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* The warning cough is the faith ful sentinel. It tells of the approach of consumption, whichhaskilled more pec pie than war and pestilence com bined. It tells of painful chests, sore lungs, weak throats, bron chitis, and pneu monia. Do not suffer another day. It’s useless, for there’s a prompt and safe cure. It is : which cures fresh colds and coughs in a single night and masters chronic coughs and bronchitis in a short time. Consump tion is surely and cer tainly prevented, and cured, too, if taken in time. A 25c. bottle fora fresh cold; 50c, size for older colds; $i size for chronic coughsand consumption. “ I always keep a bottle of Aver’s '-berry Pectoral on hand. Then every timo I get cold I take a little of it and I am better at once." James O. Huquor, i Oct. 19,1898. El Paso, Texas. If ron have any and ' ^’rite the Poctor. complaint whatever and desire the best medical advice, write the Doctor freely. Address Dr. J. C. Ayeb, Lowell, 1 "V 'W V T T** Building and Plastering Lime, Coal, and Plaster Hair, Plaster Paris. Itosendale C'ement, Portland (.‘oment, Dynamite, ^Blasting Powder, Fuse and Dynamite Caps, call on Limestone Springs Lime Works CARROLL & CO., Lessees. Telephone V. k. N. WOOD, BANKER, WITH SILKEN CORDS. SO SHOULD THE FISHERS OF MEN MEND THEIR NETS. Dr. Tnlmage Warn* Christiana Agalnat liurah Criticism — He De plores Denominational Strife In Gospel Work. Washington, Jan. 27.—In tills dis course Dr. Talmage describes the gos pel net and how it is to be retired aft er being damaged; text, Matthew iv, 21, ‘‘James, the sou of Zebedee, and John, his brother, In a ship with Zebe dee, their father, mending their nets.” ‘‘I go a-flshing!” cried Sltoon Peter to his comrades, and the most of the apos tles had hands hard from fishing tackle. The fisheries of the world have always attracted attention. In the third cen tury the queen of Egypt had for pin money $470,000 received from the fish eries of Lake Moerls. And, if the time should ever come when the Immensity of the world’s population could not be fed by the vegetables and meats of the laud, the sea has an amount of animal life that would feed all the populations of the earth aud fatten them with a food that by its phosphorus would make a generation brainy and Intellec tual beyond anything that the world has ever imagined. My text takes us among the Galilean fishermen. One day Walter Scott, while hunting in an old drawer, found among some old fish ing tackle the manuscript of his im mortal booK, “Waverley,” which be had put away there as of no worth, and who knows but that today we may find some unknown wealth ot thought while looking at the fishing tackle in the text. It is not a good day for fishing, and three men are in the boat repairing the broken fishing nets. If you are fishing with a hook and line, and the fish will not bite, it is a good time to put the angler’s apparatus into better condi tion. Perhaps the last fish you hauled lu was so large that sometbiug snap ped. Or, if you were fishing with a net, there was a mighty floundering of the scales or an exposed uail on the side of the boat which broke some of the threads and let part or all of the captives of the deep escape Into their natural elemeut. And hardly anything is more provoking than to nearly laud a score or a hundred of trophies from the deep, and when you are in the full glee of hauling in the spotted treasures, through some imperfection of the net they splash back into the wave. That is too much of a trial of patience for most fishermen to endure, aud many a man ordinarily correct of speech iu such circumstances comes to au in tensity of utterance unjustifiable. Therefore no good fisherman considers the time wasted that is spent in mend ing his net Now, the Bible again and again represents Christian workers as fishers of men, aud we are all sweep ing through the sea of humanity some kind of net. Indeed there have been enough nets out and enough fishermen busy to have landed the whole human race In the kingdom of God long be fore this. What Is the matter? The gospel is all right, and it has been a good time for catching souls for thou- sauds of years. Why then the failures? The trouble is with the nets, and most of them need to be mended. 1 propose to show you what is the matter with most of the nets and how to mend them. In the text old Zebedee and his two boys, James and John, were doing a good thing when they sat in the boat mending their nets. Fault of tbe Nets. does a general Banking and Exchange business. Wei! secured with Burglar- Proof safe and Automatic Time Look. Safety Deposit Boxes at moderate rent. Buys and soils Stocks andBonds. Buys County and School Claims. Yonr buslnflsn solicited. DR. J. F. GARRETT, Dentist, Gaffney, - - - S. C. Office over J. R. Tolleson’s new store In office from 1st to 26th of each month: Dr. C. T. LIPSCOMB, Dentist, Office over R. A. lonea ft Co.‘a Stora. ■jan be found at office six dava In the week N. W. HARDIN, LAWYER. Practice In all Courts and all branches of the Law. Office over J. W. Tolleson’s store. Office hours from 9.;w a. m. toU p. to. every day In the week. WALLACE & OTTS, LAWYERS. Office upstairs, between R. A. Jones and Davenport. Phone *7. J. E. WEBSTER. A 41 ox'ii<‘ v- A i - SL.sa w* Office\a Cuiiri Ho se. (Probate'Judge a office Gaffm:y City, S. C. Practices in all tbe courts. Collec- Moos a specialty -<*J. C. JEFFERIES+- GAFFNEY, S. C. Corninrrctnl l.aw Corporation Law Keal Katatri l aw. Money to ! 'au on approved security JAMES A. WILLIS, ATTORNEY AT LAW, O -A. I-' iv- IC Y. M. CJ. Notary Public In office. Prompt attention given to all business. Office over H. A. Jones & Co.’s store. O. B.Duncan O. P.Sauders. W.8. Hall. Jr DlilCAI, SAilDEHS « HAIL, Attorneya-at-Law. ualce over J. R. Tolleson’s ft Cio.’s if tors. The trouble with many of our neta it that the meshes are too large. If a fish can get his gills and half bis body through tbe network, he tears and rends and works bis way out, and leaves tbe place through which be squirmed a tangle of broken threads. In our desire to make everything so easy we relax, we loosen, we widen. We let men after they are once in tbe gospel net escape Into tbe world, and go Into indulgences and swim all around Galilee, from north side to south side, and from east side to west side, expecting that they will come back again. We ought to make It easy for them to get into tbe kingdom of God, and, as far as we can, make it impossible for them to get out Tbe poor advice nowadays to many is: “Go and do just as you did before you were captured for God and heaven. Tbe net was not Intended to be any re straint or any hindrance. Wbat you did before you were a Christian do now. Go to all styles of amusement, read all tbe styles of books, engage in all tbe styles of behavior as before you were converted.” And so, through these meshes of permission and laxity they wriggle out, through this opening and that opening, tearing tbe net as they go, and soon all the souls that we expected to land in heaven before we know it are back In the deep sea of the world. Oh. when we go a-gospel fish ing, let us make it as easy as possible for souls to get In and as bsrd as pos sible to get out. Is tbe Bible language an unmeaning verbiage when It talks about self de nial, and keeping tbe body under, and about walklug tbe narrow way, and entering the strait gate and about car rying the cross? Is there to be no way of telling whether a man Is a Chris tian except by bis taking tbe com munion chalice on sacramental day? May a man be as reckless about his thoughts, about bis words, about bis temper, about bis amusements, after conversion as before? Alas, tbe words of Christ are so little heeded when be ftild, “Whosoever doth not bear bis cross and come after me cannot be my clsclple.” The church Is fast becoming t s bad as tbe world, and when It gets as bad as tbe world it will be worse than tbe world by so mucb, as It will add hypocrisy of a most appalling kind to Its other defects. Room Far All. Furthermore, many of our nets trs torn to pieces by being entangled wits other nets. It is a sad sight to see fish ermen fighting about sea room, and pull ing In opposite directions each to get his net, both nets damaged by the struggle and losing all the fish. In this land, where there are more than 70,- 000,000 people, there are at least SO,- 000,000 not in the Sunday schools and churches. In such an Atlantic ocean f>t opportunity there Is room for all the nets and all tbe boats and all tbe flfiberraeq and for millions more. There should l>e no rivalry between churches. Each one does a work peculiar to it self. But there are cities 1q this coun try. when ikfli Ji_gQw goings an awful ripping and rending and tearing of liNhlng nets. Indeed all over Chris tendom at this time there Is a great war going on between fishermen, min isters against ministers. Now, I have noticed a man cannot fish and tight at the same time. He either neglects his net or his musket. It is amazing how much time some of the fishermen have to look after other fishermen. It is more than 1 can do to take care of my own net. You see the wind Is Just right, and It Is such a good time for fishing, and the fish are comiug in so rapidly that I have to keep my eye and hand busy. There are about 200,000,000 souls wanting to get into the kingdom of God, and It will require all the nets and all the fisher men of Christendom to safely land them. Ob, brethren of the ministry, let us spend our time in fishing Instead of fighting. Bui If I angrily Jerk my net across your net, and you Jerk your net angrily across mine, we will soon have two broken nets and no fish. Tbe French revolution nearly destroyed the French fisheries, and ecclesiastical war Is the worst thing possible while haul ing souls into the kingdom. My friends, I notice in the text that James, the sou of Zebedee, and John, his brother, were busy not mending somebody clse’s nets, but mending tbelr own nets, and I rather think that we who are engaged in Christian work in this opening cen tury will require all our spare time to mend our own nets. God help us in the important duty! Need of Common Sense. In this work of repair w’e need to pat Into tbe nets more threads of common sense. When we can present religion as a great practicality, we will catch a hundred souls where now we catch one. Present religion as an intellectu ality, and we will fail. Out In the fish eries there are set across the waters what are called gill nets, and the fish put their heads through the meshes and then cannot withdraw them, because they are caught by the gills. But gill nets cannot be of any service in reli gious work. Men are never caught for the truth by their beads; It is by the heart or not at all. No argument ever saved a man, and no keen analysis ever brought a man into the kingdom of God. Heart work, not head w’ork. Away with your gill nets! Sympathy, helpfulness, consolation, love, are the names of some of the threads that we need to weave in our gospel nets when we are mending them. Do you know that the world’s heart is bursting with trouble, and if you could make that world believe that the icliglon of Jesus Christ is a soothing omnipotence the whole world would surrender tomorrow—yea, would sur render this hour. The day before James A. Garfield was Inaugurated as president I was in the cars going from Richmond to Washington. A gentle man seated near to me in the cars knew me, and we were soon in famil iar conversation. It was Just after a bereavement, and I was speaking to him from an overburdened heart about the sorrow I was suffering. Looking at his cheerful face, I said: “I guess you have escaped all trouble. 1 should Judge from your countenance that you have come through free from all mis fortune.” Then he looked at me with a look I shall never forget and whis pered in my ear: “Sir, you know noth ing about trouble. My wife has been In an insane asylum for 15 years.” And then he turned and looked out of the window aud into the night with a si lence I was too overpowered to break. That was another Illustration of tbe fact that no one escapes trouble. Why, that man seated next to you In church has on his soul a weight compared with which a mountain is a feather. That woman seated next to you in church has a grief the recital of which would make your body, mind and soul shud der. The SUkea Thread. When you are mending your net for this wide, deep sea of humanity, take out that wire thread of criticism and that borsebair thread of harshness and put in a soft silken thread of Christian sympathy. Yea, when you are mend ing your nets tear out those old threads of gruflfness and weave in a few threads of politeness and genial ity. In the house of Cod let all Chris tian faces beam with a look that means welcome. Say “Good morning” to the stranger as be enters your pew, and at the close shake hands with him and say, “How did you like the music?” Why, you would be to that a man a panel of the door of heaven; you would be to him a note of the doxology that seraphs slug when a new soul enters heaven. 1 have in other days entered a pew in church and the woman at the other end of the pew looked at me as mucb as to say: “How dare you? This Is my pew and I pay the rent for It!” Well, l crouched In the other corner and made myself as small as possible and felt although I had been stealing something. 8o there are people who have a sharp edge to their religion, and they act as though they thought most people had been elected to be damned and they were glad of It. Oh, let us brighten up our manner and appear in gentleinanllness or ladyhood. Tbe object in fly fishing is to throw the fly far out, and then let it drop gently down and keep It gently rising and falling with the waters, and not plunge It like a man-of-war’s anchor, and abruptness and harshness of man ner must be avoided In our attempt at usefulness. I know a man In New York who Is more sunshiny and genial when he has dyspepsia than when he Is not suffering from that depressing trouble. I have found out bis secret. When be starts out in the morning with such depression, he asks for spe cial grace to keep from snapping up anybody that day, and puts forth addi tional detetmlnation to be kindly and genial, and by the help of God he ac complishes It. Many of our nets need to be mended In these respects, tbe black threads and tbe rough threads taken out, and the bright threads and the golden threads of Christian genial ity woven In. In addition to this we need to mend our nets with more threads of patience. It is no rare thing for a fisherman to spend one whole day before he can take a St Lawrence pike, or an Ohio salmon, or a Long Island pickerel, or a Cayuga black bass, or a Delaware cat fish. and he does that day after day Without particular discouragcmcut But what a lack of patience If we do pot immediately succeed lu soul catch ing. We are apt to give it up ami Nty, “I will never try agulu.” Into ad our nets we need to weave all along the edge and all through the ccpter great, long stout threads of Christian, patii nee. How patient God has been with us! Cnu we nut be patieut with our fellows? T!jrrn<1» of Fnilh. Again, in mending our nets we need also to put in the threads of faith aud tear out all the tangled meshes of unbelief. Our woik is successful ac cording to our faith. The mau who believes in only half a Bible, or the Bible in spots; the mau who thinks he cauuot persuade others; the mau who halts, doubting about this and loubtiug about that, will be a failure in Christian work. Show me the mau who rather thinks that the garden of Eden may have been au allegory, and is not quite certniu but that there may be another chance after death/ and does not know whether or not the Bible is Inspired, and I tell you that man for soul saving Is a poor stick. Faith In God aud Jesus Christ aud the Holy Ghost and the absolute ueces- sity of a regenerated heart iu order to see God In peace Is one thread you must have in your mending uet or you will never be a successful fisher for men. Why, how can you doubt? Tbe rottenest thread to tear out of your net is unbelief, and the most important thread that you are to put iu it is faith. Faith in God, triumphant faith, everlasting faith. Oh, this Important work of mending our nets! If we could get our nets right, we would accomplish more In soul saving in the next year than we have in the last 20 years. But where shall we get them meuded? Just where old Zebedee and his two boys meuded their nets—where you are. James aud John had no time to go ashore. They were not fishing for fun, as you and 1 do In summer time. It was their live lihood and that of their families. They mended their nets where they were—in the ship. “Oh,” says some one, “1 mean to get my net mended, and I will go down to the public library, aud I will see what tbe scientists say about evo lution and about the ‘survival of the fittest,’ and I will read up what tbe theologians say aitout ’advanced thought’ I will leave the ship awhile, and I will go ashore and stay there till my net is mended.” Do that, my broth er, and you will have no net left. In stead of their helping you mend your net they will steal the pieces that re main. Better stay in the gospel boat, where you have all the means for mending your net. What are they, do you ask. I answer all you need you have where you are—namely, a Bible and a place to pray. The more you study evolution and adopt what is call ed advanced thought the more useless you will be. Stay iu the ship aud mend your net That is where James, the son of Zebedee, and John, his broth er, staid. That is where all who get their nets mended stay. Avoid Denominational Strife. I notice that all who leave the gospel boat and go ashore to mend their nets slay there, or, If they try again to fish, they do not catch anything. Get out of the gospel boat and go up into tbe world to get your net mended, and you will live to see the day when you will feel like tbe man who, having forsaken Christianity, sighed, “I would give a thousand pounds to feel as I did in 1820.” The time will come when you would be willing to give a thousand pounds to feel as you did 'in 1001. These men who have given up their re ligion cannot help you a bit. These dear brethren of all denomina tions, afflicted with theological fidgets, had better go to mending nets instead of breaking them. Before they break up tbe old religions let them go through some great sacrifice for God that will prove them worthy of such a work, taking the advice of Talleyrand to a man who wanted to upset tbe religiou of Jesus Christ and start a new one, when be said, “Go and be crucified and then raise yourself from tbe grave tbe third day!” Those who propose to mend their nets by secular and skep tical books are like a man who has just one week for fishing and six of the days be spends in reading Isaak Walton’s “Complete Angler,” and Wheatley’s “Rod and Line,” and Scott’s “Fishing In Northern Waters,” and Pullman’s “Vade Mecum of Fly Fish ing For Trout,” and then on Satur day morning, his last day out, goes to the river to ply his art; but that day the fish will not bite, and late on Sat urday night be goes to bis home with empty basket. Alas! alas! If, when the Saturday ulght of our life drops on us, it shall be found that we have speut our time In the libraries of worldly philosophy trying to mend our nets, and we have only a few souls to report as brought to God through our instru mentality, while some humble gospel fisherman, his library made up of a Bible and tin almanac, shall come bomn laden with tbe results, his trophies all the souls within 15 miles of his log cabin meeting bouse. The FUhera Crowned. In tbe time, of great disturbance Ifl Naples in 1049, Massaulello, a bare footed fishing boy, dropped bis fishing rod, and by strauge magnetism took command of that city of 000,000 souls. He took of his fishing jacket and put on a robe of gold in the orescuce ot howling mobs, lie put h< band on his lip as a signal and they were silent. He waved his band away from him and they retired to tbelr homes. Ar mies passed in review before him. He became the nation’s idol. The rapid rise and complete supremacy of that young fisherman, Massaniello, have no parallel in all history. But something equal to that and better than that is an everyday occurrence in heaven. God takes some of those who in tills world were fishers of men and who toiled' very humbly, but because of the way they mended their nets and employed their nets after they were meuded, he suddenly hoists them and robes tbeni and scepters them and crowns them and makes them rulers over many cities, and he marches armies of saved ones before them lu review—Massa- niellos unhonored on earth but radiated In heaven. The fisher boy of Naples soon lost bis power, but those people of God who have kept their nets mend ed aud rightly swung them shall never lose tbelr exalted place, but shall reign forever aud ever aud ever. Keep that reward In sight. But do not spend your time fishing With hook and Hue. Why d|3 uot James, the son of Zebedee, sit on the wharf at Cana, his feet hanging over the lake, aud with a long pole and a worm on the hook dipped Into the wave wait for some mullet tq swim up and be caucht? Why did not Zebedee~spend Ids uTtor- noou trying to catch one eel? No, that work was too slow. These men were -not mending a hook nud line; they were mending their nets. So let the church of God not bo content with hnv ing here one soul and next mouth an other soul brought into the kingdom. Sweep all the seas with nets, scoop nets, seine nets, drag nets, all encom passing nets, and take the treasures in by hundreds aud thousands am! mil lions, aud uatious will be born iu a day and the hemispheres quake'with the tread of a ransoming God. Do you know what will be the two most tre mendous hours In our heavenly exist- euce? Among the quadrillions of ages which shall roll on what two occasions will be to us the greatest? The day of our arrival there will be to us one of the two greatest. The second greatest, I think, will be the day when we shall have put in parallel lines before us what Christ did for us and wbat we did for Christ, the oue so great, the other so little. That will he the ouly embarrassment iu heaven. My Lord and my God, wbat will we do and wbat will we say when ou one side are placed the Saviour’s great sacrifices for us aud our small sacrifices for him —his exile, his humiliatiou, his agonies on oue hand and our poor, weak, insufii- cient sacrifices on the other? To make the contrast less overwhelming let us quickly mend our nets, and, like the Galilean tishennou, may we be divine ly helped to cast them ou the right side of the ship. [Copyright, 1901, by Louis Klopscli.] PERSONAL PARAGRPHS. People You Know aud People You Don’t He Prayed Hard. [Atlanta Journal ] An old mau in Georgia named J«ck Baldwin, having lost his hat in an old dry well one day, hitched a rope to a stump and let himself down. A wicked wag named Neal cume along just then and quietly detaching a hell from Baldwin’s old blind horse he approached the well, bell in hand, and begun to ting-a-ling. Jack thought the old horse was coming and said: “ILug (he old blind horse! He’s coming this way stir-*, and he ain’t got no more sense than lo fail right in on me Whoa, Bail!” The sound came closer. "Great Jerusaii-ni! the old blind fool will be right on top of me in a mink! Whoa, Bail! Whoa haw, Ball!’’ Neal kicked a little dirt on Jack’s head and Jack began to pray. * Oh, Lord have mc-rcy or: — whoa Bui!—a poor sinner—I’m gone now; whoa Bail. Our Father w ho are in— whoa. Bail!—hallowed he th*—gi e. Ball, gee! what’ll I do?—r atm. N"v, 1 lay me down to s’—gee, Bali!” Just then in fell more dirt. "Oh, Lord, if you ever intend to do any thing for me—back, Bail! whoa!— Thy kingdom come—gee, Bail! Oh, Lord, you know I wus baptized in Smith’s mill dum—whoa, Ball! Oh! up! murder! whoa!” Neal could hold no longer and shouted a laugh which might have been heard two miles, which was about as far as Jack chased him when he g it out. M Prices. I’or tlio next B0 days I will sell you Dry (ioods, Notions, Shoos, Hats and all other jojods at cut prices. I will sell you the host Axes di the market at GO emits for plain and 60 emits for hoveled. Yours respectfully, !. FT ffi. Your House is P U p I j L ! m;iy hi- Mi«' waraiu^ you ri'reive some nGlit as y.,u n. rinr! j-o-m- ALL ready tola- i->nsum -d you toti.isnri'd? If not, write to i.Vw A. D. mivld 01 or Frank M d.uiu y, Abingdon, Ajcenls of the to conn, and writ' you a policy on your prop erty at once, for <o lay ]s liiinytious. The Farmers’ Mutual Insurar.ci Co. of Cherokee County is a Home enterprise, is perfectly solid, and "•'e* yoo the eheapeM Insurance in tlji w or id. and waiiis iiil the pi ople in tho county to share in Us h neats. AN OLD POEM Do You Want Insurance 9 Know. Miss Edna Sarratt, one of our sweetest, prettiest and most pop ular young ladies, is visiting her sis ter, Mrs. John Swyggert, at Peak’s She expects to be away two or three weeks. A. Schumpert, a prominent citizen of Columbia, spent Friday in the city. C. W. P. Sullivan, of Greenville was in the city Thursday. James L. Reid, a prominent busi ness man of Columbia, was in the city Friday. J, C. Jefferies, Esq., vi-as In Colum bia last week on legal business. Mr. Jefferies is one of our most prominent attorneys and enjoys a large and lu crative practice, allot which lie truly merits. Hon. C. W. Whisonant, of Wilkins- ville, was in the city for a few hours yesterday. J. M. Hood, of Lancaster, was here Friday on business. Probate Judge J E. Webster re turned to the city Sunday from Ar kansas, where he has been on a short visit to relatives. Judge Webster was accompanied home by his broth er Charley, who has been in Arkansas for the past nine years. Mr. Charley Webster comes back with shattered health, but hopes are entertained of his recuperating. C. P. Eilis, of Dellingers, N. C., came in to see us while in the city yesterday. Elbert Keller, one of Maud’s good citizens, was in town Friday. T. P. Phillips, of Boiling Springs, N. C., was in the city yesterday. J. W. Castles, of Hickory Grove, was among the visitors in the city Friday. Mr. and Mrs. ti. W. Knight, of Hopedale, Mass,, arrived in the city Sunday. J. T. Ross, of Charlotte, N. C., was in the city Friday. J. C. Arwood, of the Southern Railway, was a* visitor in the city Saturday. Mrs. Sophia Redus, of Newberry, who has been spending several weeks with her cousin, Mrs. E B. Wilbur, in this city, returned to Newberrj yesterday. Mrs. Redus is a delight ful lady and made many friends dur ing her brief stay in Gaffney. She returns to her homo with pleasant recollections of our little city an ! we but voice the sentiment of her friends when we say we will be glad to have her visit us early and often. Miles Littlejohn, of Efta Jane, was in tbe city Friday and Sunday. W. A. Donald, of Thickety, was in the city yesterday. Mr. Donald paid bis respects to The Ledger while here and as a consequence will keep in touch with all Cherokee county for the next year. Hon. William Jefferies, of Home, visited relatives here Friday and Saturday. E. C. Lanier, a prominent resident of Harlem, Ga., was amhng th" visi tors in the city Saturday. Mrs. Julia A. Gaines is in Rich mond visiting her nephew Pvof. R. E. Gaines, of Richmond College. Mr. and Mrs. O. A Osborne, of Blacksburg, were the guests of Dr. and Mrs. Fort on Friday. A. P. Phifer, of Newberry, spent Saturday in our city. George G. Byers, of Gainesville, Ga., spent Sunday in our midst. A NEGRO RAPIST. lie AMaulteU a Preacher'* Wife and U Now Under Arrent. |Columbia State.] Jonf.sville. Jan. 26 —Last night a negro man by the name of John Jam ison attempted rape upon a married woman, Mary Jane Young, who is the wife of Gamewell Young, a preacher. The Rev. Yuung was away from home and hud been for several days attending to his minis terial duties. Jamison, tl.e attempt ed rapist, lives nq^r by Young and knew the situation. He went in tho silent hours of tbe night and raised the window of Young’s house while the woman was asleep and made his assault upon her. She awoke and made an alarm and the brute left. He has been arrested and is now in the calaboose. Feeling runs high among the colored people, but no vio lence is feared. An Approaching Marring*. [Spartanburg Herald ] Cards have been issued announcing that on Wednesday evening, Feb. 6th, in the First Baptist church in Gaffney, Miss Minnie Carroll and Mr. Geo Garrett Byers, will be married. Miss Carroll is a charming and popular young lady of Gaffney, and has often visited this city, where she has many friends. Wan Flr«t Written Ou a Confederate Note, but Author Unknown. Mr. E R. Harman, of Asbury, an old veteran of the war between the States and a good citizen as well, was in our office a few days ago. He had in his possession an old relic of that bloody war in the shape of a twenty-dollar Confederate rote with a poem on the back of it. This pot m is a familiar one and is prized by every old soldier who still lives to tell of the "storm-cradled nation lhaf fell.” It first came to light on the back of a Confeder^'e b.*i, but its author was never knu„n. erne poem is as follows: I am prepared to furnish poli cies in the very pest companies at tho lowest rates. If you want a bond I can make it for you. See me before you insure. F. G. STACY. T. I. WALKER, GAFFNEY, S. C., Deals Exclusively in Representing notliint; on God’s earth now. And nuuKht in the waters below It; As the pledge of a nation that has p.u,sed away, Keep It. dear friends, and show it. Show it to those who will lend an ear To the tale this trllle will toll; Of liberty, liorn of a patriot’s dream, Of a storm-cradled nation that fell. Too poor to possess the precious ore, ... 00 n 'uen of a stranger to borrow: Me issued to-day our promise to pay And hoped to redeem ou the morrow. The days rolled on and the weeks became « years. But our coffers were empty still: Coin was so scarce the treasury quaked if a dollar dropped into the till. Rut the faith that was in us was stronic in deed. Though our poverty well we discerned; And this little note represents the pay Our suffering veterans earned. We knew it had scarcely a value in cold, Yet as gold our soldiers received it; It gazed in our eyes with a promise to pay, And every true soldler belleved 11. Dr. Hull's Cough Syrup is the safest and surest cure for those dangerous affections of the little one-croup, whooping-cough and measles' cough. Physicians prescribe it. chil dren like It. and doses are small. Price • What Life Insurance Ones. 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 rich man. It gives courage to the poor man. It builds a barrier to the alms house. It supports the credit of the business man. It enables a man to live up to Ins income. It lays the foundations of home and independence. It encourages the marriage of prudent men and women, It keeps embarrassed estates out of receivers’ hands. It certifies to a man’s affec tionate regard for his family. It places the widow above the need of marrying for a home. It adds to a man’s years by freeing 1dm from apprehension. It saves orphan girls from the necessity of working out. ' It heightens the esteem in which wife and children hold a man. If you are interested in the above subject call on JONES J. DARBY, Insurance and Real Estate. JUS'T IIML Dainty Designs in STEHLIN6 SILVER; Quaint Conceits in RICH CUT 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, Wutchniakei and Jcwoler. ^ Bankrupt Sale. MOTIOE Is hereby given to all persons tn- ‘ ’debted to the firm of Reason A Holland, bankrupts of Gaffney, S. O., that all out- staudtug accounts unpaid at that date will he expoftod for public sale to the hlgheut bid der on Feb. 4, 1901. It will he to the interest of all persons Indebted to the above firm to settle rattier than have their accounts ex posed at public sale. In the meantime alj wishing to settle can do so by calling ou the trustee. Sale will take place at court house Immediately after tho logal sales are com pleted. W. C. Hamrick Trustee. Until Feb. 4. Lumiisr and guilders’ Material and carries ia stock a complete linaof DOORS. SASH, BLINDS, PAINTS, OIL, PLASTERERS’ MATERIAL, and everyt liing needed for building purposes. Look him up when you need anything In h’s line. EOUTHERN RAILWAY. Condensed Schedule of Passenger Trains. In EiTocFAIsy Gth, 1900. Mertbbennd. Npy 12. Daily. Ves. No. 83. Daily. No, 18. Fx. Bun. FstMa No. 81 Dally. 11 50 p 12 50 a 1 20a 1 63a 2 18a ftftfta Lt. Atlanta,CT " Atlanta,iiT “ Nororoaa.. " Buford. .. T 63 a 8 50 a 9 89 a 10 05 a 10 ho a 10 58 a 11 £5 a U 30 a 11 63 a 12 (,0m 1 Oop 4 30 p 6 89 p C 2jp 7 03p 7 oG p 8 OJp 8 Cop 8 85 p 9 OOp “ Gainesville “ Lula.... i 25 p I 45p “ Cornelia.... “ Mt. Airy... Lv. Toco 8 83n 5 40p 8 28a Ar. Kibertou.. Lv. Klbevton... 9 66 a TTCa Lv. W’mlnster. “ Seneca. “ Central “ Greenville. “ Spar'burg. “ Gatfnev.... " btackKDurg " King’s Mt.. ** Gastonia... “ Charlotte.. Ar. Gro’nsboro 12 him 12 p li 3 P t 84p a 87 p 4 20 p 4 88 p • 03p 6 25p 6 8up 0 55 p 'i'i6p "$'22 P 6 13 p 6 40 p T 02p **•###•• • •es s s • • TiffS 4 28a 4 65a • 80a 7 08a 7 46a •a: 8 SI a 9 60a 12 28 ft "• isp 10 41 p • e »»•••• * • e e • • • Lv. G re’nsboro Ar. Norfolk ... 11 46p 8 26 a •ssseeea Ar. Danville... 11 26 p 11 68p 188ft Ar. Richmond.. 6 CO u 6 00s 8 28 ft Ar. W'hlngton. “ B’moreP. R “ Ph'delphla. " New York. •••••••• 8 42 a 8 00 a 10 15 a 12 41m ••esses* •**••••• • * etas * • • 80ft 11 26ft IS: Senthbennd. FstMa No. 85. Daily. Ves. No. 37. Daily. No. 11. Daily. Lv. N.Y.,Pa.R. *' I'h’deiphis. “ Baltimore.. “ Wash'ton.. 12 15 s 8 60s 6 22a 11 15 a 4 80 p 6 66 p 0 2op 10 46 p ••esesss Lv. Richmond.. 12 01 n 11 OOp 11 OOp TlOa Lv. Danville... 6 43p 6 60s Lv. Norfolk Ar. Gre'nsboro 9 00a • 85 p 8 86 p 6 15a Lv. Gre'nsboro Ar. Charlotte.. Lv Gastonia... “ King's Mt.. T lOp 9 45 p 10 42p : 05 a 9 25 a 10 07 a T 87 s 12 06m 1 l4p • 16 p 4 80p IgS 0 lOp e 45 p • •* sesaa " blfc-Ksburg *• Gaffney... •• Spar’bv.rg. “ Greenville " Central .. 11 &p 11 42 p 12 20 s 1 8u a 10 45 a 10 58 a 11 84 a 12 80p -nrs '* Seneca . " W’mlnster. “ Toccoh t 82 a I 90p 8 28 a t 15 p Lv. Utburton.. Ar. Elborton.. It 45 a 9 00s • 40 P 1 BOp Lv. Mt. Airy.. ♦ &p T 82 p ft Oop >20p ft 48p • 18p 10 OOP 9 OOp 1 TKa 8 86 a 687a 7 20a f 46a • 87 a AS! " Cornelia. “ Lula “ Gainesville •• Buford. .. ** Nororos*. Ar. Atlanta,ET " Atlanta,CT "4'iia 4 80 a • 02a t 25 a « 10 s 6 10 a Tii'p 1 hip 4 65 p 1 65 p Bntween Lula ani Athens. Roil. Kx. Sun. No. 18.1 STATIONS. Daily, j No. 12. Dally. Ex. Sua. • lOp • 84p 8 60 p 9 80 p 11 05 s Lv...Lula .Ar 11 8C a " Maysrille " 11 52 * " Harmony “ 12 80p Ar. Athens .Lv 10 SO a 10 13 a 10 08 a 9 26a ;s • « 601 Sole close oonneotloa male nt Lain xrltn ■min line trains. "A" a m. ‘ P" p. at. ‘‘M" noon. “N" night. Chesapeake Lise Steamers tn dally Servian between Norfolk end Baltimore. Nos. 37 and 8t>—Dally Washington w Southwestern Vestibule Limited. Throu Pullman sleeping cars between New Yo New Orleans, via Washington. Atlas Montgomery, and also between New York is, via Memphli Wsehiagtoi Atlanta and Stf CULM AN Lit 1 Pl mingham. Also elegant Pullman LinaAKY Observation Cam between Atlanta and New York. Tlr.tclaas thoroughfare roaches b» tw een Washington nod Atlanta. Dining meals trve all igton 1 tourist fashlngtonaBd' ington Mot'svs, w »a route. _ Wrdnesds; Leaving Washing* and Fridays P , . I . yt ani Frida tourist sleeping car will run through bet kB'lu— ” ' - _ . .aa Frasoiseo without ehaage. Pullman drawing-room sleeping cc-s between Greensboro and Norfolk, Close conneeMsn at Norfolk tot Out Point Oomtoat. Noa. bb and tW—United State* Fast Mail i solid between Washington and New Oris t ria Southern Ballw^, A. ft W. F. A B. ft N. U. R., being eeatpoeed mt rough without changg far pesssng Puhium dra tween New Yoik sn_ lauta and Montgomery mingham and Atlanta, aiea • en route. Nos. 11. ft, 84 aad U-l _ , . betv.nrn Richmond sal Cftvlot rills, southbound Noe. U ami tft Nos 84 end Vi 4