The ledger. [volume] (Gaffney City, S.C.) 1896-1907, October 30, 1900, Image 3

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on ora The warning cough is the faith ful sentinel. It tells of the approach of consumption, which haskilled more people ^ than war and pesr M encc com bined. It tells of painful chests, sore lungs, weak throats, bron chitis, and pneu monia. Do not sulfer another day. It’s useless, for there’s a prompt and safe cure. It is u which cures fresh colds and coughs in a single night and masters chronic coughs and bronchitis in a short time. Consump tion is surely and cer tainly prevented, and cured, too, if taken in time. A A 25c. bottle for a fresh ► I cold; 50c. size for older colds; $1 size for chronic coughsand consumption. * 1 “I always keep a bottle of Avcr's Cherry I’eetoral on hand. then > | every time I get Cold I take a littla of it and I am better at once.” James O. Bcquok, 4 Oct. 10,1898. El Tuso, Texas. TVrlte the Poeinr. If you have any complaint whatever ana tieslre the best medical advice, write Urn Doc tot freely. Address Dr. J. C. Ateu, Lowell. Mass. MURDER! MURDER!! in bicycles. 1 am sellins second hand wheels cheaper than a thief can steal them, so come to me when you want a jtood old second hand wheel, and when you want a wheel to ride I ean furnish you one at tide per hour or si...’.'* per day when jtood cure ot them is taken. If you want a ^'ood house come to me. I have several to rent. I have moved my shop next to Kiehardson’s wood shop where ( am to stay for a year. Call ami see me. Vours truly, W. J. MANESS. Just Gome tn A shipment of Jewelry that contains all the latest patterns in Rings, Breast and Scarf Tins, 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. 1 guaran tee my work. Thos. H. Westrops in Crawley & Co’s Drujr Store. A. N. WOOD, BANKER, does a general Banking and Exchange business. Well secured with Burglar- Proof safe and Automatic Time Lock. Safety Deposit Boxes at moderate rent. Bays and sells Stocks andBonds. Buys County and School Claims. Your business solicited. J. E. WEBSTER, Attorney-iS^t> Office in Court House. (ProbatcJudKe soffice Gaffney City, S. C. Practices in all the courts. Collec tions a specialty DR. J. F. GARRETT 1 Dentist, Gaffney, - - - S. C. Office over J. ft. Tolleson’s now store In office from 1st to 26th of each month: Dr. C. T. LIPSCOMB, Dentist, Office over R. A. [one* & Co ’* Store. Can he found at office Mix days In the week J. C. JEFFERIES 4~ GAFFNEY, S. C. Commercial Law. Corporation I.uw Jtt-nl Estate I.uw. Money to loan on approved security. JAMES A. WILLIS, ATTORNEY AT LAW, O/V H ICY. !-S. C-\ Notary Public In office. I'rompt attention Kl ven to all badness. Office over U. A. Join's & Co.’s store. J. CnoiTOH WALPACV J. OHNKI.irmOTTS. WALLACE & OTTS, LAWYERS. All business tutnisicd to us. irlven prompt and vt|(n: ns attention. Office up stairs, tie*l o K. A. Join s .v Co. ’I’hone H". D. H,Dune an 0. I*. Sanders. W.H. Hall.Jr DUKAS, SASDBIiS & HALL, Attorooys-at-Law. Offico over J. U. Tollesou’* ic Co.’s Store. DEGRADING WORSHIP DR. TALMAGE ON THE GOLDEN CALF OF MODERN IDOLATRY. The Spirit of t.rct-il Destroys Those Who Are In It* Or'.sp—Vloncy Clot Wrouitfoilv « Cnrse—Worshipers of Cold Die Moral lliiiikrnpts. Washington, Oct. 28.—In this dis course Hr. Tiilmago ahows how the spirit of Kroed destroys when it takes possession of a man and ttiat money got in wrong ways is a curse; text, Ex odus xxxii, 20, ’’And lie took the calf which they had made and burnt it in the fire and ground it to powder and strawed it upon the water mid made the children of Israel drink of It.” People will have a god of some kind, and they prefer one of their own mak ing. Here come the Israelites, break ing off their golden earrings, the men as well as the women, for in those times there was masculine as well as feminine decoration. Where did they get these beautiful gold earrings, com ing up, as they did, from the desert? Oh, they borrowed them of the Egyp tians when they left Egypt. These earrings are piled up Into a pyramid of glittering beauty. “Any more earrings to bring?” says Aaron. None. Eire is kindled, the earrings are melted and poured into a mold not of an eagle or a war charger, but of a silly calf; the gold cools down, the mold is taken away, and the idol is set up on its four legs. An altar is built In front of the shining calf. Then the people throw up tlieir arms and gyrate and shriek and dance vigorously and worship. Moses lias been six weeks on Mount Sinai, and he comes back and hears the howling and sees the dancing of these golden calf fanatics, and he loses ids patience, and he takes the two plates of sJone on which were written the Ton Commandments and flings them se hard against a rock that they split all to pieces. When a man gets angry, lie is apt to break all the Ten Commandments. Moses rushes In, and he takes this calf god and throws it into a hot fire until it Is melted all out of shape and then pulverizes it—not by the modern appliance of uitro muriatic acid, but by the ancient appliance of niter or by the old fashioned tile. He stirs for the people a most nauseating draft. He takes this pulverized golden calf and throws it In the only brook which is accessible, and the people are compelled to drink of that brook or not drink at all. But they did not drink all (lie glitter ing stuff thrown on the surface. Some of it flows on down the surface of the brook to the river and then flows on down the river to the sea, and the sea takes it up and bears it to the mouth of all the rivers, and when the tides set back the remains of tills golden calf are carried up into the Potomac and the Hudson and the Thames and the Clyde and the Tiber. And men go out atul they skim the glittering surface, and they bring it ashore and they make another golden calf, and California and Australia break off their golden ear rings to augment the pile, and in the fires of financial excitement and strug gle all these tilings are melted together, and while we stand looking and won dering what will come of it, lo, we find that the golden calf of Israclitish worship has become the golden calf of European and American worship. Calf of Modern Idolo.ry. Pull aside this curtain, and you see the golden calf of modern idolatry. It is not, like other idols, made out of stocks or stone, hut it has an ear so sensitive that it can hear the whispers on Wall street and Third street and State street find the footfalls in the Bank of England and the flutter of a Frenchman’s heart on the bourse. It has an eye so keen that it can see the rust on the farm of Michigan wheat and tiie insect In the Maryland peach orehaiil and the trampled grain under the hoof of the Russian war charger. It is so mighty that it swings any way it will the world’s shipping. It lias Us foot on all the merchantmen and the steamers. It started the American civ il war and under Clod stopped it, and it decided the Turko-ftussiau contest. One broker in September, 1800, In New York, shouted, “One hundred and sixty for a million!” and the whole continent shivered. The golden calf of the text lias, ns far as America is concerned, its right front foot In New York, ils left front foot In Chicago, Its right buck foot in Charleston, its left back foot in New Orleans, and when it shakes itself it shakes the world. Oh, this is a mighty god —the golden calf of the world’s worship! But every god must have Its temple, and tliis golden calf of the text is no exception. Ils temple Is vaster than St. Paul’s cathedral In England, and St. Peter’s in Italy, and the Alhambra of the Spaniards, and the Parthenon of the Crocks, and the Taj Mahal of the Hindoos, and all the cathedrals put together. Its pillars are grooved and fluted witli gold, and its ribbed arches are hovering gold, and its chan deliers are descending gold, and ils floors are tessellated gold, and its vaults are crowded heaps of gold, and its spires and domes are soaring gold, and its organ pipes are resounding gold, iind Its pedals are tramping gold, and its stops pulled out are flashing gold, while, standing at the head of the temple, ns the presiding deity, are the hoofs and shoulders and eyes and ears and nostrils of the calf of gold. Altar of Sacrlfldr, Further, every god must have not only Its temple, but its altar of sacri fice, and this golden calf of the text Is no exception. Its altar Is not made out of stone as other altars, but out of counting room desks and fireproof safes, and R is a broad, a long, a high altar. The victims sacrificed on It are Hie Kwartouts and the Kctchams and (he Fisks and ten thousand other peo- iil<- who arc slain before lids golden eipr. wfiat does tills god cure about (he groans and struggles of Iho vie- thus before It? With cold, metallic eye, it looks on and yet lets them suffer. What an altar! What a sacrifice of mind, body aud soul! The physical licnilh of a great multitude is Hung ou ti» tills sacrificial altar. They cannot sleep, mid they take chloral and mor phine and intoxicants. Some of them struggle In a nightmare of stocks, and tit 1 o’clock In the morning suddenly rise up shouting, “A thousand shares of New York Central one hundred and eight and u half, take It!” until the whole family Is affrighted, and the speculators fail back on their pillows ana sleep until tney areawakenodagaln by a “corner” In Pacific Mall or a sudden “rise” of Hock Island. Tbelr nerves gone, their digestion gone, their brain gone, they die. The gowned ec clesiastic comes In and rends the fu neral service, “Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord!” Mistake. They did not "die in the Lord;” the golden calf kicked them! The trouble is, when the men sacri fice themselves on this altar suggested In the text they not only sacrifice themselves, but they sacrifice their families. If a man by a wrong course Is determined to go to perdition, I sup pose you will have to let him go. But he puts his wife and children lu au equipage that !s the amazement of the avenues, and the driver lashes the horses into two whirlwinds, and the spokes flash in the sun and the golden headgear of the harness gleams until black calamity takes the bits of the horse's aud stops them and shouts to the luxuriaut occupants of the equi page, “Get out!” Thev get out. They get down. That husband aud father flung his family so hard they never got up. There was the mark ou them for life—the mark of a split hoof—the death dealing hoof of the golden calf. De-KrtMliii|f Worn hip. Solomon offered iu one sacrifice on one occasion 22,000 oxen aud 120,000 sheep. But that was a tame sacrifice compared with the multitude of men who are sacrificing themselves ou this altar of the goldeu calf and sacrificing their families with them. The soldiers of General Havelock In India walked literally ankle deep lu the blood of “tlic house of massacre,” where 200 white women aud children had been slain by the sepoys. But the blood about this altar of the goldeu ealf flows up to the knee, flows up lo the girdle, flows to the shoulder, flows to the lip. Great God of heaven and earth, have mercy on those who Immolate themselves on this altar! The goldeu calf has none. Still the degrading worship goes ou, and the devotees kneel aud kiss the dust and count their golden beads and cross themselves with the blood of their own sacrifice. The music rolls on under the arches. It is made of clink ing silver and clinking gold aud the rattling specie of the banks and bro kers’ shops and the voices of all the ex changes. The soprano of the worship is carried by the timid voices of men uho have just begun to speculate, while the deep bass rolls out from those who for teu years have been steeped in the seething cauldron. Cho rus of voices rejoicing over what they have made; chorus of voices wailing over what they have lost. This temple of which I speak stands opeu day and night, and there is the glittering god with his four feet ou broken hearts, and there is the smoking altar of sac rifice, new victims every moment on it, and there are the kneeling devotees, and the doxology of the worship rolls on, while death stands with moldy and skeleton arm beating time for the cho rus—“More, more, more!” Borne people are very much surprised at the actions of people In the Stock Exchange, New York. Indeed it is a scene sometimes that paralyzes descrip tion and is beyond the Imagination of any one who has never looked In. What snapping of finger and thumb and wild gesticulation and raving like hyenas, and stamping like buffaloes, mid swaying to aud fro. and. jostling and running one upon another, and deafening uproar, until the president of the exchange strikes with his mallet four or live times, crying, “Order, or der!” and the astonished spectator goes out into the fresh air feeling that he has escaped from pandemonium. What does it all mean? I will tell ydu what it means. The devotees of every heath en temple cut themselves to pieces and yell and gyrate. This vociferation aud gyration of the Stock Exchange Is all appropriate. This is the worship of the golden calf. The lUnne of God’s Wrath. But my text suggests that this wor ship has to bo broken up. as tbe be havior of Moses on this occasion Indi cated. There are those who say that this golden calf spoken of In the text was hollow and merely plated with gold. Otherwise Moses could not have carried it. I do not know that. But somehow, perhaps by the assistance of Ids friends, be takes up this golden calf, which is an infernal Insult to God and man, and throws it into the file, and it is melted. And then it conics out and Is cooled otf, and by some chemical appliance or by an old fash ioned file it is pulverized, and It is thrown into the brook, aud as a pun ishment the people arc compelled to drink the nauseating stufl’. Bo you may depend upon it Hint God will burn a ml he will grind to pieces the goldeu calf of modern Idolatry, and lie will compel the people in their agony to drink It. If not before, It will be on the last day. I know not where the lire will liegln, whether at the Bat tery or Lombard street, whether at Shored Itch or west end, but It will be a very hot blaze. All the government securities of Hie United States and Great Britain will curj up hi the first blast. All the money safes and de posit vaults will melt uuder the first touch. The sea will burn like tinder, and the shipping will be abandoned forever. The melting gold In the bro ker's window will burst through the melted window glass into the street. But the flyiug population will uot stop to scoop It up. The cry of “Fire!” from the mountain will be answered by Hie cry of "Fire!” lu the plain. The conflagration will burn out from the continent toward the sen and then burn in from the sea toward the laud. New York and London, with one out of tin* red scythe of destruction, will go down. Twenty-five thousand miles of couflngrutlou! The earth will wrap Itself round and round iu shroud of tlamc and lie down to perish. What then will become of your golden calf? Who then so poor us to worship It? Melted or between the upper and uetlier millstones of fulling mountains ground to powder. Hagon down, Moloch down, Juggernaut down, gold eu calf down! But every day Is a day of Judgment, and God is all Hie time grinding to pieces the goldeu calf. Borne years ago, In a time of panic, we learned ns never before that forgeries will not pay; that tiie watering of stock will not pay; that the spending of $30,000 on country seats and a palatial city residence when there Is only $30,000 income will not pay; tiiat the appropriation of trust funds to our own private speculation will not pay. Wo had a great ’laHonnl tumor in the shape of fictitious pros i polity, Wo called It uatiouul cu'urge- « mont. instead of calling It enMirgg- ment we might better have called It a swelling. It was a tumor, and God cut !t out, and the nation was sent back to the principles of our fathers aud grand fathers, when twice three made six In stead of 00, and when the apples at the bottom of the barrel were just as good as tbe apples on the top of the barrel, and a silk handkerchief was not half cotton, and a man who wore a $5 coat paid for was more honored than a man who wore a $30 coat uot paid for. A Cannibal Appetlt*-. The modern goldeu calf, like the one of the text, is very apt to be made out of borrowed gold. These Israelites of the text borrowed the earrings of the Egyptians and then melted them Into a god. That Is the way the golden calf Is made nowadays. A great many housekeepers, not paying for the arti cles they get, borrow of the grocer and the baker and the butcher aud the dry goods seller. Then the retailer borrows of the wholesale dealer. Then the wholesale dealer borrows of the capi talist, aud we borrow aud borrow aud borrow until the community Is divided Into two classes—those who borrow and those who are borrowed of—and after awhile the capitalist wants his money, and he rushes upon the whole sale dealer, aud the wholesale dealer wants his money, and he rushes upon the retailer, aud the retailer wants his money, and he rushes on the customer, and we all go down together. There Is many a man in tuis day who rides In a carriage and owes the blacksmith for the tiro, and the wheelwright for the wheel, and the trimmer for the curtain, aud the driver for unpaid wages, and the harness maker for the bridle, and the furrier for the robe, while from the tip of the carriage tongue clear back to the Hp of the camel’s hair shawl flut tering out of the back of tbe vehicle everything is paid for by notes that have been three times renewed. I tell you that in this country we shall never get tilings right until we stop borrowing and pay as we go. It Is tills temptation to borrow and bor row and borrow that keeps the people everlastingly praying to the golden calf for help, and just at the minute they expect the help the golden calf treads on them. The Judgments of God, like Moses In the text, will rush In and break up this worship, and I say let the work go on until every man shall learn to speak truth with his neigh bor, and those who make engagements shall feel themselves bound to keep them, and when a man who will not repent of his business iniquity, but goes on wishing to satiate bis cannibal appetite by devouring widows’ houses, shall, by the law of the land, be com pelled to exchange the brownstone front for the penitentiary. Let the golden calf perish! this day before him In whoso presence we must all appear when the world has turned to ashes, When shriveling like t parched acroli, The flaming heaven* together roil. When louder y«t and yet more dread Swells the high trump that wakes the dead. [Copyright, 1900, Louia Klopach, N. Y ] SHORT LOCAL ITEMS. Local Items Too Short for a Head Grouped Together. Rev. L. C. Ezell, of Woodruff, will begin a series of meetings at Poplar Springs Baptist church tomorrow. Sheriff Thomas has eight boarders at the hotel do jug. All of them have been brought in since the last term of court. Lee Hammett, of Mercer, who has received an appointment in the Cita del in Charleston, left Saturday for the City by the Sea. Attention is called to the adver tisement of the list of jurors for the extra term of court that is to con vene November 12th, Monday week. Bill Poster Gaines yesterday put up the advertising paper for ”A Pair of Tramps ” This attraction should pack the opera house tomorrow night. Street Overseer Thackston is doing some very nice work in front of the graded school. He is putting in a nice stone wall and culvert and oth erwise improving the appearance of the streets in that locality. Clinton Alexander is painting Mr. John ft. Dover's handsome residence in Shelby. We hardly know whether “Clint” claims Gaffney or Shelby for his home but his friends in Gaffney will all be glad to see him here again when ho finishes Mr. Dover’s job. We take pleasure in directing the attention of our readers to the adver tisement of Messrs. Carroll & Car penter. This is one of the oldest es tablished mercantile bouses in Gaff ney and they have, by honest busi ness methods, built up a business that is commendable. The Limestone College girls attend preaching in Gaffney every Sunday when the weather will permit, and very often at night. The dummy is chartered by the college every Sunday morning especially for the young ladies, and it is generally crowded to its fullest capacity. Read and patronize Ledger adver tisers. These are the people who have the best interest of tbe city and county at heart. Besides, every time you tell a merchant you seen his ad in The Ledger it helps ns be cause he knows then that his efforts along that line are not in vain. Demolished Idols. But if we have made this world our god, when we come to die we shall see our Idol demolished. How much of this world are you going to take with you Into the next? Will you have two pockets — one lu each side of your shroud? Will you cushion your casket with bonds and mortgages and certill- catcs of stock? Ab.no! Tbe ferryboat that crosses this Jordan takes no bag gage—nothing heavier than an imma terial spirit. You may, perhaps, take $300 with you two or three miles In the shape of funeral trappings to the cem etery, but you will have to leave them there. It would not be safe for you to He down there with a gold watch or a diamond ring; It would be a tempta tion to the pillagers. If we have made this world our god, we shall see our Idol, when we die, ground to pieces by our pillow, and we shall have to drink It In bitter regrets for tbe wasted op portunities of a lifetime. Boon we will be gone. Where are the men who tried Warren Hustings in Westminster hall? Where are the pilgrim fathers who put out for America? Where are the veter ans who on the Fourth of July, 17D4, marched from New York park to the Battery and flred a salute and then marched back again? And the Society of the Cincinnati, who dined that aft ernoon at Tontine Coffee House, on Wall street, and Grant Thorburn, who that afternoon watted 15 minutes at the foot of Maiden lane for the Brook lyn ferryboat, then got iu and was rov ed across by two men with oars, the tide so strong that it was an hour and ten minutes before they landed? Where are the veterans that flred the salute, and the men of the Cincinnati society who that afternoon drank to the patri otic toast, and the oarsmen that rowed the boat, and the people who were transported? Gone! Oh, this Is a fleet ing world! It Is a dying world. A man who bad worshiped It all his days In bis dying moment described himself when be said, "Fool, fool, fool!” Gold That Never Crumbles. I want you to change temples and to give up the worship of this unsatisfy ing aud cruel god for the service of the Lord Jesus ChrlEt. Here Is the gold that will never crumble. Here are the securities that will never fall. Here are the banks Hlat will never break. Here Is au altar on which there has been one saerlllcc that docs for all, for “by one sacrifice hath Christ perfected forever them that are sanctified.” Here Is a God who will comfort you when you are in trouble and soothe you when you are sick and save you when you die. For be has said: “When thou pusnest through the wa ters, I will be with thee, aud through the rivers, they shall not overflow thee. When thou wulkest through the tire, thou shalt not he burned. Neither shall the flame kindle upon thee." When your parents have breathed tbelr last and the old, wrinkled aud trembling hands can no more be put upon your bead for u blessing, he will he lo you a father and mother both, giving you the defense of Hie one and the comfort of the other. For have we uot l’uill’s blessed hope that as Jesus died aud rose ugalu, “Even so them also which sleep In Jesus shall God bring with him?’’ And when your children go away from you, the sweet darlings, you will uot kiss them and say good by forever. He only wants to hold theurfor you a little while. Ho will give them back to you again, and ho will havo thhm all waiting for you nt the gates of eternal welcome. Ob, what u God he Is! Be will allow you to come so close that you can put your arms around Ids neck, while he In re sponse will put Ills arms around your neck, and all the windows of heaven will be hoisted to let the redeemed look out oud see the spectacle of a re joicing Father and ft returned prodigal looked In that glorious embrace Quit worshiping tbe goldeu ealf. aud bow B. F. Price, of Thickety, brought in a full blown peach bloom last Fri day. It was found on a tree at Smutts- ville. It is an unusual occurance for peach trees to bloom in this section of the country this time of the year, but then there is no telling what may happen in a country with the possi bilities of Cherokee. Sunday week the morning service at the First Baptist church will be in the nature of a memorial service in memory of Mrs. \V. E. Crocker, who died last month in Japan. A cordial invitation is extended all her friends in the city and county to attend this service. It will be rememberrd that Mrs. Crocker was a Miss Thacaston, and left here less than a year ago to do missionurj work with her husband in China, but o^ing to Hie Boxer out break they went to Japan until the insurrecth n could be quelled. A Frightful lllumler Will often cause a horrible Burn, Scald, Cut or Bruise. Bucklen’s Arnica Salve, the best in the world, will kill the pain ami promptly heal it. Cures Old Sores, Fever Sores, Ulcers, Boils, Felons, Corns, all Skin Eruptions. Best Pile cure on earth. Only 25 cents a box. Cure guaranteed. Sold by Cherokee Drug Company. COCAINEa-WHIMY referanoM. a >m« Treat man M.WOOLL Habit* ium. tm »« at m; 7,8 VS Add Ma Da# AtlQfltS List of Jurors for Special Term of Court of Common Pleas. Tho following is the Hat of jurors for the special term of Court of Common Pleas of Cherokee County which convenes ou tiie 12lh day of November, 1900: M. J. Hicks, State Line. W. II. Watkins, Ezells. T. O. Hurrill, Cowpens. C. <’. Webber. Blacksburg. T. II. Littlejohn, Gaffney. K. 11. Bonner, Goucher. M. W. Littlejohn. Ravenna. It. B. Lcnmster, Pine Grove. A. J. Goforth, Blacksburg. J. M. Allison. Blacksburg. Win. Gaffney, Gaffney. J. K. Dover, Grover, N. C. W. P. Lc: gon, Cherokee Falls. A. 8. Lipscomb, Gaffney. G. K. Hood, Gaffney. E. L. Elson, Gaffney. T. J. Hames, Ashury. J. E. Pettit, Home. Win. T. Mabry, Anbury. J. W. Tolleson, Gaffney. Austin Turner, Grassy Pond. Felix Littlejohn. Goucher. It. H. Porter, Blacksburg. J. W. It by ne, Blacksburg. E. A, Robbs, Grassy Pond. J. V. Surratt, Gaffney. L. F. Blunton, Gaffney. Jus. W. Sparks. Ashury. .lot* W. Gaffney. Gaffney. John Cook, Bowllnsvllle. (>. C. Hopper, Blacksburg W. T. Humphries, Gaffney. Hayuc Allison, Biavksburg. J. II. Turner, Gufuey. !>. J. Bright, Gaffi ey. I). It. B. Patrick, Ashury. Some Fresh Arrivals. A nice lint! Heinz's goods Hits week such as Sweet Mixed Pickles, In bids, and bottles, lleliu's India Relish, Olives, Apple Butler, Heinz's Baked Beans, In 10c and L’Oc cans Nice fresh line Holmes Conti's (made by Hie Nat'l. Biscuit Co.) cakes and croakers, such us Macaroons, Five O'clock Teas. Cheese Biscuit, Saltinu Biscuit, Butter Gems, Uuee- da Milk Biscuit, Sea Foam, etc.. Oat Meal, WM) lbs. tbe famous Clover Hill Full Cream Cheese tills week; also u nice lino Cigars and Tobacco, Itcuiciubor me for fresh, nice Fruits, etc. Alsu Canned Goods of every description, and Mince Meat something nice for the ladles. W.F. THOMAS. Further Rxpaiuilon (‘reliable. In a few issues back we referred to expansion in the monazite busi ness through L. U. Campbell, and now we note that for the past three days monazite seems to be having considerable attention if we are to judge from the combination we see driving about, viz.: Mr. Eunken, of New York, Mr. Kirksey, of North Carolina, Monroe Lemmons and L. U. Campbell, of this city. Mr. Emken is president of the firm which was represented here a few weeks ago in the person of Mr. Gauph, and it is to be hoped that additional business will result from Mr. Emken's visit. The Ledger is always delighted to note the presence in our midst of our northern friends and we extend to all of them a warm welcome whether they come on business or pleasure, just as we would expect them to ex tend us a warm welcome when we visit them on a like mission. Putnam Fadeless Dye. Sky Blue, produces the bright shades of Blue so desirable in ribbons and other fancy articles. 10c. per packsge. Sold by S. B. Crawley & Co. Tax Notice, The tux levy for Cherokee County for fiscal year 1900 is us follows: For State purposes, 5 mills. For Coustitutionui School Tax, 3 mills. For Ordinary County Tax, 4 mills. For New Jail, 1 mill. For County Roads, 1 mill. For Sinking Fund Tiraytonville. Gowdeys- vllle, White Plains, Morgan and Limestone Townships, 2 mills. For Sinking Fund Cherokee Township, l'/i mills. For Interest on Railroad Bonds Cherokee Township, 1 mill. For Gaffney Graded School District No. to, 2% mills. For Blacksburg Graded School District No. U, 4 mills. The f 1.00 Commutation Road Tax for 1901, payable from Oct. 15th, 1900, to Feb. 1st, 1901, age from 21 to 50 3'ears. I will be at the following places for Hie pur pose of collecting taxes: At my office iu Gaffney from Oct. 15th to Oct. 2Sth. At Buffalo, Monday, Oct. 29th, from 10 a. m. j to 1 p. m. ; At Blacksburg, Monday, Oct. 29th, after 2 { p. m. At Blacksburg, Tuesday, Oct. 30th, until 1 p. m. At Antioch, Wednesday, Oct. 31st, from 10 a. rn. 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 lo a. m. to 2 p. m. At Wilklusvllle, Tuesday, Nov. (1th, from 11 a. m. to 2 p. m. At Surratt’s, Wednesday, Nov. 7th, from 9 a. m. to 1 p. m. AtT. I). 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 White Plains. Monday, Nov. 12th, from 10 a. m. to 1 p. in. At Macedonia, Tuesday, Nov. 13th, from 10 u. rn. to 1 p. m. At K/.ells, Wednesday, Nov. 14th, from 10 . m. to 1 p. m. At office from Nov. 15th until Doc. 31st. J. B. JONES, Co. Treasurer. Gaffney, S. C„ Sept. 13th, 1900. 9-14-tf Cheap for Cash. I carry a lino of Dry Goods, Notions, Shoes, Hats, Caps, Groceries, Hardware, Crockery, Glassware and almost anything carried in a general store. All at rock bottom prices for cash. Kenieniber I sell the best axes for the least money. Yours to please, I.M. PEELER. Sale of Estate of J. A. Corry. The following real estate will he sold on the first Monday in Novenilier next: One house 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, (10x200 feet. Four store lot*, fronting on Limestone Stri'ct, each 20\2o«> feet. Apply for information to R. O. Sams, Agent, or Miss Jane C. Nutt, Executrix. Oct. 18, 23. 30 and Nov. 2. Notice of Election For Presidential Electors and Representatives in the 57th Congress of the United States. Htatk oi- South Caromsa, 1 County or Chkkokkr. f vemberil. 1900, for nine Presidential Electors, anil for a Represe tatlve iu the Fifty-Sev enth ( ontre>* df the United Mates, Fifth ( ongresslonal District. Polls,at each voting precinct will lie opened nt * o clock A. M. and closed at 4 o'clock P. M. I he folio* jug named persons have lieen am loin ted Managers of Eleclion: Ravenna J. !!. Lipscomb, R. E. L. Goforth and M. W. Liltb john. Allens K. .1. Clary, W. A. Jefferies and R. 8- Porter. Buffalo It. E. Porter, Cube Carlton mid Louis Hopper. Aiiiio. li J. R. Hamlirlght, R. M. Poiirkand Oscar Dover. Blacksburg W. A. Baber. ID'orce M.iitln and Price Marlin. Kings ('leek J. 8. Bird, Alex McGill and John Starns. ( herokee- J. It. Roberts. Rusli Torrence and I' arrner Moore. Wilkinsvllle T. J. Estes, K. E. Kerr and J. K. Hughes Sarratts S. L. Walker, Wade Pridmore and R. W. Davis. Littlejohns—-J. A. Hames, ( lias. Littlejohn and J. J' rank Beam. Timber Kidgi—c. A. Spencer, Junius Sparks and il. O. Tate. Draytonville J. W. Alexander, R. S. Stieii- cer and Alex Northey. Ezells—II. 7a. Hicks, Juo. Collins and J. A. N rugg.s. Macedonia—Eliphus Richards, J. A. Harris and William Young. Thbkctv EM. Smith, M. W. Goforth and David \ assey. White Plains M. C. Lipscomb, C. H. Rey nolds and A. A. ('rocker. I urncis W. N. Turner. R. A. Hawkins aud J. ( . Painter. Woods J. T. Harris, E. H. Robbs and New ton Bridges. Grassy Pond—X. Blanton, U. Sarratt and U. . Bonner. Maud .ln>i. T. Ruppe, A. ('. Price and Rob- Ixu MeCraw. Gail'ney—\\. H. Ross, Sumter Littlejohn and Ed. II Decamp. The ballot boxes in tiie precincts must bo so located as to bs in view of iiersons outside the polling place during the time of the elec tion. A spacious enclosure separate and distinct from that used by the Managers of tin: State Election, must be railed off or otherwise pro vided. at each precinct, under direction of the undersigned. But one voter must be allowed to enter any voting place at a time, and no one except the Managers must lie allowed to speak to the voter while in the voting place casting bis vote. For further instruction see notice of Com- m!sslonors of State Election. The first named Manager at eacli precinct named above must call upon tbe Board of Commissioners for the Federal Election at Gaffney, at Court House, on Saturday, No vember 3. 19(i(l, to receive ballot Ixixes, poll lists and instructions, and to be qualified L. D. Bonn Kit. J. 1). IIumiK.s. John E. Mostkixfr, Commissioners of Federal Election. Gaffney, S. C.. Oct. 15.1900. Special Term of Court. South Carom na, i Chkrokek Countv, f Pursuant to an order of Chief J ustice Henry Mclver there will be held a special term of Hie Court of Common Pleas for Cherokee County, at Gaffney, S. C., to bo presided over by Hon. J. II. Hudson, beginning on the sec ond Monday in November and lasting two weeks, if so much time be necessary, to dis pose of tbe business that may properly come before It. J. Eh. Jefferies, [L. S.] Clk C. C. Pis. Get. 25th, 1900. Kodol Dyspepsia Cure Digests what you eat. It artificially digests tiie food and aids Nature in strengthening and recon structing tiie exhausted digestive or gans. It is the latestdiscovered digest- ant and tonic. No other preparation can approach It in efficiency. It in stantly relieves and permanently cures Dyspepsia, Indigestion, Heartburn, Flatulence, Sour Stomach, Nausea, Sick Headache,Gastralgia,Cramps and all other results of imperfeetdigestion. Price 50c. and $1. Large size contains 24 times small size. Book all aboutdyspepsla mailed free Prepared by E. C. DeWITT A CO.. Chicago. 5000 Pounds Tariiell Full Cream Cheese this week. Sparks & Humphries. Tbe Gaffney City Land and Improvement Company Offers for sale Building Lots In this flourishing town, Gaffney City; Also Farms near by and In reach.of the Schools of Limestone Springs and of this place, in lots of from 30 to 100 acres ou liberal time rates; also Agricultural Lands to rent for Farm pur poses. For full particulars apply to J. V. SA.ieieA.TT, Agent. N. R.—All tresspassing on landsof this company, eutttn and amoving timber, flsblngor bunting are forbidden under uena'-v of Ww What They Say About.. Harris Lithia Water: Mr. J. T. Harris: Dear Sir I have found tbe use of the water from your Lithia Spring In South Garollna so efficacious in tiie case of a young Indy pa tient of mine, who has suffered for years with Dtalietes. with all Its different attendants, that I want to add my tesllnional to the many you already have, Tiie patient I refer to has used the water freely at home for scarcely a month now, with more beneficial results than from moulbs spent at different lithia springs in different parts of the United States, besides long continued use of the Name waters at homo. Other of my patients and friends are now using the same with best results. 1 cordially recommend it to all suff ering from similar diseases. Very respectfully yours, Thomas 8. Powr.ix, M. D. Pres. Southern Medical College, Atlanta, Ga, "The Harris Lithia Water Is, In my opinion, unexcelled for those ailments requiring the salts it contains. “Thu.o. Lamu, M. ■>.. “Professor Diseases of Chest and Principal of Medicine, Medleul Department, I idver- ally of Georgia."- Ashkvim.E, N. C., April 24. MB. An ex tended clinical use of the Harris Lithia Wa- ter prompts me to (he statement that 1 re gard It as one of the best, if not tiie heat, Lithia Water known to the profession. In the condition of Pliosphatlc i'rine. Its action Is marvelous. Its use In (lie Rheumatic and Gouty diseases afford me more comfort Ihuu either the Buffalo or Londonderry Waters. Very truly yours, John Hicy Wim.iam, M. D. Bai.timoiik. M. !>., June 24, MXl. J. T. Harris, E.vj., Harris Spring, S. C: Dear Mr I have been using Harris Lithia Water for some lime, and I will say to you that It Is my opinion that (lie Harris Lithia Water is hy far the nest Lithia Water (hat I have ever used, and tln't il has done me a great deal of good, and I think It u most val uable remedy. R. C. Hoffman, Pres. 8. A. L. R. It. Harris Lit Ida Carbonated Water Isgnnran- (•edtocltie (lie Mol'sl cose of Indigestion If taken afti r i a h One glass of il will relieve you Immediately, S. B. CRAWLEY & CO., General Agents for Gaffney and Vicinity.