The ledger. [volume] (Gaffney City, S.C.) 1896-1907, November 20, 1900, Image 3

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HEADACHE Pain back of your eyes? Heavy pressure in your head? And are you sometimes faint and dizzy? Is your tongue coated? Bad taste in your mouth? And does your food distress you ? A-e you nervous and ir ritable? Do you often have the blues? And are you troubled about sleeping? Than your B!vor fa gist wrong. But ther is a cure. ’Tis the old reliable They act directly on the liver. They cure constipation, biliousness, sick headache, nausea, and dyspepsia. Take a laxative dose each night. For 60 years years they have been the Standard Family Pills. Price 25 ceais. All Draijgtsfs. “ I have taken Ayer's IMIls regu larly for six months. They have cured inn of a severe headache, and 1 can now vcalk from two to four miles without getting tired or out of breath, romething I have not been able to do lor many years." S. li. Wai.wobk, July 13,1830. Salem, Mass. Wrlio fho O:\otor. If you bare any enmpUtet whatever ami clesire the best incitn al advice you can possibly receive, write the doctor freely. You will receive a prompt 10- ply without cost. Address, J>it. *J. C. AYIvK, Lowell, Mass, y (7)\ • / For FREE y/ Scholarship POSITIONS GUARANTEED, Under $3,000 Cash Deposit. Kal rctd Fare Paid. Open all f» » r Both Sexes. Very Cheap Board. Qeorifia-Alabama Buslneas Collie, Itaoon. Oecrgfa. Things of Beauty are the faiicv '•.'../eKs and articles of jewi jj-y that 1 have had shipped -HrfT, and tli«:y tire especially Suitable far Wedding Presents. If styles and priees will please you then you vtlll U' pleased with my goods. All kinds of repairing and prices guaranteed. Thos. H. Westrope, The Jeweler. bn Crawley & Co’s Urug Store. A. N. WOOD, BANKER, does a general Bunkingand Exchange business. Well secured with Burglar- Proof safe and Automatic Time Lock. Safety Deposit Boxes at moderate :rent. Buys and u eiifl Stocks andBonds. Buy* Uounty and 'schuOi ^iaims Your Vittainess solicited. WALLACE & OTIS, LAWYERS. Otfiee ups ,: ilrs, between it. A. Joins and J. E. WEBSTER. JV.ttorney-A.t- Oflicelu Court House.(i'robate Judge Bodice Gaffney City, S. C. Practices in a'l the courts. Collec tions a specialty DR. J. F. GARRETT 1 Dentist, Gaffney, - - - S. C. Office over J. R. Toi/jison’s new store In office from 1st to 2.6th of each month: Dr. C. T. LIPSCOMB, Dentist, Oiiice over R. A. |onei ft Co.’e Store. Oau'uwTwind atofflceuix days In the week -f J. C. JEFHERIES4- OAFFNEV, S. C. •Commercial Law. Corporutlou Law Krai K.Htate Law. Money to loan on approved bceurlty. JAMES A. WILLIS, ATTOBNEy AT LAW, t ia rs; ic v. >-». o. Notary Public In office. Prompt attention given to all butrineM. Ottice over It. A. Jonen ft Co.’« store. J). K.Duncan 0. P..Sanders. W. W. Hall, Jr JIUHCAH, SAHDERS & HALL, AUorneys-at-Law. Oiiice over J. I». TvlUwu'tt 4 Vo.’m Store. THE FAITH OF RAHAB DR. TALMAGE SAYS THERE IS MERCY FOR ALL SINNERS. Spe&ks lOnconruu-higly- to All Who Arc FInffflared In Life'* Iluttlc M. Mennlntc of tlie Sun’s Standing; Still lpou Giheon. Washl\gton, Nov. 18.—In this dis course Dr. Talinuge follows Joshua on his triumphal march and speaks en couraging words to all who are engag ed In tlio battles of this life; text. Josh ua i. 5. “There shall not any man he able to stand before thee all the days of thy life.” Moses was dead. A beautiful tradi tion says the Lord kissed him and in that act drew forth the sou! of the dy ing lawgiver. He had been buried; only one person at the funeral—the same One who kissed him. But God never takes a man away from any place of usefulness until he has some one ready to replace him. The Lord does not go looking around amid a great variety of candidates to lind some one especially fitted for the vacated po sition. Ho makes a man for that place. Moses has passed off the stage, and Joshua, the hero, puts his foot on the platform of history so solidly that all the ages echo with the tread. II .vas a magnificent lighter, but lie always fought on the right side, and he never fought unless God told him to light. He got his military equipment from God, who gave him the promise at the start, “There shall not any man be able to stand before thee all the days of thy life.” God fulfilled this promise, al though Joshua’s (irst battle was with the spring freshet, the next with a stone wall, the next leading on a regi ment of whipped cowards and the next battling against darkness, wheeling the sun and the moon into his battalion and the last against the king of ter rors, death—five great victories. I'nrtliiK the Jordan. As a rule, when the general of an ar my starts out in a war lie would like to have a small battle in order that he may get his own courage up and rally his troops and get them drilled for greater conflicts, but the first under taking of Joshua was greater than the leveling of Fort Pulaski or the assault of Gibraltar or the overthrow of the Bastille. It was the crossing of the Jordan at the time of the spring fresh et. The snows of Alount Lebanon had just been melting, and they poured down the valley, and the whole valley was a raging torrent. So the Canaan- ites stand on one hank, and they look across and s» e Joshua and the Israel ites, and they laugh and say; “Aha! They cannot disturb us until the fresh ets fall. It is impossible for them to reach us.” But after awhile they look across the water, and they see a movement in the army of Joshua. They say: “What !s the matter now? Why, fhere must he a panic among those troops, and they are going to fly, or perhaps they are going to try to march across the river Jordan. Joshua is a lunatic.” Bui Joshua, the chieftain, looks at his army and cries, “Forward, march!” and they start for the hank of the Jordan. One mile ahead go two priests carrying a glittering box four feet long and two feet wide. It Is the ark of the covenant. And they come down, and no sooner do they just touch the rim of the water with their feet than, by an Almighty flat, Jordan parts. The army of Joshua marches right on without getting their feet wet over t!;e bottom of the river, a path of chalk and broken shells and pebbles, until they get to the other hank. Then they lay hold of the oleanders and tama risks and willows and pull themselves up a hank HO Or JO feet high, and, hav ing gained the other bank, they clap their shields and their cymbals and sing the praises of the God of Joshua, put no sooner have they reached the bank than the wipers begin to dash and rear, and with a tenilic pish they break loose from their strange anchor age. As the hand of the Lord God is taken away from the thus uplifted wa ters—waters perhaps uplifted half a in He—they rush down, and some of the unbelieving Israelites say: “Alas, alas, what a misfortune! Why could not those waters have staid parted, be cause, perhaps, we may want to go back? O Lord, we are engaged In a risky business! Those CunauDltca 111,1 y eat ns up. How If we want to go hack? Would It not have been a more com plete miracle If the Lord had parted the waters to let us come through and kept them parted to let us go back If Wit are defeated?” God’a Promise. My friends, God makes no provision for a Christian’s retreat. He clears the path all the way to Canaan. To go hack Is to die. The same gatekeeper* that swung hack the amethystine ami crystalline gate of the Jordan to let Israel pass through now swing shut the amethystine and crystalline gate of the Jordan to kc,"p the Israelites from going back. *•* , . Victory ahead, hut water 30 feet deep behind, purging to death and darkness and woe. But you say, “Why did imf these Canannltes, when they had such A splendid chance, standing on the top of the hank 30 or 40 feet high, com pletely demolish thoae poor Israelites down In the river?" f will hell you why. God had made a promise, and he y/gs going {0 keep It. “There shall not any innu he able to stand before thee all the days of thy flfp." But this is no place for the hosf iff stop. Joshua gives the command, “Fof ward, march!” In the distance there a long grove of {rocs, and at the end of the grove 1* a city. It Is a city with arbors, a effy with waljs seeming to reach to the heavens, to buttress ih,? very sky. It Is the great metropolis that commands the mountain pass. ft. Is Jericho. That city was afterward captured by I’oropey and once by Her od the Great and once again by the Mo* liamuu’dans, but this campaign the Lord plans. There sh/dl be no swords, no shields, no haltering ram, t/p’re shall bo only one weapon of war, and that a ram’s horn. The born of Hie slain ram was sometimes taken, pud holes were punctured in it, and then the musician would put the Instrument f<# Ids lips, end he would run Ids lin gers over UiIh rude musical Instrument mid make a great de^J of sweet harmo ny for the people. That was the only kind of weapon. Seven priests were to take these rude, rustic musical Instru ments, and they were fo go around the city every day for six days once a day for yin days-and then on the >evgntb day they were to go around blowing these rude musical instruments seven times, and then at the close of the sev enth blowing of the ram’s horns on the Bevent’i day the peroration of the whole scene was to he a shout, at which those great walls should tumble from cap stone to base. The Lord's Victory. The seven priests with the rude mu sical instruments pass all around the city walls on the first day and score a failure. Not so much ns a piece of plas ter broke loose from the wall, not so much as a loosened rock, not so much ns a piece of mortar lost from its place. “There.” say the unbelieving Israelites, “did 1 not tell you so? Why, those ministers are fools. The idea of going around the city with those musical in struments and expecting In that way to destroy it. Joshua has been spoiled. He thinks because he lias overthrown and conquered the spring freshet ho can overthrow the stone wall. Why, it Is not philosophic. Do you not see there is no relation between the blow ing of these musical instruments and the knocking down of the wall? It Is not philosophic.” And I suppose there were many wiseacres who stood with their brows knitted and with the fore- liiiger of the right hand to the forefin- ger of the left hand, arguing it all out and showing that it was not possible that such a cause could produce such an effect. And I suppose that night In the encampment there was plenty of caricature, and if Joshua had been nminated for any high military posi- H 'ii he would not have received many v< i. Joshua’s stock was down. The second day the priests blowing the mu sical instruments go around the city, and again a failure. The third day, and a failure; fourth day, and a fail ure' fifth day, and a failure; sixth day, an< a failure. The seventh day comes, the limaetcric day. Joshua is up early In Hie morning and examines the troops, walks all about and looks at the city wall. The priests start to make the t ircuit of the city. They go all nrouu 1 once, all around twice, three times, four times, five times, six times, seven times, and a failure. There Is only one more thing to do, and that is to utte a great shout. I see the Israel- itish nr ny straightening themselves up, filling their lungs for a vociferation such as never was heard before and never heard after. Joshua feels that tin’ hour lias come, and be cries out to his host. Shout, for the Lord hath giv en you the city!” All together the troops shout; “Down, Jericho! Down, Jericho!” and the long line of solid ma sonry begins to quiver and to move and to rock. Stand from under! She falls! Crash go the walls and temple ;, the towers, the palaces, the air black ened with dust. The huzza of the vic torious Israelites and the groan of the conquered Cannanites commingle, and Joshua, standing there in the debris of the walls, hears a voice saying, “There shall not any man he able to stand be fore thee all the days of thy life.” Italian'* Deliverance, Only one house spared. Who lives there? Some great king? No. Some woman distinguished for great, kindly deeds? No. She had been conspicuous for her crimes. It is the house of Ita- hab. Why was her house spared? Be cause she had been a great sinner? No, but because she repented, demonstrat ing to all the ages that there Is mercy for the chief of sinners. The red cord of divine injunction reaching from her window to the ground, so that when the people saw the red cord they knew it was the divine indication that they should not disturb the premises, mak ing us think of the divine cord of a Saviour’s deliverance, the red cord of a Saviour's kindness, the red cord of a Saviour’s mercy, the red cord of our rescue. Mercy for the chief of sinners. I'ut your trust In that God, and no damage shall befall you. When our world shall he more terribly surround ed than was Jericho, even by the trum pets of the judgment day, and the hills and the mountains, the metal bones and riba of nature, shall break, they who have had Uuhab’s faith shall have Itabab’s deliverance. When wrapped In Arc the realm! of ether plow And heaven's last thunder shakes the earth below, 1 hou, undismayed, ehalt o’er the ruins smile And lipht thy torch at nature’s funeral pile. But Joshua’s troops may not halt here. Tke command is “Forward, march!” There Is the city of Ai. It must be taken. A scouting party comes back and says: “Joshua," we cun do that without you. It is going to bo a very easy Job. You must stay here while we go and capture it.” They march with a small regiment In front of that city. The men of Al look at them and give one yell, and the Israel ites run like reindeer. The northern troops at Bull Uun did not make such rapid time ns these Israelites with the Cauuanitcs utter them. They never cut such a sorry figure as wheq they were on the retreat. You who go out In the battles of God with only half a force, Instead of your taking the men of Al the men of Al will take you. Look at the church of God ou the retreat 'j to/ IJorpesian cannibals ate up Mun son, the missionary. “Fall back:” said H great many Christian people. “Full back, (J church of God! Boraco will never be takcq. pq ypjj nof see the Bornestun cannibals have eaten up Munson, the missionary7“ Tyndall de- livers Ids lecture at the University of Glasgow, and a great many good peo ple say: “Fall b.ick O church of God! J»o you not see that Christian puling- phy Is going to he overcome by world ly philosophy? Fall hack!” jit/ I|9£|ovard Movement, Geology plunge^ its growh^r jidp pie mountains, and there are a great many people who any scientific Investigation is going lo overthrow the Mosaic ne- foiint of the creation, “Fallback!" But friends of fjof! never have bad any right to fall’back. Joshua tylls op fils face |n pli/igrin. It Is the only time you ever see the back of bis l»e«d, lie falls on his face and begins to whine, and he says: “O Lord God, wherefore hast thou at all brought this people over ■Jordan to deliver us into the hands of the Anioiiics p/ jlcstroy ns f \' ouhl to God wo had been gout Cut Whd dwelt on fjie other side of Jordan, for the Ca- paaiiHes uml pH Hie Inhabitants of the laud shall hear of it ami sliall pfik||'on us round und cut off our name from Iho earth!” I am very glad Joshua said that. Before It seemed ns if he were n supernatural being and therefore could not be ut, example to us, but I find he Is a man, he Is omy u Jus* an sometimes you find ft man under severe opposition or In a bad state of physical health gr wotti yULWJik !/• — . . . ..wv-- lug down a id sighing about being de feated. I am encouraged when I hear this cry of Joshua as he lies In the dust. God conies and rouses him. How does he rouse him—by complimentary apos trophe? No; he says: "Got thee up! Wherefore Host thou upon thy face?" Joshua rises and, I warrant you, with a mortified look. But his old courage comes back. The fact was that was not his battle. If he had been In it, he would have gone on to victory. He gathers Ids troops around 1dm and says: “Now let us go up and capture the city of Al. Lot us go up right away.” They march on. lie puts the majority of the troops behind a ledge of rocks in the night, and then he sends comparatively small regiments up In front of the city. The men of Al come out with a shout. The small regiments of Israelites in stratagem fall back and fall back, and when all the men of Al have left the city and are In pursuit of these scattered or seemingly scattered regiments Joshua stands on a rock. 1 see his locks flying In the wind as he points his spear toward the doomed city, and that is the signal. The men rush out from behind the rocks and take the city, and it Is put to the torch, and then these Israelites in the city march down, and the flying regiments of Israelites return, and between these two waves of Israelitish prowess the men of Al are destroyed, and the Isra elites gain the victory. The Sun of (he Wicked. P.ut this is no place for the host of Joshua to stop. “Forward, march!” cries Joshua to the troops. There Is the city of Gibeon. It has put Itself under the protection of Joshua. They send word: “There are five kings after us. They are going to destroy us. Bend troops quick. Send us help right away.” Joshua bos a three days’ march, more than double quick. On the morning of the third day he Is be fore the enemy. There are two long lines of battle. The battle opens with great slaughter, but the Canaanites soon discover something. They say: "That is Joshua. That is the man who conquered the spring freshet and knocked down the stone wall of Jericho and destroyed the city of Al. There is no use fighting.” They sound a retreat, and as they begin to retreat Joshua and his host spring upon them like a panther, pursuing them over the rocks, while the catapults of the sky pour a volley of hailstones into the valley, and all the artillery of the heavens, with bullets of Iron, pound the Canaanites against the ledges of Bethboron. “Oh.” says Joshua, “this Is surely a victory,” “But do you not see the sun is going down? Those Amorltcs are going to get away after all, and then they will come up some other time and bother us and perhaps destroy us. See, the suq js going down. Oh, for a longer day than has ever been seen in this cli mate!" What is the matter with Josh ua? Has he fallen In an apoplectic fit? No. He is In prayer. Look out when a good man makes the Lord his ally. Joshua raises his face, radiant with prayer, and looks at the descending sun over Gibeon and at the faint crescent of the moon, for you know the queen of the night sometimes will linger around the palaces of the day. Pointing one hand at the descend ing sun and the other hand at the faint crescent of the moon, In the name of that God who shaped the worlds and moves the worlds he cries, “Sun, stand thou still upon Gibeon, and thou, moon, In the valley of Ajalon.” They halted. Whether it was by refraction of the sun’s rays or by the stopping of the whole planetary system I do not know flud do not care. I leave It to the Chris tian Scientists and the Infidel scientists to settle that question while I tell you l have seen the same thing. “What!” say you. “Not the sun standing still?” Yes. The same miracle Is performed nowadays. The wicked do not live out half their day, and their sun sets at noon. But let a man start out In battle for God and the truth and against sin, and the day of his usefulness is pro longed and prolonged and prolonged. (Irace of the Goapel. John Bmmmu'field was a consumptive Methodist He looked fearfully white, I am told, as he stood in the old Sands Street church, in Brooklyn, preaching Christ and again on the anniversary platform in New York pleading for the Bible until unusual and unknown glo- rjee foiled fortlj from that boolf. When he was dying, his pillow was brushed With the wings of an angel from the skies, the messenger that God sent down, pid John Sinnpierfield’s sun set? Did John Hummerfield's day end? Oh, no! He lives on In his burning ut terances In bcbulf of the Christian church. He said: “I cannot die now. I am only 27 years of age. Sun of my Christian inllucncc, stand thou still above America,” and It stood still. Robert McCheyne was a consumptive presbyferlftn. If was said when U« preached he coughed so it seemed as if ho would never preach again. Ills name is fragrant In all Christendom. That name is mightier today than was ever his living presence. He lived to preach the gospel in Aberdeen, Edin burgh and Dundee, but he went away very early. Ho preached himself into fhe grave. Has Robert |tlpCbeyqe!| sun set? Is Robert McCheyne’s day ended? Oh, nn! Hla d“UrlHW was filled with prayer, ami when he lifted bla hand to pronounce the lame- diction upon his family and Hie bene diction niton Ids country he seemed to aay; “J canpof die now. 1 want to live on and on. I want to start an influcuce for the church that will never cease. I am only 30 years of age. Sun of my phrlstinn ndplstry, stand still over fecotland." And It stood suit. But Joshua was not quite through. There was time for five funerals before the sun of that prolonged day set. Who will preach their funeral sermon? Mas- pjllqit preached the funeral sermon gver Lduis X+f. Who >ill) prepch the funeral sermon of those five dead kings - king of Jerusalem, king of Hehrou, king of Jarmuth, king of Lachlsh, king of EglouV Let It be by Joshua. What is his text? What shall be the epitaph t int on the door of the tomb? "There hall noj any man able to stand pe- fore thee all the days of thy life.” Be fore you fasten up the door I want five p.oip klpps beheaded and thrust in— Ring Alcohol, Rliig Fraud, King Lust, ~ erstUion. King Infidelity. Let them be beheaded and hurl them In. Then fasten up the door forever. What shall the Inscription and what shall the epitaph be? For all Christian philan thropists of all ages are going fo pomp mid look at It. ‘What shdll the Inscrlp- tlw be? ‘ There nhall Jfot Huy man Iw able to stand before thee nli the days of thy life.” .Io*hnn’* (irmtent Ilnttle. But it Is time for Joshua to go home. Ho Is 110 years old. Washington went down the Potomac and at Mount Ver non closed his days. Wellington died peacefully at Apsley House. Now, where shall Joshua rest? Why, he is to have his greatest battle now. After 110 years be has to meet n king who has more subjects than all the present population of the earth, his throne n pyramid of skulls, his parterre the graveyards mid the cemeteries of the world, his chariot the world’s hearse— the king of terrors. But If this Is Josh ua’s greatest battle It Is going to be Joshua’s greatest victory. lie gathers Ids friends around him and gives his valedictory, and It is full of reminis cence. Young men tell what they are going to do; old men tell what they have done. And as you have heard a grand father or great-grandfather seated by the evening fire tell of Monmouth or Yorktown and then lift the crutch or staff as though it were a musket to fight and show how the old battles were won, so Joshua gathers his fronds around Ids dying couch, and he tells them the story of what he has been through, and as he lies there. Ids white locks snowing down on Ids wrinkled forehead, I ask If God lias kept Ids promise all the way through. As he lies there he tells the story one, two or three times—you have heard old people tell a story two or three times over— and lie answers, “I go the way of all the earth, and not one word of tho promise has failed, not one word there of has failed; all has come to pass, not one word thereof has failed.” And then he turns to Ids family, ns n dying parent will, and says: “Choose now who you will serve, the God of Israel or the God of the Amorites. As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.” A dying parent cannot he reckless or thoughtless of his children. Consent to part with them forever at the door of the tomb we cannot. By the cradle in which their Infancy was rocked, by the bosom qn which they first lay, by the blood of the covenant, by the God Joshua, It shall not be. We will not part, we cannot part. Jebovah-Jireh, we take thee at thy promise. “1 will be a God to tliee and thy seed after thee." Dead, the old chieftain must be laid out. Handle him very gently. That sacred body is over 110 years of age. Lay him out, stretch out those- feet that walked dry shod the parted Jor dan. Close those lips which helped blow the blast at which the walls of Jericho fell. Fold the arm that lifted the spear toward the doomed city of Al. Fold it right over the heart that exulted when the five kings fell. But where shall we get the burnished gran- .ite for the headstone and the foot- stone? I bethink myself now. I imag ine that for the head It slmil be the sun that stood still upon Gibeon and for the foot the moon that stood still In the volley of Ajalon. [Copyright, 1WX), Louis Klopsch, N. Y.] Do Not Read Dally Papers. [Our Silent Pnrtncr.1 "Remember that over half of the people in the United States never see a daily newspaper. These people eat, drink and buy clothes, and they have more time to answer ads sooner than their city cousins.” Thus asserts a Chicago mail-order advertis ing man. Important Matters. Matters of importance will come up before the officers and members of the First Methodist church in the City Hall Sunday morning. All members of the church are earnestly requested to be present. Glorious Nows. Comes from Dr. D. B. Cargile, of Washita, I. T. He writes: “Four bottles of Electric Bitters has cured Mrs. Brewer of scrofula, which had caused her great suffering for years. 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It will save you more in worriment and spoiled victuals than you will have to pay for one. Carroll, Carpenter & Humphries. INSURANCE. Life, Fire, Sick Benefit and Accident. Ask why i-tat*- Life of [ndiuiiiipolls can save you 111 per cent, of your premium? B. D. WILSON. Commercial Hotel. Kodol Dyspepsia Cure Digests what you eat. It artificially digests the food and aids Nature in strengthening and recon structing the exhausted digestive or gans. It is the latest discovered 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 imperfect digestion. Prlco 50c. and fl. Large size contains 25G times small size. Book all about dyspepsia maUed free Prepared by E. C. DeWITT ft CO . ChlcaQO. Letters of Administration. COCAINE*™ WHISKY of i um ’ ,n “** UunTroJ. or rfiferenee*. 25 y<-ur» a M*rialtr. Book on Bft WOOLLEY* M. D*. Atlanta* Ca. Bankrupt Sale. Notice is hereby given that the stock of general merchandise formerly belonging to 10 firm f,i Benson ft Holland, bankrupts, of Lafl noy, S. ( will be offered for sale on Thursday, Nov. l!xx). The stock amounts to and is made up as follows: Dry goods and notions $ lh;; cj Clothing and jeans tjyoi s hoes til 2 44 Furniture and fixtures. . 2S1 35 Hardware, groceries and sundries .. 157 07 The stock was accurately taken at absolute cost and will In: sold by the Inventory. The trustee will receive bids on the above stock till noon on Thursday, Nov. 22, irsm. re set vlng tin- right to reject any or all bids. Parties wishing to inspect the stock can do so by calling on the trustee. Terms of sale: Cash. W. c. Hamrick. Trustee. Nov. lti-20. Bakery and Restaurant. I have bought the Bakery and Restaurant formerly run by W. A. Peeler, and will bo glad to serve the public with anything in my line, at the same stand. Best attention given to customers. F. C. BRIGGS. State ok South Pauoi.ina, » County or Ciikuokkk. \ By.T. E. Webster. Esquire, Probate Judge. Whereas E. A. Trescot has made suit to me to grant him letters of administration of the estate and effects of TelT. G. Sanders, de ceased, These are therefore to cite and admonish all and singular the kindred and creditors of the said Jeff. U. Sanders, deceased, that they be and appear lieforenie, in the Court of Prohate, to In: held at Cherokee court house, Gaffney, S.C., on Saturday, Decemlior 1st, next after publication thereof, at eleven o'clock in the forenoon, to show cause, if any they have, why the said administration should not 1h- granted. Given under my hand, this 10th day of No vember, Anno Domini P»<H', J. E. Webster, [L. S.l Probate .1 udge. Published in Gaffney Ledger issues 20th aud 27th Nov., 1!mjo. Sheriffs Sale. State of South (’auoi.ixa, i County or Cherokee, f By virtue of a lieu warrant to rne directed by the Clerk of Court of Cherokee County, I will sell at public auction for cash, at W. N. Tur ner’s store, in this county, on Salesday, Monday, December .ird, the following de scribed p rvmal property, to wit: 8 two-horse loads of corn, 11*74 pounds of seed cotton, 73 bushels of wheat, a lot of fod der and corn tops; the same being sold to se cure rent to Mrs. W. N. Turner by Cassle Wilkins and Ella Dorman. W. W. Thomas, Sheriff Cherokee County. ll-13-l!i<J0-2t-20-27 Hill IT relation Is a Loaf of Bread to a D>comotlve? Why! why! Give it up. What Is it? Mother; of course. How so? Why, necessity Is the mother of invention. See? And I am here to furnish you w ith plenty of‘'necessity,” made right, baked right, and full weight. BREAD ROLLS CAKES BP NS PIES RISK CREAM PUFFS. Etc. Come all you lovers of good, clean, whole some bread to Fincken’s Bakery, (Opposite Ledger Otliee) Insure Your School Houses In the Cherokee Mutual. Nero fiddled and danced while Rome was burning; Kropatkln fired Moscow while the I rench were looting the city, freeing the criminals to do it and huseverheen regarded by bis countrymen as a patriot, while Nero )•* stamped as the monster of the ancient world. As a trustee you may learn some morning tb it your school house has vanished into smoko and ashes, injuring not yourself but i iie little tots who are dependent upon your foresight and provision lor their mental and intelb-ctiial development. Delay is danger ous. The weather is getting cool and fires may lie expected. Write Rev. A. D. DAVIDSON. Gaffney, or FRANK McLUNEY, Abingdon, S. C.. Agents. OPERA HOUSE Thursday Night, Nov. 23. AN OCEAN OF MERRIMENT WITHOUT A LOBSTER IN IT. HARRT WARD'S ~ MAGNIFICENT MINSTRELS. Management WARD & MURPHY. America’s Largest, Grandest and Rest Min strel Organization, 40 CELEBRATED ARTISTS 40 HAieKY WAI*I>. 'I he next President of Minstrelsy. Burt Gardner. The Great Newton. Eddie Doyle. Mullen ft Vonder. Tho Marvelous Briggs. Decker ft Busch. The Harmonic Quartet. PROF. MASON'S SOLO BAND. GRAND PARADE. Scats on sale at A. B. GAINES. ” 'J " Farming and Mineral Lands for Sale. On Monday, the third day of December next (salesday), the National Bank of Ches ter, S. ('., it) liquidation, will sell at public outcry at Gaffney, Cherokee county, the en tire lands formerly held by the Magnetic Iron ami Steel Ore Company, containing twelve hundred and eighteen (121s) acres, more or less; said lands lying 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 1. capable of fiig|i development, Also tho Quinn tract on which are valuable mines of iron ore with eleven mining blocks or tracts, lying within the [and* of the Gaffney Lund aud Improve ment Company; also excellent river bottoms and farming lands, adapted to cotton culti vation. Also will sell at same time and place all the mineral interest* in a tract of one hun dred and seventy five ucres and known us Uio Wilson Traci »*r Mine No. 4. Terms of ■ate, cash, to be paid within ten (10) days or resale at the risk of the purchaser, at the discretion of the bank. The bank reserves tho right »uodivlde said general trivet Info vpm.r tracts prior to tho sale. A1.*, n. •• 11 all or any portions of mo vract at private sale, If deemed advisable to do so. Incase of subdivision map will lie pre pared sbo^lnat the sumo. Warrantee titles free from all lien <vr in cumbrance will lie iiiiwle or hud made. Those land-., ate sold under und subject to erection of dam, haukuge, fiowage aud over- ilow, and all other rights Incident or apper taining lo said water power und rights of way to aud from said mines as set fortli in the conveyances thereof. Purchaser* to psy fo, ...: i.euawsary papers. (PV-PttfiO -tump*, eve. NATIONAL BANK OF CHESTER, In Liquidation. By J. J. McLuua, Prwa. li-lft-ii ITor-^ Building aud Plastering Lime, Coal, iind Plaster Hair, Plaster Paris. Rosendale Cement, Portland Cement, Dynamite, Blasting Powder, Fast; and Dynamite Caps, call on Limestone Springs Lime Works CARROLL & CO., Lessees. Telephone 57. Tax Notice. The tax levy for Cherokee County for fiscal year 1800 is as follows: For State purposes, 5 mill*. For Constitutional Sehrol Tax, 3 mills. For Ordinary County Tax, 4 mills. For New Jail, I mill, EojCounty Ronds. 1 mill. For Sinking Fund Rn^ytoovlllo, Gowdoys- vllle. White Plains, Morgan aud Limestone Townships, 2 milt* For ?il«*iug Fund Cherokee Township, 1% Mills. For Interval <>n Railroad Bonds Cherokee Town .hip, 1 mill. For Gaffney Graded School District No. 10, 214 mills. For Blacksburg Graded Schmd District No. 0, 4 mills. The ft.00 Commutation Rood Tax for 1001, payable from Oct lath, VO Feb. 1st, 1U01, age from !l to :ai yeai*. t >rili pe *u the follow ing places for the pur pose of collecting taxes: At office from Nov. 15th until Dec. 31st. J. u. Jones, Co. TrxsvHurrr. Gaffpcy, S. C.. Sept. IStll. 11)00. »-U-tf