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What would you give for a Good Appetite? Not a false appetite, such as is aroused by powerful and deadly drugs like strychnia, qulnlnb and nux vomica, but a healthy appetite for good food? As our old doctor used to say, “ If you can’t eat, you can’t work,” and we might add, “or play either.” We are very sure that Vinol will find your lost appetite. It will arouse the vital organs to call for wholesome food and help them to absorb it Vinol is a non-secret union of the valuable principles of organic Iron, cod liver oil and a aood table wine. It is pleasant to take, and both nourishes and creates an appe tite for nourishment. Thousands of bottles have been sold on the guarantee of “ money back,” !f not satisfied, and a dissatisfied customer ia very rare# Mail Orders Supplied, Hittfe r . Express Paid. CHEROKEE DRUG CO imuomsTs, Tax Returns for the Year 1903. OFFICE OF COUNTY AUDITOR. Notice is hereby given that this office will he open from January ist, 1903 to February 20th, 1903, for the purpose of receiving returns of property for taxa tion. I will be at the following places at the times herein after mentioned for teceiv- ing returns: At Draytonville, Monday, January 5th. At Wilkinsville, Tuesday, January 6th. At Sarratt’s Store, Wednesday, Jan uary 7th. At T. I). Littlejohn’s (Asbury) Thurs day, January Kth. At Ravenna, (Brown’s Store) yridav, January 9th. At Timber Ridge, (M. M. Tate) Sat urday, January 10th. At’ White Plains, Monday, January 12 th. At Thickety, Tuesday, January 13th. At Macedonia, Wednesday, January 14th. At ?>.ells, Thursday, January 15th. At Maud, (Linders’s Store) Friday January 16th. At Grassy Pond, Saturday, January 17th. At Cherokee Falls, Monday, January 19th. At Kings Creek, Tuesday, January 20th. At Antioch, (Church) Wednesday, Januar> 21st. At Blacksburg, Thursday and Friday, January 22nd and 23rd. At Buffalo, (School House) Saturday, January 24th. At Allens, (James Allen) Monday, January 26th. G. W. Speer will l>e in the office dur ing my absence. All persons are required to state in what school district they live. Those having property in School Districts Nos. 9 and 10, must state in their return how much lies in these Districts and how much outside, and all new buildings erected since last return and their value. All persons are required to make out and return a statement of all personal property, moneys, credits, investment in bonds, joint stock companies, notes, mortgages, or otherwise in your posses sion or under your control as husband, parent, guardian, trustee, executor, ad ministrator, agent, or attorney, on the ist day of January 1903, and fix a value thereto. Any person or persons who have sold real estate since last return must state to whom, the number of acres and value, all jiersons who have bought real estate since last return must state how much, the value and who from. If you fail to make return as above stated on or lie fore February 20th the law requires me to add 50 per cent, as a penalty, on the return of 1902. All returns mu.it l»e made and signed before me or my clerk. If made liefore anyone else they must be sworn to. All persons liable for the income tax under Section 335 of the Acts of 1S97, are required to make return of same. POLL TAX. All able-bodied males between the ages of 21 and 60 years are liable for a poll tax, excep’ Confederate soldiers over 50 years of age. W. I). Camp, County Auditor. Nov. 2S-iawk-till Feb. 20. 1903. 'BANNER 8 A LVE th« mo«t h—ling —Iv In th> world. OMMUiirtoOMighOw* Ft Comll.. and Oroap. Final Discharge. Notice is hereby given that I will apnly to Hon. J. K. Webster, Probate Judge for Cherokee County, S. C., at his office at the court house, on Monday, the 29th Dec. next, 1902, for a final settlement and discharge as guardian for Katie Deal, minor. Ail persons holding claims against •aid minor will present them on or l>efore said date or forever lie barred. A. M. DKAL, Guardian for Katie Deal, Minor. Pub. in Ledger, Nov. 28, December 5, 12, 19, 1902. TALMAGE SERMON •t By Rev. FRANK DC WITT TALMAGE. D.D.. Paator of Jefferson Park Presby terian Church, Chicago Chicago, Nov. 30.—In today’s sermon Jtev. F. De Witt Talmage utters words of counsel to parents and children from the text Proverbs xxx, 17, “The eye that mocketh at his father and despis- eth to obey his mother the ravens of the valley shall pick It out and the 3-oung eagles shall eat it.” Horrible is the Solomonic word pic ture. The gibbet, the stenchful corpse, the skeleton protruding through the torn and mortifying flesh, the feathered gormandizers banqueting upon the car rion, the clanging, rusty chains holding aloft the putrefying mass —these are the theme of my text. It is a warning to all boys and girls, as well as to all grown men and women, that filial con tempt is never justifiable in God’s sight. No matter what our parents may do or say, we must always respect and honor them, because they are our father and mother. If we ever allow ourselves to despise them, then we shall incur the anger of God, who by one of the Ten Commandments explicitly enjoined that parents be honored by their offspring. And with that command public opinion is fully in accord. The son who dis honors his parents is despised in his life, and his very memory is gibbeted by public contumely after his death. He is held up to public scorn and deri sion. as were the ancient robbers and state criminals, whose beads used to be stuck upon long poles and for weeks exposed to public view from the top of the arch of London Temple Bar until at last all the flesh disappeared and noth ing remained but the bleached skulls. But though God denounces children who despise their parents, no matter how heinous the parental sins and shortcomings may be, yet as I begin to study my text in its connection with other passages of Scripture the more I find that many of the most common filial sins can be traced back to paren tal sins. Some years ago, upon the Holstein ranch in California, three lit tle orioles were taken from a nest and confined within a birdcage. No sooner was this done than the mother bird ap peared and tried to liberate her young. Failing in this, she flew away and brought to her incarcerated babies a sprig of the deadly larkspur. In a few minutes those three fledgelings with foaming mouths lay dead in the bot tom of the cage. If the mother bird could not free her young, then she pre ferred to kill them. How often, alas, have human parents seen their off spring in a captivity to sin to which death would have been preferable, and the saddest reflection they can have is that this captivity is the result of the moral poison they have themselves ad ministered. By thoughtless mistakes and culpable negligence they may have inspired their children with a contempt for themselves which has been the be ginning of an evil life, Ending in spir itual death. 1 shall try this morning to enumerate some of the shortcomings and sins into which neglectful and selfish and sinful parents have fallen In their dealings with their children. I would enumer ate those parental sins because the in spired author who penned the words of my text is also the Solomon who wrote that If consecrated, godly parents would train up a child in the way he should go, when he Is grown that ma tured child would not only be loyal to his earthly parents, but also to his Heavenly Father. Parental Partiality. All parents, in the first place, should show their children that they have no parental favorites. They should prove that all the children as individuals have an equal share of a father’s and a mother’s love. They should convince their boys and girls alike that no one child occupies a larger area in the paren tal heart cells than every other child, for when a child begins to feel that the fa ther or mother does not care for him as much ns the rest of the children that child Immediately begins to despise that parental partiality. Love feeds on love. And yet there are thousands upon thou sands of homes in America in which you would not have to visit more than two or three days before you could, while there, tell which w’as the favorite son or daughter. That child will per haps be better dressed, as old Jacob aroused the jealousy of his other chil dren by buying for his favorite boy, Jo seph, a coat of many colors. That child will have a better room in the house than the other children. He will have more spending money; be will be al lowed to do what the other children are not allowed to do. On the other hand, the child which is not the parental fa vorite will often be shoved into the background or sent away to the coun try, as Jesse sent his youngest son, Da vid, off to tend the sheep. It la easy enough for parents to say that they have no favorites, but the words of the lip do not always correspond with the facts of the life. At nearly every fu neral of a little child which l have at tended in my pastoral work I have heard a statement like this made by the side of the white casket: “It is too bad the little one was taken. She was her father’s or mother’s favorite." Now before God today 1 declare that no par ent has a right to have a favorite child —no favorite unless that child is a born idiot or an invalid or one who should be cared for and guarded the more carefully because of bis or her helplessness. The fraternal hatred ex isting between Esau and Jacob can be directly attributed to Isaac’s favoritism for his eldest son and Hebekah’s favor itism for her younger boy. And many and many a home is broken up today because fathers and mothers will per sist in showing preference for one child at the expense of the affection they ought to show for their other children. Parental favoritism has caused many a boy or girl to be skeptical ®f a father’s or a mother’s love—the same kind of skepticism which, in India, a little girl had who a few years ago made a significant comparison to an American missionary. In India a daughter is supposed to be of such a low order of creation that some Mo hammedan priests assert that women have no souls and no hereafter. And so one day when this little girl was trying to describe God's love for her sex she said, “Why, it is the small est love in the world, if it is a love!” “How small is that?” asked the lady missionary. “Oh, very, very small.” “Put how small?” “Why,” answered the young Indian maiden, “the love of God for us women is as small—it is as small as the love my father felt for me on the day that I w f as born.” May God never allow you, O father and mother, to Instill such a distorted idea of parental affection into any child’s mind and heart on account of favoritism for some of your children at the expense of the others. May God Inspire every one of you to teach your boj's and girls that each one of them has a full measure of your love! May God inspire all parents to treat all their children alike, with the exception that they should be a little gentler and more thoughtful of the child who is sick, or is crippled, like Mephibosbeth, who w’as lame in both his feet! Trotting to Serranta. Allowing the servant girl to take the place of maternal and paternal com panionship can truly be classed among parental sins. 1 would not for an in stant either say or write one word which would wound the feelings of thousands and tens of thousands of young women who have consecrated their lives to the noble calling of nurse- girl’s work. Some of the mightiest men of the ages have testified that they would never have been w’hat they were but for the self sacrificing love of their nurses, who not only rocked them to sleep when they were tired, but also started their little feet In the paths of rectitude and piety. The Earl of Shaftesbury declared that the greatest Inspiration for a true religious life was instilled into him by the faithfulness of his Christian nurse. The mighty potentate, the late Alexander III., the czar of all the Russlas, honored the faithfulness and the devoted love of his nurse. Surrounded by the grand dukes of Russia for three long miles he followed afoot after the hearse which carried the mortal remains of that dear friend through a blinding snowstorm out to the Royal mauso leum of St. Petersburg. And as the dying French soldier, writhing under the surgeon’s knife, cried out, “Doctor, cut a little deeper, and you wdll see pictured upon my heart the face of the mighty emperor,” so, many of us, if we cut down into the hearts of the faithful servants who have watched over us in our childhood, could there find our own faces, because the hearts of these faithful servitors bent with love for us. But though many of our household servants may be to us and to our chil dren as the Earl of Shaftesbury’s Christian nurse was to him, yet no true father or mother can afford to delegate the physical, moral and religious train ing of their children to servants, no matter how faithful and true those servants may be. No woman can take the place of a true mother by the side of the crib. No man can do for the boys what a consecrated father is able to do when he is faithful to the trust which God has given to him. Oh. man, studying the debit and credit sides of your ledgers, counting up your hundreds of thousands of dol lars and carefully watching the mani fold details of a vast mercantile enter prise, which taxes your physical and mental energies to the utmost, you may think you have no time to ex amine Into the details of bow your thirteen-year-old son spends his weekly allowance. But you ought to take that time. On account of that parental neg lect you may live to regret the day that you were born and also the day that your son was born. Oh, woman, you may think this is the age for the emancipation of your sisters. In pride you may listen to weekday lectures on woman’s rights and Shakespeare and sculpture and art. You may consider It a great social opportunity to be able to join a card party one afternoon and go to a tea the next afternoon and be the equal and the associate of the so cial queens of our most prominent cities. But no social nor worldly hon or ought to be great enough or Impor tant enough to entice you away from your nursery, so that you must dele gate the care of your children to a hired servant. Parental neglect is not In God’s sight a simple misdemeanor, it Is a sin—a burning sin—which may not only destroy the spiritual life of the child, but Impair also the eternal happiness of the faiher and mother. It Is a sharp two edged sword which, with one stroke down and another stroke up, can destroy not only the rose, but the bush which gave It birth. Lack of Discipline. Lack of nursery discipline can some times be classed among parental alna, or, rather, mistakes. We would not like to crII the actions of a too In dulgent patent by such a harsh word as sin. Yet Solomon, who wrote the words of my text, gave the parental mistakes of overindulgence even a harder definition than that of sin. He said, “He that spareth bis rod hatetb his son, but be that loveth him, cha% teneth him betimes.” In other words, we have a right to make by this quotation the simple deduction that If a father will not make a child learn to obey him. then he is very apt to let a child learn to despise him. I used to be very harsh in my con- demnatioii of parents who were over- indulgent and would not compel obedi ence upon the part of their children. But the older I grew the more lenient I became in tny criticism of this evil. I have found out that the invariable reason why most parents are over- lenient with their children Is because they have a family plot in which they have buried some of their little ones. It is on account of the little pale faces of the dead that they shrink from causing tears to flow over the rosy cheeks of the living. “It is all well enough for you, Mr. Talmage, to say that I ought to be stricter with my children,” once said a member of my church, “but I have already buried two of my babies, and I am living in constant fear that I may have to bury my other two. They are all that I have left.” But, fathers and mothers, though you may have buried two of your chil dren, remember that you are not Just to the living unless you teach them the laws of filial obedience. A disobedient son invariably means a willful, way ward, selfish, petulant, unbalanced and God defying man. An undutlful daugh ter generally means a quick tempered, sinful, ungovernable woman, who will ultimately despise and trample upon all pure love. It was because Queen Agrippina laughed at her little, willful boy, Nero, who doubled up his tiny fists and struck at her, that she was compelled to live to see the day when the queen mother would have to bare her flesh for the fatal stroke of the royal hirelings who came to do the bidding of a murderous son. Some times the unklndest act that a parent can do to a child is to give to the boy or girl a sugar plum when that child ought to have, according to the Solo monic advice, a good, sound thrashing. The 91b of Hypocrisy. Hypocrisy is the most awful of all parental sins. No matter what the father or mother may do, as long as the child can firmly believe that his par ents are living consecrated, godly, pure and noble lives, that child is bound to the foot of the cross with bands of steel, but when the child believes that his mother and father are leading hypo critical lives, pretending one thing to the world and living another kind of life at home, as a rule, there is very lit tle temporal or spiritual hope for the child. Bad parents generally have bad children. The sins of those fathers and mothers are visited upon the children, even to the third and fourth genera tions. Sometimes the reverse of this rule seems to be true. Good parents, also, for awhile may seem to have bad chil dren, but if you will carefully study the history of different Christian homes you will generally—aye, I believe al ways—find that the children of conse crated. godly parents who have trained them up in the way they should go will always turn out right, while those hypocritical parents who do not train up their children right will ultimately have their children turn out wrong. Good old Dr. Alexander of Princeton college once preached upon this text: “Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not de part from it.” He preached to prove that nearly all the sins which men and women practice can ultimately be traced back to wrong parental training or to the hypocrisies of parents who have lived in the home a religion of sham. After the sermon was over some of Dr. Alex ander’s friends said to him: “Professor, it is absurd for you to preach a sermon like that. If what you say is true, then you yourself ba v e been living the wrong kind of a Christian life or else you have not trained your children as you should have done. You know, doctor, that your boy Dick is one of the worst boys in all Princeton college. He is as wild as wild can be.” “Oh,” answered the good old doctor, “you did not hear my text aright. My text was, ‘Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old’— Dick is not old yet. Just wait awhile, and the boy will come out all right.” Dr. Alexander spoke the truth. Dick did come out all right. In a few years he not only gave his heart to God, but he went to New York city and entered business as a Chris tian layman, and long after his hon ored father had pillowed his head in the dust Richard Alexander, the wild Princeton student, wielded a mighty influence for God and for heaven. So, my friends, today, as Christian men and women, we must realize that the whole future destinies of our children are largely dependent upon us. If we live consecrated, godly lives and train up our children in the way they should go, they will also become consecrated Christian men and women, and If we are hypocrites and do not train them as they ought to be trained then our children will also turn out wrong. Bad parents have bad sons and daughters; good parents produce good children. There is hardly an exception to the rule. The Effect of Example. Parental examples and training in variably reproduce themselves In the lives of children. There is a beauti ful story told of a noted king in the far east who was about to take a Journey into a remote part of his king dom. He therefore sent ahead of him a trusted minister to build for his royal master a suitable palace where the king could lodge in the far country. When the royal courier reached the remote jwrt of the kingdom, he found a plague raging there and people were dying by thousands and tens of thousands. So, Instead of taking the money from the royal treasury and spending it for bricks and stones and mortar, the royal messenger spent it for bread and medi cine. With it he dug graves and burled the dead. With It he bongbt clothing to protect the living. And when &e king came and found what bis messenger had done. Instead of punishing his minister, he commended A Good Cough Medicine. (From the Gazette, Moowoomba, Australia.) I find Chamberlain’s Cough Re medy is an excellent medicine. I have been suffering from a severe cough for the last two months, and it has effected a cure. I have great pleasure In recommending it.—W. C. Wockner. This is the opinion of one of our oldest and most respected residents, and has been voluntarily given in good faith. Others may try the remedy and be benefited, as was Mr. Wockner. This remedy is sold by Cherokee Drug Co., Gaffney acd L, A. Allison. Cowpens. Deliberation, prudence and caution properly proportioned and blended are elements of true success. Itrsln-Food Nouhcdmc. * Another ridiculous food faa has been branded by tbe most competent authorities. They have dispelled the silly notion that one kind of food is needed for brain, another for muscles, and still another for bones. A cor rect diet will not only nourish a par- t’cular part of the body, but it will sustain every other part. Yet, how ever good your food may be, its nutri ment is destroyed by indigestion or dyspepsia. You must prepare for their appearance or prevent their coming by taking regular doses of Green's August Flower, the favorite medicine of tbe healthy millions A few doses aids digestion, stimulates the liver to healthy action, purifies the blood, and makes you feel buoyant and vigorous. You can get this relia ble remedy at Cherokee Drug Co. Get Green’s Special Almanac. Slotbfulness casteth into a deep sleep; and an idle soul shall suffer hunger. Maitland, Fla. Tbe Hancock Liquid Sulphur Co., Baltimore, Md. Gentlemen :—I have bad eczema over thirty years, bave tried many remedies prescribed by various physi cians, but to nothing has the disease yielded so quickly as to Liquid Sul phur. I think if used properly it is undoubtedly a specific for eczema. I bave prescribed it for others with most satisfactory results. I consider it tbe best remedy for cutaneous affections I bave ever known, and re gard It as the greatest medical dis covery of the age. Respectfully yours, W. A. Heard, M. D. For sale by the Chsr< kee Drug Co. him. He said: “Oh, faithful servant, you have builded for me a palace. You buildod it In the Itearts of my people. You have builded its white walls out of the tombstones which you have erected over the graves of the dead. You have Jeweled it with the tears you have wiped away. You have made my palace echo with the sweetest of songs; for those songs are the echoing Sobs which you have stilled.” So, like the king of old, who sent his messen ger Into the far country, God sends us forth as parents on a most important mission. By our examples and self sacrificing love, we are to build the palace of purity in the hearts of our children. What we do Invariably de cides how our children shall live and die; It decides their eternal welfare. The influence of noble Christian par ents upon the lives of their children cannot be described better by me In closing than by telling the history of my old home, the home of my boyhood! My father and mother had a large brood—we were seven. I never knew any one of those seven children to have more Indulgence than the others. Each had the full measure of a parent’s love. When troubles came to that home, and many troubles did come, we always found that father and mother had a divine strength given to them to bear those troubles. Way back In the dim past, long before I was born, they had set up the family altar. I was carried to that sacred altar when so young that I sometimes used to fall asleep during the prayers. My father and mother were not bound together so much by ties of law as by unbreakable tics of love. The first question father always asked when he entered the home was. “Where is your mother?” The first question mother asked when she came home was, “Where Is your father?” They were side by side at the marriage altar. They were side by side in the Christian training of th> ir children. Hand in hand as partners they spread two tables for their chil dren. The one was for the scared com munion of family worship; the other was the dining table, where we chil dren were taught to love one another. Christ was asked to sit at both tables. That parental Influence In the home of my childhood was a blessed one. In my college days I used to cherish the hope that that influence might be con tinued in my own home by the earthly presence of my father and mother, who I hoped would pass the twilight of their lives by my own fireside. But God willed It otherwise. On Aug. 5, 1805, the death angel came to summon one of that living twain. On April 12, 1002, the same messenger came and called the other. They have passed Into the glorious presence where duty well done receives Its reward. To me Is left only the hallowed memory of their wise and tender training, which will remain with me an influence and an example to the end of my life. By my own experience I commend to you, O fathers and mothers, this duty of parental care and solicitude. May God help j’ou to perform It so efficiently that when you pass from earth Into the glories of heaven your children may rise up to call you blessed. May God answer this prayer of an anxious father to keep us one and all from 1 committing the parental sins which everywhere beset us and which so easily may destroy us and jeopardize the eternal welfare of our loving, trust- fill children. [Copyright, 1902, by Louis Klopsch.] Asthma “ My daughter had a terrible case of asthma. We tried almost every thing, without relief. We then tried Ayer’s Cherry Pectoral, and three bottles cured her.”—Emma Jane Entsminger, Langsville. O. Ayer’s Cherry Pectoral certainly cures manycases of asthma. And it cures bronchitis, hoarseness, weak lungs, whooping- cough, croup, winter coughs, night coughs, hard colds. 25c., Me.. SI.M. All dranists. Consult your doctor. If be says take it, then do as he says, If he tells you not to take it, then don’t take it. He knows. Daily movements of tbe bowels are necessary to health. Ayer’s Pills are gently laxative,purely vegetable. J. C. AYER COt, Lowell, Hass. PARKER’^ HAIR BALSAM Cleuuef and beautifies the heb. 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KUO Bad Ison Nquare, PH I LA.. PA. Msatlss Ikls sansr- Final Discharge. Notice is hereby given that I will ap ply to Hon. J., PL Webster, Probate Judge, for Cherokee County, S. C., at his office at the Court House Monday, December 15th next at 11 o’clock a. m., for a final settlement and discharge as Administrator of the estate of L. K. Brown deceased. All persons holding claims against said estate will present them on or be fore said date or forever be barred. J. Eb Jefferies, Administrator, Estate of L. K. Brown, deceased. Published in Gaffney (S. C.) Ledger Nov. 21, 28, Dec. 5 and 12, 1902. Final Discharge. Notice Is hereby given that I will apply to Hon.,1. E. Webster, Probate Judge, for Cher okee County. 8. C., at his office at the Court House Saturday December, 6th next at 11 o’clock a. m., for a final settlement and dis charge as Administrator of the estate of Franklin S. Nortbey, deceased. All persons holding claims against said estate will present them on or before said date or forever be barred. Kobt. M. Nokthf-y, Admr. Estate of Franklin M. Northey, deceased. Published in Gaffney (8. \.) Ledger Nov. 14, 21, 28. and Dec. 5th. 1002. Kodol Dyspepsia Cura Digests whet you eat* Things We Llke^ Best Oftsn Disagree With lie Because we overeat of them. Indi tes* on follows. But there’s a waj to escape such consequences. A dose of s good digestant like Kodol will relive you at once. Your stomach ia simply too weak to digest what you eat. That’s all indigestion is. Kodol digests the food without the stomach’s aid. Thus the stomach rests whils the body is strength ened by wholesome food. Dieting is un necessary. Kodol digests any kind of good food. Strengthens and invigorates. Kodol Hakes Rloh Red Blood. Foley's Kidney Cure make* kidneys and bladder right