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X Pretty, but so Thin! THE NEW DEPARTMENT T0LD 0F SMITH - FINE EXHIBIT FOR A FAIR for aid ofj^ck victims first baptist church. •‘Doctor,” said our clerk, is • customer went out, “ that wo man would be a beauty if she were not so horribly thin.” “ Yes,” said the doctor, “ she Is really ill; most thin women are ill.” Unusual thinness may mean worry, extra work, care of the sick, nervousness, dyspepsia, bowel troubles, or the first sign of a serious disease like consumption. The best thing we have found for thin people, whatever the cause, is Vinol. To combine the medicinal properties of cod liver oil with organic iron in such a powerful and yet well-tasting prepara tion, was a great discovery. If you try it and are not pleased, we pay the money back* CHEROKEE DRUG CO DRUGGISTS William S. Hall, Jr. .1 ames A. Willis. HALL & WILLIS, ATTORNEYS AT LAW. STAR THEATRE BLDG. o^v im k v. s-». Notary Public in office. Prompt attention Si ven to all business. J. EMILE HARLEY, Attorney-at- Law, Gaffney, - - S. C. Notary public. All business receives prompt and cartful attention. MONEY TO LOAN ON REAL ESTATE Dr. D. P. THOMSON, Dentist. laS^Oftiee over National Hank. J. C. OTTS, Attorney and Counselor. Office upstairs, between R. A. Jones and Oivenport. Office and Residence .Phone. Dr. C. T. LIPSCOMB, u r i « T' Office in Star Theatre Building. Phone No. 20. J. F. GARRETT, Ninety Per Cent Dentist. Office Over The Battery. Dissolution Notice. The tirmof M. W. Brown & Co., at Ravenna, is this day dissolved by mutual consent. All persons owing the tlrm will settle with M. W. Brown, who also assumes all the obligations of the firm. M. W. Brown. * . o. Lipscomb. Ravenna, S. C , Feb. :17th, HHXJ. Mar. J-in-lT of all chronic headaches are due to eye strain. Go to Dr. Griffith at the Chero kee Drug Co.’s and have the defect in vision corrected, and thus be QUICKLY AND PERMANENTLY CURED. Glasses Fitted With Scientific Accu racy and all the diseases of the Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat treated according to the latest and most approved methods. ‘■‘PAINTS - OILS John W. Masury’s Guar anteed R. R. White, and Colors, in pure linseed oil, at $1.25 per gal. F. 0. Pierce’s Cottage Colors in linseed oil guar anteed at $1.00 per gaL I use these paints myself and know their worth. Come and let me convince you. L. BAKER. CONTRACTOR AND BUILDER. Some Unique Features of Its Establishment. SEOBETARY OOBTELYOU’S PLANS. ChonainK HI" Staff With Great Care. To Be Under Civil Service Hole* From the Out-et—Scheme of Or- ennlxntlon of the Bureau of Cor porations Decided Upon. Although Chairman Cannon and some of the other congressmen interested In appropriations worked themselves al most into a state of panic over the esti mates of Secretary Cortelyou for the equipment of the new department of commerce, Mr. Cortelyou himself has taken the situation very calmly, says the Washington correspondent of the New York Tost. His expectation is not to launch his department in a fully or ganized condition—that Is, not with a complete equipment of men, furniture, supplies, etc.—but to begin in a very modest way, let the organization grow out of the necessities of the work and leave in the treasury or turn back into it all that he does not find himself re quired to spend. His estimates were based on the theory of the business man who does not care to outer upon a new undertaking in trade without first assuring himself of a balance in bank large enough to tide him over a trou blous period if one should come. At present the department of commerce occupies a small corner of one room on the ground floor of the temporary oflice building adjoining the White House. Its outfit consists of one desk and three chairs. The secretary sits in one of the chairs and uses the desk to write on. The secretary’s new staff, which lie is choosing with great care, will con sist of an assistant secretary, a com missioner of corporations, a commis sioner of manufactures, a chief clerk and an appointment clerk and disburs ing officer. Mr. Garfield was promptly selected as commissioner of corpora tions. The others will be named before the 1st of July, when the work of the department begins. Of the fifteen bu reaus which will be included in tbe de partment. tl irteen are already provid ed for in Hie general appropriation bills at a cost of more than $7,000,000. As tl is is the only instance in fifty- four .wars of the creation of a brand new lit p; rtmeiit. all the others having been mere developments of plants al ready existing, it is interesting to note the process of constructing it. The first thing Secretary Cortelyou did was to decide upon the general plan of or ganization of the bureau of corpora tions. As tliis was to prosecute in quiries and make examinations into the condition and conduct of stock com panies he took for ids model the office of the comptroller of the currency, whose functions in respect to the na tional banks furnish the nearest paral lel to the work of Mr. Garfield’s bu reau. Mr. Garfield will probably begin work with himself, ids private secre tary—whom lie will have transferred from the clerical staff of the civil serv ice commission—and* perhaps a clerk and a messenger. As fast as he needs examiners for work in the field or more clerks for his oflice he wifi desig nate them. The bureau of manufac tures will begin in an equally modest way, though its clerical force will doubtless be recruited from time to time for emergency tasks, like a census force, and reduced again as the de mand for its employment subsides. The new department will be under the civil service rules from the outset, and whatever exceptions experience may prove advisable will be made by the president as the cause for each such change arises. As for the quarter ing of the bureaus, several of them will doubtless remain where they are for the present and transact their routine business with Hie central administra tive office by messenger and telephone. In deciding how much floor space will be required in any new building to be erected later tin? present space of the bureaus already organized and running will he increased only enough to make their present work more convenient, with an allowance for the ordinary rate of expansion. In the case of the new bureaus it is assumed that within a comparatively short period it will be possible to judge fairly well how many clerks can be profitably employed, and then an average will be struck of the number of square feet of room needed per clerk in other well housed bureaus doing analogous work, and the rest will be a simple example in multiplica tion. In the bureau of manufactures, for instance, which will bear a pretty close likeness to the census oflice, the employees will probably be crowded rather close together, like the census employees, whereas in the bureau of corporations they will have more room, like the clerks in one of the great ac counting offices. The purpose is also in selecting a site for the new depart ment building to find one which will permit of enlargements by wings or otherwise as the growth of the depart ment may require without any radical departures from the original plan of the edifice. The examiners and other field agents for the bureau of corporations and bu reau of manufactures will probably be paid from lump appropriations, as they are likely to be of several differ ent grades, classified according to the work each has to do, and these particu lars canuot always be determined in advance. The tasks set for these bu reaus will probably begin with procur ing information desired by the presi dent to use in his messages to con gress. After they are in full running order they will doubtless be called upon by congress itself, much as tbe census office and the department of labor are now, for special data on which to base legislation. Ineldentn in thp I'a in on n Civil War General'n Career. Of the late General William Farrar Smith’s strenuous work In the army much was written while he figured be fore the publie, which it is interesting now to recall. “Raldy” Smith was tbe name by which the general was best known. His premature baldness was responsible for the title. A writer in the Brooklyn Eagle oa March 20, 1879, said: His first engagement of any impor tance was on April 1G, 1SG2. at a place variously known as Lee’s Mills and as Wynne’s Mills, on the Yorktown line. People generally believe that no at tempt was ever made by McClellan to assault the Yorktown line. The great “Cunctator,” as Carlyle would have called him, is supposui to have only tried to dig his way through the Con-' federate fortifications. This is not entirely true. The enemy’s works ex tended from the York to the James, advantage being everywhere taken of the conformation of the ground, the streams, etc. Lee's or Wynne’s Mills was opposite the left of our line. Aft er consultation with his corps and divi sion commanders it was decided that this was the weak point in the ene my’s line, and Smith was ordered to force it. It was unfortunately found to be exceptionally strong. General Smith pushed all his artillery up close to the pond which covered the enemy's works and at close range silenced the Confederate guns. He then sent the Sixth Vermont into the swamp below the dam, and a desperate struggle en sued. The first line was carried, but either the regiment was not properly supported or the Confederates were too strong, and our troops were repulsed with considerable loss. At Williams burg one of Smith's brigades, com manded by General Hancock, covered itself .with glory, it forced its way through the enemy’s iutrenchmeuts on our extreme right, and had General Smith been allowed to re-enforce it, as he begged to be allowed to do, he would have taken the enemy complete ly in flank and rear and would have ended that affair very differently. General Smith was never wounded, although he exposed himself like a grenadier. He stood within u dozen yards of tin* first limber chest exploded in the Army of the Potomac and ex hibited no more concern than if the Confederate shell that did the mischief had been a message of peace and good will. WIND DEFYING SKIRT. AmerlcaiiH Going: (o Manitoba. Great preparations are being made by the Canadian government and by the Canadian Pacific railway for the advent of new settlers in the western part of the Dominion this spring, says the London Express. Five hundred families will soon arrive in Manitoba to settle on land secured from tbe gov ernment. They are going into the Do minion from the United States under the auspices of a Roman Catholic mis sion, whose headquarters are in Minne sota. At Regina, stfll further west, settlers are expected as soon as the weather permits, numerous land grants having been taken up in that district, with the result that land values have increased very materially. Bridie•* Whlul’x New Rival. A new game is threatening the pop ularity of bridge, says a London cable dispatch to the New York Herald. It is four hand<Kl bezique, which was in vented by Baron George de Reuter, and has Just been publicly brought out. A fast and furious frenzy over anything— like that which lias made bridge the one and only game—Inevitably brings its own reaction. There is no reason wiiy it should not be followed by a craze for four handed bezique, though there is not much fear of bridge being supplanted entirely. Victoria’s Jubilee Gifts Loaned to St. Louis Exposition. ESTIMATED WORTH $15,000,000. New Style of Garment Invented For 'Women. The Dressmakers’ Protective associa tion has vindicated its right to exist ence, and Miss White, its president, has performed a service for which woman kind will rise up and call her a dear, says the New York American. As a result of the study and research of Miss White she is able to chronicle the invention of a skirt that will with stand the ravages of the wind at the Flatiron corner, Twenty-third street and Broadway, in New York, where the breeze never ceases from blowing, and cause the wearer no more anxiety than though she were becalmed on tbe equator. it is shaped like a lily and for tin; rest, as far as externals go, is much like an ordinary skirt, but underneath there is a baud of haircloth about sev en inches wide, and that does the trick. The haircloth holds the skirt down, it is the anchor to windward, so to speak. With that baud of haircloth attached to a flounce milady may walk around tbe Flatiron corner, let tbe winds blow as they list. CLIMATOLOGY FOR BUILDERS Weather Chief Moore Telln How to Lower the Heath Bate. Willis Moore, chief of the weather bureau at Washington, thinks that ev ery man should employ a climatologist us well as an architect when he decides to build a residence, says tbe Philadel phia Press. The government's chief weather prophet says if this were done the death rate of the United States would be materially lowered. He is convinced that in the location of towns and in the west in future the bureau over which he presides will be called on for data as to climatic conditions running over a series of years before tbe exact locations are chosen. Highly Prized Collection of Prez- cutH to KnKlaud’N Late Uaeen Will Ee Sent by KIiir: Edward to Amer ica In Charge of n Royal Commiz- zlon nnd Heavy Armed Guard. It needed some such striking fact as King Edward’s munificent offer to scud the priceless collection of Queen Victo ria diamond Jubilee presents to the Louisiana Purchase exposition to arouse the British mind to a proper apprecia tion of the importance of the St. Louis fair, and It has had its effect, says the London correspondent of the New York World. All London is talking, too, of the ap pearance at the American society’s Washington’s birthday banquet of the phlegmatic, unemotional Duke of Dev- onshire as the eulogist of President Roosevelt. He had never been known before to propose a personal toast to any one; but, to the surprise of all, he became almost enthusiastic over the American chief executive. ^t tins banquet tbe central figure was President Francis of the exposi tion, who has been indefatigable in ids work at London to make the St. Louis fair a success. In ins private audience with King Edward, Governor Francis was told that the.gifts would be sent as the monarch's own mark of intimate sympathy with the American people and in appreciation of their admiration for his mother. It is probable that a royal commission will he appointed and that a heavy guard will be sent with the highly prized treasures to guard them on their way to and from the United States and while they are there. This magnificent collection of gifts, estimated to be worth at least .$15,000,- 000, created a great stir when shown for the first time in London, and ex traordinary precautions were taken for their safety. One of the most superb things in the collection is the gift from the czar, the czarina, the Grand Duke and Duchess of Hesse and Prince and Princess I.ouis of Battenberg. It is a diamond heart pendant, the center of which is open and occupied by the Sla vonic numerals for “sixty,” above which is an enormous sapphire and at tbe sides two drops of the same stones. Among the numerous rare and won derful presents from the emperor of China is a bronze altar vessel for wine, square in form, suspended in a frame work pierced with metal bearing dates, proving it to have been manufactured about 1.000 years before Christ. Tbe dowager empress of China sent precious porcelain from tbe imperial potteries and some autograph scroll paintings, among which is one repre senting “Eternal Spring Over the Sea Nation.” The shah of Persia’s gift is his own photograph in one of the most costly frames ever made. It is of solid gold, with a floral device carried out in large turquoises of flawless color and dia monds. The Princess of Wales, now Queen Alexandra, together with the Duke and Duchess of York, the Duke and Duch ess of Fife and other members of the royal family, gave a splendid diamond brooch, consisting of one immense dia mond of rarest luster surrounded by twelve smaller ones. The German emperor’s present is a large silver gilt vase surmounted by a figure of Britannia. The Chinese ambassador sent one of tbe most unique presents. It depicts marvelously modeled birds in jade, sur rounded by bulrushes and water plants standing out in high relief, beiug to the Chinese mind an allegorical repre sentation of “the spontaneous joy of a myriad nation.” The Prince of Wales, now King Ed ward, presented to his mother splendid portraits of himself and his brother, the Duke of Connaught, painted by Detaille. Empress Frederick gave a beautiful paperweight formed of an oblong block of chrysoprase, with the two dates 1827-97, the royal crown and cipher in diamonds and other precious stones. The emperor of Japan’s presents are a finely carved screen with embroidered silk panels and a gold lacquer cabinet. JAPS BUILD HIS COTTAGES. William Rockefeller to Have Novel Home In Adirondack*. William Rockefeller, tbe Standard Oil millionaire, who has made large pur chases of laud in the Adirondacks, near St. Regis lake, is erecting two cottages the like of which were never seen in America, says a Watertown (N. Y.) dispatch to the New York World. He recently imported Japanese to build two beautiful Japanese cottages near the lake for use in summer. All the work Is done by Japanese un der the suiiervisiou of a Japanese archi tect. The cottages will cost many thousands of dollars. Even American nails are discarded, and as much Japa nese materials as can possibly be used are being put in the cottages. Grateful Parlzlana. A number of Parisians who were in tbe siege have decided to erect a mon ument to the memory of the pigeons that carried the dispatches which kept up communication with tbe outside world, says tbe New York Commercial Advertiser. It will consist o£ a pedes tal surmounted by a bronze vase, on which will be cast a group of the birds that proved of such utility to tbe French. The gratitude comes somewhat late, for after the war the pigeons in question were sold by auction and commemorated in pigeon pies. Mra. Bnlllnelnn Booth SuKHrrztn That Train* Carry Ann^Mhetlcz. Moved by descriptions of tbe suffer ings endured by victims of recent rail road wrecks, Mrs. Maude Ballington Booth lias sent letters to the presidents of leading railroads in the United States recommending that trains be equipped with aiuestbctics, to be used iu rendering unconscious the dying or injured passengers pinned underneath tbe wreckage of cars. This plan, Mrs. Bootli says, is not tbe idle suggestion of a moment, but comes from one who travels a groat deal and who has frequently seen unfortunate men nnd women imprisoned in wreck age while maimed or burning to death. She advises that every train be fitted out with ether, chloroform and stimu lants, for use in emergencies, or that a case tilled with them should be iu the possession of every train conductor. “In view of the serious accidents which have been agitating the public,” writes Mrs. Booth, “and the painful details which have aroused so much humane sympathy, I trust the sugges tion contained in tills letter will re ceive some consideration and, if found practical, may be adopted by your road. I am a very extensive traveler, spend ing many days and nights of every month upon the road, and therefore any question which affects the life or comfort of passengers or of the brave men ahead comes very closely home to me.” Mrs. Booth goes on to say that re cently and in the past many survivors of wrecks have had to witness the ag ony of injured victims whom they could not aid. If a dumb animal were seen in similar circumstances, she says, its life would be euded by a swift blow or a merciful shot. “Why not,” continues Mrs. Booth, “equip every train, or, better still, the conductor of each train, with a small case containing chloroform, ether, stim ulants, bandages, lotions for bruises and antiseptic solutions for the wash ing of wounds? These could be packed In a very small case and would repre sent no very costly outlay.” MORGAN’S NEW LIBRARY. BnlldliiK to Re Erected In Bear of Banker’z New York Home. J. Pierpont Morgan's private library and art gallery to be erected in the rear of his Madison avenue ami East Thirty-sixth street home, in New York, will he the largest in the country. The architects, McKim, Mead & White, said that the plans had not been com pleted, but the understanding Is that it is Mr. Morgan’s purpose to have the structure built with as little inconven ience as possible to his neighbors and not have it dwarf houses near by. The cost of the structure is to be $350,000, says the New Y’ork Commercial Adver tiser. The plans in the bureau of buildings are for a two story structure, with a frontage of 115.2 feet on Thirty-sixth street and lawn space in front. It is to be in the shape of a T, the central section to be 73.5 feet in depth. The two wings are to be about forty feet each. The foundation is on bedrock at seven feet below the ground level. The foundations are of rock, and the supporting walls are to be of brick. There is to be a main ball, with the bookshelves along the wall, and sever al mezzanine floors that are not to ex tend the length of the building or the wings, but are to afford room for read ing in alcoves. The plans rail for a building as fireproof as can be, as thou sands of books and manuscripts are to be stored. HAIRY CHICKENS. Secretary WIInoii'm FowIm Outdone by a Clilcttgoun’z Effort*. Y/bile Secretary Wilson and his de partment of agriculture are trying to produce a featherless breed of hens for the southern states Miller Burvis of Chicago, a noted authority on heuology, is busy producing chickens with hair on instead of feathers for cold climates, says the Pittsburg Dispatch. The experiments are conducted by Dr. W. M. Black of Bolivar, O. The fowls produced by Dr. Black are culled Klondike chickens, and the doctor says they are warmly enough thatched to stand any amount of cold and go right on laying eggs. He believes that an arctic explorer supplied with a dozen of his hens can travel all over the frigid regions and have fresh laid eggs and broilers through all tbe journey. Tbe doctor’s chickens cannot fly. PERFUMED STATUES. I'ariainn Sculptor* Add New Fad to That of 'Mutiny Marble. The latest notion among Parisian sculptors is to perfume as well as color their feminine figures, says the Paris correspondent of the New York World. The practice of tinting the marble has been gaining In favor with French sculptors to such an extent that in the last few years a pure white statue, particularly if representing a woman, has been a rarity. The younger men, in their desire to produce something ultra aesthetic, mix their paints with oils specially prepared with powerful perfumes, thus giving an added touch of realism to the stat ues by making an appeal to the sense If smell as well us to that of sight, f he true Parisian is an enthusiastic ad vocate of perfume. Demand For Plant Doctor*. Plant doctors are coming into de mand. In most of tbe English colonies tbe official botanical staff is no longer considered to be complete without a specialist in plant diseases. Tbeir re searches and reports are invaluable to agriculturists. Splendid Rendition of Sacred Song* by the Male Choir—Forceful Sermons. As was expected tbe male choir of the hirst Baptist Church acquitted themselves with great credit last Sun day—both to themselves and their di rector, Mr. George Pratt Maxim, Id the morning the sextet sang a beautiful selection, “Peace, be Still,” by Mar;in. and Mr. H. K. Osborne eclipsed himself by his excellent ren dition of Gaul’s “My Soul is Athirst for God.” Tbe pastor preached in the morning from John 11:3| 4, ‘ Some sidelights of the cnarauter of Jesus.” I.—The sympathy of Jesus— 1 ‘Jesus wept ” 11—Christ conscious of|Hh|power to save—“Lazarus, tome forth.” HI—Christ’s use of men—“Roll ye away ifie stone’’ and “Loose him and let him go.” At uigtu the house was well filled and .he service heartily enjoyed by ail. I be musical program is hard to report from tbo fact that the gentle men of tbe choir all did so well. Their friends expected this but they surpissedthe brightest expectations of their friends. The quartet “Rock of Ages, by Fenny, was especially well sung. I ne solo work of Messrs. Richardi-on, Lipscomb and Osborne was well received, not only for its musical worth but because of the real feeling and hoart-power with which these gentlemen sang their gospel messages. The sermon wfls unique and force ful Mr. Cree announced that he was not going to preach, but simply tell a story and let the story and the con sciences of the people do the preach ing. He told the story of Lot. This sad and tragic story with its powerful lessons admits of dramatic treatment, and the preacher used it for all it was worth to stir the consciences of bis hearers and warn them by the mis takes of Lot. Lot’s first mistake was parting from Abram; his next was pitching his tent towards Sodom ; his nt-xt dwelling in Soriom ; bis next dis regarding God’s warning In the war aad captivity; his next in going back to Sodom. ibe results of Lot’s sins and mis takes were, he lost his friend Abra ham; he lost his great wealth; he lost ail his children except two, and ho had better have lost them; he lost his wife, and bis life went out from the pages of history under the shadow of a sin too awful to tell, as Lot oecame the father of two nations of backsliders who from the day of their creation to the day of their extinction were bloody-handed ene mies of Jehovah. Sad, sad tragedy of a life of sin, it teaches the mighty lesson our Saviour taught, “Ye cannot serve God anc mammon;” “He that is not for me is against me.” ‘ Oh, there are lots of Lots. If any are here tonight, God help them to be warned by the sad life and end of their great progenitor. God help them to turn from sin and serve Him.” Skyscraper for Chattanooga. Chattanooga. Tenn., March 2.—Z. C. & J. A. l’*atton have purchased the property owned by the Store Fort L. & Co., which includes three blocks of land in the heart of the city and the most valuable property for bulMIng sites vacant. The owners were east- ern capitalists, headed by Dr. Rust, of Boston. The purchase price waa $100,000 cash. The new owners will at once grade the property and com mence the erection of buildings for wholesale merchants at a cost of $100,- 000. They also say they will build a 14-»tory office building, if the rooms can be rented beforehand. The South ern railway runs immediately in the rear of the property. New Bedford Weavers Strike. New Bedford, Mass., March 2.—A strike of the weavers at the Bristol mill was inaugurated today and al though the looms were started with the other machinery, not more than 40 weavers were at work., About 250 ot thq weavers are out. The employes complain of poor yarn, poor filling, poor fixing, high-speeded looms and changes in style. CHEROKEE LODGE FRATERNAL UNION OF AMERICA will hold public moctins tonight (Tuesday March loth) at n o clock at the old dispensary store room Newman Laser, one of the su preme officers of the order, will deliver an address explaining the plans and features of the order. AM the members, their friends and the publie are invited to be present. La dies are especially invited, Wm. H. Smith Fraternal Master. Committee: J. T. Koukks. Secy. M. Smith. Treas. Final Discharge, Notice is hereby given that I will apply to Hon. J. E. Webster, Probate Judge for Cherokee county, S. C., at his office at the Court House, Wednesday, March 25, 1903, at it o’clock a. in., for a final set tlement and discharge as Administrator with the will annexed of the estate of Thompson Humphries. Junius T. Humphries, Admr. cum testamento annexo Estate of Thompson Humphries, deceased. Mar. 3-10-17-24. 1903. 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