Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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A m a n with a thin head of hair i s a marked man. But the big bald spot is not the kind of a mark most men like. Too many men in their twenties are baid. This is absurd and all unnecessary. Healthy hair shows man’s strength. To build up the nair from the roots, to prevent and to cure bald ness, u s e— It always restores color to faded or gray hair. Notice that word, “always.” And it cures dandruff. $1.00 a bottle. All druggists. “ My business calls me out among strangers a great deal. 1 would actually feel a.-liaineu every time I would hike olf my hat, my hair was so thin and the bald spots showed so plainly. 1 began the use of your Hair \ ieor less than three months ago. Today X lind 1 have as fine a head of hair as I ever laid. I tell everybody what X used, and they say ‘ it must be a wonderful reinedv.’” Cito. Yearl, Dec.’14,1898. Chicago, 111. We have a book on The Hair and Scalp which wo will send free upon request. If you do not ootain all the benetlu you expected from the use of the Vizor, write the Doctor about it. Address. Du. J. C. AYKR, Lowell, Mass. A. N. WOOD. BANKER, does a general Bankingand Exchan 0 e business. Well secured with Burglar* Proof safe and Automatic Time Lock. Safety Deposit Boxes at moderate rent. Buys and selis Stocks andBonds. r Buys County and School Claims. Your Virndnuau solicited. Fire! Cull «,n I., I1AKJCK and buy you a good Extension 1.adder and have it on your premises In case of Are. Ootid Extension and Step Ladders for sale, but little above cost. Made of licst Norway I'iue and well painted. Only a few left. L. BAKER. DR. J. F. GARRETT Dentist, Gaffney, - - - S. C. Office over J. It. Tolieson’s new store In office from 1st to 20th of each month: Dr. C. T. LIPSCOMB, Dentist, Office over R. A. lone* & Co.’* Store. Oun btstound at office six days in the week J).U.Duncan C. i’.Sanders. W.H. liall.Jr DUNCAN, SANDERS & HALL, Attornoys-at-Law. VHfcee <yw J. it. Tollesou's Hl Co.’s Store. J. E. WEBSTER, A-ltornecy-A. 1- I Office In Court House. (I’robate Judge soffice Gaffney City, S. C. Practices in all the courts. Coiioc- tioufl a specialty C. JEFFER1E54"’ GAFFNEY, S. C. Coin inert** I I.aiv. Corporation Law Kcal Estate Law. Money to loan on approved security. .AMES A. WILLIS, ATTORNEY AT LAW, < iA 1C V . CJ. N'Aary Public In office. Prompt attention given to all business. Office ov» t tt. A. Jones ft Co.’s stote. J. (JbOnUH Waixach. J. oknkmuii Ottm. WALLACE & OTTS, LAWYERS. All business Intrusted to us. pi veil prompt and vlgonis atU-oiion. office up stairs, next Vo It. A. Jones At Ox. ’Phone 87. hardin k mcwhokter, JVtlornevM tit I.siw* GAFFNEY, - - S. C. Money to loan on ffity real estate. office over K A. Jones &. Uo’«. store. liURN THE BAD BOOKS CR. TALMAGECONDEMNSPROFLIGATE LITERATURE. Kvil I’.ibllcnf tniiw the Oreatest Heoiirftf of the World—It Kills the I’ri»on* nntl Insane Asylums—Pow er of the I'ress Kor (iood. WABinxaTON, July 29.—Dr. Talmnge, wlio lias been spending a few days in St. Petersburg, sends the following re port of a discourse, which will be help ful to those who have an appetite for literature and would like some rules to guide them in the selection of books and newspapers; text, Acts xix, 19, “Many of them also which used curi ous arts brought their books together and burned them before all men, and they counted the price of them and found it 50,000 pieces of silver.” Paul had been stirring up Ephesus with some lively sermons about the sins of that place. Among the more important results was the fact that the citizens brought out their bad books and in a public place made a bonfire of them. I see the people coming out with their arms fu’l of Ephesian liter ature and tossing it into the flames. I hear an economist who Is standing by saying: "Stop this waste! Here are $7,500 worth of books. Do you pro pose to burn them all up? If you don’t want to read them yourselves, sell them and le{ somebody else read them.” “No,” said the people; "if these books are not good for us, they are not good for anybody else, and we shall stand and watch until the last leaf has burned to ashes. They have done us a world of harm, and they shall never do others harm.” Hear the flames crackle and roar! Well, my friends, one of the wants of the cities Is a great lionfire of bad books and newspapers. We have enough fuel to make a blaze 200 feet high. Many of the publishing houses would do well to throw Into the blaze their entire stock of goods. Bring forth the Insufferable trash and put it into the fire and let It be known In the presence of Clod and angels and men that you are going to x’ld your homes of the overtopping and underlying curse of profligate literature. The printing press Is the mightiest agency on earth for good and for evil. The minister of the gospel standing in a pulpit has a responsible position, but 1 do not think it is as responsible as tlu; position of an editor or a publisher. At what distant point of time, at what far out cycle of eternity, will cease the influence of a Henry J. Raymond or u Horace Greeley or a James Gordon Bennett or a Watson Webb or an Kras ins Brooks or a Thomas Kinsella? Take 1lie overwhelming statistics of the cir culation of the daily and weekly news- papers and then cipher, if you can, how far up and how far down and how fur out reach the influences of the Ameri can printing press. Kurilled Literature. What is to be the Issue of all this? I believe the Lord intends the printing press to be the chief means for the world’s rescue and evangelization, and I think that the great last battle of the world will not be fought with swords and guns, but with types and presses, a purified and gospel literature tri umphing over, trampling down and crushing out forever that which is de praved. The only way to overcome unclean literature is by scattering abroad that which is healthful. May God sliced the cylinders of an honest, intelligent, aggressive Christian print ing press! I have to tell you that the greatest blessing that ever came to the natious is that of an elevated literature, and the greatest scourge lias been that of unclean literature. This last has its victims in all occupations and depart ments. It has helped to till insane asylums and penitentiaries and alms houses and dens of shame. The bodies of tills infection lie in the hos pitals and in the graves, while their souls are being tossed over into a lost eternity, an avalanche of horror and despair! The London plague was nothing to it. That counted its victims by thousands, but this modern pest has already shoveled its millions Into the charnel house of the morally dead. The longest rail train that ever ran over the tracks was not long enough or large enough to carry the beastliness and tin; putrefaction which have been gathered up in had books and news papers lu the last 20 years. Now, it is amid such circumstances that I put a question of overmastering importance to you and your families. What books and newspapers shall we read? You see I group them together. A newspaper Is only a book lu u swift er and more portable shape, and the same rules which will apply to book reading will apply to newspaper read ing. What shall we read? Shall our minds be the receptacle of every tiling that an author has a mind to write? Shall there be no distinction between the tree of life and the tree of death? Shull wo stoop down and drink out of tin* trough which the wickedness of men lias filled with pollution and shame? Shall we mire in Impurity end chase fantastic will o’-the-wlsps across the swamps when we might walk lu the blooming gardens of God? Oh, no! For the sake of our present and everlasting welfare we must make an Intelligent and Christian choice. I'urc Kid Ion a Blrsaliitf, Standing, as we do, chin deep In fic titious literature, the question that young people are asking Is, “Shall we read novels?” J reply there are novels flint are pure, good, Christian, elevat ing to the heart and ennobling to t||u life, but I bave still further to say that I believe that 75 out of 100 novels lu tiiis day are baleful and destructive to the last degree. A pure work of fic tion is history and poetry combined. It Is a history of things around us, with the licenses and the assumed mimes of noetrv. The world eun never pay the debt which It owes to such writers of fiction as Hawthorne and McKenzie and Laudoii and Hunt and Arthur and others whose names are familiar to ail. The follies of high life were never better exposed than by Miss Edgeworth; the memories of the past were never more faithfully em balmed than in the writings of \Vulter Heott. Cooper's novels are healthfully redolent With the breath of the sea weed and the air of the American for- a-si riuirlcs Kingsley has smitten the morbidity of the world and led a great many to appreciate the poetry of sound health, strong museles and fresh air. IblM’k'Tuy did u gfund work in carica turing the pretenders to gentility and high blood. Dickens has built his own monument In his llooks, which are a plea for the poor and the anathema of Injustice, and there are a score of nov- elistlc pens today doing mighty work for God and righteousness. Now, I say, books like these read at right times and read in right propor tion with other books cannot help but be ennobling and purifying, but, alas, for the loathsome and impure literature that has come In the shape of novels like a freshet overflowing all the banks of decency and common sense! They are coming from some of the most cele brated publishing houses; they are coming with recommendation of some of our religious newspapers; they lie on your center table to curse your chil dren and blast with their Infernal fires generations unborn. You find these books in the desk of the school miss, in the trunk of the young man, In the steamboat cabin, on the table of tbe hotel reception room. You sec a light In your child’s room late at night. Y’ou suddenly go In and say, “What are you doing?” “I am reading.” “What are you reading?” “A book.” You look at tbe book. It Is a bad book. “Where did you get it?” “I borrowed It.” Alas, there are always those abroad who would like to loan your son or daughter a bad book! Everywhere, ev erywhere, an unclean literature! I charge upon It the destruction of 10,000 immortal souls, and I bid you wake up to tbe magnitude of tbe evil. Books to Deatroj’. I shall take all tbe world’s literature —good novels and bad, travels true and false, histories faithful aud Incorrect, legends beautiful and monstrous—all tracts, all chronicles, all poems, all family, city, state and national 11- braries, and pile them up in a pyramid of literature, aud then I shall bring to bear upon it some grand, glorious, In fallible, unmistakable Cbristian prin ciple^. God help me to speak with reference to my last account, aud help you to listen. I charge you, in the first place, to stuudaloof fromallbooks thatgive false pictures of life. Life is neither a trag edy nor a farce. Mon are not all either knaves or heroes. Women are neither angels nor furies. And yet, If you de pended upon much of the literature of the day, you would get the idea that i life, instead of being something ear- ] nest, something practical, Is a fitful and fantastic and extravagant thing. How poorly prepared are that young man aud woman for the duties of today who spent last night wading through brilliant passages descriptive of mag nificent knavery and wickedness.! The man will be looking all day long for his heroine. In the office, by the forge, In the factory, In the counting room, aud he will not find her, and he will be dissatisfied. A man who gives him self up to the indiscriminate reading of novels will be nerveless, Inane aud a nuisance. • He will be fit neither for the store, nor the shop, nor the field. A woman who gives herself up to the Indiscriminate reading of novels will be unfitted for the duties of wife, mother, sister, daughter. There she Is, hair disheveled, countenance va cant, cheeks pule, hands trembling, bursting into tears at midnight over the fate of some unfortunate lover; lu the daytime, when she ought to be busy, staring by the half hour at nothing; biting her finger nails into the quick. The carpet that was plain before will be plainer after having wandered through a romance all night long in tessellated halls of castles. And your industrious companion will be more unattractive than ever, pow that you have walked In the romance through parks with plumed princesses, or lounged In the arbor with polished desperado. Oh, these confirmed novel readers! They are unfitted for this life, which Is a tremendous discipline. They know not how to go through the furnaces of trial through which they must puss, aud they are unfitted for a world where everything we gain we achieve by hard and long continuing work. Danireroaa Cariosity, Again, abstain from all those books which, while they have some good things, have also an admixture «f evil. You have read books that had two ele ments In them—the good and the bad. Which stuck to you? The bad. The heart of most people Is like a sieve which lets the small particles of gold fall through, but keeps the greatydu- ders. Once in awhile there is a mind like a loadstone which, plunged amid steel and brass filings, gathers up the steel and repels the brass. But It is generally exactly the opposite. If you attempt to plunge through a hedge of burs to get one blackberry, you will get more burs than blackberries. You cannot afford to read a bad book, how ever good you are. You say, "The In fluence Is Insignificant” I tell you that the scratch of a pin has some times produced lockja.v. Alas, If through curiosity, as many do, you pry Into an evil book your curiosity Is as dangerous as that of the man who would take a torch Into a gunpowder mill merely to see whether it would really blow up or not! In a menagerie lu New York a man put his arm through the bars of a black leopard's cage. The animal's hide looked so sleek and bright and beautiful. He just stroked It once. The monster seized him, axid he drew forth a hand torn ami mangled and bleeding. Oh, touch not evil even with the faintest stroke! Though It may be glossy and beautiful, U*uch it not lest you pull forth your soul torn and bleed ing under the clutch of the leopard, “lint,” you say, "how can I find out whether a book Is good or bad without reading It?” There Is always some thing suspicious about a bad hook- I never knew an exception something suspicious In the Index or style of Il lustration. This venomous reptile al ways entries a warning rattle. Again, I charge you to stand off from all those books which corrupt the Im agination and Inflame the passions. I do not refer now t<> that kind of book which the villain has under his coat waiting for the school to get out and then, looking both ways to see that there Is no pojlceman around the block, offers the book to your sou ou his way home. 1 do not speak of that kind of literature, but that which evades the law a>ul copies iqit In pol ished stylo and with acute plot sounds the tocsin that rouses up all the baser passions of the soul. Today under the nostrils of the people there Is a fetid, -eeklng, unwashed literature enough fo poison all the fountains of public virtue and smite Join’ sous and daugh ters ns with the wing of a destroying angel, ami it Is time that the ministers Of the gosjH.*l blew the trumpet and rallied the forces of righteousness, all armed to this great battle against a depraved literature. Accursed Books. Again, abstain from those books which are aixdogetic of crime. It is a sad thing that some of the best and most beautiful bookblndery and some of the finest rhetoric have been brought to make sin attractive. Vice Is a horri ble tiling anyhow. It is born in shame, and It dies howling in the darkness. In this world It Is scourged with a whip of scorpions, but after ward the thunders of God’s wrath pur sue it across a boundless desert, beat ing It with ruin and woe. When you come to paint carnality, do not paint it as looking from behind embroidered curtains or through lattice of royal seraglio, but as writhing in tbe agonies of a city hospital. Cursed be the books that try to make impurity decent and crime attractive and hypocrisy noble! Cursed he tbe boeks that swarm with libertines and desperadoes, who make the brain of the young people whirl with villainy! Ye authors who write them, ye publishers who print them, ye booksellers who distribute them, shall be cut to pieces, If not by an aroused eommunity, then at lust by the hall of divine vengeance, which shall sweep to the lowest pit of perdition all ye murderers of souls. I tell you, though you may escape In this world, you will be ground at last under the hoof of eternal calamities, and you will be chained to the rock, and you will have the vultures of despair clawing at your soul, and those whom you have de stroyed will come around to torment you and to pour hotter coals of fury upon your head and rejoice eternally lu the outcry of your pain aud the howl of your damnation. “God shall wound the hairy scalp of him that goeth on In his trespasses.” The clock strikes midnight. A fair form bends over a romance. The eyes flash fire. The breath Is quick and Ir regular. Occasionally the color dashes to the cheek aud then dies out. The hands tremble as though a guardian spirit was trying to shake the deadly book out of the grasp. Hot tears fall. She laughs with a shrill voice that drops dead at Its own sound. The sweat on her brow is the spray dash ed up from the river of death. Tbe clock strikes 4, and the rosy dawn soon after begins to look through the lattice upon the pale form that looks like a detained specter of the night. Soon in a madhouse she will mistake her ringlets for curling ser pents, and thrust her white baud through the bars of the prison, and ■mite her head, rubbing it back as though to push the scalp from the skull, shrieking, “My brain! My brain!” Oh, stand off from that! Why will you go sounding your way amid the reefs when there is such a vast ocean In which you may voyage, all sail set? Purltjr lu Art. Much of the impure pictorial liter ature is most tremendous for ruin. There Is no one who can like good pic tures better than I do. The quickest and most condensed way of Impress ing the public mind is by picture. What the painter does by his brush for a few favorites the engraver does by his knife for the mil. jn. What the author accomplishes by 50 pages the artist does by a flash. The best part of a painting that costs $10,000 you may buy for 10 cents. Fine paintings be long to the democracy of art Tou do well to gather good pictures In your homes. But what shall I say of the prostitu tion of art to purposes of Iniquity? These death warrants of tbe soul are at every street corner. They smite the vision of the young man with pollution. Many a young man buying a copy has bought bis eternal discomfiture. There may be enough poison In one bad pic ture to poison one soul, and that soul may poison ten and ten fifty and the fifty hundreds and the hundreds thou sands until nothing but the measuring light of eternity can tell the height and depth and ghastliness and horror of tbe great undoing. The work of death that the wicked author does in a whole book tbe bad engraver may do on a half side of a pictorial. Under tbe guise of pure mirth the young man buys one of these sheets. He unrolls It before bis comrades amid roars of laughter, but long after tbe paper Is gone the result may perhaps be seen In tbe blasted Imaginations of those who saw it. The queen of death holds a banquet every night, and these peri odicals are the invitation to her guests. Young man, buy not this moral strychnine for your soul! IMck not up this nest of colled adders for youp pocket! Patronize no newsstand that keeps them! Have your room bright with good engravings, but for these outrageous pictorials have not one vail, not one bureau, not one pocket. A man is no better than the pictures be loves to look at. If your eyes are not pure, your heart cannot be. At a newsstand one can guess the character of g man by tbe kind of pictorial bo purchases. When the devil falls to get a man to read a bad book, he some times succeeds In getting him to look at a bud picture. When s&tan goes a-fishlng, he does not care whether It Is a long line or a short line If he only flraws his victim In. Beware of las civious pictorials, you»g man, In the name of Almighty God, 1 charge you! Clcuus* the Library*. Cherish good books and newspapers; beware of bad ones. The assassin of Lord Ilussell declared that he was led into crime by reading one vivid ro mance. Tbe consecrated John Angell James, then whom England never pro duced a better man, dec lared In his old age that he had never yet got over tbe evil effects of having for 15 minutes once read a bad book. But I need not go so fur off. I could tell you of a comrade who was great hearted, noble and generous. He was studying for an honorable profession, but lie bud an Infidel l>ook in his trunk, and he said to me one day, "De Witt, would you like to read it?” I said, “Yes; I would.” I took the book and read It only for a few minutes. I was really startled with what I saw there, and I handed the book back to him and said, “You had better destroy that book.” Nq; he kept It. He read It. He reread It. Aft er awhile he gave up religion as u myth. He gave up God as a nonentity. He gave up the Bible ns a fable. He gave up the church of Christ as a use less Institution. He gave up good morula as being unucccssarllj’ *trlu- gent I have heard of him but twice In many years. The time before tbe lust I heard of him he was a confirmed Inebriate. The last I h'-ard of him he was coming out of an Insane asylum. In body, mind and soul an awful wreck. I believe that one Infidel book killed him for two worlds. Go home today aud look through your library and then, having looked through your library, look on tbe stand where you keep your pictorials and newspapers and apply the Christian principles I have laid down this hour. If there Is anything lu your home that cannot stand the test, do not give it away, for It might spoil an Immortal soul. Do not sell It, for the money you get would be the price of blood, but rather kindle a fire on your kitchen hearth or In your back yard and then drop tbe poison in It, and the bonfire in your city shall be as consuming as that one In Epbesua. ICopyrigtit. 1900, br LouU Klojuch, N. Y.J BLACKSBURG BUDGET. Personal ParsKraphs About Our Prleuds HeVoud tbe Broad. Blacksmjrg, July 30.—Mr. Lee Bxnlth has returned home from a trip to the mountains. Miss Rosa Kate Turner, who has been teaching music in this place, re turned to her home in Bpartauburg Saturday. Mrs. M.D. Magness and her daugh ters, Misses M ay me and Nell, are vis iting Mr. Magness in this town. ^ Miss Bearle Allan and Mr. Simpson Keler made a Hying trip to B. B. Sun day. Mrs. M. F. Nichols and children, of Earle, spent Monday in our city on their way to Piedmorit Springs. Little Oscar Sumner, of Spartan burg, is spending the week with Mrs. Gross of this town. Mrs. M. D. Falls, of Kings Moun tain, is visiting her daughter, Mrs. W. II. Mercer, of this town. Luther Davies and Bernett went to Grover Sunday seeking pleasure. Mrs. S. E. Bridges returned home Monday from a trip to N. C. Miss Eunice Young, of Shelby, is visiting her sister, Mrs. E. K. Smith, of this city. Messrs. Herbert and John Tripp went to Gaffney Monday on business. On last Saturday a very close game of hall was played by our team and that of Pelham. It was a very close game, and both teams deserve credit for the manner in which they played ball. The score was 7 to 0 in favor of Blacksburg. l. p. p. A GOOD WOMAN GONE. Mr*. K. A. LoUpeich Dies lit Wurreunburg, Trun , ut tbu Age of tieveuty-two. News has just reached us of the death of Mrs. E. A. Lotspeich, which occurred at Warrensburg, Tenn., one day last week after an illness of only ten days, Mrs. Lotspeich was seventy-two years of age; she had been, for a long time, a member of Salem Pres byterian church, and was twice mar ried. her last husband being Mr. A. W. Lotspeich who is well known in this part of the country. She was a most estimable lady and a true Christian, and she will be sadly missed by her husband, by her friends, and by the community at large in which the greater part of her life had been spent. Tbe remains were brought on here and interred at Foster’s Chapel in Union county on the 2&tb iust. The Ledger deeply sympathizes with tbe bereaved husband. (Xr«er Act* the Uug. Some time ago the Gaffney ball team received a letter from the Greer ball team asking for an ex change of dates. Tbe reply was that Gaffney had only a local team and would only consent to an exchange < f dates with a purely local team. Be ing assured by Mr. Davenport that Greer had a local team a date was given them. When the Greer team arrived in Gaffney it was found that one or more men on it were not from Greers, but Gaffney played Mr. O’Bannon, who was not a local man, ■o honors were about even. When it came Gaffney's time to go to Greers a letter was received fn m Merchant, the captain of the Greer team, saying that unless Gaffney brought an all-home team the ex penses would not be paid Gaffney sent an all-home team. But when Greers was reached it was found that the cards were stocked and it was either play ball against a number of hired players and be defeated or pay our own expenses. We preferred to be independent rather than he dicta ted to by a lot of men who had no regard for their word so had the ves tibule to stop for us and the team came home. The Greer team has simply obtained a trip to Gaffney by misrepresentation. Gaffney paid their expenses while here and paid their railroad fare both ways, but they were not men enough to live up to their written agreement, a copy of which can be seen at this office at any time. Vulcuulii Kru|)tl«u* Are grand, but Bkin Eruptions rob life of joy. Bucklen’s Arnica Halve cures them ; also Old, Running and Fever, Sores, Ulcers, Boils, Felons, Corns Warts, Cuts, Bruises, Burns, caids, Chapped Hands, Chilblains. Best Pilecure on earth. Drives out Pains and ^ Aches. Only 25 cents u box. Cur guaranteed. Bold by Cherokee Drug Co. A Business needs advertising quite as much ss plants need air and sun- Shine.—Philadelphia Record. At no Time la M»n Bacuro from Attack* iff auck disorders of the stomach as cholera morbus, cramps and diarrhoea; but these complaints are common during the heated term, when it is dangerous to neglect them. PaiM-KiLiJea ie a remedy that has never failed aud the severest attacks have been cured by it. Avoid substitutes, there ie but one Pain-Killer, Perry Davis’. 25c. aud 50c, Lives of grsat men are very apt to remind us that they were not infal- ible. Putnam Fadeless Dye Black, will not rub off, fade or wash out. This dye colors either Bilk, Wool or Cotton a beautiful full black. 10c. per pack- i age. Hold by B. B. Crawley Jt Co. our cm IN MOURNING AGAIN. A Young Lady Succumbs to Typhoid Fever. ILL ONLY TWO WEEKS. MU* Ora Thompson Kuhnra A May at Her Home Sunday Might The Funeral Ser vice* Were Held at the I'reshyterlan Cliurch Interrmeait lu Oakland. Whom the gods love die young,” was said of yore, And many deaths do they esc:i|>e l»y this; The death of friends, and that which slays e’en more— 1 he death of friendship, love, youth aud all that is, Except mere breath; and since the silent shore Awaits at last those whom longest miss 'Xhe old archer’s shaft, perhaps the early grave, Which men weep over, may I*' meant to save." i he angel of death has again spread his wings over our city and upon them the soul of another fair being has cleft the vaults of haaven and gone to rest, free from the trials and troubles of these low-grounds of sin and sorrow. Another sweet flower has been plucked from tbe garden of life and the spot where it grew mid sunshine and happiness is now watered with tears and darkened by the clouds of sorrow. Yet, though the flower is dead, its fragrance still pervades the garden and its sweet perfume will linger around the hearts that cherished it through many long years to come. It pains us to announce the death of Miss Ora Thompson, oldest daugh ter of Mr. and Mrs. R. C. Thompson, which occurred at her home in this city Sunday night at 10 o’clock being the result of a two-week’s spell of ty phoid fever. Miss Thompson was twenty-eight years of age, and it seems doubly sad, indeed, that she should be cut down almost in the morning of her existence and just as she was standing, as it were, upon the threshhold of life with the promise of a bright and happy future before her. But we are not to reason why these things are done which make loving hearts to mourn and which bring sor row* and desolation to tbe happy home circle, for the Great Architect of the universe knows what is best for all things of His Creation ; and as the dews of night are diamonds at morn ing, so may the tears we shed here be pearls in Heaven. The deceased had been a member of the Presbyterian church for four teen years, and during that time she never swerved from the path of right eousness nor from her faith in the Redeemer. In manner, she was mod est and unassuming; in disposition, she was kind and gentle and loving, and she was blessed with every qual ity of heart and mind that is the or nament and glory of the nohlestbeing on earth—a true.pure-hearted, Chris tian woman. None knew her but to love her, and her death has cast a gloom over the entire city. The funeral services were con ducted by Rev.C. E. Robertson in the Presbyterian church yesterday after noon at 5 o'clock, after which the body was Jala to rest in Oakland cemetery where sobs and tears gave evidence of the love that was cherished for her in life. The pall bearers were, B. D. Wilson, F. G Htacy, Claude McArthur, Judson Harratt, Tom L. Brown and W. O. Johnson. 'Ihe death of Miss Thompson has cast a gloom over our city and we are sure that there is not a heart in the community which does beat with sympathy for the grief-stricken family. lilHiiiark’* Iron Nerve W'as the result of his splendid health. Indomitable will and tre mendous energy are not found where Stomach, Liver, Kidneys and Bow els are out of order. If you want these qualities and the success they bring use Dr. King’s New Life Pills, They develop every power of brain and bodv. Only 25 cents at Chero kee Drug Co. Clerk’s Sales. State or Sorrn Cahomsa, i Countv or Chebokke. f J. W. liuuiyliriea et u!.. Plaintiff* vs. Mrs. Lizzie M. Surratt et al.. Defendants. In obedience to an order made bereln for partition, dated June Jdd. IttN), I will sell at Gaffney, S. C\, before tbe Court bouse door, durlin? tbe le^ii! hours of sale, ou salesday. Aujrustetb, 1900, tbe followin'; described laud, to wit: All that certain piece, parcel or lot of land in Gaffney, s. C., on ( burcli street, lieitln niiiK on corner of lot of Episcopal eburch, and ruutiln* WK. 2.72 chains to Church street; thence N. .Vj-14 K. with Cliurch street, 1.0 Si chains to slake in street; thence S. J4- 1 /. W. 2.72 chains to stake on Itobb’s back line; thence with Kobbs on Church back line N. 5&-!4 W. LO-?j chains to beginning, con taining 40-100 of an acre, more or less. Terms of sale: Cash, Purchaser to pay for papers and revenue stumps. July Idth, 19oo. J. Kb Jeeekbies. 7-17-1 w-Jt. Cl’k C. C. Pi’s. Clerk’s Sales* State oe South Cakolika, > County ok Cukkokkk. ( H. F. Turner, Plaintiff. vs. S. A. Blanton. Defendant. In oliodlcncc to an order made herein for foreclosure dated June 20th, 1900. I will sell at Gaffney, S. <’., before the Court House door, during the legal hours of sale, on Sales day AugustOth, Duo, the following described land, to-wit: That tract of land containing ten acres more or less, being and lying on tbe waters of King’s Creek, In Cherokee Township, and adjoining lands of Martin Turner, J. II. Blun- ton, and others, beginning on rock on side mill road on the line of Marlin's lands, now Turner’s; thence N. 10‘i \V. 1J chains to a pine; thence with UiIh line N. tk> K.8.;JOchuti s to a pine below spring; thence S. Jo K. Into chains to another rock ut ihe road) thence with the road and J. Ii. Blanton’s line H. 4 W. 9 chains to the Ijcginulug. Terms of Kale: Cash. Purchaser to pay for papers and revenue stamps. July lath, 1900. J. Ku. Jeeekkieh, cik c. a;, pi’s, 7-17-1 w-2t SHORT LOCAL ITEMS. Local Items Too Nhort fora Head Grouped Touetlier. Remember that the county cam paign fpeukt-fH will hold forth at Goff- ney on Monday the 27th of Augu;t. Moses Wood has moved his family into the Wir go house, now owned by Mrs. Edna Harris, just below Oakland cemetery. he county campaign will open on August 0th at Brown's Store (Rdveuoa) and at Timber Ridge on 7th. This does not alter any of the other dates. Tov Ezell, of Woidruff, and la’.* ..f the United States Army, i* i..,* ,. nected with his brother in !' I Walker, in his lumber business, and will remain in our midst for some time. VVe gladly welcome Mr. Ezell and hope his stay in Gaffney will be a pleasant one. Bear in mind that Gen. C. I. Walker, commander of the South Carolina division U. C. V. will gpaak here on Saturday August 11th, and that there will be a big picnic that day in the spring grove at Limestone. Gen. Thos. W. Carwile, of Edgefield, has accepted an invitation to be pret erit acdj he, also, will address the veterans on that occasion. Let everybody come. Rock=a=Bye Baby These are sweet words, but how much fain and suffering they used to mean. It’s different now. Since Mother's Friend has oecome knov/n expectant mothers have been spared much of the anguish of child- L rth. Mother’s f riend is a liniment to be applied externally. It is rubbed thoroughly into the muscles of the abdomen. It gives elasticity and strength, and when the final great strain comes they respond quickly and easily without pain. Mother s Friend is never taken internally. Internal remedies at this time do more harm than good. If a woman is supplied with this splendid lini ment she need never fear rising or swelling breasts, morning sickness, or any of the d scomforts which usually accompany preg nancy. The proprietor of a large hotel in Tampa, Fla., writes: “My wife had an awful time with her first child. During her second pregnancy. Mother’s Friend was used and the baby was born easily before the doctor arrived. It’s certainly great.” (Jet Mother’s Friend st the drug store. $1 per bottle.' THE BRADFIELD REGULATOR C0. t Atlanta, Ga. 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Book alluboutdyspepsia mailed free Prepared by E- C. DeWITT A CO-. Chicago. Clerk’s Sales. State m south Carolina, > County ok Cherokee, f 1*. B. Love. Plaintiff, v*. J. < . Love et al., Defendants. In olM'dicncc to an order made herein, for partition, dated June 22d. 1900. I will Mdi at Gaffney, S. <before the Court Boum) door, during the Icaal hours of sale, on salesday, August lith, 1900, the following dusi'ritxd property, to wit: Tract No. 1. All the mineral Interest lu that certain tract of land known as the “Flint Hill UuiU Mine," lu < herokec ('minty, tsiund- ed hy lands of A. I-rank Smith, K. hy Broad river, H. hy J. G. Love, \V\ by J. N. Jefferies, eonlalolug two hundred and ciKhiy-elyht acres, more or less, less tract No. 2 below, which leaves this tract No-1 with one hun dred arid forty-four acres, more or less. Tract No. 2 All the mineral Interest in what is known as the lower tract of the two hundred and eltrlily-elxbt acres of land kuoa ii as I he‘'Flint Hill Gold Mine" usabovu deserllx d, Ixiundcd on the North hy the Ken nedy dower lands, on the East hy Broad Uiv- er. ou the South by Dive’s land and West hy tract No 1 ultove, con tain lux one hundred and forty-four acres, more or less. Mineral Interest In both tracts curries with It right of way. wood and Water, The Upset price hxod fur tract So. 1 Is four thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars «4,V'8>.U ), hut no upset price is H\ed for tract No. 2, and in tbe event that trad No. 1 drat* not hiiog the upset price tixed. then both tracts will be withdrawn from sale. Terms of sale: Cash. Purchaser to pay for aii papers and reve nue stamps. July loth, I'-HAt J. Fa JrmuiKi, 0 17-iw-3t t’l’k C. O. IT*.