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SAGE RAPS VACATIONS
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truth about y o u r
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free booklets and seft
examination blanks.
No. 1, Nervous I»ebtll
Financier Opposes Them and
Discusses System’s Injustice.
SEES NOTHING LEGITIMATE IN IT
ty (Sexual Weakness).
No. 2, Varicocele, Ni
No
3,Stricture, No. 4. Kid
ney and Bladder Com
plaints, No. S, Disease
of Women, No. fi, The
Poison Kinf? (Blood
Poison), No. 7, Ca
tarrh. These books
should be in the hands
of every person afflict
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I the author, is recog-
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the United States on
DR. Hathaway. these diseases Write
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The accurate filling of pre
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purity and at just prices, is the
first and highest mission of a
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testimonial a store can have;
it implies confidence on the
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if you get it at the Cherokee it’s
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We believe thoroughly in
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we are going to use thia
space for our own pur
poses. We have advertis
ing space to sell, and we
know it will pay a good
return upon the price we
charge for it if it is prop
erly used. Our paper goes
into the best homes in thia
community. It has been
going week after week and
year after year until each
issue is welcomed as an old
friend of the family.
The news it brings is
news of neighbors, of per
sonal affairs in which all
have more or less of a com
mon interest. If one of our
readers called upon you, a
merchant, you would do
the best you could to con
vince him that what you
had for sale was the best
he could buy. You would
show him the new things
you had got in recently.
You would tell him why
he should have them and
why they were better than
he coul d procure elsewhere.
You probably would make
a sale.
Your effort, however, would be con-
fined to one person.
You could tell the same
story just as effectively to
every reader of this paper
in each issue.
You do not believe it
would have the same ef
fect?
If you told the story
in the same way it would.
We an ready
to do our part to prova it Do yon
can to try it?
THE ROSEBUD RESERVATION
ThlnkN the “Vacation Habit” le the
Outgrowth ot Abnormal or Distort
ed Bunlnea* Methodii—It There la
An> Obligation, lie Claims, It Is on
Clerk’s I’urt — Believes Change ot
Work Best Recuperation.
During tbe eighty-eight years of my
career 1 have not once taken a vaca
tion, says Russell bage iu the Inde-
pendent.
A young man said to me the other
day, “Mr. Sage, would you not have
takeu a vacation if you had worked
for some one else?’’
I replied that I would not
I have never been au advocate of
what some term the “vacation habit”
When I was a boy the practice was not
in vogue. As a matter of fact 1 was
so gla.l to got a chance to learn busi
ness ti.at the idea of asking my em
ployer to make me a present of two
w eeks of the time that belonged to him
because he had paid for it would have
been preposterous. Besides, I w r as
eager to advance iu business and
could not see how I could do this by
wasting valuable time.
Neither did any of my youthful asso
ciates take vacations, and I am sure
you will agree with me that the fact
did not retard their progress when I
say that among them were Thurlow
Weed, the king maker; Horace Greeley,
Governor Seward and George Jones,
the founder of the New York Times.
These men were constantly at work,
and they were history makers.
I think the “vacation habit” is the
outgrowth of abnormal or distorted
business methods. 1 fail to see any
thing legitimate in it.
Let us assume that an employer and I
his clerk make an agreement to ex
change just remuneration for reasona
ble services, and each one keeps his
part of the agreement. Are they not
then quits? If there is any obligation,
I think it is on the part of the clerk,
who avails of the credit, skill and or
ganization of tho employer to learn a
business and advance himself along a
path which lias already been prepared
for him. What right has lie, then, to
demand or expect pay for two weeks’
time for which he renders no equiva
lent, not considering the serious in
convenience to which he often puts his
employer?
Suppose we were to reverse the con
ventional order of things and instead
of the clerk demanding two weeks’ pay
gratis the employer should demand
two wrecks’ work without pay as a con
dition of retaining the clerk in his em
ploy. What a tremendous howl would
go up!
It may be urged that tbe clerk by
his vacation gains in health and vigor
and is thus enabled to render better
service to his employer. If this claim
were true, he would be justified in ask
ing for a vacation. In fact, lie would
not have to do so, as his employer
would for his own gain and of his own
accord send him away thus to recu
perate.
But is it not absurd to suppose that
a man who cun work for eleven and a
half months cannot us well work the
whole year? Is It not equally absurd
to suppose that a man can in two
weeks recuperate from the wear and
tear of a year’s work, if there be such
wear and tear? On the contrary, I
have too often observed that men will
while on their vacations make inroads
upon their vitality and purses that can
not be repaired in the following eleven
months and two weeks.
Then, again, the loss of time, the dis
organization of business, that result
from the absence of a valuable mar.
from ids desk are difficult to repair.
A man sometimes must spend weeks
catching up with work that has ac
cumulated w T hile he was away for a
fortnight.
If a man will only take an interest in
his work, love it, he will not need any-
tliing else to recuperate him, and men
who learn to love their work invariably
succeed.
A man should work “easy,” be eco
nomical of his time, conserve bis forces
and not worry. It’s worry’ and not
w’ork that ipakes the hair gray.
The doctors may recommend a change
of air for a man when he’s sick, but
why be sick? Sickness is an irrepa-
rable loss of time. If I had a thousand
tongues I’d preach “Save time” with
them all. It’s infinitely more valuable
than money.
We read of Gladstone, who got all
the recuperation lie needed by simply
changing his work. He didn’t quit
work and go idling about. Time was
the most precious thing in the world
for him, and by availing of every min
ute of it lie practically did the w’ork
of an army of men.
■oath Dakota Lands Soon to Be
Thrown Open to Settlement.
The unallotted lands of the Rosebua
Indian agency, situated in Gregory
county, S. 1)., have been turned over to
the government for public allotment,
and one more of the few choice tracts
of public lands now remaining are to
be thus thrown open.
Under President Roosevelt's procla
mation United States registry land of
fices are to be opened July 5 at Yank
ton, Fairfax and Bonesteel, S. D., for
the registration of applicants for thes&
lands. The registration books will re
main open until July 23, and commenc
ing July 28 drawings will take place
to determine the order in which the
applicants will be permitted to make
final entry and settlement. The final
entry begins at Bonesteel, Aug. 8. No
one is permitted to, register or make
entry to land by mail, but must be
personally present at one of the three
points named for registration and at
Bonesteel for final entry.
The Rosebud Indian reservation is
probably, acre for acre, the richest
piece of public land that the govern
ment now controls. In fact it is doubt
ful if any reservation ever thrown open
by the government represented so high
an actual average value for its lands
on the day of opening.
The lands in question comprise 382,-
000 acres, situated between the Mis
souri and Niobrara rivers, in th^
southeastern part of South Dakota, in
the great corn belt, where adjacent
lands are selling at from $25 to $40 an
acre. The government will dispose of
the public lands of tbe reservation at
a nominal sum, in easy payments—$1
per acre in cash, 75 cents per acre at
the end of two years, 75 cents more at
the end of the third and fourth and
within six months after the expiration
of the fifth yoar, a total of $4 an acre.
The Chicago and Northwestern railway
extends to the reservation border at
Bonesteel.
DEVOTION OF JAPANESE.
SacriflceN of Rl«-h and Poor to Aid
Tlirlr Country.
John Fox, Jr., in “The Trail of the
Saxons” iu the June Scribner’s writes
thus of tlie Japanese people:
And then the stories I heard of the
devotion and sacrifice of the people
who are left at home! The women let
their hair go undressed once a month
that they may contribute per month
the price of the dressing—5 sen. A
gentleman discovered that every serv
ant in his household, from butler down,
was contributing a certain amount of
his wages each month and in conse
quence offered to raise wages just tho
amount each servant was giving away.
The answer was:
“Sir, we cannot allow that. It is an
honor for us to give, and it would be
you who would lie doing our duty for
us to Japan.”
A Japanese lady apologized profuse
ly for being late at dinner. She had
been to tbe station to see her son off
for the front, where already were
three of her sons. Said another at once:
“How fortunate to be able to give
four sons to Japan!”
In a tea house I saw an old woman
with blackened teeth, a servant, who
bore herself proudly and who, too, was
honored because she had sent four sons
to the Y’alu. Hundreds and thousands
of families are denying themselves one
meal a day that’ they may give more to
their country, and one rich merchant
who has already given 100.000 yen has
himself cut off one meal and declares
that he will live on one the rest of his
life for the sake of Japan.
There is a war play on the boards of
one theater. The heroine, a wife, says
that her unborn child In a crisis like
1 this must be a man child and that he
shall lie reared a soldier. To provide
means she will herself, if necessary,
go to the yoshiwara.
RUSSIAN STRONGHOLDS
IRISHMAN’S REQUEST.
▲•ked Tronmiry’H Leave to Have His
Clothe* Laundered In Ireland.
A Virginia Irishman has requested
permission of the treasury department
to have ills clothes laundered in Ire
land, says a Washington special die-
: patch to the Philadelphia Press. He
has written to ask if there is any law
! to prevent him sending his wash back
i and forth.
“I find.” he says, “that the laundries
In this country are most unsatisfac
tory- In the old country they ‘do up’
collars and cuffs and boiled shirts In
much better shape.”
j The treasury department, after care
ful investigation, informed the Vlrgin-
; lun that if he could satisfy the-collect-
, or at the point from which he shipped
that the fabrics would undergo no
change the department could not levy
duty on the goods.
Facts About the Manchurian
Cities Mukden and Harbin.
DEPOTS FOR TROOPS AND STORES
Roman Alphabet In Japan'* School*.
An important step in the progress of
Japan is apparently about to be taken
in the compulsory teaching of the Ro
man alphabet as well as a Romanized
Japanese alphabet in tbe government
primary schools, says the Washington
Times. This work has been done to
some extent already in the universi
ties, but if this proposal of the educa
tion department be adopted the Ro-
manizatlon of the Japanese language is
not fur distant, for the next generation
of Japanese of all classes will be fa
miliar with the Latin alphabet It Is
difficult to realize all that this will
mean to the nation. It will simplify
political and commercial relations and
will render western thought and litera
ture accessible to tbe bulk of tbe peo
ple.
Cherokee Drug Co.
ask the readers of this paper to test
the value of Kodol Dyspepsia Cure.
Those persons who have used it and
who have been cured by it, do not
hesitate to recommend it to their
friends. Kodol digests what you eat,
cures indigestion, dyspepsia and all
stomach troubles. Increases strength
by enabling the stomach and digest
ive organs to contribute to the blood
all of tho nutriment contained in the
food. Kodol Dyspepsia Cure is pleas
ant and palatable.
A girl may have false hair and
f^lse teeth and a true heart.
An Alarm Clock for 25c.
If you want to get up early and feel
good all day take a Little Early Riser
or two at bed time. These famous
little pills relax the nerves, give quiet
rest and refreshing sleep, with a gen
tle movement of the bowels about
breakfast time. W. H. Howell, Hous
ton, Tex., says “Early Risers are the
best pill made for constipation, tick
headache, biliousness, etc.” Sold by
Cherokee Drug Co.
Outer Wall of Mad and Inner One
of Brit-k Surround Makden, Ancient
Royal City of Mantchoo*—Russia'*
Chief Military Depot In Far Bast
I* at Harbin.
Mukden, the second city of impor
tance In Manchuria, having in times
of peace at least 200,00U Inhabitant^ is
situated in the center of an immense
alluvial plain about three miles from
the llunho, a tributary of the Liao
river, says the Philadelphia Public
Ledger. It is about 250 miles north
of Port Arthur, 42 miles north of Liao-
yang and 350 miles south of Harbin.
General Kuropatkin discovered early
in March that Harbin was too far
north to serve as a military base for
tbe campaign in southern Manchuria,
and he selected Mukden for his head
quarters because It is favorably situ
ated on the railway and on the Peking
road.
The city of Mukden has an outer wall
of mud, and a lofty quadrangular in
ner wall three miles iu circuit built of
brick, fianked by lofty towers and
pierced by eight gates protected by
lofty brick bastions. This wall, on
which three carriages could drive
abreast, protects the commercial and
official part of the city, which is dense
ly crowded.
Mukden, besides being the great grain
emporium of Manchuria, is the center
of the Chinese fur trade and attracts
buyers from all parts of the world.
Fine streets divide the city into nine
wards or districts, the central district
containing a Chinese palace with much
decorative yellow tiling and a public
examination ball. The Russians have
erected spacious barracks, with accom
modations for more than 100,000 sol
diers. There were said to be a short
time ago more than (Jo,000 Russian
troops at Mukden.
Mukden's streets are regularly built,
and its fine residences are well kept up.
It is a busy place, both in times of
peace and war, and does a large and
lucrative trade iu grain, beans and furs.
It has various industries, which in
clude the tanning and dressing of furs
and the weaving of silk stuffs; its bank
ers and merchants are rich and enter
prising.
Mukden is the ancient royal city of
the Mantchoos and the former burial
place of the rulers of China. Four
miles east of the city is the tomb of
the founder of the Mantcboo dynasty.
Nurachu. Ttie sepulcher itself forms a
great mound built up over the coffin.
In front of this stands a funeral hail,
the whole being surrounded by a high
wall pierced by one grand gateway,
which holds three arched portals. The
avenue of approach is spanned by two
lofty and elaborate arches of carved
stone, the bases of their columns rest
ing on carved likenesses of frogs.
Harbin Is the most important Rus
sian military depot in the far east and
is situated on the Transsiberian rail
road to Vladivostok, just where the
Port Arthur line turns directly south.
The Russians have within the past
year or so erected more than 0,000
houses in Harbin, the materials used
being chiefly brick and corrugated Iron.
Forty thousand Russian soldiers. It is
said, were recently quartered in Har
bin. Immense storehouses for grain
and other forage, as well as maga
zines for arms and ammunition, have
also been erected, and millions of ru
bles have been spent to improve the
warehouse facilities alone.
From Harbin the Chinese Eastern
railway, a branch of the Transsiberian
railway, runs southward to New-
chwang, 450 miles distant, on the gulf
of Liautong, and thence southward 150
miles to Dalny and Port Arthur.
A new branch line was recently con
structed from Harbin to Kirin, one of
the most important trading centers of
Manchuria and the Junction of the
principal trade routes to northern Man
churia and Korea.
Has It Ever Occurred To You
That you make a serious mistake by not buying your
clothing at J. I. Sarratt’s everything store?
All that is necessary to convince you that I have the V
best line of Clothing in town for men, youths and chil
dren, at the most reasonable prices, is to go upstairs
and take a look.
Youwill also find a nice line of men’s and boy’s Hats up
stairs.
Also all kinds of Trunks and Traveling Bags up stairs.
Shoes F'or* E^'ver'ytoocl^r
at prices to suit.
Negligee Shirts from 25c to $1.00
Overalls from 25c to 75c
Big lot of ladies Dress Skirts from $1 to $5
Nice line of wash fabrics, Piques, Organdies and White
Goods of various kinds—all cheap.
Big lot of Molasses—several graces.
Farming tools, such as Single and Double Stocks, Cot
ton Hoes, Plows, Heel Bolts and in fact everything
needed by the farmer.
I carry as complete line of general merchandise as you
will find in town. I also handle same line at my new
store at Goforth, S. C.
Respectfully,
J. I. Sarratt.
Statement ot
GAFFNEY SAVINGS BANK,
Condensed from the Quarterly Statement in conformity to Act General Assembly,
at close of business, March 31st, 1904.
RESOURCES. LIABILITIES.
T , ... . Capital Stock $ 30,000 00
Loans and Discounts.. .. % 69,294 30 Undivlded Proflts ^59 gs
Cash on Hand In Bank.
3,023 99 Deposits.
41,058 48
Total $ 72,318 29 Total $ 72,318 29
We invite your attention to the above copy of our quarterly statement, March
31st, 1904. We pay 4 PER CENT. INTEREST on ALL deposits.
If you are not already a patron of this bank, we ^would be Jpleased to have you
open an account with us.
The TIME time to do’so is NOW.
F. G. STACY, President. J. G. Wardi.aw, V.-President, D. C. Ross, Cashier.
Liberal Treatment ^
Prompt Service
Absolute Safety
are some of the features of our service guaranteed to
patrons of this Bank. We want your business.
Call on us at any time.
National Bank of Gaffney.
A Strong Heart
is assured by perfect digestion. Indi
gestion swells the stomach and puffs
it up against the heart. This causes
shortness of breath, palpitation of
the heart and general weakness. Ko
dol Dyspepsia Cure cures indigestion,
relieves the stomach, takes the strain
off the heart and restores it to a
full performance of its function nat
urally. Kodol increases the strength
by enabling the stomach and diges
tive organs to digest, assimilate and
appropriate to the blood and tissues
all of the food nutriment. Tones the
stomach and digestive organs. Sold
by Cherokee Drug Co.
You Furnish The Need; We Satisfy It.
We keep everything in the General MerchamliHe line and Jure prepared to “suit
every fancy.” both as to style and quality of goods and the prices placed upon
them. Our store has become popular with the trading public simply because we
handle tlie best of merchandise and sell our goods at a close margin of profit.
Our T' 'vv' o I^ar.«:e Stores
are fairly bristling with all tbe latest things In Ladies’ Dress Goods. Shoes, Hats,
Millinery and Notions and all the best grades of Groceries and Osborne Farming
Implements.—all at prices commensurate with the quality of the goods. We in
vite inspection and challenge comparison of prices.
Au.@tell 8c LujoscomlD.
Safety Guaranteed
When you deposit your money with this bauk, you
are assured of its safe return to you whenever you
call for it. Neither fire, nor jlloods, nor panic can
rob you of it.
How much wiser, then, than running a risk by -
keeping money at home or on your person, is it to
bring every spare dollar here for deposit.
Ample facilities ; the utmost accommodation.
Merchants & Planters Bnak.
A. N. WOOD, Brest.
CHAS. P. L1GON. Ass’t. Cashier.
C. M.(SMITH, Cashier
Judging from the manner in which
it does not exclude, the Chinese ex
clusion law must work only eight
hours a day.
A Wonderful Saving.
The largest Methodist Church In
Georgia calculated to use over one
hundred gallons of the usual kind of
mixed paint In painting their church.
They used only 32 gallons of the
Longman & Martinez Paint mixed
with 24 gallons of linseed oil. Actual
cost of paint made was less than
$1.20 per gallon.
Saved over eighty ($80.00) dollars
in paint, and got a big donation be
sides.
EVERY CHURCH will be given a
liberal quantity whenever they paint.
Many houses are well painted with
four gallons of L. & M. and three
gallons of linseed oil mixed there
with.
Wears and covers like gold.
These celebrated Paints are sold
by Smith Hardware Co., Gaffney;
Blacksburg Drug Co. Blacksburg.
ANCHOR BUGGY.
We think we have in the Anchor Buggy, one of the
best that comes to the Gaffney market for the
money. Come and see this Buggy before you buy.
We have just received a car of Barb Wire at a good
price. *
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