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Tins BY Ed. H. DkCamp. PUBLISHED TUESDAY AND FRIDAY SUBSCRIPTION PRICK: rash In advance, per year.... $1 00. On time, per year $1.50. The Ledger is not responsible (or the views of correspondents. Correspondent who do not contri bute regular news letters must fur nish their name, not for publication, but for identification. Write short letters and to the point to insure publication; also endeavor to got them to the office by Monday and Thursday mornings. Cards of thanks will be published at one cent a word. Beading notices will be published at ten cents a line each insertion. Obituaries will be published at five cents a line. All correspondence should be ad dressed to Ed. H. DeCamp, Manager. AN ADVKRTISKMENT WITH A MORAL. WANTED—YOU TO KNOW THAT the dispensary buys the finest brands of Maryland and Pennsyl vania rye whiskies, for instance, “Westmoreland Club," the popu lar American drink, sold by all first-class hotels, restaurants and cafes. Every bottle contains a full quart. The “My Maryland" XXX and “Challenge" XX are also nice, smooth rye whiskies. I Iman, Boykin Co., Baltimore. tu., thu., sat. tf The above advertisement is copied from the “cheap column of the Co lumbia State." It is not that we should copy an advertisement with out a request from the advertiser and some sort of an assurance that the bill would be paid. But owing to the peculiar nature of this one, we feel impelled to give it a little additional notoriety, with the promise that we shall send no bill. Really when we get down to bottom principles we find no valid reason why every news paper in the state should not give this advertisement free insertion for an unlimited time; for it represents a business enterprise in which every taxpayer in the state is a stockholder and of which a vast ' majority of the non-taxpayers are enthusiastic pa trons. Furthermore, its objects are among the noblest that ever engaged the thoughts of philanthropists and Christian philosophers—the improve ment of morals and the intellectual development of the rising generation. Surely an advertisement of such a business could claim gratuitous in sertion in every newspaper in the state. But we have not inserted it on gen eral principles, nor has the paper from which it is copied. That paper gives it place for the money there is in it, and we reproduce it for the light that it throws on the true na ture of the dispensary. Is that advertisement intended to let the manufacturers of whiskey known where they can sell, or to let the consumers of whiskey know where they can buy? If the former is the object, it is an exceedingly injudicious advertise ment and indicates a woeful lack of common business sense highly de rogatory to the intelligence of the great State of South Carolina, for we note that these whiskies are manufactured in Maryland and Pennsylvania, and an advertiser of ordinary business sagacity would hardly put an advertisement in a South Carolina paper, which was in tended solely to catch the eyes of the people of Maryland and Pennsyl vania. It is clear that this announcement is intended to be read by consumers and that the motive is the same that is behind advertisements of all sorts of merchandise, to bring more trade and to increase the profPs of the business by increasing the quantity of goods sold. Now, in all candor, we want to know on what principle the dispen sary can advertise its business in the usual way and with the usual motive, if the object of that institution is to diminish and discourage the use of whiskey in this state? How can the dispensary be a step towards prohibi tion when it is managed as this ad vertisement clearly indicates? Again, who pays for this advertise ment? Doesn’t the dispenser in Co lumbia get a fixed salary, and would be likely pay for an advertisement which at most could promise him in creased work without increased pay? Has the state government ever au thorized the expenditure of any money on advertisements of the li quor bus^ess? If it has not, who has the right to spend money for any such purpose? Then does it pay these dispensers a commission on sales, thereby encouraging them to advertise and to push the business for all there is in it? In this latter case the state is guilty of both per jury and hypocrisy—if indeed these two sins can be separated; perjury, because it has given its pledge to the people that the dispensary should diminish the sale and use of whiskey, hypocrisy, because it fixes on the dispensers as individuals the odium of its own dishonor. If we can decipher the typographi cal hieroglyphics at the bottom of the advertisement, it is to appear in the State newspaper three times a week till forbidden. That is business-like and gives assurauce that the busi ness will bo Kept before the public. We know not, as we have intimated, whether the state government is di rectly, or only indirectly, the advti’- tiser of this business. In either case there is one crumb of comfort for which we are profoundly grateful; the advertiser uses the “cheap col umn" of the paper, thereby mani festing a desire to practice economy and to save money for the free schools. Scat. IS NOTES AND COMMENTS. Crime seems to be on the rampage. There has been an unusual number of homicides in the State, during the last ten days. Several horses and mules have been stolen in this sec tion, and the owners have not been able to trace them. Burglaries and crimes of all kinds are common. The world may be growing better, but'just at this time, it doesn’t look like it. ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ It is announced that there is little prospect of abolishing or even of re ducing the war taxes for the present. A large army must be maintained in the Philippines and we note that Gen. McArthur has been ordered to “take the field." We must still sub mit to the stamp nuisance, and the country must be drained of millions of dollars every month for war pur poses. though the war was over, they said, three months ago. ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ The trust business is getting down to a pretty fine point. The latest an nouncement is to the eilect that the American Salt Association—no mat ter who or what that may be—has decreed that the price of table salt shall be raised from $110 to $2 50 per hundred pounds. This concern, they say, controls 95 per cent, of the suit out-put of the United States and its behests will be scrupulously, if not religiously, obeyed. We don’t know anything now, upon which the trusts have no grip, but dogs and cats. The talk in Republican circles about cutting down the representa tion of the South States is becoming serious. It is very probable that the matter will come up in the next con gress, and there will be little diffi culty in putting it through. The result will be that our power in con gress will be reduced by about one- third. So far as our state is con cerned, we shall get along about as well if they cut us one-half, and we shall not be hopelessly ruined if they send the last one of our representa tives home. The republicans are go ing to have their own way, at least for the next four years, and tbe South had about as well stand aside and let them have it. ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ There is much talk about reorgan izing the democratic party, but no body seems to know how to go about it. The truth is reorganization is impracticable, if not impossible. Seven millions of voters are not to be shaken up in a dice box and thrown for sixes. Let the party alone. It has been taking some liver medicine of late which has made it deathly sick. But the blood will be made purer, and the foul excrescences on the body will slough oil in the course of time, and the party will become strong and healthy again. The main principles of the party have held a prominent place in the politics of the English speaking race for five hun dred years and they are not going to die with the end of this century nor in the next one, nor in a thousand years to come. SHORT LOCAL ITEMS. Local Itemis Too.Khort for a Head Grouped Together. J. F. Fairchild, of Lincolnton, N. C., has moved his family to the Gaff ney cotton mill. We are glad to see our friend J. F. Fincken out again after a short ill ness at his home. Our place was visited Tuesday by a Dago and a monkey, which afforded much amusement for the small boys. Rev. 8. T. Creech, of this city, will preach at Dunton Chapel next Sunday 18th inst.. at 4 o’clock p. m., the public is invited. Most of the cotton has been gather ed and sold, and jarmers who refused 10^ and II cents for it, are now sell ing it for a little over nine cents. We occasionally have complaint from some of our subscribers that they do not get their paper regularly, and sometimes not at all. When such is the case the fault lies with the post-office men, for our papers are stamped with a machine, and ia next to an impossibility for us to miss one. When you do not get your paper, let us know it and we will look into the matter. Mr. and Mrs. William Allen are rejoicing over the arrival of a chipper little republican at their home. The little fellow arrived just one week from the day that ’8quire Billy Mc Kinley waa elected to the magiatrate- sblp of these United States and as a consequence the new comer will go through life hearing the enconium of William McKinley Allen. Tbe Led ger wia' es the little fellow long life and much happiness. Local Cotton Report. The following are the prices paid for cotton In Gaffney today : Good Middling 9jj Middling 9:25 Your close friend is often the one who won’t lend you a cent. THE MASTER CALLS, THE SOUL OBETS. Death Takes a Lovely Spirit from our Midst. MRS. SARRATT IS DEAD. She Died Thnniday Morning After a Week** lllueHH and Waa Bulled at Oakland Cem etery By the Hide of Iter Hon.—An Excel lent Woman and Faithful Christian. The path of life meanders through a bright and beautiful world—a world where the fragrant flowers of friend ship, nourished by the dews of sym pathy and the warm sunlight of affec tion, bloom in perpetual beauty. But through this bright world there flows a stream whose turbid waters cross and recroes the path of every pilgrim; it is the stream of sorrow and suffering. Tills stream has just crossed the earthly course of a once happy family and bore away upon Its dark waters the cherished hopes of loving children and severed the fond, endearing ties that bound brother and sister together in a bond of never- ending affection. The echoes had scarcely died away from the rumbling wheels of the sable hearse that had carried Paul 8arratt to his last resting place, when the mournful intelligence spread rapidly over the already sor rowing city that the spirit of Mrs. Alice Harratt had Uosely followed that of her son, Paul. She had been very low for some time, and it was feared that the news of her son’s death might prove fatal to her; but she seemed to bear up well under the heavy stroke and it was hoped that she would pass safely through the trying ordeal and on to complete re covery. But her heart was broken and her tender spirit crushed, and that, added to her bodily sufferings, was too much for her frail constitu tion and she gave up the ghost. “No human plummet has ever sounded the depths of a mother’s love; no surveyor’s chain can mark the limits of her patient endurance, and only the wings of an archangel can transcend that pinnacle to which the sublime principle of self-sacrifice ex alts a mother’s soul.” It is a beau tiful love, that of a mother for her offspring, and it has ever been the theme of the artist's pencil and the poet’s song. What wonder, then, that her tender spirit should wish to follow that of her darling boy even into the great beyond? Her soul had finished its course in this world, had fought tbe fight and kept the faith, and henceforth it wears the crown of immortality. But you will meet h<-r again, dear children—the loved one you have lost will one day advance to meet you at the gate of eteruity, to greet you as a glorified companion where ties are never broken and partings are un known. Mrs. Sarratt was born just above Gaffney, at the old home place, in 1852, and was in her forty-seventh year when she was called to her re ward. Her husband died several years ago and shortly afterwards she moved with her children to Gaffney, where she has since lived. She was the mother of five children, three girls and two boys, and four of them are still living; her oldest, Paul, hav ing died only a few days ago. Two brothers also survive her, Mr. W. C. Carpenter, of this city, and Mr. Kit Carpenter, of Thermal City, N.C. She had been a member of the Bap tist denomination for a long time, and no faithful follower of Mohammed was ever more loyal to the teachings of the Koran than she was to the commandments of her Lord And Sa viour. Site possessed humility, pa tience, meekness, benignity, compas- sion,and all the graces of a true Chris tian character. Her disposition was tender and sweet, which L one of the most valuable traits a woman can possess, and her household was made happy by it, for it had a soothing in fluence over the minds of her family. Kindness and love predominated in her heart; smiles, kind words and tender looks characterized her chil dren, and peace and happiness had their dwelling place in her home. She ever strived diligently to fulfil her diviue errand, and the memory of her goodness will long live in the hearts of her neighbors and friends. Mrs. Sarratt died Thursday morn ing about one o’clock after a short illness with the same disease that car ried her son to his grave—-typhoid fe ver. The funeral services were held at her home yesterday afternoon at three o’clock by Rev. B P. Robertson, assisted by Rev. VV. H. Hodges. The burial was iu Oakland at 4 o’clock and the body was laid close to that of the son who had preceded her only a few hours. Tenderly we lay the poor mortal frame away and robe it with the gar ments which love dictates, and coyer it from our sight. On, that we could pierce the realms of that spirit world and follow our loved ones to that abode. The blinding tears, the choking sob, the stifled groan give no reliel, and time, the reputed healer of all human woes, can but deaden the pain, the agony, the heart-break ing sorrow which now possesses our souls. All we can do is to be faith ful unto death and God will give us a crown for life. An Orange colored man says he ig prepared to put down wells at bottom prices. Deufiioia Cannot be Cured by local applications, as they cannot reach the diseased portion of the car. There Is only one way to cure deafness, and that Is by constitutional remedies. Deafness Is caused by Inllamcd condition of the mucous UuliiKofthc Kustuchlun Tube. When this tube nets Inllamcd you have a rumbling sound or Imperfect hearing, and alien It is entirely closed deafness Is the result and unless the liillatnmatlon can he taken out, and this tube restored to Its normal condi tion. hearing will he destroyed forever; nine cases out of ten are caused by catarrh, which Is not hlnu hut an Inllarued condition of thu mucous surfaces. We will give One Hundred Dollars for any case of Deafness (cased by catarrh) thatcau- not he cured by Hall's Catarrh (Jure. Head for circulars, free. P. J. CHENEY A CO.. Toledo, O. A NIGHT OF FUN. Burnt Cork Artists Who Amuse the People Nightly. All people make mistakes. None are exceptions to the rule. The man agement of the opera house made a mistake in bringing “Town Topics" to Gaffney. The show was not as meritorious as we had hoped it would be, but it served to put the local man agement on its guard and made the incentive to give Gaffney the best pos sible shows greater. The next at traction will bo Harry Ward’s Mag nificent Minstrels on next Thursday night. This is a white organization that is playing in such towns as Nashville, Tonn., Birmingham, Ala., and Atlanta, Ga. When The Ledger says a show plays a certain town it does not say so on the word of the advance agent alone, but it refers to The New York Clipper and to the newspapers in the towns in which these shows play. In Ward’s Min strels Gaffney has one of the best at tractions of that characrer on the road. Watch for the magnificent parade and challenge cornet band on Thursday. Holland and Wesson with Harry Ward’s Magnificent Minstrels are said to be the funniest musical team be fore the public. They play every kind of instrument conceivable, and keep the audience in an uproarat tbe same time. Harry Ward is a name that is syn onymous with everything good in minstrelsy. He is wonderfully versa tile, and in addition to being a hu morist and comedian of established reputation, is an exceptionally good vocalist and has a large repertoire of new songs. THANKSGIVING DAY. Hold by Druggi-sta, 75c. a Fuudiv I'UU are the best. I.UIU j Hull Gov. McHwcency Imhiich the Customary l*ror la matlon. [The State, llth.l The Regulation Thanksgiving Day proclaiminat'.on has been issued. Gov. McSweeney has issued the cus tomary proclamation, in which this year there is much more of fact than* usual. Gov. McSweeney’s proclama tion reads as follows: PROCLAMATION. In the Providence of God we have been spared as a peoolo and a State for another year. Peace and pros perity, health and happiness have been vouchsafed to us. We have not been visited by plague or pesti lence. The labor of our hands has been attended with success and the State has grown in material wealth. New Manufacturing enterprises have sprung up and we are fast becoming a great manufacturing people. Tho The husbandman has been permitted to plant and to reap, and enjoys tbe fruits of his labor. There is good feeling among all our people and progress in all good aud worthy deeds is evidenced on every hand. Educa tion and Christianity g > hand in hand ; our c dleges and schools are filled and tho cui!i"ation of the head and the heart is keeping pace with the mate rial development of the State. To the end. therefore, that we may with thankful hearts show our appre ciation of the many blessings which we enjoy and the tender care of our Heavenly Father, I, M. B. McSwee- ney, Governor of the State of South Carolina, in conformity with the proclamat.on of the president of the United States, do hereby appoint and set apart Thursday, the 29th day of November, I9U0, as a day of thanks giving and prayer, to be kept and ob served by all the people of this State. I advise that all puplic officers be closed and all private business aud and labor of every kind cease, and that our people assemble in their respective places of worship and give thanks to Him who is the giver of every good and perfect gift, for the seed time and the harvest, and that they beseech Him in humality to continue His goodness and gracious forbearance. That they also remem ber the poor aud.the fatherless for we are told that it is more blessed to give than to receive, and every gift to these will go to our credit in tho great book of remembrance. In testimony whereof I have here unto set my hand and caused the great seal of the State of South Caro lina to be affixed. Done at the Capi tol, in the uity of Columbia, this 10th day of November. A. D., 1900. M. B. McSweenev. By the Governor: M. R. Cooper, Secretary of State. The New York World wanted Gov. McSweeney to say in one sentence what was the greatest cause for thanksgiving this year. He replied: “Peace, prosperity and general good feeling between the people of the country." He took this to be tbe sentiment among the people of the State, and. particularly, among South Caroli nians. A Coming Marriage. Invitations are out to the marriage of Miss Mary Serviss Brown to Mr. JamesA. Willia on Friday evening Dec. 5th., at the first Baptist church. Miss Brown is one of our most lovely and popalar young ladies and Mr. Willis is a gifted and rising young attorney of the city whose friends are numberous. Considering the popularity of tbe young couple, the affair is expected to be one of the most brilliant social events of the season. After the cere mony at the church there will be a reception at tho residence of Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Carpenter, tbe home of Miss Brown. I1D Imilacretloil. [Youth Uomputtlou.l In one of Cbuuncey M. Depew’s stories he tells of meeting a man aa funny as himself. “One day," said Mr. Depew, “I met a soldier who bad been wounded in the face. He was a Union man, and I asked in which battle he had been Injured. “In the last battle of Bull Run, sir," he replied. “But bow could you get hit in tho face at Bull Run?" 1 asked. “Well sir,’ said the man, half- apologetically, “after I run a mile or two I got careless and looked back." Kto|m the C'oiikIi and Work# Off the Cold. Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets cure a cold In one day. No cure, No Pay. Price 25 coots. YOUNG MAN DROWNED. The Body Found In White’# Mill routl Near Spartanburg. The body of Willie R. Marks, a young man whose home was in Spar tanburg and who had been missing since Tuesday afternoon, was found Wednesday morning in White’s mill pond on Lawson’s Fork, The deceased had been suffering with a complication of diseases tor twenty years or more, and had, as a natural consequence, grown gloomy and despondent. He bad spoken several times of taking his life and when it was learned that he was missing, there was a strong belli f that he had carried out his intention and put an end to his life in some manner. His clothes were found on the bank of tho river and crowds of men searched for the body until far in the night, but without any satisfactory result. Next morning, after the wa ters of the mill pond were let off, the body was found and taken to his home. There were no scratches or bruises on the body, and the evidence was conclusive that the young man had committed suicide. The following, taken from the Spartanburg Herald, is an account of the disappearance of the young man and the facts that led up to his tragic death: “Mr. Willie R. Marks, aged 31 years, who lives at the home of bis aunt, Mrs. McElhany, on East Main street, has been missing from his home since 2 :30 o’clock yesterday af- nocn; and there are strong reasons to believe that he ended his life by plunging into Lawsou’s Fork, 800 yards above the covered bridge at Garrett Springs. His clothes were found on the left bank of the river There was no note or letter left any where about them. Last night crowds of men were working up and down near the sp< t where Marks’ clothes were found and the search was continued until far in the night; but up to 1 a. m. no trace of the body was reported. This disappearance is an unusually sad affair, and the loved ones of tl e missing one have the sympathy of the entire community. Mr. Wiilie Marks was sitting in a room at his home yesterday afternoon about 2 o’clock and his aunt was reading to him, Occasionally she addressed a remark to him, and re ceiving no answer, finally glanced up and found that he had left the house and premises without saying a word to anyone. He is an invalid and ht a suffered with a complication of dis eases for the past 20 years. He suf fered as few mortals have from the ails and complaints, and naturally grew of a moro 1 e, melancho y dispos » tion. This mood ' grew stronger as disease grasped him firmer. He was partially crippled and has had to use crutches for some time past. It is said he reached Lawson’s Fork by going up Cemetery street and down the hillside sloping to Garrett’s Shrings. For several days past he has had intimation that very soon an operation would be performed on him This had a depreising influ ence on’him, which gradually grew into a vague, indescribable shrinking from the ordeal. It is thought this is the influence which caused him to take the rash, irrevocable step, which has caused much sorrow. But when it is taken into consideration bow much and long he suffered, and how he must have yearned for free dom of health which he never enjoy ed, surely mercy and charity attend his rest, even though it be 'ueath the willows of the river." Some Second Growth#. R. S. Lipscomb brought some grapes to this office a few days ago which were from tbe second crop that his vines have borne this year. They were not ripe, but were large and well formed and the bunches were as thickly clustered as in the first growth. J. L. Spake, who lives just below the city, also sent us an apple that came from the second crop raised on his trees this year. We do not know how large this species of apple grows; but the one sent us was of good size and seemed to be fully ma tured. There seems to be quite an abun dance of second-growth fruit this year, owing, we presume, to the late fall. The Be#t Preocription for Mu la r in Chills and Fever is a bottle of Grove's 1 asteless Chill Tonic. It is simply iron and quinine in a tasteless form. No cure—no pay. Price 50c. Farming and Mineral Lands for Sale. On Monday, the third day of December next (salesday), tho National Hank of Chea ter, S. C., in liquidation, will sell at public outcry at Gaffney, Cherokee county, the en tire lauds formerly held by tho Magnetic Iron and Steel Ore Company, containing' twelve hundred and eighteen (1218) acres, pipreorlcasi said lands lyln^ In the county of Cherokee, on east and west sides of Broad River, containing within their area the site of the old‘‘Cherokee Iron Works.” with the adjacent water power, which Is capable of hljih development. Also the Quinn tract on which are valuable mines of Iron ore with eleven minim? blocks or tracts, lyliq? within the lands of the Gaffney Land and Improve ment Company; also excellent river bottoms and farming: lands, adapted to cotton culti vation. Also will sell at same time and place all tbe mineral Interests in a tract of one hun dred and seventy-five acres aud known us tho Wilson Tract or Mine No. 4. Terms of sale, cash, to be paid within ten (10) days or resale ut the risk of tho purchaser, at the discretion of the bunk. The bunk reserves the right to subdivide said general tract Into minor tracts prior to tho sale. Also to sell all or any portions of the tract at private sale, If deemed advisable to do so. Incase of subdivision a map will be pre pared showing the same. Warrantee titles free from all lien or In cumbrance will be made or had made. These lauds are sold under aud subject to erection of darn, bankage, tlowage and over flow, and all other rights Incident or apper taining to said water power and rights of way to and from said mines as set forth In tho conveyances thereof. Purchasers to pay for all necessary papers, revehuo stamps, etc. NATIONAL HANK OF CHESTER, Iu Liquidation. By J. J. McLurj:, Pres. U-KMR AFFLICTED MONARCH. THE EMPEROR jdm, OF GERMANY Is a Victim of Producing a Chronic Catarrh, Running Ear. /■v /< . EMPEROR WILLIAM OF GERMANY. ■w* The Emperor of Germany has a run ning ear. Just think of it; a man at whoso beck one of the strongest armies and navies of tho whole earth could be set in motion, a man whose rule is abso- Inteover the country of medical universi ties, a man whose sligh test caprice could press into service tho most noted savants and philosophers on earth, has a running ear and ia unable to find a cure! Now contrast the experience of the following citizens of tho United States with the Emperor of Germany. Like the Emperor, they failed to find a cure. But, nnlike tho Emperor, they happened to be plain citizens of-tbe United States, rather than the center of the inner court of the most exclusive and carefully guarded aristocracy of the world. In his position nothing but the remedies that have mot the approval of the most fastidious medical orthodoxy could ever reach him. In the position of these American citizens, however, they had Scott Bostick, of access to remedies *o u re Jo n lu’n n 1 ng ’ old and ne ^ tried Ears by Dr. and untried, ap- Hartman. proved aud disap proved. They were at perfect liberty to try anything they chose to. They chose to try the remedy that had cured others like themselves, and thus they found a cure. Running of the ears, deafness or all other affections of the middle ear, are due primarily to chronic catarrh. Run ning of the ear is properly called chronic suppurative catarrh. Pe-ru-na will cure catarrh of the middle ear, as well as catarrh located elsewhere. This has been proven over and over again in innumerable cases besides the ones just mentioned. Deafness and running of the ears are but symptoms of chronic catarrh of the middle ear. Pe-ru-na cures the catarrh, when the symptoms disappear, whether it be running ears or deafness or any other affection of the middle ear. The remedy is compounded according to the formula originally de vised by Dr. H'artman of tho Surgical Hotel, Columbus, O, the noted writer 4 and lecturer on all catarrhal diseases, Tho second case, Mr. H. Walter Brady, Cascade, Ark., is a case of suppuration of tho middle ear of 14 years’ standing. He says: “ I had run ning ears, and for 14 years I was almost an invalid. It was so offensive that I excluded myself from all society. I received a pamphlet « from Dr - Hartman Mr.H.Walter Brady. entitled « Xho IUs of Life.’ Ho wrote me that the remedy waa simple and that I could cure myself. After using $17 worth of his remedies I was entirely cured. Tho world could not buy my fortune. 1 recommend Pe- ru-na to all as the best medicine sold." The third case is that of Rev. S. H. Renfro, Xorbarne, Mo., who had running ears. Ho says: “My head gathered and broke and my ears ran terribly. I tried several remedies with no relief. At last I got a bottle of Pe-ru-na and it did me so much good that I kept on using it; am on tho fourth bottle, and must say it has removed all my bad symptoms. My head does not pain any moro, my ears have stopped running and I feel a great deal better. The next is the case of Master Murphy, of latau, Mitchell county, Texas, who had been troubled with running ears ever since he was nine months old. After a thorough course of treatment with Pe-ru-na he waa entirely cured, and is now rejoicing In the fact that he ia entirely free from this horrible disease. A free book treating catarrh in all of its different phases and stages, written by Dr. Hartman, will be sent free, by addressing The Pe-rn-na Drug Maitflf' facturing Co., Columbus, Ohio. * Rev. S. H. Renfro. $ Master Murphy. 1 have replenished my stock in the following lines: ’ v Shoes, Buggies, Bridles and Collars, Hats, Phaetons, Leather Belting. Dry Qtxxls, Surrles, Rubber Belting, Notions, Hubs. Hay Hakes, Staple and Fancy Groceries, Rims, Champion Mowers, Texas Bed Rust I’roof Oats, Spokes, Buckeye Grain Drills, Bagging and Ties, Shafts, Ammoniated Guano, Wheelbarrows, Harness, Potash Mixtures, Hardware, of all kinds, and various other ari Wutfons, Harness Leather, cles not mentioned. I have moved my ginning outfit to the Goforth place, near my store, where I will be pleased to gin your cot ton and guarantee work and price. All kinds rough lumber on hand, at saw mill and at my yard in town. Nice line General Merchandise, at my Goforth Store, at lowest prices. Call and see me when in need of anything in my line. J. I. I* vA^rT. VO' f J YOUR THANKSGIVING TURKEY should be tender and baked to a turn, your mince pie brown and flaky, for your Thanksgiving feast. If you haven’t a satisfactory oven, prepare before band by getting one of our splendid ranges or cooking stoves. They are superior bakers, and you can depend upon your dinner being a success. It will save you more iu worriment and spoiled victuals than you will have to pay for oue. > Carroll, Carpenter & Humphries, Here We Ceme-Yoo Can’t Head Us! : Guns, Single and Double. Turn Plows, Right and Left. Disc Harrows, with Ball Bearings. Heating and Cook Stoves. Rock Hill and Cincinnati Buggies. , Come to see us and we will make you some good prices. R. M. WILKINS & CO.