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H * t ' 150. H. DkCamp. Fom.iaHKD TP KB HAY AND FRIDAY. BUHSCRIITION 1‘KICK: Twice a week, per year $1.50. Ooce a week, per year 1 00. LKUISLATIRK 1HXNDKRS. One would naturally and reasonably suppose that the assembled wisdom of South Carolina politicians could frame an ordinary appropriation bill carrying $50,000, in buch a way that the select wisdom of the Attorney General and the judges of the supreme court could not breathe upon it and cause it to vanish into impalpable nothingness. But this is exactly what has happened to the bill ap propriating $50,000 additional Con federate pensions, which passed the last legislature with so much enthu siasm. The judges have declared it to be an appropriation that appro priates nothing—the clattering of a mill that has no corn in the hopper— the buzzing of a frame of spindles with no cotton on the spools. The veterans must wait for their extra pensions, as they used to wait for their extra rations and tighten their belts to supply by compression what was lacking in internal expansion. The extra rations often got mixed up with contingencies and disappeared, and it is more than probable that this extra appropriation will grow small by degrees and beautifulTy less until it, too, will be heard of no more. Another unique revelation of legis lature blundering comes to the sur face in Charleston. The old city sud denly finds herself in a county that has no legal existence, no county laws, no county officers, and worst of all, no legal dispensaries to dispense the chemically pure liquids to a thirsty and long suffering population. But Charleston has no idea of perish ing by neglect—not at least until after her great exposition is over. If com mon report be true she has a whole menagerie of fierce animals without eyes, whose instincts are true to the interests of the city, and she will turn these loose to administer to the life, health, and amusement of her people as well as to the entertain ment of ell comers. Talk about biennial sessions of the legislature! Better havs semi-an nual ones in order that each session may rectify the blunders of its pre decessors. NOTES AND COMMENTS. The State of Kansas will need 20,- 000 men from beyond her borders to help harvest her wheat crop. South Carolina could spare the number dur ing harvest week and get her own crop gathered and threshed in good time. The inference is self-suggest ive. ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ The rains have at last come in abundance and the hearts of farmers and gardeners are made to rejoice. The oat crop will be immensely bene- fitted while corn and cotton will be up where the stand was poor, and potato slips and cabbage plants will come from the beds by thousands and take their places in the patches and gardens. Perhaps of all the crops raised in this latitude, wheat alone will receive not only no bene fit from the rains but a positive in jury. Our observation has been that rains upon it when it is in bloom work decided barm to the crop. ♦ ■♦ ♦ ♦ The whole country will rejoice to bear that Mrs. McKinley is able to sit up and is considered out of dan- frer. When it was announced that she was dying there was a tbriil of sympathy from one side of this con tinent to the other, and everybody forgot politics for the moment and felt for the president as for a man and a brother. At ordinary times there seems to be an impaseab!e gulf between the obscure citizen and the chief executive of a great nation, but in the face of death all distinc tions vanish, and the greatest men of earth sink to the common level of humanity. Sermon to Odd Fellow*. Sunday night services at the Second Baptist church will include a special sermon by Mr. Ford, the pastor, in the Interest of Odd Fellows. All Odd Fellows are especially iovited*to be present, as it is the desire of Mr. Ford to inspire them with a renewed and deeper interest in theirorder. The public generally is also invited to attend the services. tM*et>«ll THU Afternoon. There will be a game of baseball this afternoon, between home teams, on a lot btlooging to Mr. Samuel Jeffeiies between Limestone and Logan streets just below the Cherokee Foundry and Machine Shops. Every body come. Mow’* Thl«r W« offer One Hundred Dollar* Reward for a(ijrca*«of Catarrh that cannot be cured by Hair* Catarrh Cans. K. J. Cl! K.NF.y A CO.. Prop*., Toledo,©. We, the uadendjeed, hare known P. J. Chent jr for the last 15 year*, and bellere him perfrx-tly honorab'e In all hUNlne** transaction* and financially able to carry out any obligation* made by their Arm. Wmt It Tkcax, Wholesale DruRtclAt*. To ledo. O. VV4MIIMU. Kimram A Mahviji, Wholesale Drugatats, Toledo. O. flail's Catarrh Cure 1* taken Internally. sctluK directly upon the blood and uucoua Surface* of the system. Price T5c. per bottle A REBATE DOE TOBACCO DEALERS, Changes in Revenue Law Af ter First of July. RED TAPE PROCEEDINGS. Mu*t He lion* Through With Heforc the Money Can He Serured—Advlce In Regard- to Condition* Under Which Rebate Is Ulven—Act of March 2. 1UU1. There will be considerable money coming back to the cigar and tobacco dealers in this State in view of the changes in the revenue law after the 1st of July. The Government uses a great deal of red tape which is necessary for protection, before the rebate can be secured. The col lector’s office is anxious for everyone entitled to any rebate to get it, and in order that those intersted may familiarize thems* Ives with the con ditions on which the rebate may be had the following advice is given : The Act of March 2, 1901, provides for a rebate of taxes as follows: On smoking and chewing tobacco and snuff, two and four-tenths cents per pound. On cigars weighing over three pounds to the thousand, sixty cents per thousand. On cigars weighing less than three pounds to the thousand, forty-six cents per thousand. This rebate will be due and payable to all dealers and manufacturers whose claim, in the aggregate, will amount to at least ten dollars, and no claim for less than ten dollars will be considered. ' It is necessary in order to make a valid claim that the following infor mation be observed: At the beginning of business on the morning of July 1, 1901, the dealer or manufacturer must, in the presence of two disinterested wit nesses, well known in the community as persons of good repute, and who are not in bis employ, make together an inventory of ail tobacco, snuff and cigars which he may have in un broken orginal factory packages. If a box, bag or caddy, or other package bears evidence of having been opened and repacked, the contents thereof shall not be inventoried unless the witnesses are satisfied that no tobac co, snuff or cigars originally packed therein had been removed therefrom and other goods substituted therefor. Tne actual weight of the contents of any box, bag or cadrty, or other stamped package should correspond with the stamp. No addition to the stock thxll be made and no adjournment of the witnesses anddaimant shall inter vene between the commencement and complttim of inventory. The serial numbers of stamps affixed to packages will not be requir ed to be given in the inventory. Packages -of to'jaccp, snuff acd cigars will be inventoried accordirg to their several statutory classifica tions. The witnesses at the time of taking the inventory should each count the packages oi the several denomi nations and keep an accurate account of the same on separate sheets cf paper. The computations to be made by the witnesses of the total number of such packages and their aggregate net weight should be compared and checked with the dealers’ or man ufacturers’ inventory, and if agree ing therewith should be signed by the witnesses and the claimant and delivered to him as a memorandum of bis inventory, and from which he could make a new claim should bis original claim be lost or misplaced. Each claim must be duly signed and sworn to by the claimant in the presence of bis witnesses who will, in his presence acd in the presence of each other, duly sign and make affidavit to such claim as attesting witnesses. The notary administering the oath should have a seal, or send a certi ficate from the clerk of the Court or Secretary of State that be is duly commissioned and is qualified to administer oaths. The claim as signed and sworn to before the officer administering the oath shall be immediately forwarded by him under seal to the collector of internal reyenue for the district of South Carolina at Columbia, S. C., if claimant is resident ic the State of South Carolina^ When tobacco, snuff or cigars are held by a commission merchant claim for the rebate may be made by such merchant for and in the came of the actual owner. Goods in transit on July 1, 1901, shall not be inventoried either by consigner or consignee on that date, but when such goods are received by the consignee he may make a separate claim|for the rebate on form No. 41 in the presence of two witnesses as be fore described. The claimant shall exhibit to the witnesses copy of bill of lading and original invoice and these papers must be filed with claim made for such soods to transit. Air persons in South Carolina who expect to have sufficient stock on hand on July 1, 1901, to make a claim of ten dollars, should at once write the collector of internal reve nue, Columbia, 8. C., notifying him of the fact and asking for blank forms. Only a sufficient cumber of forms will be furnished and persons apply ing tor them should be careful not to lose them, as the supply may be exhausted. The names of all persons to whom blanks sre msiled will be recorded in the collector’s office. Persons writing the collector should give their names and postoffices legibly. Every manufacturer and dealer in the State whose claim for rebate of taxes will amount to ten dollars or more wilt be furnished, upon appli cation, with >k copy of form 481 be fore July 1, ityl. It should bs borne in cuiod that no iiiisfiian nasMiw^ae—aa—wiss i , mu i it fllaiM ean be valid unlsai the following elements are present: First. The claim must bo made on blank form furnished by the collector. Second. There must be two dis interested witnesses. Third. These witnesses must meet the dealer on July 1, 1901, in the morning, at his place of business or where his tobacco is stored, at the commencement of the business day and must complete the inventory of stock without adjournment. Fourth. The witnesses must sign the claim before a competent officer, who shall attach his seal to the instrument, or, if he has no seal, a certificate from the clerk of Court or Secretary of State that be is duly authorized to administer oaths. Fifth. The claim must amount to at least ten dollars. If any dealer wishes further infor mation upon any point his inquiry addressed to the collector will be promptly answered. Hi* Nose Itrukcn. Little Beb Gaines, son of Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Gaines, met with an acci dent yesterday which was of a pain ful nature. Some b >j s were passing a ball in the alley between the stir^s of It. A. Jones & Co., and Dr. 8. B Crawley & Co., and just as the hoy nearest the street missed catching the ball Pep passed and was struck on the nose with ku:h force &< to break that member. Medical atten tion was given the little fellow at once, and while the w und is a very painful and disagreeable one, Bep's many friends hope that his face will not be disfigured. The throwing of balls or anything else should not be allowed so near the streets of the city. Try the new remedy for costiver.ess, Chamberlain’s Stomach and Liver Tablets. Every box guaranteed. Price, 25 cents. For sale by Chero kee Drug Co. One energetic liar does more harm than a dcz j n fools. Dr. Bull’* Cough Syrup i* a grand old rem edy, used for many years, and still in |>ul>!!e favor. It is without doubt the I»est nudiciue f jrall pulmonary affections. It always cures. All druggists sell t for -3 cents. CATJLttl Catarrh lias l>ecomc such a common disease that a person entirely free front this disgusting complaint is seldom met with. It is customary to sneak of Catarrh as nothing more serious titan a bad cold, a simple inflammation of the nose and throat. It is, in fact, n complicated and very dangerous disease ; if not at first, it very soon becomes so. The blood is quickly contaminated bj the foul secretions, and the poison througit the general circulation is carried to all parts of the system. Salves, washes and sprays are unsatis factory and disappointing, because they dc not reach the seat of the trouble. S. S. S. docs. It cleanses the blood of the poison and eliminates from the system all catar rhal secretions, and thus cures thoroughly and permanently the worst cases. Mr. T.*A. William*, a leading dry-goods mer cliant of Spartanburg, S. C., writes : “ I-'or yean I had a seveie case of nasal Catarrh, with all the disagreeable effects which belong to that disease, and which make life painful and unendurable. I used medicines preset ilted by leading phvsicians and •ugee-ted by numbers of friends, but without getting any better. I then began to take S. S. S It had the desired ^ effect, n ti d cured me after taking eighteen bottles 1 n tnv opinion S. S. S. is the only medi cine now in use that will effect a permanent curt of Catarrh.” is the only purely veg etable blood purifiei known, and the great est of all blood medi cines and tonics. If you have Catarrh don’t wait until it becomes deep-seated and chronic, but be gin at once the use of S. S. 8., and send tor our book on Blood and Skin Diseases and write our physicians about your case. THE SWIFT SPECIFIC CO.. ATLANTA, GA. Spectacles and Eyeglasses Scientifically flitted for the correction of all • delects of vision. H. R. GOODELL, Optician, SPARTANBURG, S. C. No charge for examination. 10-12-01 A GOOD REFRIGERATOR is ;i necessary adjunct to a house hold during the summer months. We have already made our fourth Refrigerator order so for this sea son and expect to sell many more, for the simple reason that we handle a Refrigerator which suits the people. We also carry the White Mountain and Wonder Ice Cream Freezers. Just received two more crates of Crockery and Chinaware. FURNITURE, STOVES, BUGGIES, WAGONS ANO COFFINS. FURNITURE CO. At Wilkins’ Hardware Store You will find seasonable goods. Screen Doors and Windows, Ice Cream Freezers. Blue-Flame Oil Stoves and Ovens. Water Coolers, Cherry Seeders, etc. We are still in the market with Yorkville and Cincinnati Buggies. Buggies are going out of our store every week. Come in and let us fix you up with something that will make you feel good. this Space FOR FUTURE ANNOUNCEMENTS. J. I>iVI* BY, Life, Fire, Accident and Health Insurance. Tbe Gaffney City Land and Improvement Company $ Offers for sale BulldtngLotstn this flourishing town, Oaffney Oity; Also Farms near by and In reach of the Schools of Limestone Springs and of this place, In lota of froec 30 to 100 acres on liberal time rates; also Agricultural Lands to rent for Farm pur poses. For full particulars apply to J- Y. ®Agent. N.B.—All tresspassing on landsof this company, cuttln and emorlng timber, flahtngor hunting are forbidden under uena**., of law KITCHEJIV a plenty at SMITH HARDWARE STORE, not shams, not make-be lieves, but genuine culinary as sistants of tbe first water. We name here only a few of tbe many, and would like you to see them all: Good Cook Stoves, best qual ity, and Freezers. Shall we have tbe pleasure of seeing you? It would do a housekeeper’s hear good to see tbe entire array hero. Door and Window Screens. 00CAI*l»»WSliKT lUbfu Ourw) at nrHanaior. O dark Uu . , bun. In *0 •• jf IWer-nr-*.. 35 ,aant a «i*c doma Trratinant mm KKKK. 9. M. WOOLLEY. M. D.. lundrada Book on lCu. in Our New Gallery. We are now installed incur new and commodious quarters over \V. F. Thomas’ store, which has been speci^P^ar- ranged for us, with every fa cility to enable us to turu out the best work possible. Call and see us. Don’t for get tbe place, up-stairs over W. F. Thomas’ store. Phone 20. JOHN GREEN. LOOK OUT BOYS Attention I^ar , mer'@! The season is now at hand when you must have Implements with which to prepare your lands, plant and cultivate your crops, and don’t forget that I have ‘-Everything for the Farmer” at popular prices. All kinds of 1‘low Stocks, single and double, and Turn Plows, Plow Points, Plows, Clevises. Heel Bolts, etc., Dow Law Cotton Seed Planters. Call and see my Syracus Disc Harrows. They are unexcelled, and no farmer can afford to he without one-es; eclally when I sell them so cheap. As in the past I shall continue to lead in Buggies and AYagons. Why such an assertion- It is plain enough—the vast amount of business I have done in this line in the past att< ts the fact that my goods and prices are right. Tyson & Jones, nr St j' shaker, is all the recommendation needed on a vehicle to tell you It is Al. Wagons—hiUDSELL, 8TUDEBAKER, TAYLOR. WHITE HICKORY-a quartette that is hard to “down.” prices and quality considered. Hay, Corn. Oats, hran. Syrup, Molasses. Tennessee Sorghum, and In fact a full line of plantation supplies. Mats in variety for everyl>ody. Nice, new and strictly “up-to-date" lino of Clothing. Give us a look and we’ll sell you. My stock of Shoos and General Merchandise was never more complete’ and. listen! 1 have got a lot of genuine bargains for you. Come and see. For the accommodation and convenience of those living in the vicinity of Goforths S. C., I have added a line of BRUOS to my stock at that place consisting of Soothing Syrup. Squills. Paregoric, Pills of various kinds, essences and extracts for flavoring. Syrup of Figs, Wine of Cardul, Dr. King’s New Discovery, Stuart’s Dyspepsia Tablets. Mexican Mustang Liniment, etc. Good lino Dry Goods, Notions, Hats, Shoes. Groceries, etc., constantly on hand and arriving. Yours for trade. J. I. SA.R.It A.TT. R. M. WILKINS & CO. A N. Wood President. - R. R. Brown. Vice-President. Ytcrcliant^ and l- 3 lanter® Bank: OF GAFFNEY. S. C. CAPIXAIv #30,000. State and County Depository. Does a general Banking and Exchange business, Is well fitted up with Fire Proof Vault and Burglar I roof Safe, with Automatic Time Lock. We solicit the business of people of all occupations. C. IVI. ITH, Cashier. SCROFULA AND ITS AWFUL AORRORS ——CURED BY Johnston’s Sarsaparilla QUAR T_ bottles. JL MOST WOreUKltFUL. CURE. A Grand Old Lady Give* Her Experience. Mrs. Thankful Orilla Hurd lives in the beautiful village of Brighton, Livingston Co., Mich. This venerable and highly respected lady was born la tbe year 1812, the year of the great war, In Hebron, Washington Co., New York. 8be came to Michigan In 1840, the year of “Tippecanoe and Tyler too.” All her faculties are excellently preserved, and possessing a very re tentive memory, her mind is full of interesting reminiscences of her early life, of tbe early days of the State of Michigan and the Interesting and re markable people she has met, and the stirring events of which she was a wit ness. But nothing In her varied and manifold recollections are more mar velous and worthy of attention than are her experiences in the use of JOHNSTON’S SARSAPARILLA. Mrs. Hurd Inherited a tendency and pre disposition to scrofula, that terribly destructive blood taint which has curwed and is cursing the lives of thousands and marking thousands more aa vic tims of the death angel.. Transmitted from generation to generation, It la found In neary every family in one form or another. It may make its ap pearance in dreadful running sores, in unsightly swellings In the neck or goitre, or in eruptions of varied forms. Attacking tbe mucous membrane, It may be known as catarrh Id tbe head, or developing in the lungs It may be, and often Is, the miate cause of consumption. Speaking of her case, Mrs. Hurd says: ‘T was troubled for many yean with a bad skin disease. My arms an<j limbs would break out in a mass of ■ores, discharging yellow matter. My neck began to swell and became very onslghtiy in appearance. My body was covered with scrofulous eruptions^ My eyes were also greatly Inflamed and weakened, and they pained me very much. My blood was in a very bad condition and my head ached severely at frequent Intervals, and I bad no appetite I had sores also In my eara. 1 waa In a miserable condition, I had tried every remedy that had been recom mended, and doctor after doctor bad failed. One of the best physicians Id the state told me I mast die of scrofulous consumption, as Internal abcesses were beginning to form. I at length was told of Dr. Johnston, of Detroit, and nis famous Sarsaparilla. I tried a bottle, more ao an experiment than any thing else, aa I had no faith in It, and greatly to my agreeable surprise, I began to grow better. You can be sure I kept on taking It I took a great many bottles. But I steadily Improved until I became entirely well. An tha « ea ed up ’ t * ,e ba<1 symptoms disappeared. I gained perfect health. !!# m have , neTer 1)6611 troubled with scrofula since. Of course an old lady Jv ® f 6ftr * * 8 n °t a young woman, but I have had remarkably good health a 5 d believe that JOHNSTON’S SARSAPARILLA la tha i purifier and the best medicine In the wide world, both for 88 8 8 I ) rlng medicine.” This remarkably Interesting old lady did not iok to be more than sixty, and she repeated several times, *T believe my life was saved by JOHNSTON’S SARSAPARILLA.” acxcaxxGfr-AJv oaivct oowupAJWY, owmat.ox’r, nrrmau For sale by Company Store Gaffney Mfg., Co., Gaffney, S. C, Hot is Coming, But don’t mind that, for a very small cost you can keep your food cool; pure and wholesome by using one of our splendid REFRIGERATORS, and nothing will be more refreshing than than to sleep on one of our elegant Iron Beds and “Dexter” A<Iattresscs. Come and see them. SHDFORD & LeMASTER, Phone 91. Furniture, Stoves and Coffins. GAFFNEY LIVE STOCK CO. Dealers in MULES, HORSES, Harness, and Vehicles of Every Description. We sell the Old Hickory and Tennessee Wagons, the very best made, and the famous Parry, Babcock, and other excellent makes of Buggies, Phaetons, Car riages, etc. We have the finest lot of Mules ever brought to this country, and our stables are headquarters for drovers and out-of-town dealers. We will endeavor by fair and courteous treatment to all to warrant the confidence and patronage of the public. Ours is the finest livery stable to be found between Charlotte and Atlanta. Come to see us when you desire anything in our line. Our prices are the lowest commensurate with correct business princi ples. We sell for cash or on time for good paper. Gaffney JUive &$toek Go., MmMtozia Street. Liwffuty. S. fe, for your own interest and I will look out for mine. When you want a tfood wheel to ride call on me, and when you want to buy an uu- to-date wheel I am stj-ent for Monarch and Barns’ Bicycles and w ill sell yeu onoascheao as dirt in the old hold, forehash. When your wheel ffets out of (lx brinp It to me and f will n-pair It cheap and guarantee it. I sell all kinds of fixture*, i am still selling Kansas City IKeef and Fresh Fish. v . „ W. J. MAN ESS. Phone No. 17. Building and Plastering Lime, Coal, and Plaster Hair, Plaster Paris. Rosendale Cement, .< Portland Cement, Dynamite, Blasting Powder, Faso and Dynamite Caps, call on Limestone Springs Lime Works CARROLL & CO., Lessees. Telephone 57. We sell the famous “Cordova Coffee,”' Always strong, fine flavor and full weight. 15c. PER POUND. PEELER & LEMMONH, PROMPT DELIVERY. PHONE 55. The Cherokee County Mutual Association has issued between 400 and 50n policies to the citizens of the county aggregating f2Ki.(XX). There are yet a few property owners who have not insured with us whom we think should do so now, or as soon as possible, as a protection to themselves and families, for the unex pected happens to us all sooner or later and happy is he who is prepared to meet this emergency. We can safely say that there U no cheaper or better Investment offered you. Rev. A. Davidson, Gaffney, and Mr. Frank McLuney, Abingdon, are agents, who are au thorized to appraise your property and issue a policy on same. T. M. Littlejohn, Pres. J. Eb Jefteries. Sec. and Treas. T. I. WALKER, GAFFNEY, S. C., Deals Exclusively In Lumber and Builders’ Material and carries In stock a complete line of DOORS. SASH, BLINDS, PAINTS, OIL, PLASTERERS’ MATERIAL, and everything needed for building purposes. Look him up w**:n you need anything In his line MADE FROM PURE FILTERED and DIS TILLED WATER...- Dkltvered Anywhere in the City Johnson & Brown, 'Phone 7. For the Building Season. L. BAKER Has just received a large stock of Sash, Doors, Mantelpieces and all kinds of Trimming, Flooring, Ceiling, Siding, Box ing, Molding, Brackets, etc. No. 1 Heart Pine Shingles and a good stock John W. Masury A Sons Guaranteed Paints and Varnish, all at the lowest rea- , sonable prices. Call and see him j when you want anything in ] ine. No charge for rnak] estimates,