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PORTAL WILL OPEN.
C \ ti 11 n n t Ail in I sk ion AVI1I Await
Tbotie Who Itnve Lived Cor Others
Wlille the Hir.ot and the Penariona
Will Unrely Siiuecxe Throuuh.
Wasiuxoto.v, Jau 13.—In a very
novel way Dr. Talinage in bin discourse
ilcserlbeH what may be expected in the
next world by tliose who here bend all
their energies in the right direction;
text. II Peter i, 11, “For so an entrance
shall be ministered uuto you abundant
ly.’’
Different styles of welcome at the
gate of heaven are here suggested. We
all hope to enter that supernal capital
through the grace that is ready to
save even the chief of sinners, but not
now. No man healthy of body and
mind wants to go now. The man who
hurls himself out of this life is either
an agnostic or is demented or tiuds
life insufferable and does not care
where he lauds. This Is the best world
we ever got into, and we want tp stay
here as long as God will let us stay’.
But when the last page of the volume
of our earthly life is ended we want
enrollment in heavenly citizenship. We
want to get in easily. We do not want
to be challenged at the gate and asked
to show our passports. We do not
want the gatekeeper in doubt as to
whether we ought to go In at all. We
do uot want to* be kept In the portico
of the temple until consultation is
made as to where we came from and
who we are and whether it is safe to
admit us, lost we be a discord in the
eternal harmonics or lower the spirit
of heavenly worship. When the Apos
tle Peter in the text addresses the peo
ple, "For so an entrance shall be ad
ministered unto you abundantly,” be
implies that some will find admission
Into heaven easy, rapturous and ae-
elamatory, while others will have to
squeeze through the gate of heaven, if
they get in at all. They will arrive
nnxious and excited and apprehensive
and wondering whether it will be
“Come!” or “Go!” The P»ible speaks
of such persons as “scarcely saved”
and in another place as “saved as by
fire” and in another place as escaped
“by the skin of the teeth.”
A Difllcalt Entrance.
Carrying out the suggestion of my
text, I propose to show you what class
es of Christians will got into heaven
with a hard push and tliose who will
hound in amid salutations infinite. In
the first class I put that man who gets
into the kingdom of God at the close of
a life all given to worldliness and sin.
Years ago he made the resolution that
he would serve himself and serve the
world until body, mind and soul wore
exhausted and then, just before going
out of this life, would seek God and
prepare to enter heaven. He carries
out his resolution. Ho genuinely re
pents the iast day or the last hour or
the last minute of his life. He takes
the last seat in the last car of the last
train bound heavenward. His released
and immortal spirit ascends. Not one
wing bears down toward him with a
welcome. No sign of gladness at his
arrival. None there obligated to him
for kindness done or alms distributed
or spiritual help administered. He will
find some place to stay, but I do not
envy that man Ids heaven. He got in,
lint it was not an abundant entrance.
Sometimes in our pulpits we give a
wrong turn to the story of the dying
thief to whom Christ said, ‘‘This dav
shall thou be with me in paradise.”
We ought to admire the mercy of the
Christ that pardoned him in the last
hour, but do not let us admire the dy
ing thief. When he was arrested, 1
think ids pockets were full of stolen
coin, and the coat he had on his buck
was not ids own. He stole right on un
til ho was arrested for his crimes. He
repented and through great mercy
arose to paradise, but he was no exam
ple to follow. What a gigantic mean
ness to devote the wondrous equipment
of brain and nerve and muscle ami
bone with which we are endowed,
these miracles of sight and hearing and
speech, to purposes unworthy or pro
fane and then, through hasty repent
ance at the last, enter heaven. Cheat
ing God all one’s lifetime and then tak
ing advantage of a bankrupt law and
made free of nil liabilities. I should
think that so.ne men would be asham
ed to enter heaven.
Grace Saves the niicot.
Again, the bigot will uot have what
my text calls an abundant entrance.
He lias ids bedwarfed opinion as to
what all must believe and do iu order
to gain celestial residence. He has ids
creed in one pocket and ids catechism
in another pocket, and It may he a
good creed and a good catechism, hut
he uses them as sharp swords against
those who will not accept ids theories.
You must be baptized in his way or
come to him through apostolic succes
sion or be foreordained of eternity or
you are in an awful way. He shrivels
up and shrivels up and becomes more
splenetic until the time of ids departure
is at hand. He lias enough of the suit
of grace lo save him, but his entrance
Into heaven will he something worth
watching. What do they want with
1dm In heaven, where they have all
gone into eternal catholicity, one grand
commingling of Methodists and Bap
tists and Episcopalians and Lutherans
and Cougregationaiists land Presby
terians and a score of other denomina
tions Just ns good ns any I have men
tioned? They ail join in the halleluiah
chorus, accompanied by harpers on
tlielr harps and trumpeters on their
trumpets, “Worthy Is the Lamb that
was slain to receive blessing and riches
and honor and glory and power.”
The Idgot ascends with Just enough
grace to save him. As lie comes up to
the shining irite lie sees standing in
side of It soms whom he used to meet
every Sunday morning on the street
going to some other church of some
other denomination, and lie cries out:
“Are you there? 1 never expected to
see yjii in such a glorious place. You
were all wrong In your religious theo
ries on earth and In your form of
church government. How did you get
In?” “Saved by grace,” Is the heaven
ly reply, "saved by grace.” The bigot
Is embarrassed and fi els for Ids creed
und Ids catechism, and, lo, they were
left on tin* banks of the river Jordan
ns lie passed through, and he cries out:
“1 think 1 will have to enter on the
same terms. Saved by grace.”
Denominations of Christians on earth
were necessary in order to better work
and to suit preferences, as an army
must, be divided Into regiments, yet
one army; ns a neighborhood must be
divided into families, though one neigh
borhood. But there is no need for such
divisions iu heaven, and therefore all
belong to one denomination of saint
hood. Christ said In one of his ser
mons that there would be laughter In
heaven. “Blessed are ye that weep
now, for ye shall laugh.” And what
could cause more merriment among the
glorified titan a rehearsal of the earth
ly differences between Christians, dif
ferences once seeming of such vast im
portance, but differences unknown
amid the heavenly warsliipers? What
will be fhe bigot’s amazement when he
sees seated side by side on the banks of
the river of life Calvin and Arminlus,
Archbishop Cranmer and some dissent
ing preacher of the gospel who never
graduated, one who on earth was a
robed and surplieed ecclesiastic, and a
backwoods minister who In the log cab
in meeting house preached in a linen
duster? Among the great surprises of
heaven for the bigot will be the celes
tial friendliness of those who on earth
opposed each other In wrathlest polem
ics. He will get through the gate, for
he has a spark of divine grace In bis
heart, but there will not be an inch of
room to spare on either side of him. It
will uot take long for heaven to edu
cate him into a glorious big hearted
ness.
Meanneai Coldly 'Welcomed.
Again, the penurious Christian will
not have an abundant entrance. Per
haps he was not converted until all his
habits of tight fistedness were fixed be
yond recovery. The people who ait
generous wore taught to he generous in
childhood. You cau tell from the way
that boy divides the apple what his
characteristics for generosity or mean
ness will be for the next 80 years If he
lives so long. If he eat it all himself
while others look wistfully on, he will
be a Shylock. If he give half of It to
some one who has no apple, he will be
an ordinarily generous man. If ho give
three-fourths of it to another, he will
be a Baron llirseh or a George Pea
body.
For 30 years this man has been
practicing an economy which prided
itself on never passing a pin without
picking it up, and if he responded at
all in church would put on the collec
tion plate so insignificant a coin that
lie held his hand over it so that no one
could discover the smallness of the
denomination. Somewhere in the fif
ties or sixties of his life, during a re
vival of religion, he became a Chris
tian. He is very much changed In
most respects, but Ids all absorbing ac
quisitiveness still influences him. To
extract from him a gift for an orphan
age or a church or a poor woman who
has just been burnt out Is an achieve
ment. You and I know very good
men, their Christian character beyond
dispute, and yet they are pronounced
by all as penurious, and they know it
themselves and pray against it We
all have our bad habits and yet expect
to get to heaven, and this skinflint has
his mighty temptation. The passion
of avarice well illustrated Its strength
when in one of the houses of exhumed
Pompeii was found the skeleton of a
man who was trying to escape with GO
coins and a silver saucepan. For those
valuables he dared the ashes and scoria
of Vesuvius which overwhelmed him,
and many a good man has been held
mightilv by avarice. But the day Is
coming for that penurious Christian’s
departure from the world. He has an
awful struggle In giving up his gov
ernment securities. The attorney who
drew Ids last will and testament saw
how hard It was for him to leave his
farm or his storehouse or Investments,
especially those that in the markets are
called gilt edged. Those that yield
only 3 per cent he easily resigns to the
care of Lis executors, but those that
yield 8 or 0 or 10 per cent, how can
lie give them up while the market is
still rising? Bolstered up in bed, know
ing he lias got to sign It, be reads the
document over and over again, and
then, with a manner that seems to
say, “Well, If I must, I must,” he signs
ids name to that surrender of his last
farthing of earthly possessions. He
enters heaven, but he has not au abun
dant entrance.
Glorloas AdmUaton.
But that brings me to the other
thought of my text, that there are
those who will when they leave this
life hound into heaven amid salutations
infinite. “For so an entrance shall be
administered unto you abundantly.”
Such exultant admission will await
those who enter heaven after on earth
living a life for others and without ref
erence to couspicuity. On the banks
of the Ohio or the Tuscaloosa or the
Androscoggin is a large family, all of
whom have been carefully and reli
giously reared. In the earlier stages of
that family there wore many priva
tions. The mother of the household
never had any amusements. Perhaps
once In a year a poor theatrical piny
was enacted In the neighboring school-
house or a squawking concert in the
town hall, and that was all the diver
sion afforded for the winter season. I
asked the manager of an Insane asy
lum In Kentucky, “From what clasa of
persons do you get most of your pa
tients?” and he said, “From farmers*
wives.” I asked the name Question of
me manager of au insane asylum In
Pcnnsyhania and the same question of
a tlu- manager of an insane asylum In
Massachusetts and got the same reply,
"We have on our rolls for treatment
more farmers’ wives than persons com
ing from any other class.” That an
swer will be a surprise to some. It
was no surprise to me. The simple
lensou Is fanners’ wives as a general
thing have no divcralon. It is break
fast, dinner and supper, sowing, scour
ing. scrubbing, knitting, mending, year
In and year out. That mother is the
milliner, ttie mantuamaker. the nurse,
the doctor, the accountant, of the whole
family. Blic plans the wardrobe of
spring, of summer, of autumn, of win
ter, cutting, fitting, completing gar
ments, out of which the children a<»on
grow and must have something else.
The newspaper docs uot come, or If
coming there Is no time to read it. No
selection of good hooks. The neighbors
calling in are full of the same grinding
routine. No wonder so many of them
go Into dementia. Oh, the country Is
beautiful to look at and a recuperative
place In which to spend summer, and If
you have the means to bring yourself
amusements or go where they are or
you can surround yourself by Inspiring
social life It Is a goyd tq stu v all
tne year round. But alas for the thou
sands of good and noble women who
are dying by inches in its sollfndesf
Now, the mother of whom I speak
as living on the banks of that great
river in Ohio or Alabama or Maine has
gone through all the drudgery mention
ed, and her children have turned out
well, good and useful men and women,
ornaments of society, pillars in the
bouse of God, and that whole family,
after the years have passed by and
their W’ork Is done, will meet iu the
heavenly country. From such a family
some will certainly have preceded her,
and the time of her expected arrival
will be announced to all the members
of that family already glorified and to
the old earthly neighbors who put
down their toils a little sooner than she
did, and she will have the warmest
kind cf home coming, and she will go
through the gate as easily as ever she
lifted the latch of her front door coin
ing from tlie old country meeting
house where she used to worship. Go
ln, mother! Heaven has been waiting
for you a good many years. Got rid
of all your aches and pains and weari
ness, have you? Go anywhere in
heaven, and they will be glad to see
you. On the highest throne you will
find one who said, "Behold thy moth
er!” Sit anywhere you please. You
will be at home anywhere. Take your
pick out of that sheaf of scepters.
What! The wrinkles have all gone out
of your face, and the once rheumatic
step has become like that of the bound
ing roe. Just as I expected, you aged,
glorified soul, you had an abundant
entrance.
The Gates Thrown Wtd*
There Is another kind of spirit who
will have radiant admission to the up
per dominion. There Is a fact which
ought to have most emphatic pro
nouncement. All over the world today
there are men and women of conse
crated wealth. They are multiplying
by the day and hour. People who feel
themselves the Lord’s stewards, and
from their opulence they are making
a distribution which pleases the heav
ens. The checkbook iu the office draw
er of that man has on Its stubs a
story of beneficence clear up Into the
sublime. In all the round of the world’s
suffering and ignorance and woe you
cannot mention one worthy object to
which that prosperous and good man
has not made contribution. He is not
irritated, as many are, by solicitation
for alms. In some poor woman, in
thin shawl, holding In her arms n child
with rheum In its eyes, this good man
sees the Christ who said, “Inasmuch
ns ye have done It unto one of the
least of these, yc havo done It unto
me. ”
Well, this man of consecrated afflu
ence is about to go out of this world.
He feels in brain and nerve the strain
of the early struggles by which he won
his fortune and at 00 or 70 years col
lapses under the exhaustions of the
twenties and thirties of bis lifetime.
When the morning papers announce
that he Is gone, there is excitement not
only on the avenues where the man
sions stand, but all through the hospi
tals and asylums and the homes of
those who will henceforth have no
helper. But the excitement of sadness
on earth Is a very tame affair compar
ed with the excitement of gladness In
heaven. The guardian angel of that
good man’s life swept by ills dying pil
low the night before and on swift wing
upward announced that In a few hours
he would arrive, and there is a mighty
trtir in heaven. “He eomes!" cries ser
aph to seraph. The King’s heralds are
at the gate to say, “Come, ye blessed,"
and souls who were saved through the
churches that good man supported and
hundreds who went up after being by
him helped In their earthly struggle
will come down off their thrones and
out of their palaces and through the
streets to hall him Into the land which
they reached some time before through
his Christian philanthropy. Now, that
is what I call an abundant entrance.
You see. It is not necessary to be a
failure on earth In order to be a success
in heaven.
Received With Joyfal Acclaim.
- But I promise that all those who
have lived for others and been truly
Christian, whether on a large scale or a
small scale, will have Illustrious Intro
duction into the impearled gateway.
Here and there in some large family
you see an attractive daughter who de
clines. marriage that she may take care
of father and mother iu old days. This
Is not an abstraction. I have known
such. Yon have probably known such.
There are In this world womanly souls
as big as that. They cheerfully endure
the whimsicalities and querulousness
which sometimes characterize the aged
and watch nights when pneumonia Is
threatened and are eyes to the blind
and sit In close rooms lest the septua
genarian be chilled and count out the
right number of drops at the right
time. The mother of a little ehlltl has
her hands full, but the daughter who
stays at home to take care of nn aged
father or mother has her hands just as
full.
A'ter years of filial fidelity on the
part of this self sacrificing daughter
the old folks go home. Now the
daughter Is free from marital alliance,
hut the damask rose In her cheek la
faded, and the crow’s feet have left
their mark on the forehead, and the
gracefulness Is gone out of the figure,
and the world calls her by a mean and
ungallaut name. But, my Lord aud
my God, surely thou wilt make It up
for that girl In heavenly reward! On
all the banka of the river of life there
Is qo castle of emerald and carbuncla
richer than that which awaits her. Its
windows look right out upon tht
King’s park, and the white horses of
the chariot are being harnessed to meet
her at the gate, and If there are tro oth
ers to meet her father und mother will
be there to thank tier for all she did for
them when their strength failed and
the gi-nsshopi>er became a burden, and
they will say: “My daughter, how kind
you were to us even until the last!
How good It Is to be together In heav
en! That Is the King’s chariot come
for you. Mount and ride to your ever
lasting home!” Now, that la what I
call an abundant entrance.
Trlouiphaat Reoepdoe.
Know right well that In whatever sta
tion of life you now move, tod whether
your Intellectual faculty be brilliant or
dull and your worldly resources opu
lent or poor, you may have at the gate
of heaven jubilant and triumphant re
ception. All soldiers cannot be Hannl-
l>als and Murlboruiighs, all admirals
cannot lie Duponts and Farraguts, nil
authors .cannot be ligcpus anil South
eys, neither can ail Christians be Pauls
and Richard Cecils. Do your best right
where you are, asking God’s help, and
you will not only win glorious admis
sion. hut you will make all your life In
heaven a grander aud higher life.
It Is a good tiling to have a healthy
ambition in this world, and why not an
ambition not to stand among the com
parative failures of heaven “saved as
by fire,” but to be classified among
those who did something worthy of
Immortals? The Bible distinctly tells
that there will be grades in heaven,
“as one star differeth from another
star In glory.” Will you be among the
lower grades when you may he among
the higher? Of course cherubic and
seraphic orders are fixed, aud you can
not enter them, but in what low or
high order of the sainthood you may
live and reign forever you are now de
ciding by your present half hearted
ness or enthusiastic ardor. Be the
means of salvation of one man or one
woman and you stir all the heights
celestial, for there is Joy In heaven
among the angels of God over one sin
ner that repenteth.
But imagine one of these “scarcely
saved” Christians entering the shining
realm. He passes in a stranger. Saint
says to saint, “Who comes there?” and
angel to angel, “Who Is that?” He
moves up and down the streets and
meets no one whom be helped to get
there. He goes Into the great temple
and finds among the throngs of the
white robed not one soul whom he
helped to join the doxologies. He goes
Into the “house of many mansions”
and finds not one spirit whom he help
ed to start for that high residence. 1
am glad that he got In, but I am amaz
ed that In the 30 or 40 or 70 years of
bis life he did nothing for God aud the
betterment of the world which woke
the heavenly echoes. Oh, child of God,
if you had never thought of it before,
1 present the startling fact that you
are now decid.ng not only the style of
your heavenly reception, but the grade
of your association and enjoyment of
the world without end. Are you satis
fied with yourself that you can afford
to throw away raptures and Ignore
heavenly possibilities and elect your
self to lower status and classify your
self amid the less efficient when you
may mount a higher heaven?
While I thus discourse I am aware
that some have not taken the first step
toward heaven, and they feel like Ja
cob Strewn, who took some ministers
of the gospel on the top of his house to
show his farms, reaching In every di
rectioo as far ns eye could see. He
was asked how many acres he owned,
and he replied 40,000. “How much Is
It worth per acre?" was asked, and he
replied, “Fifty dollars at least.”
“Then,” said the minister, “you are
worth $”,000,000.” “Yes,” said Strawn,
“ami 1 made it all myself.” Then the
minister said, “You have shotvn me
these vast earthly possessions, and now
will you look up yonder,” pointing to
the hesvens. “How much do you own
up there?” and Strawn answered, with
tears iu his eyes, “Oh, I am afraid I
am poor up there.” Alas, how many
there are who have acquired all earth
ly prosperities and advantages, but
have no treasures in heaven. They are
poor up there.
But I am today chiefly addressing
those who are started for heaven and
wonld have them know that while we
are apt to speak of a Lauphler, the
founder of Fulton street prayer meet
ings, as having an abundant entrance;
an Alfred Cookman, the flaming evan
gelist. as having au abundant entrance,
and Thomas Welch aud Fletcher, the
glorious preachers of the gospel, as
having an abundant entrance, and
John Rogers and Latimer and Ridley,
ascending, like Elijah, in a chariot of
fire, as having an abundant entrance,
you also. If you love and serve the
Lord and fulfill your mission, whether
It be applauded or unknown, will have
when your work on earth Is ended and
you are called to come up higher an
easy, a blissful, an enrapturing, an
abundant entrance.
[Copyright, tOO , by Loul* Klopscb.]
BLACKSBURG BUDGET.
About Poople aud Thing* Bayond the Big
Broad.
CCoi re«pondence of The Ledger.)
Blacksburg, Jan. 14.—Tbe weather
la unusually fine for this season of
the year.
Two boys who were attending the
school taught by Minor Biggers at
Kings Creek got into a dispute while
going home from school a few days
ago, when Alexander Westmoreland
drew out bis knife and cut Samuel
Mitchell in the side, inflicting what
was pronounced by Dr. Caldwell to
be a serious wound. Westmoreland,
who is only fifteen years old, was ar
rested. Mitchell is seventeen.
Jones & Duff have moved their
store from their old stand to the
room once occupied by B. R. Brown.
Hillyer’s performed ARurday and
Monday night at the of)era house to
a large and interesting audience.
Hia performances were wonderful,
while at the same time he distributed
to the people who had lucky tickets
several valuable gifts.
The town council and board of
health have urged the necessity of
vaccination and tbe isolation of peo
ple infested with smallpox. This is
a very necessary precaution.
There are two first-class hotels at
this place. Tbe Cherokee Inn has
opened to the traveling public under
the aupervision of Mr. Boott Brown,
who has bad much experience in the
hotel business. The Merchant’s hotel
which is conducted by Mrs. B. £.
Thomson, is well known by tbe pub
lic, and the proprietress bas never
failed to keep her house up to the
highest standard. The advantages of
hotels are ample here.
The school and public are glad to
know that Miss Julia Moore, a teach
er in the graded school, is up after
a short illness, and has taken her
place In school again. B.
■Extended TUI Flrat of February.
Clerk W. H. Boss has received no
tice from the comptroller general
that the time for payment of taxes
has been extended until the first day
of February. This will be good news
to the delinquents; but if they do not
attend to the matter before the last
day of this month, the penalty will
surely be in order.
Quality and not quantity makes
DeWitt’s Little Early Kisers such
valuable little liver pills. Cherokee
Drug Co.
House Work is Hard Work without GOLD DUST.
SHORT LOCAL ITEMS.
I. ocnl Item* Too Short for a Hoad Grouped
Together.
Col. H. P. Griffith has appointed
Di. Wm. Anderson, of Blacksburg,
as Adjutant of Cherokee Regiment
U. C. V., vice D. A Thomas, re
signed.
Owing to people possessing tickets
not having changed them for coupons,
J. C. Lipscomb & Bro. have been
compelled to defer their piano draw
ing until Feb. 5th. It will positively
come oil on that date.
Alderman Tom Brown’s handsome
cottage on Smith street, in rear of
the First Baptist church, is going up
at a rapid rate, and will be ready for
occupancy at an early ditte. When
finished it will be an ornament to
that part of the city.
Mr. George Byars has finished his
neat and commodious dwelling on
Limestone street. On Saturday he
and his good wife served a good din
ner to the carpenters at tbe new-
house, which, it is needless to say,
was enjoyea to the utmost by all oi
them.
Mr. and Mrs. Joe W. Gaffney are
rejoicing over the arrival of a bright
little lady at their home. The little
ladies’ many friends will wish for her
a happy and successful journey o’er
life’s sea and a safe arrival at the port
after many years of useful and sue
cessful cruising.
The ever-accommodating and al
ways alert authorities of the S. C. it
G. E. railroad ran a special train over
their road Thursday evening to ac
commodate the ladies and gentlemen
from Blacksburg and Rock Hill who
came over to hear Leonora Jackson
at Limestone College. We are sure
that the favor was appreciated.
A Large Seed House,
The attention of our readers is call
ed to the advertisement of T. W.
Wood & Sons, seedsmen, of Rich
mond, Ya., which appears in another
column. This is one of the largest
seed firms in America, and perhaps
the largest in the south, and the ex
cellent quality of their seeds was rec
ognized by being awardtd a gold
medal at the recent Paris exposition
Write them for a catalogue.
Use Dr. Bull’s Cough Syrup at once for
bronchitis and grippe. It has stood the test
and Is positively a reliable remedy. Life is
too shoft to experiment with new so-called
"sure cures.” Bull’s Cough Sjrup costs but 2T>c.
We believe thoroughly in
advertising. To prove it
we are going to use this
space for our own pur
poses. We have advertis
ing space to sell, and we
know it will pay a good
return upon the price we
charge for it if it is prop
erly used. Our paper goes
into the best homes in this
community. It has been
going week after week and
year after year until each
issue is welcomed as an old
friend of the family.
The news it brings is
news of neighbors, of per
sonal affairs in which all
have more or less of a com
mon interest. If one of our
readers called upon you, a
merchant, you would do
the best you could to con
vince him that what you
had for sale was the best
he could buy. You would
show him the new things
you had got in recently.
You would tell him why
he should have them and
why they were better than
he could procure elsewhere.
You probably would make
a sale.
Your effort, however, would be con
fined to one person.
You could tell the same
story just as effectively to
every reader of this paper
in each issue.
You do not believe it
would have the same ef
fect?
If you told the story
in the same way it would.
We are ready
to do our part to prove it Do yon
care to try it?
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In Returns for the Year 1901.
I will open tbe bonk* for the purpoftc of re-
cnlvlng returns of property for taxation, for
the yc:ir FJOI, ut the Auditor’s office In the
court Iiouho, In the town ofliiifTney, 8. C., on
Tuesday, t he first iluy of January, 1801, and
will renniln ul the offlec until Hulunliiy the
5th January. !'.i)l, hiiiI will In- at the follow
ing precinct* at the limes niiniisl l*flow.
At KseU's, on \V<'due*day, Itith January
1801.
At Macedonia, on Thursday, Kth January,
1001.
At White I’lalns, on Friday, lath January
1801.
At Thlckety St at Ion, on Sat urday. lot h Jan
uary, 1001.
At Dray ton villi}, on Monday, Jlst January,
1001.
At Wllklnsville, on Tuesday, ‘.’•Jd January,
1001.
At Surratt*, Pridrnore's Store, Wednesday
2id January, 1901.
At T. D. Littlejohn's Store. Thursday, 24th
January, 1901.
At Ravena, Brown’s Store, Friday, 25th
January, 1001.
At Timber Bridge, on Saturday. January
2t5th. 1001.
At Allens, Bowlinsville, Monday,2sth Jan
uary, 1901.
And at the Auditor’s office until 20th day of
February, 1001, after which time the 50 per
cent will attach.
All persons are requested to say to wha
school district they belong or live In. Those
living in School Districts Nos. 0 and 10 to
state on their return how much of their prop
erty lies within said school district and how
much liesoutsideof said school district; also
all lands bought or sold, who from and wl.o
to, and to what lands It joins; also all ntw
buildings and their value; also what build
ings have been destroyed by fire and their
value, since last return. All persons failing
to return to Auditor are required to make
their returns before a Magistrate or Notary
Public, sworn to in due form as prescribed
on blank returns, before sending them In,
and all articles assessed itemized. Do not
say same us last year; such returns cause
confusion.
W. D. Camp.
Auditor Cherokee County.
11-27 to Feb. 20
N. B.—Mr. W. Henry Boss, my assistant, will
l>e in my office and will be pleased to take your
returns during my absence. All persons in
the town of GafTuey will please make full re
turns of all real property, either bought or
sold, who from, who to, and all new buildings,
whether wood or brick, with valuation, or
any other changes.
W. D. Camp,
Auditor.
T. I. WALKER,
GAFFNEY, S. C.,
Deals Exclusively in
Lumber and Builders’ Material
and carries in stock a complete line of
DOORS. SASH,
BLINDS, PAINTS,
OIL,
PLASTERERS’
MATERIAL,
and everything needed for building purposes.
Look him up when you need anything in
h's line.
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Estate Notice.
All persons having claim* against the es
tate of Stephen Pearson, deceased, will pre
sent to me, duly proven, on or before Febru
ary 4th, 1901, and all persons Indebted to said
estate are required to make settlement at
once.
J. Eb JerrRRiKS,
Jan. 11th, 1001. l-aw-3t Clk C. C. Pis, Admr.
Bakery and Rastaurant.
I have bought the Bakery and Restaurant
formerly run by W. A. Peeler, and will be
glad to serve the public with anything in my
Tine, at the same stand. Best attention given
to customers.
F. C. BRIGGS.
Uprto-Date Job Print
ing, call at the
LEDGER Office.
Gaffney, S. C.
JJJ^ V IIV.
Dainty Designs in
STERLING SHYER;
Quaint Conceits in
RICH GUT GLASS;
New, Novel, Artistic,
Ornamental, Serviceable
Economical, the most ap
propriate things for wed
ding gifts. See my display
the most complete yet ex
hibited in Gaffney.
T. H. WESTROPE,
Watchmaker and Jeweler.
Your House is on Fire!
may be the warning you receive som
night as you awake to fiud your ALL ready
to be consumed. Are you then insured ? If
not, write to Rev. A. D. Davidson, Gaffney,
or Frank McLuncy, Abingdon, Agents of the
Cherokee Mutual Insurance Co.
l to come and write you a ixdicy on your prop
erty at once, for delay is dangerous. The
Farmers'Mutual Insurance Co. of Cherokee
! County Is a Home enterprise. Is perfectly
solid, and gives you the cheapest insurance
iu the world, and wants all the people In the
, county to share In Its benefits.
NOTICE
To Hawkers and Peddlers.
The County Commissioners of Cherokee
county have fixed the following fees for li
cense to lie procured before carrying on bu
siness In said county during the year 1901.
For all hawkers, ix-ddlers or venders of
stoves, ranges, clocks, lightning rods, or any
other goods, wares or merchandise not here
inafter specifically provided for, who, by the
terms of the act providing for said license,
are subject to pay a license, the license fee
shall be:
For each one-horse wagon, buggy or
other vehicle so used and drawn by
one horse |B5 00
For each two-horse buggy, wagon or
other vehicle used 50 00
For all hawkers, peddlers or venders of
sewing machines the license fee shall
be;
For a one boise wagon, buggy or other
vehicle so used and drawn by one
horse, when only one such vehicle is
used 25 CO
For a two-horse wagon, buggy or other
vehicle so used, when only one such Is
used so 00
For each additional one-horse vehicle.. 15 00
For each additional two-horse vehicle.. 20 00
For every hawker, peddler or vender of
pianos, or pianos and organs, the li
cense foe shall be;
Fora ono-l orse buggy, wagon or other
vehicle s< used und drawn by one
horse 15 oo
For a two-horse wagon, buggy or other
vehicle so used and drawn by two
horses 25 00
For each additional one-horse \ chicle 15 uO
For each additional two-horsc vehicle 20 00
For any fo-t peddler or vender of any
such goods, wares, merchandise or
other articles, the license fee shall be; tfl 00
Provided that (Ntrliesmanufacturing goods
In this state be exempt.
By order of tbe Board of tv.uuty Comrub-
slouurs, January tt. I'M.
J. V. WhKU'HBI^
C'ouuty Supervisor.
W. U. Ross.
Clerk of Board. l-U.-kt