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Thousands Have Kidney Trouble and Don’t Know it. How To Find Out. Fill a bottle or common glass with your water and let it stand twenty-four hours; a t sediment or set- r;~~. rX"' tling indicates an “ '7731 u n healthy condi- |i 17 . l r'\ •€' unneauny conai- tion ° f the kid ' if yf ' \\! neys; if it stains : ‘ ' ^ 1 your linen it is evidence of kid ney trouble: too frequent desire to pass it or pain in the back is also convincing proof that the kidneys and blad der are out of order. What to Do. There is comfort in the knowledge so v-often expressed, that Dr. Kilmer's Swamp- Root, the great kidney remedy fulfills every wish in curing rheumatism, pain in the back, kidneys, liver, bladder and every part of the urinary passage. It corrects inability to hold v.-ater and scalding pain in passing ft, or bad effects following use of liquor, wine or beer, and overcomes that unpleasant necessity of being compelled to go often during the day, and to get up many times during the night. The mild and the extra ordinary effect of Swamp-^oot is soon realized. It stands the highest for its won derful cures of the most distressing cases. If you need a medicine you should have the best. Sold by druggists in 50c. and$l. sizes. You may have a sample bottle of this wonderful discovery and a book that tells more about it, both sent absolutely free by mail, address Dr. Kilmer & Co., Binghamton, N. Y. When writing men tion reading this generous offer in this paper. aernion By Rey. Frank Dc Witt Talmage, D. D. Horae of Swamp-Root WK WANT ALL INTERESTED IN MACHINERY TO HAVE OUR NAME BEFORE THEM DURING 1900 Writ* us stating what kind of M AON INERT you use or will Install, and wo will mall you Free of All Cost A HAND80MB AND USEFUL POCKET DIARY AND ATLAS OR A LARQB Commercial Calendar Gibbes Machinery Company, COLUMBIA, 8. C. A RTOOK OF HOR8B POWER HAT PREEAEB TO BE CLOSED OUT AT SPECIAL PRICES hEDICINR This preat stock medicine is a| money saver for stock raisers. It | is a medicine, not a cheap food or I condition powder. Though put up i in coarser form than Thedford’s Black-Draught, renowned for the I cure of the digestion troubles ofj persons, it has the same qualities of invigorating digestion, stirring ' up the torpid liver and loosening the constipated bowels for all stock and poultry. It is carefully pre pared and its action is so healthful that stock grow and thrive with an occasional dose in their food. It cures hog cholera and makes hogs j grow fat. It cures chicken cholera and roup and makes hens lay. It | cures constipation, distemper and j colds in horses, murrain in cattle, and makes a draught animal do more work for the food consumed. It gives animals and fowls of all kinds new life. Every farmer and raiser should certainly give it a trial. It costs 25c. a can and sav«a ten times its price in profit. Pittsburg, Kas., March 25,1904. I have been usinf?your Black-Draught Stock and Poultry Medicine on my stock for some time. 1 have used all kinds of stock food but 1 have found that yours is the best for my purpose. J. 8. HASSON. ofiST Early Risers The famous little pllle* Shoes! Men's Shoes ! Ladies’ Shoes! Boys’ Shoes! Girls’ Shoes! Children’s Shoes All cheap for cash at I. n. Peeler’s. Or. S. H. Griffith, PHYSICAN - SURGEON - OCULIST Fortner pupil of the celebra ted Oculist, Dr. Julian J. Chisolm, ot Baltimore. Has also taken special post-gra 1- uate course in the Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat Hospital of Baltimore. Glasses 5 Pitted Accurately and Scientifically. U* J* •Office in Cherokee Drug Co., B’ldg Los Angeles. Cal., Dee. 25.—In this sermon the Christmas theme Is pre tented with a new and picturesque set ting, and the preacher finds in it an application to the universal needs of >ur modern life. The text is Luke il, 10, “I bring you good tidings of great joy.” Blessed, thrice blessed, Is the advent of the messenger bringing tidings of great joy! Benjamin Disraeli was wel comed back to England’s capital by a surging sea of happy faces, which blocked the streets, about the lord mayor’s official residence ns far as the eye could see, when he returned from the most famous of European conclaves of the representatives of many nations. Why? He came back with the memorable sentence upon bis lips, “I bring back to you peace with honor.” No wonder the English multi tudes applauded their premier wher ever he went. Had Disraeli not brought back “peace with houor” Eu rope would have been convulsed with an awful international war. When the “treaty of Ghent” was signed by the English and American commissioners on Dec. 24, 1814, the people of two na tions were expecting that the war of 1812 would soon be terminated. The ship which bore the news, “Peace, peace, with honor,” sailed into New York harbor covered with bunting. It was welcomed with the shouts of a cheering people and the booming of war gnus, which were now to become the guns of peace. Of course many a tear was shed because Andrew Jack- son hud fought his battle of New Or leans fifteen days after the signing of that treaty, but those tears did not prevent the glorious news which the ship brought from joyfully flying over the country with the wings of the morning. Everywhere the message met with glad acclaim, “Peace, peace, peace, witii honor!” But, though there have been many messengers of glad i tidings welcomed with joyful hosan nas, no messenger of good tidings was ever so much needed as he who appeared on the first Christmas dawn of the world’s history. That was the Christmas mom when Jesus lay sleep ing, a little babe in the manger of Bethlehem of Judaea. Let me describe the events which preceded the advent of this angelic messenger. First, the topographic po sition of this angelic messenger. We are standing upbn the Judaean hills overlooking the little village of Beth lehem. This is sacred ground. Here Jacob mourned and would not be com forted. Here Benjamin was born and Bachel died. Here Boaz watched Ruth as she gleaned after the reapers. Here Samuel came to the home of Jesse to anoint David king of Israel. On the night of the Nativity the Bethlehemites could almost see the lights of Jerusa lem, only six miles away, and almost hear the chanting in the temple and the music in the palace of Herod the Great were it not for the height of yon der mountain, which obliterated those lights and stopped the echoing sounds. Tnkiuff the Consul*. On that first Christmas eve the cities and towns were crowded with men and women. The fiat had gone forth that a census must be taken. Caesar want ed to know how many soldiers lie could depend upon in the provinces and how much taxes ought to he paid. Borne was then the mistress and the queen of the world. The Jewish census was to be taken by families. Thus Joseph, the descendant of the great psalmist, David, headed toward the little village of Bethlehem, where once the future warrior as a shepherd boy tended Ids sheep, played upon his harp and prac- j tired with his sling at a mark until he could take that deadly aim which was to slay the mighty Philistine. Joseph is now climbing the lime rocks upon which is built the town of Bethlehem. Footsore and weary and sad. his face is drawn and apxious. He is hastening along, dragging by the bri dle a beast of burden, which, with the characteristic stubbornness of its kind, is holding back, merely because its owner jerks the head and wants to hur ry along. The village is long and nar row. Most of the houses line the one principal street. Crowds of men stand upon the street corners or gather in large numbers and with vehement ges tures whisper curses among themselves against Herod, who was building a heathen temple In honor of the Roman emperor. The door of the inn is block ed with rustics who are trying to find lodgings. The owner of the hotel is in sulting the people because they will not stop bothering him. It does not take a hotel clerk long to get ugly if he has more customers than rooms. Joseph stops and asks some bystanders where he can find lodgings. They all shake their heads and shrug their shoulders. Some ridicule him for asking such a question, when he can see for himself the crowds clamoring to get Into the village hotel. Joseph turns and looks at his young wife seated upon the beast of burden which be is leading. She has a beauti ful face, a sweet face, a loving face, a pure face. She is Mary, the Virgin. Finally some man. more sympathetic t’ n the rest, seeing Joseph’s troubles, points him to a khan, or public stable, : ml says, "Perhaps you may find room there.” Mary’s strength has almost giv en out when they enter the low arch way. Joseph tenderly lifts her down from tlie beast of burden. Pome one kicks the oxen to make them arise be- can i' they are taking too much room. Even here sp ice la at a premium. Aft er the kina he rted hosi ers have thrown some straw into the stone crypt or m nger Mary is placed in the hum ble cone!; amon;. the bleating of tin* sheep an 1 the io\vi:tg of ti e cattle and the m glpng ol the horses whinnying for their oats. Tills is the must important of all nights, it n awfully solemn. All his tory will hereafter date itself from or toward this scene—A. 1>. and B. O. Upon the Judaean hillsides the affright ed sheep are running hither and thith er, looking for their shepherds. Ani mals intuitively know when something unnatural is about to happen. The cat tle can smell the blood long before they are driven into the slaughter houses to be killed. When the South Carolina earthquake shook Charleston a few years ago the dogs crouched at their masters’ feet, and the birds hovered around, uttering shrill cries of fear, as though human beings alone could pro tect them. The horrible picture of Dore’s flood, where a lioness with her whelps trembles upon a rock by the side of an affrighted woman holding in her arras a babe, is not a zoological absurdity. Animals in times of danger naturally seek the protection of man. There is a strange silence brooding. The shepherds anxiously grip their staves and prepare for an unseen bat tle, which they feel sure is about to come. The Flrnt ChriNtmaa Morn. Suddenly a star breaks from its fas tenings and begins to tumble through space. On and oq it comes like a me teor. With frightful velocity it heads toward this planet, ready to plunge into It, ns the human foot might crush an Insect, an ocean liner might run down a fishing smack or a large express en gine crash into a hand car. The terror stricken astrologers see it flying to ward the earth. Suddenly it stops and seems to be watching something that is happening in the- little village of Bethlehem. The angel who once stood at the garden of Eden’s entrance now unsheathes his sword and cuts the cur tain of the night in twain. The waves of light rush down and push the dark ness to the right and to the left. Great multitudes of angels begin to sing. As the glory of God shines around the prostrate shepherds there sounds forth the voice of an angelic messenger, say ing, "Fear not, for, behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy!” Such was the advent of the angelic messenger. Such was the message which he brought to the shepherds on the first Christmas morn, announcing the birth of the little Child who lay in the manger. Why did this message of my text “bring good tidings of great joy?” First, Christ came as a Saviour to a sin curse 1 race and a condemned world. He came as an earthly ruler might come to a condemned murderer about to expiate his crimes with his life, bear ing news of pardon and liberty. He came as a loving! mother or father might come to a son who had been bit ten by a poisonous serpent, with an an tidote for the deadly virus. Thus Christ came. By his vicarious sufferings lie took upon himself the condemnation which was due us for our sins, lie came as a Saviour, that the human race in him might live with him for ever. Shall we ever cease to look upon the message of the Nativity as “glad tid ings?” The world honors the memo ries of many of its heroes and heroines who have been saviors to their fel low men in a physical sense. Too much prairft* cannot be given to the memory of the late Lieutenant McLaughlin, who was the savior of thousands up on thousands of lives during the late Spanish war in 1‘orto Rico. Major Gen eral Brooks had made the final ar rangements of his troops before the Spanish introin hmonts. The battle was about to open. Suddenly at the signal station some miles to tin* roar of the American lines the telegraphic machine began to tick. Lieutenant McLaugh lin’s face took on an anxious look. The news was being telegraphed that the protocol had been signed between the Spanish and the American authorities for the cessation of international strife. Hardly had the import of the message come when Lieutenant McLaughlin ran from the signal station and flung him self upon u horse. He rode on and on at a mad gallop. Though he rode fast as his horse’s limbs could go, he only reached General Brooks’ side as the first cannon was about to be touched off and tiie bloody battle was to begin. But. though we may honor Lieutenant McLaughlin, who by heroic effort sav ed thousands of lives by preventing bloody carnage, how much more should we today honor Christ for what lie has done for the world in a spiritual sense by the atonement of the cross! Christ, being born in Bethlehem of Judaea, meant more than mere physical salva tion. It meant the atonement of the cross, whereby Christ took upon him self the condemnation for our sins. Ought not the redemption of the world, foreshadowed in the hirth of a Saviour, have been good tidings of great joy to a sin struck and a condemned world? A Joyful Word. Some people seem to think that the birth of a Saviour is not the time for outward manifestations of joy, but of sorrow. “Saviour is a pathetic name," wrote Joseph Barker. “It is not an official title; it is not an image you can robe in scarlet and how down before, on account’of its majesty and haughti ness. Saviour is an angel with tears in his eyes, with arms mighty as the lightnings of God. but a heart all ten derness. ‘Saviour’ is a complex word. It has in It all human nature, al * 1 * * * di vine nature, all the past of history, all the possibilities of prophecy, all the mystery of apocalypse, a tenderness outranging the love of woman, a maj esty humbling the haughtiness of king.” But, fhough the word "Sav iour" may lie a pathetic word when we think >: ail the sufferings Christ iad to• 1 iiin c on aceo int of <tur sins, vet it is a joyful word when we think iiow we ;,:e to be redeemed <*n account if those divice sufferings. And. further more, when we know that Christ to day in he.; i n is glad that lie was able t>) suffer for us in order to save us, what a happy day Christmas ought to be for ail! Salvation for all, life for a!l. eternal emancipation for all who will t ulay kneel by the side of the manger! Am 1 right when I declare that the angelic messenger of the first Christmas morn should be the most honored of all messengers when lie announced the redemption of the world through the birth of God’s Son in the manger? The Nativity, in the next place, meant joyful tidings, because by the incarna tion of the San of God in the body of a little babe the human race was able to grasp the great doctrine that God was a God of love and not a God of bate or a God of indifference. It is one fact to preach truth; it is another to preach truth so that it is under stood by the common people. It is one fact to talk about God as a spirit; it is another to talk about God ns Christ, who was bone of our bone and flesh of our flesh and who was tempted as we are tempted. God was the same God before the fl st Christmas morn as he is today. Rul since Jesus Christ came to earth we, the common people, have been able to understand him in a way we would never have been able to do without the incarnation. Let me illustrate how the beauty of God’s love is simplified in Christ’s life, diaries Lamb and some of his bosom friends were met together one even ing in a London house to talk on liter ary topics. During the conversation some one said; “Think if Dante was to come to life again and enter this room! How we would welcome the man whose feet had trod the fiery pavements of the inferno, whose eyes had pierced the twilight, whose lungs had breathed the still, clear air of the Mount of Purgatorio, whose mind had ; contemplated the mysteries of glory I in the highest heavens!” “Suppose,” said another, “Shakespeare was to i come to us tonight, or Milton or Homer j or Virgil?” “Ah,” said Lamb, his ' whole face brightening, “how I should ! fling my arms up! How we would welcome those kings of thoughtful men!” “Suppose,” said another, “Christ was to come, what would we do?” With that Charles Lamb’s face chang ed instantly ns he said, “Of course we would fall upon our knees and wor ship him.” God !■ a God of Love. Ah, yes, Charles Lamb was right. No man can look upon or study the face of Christ without clearly and simply grasping the great truth that God is a God of love and not a God of hate. As a famous unbeliever wrote in reference to Christ: “Where is the man, where Is the sage, who knows how to act, to suf fer, to die without weakness and with out display? My friends, men do not Invent like this, and the facts respect ing Socrates, which no one doubts, are not so well attested as those about Jesus Christ. If the death of Socrates be that of a sage, the life and death of Jesus are those of a God.” Jean Paul Richter wrote these words about Christ: “The holiest among the mighty, the mightiest among the holy, lifted with liis pierced hands empires off their hinges and turned the stream of centuries out of its channel and still governs the ages.” Oh, my friends, can not, will not you see the truth that the birth of Jesus Christ has simplified the divine truth; that God is a God of love and not a God of hate? Can you not feel through Hie simple story of the life and death of Jesus Christ that we are able to learn that God loves us even with a greater love than any human parent bears his own child? Thank God today for the message of his love. A short time after Jesus was horn, in order to satisfy a Jealous fear. Herod ordered all the little boys !n the region of Bethlehem to he slain by his sol diers. Think of a ruler having such power as that and being able to use it as he would. But the slaughter of those baby boys was only a small part of Herod’s Infamies. Herod’s whole reign can he tracked with bloodshed. Herod brutally slew his wife’s brother Joseph and her mother and his wife. He slew every one who dared to lift a voice against him in his kingdom. Then in order that his death might he a time of national mourning we learn from Jo sephus that he gave orders for the chief men of the Hebrew nation to be gath ered In the hippodrome and to lie there slain on the night of his own death. If the people, as he knew, would not be wail his death he took measures to in sure their sorrow for another cause. lie would not have the night of bis death a period of joy and rejoicing. Such a man was the ruler of Judaea In that day. Ah, yes, there never was a dark er or a more hopeless time in Jewish history than when Jesus was born. Tims we find the Hebrew people long ingly—oh, so longingly—looking for a Messiali at this time. Chriat Haa Not Foraaken fa. My brother, as Christ came to Jeru salem at the darkest time of Hebrew history, can lie not come to you this Christmas day, even though it may be in the dark days of your life? Is it dark for some of you? Is your life sad with sin. sad with sorrow, sad with bitter disappointment? Do you need a Saviour now?’ “The whole thought and idea of all that is told about Christmas day,” wrote Dean Stanley, “suggests the consoling, cheering thought that, however gloomy our lot, however dis tressed our portion, the Almighty God has not forsaken us." Even in the darkest bourn of our lives Christ will come to us as he came to Bethlehem in the darkest hours of Hebrew his tory. Are we going to reject Christ as Pilate and the Jews rejected him? Having accepted the glad tidings of great joy that Jesus eume to save, shall not you and I on this glorious CliriBliuas Sabbath day start forth to nuiuimii e. as did the angelic messenger, that Christ lias come to save all who ivi'l believe on iiim and be saved? Can any man bear this good news and not want to .spread it abroad? Can we fully realize that through Christ we shall live ami yet not want to go forth to herald the tidings that Christ has come to save our neighbors ait well as oursel v es? Shah we not be as anxious to spread abroad the news that our Saviour is born as were our ancestors to scatter the news, July 4, 1770, that the birth of a new government had taken place in old Independence hall of Philadel phia? When the Declaration of Inde pendence was about to be signed couriers were waiting upon the edge of the city to carry the news to every part of the new nation. The signal was to be given to these messengers by the ringing of the old Liberty bell. The aged sexton stood in the belfry, his trembling hands upon the rope. When the last member had put his name to the immortal document the grandson of the sexton ran up the rickety stairs, crying, “Ring, grand father, ring!” The old bell, worth to American sentiment more than its weight in gold, rang so loud that its heart broke. The couriers dug their spurs into the horses’ flanks and rode from town to town, from village to village and from city to city. They rode as fast as Paul Revere did when he carried the news of the British marching into Lexington and Concord. They rode carrying the news, the glad news, that a new nation was bora. Shgll not we do as did the joyful pa triots? Shall not we carry the news of Christ’s birth not only to our friends, but to the distant islands of the seas? World Ilna Changed Since Then. The civilized world has grown larger than it was on that first Christmas morn. The geographical map has un dergone many changes. Great explor ing parties have discovered new conti nents. The farthermost lands have been found to be inhabited. During the life of the ancient wise men and the shep herds there were comparatively few of the Inhabitants of the world who ueard of Christ’s name. Millions of the inhab itants of the world today have never heard of Christ’s name. A large part of the remainder is entirely indifferent to the teachings the gospel. Therefore to the Christians Christmas day ought to be the most opportune of all days for proclaiming the Saviour’s mission. Every home, every street corner, every family gathering, should be a place where the deeper, holler purposes of Christ’s life are to be explained by those who have felt the love and the mercy and the tenderness and the hope that have come to the believing hearts that have gathered about the manger. So may this Christmas day find the love which hinds man’s heart to man as well as man’s heart to God. May God save us all not only on account of the love Christ hears us, but also on account of the saving Christian love we bear our fellow men. In Brahman mythology there is a beautiful legend told that in the beginning God created man and woman and placed them in the center of an island. This island was called Paradise. Every tree branch of that island was an aeolian harp with a thousand strings; every wind was a many fingered musician, thumbing the sweetest of music. Ev ery day went arm in arm with two other days, for there was no night there, not even a star. Brahma told this bride and groom whom he had created not to leave this Island, for if they did they would surely perish. But one morning—all the days there had mornings and evenings, but no night- one morning a beautiful mirage off in the distance began to beckon the young man. The cataracts waved their white skirts of foam, crying; “Come! Come!” There the deer, with great eyes of won derment. watched as the birds sang; “Come! Come! Why don't you come?” So the young man called for his bride, and they started forth out of the is land. No sooner did they pass over the little neck of land separating them from the mainland than this beautiful mirage vanished. The rocks began to groan and crack, the vapor was licked up. the mountains closed In. and they were in prison. When the executioner of Brahma came to lead them forth to eternal death the young man cried out: “Oh, executioner, kill me, hut not my loved one. It was my fault, not hers.” “Then," answered Brahma, "I will slay thee qml not thy wife.” “Nay,” answered the wife, “if thou wilt not save my husband then let me die. for I would sooner he with my loved one in death than live In Paradise alone.” “Then,” says the legend, "on account of this wondrous love for each other Brahma saved them both.'' This is a heathen legend. But is a heathen legend to have more Christian love In it than we have? On this glorious Christmas Sabbath morning can we not Lei the good tidings of great Joy means that Christ has saved us? And then, with wondrous love for our fellow men. cannot we, like the twain in the Brahman It vend, he so concerned for the welfare of others that we are ready even to die that they may he saved, ready at the tisk of health and life to carry the good news of siulvatidii to those who have never heard it or in the home land to devote our means, our time and our labor to the task of proclaiming the glad tidings of great Joy which have come to all people? May this be the happiest and glad dest Christmas of our lives. May it be , the time when we see anew the face of Jesus and tell of his love, his re deeming love, wherever we may go. 1 wish you one and all a “merry, merry Christmas.” | [Copyright, 1904. by Loute Klopsch.] Fight Will Be Bitter. Those who will persist in closing tai-ii ears against the continual recom mendation of Dr. King’s New Dis- uy for Consumption, will have, a ong and bitter fight with their troub- h s. il not ended earlier by fatal termi nation. Read what T. R. Beall, of Beall Mi-ss.. has to say: “Last fall my wife had every symptom of consumption.- She took Dr. King’s New Discovery after everything else had failed. Im- provement came at once and four bot tles entirely cured her.” Guaranteed by Cherokee Drug Co. Druggists. I rice 50c and $1.00. Trial bottle free. A girl has a remarkably fine com plexion when she hears her first queer story. Coughs, Colds and Constipation. Few people realize when taking cough medicines other than Foley’s Honey and Tar, that they contain opi ates which are constipating besides being unsafe, particularly for children. Foley’s Honey and Tar contains no opiates, is safe and sure and will not constipate. Cherokee Drug Co. When the cook is satisfied to stay nobody else is to have her. To Cure a Cold in One Day take LAXATIVE BROMO QUININE Tablets. All druggists refund the money if it fails to cure. E. W. Grove’s signature is on each box! 25c. A girl has a very good chance to be married as soon as she makes up her mind not to try too hard. Ten Thousand Churches painted with L. & M. Paint. Wears and covers like gold. Only requires a few gallons to paint a house. Lead with zinc. Non-chalk- able. Money saver. Call on Smith Hardware Co. It is kind of interesting figuring out if a girl is as thin as she looks. BANNER 8 ALVE the most healing aalva in the world. EXECUTOR’S SALE. By virtue of authority given me in the last will and testament of Robert G. Parker, late of Cherokee county, S. C., deceased, I will sell at public outcry, before the Court House door at Gaffney, S. C., on Tuesday, January Jrd, 1905, salesday, (Monday the 2nd being a legal holiday) the following described real estate of said deceased, to wit: First tract, known as the Parker residence tract, lying in Cherokee county and near the North Carolina line, bounded by Farmer Moore and others, containing 3^ acres, more or less, and more fully described in two deeds—3 acres from H. Martin and % acre from James Martin and others. Also that tract or lot of land adjoin ing the aforesaid lot, but lying in Cleveland county, N. C.. bounded now, or formerly, by John Runion, Willie Martin, John Martin and others, con taining 5 acres, more or less. Also a one-half undivided interest in that lot of land lying in Cherokee county, S. C., bought from W. F. Runyon, deed dated 24th April, 1896, and re corded in clerk’s office, Y’ork county, in Book No. 15, pages 577 and 578, and bounded, now or formerly, by H. Mar tin, Farmer Moore, R. G. Parker, de ceased, and N. C. State line, contain ing 10 acres, more or less. Terms of sale, one-third (1-3) cash, balance payable Nov. 15th, 1905, with interest from day of sale, to be se cured by note and mortgage of pre mises sold, with leave to purchaser to pay all cash if he so desires. Pur chaser to pay for papers and record ing. Jacob E. Sepoch. Executor for will of Robert G. Par ker. deceased. Dec. 20, 23, 30. AUDITOR’S NOTICE. To all whom this may concern: The Auditor’s office for Cherokee county at the court house at Gaffney, S. C. will be open from the first day of January, 1905, to 20th day of Febru ary, 1905, for the purpose of receiving returns of all taxable property and road duty for tax for the year 1905. AH who wish to do so may make their returns at the office during that time as the office will be kept open for that purpose. Mr. Geo. W. Speer, Magis trate, will take pleasure in taking re turns'. And for the convenience of all I will attend the following places at th<* dates named below: Draytonville, Monday, Jan. 9th. Wilkinsville, Tuesday, Jan. 10th. Sarratts (old store), Wednesday, Jan. 11th. Asbury (J. R. Littlejohn’s), Thurs day, Jan. 12th. Ravenna (Brown’s store), Friday, Jan. 13th. Webster (Mrs. M. M. Tate’s), Sat urday. Jan. 1 irh. Tbickety (Smith’s store), Monday, Jan. Kith. White Plains (R. C. Lipscomb’s), Tuesday, Jan. 17ih. Macvdonia, Wednesday, Jan. 18th. Buth r’s Thursday, Jan. 19th. Ezefis, Friday, Jan. 20th. Maud (Linders’ store), Saturday, Jan. 21st. Cl: >i;oe Falls (Factory), Monday, Jan. 2‘!rd. Kind's Creek, Tuesday, J "n. 2lrh. Antioch (Church), Wednesday, Jan. 25th. Blacksburg, Thursday and Friday, j Jan. 26th and 27th. Buffalo (school house), Saturday, ! Jan. 28th. Allens, Monday. Jan. 30th. Grassy Pond, Tuesday, Jan. 31st. All pers ons fni'ing ‘o make their returns'within this time, the law re quire-; me to add 50 per rent. All males between 21 and 60 years of ago except Confederate soldiers and those incapable of earning a support by be- | ing maimed or otherwise disabled, ar\J deemed taxable polls. Please let all persons int a r'> t d re member the days of my °.pp int men s and meet me on those day . Yours very leipeefrfttHv, W. D. Camp, Auditor. .i-' ■> m