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A TALMAGE SERMON It By Rev. FRANK DE WITT TALMAGE. D.D.. Pastor of Jefferaon Park Presby terian Church, Chicago Chicago, Dec. 21. — Appropriate to ithe approaching celebration is the fol lowing sermon by Rev. F. I)e Witt Talmage, on the epochal event of the world’s history, from the text Luke li, 12, “Lying in a manger.” How large is an average crib? “I suppose,” you answer, “about four feet long and two feet wide. It is as large perhaps as an average manger at the end of a horse’s stall, at which the four legged animals munch their oats and hay after a long, tiresome day's work.” Yes, my friend, you are Aght. Y our definition is so completely rigid that In this Christmas sermon 1 am going to preach about a famous manger, which was once used for a cradle. I am going to talk about a stone manger, hewn out of the solid rock, In which nearly 2,000 years ago was laid a newborn babe. About this manger the wise men from the east and the shepherds from the surround ing hills gathered, and over it the an gels sang the first lullaby in the chant of the Christmas song. This stone cradle was the manger of Bethlehem Of Juda?a. It was the first earthly rest ing place of the Divine Child, who was the son of Mary the Virgin and was also the only begotten Son of the Fa ther God. But while we may try in this Christ mas sermon to picture the manger Christ, yet we must be careful not to weaken our picture by reciting too much the false legends and the ficti tious stories that have been written aliout the Bethlehem khan. We must remember that the many Christmas su perstitions may be a positive hindrance and confusion to the gospel student, as the wrong use of books can sometimes weaken the intellect of a modern pro fessional man. Only the other day I had this idea vigorously emphasized. In conversation with a prominent west ern judge I asked him the question: “How can you account for it that in the youthful days of Abraham Lincoln Illinois was able to develop so many great legal minds? There was prac ticing at the Illinois bar not only a Lincoln, but also a Stephen A. Doug las, an Elihu B. Washburn, a David Davis, a Sidney Breese, a Norman B. Judd, a Leonard Swett, a William H. Herndon and a score of others with notable legal brains. These men had seemingly no legal advantages. They went from county seat to county seat on horseback. They had comparative ly no books and but few reference li braries.” With that the Judge turned and put his hand upon me as he im pressively said: “Mr. Talmage, you have now touched upon one of my pet beliefs. I believe in this age of mul titudinous printing presses that books can often be a positive detriment to a man. These men had great legal minds because their intellects were not stunt ed by too much reading. They learned first the great underlying principles of the law. Then upon these true prin ciples used for a foundation they con centrated and focused all their brain power to write out their cases, in that thinking and solving they made themselves great.” So today in this Christmas sermon upon the manger Christ we would cover up all the ficti tious descriptions which the famous artists have painted. We would close the lid of every book which in legend would try to tell us that on the night Jesus was born the sheep and the goats and the cattle and the horse bended the knee as did the wise men to worship at the feet of the newborn Child. And in the simple nativity ac count written by the biographer St. Luke we would find four underlying gospel principles or reasons why Je sus should have opened his earthly eyes first in a stable and not in a palace. A Manifestation of Divine Love. The whole rendering of the verse of my text reads thus: “And this shall be for a sign unto you; ye shall find the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, ly ing in a manger.” The manger is a sim plified and tender manifestation of the divine love. It is not difficult for the average uninspired man to think of Je hovah as a God of majesty, of power, of fiery passion, a God who can hold the seas in the palm of his hand and a God who can unsheathe the fiery swords of the lightning. Why, even the hea then in the darkest days of barbaric su perstition were able to think of such gods as that! When the ICuroclydons were born in the Mediterranean archi pelago and instantly sprang up as full grown giants and with their swiftly moving feet leaped from wave top to wave top and drenched their long locks and wide flowing robes with the white foam ami out of a mere Satanic desire to destroy hurled the shipping uiton the jagged rocks and covered the surround ing coasts with wreckage, it was a very easy matter for the ancients to picture a Neptune striking right and left with his trident and to call him god of the seas. When the mighty conquerors of the east made triumphal entry after en try into the city of Rome, with de throned kings chained to their chariot wheels and with their legions loaded down with captured spoils, after whole regions had been brought under the shadow of the scepter held In a Caesar’s hand, It was not a very difficult matter for the Romans to build a great temple to Mars, the god of war. It was not a very difficult matter to rear this gigan tic temple, even though thousands and hundreds of thousands of men and wo men had to be sacrificed at its shrine and though the walls Of the temple had to be covered with the captured tro phies. Even the Hebrews were and are ready to worship such a temporal king. Cnly the other day the chief rab bi of the west declared in a Chicago newspaper that ids people were still expecting a Messiah who would come as a temporal conqueror to lead the Jews back again to Palestine. Then these modern Hebrew crusaders would again see Jerusalem restored in all its past grandeur, and there Jesus would reign with greater power than the fa mous King Solomon of old. But though it was not difficult to think of God as a God of power and temporal conquest, it was difficult in the time that Jesus was born to think of the Father as a God of love and sympathy and mercy; a God who would deign to care for an Individual human being; a God who wanted to creep into the human heart's affections, even as the sunbeams would steal into the heart and give new life to the plant. It was difficult, in one sense, for God to teach sinful men that he did not want to crush them, but to save them of their own free will. It was difficult for him to teach all men, both Jew and gentile, that Christ did not come as a Hebrew Christ, but as the world’s Saviour. So, if we may use an imaginative description, God the Fa ther might have spoken to Jesus Christ in a way something like this: “1 will not allow thee, my only Son, to be born in a palace. I will not allow thee to enter the world as an earthly prince. Sinful men might then honor thee and fear thee, but they might not then take thee into their hearts and of their own accord love thee and give themselves to thee. I will send thee forth as a helpless babe. I will let thee be born in Bethlehem of Judaea, so helpless that the lowliest of the lowly will not have a more humble entry into the world than thou. Go forth, my Son, not only to atone for the sins of the world, but also to teach all sinful men that I am God the Father, the God of Love," Could the divine love have been manifested in a more simple way than by Christ’s cradle being the man ger of Bethlehem of Judsea? Tin* I.etinoii of the Nativity. On Oct. 2o. IKOn. I was brought face to face with the true teachings of the manger Christ as never before. It was one of the most overwhelming days of my life. It happened in Bethlehem of Judtca. I wits sitting in the Greek Catholic church, which is supposed to have been erected directly upon the identical spot where Jesus was born. In that hallowed place l had read over and over again the account of the na tivity until it seemed as though the walls of tin* eastern edifice were chang ed into a stable and the light which was burning upon the altar was a can dlelight held in the carpenter Joseph’s hand, and while I read the nativity ac count over and over I suddenly heard the soft whisperings of a chant. I lis tened and at first said: “It cannot be. No; I am listening only to the echoes of my own imagination.” But the faint chanting began to grow louder. Then I saw a multitude of people coming through the church door as the shep herds must have once crowded through the entrance of the ancient stable. Then the procession came nearer and nearer and laid at my feet the body of a little child As I sat there and looked at the face of the dead baby whose funeral was now taking place my heart went out in sympathy to the poor mother. I seemed to be carried back to the time when the Divine Babe lay in that sta ble manger, shielded by the mother love, which Is always a divine love, and. standing by the Bethlehem manger, with the dead l>ody of that village babe at my feet, I could realize, as you in the same surroundings could have realized, that God's love for all his children is a tender, pleading, yearning love, a divine love which “passetb all understanding” and which abides with us through life and beyond death. The manger Christ was given as a human example for sinful man to fol low this side of the grave. He came to prove that by the grace of God it is pos sible for a human being to overcome sin; he came to prove it, because Christ was born Just as we are, bone of our ’bone and flesh of our flesh. He was tempted just as we are tempted. There fore we must continually, by the Holy Spirit’s power, strive to lie like him or else we can be none of his. We all realize the power of Inspiring example in naval and military life. When Admiral Dewey was asked what was his chief inspiration which caused him to enter Manila harbor, the hero of the Spanish-American war answer ed: “The name of FarraguL As 1 steamed toward the Philippines I kept saying to myself, what would the hero of Mobile bay do If he were In my place? Lashed in the rigging, he would defy the torpedoes and cry to the engineers to go ahead, and so Into Manila harbor I went.” The victory of the Pacific ocean was only the echo of Admiral Farragut’s guns at Mobile bay—the daring exploit Inspired by a heroic example. In the darkest days of the Wilderness, when the Confeder ate lines were cut in twain, General l^ee drew his sword and placed himself at the head of his troops. General Gordon declared that this heroic action moved his soldiers to a perfect frenzy of physical and moral courage. And, as a result of this example of their great leader, a successful charge was made. So God the Father gave to sin ful men the human example of the manger for a purpose. God practically comes to you and me and says: “O sinful man, your salvation was not wrought out for you by an act of atonement performed In heaven. To redeem you from sin more was needed than sacrifice. It was necessary to set l>eforc you an ideal life. Therefore my only begotten Ron took upon him a human f<>ru and lived among you that you might see what human nature can become when God dwells in it. I allowed Christ to lie in a manger that you. O children, might copy his life when Jesus was a little boy. I did this so that you. O man and woman, could copy his matured life when you are in the great struggle of earning a dally livelihood. I did this so you might for ever have before your eyes the power of a human example, who was tempted as you are tempted, and yet who by the power of the Holy Spirit sinned not.” It is not sufficient for us to say we are as good as average men. We are not truly good until, by the grace of God, we become like Jesus, the Son of God. The Birth of a Prince. The manger Christ emphasizes the fact that infinite results which may af fect all the heavens and the earth, re sults which will startle the outmost circumferences of the universe as well as the groat center, can sometimes be directly traced to seemingly infinitesi mal causes. When a induce or a prin cess. the child of a great king, is about to be born, especially if the prospective infant is to be the heir to the throne, a member of the cabinet awaits the ar rival in one of the anterooms of the royal palace. The artillerymen are de tailed to immediately thunder forth the news of the prince’s birth from the gaping mouths of the great black can non. The messengers have their steeds saddled and bridled, ready to speed away to announce the arrival to the different public officials. The tele graph wires thrill with joy as soon as the expectant message is sent to the farthermost parts of the royal do mains. But no such joyful and nation al expectancy greeted the earthly birth of the Son of God. No messenger that night carried the news up to the Jeru salem palace of Bloody Herod the Great. No retinue of foreign ambassa dors stood near to offer their congrat ulations to an earthly king. Jesus’ birth from a worldly standpoint was an insignificant event. He was born In an outhouse. He was born in a stable. He was born in a Bethlehem khan. Mary the Virgin in the most solemn hour of a woman's life had no bed upon which to lie. no pillow, unless that pillow was the rough coat of her noble though humble husband or a pile of straw pushed under her head by a sympathetic stableman; no female at- tondant. unless that woman attendant was the kfM .n-.-u-Pyi -i.-oStlPf’s fvife, who hod r e *, ii ;o aid her troubled sis'.e; - So our second birth may have been in the estimation of the world a .si em ngiy insignificant event. But if we thereafter only make a right use of our lives their spiritual influence will affect all time and eternity. The news of our spiritual birth will be heralded all round the heavenly kingdom. It will set again the angels to chanting a new song. Our second birth will not only be heralded around heaven, but in the great judgment day when all na tions shall be gathered before the throne the fact of that second birth will summon forth Jesus, who was born in Bethlehem of Judsea, our aton ing Saviour to be our divine advocate. Some Sliinlflcant Event*. In the world’s history has it not of ten been revealed that the most insig nificant of causes can bring forth the most tremendous and farreaching re sults? It seemed to bean insignificant matter when, many years ago, a hum ble Puritan with his family and a par ty of friends wanted to emigrate and set sail for America. But when the English officer at the little seaport town refused to let that humble Puritan leave the country of King Charles he changed whole leaves in the book of history. When Oliver Cromwell turned his back upon the mighty waves of the Atlantic ocean, he turned his face to ward Marston moor and Islip bridge and Naseby and Prestpn until at last Oliver Cromwell became the ruler of England and King Charles’ head fell at the stroke of the public executioner’s ax. When a little child was born In the island of Corsica, it did not, from a worldly standpoint, seem to amount to much, and when that unknown and ob scure young man, grown from that lit tle boy, was for a long time in doubt whether he would enter the Italian ar my or not that did not seem to amount to much, but when that young man en tered the French army it meant the overthrow of European thrones; it meant the tragedy of Moscow; it meant the booming guns of Wagram and Wa terloo; it meant ftle changing of the ge ographical map of all Europe. Infinite ly more momentous was the apparently insignificant event of that birth in the Bethlehem stable, for it was the start ing of forces which are revolutionizing the whole world. In your second birth, O man, who can tell what forces may have their beginning affecting all time and all eternity? The manger Christ teaches that even in the darkest days of an earthly Chris tian’s life he is never out of sight of an omnipotent Father’s protecting care. As we climb the rocky heights upon which Is builded the little village of Bethlehem and walk along the deserted streets in the midnight hour of the first Christmas day and see the little candle light of stableman’s lantern flitting about the pule face of Mary the Virgin we might at first think that God the Father had deserted and left alone Je sus the Divine Son. But did be? Could Jesus during any time of his earthly life truly say that the Divine Father bad forsaken him, as be once in dying agony asked upon the cross? Oh, no. Weeks or perhaps months before the nativity God had prepared a place by which the infant Christ should be able to escape the murderous sword of the bloody tyrant, Herod. Weeks or per haps months before Jesus was born the strange star appeared in the far east. That star even then bad guided the three wise men over the mountains and through the villages and over the long, hot thirsty desert that they should be mmmmmmmmm van marnmmmmmmmmmmm able to kneel at the manger. It was through the warnings of these three wise men that Jesus would be able to escape into Egypt. In the darkness of that Bethlehem night angel wings were spread over that humble stable, angel forms surroundeu the virgin mother and angel voices greeted the newborn Monarch of the ages with a heavenly song. They sang so loud that the shep herds upon the hillsides fell down in a swoon. And so in the darkest days of our lives, when we feel that we are for saken by God and man, God’s angels are watching us, God’s eyes are seeing us, (Jod’s ear is hearing us, God’s pro tecting love is all around us. We are no more forsaken by God than the man ger of Bethlehem was celestially for saken on the night that Jdsus was born. The God Who Love*. The omnipresent God will not for one instant, even in the darkest of days, turn a deaf or an unheeding ear to the weakest and most helpless of all his children. One day the baby boy of a distressed father and mother was very sick. When their little girl was about to be put to -d on the night of the crisis of the disease she came to her father. Then, in her sweet, girlish way, she said: "Papa, won’t you pray to God tonight that b. "y brother might get well? I am only . wee little bit of a girl, and God might i ^t be willing to hear me pray, but Go« would always have time to listen to you pray, for you are a great big, strong man.” With that the sobbing father took his little girl into his arms as he said: “Oh, my darling, God will have time to hear you pray for your bab • brother. If you will pray, my darling, for your little brother, though you are a little bit of a girl, God. if m cessary, will turn to the angels and say: ‘Angels, stop that singing. Stop <hat singing, right away. For way down on earth there is a wee little bit of a girl who is praying for her baby brother, and I want to listen!’” And as that Chris tian father spoke to his litti ? girl I say to you, in this Christmas sermon, no matter, O man or woman, how hu manly helpless you may be; no matter how dark your days may seem to lie. God is always ready to listef to your cry if you will only call upoi him for help. God is always ready to protec* you with ids love, even as lw guardian angels and the star/*' Hie east hovered Over the .•'•'*"&cr on the night that Jesye ^ s as horn. Thus, my dear people, in this Christ mas sermon 1 have tried to preach to you a manger of hope and of good cheer and of gospel triumph. I have tried to preach this kind of a sermon because 1 want this Christinas to be the lightest and the happiest and the merriest of all your lives. And now 1 want to sum up all my parting advice before we separate for the holiday fes tivities of the coining week. I want you to carry into your homes two am bitions. The first is to make this Christmas the happiest day, in a tem poral sense, of your children’s lives. Lift high your Christmas tree and light the candles. Give as many presents as you can afford to your loved ones, as the wise men brought the gold and frankincense and myrrh to Jesus. Make the home merry with frolic and fun. And, if it must be, let your chil dren cat as many good things as you can for just once a year. But the sec ond advice is of far greater impor tance. In the evening hour of Christ mas night when the tired limbs and heavy eyes are about ready for bed tell the little ones as well as the big ones of the family circle the great underly ing principles of the manger. Lift the cross as high as you can. Tell them why Jesus was born and why Jesus had to die. Then the Christmas day will truly be a happy day and also a holy day. And so, one and all, 1 bid you farewell for the most sacred and the best week of the year. 1 wish you in a true, pure, spiritual sense a merry, merry Christmas! [Copyright, 1902, by Louis Klopsch.] The I'rlne**’* Faaaport. The absurdity of the passport regu lations of Russia was recently shown by a Journalist, Prince Metchersky, who was sent by the czar to investi gate certain agrarian troubles. Prince Metchersky crossed to Rou- maida and purposely obtained one of the permits of the sort required for taking live stock over the liordor. He then went to a Russian frontier post and presented the document to the of ficial in charge as his warrant to pass. Like many others in similar positions, the man could read no Roumanian and little Russian, but he was duly im pressed by the big, official looking pa per, with its coat of arms and seal, and he readily stick the Russian vise < n it At the end of his investigation Prince Metchersky returned to Moscow. When. the opportunity came, he presented the document to the governor, “My passport,” said he. “I entered Russia and traveled there five months on the authority of the document, which describes me for purposes of Identification in terms which I think you will admit are neither flattering nor true.” The governor took the document and saw to his amazement that Prince Metchersky figured there as a “black sow, full grown, with one ear partly tom away.”—Youth’s Companion. The Hnitue Tribunal. Business at The Hague tribunal Is looking up. The dispute between Ja pan and Its foreign residents over the payment of a house tax is to be arbi trated there; Cuinese statesmen have proposed that the court be asked to decide whether the Boxer Indemnity should be paid on a gold or a silver basis, and Germany has agreed to the proposition, and the French minister of foreign affairs has Instructed the French ambassadors to powers with which there are differences to suggest a settlement by arbitration before the new court. <£ CM, rhia signature is ou every box of the genuine Laxative Bromo^Quinine Tablets Um remedy that cares a cold In one day Sheriff’s Sale. State of South Carolina, 1 County of Cherokee. / Powers, Little and Company and G. Ober & Sons Co., et al, Plaintiff. Foley 9 s Honey and Tar for children,safe.str e. No opiates. Clerk’s Sale. State of South Carolina, \ County of Chf;rokee. J N. E. Crawford, vs. D. D. Gaston, et al. In obedience to a decree herein, for foreclosure, dated Oct. loth, 1902, I will sell at Gaffney S. C., before the court house door, to the highest bidder during the legal hours for sales, Salesday Jany. 5th, 1903, the following described lands, to-wit: All those two certain pieces, parcels or lots of land in said County and State, in Cherokee Township, bounded by Broad river on the South-West, on the North by lands of J. W. Rhyne and lot N0.J3, on the East by lands of D. D. Gaston and lot No. 3, and South by lands of Calton and J. S. Mint/., fully shown on plat herein filed and marked as lot No. 4 containing 170 acres, and lot No. 5 containing 71 acres, as per plat now in my office. Terms of sale: One third cash, bal ance on one and two years time, one third due each year, secured by bond and mortgage of the premises sold, with 8 per cent, interest, interest payable annually, and 10 per cent, attorney’s fees, if col lected by suit. Purchaser to pay for all papers and recording and may have priv ilege of paying all cash. J. Kn. Jefferies, Cl’k. C. C. Pi’s. Dec. 13th, 1902. Pub. Dec. 19, 23 and Jan. 2. Bankrupt’s Petition tor Discharge. In the District'Court of the United ZZT . « States^ ; a [For the Western District of South In the matter of J ' — T. I. Walker. } In Bankruptcy -. . ttuwkrupi | To the Honorable Wm. H. Brawley, Judge of the District Court of the I’nited States for the Western District of South Carolina: T I. Walker, of Gaffney, in the County of Cherokee and State of South Carolina, in said District, respectfully represents that on the 28th day of Feb ruary, 1902, last past, he was duly adjudged bankrupt under the acts of Congress relating to bankruptcy; that he has duly surrendered all his property and rights of property, and has fully com plied with all the requirements of said acts and of the orders of the Court touch ing his bankruptcy. Wherefore he prays that he may be decreed by the Court to have a full dis charge from all debts provable against his estate under said Bankrupt Acts, ex cept such debts as are excepted by law from such discharge. Dated this third day of December A. D. 1902. T. I. Walker, Bankrupt. ORDER OF NOTICE THEREON. District of South Carolina, ss: On this 6th day of December A. I). 1902, on reading the foregoing petition, it is— Ordered by the Court, that a hearing be had upon the same on the 27th day of December A. I)., 1902, before said Court, at Charleston, S. C.. in said District at 11 o’clock in the forenoon; and that no tice thereof be published in The Gaffney Ledger, a newspaper printed in said Dis trict, and that all known creditors and other persons in interest may appear at the said time and place.and show cause, if any they have, why the prayer of the said petitioner should not be granted. And it is further ordered by the Court, that the Clerk shall send by mail to all known creditors copies of said petition and this order, addressed to them at their places of residence as stated. Witness the Honorable Wm. II. Braw ley, Judge of the said Court, and the seal thereof, at Charleston, in said Dis trict, on the 6th day of December A. I)., 1902. Richard W. Hutson, Clerk. [Seal of the Court.] Pub. Dec. 19. 23. BRICK! BRICK! BRICK! A brick is a brick; yes, but what a difference in them. Good clay, good machinery, up-to-date methods, in fact a thousand details, are a necessity to produce the best brick. We have our plant fully equipped for a capacity of 15,000,000—not only that, but have a body of the finest river clay ever located in this country. Our plant is on the Catawba river near Fort Mill, S. C., and shipping station, Grattan, S. C. against D. I). Gaston, Defendant. By virtue of authority contained in several executions directed to me in the above stated cases I will sell before the Court House door of Cherokee County on salesday in January 1903, during the legal hours of sale the following de scribed property: One lot in the town of Blacksburg bounded by Cherokee Street, Shelby Street, Lime and Rutherford Streets and containing two and one-half acres, more or less. One lot bounded by lands of N. W. Hardin, Quinn road and lands of W. W. Gaffney, containing three acres, more or less. One piece or parcel of land on Broad river, part of the David Gaston, de ceased, estate, bounded by lands of Mary Gaston, H. L. Spears, et al, containing fifty acres, more or less. One lot in Blacksburg containing four cottages thereon, bounded by Carolina Street, Southern Railway, J. J. Whiso- nant and Chester Street, sold subject to a mortgage of Mrs. N. P'. Crawford, con taining one acre, more or less. The following pieces or parcels of land formerly belonging to Capt. J. B. Mint/., bounded by lands of S. C. Carlton, J. S. Mint/, W. I). Camp, Durham, F>1. Mint/, I). I). Gaston, et al, fully de scribed in plat made by Ira Hardin, and on file in the office of Clerk of Court for Cherokee County, described as follows: One piece or lot of land No. 1 contain ing thirty-eight acres; one lot No. 2 con taining forty acres and lot No. 3 contain ing eighty-eight acres. Terms of sale cash. If the purehas*» r or purchasers do not comply with b»ff or bids within thirty minutes of. ••<cfle the land sold to be resold at tlm'^k of the former purchaser or purcb < 'S ers - W. W.Ahomas, Sheriff of Cly^rokee County. Dec. 13, 1902, Gaff*fey, S. C. Pub. Dec. 19, ^fc/Jan. 2. j- '' ' Clerk’s Sale. State of South Carolina, 1 County of Cherokee. f Bank of Blacksburg vs. W. A. Hayden. In obedience to a decree in the within case (lated the 9th day of October 1902, I will sell at Gaffney, S. C., before the Court House door, to the highest bidder, during the legal hours for sale, salesday January 5th, 1903, the following describep lands to-wit: All that certain piece or parcel ot land situated in the town of Blacksburg, State and County aforesaid, on Doolittle creek, and bounded by lands of the estate of Folly Moss, estate of Robert Blanton, land now owned by Robt. Hern don, and lands of 1). S. Ramseur and others, containing forty-three acres, more or less, and fully described in a deed made by J. C. Hayden to W. A. Hayden, and recorded m office R M. C. for York county, S. C., in book J. 10 page 534. Terms of sale cash. Purchaser to pay for papers. Said property being re-sold at the risk of the former purchaser, Mrs. Maude Hayden. J. Eh JEFFERIES, Cl’k. C. C. Pi’s. Dec. 13, 1902. Pub. Dec. 19, 23, Jan. 2. Clerk's Sale. Static of South Carolina, t County of Cherokee. J Mary J. Humphries, vs. • B. K. Humphries, et. al. In obediance to an order made in the above entitled case, dated Nov. 28th, 1902, I will sell at Gaffney, S. C., before the courthouse door, to the highest bid der during, the legal hours for sales, Salesday, Jany. 5th, 1903, the following described lands, to-wit: (1) That tract of land in said County and State, in Limestone Township, on the West side of the Rutherford road, bounded East by said road, West by D. W. Cooper’s land, South by H. G. Gaff ney lands, and North by the Hopper lands, containing one hundred and thirty- five acres, more or less. (2) That tract known as the Parker tract, in same township, bounded North by Columbus Pettit, Flast by Minnie Robbs, West by Hortensia Morgan anil the school house lot, containing fifty- seven acres, more or less. (3) That tract situated in said town ship on the Flast side of Ivllis Ferry road, bounded West by said road, South bv H. G. Gaffney lands, and North by Lewis Clary lands, containing eight acres, more or less. Terms of sale: One-half cash, balance on credit of twelve months, secured by bond of purchaser and mortgage of the premises sold, with interest from date of sale. Purchaser to pay for all papers and recording. J. Kb Jefferies, Cl’k. C. C. FI's. Dec. 13th, 1902. Pub. Dec. 19, 23 and Jan. 2. Clerk’s Sale. “A man is a man for a’ that,” but what a difference in ’em. You require the best lumber for your house; the l>est coal for your engine; the best flour for your table. One does not buy a common horse when he can get a much better for the same price. This is true about everything one needs. In a building nothing is more essential than good material. It adds to the safety and wear, beides ’twill sell for more. Who would not pay more for a building put up out of first quality mate rial than for one thrown together out of common ordinary brick ? I<et us corresiKind with you. Prompt service in shipments. Charlotte Brick Co. OFFICE WITH S. S. McNinch & Co. CHARLOTTE, N. C. Nov. %-lmo State of South Carolina, t County of Cherokee. I Primus Sarratt, et al. vs. Lorenzo Alias Ran/ie Sarratt, et al. In obedience to an order made in the above entitled case, dated Nov. 20th, 1902, 1 will sell at Gaffney, S. C., tiefore the Courthouse door, during the legal hours for sales, Salesday, Jan. 5th, 1903, the following described lands, to-wit: All that certain tract or parcel of land in Limestone Township, said County and State, on waters of Surratts creek, bounded by lands now or formerly of J. F. Dellinger, Agnes Bridges, X. Blanton, Alfred Pritchard and others, being the same tract whereon Primus SarraL lived and died, containing one hundred and twenty acres, less fifty acres to Ik* cut off to Martha Sarratt under will of said Primus Sarratt, deceased. A plat of same will be exhibited in my office. Terms of sale: Cash; purchaser to pay for pai>crs. . J. Bb Jefferies, Cl’k. C. C. Pi’s. Dec. 13th, 1902. Pub. Dec. 19, 23 and Jan. 2.