nocence, which, once gone, never fully conics hack! Do not he under the de lusion that because you repent of sin you get rid forever of Its consequences. I say farewell to innocence, which, once gone, never fully comes hack! TrufiM Fur (lie Youiik. Oh, how many traps set for tho young! Styles of temptation just unit ed to them. Do you suppose that a man who went clear to the depths of dissipation went down in one great plunge? Oh, no! At first it was a fashionable hotel. Marble floor. No unclean pictures behind the counter. Ko drunken hiccough while they drink, hut tin* click of cut glass to the elegant sentiment- You ask that young man now to go Into hoiiiu low restaurant and get a drink, and he would say, “Do you mcau to Insult me?” But the fashionable and the elegant hotel is not always close by, and now the young man is on the down grade. Far ther and further down unlil he has about struck the bottom of the depths of ruin. Now lip is In the low restau rant. The curds so greasy ) op can hardly tell who has the best hand. Humbling for drinks. Bliullle away, •buffie away. The landlord stnuds In hi! Pblrt JlfffWj with fel« hafidf on Ills hips, waiting for. an order to fill up the glasses. The clock strikes 12—the tolling of the funeral in'll of a soul. The breath of eternal woe flu:-lies in that young man's cheeks. In the jets of the gas light the fiery tongue of the worm that never dies. Two o’clock In the morn ing, and now they are sound asleep in their chairs. Landlord conies around and says: “Wake up, wake up! Time to shut up!” “What!” says the young man. “Time to shut up?” Push them all out into the ulglit air. Now they are going home. Going home! Let the wife crouch in the corner and the chil dren hide under the bed. What was the history of that young man? He began his dissipations in the barroom of a Fifth avenue hotel and completed his damnation in the lowest grogshop. Sometimes sin does not halt in that way. Sometimes sin even comes to the drawing room. There are leprous hearts sometimes admitted in the high est circles of society. He is so elegant, he is so bewitching in his manner, he is so refined, he is so educated, no one suspects the sinful design, but after awhile the talons of death come forth. What is the matter with that house? The front windows have not been open for six months or a year. A shadow has come down on that domestic hearth, a shadow thicker than one woven of midnight and hurricane. The agony of that parent makes him say, "Oh, I wish I had buried my children when they were small!” Loss of prop erty? No. Death in the family? No. Madness? No. Some villain, kid glov ed and diamonded, lifted that cup of domestic bliss until the sunlight struck it, and all the rainbows played around the rim and then dashed it into desola tion and woe, until the harpies of darkness clapped their hands and all the voices of the pit uttered a loud “Ha, ha!” Morula nnd Manners. The statistic has never been made up in these great cities of how many have been destroyed and how many beautiful homes have heeu overthrown. If the statistic could he presented, it would freeze your blood in a solid cake at your heart. Our great cities are full of temptations, and to vast multitudes of parents these temptations become a matter of great solicitude. But now for the alleviations. First of all, you save yourself a great deal of trouble, oil, parent, if you can early watch the children and educate them for God and heaven! “The first live years of my life made me an infidel,” said Tom Paine. A vessel puts out to sea, and after it lias heeu five days out there comes a cyclone. The vessel springs a leak. The helm will not work. \yiiat is the matter? It is not sea worthy. It never was seaworthy. Can you mend it now? It is too late. Down bhe goes with 250 passengers into a watery grave. What was the time to fix that vessel? What was the time to prepare it for the storm? In the drydock. Ah, my friends, do not wait until your children get out into tho world, beyond the Narrows and out on the great voyage of life! It is too late then to mend their morals and their manners. The drydock of the Christian home is the place. Correct the sin now. Correct the evil now. Just look at the character of your children now and get an intimation of what they are going to be. You can tell by the way that boy divides the ap ple what his proclivity is and what his sin will be and what style of discipline you ought to bring upon him. You see how he divides that apple? He takes nine-tenths of it for himself and he gives one-tenth to Ids sister. Well, let that go, and all hls life he will want the best part of everything, and be will be grinding and grasping to the day of his death. People hurl their scorn at the life of Lord Byron. Lord Byron was not half so much to blame as his mother. The historian tells us that when her child was limping across the floor with his unsound foot, instead of acting like any other mother, she said, “Get out of my way, you lame brat!” Do not denounce Lord Byron half as much as you denounce his mother. All the scenes in Venice, all the scenes in Greece,all the scenes of outrage where- ever he went, an echo of that bad m other’s heart and that bad mother's life. Two young men came to a door of wickedness. The one entered; the oth er turned back. Why? Difference of resolution, you say. No; the one had a Christian influence, the other had no pious training. The one man went on his evil way. He entered and went on. No early voice accosted 1dm, but the other h*ard a voice, whose tone* may have died from the ear 20 years before, saying: "Don’t go there! Don’t go there!” I think it was almost the first time I ever made a religious ad- di ess. It was In Dr. Bethuue’s church, Brooklyn; it was an anniversary of the Young Men's Christian association. 1 came in from my village home, and l remember nothing of that anniversary except that one of the speakers that ulglit said: “Many years ago two young men stood at the door of tho Park the ater, New York. They were discussing whether they hud better go In or not. There was an immoral play to be en acted that night. One of thorn said, T will not go in.’ The other said: ‘Don’t he afraid. Let us go in. Who cares?’ The one who entered went on from sin to sin, the terminus of Ids life d: lirium tremens, with which he died in a hospi tal. The other man turned hack, came to Christ as his Saviour, entered the gospel ministry, and he stands before you tonight. What was it that stopped me at the door of the Park theutei. New York, so many years ago? It was 4 pressure of a hand on my shoulder— the pressure of my mother’s hand.” Ilviiln Kurly. Begin early with your children. You stand on tin: hanks of a river and you try to change Its course. It has been rolling now for loo ndh s. You cannot change it. But Just go to th< source uf that river, go to where the wafer Just drips down on the rock. Then Willi your knife make a channel this way and a channel that way. and It will take it. Come out and stand on the banks of your child's life when It Is 20 or 40 years of age, or even 20, and try to change the course of that life. It is too late! It is to lute! Go far ther up at the source of life and near est to the mother’s heart, where the character starts, and try to take It in the right direction. But, oh, my friend, he careful to make a Hue, a distinct line between innocent hilarity on the ouo band and vicious hilarity on the other, jfro nf| think yoor children are going to ruin because they "TnaTie a racket. All healthy children make a racket. But do not laugh at your child’s sin because it is smart. If you do, you will cry after awhile because it is malicious. Remember it Is what you do more than what you say that is going to affect your children. Do you suppose Noah would have got hls fam ily to go into the ark if he staid out? No. His sous would have said, "I am not going into the boat; there’s some thing wrong; father won’t go In; if father stays out, I’ll stay out.” An officer may stand In a castle and look off upon an army fighting. But he cannot he much of an officer, he cannot excite much enthusiasm on the part of his troops standing In a castle or on a hilltop looking off upon the light. It is a Garibaldi or a Napoleon I, who leaps Into the stirrups and dash es ahead. And you stand outside the Christian life and tell your children to go in. They will not go. But you dash on ahead, you enter the kingdom of God, and they themselves will become good soldiers of Jesus Christ. Lead if you would have them follow. Have a family altar. Do not with long prayers wear out your children’s knees. Do not have the prayer a repulsion. If you have a piano or an organ or a me- lodeon in the house, have it open while you are having prayers. If you say, “1 cannot construct a prayer; I am slow of speech and never could con struct a prayer,” then take Matthew Henry’s prayers or take the Episcopal church prayer hook. There is nothing better than that. Put it down on the chair, gather your children about you and commend them to God. You say it will not amount to anything. It will long after you are under the soil. That son will remember father and mother at morning and evening prayers, and it will he a mighty help to him. And, above all, in private commend your children to God. Say: "Here, Lord, I am—all my imperfections of discipline and government. Here are these Im mortals. Make them thine forever. The angel that redeemeth us from all evil, bless the lads!” A St ii fit' it do ii m (lumtlon. Are all your children safe? I know it is a stupendous question to ask, hut I must ask It. Are all your children safe? A mother, when the house was on fire, got out the household goods, many articles of beautiful furniture, hut forgot to ask until too late, “Are the children safe?” When the elements are melting with fervent heat and God shall burn the world up and the cry of “Fire! Fire!” shall resound amid the mountains and the valleys, will your children be safe? 1 wonder if the subject strikes a chord in the heart of any man who had Christian parentage, hut has not lived as he ought? God brought you here this morning to have your memory revived. Did you have a Christian an cestry? “Oh, yes!” says one man. “If there ever was a good woman, my mother was good.” Dow she watched you when you were sick! Others wearied. If she got weary, she never theless was wakeful, and the medicine was given at the right time, and when the pillow was hot she turned it. And. oh, then, when you began to go astray, what a grief it was to her heart! All the scene comes hack. You re member the chairs, you remember the table, you remember the doorsill where you played, you remember the tones of her voice. She seems calling you now, not by the formal title with which we address you, saying, “Mr.” this or “Mr.” that, or “Honorable” this or “Honorable” that. It is Just the first name, your first name, she calls you by this morning. She bids you to a better life. She says: “Forget not all the counsel 1 gave you, my wandering boy. Turn Into paths of righteousness. 1 am waiting for 3011 at the gate.” Oh, yes, God brought you here this morn ing to have that memory revived, and 1 shout upward the tidings. Angels of God. send forward the news. Ring! Ring! The dead Is alive again, and the lost is found! [Copyright, 1900, by Tx>uia Klopsch.] Look In Your Mirror Do you see sparkling eyes, a healthy, tinted skin, a sweet expression and a grace ful form f 1 hose attractions are the result of good health. If they are absent, there is nearly always some disorder of the dis- ■■■(«■■ tlnctly feminine organs present, menstrual organs mean L everywhere. Healthy ealth and beauty McEUXCS Wine of Cardui maki s women beautiful and healthy. It strikes at the root of all their trouble. There is no menstrual dis order, ache or pain which it will not cure. It is for the budding girl, the busy wife and the matron approaching the change of life. At every trying crisis in a woman’s life it brings health, strength and happit, ss. It costs $1.00 of medicine dealers. For advice in cases requiting special directions, address, giving symptoms, “ The Ladies’ Advisory Department,'’ The Chattanooga Medicine Co., Chat tanooga, Tenn. MRU. KOZKNA LKWIS, of Oenavllle, Texas. OHjrit:—“I was troubled at inuutlily Inti rvals with lemhlo uaius in my head and back, but liavo been entirely relieved by Will* of Cardui.” DR. J. F. GARRETT Dentist, Gaffney, • • • S. C. Office over J. K. Tolleson’s new store In office from 1st to 2(itb of each month; Dr. C. T. LIPSCOMB. Dentist, Offic* ov«r R. A. (oats A Co ’• Start. Can be found at ottce fix daft in the week Written from Maud. (Correspondence of The Ledger.) Maud, March 25 —The farmers ' and gardeners will get behind if the j For Sale. F OR SALE Fine Leghorn breeding purpost***, J. J). (jot kens for >e k. «>* ~ r Ruler over all things knows best. Easter .Sunday will soon be here again, and all the hens are dying in this section; so the prospects ate looking bad for Easter. Mr. William Mikles is on the sick list at this writing. Mrs. Patsy Daniel and daughter, Miss Talula, are very sick. Bud Petty’o (colored) baby died this morning. Mr. Thos. Hester is having a store house built. He is going into the merchandise business. Your scribe has some young chick ens which she hopes will be ready for the celebration at the Battleground in May. With best wishes for The Ledger. Wild Ro.sk. Asbury Dot*. (Correspondence of The Ledger ) Asbuky, March 2G.—Last week the best spellers at the Asbury school FAVORITE Barber Shop. The Newest uud Best in town A!i the latest styles in Hair Ctif 1 iny:. SMiaviny; ‘"Mi.'itu;!o»iiiy: done In an up-to-date inaniic. (.is -ae a trial and Ik- satisfied. Hair Cut, 15c. Shave, 10c. Shampoo, 15c. ZED. F. HOPE, Sole Prop. Next door to Bcasou & Holland. 1 too Bbl. Bbi. Bbl. and a lot HEINZ Sweet i’iekles Sour < 'ucumber Dickies Kraut Preserves and Apple Butter Send us your orders for what wrote and asked if they could come down and spell against the Mt. Ma- riah school. The teacher kindly con sented for them to come, and lo and behold, when Friday came they did not put in their appearance, and it was just supposed tiny were afraid the Mt. Mariah school would beat them. They went to Kelton and were beaten out of a year’s growth down there, their best spoiler was set down on the simple word gas. Ha! ha! I suppose they felt like a “pea-fowl” after they were so badly beaten— looked down at their feet and their gay plumage drooped. Hhow me where there’s any honor attached to the way they treated the Mt. Mariah school. They certainly were not invited and if they had been an honorable set, they most cer’ainly would have fulfilled their engage- ment. We see in most every Ledger where Mr. McArthur has visited some school near Gaffney. Come round Mr. McArthur, and visit our schools and see what progress we are making. Still it ruins and tho farmers no doubt art beginning to feel rather blue. If it continues to rain the farmers will not ge’ in half some of them intended putting in, especially the bottom land. Mozk. you want. * Parlor Grocery * SPARKS & HUMPHRIES. Phone 79. All Together. You can set your Beef, I’ork uud Sausage, (.'ountiy Produce ai Vegetables, Groceries. Heavy and Fancy, Canned Goods of most every kind, fruits and Confectioneries, Ci gars and Tobacco, Fresh Fish Fridays and Saturdays, all at our place at Burnett Block. Phone No. tin. The Up-to-Dafe Market. Hr WAVl F:) t;,,,*] Beef Cnllle. C'bnplaln Mu<‘oi>iber. John H. Macoiiiber. chaplain. U. S. A., who lias just heeu retired on ac count of age, first left the life of a ci vilian in 1802, when lie enlisted as a private in the First Vermont Heavy artillery, lie served in the civil war with such gallantry that he earned suc cessive promotions, passing through the ranks of corporal, sergeant and first lieutenant. At the battle before Petersburg he was shot through the body and severely wounded in the head and was later brevetted captain for gallant and meritorious service. He became a chaplain in the regular army in 1880, being stationed at that time at Fort Custer, Montana. In 1887 he was transferred to Fort Sherman, Ida ho, and in 1803 lie was sent to Angel island. During the last year he lias been stationed at the Presidio. M. B. Smith, Butternut, Mich., says, “DeWitt’s Little Early Risers are the very best pills I ever used for costiveness, liver and bowel troubles.” Cherokee Drug Co. Mrs. Grant Allen, the widow of the novelist, is about to open a book shop in the west end of London. Mrs. Harriett Evans, Hinsdale, 111., writes, “I never fail to relieve my children from croup at once by using One Minute Cough Cure. I would not feel safe without it.” Quickly cures coughs, colds, grippe and all throat and lung diseases. Cherokee Drug Co. Onee sx 'Trial, Always a Customer For tin; l*'st In Bi-cf, Pork, Sausage etc., phone No. loi, or call on Sam L. Morgan. Summons for Relief. ICOMPLAINT NOT SF.KYKIM The Statk or South <'Altonna, / Court of <’0111(11011 County or ('hkuokek. t Pleas. Lee I). Arinsirong ami C. A. Whitlock, Plaintiffs, against E. 11, Woblier, II. M. Penn, J. L. Barnett, .1. M. Barnett, A. M. < 'hastaln, G. I,. Boswell, '1'. F. Foster nml B. F. Webber, Defendants. To K. II. WehU r, 11. M. Pena, J. M. Barnett, A. AI. Chastain. 0. L. Boswell, T. F. Foster, J. L. Barnett ami B. F. Webber, Defendants in this action: You arc hereby summoned and required to answer the complaint in tills act ion, a copy of which is tiled in the office of the Clerk nf Court for said County, and to serve a copy of your answer to the said complaint on the subscribers at their office at Gaffney, South Carolina, within twenty days after the ser vice hereof, exclusive of the day of such ser vice. and If you fail to answer the complaint within 1 he time aforesaid, the plaintiff tu thin action will apply to the Court lor the relief demanded iq the complaint. Dated Gaffney. S. (),, Feb. 24. 11)00. Attest t iSeal.) J. Kji Jewkiue*, Clerk C. C. Pis. Buti.lk A Ombohne, Plaintiffs' Attorneys. NOTICE. To the defendants F. H. Wchocr, II. M. Penn. .1. M. Barnett, A. M ph*atalu. G. L. Boswell and T. F. Foster, absent de fendants: Take notice tint H.e summons of which the foregoing is * copy, together with the com plaint h this action, is lids day filed in thc offtecofthe Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for tho County of Cherokee uud State aforesaid. Butler & Osmokke, Plaintiffs' Attorneys Gaffney, 8. C., Feb. £4,19JO, Mr Look Here, Good People of Gaffney. W c are not running for any office, hut we are running a first-class MEAT MARKET and will give you satisfaction in Beef, Pork and Sausage or refund the money. We have made a’a'am-'ements for some Western dressed beef which will he in this week. Conic, send or phone to our mar ket and get some of it. and he convinced that we handle the hest meat in town. Phone No. 51. Yours for good meats, CLARY & KENDRICK. Keep your eye on Gaff ney and make money by buying, selling or renting REAL ESTATE through R. S. LIPSCOMB, Real Estate Agt. Don’t take my word for it tint ask ladies who are using Demurest Sawing Machines' viz: Mrs. Clayton Phillips, Home. S. c. Mrs. Thomas Sanders, star Farm. S. C. Mrs. Mid Manor, Wilkinsville, S. C. Mrs. Shelton Sellers, Mercer, s. C. Mrs. II. F. Pridmorc Gaffney. 8. C. Mrs. A. B. V Folger, Gaffney, S. C. Mrs. S (J. Sarratl, Gaffney, S. C. Airs. Joe Phillips, Webster, S. C. j*. t-». Ate.. O nffiioy. i-i. 17. For Sale. Property Near Limestone. Throe tracts, 'within one-half mile of the College. r l liree tracts on tho Metal Road, from 5 to 7 miles of Gaff ney. One tract of 187 acres near I the Macomhson Shoals on Broad River. Apply to R. 0. SAMS.