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l 1 ■rfqigjM uci rnon By Rev. Frank DeWitt Talmage, D. D. • Vila of cruelty nitiilnst (tiimb aumiali nay at last reach out for the heart of ...in itself. Injustice auainst the dumb 'lute in vitably paves the way for in- lUstice amiinst the dumb brute's mas er. 11 a boy delights t<» torture a dog r a cat or a mouse, there will surely •oii.e a time when that boy. grown into t man. will delight in torturing his fel- ow beings. A man's nature is degraded by in- luiging iu cruelty to animals. He loses dogs and horses and cattle the more t think they are like men. Supposing you were a horse hitched to a carriage. Supposing every time you made a m.'- Ktep there was a whip like a knife ready to cut into your skin, would not jour nerves be continually unstrung? \Vould you not always be ready to jump, to shy and to rear? Supposing j on were in a stall with your head tied 10 a halter and tin* hostler wanted you i > move over to the other side of the • is manliness and acquires the nature shall, and instead of placing his hand Los Angeles. Cal.. May 8.—Kindness and eoiidideration for ail of God’s creatures is the preacher’s theme, and he pleads that man should value the fleet ion of the dumb creat on no less han lie should respect its rights, since j’ivine wisdom has placed it In his •are. The text is Deuteronomy xxv, 4, ‘Thou slialt not muzzle the ox when le treadeth out the corn.” This is the age of machinery. This s the time when man is not limited iu us operations to the work of ids two lands, but with ids little finger can ift a lever which has the strength of i thousand hands; when, instead of his icing content with seeing only such lungs as his eyes perceive, lie calls to lis aid the telescope and the microscope that multiply ids power of vision a housandfold. The old fashioned spin- ting wheel has been developed into the nighty Belfast linen mills. The old "asldoned scythe has evoluted into the swift mowing machine, which goes singing through the harvest fields. The old fashioned prairie schooner has ong since given place to the tireless velocity of tlie lightning express, which tever stops by day or by night except, ike a thirsty monster, to take a drink. Hie old fashioned messenger, who on horseback used to carry back to a ving the news of n battle won. lias )een superseded by the telegraph wires tnd the electric cables, which in almost in instant can put continents within speaking distance and have put the is lands of the seas iu communication witli the mainland. The patent offices in Washington arc crowded witli innumerable inventions "or the saving of labor and time. In lone of them, however. Is the contrast ictween modern and ancient methods so marked as we see it when the mammoth flour mills of Minneapolis ire compared with the custom referred to in the text. In that great city of the northwest not only is the grain al m^t instantly changed into flour by thc^ best of modern machinery, but practically not one grain is lost. Upon the old fashioned thrashing floor every thing was different. There a team of oxen would lie harnessed to a collec tion of boards naihsl together. Then bese boards would lie dragged over the grain and the chaff would be bro- ien from the kernels of wheat. Then l;c winds would blow over the thrash ng floor and separate the chaff from Tie wheat. Wi Kilo in of Moki-n. Such were the thrashing floors of the indents. Now, as Moses went in and out of the country he saw a great uany of these thrashing floors. Fur- tnermore. lie saw that among their nvucis there were a great many mean .iicn in those days, as there are in our j own days. He saw that these mean men nearly always first allowed their mealiness to their beasts. They not only overworked their oxen, but they jnderf«*d them. Their meanness was most emphatically demonstrated when thrashing. Fearing lest their hard worked oxen might reach down and lick up from the thrashing floors a stray mouthful of grain to eat. these j mean farmers would muzzle their leasts so that tin* hungry animals •ouId see tile food and yet not eat any Now. Moses says in a practical way •These men must be taught to be i merciful to their beasts. 1 have nude a law requiring them to obey Tod and be just in their dealings witl heir neighbors. Now I will make an ither law requiring them to be li icra. n tbeir provision for the animals wh:cL work for them.” Then the great law river of tlie Hebrews sits down am writes these words of my text; "Ihot limit not muzzle the ox when he tread »th out the corn.” Moses was the first great statesmai hat I know of who recognized tin •iglits of dumb animals, it is a sig liticant fact that in this early code o aws he should have given legal right? a animals as well us to men and worn «d. it was a sound an 1 rigliteou.- -nurse, and I am glad to remembei that we. too. have n >t only laws b •revent the iil usage of animals, hu Iso in the Humane society an organ zatioii to see that those laws are en 'orced. I want to show you this morn ng why every Christian should be ii touch with that society and that it? principles should be applied to al •lasses and all ages. There is no rea son why the admonition should be lim ted to the farmer. The boy should b< aught to tie good to Ids pet dogs am. ^jiiirrels; the drayman should be com pel led to lighten the load if ids borsi is too weak to draw it; the hackmar should he required to blanket ids stee.. shivering in the chill blasts of winter tbs* sportsman should tie prohibltec shooting tin* mother bird in nesting time. I would try to show that the -Christ who was horn amid the lowing of the cattle and the bleating of the sheep and the neighing of the horses whinnying for their oats, is today the friend and protector of the dumb brutes as well as of our fellow men. rrucltj Dcjer'ide*. Tlx* Illumine Society of America should l>e account's) one of the best ol societies. Its work has a deeper and a Wider significance than some of us cony lime heretofore supposed. Thf evil of cruelty to animals does not end with the Infllctieg of pain and Injus ftce oil the dumb brut"*. I’ut as th* 1 small fibrous tumor, nestling under the fair skin, if let alone, i. iy reach out Its fatal roots toward the heart, so tu»* (f brutes. He undergoes in Ids lifc- dnie the metamorphosis that the ori- •ntals believe he suffers after death, in the far east there is a popular be lief held by multitudes; it is a belief in the transmigration of souls. This means, in popular interpretation, that after a man dies Ids soul passes into the body of a dog or a cat or a iiorse >r a lion and so lives on through the -oming ages. If he is a mean man then he becomes a mean beast like a jackal or a hyena, if a good man then Ids soul takes upon itself the form of i noble beast; but though in Christian ized America we do not believe in the transmigration of souls we may see irouud us an analogous phenomenon. W hen a man abuses a dumb brute he is not punished by having his sou! at death pass into the body of a jackal. gently upon you and saying quietly. •Now move o'er," he gives you a sav age kick in the stomach or a cuff upon the side of the head that made your p.ir ring and your brain dizzy with >:iin. What would you do? Would you bite and kick him if you got the •liance? I doubt whether human na ture would be as long suffering as •qidue nature under such provocation. Hut if every time that hostler came around you got a caress, or a piece of apple every time he applied the curry comb. and a kind, reassuring word every time a shrieking engine came oast, I think that hostler or driver would be loved and trusted and obeyed just as my little child has. through my kindness, learned to love and trust an 1 j obey me. "’I lie more I see of men the more I love (logs!” Oh. no; the philos- tnit he takes on the character of those was wrong. But the more you •ruel, bestial four legged scavengers s «. t > 0 f horses and dogs the more you of the desert, and he becomes one of them In his nature. Every time the old Mexican skinned a lamb alive, flunking that thereby the meat was made the sweeter, he destroyed that moral sensitiveness which enabled him to distinguish between right and wrong. Every time a boy transfixes a fly with a pin and then laughs tc see it wriggle and squirm in its death agonies that hoy is fitting himself to become a monster, a murderer and a destroyer of men. Nero, the Roman demon, became the inhuman monster lie was by first, as a boy. learning to take pleasure in the sufferings of his nursery pets. Every man takes upon himself the heart of a savage animal win ii he abuses the helpless dumb brutes that God gave to him as de (icnuciits. < utiac of IMorul Degeneracy. What is today one of the chief causes jf tlie moral and spiritual as well as the temporal degeneracy of Spain? It .s without doubt due to the bestial and arut.iliziug tendencies of the merciless miilight. When on the Sunday follow- ng Easter and on subsequent Sundays .he 11.000 spectators gather about toe ireiia of Seville or tlie l-.oOO watch i lii> an na of Madrid and the IT.tMJO eu in le the arena of Valencia, they are .i. ying in tin* vice which has been Ta* moral and spiritual death of their •uiintry. These Spanish bullfights al ways take place on Sunday because ;h-y are held to be tin* sacred national ..tine. A famous American traveler Icils us that at each bullfight between and eight of tin* fiercest kind ot Sails and from twenty to forty horses? in* killed. The waving of the red man ih s, the shooting of tin* darts, tin* are na su..kel with blood, the screams ol ;he dying horses dragging themselves- irnuml. somethin s with their entraib n t’di view of tlie excited •populace at- ina i charges of the enraged hulls • mbine to make a scene of horror in leM-rihabic and one which it is im possible for the civilized American P o'.iiy grasp. When the famous Francis o Homeio de Bunda taught tlie Span sli | coj.le how to scientifically alms' ini madden and torture to death a four legged brute In* made it possible for th * people themselves, by looking poll such scenes of horror, to become vorse than liratcs. No human being •mi I t* unmerciful to a beast without '.iinsclf fter awhile growing mcrcl- !e>s in Ids dealings with his fellow nen. T enliiod !>>• K i ml The ll’iuian-.* Society of America, in len-dihig man to In* kind to tin* dumb ••••1 *. h is- a second practical mission it teaches that harshness and bitter ness and cruelty do absolutely no good ;:i the training and the true subjuga 'ion of an animal A cruel mastei never was aide to get tin* best results mt of a horse. Blows and kicks and mils only make a stubborn horse tin more stubborn and tlie balky anima th** more set in his traces. 1 nevei ic iiiad this Ics-i n in a more impres ■dve way than when I passed two sum ners ail est witl.in a stone's throw ol me ef tin* l»-*st stock farms in fib •miipy. What magnificent animal? ie-'-e were! Racing horses were no! •aised there, but the best blood foi •arriage horses and roadsters of al • «rts. Their clean limbs, their flash ng eyes, their high strung, nervous >rganization. made those animals tin iride of almost every stable they eu .ered. Vet the whip was never used jpon them. They were trained almost *:itire|y by kindness. After the coltf .ad been allowed to run in the field? 'or about three years, always, however jeing petted by their owners, tiny ere ready for tin* harness. The first lay on which the bridle was put upon them a strap was fastened on the forr hoof to teach them that they must mind. That was ail. After tlie first two or three days tlie horse learned that if he plunged the strap would bt ipplied to raise ids forefoot and keep him on three legs. Having learned tin* lesson he ceased to plunge, and tin use of the strap was discontinued Then these colts were quietly bitched by the sides of the older horses and driven out to plow. The drivers nev cr jerked them, but always talked kindly to them and coaxed them. And though those horses seemed to have within them all tin* pentup ambition of Job’s war charger, "smelling tile bat tle from afar.” yet iu the hands of their kind masters they became gentle, lovable and docile. Power of Deiitlenean. An old. grumpy, dyspeptic philos opher once said. “The more I see of me the better I like dogs.” That is not mv idea. Rut the more I see of i ought to learn to treat them with tlie same gentleness with which you should treat your fellow man. Curse« and blows and yells and growls nev*- - Made a nervous horse trus’fi.l * r mi ol -rinate lior??<* docile. Kinum-ss w.il win ■.•oibuji.-’Siou in an animal, where terror and fear can never produce it. JiiMit-** For lli«* Brute. Tlie Humane Society of America de mands justice for the dumb brute be cause the equine laborer is always worthy of ids bin*. The horse has juM as much right to his oats as the farm ban 1 has to Ids noonday June!), the ox to ids luoutiitul of grain as the ownei of the thrashing floor has to his loaf of bread after it is baked. The robin that sings iu cur cherry tree has a riuht to his living as well as the little cliil.] that eats at our dining table. In tlie great economy of nature every (•reallire was created for a purpose, Mid if th ,t creature fulfills a good pur p-:se tfien you and 1 should try to uiake i> life happy, .as that creature is try ing to iiiiike oars. i id hi e\er stop to think how much you ai) i I are indebted to all thosi T.,ur footed beasts of the earth and wild b< sis and creeping things ami fowl t of the air" which ivter saw in vision lot down from the heavens in a great sheet when Ik* lodged with Si moil the tanner? Tlie horse! How many of our burdens he lias carried' How many happy times we have had .vlien being drawn by him over tin country ro:i *s! in how many scene.? of merrymaking has Ik* been an ossen tial part'. An I often in times of sad ness he has come to our help. T!.< birds! Yes. tiny. too. are worthy of their hit'*. They are our woodbind jirlma donnas, our songsters amt sou-, stresses, that make tin* day. as well as Mk* night, vocal with music. Tin* fo-v - th !>;• H" -if i : mi m* .f till* <•: ftle of t ’ <• fields- they. too. arc worthy of Iu-- - hire. The bone and muscle and b v - ;n of man come from their flesh. Even humblest creatures are somethin-, ireat vaitn* to man. "I saw ?i hideous snake this after noon." I said last summer to a Mich igan farmer. "It seemed to in* ail colors ami I cam-lit it in M e middle of tie road.” "Did you kill it?” "(>f course I killed it. What are snakes fo but to kill." "No. my friend.” he an sv.ered. "All snakes are not to kdl The poisonous snakes are to kill, but not those that are not poisonous. Th* sm kes we have around here, for tin most part, are a great blessing to tin* f rmers. They kill the hugs and in sects which destroy tl e crops. Snake* • r** imt always tlie enen y. lint often the friend, of man." Yes. mv brother vc should not only le.nvi ihe ox un did u| ■ tin* I: i thi* thrashing im*/- •ai.si ids hire. 1 *. ttn* .in ! horses ami Hid soim-tilues even eior. be ! or* r is alwavs worthy ot >i;t the amt t. II off her perch and die when! her mistress oik* day lost her patience J and cried out to the feathered singer, to whom she I ad never before spoken - a cross word: "Bo still! I tell you. be still!" All. those who have had iov- , ing | i ts know to some extent the i height and t!.** depth of their affec tions! Von should be kind to tin* dumb brutes ami tin* feathered companions of your livis because in a sense tiiey can love as we ourselves can iove. Tlie World >ol For fllon Alone. But. lastly, we should be kind am! gentle and loving . toward the dumb j brutes because God loves them, and what God loves we should not despise. | l used to think that God created this world for man. I used to think that all other worlds were merely empty, burned out worlds like the moon. I used to think that the other worlds were not worth the decorating and upholstering because man was not there. But now 1 believe ali worlds are created as our own world was created because God loves tlie beautiful and lias declared that everything he created in the universe was good. Yes. God "hath made everything beautiful in his time.’' In his eyes tlie trout spring ing out of tlie I j rook and sporting in tin* eddy is good; therefore we should not catch it for mere wanton sport to let it rot upon the bank. God tuned the throat of tlie nightingale and tlie lark to sing after the twilight, and in God’s sight their music is sweet. As our Father loves the birds we should not think it silly to throw a few en:;. bs into the snow bank for tlie snowbirds which have been caught iu tlie blizzard, nor to leave for our feath ered friends a cup of water upon tlie window sili in times of a drought. (Tod loves the lambs. He made the sheep's gentleness the symbol of a di vine gentleness. Christ was led as a sheep dumb before his shearers, and us a lamb at the slaughter he opened not his mouth. God made the horse and saw that lie was good. Un that great day of the triumph of righteous ness over sin Jesus, the eternal con queror. shall ci/ine riding down the heavenly heights upon the white charger of victory. Oh. my friends, if (iod erected the beasts of tin* holds and tlie birds of tin* air and the fish of the seas and s:iw they were good we should Ik* uind and gentle and loving toward them al!! From the dumb crea tures as well as from the sweet voices of lli<* woods we may learn some of the best lessons of Christian love. God bless the Humane Society of America! God bless all those men and women who an* ' a king off the cruel collars gnlkog the necks of the horses suffering with sores and unhitching horses tint an* hobbling along on de- c. ycl feet! God bless tin* (Tiristlik** movement which makes men treat their dogs at least as kindly as they would treat th'*ir liiitiian enemies! God b!‘*ss all movements that would respect tin inalienable rights of the sheep and th** horses and cattle which stood about ti*e manger on tlie night that Jesus was born! God bless all those who won! I rationally and with Christian fr-eiing trand ite to tin* human hert ‘he coninnitidn’.ent of my text which says. ••Tli *n s'i -If not iiitizzli* tin wi.e * I?** ;rea-!i ;ii out tin* corn!" J.( jpyr.gfit I'.i.l tiy Louis Klopsi-h ] M^Aiivertisements uiuier ; (J i^ tll »>i, *o iusertv.. for uu*- .* * u.. Inser- .kji.. No ad Insert**,-) ' .. - ct!U t,* - F (Mt *sA Lh-Hood Hi 'K la w. A,*i>. to A K. T. lieeliiier. iJu.-k»uui>. ?. * ii. t Ii. N<*. I *-1 ;i pit F OR SALK -The W. iVtty ii.*u-**- .*iki lot ou t-mieriek street to 1 y lit- P'di .sALK —A a i'i l _i-nti,-. t .in iy li ir>i- * to i*r. s. H (luvvi. y. .*1,.^ .j, ij. ,n. For Rent. F iJli liKNT H.i . A|ikiu.> Iiou>«- and lot. Ajip-y toOeo. M Putier. .»;t-u. F (Mi liKN P—A riw-rourn *-ott<*ae. Anpi* to J. I. Surratt. , j. * P' Mi liKN f— f our-n*oin hou>e. near enouy.-Ii * in lor factory operative* i . vuiilb. i -’•.•-if. F oii KENT Ttw I nn A'uitehouae, r<--i ■Muilli Hardm..re i o A.»o tuy residenci corn i- liace and Johuaou streets U II Stnllh. > ■•->., | F Oi. RKNT—Nice ii-ro itu c Hi.ige, will, an improvement*, ou Hrenard ."tree.. Ap- ply to J. 0. Jcffeiie*. 4-l-ti S CI I'KS of room, m i ?t m tue Mar Theatre A. N Wood. .J-gf-tf pUli KENT—A good t wo- home farm with a * ue.it live-room cottage. Apply at once t- J. 0. Llpscomh. g-ni u Wanted. W ASTED—To buy a good milk cow. l >1. Peeler. i-.i-»t. \A/ANTED—To make straignt io.iu.-, ,ju c.tj * v real estate. No commissions, .sever* thousand dollars to ,oan Apr-V-tf ) c i.-tfer. t If anybody has a mesrAgc for 4 t the people cf t'r.is communi.y • he cannot deliver it to them su 4 ^ efiectudlly, so che?piy, so curk- 4 ♦ ly in anv other way as through 4 the columns of this pap r. * It is the business of this pa* 4 per to carry messages cf one 4 kind and another into hones 4 x The message will be oe! ereu, 4 . too, under favorable conditions. 4 £ for few persons take up th ir ^ 1 local paper except in a pleasant T and receptive frame of mind. T The sign upon the fence board 4 T may be good, but it can be seen 4 ^ only by travelers who go that 4 u particular road. The message 4 < ► in the local paper carries itself 4 1 ► to thousands, no matter by which 4 < * road they travel. 4 ( > Select your space and put 4 ( > your message where it will do ^ (> the most good. ^ 4 * We, perhaps, can help you if you will but ask oa. Notice. - - - ^ . ^ MU LICE 1 liereby tarddid a ti you v employ* lujfur tiarOoMua m> Ooy, liiady litppy. as he is uuuer a*re aud .eft home wit hum my cou?>eut. A. .V Kipp). 5-Id it pd Money Loaned. L UAN? du Improve., raru.* or * u-r j, y»?a'.* at seven per . eut. interest. .\ vm'iiW.slons. E-ir iufiir u ttio-i uj .1. I Jefferies. Attorney at La*. ANNOUNCEMENTS Cards under this head will be in serted from now until the primary for $5.00 each for county officers; mag istrates' announcements, $3.00. All fees must be paid in advance. For a change, R. M. Jolly for Su pervisor of Cherokee county. I hereby announce myself a candi date for re-election to the office of Supervisor of Cherokee cou r *.y, sub ject to the rules of the Democratic party. J. V. Whelchel. J. F. GARRETT. Demist.. Office Over The Battery ’Phone 82" i* t heep and oxen and birds and fishes the snakes, ar*- ii ong H e best and the most faithful borers we have. The Love of A11 ini:iIm. Again. I assert that we should bon<» Ik li linn; in* Siviety of America be •i.u.se 1 sometimes think that the bird- ?f the air. as well t.s the blasts of tlie • iil:. imiy have an ardor of affection »veii gre tor ili?.n that <f im n If tbai ovlng pi;W«*r of the heart is ever al <•",• ! to deveiuj). 1 believe that tl dog •an love as a man can love. I believe 1 horse can love as a man can love. :i 1 a bird also. \Ye should be very •anful lost "e trample upon the jearts of the dumb brutes, as some of :s too often trample upon the hearts of 1111. "What! A dog five as a man (c.i s? Absurd.” says some one. Is it ilisurd? Have you never heard of a leg dying from grief because his mas er died? My father once had a noble .reyhoim 1. When he went far away Tom home that dog be ame so lonely without my father that be refused to •at. and literally died from grieving for ds master Absurd! Did you never tee a dog grieving among tlie chief Mourners at a funeral? Again and ignln we tried to drive Beauty, a little sky terrier, out of the room of death. Rut Ik* would not go. Under the casket k* lay. hour after hour. Mournfully be went from room to room after the jiidertHker had carried the precious rrth n away to shop among the flow- *i*s. For days and weeks Beauty was hunting. lie was always hunting. He was Imiiting for the dead. Have j ou never had a Beauty in your home? Is i* absurd to supoose that tlie horse ind the dog. ninl even the bi*d. cannot love as man loves? Then why did that it tie pet of Mrs. Thomas A. Hendricks, lie wife of the vice president of the Julted States, give a frigl tened cry T»**> Vie)** «»f One Lecture. There are matiifesiiy two views j which may be taken of the lecture This is evident from tlie widely differ eni sensi * in which it has been under stood, it has been delivered publicly in Was ingom and Boston. The con gfegaKoii in both cities was composed for l!,e most part of tin* same class ot people, except that at Washington there were no negroes present. The Washington auditors listened to it with every mark of approval and there seemed to be no one who was not more or less fully in accord with it Those wlio Heard the lecture in Boston received it with every mark of disap proval and there seemed to be no onr who was not more or less fuily out ot accord with it. In Washington, where the lecture was first delivered, it wa> very easy for me to proceed beeaus* many expressions of approval warmed me up to my uncongenial task. In Boston it was very hard for me to g*. on because of the equally numerous signs of disapproval which chilled me Bishop Brown of Arkansas in Arkan s:is GazeLe. DR. W. -K.; GUNTER, 14 K Ni F I l-i T Office in Star Theatre Build:n . I Phone No. ‘Jd. C^owii and Br.dge Work a s;ec'...l\ >. D. f’ THOMSON Dentist. Woiiltl Do All lie Fould to Olillite. Representative Adamson of Georgia recently told a story which illustrated true good fellowship. II** had been campaigning in Georgia on foot and was twenty-five miles from home. It became nceessary for him t*> go home, and I e tried to secure a conveyaiie**. but all the teams were bi:*y on the farms. Finally he went to a man whom le* knew very well and said: ••Bill. I have to go home, and I want a rig to take me. You've got to get me one.” "Adamson." he replied, “we are flv months behind with our work her** and it is next t*- impossible to get a horse that can Ik* spared, but there isn't anything ! won't do for you. I'll toll you what I'll do—I'll walk home with you.”-Washington Host. Her Cliuaen Field. Rejecting wealth and its attendant luxuries to enter her chosen field of evangelistic work. Miss Mary B. Rob insun. daughter of a millionaire Pitts burg railroad magnate, lias gone to Chicago to speak of salvation from the pulpit of Bethlehem chapel. Miss Rob inson. who is worth KtbUO.OOO in her own right, was director >f a Pittsburg church chorus at a large sajary. Tl * Bostonians made her an offer of Jiff, btff a year to Join their opera company, hut she refused. Soon afterward she left home to enter evangelistic work. H'*r uncle. John G. Robinson, secretary of the Pittsburg and Lake Erie rali- way. und frleiK.s tried in vain to dis suade her. Scranton (Pa.) Truth. 1 ♦ -4* ♦ -» + 4 ■oil Sponges are the fibrous skeletons of deep sea ani mals To the general public sponges are simply spong es; vet there are * ores ot varieties, grad* sand quali ties—plenty of chance for deception. We do the best we can in Inning sponges, and we sell them for just what they are worth. Our ex perience and methods are worth something to you. even on sponges. Throughout our stock, from tlie cheapest to the finest, evert sponge is a bargain at what wr ask for it. Carriage. Bath and Toilet Sponges. Cherokee Drug Co,, Prescription Druggists. Cor. Limestone and Frederick Sts. If you get it at the Cherokee it’s good. C. Eskridge B 4 U H* ** your Itiarkwtnu It tour *n* . All Smdh::: Iron ami Wood V orNone in first-class style and at reasonable rates. Fortenberry’s Old Stand . Office over (.'lieroke*- [i*iu * • Villiam S. Hall .) k. .1.00? a "01* HALL & WILLIS. ATTORNEYS a ' a w. STAK THKATKK BI.IKi OA. IV K V . <_ ^Notary Pulille in.nffii'e. Proinpi *41.1,1 riven to all huslnes*. Notice of Opening of Books of Subscription Notice is heieby given that b\ virtue of a commission issued by lion. J T Gantt, Secretarj of State, to tiie under signed as corporators, the books of subscription to the capital stock of The Builders Supplv Comjtanv. a corporation to! e formed, with the principal place of business at Gaffney. S. C., wi ! be opened at the store of Walter B *k« r on Lime stone Strec* in the 'low 11 of G.dYnev, 011 the llthdaj of May, 1904 at lo o’clock A. M. Tile capital stock ot the said »or- poration will be Five Thousand Dollars to be divided in 1 ifty sliares of stock at tlie par value of one Hundred Dollars per share. Kknmth Bakkk, L. Bakkk. V. Ai.rrK Bakkk, W. W Gakinkv, 5-10-it Board of Corporators FREE PORTRAITS. Why pay from $3.90 to $7 00 fo* Pastel or Water colors without frame when we will furnish the same si/.e 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 al! orders till he calls upon you. It is his purpose to eali 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. Tube Littlejohn. THE H. M. DAY CO., High Grade Portraits and Frames. Offices:. 13*14-15 Hunt Bldg., Charlotte, N. C. WANTED! All you r ''In* 1 *s 1 li.it 11 •■••*1 I*riif Iil - ni nif u I). iK*iii2 iIi***ii I-** u*. WV wu; in ik them io *k f r-' Mi a in I n**\v A a >* k *1 'ii*- by *-\ pi-ct ta 1 " s. i- a- mil i'llti ou*- pr . * RJ3INS0S S 10'Ei Ni'i's «»v»»r W I' r |»*I *'l • N • » l i rli THINKg of getting 2^ I’Ikm.s /' lor 25 cents! Less than a cent apiece Each mountcit <»:* tlie new Ping-l’iing Cards for 35 ini ' Come while we ;u, making t i- * iV<-r .*' we slial * not e* 11 • tinue tills size 1* ng Relllelll I *er tile . i _ ll grade ot ex* eilci c'e in our regular line of PHOTUGR \l H> is the same or better than ever. Fine "Aristo" j*!io tos from »i.25 iU z. up. June H. Carr. Phone 17b. 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