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FiUfiL TRIBUTE TO LATE DR. TALf/iAGE Memorial Sermon by Rev. Frank De Witt Talmage, D. D. G3EAT DIVINE AS EIS PON SAW HIM Why the Kamonn **nlnlt Orntor 'Vim Different From Other Mini»«er*—A ( Hnrd%vorIi'tnu rheerful, Comecrat- ed Genius Was Hia. • Ckif*a?o. April 20.—This morninp; in the Joffersou Park Presbyterian church the Rev. Frank I>e Witt Talmage, I> D.. delivered a sermon, in which he Jpaid a tnuoliing and timely tribute to : his lute distinguished father. The text ; war I Kings xix, 20, “Let me. 1 pray *hee, 'mss my father.” Affection's most sacred form of salu tation is a kiss. We bow to an ac quaintance. we shake hands with n friend, but we press the lip against the lip of mie whom we love. This state ment is especially true when applied to F-lisha, the son of Shnphat. who was about to leave home and go forth into ♦.hv» great wide world. Elisha was sum moned to '‘airy on the work of Elijah. Already the horses were being harness ed to the chariot of tire for the old prophet's famous journey from earthly struggle to heavenly triumph. His suc cessor. starting out on his arduous task desires first to imprint on his fa ther’s face the kiss of farewell. i The salutation of the kiss is even f more sacred when used by one who is standing by the open casket of a father ■whose eloquent tongue has so often spoken the golden words of the gospel to countless throngs—who. with a pen guided by a Spirit sprinkled with the blood of the Lamb, lias every week pro claimed the divine message to millions rpor millions of readers who were wearied with sin and heavy with trou ble. My father's work for nearly twen ty years has been the pillar of cloud by day and the pillar of fire by night to guide gretit multitudes through th° dark wilderness of earth toward the brightness of the promised land. Many pens are writin;' eu.ogies upon ♦he lift-work of Lev. T lie Witt Tal mage. Perhaps a few words may lie welcome from hi" son. 1 speak as one having authority. Fo r over twenty years 1 was his constant companion. When he was at home. 1 rarely left Ins h .study until after the midnight hour. Twice with him 1 visited the European cities. Once we circled the globe. To- i getber wo sailed forth from the Oolden Gate of the Pacific. Side by side we fcave seen the light at th" entrance of New York harbor bec’-on us into the Narrows, welcome to us as was the star of Bethlehem to the three astrolo gers wandering over the sea of sand. But no more shall we have sweet com panionship. The world becomes in stantly changed to the son who Is com pelled to let his parent sleep among the flowers and who bears a summons to more strenuous service. Before ! start forth anew for my life's work 1 would, with filial emotion, ask a mo ment for the tribute of personal af- v fecticn. as Elisha spake to Elijah in J reference to Sbupbat: "Let me. 1 pray f tbee, kiss my father. Then I will fol low thee.” An Orlarlnal anrt Kttnra! M*n. Mv father we<* t'»e umst original and jet the most natural man I ever knew, original in the sense that he always -did everything In a way different from any one else. He wrote differently, he lectured different’y. he preached differ ently. If two per«nns stood before him ,l»t the nuptial altar, his marriage cere mony was unique. It was impossible to compare him to any one else. The mold used for the formation of his character was a special one. There baa never been mad 0 another like unto It since be lay in bis humble cradle in I the Bound Brook farmhouse. I Yet my father was natural in f he H^sense that be never strove to be origi- PKjtel end different from every one else, ft was In bis personality that be was different He was the same in the borne as In the pulpit, on the street as upon tbe lecture platform. He was the •ame original and yet natural cbnrac- ♦«e when writing to one of his children AS be was when penning an article for the press. He uttered the message which was given to him as naturally «nd yet with tbe dissimilarity that ® characterizes tbe notes of the birds of tbe forest As tbe brown winged thrush lifts his treble note when he is awaken ed by tbe rising sun, as a goldfinch Chirrups when bopping between the < gardes rows, as a Baltimore orlol* Sings when be swings backward and forward upon the tree branch which erbangs tbe brook, each bird Is melo ns In its own way. yet each singing P different song. He was so natural that be could not recognize his peculiar traits. One day he turned to me and said: “Frank, people say I am different from other ministers; that 1 am differ ent even In giving out my notices and tbe reading of Scripture. Show me how 1 am different.” When 1 attempted to show him the difference, lie innocently remarked. “Why. 1 do not see anything peculiar about t«iat.” He was so differ ent from other men that for many years the American pulpit could not understand him. Under the serutiniz- fog eye of the theological critic there could be found no heretical flaw in his sermons. When he arose to preach, a Solemn stillness like the expectant hush »f the coming Judgment day silenced ils auditors. Every eye was focused )n that tall, straight form and broad, missive brow. Each ear was alert to cotcb the first word which fell from those wonderful lips. But though the buildings iu which he preached In our own and other lands were ahvuju crowded to bsur bln, though great mul* titud ’s were brought to decision for Christ under his preaching in the Brooklyn tabcniaclc. where lie passed the most active years of his life's min istry. yet for years he was o misuuder- sto .d man. S-iw-pt Vv.ry All I’u 1 »tt Cohweli*. With one wave of his h ind he swept away all the cobwebs which b e] occu- I muiated abound the traditional meth ods of sermoiiic oratory. With his mighty original personality he broke the shackles of ecclesiastical slavery. He proved to the world that the minis ters of the twentieth century could plead with sinners to come to Christ with the energy and enthusiasm and intensity with which the lawyer could plead for the life of a defendant false ly charged with murder. He proved to the religious world that it wys not so important what kind of n white linen operating gown the gospel surgeon wore as it was that the nerve of the operator be firm and the hand steady that held the keen, sacred blade with which he cut out the cancer of sin. He dispensed with the ministerial gown and hurled from the church the old fashioned pulpit, but he still clung to the old truths. He spoke tb ■ gos pel message in its simplicity. B ausc the story was so simply told it was told with originality. My father was a gospel minister who completely consecrated himself, body and mind and soul, to his work. For thirty-five years his pulpit was the sole business of his life. He lived and breathed and ate and slept and walked and nursed his strength only for that. He had the most tremendous capacity for work of any man I ever knew, and even after he was turned seventy his form was as straight as a mountain pine. Ids eye as clear as the eagle's and his mental force unabated. On that last gospel journey upon which he set out on Feb. 12 he preached in rapid succession to great audiences at Ma con. Charleston. Richmond and New Orleans with his wonted eloouence and power, and <t was not until the deadly Mexican climate had sapped his strength that he succumbed. Never from the first day of his ministry til’ the day of ids death did he put off the harness of the Lord's service. When he went on lecturing tours, it was not to make money or to take pleasure, hut to get away from Ins home tasks, so that he could come back refreshed »o .do more valiant service for Christ. Every family physie'un who entered our home declared that the rest of rail road travel had been ids obysica.l sal vtion. It forced him to tin* repose that he would no* otherwise allow to himself. 4 Hnrrtworklnu Genlas lie was - genius, but lie developed everv one of his ten talents by the hardest kind of oumtal and physical an plication. No labor for him was too full of drudgery. Morning, noon ami night found him in his study. He took phys ical exercise not for pleasure, but to fit himself for the pulpit. lie lived not to eat. but lie ate so that ho could live. lie placed his standard wry high, and into every sermon he pr his best thought. He used to say tr- ic: “Frank, do not make the mist' of mutiy literary men. They w themselves. I will save that thof and put it into anoth er speech or ai /ch*. Give to the wot Id the best you have. Crowd everything in that strengthens an argument, but always strive for qr ..ty and not for quantity." When r theological student. I wanted to occupy for some weeks the pulpit of a small country church. He uttered ids protest, saying. “You ought to spend at least three months upon your first sermon, writing upon it from six to ten hours a day.” What « testi mony is this to his own careful work, coming from the cold lips which are now closed in the casket. What a homiletic lecture It is for the young ministers, for the young lawyers ami budding statesmen who maintain that tin* oratorical art is a divine gift which has no need for struggling upon the rough mountain side of drudgery. What a clarion note it is. summoning all men and women to do their best under all conditions. The lesson is as powerful for the merchant of ten talents as for the clerk of two talents. To him that hath shall be eriveu. From him that hath not shall be taken away even that which he hath. There is. however, a warning that comes from my father’s intense Appli cation to work which deserves the at tention of oil those who are bending their physical, mental and spiritual energies to accomplish something in life’s struggle. My father had one of the most robust physical frames ever given to man. He hud a wonderful mind. He hud a wonderful body. He could speak out of doors for two long hours and address 10.000 auditors. Yet the last sentence would he heard as distinctly as the first. He could do n ten mile tramp more easily than some men could walk around a city square. Ills chest was broad and deep. His heart went on with the steady regu larity of a pui iping engine. He thought he was taking care of himself, but he was not. About twenty-five years ago the first danger signal was lifted when insomnia, like a hideous specter, sat at the foot of his bed and refused to let him sleep. Night after night lie would 1 be up four and five times walking tl.e floor. After awhile the children be came used to it. We would greet him . ut breakfast, saying. "Father, how did you sleep?" and when he answered, , "Not very well.” lie would look so fresh and vigorous that we. too. were I deceived, and we would hope that lie had slept better than he thought he I did. But he could not be induced to spare himself. He overestimated his reserve of strength. My father ought j to have lived with that magnificent | body at least fifteen years longer. Had he economized his strength the best years of his life might have been those last fifteen years. He died from over work. Ye brain workers, listen to tills warn- lug! Ye literary ueu, who are full of g:v;:t ' .oughts wfitch • u are eager to mtor, hewun* of o.I'tr.riving the brain! i Retnem or that y .ii cannot ti ke your , v, a i shop to Ix-d with you and work j in the u;.! - | v without uiitU'niiiniiig your ui.'ubd strength. Ilet d today the mes- , v. e which comes to all. Slop before it is too late. God did not intend my t'.iihcr to go on as t he was doing, wrecking his magaKIceut physical j frame. A DItaiNter of Clieorfiilnt-K*. My father was a gospel minister of unbounded cheerfulness. He believed that there was as much true religion in the smile seen ut the wedding of Cana of Galilee as iu the sob heard in a house of mourning. He was an opti mistic Christian whose mind was free from gloomy presentiments. In his youth he grasped the great truth that God is love. Because God is love he felt that God approved of his i cing strong and well and happy. He always ex pected good things to come to him from the Divine Father, as a little child nat urally expects good things to come to him from an earthly parent. A falling Pair may, ere it drops, lodge in the wrinkles of a smile. A rainbow can climb over the dark clouds of storm. If a member of the family was dangerous ly sick, he was not dismayed, but al ways felt that she would get well. If financial trouble threatened the home, he never was apprehensive, having un- wavuing faith that the God who cares for the birds of the air and clothes the lily of the field would feed and clothe him and those he loved. He was willing to undertake big j hi tigs because he was walking bund in hand with his Heaven ly Father, accompanied by the sweet faced angel of hope. The result was that when trouble did come he was the stronger to meet and bear it. And when greater opportunities of useful ness came than even he expected he was also able to grasp them and com pel them to carry him upon their broad, shoulders up the towering heights of conspicuous service. What spirit but one buoyed, by cheer fulness could ever have overcome tb 0 obstacles lie conquered? He was tried by fire literally as well as figuratively. He had to fight the elements its well as the human champions of sin. Read j the history of the first Brooklvn taber- | nacle. The little handful of seventeen j members who orhrinn!ly calk’d Into to | Brooklyn gr°w to thousands. During a ' •iuie of national financial pintle su-- J feeding the civil war at great expense j the nob'e walls of the first tabernacle i The building was dedicated amid j Of rC 1 kind 1 for fear over the IVliteU tin'd vim ers were niiility. We fel was taking u-s : ‘lug ;t wotauivd look pass face, which to us always Die light which su me from f. ee of Christ. Famib not to us a meuiiingh i that our dear > the tin' me of CON or DR. TALMAGE. its .b s* ; h the G. od I hi t ren into the throneroom of tue tia n long. Itenutntioi, anil ( Iiaraeter. ■ pray- •S 1 < T- f' her gr ice. lire, ii Lgj p- arose cougr-tu hit ions .iud tin’ well wishes of j the city and state. In a few monihs that building was destroyed. The whole structure was tumbled into ruins s' quickly tbu‘ nothing was saved from the huge edifice except an immense mortgage. Homeless and in debt, the outlook for the congregation was very dark. Undaunted, however, the still wart leader called his faithful follow ers about him. Many were dise.mraged. hut not this modern Nchemiah. The second Brooklyn tabernacle, built upon the ruins, was grander and more ma jestic than the first. This was the struc ture where the crowds became so great that it seemed as if no uian who visit ed New York felt that he had made the best of his sojourn in the great city until he had heard my father preach. But there seems sometimes a terrible sequence in calamities. As certain dis eases have a penchant for destroying certain families, so this tire demon came to find new prey in the place where he had once held high carnival. The sec ond Brooklyn tabernacle was destroy ed. The third building went the same way us did the first and second. The CroNites lie Bore. Domestic bereavement fell upon him. and people who saw only his outward cheerfulness had no conception how deeply the iron had entered his soul. When my father was dying, he con tinually talked about the boy who had been his pride, his eldest sou. who is now sleeping by his side as he once sat at his feet He was a noble lad. a brilliant young lawyer. We carried him out one cold winter day and laid him away to rest under a soft quilt of snow. My father went back to his work. He said. “I dare not lay it down even for an hour lest the effort to take it up again should be too great for me.” lie took up his cross in the same cheerful, hopeful spirit as be fore. though the wound in his heart never healed. He always carried a scar which was cut by the gravedig ger's spade. My father’s best sermon was the daily life which he lived iu his own home. I bear my testimony to the fact that from my boyhood until the time that I entered my own parsonage and was ordained by him for uiy own pul pit I had before me the example and upon me the sweet Influence of a Chris tian home. There never was In Amer ica a happier or more prayerful home than that of which he was tbe head. The children idolized him. The exam ple he set before them was that of a consecrated Christian gentleman al ways anxious to do what Christ would have him do. There was no bitterness in the nursery. From him we learned how to forget ns well as to forgive. Among all the men I have known in various walks of l!fe 1 never knew a human being who was like him in the characteristic that he could never bear n grudge against any one. An enemy I might do everything in his power to destroy him. but my father never struck back. If In* could, he would not only forgive, but lie would go any distance to serve and help an enemy. Among the many homes I have visited as n pastor I never entered one where the parent Inis so earnestly sought to In culcate gentleness of rule us lie did In my old home. My father never lifted •i hand to strike a blow, yet he ruled his children with a rod stronger than one made out of Iron. It was the rod of love. My sisters mid myself hud hut one fear in reference to his llfe- we were afraid b* do anything wrong Reputation is what the world thinks about a man. Character is what he really is. Reputation may be wrong. Character Is an actual fact. Man look- eth upon the outward appearance: God looketh upon ihe he-rt. But l have sometimes felt that God has made it possible for otln r eyes, us well as his own all seeing eye. to look into a man's heart. The child has the opportunity and the privilege of looking into the parent's heart. When a boy lives for years by the side ot a father, he knows what are the ruling principles of his life, its strongest motives and funda mental beliefs. When 1 lived at home or traveled by tny father's side, con tinually with him for weeks or tnonthr at a time, 1 formed the conviction tha* he was as good a man as ever lived. My father was a Christian minister assuredly inspired for his work by the Holy Spirit. For a quarter of a con tury his critics have been eying by analyzing his character and his ser mons to discover how he came to at tain worldwide success. Some attrib ute his power to word 'minting. He was an unequaled masffer in the art ol portraying before an audience ancient and modern scenes and events and opening up to tin* entranced gaze of his hearers the palaces of dead kings and queens, lie could, with a few words, transport an audience into the hinging gardens of Babylon or make them hear the harvests sighorthejiightingale sing. Some ba\e attributed his power to in vectivef No rapier was sharper than the stiletto of his tongue when he want ed to execrate sin. Some again have ascribed lbs popularity to his loving personality. But the critics who only go as far as those do but touch the ott'er garment of his power. i ;i; s." tr-its were all present, hut the soi:re<-o! my father's power was not in what h" himself could do. As he often avetreu. with the sincerity of profound convic tion. in and of himself he e mid do nothing. With tin- power of the Holy Spirit he could accomplish anything'. The trt)“ history of the Brooklyn tahi rnaeie revivals has never been written. I will declare tt now for the firs' time As a coming storm signal can lie seen in the dark cloud which is bung high in the Heaven of blue. I .(•fore when the alum show; rs of blessing would fall our church altars. My father's won id be set and anxious. He Like Ilin Fuiticr, Ge in aa Eloquent I’ulrlt Orntor. Dr. Frank De Witt Talmage. the only surviving son of the famous taberna cle pastor, is now in lbs thirty-fourth year. He was horn in Philadelphia in November. 1MJ7. and received his early educai.on til the Polytechnic institute in New York. For a time he was a student at the Sing Si; g Military academy. In ISMI he entered the New York university niiti graduated from there in the spring of 181)0. being named as the orator of his class, an honor which his father received in the same university in fin leaving college Frank De Witt Tab mage at once decided to study for the ministry .and entered the Union Theo logical seminary. He has had the bene fit of experience on tin* lecture plat form. being associated in p course in which the distinguished African ex plorer. Mr. Henry M. Stanley, and his late father were included. He lias Thousands Hare Kidney Trouble and Don’t Know it. How To Find Ottt. Fill a bottle or common glass v/ith your water and let it stand twenty-four hours a sediment or set tling indicates an unhealthy condi tion of the kid neys; if it stains your linen it is evidence of kid ney trouble; too frequent desire to pass it of pain in the back is also convincing proof that the kidneys and blad der are out of order. What to Do. There is comfort in the knowledge so often expressed, that Dr. Kilmer's Swamp- Root, the great kidney remedy fulfills every wish in curing rheumatism, pain in the back, kidneys, liver, bladder and every part of the urinary passage. It corrects inability to hold water and scalding pain in passing it, or bad effects following use of liquor, wine or beer, and overcomes that unpleasant necessity of being compelled to go often during the day, and ’o get up many times during the night. ~ ue mild and the extra ordinary effect of Swamp-Root is soon realized. It stands the highest for its won derful cures of the most distressing cases. If you need a medicine you should have the best. Sold by druggists in SOc. and$l. sizes. You may have a sample bottle of this wonderful discovery and a book that tellsg more about it, both sentj absolutely free by mail, address Dr. Kilmer & Home of Swamp-Root Co., Binghamton, N. Y. When writing men tion reading this generous offer in this paper. Foley 9 s Honey and Tar ures colds, prevents pneumonia. One Mcnute Cough Cure For Coughs, CoSds and Croup. c-ouM t.‘!l weeks I dant upon face had at' air distraught as of one whose thouuiiiK were off. When passing his study. I would hear Him pleading with God in prayer, often in his hand. The would beeonif* a holy of the children would feel a supernatural Influence was at work My father’s power was not his own. It was im parted to him from above. It is in these days of unutterable loss the chief source of consolation to know that such power is still accessible and that it will still lie given to the servant I'lie Biiiie was family altar holies where REV FUAN'r TV WET TALMAOK. I>. D spoken in many of the leading cities throughout the country with marked suecess. At Nazareth, f’a.. he ud dressed the fanners op the race track before 'be grard stand and hold the aMeution of an audience of thousands, making one of the fines* oratorical ef for*s ever hear l in that region. Among the manv cities in which he has lec tured are New York. Minneapolis, St. I’au!. Newark and Baltimore. lie has held pastern 1 charges in Philadelphia and Pittsburg and is at present pastor of Jefferson Park Presbyterian church. Chicago. Dr. Frank De Witt Talmage possesses many of the characteristics that dis tinguished his late father. In strong and eloquent address, in vivid and pic turesque language and in voice and manner the resemblance is very strik ing. Having been his father’s companion on many tours abroad as well as at home, he has made the personal ac quaiutance of a very large number of the leading public men of both Eu rope and America. How She Serveil Ihe Cronin. A suburban woman, entertaining rather hastily at luncheon the other day and having only vanilla ice cream of God who will wrestle with the angel I at her command, cleverly adapted the of the Presence, declaring, as Jacob potted plant service of city caterers did. that he will not let him go without a blessing. SermoiiM With Comfort In Them. It was because my father's sermons were the products of a Spirit filled life that the millions were able to jind comfort in them. Whenever he would take a lecture trip the people would crowd about him by the thuiisaiids, ut tering such greetings as "1 read your sermon on ‘Tears' by my baby's casket, and I have found Christ:" "i read your sermon upon •Recognition of Friends in Heaven' to my mother when she was dying:" "I read this or that when I was in ti certain trouble, and the ser mon brought light to my soul." Let uo hearer or reader of this sermon think for one instant that ray fatlier's work was a man made work. My father's work was a divinely inspired work. He was called as certainly to do his work ns Paul and Peter and John were called to do theirs. He was inspired by prayer and communion with God. Would you go with me into the death chamber? His passing away was us he himself would have had it if ids own wish had been consulted. He prac tically died in the harness. One Sun day he was preaching In Mexico, tho next on his deathbed. For five long weeks lie lingered, but God mercifully benumbed the woruout mid tired brain. He suffered not ut all. He awoke long enough to recognize and at times call for his wife and children. But con versation was an impossibility between him and the members of his family during the weary days and nights he was sick. We were all there, all ex cept those of the family who had preceded him to the other side and who were waiting to give him a wel come. We repeated the old verse s" qften spoken by his own lips: When round my dying bed assemble those 1 love. A dear old family friend uttered a sweet prayer? That was all. We watch ed and waited until his mortal life was lifted into the heavenly life. There were a few tears, n few callings ot goodby. He slipped away so quietly we could not tell when he was gone. He was asleep. Th° »!red heart censed to beat. The old sweet restful look came back to the loving face. We laid him away for a little while iu the fam ily plot Ut beautiful Greenwood. As 1 lifted my hand over the open grave t< pronounce the benediction, 1 said te myself. "So may we all live and labor, that when our work Is done we may go to our rest In the full conviction that when we awake it will lie like thin glorified spirit in the likeness of hi* Lord.” (.Copyright, l>*:, Louta Klopach. N. T-l with the resources within her reach. There was no greenhouse in the town, but there was a cemetery, and from the gardener in charge a dozen unused tiny earthen pots were procured. These were carefully washed and dried and fitted with a lining of oiled paper. Into each then the vanilla cream was packed, and chocolate was grated thickly over the top to simulate earth and a little sprig of maidenhair fern thrust in the center. They were served on plates, with fern leaves laid loose ly around the base, and were received with great admiration by the guests.— New York Post. Strenuoua Vanibrry. Professor Vambery. who has Just cel- ebrated his seventieth birthday, is a German Jew, Vambery being the Mag- yarized form of Bamberger. He has a voice like a trumpet and a limp in one of his legs, the relic of a wound which lie received during the Hunga rian revolution. After that he tramped to Constantinople and lived for a loug time among the poorer classes of the city, where be acquired a thorough knowledge of tbe language and charac ter of the Turk. Them in the disguise of a dervish and with the daring of a Burton, he visited Persia. Khiva, Bo khara and Samarkand, his astonishing doings being all set down iu his "Life Adventures.” On bis return he was ap pointed professor of oriental languages at Budapest. Memorial Cbnrch Window*. G. R. Sims, the English playwright and novelist, has emered a protest against depicting the features of Dr Johnson In a memorial window repre senting “Christ and the Doctors” to hi placed In a London church. He sn>s "If once we begin introducing modern celebrities into sacred history, where are we going to stop? We shall have a pro-Boer philanthropist presenting his particular church with u stained glass window in whicli Judas Iscariot wil' lie represented with the features (nut 1 the eyeglass) of Mr. Joseph Chamber lain.” How Slenlctewlcs Writes. It is said that no editor engaged in publishing a serial story by Sienkie- wicz ever received the whole manu script of a novel from bin at once. Of his long historical romances he never wrote more at a time tliau the paper published in one day. He is given to sending in installments of two pages each. Novel writing stirs up all his nerves, and while it is Iu progress tie goes restlessly wuudering from country to country. Foley 9 s Honey and Tar tor children.sttie.surz. Hu opiates. Summons. State or soi’th c wum.ixa. < In Millustrate’, i'hkhokh Cot m i. i Coin t. Ity A. M. Ji. idgt-s. Magistrate, to \Y. I). Ifutn- ave. aiisent defendant Complaint linvju;' h' en made unto me l>y (> It. Bird tint you are indebted to him in th> sum of s-U foi yoods. wares and I u ini- .lire sold and delivered you at Blacksburg S during tho latter part of the year and first part of the year I‘at your re quest, and the same is p. st due and owing. These are therefore to notify and summons the said defendant to appear before meat my office iu Blacksburg, S. C., •Ji days from the service hereof by publication, at 1*1 o'clock a. in., to answer the said com| 1 tint of l>. B. Bird, or judgment will be giver: against him by default. Given und« r my hand and seal at Biueksburg, J>. C., March >t»i I'.HTJ. A. M. Bh I la; es. Magistrate. [Seal] Mar •.’s-law-tit. Announcements: Cards under this head will D- inse tedunco a week until tin- primary for $5.00. Cash must positively accompany all copy before any at'e^iton will lie given the order. For Clerk ot Court. i hereby announce myself a candidate for office of Clerk of the Court of Cherokee county subject to action of the Democratic primary. J. C. II. Durr. TliemHiiytrleiidsofW.il. Boss, recogniz ing his ability and Integrity hereby present Ills name as a suitable and efficient candidate for tb*'ortfc-of Clerk of Court of Cherokee County, subject to the action of tbe Demo cratic primary. 1 hereby announce myself as a candidate for the office of Clerk of Court of Cherokee County and respectfully solic.t the support of the voters of theucounty iu t he approach ing Democratic primary. Ben F. Bonner. For Couruy Supervisor. I hereby announce myself a candidate for Supervisor of Cherokee county subject to the action of tin* Democratic primary. i>. C. Phii.lii'*. The many friends of U. M. Jolley earnestly request him to run for the office of Super visor of Ot'erokoe Comity, believing him to be web qualities for the place, and that ii will be to the intcretsof the public, to elect him. and believing he will take a pride In making good roads. Many Votkkn. Cherokee County. For the Senate. 1 hereby offer myself as a candidate for re- eiectlon to the State Senate, subject to tbe action of the Democratic primary. R. C. Sakh ATT. The friends hf Dr. John G. Black announce him a candidate to represent Cherokee coun ty in tbe State Senate. For Audi or. Having been assured by my frieuds that I have given general satisfaction and having a clear conscience of having done my duty since 1 have been In office. I hereby an nounce myself a candidate for re-election to the office of Auditor for Cherokee county. Thanking my friends for their confidence and support in tho part and most respectfully asking a continuance of thel confidence arKl support 1 I shall strive never to betray or Impair t be confidence Imposed I- me. • W. D. Camp. Democratic County Contention. Notice Is hereby given to each and every Democratic Club in C'heiokee County, to as semble at their respective places of meeting, on Saturday, the 2'ith of April at two o'clock, p. m„ for the purpose of electing delegates to a County Convention which is hereby called to meet in tin- Court House at Galf- ney. at 11 o’clock, a. m.. on Monday the Sth of May llHr.’, for tin- purpose of electing a member of the State Executive Committee, a County Chairman, and abo to elect six delegates to tl.e State Convention which will meet in the city of Columbia on ihe ^’Ist day of May littl. and also for Ihe transaction of such other business as may come properly before the convention. Tho County Convention slritl he compnaed of delegates elected hy flic s -vera 1 dubs of the county, one delegate for every t wenty- live members of the club, and one member for every majority fraction thereof. All pera< ns known to be Democrats may vote in Solid precinct election. Each pre cinct will elect a member to serve on the_ Executive Committee of the county, and al) such oilier necessary officers to serve during the ensuing campaign. Titos B. Butler, County Chalnmiii. J. B. Bell. Secretary. April