Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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r THIN HAIR Lots of people have thin hair. Per haps their parents had thin hair; per haps their children h hair. But this does not make it necessary for them to have thin hair. One thing you may rely upon— makes the hair healthy and vigorous; makes it grow thick and long. It cures dan druff also. It always restores color to gray hair,— all the dark, rich color of early life. There is no longer need of your looking old be fore your time. $1.00 a bottle. All druifcistf. “As a remedy for restoring color to the liair 1 believe Ayer’s Hair Vigor has no equal. It lias always given me perfect satisfaction in every way. Mrs. A. M. Stkehl, Aug. 18,1898. llauimoudsport, N.V. Wr/t* the Doctor. He will send you a book on The Hair and Scalp free, upon request. If you do not obtain all the benefits you expected from the use of the Vigor w rite the Doctor about it. Address, Du. J.C. AYKR. Lowell, Mass. ‘or Picnics and Lunches We have a nice line of Can Goods, such as VEAL LOAF, LUNCH TONGUE, TURKEY. CHICKEN, CHICKEN a la Maringo CHIP BEEF, HAM, CUTLETS, Ac. Call and see us or tdioue No. T9 SPARKS & HUMPHRIES. Leading ConfeMioners, 1801-1900. IUTH CAROLINA COLLEGE, COIvlJ.MIJIA, «. C. A. B., 11. S.. A. M., I.L.B.. L. I. Courses. Spring Courses free for Teachers. Fourteen Professors; Ifl.tlSO volumes in library; excel lent laboratories, class rooms, gymnasium, Infirmary, athletic grounds. Tuition $40. other fees $1*, a session; tuition remitted to needy students. Expenses $i:r> to *170 a ses sion. Certified Pupils from tor'y-live Accre- dijAd Schools enter Its Ureslunan Class wltli- oi^^xaml nation. Entrance and Normal Scholarship Ex.-itn- Inations held at every county seat. Friday, July !io. 1900 by County Superintendents. Next session opens Sept. 20, 1900. For catalogue, address. F.C . WOOUWAKD, Fresldeut. 1 0 llmos A. N. WOOD, ^ BANKER, does a general Banking and Exchange buainegg. Well secared with Burglar* Proof safe and Automatic Time Lock. Safety Deposit Boxes at moderate rent. Bays and sells Stocks andBonds. Bays County and School Claims. Yoar bnainess solicited. MISSION OF CITIES. BIRTHPLACE OF CIVILIZATION, SAYS DR. TALMAGE. DR. J. F. GARRETT Dentist, Gaffney, - - - S. C. I CMce over J. R. Tolleson’s new store Ij^n office from 1st to 26th of each 1 month: Dr. C. T. LIPSCOMB, Dentist, Office over R. A. lone, a Co 'e Store. Can be found at office mx dave in the week D. K.Duncan C.P. Sanders. W. 8. Hall. Jr DUICU, SUDERS S HILL, Attorneys-at-Law. Office over J. K. Tollesou's A Co.'s Store. J. E. WEBSTER, rornev-A. t- J w a-w, 9In Court House. (Probate Judge soffice Gaffney City, S. C. Practices in all the courts. Collec tions a specialty C. JEFFERIES 4- GAFFNEY, S. C. Commercial l.nw. Corporation Imw Krai Kstate Law. Money to loan on approved s<x;urlty. JAMES A. WILLIS, ATTORNEY AT LAW, O A jcja-is; Vf (-J. O. Notary Public in ofll<9*. Prompt attention | given to all business. Office over ft. A Jones A I o ', store. ■OllUII IVAl.l AO. J. OKItKI.H'S OTTS. WALLACE ^ OTTS, LAWYERS. AH business Intrusied to us. given prompt uoi vigorus attention office up stairs, next «t K. A. Jones A Go. 'Phone 87. Morallr They Are No Worse Than the Country—Vice I. More Appar ent, but Not More Prevalent —A Plea For Honest Living. Washington, Aug. 12. — From St. Petersburg, the F’usslan capital, where he was cordially received by the em peror and empress and the empress dowager, Dr. Talruage sends this dis 1 course, lu which he shows the mighty good that may be done by the cities amf also the vast evil they may do by their allurements to the unsuspecting and the unguarded. Tiie text is Zeoh- ariah 1, 17, “My cities through pros perity shall yet be spread abroad.’' The city is no worse than the coun try. The vices of the metropolis are mo e evident than the vices of the rural districts, because there arc more people to be had, If they wish to be. The merchant is as good as the farmer. There Is no more cheating In town than out of town—no worse cheating; It Is only on a larger scale. The coun tryman sometimes prevaricates about the age of the horse that he sells, about the size of the bushel with which he measures the grain, about the peaches at the bottom of the basket as being as large as those at the top, about the quarter of beef as being ten der when it Is tough, aud to as had an extent as the citizen, the merchant, prevaricates about calicoes or silks or hardware. And as to villages, I think that In some respects they are worse than the cities, because they copy the vices of the cities in the meanest shape; and as to gossip, its heaven is a country vil lage! Everybody knows everybody’s business better than he knows it him self. T®? grocery store or the black smith shop by day aud night is the grand depot for masculine tittle tattle, aud there are always in the village a half dozen women who have thpir sun- bonuets hanging near, so that at the llrst item of derogatory news they can fly out and cackle it all over the town. Countrymen must not he too hard in their criticism of the citizen, nor must the plow run too sharply against the yardstick. Cain was the founder of the first city, and I suppose it took after him lu morals. It takes a city a long while to escape from the character of the founder. Where the founders of a city are criminal exiles, the filth, the vice, the prisons, are the shadow of those founders. It will take centuries for New York to get over the good influence of the pious founders of that city—the founders whose prayers went up in the streets where now banks dis count, and brokers bargain, and com panies declare dividends, and smug glers swear custom house lies, and above the roar of the wheels aud the crack of the auctioneer’s mallet as cends the ascription, “We worship thee, O thou almighty dollar!’’ Not Neoennarlly Bad. Cities are not evil necessarily, as some have argued. They have been the birthplace of civilization. In them popular liberty has lifted Its voice. Witness Genoa and Pisa and Venice. After the death of Alexander the Great among his papers were found extensive plans of cities, some to be built in Europe, some to be built In Asia. The cities in Europe were to be occupied by Asiatics; the cities in Asia were to be occupied, according to his plans, by Europeans, aud so thero should be a commingling and a fra ternity and a kindness and a good will between the continents aud between the cities. So there always ought to be. The strangest thing lu my com prehension is that there should be bickerings and rivalries among our American cities. New York must stop caricaturing Philadelphia, and Phila delphia must stop picking ot New York, aud certainly the continent is large enough for Ht. Paul and Minneap olis. What is good for one city Is good for all the cities. Here is the great highway of our national prosperity. On that highway of national prosperity walk the cities. A city witii large forehead and great brain—that is Boston; a city with de liberate step and calm manner—that Is Philadelphia; a city with its pocket full of change—that Is New York; two cities going with a rush that astounds the continent—they are St. Louis and Chicago; a city that takes Its wife ami children along with It—that is Brook lyn. Cincinnati, Louisville, Pittsburg, all the cities of the north, and all the cities of the south, some distinguished for oue tiling, some for another, one for professional ability, another for affluence, another for fashion, but not one to be spared. What advantages oue advantages all What damages Boston Common damages Washington square. Laurel Hill, Mount Auburn, Greenwood, weep over the same grief. The statue of Benjamin Fraukliu In New York greeting the bronze statue of Edward Everett in Boston. All the cities a confraternity. I cannot under stand how there should go on bicker ings and rivalries. I plead for a high er style of brotherhood or sisterhood among the cities. Been** of Toll. But while there are great differences in some respects, I have to tell you that all cities impress upon me, and ought to Impress upon you, three or four very important lessons, all of them agreeing In the same thing. It does not make any difference in what part of the country we walk the streets of a great city, there is oue lesson I think which ought to strike every in telligent Christian jnnu, and that is, that the world Is a scene of toll and struggle. Here and there you flud a man lu the strecr who has his arms folded and who seems to have no par- tleulfr errand; but If you will stand at the corner of the street aud watch the countenances of those who go by, you will see in most instances there is an Intimation that they are ou an er rand which must be executed at the earliest inomeut possible; so you are Jostled hither and thither by business men. Up this ladder with a hod of brinks, out of this bank with a roll of bills, digging a cellar, shingling u roof, binding a book, mending a watch. Work, with its thousand eyes aud thousand feet and thousand arms, goes pu singing Its song, “Work, work, tvorkf'' wblle the drums of the mill beat It. and the steam whistles life It. in the carpeted aisles of the forest, in the woods from which the eternal shadow Is never lifted, on the shore of the sea over whose Iron coast toasea the tangled foam, sprinkling the crack ed cliffs with a baptism of whirlwind and tempest. Is the best place to study God; but lu the rushing, swarming, raving street Is the best place to study man. Going down to your place of business and coming home again, I charge you look about: See these signs of poverty, of wretchedness, of hunger, of sin, of bereavement; and as you go through the streets, and come back through the streets, gather up in the arms of your prayer nil the sorrow, all the losses, all the sufferings, all the bereavements of those whom you pass, aud present them In prayer before an all sym pathetic God. In the great day of eternity there will be thousands of persons with whom you in this world never exchanged one word, will rise up and call you blessed, and there will be a thousand lingers pointed at you in heaven, saying, "That is the man, that is the woman, who helped me when I was hungry, and sick, and wandering, and lost, and heart broken. That is the man, that Is the woman;” and the blessing will come down upon you as Christ shall say: “I was hungry and ye fed me, I was naked and ye clothed me, I was sick and in prison aud ye visited me; inasmuch as ye did it to these poor waifs of the streets, ye did it unto me.” Brotherhood of Man. Again, in all cities I am impressed with the fact that all classes and con ditions of society must commingle. We sometimes cultivate a wicked ex clusiveness. Intellect despises igno rance. Rcilnement will have nothing to do with boorishness. Gloves hate the sunburned hand, and the high forehead despises the flat head, and the trim hedgerow will have nothing to do with the wild copsewood, and Athens hates Nazareth. This ought not so to be. I like this democratic principle of the gospel of Jesus Christ which recognizes the fact that we stand before God on one and the same platform. Do not take on any airs. Whatever position you have gained In society, you are nothing but a man, born of the same Parent, regenerated by the same Spirit, cleansed in the same blood, to lie down In the same dust, to get up In the same resurrec tion. It is high time that we all ac knowledged not only the Fatherhood of God, but the brotherhood of man. Again, In all cities I am Impressed with the fact that It Is a very hard thing for a man to keep his heart right and to get to heaven. Infinite temptations spring upon us from places of public concourse. Amid so much affluence, how much temptation to covetousness and to be discontented with our humble lot! Amid so many opportunities for overreaching, what temptation to extortion! Amid so much display, what temptation to van ity! Amid so many saloons of strong drink, what allurement to dissipation! In the maelstroms and hell gates of the street, how many make quick and eternal shipwreck! If a man-of-war conics back from a battle, and Is towed into the navy yard, we go down to look at the splintered spars and count the bullet holes, and look with patriotic admiration on the flag that floated In victory from the masthead. But that man is more of a curiosity who has gone through 30 years of the sharp- shooting of business life, and yet sails on, victor over the temptations of the street. Oh! how many have gone down under the pressure, leaving not so much us a patch of canvas to tell where they perished. They never had any peace. Their dishonesties kept tolling in their ears. If I had an ax, aud could split open the beams of that fine house, perhaps I would find In the very heart of It a skeleton. In hb; very best wine there Is a smack of poor man’s sweat. Oh! is It strange that when a man has devoured widows’ houses he Is disturbed with Indigestion? All the forces of nature are against him. The floods are ready to drown him, aud the earthquake to swallow him, and the fires to consume him, aud the lightning to smite him. Aye. the angels of God are on the street, and in the day when the crowns of heaven are distributed some of the brightest of them will be given to those men who were faithful to God and faithful to the souls of others amid the marts of business, proving themselves the heroes of the street. Mighty were their temptations, mighty was their deliverance, aud mighty shall be their triumph. Prctcnalon and Sham. Again, in all these cities I am im pressed with the fact that life Is full of pretensiou and sham. What subter fuge, what double dealing, what two facedness! Do all people who wish you good morning really hope for you a happy day? Do all the people who shake bauds love each other? Are all those anxious about your health who Inquire concerning It? Do all want to see you who ask you to call? Does all the world know half as much as It pretends to know? Is there not many a wretched stock of goods with a bril liant store window? Passing up and down the streets to your business and your work, are you not impressed with the fact that society Is hollow and that there are subterfuges and pretensions? Oh, how many there are who swagger and strut, and how few people who are natural and walk! While fops simper and fools snicker aud simpletons gig gle, how few people are natural aod laugh! I say these tbinga not to create lu you Incredulity or misanthropy, nor do I forget there are thousands of peo ple a great deal better thau they aeem, but I do not thick any muu is prepared for the conflict of this life until he kuows this particular peril. Again, lu all cities I am Impressed with the fact that there Is a great Held for Christian charity. There are hun ger and suffering aud want and wretch edness lu the country, but these evils chiefly congregate In our great cities. On every street crime prowls, and drunkenness staggers, and shame winks, and pauperism thrusts out ita baud asking for alms. Here want la most squalid, and hunger Is most lean. A (’hriKt'uu man going along a street tn New York saw u poor lad, and be stopped and said: “My boy, do you know how to read a ml writer The boy made no answer. The man asked the question twice and thrice: ACau you read and write?” and then the boy answered. Nlth a tear plashing on the back of his hand. Ho said in defiance: “Ne, sir; l can't reao ner write neither. God. sir, don't want me to read and write. Didn’t be take away my father so long ago I never remember to have seen him? And haven’t I had to go along the streets to get something to fetch home to eat for the folkat And didn't I, as soon as I could carry a basket, have to go out and pick up cinders, and never have no schooling, sir? God don’t want me to read, sir. I can’t read nor write neither.” Oh! these poor wanderers. They have no chance. Born In degradation, as they get up from their hands and knees to walk, they take their first step on the rood to despair. Let us go forth, In the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, to rescue them. Let us min isters not be afraid of soiling our black clothes while we go dowu ou that mis sion. While we are tying an elaborate knot In our cravat, or while we are In the study rounding off some period rhetorically, we might be saving a soul from deafh, and hiding a multitude of sins. Might? Temptation*. In all cities, east, west, north, south, I notice great temptations to commer cial fraud. Here Is a man who starts in business. He says, “I’m golnL to be honest,” but on the same street, on the same block, in the same business are Shylocks. Those men, to get the patronage of any one, will break all understandings with other merchants and will sell at ruinous cost, putting their neighbors at great disadvantage, expecting to make up the deficit in something else. If an honest principle could creep Into that man's soul, it would die of sheer loneliness! The man twists about, trying to escape the penalty of the law, and despises God, while he Is Just a little anxious about the sheriff. The honest man looks about him and says: “Well, this rivalry is awfuL Perhaps I am more scrupu lous than I need be. This little bar gain I am about to enter Is a little doubtful, but then I shall only do as the rest.” And so I bad a friend who started In commercial life, and as a book merchant, with a high resolve. He said, "In my store there shall be no books that I would not have my family read.” Time passed on, and one day I went into his store and found aome Iniquitous books on the shelf, and I said to him, “How la It possible that you can consent to sell such books as these?” “Oh,” he replied, “I have got over those Puritanical notions! A man cannot do business In this day unless be does It in the way other people do It.” To make a long story short, be lost his hope of heaven, and In a little wblle be lost bis morality, and then he went into a madhouse. In other words, when a man casta off God, God casts him off. One of the mightiest temptations In commercial life in all cities today Is ip the fact that many professed Chris tian men are not square In their bar gains. Such men are In Baptist and Methodist and Congregational church es, and our own denomination Is as largely represented as any of them. Our good merchants are foremost in Christian enterprises; they are patron- Izers of art philanthropic and pa triotic. God will attend to them In the day of his coronation. I am not speak ing of them, but of those In commer cial life who are setting a ruinous ex ample to our young merchants. Go through all the stores and offices In our cities and tell me In bow many of those stores and offices are the prin ciples of Christ’s religion dominant? In three-fourths of them? No. In half of them? No. In one-tenth of them? No. Decide for yourself. The impression is abroad somehow that charity can consecrate iniquitous gains and that if a man give to God a portion of an unrighteous bargain then the Lord will forgive him the rest The secretary of a benevolent society came to me and said, “Mr. Bo-and-so has given a large amount of money to the missionary cause," mentioulng the sum. I said, “I can’t believe it." He said, “It is ao.” Well. I went home, staggered and confounded. I never knew the man to give anything. But after awhile I found out that he had been engaged in the most Infamous kind of a swindle, and then he prom ised to compromise the matter with the Ixjrd, saying: “Now, here is so much for thee, Lord. Please to let me off!" Political Reform. I want to tell you that the church of God Is not a shop for receiving stolen goods, and that. If you have taken anything from your fellows, you had better return it to the men to whom It belongs. In a drug store In Philadelphia a young man was told that he must sell blacking on the Lord’s day. He said to the bead man of the firm: “I can't possibly do that I am willing to sell medicines on the Lord’s day, for I think that Is right and necessary; but I can’t sell this patent blacking.” He was discharged from the place. A Christian muu hear ing of it took him Into his employ, and he went on from one success to an other until be was known all over the land for his faith In God and bis good works as for his worldly success. When a man has sacrificed any tem poral, financial good for the sake of his spiritual Interests tbs Lo. d is on his side, and one with God Is a ma jority. But If you have been much among the cities you have also noticed that they are full of temptations of a politi cal character. It Is not so more In one city than In all the cities. Hundreds of men going down In our cities every year through the pressure of politics. Once In awhile a man will come out in a sort of missionary spirit aud aay, “1 am going Into politics now to reform them, and I am going to reform the ballot box, and I am going to reform all the people I come In contact with.” That man In the fear and love of God goes into politics with that Idea and with the resolution that he will oome out uncontamiuated and as good as when he went In, but generally the ease is, when a man steps Into politics, many of the newspapers try to blacken bis character aud to distort all his past history, and after a little while has gone by, Instead of considering himself an honorable citizen, be Is lost tn con templation and In admiration of the fact that he has so long been kept out of Jail! If a man should go Into poli tics to reform politic? ami wltli |ha rlg|it spirit, he wll| come put with the right spirit nn<l unhurt- That was Theodore Frellughuyseu of New Jer sey. That was George Briggs of Mas sachusetts. That was Judge McLean of Ohio. Then look around and see the allure ments to dissipated life. Bad books, unknown to father and mother, vile as the reptiles of Egypt, crawling Into some of the best of families of the community, and boys read them while the teacher Is looking the other way or at recess or on the corner of the street when the groups are gathered. These books are read late at night Satan finds them a smooth plank on which be can slide down into perdition some of your sons and daughters. Reading bad books, one never gets over It The books may be burned, but there is not enough power in all the apothecary’s preparations to wash out the stain from the soul. Fathers’ hands, moth ers’ hands, sisters’ hands will not wash It out None but the hand of the Lord can wash It out God Doe* Not Excaa* Sta. And what Is more perilous in regard to some of these temptations we may not mention them. While God In his Bible from chapter to chapter thunder ed his denunciations against these crimes, people expect the pulpit and the printing preas to be silent on the subject, and Just In proportion as peo ple are Impure are they fastidious on this theme. They are so full of decay and death they do not want their sep ulchers opened. God will turn Into destruction all the unclean, and no splendors of surrounding can make decent that which he has smitten. God will not excuse sin merely because it has costly array and beautiful tapestry and palatial residence any more than he will excuse that which crawls, a blotch of sores, through the lowest cel lar. Ever and anon, through some law suit, there flashes upon the people of our great cities what Is transpiring In seemingly respectable circles. You call It “high life,” you call It “fast liv ing," you call It “people’s eccentric ity,” and while we kick off the side walk the poor wretch who has not the means to garnish bis Iniquity, these lords and ladles, wrapped In purple and In linen, go unwhipped of public Justice. Ah, the most dreadful part of the whole thing Is, that there are per sons abroad whose whole business It Is to despoil the young. What an eter nity such a man will have! As the door opens to receive him thousands of voices will cry out, “See here what you have done,” and the wretch will wrap himself with fiercer flame and leap Into deeper darkness, and the multitude he has destroyed will pursue him and burl at him the long, bitter, relentless, everlasting curse of their own anguish. If there be one cup of eternal darkness more bitter than an other, they will have to drink It to the dregs. If In all the ocean of the lost world that comes billowing up there be one wave more fierce than another, It will dash over them. But there is hope for all who will turn. I stood oue day at Niagara falls, and I saw what you may have seen there—six rainbows bending over that tremendous plunge. I never saw any thing like It before or since. Six beau tiful rainbows arching that great cata ract! And so over the ranlds and an gry precipices of sin, where so many have been dashed down, God’s beauti ful admonitions hover, a warning arch ing each peril—six of them, fifty of them, a thousand of them. Beware, beware, beware! Young men, while you have time to reflect upon these things and before the duties of the effice and the store and the shop come upon you again, look over this whole subject, and after the day has passed and you hear In the nightfall the voices and footsteps of the city dying from your ear, and It gets so silent that you cau hear dis tinctly your watch under your pillow going “tick, tick,” then open your eyes aud look out upon the darkness and see two pillars of light, one horizontal, the other perpendicular, but changing their direction until they come togeth er, uud your enraptured vision beholds It- the cross. (Copyright, 1900, by Louis Klopsch.] Vulcanic Eruption* Are grand, but 8km Eruptions rob life of joy. Bucklen’a Arnica Salve cures them; also Old, Running and Fever, Sores, Ulcers, Boils, Felons, Corns Warts, Cuts, Bruises, Burns, calds, Chapped Hands, Chilblains. Best Pilecure on earth. Drives out Pains and e Aches. Only 25 cents a box. Cur guaranteed. Sold by Cherokee Drug Co. The speed of the fastest railway train is only a little more than one half the velocity of the golden eagle’s flight, the bird having been known to make 140 miles per hour. Millions will be spent in politics this year. We can’t keep the cam paign going without money any more than we can keep the body vigorous without food. Dyspeptics used to starve tbemseives. Now Kodol Dys pepsia Cure digests wbat you eat and allows you to est all the good food you want. It radically cures stomach troubles. Cherokee Drug Co. The smsllest measure of weight in use, the grain, took its name from being originally the weight of a well- dried grain of wheat. The wolf in ttfe fable put on sheep’s clothing because if be traveled on bis own reputation be couldn’t accom- plieb bis purpose. Counterfeiters of DeWitt’s Witch Hazel Halve couldn’t sell their worthless salves on their merite, so they put them in boxes and wrappers like DeWitt’s. Look out for them. Take only DeWitt’s Witch Hsiel Stive. It oures piles and all skin diseases. Cherokee Drug Co. About 30,000,000 persons left Eu rope during the century just closing to seek to better their fortunes in other lands. You will never And any other pills so prompt aud so pleasant as DeWitt’s Little Early Risers. Cherokee Drug Co. _ _ Tb« County Cnntpttlaa. The following Is the schedule of the places and dates for speaking by can- didates for county offices: Macedonia, August 14 Ezells, " 15 Maud, M ifl Grassy fopd, '* 17 Blacksburg, “ 20 Antioch, “ 21 King's Creek, “ 22 Gaffney, “ 27 T. B Butler, Ch’m. J. B Bell, Sec. and Treat. PERSON AL^PARAGRAPHS. People You Know «nd People Von Don’t Know. Mies Victoria Amos returned to Spartanburg yesterday after spending several weeks in the city with her sister. Mrs. R. C. Sarratt. There is an aching void m the breast of ono of Gaffney’s popular young merchants caused by her departure. Miss Mabel C. Fort has returned home aftrt spending six weeks on Sullivan’s Island and in Charleston with Mrs. Albert Buist. M. V. Fitzgerald, once a resident of this place,but now of Lockhart, spent several days in the city the past wet k. Mr. Fitzgerald is an exceptionally good citizen and bis departure was a loss to Gaffney. We would like to see him move back again. George W. Chalk, of Ravenna, was in the city Saturday shaking hands with bis numerous friends. Joseph G. Bailey, of Lockhart, spent several days in the city last week. ‘'Uncle Joe” once lived at Gaffney and no man ever made more friends by his upright manner than did he. He is thinking of buying a farm and moving back to this county and we trust those who have land to sell will communicate with him. We need more such citizens as Mr. Bailey in this community. Miss Katie Hamilton returned to the city yesterday after a visit to Mir>s Parker at Spartanburg. J. A. Willis came in on the vesti bule yesterday. We do not know but we suspect that he spent Sunday in the Queen City. Hod. Wm. Jefferies, of Home, was among the Confederate veterans in the city Saturday to do honor to Gens. Walker and Carwile. T. W. Kirby, a farmer resident of this city, but more recently of Caro- leen, was in the city several days the past week. Mr. Kirby has gone to Yorkville, where he will be engaged for some time in the building busi ness. Dave Magness went to Spartanburg yesterday. Rev. C. E. Robertson and Dr. Paras Thompson returned from their vaci - tion to the Thompson farm Saturday morning. Mr. Robertson made a hurried trip to Spartanburg to see bis daughter, Miss Edna, and returned to the city on the vestibule. Misses Ella Hayes and FIob*!** Walker are visiting Miss Lizz e Rudisail, of Spartanburg. Mr. ani Mrs. J. I. Sarratt came in on the vestibule yesterday. They had been spending a few days tt Waynesville. N. C. Misses Effie, Lillian and Mittie Hopper left Sunday night for Waynes ville, N. C. They were accompanied by their brother, Sam, who will spend a week in the mountains. Will Thompson spent Sunday in the city with his brother Parks. Miss Emily Goodlet, of Jackson ville, Ala., is the guest of her friend Mrs. Wm. William Wilkins, corner of Montgomery and Johnson streets. Clarence Jones left yesterday for Greenville. He said he was going down there to play ball, but we sus pect that he had something else on his mind. Miss Francis Parish, of Yorkville, is visiting her father, our genial ‘‘Cal.” Miss Julia Hoard, of Gaffney, made a flying visit to Thickety Saturday accompanied by her little cousins, Masters Arthur aud Oscar Forten berry. C. S. Green, a popular tonsorial artist from Shelby, spen‘i Sunday and yesterday in the city with “Dr.” Harry Knox. Victor Gaffney went to Spartanburg yesterday. Magistrate Asbury McCraw was in the city yesterday. Mr. McCraw is a candidate for re-election aud there* is little prospects of him having a competitor. Mr. W. B. Bridges, of the firm of Brown A Bridges, of this city, has ac cepted a posion as section hand in the Newry cotton mills. Mr. Bridges was a popular young man, honest and up right, and his friends will regret to give him up. The business will be continued with Mr. Brown in charge. Dr. C. M. Littlejohn went to Spar tanburg Saturday, on business. He returned the same day. Messrs. A. H. Littlejohn and R. P. Rollins, of Bessemer City, were here Saturday and Sunday on business and pleasure. Mrs. J. W. Lipscomb left Sunday evening for Hurlock, on the eastern shore of Maryland, where she goes to visit her relatives for awhile. Mr. and Mrs. B. A. Holmes return ed to the city Sunday. Mrs. Holmes will remain for some time. Mr. Holmes left Monday rooming to re sume bis business at Charlotte. Cytns P. Harris, of Raleigh, is in the city the guest of hia brother, Mr. O. B. Harris, of the Commercial Ho tel. B. F. Green spent Sunday in the City of the Spartans with relatives. Mayor N. H. Littlejohn and wife and son spent Sunday and yesterday at Thickety with Mr. and Mri. Ike Smith. Mrs. Hayes, of Forest City, is visit- log friends in this city. Her many friends greet h)r with a warm wel come. Marriage*, Two. At the residence of the bride’s fatberon Sunday Magistrate A. J. Mc Craw united in the holy bonds of wedlock Miss Caroline Jolly and Mr. Columbua Bailey. The contracting parties are both from North Carolina. The bride la a daughter of Mr. Tim Jolly. Mr. Chester McCraw and Miss Lillie McCraw. both of this county, were united In the holy bonds of matrimony by Magistrate Wm. Phil lips, at the latter’s home in this city, on Sunday, August 5th. The young people have the best wishes of their friends for a happy married life. W4U T«och st Cowimum ThejCowpens people have employed Prof. K. A. Chambers, of this city, to teach their school next session. They have displayed good judgment in their seleoMon. Prof. Chamber* has eatubllshed a reputation aa being an excellent teacher and we believe he will give the Cowpens people full t-at- lafactiou. Prof, ana Mrs. Chambers will leave In a week or two for Cow pens. We wish them much pros- parity. THE “KERNEL” ON THE GO. Th* People of Whit* Plain* Anticipate Building a House of Warship. (Correspondence of The Ledger.) On the WiNQ, Aug. 18.—Our Led ger readers will not be surprised to find me in another part of the county this a. m. Well, as the local editor will give a full report of the Veterans’ meeting at Gaffney last Saturday I can add nothing to it only that it was an en joyable affair. Crops in the western part of Chero kee county are badly in need of rain and some of them are apparently be yond redemption—corn especially. Gardens are burned up. We had the pleasure of attending a meeting of the Methodist church in Clifton yesterday. Rev. Mr. McBride, of the Presbyterian church of Spar tanburg, preached from the text Psa. 92:2: “The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree.” Clifton will soon have an electric railway running into it from Spartan burg via Glendale. As soon as we get through our can- vacs we hope to give our readers some thing interesting in the way of per sonal notes. Rev. M. F. 8 ample,of Gaffney, came over to White Plains on Saturday and held a meeting there yesterday. He baptized some converts. They an ticipate building a house of worship there, and as a matter of course it will soon bo accomplished. He has just closed a revival meeting at Shi loh church, on Bullock’s creek, in York cotnry. He is a faithful ser vant of the Master and we wish him success in his labors. The extremely warm weather has a prostrating effect on those who are exposed to it and many complainings are heard on all sides. We met our old friend and neighbor Worth Gould at Clifton yesterday. Miss Jessie Strain is visiting Mr. and Mrs. Charles Sparks at Clifton. More anon. j l s. Cheap Kallroad Kate*. On account of the National Eo- ctmpment, G. A. R , Chicago, III., Aug. 27th to Sept. 1st, 1900, the Southern Railway will sell round trip tickets from all stations on its lines, to Chicago, HI., and return at espe cially reduced rates. The following rates will apply from points named: Abbeville, S C i|;22 20 Anderson, S, C 21 05 Blacksburg, S. C 21 10 Camden, S. C 25 75 Carlisle, S. C 22 20 Charleston, S. C 26 25 Chester, S. C .* 22 95 Columbia, S. C 24 75 Demark, 6. C 24 75 Greenville. 8. C 20 20 Greenwood. 8. C 22 20 Newberry, 8. C 23 35 Orangeburg, S. C 26 25 Prosperity, S. C 23 55 Rock Hill, S. C 22 55 Spartanburg, 8. C 20 20 Sumter. S. C 26 05 Tickets will be sold from punta in the State of Florida on Aug. 24th and 25tb, and from points in all other States on Aug. 25tb, 26th and 27th, with final limit Sept. 3d. 1900. By deposit of tickets with Joint Agent of Central Passenger Association, at Chi cago. prior to 12 noon Sept. 2d, 1900, und on payment of fee of fifty (50) cents in connection with each ticket at time of deposit, the return final limit may be extended until Sept. 20: h, 1900. Persons located at non-coupon sta tions should notify agent several days in advance of date they contemplate leaving, in order that he mav supply himself with proper tickets. For detailed information relative to rates, schedule, reservations, etc., call on or address any agent of the Southern Railwsv nr '’a '''‘nnections. Lliuesloue ColieK*. (South Carolina Baptist.] The new advertisement of Lime stone College appears in today's pa per. We desire not only to call at tention to it, but to say a word for this excellent school. We believe that it is the coming school of the State, and we propose doing what we can in our rounds to turn pupils in the direction of Limestone. The mu nificence of Capt. John H. Mont gomery has placed it in a splendid position so far as buildings and equip ments are concerned. Those who know Capt. Montgomery aod his love for the institution have no doubt that his gifts in the future will con tinue to flow to Limestone and through her advance the cause of fe male education in South Carolina. Her wide awake president, Dr. Lee Davis Lodge, is doing much for this institution. By his side stands Prof. H. P. Griffith who is in all probability one of the most gifted teachers in South Carolina, and with them are associated other competent teachers, including Prof. Wade R. Brown, the musical director, whose reputation is a guarantee that this department will stand in the front rank. ThoiopMoo Mill Item*. (Corroapondenca of Tha Ledger.) Thompson's Mill, Aug. 18.-—Mr. and Mrs. T. J. Estes are visiting friends and relatives at Sharon. Miss Maud Blackwell is visiting in Chester. Misses Alma Strauss, Mary and Olive Walker, who have been visiting near Sunnyslde, returned to their homes in Yorkville Wednesday. The young people anticipate har ing a grand picnic at Thompson's Mill on Saturday, Aug. 18lh. The Etta Jane string baud will furnish music for the occasion. Every young person who wants to have a nice time must not miss this opportunity. Tha ladies will please bring well filbt) baskets. Hf IQ HTI MOSUL CantlldHte* for Congr*** and Solicitor will speak at Timber Ridge on August 20th. Ezell’s, Au gust 21st and st Gaffney on August 22nd. Tmoh. B. Butler. Pem. County Cbm’u. J. B. Bell, Hee’y and Tress. Money tu loan on Improved or un improved city real eatate on most lib- eral terms. Wilt loan atraght fora term of ).*ars or on intallmenls. You cau build your house und pay for it with little more than your »n.t wonld cost you. Call and g^s J. C. Jeweru*. Aity.