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t Crouching every cough there 5, like a crouching , the probabilities of consumption. The throat and lungs become rough and in- y flamed from \ coughing and i the gerrns of i consumptio n find an easy entrance. Take no chances > with the dan- fy gerous foe. For 60 years c has been a pcr- cure. What a rec ord! Sixty years of cures. soothec and heals the wounded throat and lungs. You escape an at tack of consumption with all its terrible suffering and uncertain results. There is nothing so bad for the throat and lungs as coughing. A 25c. bottle will cure an ordinary cough; hard er coughs will need a 50c. size; the dollar bottle is cheapest in the long run. “One of my sons was spitting blood with a high fever and was very ill. We could hardly see any signs of life in him. The doctors dul him no good. Hut one bottle of your CherrvPectoral cured him and saved his life.” C.G. Anhehson, Nov. 10,1808. Pukwana, S. Oak. Write the Doctor. If yon hsvssny complaint whatever anil desire the best medical advice, write the Doc- tor freely. Address Dr. J. C. Avkr, Lowell, Mass. : A. E. ANDERSON! & COMPANY* Chicago's Peerless^ Tailors-^ EJECTMENT FROM EDEN POSITIVELY GUARANTEE FIJT AND WORKMANSHIP REPRESENTED BY j uJiHHULL & liKUftllltH j kAAAAAAAAAA^AAAAAAAAAAA^A^ T-a Do You Yrfant Insurance ? 1 am prepared to furnish poli- cie<j^tn the very pest companies at the lowest rates. If you want a bond 1 can make It for you. See me before you insure. F. G. STACY. |%DR J. F. GARRETT, Dentist, Gaffney, - - - S. C. Office over J. R. Tolleson’s new store In office from 1st to 26th of each Tiont.b Dr. C. T. LIPSCOMB, Dentist, Office over R. A. lone* ft Co.’s Store. Oan be found at office Mix days In the week G. W. SPEER, AT-IvAW, GAFFNEY, S. C. r OfIlce over J. W. Tolleson’s Store. N. W. HARDIN, LAWYER. Practice In till Courts and all branches of the Law. Oflion over .1. W. Tolleson’s store. Office hours from '.KM a. m. toll p. m. every day in the week. WALLACE & OTIS, - LAWYERS. Office upstairs, between It. A. Jones and Davenport. Phone 87. J. E. WEBSTER, Attorney At- ORIce in Court House. (Probate .1 udge (office Gaffney City, S. C. Practices in ai) the courts. Oolleo- Jnn« a specialty K.rHinmii n. P.Sander*, iv v, (11,11,,) r DORCAK, SANDBKS « HALL. Attorneys-at-Law. Dffloe over J. U. Tollenon’* ft Do,'* Store. Dr. Talmage Says It Shows Idle ness Is Bad For Man. EXTOLS THE BLESSINGS OF LABOB. Riche* Are More Kqaallr Divided Then I* Generally Understood—In Order to Understand God We Most Receive Divine Grace. Washington, Feb. 8. — There Is ft great solacs in this discourse of Dr. Talmage for those whose lives have many anxieties; text, Isaiah ill, 10, “Say ye to the righteous that it shall be well with him.” Here is a promise for people who are all right, but who will come and get It? How many, or rather, how few people do you know who are all right? If it were asked of any assembly that those who were sinless should rise up, none would rise except Imbeciles and reli gious cranks. An accident happened near GO centuries ago that started the human race In the wrong way, and we have uot got over it. We know a great many splendid men and splendid W’om- en, but they will tell you that they have not always done the right thing or thought the rig^it thought. If it were any of your business, they could give you an inventory of frailties and mistakes and infelicities that would be astonishing. Here, then, you say, is a Bible promise that goes a-begging, “Say ye to the righteous that it shall be well with him.” It Is my delightful work today to show you that all the sons and daugh ters of Adam and Eve may appropriate the benediction of my text If they will 4*.1. C. JEFFRRIKS4- GAFFNEY, S. C. < i>«l fjttw. Cor|M»rMtlnn I«m« Wu'iey }</• n on ;tppr</vo*1 u rHy JAMES A. WILLIS, ATTORNKY AT LAW, C » A I- 1-c IC V . !-*. c;. Notary Public In office. Prompt attention <1 ven to nil llUSlh' VS OIRi)*) over it. A Jones ,v I 'o.'MNrore. REV. DK. TALMAS K. first do the right thing. Over here In the next street was u man who lu great misfortunes lost all he had and was positively beggared, but a letter comes from some European city, where the land records are kept, announcing to him that a great fortune Is his. Now he is ns opulent as lie was pauperized. He doffs his rags and puts on respect able attire and moves into a home ap propriate for a man of vast estate. His worldly circumstances were all wrong last year; they are all right this year. On the next street is a man who was from perfect health prostrat ed, and he seemed to be sick unto death, but a skillful physician took correct diagnosis of his disease and by prompt and vigorous treatment rester- eu him to his former vigor. As to bis health he was all wrong before. Now he Is all right In these two ways I illustrate my theme. By sin we have all been morally bank rupted. Christ the Lord from his infi nite riches pays our debts and empara- dises us in his mercy. From his rich est wardrobe he put on us the clean robe of his righteousness and gives us a palace In the heavens when we are ready to go up and take It Now, as to our spiritual estate we are all right. We were morally diseased, but Christ the physician, by a bath In the foun tain of bis grace, cures us. Dankruptcy of 81a. Now, as to our spiritual health we are all right That is the way we come to the rigbteousuess spoken of lu the text. It Is a contributed righteousness, a made over righteousness, an Imputed righteousness. The moment you get into right relations with Christ the Lord that moment you can appreciate the magnificent comfort of the text, and I defy you m all this great book, from the first verse of the first chapter of Genesis to the last verse of the last chapter of Revela tion. to find me a passage with higher and deeper and broader and longer comfort than that of the text, which la as deep as the Atlantic ocean half way between the continents and high as the sun when the clock Is striking 12 at noon. But I shall be swamped with the oceaulc tides of this subject unless (he Lord help me to keep a foothold. “Say ye to the righteous that It shall bn well with him.” Bear in mind that but few people can stand worldly success. Water Is a good thing, but too much of It will drown. Fire Is a good thing, but too much of it will destroy. Light Is a good thing, but too much of It dazzles and blinds. Success Is a good thing, but too much of It has overwhelmed many for this world and the next. If It were best for us, we would all be millionaires, live In palaces like the Alhambra and be os personally attractive as Cleopa tra appeared to Antony. But. the most of folks could not endure such super abundance, and It Is absolutely neces sary In order to keep them right that WYJ n.en out of 1,000 should find life a struggle. It keeps them out of mis chief. After Adam was ejected from the premises where by ten minutes of employment a day he could keep tbs garden and dress It the best thing that eon Id happen to him was compulsion to work and fight. The ground that bloomed with spontaneous flowers and rustled with harvests that owed noth ing to plow or hoe became hostile, and bramble was subutituted for rose, and the panther growled where before he fawned, and horn and fang and hoof became Ixdllgerent. That Edenlc eject ment shows us as nothing else ever could that Idleness or only a few min utes of employment a day are doom ami overthrow. Tut It down among your blessings Instead of your mlsfor- tuues that you have to work hard wlt4 brain or hand or foot or all three of them. ('linns;*; Bitter Into Street. How many men do you know worth $250,000 who are devout and consecrat ed and humble and generous and em ploying their means for the world’s re demption? You could count them up on the fingers of your two hands even If by accident or war you had lost one or two of the fingers. As to the realm of personal attractiveness, how many women radiant of countenance and graceful of form do you know who are unaffected and natural of manner and deeply pious before God, using their beauty for the betterment of the world and not for selfish purposes? I only take the risk of asking the question and leave to you the risk of answering It. These things 1 say to show you that In order to have the promise of the text fulfilled lu your case It Is not necessary you have phenomenal world ly success. Notice, also, that God gives the right eous the power to extract good out of evil and by a divine chemistry to change the bitter Into the sweet and the harmful into the beneficial. The promise that It shall be well with you does not Imply that yon are to be free from trouble. There Is no escape from that. We all have family relations, and some of them will be making exit from this world, so that bereavement is the universal Inheritance. So also Is financial loss. The difference be- tweei the prospered and those not prospered Is the difference In the amount they can afford to lose. The more wealth a man has the more he can lose, but one man can afford to lose a million dollars where another man cannot afford to lose one dollar. On larger or smaller scale all suffer financial loss. Amid the rapidity of the revolutions of the wheel of nation al and International finance monetary perplexity Is as common as day or night. So also misinterpretation and slan der come to all who live active lives. Our actions, thoroughly honest and aboveboard, may come under suspi cion. Every courtroom at every term of court hears Illustrations of the delu sion of wliat Is called circumstantial evidence. Innocent men are fined or Imprisoned or electrocuted because of an unfortunate conjunction of events. What Is true In courtrooms Is true In all circles of domestic or social or polit ical or official life. You have been mis understood and misrepresented, or will be misunderstood or misrepresented. Then how can my text be true? My explanation is this: The man without any divine grace in his heart finds in these troubles irritation and unbelief and melancholia and despair. A Chris tian man finds In them submission and enlarged views and divine support and reconsecratlou. Bereavement to the worldling brings hard thoughts of God and a resistance so violent It dares not fully express itself. Bereavement brings to the Christian the thought of heavenly reunion and a more complete laying hold of God, and a more tender appreciation of the divine presence, and deeper gratitude that we were per mitted to have the departed one so long, and a more lively sympathy for the sorrows of others and another evi dence of God’s love, for “whom the Lord lovetb he chasteneth,” Health Better Than Riches. Financial loss, which 1 just now said Is sure to come, never breaks up a man who has strong faith in God. lu most cases It is a loss of surplus or It Is the banishment of luxuries. Most of the wants of the prosperous classes are ar tificial wants. The late Mr. Armour of the $00,000,000 estate poluted to one of his clerks on ordinary salary and said, “That man has better appetite than 1, sleeps better nights and enjoys life more than 1 do.” Ob, the gigantic miseries of those who have too much! A man In Solomon’s time expressed as philosophic and reasonable a wish as any man of those times or of our times. His name was Agur, and be offered a prayer that he might never have a su perabundance or a deficit, crying out, “Give me neither poverty nor riches!” On the one side he had seen the awful struggle of the poor to get food and clothes and shelter and to educate their children, and on the other side he had seen the gouty foot, and the Indiges tion, and the insomnia, and the anxiety about large Investments, and the threat ened paresis often characteristic of those who are loaded up and loaded down with too many successes. Those people who are generally called ♦he masses—that Is, the most of folks— have the things absolutely necessary for their well being. They have no Mu rillos on their wall, nor a “Belshazzar’s Feast” in their dining room, nor a pair of $3,000 sorrels at their doorway. But they have something which those su perabundantly supplied seldom have— they have better health because, being compelled to walk, they get the neces sary exercise, and, their diet being lim ited to plain food, they do not suffer from midnight salads and are not vic timized by rare caterers. They retire for wholesome sleep at the very hour in which others are leaving their homes for the dance or the card party. They will sleep the last sleep just as well In the plain graveyard as those who have over them an arch of sculptured gran ite In costliest necropolis or most his torical abbey. Things are more equally divided than Is generally supposed. That splendid home Ih apt to have a taking off of some kind. It may he an Invalid wife, or a deformed child, or an Inherited tending toward Insanity, or a dissolute son, or a despoiled reputation, or a weakened heart that may halt under the least excitement. Envy no man. Envy no woman. Be content with such things as ye have. Do not thiok, In order to have It w^ll with you, according to my text, that therefore you must have more than somebody else, or even ns much ns somebody else. The lord treats us all better than we treat him, and If we would study our blessings as much as we study our disasters we would be more reasonable and thankful. In Isaiah God says that bread and water shall be sure, and none of us has been put on so low a diet; but we often act as though God had not kept him promise because we want more luxuries, forgetful of the fact that he promised bread, not cake; water, not sparkling cordials. The reason so many people are mis erable Is because they do not let well enough alone. They are In one occu pation and see Its annoyances and so change to another occupation and find as many annoyances. If uot more. Tin y live lit one place and know It* uncom fortable environments and move lu- to another place which has Just ns many limitations. Their Investments yield them 4 per cent, and they sell out to make investments that will yield 10 per cent and lose all. Better settle down and stop fretting about yourself and the world. An officer In Cromwell's time was so worried about public affairs that e could not sleep. Ills servant, a Chris tiau man, said lie would like the privi lege of asking the officer a question. Leave being granted, the servant said, “Do you uot think that God governed the world very well before you came Into It?" “No doubt of it,” was the re ply. “And do you uot think lie will govern It quite as well when you are gone out of It?” “Certainly.” “Then— pray, sir, excuse me—hut do you not think you may trust him to govern It as long as you live in it?” The remark was so sensible that sleeplessness de parted and tranquillity came. A particular Providence is as certain as a general Providence. It did not Just happen so that Brunei noticed a shlpworm boring into the wood, so sug gesting to the engineer the tunneling of the Thames. It did not Just happen so that a spider’s web strung from tree to tree suggested the suspension bridge to Us first originator. Nothing just happened so in your life or mine. It is not an autocrat at the head of the uni verse, but a Father. Leave thy low vaulted past! Ijct each new temple, nobler than the last, Shut thee from heaven with a dome more vast Till thou at length art free, Leaving thine outgrown shell by life’s unresting seal Do any of us fully realize the fact that God gives us three things in un limited supply, although no formula of prayer that 1 ever heard recognizes them—water, air and sunlight? Water by the riverful. Water by the lakeful. Water by the oceanful. Some for ab lution, some for slaking of thirst, some for baptistery, some for fountains and aquariums. 1 never appreciated what a wonderful thing water Is until last summer I stood by the fountains be fore and around the emperor’s palace at Peterhof, Russia. I have been familiar with this won derful element of nature from child hood, having been born on the banks of the beautiful Raritan and as a bare footed boy dabbled In the brook near my father’s house. But I never real ized until last summer what water could do in play, or in strange caprice, or beautification, or when climbing the ladder of the light, or when skillful workmen took hold of it to toss it or whirl It, or shape it Into crowns, or hoist It Into columns, or spring it into arches, or lift it iuto stars, or turn it Into crescents, or build it into temples. You forget you ever saw the less glori ous waters at Chatsworth, England, or Versailles, France, as you stand In the balcony of the palace overlooking the Finland gulf, bewildered and trans ported as you look at the one display called the Golden Stairway fountain. The water rolls down over 24 steps 1 foot high and 20 feet lofig. All of these 24 steps are covered with sheets of burnished gold. Silver stop of the wa ter on stairs of gold! What a glee of liquids! Bolling, dashing, foaming, en rapturing splendors! Chorus of floods! Poetry of waters! Doxology of tor rents. But that which most impressed me there and elsewhere is the abun dance of water, the fact that there are so many waters that the continents can afford to throw them away iuto the sea, Hudsons and Chios, Oregons and Amazons, ithines and Dauubes and Volgas, and so abundant that the earth can afford to have its oceans evaporate Into the heavens, Mediterraneans and Ailantlcs and Pacifies. How rich the earth is with waters! Rest beverage of all the nations, for after the richest ban quet with the richest beverages every one wants at least a sip of It—water, cool water, God descended water! Trust the Lord. With still more abundance Is the air distributed. An earth full of It; a sky full of It. Swiftest and strongest eagle cannot fly so high as uot to have it in the nostril or under the wing. And what affluence of sunlight! No one but the infinite God could dispense so much of It The golden candlestick set on the blue mantel of the heavens! So great that the Almighty Is compared to It, the psalmist crying out, “Tbo Lord God Is a sun!” It is high time that we recognize In our liturgies and In our formulas of prayer the three most abundant blessings of the uni verse which come to all. Now, b It not time that we all began more thoroughly to trust the Lord ? Wd trust him with our souls; why not trust him with our bodies? We trust him with our spiritual Interests; why not trust him with our temporal Interests? We believe what Is said to us by an or dinarily honest man. 1 could not anger you so much or make your cheeks so burn with Indignation as to doubt your truthfulness, and how do you suppose the Lord of heaven and earth feels when you doubt him us he declares In the text, “Say ye to the righteous that It shell be well with him?” Such a promise as that ought to calm your pulses and Irradiate your countenance and halo all the future with rapture, for, after all, It makes but little differ ence what becomes of us here If we come out at the right place, amid the right surroundings and In the right companionship. W’hat are the 20 or 40 or 80 years of terrestrial stay compared with the centuries, the millenniums, the eons of our chief lifetime, which we are to begin when we quit this In- significant planet, Insignificant ns com pared with the size of other worlds? This world Is only a sehoolhouse for heaven. We learn here only the ABC of a higher literature or the simple ad dition and subtraction of an infinite mathematics and are practicing the eight notes of an eternal harmony. The most Important question that any man ever asks Is, “What will be my destiny?" “Whither am I bound?” “Where shall I land?” “What Is the terminus of this short Journey?” Now, child of God, do not worry about that. It shall be well with you In your next state of existence. We know but little about heaven. There Is but little con cerning It In the Bible, and that Is on the last few pages and is mostly figu rative. Do you knew the reason why? I suppose It Is because If we knew the full attractiveness of that place we would be unfitted for our duties here. We would feel that we were standing In the vestibule of a great Luxemburg and would want to go right In and see the glories; or standing In the portico of a temple and would want to get In side nmoug the worshipers. 8o we are allowed to hear only oue bar of the iniuiId and to see oue fold of Uf »n- holstery and catch one glimpse of Its towers. I can make only n rouzh draft of your celestial residence, but 1 can authoritatively state that the world to which you arc destined Is a big world, a brilliant world, a sinless world, a joyful world, an endless world, and a world in touch with other worlds. II Khnll Be Well. Some scientists are now discussing the opening of communication betwe; n our earth and the planet Mars. Ex periments are being made, but they will not succeed. We cannot build a fire large enough to attract the atten tion of that world, or lift a lens power ful enough to see any response inter stellar. We do not positively know that that world is occupied by living beings, or that, if it is occupied, com munication with them would be desir able. It might not be so good a world as this, aud thus communication wi.h It would be debasing. But l rejoice to know that heaven is in touch with other worlds for their improvement, and a depot for glorious arrivals. It Is a thoroughfare between this world and that world, aud a coming and go ing perpetual Going out of this world is as natural as coming Into it, but the one is with pang, aud the other is with rapture, if we are fitted for the uplifting process. It shall be well with you. Now, do not get so frightened about that asthma or that cough or that influenza or that threatened pneumonia. The worst thing that fatal disease can do is to usher you Into coronation aud en thronement. It shall be well with you. Take as good care of your health as you can, have the best doctors you can employ, observe all sanitary laws, keep In this world as long as you are per mitted to stay, aud then when the heavenly call conies be glad to go. I do not care much about what your “last words” are going to be. People put too much emphasis on “last words.” I would rather know’ what your words are uow, in days of health and with mental faculties in full play—your words of kindness, your words of sym pathy, your words of helpfulness, your words of prayer. So live that if you say uot a word during the last day of your life there will be no doubt here about the place of your destination. You will go right into saintly, prophet ic, evangelistic, apostolic, cherubic, seraphic, archaugelic, deitie presence. It shall he well with you. Mother, you will go right up into the possession .of the babe that the scarlet fever or croup took out of your arms, a sorrow that still stings you, and you often say she would now be so many years old if she had lived. You will go iuto the presence of the old folks, for 1 hope you are of Christian ancestry, and you will find that they have no dim ness of sight or halting gait that re quires a staff, for they havt> taken a draft from the fountain of perpetual youth that springs from uuder the throue of God. ‘ Oh, the blissful companionship of heaven in which you shall enter! It shall be well with you. I ring this bell of emancipation and triumph. I like the way the sexton rings the bell of the old country meeting house. I used to stand and admire him pulling the rope of that bell. He rings It a good while, so that every farmhouse within five miles hears it. He may halt a mo ment to take breath and give the sweet sounds time to stir up all the echoes of the hills. And when he is old and not strong enough to pull the rope any more then he sits and listens while his son rings the church bell. So my text seems a bell of Invitation and victory. I began to ring it in the opening of this discourse. I hope to ring it as long as 1 live, and may those who come after us keep on ringing it till those farthest off from God shall come Into the great temple of gospel comfort and all the weary put down their burdens at Its al tar and find that peace which tin world can neither give nor take away. Three times more I ring it: It shall he well! It shall be well! It shall be well! [Copyright, 1001, by Louii Klopccb, N. Y.J CAPITALISTS m GAFFNEY. The (Milan* Vl*it The Carpet Mill and the Mill of the GatTuey ManufaeturiiiK Co. The party of Ohio capitalists who are making an industrial tour of the South, arrived in Gaffney on a special train about 3 o’clock Friday after noon. They were met at the depot by President Wheat and Secretary Wardlaw, of the Gallney Manufactur ing Co., President Carroll and Sec retary and Treasurer Hamrick, of the Limestone Mills, President Bierck, of the Carpet Mill, President Lodge, of Jdmestone College, and by a number of representative citizens. The capitalists were driven to the Gaffney carpet mill, and then to the Gaffney Manufacturing Co. They expressed themselves as being highly pleased, and many of them were as tonished at the wonderful progress these mills have made and are mak ing. They were also pleased with our thriving city and its other industries. The personnel of the party is as follows: Messrs. J. H. Vaile, president Stil well-Bierce & Smith-Vaile Company, Dayton, O ; John S. Conner, attor ney; Lucien Wulsin, president Bald- win-Piano Co., pianos; 0. 11. L Wernieke, Globe Wernicke Co., furni- niture; M. J. Freiberg, Freiberg it Workum, distillers; Jas. J. Hooke-, Putnam, Hooker Si Co., dry goods commission; Earle W. Stiinson, John Shillito Co., dry goods; Charles II Law, insurance; Thos P. Eagan, J. A. Fay it Eagan Co , wood working machinery; Geo. A. Boissaird, jour nalist, Commercial Tribune; J. Stacy Hill, wholesale cigars; John A. Church, president Cincinnati Cord age and Paper Co ; R. A. Holden, ex porters dried fruit; E. P. Harrison, president Fox Paper Co.; II. M Bea- zell, Citizens’ National Bank , B. W. Campbell, Perkins. Campbell it Co , saddlery and harneas manuiacturer*; Larz Anderson; Geo Bullock presi dent Bullock Electric Co. and E hson Co.; E. B Htanley. Standard Oil C ». ; Frank P. Wright journalist. The En quirer; J. E Hall, secretary Buslnes- Men’s Club ; John B 8*ifr, president Eagle White J^ead Co. ; R II West, live stock commission; O. A. Hinsch, president Fifth National Bank; W. 0, Proctor, Proctor dr Gamble Co soap, Ivorydsle uH of Cincinnati; Francis Edward Rum y importer of machinery, London, Eng ; D. A Tompkins and Geo. L Kruger, of Charlotte and Frank P. Melburne, architect, of Columbia. MEETING COMPETITION. Kead It ami Vou Will l*«> Convinced of It* Boldnss*. So many peeple have got to think ing that they can buy cheeper of the ' department stores catalogue houses 1 of Chicago, St Louis and elsewhere. They think their home merchants charge more than a reasonable profit and in tou many cases w* are sorry to adnrt it is tiue Now, u- vi* -late a eve, u- • pro (ms*' to ■ '.k* a (>., <1 c-iimof -in nt WK t’ Ol’OSi- TO MKKI Tin: rcioi.:. ANY OF llll llKl'AKT MI.NT SiO,;l> OK CATAMKit’i: HOt’SkS All w!- s s ' ; - t r. a! yi u o»i.: i > h ■' - or tbo . aine basis that vou dviil with llic catalogue houses anti give the same amount of time to get the goods which it would r»quire to ! them from them. Plank your money dow n when you order the g mds hmi we will meet each and t v> ry price they make and furnish vou the same goods at the same prices they < Her you. We also make customers pay freight and express charges. WE WILL UO FTHTHKK We don’t ask you to take any goods where mistakes are made in ordering We’ll shoulder the mistakes. If anv of jou ever had anything come wrong you know what a nice little job it is to get it correctt d, no matter how willing the firm is to do so. It takps correspondence, stamps and freight on the goods to get tin m tx changed, to say nothing of loss of time. Some people prefer to buy awa) from home because it sounds big to he able to say they ordered from Chi cago, etc. We know of one party who is actually paying more for bought away from home than hi could buy them of his dealer here This kind of people we can do noth ing for, but the kind who are making the dollar go just as far as they can, we can and will do something for. Give us a trial on the proposition we make, if you are one of those who have been buying away from home Bring your catalogue with you. If we fail to furnish the goods without a reasonable excuse, don’t give us your confidence again. Try us once. We don’t fear the results. We are residents of this town. We are your home merchants. Wo help pay taxes. We have to live and must consume some of your products IS THERE ANYTHING WRONG ABOUT Ol’K PROPOSITION ? The whole trouble with rur peoph about here is the same with which so many communities are suffering, that old slowcoach, credit. Some > t it is so slow we never g-t it. No merchant can sell goods cheap on that plan. The dollar invett.d it goods today and sold for cash tomor row can be invested in more goodr the following day, and the same pr<- cess of sale may be rep' ated, but the dollar invested in goods today ano sold on credit tomorrow is tied up just so long as you don’t get it bark, and its earning capacity is st >pped for the merchant until he gets it back again. (Jan you wonder whv the catalogue house has the advan tage in price over most of your horm merchants? The catalogue house won’t trust you; even demands the money in advance with no goods in sight. Your home merchant oftei trusts, and often to his sorrow, evei though 100 per cent, sometimes b- his profit Many times a seeming profit of 25 per cent, on goods sold to a good man turns out to be merely a small interest on the money invested because of slow pay. Treat your home merchant like you are compelled to treat your cata logue house, and we think you will get better results. We handle a full line of Goods. Shoes, Hats, Notions Clothes, Medi cine etc., etc. Call when in town and make our store your headquarters. We have a few chairs if you want to rest, and we keep the store warm and the latch string out. O. E. Wilkins. Gaffney, 8. C.* Notk-e To Debtor*. We have secured the services of Mr. Homer Beard as undertaker and funeral director, who understands the business in all of its details. Mr. Beard can be found in our busines-, Carroll. Carpenter Si Humphries old stand during business hours, and at ids room over National Bank at all other times. Remember that Mr Beard is a reg ular licensed undertaker and embaim- er, and has the highest testimonials as to his proficiency and cbaiacier as a high-toned gentleman. Very truly yours, The Acme Furniture Co. Cut Prices, The manager of one of the most successful furniture houses in Greater New York was asked to what one thing, in his opinion, the success of the concern was most due. He replied: “The founder of the firm was a gieat believer in advertising, and to this fact may be ascribed the enormous business we are handling." There is no business, however small, that cannot be increased by judicious, systematic, per sistent advertising. The giant oak does not gain its strength in a day. Magnificent buildings are not reared all at once, nor can their strength and beauty be appreciated until the finishing touches are put on. Is your business satisfactory? Are you making headway? Are you using to the best advantage the greatest of all business lev ers—advertising? If you are satisfied that you are, well and good; if not, drop in and talk it over with us. We have advertising space to sell, and ad vet Using is a part of our bu. iue&s. Perhsp* we can help you. For the next !>0 days 1 will sell you I)rv Goods, Noti,ons ) Shoes, Hals and all other goods at cut prices. I will sell you the best Axes on the nil k«i at ()0 ci'iits for plain and , i.> ei nts for beveled. Yours respeetf illy, 1.1 PEELER. letlers of Adminislrtllon. Statk ok South Carolina, i COUNTY OK C'HKKOKKK. ( By J. K. Webster, Esquire, i’roliate Judao. Whereas It. K. Humphries and J. T. Hum phries have made suit to me to jjrant them letters of administration, with the will an nexed, of the estate and effects of Thomp son Humphries, deceased, These are therefore to cite and admonish all and sinjtulnr the kindred and creditors of the said Thompson Humphrics.decensed, that they he and appear before me, in the Court of Probate, to he held at Cherokee court house, Gaffney, S.C., on Tuesday. February Ulith next after publication thereof, at eleven o’clock in the forenoon, to show cause, if any they have, why the said administration should not be granted. Given under my hand this iHh day of Feb ruary Anno Domini 1901. J. E. Wkbstir, [L. S.] Prolate Judjfe. Published in Gaffney Ledger Feb. It’th anfl 19th, 1901. Notice, . N OTICE is hereby (riven that I forbid any person or persons in the Stale of South Carolina from hirinc or employing my son Ambus I.. Jefferies without iirsi consulting me. Any person or persons committing the net, and are found guilty thereupon, may expect to suffer the penalty of the law. - l-4t IlKMU It. J EKKKHI ES. SOUTHERN RAILWAY* Condonscit SclioTulo of Passenger T-Vaf. In Effect Jan. ‘ith, 1901. Northbound. No. 1:’ Daily Ves. ; Kxpr. FstMa Xo. its. X o J4. X o. .Td. Daily., Daily .Daily. Lv. Atbuita.OT 7 5i a 12 i Otn 1! 20 P n SO P M A tlanta,E' 1 ' 8 Mi a 1 00 j. 1 ") P 12 60 a Norcrosa . 9 3U a •J i j> 1 a M Buford. 10 05 a •> 37 p 1 5.1 a ( .liin-svilie lu 35 u o 25 p 03 P 2 18 a Lulu lu 58 a 2 <5 p 3 33 P 2 38 a i ornelia.... 11 25 a ,i Ik • « Mt. Airy. . 11 30 a 3 58 P Lv. Toocoa II 58 u 3 :;■! p 4 19 P 3 28 a Ar. E Ixirton. ti 3j p, 0 p 11 58 m Lv. EiU-rton. !• 66 a Lv. W ’miuster. 12 aim — T 5o P 4 U8 a Her ecu. . 12 52 p 4 15 p 5 06 P 4 28 a ( eutral 1 42 j) 5 P 4 55 a Greenville. 2 54 p 5 22 13 n 6 10 P 6 02 a 3-par burg . 3 ;;; p ti 7 or P 7 03 a Gaffney... 4 28 p 6 40 p 41 p 7 45 a Blacksburg 4 4; p 7 02 p r* t sr P 8 02 a King's Jit.. 6 15 p ... 8 17 P 8 27 a Gastonia. 6 40 p 8 35 P 8 51 a < 'hurlotte.. fl 40 p 8 18 p 9 3. p 0 50 a Ar. Grc’nsboro 9 .5 p lu 4T p 11 44 P 12 23 p Ar. Durham . 3 52 a 3 52 a 2 27 p Ar. Raleigh . 5 L0;t 5 30 a 8 23 p Ar. Danville. 11 25 p it 53 p 12 51 a 1 38 p Ar. Norfolk . 8 80 a 8 30 a 8 30 . • Ar. Richmond.. « 00 a 0 00 a 0 00 r 25 p Ar. Whington. U 42 a 7 35 a 8 50 p B’inore P R 8 IK) a 9 15 a u 35 p Ih'ileiphia. 10 15 a 11 iiT# a 2 5rt a New York. .... 12 4 ,m 2 03 p 0 23 a FstMal Ves. : Expr. Southbound. Xo.S5. Xo.37.jXo. 11. Xo. 33. Daily Daily. Daily Daily. Lv. N.Y.,Pa.R Ph’delphi*. ** Baltimore.. “ V.Nsh’ton Lv. Norfolk. Lv. Dunvillo.. Lv. Raleigh. . Lv. Durham . Lv. Gre’nsbofo Ar. Charlotte.. Lv Gastonia. “ King's Mt. “ Blacksburg “ Gaffney. “ Spar’burg “ Greenville “ Central.. “ Seneca “ W'minster “ Toe. on Lv ♦Clborton.. Ar .Jberton. Lv. Mi. Airy. ” Cornelia. ” Lula. “ liiiinenville ” Buford. Nororovt. Atlanta,FT 12 15 u 4 30 p 3 25 p 3 50 it *S • N) 11 6 06 p c 22 a 0 21 p 8 27 p 11 15 a 10 15 p .... • 55 p 12 01 » 11 UOp 11 OOp 11 o 1 9 35 a i 401) 7 40 p P* 4 40 p 5 48 p 5 50 a 0 10 a 4 88a 3 50 p 1 00 n 1 UOa 1 00 a 4 43 pj 2 30 a * 80 a 2 30 a 7 10 p 4 (<5 a Pr t 37 a 6 48 a 9 4c pi 9 25 a 12 05m « 05a 10 4-i. 11 O’p| 11 ^np 11 42 p 12 2tS a 1 you 2 32 a 1 UOp 10 45 a 10 &S a 11 34 a 12 OOp 11 Mu Ar. Atlanta,* 'Ti 4 18 a 4 lift a 6 02 a 6 25 a 6 10 n 5 In a J 15 P t* OOli ti MU p 1 12 p 1 MSp 2 OTp 2 24 p 8 15 p 4 80 p 5 40 p 6 OSp « 2.1 p 7 Os v 2 00 pi . ' H 14 p y yy p 4 56 p 8 55 p 7 30 p 7 40 p 8 10p 8 82 l 0 (0 • 9 M'p 10 15 p 9 15 p Between Lain and Athens. 8 61 a 9 12 a 0 8J a 9 43 a 10 20 » 11 15* U 10 p 12 90p 12 48p 1 24 p 9 ou a 0 3>u 1 53 p 2 20 p 2 45 p 3 17p 8 52 p 4 36 p 3 86 p FfoTn. Ex. Xo. 13. Fun. Daily. 8 Up 11 05 a 8 51 p 11 41 a 9 11 p 12 01 m 10 00p 12 60 p STATIONS. No. 10. Xo. 12.; Ex. Daily. San. .Lula Ar 10 60 a 7 36 p ’• Mnysville “ lOlta fl 59 p Harmony’' 9 54 a 8 20 p 9 05 a 6 80 p Note close connection made at Lula with main line trains. “A” a m. “P” p. m. ‘'M” noon. *‘N” night. Chcaapeiik* Line Steamers in d-.ily service between Norfolk and Baltimore. Noa 87 and 58—'‘Washington and Southwest ern Limited.’' Solid Puhnae train, l-eingcom- posed exclusively of fire st Pullman cqiii| meat of latest design, through lietweeu New York and Atlanta. Through Pullman nhiping car* between New York and New Orleans, via Washington, Athi'ita uud Moutgomeiy a id *1- ao be,ween New York and Mnuinhis, via Wash ington, Atlanta and Birmingham. Elegant Pullman Library observation ear* between Ma con and New York, liming eai* serve all meals enroute. Pullman »:«•>;.mg e-.n* beta* eu Greensboro aud Raleigh No te-h service on this train. These trains will -top at Gaines ville, Lula. u.Gaffney and B acks- burg only to take on ansi let >tf jx. . ng -rs for and from Washington and U-yond aud for and from Greenville-Columbia and bpurtanburg- Golumhin lines. Nos. 88 and 84—"Atlanta and New York Kx- I n-esn.” New tram lietween Atlanta and Char- otte, eonnecting at Charlotte with trabiaof ■ame number* for ami from Washington, New York and the east, carrying through Pullman uloeptng car* between t 'harlot te anil New York, Charlotte and Richmond anil Norfo k. ts*av- ing Washington Monduys, Wislnesduys and Frida ys n tourist aleeping car will lie o|M-rated on thisIraiB through from Washington to San Francisco without change. Connection a* Greensboro with sleopcr* for Raleigh. No Pul.man cars on this train between .'.tlanta and Charlotte. Ampin first ami tic ond clan* coach accommud ttion* for local and through travel. No*. 36andMV—"United State- Fast MaiU'runs solid lietween Washington and New Orleans, via Southern Rahway, A. AW. P. R. R. and L. ft N. K. K. t Iming roiapoaed of couche*. through without change for t assengers of all class..- Pullman lira win^ reoin s .eping car* lietween New York and New Orb i is. via At lanta and Montgomery *ud Uiwiam Htr- niiughitin aud Richmond Dining cur* serv* all meals en route Noa. 11 and 12-Kolid local train Is tween Richmond and Atlanta Close rom eoltou at Norfolk for < )i.n Point Comkort. Ksiss-ial attention is called toalmVi-H d.ndulo. particularly tbs inauguration of tnim* No*. M ami \ also that N * Hi and .M art) mn'.e an «g, oJuaivc Pullman trun, without coach -• rvtco, FRANK K GANNON, H, H i!AKDW]fl Third V. 1’ ft Gen. Mgr. G 4 W. H "AYLOK BROOK-MOl| Jk., ti. t. A.. AU»e«» •» I