Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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u fU A persis tent cough is at first a friend, for it gives warn ing of the ap proach of a deadly ene my. Heed the warning before it is too late, be fore your u n g s be- c o m e in flamed, be- f o r e the doctor says, “Consump tion. n When the danger signal first appears, help nature with Don’t delay until your lungs are sore and your cold settled down deep in your chest. Kill the enemy before the deadly blow kills you. Cure your cough today. One dose brings relief. A few doses make the cure complete. Three sizes: 25c. fur an ordinary cold; 50c. for the harder colds; $1.09 the most economical for older casea. “ I consider your Cherry Pectoral the best remedy for colds and coupha and all throat affections. I have used it for 30 years and it certainly beats them all.” L>. It. Lt MNKY, Dec. 20,1898. Union, N. Y. Write the Doctor. If yon have any complaint v.-liateycr ami desire the best medical advice you can possibly receive, write the doctor freely. You will receive a prompt re ply, without cost. Address , Dll. J. C. AYKU, Lowell, Iilass. Bankrupt Sale. Notice Is hereby given that the stock of general merchandise, formerly Itelonging to the lirni of Mcf’ruw Ilrothers, Bankrupts, Gaffney, S ('., will be offered for sale on Friday, March 15th, 1'JOl. The stock amount ing to$i.lU2.uO; consisting of groceries, hard ware, harness and saddlery, dry goods and sundries. The stock was accurately taken, at the present ruling market prices in the I jest wholesale markets, and will be sold by the inventory. The Trustee will receive bids for the whole stock, or for separate lots of the same, in the alternative, until noon Friday.15th of March, HSU, reserving the right lo reject any and all bids. Parties desiring to see and Inspect the .stock c:. n do so by calling upon the Trustee. Terms of sale cash. •Ias. A. Wit,i,is. Trustee, ^tar.8-13. Gaffney, S. C. Do You Want Insurance ? I am prepared to furnish poli cies in the very best companies at the lowest rates. If you want a bond I can make It for you. See me before you insure. F. C. 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 month *. Dr. C. T. LIPSCOMB, Dentist, Office over R. A. lone. A Co.’s Store. Can be found at office six davs In the week G. W. SPEER, A/Jrroi* IV K Y-AT-IvA w. GAFFNEY, S. C. v. Office over J. W. Tollcson's Store. N. W. HARDIN, LAWYER. Practice In all Courts and all branches of the Law. Office over J. \V. Tollcson’s store. Office hours from U.30 a. in. to 3 p. rn. every day iu the week. WALLACE & OTIS," LAWYERS. Office upstairs, between It. A. Jones and Davenport. Phone S7. J. E. WEBSTER. .ttorney-A-t- I w, )(BceIn Court House.(Probate Judge suffice Gaffney City, S. C. Practices in all the courts. Collec tions a specialty -f J. C. JEFFERIES+- 0AFFNEY, S. C. Commercial Law. Corporation Law Heal Estate law. Money to loan on approved security. JAMES A. WILLIS, ATTOUNKV AT LAW, Li-A. *<• H" JN LC V . t-i. C!. \ Notary Public In office. Prompt attention 1 ven to all business. Office over U. A. Jones * Co.'s store. D. It.Duncan 0. P. Handers. W.H.Hall.lf DUICAI, SANDERS S HALL, Attorneys-at-Law. Office over J. U. Tolleeon's A Co.’s Store. Washington, March a.—In this dis course Dr. Tahnage calls for a warm friendship between tliose who preach the gospel and those who make news papers, the spoken word and the print ed word to go side by side; text, Luke xv i, 8, “The children of this world are In their generation wiser than the chil dren of light.” Sacred stupidity and solemn iucom- potency and sanctified laziness are here rebuked l>y Christ. He says worldlings are wider awake for opportunities than are Christians. Men of the world grab occasions, while Christian people let the most valuable occasions drift by unimproved. That is the meaning of our Lord when he says, “The children of this world are in their generation wiser than the children of light.” A marked illustration of the truth of that maxim is in the slowness of the Christian religion to take possession of the secular printing press. The oppor tunity is open and has been for some time open, but the ecclesiastical courts and the churches and the ministers of religion are for the most pail allowing the golden opportunity to pass unim proved. That the opportunity is open I declare from the fact that all the sec ular newspapers are ghid of any reli gious facts or statistics that you pre sent them. Any animated and stirring article relating to religious themes they would gladly print. They thank you for any information In regard to churches. If a wrong has been done to any Christian church or Christian Institution, you could go Into any news paper office of the land and have the real truth stated. Dedication services, ministerial ordinations and pastoral In stallations, cornerstone laying of a church, anniversary of a charitable so ciety will Lave reasonable space in any secular journal If it have previous no tice given. If I had some great injus tice done me, there is not an editorial or a reportorial room in the United States Into which I could not go and get myself set right, and that is true of any well known Christian man. Why, then, does not our glorious Chris tianity embrace these magnificent op portunities? 1 have before me a sub ject of lirst and last importance: How shall we secure the secular press as a mightier re-enforcement to religion and the pulpit? The Art of PrlntinK- The first thing toward this result is cessation of Indiscriminate hostility against newspaperdom. You might as well denounce the legal profession be cause of the shysters or the medical profession because of the quacks o* lutTcbandise because of the swindling bargain makers as to slaiubang news papers because there are recreant ed itors and unfair reporters and unclean columns. Gutenberg, the inventor of the art of printing, was about to de stroy bis types and extinguish the art because it was suggested to him that printing might be suborned into the service of the devil, but afterward be bethought himself that the right use of the art might more than overcome the evil use of It, and so he spared the type and the intelligence of all follow ing ages. Hut there are many today In the depressed mood of Gutenberg, with uplifted hammer, wanting to pound to pieces the type, who have not reached his better mood In which he saw the art of printing to bo the rising sun of the world’s illumination. If, instead of fighting newspapers, we spend the same length of time and the same vehemence In marshaling their help in religious directions, wc would be as much wiser as the man who gets consent of the railroad super intendent to fasten a car to the end of a rail train shows better sense than he who runs his wheelbarrow up the track to moot and drive back the Chicago limited express. The silliest thing that a man ever does Is to fight a newspa per, for you may have the floor for ut terance perhaps for one day In the week, while the newspaper has the floor every day In the week. Napoleon, though a mighty man, had many weak nesses, and one of the weakest thlngk lie ever did was to threaten that If the English newspapers did not stop their adverse criticism of himself he would, with 400,000 bayonets, cross the chan nel for their chastisement. Don’t fight newspapers. Attack provokes attack. Better wait until the excitement blows over, and then go in and get Justice, for get it you will If you have patience and common sense and equipoise of dis position. It ought to be a mighty seda tive that there Is an enormous amoutft of eommou sense in the world, and you will eventually be taken for Yvhnt you are really worth, and you cannot be puffed up, and you cannot be written down, and If you are the enemy of good Foeiety that fact will come out, and if you are the friend.of good so ciety that fact will bo established. Foil Justice Front the Press. I know what I am talking about, for 1 can draw on my own experience. All the respectable newspapers, as far as I know, aro my friends now-. But many of you remember the time when I was the most continuously and mean ly attacked man in this country. God gave me grace, not to answer back, and I kept silence for ten years, and mueli grace was required. What I said was perverted and twisted into just the op- isisite of what 1 did say. There were millions of people who believed that there was a large sofa in my pulpit, although we never had anything but a chair, and that during the singing by ilie congregation 1 was accustomed to lie down on that sofa and dangle my feet over the end. Lying New York correspondents for ten years misrepre sented our church services. But we waited, and people -from every neigh borhood of Christendom came there, to find the magnitude of the falsehoods concerning the church and concern ing myself. A reaction set In, and soon Wo hud Justice, full Justice, more than Justice, and as much overpraise as once we hud und« iappreciation, and no man that ever lived was so much In- dobted to the newspaper press for op portunity to preach the gospel as 1 um Yoiiuv men in the mluistry, young men in nil professions and occupations, wait. You can afford to wait. Take rough misrepresentation as a Turkish towel to start up your languid circula tion or a system of massage or Swed ish movement, whose pokes and pulls and twists and thrusts are salutary treatment. There is only one person you need to manage, and that is your self. Keep your dispositions sweet by communion with Christ, who answered not again, get society of genial people and walk out iu the sunshine with your bat off and you will come out all right. And don’t Joiu the crowd of people in our day who spend much of their time damning newspapers. Again, In this effort to secure the secular press as a mightier re-enforce- ment of religion, let us make it the ave nue of religious information. My ad vice, often given to friends who pro pose to start a new paper, is: “Don’t, don’t! Employ the papers already started.” The biggest financial hole ever dug in this American continent is the hole in which good people throw their money when they start a newspa per. It Is almost as good and as quick a way of getting rid of money as buy ing stock in a gold mine. Not more printing presses, but the right use of tliose already established. All their cylinders, all their steam power, all their pens, all their types, all their edi torial chairs and reportorial rooms, are available if you would engage them in behalf of civilization and Christianity. Re-enforcement of Religion. Again, if you would secure the secu lar press as a mightier re-enforcement of religion and the pulpit extend wid est and highest Christian courtesies to the representatives of journalism. Give them easy chairs and plenty of room when they come to report occasions. For the most part they are gentlemen of education and refinement, graduates of colleges, with families to support by their literary craft, many of them weary with the push of a business that Is precarious and fluctuating, each one of them the avenue of information to thousands of readers, their Impression of the services to be the impression adopted by multitudes. They are con necting links between a sermon or a song or a prayer and this great popu lation that tramp up and down the streets day by day and year by year with their sorrows uncomforted and their sins unpardoned. Ob, the hun dreds of thousands of people in our cities who never attend churches! Our cities are not so much preached to by ministers of religion as by reporters. Put all journalists into our prayers and sermons. Of all the hundred thou sand sermons preached today there will not be three preached to journal ists and probably not one. Of all the prayers offered for classes of men in numerable the prayers offered for the most potential class will be so few and rare that they will be thought a preach er’s Idiosyncrasy. There are many Journalists In our church memberships, but this world will never be brought to God until some revival of religion sweeps over the land and takes into the kingdom of God all editors, report ers, compositors, pressmen and news boys. And if you have not faith enough to pray for that and toil for that you had better get out of our ranks and Join the other side, for you are the un believers who make the wheels of the Lord’s chariot drag heavily. The great final battle between truth and error, the Armageddon, I think, will not be fought with swords an 1 shells and guns, but with pens—quill pens, steel pens, gold pens, fountain pens, and be fore that the pens must be converted. The most divinely honored weapon of the past has been the pen, and the most divinely honored weapon of the future will be the pen-prophet's pen and evangelist’s pen and apostle’s pen, followed by editor’s pen and author’s pen and reporter’s pen. God save the pen! The wing of the Apocalyptic an gel will be the printed page. The print ing press will roll ahead of Christ’s chariot to clear the way. gnnffajr Newspapers. “But,” some one might ask, “would you make Sunday newspapers also a re-enforcementV” I have learned to take things as they are. I would like to see the much scoffed at old Puritan Sabbaths come back again. I do not think the modern Sunday will turn out any better men and women than were your grandfathers and grandmothers under the old fashioned Sunday. To say nothing of other results, Sunday newspapers are killing editor*, report ers, compositors and pressmen. Every man, woman and child is entitled to 24 hours of nothing to do. If the news papers put ou another set of hands, that does not relievo the editorial and reportorial room of Its cares and re sponsibilities. Our literary men die fust enough without killing them with Sunday work. All things are possible with God, and my faith is up until nothing In the way of religious victory would surprise me. All the newspaper printing presses qf fiie earth are going to be the Lord’s, and telegraph and telephone and type will yet announce nations born In a day. The first book ever printed was the Bible, by Faust and bis son-in-law, Bcbocffer, In 1400, and that consecra tion of type to the Holy Scriptures was a prophecy of the great mission of printing for the evangelization of all the nations. The father of the Ameri can printing press was a clergyman, Itev. Jcsso Glover, and that was a prophecy of the religion* use that the gospel ministry In this country were to make of the types. Again, wo shall secure the secular press as a mightier re-enforcement of religion and the pulpit by making our religious utterances more iptertating and spirited, and then the press will re produce them. On the way to church some 30 years ago a Journalist said a thing that lias kept me ever since thinking, "Are you going to give us any points today?” “What do you mean /” I asked. He said, “I mean by that anything that will be striking enough to be remembered.” Then I paid to myself, “What right have we In our pulpits and Sunday schools to take the time of people if we have nothing {o say that is memorable?” David did l*ot have any difficulty In reineint>erlug Nathan’s thrust, “Thou art the man,” por Felix In remembering Faul’s point blank utterance on righteousness, tem perance and Judgment to oomo, por the English king any difficulty In remem bering what the court preacher said When during the sermon against sin the preacher threw ills handkerchief Into the king’s pew to indicate whom ho meant. Ally of Christian V^ork. Tlie tendency of criticism in the theo logical seminaries is to tile off from our young men all the sharp points and make them too smooth for any kind of execution. What we want, all of us, is more point, loss humdrum. If we say the right thing in the right way. the press will lie glad to echo and re-echo It. Sunday school teachers, reformers, young men and old men iu the minis try, what we all want if we are to make the printing press an ally in Christian work Is that which the re porter spoken of suggested — points, sharp points, memorable points. But if the thing be dead when uttered by living voice it will be a hundredfold more dead when it is laid out in cold type. Now’, as you all ha\’e something to do with the newspaper press, either in issuing a paper or in reading it, either as producers or patrons, either as sell ers or purchasers of the printed sheet, I propose on this Lord’s day a treaty to be signed between the church and the printing press, a treaty to be ratified by millions of good people If we rightly fashion It, a treaty promising that we will help each other in our work of try- log to illumine and felicitate the world, we by voice, you by pen; we by speak- Ing only that which is worth printing, you by printing only that which is fit to speak. You help us, and we will help you. Side by side be these two potent agencies until the Judgment day, when we must both be scrutinized for our work, healthful or blasting. The two worst off men in that day will be the minister of religion and the editor If they wasted their opportunity. Both of us are the engineers of long express trains of influence, and we will run them into a depot of light or tumble them off the embankments. What a useful life and what a glori ous departure was that of the most fa mous of all American printers, Benja min Franklin, whom infidels in the penury of their resources have often fraudulently claimed as their oyvd, but the printer who moved that the Phila delphia convention be opened with prayer, the resolution lost because a majority thought prayer unnecessary, and who wrote at the time he was vi ciously attacked, “My rule is to go straight forward in doing what ap pears to me to be right, leaving the consequences to Providence,” and who wrote this quaint epitaph showing his hope of resurrection, an epitaph that I hundreds of times read while living In Philadelphia: “The body of Benjamin Franklin, Printer (like the cover of an old book, its contents torn out and stripped of its lettering and gilding), lies here food for worms. Yet the work itself shall not be lost, for It will (as he believed) ap pear once more In a new and more beautiful edition, corrected and amend ed by the Author.” Scoffer Remained to Pray* That Providence intends the profes sion of reporters to have a mighty share In the world’s redemption Is suggested by the fact that Paul and Christ took a reporter along with them, and he re ported their addresses and their acts. Luke was a reporter, and he wrote not only the book of Luke, but the Acts of the Apostles, and without that report er’s work we would have known noth ing of the Pentecost, and nothing of Stephen’s martyrdom, and nothing of Tabltba’s resurrection, and nothing of the jailing and unjalling of Paul and Silas, and nothing of the shipwreck at Melita. Strike out the reporter’s work from the Bible, and you kill a large part of the New Testament. It makes me think that in the future of the king- dom of God the reporters are to bear a mighty part About 25 years ago a representative of an important New York newspaper took his seat In my Brooklyn church one Sunday night about five pews from the front of the pulpit. Ud took out pencil and reporter’s pad, resolved to caricature the whole scene. When the music began, he began, and with his pencil he derided that, and then derid ed the prayer, and then derided the reading of the Scriptures, and then be gan to deride the sermon. But, he says, for some reason bis hand began to tremble, and he, rallying himself, sharpened bis pencil and started again, but broke down again and thou put nendl and paper lu his pocket and bis Bead down on the front pew and began to pray. At the close of the service be came up and asked for the prayers of others and gave his heart to God. And, though still engaged in newspaper work, be is an evangelist and hires a ball at his own expense and every Sunday afternoon preaches Jesus Christ to the people. And the men of that profession are going to come in a body throughout the country. I know hundreds of them, and a more genial or highly edu cated class of men It would be bard to find, and, though the tendency of their profession may be toward skepticism, an organized common sense gospel in- vltatlon would fafeb them to the front of all Christian endeavor. Men of the pencil and pen In all de* partments, you need the help of tha Christian religion. In the day when people want to get their newspapers at 2 cents and are hoping for the time when they can get any of them at I cent, and as a consequence the attaches of the printing press are by the thou sand ground under the cylinders, you wAnt God to take care of you and your families. Some of your best work is as much unappreciated as was Milton's “Paradise Lost,” for which the author received |25, and the Immortal poem "Hohcnllndcn” of Thomas Campbell When he first offered It for publication and in the column called “Notices to Correspondents" appeared the words: "To T. C.—Tbo lines commencing ‘On Linden when the sun was low’ are not up to our standard. Poetry is not T. C/s forte.” For Rlshteonancsa. O men of the pencil and pen, amid your unappreciated work you need en couragement, and you can have It. printers of all Christendom, editors, re porters, compositors, pressmen, pub lishers and readers of that which la printed, resolve that you will not write, set up, edit, issue or read anything that debases body, mind ur soul. In the name of God, by the laying on of the hands of faith and prayer, ordain the printing press for righteousness and liberty end salvation- All of us with some influence that will help in the right direction, let us put our hands to the work, Imploring God tc hasten the consummation. In a ship with hun dreds of passengers approaching the South American coast tin* man on the lookout neglected his work, ami in a few minutes the ship would have been dashed to rulu on the rocks. But a cricket on board the vessel that had made no sound all the voyage set up a shrill call at the smell of land, and the captain, knowing that habit of the iu- sect, stopped the vessel in time to avoid au awful >vreck. And so Insig nificant means now may do wonders, and the scratch of a pen may save the shipwreck of a soul. Are you all ready for the signing of the contract, the league, the solemn treaty proposed between Journalism and evangelism? Let it be a Christian marriage of the pulpit and the printing press. The ordination of the former on my head, the pen of the latter in my hand, it is appropriate that I publish the banus of such a marriage. Let them from this day be one in the mag nificent work of the world’s redemp tion. Let thrones and powers and kingdoms be Obedient, mighty God, to thee, And over land and stream and main Now wave the scepter of thy reign. Oh, let that glorious anthem swell. Let host to host the triumph tell, Till not one rebel heart remains, But over all the Saviour reigns. [Copyright, 1901, by Louis Klopsch.] No Right to I’glint-HH. The woman who is lovely in face, form and temper will always have friends, but one who would be at tractive must keep her health. If she is weak, sickly and all run down, she will be nerveous and irritable. If she has constipation or kidney trouble, her impure blood will cause pimples, blotches, skin eruptions and a wretched complexion. Electric Bitters is the best medicine in the world to regulate stomach, liver and kidneys and to purify the blood, It gives strong nerves, bright eyes, smooth, velvety skin, rich complex ion. It wilt make a good-looking, charming woman of a run-down in valid. Only 50 cents at Cherokee Drug Co. William R. Mardu, Liberty, Maine, recently cut off his ten-foot beard be cause people asked him too many questions about it. For the weakness and prostration following grippe there is nothing so prompt and effective as One Minute Cough Cure. This preparation is highly endorsed as an unfailing rem edy for all throat and Ivftig troubles and its early use prevents consump tion. It was made to cure quickly. Cherokee Drug Co. Representative “Cy” Sulloway, of New Hampshire, measures six feet eight inches—the tallest man in con gress. Like Oliver Twist, children ask for more when given One Minute Cough Cure. Mothers endorse it highly for croup. It quickly cures all coughs and colds and every throat and lung trouble. It specific for grippe aud asthma and has long been a well known remedy for whooping cough Cherokee Drug Company. A New York man made over ali his property to his wife. She eloped, and he is now in the poor house. Their promptness and their pleae- ant effects make DeWitt’s Little Early Risers most popular little pills wherever they are known. They are simply perfect for liver and bowel troubles. Cherokee Drag Company. A national prohibition conference has been called at Buffalo, N. Y., in August nexL Putham Fadeless Dye Green is a very bright green, quite fast on Wool and Silk but not so fast on Cotton (it is absolutely impossible for you to dye a bright green on Cotton thats fast to light.) 10c. per package. Sold by Dr. S. B. Crawley A Co. A 8UPKKI! GRIP CURB. Johnson's Tonic is a superb Grip cure. Drives out every trace of <Iri|) Poison from the system. Does It quick. Within au hour It enters the hlocnl and begins to neutralize the effects of the poison. Within a day it places a Grip victim beyond the point of danger. Within a week, ruddy cheeks attest return of perfect health. Price. 50 cents if It cures. Ask for Johnson's Chill aud Fever Tonic. Take nothing else. ITor—^ Building and Plastering Lime, Coal, and Plaster [fair, piaster Paris. Rteendale Cement, Portland Cement, Dynamite, Blasting Powder, Fuse and Dynamite Caps, call on Limestone Springs Lime Works CARROLL ft CO., Lessees, Telephone 57. Administrator’s Sale. Mtate or South Cahoi.ina, < County or cheiiokke. t By virtue of authority of an order from J. E. Webster, Probate Judge, will sell on Monday, the first day of April. ISoi, during the hours of legal sale, in front of the court house at Gaffney, Houth Carolina, all the notes, accounts and mortgages belonging to the estate of I. (J. Hpencer, deceased. Terms of sale cash. Parties desiring to purchase may we a list of sumo In J. c. Jef feries office. Thomas hpknckk, K. s. Hi’escku, Adm’rs Estate of J. O. Hpencer, deceased Gaffney. 8. C.. March lltb. 1001. Letters of Administration. State or South Cahoi.ina. • County ov CHEMokKK. » By J. K. Webster, Esquire, Probate Judge. Whereas J. H. Turner has made suit to me to grant him letters of administration of the estate and effects of Jaravs D. Tem pleton, deceased, These are therefore to cite aud admonish all aud singular the kindred and creditors of the said James I) Templeton, deoeased, that they lie and appear before me, in the Court of Probate, to be held at Cherokee court house, Gaffney, S. C , on Saturday, March 5S*I. 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 8th day of March, Anno Domini, IDOL J. E. Webhteh, IL. S.l Probate Judge. Published In Gaffney Ledger IJth and lUth March, UMt. Thompson - Fow l«r. Sunday morning at 10 o’clock at the residence of Rev. W. 8. B. Ford, pastor of the Second Baptist church. Mr. John Thompson and Miss Annie Fowler, both of this city, were hap pily married by Mr. Ford. The many friends of these happy young people wish for them all the good things that this life can afford, and The Ledger extends hearty con gratulations Or. Hull h Cough N>ni|> Prevents imeuino- nia or inilamation of the lungs. This cele brated remedy will cure a rough or cold promptly. It is the Im-m, medieine for all kinds of lung trouble and costs hut 25 cents a bottle. Our Specials this Week. T. I. WALKER, ' GAFFNEY, S. C., Deals Exclusively iu Lumber and Builders’ Material and carries in stock a complete Hue of DOORS. SASH, I BUNDS* PAINTS, OIL, ^ PLASTERERS’ S MATERIAL, and everything needed for building purposes. Look him up when you need anything In h's line. ANT) SPANISH OLIVES O. & O. TEA, Tbe Finest Tea on the Market, Call and Get a Free Sample. Sparks & Humphries, The Leaders. Phone No. 79. Read and Take Warning, Farmer Brown— ’’Good morning. Rro. Smith, have you heard the news? Zebulon Harris was burned out lock, stock and barrel this morning; he and fatally barely escaping with their lives from the burning house. One of their babies was badly burned, for they forgot It when they ran out, but /.eh put a blanket, over bis head and ran into the room where It was In a cra dle and got out. with it—his hands are badly blistered too. All their clothing, furniture and supplies for tills year was lost—he didn’t save anything. Mrs. Harris is prostrated and Zeb fears it will kill her. They have six ba bies, the oldest only 10 years old l‘oor fel low, he Is ruined!" Farmer Smith—“He was insured in the Cherokee Mutual, wasn’t he? I saw the agent at his house last week talking to him about insuring bis house and contents.” Brown—“No. he did not insure. The agent told him he would insure his house for *400, furniture and clothing for ?100; that the cost would be *2.50 foi first year and *1.25 each year after on that amount, but Zeb said he would wait awhile, for he needed the money to buy a Ikjx of tobacco now, and wanted to make a good payment on his land mortgage next fall; so 1 am trying to get up money to buy Mrs. Harris and their babies some gar ments to put on, but everybody says Zeb ought to have protected himself by taking out a Policy In the Cherokee Mutual Insur ance Company, which was organized for such cases, and they don’t have much sympathy for him. for this company is prompt to meet D. DAVIDSON, GalTney, Agent. Mk. FRANK McLUNEY, Abingdon. Agent. FRESH SHIPMENT. 3 lb. Tomatoes, Corn, Pork and Beans, California White Cher ries, Syrup Peaches, Bartlett Pears, Etc., Etc. PEELER & LEMMOND. Prompt Delivery. Phone 55. the losses of its mem Kiev. A r- The Up-to-Date Market is still on the boom, and I am with you winter and summer. 1 have the finest Beef, Pork and Sausage. Country Produce and Poultry when it can be had. I will commence handling Kansas City beef soon nearly every day. Fresh Fish Fridays and Satur days. Wheu you need some thing to eat call or phone me; I will try to please you. I also want to buy your fat cows. Green Hides wanted. L. W. McGUINN. 915 Grenard Street . j Dress Goods, Fine Shoos and Notions. ON- EVERY PURCHASE 917 Grenard Street Gents' Furnishings* Gents’ Shoes, Boys' Clothing, Children’s Shoos, Trunks, Carpets* Its the dropping of the"water That wears the stone away, Its the saving of the pennies That prevents a “rainy day.” You will doubtless observe that there is “more truth than poetry” in this effort, and we agree with you. The fact is we are not talking poetry, but simple, unvarnished truth, and we are honest in saying we give more goods for less money than any concern in Gaffney. THE BARGAIN HUNTERS’ PARADISE, in other words, OUR STORE, can save you money on every purchase, and if you are disposed to save money try us once—that’s all we ask. 39 INCH SHEETING, ONLY 4c, equal in quality to sea island. If you want any, don’t wait; its going like watermelons at a colored camp meeting, and the supply is limited. White goods worth 20c a yard, we are selling at only 10c. White goods worth 1 Oc a yard, we only ask 4c for it. All wool dress goods 35c; other stores want 75c for the same quality. Extra fine satin drill, regular price 12 1-2c, our price this week 7 1 -2c. Outing;, 4c. Ging;li£uiiH, ... 4-C. Oalico, 4c. X^ercal, ... s-Vc. Bargains equally as great in Shoes, Clothing, Car pets, etc. CARROLL & CARPENTER A. N. Wood, President. R. K. Khown, Vlre-I’rvtildeat. 2VIerclisuit» ttnd Plantert* Minnie OF GAFFNEY, S. (’. CAPITAL, <*.no,ooo. D,m«sh gj-nera! Banking and F.xchangu bualneaa, l» null HMud up with Fm- rn*>r Vault and HUfglar I roof Hafo, with Automatic Time Lock. We solicit the business of people of all occupations. C. >1. MM ITU. I ashler.