Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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J Look at your tongue. Is it coated ? Then you have a had taste in your mouth every morning. Your appetite is poor, and food dis tresses you. You have frequent headaches and are -often dizzy. Your stomach is weak and your bowels are always constipated. There’s an old and re liable cure: A ► Don’t take a cathartic dose and then stop. Bet ter take a laxative dose each night, just enough to cause one good free move ment the day following. You feel better the very next day. Your appetite returns, your dyspepsia is cured, your headaches pass away, your tongue clears up, your liver acts well, and your bowels no longer give you trouble. Price, 25 cents. All druggists. “ I hare taken Ayer’s Pills for 35 years, and I consider them the best inade. One jiill does me more good than lialf a Ik>x of any otter kind I have ever tried.” Mrs. N. K. Talbot, # March 30,1*09. Arrington, Kang. Niagara AS GOOD AS TI1K REST. EVERY PACKAGE GUARANTEED. Soda. — : UKMEMUKI!:— Not 10, bui !6 Ounces, for • • v • J. E. EZELL. Do^u Want Insurance? I am prepared to furnish poli cies in the very nest 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 now store In office from 1st to 26th of each month: Dr. C. T. LIPSCOMB, Dentist, Office over R. A. (one* ft Co '■ Store. I Can be found at office six davs in the week G. W. SPEER, Hh.'T'rOI* rv EY- A '1-IvA \v, GAFFNEY, S. C. lOflfyce over J. W. Tolkson’s Store. N. W. HARDIN, LAWYER. Practice in all Courts and all branches of the Law. Office over J. W. Tollesoc’s store. Office aours from 9.30 a. in. to 3 p. m. every day in the week. 7; WALLACE & OTIS, LAWYERS. Office upstairs, between U. A. Jones and Javenport. Phone 87. J. E. WEBSTER, A.tornejr-A.t- I w, »ln Court House. (Prohate Judge s office ^.Gaffney City, S. C. taStices in all the courts. Collec* lone a specialty C. JEFFERIES GAFFNEY, S. C. imerclal l aw. Corporation Daw Keal Km I it t e Law. aey to loan on approved security. [JAMES A. WILLIS, ATTORNEY AT LAW, .OA I • l-r JM IC V, !-». Public in office. Prompt attention fh to all buslin Mi. 1 over It. A. Jones ft Ou.’s store. .Duncan' G. P.Handers. W.8. Hall, Jr DUICAH, bAUDLhS & HALL, Attorneys-at-Law. Jffice over J. R. ToUsaon' Oo.‘s Store. Wasiiincton, March 17.- In n new tvay and from a pi'cullar text Dr. Tal- mage dlscoum's of good lnflu« > nct»8 brought to bear for the world’s Im provement. The text is Ezekiel lx, 2, “And one man among them was cloth ed with linen, with a writer's inkhorn by his side.” The poem from which my text is tak en is epic, lyric, dramatic, weird and overpowering. It is more than Ho meric or Dantesque. No one ever had •such divine dreams as Ezekiel. In a vision this prophet had seen wrathful angels, destroying angels, each with a sword, but in my text he sees a merci ful angel with an Inkhorn. The re ceptacle for the ink In oUleu time was made out of the horn of a cow or a ram or a roebuck, as now it is made out of metal or glass, and therefore was called the inkhorn, as now we say Ink- stand. We have all spoken of the pow er of the sword, of the power of wealth, of the power of office, of the power of social influence, but today I speak of the power for good or evil In the inkstand. It is upon your tables, holding a black or blue or red liquid. It is a fortress, an armory, u gateway, a ransom or a demolition. “You mis take,” says some one. “It is the pen that has the power.” No, my friend. What is the influence of a dry pen? I’ass it up and down a sheet of paper, and it leaves no mark. It expresses no opinion. It gives no warning. It spreads no intelligence. It is the liquid which the pen dips out of the inkstand that does the work. Here and there a celebrated pen, with which a Declara tion of Independence or a Magna Char- ta or a treaty was signed has been kept in literary museum or national ar chives, but for the most part the pens, whether, ns of old, made out of reed or later of wing or bird or still later of metallic substance, have disappeared, while the liquid which the pens took from the inkstand remains in scrolls which, if put together, would he large enough to enwrap the round world. For practical, for moral, for religious,’ for eternal purposes, I speak of the mission of “the writer’s Inkhorn.” The Home Inkstand. First, I mention that which is purely domestic. The inkstand is in every household. It awaits the opportunity to express affection or condolence or advice. Father uses it; mother uses it; the sons and daughters use it. It tells the home news; it announces the mar riage, the birth, the departure, the ac cident. the last sickness, the death. That home inkstand, what a mission it Inis already executed, and what other missions will it yet fultill! May it stand off from all Insincerity and all querulousness. Let it tell only that which it would be well to read after the hand that wrote it and the hand that received it can write no more. Dip out of that inkstand only that which is paternal, maternal, filial, sis terly, brotherly. Sacred let It he, not to what arc sometimes called the “house hold gods,” but to the one and the only God who “setteth the solitary In fam ilies.” Dip out of it solace for parents on the descending grade of years and encouragement for thosewho are climb ing the steeps. Thecarversand glass blowers areever busy making more ornate and skillful bowls for the ink, hu^ not one of them will he so sacred as the old fashioned inkstand out of which was dipped the liquid for the making of the family record on the blank leaves In the Itible between the Old and the New Testa ments, not so many leaves now blank as before recent years made birthday or mortuary insertions. From that home Inkstand the child dips out material for those large and awkward letters that one always makes when learning to write, an<L from it are taken the trembling letters that show the wrin kled hand is gradually forgetting its cunning. Oh, ye who have with recent years set up homes of your own, out of the new home inkstand write often to the old folks, if they be still living. A let ter means more to them than to us, who are amid the activities of life and to whom postal correspondence is more than we can manage. They await the coining of the letter. Undertake no great thing In life without their advice. Old people for counsel, young people for action. Even though through deea- dhnee they may be Incompetent to give valuable opinions on important affairs, compliment them by asking their conn- pel. It will do them good; it will make their last days exhllarant Make that home inkstand a source of rejuvenes cence to those who are near the ter minus of the earthly Journey. Domes tic correspondence is not attended to as once. The newspaper, Joining with the telegraph, bears the tidings of all the neighborliood, but swiftest revolv ing wheel of modern printing press and quickest flash along the electric wires can never do the sympathetic work of the home inkstand. As the merciful angel of my text appeared be fore the brazen altar with the Inkhorn at his side in Ezekiel's vision, so let the angel of filial kindness appear at the altars of the old homestead. Warn (be Careless. Furthermore, the inkstand of the business man has Its mission. Between now and the hour of your demise, O commercial man, O professional man, there will not be a day when you can not dip from the Inkhorn a message that will influence temporal and eter nal dcstlEy. There is a rash young man running into wild speculation, and with as much ink as you can put on the pen at one time you may save him from the Niagara rapids of a ruined life. On the next street there is ft young man started in business who through lack of patronage or mistake in purt’hase of goods or want of adap tation is on the brink of collapse. One line of Ink from your pen will save him from being an underling all his life and start him on a career that will win him a for .aue which will enable hint to become an endower of libraries, an opener of art galleries and builder of churches. The most largely successful and use ful men of our time once wore an old coat because they could not afford a new one and got wages less than that whleh they pay their cook or butler. It will be a mighty thing if out of your Inkstand you can dip a man’s earthly and everlasting fortune. Dip out of that Inkstand not one word of dlsheart- enment. People have enough burdens to carry without your adding one ounce to the heft. From your inkstand put not one blot on an honest ambition. Keep ail the wheels of your factory spinning rays of sunshine. If you are a Christian man, put into your bua* ness letters an adroit, moral, religious suggestion that will keep the receiver thinking after he has left the counting room for ids home and far on into the night when he 111*8 upon a wakeful pil low. Tomorrow tnorniijg at 11 o’clock, as yoh begin to answer your letters, you will have on the nib of your pen enough ink to save a soul from death and hide a multitude of sins. Responsibilities of Anthors. Furthermore, great are the responsi bilities of the author's Inkhorn. All the people, or nearly all the people, read, and that which they read decides their morals or immorals, their pros perity or failure, their faith or their unbelief, their purity or corruption, their heaven or hell. Show’ me any man’s library, great or small, and after examining the books, finding those with leaves uncut, but displayed for sake of the binding, and those W’orn wMth frequent perusal, and without ever seeing the man or knowing his name, I will tell you his likes and his dislikes, his morals, good or bad or In different, his qualifications for busi ness or artistic or professional or me chanical life. The best index to any man's character is the book he prefers above ail others. Oh, the power of a book for good or evil! * Abraham Lincoln In early life read Paine’s “Age of Reason," and it so in fluenced him that he wrote an essay against Christianity. But afterward some Christian books came into his hands and gloriously changed his mind and made him a most ardent friend of the Bible and a man of prayer. A let ter in Mr. Lincoln's own handwriting is in my house, the letter in response to some resolutions paused by a Methodist conference, saying: “In response to your address allow me to attest the accuracy of its historical statemeuts, indorse the sentiments it expresses and thank you in the nation’s name for the sure promise it gives. Nobly sustained as the government has been by all the churches, I would utter nothing which might in the least appear invidious against any. Yet without this it may fairly be said that the Methodist Epis copal church, not less devoted than the best, Is by Its great numbers the most important of all. It is no fault in oth ers that the Methodist church sends more soldiers to the field, more nurses to the hospital and more prayers to heaven than any. God bless the Meth odist church, bless all the churches, and blessed be God, who in this, our great trial, giveth us the churches.” What a great thing it was that the Christian books which Mr. Lincoln read obliterated from his mind the Infidel literature! William Carey became a missionary by reading “The Voyages of Captain Cook.” John Wesley's life was shaped by reading Jeremy Taylor's “Holy Living and Dying.” There are books in your library or lying on your parlor table or secreted In some place by your child that will decide for two worlds, this and the next, the character of its reader. When a bad book Is printed, you do well to blame the publisher, but most of all blame the author. The malaria rose from his inkstand; the poison that caused the moral or spiritual death dropped In the fluid from the tip of Ms pen. Tlie manufacturer of that ink could tell you that it Is made of tan nin and salt of iron and nut galls and green vitriol, but many an author has dipped from his inkstand hypercriti* cistn and malevolence and slander and salackmsncss, ns from a fountain of death. But blessed be God for the au thor’s inkstand in 10,000 studies which are dedicated to pure intelligence, high est inspiration and grandest purpose. They are the inkstands out of which will be dipped the redemption of the world. The destroying ungels with their swords seen in Ezekiel's vision will be finally overcome by the merci ful angel with the writer’s inkhorn. The Editor's Inkstand. Among the most Important are the editorial and reportorlal Inkstands. Tlie thick ink on the printer’s roller is different from the ink into which the writer dips his pen and Is compounded of linseed oil and lampblack and made thick by boiling or burning. But the editorial and reportorlal pens are re sponsible for that which the printer's ink roller impresses upon the flying sheets. Where one man reads a book, b.OOO men read a newspaper. What change of opinion in regard to the printing press since the day when the great Addison wrote concerning it, "One cannot but be sorry that such a pernicious machine is erected among them,” and when, under the reign of Charles 11.only one newspaper,the Lon don. Gazette, was allowed to be print ed, and that only on Mondays and Thursdays! Not until the judgment day, when the forces whleh have Influ enced the world shall be compared and announced, w’lll be known the power of the modern newspaper. With its tele phonic and telegraphic annexes, all the world twice a day passes in re view’. Tlie manner in which continen tal and International events are put be fore us makes deep Impression. We gaze on all the conflagrations and watei*thc pursult of all the desperadoes and boar tlie crash of all the colllslcjs and re joice In all the discoveries and thank God for all the noble achievements. After the editor has corrected the last proof of bis editorial and the reporter lias put into form his last stenographic rejH>rt of swift utterance or announced In best form some great munificence or skelch«*d In most forceful style some brave rescue by firemen or lifeboat, he has a right to go home feeliug that he has done something worth doing, some thing that his conscience will approve and God will bless. A wrong theory is abroad that the newspaper impression is ephemeral. Because we read and cast It aside In an hour and never see it again we are not to Judge that we are jairted from Its Influence. No volume of GOO pages makes such impression upon the p<M>- ple as the dully newspaper. It is not what we put away carefully uponjhe shelf and once In awhile refer to that has ns close relation to our welfare ns the story of what the world Is now do ing or has recently done. Yesterday has more to do with today than some thing occurring a century previous. The engineers who now guide tlie rail trains, tlie sea captains who now com mand the ships, the architects who now design tlie buildings, the batons that now control the orchestras, the legislators who now make the laws, the generals who now n .rch the hosts, the rulers who now govern the nations, the Inkhorns that now flood tlie world with Intelligence- these are what we kave most to do with. The Greatest ot All. But how shall I speak of the inkhorn of the world’s evangelization? Oh, how many loving and brilliant and glo rious pons have been dipped Into it! Thomas a Kempls dipped into it and brought up his “Imitation of Christ.” Horace Busbnell dipped Into It and brought up “Every Man’s Life a Plan of God.” Thomas Binuey dipped into It and brought up his “Weigh House Chapel Discourses.” Conybeare dip ped into it and brought up tlie “Life and Epistles of Paul.” Archbishop Trench dipped Into It and brought up the “Epistles to the Seven Churches.” Stuart Robinson dipped Into it and brought up “Discourses of Redemp tion.” Austin Phelps dipped Into it and brought up “The Still Hour.” Mark Hopkins dipped Into it and brought up “Evidences of Christianity.” Thomas Guthrie dipped into it and brought up “The Gospel In Ezekiel.” John Cum- mlng dipped Into it and brought up "The Apocalypse.” Oh, the opulence of Christian literature! Oh, the mighty streams of evangelistic power that have poured from tlie writer’s inkhorn that appeared in Ezekiel’s vision! While you recognize the distinguish ed ones who have dipped into the ink stand of the world’s evangelization do not forget that there are hundreds of thousands of unknown men and wom en who are engaged in inconspicuous ways doing the same tiling. How many anxious mothers writing to the boys in town! How many sisters writ ing encouragement to brothers far away! How many invalids bolstered up in bed, tlie inkhorn'on the stand at their side, writing letters of condolence to those worse off than themselves! They are flying all the time kind words, gospel words, helpful words, saving words. Call the evangelistic inkhorn into service in the early morning, when you fee! well, and you are grateful for the protection during your sleeping hours, and write before you retire at close of day to those who all night long will be saying, “Would to God It were morning!” How many bruised and disappointed and wronged souls of earth would be glad to get a letter from you I Stir up that consolatory Inkhorn. Waltlnff For Revival*. All Christendom has been waiting for great revivals of religion to start from the pulpits and prayer meetings. I now suggest that the greatest revival of all time may start from a concerted and organized movement through the inkhorns of all Christendom, each writer dipping from the inkhorn near est him a letter of gospel Invitation, gospel hope, gospel warning, gospel in struction. The Ink Is all ready on a hundred thousand tables, and beside it are the implements with which to dip it out Why uot through such process have millions 0* souls brought to God before uext summer? By letter you could make the invitation more effect ive than by word of mouth. The invi tation from your lips may be orgued back, may evoke querulous reply, may be auswered by a joke, but a good, warm, gosiiel letter, written in prayer, and started with prayer, and followed by prayer, will be read over and over again and cannot be answered In a frivolous way. It will speak from the table by day and night or, If pettishly torn np, will in its scattered fragments speak louder than when it remained whole. Within arm’s reach of where you sit there may be a fluid that you may put ou wing with message of light and love. Oh, for the swift flying an gel of mercy which Ezekiel saw In vision “with a writer’s inkhorn by his side.” , . ue other angels spoken of In my text were destroying angels, and each ba&what the Bible calls a “slaughter weapon” Id his band. It was a lance or a battleax or a sword. God hasten the time when the last lance shall be shivesed, and the last battleax dulled, and the last sword sheathed, never again to leave the scabbard, and the angel of the text, who Matthew Henry says was the Lord Jesus Christ, shall from the full Inkhorn of hla mercy give • saving call to all nations. That day may be far off, but it is helpful to think of its coming. As Dr. Raleigh declared that when GO miles at sea off the coast of New England tho cattle on board the ship us well as himself scented the clover on the New England hills, so we amid all the tossing waves of the world’s controversies Inhale the redolence of the white lilies of univer sal peace. Blop War** Horror*. Is It not time that the boasted Inven tion of new and more explosive and more widely devastating weapons of d«*atli be stopped forever, and the gos pel have a chance, and the question be uot asked, Hrtw many shots can be flred in a minute, but How many souls may be rantynned iu a day? The world needs less powder and more grace, few er fortress<*s and more churches, less power to destroy and more power to save. Oh, I am sick of the warcries, and the extinguished eyesight, and the splintered hones, and the grave trench es, and the widowhood and orphanage and childlessness which sob and groan and die In the wake of the armies on both sides of the seal Ob, for less of the slaughter weapon and more of the evangelizing inkhorn! Oh, for the stop ping of the science of assassination, that crime of crimes, that woe of woes, that horror of horrors, that hell of hells—war, which this moment stands reeking with blood, and washing Itself In tears, and blaspheming the heavens, and pushing off the edge of this life men who have as much right to live as you and I have, and blasting homes In which there dwells as much loveUnest as In our own! Would that the merci ful angel of my text might take the last weapon of war and fling It off and fling It down with such force that It shall clang on the lowest round of the perdition where tho Unit keen edge of human strife was sharpened! War! In Ui.lt S>f . AlWlility-liyd Md of_ftJl the homesteads it lias'destroyed and Is now destroying, I hate It. 1 denounce It. I curse it. Rook of Trath. If our Bible Is true—and no other book that was ever printed Is as true as Hint book, which Moses began and John finished—thou the time will come when all tlie weapons of cruelty will stop, and the Inkhorns of evangeliza tion will have their way. In the mu scums of the world the carbine and the camion and the bomb will be kept as curiosities, and children will be incred ulous as parents tell them that civiliz ed nations once employed such instru ments of death and more incredulous when told by their parents that the ar my that killed the most men was con sidered tlie most glorious army. The red horse of carnage that St. John saw In vision and (lie black horse of fam A MODEL FARMER. Ii« I'mcm lfom*-MM<le Mmiiu.t* Inolrttri of Guano. Etta Jank. March 22.—One of our most unpretentious farmers has hauled out thirty-two loads of home made manure and is not half done. He makes it with pine straw, leaves and muck. He don’t use guano, He further says that to raise beets to the largest possible size keep the leaves primed off of them while growing. Dr. J. A. Broadus wrote this in an autograph album for one of his chil dren : "It will take you all your life to find out how much I love you." How many children know that to be ine and the pale horse of death will lie stabled, and the white horse of pros perity and peace, mounted by the King of Kings, will lead the great army with banners. Through the convicting, converting, sanctifying power of the Eternal Spirit may we all march In that procession! Hail, thou Mighty Rider of the white horse in the final triumph! Sweep down and sweep by, thou Angel of the New Covenant, with the Inkhorn of the world’s evangeliza tion! “The mountains and the hills shall break forth Into singing, and all the trees of the field shall clap their bands. Instead of the thorn shall come up the fir tree, and Instead of the brier shall come up the myrtle tree, and It shall be to the Lord for a name, for an everlasting sign that shall not be cut off.” [Copyright, 1901, by LouU Klopsch, N. Y.] SHORT LOCAL ITEMS. Local Item* Too Short for a Head Grouped Together. The regular quarterly meeting of the county commissioners will be held in the court house next Monday. Those having claims against the county are requested to present them to the board at that time. The young men of the city will give a reception tomorrow evening com plimentary to the young ladies and teachers of Limestone College. The reception will be held at the college and promises to be quite a swell affair. Jake Carpenter Camp of Confed erate veterans held a meeting in the court house Saturday afternoon. Only a few of the members were present, but a sufficient number to transact the business for which the meeting was called. Rev. A. C. Cree held services in the First Baptist church Sunday morning at 11 o’clock and in the eve ning at 8:30 o’clock. His text in the morning was, "The Triumph of Faith,’’ and at the evening service, "The Christian Race." Both services were largely attended. There is on foot some extensive improvements for Gaffney that will delight the heart of every one who has the welfare and interest of the city at heart. We are not at liberty to divulge what these contemplated Improvements are but give them to the public in due season. Messrs. jSanders & Kelly, of Spar tanburg, are opening up a stock of goods in the storeroom formerly oc cupied by The Fair, next to Commer cial Hotel office. The name of the establishment will be "The Battery," and it intends to "open fire" about the first of April. Mr. J. D. Collins, of Spartanburg, is owner of the concern. The Ladies Aid Society of the First Baptist church tendered a reception to the new pastor, Rev. A. C. Cree, Friday afternoon, from four to six o'clock, at the residence of Mrs. R. S. Lipscomb on Frederick street. A good number of the church members were present, refreshments were served and the time was pleasantly spent in social communion. Walter Baker has purchased of Ellie Parker the highest geared bi cycle ever brought to Gaffney. It is geared to 140, is constructed ou the latest mechanical principles, and It is said it will ran as easy as a low geared ffifceel. Walt la all smiles as he glides along on the level or when he is coasting down grade, but we have never seen him going up hill, therefore cannot say that his coun tenance beams with delight. Mr. Tobe H. Littlejohn, who was elected county treasurer at the last election, has taken charge of bis of fice and is now regularly installed In the very responsible position of treasurer of Cherokee county. The former treasurer, Mr. J. B. Jones, made a splendid record for himself as an officer and won a high place in the esteem of all good Cherokeeans. That Mr. Littlejohn will do the same, we haven’t the slightest doubt, and the duties of county treasurer could not have devolved upon a more worthy successor. l>«ath of a GbUd, Avery, the little son of Mr. and Mrs. W. T. Phillips, who live at the Limestone cotton mill, died Saturday afternoou at the home of his parents, and was buried Sunday afternoon at Providence church. Rev. W. 8. B. Ford, pastor-of the Second Baptist church, conducted the (funeral cere mony. The friends of the family sympa thize with them in their sorrow. Klown to Atom*. The old idea that the body some times needs a powerful, drastic, purgative pill baa been exploded; for Dr. King’s New Life Pills, which are perfectly harmless, gently stimulate liver and bowels to expel poisonous matter, cleanse the system and absolutely cure Constipation and Sick Headache. Only 25c at Chero kee Drug Co. The present session of commons has one octogenaria member, Mr. Spencer Cbarrington, who Is 82 years old. Twenty members are between 70 and 80, and over a hundred are between 60 and ^0. the truth? Our vigilant and worthy congres sional representative, Hon. D. E Finley, has the thanks of his constit uents in this community for garden seeds sent from the agricultural de partment. He is always on the look out for the needs of his constituents. The recent rain put a stop to farm work and the cold snap will hold fruit back a few days longer. Some of our neighbors have been fishing, but the fun is poor profit. Messrs. Fowler Brothers took up their seed sweet potatoes this week. They are rotting somewhat and many of them have sprouted in the kiln. Engineer Kingsley, of Blacksburg, went through this neighborhood one day this week examining the roadbed of the Augusta Division of the Three C’s railroad and making an estimate of the cost to repair and finish it up for the crossties. He will go as far as Augusta, Ga., and upon his re port, we presume, the future of tho road depends. From the best au thority obtainable we conclude that the finishing of the road is only a question of time and that work will be resumed on it soon. Rev. J. P. Marion will preach at Salem on the 5th Sabbath of this month. Communion service will be held on the first Sabbath in April. Crop time is now on hand and it behooves farmers to be cautious lest they over crop themselves. More crops are ruined by planting too much than not enough. Camp Jefferies U. C. Veterans are requested to meet at Wilkinsville on Saturday, March 30th, at 2 p. m. A full turn out of the members are requested as some very important matters are to come, before the meet ing. Let everyone be on hand. Chester county is doing a grand work for the veteran cause. That county will soon have a full list of the men it furnished the army and the whereabouts of each veteran, if living, together with the fate of the others. Why can’t every county do as well? They can if they will try. An effort will be made at the com ing State reunion at Columbia in May to get a full list of both the liv ing and dead and we hope to see it succeed. There is scarcely a family in Cherokee county who has not one or more loved ones whose memory they wish to perpetuate and this they can do by sending the names to the commanders of the various U. C. Veteran camps, giving the name or names and they will go upon record to be seen and remembered for all time to come. March has been getting in some first class weather and the fruit stands a good chance to be killed. J. l s. Service* Tonight. At the Presbyterian church this evening Rev. J. H. Grey, of Wood- raff, will hold services. Mr. Grey Is a young man, but one that is fast taking a place in the front rank of the Presbyterian ministry of this state. At Greenwood, his home, he’s universally loved by all the people of every denomination, and with him there is no such thing as denomina tional jealousy. He knows^uo creed except Jesus, and Him crucified, and he preaches tho gospel in an effort to elevate and bring poor fallen human ity to a realization of its lost condi tion. The number of persons visiting the library of congress on inauguration day was 71,572 by actual count by a mechanical register. In three days— Saturday, Sunday aud Monday—ths total was over 100,000 persons. Putnam Fadeless Dye Orange pro duces beautiful burnt orange shades that are extremely fast to light and washing. 10c per package. Sold by Dr. 8. B. Crawley & Co. One region around Plant City, Fla., well ship this season about 40,000 quarts of strawberries. The growers expect to receive an average of 15 cents a quart, which would make the crop’s value $00,000. Bdoeota Tow Bowel* With C**ear*t*. Goody Cathartic, cure constipation forever. lOc.ffic. If C. O. C. fall, druggists refund money. Genuine (tamped C. C C. Never (old la bulk. Beware of the dealer who trice to tell “(omcthlng juet m good." Building of Pest House to Let. I will let to the lowest responsible bidder the building of a two room boi bouse on the Poor House Farm. The right is reserved to reject any and all hid*. HpeclScatlons will be furnished at the let ting. J. V. Wail/OHBU W. II. Rom, Clerk. Co. Supervisor. 3-35-it Counterfeits of DeW’itt’s Witch Hazel Salve are liable to cause blood poisoning. Leave them alone. The original has the name DeWitt’s upon the box and wrapper. It in a harm- lees and healing salve for skin dis eases. Unequalled for piles. Cher okee Drug Company. The County Hoard of Commissioners will hold their regular quarterly meeting o n Monday, the first day of April. 1(01. All par ties holding claims against the county will (lie them In the supervl tor’s offU-s ou or be fore that date, properly approved. J. V. Whkixukl. W. II. KoM, Clerk. 'Jo. Supervisor. Mfr St Attention Veterans. Gamp Jefferies U. C. Veterans, No. 889 will meet at Wilkinsville on Sat urday, March 30th, at 2 o’clock p. in. All members of the camp are requested to attend and come pre pared to pay their annual dues of fifteen cents—ten cents to the Na tional Federation of Confederate Veterans and five cents to the State division. As business in which every veteran is interested will coma up they are earnestly requested to at tend. Officers for the next year will ho elected and delegates to the Memphis and Columbia reunions together with sponsors will be chosen on that day. By order of G. Wash. M< Kows, Com.* J. L. Stkain, Act. Adjt. L.o<*al Cotton K<'|>ort The following are the prices paid for cotton in Gaffney today : Good Middling 7* Middling When you are bilious, use those famous little pills known as DeWitt’s Little Early Risers to cleanse the liver and bowels. They never gripe. Cherokee Drug Company. There is still in existence an un repealed Jaw in Switzerland which forbids—under a heavy penalty—the wearing of hats more than 18 inches in diameter, artificial flowers and foreign feathers. Ur. Hull’* Cough Syrup I* the host medi cine for sore throat, laryngitis, quinsy or tonsilitis. Every drop of it soothes and heals. A twenty-five cents bottle of this wonderful remedy will cure a cough or cold In one day. The Acme Furniture Co'* Local*. Chattanooga Hollow Axle wagons now on sale at our emporium. They are the best made. Come and ex amine them. Buggies, Carriages and other ve hicles in great variety. All of the best. Our Harness department is com plete, and we carry an assortment that everybody can select from. Capitola st ms are the best the market affords, and we have them. If you contemplate buyjng a stove you should see the "Capitola"— then you will get it. Big stock of Mattings arriving now for the spring trade. 10 to 15 per cent, on all Rugs sold during the next 10 days. Guano Horns as low as the lowest, and everything else in the Tinware line. Yours truly. Thk Acme Furkiture Co. T. I. WALKER, GAFFNEY, S. C., Deals Exclusively in Lumber and Builders’ Material and carries In stock a complete ilueof DOORS. SASH, BLINDS, PAINTS, OIL, PLASTERERS’ MATERIAL, and everything needed for building purposes. Look him up when you need anything In bis line. Ride a Monarch and Keep in the Lead. Ladles and gentlemen, don’t forget, that I am agent for Monarch and Barns' Bicycles. When you wish to buy a first-class bicycle come and look over my catalogue and get my best prices on them, and when you need any new parts for your wheel come and see me. 1 can and will sell you any kind of bicy cle parte as cheap or cheaper than any other dealer in Gaffney. We also will do most any kind of repairs that you want done. Don’t forget that I am srill Headquarters for Kansas nty Reef and Fresh Fish, Shad, Mullet and Perch. Yours to please, W. J. MANESS. Phone No. 17. Fine SilYerware.... 1 A big line of exquisite f silverware for the table has just come in ; also a full assortment of the latest novelties in ladies’ breast pins. I make a specialty of repairing. Come to Gallney’s lead- ing jeweler if you want anything in the jewelry or repairing line. THOS. H. WESTROPE, The Leading Jeweler. Bridge to Let. I will let the repair of tlie bridge across Cherokee creek, near the Clark place, on Thursday, April the 4th. at 11 o’clock. A right to reject any or all bids. J. V. Whklchbu 2t-1aw County Supervisor. Administrator’s Sale. Static ov Smi-tii ('ahoms » i d County or chkkokek. > Hy virtu*- of authority of an order from J. K. Webster, Probate Judge, will sell on Monday, the Ur»t day of April, 1901. durlna the hours of legal sale, in front of the court liouse at Gaffney, Houtb Carolina, all the , n lies, account* and mortcasrcs I* ioiaring to . the estate of J. U. Bpenc* r, iicccased. Terms of sale cash Psrtks de*|rlug to purchase may *ee a list of tame In J. C. J«-f- feries office. *a Thomas Srmu'Eit, K. K Shkm r.n. j Adm’r* Estate of J. G. Hpenctr. deceased Gaffney. 8. C- March Ulh. 11A/L