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r-rr The fath:r? Jfc Gone forthe doctor. The mother? Alone w ith her suffer er in" cliild. Will the doc- ter never come? ^> r ;*■ When there '■?** * is croup in the house you can’t get the doc tor quick enough. It’s too dangerous to wait. Don’t make such a mis take again; it may cost a life. Always keep on hand a dollar bottle of Ii cures the croup at ► once. Then when any < ** one in the family cores ► down with a hard cold ► or cough a few doses of ► % the Pectoral will cut short the attack at once. A 25 cent bottle will cure u < a miserable cold; the 50c. ► size is better for a cold that has been hanging on. A keep the (fallur sue oa bscd. ‘‘About 25 years ago 1 came near dying with consumption, hut was cured witli Ayer’s cherry Pectoral, since whi.'h time I have kept Ayer’s i 4 4 medicini * in tic iious'* and recom- f A y, mend iliem to all my friends.” 4 < . 1>. Mathtwson, . 4 Jan. 1C, 1899. Bristol, Vt, ji Write the Doctor. If you have any cnmjiliiin’ whatever hikI di-slre tlio 4 * be-t medir it advice, write the doctor fr. .ty. Addn L Dr. J. C. AYKR, Lowell, Mass. 'i < l^or Iiull'linK and I'lns! film; Lime, (J.i 1 .!, and I’lastiT Hair, IMustor I*.iris. Koscudal*: Cement, Portland Cement, Dynamite, Hlasting Powder. Fuse ^ and I)jnumite Caps, call on Limestoae Springs Lime Works CARROLI. & CO., Lessees. Tcleplione .it. A. N. WOOD, BANKER, floes a general Hanking and Exchange basinets. v\ ell secured with Burglar- Proof safe and Automatic Time Lock Safety Deposit Boxen at moderate rent. Buys and sells Stock? andBonds. Buya County and School Claims. Your business solicited. DR. J. F. GARRETT, Dentist, Gaffney, - - - S. C. Otfloe over J R. Tolleaon’a new store In office from 1st to 26th of each month: Dr. C. T. LIPSCOMB. Dentist, Oflice over 3. A. |cne« ft Co ’* Store. Can i>« found at office si x davs in the week N. W. HARDIN, LAWYER. I’r.i I ice in all < onrl.i and all lirunclies of the l.aw. OHiee over .1. \V. 'I’nlleson 1 !! store. WAILACE & OTTS, LAWYERS. Office upstairs. Iietweeu U. A. Jones and Davenpoi t. Phono mT. J. E. WEBSTER. A t toi-nuy - A l- l.ll w. Office in Court Ho one. i Prehate'J udge s office GaHney City, S. C. Practices in all the courts. Collec- tiona a SFcciaity -<.J. C. JEFFERIES 4- oaffney, s. c. t ominrrciHl I,hw. Corporation I.itu Heal rulate l.i,w. Money to Ioaii on approved security. JAMES A. WILLIS, ATTORNEY AT LAW, < • -x i - j . ^ j ; , t-t. O. Notary Puliiic in office, I’roinpt attention ffiven to all business. Office over It. A. Jones & < .’o. s store. INSPIRING. REV. DR. TALMAGE LOOKS FAR INTO THE FUTURE. Predicts Marvelous \d t iinees—Hell- Kion mil Selene* in the Nest Hun dred Years—Millennium Will lleln- ntittaraled In This Century. Washington, Jan. 0.—In this dis- coiiivo Dr. Tnlinnge tells soiiielhiiig of what he expects the next hundred years will achieve, and declares that the outlook is most inspiring; text, 11 Samuel xxiii, 4, “A morning without clouds.” “What do you expect of this new century'/'’ is the question often asked of me, and many others have been plied with the same inquiry. In the realm of invention I expect something ns startling as the telegraph and the telephone and the X ray. In the realm of poetry I expect as great poets as Longfellow and Tennyson. In the realm of medicine I expect the cure of cancer and consumption. In the realm of religion I expect more than one Pentecost like that of 1S.7T, when 500,000 souls professed to have been converted. I expect that universal peace will reign, and that before the arrival of the two thousandth year gunpowder will be out of use except for blasting rocks or pyrotechnic en tertainment. 1 expect that before this now century lias expired the millen nium will be fully inaugurated. The twentieth century will be as much nn improvement on the nineteenth century as the nineteenth century was an improvement on the eighteenth. But the conventional length of scf- monic discourse will allow us only time for one hopeful consideration, and that will be the redemption of the cities. Pulpit and printing press for (be most part in our day are busy in discussing the condition of tin* cities at this time, but would it not lie healthfully encour aging to all Christian workers and to all who are toiling to make the world better If we should this morning, for a little while, look forward to the time when our cities shall be revolutionized by the gospel of the Son of (Jod, and all the darkness of sin and trouble and crime and suffering shall lie gone from the sky, and it shall lie “a morning without clouds?” Every man has pride in the city of his nativity or residence if it be a city distinguished for any dignity or prow ess. Ctrsar boasted of bis native Rome, Virgil of Mantua, Lycurgus of Sparta, Demosthenes of Athens, Archimedes of Syracuse and Paul of Tarsus. 1 should have suspicion of base henrtedness in a man who had no especial interest In the city of his birth or residence—no exhilaration at the -evidence of its prosperity, or its artistic embellish ments, or its scientific advancement. On lilt* \Vny to Victory. I have noticed that a man never likes a city where he has not behaved well! People who have a free ride in the prison van never like the city that fur nishes the vehicle. When 1 find Argos and Rhodes and Smyrna trying to prove themselves the birthplace of Ho mer, I conclude right away that Ho mer behaved well. He liked them, and they liked him. We must not war on laudable city pride or with the idea of building ourselves up at any time to try to pull others down. Boston must continue to point to its Eaneull hall ami to its superior educational advan tages; Philadelphia must continue to point to its Independence hull, and its mint, and its Girard college; New York must continue to exult In its matchless harbor, and its vast population, and its institutions of mercy, and its ever wid ening commerce; Washington must continue to rejoice In the fact that It is the most beautiful city under the sun. If I should find a man coming from any city, having no pride In that city, that city having been the place of his nativity or now being the place of Ids residence, I would feel like asking him right away: “What mean thing have you been doing there? What outrageous thing have you been guilty of that you do not like the place?” Every city Is influenced by the char acter of the men who founded it Romulus impressed his life upon Rome. The pilgriui fathers will never relax their grasp from New England. Wil liam Penn left a legacy of fair dealing and integrity to Philadelphia, and you can now, any day, on the streets of that city, see his customs, ids manners, his morals. Ids hat. his wife’s bonnet and ids meeting house. So the Hol landers, founding New York, left their Impression on all the following genera tions. So this capital of the nation is a perpetual eulogy upon the Wash ington who founded It. I thank God for the place of our residence, and, while there are a thou sand things that ought to be corrected and many wrongs that ought to bo overthrown, while I thank God for the past, I look forward this morning to a glorious future. I think we ought —ami I take for granted that you are all interested In this great work of evangelizing the cities and saving the world—we ought to toll with the sun light in our faces. We are not fighting In a miserable Bull Run of defeat. We are on the way to final victory. Wo are not following the rider on the black horse, leading us down to death and darkness and doom, but the rider on the white horse, with the moon under his feet and the stars of heaven for his tiara. Hail, conqueror, hail! Municipal Elevation. I know there are sorrows and there are sins and there are sufferings all around about us; but as in some bit ter cold winter day when we are thrashing our arms around us to keep our thumbs from freezing we think of the warm spring day that will after awhile come, or in the dark winter night we look up and see the northern lights, the windows of heaven lllu- nilned bv some g>«>nt vD«orv pist so we loo a up from the night of suffering and sorrow and wretchedness In our cities, and we see a light streaming through from the other side, and ws know we are on tho way* to morn ing-more than that, on the way to “a morning without clouds.” I want you to understand, all you who are tolling for Christ, that the cat tles of sin are all going to be captured. r J be victory for Christ in these great towns is going to be so complete that not a man on earth, or an angel in heaven, or a devil In hell will dispute It. How do I know? I know It Just as certainly as God lives and that this is holy trutUt.Tby^W BIWe U (ull of It THE SONG RECITAL | NEW FURNITURE HOUSE. At L.lni*«tHn« Wmh » inttlagL'Ilmax to tli* MeMni. Him for. I * U iij»»trr Oj ch up in HolMny rieHiurrM, a no nation is to be saved; of course an the cities are to be saved. It makes a great difference with you ami with me whether we are toiling on toward a de feat or toiling on toward a victory. Now, in this municipal elevation of which I speak 1 have to remark there will be greater financial prosperity than our cities have ever seen. Some people seem to have a morbid Idea of the millennium, and they think when the better time comes to our cities and the world people will give their time up to psalm singing and the relating of their religious experience, and us all social life will be purified there will be no hilarity, and ns all business will be purified there will be no enterprise. There is no ground for such an absurd anticipation. In tho time of which 1 speak, where now one fortune is made there will be a hundred fortunes made. We all know business prosperity de pends upon eoufidciice between man and man. Now, when that time comes of which I speak, and all double deal ing, all dishonesty and all fraud are gone out of commercial circles, thor ough confidence will be established, and there will be better business done and larger fortunes gathered and mightier successes achieved. The great business disasters of this country have come from the work of godless speculators and infamous stock gamblers. The great foe to business is crime. When the right shall have hurl ed hack tlie wrong, and shall have puri fied the commercial code, and shall have thundered down fraudulent es tablishments, and shall have put into the hands of honest men the keys of business, blessed time for the bargain makers. I am not talking an abstrac tion; I am not making a guess; I am telling you God’s eternal truth. In that day of which l speak taxes will lie a inert* nothing. Now our busi ness men are taxed for everything— city taxes, county taxes, state taxes, United States taxes, stamp taxes, li cense taxes, manufacturing taxes—tax es, taxes, taxes! Our business men have to make a small fortune every year to pay their taxes. What fastens on our great industries this awful load? Crime. Individual and official. We have to pay tin* hoard of the villains who are incarcerated in our prisons; we have to take care of the orphans of those who plunged into their graves through beastly indulgence; we have to support tin* municipal governments, which are expensive just in proportion as the criminal proclivities are vast and tremendous. Who supports the almshouses and poliee stations and all the machinery of municipal govern ment? The taxpayers. But in the glorious time of which 1 speak grievous taxation will nil have ceased. There will be no need of sup porting criminals; there will lie no criminals. Virtue will have taken the place of vice. There will be no orphan asylums, for parents will be able to leave a competency to their children; there will lie no voting of large sums of moneys for some municipal Improve ment, which moneys, before they get to the improvement, drop into the pock ets of those who voted them; no oyer and terminer kept up at vast expense to the people, no impaneling of juries to try theft and arson and murder and slander and blackmail; better facto ries; grander architecture; finer equi page; larger fortunes; richer opulence. “A morning without clouds.” Church Mualc. In that better time also coming to these cities the churches of Christ will be more numerous, and they will lie larger, and they will la* more devoted to the service of Jesus Christ, and they will accomplish greater influences for good. Now it is often the case that churches are envious of each other, and denominations collide with each other, and even ministers of Christ sometimes forget the bond of brother hood. But In the time of wl h I speak, while there will be Just ns many differences of opinion us there are now, there will he no acerbity, no hypercrit- Icism. no exclusiveness. In our great cities the churches are not today large enough to hold more than a fourth of the population. The churches that are built—comparatively few of them are fully occupied. The average attendance in the churches of the United States today is not 400. Now, in the glorious time of which 1 speak there are going to be vast churches, and they are going to be nil thronged with worshipers. Oh, what rousing songs they will sing! Oh, what earnest sermons they will preach! Oh, what fervent prayers they will offer! Now, In our time what is called a fashionable church Is a place where a few people, having attended very carefully to their toilet, come and sit down—they do not want to he crowded, they i'ke a whole seat to themselves—and then, If they have any time left from thinking of their store, and from examining the style of the hat in fronl of them, they sit and listen to the sermon warranted to hit no man’s sins, and listen to music which Is rendered by a choir warranted to sing tunes that nobody knows! And then, after an hour and a half of indolent yawning, they go home refreshed. Every man feels bet ter after lie lias had a sleep! In many of the churches of Christ in our day the music is simply a mock ery I have not a cultivated ear nor a cultivated voice, yet no man can do my singing for me. I have nothing to say against artistic music. The %‘l or $5 I pay to hear one of the great queens of song is a good Investnunt. But when the people assemble in religions convocations and the hymn is read and the angels of God step from their throne to catch the music on their wings, do not let us drive them away by our indifference. I have preached in churches where vast sums of money were employed to keep up the music, and it was as exquisite ns any heard on earth, hut 1 thought at the same time, for all matters practical, I would pre fer the hearty, outbreaking song of the backwoods Methodist camp meet ing. Convrpirndonal SIiikIuv. Let one of these starveling fancy songs sung in church get up before the throne of God. How would H look stand ing amid the great doxolngTcs of the re deemed? Let the finest operatic ulr that ever went up from the church of Uhrist get many hours ^.e start; It will be caught nnd passed by tbe hosanna of the Sabbath school children. 1 know a church where the choir did ail the singing save one Christian man, who, through perseverance of the saints, went right on, nnd afterward u com mittee was appointed to wait on him iiihi asg him if iie would not please to stop singing, as lie bothOrcd the choir. Ia t Hm*. n lii r lo sini; Will, in'iit knci- utir (Inff, Uni chililrm of Hip liMvcnly King .should hihrU thrir jo>a abroad. “Praise ye the Lord. Let everything with breath praise the Lord.” In the glorious time coming in our cities nnd in the world hosanna will meet bosun nu and halleluiah halleluiah. In that time also of which I speak all the haimts of iniquity ami crime and squalor will be cleansed and will be 11- lumined. How is it to be done? You say perhaps by one Influence. Perhaps I say by another. 1 will tell you what is my idea, and I know 1 am right In it. The gospel of the Son of God is the only agency that will ever accomplish this. Mr. Ecsler of England had a theory that If the natural forces of the wind ami tide and sunshine and wave were rightly applied and rightly developed it would make this whole earth a para dise. In a liook of great genius and which rushed from edition to edition lie said: “Fellow men, I promise to show the means of creating a paradise within ten years where everything de sirable for human life may lie had by every- man In superabundance without labor and without pay, where the whole face of nature shall be changed into the most beautiful farms and man may live in the most magnificent palaces in all imaginable refinements of luxury and in the most delightful gardens, where he may accomplish without la bor In one year more than hitherto could be done in thousands of years ami may level a continent, sink val leys, create lakes, drain ponds and swamps and intersect the land every where with beautiful canals and roads for transporting heavy loads of many thousand tons nnd for traveling a thou sand miles in 24 hours. “From the houses to be built will be afforded the most cultured views to be fancied. From the galleries, from the roof nnd from the turrets may be seen gardens as far ns the eye can see, full of fruits ami flowers, arranged In the most befluMful order, with walks, colonnades, aqueducts, canals, ponds, plains, amphitheaters, terraces, foun tains, sculptured works, pavilions, gon dolas, places of popular amusement to tire the eye nnd fancy. All this to lie done by urging the water, the wind ami the sunshine to their full develop ment.” The Omnipotent Machine. He goes on and gives plates of the machinery by which tills work Is to lie done, ami he says he only needs at the start a company In which the shares shall be $20 each, nnd a hundred or two hundred thousand shall be raised just to make a specimen community, and then, tliis being formed, the world will sec* its practicability and very soon two or three million dollars more will be obtained, and in ten years the whole earth will be emparadised. Tbe plan Is not so preposterous as some I have heard of! But 1 will take no stock in that company! I do not believe It will ever be done In that, way, by any mechanical force, or by any ma chinery that the human mlud can put Into play. It Is to be done by the gospel of the Son of God—the omnipo tent machinery of love and grace and pardon and salvation. That is to em- paradise the nations. Archimedes de stroyed a fleet of ships coming up the harbor. You know how he did it? He lifted a great sunglass, history tells us, aud when the fleet of ships came up the harbor of Syracuse he brought to bear his sunglass, nnd he converged the sun’s rays upon those ships. Now, the sails are wings of fire, the masts fall, the vessels sink. Oh. my friends, by the sunglass of the gospel converg ing rays of the Sun of Righteousness upon the sins, the wickedness of the world, we will make them blaze and expire. In that day of which I speak do you believe that there will be any midnight carousal? Will there be any kicking off from marble steps of shivering men dicants? Will there be any unwashed, unfed, uncombed children? Will there be any blasphemies in the street? Will Ibere be any Inebriates staggering past? No. No wine stores; no lager beer sa loons; no breweries where they make the three X’s; no bloodshot eye; no bloated cheek; no Instruments of ruin and destruction; no flst pounded fore head. The grandchildren of that wom an who goes dowm the street with a curse, stoned, 'by tbe boys that follow her, will be the reformers and the phi lanthropists and tbe Christian men and the honest merchants of our great cities. « Then what municipal governments, too, wc will have in all the cities. Some cities are worse than others, but in many of our cities you just walk down by the city halls and look in at some of the rooms occupied by politicians aud see to what a sensual, loathsome, igno rant, besotted crew city politics is of ten abandoned; or they stand around the city hull picking their teeth, wait ing for some emoluments of crumbs to fall to their feet, waiting all day long nnd waiting all night long. Who are those wretched women tak en up for drunkenness and carried up to the courts and put In prison, of course? What will you do with tho grogshops th(it made them drunk? Nothing. Who are those prisoners lu jail? Ono of them stole a pair of shoos; that boy stole a dollar; this girl snatch ed u purse—all of them crimes damag ing society less than $20 or $30. But what will you do with the gambler who last night robbed the young man of a thousand dollars? Nothing. What shall Ik* done with that one who breaks through nnd destroys the purity of a Christian hoipe and with an adroitness and perfidy that beats the strategy of hell flings a shrinking, shrieking soul into n bottomless perdition? Nothing. What will you do with those who^leece that young iiiuu, getting him to purloin largo sums of uioitoy from his employ er—the young man who came to an of- fleer of my church and told the story and frantically asked what he might do? Nothing. Aud we do well to pun ish small crimes, but I have sometimes thought It would be better In some of our cities if the officials would only turn out from the Jails the petty crim inals, the little offenders, the $10 des peradoes, and put in their places some of the monsters of Iniquity who drive their roan span through the streets so swiftly that honest men have to leap to get out of the way of being run over. Oh, the damnable schemes that pro fessed Christian men will sometimes engage in until God puts the Auger of his retribution into tbe collar of t|ielr fo'oe of hypocrisy and rips It denr to the bottom! But all these wrongs are going to be righted. I expect to live to see the day. 1 think I hear In the distance the rum bling of the King's chariot. Not always In the minority Is the church of God going to lie, or are good men going to be. The streets are going to lie filled witli regenerated populations. Three hundred and sixty bells rang in Mos cow when one prince was married; but when Righteousness nnd Pence kiss eneb other In all the earth, ten thousand times ten thousand bells shall strike the Jubilee. Poverty enriched. Hunger fed. Crime purified. Igno rance enlightened. All the cities saved. Is not this a cause worth working Ini I*ower of God’* Love. Coil's love will yet bring back this ruined world to holiness and happiness. An infinite Father bends over It in sym pathy. And to the orphan he will lie a father, aud to the widow he will lie a husband, and to the outcast lie wiii !.*e a home, aud to the poorest wretch that today crawls out of the ditch of his abomination, crying for mercy, be will be au nil pardoning Redeemer. The rocks will turn gray with age, the forests will be unmoored In the hurri cane, the sun will shut Its fiery eyelid, the stars will drop like blasted figs, the sea will heave Its last groan and lash Itself in expiring agony, the con tinents will drop like anchors in the deep, the world will wrap itself In sheet of flame aud leap on the funeral pyre of the Judgment day; but God’s love will never die. It sball kindle its suns after all other lights have gone out. It will be a billowing sea after all other oceans have wept themselves away. It will warm itself by the blaze of a consuming world. It will sing while the archangel’s trumpet penis and the air Is filled with the crash of break'ng sepulchers and the rush of the wings of the rising dead. Oh, commend that love to all the cities nnd tbe morning without clouds will come! I know that sometimes It seems a hopeless task. You toil on in different spheres, sometimes with great discour agement. People have no faith and say: “It does not amount to anything. You might as well quit that." Why, when Moses stretched his hand over the Red sea it did not seem to mean anything especially. People came out, I suppose, and said, “Aha!” Some of them found out what he wanted to do. He wanted the sea parted, it did not amount to anything, this stretching out of his hand over the sea! But after awhile tbe wind blew all ulgbt from tbe east, nnd the waters were gathered iuto a glittering palisade on either side, aud the billows roared ns Cod pulled back on their crystal bits. Wheel into line, O Israel! March, march! Pearls crashed under feet, flying spray gath ers Into rainbow arch of victory for the conquerors to march under, shout of hosts on the beach answering the shout of hosts amid sea, and when the last line of the Israelites reach the beach the cymbals clap, and tbe shields clang, nnd tbe waters rush over the pursuers, and the swift fingered winds on the white keys of the foam piny the grand march of Israel delivered nnd the awful dirge of Egyptian overthrow. So you and I go forth, and all the people of Cod go forth, nnd they stretch their hand over the sen, the boiling sea of crime and sin and wretchedness. “It doesn’t amount tonnytbing,” people say. Doesn’t it? God’s winds of help will after awliile begin to blow. A patli will be cleared for the army of Christian philanthropists. The path will be lined with tbe treasure of Chrlstinn benefi cence, aud we will be greeted to the other beach by the clapping of all heav en’s cymbals, while those who pursued us nnd derided us and tried to destroy us will go down under tbe sen, nnd nil that will be left of them will be cast high and dry upon the beach—the splin tered wheel of n chariot or, thrust out from the foam, the breathless nostril of a riderless charger. [Copyright. 1001, by LouL Kloptch.] SHORT LOCAL ITEMS. Local Items Too Khort for a Head <1 rouped Together. The annual meeting of the stock- holners of the National Bank of Gaff ney was held today in tbe bank office. Eliphas Dawkins, a much mpected and well-to-do colored citizen of Web ster, called to see us Friday and renew ed for The Ledger another year ] N. W. Hardin, Eeq., of Blacksburg, is io the city making preparations to open a law office here. The Ledger hopes Mr. Hardin will find his ven ture both pleasant aud profitable. W. W. Crocker, a brother of Rev W. E. Crocker, now in China, is teach* ing school at Goforth during the week, and on Saturdays is engaged with Carroll & Carpenter in their mercan tile establishment. A private letter to relatives near here brings the intelligence that Rev. W. E. Crocker has returned to bis former mission in Chinkiang, China It will be remembered that Mr Crocker sought safety in Japan dur ing the Boxer uprising in China, and remained Id that country until re cently. John M. Wilson, who for some time has been chief engineer and master mechanic for tbe Gaffney Manufacturing Company, baa resign ed his position to take a similar one with the Spartanburg Railway, Gas and Electric Companv. William C. Bragg, formerly of tbe Spartau Mills, io Spartanburg, succeeds him at the Gaffney mill. Spartan Hor* Man In Trouble. Edward O. Dean, a South Caro linian form Spartanburg, is io serious trouble in New York. He was a nurse in Bellevue hospital. Not long ago a patient named Louis Hilliard, died under peculiar circumstancee, and Investigation has led to the belief that he was probably beaten to death by Dean and two other nurses. The nurses are charged with murder. Dean was formerly a newspaper re porter. He has many friends in Spartanburg and Charleston who be lieve that there must be a mistake somewhere, and that the full facts will show the situation to be less ■erioue than it now appears. Dr. Hull's Cou|(h Hyrup la not a common every dny coukIi mixture. H U a murvcluus remedy fo u , tbe troublesome uud dunger- ous vompi 'itious reaultiotf from a nold Io tbe head, ti at. cheat or luoas. Hold for ttc. A fitting climax to tho holiday pleasures was the Song Recital given in,Limestone College auditorium lust Friday evening by Mrs. Grace Battis- Brown, mezzo-soprano, assisted by Mr. Wade R. Brown, pianist. Truly it was a grand success from beginning to end. Mrs. Brown, elegmily at tired in u costume of lavender satin, made quite a pretty picture, which was excelled only by her beautiful singing. It wits not tho first time her rich mezzo-soprano voice had charmed the people of Gaffney. Wo knew what to expect, nor were we disappointed. The program was a varied one. and as usual Mrs Brown entered heartily into the spirit of the composers rep resented, and rendered each of the sixteen songs on the program so pt r- fectly that a discrimination us to the best, or the most enjoyed would be impossible. In the three Brahms songs which came first site dtsp!u)ed unusual artistic temperament, espe cially in the Sandinaenncheu, which showed to good advantage the mellow richness and sympathetic quality of her voice. There was more oppor tunity in the Saint Saens aria to bring out her dramatic resources, whifch are of a high order. This was glori ously sung with spirit and fervor. The group of old English, Scotch and Irish songs was given with artistic delicacy, and were irresistible, com bined as they were with those charn - ing and inimitable graces which be long peculiarly to Mrs. Brown, The last number, a group of live in teresting songs by modern composers, was sung with as much freshness and finished taste as those at the begin ning of the program, especially the bright and dainty “Love is a Bubble,” which captivated the audience. The last song, Chadwick’s “Sweetheart thy lips are touched with flame,” was sung with great brilliancy and pas sionate expression, which made it an appropiiate closing to a program of rare excellence. Throughout the entire evening Mrs. Brown’s voice proved to be what it has hitherto been, of extensive range, and unusual power and sweetness. It is under perfect control, and in addi tion to this she has the gift of a de lightfully clear enunciation which always adds so much to the pleasure of the listener. Mr. Brown, by his masterly render ing of his numbers, gave just the va riation needed to enhance the beauty of the whole. The brilliant execution of the Chopin Polonaise and the ga votte of D’Albert proved beyond doubt his technical skill, while the soulful interpretation of the Berceuse showed him to be an artist in tiie truest sense of the word. Nor can we refrain from saying a word in regard to his beauti ful accompaniments. They were reve lations of what a sincere and correct interpretation of a thorough musician can make of this secondary, but vi tally important, accessory. We should be and are proud to have two such artists as Mr. and Mrs. Brown in our midst, and more con certs like that of Friday night would elevate the musical tone and heighten musical appreciation in our city. Give us another soon. AT SECOND BAPTIST. Large t'oiigregatloua Lin teu to Three Splendid SeruioiiM Sunday, There were three sermons in the Second Baptist church Sunday, two by Mr. Ford, the pastor, morning and night, and in the afternoon by Rev. Mr. Lightfoot, of Waynesville, N. C. Mr. Lightfoot’s sermon was a splendid one and created much com ment and praise among those who heard it. His subject was the “In activity of the Church,” and his ad dress was a masterly one from be ginning to end. When he had finish ed many of his hearers were inspired with a resolve to be more active and energetic, not only in religious mat ters, but in their every-day affairs, too. This reverend gentleman also preached iu the First Baptist church Sunday moruiug, where he was greet ed by a large and appreciotive con gregation. Sunday night Mr. Ford preached to tbe largest congregation, he says, that he has had in bis church since be came to Gaffney. The house was packed to its utmost capacity. This, of course, made Mr. Ford feel good and inspired him to put forth his best efforts His subject, rather an unusual one for the pulpit, was “Business,” and he impressed upon his hearers that to succeed in any business they must be prompt, en thusiastic, hasty, deliberate, practi cal and persistent, with a large amount of “move-on” thrown in. Mr. Ford was at his best, and those who have heard him know that as a preacher he has few superiors. REV. E7 M. LIGHTFOOT. He Preaches Two Excellent Sermons »t the First Baptist Church Sunday. Rev. E. M. Lightfoot, of Waynes- vilie, N. C., occupied tbe pulpit of the First Baptist church tiuoday morning and evening and delighted two large congregations by his excel lent sermons. In the forenoon he chose as his subject “The Ideal in Man,” and his remarks were edifying and instruotive. Among other things Mr. Lightfoot said: “Every man and woman has his or her ideal. The ideal may be good or evil, but each individual has an ideal. The ideal of some may be to obtain power; the ideal of another is to obtain wealth; the ideal of another is to be beautiful; the ideal of another may be anything that is not good and beautiful, but tiie only perfect ideal is Jesus Christ, tbe redeemer of the world.” In the evening Mr. Lightfoot preached from tbe text. “Alas! Mas ter, it was borrowed,” the words be ing taken from the story of Elisha performing the miracle of causing the borrowed axe that had fallen into tbe water while the prophets were preparing, timber to build the school for tbe prophets to swim. The eve ning sermon was a delightful treat to the large congregation and Mr. Light foot went away from Gaffney leaving many new found friends and admir ers. < IW axin A IIoIIhii I'm Old SUmd. The furniture business seems to by a paying one in Gaffney, if tho num her of dealers in that line is an indi cation. The latest firm to open out in fur- ninture and undertaking supplies is that of Hhuford A: Lemasttr in tl a building formerly occupit d by Reason A Holland. The firm is composed nf J. I’ Sbu- ford and R. E Lemasttr, bo*h yotog men of pluck, energy, splendi i liu-i- ness qualities, a ided to •» d<. '-rm n i- tion to succeed in whatev-T (' • *. \ • dtrtake. Both of these young men s- r v <! a long term in the large furniturt* em porium of Carroll, CarpenB r A Hum phries where they acquired u foli knowledge of the busint'S in «.!1 it*« details. Mr. Shuford has had < u-wu years experience and Mr. L-m.^L r live, and this, with the qui k per . p- tion and good, «ound jurignunt G. -i they both possess, amply q m 1 ,:; s them for their particular ii of bus iness. They have a large and commodious room which they will fill u.;j) tt ;i kinds of furniture, stoves, tinware and undertakers’ goods, a!! ranging in price und quality to suit the tote and the purse of the purchasing pub lic. rheir store will be replete with new goods, which are arriving daily, and it is the purpose of the proprietors to make it one of the largest, hand somest and most complete furniture emporiums in this section of the country. The Ledger expends to them its best wishes for a prosperous New Yea-, and hopes that success may reward their efforts. Local Cotton Rc|>(>rt. The following are the prices paid for cotton in Gaffney today : Good Middling q jo Middling 2o The most soothing, lulling ami antiseptic application evi i dc-vu-e i is DeWitt’s Witch Hazei Salve. It re lieves at once and cures piles, sun s, eczFina and skin diseases. Beware of imitations. CheroKee Drug Uo. Bills in both Nebraska and Ohio will beintroduced forbidding foot-ball games within the borders of the states Such little pills as DeWitt’s Little Early Risers are very easily taken, and they are wonderfully effective in cleaning the liver und bowels. Cher okee Drug Co. The state of Ohio expends $11,(K10,- 000 annually on its 1,200 000 school children. Of this fund Cincinnati pays $1.000 000. Qnality and not quantity makes DeU itt’s Little Early Risers such valuable little liver pills. Cherokee Drug Co. Gut Prices. For tho next 30 dtiys I will sell you Dry Goods, Motions, feliocs, iliits and all other "oods iit out prices. I will sell you tin* best Axes on the market at 00 cents for plain and 05 cents for beveled. Yours respectfully, I. M. PEELER. Tax Returns for the Year 1901. I w ill open the books for the purpose of r» - et ivIng returns of property for taxation, for the ye ar 1901, at the Auditor’s ottice in the court house, In the town of UulTiioy, 8. C„ on Tuesday, the first day of January, ami will remain at the iiflice until Saturday the 5tli January, 1901, ami will be at the follow ing precim-ts at the times named U'low. At ItufTalo School House, on Monday iho ’7th January, 1901. At Kings Creek, on Tuesday the 8th Jan uary. 1901. At Cherokee Falls, Wednesday, 9th Jan uary. 1901. At Blacksburg, on Thursday and Friday, loth and IIth January. I'.xil. At Antioch, on Saturday, Igth January, 1901. At Grassy Bond, on Monday, 14tli January, 1901. At Maud, on Tuesday, lath January, 1901. At Ezell’s, on Wednesday, 10111 January 1901. At Macedonia, on Thursday, 17th January, 1901. At White Plains, on Friday, Isth January, 1901. At Thickety Station, on Saturday. 19th Jan uary, 1901. At Draytonville, on Monday, gist Ja-iuary, 1901. At WIlkluHvllle, on Tuesday, »Jd January, 1901. At Sarratts, Prldmore’s Stoic, Wednesday Sid January, 1901. » At T. 1). Littlejohn’s Stoic. Thursday, ”4th January, 1901. At Itavena, Brown’s Store, Friday, £>th January, 1901. At Timber Bridge, on Saturday, January atith. 1901. At Allens, Bowllnsvtlle, Monday,’>th Jan uary, 1901. And at tin* Auditor's office until 3ah day of February, 1901, after which time the io per cent will attach. All persons are requesto I to say to wha school district they belong or live In. Those living In School Districts N is. 9 aud lo to state on their return how much of their prop erly lies within said school uisulcl aud how much lies outside of said school district; abo all lands bought or so d. who from and wl o to, ttiid to what lands it joins; also ail m w buildings uud their value; also what build ings have been destroyed by fire aud their value, since lust return. All persons falling to return to Amlitor are required to make their returns iiefore a Magistrate or Notary Public, sworn to In duo form a . pieseilhnd on blank returns, before sending them in, aud till articles assessed itemized. Do not say same as last year; euch returns causa confusion. YV. !>. L’ami*. Auditor Chcrmo e < uunty. 11-27 to Feb at N. B. Mr. W. Henry Boss, my asostaut, will be lu my office atm w III be pl'-a ■ lioiakeyour returns duilng my ubsem-e. All |n> ,<.iimIu the town of Ualluey will j>.i use make full re- turusofull real propeit.\, cither i t.. ,t. or sold, who from, who to, uud all new 4mlIdltigs, whether wood or I'tlck. with valuation, or any other ch '^es. W D. Ca«i% Auditor.