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/ jj?” ' Some People "C&n’t Eat Bread. Bread is reputed to be the w staff of life.” Yet there are some people who never eat bread. We allude to this because of t curious parallel fact in medi cine. We recommend Vinol and sell it on a guarantee of money back if it does not bene fit the user. We don’t expect Vinol to help everybody. Yet, strange to say, out of every one hundred bottles sold, less than two per cent, proved unsatis factory. In other words, ninety- eight out of every hundred found Vinol of value—many of them great value. We want to say that if you are run-down, weak, too thin, ailing, with bad stomach, poor appetite, cough, nervousness, that we think Vinol will help you. CHEROKEE DRUG CO I>KUG<ilKT.S I^OR BUILDERS' SUPPLIES LUMBER, SHINGLES, LATHS, DOORS, SASH, BLINDS, FLOORING, SIDING, CEILING, MOULDING. A 1.80 A FINE LINE OF Paints and Oils 30c to $1.30 per gal. cojg L. BAKER. William s. Hall. .In. James A. Willis. HALL & WILLIS, ATTORNKVS AT LAW, ST AH THBATHE TILtHL O A I-e l-*' ."M tc Y , ». Notnry I'ublle In office. Prompt attention driven to all business. J. EMILE HARLEY, Attorney-at-Law, Gaffney, - - S. C. 'Rotary public. All business receives prompt and careful attention. MONKY T ) LOAN ON KK.\L ESTATE Dr. D. P. THOMSON, Dentist. or-cffic e over Nat tonal Hank. J. C. OTTS, Attorney and Counselor. <!£ci austilrs, between R. A. Jones and »J .venport. Office and.Residence .Phone. — — Dr. C. T. LIPSCOMB, 1) IC.X L' I S* X Office in Star Theatre Building. Phone No. 20. J. F. GARRETT, Dentist. Office Over The Battery. Ninety Per Cent 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 ami all the diseases of the Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat treated according to the latest and most approved methods. FOR Up-to-Date Job Print ing, call at the LEDGER Office Gaffney, S. C. LIKED BY DIPLOMATS. Secret of President Roosevelt’s Popularity Among Them. WIDE EEADIEG AND GOOD MEMOKY He KnowM .SoiuethinK About PolltleN and Hlutory of Every European Nation—How lie Surpriwcd Mme. Ileuffelmuller by Him Knowleda'c of Poland. No president who has occupied the White House within memory has made so agreeable an impression upon members oi the diplomatic colony as President Uoosevelt, writes the New York Commercial Advertiser’s \Va j h- ington correspondent. Indeed it is doubtful whether among the reigning sovereigns of Europe there is one who is so thoroughly at home in discussing with the representatives of other na tions just t lie questions in which those representatives happen to be particu larly interested. The German emperor may be an exception, for ids mental activities are said to be almost bound less. As for the others—so members of the foreign colony in Washington say—not one of them can compare with the president of the United States. There are very few questions about which President Iloo4l'lt does not know something. He lias been a voracious reader ever since he was a boy, and he lias always been passion ately fond of history and biography. His memory is tenacious and encyclo pedic. Whatever information once gets into his mind sticks there, ready to be called on at a second’s notice. No president since John Qulncv Ad ams lias begun to compare with him in the extent of Ids general knowledge of questions not immediately con cerned with American politics and his tory. He knows somethinabout the politics and history of eve y nation in Europe, even tlx* most insignificant, and he at times displays a familiarity with them which is as surprising to their representatives in Wash'ngton as it is gratifying. The wife of the Aus' ian ambassa dor. Yon Hongelmullor, is a native of Poland. If there is a region in Europe about which most American public men have vague and hazy notions, it is Poland. Everybody knows something about Kosciusko and how freedom shrieked when lie fell, and that is about the limit. I’.ut it happens that in the course of Ids reading the president lias picked up a lot of information about Poland and about the old Polish families. He knows their relationship to one another and the part they have played in polish history, so that when Mme. von Hengelmuller happens to be placed beside him at dinner he can talk to her about, her own people with a fa miliarity and with a just appreciation which till her with astonishment and delight. So with M. Jusserand, the new French ambassador. M. Jusserand is a litterateur of high rank in his own country and has an international repu tation, although comparatively few Americans probably Pave ever read much that he has written. He has made a special study of early English literature and lias written upon it with great ability and with fine discrimina tion. When he came to talk with the president, he was Haltered and over joyed to find that Mr. Uoosevelt had read everything lie had ever written about curly English literature, Piers Ploughman and the rest, and the two conversed with enthusiasm for a long time upon topics congenial to boll) which have no bearing whatever upon international relations. Sir Michael Herbert and Huron yon Sternburg of course are old friends, dating back to the days when the president was an under oltieial in Washington, and all the other diplomatic representatives in Washington find their personal rela tions with the occupant of the White House exeeptioiinily pleasant. The representative of a different type of individual to whom the president appeals even more strongly than to the diplomats was in Washington recently - Seth Uullock, the sheriff of Dead- wood, S. I>. Bullock is as fine a speci men of the frontiersman as could he found anywhere, with long, drooping mustaches, aquiline nose and hawklike eye. Bullock came on to visit the pres ident and Wrought with him Mrs. Bul lock. They were invited to the German musieale at the White House the other evening, the president having warned Seth in advance not to “shoot the fid dler.” Seth was immensely taken with the German choruses. After the enter tainment was over Senator Lodge asked him what he thought of it. "It was line,” was the reply. “1 liked it. It took me a little higher up the gulch than I’d ever been before, but I liked it.” Seth would go through fire aud waver for the president, aud the presi dent would do the same for him. ConKreMnnaaii'a Law Practice Hcatful. Several members of the house were discussing their plans for the coming summer in Speaker Henderson’s room the other morning when General Hen derson turned to Representative Gaines of Tennessee, says the Washington correspondent of the New York Trib une, and said: “How are you going to spend your summer, Gaines?” “I Intend to take a rest, an absolute rest," was the reply. “That means that you will resume your law practice, I presume," re marked the speaker, and a shout of laughter greeted the presumption. l.atcNt In Pottery. A new Dutch pottery of rich, warm fleur-de-lis coloring comes in fetching shapes, high shouldered little rosejars, long necked vases and wide mo tbed bowls. AIDS ROADBUILDERS. WaKliinRton Laboratory Tents High way Alaterialn Free of Charge. The road material laboratory, which was established in December, 1900, In co-operation with the oflice of public road inquiries, tests road materials of all descriptions free of charge for prac tical roadbuilders throughout the coun try, says the secretary of agriculture in his annual report. Those Interested In the construction of a road have only to send samples of their available materials to this labora tory and have the roadmaking qualities of these materials determined. In the case of materials for macadam roads the resistance of wear to rock, its ce menting value, hardness, toughness and absorptiveness are determined. After such tests are made it is possible to pre dict which material will give the best practical results under a given traffic. Only practical rondbuilders of much experience realize the large amount of money which can be wasted through an improper selection of material. There are generally several materials availa ble in every locality, and the difficulty of selecting the most suitable for a par ticular road is evident. The only way a proper selection can be made within a reasonable time is by means of phys ical and chemical laboratory tests. The laboratory is now equipped for the testing of road materials of every description as well as cement and con crete for drains and highway bridges. The large number of samples received from all parts of the country, including our island possessions, attest the value which practical roadbuilders place up on these laboratory tests. THE NARROW TIRE EVIL. Gootl lioadN Spoiled and C'ont of Alniiitenunec IncrcuHcd. It is worse than useless to build good roads only to have them cut to pieces by the use of narrow tires in hauling heavy loads. Wide tires help to pre serve ordinary dirt roads and are there fore of the greatest value to them. To change at once to wide tires would no doubt be a hardship on some owners of vehicles, says Good Roads Magazine, but this is a point that can be worked out and adjusted so that the expense will not lie burdensome. Ve- hide i iiwner: s should he edm •ated to see that it is to their in teres ts to have wide tires. as tlie use of t hem makes fewer rep; ' rs 'uv: •, hits reJudug the e .\pe- ■ ■ ■ Int •:;ani re. and he- sit 1 .* s Y , r*’ ‘i s tar:; t 1;;. ds V i f u i h ■ hauled . . 0 ry st ; . ■ should p mss : i law mak- i’T: \\ • coiMpr.ls wry. In France .,»» ’ 1 ' 1 ! "tr "f 1 iur i * tires as wi*’" MS inch s are In i use, and as tin fi • ' t H; .].* is shorn T til an the rear the 1< >:ul p I'-.sit)" over the road gives t\v; in y for.r Inches of rond roller sur- fuee :i ill Hie \ fine. Let us ha ve agitatkin i on the subject and h ‘gislnt ion will follow. Iiti|>r<>r< • tile .Monii t !l i 11 It mills. The question of impr ovin; g mountain roads is an important one and should receive its proper amount of attention. Good wagon roads and good trails to ride and walk over are essential to tourists in this country who wish to behold the beauties of mountain scen ery. In Switzerland the importance of this is realized, says Good Roads Mag azine, and roads have accordingly been improved. It is to be hoped that simi lar measures will be taken in this coun try. Al ihe star Theatre. Tii 1,' fir illiams Comedy com- : siny wil b» Kt'thc Star Theatre all uns w.^-k. I’hey are favorites in thi* s cl ion, arid never fail to make ,i good impression on the theatre goin» public. They are better than eve- theor motto ‘‘the best is none too ^ w i‘ . • t ,•. . good,” is always kept in mind. As a result they always have the newest a-; well as the best; the acting is above the standard of repertoire com panies now travelling The specialties are exceptionally fiond and especially the spectacular serpentine dunce of Miss Adelaide Garr.and the back and|wing dancingjof Mr. Arhtur Browning. There will oe a complete change of program every night. No number will be repeated except by request Popular prices will prevail. Home fathers are all fire and fury and make home a little hell. When home Is well ruled we might ask angels to stay all night. Heath of Mrs. Randolph. (.Greenville Dally News, March 11.1 Mrs. Ellen D. Randolph, wife of Cbas. Randolph, died yesterday after noon at five o’clock at her home in Rutherford street after an illness of several years. She was forty-two years old. The decease I was hern and rear'd n Greenviile and had many friends here. Although an invalid for tne past five yes-M of b^r life, she here ler sulTering with Uhriatien fortitui e, ind never f ompltir ed of fii-r fi'i* S : ie vas a dac a iii er of I he i *i ! c Ha pi (’ reon P. Poole, who was killed in the battle of F ! rst vlanassas Mrs. Randolph was a member of the Rutherford street Baptist church, ind i vt d up to h*r profession of •aith Although not able to take <icti MR?t in t he affairs of the church she Minays mnutffcPteil a deep inten st in everything concerning her denomi- tinuor. R si t s a 'Uvnttd busnand she leaw e six child!*" : Miss Game Dal ly R^LiIoipii, ui Ncv.port Xevrs, Ya ; Nellie, John, Roy and Louis. R. R Pool, of this city.was a brother of the deceased, while Mrs. L. VV. McGuino. of Gaffney, was a sister. If I had no home the world would be a big prison for rr.e, says John Ploughman. Wives should think that hnine is their place. Just received a carload of Kentucky Mules. A few nice pairs of Lum ber Mules, also some of the nicest Medium Mules we have had this season. Come and see us. Can make the price right. H. M. Johnson, Mgr. Bankrupt Sale. IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE DIS TRICT OE SOUTH CAROLINA. IN THE MATTER UN J. t). JONES, ETC, BANKRUPT. by virture of a decree in the above en titled cause, signed by G. \V. Speer, E;.sq., Referee in Bankruptcy—On sales- day in April, 1903, at Gaffney, S. C., be fore the court house door during the le gal hours of sale, I will sell for cash, at public auction, to the highest bidder, the following descrioed lots of land lying in the county of Cherokee, State of South Carolina on the Mill’s Gap road, near the northern limits of the town of Gaffney, to wit: Three lots fronting 74.87 feet on said Mill’s Gap road, and having a depth of 20914 feet containing each 15,615 square feet more or less. Also one lot having an equal frontage on the Mill’s Gap road, but being 131 feet wide in the rear con taining 21,563 square feet more or less. Said lots being bounded by Mill’s f>^p road, lands of J. D. Jones, and the Nor- they lands. In case any purchaser should fail to comply with his bid, the property will be sold on next succeeding salesday at risk of defaulting bidder. J. R. Heai.an, Trustee in Bankruptcy. Gaffney, S. C. Match, 16LI1. 1903. To be published Tues. 17th, Eri. 27th. Sheriff's Sale. State ok South Carouna, | County ok Cherokee- i A. N. Wood, Plaintiff, vs T. J. McAllister et al defendants. Pursuant to a decree signed by His Honor, Judge Charles G. Dantzler, March 9th 1903, 1 will sell at public auction for cash to the highest bidder, on Robinson Street near the Commercial Hotel, in the town of Gaffney, S. C., on Saturday, March 28th, 1903, at twelve o’clock, noon, the following goods and chattels, belonging to the defendant, T. J. McAl lister, to wit: • 2 window shades; 2 curtain poles; 2 bedsteads; 3 mattresses; 1 mug; 2 baskets; 2 bed springs; 1 thennometr; 6 rocking- chairs; 4 curtain poles; 13 plain chairs; 1 cuff box; 1 bureau; 1 wash stand; 1 dresser; 1 Davis sewing machine; 1 clock; 5 pictures; l bronzed vase; 1 wall pocket; 1 pair andirons; 2 howls and pitchers; 1 brush holder; 1 lot matting; 1 dining table; 3 center tables; 2 kitchen tables; 1 wash stand; 4 lamps and 2 shades; 1 bed pan; 2 mugs; 1 book case; 10 volumes of Cooper’s works; 30 volumes of Dick ens’ works; i Morris chair; 1 lot of old carpet; 1 folding bed; 1 sideboard; 1 cook stove and set of utensils; 1 incubator; 1 freezer; 30 vols. Chambers Encyclopoe- dia; 1 washing machine; 1 lot crockery; 1 oil can; 1 Jersey milch cow; 1 buggy and harness, and some other small articles. Said property being sold at the suit of A. N. Wood vs. Merchants .tnd Planters Bank and M. R. Sams. W. W. Thomas, Sheriff Cherokee County. Mar. 17, 24, 1903. Peerless Sweets Macaroon Jumbles, Almond Bon Rons, Vanila Wafers, Seaside Mixtures, Five O’clock Teas, Assorted Slices, Peaches and Cream, Assorted Ice Creams, Chocolate Macaroons, Chocolate Marshmallows, Cocoanut Snaps, Dainty French Chocolate Wafers Athenas, Champagne Wafers, Nabiscos, Festinos. All Fresh from our New York Baker. Lipscomb & Richardson. Fresh Oysters Received Daily. Phone I35. Don't Forget Fincken is (lie Place t inest assortment of Teas and Coffees in Town. Extra fine Sugar Corn - 10c, 3 for 25c Van Camp’s Hominy - - 10c, 3 for 25c Van Camp’s Soup - - 10c, 3 for 25c Tomatoes, best made - - 2 for 25c Fresh Hams and Breakfast Bacon PHONE 71. - - - GOODS DELIVERED PROMPTLY DON’T BURY DOLLARS To plant unreliable seeds is to bury money. It is also a waste of money to pay too much for good seeds. It will be a satis faction to you to buy fresh seeds of guar anteed reliability, and to get them at fairest prices. We handle none but seeds supplied by growers who can be trusted. We shall appreciate your patronage and believe that you will in due season appreciate the quality of the goods supplied. Cherokee Drug Co. LIMESTONE AND FREDERICK STREETS. I National Bank of Gaffney J Capital Stock, - - $50,000.00 Surplus and Profits, - 25,000.00 Stockholders Liability, 50,000.00 Total, - - - $125,000.00 l>epo«itw Jiinv- $202,122.00. We solicit the business and good will of everybody in Cherokee conn ty. F. G. STACY, President, J. G. WARDLAW, V.-Prest., D. C. ROSS, Cashier, MAYNARD SMYTH, A. C. A. N. Woof. President. 11. It. Ititowx, Vice-Pr esident THE MERCHANTS AND PLANTERS BANK, OK GAFFNEY. S. < . Established 1901. Capital $50,000.—Surplus and Profits $8,500. STATE, COUNTY AND TOWN DEPOSITORY. Does a general Banking; and Exchange business. Is well fitted up with Fire Proof Vaul and Burglar Proof Safe, with Automatic Time Lock. We solicit the busiuess of people all occupations. people C- 1V1. Ra^H'rW. 04-nmf LOOK TO YODR INTEREST. H it’s the best you are looking for in fertilizers this is the place to buy. I handle only the best grades and guarantee prices against all honest competition. I still have a’few wagons and buggies which I will selll cheap to close out. Wagon and buggy harness. I am proud of the record I have made in the shoe business. Nearly every sale makes a permanent customer. Honest goods at fair prices have done the work. We often hear expressions like this, “I get better value in those at J. I Sarratt’s than any place in the city.” I continue to keep my stock of farming tools and farmers’ sup plies up to the standard and will save you money on anything in either line. NOW IN STOCK Seed oats for spring sowing. IJcan save you money on Clothing, Dry Goods, Hats, Trunks, Valises, Satchels and Bags. See me before buying, I have several good farm mules which l will sell cheap for cash or on time for good papers. Respectfully, J. I. SJVRItiVTT.