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The text is Proverbs xxv, 11 (revised version), “A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in baskets of silver.” A filigree basket loaded with fruit is put before us In the text. What is or dinarily translated “pictures” ought to be “baskets.” Here is a silver network basket containing ripe and golden ap ples, pippins or rennets. You know’ how’ such apples glow through the openings of a basket of silver network. You have seen such a basket of fruit on many n table. It whets the appe tite as well as regales the vision. Sol omon was evidently fond of apples be cause he so often speaks of them. While he writes In glowing terms of pomegranates and figs and grapes and mandrakes, he seems to find solace as well as lusciousness in apples, calling out for a supply of them when he says in another place, “Comfort me with ap ples.” Now r you see the meaning of my text. “A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold In baskets of silver.” Y'ou see, the wise man eulogizes just one word. Plenty of recognition has there been for great orations—Cicero’s arraignment of Catiline, the philippics of Demosthenes, the five days’ argu ment of Kdmund Burke against War ren Hastings, Edward Irving’s dis courses on the Bible and libraries full of prolonged utterance—but my text ex tols the power of one word when it re fers to “a word fitly spoken.” This may mean a single word or a small collection of words—something you can utter In one breath, something that you can compact into one sen tence. “A word fitly spoken”—an en couraging word, a kind word, a timely word, a sympathetic word, an appro priate word. I can pass right down the aisle of any church and find be tween pulpit and front door men whose temporal and eternal destinies have been decided by a word. A Word ot Sympathy. I tell you what is a great crisis in ev ery man’s history. It Is the time when he Is entering an occupation or profes sion. He is opposed by men in middle life because they do not want any more rivals and by some of the aged because they fear being crowded off and their places being taken by younger men. Hear the often severe and unfair ex aminations of young lawyers by old lawyers, of young doctors by old doc tors, of young ministers by old minis ters. Hear some of the old merchants talk about the young merchants. Trow els and hammers and scales often are jealous of new trowels and new ham mers and new scales. Then it Is so dif ficult to got introduced. How long a time has many a physician bad his sign out before he got a call for his services and the attorney before lie got a case! Who wants to risk the life of ids family to a young physician who got his diploma only last spring and who may not know measles from scar latina, or to risk the obtaining of a ver dict for $20,000 to an attorney who only three years ago read the first page of Blackstone? How' is the young merchant to com pete with his next door bargain maker, who can afford to undersell some things because he can more than make It up by the profit on other things or has failed three times and had more money after each failure? How’ Is that mechanic to make a livelihood when there are twice as many men in that trade as can In hard times find occupa tion? There are this very moment thousands of men who are Just start ing life fof themselves, and they need encouragement-not long harangue, not quotation from profound book, not a page, not a paragraph, but a word, one word, fitly spoken. Why does not that old merchant, who has been 40 years In business, go Into that young merchant’s store and say, “Courage!” He needs only that one word, although, of course, you will Il lustrate It by tolling your own experl- mco and how long you waited for cus tomers, and how the first two years you lost money, and how the next year, though you did better. Illness In your household swamped the surplus with doctor’s bills. Why does not that old lawyer go Into that young lawyer’s of fice Just after he has broken down In making his first plea before a Jury and say that word with only two syllables, “Courage!” He needs only that one word, although, of course, you will Il lustrate it by telling him how you broke down in one of your first cases and got laughed at by court and bar and Jury, and how’ Disraeli broke down at the start and how hundreds of the most successful lawyers ' .the start broke down. Why do ncu-'fhe success ful men go right away and toll those who are starting what they w’ent through and how their notes got pro tested and what unfortunate purchases they made and how they were swin dled, hut kept right on until they reached the golden milestone? Even some who pretend to favor the new be ginner and say they wish him well put obstacles In his way. Lack of ConraB*. There are so many men who have all the elements of usefulness and power except one—courage. If you can only under God give them that, you give them everything. In Illustrating that one word show them that every man that ever amounted to anything had terrific struggle fihow him what ships Decatur nau to tight, and what a moun tain Hannibal had to climb, and what a lame foot Walter Scott had to walk with, and that the greatest poet who ever lived—Milton—was blind, that one of the grandest musicians of all the ages—Beethoven—was deaf and that Stewart, In some respects the greatest merchant that America ever saw’, be gan In his small store, dining on brca< and cheese behind the counter In a snatched Interregnum between custom era, he opening the store and closing it sweeping it out with his own broom and being his own errand boy. Show them that within ten minutes’ walk there are stores, shops and factories and bgmes wherfi as brave deeds have been done as those ol Leonidas at Theriiiopyho, ns that of Horntius at the bridge, as that of Colin Campbell at BaluKlava. Till them what Napoleon said to his staff officer when that offi cer declared a certain military attempt to be Impossible, ‘impossible!’’ said the great commander. "Impossible Is tin* adjective of fools!” Show them also that what Is true In worldly directions is more true in spir itual directions. Call the roll of proph ets. apostles and martyrs and private Christians from the time the world be gan and ask them to mention one man or woman greatly good or useful who was not depreciated and (Iniled and made a laughing stock. Hacks and prisons and whips and shipwrecks and axes of hcheudment did their worst, yet the heroes were more than conquer ors. With such things you w ill Illus trate that word “courage,” and they will go out from your presence to start anew and right, challenging all earth and hell to the combat. Help the Fallen. That word “courage,” fitly spoken with compressed lips and stout grip of the hand and an intelligent flash of the eye—well, the finest apples that ever thumped on the ground in an autumnal orchard and were placed in the most beautiful basket of silver network be fore keen appetites could not be more attractive. Furthermore, a comforting word fitly spoken is a beautiful thing. No one but God could give the inventory of sick beds and bereft homes and broken hearts. We ought not to let a day pass without a visit, or a letter, or a mes sage, or a prayer consolatory. You could call five minutes on your way to the factory; you could leave a half hour earlier In the afternoon and fill a mission of solace; you could brighten a sickroom with one chrysanthemum; you could put a postscript to a letter that would bring the joys of heaven to a soul; you could send your carriage and give an afternoon airing to an in valid on a neighboring street; you could loan a book with some chapters most adapted to some particular misfortune. Go home today and make out a list of things you can do that will show sym pathetic thoughtfulness for the hardly bestead. How many dark places you might illumine! How many tears you could stop or, If already started, you could wipe away! How much like Je sus Christ you might get to he! So sympathetic was lie with beggary, so helpful was he for the fallen and so stirred was he at the sight of dropsy, epilepsy, paralysis and ophthalmia that, whether he saw it by the road side. or at the sea beach, or at the min eral baths of Bethesda, he offered re lief. Cultivate genuine sympathy, Christlike sympathy. You cannot suc cessfully dramatize it. False sympa thy Alexander Dope sketches In two lines: Before her faro her handkerchief bIio spread To hide the Hood of tears she did not shed. There are four or five words which fitly spoken might soothe and emauci- pate and rescue. Go to those from whose homes Christ has taken to him self a loved one and try the word "re union,” not under wintry sky. but In everlasting springtide; not a land where they can be struck with disease, but where the inhabitant never says, “I am sick;” rmt a reunion that can be followed by separation, but In a place “from which they shall go no more out forever.” For emancipation and sigh ing. Immortal health. Reunion or If you like the word better anticipation. There Is nothing left for them In this world. Try them with heaven. With a chapter from the great book open one of the 12 gates. Give them one note of seraphic harp, one flash from the sen of glass, one clatter of the hoofs of the horses on which victors ride. That word reunion or anticipation fitly spoken— Well, no fruit heaped up in silver baskets could equal it. Of the 2,000 kinds of apples that have blessed the world not one Is so mellow or so rich or so aromatic, but we take the suggestion of the text and com pare that word of comfort fitly spoken to apples of gold In baskets of silver. Soun<1 (he Alarm. So also Is a word of warning. A ship may sail out of harbor when the sea lias not so much as a ripple, but what a foolhardy ship company would they he that made no provision for high winds and wrathful seas. However smoothly the voyage of life may begin we will get rough weather before we harbor on the other side, and we need ever and anon to save some one utter ing In most decided tones the word “Beware!” There are all the tempta tions to make this life everything and to forget that an inch of ground Is lar ger ns compared with our eternal exist ence. There are all the temptations of the wine cup and the demijohn ns tills or any other century has heard of. There are all the temptations of pride and avarice and base Indulgence and Ungovernable temper. There Is no word we all need oftener to hear than the word “beware.” The trouble Is that the warning word Is apt to come too late. We allow our friends to he overcome in a fight with some evil habit before we sound an alarm. After a man is nil on fire with evil habit your word of warning will have no more effect than would an ad dress to a house on lire asking It to stop burning, no more use than a steam tug going out to h<*lp a ship after It has sunk to the bottom of the ocean. What use in word of warning to that inebri ate whose wife was dying from wounds inflicted by his own hand. As he held the hand of his dying wife he made this vow, “Mary, 1 will never take another glass of strong drink unti I take It from this hand which I now hold.” In an awful way he kept the vow, for when the wife was In her cof fin he filled a glass with brandy, put tho glass Into the dead hand, then took the glass out of her hand and drank the liquid. Too late does any warning come to such a one. But many a man now high up In usefulness and honor was stopped on the wrong road by a kindly hand put upon the shoulder am a word fitly spoken. Ah, yes, fitly spo ken—that Is, at the right time, with the right accentuation, with the right em- phiisjfi. A dictatorial way, a condem natory manner, a fault finding tone ol! voice, a manner which seems to say, “Look at me and do as I do,” will only make matters worse. From such a re proval the Inebriate will go out to take a drink sooner than he would have taken it and the dissolute man a worse plunge Into sin. The word of warning must be charged and surcharged with sympathy. You will practically say to I the man, “I suppose you got Into your t phsaent habit through overwork, anti you took stimulus to keep up and do the work you nuist do.” or, “I suppose It was through Illness, and you took an liitox'ennt hist ns a medicine," or, “You are a hail fellow well met, and you took the liquid In sociability,” or: “You were the representative of a com mercial house that expected you to treat customers. I understand It all. If 1 bad been in the same circumstances, I would probably be fast In the same thraldom.” By some such alleviating introduction prepare the way for a “be ware!” that will halt your friend on the wrong road as suddenly as any platoon of soldiers was ever halted. Swing the red lantern across that track and stop that train before it readies the chasm! Speak Gently to the RrrlnK. There must be no Impatience In the warning we give others. We must real ize that but for the kindness of God to us we would have been in the same rapids. That man going wrong may be struggling with a tide of evil inherited from father and grandfather and great grandfather. The present temptation may be the accumulated force of gen erations and centuries. “No,” you say; “his father was a good man. I knew him.” But did you know his grandfa ther? Evil habit is apt to skip one generation, a fact recognized In the Ten Commandments, which speak of tho third and fourth generation, but say nothing of the second generation. Or the man astray may have an un happy home, and that Is enough to wreck any one. We often speak of men who destroy their homes, but do not say anything about the fact that there are thousands of wives In Ameri ca who by petulance and fretting aud infonsideratlon and lack of economy and all maimer of disngrceuhleness drive their husbands Into dissipation. The reason that thousands of men spend their evenings in clubhouses and taverns is because they cannot stand it at home. 1 know men who are 30 year martyrs In the fact that they are aw fully married. That marriage was not made In heaven. Without asking di vine guidance they entered Into an alli ance which ought never to have been made. That is what is the matter with many men you and I know. They may be very brave and heroic and say nothing about It, hut all the neighbors know. Now, If the man going wrong has such domestic misfortune he very lenient and excusatory in your word of warning. The difference between you and him may be that you would have gone down faster than he Is going down if you had the same kind of con jugal wretchedness. Besides that, you had better he mer ciful in your word of warning, for the day may come when you may need some one to be lenient and excusatory to you. There may be somewhere ahead of you a temptation so mighty that unless you have sympathetic treat ment you may go under. “Oh, no,” says some one; “I am too old for that” How old are you? “Oh,” you say. “I have been so long In active business life that I am clear past the latitude of danger.” There is a man in Sing Sing penitentiary who was considered the soul of honor until he was W) years of age and then committed a dishonesty that startled the entire commercial world. Divine Arehltectnre. In mentioning Hue arts people are apt to speak of music and painting and sculpture and architecture, but they forget to mention the finest of all the fine arts, the art of doing good, the art of helping others, the art of saving men. An art to he studied ns you study music, for it is music In the fact that it drives out moral discord and substitutes eternal harmony. An art to be studied like sculpture, for It is sculp ture In the fact that it builds a man not In cold statue, but In Immortal shape that will last long after all pentclican marble has crumbled. An art to be studied as you study architecture, for it Is arehltectnre In the fact that it builds for him a house of God. eternal In the heavens. But an art that we cannot fully learn unless God helps us Our selves saved by grace divine, we can go forth to save others, and with a tender ness and compassion and n pity that we could not otherwise exercise we can pronounce the warning word with mag nificent result The lx>rd said to the prophet Amos, “Amos, what seest thou?" and he answered, “A basket of summer fruit.” But I do not think Amos saw In that basket of summer fruit anything more Inviting and lus cious than many n saved man has seen In the warning word of some hearty, common sense Christian adviser, for a word fitly spoken Is “like apples of gold in baskets of silver.” So also is a word of invitation potent and beautiful. Who cau describe the drawing power of that word, so small and yet so tremendous, “Come?” It U a short word, but Its influence is as long as eternity; not a sesquipedalian word spreading Its energy over many syllables, but monosyllabic. Whether calling in wrong direction or right di rection many have found it irresistible. That one word has filled all the places of dissipation and dissoluteness. It is responsible for the al>ominatious that curse the earth. Inquire at the door ol! prisons what brought the offender there and at the door of almshouses what brought the pauper there and at the door of the lost world what was the cause of the incarceration, and If the Inmates speak the truth they will gay, “The word ‘come’ brought us here.” Come and drink. Come and gamble. Come and sin. Come and die. Pro nounce that word with one kind of in flection, ami you can hear in It the toll ing of all the bells of conflagration am woe. Tho chief baker In prison In Pha raoh’s time saw In dream something quite different from apples of gold in baskets of silver, for he said to Joseph, “I was also In a dream, and, behold, 1 had three white baskets on my head, and In the uppermost basket there was all manner of baked meats for Pha raoh, and the birds did eat them out o 1 the baskets ujK)n my head.” Joseph In terpreted the dream and said It meant that the chief baker should be behead ed, and the birds would cut his flesh. Bo many a man has in bis own bm habits omens of evil that peck at him aud foretell doom and death. A MiBbt? Word. But, oh, the power of that won "come” when aright uttered! We do well when we send young men Into schools and colleges ami theologies seminaries and by nine years of In- structlon and drill hope to prepare them to sound aright that sweet am cmapturlug and heaven descended word “come.” The gospe! we bellotP In Is n gospel of "come.” That word speak all the churches. That word Is now building thrones for conquerors and burnished coronets for kings and queens. That word Is to sound so clear ly and Impressively ami divinely that the day is advancing when all nations shall respond: “We come! We come!” And while tho upper steeps toward God and heaven will he thronged with redeemed souls ascending there will not be one solitary traveler on the road of sin and death. In the Kremlin at Moscow is what Is called the “King of Bolls,” but It Is a mined bell, and it has sung no sound for near 200 years. It Is 07 feet In cir cumfercnce, and In height it is more than ten times the height of tho aver age men, and It took a score of men to swing Its brazen tongue. It weighs 200 tons. On the 19th of June, 1700, in a great fire !t fell and broke. It broke at the part which was weakened by the Jewels which the ladies of Moscow threw Into the liquid metal at the cast ing. Tho voices of that bell are forev er hushed. It will never ring again ei ther at wedding or obsoquy or corona tion. What majestic and overpowering silence! Enthroned and everlasting quietude! One walks around it full of wonder and historical reminiscence ami solemnity. On it are figures In relief representing czar and empress and Christ and Mary and the evangelists. But as I stood before it last summer 1 bethought myself of a greater bell and one still ringing. It Is the gospel bell ages ago hung on the beam of the cross. It has vaster circumference and with mightier tongue sounds across seas and continents and awakens ech oes amid Alpine and Himalayan and Sierra Nevadan ranges. The jewels of affection thrown Into it at its casting by ransomed souls of earth and heaven have not weakened It, but made It stronger and more glorious. Evangel ists and apostles rang it. and martyrs lifted their hands through the flames to give It another sounding. It will ring on until all nations hear it ami accept Its invitation. “Come, come!” It will not fal!, as did that of Moscow. No storm can stop it. No earthquake can rock It down. When the tires of the last day blaze into the heavens amid the crash of mountains and the groan of dying seas, its clear, resound ing voice will be heard calling to the Inst Inhabitant of the burning planet, “Come, come!” But It requires now no groat strength to ring that hell With this weak hand, yesterday formed and tomorrow turned to dust I lay hold that gospel bell in in vitation to all to whom these words shall come on whatever land or what ever sea. In high places or low. I ring out the word. “Come, come!” Come and have your sorrows solaced. Come and have your wounds healed. Come and have your blindness illumined. Come and have your fatigues rested. Come and have your soul saved. Do you not hear the very last proclamn tion from the heavens which the seer of Patmos was commissioned to make: ‘The sp'rit and the bride say come, and let him that henreth sny come, and let him that is athirst come. And whoso ever will let him take the water of life freely?” Aye, hear you not the chime of many gospel bells In the Invitation this moment sounding from the heav ens, “Come out from among them and be ye separate,” salt!) the Lord, "and touch not the unclean thing, and I will receive you and will bo a father unto you. and ye shall be my sons and daughters,” saith the Lord Almighty. Come and sit down at the King’s ban quet Was there ever such a brilliant feast or so many royal guests? Here are the chalices filled not from the breweries of earth, but with the “new wine of the kingdom.” And here are the ripe, purple clusters of Eschol, and pass them around to all the banqueters —“apples of gold In baskets of silver.” (Copyright. 1000. Louli Kloptch, N. Y.] A REMARKABLE CASE. A Young Man Takes lOO Urulns of Cocaine hml lOO Ciicarettes Daily. The Columbia Record tells of a sad, though remarkable ca:e, of a young man, formerly of that city, by the name of Dent, who uses to an aston ishingly great degree morph ne, co caine, whiskey, cigarettes and any thing and everything, it seems, that contains an opiate. He is in a tertibie condition and his case should be a warning to all young men who are inclined to tamper with whisky or morphine. The Record says: “He is addicted to the morphine, cocaine, whisky and cigarette habits to an extent that is wonderful even to the medical profession. It is as serted that he takes 10 grains of morphine, 100 grains of cocaine, li pints of whisky, 1.75 grains of atro pine and 100 cigarettes daily. His mind is little affected, but he realizes himself that he mus'; be cured or death will soon claim him. He is a son of the late Sheriff Dent. His own story is that in 1895 he was in jured in a wreck on the Texas and Pacific railroad, in Texas, and had 13 ribs broken, his heart knocked five and one half inches out of place, one arm broken, and his palate and throat torn open. He lay in a hospital for two or three months under opiates, and it was thus that he contracted the terrible habit. He has a wife and two ^children and made his way back to bis former home penniless. Some of his friends are subscribing to a fund to give him the Keely treat ment, and arrangements will doubt less he made to care for his wife and children in the meantime.” UlortouM News. 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 forytars. Terrible sores would break out on her face, aud the best doctors could give no help; blither cure is complete and her health is execellent.” This shows what thousands have proved.— that Eletric Bitters is the best blood purifier known. It’s the supreme remedy for eczema, tetter, salt rheum, ulcers, boils and running sores. It stimulates liver, kindneys and bowels, expels poisons, helps digest ion builds up the strength. Only 50 cents. Sold by Cherokee Drug Company. The boy who has no skates cuts ro ice. Each package of Putnam Fadeless Dye colors more goods than any other dye and colors them better. Bold by 8. B. Crawley <fc Co. Hnlllflrri Mt-kluocy. O.i the 23rd of December Mr. James It. Holl'fiild, of Brooklyn, ltd to the altar Miss Mary Hue McKini ey, of this city. Both are popular young people of their community. Tin words that joined the happy pair f<>r life were pronounced by Rev. C. M. Teal. A bountiful dinner was g^vi n by the bride’s parents, followed I y one by the parents of the grocm Mr. and Mrs. N. J Holliflcld. After many congratulations t!, ■ happy pnir stirted for our thrivii g city to vis t Mr. Hollilield’s brother and sister, Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Hurd who also gave a nice dinner in honor of the occasion. Don’t use any of' the counterfoils of DeWitt’s Witch Huzil Halve. Most of them are worthh ss or liable to cause injury. The original Do- Witt’s Witch Hazel Halve is a certain cure for piles, eczema, cuts, scalds, burns, sores and skin diseases. Cher okee Drug Co. Opening of Books of Subscription, State of South Carom x a, » County of Cherokee. ( Pursuant to a commission Issued lo tin* un- derslKtied as corporatcrs liy M. K. ‘'nopvr. Secretary of Suite on the Soil, day of Ikx-em- l»er, 1W0. notice Is hereby ffiven that hooks of subscription to the capital stock of the Cherokee Iron Company will he opened at- Lipscomh’s Hotel, in the city of Gaffney. S. c State and County aforesaid, on 3d January, I'.mi, at It. a. ni. The said propos *d corporation will have a capital stock af $.'10,0011, divided into 300 shares of the par value of $100 each, with its princi pal place of business at Gaffney, S. C., and will be empowered to engage in the business of mining, shipping and selling iron ore or other minerals, to erect a blast furnace or furnaces, or other machinery to work up ores.and to deal generally in iron and steel products. John L. Brack. \V. A. Davis, J. V. Sarratt, Corporators. 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 tlie 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. Price 50c. and |L Large size contains 24 times small size. Book all about dyspepsia mailed free Prepared by E. C. DeWITT ft CO.. Chicago. If you want to be miserable tliii k a') u yoi rself, about what you lik , *hi*t red, o ut people oug 'V y mi and whiit people think o' you. Tax Returns for the Year I3GI. I will tipi'ii thi' IkxiUi fur tbc puipos,- of re ceiving relumi* of pr • My fur luxation, for the year 1!«H, m the \ uditur's olliee In the i OUrt house, bi lie town of <,ffne) . .*'. i *.. on Tuesday, lie lirsl d iy of .1 umary. 1901, and will remain at theolliei u ni i I Saturday the 5th January. 19HI, and will !»• it the follow ing precinels at tho limes named Iwlow. At llullaio Sehool House, iy,, donday the 7lh January, 1 i|. At Kings < reek, on Tuesday I he -ih Jan uary. l!*U|. At I herokee I ails, Wednesday, Mb Jan uary. I!XH. At Blaekshurg. on Tlcais \ d : .May, 101 h and 111 h .1 anna i y. 1. i. At Antioch, on Salur.iay, i:iti January, 1901. AlGrussy Tond, < a Moi, ay. Hih.l nuury, 1901. At Maud, on Tie ^ , ,y, IM h lanuary, 1N>L At L/.ell x, on Wedne.s iay, January 1901. At Macedonia, on Thursday, l.'ih January, 1901. A'. \\ Idle Plains, on Friday, 1'ili January, 1901. At Thick, ty Station, ou Saturday, pjii, Jan uary, UiOl. At Draylouvilie, on 'Jomlny. 21-t January, 1901. At \\ ilkinsvili. , on I u. - lay. 2..*d January, 19o|. At Sarratt s. Prldui. ire'* -id e, W' I ties Jay 29<1 January. T> i. At T. H. Littlejohn's More. Thur lay, 24th January, i'.id. At Kavelin, Brown's St,ire. T i day, 2.ith January, t Ml. At limber Bridge, on Saturday, January 2iith. 1901. At Allens, Bowlinsv iile, Monday,Jan uary, 1901. And at the A udi tor’s olllee uni i in ray of February, 1901, after which t tie t!.. ,u per cent will at tach. All persons are reiiuostcd to s.iv t , wha school district lin y belong or live i . Those living in School Districts Nos. 9 no lo to state on their return low mm li <d tin,, prop erty lies within said .school dis:: t and how much lies outsidcof said >. hooi to; i, t : also all lands bought or sod. v.iio from and who to, and to what lands it joins; iso all ne.v buildings and their vain- : also wn. budd ings have been dcs!toyed by fire and their value, since last return. All perso.is failing to return to Auditor are nt|u red t i make their returns Indore a Magistrate or \.,i ary Public, sworn to in due form as pi scith*d on blank returns, lx-Ion sending ti m in, and all articles assessed .tend/, d. Do m t say same as last year; sueh returns cans.- confusion. V . D. < mu, Auditor < lie ink' e County. 11-27 to Fob. 2<i N. B. Mr. W. Henry Boss, my a--.i t .nt, .vil! be in my office amt will tie plea-< d to tayour returns during my al'sem-e. All jh r-.m- n the town of Gaffney will plea -.-make fu,; re turns of all real property, eitln r I, a.iit oi sold, who from, who to. and all m w ,u mgs, whether wood or brick, with valuati n, ,r any other changes. \V. D. Cami", Auditor. S. C. & G. E. R. R. CO Schedule No. 4. In Effect 12:01 A. M., Sunday.December 24th, V Between Camden.S.C. and Blacfcsburg.S.C WEST. KAS’I 3ft. |33. ' 1 :« . r , 'J) » £ 1 * 5 1 0 j £ rs x ! «-» O'! EASTERN TIME. STATIONS. P. M. 8 2d 8 50 9 20 10 50 11 20 11 3s 12 30 1 00 1 20 2 30 2 50 3 10 4 10 4 45 5 30 0 00 6 25 6 35 7 00 P. M. P. M. 12 50 1 15 1 27 1 40 2 10 2 15 2 35 2 50 3 00 3 10 3 20 3 40 3 5.5 4 02 4 20 4 its 4 50 5 00 5 20 p. M. 1 CAMDEN DEKALB . . WEST VI LI.E ... KERSHAW HEATH SPRINGS PLEASANT HILL ....LANCASTER ... RIVERSIDE SPRING DELL CATAWBA JUNC'N . ...LESLIE ....ROCK HILL .NEW PORT ... .. TIRZAH ... YORKV1LLE .. SHARON HICKORY GROVE SMYRNA .. BLACKSBURG P. M. 12 251 12 02 11 5o! II STi 1 II 20! 11 15; 10 55, 10 4(i 1U 30 10 2t)j 10 10I 10 00 9 35 9 id 1 9 15 9 00; 8 4.5; 8 35; 8 15i A. M. 1 Between Blacksburg,S.C., and Marion,NX. WEST. F AST. 11 33. 32. 12. X X X X X J. r. X ’* Ti 0 0 0 5 ♦J X EASTERN TIME. V"S Cl (m u 'O © u a & U £ 4* 7S, ■ STATIONS. X 2 e-S aft >. >>3*s 5 4--C T* ^ mm ill X A. M 1* M A. M. 1*. M . 8 10 5 30 BLACKSBURG . 7 48 ti 40 8 30 5 45 EARLS 7 t; jo 8 40 5 50 PATTERSON SP’GS 7 2.> « 1-' 9 20 ti 00 SHELBY ... 7 15 ti 00 10 00 6 20 . . .LATH MORE t; 55 4 50 10 10 « 2> MOORUSBORO.. ti 4* 4 4e 10 25 ti 38 ...HENRIETTA t; 38 4 20 10 50 « 55 FOREST CITY ti 3n 3 50 11 1:5 7 10 RUTHKKFOKDTON ti 05 3 35 11 35 7 22 MILLWOOD 5 53 t 05 11 45 7 35 GOLDEN VALLEY 5 40 2 50 12 05 7 40 . THERMAL CITY 5 37 2 45 12 25 7 58 GLEN WOOD... 5 1? 2 20 12 50 8 15 MARION 5 Ot: 2 00 F. M. P. M. A. M. P. M. WEST. Gaffney Division. EAST. 1st Class. 1st Cl 11*8. 15. 13. EASTERN TIME. 14. i 16. "TJ -1:! 15 i = STATIONS, - r- * s ”3C| V. “Us 3 1 *x P M A M I A M V M 100 6 00 BLACKSBURG 1 7 50 3 (X) 1 20 6 30 CHEROKEE TALI S 7 30 1 2 40 1 40 ti 40 GAFFNEY .. 1 7 10 | 2 20 P N A M 1 A M 1* M rain No. 32 leaving Clarion. N. C„ at.5 a. m ting close connection at Blacksburg, S with the Southern's train No. 30 for Chor- e, N. C.. and all points East, and conuect- wtth the Southern's vestibule going pi unta, Oa., and all points West, and will *lve passenger* going East from train 10 on the C. ft N. W. R. It., at Vorkvtlle, ., at 8.45 11. m.. and connect* at Camden, ., \ tli the Southern's train No. 7»arrlv- in Charleston. S. at 8.17 p. m. rain No. 34 with passengeroonck attached, ring Blacksburg at 5.00 a. in., and con- ting at Hock Hid. S. ('.. with the SoUth- » Florida train for all points South, rain No. 33 leaving Camden, S. e , at 12.50 a., after the arrival of the .southern’s ,rleston train connects at Lancaster, H. with the L. ft C. It. R.: at Catawba Juuet with the S. A. L., going East, at Bock I, S. C.. with the Southern's train No. 34 Charlotte, N. C., and all points East, inects at Yorkvllle, S. C.. with train No. 9 he C. ft N. W. R. K., for Chester, H. C. At ckshurg with the Southern's vestibule ig East, and the Southern's train No. 35 ig West, and connecting at Marlon, N. U., h the Southern IsithLast and West. HAML'Kl. HI NT, President. . TKIPP, Superinteudrut >. M (LITMPkIn Uen'l. Pal Aar'itf SOUTHERN RAILWAY. Oandansed Schedule of Pa.xenger Train* In Effeat May 6th, 1900. Kerthbauad. N«, 12. Daily. Ves. No. 38. Dally No. 18. Ex. Sun. FstM* No. 3ft Daily. Lv. Atlanta,CT 7 80s 12 COm 4 30p 11 50p " Atlanta.ET 6 50a 1 OOp 6 30 p 12 &ua “ Norcross .. 9 80s 0 23p 1 26a " Buford. 10 05 a 7 CO p 1 58a •' Gainesvill* lb 35 a 2 25 p 7 83]. 2 18 a " Lula.... lO 5aa 1 45 p 8 OOp 2 Ska “ Cornelia.... 11 25a 8 80 p “ Mt. Airy... 11 3o& 8 85 ;> Lt. Tocgoa 11 53 a 8 83 *> 9 OOP 3 28 a Ar. EtWtoa.. 6 40 p ll 45 a Lv. Elbwton... 9 00a Lv. Wminster. 12 ;;lm ~nn " Seneca. 19 52 p 4 16 p 4 28a “ Central 1 42 p 4 60 a “ Greenville. 8 8tp t 22 p « Oua “ bpar'burg. 8 87 p 8 13 P 7 oSa “ Gaffney 4 20 p 6 40 p 7 45a " Blacksburg 48»p 8 02a " King e Jut.. “ Gastonia... 6 '46 p 8 27 a 8 61 a “ Charlotte.. 5 so p i 18 p " 9 50a Ar. Gro'nsboro 0 55 p 10 47 p .... 12 23p Lv. Gre’psboro 11 45 p Ar. Norfolk ... 8 26a Ar. Danville... 11 25 p 11 63 p| 1 88 p Ar. Richmond.. 6 00s 6 00s 6 Up Ar. Wblngton. _ 0 42 & 8 50 p “ P’more P R S 00 a 11 25p “ Ph'dolphia. 10 15 a 2 56a “ New York. 12 dtm 6 23a FstMa Vea. Renthbeumd. No. 38. No. 37. No. 11. Daily Daily. Daily Lv. N.Y .Ps R. 12 15 s 4 8<>p “ Ph'delphia. 8 80 a C 65 p " Baltimore.. C 22 a 0 2op " Wash’ton.. 11 15 a 10 45 p Lv. Richmond.. 12 01 n 11 OOp 11 OOp ..... Lv. Danville... 8 43p 5 50 a C 10 s Lv. Norfolk. . 9 00a 8 85 p Ar. Gre'neboro • 35 p 5 15a Lv. Gre'nsboro T lOp T 05 a T 37* Ar. Charlotte. 9 45 p 9 25 a 12 C-om Lv. Gastonia. . 10 42p 10 07 a 1 12p “ King's Mt.. 1 S8p M Blii'^sburg 11 25 p 10 46 a 8 Odp “ Gaffney.. 11 42 p 10 68 a 9 2lp m Hpar’burz. 12 26 s 11 84 i. 8 15 p M Greenville 1 8ua 12 S0p 4 Wp " Central .. 6 27 p “ Beneca.. * 82 a 1 80 p 6 83 P •• W'minster 6 lOp •' To'-coa „ 8 23 a t i5p 8 46p / Lv. Klhert'in.. 9 Our 1 801/ >r Elberton.. 11 45 a 5 40;. Lv. il*. Airy. “ Cornelia.. •• Lula. 4 18a i iip, " Gainesville 4 33 a 6 bu/ “ Buford. 6 02 a “ N ororosn. 6 25 a Ar. Atlanta,RT 6 10 a iv “ Atlanta.CT 5 lo a 8 56 b Batween Luln and Roll. I Ex. |No. 13. Fuu. Daily. STATIONS. No. 1. Dally * 6 10p 11 Ci a Lr .Luis .Ar 6 51 P 11 3*5 a “ May.vllle “ 6 60p; 11 52 a “ Harmony “ 6 UOp 1 12JfOjj Ar^. Athetis_.Lv 10 50 a 10 19 a Id 08 1 — Sole close oonnactloa made at Lola main Une trains. “A" s m. “P" p. m "M" aeon. “H" algkL Chesapeake Line Ktesnier. in dally eervlM between Norfolk and Baltimore. Nos. 37 and Bh—Dally Washington and Southwestern Vestibule Limited Through Pullman sleeping can between New York and New Orleans, vis Washington, Atlanta aud Montgomery, and aleo between New York and M"mjihls, vis Washington, Atlanta aud Bir mingham. Also elegant Puli.Ma* LiBRART Ouskhvatiok Cars batween Atlanta and Nsw York. Ptrstclast thoroughfare roaches b*> tween Washington ami Atlanta. Dining oarg serve all meals sa routs. Leaving Washing* ingh’U Mon svs, Wehnssday* and Priday* _ ty« a lourlst sie-uhia car will run through betwe Wai-hlugtoB and Lan Praneisoe without sSaai s.es tng oars berws l. ClOSS 1 g room 1 Norfolk. ; oars 1 oouna Puiiman lira win Hr- euslioro and Norfolk for Ou> PotitT Compos No t. u6 and 86—Unittd States 1 , solid 1*1 we«n Washington and Nsw Orlsana via Houthim Ral way, A. ft W. P. R. R. and L ft N. K. K.. bslEg sBMpoasd of goaqhaf through without < * e tisss. Polim* tw esn Nsw ¥1 lanta and Moatfoms Bingham and Atlanta men s en route. Nos 11. K). Mend IB het wig n Richmond and vllls. southbound Jfsa U Nos. 64 and 19 rkANKH.UAJI Third V P. ft !