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r For Sale. fcir - Advertisements under tins ne.iti ^H| oe Inserted for one eeni <i word (••iclt Inser tion. Mo ad Inserted for less t h.ni 1« n nent.. F or SALE—Three irood cowsjwith youmr calves: .Mrs. W. Alien Jefferies. How- linKSville S. 0. J^OE BALE One fine milk cow. .1 ^ feries. It Kb. .Jcf- It *OK SALE—150 bushels select cotton seed. ' J. Eb. Jefferies. H F OH SALK The W. U. Petty house aud lot on Frederick street. Apply to T. C Put- tv. 11 1 — — - - F OR .S vLE—Lot and six-room house on Oheroket! avenue, jGood barn and stables on premises. Apply Hall & Willis. At torneys. 2-S-tf. Tal ma^e Sermon Hy 'Ret). FranK T>e tVHl T al m a g e. 2).2>. ohantman lu the beginning of the Inst century. With his inimitable power of maritime description he pictured tli.- terror of the peaceful seamen wlitm the dreaded black flag was run up. He described with faithful real ism tin* crowding on of the canvas and the pursuit by the rakish craft of the cutthroats, drawing nearer and nearer to its prey, as the leaping tiger comes nearer and nearer to a clumsy, lum bering buffalo. Then the whiff of smoke, then the murderers clambering Los Angeles, Cal., April 24.—In this sermon the preacher announces the di- And war hla hundred thousands of the very best of men, But I”—’twas thus the bottle spake—"but I have conquered more Than all your famous conquerors, so famed and feared of yore. Then come, ye youths and maidens all- come, drink from out my cup The beverage that dulls the brain and burns the spirit up, That puts to shame the conquerors who slay their scores below, For I have deluged millions with the lava tide of woe! Though In the paths of battle darkest waves of blood may roll, Yet while I killed the body I have also damned the soul! For Rent. F OK KENT—The John White bouse, rear Smith Hardware Co. Also my residence corner Knee aud Johnson streets. W. H. Smith. 3-2J-tf ply OK KENT—Niceb-rotm cottage, witn ail Improvements, on tirenard Street. Ap- tOJ. O. Jell. t ies. ~ — W-1 tf •OR KENT- noy. •Four room {house. J. J. Oatt- J 25-1. f S UITES .If rooms to let iii the Star Theatre A, X. Wood. J-22-tf F OR RENT—A good two-horse farm with a neat live-room cottage. Apply at once to J. C. Lipscomb. 2-Hi-tf W ANTED - Po make straight loans on city real estate. No commissions. Several thousand dollars to loan. Apr29-tf J. 0. Jefferies. B Trespass Notice. ^ A LL {persons are hereby warned not to trespass on my lands for tiny purpose whatsoever, without permission, under pen alty of the law. Win. Wisher. April 111. 22, 2H]and 21>. Money Loaned. over tlie gunwales of the doomed ship, i then the wounded and dying men be- The chok-ra. the plague, the sword, such ing pitched overboard; then with the , j ( j n m j r th or malice, on the Innocent vine amnesty to all who repent, and dramatic effect of contrast Father Tay- | have brought. sinners of every degree are urged to lor described how these cutthroats lies- i And 6ti11 1 breathe upon them, and they accept the offer which is made with a Hated before striking down the last of And ytar bv year my thousands tread the royal magnanimity and completeness those on the merchantman - the cap- | dismal road of death.” tain s helpless wife and his innocent, | From this awful doom of the drunk- vveeping child. What did the piratical , art j w jjj you not t . SCU p e an( i i n Christ’s leader then do i 1 said Father Taylor. He ua i ue escape now? Will you not, O drunkard, promise with God’s help to let your scarlet sins be cleansed whiter than the driven snow? » that put human forgiveness to shame by comparison. The text is Psalm li, 7, “Wash me, and I shall he whiter than snow.” “Absurd simile,” you say; “that state ment cannot be scientifically true. ‘He onion'd grog to be served. Even those murderers of men had a heart until a gill of rum and molasses apiece took it away. No sooner was the rum swai- redder than arterial blood, or emptier than a vacuum.” Snow, from a chemist’s standpoint, has a superlative whiteuess. The pur est of all vapors is that found far up In the heavens. Along comes a sudden cold wave and it freezes that vapor in to snowflakes, just as tl at cold wave can freeze falling raindrops into hail stones which patter upon the pave meat. Then as that snowflake slowly drops through the air it comes to us L OANS on improved farms for a term of i as white as it is possible for anything years at seven per cent, interest. No . . , , f (here is u sense in commissions. For information apply to J. 0 j to bt. And J e t inert is a sense Jefferies, Attorney at Law. j which the psalmist is right in saying that God can wash away our sins un There Is nothing whiter than the snow, i owe( j than this mother and her child any more than there is anything deader wore struck down by the men, whose than death, or blacker than black, oi ! | n ji {im ed hearts and brains were with out mercy.” Ah, yes; the drunkard’s I sins are scarlet. They are sins which make men capable of fiendish work, | even to the death of a helpless mother 1 and her innocent babe. Drink Dentroy* Spiritual Lite. Some people will tell you that men | drink to drown their sorrows. I tell ' you that when men drink they stain their souls. No sooner is the drunk- I ard’s poisonous draft taken into the blood than the man seems to be pos-; sessed with rabies and must go forth j Chriat Heady to Forgive. Christ is ready to cleanse also the de bauchee’s sins. By that I mean Christ is ready to forgive those who have im morally broken up the sanctity of the home. He forgave the sins of Rahab, who concealed the Hebrew spies; he forgave the sins of David, who stole the poor man’s ewe; he forgave the j sins of the dissolute woman who talk ed with him at the Samaritan well; he forgave the sins of the woman de- ! nounced by the scribes, to whom he turned and said: “Woman, where are thine accusers? Doth no man con demn thee? Neither do I condemn' thee. Go and sin no more.” Christ is Are Your Lungs Sound? ? ? Rydale’s Elixir cures weak lungs. If you think you have a bronchical affection, or if you fear you have con sumption rely on Rydale’s Elixir. This modern scientific discovery kills the germs that cause chronic throat and lung diseases and assists nature to restore these organs to health. Rydale’s Elixir is also a certain cure for acute throat and lung trouble, such as coughs, colds, hoarseness, etc. Rydale’s Elixir is a splendid family remedy for young or old. Gaffney Drug Co. FOR Up-to-Date Job Print ing, call at the LEDGER Office. Gaffney, S. C I Notice. to scatter death wherever he can. The ready to forgive the social outcast’s ^ human being inoculated with the pel- j sins, as he was ready to forgive the, til we become “whiter than snow*,” the 8011 of intoxicants seems to he endowed scarlet sins of the dying thief and the □ Beginning April kith, 1 will run my bread j pure snow, the spotless, wind driven wai^im every in irniru; instead of in the after | S110W noon, and patrons are urgently requested to * w . get their bread from the wagon, as under no The 1 oet » Llecnae. clrcumstanees can I consent to deliver bread What you state about the snow is delivering a single loaf of bread is too great j literally true. Scientifically, there can to allow me to do so with protit. and I irust 1 be nothing “whiter than snow.” But my patrons will realize this fact and secure ' their biead from the wagon on its rounds. Respectfully, J. F. Fincken. April 19, 22. 2‘i. WANTED! analyzed in any laboratory or classi fied by any earthly acoustician. I re member that some years ago in a ser mon I described myself as walking through an orchard and lying down under the branches of an old apple tree and listening to a long conversa tion between two apples on the tree overhead. One apple wanted to live only for self. It wanted to hold on to that tree branch until its flush of health died away and it became wrinkled and brown and decayed and fell to tlie ground to he trampled under First-class Blacksmith, Iron and Wood foot by the swine. Tlie other apple was willing to die in order that others might live. This second apple wanted to he pulled off to adorn the Thanks giving banquet table, or to be carried as a gift to the Invalid’s room, or to be ' stowed away in the ship’s hull for an arctic explorer, or to he crushed in the press that tlie cider might sparkle Office Over The Battery. and glow with life. As 1 described those two apples talking together I saw one of my dearest friends in the audience with a vexed look upon ids face. He was a hard headed business man, without an atom of poetry in his makeup. After the service he came Office in Star Theatre Building. ,11) t 1 ° ,1 ' e 8aid: “ Wh f did • vou 0 speak all that nonsense about those Phone No. 20. with the power to destroy spiritual and j often physical life, as was the inocu- ! latcd rabbit of Australia to destroy the physical life of beast, bird and man. Many years ago an Australian colonist was homesick for the sight of the Eng- you must interpret these words of my Hsh rabbit. He had one of his friends j ism, especially if the social outcast be text with the figurative license of the ship him a couple as pets to his faroff longs to tlie female sex. Alas, alas, poet. When you see througli poetic southern home. Those rabbits escaped Even tlie best of men, the leaders in eyes and hear through poetic ears you from their master and began to breed, our churches and pulpits, are often can see sights and hear sounds never Their progeny increased until they ready to look upon the breakers of the murderer. But, though the Bible declares there is but one unpardonable sin, and that is the sin against tlie Holy Ghost, yet, strange to say, most people are not willing to forgive the sins of libertin- ^JAII your clothes lhat need hriifhteniiu? U P’ brlnif them to us. We will inuke them look fresh and new. H > All work done by expert tailors. LSee us and join our pressing elub. > ROBINSON & JONES, Tailors. Over W. U. Telegraph Ofllee, Phone No. 4J. Eskridge’s Blacksmith Shop, ^ (Fortenberry’s Old Stand.) ■st-class Blacksmith, Iron and .Al 5 work at reasonable prices. Your Patronage Solicited. J. F. GARRETT, Dontist. ’Phone 82* DR. W. K. GUNTER, u k >; t i s* r Crown and Bridge Work a specialty. Dr. D. P., THOMSON, Dentist. ■Office over Cherokee Drug Co. William S. Hall, J a. james A. Willis. HALL & WILLIS, ATTORNEYS AT LAW. SXAIt TI1KATIIE BLDG. O A f-r i-r INI 1-C 'V . SA. Notafry Public Injottice. Prompt attention jlven to all business. Dr. S. H. Griffith PHYSICAN - SURGEON;- OCULIST. Former pupil of tlie celebra ted {Oculist, Dr. Julian J. Chisolm, ot Baltimore. Has also taken special post-grad- uate^course in the Rye, Ear,(| Noseband Throat Hospital of Baltimore, Glasses Fitted Accurately and Scientifically, & & g^“0flice in Cherokee Drug Co., B’ldg. FREE PORTRAITS. Why pay from $3.96 to $7.00 for Pastel or Water colors without frame when we will furnish the same size Guaranteed to be as Good or Better, or no pay, framed complete for less money. Our Mr. Day is now in the city, with headquarters at the Commercial Hotel. Either communicate with him there or hold all orders till he calls upon you. It is his purpose to call upon the best people in the coun ty, both in the city and country. References: A. N. Wood, banker. F. G. Stacy, banker. R. M. Gaffney, mayor. • W. C. Carpenter, merchant. J. I. Sarratt, merchant. J. F. Cline, livery-man. A. W. Doggett, Merchant. Nathan Littlejohn. Tobe Littlejohn. THE H. M. DAY CO., High Grade Portraits and Frames. Offices:. 13-14-15 Hunt Bldg., Charlotte, N. C. two apples? You never heard two apples talking. Apples can’t talk.” I looked at him for a moment and then said: “Didn’t you ever hear the flow ers talk and the birds talk and apples talk? I have. I have heard them often talking to me. If Isaiah could make mountains and the hills break forth into singing and all the trees of the fields clap their hands for joy, surely I can hear two apples talk. I know those apples talked, for I heard them.” The Drunkard’s Sins. We do not hind the imagination of tlie poet with the rigid bonds of scien tific accuracy. He is accorded a li cense to see and hear with his spirit ual eyes and ears scenes and sounds not scientifically true. Though these words of my text may not he literally true, in the figurative language of the psalmist they are poetically so. They may mean in the common language this: Though j*our past lives show stains that seem to you indelible as scarlet, though you have committed sins which have not only corrupted your own soul, hut have laid the souls of others, like the human sacrifice of the Aztec sun worshipers, on the fiery altars, yet even for you there are par don and cleansing, if you will accept them. Like the prodigal In his rags and tatters, there is a home for. you in the Father’s house. Though, like Paul, you have to acknowledge yourself the chief of sinners, like him you may find grace and have the honor of toiling in Christian service. Christ is ready to cleanse the drunk ard’s sins. These are neither few nor small, for the drunkard’s sins can drag a man down so low that he will lose all sense of decency and respect. They can change u man into a condition more imbruted than that of a wild were almost as countless as tlie sands j of tlie sea. Tlie Australian rabbit plague destroyed tlie crops. They he- | came as great a c urse as is the seven- i teen year locust to the American farm er. They were numbered by the mil lion. The Australian parliament was bewildered with the problem. A re ward of $100,000 was offered for any man who could devise a practical plan to exterminate them. Wire fences were built across that island continent. Tlie rabbits were hunted with guns and dogs and entrapped everywhere, but still their numbers grew. At length, as a last resort, some rabbits were caught and inoculated with tlie fatal serum of hydrophobia. Then a greater danger than before' menaced these southern colonists. These mad rabbits not only hit other rabbits, hut they hit dogs and sheep and cattle, aud even hit men and women and children. So when the drunkard’s blood is once inoculated with the poison it seems to create in its victim a mad passion to destroy life. It seems to make a man absolutely in different how he might crush out tlie heart of his wife, his child or his friend. A man drinks to drown sor row? Oh, no! He drinks to gratify his insatiable craving, reckless of the con sequences, though they may involve ids becoming recreant to his duty to the helpless woman and the innocent chil dren who are dependent on his exer tions and have tlie strongest of all claims on his loyalty, his truth and his honor. Reddest of All Slna. The drunkard’s sins, without doubt, must he classed among the reddest of all scarlet sins. Now comes tlie prac tical question, Will God cleanse the drunkard’s sins? When we say he is a loathsome, heartless, good for noth ing drunkard do we mean, “There is no hope for the drunkard?” S< me of seventh commandment ns moral de generates who have no chance for ul timate rescue either in this world or in the next. Many people are apt to look upon Immoral outcasts in the same way that the stern old Scottish elder looked upon the actions of his wayward daughter in the beautiful story in Ian Maclaren’s “Bonule Brier Bush.” He professed to believe in the unlimited power of God’s forgiveness, yet when his only daughter, his moth erless girl. Ids one child, who was all to him, had been led into sin he turned to the clerk of the village kirk and said: “Aye, blot her name off the books! She is my child, but blot her name off the books!” But, oh, my brother and sister, though man is hard upon fallen man, and woman especially hard upon fallen woman, yet God today offers pardon and peace for every penitent Magda lene. Though your sins against mo rality may he as scarlet, they shall be whiter than the driven snow. St. Vitalis was a poor monk who in tlie seventh century was supposed to haunt the evil resorts of the Alexan drian capital. For many years the peo ple thought lie was a hypocrite and a libertine. One early morning, when seen coming out of a place of evil re sort, he was fatally struck down by a passerby, with the scathing words, “How dare you, rascal—how dare you outrage Christ by not mending your wicked ways?” But hardly had the breath left the body of the humble monk than it was found out by testi mony that for years he had given his life to saving social outcasts. What Christian women are doing for ex-con- vlcts St. Vitalis was doing for fallen men and fallen women. At his funeral those social outcasts, whom he had by the power of the Holy Spirit rescued, marched in front of his bier, chanting RYDALE’S TONIC A REAL CURE FOR It has recently been discovered that the germs that produce Malaria, breed and multiply in the intestines and from there spread throughout the system by means of the blood. This fact ex plains why Malaria is hard to cure by the old method of treatment. Quinine, Iron, etc., stimulate the nerves and build up the blood, but do not destroy the germs that cause the disease. Rydale’s Tonic has a specific effect upon the intestines and bowels, freeing them from all disease breeding mi crobes. It also kills the germs that infest the veins and arteries. It drives from the blood all poisonous matter and makes it rich and healthy. RYDALE’S TONIC is a blood builder, a ne ve restorer, and a Malaria rlestroyer. Try it, it will not disap point you. GAFFNEY DRUG CO. FOR Building and Plastering Lime, Coal, and Plaster Hair, Plaster Paris, Shingles, Portland Cement, Dynamite, Blasting Powder, Fuse and Dynamite Caps, call on LIMESTONE SPRINGS LIME WORKS. CARROLL & CO., Lessees. Telephone 57. us have such a lack of faith that we this cry: “We have lost our deliverer! do mean this; but God never meant nor said it. “Purge me with hyssop aud I shall he clean; wash me, and I shall he whiter than snow,” is a di rect refutation of the charge that Christ will not forgive tlie drunkard’s sins. Oh, man, though by drunken ness you have sold your home under the sheriff’s hammer, though you have wrecked your business and had your eyes horror struck with the kaleido scope of delirium tremens, yet there is even pardon and peace for you! There We have lost our instructor! God help us! God help us!” Today Christ is willing to go into the lowest brothel and into the haunts of the immorally vile and to say: “Come unto me and I will make thee pure. Come, every man. Come, every woman. Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as the driven snow; though they be red us crimson, they shall be as wool.” Pardon For All. Christ is ready to forgive the mur- is the same message of salvation and derer’s sins. By that do I mean that rescue for you that there was for he is ready to forgive the highwayman Francis Murphy, or Gough, or Captain Barbour, or ns there is for the scores and hundreds upon hundreds of re formed drunkards who every night are found testifying to the glorious rescuing power of the gospel of Jesus Christ. “Though your drunkard’s sins be as scarlet, they shall he us white as snow; though they be red like crim son, they shall he as wool.” An Appeal to Younir Men. Young man, you who today are hav ing your life’s blood squeezed out of you by the upper and the nether mill- beast. The drunkard after awhile stones of a drunkard’s sins, will you seems to become ns unquenchable in not accept this salvation for your his passions as the patient whose vo- emancipation from evil? Will you not melons appetite is Insatiable after a seek Christ ns a refuge from the de- long attack of typhoid fever. The struction of the drunkard, which seams drunkard’s craving will make a man to he going on everywhere? How gen He and steal and destroy his home and oral the drunkard’s eternal overthrow his business. The drunkard’s sins 'vill Is few people stop to realize. Many eat out a man’s heart as well as his years ago these sardonic lines fell Into who, with lifted gun, shoots down the Innocent pedestrian? By that do I mean that Christ is ready to forgive the fiend who poisons the helpless child or who In the dark night drives the knife into the heart of his sleeping adver sary? Yes, Jesus is ready to forgive the convicted murderer though he may be standing upon the scaffold un der the hangman’s noose, about to ex piate his awful crime. “Pardon for all” is the meaning of my text—par don and peace and eternal life for all. no matter how vile, If In sincere re pentance they will come to him and plead for his mercy through bis aton ing sacrifice. Ho Sinner Heed Deapaiv. But among the murderers who are to be pardoned I would also class those who have slain their victims by false signs, as well as by bullet or by gun. He Is ready to forgive those who have slain by the lip as well ns brain. The drunkard’^ sins are like my hands; let me read them to you; tlie legion of demons which took pos- There was an old decanter, and Its mouth by hand. In olden times the pi- session of the poor maniac who, naked was gaping wide; rates along the coast of England used and alone, haunted the tombs of the The J'” sy h . d d eb bed away and left to change the positions of the lights. Gadarcnes, and, like them, they may And thV^nd w"ent e ’humming, humming- I Thcn the 8e '‘ ‘’aptains, watching the be exorcised by the same divine pow- up and down the sides It flew, er. They are the direct and indirect And through the reedllke, hollow neck the m .1 ~ ■ wlldeat notes it blew, caiise of countless oilier sins. j placed it in the window, where the blast Father Taylor, the sailors’ preacher of Boston, drew a vivid picture of such a phenomenon. He used to describe! 11 pirate ship attacking a rich mer-1 was blowing free, And fancied that Its pule mouth sang the quevn-at strains to me: "They tell me, puny conquerors, the plague has slain his ten, heckonings of the false lights, would drive their boats upon the rocks and he wrecked. The pirates would rifle the drowned bodies ns they would be floated upon Hie shore, and gather to gether the wrecked cargoes. They were murderers — murderers whose weapons were false lights. So God will forgive even those murderers who have destroyed their fellow men by false examples as well as he will for give those who have murdered them with the dagger or tlie gun. “What!” some murderer says. “Par don for my scarlet sins? Uh, no! It cannot he true. Why, you do not know what you are saying. My sins are worse than scarlet. They are black with the hopelessness of despair. Tire re call he no pardon for me. Let me tell you my awful story: When I went to college, I was a very wild hoy. I had there a roommate who was the son of a minister. He was a ruddy faced lad and as pure as a little child. 1 taught him how to drink and how to gamble. I argued him out of his belief in the Bible. I led him on, step by step, into the paths of sin. One night—I can re member the time as though yesterday —he sat upon the corner of his bed. and, with a strange light in his eyes, lie turned and looked at me and said: ‘Jim, do you really believe that my mother’s Bible is only a pack of super stitions? Do you believe there is no hell?’ ‘Yes, Harry,’ I answered. Then I went on to convince him of it. Then he laughed a horrible laugh. Then lie turned and said: ‘Well, old superstition, goodhy, goodby! May you live long enough to soften the dying pillow of my mother and father, but as for me, goodby, goodby! Come, Jim, let’s go and take a drink.’ Ready to Forgive. “From that moment, sir, that young fellow let loose all his evil desires. He seemed to leap into a very whirl pool of sin. Within a few months he was expelled from college. Within two years he committed suicide, and this is the letter he wrote on the night of his self murder: ‘Dear Mother—This is the last letter you will ever receive from me. I have broken your heart, but try to forget aud forgive. If there is no hell, as Jim says, this world is a hell enough for me. From your disgraced aud dying boy.’ ” “ ‘Did you do all that?’ ” “ ‘Yes,’ be answered. “Well, my friend. I know not how God will forgive, but he can and he will. The blood of Jesus Christ will even cleanse you. if you will only ask for Christ’s forgiveness. ‘Whosoever.’ Ah, that is tlie word. ‘Whosoever, whosoever!’ That means you. Yes, it means you. ‘Though your sins be as scarlet they shall he as white as snow; though they lie red like crimson, they shall be as wool.’ ’’ Christ is ready to forgive also the merciless thief's sins, even as he for gave tlie thief upon the cross. He is ready to forgive the thief’s sins, whether you have by evil jealousy stolen away a man’s good reputation or have rifled a widow’s pocketbook; whether you have stolen a good name or a financial Income. Man, you know that was a desper ately mean act for you to circulate that evil report about that physician’s life. You know that there never was a squnrer, truer man than he, yet you did it in order to ruin his practice— aye, and you have succeeded! From a worldly standpoint you can never make atonement for that damage. But God will forgive you, even you, if you will come and ask for his pardon. Woman, | that was an awful statement you made ; about the character of that sister. You say that you are sorry, that, you did I not look into the facts before the evil j Our lines are still complete and was done, and she died of a broken heart. It is now too late to bring her back to life. But God will forgive you. Yes. whether we are thieves who have j robbed men and women of their good names, God will forgive us if we only repent. “Though your sins be as scar- , let.” That means you; that means you.! As the Divine Mercy. “But,” you say, “this appalling enu- j monition of crime has no applicability to me. I have neither robbed nor slan dered nor slain, nor am I either drunk ard or gambler.” Assuredly not; but | chough by divine grace j-ou have been mercifully kept from such depths of 1 human infamy and degradation, your heart must still tell you that you are a sinner in need of a pardoning God. And if he stands ready to forgive the; greatest of criminals and to wash away their scarlet sins how much more is he willing, O man. O woman, to give to your soul pardon for penitence and to welcome you into the gospel sheep- j fold! Paul, tlie greatest of the apostles, in his abasement called himself the chiel of sinners. Like him, by God’s grace you may become more honored spiritu ally than ever you have been in all your past life. After Marshal Lannes on account of insubordination had been deprived of his command Napo leon Bonaparte declared he should nev er be allowed again to draw his sword in the service of France. What did Lunnes do? Did he go over to the ene my? Oh. no. He shouldered a mus ket and said to himself, “If I cannot draw a sword fqr my own country 1 can at least fire a private’s gun.” When Napoleon found his late marshal fighting in the ranks he not only re stored him to his old rank, but gave him a greater command than he ever had before. So, my friends, if you, like Marshal Lannes, n*e repentant, if you will throw yourself upon the di vine mercy, If you will say, “O God, forgive my past sins and let me be a humble servant in thy household.” the Father will , welcome you hack as his child. As with the prodigal son, he will put a ring upon your finger and sandals on your feet and a white robe of spotless purity about your scarred , and evilly seamed shoulders. He will make you part of himself and part of his throne. “Though your sins be as scarlet,” you shall be recognized ! through heaven ns his loving child. , Will you, O man, O woman, accept the omnipotent and endless and eternal! forgiveness of God? Will you have ; your sin stained garments washed In the blood of the Lamb? [Copyright, IMM, by Louis Klopsch.] Now for tlie New Year! Start it right by com ing to us for your :: Staple and Fancy Groceries, Canned Goods,iCigarsdobwco, Fruits, and Confectioneries. contain nothing but the fresh est and the best. HAMLIN & RADFORD. DON’T THINK that every sad-eyed woman you meet has loved and lost; perhaps she loved and got him, or perhaps her husband is so stingy that he won’t let her buy that nice piece of Furniture or China that W. V. Humphries & Co. have in their new store. Our store has been open only about two weeks and we are glad to say that we are very much pleased at the liberal patronage we have received so far. Quality of goods with the right sort of prices will tell, all that we ask is for you to come and see us and we will convince you that we have both. Remem ber that we do not handle Furni ture alone. We have in stock a good line of Stoves, Trunks, Mat tings, Rugs, Crockery, China, Glassware and lots of Novelties too numerous to mention. Come to see us. W.V. Humphries & Company’s Furniture Store. Next to GaffneylLive fStock Co. Stables. Bicycles and Sundries. Look, boys, before you buy. I have got the things you are look ing for and the price you want to pay. I have got bicycles and sup plies down so a poor man can buy as well as the rich. Call at my market and store on Lime stone Street below Tin* Ledger oftice, al>out fifty yards from the dispensary, and ask for prices an<l see goods. I will surprise you if you come and want to buy. Come one, come all—the best wheels at the lowest prices. I’hone No 23 Granard Street and 183 Limestone Street. W. J. XANESS,