Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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The growth of my hair since its use has been some thing wonderful.” I.kma G. flnrrNK, Ajiril 13,4899. New York, N.Y. If you do not obtain all the benefits you expentod from tlio use of the Hair Vigor, write the Doctor nbout it. Dii. J. 0. AYKK, Lowell, Mass. A. N. V/OOD, f > A * N J K Ee 1 "i , i t < ■ o, ; : . >ftt _ f t--:n*t cent. . “iie "'sKticis MPtiHontis. rtuyo Co’.ii f.v nutl s«hool O’aifnit Yf t:r hnajnno- 1^0 r Baildlng and Clustering Lime, Coal, und IMaster Hair, Plaster Paris. Rosendalc Cement, Portland Cement, Dynamite, Masting I’owder. Paso and Dynamite Caps, cal! on Limestone Springs Lime Works CARROLL & CO., Lessees. Peli'plione 57. DR. J. F. GARRETT, Dentist, Gatfney, - - - S. C. Office over J. It. Tolleson’s new store In office from 1st to 26th of each month: Br. C. T. LIPSCOMB, Dentist, Office over R. A. [one* & Co.’a Store. Can be found atofHcesix davs in the week N. W. HARDIN, LAWYER. Practice in ail Courts and all branches of the Law. Oltii e over J. \V. Tolloson's store. WALLACE i OTTS, LAWYERS. OIBct' t,i)>t:iiis, Lsitween It. A. Jones and Davenport. Phone 87. J. E. WEBSTER, A-ttorney-A. t- I -vv r . Office in Court Uouso. (Probate Judge sofflee Gaffney City, S. C. Practices in all tbeeourta. Collec tions a specialty 4-J. C..IEFi : ERIES4- OAFFNEY, S. C. ih! IJitv* CorpcirHlIon f^tw IC( < i i ■<*:*• * I.Hi w 0 V*iri«y t.f !< > ; ?j . i, ;i i>Drovit(l M curlly. J«.V1ES A WILLIS.' 'll LiY i v \ i • LA Vt t » l-c i-'* 17V, —CL Sm iiy Public iii.otb. Prompt attention given to all busln -as. *mce over j. it. Toihmoo'm a ijo.’s etore. I OUTLOOK INSPIRING. REV. DR. TALMAGE LOOKS FAR INTO THE FUTURE. IVeilltMs M-:i i cions tilrnnccM—Kcll- gloii : iid Fa letu c in (lie Next iliin- deed tear:,—Millennium Will lie 1 u- ntiKurnicd (u 'Mi 1m Century. \YA IIIXGTON, .Inn. (!.—Ill (his <1Is- coiM'.-e I»r. Pa linage tolls soiuoibiug ol' wli.’il bo expects the next bundled y us will nebieve, nud declares that the outlook is most inspiring; text, 11 . amuil xxiil, 4, “A mortiing without clouds.” “What do you expect of this new ci m my7" is the question often asked i f me, and many others have been plied witii the same inquiry. In the realm of invention I expect something as startling as the telegraph and the telephone and the X ray. In Hie realm of poetry l 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 1857, when 5(H),000 souis 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. I expect that before this new century has expired the millen nium will lie fully inaugurated. The twentieth century will be as much an improvement on the nineteenth century as the nineteenth century was an Improvement on the eighteenth. Ret the conventional length of ser- 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 the most part in our day are busy in discussing the condition of the 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 Utile while, look forward to the time when onr cities shall be revolutionized by the gospel of the Son of God. and all the darkness of sin and trouble and crime and suffering shall bo gone from the sky, and it shall be “a morning without clouds?” Every man lias pride in the city of his nativity or residence if It be a city distinguished for any dignity or prow ess. Ciesar boasted of ids native Home, Virgil of Mantua, Lyeurgus of Sparta, Demosthenes of Athens, Archimedes of Syracuse and Paul of Tarsus. 1 should have suspicion of base heartedness in a man who had no especial interest In the city of ins birth or residence—no exhilaration at the evidence of its prosperity, or its artistic embellish ments, or Its scientific advancement. On <he Way to Victory. I have noticed that a man never likcii 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 I find Argos and Rhodes and Smyrna trying to prove themselves the birthplace of IIo- m< r, 1 conclude right a n ay that Ho mer behaved well. He liked them, arid 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. Itoston must continue to point to its Faneuil hajl and to its superior educational advan tages; Philadelphia must continue to point to its Indopcndonec hall, 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 thi* 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 his residence, I would feel like asking him right away: “What mean thing have you been «loing 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 pilgrim 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, his manners. Ids morals, his hat, Ids wife’s iionnet and his meeting house. So the Hol landers, founding New York, left their impression on all the following genera tions. So (Ids capital of the nation is a perpetual eulogy upon the Wash ington who founded It I tbank God for the place of our residence, and, while there are a thou sand things that ought to be cflrrected and many wrongs that ought to be overthrown, while I thank God for the past, I look forward this morning to a glorious future. I think we ought —and I take for granted that you are all interested in this great work of evangelizing the cities and saving tho world—we ought to toil with the sun light in our faces. We are not flghtiiig in a miserable Hull Run of defeat. We are on the way to linal victory. Wo are not following the rider on the black horse, lending us down to death and darkness and doom, but the rider oq the white horse, with the moon under his feet and the stars of heaven for his tiara. Hail, conoueror, hail! Mnulclpnl Uletntlon. I know there are sorrows and there •re sins and there are sufferings all around about us; but as In some bit ter cold winter day when we aro 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 northeiv lights, the windows of heaven Illu mined by some great victory. Just so We look up from the night of suffering find sorrow and wretchedness In our cities, and we see a light streaming throu^li from the other side, and we 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 wlm are tolling for Christ, that the cas tles of sin are all going to be captured. 'I in* vi t ry for Christ In these groat tow ns is going to bo so complete that not a mail on earth, or an angel iu heaver, or a devil in hell will dispute it. How do I ku 7 I know it ju t ns certainly as <>od bus and that this ij holy truth. The old HI hie Is f-" «♦ The nation Is to be saved; of course all tho ciths are to be saved. It makes a great difference with you and. with me whether wo are toiling on toward a de feat or tolling on toward n victory. Now, in this miiiiiclpai elevation of which I speak I have to remark there will i»e 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 conus to our cities and the world people will give their time up to psalm singing and the relating of their religious experience, and as all social life will be purified there will be no hilarity, and as all business will lie purified there will be no enterprise. There is no ground for such an absurd anticipation. In the time of wblcH I speak, where now one fortune Is made there.will be a hundred fortunes made. \Vc all know business prosperity de pends upon confidence 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 back the 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 I speak taxes will be a mere 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 ofiieial. We have to pay the board 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 the municipal governments, which are expensive Just in proportion ns the criminal proclivities are vast and tremendous. Who supports the almshouses and police stations and nil the machinery of municipal govern ment? The taxpayers. Rut in the glorious time of which I speak grievous taxation will all have ceased. There will be no need of sup porting criminals; there will be no criminals. Virtue will have taken the place of vice. There will be no orphan asylums, for parents X^l be able to leave a competency to their children; there will be 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; bettor facto, rics; grander architecture; finer equi page; larger fortunes; richer opulence. “A morning without clouds.” Church Music. In that better time also coming to these cities the churches of Christ will l)e more numerous, and they will he larger, and they will be more devoted to the service of Jesus Christ, and they will accomplish greater influences for good. Now it Is often the case that churches ore envious of each other, and denominations collide with each other, and even ministers of Christ sometimes forget the bond of brother hood. Rut In the time of which I speak, while there will be Just as many differences of opinion as there are now, there will be no acerbity, no hypercrit- icism, no exclusiveness. In our great cities the churches are not today large enough to bold 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 thfe 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 all 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 ttelr toilet, come and sit down—thfcy do not want to be crowded, they like 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 front 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 nn hour and a half of Indolent yawning, they go home refreshed. Every man feels bet ter after he has bad a sleepl In ninny of the churches of Christ In our day the music Is simply n mock ery. I have not a cultivated ear nor • cultivated voice, yet no man can do my singing for me. I have nothing to say against artistic music. The $2 or $3 I pay to hear one of the great queens of song is a good Investment. But when the people assemble in religious convocations and the huton Is read and the angels of God stc^ from their throne to catch tho 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 w as as exquisite ns any heard on earth, but 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. Consreitattonal Sinicins. Let one of these starveling fancy songs sung in church get up before the throne of God. How would it look stand ing amid the great doxologles of the re deemed? Let the finest operatic air that ever went up from the church of Christ get many hours the start; It will be caught and pussed by the hosanna of the Sabbat n sebool children. I know a church where the choir did all the singing save one Christian man. who, through perseverance of the saints, went right on, and afterward a com- iqJLtet) jvgs appointed wait on blip and ask him If he wpuld not please to stop singing, ns he bothered the choir. Ia I Hii'm* refnar to Meg Wlio nevrr knrv our (Jod, Hut childri'D oi tin* liruvriily King Should s|>r*k their joy* abroad. “Praise ye the Lord. Let everything with breath praise the Lord.” In the glorious time coming iu our cities and In the world hosanna will meet hosan na and halleluiah halleluiah. In tiiat time also of which I speak all the haunts of iniquity and crime and squalor will be cleansed and will be Il lumined. I low Is It to be done? You say perhaps by oue Influence. Perhaps I say by another. 1 will tell you what Is my Idea, and I know’ I am right In It. The gospel of tho Son of God Is the only agency that will ever accomplish this. Mr. Ecsler of England bad a theory that Lf the natural forces of the wind and tide and sunshine and wave were rightly applied and rightly developed it would make this whole earth a para dise. In a book of great genius and which rushed from edition to edition he said: “Fellow men, I promise to show the menus of creating a paradise within ten years where everything de sirable for human life may be bad 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 and 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 and for traveling a thou sand miles in 24 hours. ‘‘From the houses to be built will bo afforded the most cultured views to be fancied. From the galleries, from the roof and from the turrets may be seen gardens fls far as the eye can see, full of fruits and flowers, arranged In the most beauMful 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 and fancy. All this to be done by urging the w’ater, the wind and the sunshine to their full develop ment.” aw The Omnipotent Machine. He goes on and gives plates of the machinery by which this work is to be done, and be says be only needs at the start a company In which the shares shall be $20 each, and a hundred or two hundred thousand shall be raised just to make a specimen community, and then, this being formed, the world will see its practicability and very soon two or three million dollars more will be obtained, and in ten years the whole earth will be emnamdised. The plan Is not so preposterous as some I have beard of! But 1 will take no stock In that company! 1 do not believe It will ever be done in that way, by any mechanical force, or by any ma chinery that the human mind 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. and when the fleet of ships came up the harbor of Syracuse he brought to bear bis sunglass, nnd be converged the sun’s rays upon those ships. Now, the sails are wings of fire, the masts fall, the vessels sink. Ob. my friends, by the sunglass of the gospel converg ing rays of the Sun of Righteousness upon the sins, the wickedness of tbe 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, onfed, uncombed children? Will there be any blasphemies In tbe street? Will there be any Inebriates staggering past? No. No wine stores; no lager beer sa loons; no breweries where tbey make tbe three X’s; no bloodshot eye; no bloated cheek; no Instruments of ruin •nd destruction; no list pounded fore head. The grandchildren of that wom an who goes down tbe street with a curse, stoned by tbe boys that follow her, will be the reformers and tbe phi lanthropists and tbe Christian men and tbe honest merchants of our great cities. - Then what municipal governments, too, we will have in all the cities. Some cities are worse than other*, bat Is many of our cities you just walk down by tbe city balls and look In at some of the rooms occupied by politicians and see to what a sensual, loathsome, Igno rant, besotted crew city politics Is of ten abandoned; or they stand around the city ball picking their teeth, wait ing for some emoluments of crumbs to fall to their feet, waiting all day long and waiting all night long. Who are those wretched women tak en up for drunkenness and carried up to tbe courts and put In prison, of course? What will you do with the grogshops that made them drunk? Nothing. Who arc those prisoners in Jail? One of them stole a pair of shoes; that boy stole a dollar; this girl snatch ed a purse—all of them crimes damag ing society less than $20 or $30. But what will you do with tbe gambler wbo last night robbed the young maq of a thousand dollars? Nothing. What shall be done with that one who breaks through and destroys the purity of a Christian home and with an adroitness and perfidy that beats the strategy of hell flings a shrinking, shrieking soul Into a bottomless perdition? Nothing. W’bat will you do with those who fleece that young man, getting him to purloin large sums of money from his employ er—the young man wbo came to an of ficer of my church and told the story and frantically asked what he might do? Nothing. And wc do well to pun ish small crimes, but 1 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 tluit pro fessed Christian men will somethin* engage In until God puts the flugrr of his retribution Into tbe collar of tbelr robe o( hypocrisy and rips It clear to the iMittom! 4 Hut nil these righted. | expect to live to n c the day. I think I hear In the distance the rum bling of tbe King’s chariot. Not always In the minority Is the church of (Jod going to bo, or are good men going to be. The streets are going to be filled with regenerated populations. Three hundred and sixty bells rang iu Mos cow when one prince was married; but when Righteousness and Fence kiss each other In all the earth, ten thousand times ten thousand bolls shall strike the jubilee. Poverty enriched. Hunger fed. Crime purified. Igno rance enlightened. All tbe cities saved. Is not this a cause worth working in? Power of God's Love. God's love will yet bring back this ruined world to holiness nud happiness. An infinite Father bends over it iu sym pathy. And to the orphan he will be a father, and to tbe widow he will be a husband, and to the outcast lie will be a borne, and to the poorest wretch that today crawls out of the ditch of his abomiuatlou, crying for mercy, he will be au all pardoning Redeemer. The rocks will turn gray with age, the forests will be unmoored In the hurri cane, tbe sun will shut its fiery eyelid, the stars will drop like blasted figs, tbe sea will heave Its last groan and lash itself In expiring agony, tbe con tinents will drop like anchors In the deep, the world will wrap itself In sheet of flame and leap on the funeral pyre of the Judgment day; but God’s love will never die. It shall 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 peals and the air is filled with tbe crash of breaking sepulchers and tbe rush of tbe wings of the rising dead. Oh, commend that love to all the cities and the 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 nnd 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 wauted to do. He wanted the sea parted. It did not amount to anything, this stretching out of his hand over the sea! Hut after awhile the wind blew all night from tbe east, and the waters were gathered into a glittering palisade on either side, and the billows roared as God pulled back on their crystal bits. Wheel Into Hue, 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 bench answering the shout of hosts amid sea. nud when the last line of the Israelites reach tbe beach the cymbals clap, and tbe shields clang, and the waters rush over the pursuers, and the swift fingered winds on the white keys of the foam play the grand march of Israel delivered and the awful dirge of Egyptian overthrow. So you and I go forth, and ail the people of God go forth, and they stretch their hand over the sea, the boiling sea of crime and sin nnd wretchedness. “It doesn’t amount toanytblug,” people say. Doesn’t It? God’s winds of help will after awhile begin to blow. A path will be cleared for tbe army of Christian philanthropists. The path will be lined with tbe treasure of Christian benefi cence, and we will be greeted to tbe other beach by the clapping of all heav en’* cymba^, while those wbo pursued us and derided us and tried to destroy us will go down under tbe sen. nnd all that will be left of them will be cast high and dry upon tbe beach—the splin tered wheel of a chariot or, thrust out from tbe foam, the breathless nostril of a riderless charger. [Copjrtfht, 1601, by Loui* Kloptch.] THE BROAD TIRE. Dhow. school of educated in the opera house last night to a 'v^ery good crowd. It was truly a wonderful exhibition of brute sagacity and percept ion, us well us evidence ol tbe remarkable evidence of the patience and training qualities of Prof. Meehan. Every dog fully understood his part and acted it to perfection with out the slightest hesitation. Upon the whole, it was one the best siiows of the kind ever seen in Gaffney and D there was u single one present who was not well pleased, we have not heard of it. A Frightful Blunder Will often cause a horrible Burn, Scald, Cut or Bruise. Bucklen’s Arnica Salve, t he best in the world, will kill the puin and promptly heal it. Cures Old Sores, Fever Sores, Ulcers, Boils, Felons, Corns, all Skin Eruptions. Best Pile cure on earth. Only 25 cents a box. Cure guaranteed. Sold by Cherokee Drug Company. Love has made a fool of many a man who was cons ! dered wise. Cut Prices. —Dr. S. R. Peck, the Charlotte Spec ialist, will be in Gaffney at the Lip scomb House Tuesday, January 29th Pleasure in Store for Readers of This Paper The opening chapters of a most delightful story will appear in these columns soon—a story that will be read with pleasure and in- <! terest, we are sure, by all ° who begin it It is entitled A 4 Inch Tire Doe* Not Cut the Kosd*, nnd Run* Faster. (Charlotte Ol»server. | In response to a request for his opinion of broad tires for farm wag ons, Mr. H. Howland, of this city, has made tbe following statement: "When I took charge of Mr. J. R Holland’s farm, at Lowell eight years ago, be had three old wagons thrown aside because tbe wheels were cot worth repairing. I took them to tho shop and had the wheels cut down six inches and a four-inch tire put on. and then used them continually for five years, hauling lugs and rocks off from a mountain and for general farm work without any further ex pense for repairs. "My farm roads instead of being cut up full of ruts and boles were packed hard aod smooth all tbe time. I could haul manure with them when I couldn’t get out on the land with the narrow tire. I find, when load ed, they run much easier on the farm than a narrow-tired wheel and are much more convenient. "When I first had it done tbe neighbors accused me of beiug a fool, asld 1 would kill my stock, that I could not use those wagons on the farm. "Last summer I was in the same neighborhood and found that all the farmers around there had had their wagons fixed In the same way and their wheels were In good condition. "Last spring I had an old wagon that I couldn’t keep the tire on the wheel. I took It to the shop and had it cut down six Inches and a three and one-half Inch tire put on and it has given me no more trouble. I have another wagon that I shall have fixed in the aame way next spring. "I find that for ordinary farm uae, with what hauling a farmer naturally baa to do on the road, a three and one-half or four-inch tire ie far supe rior to anything narrower and that they are much cheaper after you once get them fixed and they will last aa long ae one man lives to uae them.” Dr. Bull'* CoukIi Nyrup rare* tho moat ntulibnrii rouiriii, cold* Hliti lunir Hirin'tloit*. Kvcn III* Ipli'lit l-.4>fihiiliipllnn iM'fli Mlir- )*i'»<tful'y cured i»y till* luurvtdoUM rumody. Sufferer* will obtain relief after a few day*. Captive By Joseph A. Altsheler The plot is laid in Revolu tionary days and the three important characters are an American cavalryman, a beautiful English girl and a most intelligent horse. The young man makes the girl a prisoner of war. From intense hate of her captor the feelings of the heroine change by gradual stages to that of loyal love. The feeling extends to the horse and is reciprocated by both man and beast. The story is charmingly written. s Watch for the First Chapters FOR Up-to-Date Job Print ing, call at the LEDGER Office. Gaffney, S. C. NOTICE To Hawkers and Peddlers. The County Commissioners of Cherokee county have fixed the following fees for li cense to be procured before carrying on bu siness in said county during the year IDOL For ail hawkers, peddlers or venders of stoves, ranges, clucks, lightning rods, or any othei 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 fcS 00 For each two-horse buggy, wagon or other vehicle used 50 CO For all hawkers, peddlers or venders of sewing machines the license fee shall be: For a one hot se wagon, buggy or other vehicle so used und drawn by one horse, when only one such vehicle is used 25 00 For a two-horse wagon, buggy or other vehicle so used, when only one such Is used 50 00 For each additional one-horse vehicle.. 15 00 For each additional two-horse vehicle.. 30 00 For every hawker, peddler or vender of pianos, or pianos and organs, the li cense fee shall be: For a one-horse buggy, wagon or other vehicle so used und drawn hy one horse 15 00 For a two-horse wagon, buggy or other vehicle so used and drawn by two horses 25 00 For each additional one-lior*e vehicle.. 15 00 For each additional two-horse vehicle 30 00 For any foot peddler or vender of any such goods, wares, merchandise or oilier artlclss, the license fee shall be: 10 00 Provided tiiat parties manufacturing goods in t)fV state lie exempt. Hy order of the Hoard of County Commis sioners, January s, 1901. J. V. Whelciiki., County Supervisor. W. H. Ho**. Clerk of Hoard 1-11-tf Your House is on Fire! may tie the warning you receive some night a» you awake to find your ALL ready to be oonnuimid. Are you then insured ? If not, write to Kev. A. D. Davidson, Gaffney, or Frank McLuuey, Abingdon, Agent* of the Cherokee Mutual Insurance Co. to come and write you a policy on your prop erty at once, for delay Is dangerous. The Farmers' Mutual Insurance Co. of Cherokee County I* a Homo enterprise, is pvrtectly solid, and gives you tho cheapest insurance In tin world, and waut* all tbe people in the county to share In It* benefit*. For the next !{<> days I will sell you Dry Goods, Notions, Shoes, Hats and all other goods at cut prices. I will stdl you the best Axes on the market at 00 cents for plain and G6 cents for beveled. Yours respectfully, I. M. PEELER. Tax Returns (or the Year 1901. 1 will open the books for tin* purpose of re ceiving returns of property for taxation, for the year 1901, at the Auditor’s office In the court iiouse, iu the town of Gaffney, S. C„ on Tuesday, the first day of January, 1901, and will remain at the office until Saturday the 5th January. 1801. and will lie at the follow ing precincts at the times named below. At Sarratts, Prldmore’s Store, Wednesday 23d January, 1901. At T. D. Littlejohn's Store. Thursday. 24th January, IDOL At liavena, Brown's Store, Friday, 25th January, 1901. At Timber Bridge on Saturday, January 2tith. 1901. At Allens, Bowllnsvllle, Monday,28th Jan uary, 1901. And at the Auditor's office until 20th day of February, Idol, after which time the 50 per cent will attach. All persons are requested to say to wlia school district they belong or live iu. Those living in School Districts Nos. 9 and 10 to state on their return how much of their prop erty lies within said school district and how much lies outside of said school district; also ail lands bought or sold, who from and who to, and to what lands It joins; also all new buildings and their value; also what bulld- 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, iHifore sending them In, and all articles assessed itemized. Do not say same as last year; such returns cause confusion. W. D. Camp, ,, , , AuditorG’herokeeC'ounty. 11-37 to Feb. 20 N. B.—Mr. W. Henry Ross, my assistant, will be in my office and will Is* pleased to take your returns during my absence. All persons In tbe town of Gaffney will please make full re turns of all real property, either bought or sold, who from, who to. and all new buildings, whether w(ssl or brick, with valuation, or any other changes. W. D. Camp, Auditor. Canned Tripe, Veal Loaf, Chipped Beef, Lunch Tongue, Bartlet Pears, Baked Beans, Clam Chowder, AT PEELER & LEMMOND. Prompt Delivery. Phone 55. T. I. WALKER, GAFFNEY, S. C., Deals Exclusively In Lumber and Builders' Material and carries in stock a complete llnsof DOORS. SASH, BLINDS, PAINTS, OIL, PLASTERERS’ MATERIAL, and everything needed for building purposes. Look him up when you need anything in h's line. What Life Insurance Does. It lifts mortgages. It educates orphans. It preserves the family. It cultivates saving habits. It lightens the load of care. It gives repose to the riel man. It gives courage to the pooi man. It builds a barrier to the alms house. It supports the credit of th< business man. It enables a man to live up tc his income. 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