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Tax Notice. The tax levy fojr Cherokee County for fiscal year 1900 Is as follows: For State purposes. 5 mills. For Constitutional School Tax, It mills. For Ordinary County Tax, 4 mills. For New Jail, 1 mill. For County Itoads, l mill. For Sinking Fund Draytonville. Gowdeys- ville, White Plains, Morgan and Limestone Townships, 2 mills. For Sinking Fund Cherokee Township, 1^4 mills. For Interest on Railroad Ronds Cherokee Township, 1 mill. For Gaffney Graded School District No. 10, 2H mills. t For Blacksburg Graded School District No. 0, 4 mills. The (1.00 Commutation Road Tax for 1901, payable from Oct. 15th, 1900, to Feb. 1st. 1901, age from 21 to j0 years. 1 will be at the following places for the pur pose of collecting taxes: At my office in Gaffney from Oct. 15th to Oct. 2sth. At Buffalo, Monday, Oct. 29th, from 10 a. in. to 1 p. m. At Blacksburg, Monday, Oct. 29th, after 2 p. m. At Blacksburg, Tuesday, Oct. 50th, until 1 p. m. At Antioch, Wednesday, Oct. 51st, from 10 a. m. to 2 p. m. At Kings Creek, Thursday, Nov. 1st. from 10 a. m. to 2 p. m. At Cherokee Falls, Friday, Nov. 2d, from 10 a. rn. to 2 p. m. At Wilkinsville. Tuesday, Nov. Uth, from 11 a. m. to 2 p. in. At Sarratt's, Wednesday, Nov. 7th, from 9 a. m. to 1 p. m. At T. 1). Littlejohn’s Store,Thursday. Nov. 8th. from 11 a. m. to 1 p. m. At Brown’s Store, Friday, Nov. 9th, from 11 a. m. to 1 p. m. At While. Plains. Monday, Nov. 12th, from 10 a. m. to 1 p. m. At Macedonia, Tuesday, Nov. 15th, from 10 a. in. to 1 p. m. At Ezells. Wednesday, Nov. 14th, from 10 u. m. to 1 p. in. At office from Nov. 15th until Dec. 51st. J. B. JONES, Co. Treasurer. Gaffney, S. C„ Sept. 15th, 1900. 9-14-tf A PRECIOUS BURDEN. SCION OF THE HOUSE OF DAVID JEHOSHEBA’S ARMS. IN or—^ Building and Plastering Lime, Coal, and Plaster Hair. Plaster Paris. Koscndale Cement, Portland Cement, Dynamite, Blasting Powder, Fuse and Dynamite Caps, cull on Limestone Springs Lime Works CARROLL & CO., Lessees. Telephone 5". Just Gome in A shipment of Jewelry that contains all the latest patterns in • Rings, Breast and Scarf Pins, Watch Chains and Charms and many other of the most re cent productions of the Gold smith’s art. Call on the Reliable Jeweler for Watches and Clocks and all kinds or repairing. I tee my work. , Tims, H. Westrope in Crawley & Go's Drug Store. guaran- A. N. WOOD, BANKER, dpes a general Banking and Exchange business. Well secured with Burglar- Proof safe and Automatic Time Lock. Safety Deposit Boxes at moderate rent. Buys and sells Stocks andBonds. Buys County and School Claims. Your business solicited. J. E. WEBSTER, A^ttor A. t- JL/ttAV, Office In Court llouue.fProbate’Judge suffice Gaffney City, S. C. Practices in all the courts. Collec tions a specialty DR. J. F. GARRETT* * Dentist, Gaffney, - - - S. C. Office over J. R. Tolleson’s new store In office from 1st to 26th of each month: Dr. C. T. LIPSCOMB, Dentist, Office over R. A. (one* ft Co '• Store. Gan be found at office mix days In the wee! » - , -f J. C. JEFFERIES 4- OAPHNEY, S. C. Comiuercbil Law. Corporation Law- Krai Khtate Law. Money to loan on approved wearily. JAMES A. WILLIS, ATTORNEY AT LAW, O A I^LTsilC V. t-S. Notary Public In office. Prompt attention given to all buxincas. Office over R. A. Junes ft Co.’m store. J.'ObODuti Wallace. j. ohmki iub Otts. WALLACE & OTTS, LAWYERS. All busliienN IntruMted to us, given prompt i * n< i v i K " rUH u "‘"Uon. Office up stairs, next OK. A. Jones ft Co. ’Phone N7. D.R.Duncan O. P.Handers. W.H. Hull.Jr DimCAl, SANDERS & HALL, Attorneys-at-Law. Office oyer J. U. Tolleson’s ft Co.’s Store. Dr. Talmagre Drntvs a Lesson From the Slaughter of the I’rlnees—Bx- liorts Parents to Lead Their Chil dren to Christ. Washington, Oct. 21.—In this dis course ou a neglected incident of the Bible Dr. Talmage draws some com forting lessons and shows that all around us are royal natures that we may help deliver. The text Is II Kings xi, 2, 3: “Jehosheba, the daughter of King Joram, sister of Ahaziah. took Joash, the son of Ahaziah, and stole him from among the king’s sons which were slain, and they hid him, even him and his nurse, in the bedchamber from Athaliah, so that he was not slain. And he was with her hid in the house of the Lord six years.” Grandmothers are more lenient with their children’s children than they were with their own. At 40 years of age if discipline be necessary chastise ment Is used, but at TO the grandmoth er, looking upon the misbehavior of the grandchild, is apologetic and disposed to substitute confectionery for whip. There is nothing more beautiful than childhood. Grandmother takes out her pocket handkerchief and wipes her spectacles and puts them on and looks down into the face of her mischievous and rebellious descendant and says: “I don’t think he meant to do it. Let him off this time. I’ll lie responsible for his behavior lu the future.” My mother, with the second generation around her, a boisterous crew, said one day: ‘i suppose they ought to bo disciplined, but 1 can’t do it. Grandmothers are not tit to bring up grandchildren.” But bore in my text we have a grandmoth er of a different type. I have been at Jerusalem, where the occurrence of the text took place, and the whole scene came vividly before me while I was going over the site of the ancient temple and climbing the towers of the king’s palace. Here In the t< xt it is old Athaliah, the royal murderess. She ought to have been honorable. Her father was a king. Her husband was a king. Her son was a king. And yet we find her plotting for the extermination of the entire roy al family, Including her own grand children. The executioners’ knives are sharpened. The palace is red with the blood of princes and princesses. Ou all sides are shrieks and hands thrown up and struggle aud death groan. No mer cy! Kill, kill! But while the ivory floors of the palace run with carnage and the whole land is under the shad ow of a great horror a fleet footed wo man, a clergyman’s wife, Jehosheba by name, stealthily approaches the im perial nursery, seizes upon the grand child that bad somehow as yet escap ed massacre, wraps It up tenderly but in haste, snuggles it against her, flies down the palace stairs, her heart In her throat lest slit* be discovered in tins compassionate abduction. Get her out of the way as quick you can, for she carries a precious burden, even a young king. With this youthful prize she presses into the room of the an cient temple, the church of olden time, unwraps the young king aud puts him down, sound asleep as he is and unconscious of the peril that has been threatened, and there for six years be Is secreted In that church apartment. Meanwhile old Athaliah smacks her lips with satisfaction and thinks that all the royal family are dead. But the six years expire, aud it is time for young Joash to come forth and take the throne and to push back into dis grace and death old Athaliah. C'ouitt to 1.1Klit. The arrangements are all made for political revolution. The military come and take possession of the temple, swear loyally to the boy Joash and stand around for his defense. See the sharpened swords and the burnished shields! Everything Is ready. Now Joash, half affrighted at the armed tramp of his defenders, seared at the vociferation of his admirers, is brought forth in full regalia. The scroll of au thority is put in his hands, the coronet of government is put on his brow, and the people clapped and waved and huz zaed aud trumpeted. “What is tbatV’ said Athaliah. “What is that sound over in the templeV” And she flies (o see, and on tier way they meet her and say: “Why, haven’t you heard? You thought you hud slain all the royal family, hut Joash bus come to light. ’ Then the royal murderess, frantic with rage, grabbed her mantle and tore It to tatters and cried until she foamed at the mouth: “You have no right to crown my grandson. You have no right to take the government from my shoulders. Treason, treason!” While she stood there crying that the military started for her arrest, and she took a short cut through a back door of the temple and ran through the royal stables, but the battleuxes of the mili tary fell ou her in the barnyard, aud for many a day when the horses were being unloosened from the chariot aft er drawing out young Joash the fiery steeds would snort and rear passing the place us they smell the place of the carnage. ’The first thought I hand you from this subject is that the oxterm I nation of righteousness Is an Impossibility. When a woman Is good, she Is apt ’o be very good, aud when she is bud she Is apt to be very bad, and tills Athaliah was one of the latter sort. Hhe would exterminate the last selotrof the house of David, through whom Jesus was to come. There was plenty of work for emlialmers and undertakers. She would dear the laud of all God fearing ai d God loving poople. She would put an end to everything that could In any wise Interfere with her Imperial erim- Innlitv She f dds her liniul* and says: ‘The work is done. It Is completely done.’* Is It? In the swaddling ciotlns of that church apartment are wrapped the enuso of God and the cause of good government. That is the scion of tho house of David. It Is Joash, the (iia| worshiping reformer. It is Joash, tho friend of God. It Is Joasli, tlie dciiiural- Izerof Bmilitisli Idolatry. Hockhlinten- derly, nurse him gently. Atluilinh, you may kill all the other children, hut you ennuot hill him. Eternal defenses are throw it all around him, and this clergy imia’s wife, J< Inode ha, w ill HUUtcIi lilui up from the palace nursery am! will run jJvwji with him Into the house of the Lord, and (here she will hlde hlm for six years, and at the end of that time he will come fortli for your de thronement and obliteration. Foe* of flellitlon ncfmtrd. Well, my friends. Just ns poor a botch does the world always make of extinguishing righteousness. Supersti tion rises up and says, ”1 will Just put an end to pure religion.” Domltian slew 40,000 Christians, Diocletian slew’ 644,0<)0 Christians. And the scythe of persecution lias been swung through all the ages, and the flames hissed, and the guillotine chopped, aud the Bastille groaned, but did the foes..of Christian ity exterminate it? Did they extermi nate Alban, the first British sacrifice, or Zwingli, the Swiss reformer, or John Oldcastle, the Christian nobleman, or Abdallah, the Arabian martyr, or Anne Askew or Sanders or Cranmer? Great work of extermination they made of it Just at the time when they thought they had slain all the royal family of Jesus some Joash would spring up and out aud take the throne of power and wield a very scepter of Christian do minion. Infidelity says, “I will exterminate the Bible,” and the Scriptures were thrown into the street for the mob to trample on, and they were piled up in the public squares aud set on lire, and mountains of indignant contempt were hurled ou them, aud learned universi ties dt'creed the Bible out of existence. Thomas I’aiue said: “lu my ’Age of Reason’ I have annihilated the Scrip tures. Your Washington is a pusillani mous Christian, but I am the foe of Bibles and of churches.” Oh, how many assaults upon that word! All the hostilities that have ever been created on earth are not to be compared with the hostilities against that one book. Said one man in his infidel desperation to ids wife, “You must not be reading that Bible," and he snatched it away from her. Aud though in that Bible was a lock of liair of the dead child— the only child that God had ever given them—he pitched the book with its contents into the lire and stiri’cd it with the tongs and spat ou it and curs ed it and said, “Susan, never have any more of that damnable stuff here.” Kiit'iiiles of tlic Ilible Routed. How many individual aud organized attempts have been made to extermi nate that Bible? Have Its enemies clone It? Have they exterminated the American Bible society?* Have they exterminated the British and Foreign Bible society? IIu\e they exterminat ed the thousands of Christian institu tions wlio.se only object it is to multi ply copies of the Scriptures and spread them broadcast around the world? They have exterminated until instead of one or two copies of the Bible in our houses we have eight or ten, and we pile them up in the corners of our Sab bath school rooms and send great box es of them everywhere. If they get on as well as they are now going on lu the work of extermination, I do not know tut that our children may live to see the millennium. Yea, if there should come a time of persecution |u which all the known Bibbs of the earth should be destroyed, all these lamps of life that blaze In our pulpits and lu our families extinguished, in the very day that infidelity and sin should be hold ing Jubilee over the universal extinc tion there would bo in some closet of a backwoods church a secreted copy of the Bible, aud this Joash of eternal lit erature would come out and come up and take the throne, and the Athaliah of Infidelity and persecution would lly out the back ( ,r »or of the palace and drop her mist 'e carcass under, the hoofs of the horses of the king’s sta bles. You cannot exterminate Chris tianity! You cannot kill Joash! The second thought 1 hand you from my subject is that there are opportuni ties in which we may save royal life. You know that profane history is re plete with stories of strangled mon- nrchs and of youug princes who have been put out of the way. Here is the story of a young king saved. How Je- hosheha, the clergyman’s wife, must have trembled as she rushed into the Imperial nursery aud snatched up Joash! How she hushed him lest by his cry he hinder the escape! Fly with him, Jehosheba! Y’ou hold lu your arms the causo of God and good gov ernment. Fall, and he Is slain. Suc ceed, and you turn the tide of the world’s history In the right direction. It seems as if between that young king and his assassins there is nothing but the frail arm of a woman. But why should we spend our time In praising this bravery of expedition when God :i«ks the same thing of you and me? All around us the imperiled children >»f a great king. They are born of Al mighty parentage and will come to a throne or : crown If permitted. But sin, the old Athaliah, goes forth to the massacre. Murderous temptations are out for the assassination. Vuleus, the emperor, was told that there was somebody lu his realm who would usurp his throne and that the name f the man who should be the usurper would begin with the letters T. H. !. (), 1). and tho edict went forth from the emperor's throne, “Kill everybody whose name begins with T, U, E, O, 1).’’ Aud hundreds and thousands were slain, hoping by that massacre to put an end to that one usurper. But sin Is more terrific in Its denunciation. It matters not how you spell your name, you come under its knife, under Its sword, under its doom, unless there bo Koine omnipotent relief brought to the rescue. But, blessed be God, there is such thing :ts delivering a royal soul. Who will snatch away Joash? Reeliilin the Children. This afternoon In your Rabbath school class there will be a prince of God, some one who may yet reign as king forever before the throne. There will be some one In your class who lias a corrupt physical inlierltauee. There i\ ill lie some one in your class who lias a father and mother who do not know how to pray. There will lie some one in your class who Is destined to com maud In church or state some Grom well <o dissolve a parliament, some Beethoven to touch the world’s harp Hirings, souk* John Howard to pour fresh ulr lu the lazaretto, some Flor cnee Nightingale to bandage the bat tle wounds, some Miss Dlx to soot In Hie crazed brain, some John Frederick Obcrllu to educate tin* besotted, sonn David Bralucrd to change tho Indltm's war whoop to a Babbath song, some John Wesley to inurshul three fourthq of Christendom, smno John Knox to make queens turn pale, Homo Joash to demolish Idolatry and stilko for tl;e kingdom of heaven. There are sleep ing In your cradles by night, there are playing in your nurseries by day, impe rial souls waiting for dominion, and whichever side the cradle they get out will decide the destiny of empires. For each one of those children sin aud holi ness eon’.eud, Athaliah on the one side, Jehosheba on the other. But I hear people say: “What’s the use of bother ing children with religious instruction? Let them grow up aud choose for themselves. Don’t interfere with their volition.” Siipi>o8e some one bad said to Jehosheba: “Don’t interfere with that youug Joash. Let him grow up aud decide whether he likes the palace or not, whether he wants to be king or not. Don’t disturb his volition.” Je hosheba knew right well that unless that day the youug king was rescued he would never be rescued at all. I tell you, my friends, the reason we don’t reclaim all our children from worldliness Is because we begin too late. Barents wait until their children lie before they teach them the value of truth. They wait until their children swear before they teach them the Im portance of righteous conversation. They wait until their children are all wrapped up lu this world before they tell them of a better world. Too late with your prayers. Too late with your discipline. Too late with your benedic tion. You. put all care upon your chil dren between 12 and IS. Why do you not put the chief care between 4 and 9? It is too late to repair a vessel when It has got out of the drydocks. It is too late to save Joash after the execution ers have broken in. May God arm us all for this work of suatehing royal souls from death to coronation. Sublimest of All Work. Can you imagine any subllmor work than this soul saving? That was what flushed Paul's check with enthusiasm, that was what led Munson to risk his life amid Boruesiau cannibals, that was what sent Dr. A heel to preach un der the consuming skies of China, that was what gave courage to Pbocas iu the* third century. When the military oilieers came to put him to death for Christ’s sake, he put them to hod that they might rest, while he himself went out aud in his own garden dug his grave and then came back and said. “I am ready.” But they were shocked at the idea of taking the life of their host. He said, “It Is the will of God that I should die.” and he stood on the mar gin of his own grave, aud they be headed him. You say It is a mania, a foolhardiness, a fanaticism. Rather would I call It a glorious self abnega tion. the thrill of eternal satisfaction, the plucking of Joash from death and raising him to coronation. The third thought I hand to you Is that the church of God Is a good hiding place. When Jehosheba rushes Into the nursery of the king and picks up Joash, what shall she do with him? Shall she take him to some room lu the palace? No, for the official desperadoes will hunt through every nook and cor ner of that building. Shall she Lake him to the residence of some wealthy citizen? No. That citizen would not dare to harbor the fugitive. But she has to take him somewhere. She hears the cry < f the mob in tbe streets, she hears th< shriek of the dying no bility, so she rushes with Joash unto the room of the temple, luto the house of God, aud tnere she puts him down. Slie knows that Athaliah and her wick ed assassins will not bother the temple 4 great deal. They are not apt to go very much to church, aud so she sets down Joash In the temple. There he will be hearing the songs of the wor shipers year after year. There he will breathe the odor of the golden censers, lu that sacred spot he will tarry, ae- .creted until the six years have passed and he come to enthronement. The Best Ifldlnff Place. Would God that we were aH as wise as Jehosheba and knew that the clutrch of God Is the best hiding place! Per haps our parents took us there In early days. They snatched us away from the world and hid us behind the baptis mal fonts and amid the Bibles and psalm books. O glorious inclosure! We have beeu breathing the breath of tho golden censers aH the time, aud we have seen the Lamb on the altar, and we have handled the vials In which are the prayers of all saints, and wc have dwelt under the wings of the cheru bim. Glorious Inclosure! When my father and mother died and the prop erty was settled up, there was hardly anything left, but they endowed us with a property worth more than any earthly possession, because they hid us In the temple. And when days of temptation have come upon my soul I have gone there for shelter, aud when assaulted of sorrows I have gone there for comfort, and there | mean to live, 1 want, like Joash, to stay until coro nation. O men of the world outside there, betrayed, caricatured and cheated of the world, why do you not come in through the broad, wide open door of Christian communion? I wish I could net the part of Jehosheba today and steal you away from your perils and hide you in the temple. How few of ns appreciate the fact that the church of God Is a hiding place. There aro many people who put the church at so low a mark that they begrudge It ey- erythlng, even the few dollars they give toward It. They make no sacri fices. They dole a little out of their surplusage. They pay their butcher’s bill, and they pay their doctor’s bill, and they pay their landlord, aud they pay everybody but the Lord, and they come In at the last to pay the Lord ll his church and frown ns they say: ‘There, Lord, It Is. Bend me a receipt iq full and don't bother me »ooo again!” There Is not more than one man out of a thousand that appreciates what the church Is. Where are the souls that put aside one-tenth for Christian Institutions — otn* tenth of their Income? Where are those who, having put aside Hint oue tenth, draw upop It cheerfully? Why, It Is pull and drug and hold on and grab aud plutch, and giving Is an uttllctlnu to most peo ple when It ought to be an exhilaration and a rapture. Oh, that Uod would re- model our souls on tills subject and that we might appreciate the house of God ns tho great refuge! If your chil dren are to come up to lives of virtue end happiness, they will come up under the shadow of the church. If the church does not got them. Um world will. Ulira 111* Church Hour*, Ah, when you pass away—and It will not Ik* long before you do-when you uuhh awuv. It will be a satisfaction to see your children In Christian society. You want to have them sitting at the holy sacraments. You want them min gling in Christian associations. You would like to have them die iu the sa cred precincts. When you are on your dying bed. and your little ones come up to take your last word, and you look into their bewildered faces, you will want to leave them under the church’s benediction. I do not care how hard you are, that is so. I said to a man of the world: “Your son and daughter aro going to Join our church next Sunday. Have you auy objections?” “Bless you,” he said, “objections? I wish all my children belonged to tbe church. I don’t attend to those matters myself. I know I am very wicked. But I am very glad they are going, and I shall be there to see them. I am very glad, sir; I am very glad. I want them there.” And so, though you may Irave been wanderers from God and though you may have sometimes caricatur'd the church of Jesus, It Is your great de sire that your sons and daughters should be standing all their lives with in this sacred inclosure. More than that You yourself will want the church for a hiding place when tho mortgage Is foreclosed, whi n your daughter. Just blooming into wo manhood, suddenly clasps her Lands In a slumber that knows no waking; when the gaunt trouble walks through the parlor and the sitting room and the dining hall aud the nursery, you will want some shelter from the tempest. Ah, some of you have been run upon by misfortune and trial. Why do you not come into the shelter? I said to a widowed mother after she had burled her only son—months after —I said to her, “How do you get along nowadays?” “Oh,” she replied, “I get along tolerably well except when the sun shines.” I said, “What do you mean by that?” when she said: “I can’t bear to see tbe sun shine. My heart is so dark that all the brightness of tho natural world s<*ems a mockery to me.” O darkened soul! O broken hearted man, broken hearted woman! Why d ) you not come Into the shelter? I swing It from wall to Avail. Come In! Come In! You want a place where your trou bles shall be Interpreted, where your burdens shall be unstrapped, where your tears shall be wiped away. Church of God, be a hiding place to all these people! Give them a seat where they can rest their weary souls. Flash some light from your chande liers upon their darkness. With some soothing hymn hush these griefs. Oh. church of God, gate of heaven, let me go through it! All other institutions are going to fail but the church of God —its foundation is the Rock of Ages, its charter is for everlasting years, its keys are held by the universal Proprie tor, Its dividend is heaven, its presi dent is God! Sure as ttiy truth shall last, To Zion shall be given The highest glories earth can yield And brighter bliss of heaven. God grant that all this audience, the youngest, the eldest, tbe worst, the best, may find their safe and glorious hiding place where Joash found it—in the temple! [Copyright, 1900, by Louis Klopsch, N. Y.J SHORT LOCAL ITEMS. Local Items ToocHhort for a Head Drooped Together. The southbound vestibule on the Southern was between four and five hours late yesterday. Joe Littlejohn is now clerking for the Cherokee Drug Co. Joe is gen teel and obliging and will make Dr. Humphries a valuable assistant. Notices have been put up at all the entrances to the campus and spring lot at Limestone College pro hibiting trespassing on the grounds Seats for the Second Methodist church have arrived and are being put in as fast as possible. This will be a much-needed addition to tbe church. There will be no preaching at the Second Baptist church next Sunday on account of the absence of Pastor Ford and of the protracted meeting at tbe Second Methodist church. John Pettit, a popular young citi zen of Ravenna, is building a neat cottage on the corner of Johnson and Buford streets and intends moving to Gaffney as soon as It is completed. We regret to learn that Clarence Jones, son of Mr. and Mrs. It. A. Jones, is quite sick with pneumonia in Spar tanburg. Mr. Jones is very popular here, and his many friends hope for his speedy recovery. Felix Lipscomb, of near Goucher, has purchased a lot on Fairview avenue and is having lumber placed upon It preparatory to erecting a dwelling house. Mr. Lipscomb will move to our city at an early day. Tbe windows have been placed in the new building of the Gaffney Foundry and Machine Shops, and cement is on the ground ready for the floor. The company hope to get into their new quarters at an early day. The oyster supper in the Commer cial Hotel building Friday night was quite a success financially, aud netted about $45 for the organ fund of the First Baptist church. Many of the young ladies from Limestone College came up and helped to swell the fund. Those of our readers who are con sumers of loaf bread and cakes are requested to read the advertisement of J. F. Fincken In another column. Mr. Fincken has Imd years of experi ence in the bakery business and bis bread is ud to the highest standard of purity and excellence. John H. Lipt-cnmb, of Goucher, has rented from Mr. W. K. Lipscomb the house know as “the barraeka” on Victoria avene, next to Prof. W. F. McArthur’s residence, and will soon move his family into It. We welcome these new comers to our city and hope they will be pleased with Gaff ney. Remember the athletic entertain ment at the opers house next Friday night for the benefit of the Parkway orchestra. This entertainment was postponed a couple of weeks ago ou aocount of court being in session. The program will embrace boxing matches, wrestling matchon buck and wing dancing, skirt dancing, singing, etc. It will be something new and Interesting for the people of this sec tion. I’rocram for Old Folk's Day. The following is the program fo* the “Old Folks Day” to be celebratec. at Corinth on the first Sunday ir November: Binging of old hymn. Prayer by W. T. Thompson. Ringing. Essay read by Miss Bessie Crocker. Address by the Hon. William Jef feries; subject. “Why we have Sun day school, and its past history,” Bolo sung by Miss Nettie Clary. Binging. Recess for dinner. Essay read by Miss Missouri Whel- chel. Address by the Hon. It. C. Barratt on subject of his own choice. Collection for the aged ministers’ relief food. Everybody is invited to be present, and especially the old people are ear- nefctly requested to be present. The good ladies will please bring well till ed baskets as they will be of great help towards making the day an en joyable one for the old people. c j. c. Feelings of safety pervade the household that uses One Minute j Cough Cure,the only harmless remedy that produces immediate results. It is infallible for coughs, colds, croup and all throat and lung troubles. It will prevent consumption. Chero kee Drug Company. After a man is married ite shouldn’t have a single idea. Cheap for Cash, I carry a line of Dry Goods, Notions, Slices, Hats, Caps, Groceries, Hardware, Crockery, Glassware and almost anything carried in a general store. All at rock bottom prices for cash. Remember I sell the best axes f >r the least money. Yours to please, I. M. PEELER. 5000 Pounds TaM Full Cream Cheese this week. Sparks & Humphries. No other pills can equal DeWitt’s Little Early Risers for promptness certainty and efficiency. Cherokee Drug Company. Some men’s favorite perfume is a clove. Putnam Fadeless Dye, Scarlet is the brightest of all Red dye stuffs, very fa-t on Wool and Silk. l()c per pack age. Bold by Dr. B. B. Crawley & Co. Look to Your Interest. I have no agent or middleman liaid- ling my bread, and. therefore, give my customers tin* benefit of the agent’s profit. I run no wagon and have uo rent to i;ay. all of which enables me to sell at a lower price than others, and the consumer gets the benefit. Cal! at My Bakery and get tickets, 55 for One Dollar, or 8 for 25 cents. A nice line of Oakes and Custards always on hand. W. A. PEELER, “Tighten these Eyeglasses, Please.” How often have you said it? You’ve tried to do it with a knife-blade, lou've broken lens or frame. You’ve thought tilings, maybe said things. A new light has come. SCREW Witli the Lens-locked Screw the eyeglass frame is always held together as in a vise, (.'an’t shake at a joint, can’t work loose. The extra cost doesn't count. “L” on the stud is a mark of genuineness. Letters of Administration. fciTATK ok South Carolina, i County ok Chekokkk, f Ry J. E. Webster, Esquire, Probate Judge. Whereas. J. Eh Jefferies, as Clerk of the Court, has made suit to me to grant him let ters of administration of the estate and ef- fects of James Phillips, deceased; These are t here fore Ur cite and admonish all and singular the kindred and creditors of tho said James Phillips, deceased, that tin y be and appear before me, in theCourt of Pro irate, to he held at Cherokee Court House, Gaffney. H.C.,on Tuesday, October 30th. next after publication thereof, at eleven o’clock lu the forenoon, to show cause, if any they have, why the said administration should not he granted. Given under my hand, this 15th day of Sep tember, Anuo Domini 1!kxi J. E. WEBSTER, LL. S.j Probate J udge*. Published in truffnoy Ledger Sept. 1\25 and Oct. 2. 9,1C and 23,1900. W. Harrj Dodenhoff, The Jeweler. Sale of Estate of J. A. Curry. The following real estate will be sold on the first Monday in November next: One bouse and lot, fronting east on Fair- view Avenue, 70x200 feet. One house and lot. fronting Limestone Street, corner of Meadow Street, by J. V. Sar- ratt, 00x200 feet. Four store lots, fronting on Limestone Street, each 20x200 feet. Apply for information to R. O. Sams. Agent, or Miss Jane C. Nott, Executrix. Oet. 10. 23. 30 and Nov. 2. “Guns till you can't rest!” We have just received our Fall line of Guns and Shells. Our guns are up-to-date. Come and see our stock. We will not charge you anything to see and get prices. Yours truly, R. M. WILKINS & CO. Elegance and Hefinement iii Furniture, as in everything, is more to be desired than quantity without artistic effect. See our recent arrivals of upholstered goods in parlor suits, chairs, etc., also the beautiful goods just from the pottery, to brighten the home and make it happier for loved ones and friends. Call and let us show you through. Respectfully, Carroll, Carpenter & Humphries, What They Say About.... Harris Lithia Water: Mr. J. T. Harris: Dear Sir I have found the use of the water from your Lithia Spring lu South CuroUliu so. efficacious In the ease of u young lady pn- tleut of mine, who has suffered for y< irs with Diabetes, with all its different attendants, that I want to add my testlmoniti to the many you already have. The patient 1 refer to lias used the water freely at home for scarcely a month uow, with more beneficial results than from months spent at different lithia springs in different parts of the (’ lilted Stales, besides long continued use of (lie same waters at home. Other of my patients and friends are now using tin* saim with lu st results. 1 cordially recommend it to all suff ering from similar diseases. Very respectfully yours, Thomas K. Powem., M. I*. Pres. Southern Medical Uollego, Atlanta, Ga, ’’The Harris Lithia Water Is, in my opinion, unexcelled for those ailments requiring the salts it contains. "Tmko. Lamb, M. F>.. “Professor Diseases of Chest and Principal of Medicine, Medical Department, Culver- I ..I 4 .. . 4 4 I I . . I « Asiikvim.b, N. c., April 24. istti. An ex tended clinical use of tbe Harris Lithia Wa ter prompts mo to the statement that J re gard it as one of the best, if not the best. Lithia Water known to the profession. In the condition of Phosphatle Urine, its action is marvelous. Its use in the Rheumatic aud Gout y diseases afford mo more comfort thau • it In r the liuffalo or Londonderry Waters. Very truly yours, John Hey William, M. D. liALTiMOHE. M. D., June 24, IMM. J. T. Harris, Esq.. Harris Spring, H. O: Dear Sir i have been using Harris JJlbf* Water for some time, and I will say to you that it Is my opinion that the Harris Lithia Water Is by far the U'.st Ltlhtn Water that I have i \i r used, and tiixt it has done me a great deal of good, and ) think it a most vul> ualile remedy. R. ('. llorVMAN. Pres. S. A. J.. It. K. Harris L.ihla Carlioiiitted Water ^guaran teed t<, i ire tiie worst case of indigestion if lak* u after each meal. Ouo Kl'* 1 ** it will relieve you immediately. S. B. CRAWLEY & CO., General Agents for Gaffney and Vicinity.