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IPTION MISSION Ol' CIIltlST. Do not think for a single moment that consumption will ever strike you a sudden [blow. It does not corne that ’way. it creeps its way along. First you think it is a little cold, nothing but a little hacking cough; then a little loss in weight; then a harder cough; then the fever and the night sweats. Better stop the disease while it is yet creeping. Better cure your cough today. You can do it with The pressure on the chest is lifted, that feel ing of suffocation is re moved, and you are cur ed. You can stop that little cold with a 25 cent bottle; harder coughs will need a 50 cent size; if it’s on the lungs the one dollar size will be most economical. “ I confidently recommend Ayer's Cherry Pectoral to all my patrons, 1 am ui»i!i£ it now in my own family. Forty jvarsaco 1 Jrcl sure it sa\*Hi my life.” A. 8. Eidso.v, M.D., Jim. 4,1898. Fort Madison, Iowa. Writ* the Doctor at any time. Ad- dress, Du. J. C. AYFK, Dowell, Mass. Cheap for Cash, I carry a line 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. Remember 1 sell the best axes for tin- h ast money. Yours to ph ase, I. M. PEELER. A. N. WOOD, BANKER, dots t general iJunknig and Exchange business. Well secured with Burglar- JProof safe and Automatic Time Lock. Safety Deposit Boxes at moderate rent. Buys and sells Stocks andBonds. Buys County and School Claims. Your business solicited. • • STOP IN at • • Sparks & Humphries FOIt Fresh « Oysters IN ANY STYLE. i/owncy’u, Tenney's uiul utinalJy's Fine Candies I. m,sc and in P.ickajp s. FRESH FRUITS. lint Sodas. Hot < liocolatc. Clarn Houillnn, Tomato Bouillon, l.hjuid Uc-cf and Urupc Kola, and a full linn of ICtincy Con loot inner :Vh. WALLACE & OTTSJ LAWYERS. fairs, between K. A. Jones and I’lion.- r. J. K WEBSTER, Attorney-A.t- Ofllcelu Ojurt House (ProbatO'Judxu suffice Gaffney City, S. C. Practices in all the courts. Collec tions a specialty DR. J. F. GARRETT 1 Dentist, Gaffney, - - - S. C. Ofilco over J. ii. TolJeson’s new store In office from )sl to 2Gth of each month: Dr. C. T. LIPSCOMB. Dentist, Office over 8. A. loot, & Co ’• Store. Can he found at office six days In th*» week -eJ. C. JF-Ff-'iiRILSs- (1AHFNEY, S. C. Comim-T.'iarl Imw. Corporation Caw Itral J'xlate Law. Money u> loan on approve.] M’curlty. JAMES A. WILLIS, ATTOBNKV AT LAW, <iA. V. t-v. CJ. Notary Public In office. Promyt atU-nUou Klvun to all busIn' M. Ofllee over R. A. Jones At (Jo.'n ht/»re. U.U.Duncan 0. P.Handera. W.H.Hall.Jr OUHCAK, SAIDERS & HALL, Attornoys-at-Law. over J. R. 1 uileeou'* ft Co.'s Store. WAS TO TEACH THE WORLD THAT GOD IS LOVE. Ur, Tnlmnae In Ilia Sermon Ue- uerlbea the Sjinnuthy mid Com- linaaloH of fhe Alutiithty KIiik. KxplMlNa V. Ii >• tbe Holy Hiblc \\ ns Written. Washinotox, Dec. 2.1.—In lliis dis- comso D.'. Talma go describes in a new way the sacrifices made for the world’s dixtnthrallmcnt and deliverance. His text Is I John Iv, 10, “God is love.” Perilous undertaking wonl 1 it be to attempt a comparison between tbe at tributes of (lod. They are not like a mountain range, with here and there a higher peak, nor like the ocean, with here and there a profounder depth. We cannot measures infinities. We would not dare say whether his omnip otence or omniscience or omnipres ence or immutability or wisdom or justice or love is the greater attribute. But the one mentioned in my text makes deeper impression upon us than any other, it was evidently a very old man who wrote the chapter from which I take the text. John was not in his dotage, as Professor Eichhorn asserted, but you can tell by the repe titions in the epistle and the rambling style and that he called grown people “little children” that the author was probably an octogenarian. Vet Paul, in midlife mastering an audience of Athenian critics on Mars hill, said nothing stronger or more Important than did the venerable John when he wrote the three words of my text, “God is love.” Indeed the older one gets the more he appreciates tills attribute. The harshness and the combativeness and the severity have gone out of the old man, and he is more lenient and, aware of his own faults, Is more disposed to make excuse* for the faults of others, and he frequently ejaculates, “poor human nature!” The young minister preached three sermons on the Justleo of God and one on the love of God, but when be got old he preached three sermons on the love of God and one on the justice of God. I)<-Hcent of flit* Prince. Far hack in the eternities there came a time when God would express one emotion of his nature which was yet unexpressed. He had made more worlds than were seen by the ancients from the top of the Egyptian pyramid, which was used as an observatory, and mom worlds Ilian modern astronomy has catalogued or descried through tel escopic Kns. All that showed the Lord’s almightincss, but It gave no demonstration of ids love. He might make r>0 Suturns and 100 Jupiters and not demonstrate an instant of love. ’That was an unknown passion and the secret of tbe universe. It was a sup pressed emotion of the great God. But there would come a time when this passion of infinite love would Ire de clared and illustrated. God would veil it n< longer. After the clock of many centuries had run down and world* had been born and demolished, on a comparatively obscure star a race of human brings would be born and who. though so bountifully provided for that they ought to have behaved themselves well, went into Insurrection and con spiracy and revolt and war —finite against infinite, weak arm against tlmnuprbolt, man against God. Jf high intelligences looked down and saw what was going on, they must have prophesied extermination — com plete extermination—of these offenders of Jehovah. But, no! Who Is that coming out of the throneroom of heav en V Who is that coming out of the palaces of the eternal? It is the Son of the Emperor of ihn jinlverse. Down the stairs of the high heavens in; come* t!U l.o reaches tho cold air of a Decem ber night In Palestine and amid tho blcntlngs of sheep, and the lowing of cattle, and the moaning of camels, and the banter of the herdsmen takes his first sleep on earth and for 23 years in vites the wandering nice to return to God and happiness and heavoi). They were the longest 33 years ever known in heaven. Among many high intelli gences what impatience to get him back! The infinite Father looked down mid saw his Son slapped and spit on and supperless and homeless, and then, amid horrors that made the noonday heavens turn black In the face, his body and soul parted. And pi) for what? Why allow tbe Crown Princu to come on such an errand and endure such sorrow ami .lie such u death? It was to invite the human race to put down its antipathies and resistance. It was because “God Is love.” A Conaollnic Statement. Now, ti:ere is nothing beautiful in a shipwreck. We go down to Ipok at the battered and split hulk of an old ship on the Long Island or New Jersey coast. It excites our Interest. Wo wonder when and how it came ashore /md whether It was the recklessness of a pilot or a storm before which noth ing could hear up. Human nature wrecked may Interest tho inhabitants of other worlds as a curiosity, hut there Is nothing lovely In that which has foundered on the rocks of kin and sorrow. Yet It was In that condition of moral break up that heaven moved to the rescue. It was loveliness hov ering over deformity. It was the life, boat putting out into the surf thbt at tempted its demolition. It was har mony pitying discord. It was a living God putting his arms around a rec reant world. 'The schoolmen deride the Idea that God lias emotion. Tpoy think it would lie a divine weakness to be stirred by ony earthly spectacle. The God of the learned Bruch and Sehieiermacber is an Infinite Intelligence without feeling, a cold and cheerless divinity. But the God we worship is one of sympathy ami compassion and hclpfulncsb and affection “God Is love.” In ail the itioia there is no more con solatory statement. Tho very best peo ple have in their lives occurrences in explicable. They are bereft or perse cuted or impoverished or Invalided. They have only one child, and that dies, while the next door neighbor has seven children, ami they are all spared, The unfortunates buy at a time when the market Is rising and the day after the market falls. At a time when they need to feel the best for the discharge of some duty they aro seized with physical collapse. Trying to do a good and honest and us.Yal thing, they are misrepresented and belled as if they hud practiced a vUloiUL There are jh epic who an uioit* hves nave sutrered injustices, others of less talent, with less consecration, go on and up, while they go on ntid down. There are in ir my lives riddles that have never broil explained, heartbreaks that have never been healed. Go to that man or tlfat woman with i hilosophlc explana tion. and your attempt at comfort will lie a failure, and you will make mat ters worse instead of making them bet ter. But let the oceanic tide of the text roll in that soul, and all its losses and disasters will be submerged with blessing, and the sufferer will say, ‘J cannot understand the reason for my ♦ roubles, but I will some day under stand. And they do not come by acci dent. God allows them to come, and ‘God is love.’ ” Ulvlnc I’ltv. But for this divine feeling 1 think our world would loug ago have been demolished. Just think of the organ ized wickedness of the nations! Bee the abominations continental! Behold the false religions that hoist Moham med and Buddha and Confucius! Look at the Koiun and the Shastra and tho Zend-Avesta, that would crowd out of tin* world the Holy Scriptures! Look at war, digging its trenches for the dead across the hemispheres! See the great cities with their holocaust of destroy ed manhood and womanhood! What blasphemies assail the heavens! What butcheries sicken the centuries! What processions of crime and atrocity and woe encircle the globe! If justice bad spoken, it would have said, “The world deserves annihilation, and let annihi lation eome.” If immutability had tpoken, it would have said: “I have al ways been opposed to wickedness and always will be opposed to It. The world is to me an affront infinite and away with it!” If omniscience had spoken, it would have said, ‘T have watched that planet with minute and ail comprehensive inspection, and I cannot have tbe offense longer contin ued.” Lf truth had spoken, it would have said. “I declare that they who of fend the law must go down under the law.” But divine love took a different view of * jo w orld’s obduracy and pol lution. it said: ”! pity ail those woes of the earth. I cannot stand here and see no assuagement of those sufferings. I will go down and reform the world. I will medicate its wound... I will calm its frenzy. I will wash off its pollution. I will become incarnated. I will take on my shoulders and upon my brow and into my heart tbe con sequences of that wpi'id’a tuisbehaviop. L start now, and between my arrival at Bethlehem and my ascent from Oli vet I will weep their tears and suffer their griefs and die their death. Fare well, my throne, my crown, my scep ter, my angelic environment, my heav en, till 1 have llnished the work -and come back!” God was never conquer ed but once, and that was when be was conquered by his own love. “God is loye.” In this day, when the creeds of churches arc being revised, let more emphasis be put upon the thought of my text. Let it appear at the begin ning of every creed and at the close. The ancients used to tell of a great military chieftain who, about to go to battle, was clad in armor, helmet pi, head and sword at side, and who put out ids arms to give farewell embraa to ins child, and the child, affrighted at his appearance, ran shrieking away. Then the father put off the armpr that caused the alarm, and the ciiiid sa'V who lie was and ran into Ills arms and snuggled against his Jk art. Creeds must not have too much iron in their inake nil, terrorizing rather than at tracting. Tj,ey must not hide the smil ing face and the warm heart of oaf Father, God. Let nothing imply that there is a sheriff at every door ready to make arrest, but over us all and around us all a mercy that wants to save and save now. >Yliv (1)^ Dilile Was Written. u one panigrppn pr fim preeq seems to take you, like a child, out of tho arms of a father, let the next para graph put you in the arms of a mother. “As one whom ids mother coraforteth so will I comfort you.” Oh, what a mother we have in God! And my text u the lullaby sung to us when we are Hi or when we are maltreated or when we are weary or when we are trying tq do tie tier op when we are bereft or when we ourselves lie dOWM tP the lasj: sleep. We feel the warm check of tho mother agalmt our check, and there sounds in it the hush of many mothers, “God is love.” Tlds was the reason the Bible was written. The world petdg po Inspire^ page to tell it that God will chaxtisu t>iu, fur that Is proved in the life of many an offender. You can look through the wicket of any prison and see tho fact which the world understood thou sands of years before Solomon wrote It. “The way of the transgressor is hard.” The world needed no Bible to tell It that God la opinipojent, for tiny one who has seen Mont Blanc or Niagara or the Atlantic ocean in a cyclone knows that. The world needed no Bi ble to tell It of God's wisdom, for ev erything, from a spider’s web to tbe upholstery of a summer’s sunset, from |jjc globe of a dewdrop to the rounding of u world, declares thaf. But there was one secret about God that wat, wranped up In a scroll of parchment and It stunt tncru until apo»|o|ig (ptinj unrolled that scroll and let out upon tin* world the startling fac t, which It could never have surmised, never guessed, never expected, that he loved our human race HO ardently that he will pardon sin mid subdu* the offend er with a divine kiss and turn foaming malefactors Into worshipers before the throne. Oh, I am so glad that the se cret is out and that it can never again do veiled- Tell it to all the sinning, suffering, dying race, tell it in sotig and sermon on canvas and In marble, on arch and pillar; tell It all around the earth—“God Is love.” Notice that the wisest men of the nations for thousands of years did not JUi amid tli<‘lr idolatries make somefliing to represent tills feeling, this emotion. They had a Jove, representing night; Neptune, tho of the sea; Minerva, the goddess of wisdom; Venus, the god dess of base appetite; Ceres, the god dess of corn, and an Odin and an Osiris and a Titan and a Juggernaut and wtiptu pantheons of gods and goddess es, but no shrine, no carved image, no sculptured form, has suggested a g<»tl of pure love. That was beyond human brain. It took a God to think that, a (Jod to project that, a God let down from heaven to achieve that. Kals4 llellKiwns. J'ear W the dominant thought in all Muse religions, t or tnat tire TtevotW 1 * cut themselves with lances and swing on Iron hooks and fall under wheels and Imld up the right mm so long that they cannot take it down. Fear, bru tish fear! But love Is the queen In our religion. For that we build temples. For that we kneel at our altars. For thiil we contribute our alms. For that martyrs suffered at Brusi Is market place and at Lucknow and Cawnpur and Peking. That will yet bejewel tho round earth and put it an emerald on the great, warm, throbbing heart of God. The world has had many specimens of slandered men and women, their mo tives slandered, their habits slandered - slandered until they got out of tho world and then perhaps honored by elaborate eulogium and tall shaft of granite, all four sides chiseled with the story of how good and great they were. But no one under the heavens or over the heavens lias ever been so much slandered as God. Bad men have fought against him and have thought they heard Ids voice In the crash of a thunderstorm, but have not seen him in the sunshine of the spring morning. They have blamed him for wrongs which they bad done themselves. The sight of a church building excites their disgust. They like the madrigal of a saloon better than the doxology of a temple. They do not want to live with him in heaven, but would prefer on leaving this world to go into some realm where God has abdicated the throne and from which he is exiled forever. The reason is they do not know him. They do pot realize the fact that God is the best friend tills world ever had or ever will have and that lie would do more for their happi ness than any one in the wide uni verse, that he would help them In the wear and tear and tussle of this life, that he would hush their sorrows, that he would help cure the evil habits with which they sometimes struggle, that he would at their request not only for give, but forget, the wrong filings In their life. Yes; forget! And fhaf is the only tiling that God ever does for get—pardoned transgression. The best memory in the universe is God s mem ory, and he remembers all that has transpired in all time and in ail eter nity save one kind of oecurreneo. That passes completely out of his memory, lie declares, “Their sins and their in iquities will I remember no more.” CouvincinK Proof. Do you want more proof that “God is love?" Yea, disinterested Jqye. Nq compensation for its bestowal. No to ward for its sacrifices. But 1 call that back. The world did pay him. It paid him on Calvary, paid him with bram bles on the brow and four spikes, two for the hands and two for the feet, and one spear for the side near the heftriq paid him in execration, paid him with straw pillow in a barn and a cross on a hill, paid him with a third of a century of maltreatment and hardship save one year—yea, is paying him yef in rejec tion or Ids mission of mercy. Having dethroned other kings, the world would like to dethrone the King of kings. fTut he knew what lie was coming to when he left the portals of pearl and the land where the sun never goes tfowt;. Yes; he knew the world, how cold It is. nncf knew pain, how sharp it is, and tho night, how dark it is, and expiation, how excruciating it Is. Out of vast eternity he looked forward and saw Pilate’s criminal courtroom and the rucky bluff with three crosses t|ml I he lacerated body In mortuary surround ings and heard the thunders toll at tha funeral of heaven’s favorite and under stood that the palaces of eternity would hear the sorrow of a bereft Goj|. What (h-> the Bible and the church lit urgies mean when they say, “He de scended Into hell?” They mean that Ids soul left his sacred body for awhile and went down into the prison of moral night and swung buck its great door and lifted the chain of captivity and felt t! lc ‘ awful his|i that WQdid have come down on the world's hack and wept the tears of an eternal sacri fice and took the holt of divine indig nation against sin into himself and. having vanquished death and hell, came out and came up, having achiev ed an eternal rescue If we will accept It. Bepd It slowly, retjd It eolomply, rend it with tears, "He descended biiq hell.” He knew what kind of pa/ ho would get fur exchanging celestial splendor for Bethlehem caravansary, and he dared all and came, the most Il lustrious example in all the ages of dis interested love. Yea, it was most expensive !ov^. There is touch humUO love that costa nntblnfir. nothin* of fatigue, nothing of money, nothing of sacrifice, nothing of humiliation, But the most expensive movement that the heavens ever made was this expedition salvutory. It cost the life of a King. It put the throne of God in bereavement. It set the uni verse aghast It made omnipotence tyeep and bleed and shudder. It the ‘resources of the richest of al| em pires. It meant nngelle forces detailed t<> fight forces demoniac. It put three worlds into sharp collision-one world to save, another to resist and another to destroy. It charged on the spears and rang with the buttleaxes of human anil diabolic hate. Had the expedition of love been defeated the throne ot God Would have fallen, and sat in would havo mounted into supremacy, pud siq would have forever triumphed, and mercy would have been forever dead. The tears and blood of the martyr of the heavens were only n part of the In finite expense to which the Godhead went when It proposed to save the world. Now, the only fair thing for human hearts to do Is to echo back thag sover eign love. You and I Lave stood In mountainous regions where, uttering ono distinct word, uio echoes would come back with a resonance startling nud captivating, and from nil qur hearts there should sound unto the heavens responses glorious and loug continued. Let the world Change im style of payment for heavenly love. No more payment by lances, by hammers; no more payment by blotfs on the cheek and scourging on the back and booling ot mob*, hut payment In ardorii of soul, In true surrender of heart and love to the God that made us and the Christ who ransomed us and the Eter nal Spirit who by regenerating power makes us pH over again. <8&Ji t.nrry Snkut ttut*. On VVednesdsy night, December 19th, Mr. Larry Snead, ome of this city but now of Washington, D. 0., and Miss Lxlla Higgins, of Kxeley, were united in marriage at the home ' of the bride's parents in Easley. Kev. B. P. Robertson, of this city, performed tbe ceremony in tho pres ence of a few friends afld relatives of the bride and groom. The bride is a member of a promi nent family in this State and is one of the most popular young women of Easley. The groom is a promising young man of noble traits and manly char acter and is well liked by the people of Gaffney, among whom he has grown up. He now holds a splendid position in the United States treasury in Washington, D. C„ and rapid pro motion attests the esteem and confi dence with which he is regarded by the treasuiy authorities. May long life and much happiness be the lot of this worthy young couple is the sincere wish of The Ledger. Little Ht-itrU Maile tilad. There was a Christmas tree last night at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Gaines, on Victoria Ave nue, which was prepared especially for their children and some of their little friends. The tree was filled with all kinds of pretty things that delight the eyes of the young folks; and after the distribution of the presents roman candies, sky-rockets and firecrackers completed the hap piness of the little ones, all of whom enjoyed themselves as only children can. Three <>ood Hog*. E. Littlejohn, an industrious and prosperous colored farmer in the As- bury neighborhood, killed three hogs last week which weighed OH pounds net. They were only about fifteen months old and the amount of meat they produced seems as though it ought to pay for the trouble and ex pense of raising them. Emanuel Is a good liver and raises what ho eats at home. DO YOU GET UP WITH A LAME BACK ? of the law. K. J. M. Dl'IUIam. Miss M. E. Dukiiam. A LL person* »re herehy forhidden to trey- pas* on my land* for the nqrpnke of hunting, euttiiiK tljpU'L. etu.. uu<A'r p vaH lty of the law. ' Tf, n. L{m.a-lQHN. li-lf-Sl-ik NOTICE. Effective Jan. 1 st, 1901. All package freight not removed by own ers from the custody of the Railway Com- pany within forty-elkht hours, not iucUtdioz Sunday* or leifiil bol'duy*, eobipuled from 10:00 o Hook %. tp, of the day following date ofnqtli-ouf arrival, tdiulI thereafter lie sub- juri to a chance for .torair*. each day or frac tion of a day that such coiisliriiment* rnay rcrnulu In custody ot the Railway Company, of one cent per ICO itound* per day, with mini mum charfe of j cents for any one package or lot for one comdKuec, but not more than fl On |N-r day for any one roiisljrumeni not l>. excess of a car load. -?=■ gdnUnUf POSITIONS GUARANTEED, Undar $3,000 Cash Deposit. Kali road Vara Paid, to Both laser Vary Chaap Board. Boaineaa College, Maeon. OaorpM. mm Baas all yaar to Georgia-AJa nr u& MMlMgA-WHIMV HsMte Oared st nr Hi Ran.tor- nd red. . Book on . Addon. LLEY. M. D.. Atlanta. Cq. This signature is on every box of tha genuine Uxqtive Bromo-Qulnine the remedy that cwree a said te am* Bay Letters ot Administration. Statk or South Cabolina, i t/'OUXTV or C'BKKOKKK. f Hy J. E. Webster, Esquire, Probate Judice. Whereas J. Eb Jefferies, its {<le|kof uourt. lias made suit to me to Krunt him letters of iidmliitstmtlon of tbe estate and effects of Stephen Pearson, deceased. These are therefore to cite and admonish all and siriKular the kindred and creditorv pf the said Mtephvu Piarsjuq. dv>ft-«Ucd. that they bo and appear before me. In the Court of Pro bate, to be held at Cherokee court house, Gaffney, S. C., on Friday, January 4th, next after publication thereof, at eleven o'clock In tbe forenoon, to s(jo^ cu,.v, tf nay mey hart), any inosaid administration should not tic ifrantod. Given under my band this 34th day of No vember, Anno Dorn hi 1 Its*). J. E. Wkhhtmi, [L. H.] Probate Ji|d»e Published iu Gaffney Lodger ui l.sues Xov 27th, Dec. 4th. l)th. iHth. 2Sth. IIM). and Jan. 1st, 1Y0L Kidney Trouble Makes You Miserable. ki ^ fl Almost everybody who reads the news papers is sure to know of the wonderful , cures made by Dr. j. Kflmer’sSwamp-Root, j the great kidney, liver and bladder remedy, r It is the great medi- cal triumph of the nine teenth century; dis covered after years of ^ scientific research by t Dr. Kilmer, the emi nent kidney and blad der specialist, and is wonderfully successful in promptly curing lame back, kidney, bladder, uric acid trou bles and Bright’s Disease, which is the worst form of kidney trouble. Dr. Kilmer's Swamp-Root Is not rec ommended for everything but if you havekid- n*y, liver or bladder trouble it will be found just the remedy you need. It has been tested In so many ways, in hospital work, in private practice, among the helpless too poor to pur chase relief and has proved so successful in every case that a special arrangement has been made by which all readers of this paper who have not already tried it, may have a sampii bottle sent free by mail, also a book telling more about Swamp-Root and how to find out if you have kidney or bladder trouble. When writing mention reading this generous offer in this paper and send your address to Dr. Kilmer & Co..Bing hamton, N. Y. The regular fifty cent and Hom* of 8wunp-noot. dollar sizes are sold by all good druggists. Notice of Final Settlement. Hy permission of Hon. J. E. Webster, Pro bate Judtfe for I’liorokee County, S. I will, on Friday, January 4th next, at in o’clock a. in., make my tinal return as administrator with tbe will annexed, of the estate of John W. Ross, deceased, and sqiply for letters dis- ndwry. AH person* liiivin* claims against said estate are hereby notified to present them, properly attested, on or lx*fore that date, ur they will be forever barred, L. Ii. Ross, Admr., with the Will annexed, of tbe Estate of John \V. Ross, (It ceased. Published in Gaffney Ledger, Dec. 7, 14, 31, 2 K . 1900. lied Hot From the Gun Was the bull that hit G. B. Stead man of Newark, Mich., in the Civil War. It caused horrible Ulcers tliat no treatment helped for 20 years. Then Bucklen’s Arnica Salve cured him. Cures Cuts, Bruises, Burns, Boils, Felons, Coni'), Skin Eruptions. Best Pile cure on earth. 25 cts. a box. Cure guaranteed. Sold by Cherokee Drug Company, Pfuggists. Admiral Orowuinahield.in his annu al report to the secretary of the navy, declares that there are not men enough in the navy to fit out the vessels now afloat, and that Queers are breaking dowp ffom overwork. Don’t use any of tbe counterfeits of DeWitt’s Witch Hazel Salve. Most of them are worthless or liable to cause injury. The original De- Witt’s Witch Hagel Salve is a certain cure for piles, eejema, cuts, scalds, burns, sores and skio diseases. Cher okee Drug Co. Replying to an inquiry from the adjutant general, General Chaffee re ported the American artillery was su perior to any taking part in the at tack on Pekin. The Best Prescription for Malaria Chills and Fever is a bottle of Grove’s Tasteless Chill Tonic. Jt js simply iron and quinina in a tasteless form. No cure—no pay. Price 50c. We feed upon what we read ; but digest only what we meditate upon. I>r.. Hull’s Cough Syrup furnishes most substantial comfort and reljef t;. canau'mp- tlvi-s; it works rao« femarkablecures, tloii'v despair. Relief ean cprfalnly fie bad: a cure Is pOs.-Jble wllb tills wanfierlql remedy. - ■ J 'I II ■■ ■iwm Trespass Notice. A LL persons are forbidden to trespass on our lands for the purpose of bunting or cutting wood, under penalty of the law. Lice I’at hick. o. \V. LKqAbTKa. .i.!.., . J, H- rKpl.KH. 13-lMt-bd J. C. I,. ItHVNE. A LL persons are hereby warned not to trespass on our lanos for any purpose whatever under full 13-18-3t-pd Report of the condition of the National Hank of Gaffney, at Gaffney, in tbe State of South Carolina, at tbe close of business. Dec. 13, 1900. BMoUBCEH. Loans d»d discounts (jVfrdrafts, secured and unse* ured l -. S. Hood* to s urniture and fixtures National Hanks (not tte- i secure circulation 4 lixt Due from serve Agents) Due from State Hanks and Bank et* Due from approved reserve agents Internal Revenue stauijis Cheeks and other cash items * 1,350 ■*; Notes of other NathRpvl Hanks 1,470 "0 Fractional paper cur rency. nickels and uetits 70 89 Hpecle I3,:i53 76 Legal tender notes 1.130 00 Redemption fund with IT. S. Trcos. - 1<;.273 31 025 00 (-30 51 5 per cent, of circulation ... Insurance premiums due this bunk Total., .. |380,5OO 15 I.I A B1I.1TIES. Capital stock paid in ) .WOO <xi Surplus fund 5.000 00 undivided pro tits, less expenses and taxes paid 0.895 38 National Hank notes outstanding. 12,500 on Due to other National Hanks 4 8,sK3 07 Due to State Hanks and Hankers ‘».4Kfl 33 Individual deposits sub ject to check id»,4t| 19 Time certificate* o{ de posit. ...: 13.369 37 Ct*.rtlWed check* Mb ot iqsldcrs checks out standing 5,255 30— 160,104 87 Notes and bills redis counted 53,000 00 Total. I, D. (', Ross, ( ashler of tbe !', , .* J *-e named bank, do solemnly swvaf- Inal tbe above statement Is »rv,e »o tbe l>est of my knowl edge and belief. D. ( '. Ross, Cashier. Subscribed and sworn to before this 24th day of Decemls-r. 190". W. II. GOOPINO, N I*. Comet -Attest: F. G. Stacy, W. C.CAMPC STEIt. J. I, Hahratt, Directors. Do You Want Insurance ? I am nrepureu to furnish poli cies in the very pest companies at the lowest rates. If you want a bond I can make It for you, See me before you insure. F. G. STACY. Hulldiug and Plastering Lime, Coal, and I’lasU** Hair, Master Paris. Rosondule Cement, Portland Cement, DynimJB*, Blasting Powder, Fuse and Dynamite Caps, ‘•ail on Limestone Springs Lime Works CARROLL & CO., Lessees. Telephone 57, Notice of Final Settlement. Hy permission of Hon. J. E. Webster, Pro bate Judge for Cherokee County, H. C., 1 will on Thursday. January :>d. next, at 1" o'clock. U. m-, make my final return as administrator of Uio estate of J aim s G. Moore, deceased, and apply for letters dismissory. All persons having claims against said estate are hereby notiiied to present them, properly attested on or lief ore that date, ur they w Hi 1* forever barred. J. F.b Jefpebieh, As Clerk of Court, Admr. Est. Jas. G. Moore, deceased. Published in Gaffney Ledger Dec. 7, It, 21 and 38,11HJ0. Look Ont FOK THE Exchange Meat Market next to National Hank. I w ill •mil lleef. Pork and Sausage as cheap •'(- »h" ohoapest man In town, ijpd will have Chickens, Eggs and Hut- tor when they can Ikj gotten. Call and see me; 11 you don’t buy it won’t cause any hard feelings between us. I have a first-class mar ket. Good Heef Cattle wanted. The old meat cutter, W, J. MANESS. Telephone No. 17. *317,8*3 7'.! 33.510 125"0 "*1 31:8 73 3,129 53 2,331 53 827 3* 289 39 Opening of Books of Subscription, State or South Carolina ‘ CoPNtV OF CH i- KOKKE. ( Purtusiit to .> • obi nil.. Ion 1 ■ * e d 1. • • 1 m- dcr-iLin d .1 1 orpocatc, i»y M I. , Sccix-laiy o| '.lute on tlo .mb <1 ly . , Dei rin- f»er, 19i o. not Ice Is hereby given rl.ji bools of suljs rlpilou to (In , ipitjl Ux k of tbe • berokee Iron Coiiipiny will be opened fct Llpacotnh's Hotel, hi t he ejty ,f Gaffney.S r Slate and County aforesaid, on :ul January 1901, at II. a. in. The siild p repo- d corporation will haven capital dock affai.H-I.,Ii, . ed ini., o*bans of Hie par value of *100 e icli, with It:, prlncl- pul place of laislins, at CatTie - c. .nd Will he empowered , j„ | lL ; ar , h of milling, shipping and sell!:- • in i, . ,»• or other minerals, to , reel ; 4 Mast fuma.. or furnaces, or oilier ina.-hln ry t., work up ores.nud to deal geuei.iily ;n in.., ami m. d products. John L. Hi.u k. W. A. Dav J. V. Hakuai r, < • >rpor;itors. PEELER 4 LEMMORD. A<iENTS FOR Lowney’s Package Candy, Fresh supply just received. See our Xmas hones. Prompt Delivery For all ihc latest Novelties in Jewelry Gold and Silver Plated Ware For Wedding and (Ihiistmas Presents sec the old reliable watchmaker and jeweler, Thos. H, Westrope at ( raw ley’s <lru^ store. Now goods arriving daily for the hol iday trade. Tour House is on fire! may be the warning you receive *orn night as you awake to find your ALL ready to be consumed. Are you thin Insured V If n it. write to Rev. A. D. Davidson, Gaffney, or Frank McLuncy, Abingdon, Agents ui tho Cherokee Mutual Insurance Co. toenmo and write you u |>oli‘-y on your prop erty at once, for delay is danger.ms. Tho I arim rs’Mutual Insurance Co. of Cherokee County is u Home enterprise, is perfectly solid, and gives you the cheapest iu.surunco in the world, and wants all the people In tho county to share in it* benefit*. *286500 l.J Tax Returns (or tiie Year 1901. I w ill opt-n the books for the purpose of re ceiving returns of property for taxation, for the year at the Auditor’s office in tbe court house, in the town of Gaffney, S. C„ on Tuesday, tbe first day of January, 19P1, and will remain at the office until Saturday tho 5th Jununry, 1901, and w ill lie at the follow ing precincts at the times named is-iow. At Huifalo School House, on Monday the 7th January, t'.tol. At Kings Creek, on Tuesday the 8U, Jan uary. 1901. At Cherokee Falls, Wednesday, 9th Jan uary. 1901. At Klaekshurg, on Thursday and Friday* loth and 11th January. 1901. At Antioch, on Saturday, 13th January, I'M. At Grassy Fond, on Monday, 14th January, 1901. At Maud, on Tuesday, 15th January, 1901. At Ezell's, on Wednesday, hitli January 1901. At Macedonia, on Thursday, ITtli January, 1901. At \N hitc Mains, ou Friday, isth January* 1901. At Thickety Station, ou Saturday, 19th Jan uary, IDOL At Dray ton vi lie, on Monday, 31st January, 1901. At \\ ilkinsviile, ou Tuesday, 23d January, 1901. At Surratts. Hridmon store, Wednesday 2id January, 1901. At T. D. Littlejohn's Sto/c. Thursday, 24th January, 1901. At Ravena, Hrown’t Store, Friday, 23tfi January, 1901. At Timber Hridge, on Saturday, January 20th. 1901. At Aliens, Bowiitisville, Monday, 2*lh Jan uary, 1901. And at the Auditor's office until jerh day of February, 1901, after which time the 5" per cent will attach. All persons are requested to say to wha school district they b. long or live in. Thoao living in School District.* No*. 9 and to vt stale on their return how much of their prop erty lie.* within said school district and how much lies outside of said school district; also nil lands Is iglitor sold, who from and who to, and to what lauds It Joins: also all iievv buildings and their value; also what build ings have been destroyed by lire and their value, since last u turn, AH persons failing to r* tur it to Auditor are r**quTi*d to noiko Vi it 11 *8 turn* betore a Magistrate or Notary Public, sworn to In due form as preseilbed on blank retains, tiefure sending them in. and ail article* ass* * > d itemized. Do not say s;iiiii> a* last year; such tetuius causo eon fusion. W. D. Camp, A mil tor Cherokee t ounty. 11-27 to Ft b. 2" Kodol Dyspepsia Cure Digests what you eat. 11 urtiliclally dIk**sI s tiie food aud alda Nature In Ktreiih'Uicniiitf and recon structing tlio exhausted digcatlve or* F'ans. It is thelatestdiseoTereddiKest* ant and tonic. No other preparation can approfteh It In cflleloncy. It in- fttantly relieves and permanently cures Dyspepsia, IndlgoBtlon, Fleurtburn, Flatulence, Sour Stomach, Nausea, Sick Ui»atlache,Ga»LralKiu,Cramp* and all ot her rcsulta of Imperfect digestion. Price 50c. and $1. IJtrgc fctzecontalns2V4 time* uk nl 1 about dyspepsia mailed free E. c. r*MrnT 4 CO . Chicago- small size.Jlpuli ( Prepar«(Mr