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V ". \ ' ^ > '■y rrw. .*'• I •V, r £ U- v* 1 «. “VjL 4 By Rev. Frank De Witt Talmatfe, D. D. Miss. Agnes Westley 816 Wells Street Marinette.Wis. 816 Wells Street, Marixette, Wis., Sept. 25,1903. I was all run down from nervous ness and overwork and had to resign my position and take a rest. I found that I was not gaining my strength and health as fast as 1 could wish, and as your \\ ine of Cardui was recommended as such a good medicine for the ills of our sex, I bought a bottle and began using it. 1 was satisfied with the results from the use of the first bottle, and took three more and then found I was restored to good health and strength and able to take up my work with renewed vigor. I consider it a fine tonic and excellent for worn-out, nervous condition, and am pleased to endorse it. AGNES WESTLEY, gec'y, North WiacunMn Holland Society. Secure a ?1.00 bottle of Wine of Cardui and a 25c. package of Thedford’s Black-Draught today. WINE OF CARDUI WE WANT ALL INTERESTED IN MACHINERY TO HAVE OUR NAME BEFORE THEM DURING 190S Writ* u* stating what kind of Maoh INERT you uae or will laatall, and wa will mall you Free of All Cost A HANDSOME AND USEFUL POCKET DIARY AND ATLAS OR A LARGE Commercial calendar (Mbbcs Machinery Company, COLUMBIA, 8. C. A STOOK OF NORSE FOWBB NAT FREESES TO BB OLOSBD OUT AT SPECIAL PRICES "iRffi*’* Early Risers llie famous little pille* Shoes! Men’s Shoes ! Ladies’ Shoes! Hoys’ Shoes! Girls’ Shoes! Children’s Shoes All cheap for cash at I. n. Peeler’s. Dr. S. H. Griffith, PHYSICAN - SURGEON - OCULIST. Former pupil of the celebra ted Oculist, Dr. Julian J. Chisolm, ot Baltimore. Has also taken special post-grad uate course in the Kye, Kar, Nose and Throat Hospital of Baltimore. Glasses Fitted Accurately and Scientifically, jt jt jt •Office in Cherokee Drug Co.. B’ldg FARM AT, AUCTION. I will offer to the highest bidder on Tuesday, January 3rd, at Gaffney Court House at 13 o’clock, 303 acres, know n as A. W. Love’s Thompson place. Will sell in three separate tracts, 77 acres, 77 acres, and 150 acres, respectively. Property lies in Manning creek, % mile from King’s Creek station. Southern Railway through the place. 1% miles from Piedmont Springs. miles of Cranford Springs, l * 1 * * * * * * /^ miles from Canaan church. 1 % miles of Smyrna church. 0 miles from Blacksburg. One dwelling, three good tenant houses and out buildings. Thirty acres good bottom land, divided in the three tracts. Nearly all fresh land, none worn out. Public road through the place. Abundance of wood can be shipped. Terms, % cash, balance in three equal annual pay ments with interest at 7 per cent. JTJtle . unencumbered. This Is a good jpportunity to buy a bargain. While cotton has a black eye, “watch for my Red Flag and listen for my Bell." J. Edgar Poag, Broker, Rock Hill. Administration Notice. AH persons having claims against the estate of W. Scott Hill, deceased, \ will please present the same to me properly proven, and all persons owing said estate, will please call on mo at once and make settlement of same. W. W. Gaffney, Administrator estate of W. Scott Hill, deceased. Dec. 23-30, Jan. C. Los Angeles, Cal., Dec. 28.—In the great battle that is being waged be tween infidelity and Christianity this sermon introduces a mass of evidence, direct and collateral, which the un biased searcher after truth will gladly welcome. The text is Hebrews xi, 1, “Faith is the evidence of things not seen.” What is evidence? Testimony, proof, demonstration. It is a statement of facts made in court by a witness, by which a jiror is led to believe some thing that his eyes have not seen nor his ears heard. It Is the alibi by which a man proves that he could not have been on the scene of a crime. It is the proof which a wrongly evicted owner produces of his right and title to an inheritance. It is an argument from admitted and existing facts to prove the operation of causes remote In time. It Is the means by which truth defends itself against the onslaught of error and the weapon with which it over throws the fortresses of superstition and false doctrine. Evidence of the unseen has a mo mentous mission. For the greater num ber of us it is the only basis we have for our knowledge. If we were to be lieve in nothing that we have not our selves seen we should have to give up our belief In facts and events Innumer able. “It is not necessary for me to go and see London before I believe that there exists such a city as London,’’ once wrote a great Bible commentator, In reference to my text. I know r that such a place us St. Petersburg exists, although I have not seen it. Why? I am convinced by the testimony of those who have seen it. The “evidence of things not seen” has proved to me that it exists. I have read books writ ten about the city of St. Petersburg. I have seen pictures of the great build ings of that Russian capital, its cathe drals, its jayal palaces, its memorial halls on itsmagnlflcent boulevards. I have heard my friends, who have trav eled among the Muscovites, describe its bridges and its citadels. Why should I then doubt St. Petersburg exists, al though my eyes have never seen it? I never personally saw my grandfa ther, David Talmage. He died before I was born. But I know such a man by that name once existed in the flesh. The “evidences of things not seen” are absolutely conclusive. One Wednesday evening in my Chicago church an old man arose. lie startled me with these words: “I knew your pastor’s great- graudfather, Thomas Talmage. I knew well your pastor’s grandfather, David Talmage. I was a playmate of your pastor’s late father. And when I go to his home tonight after this service and kiss your pastor’s son my eyes will have seen live generations of the Talmage family.” I have In my family album a picture of David Tal- mat My aunt said It was his pic ture, and that was his name. My fa ther some years ago took me to David Taimage’s grave, marked with his name upon the tombstone, and told me all about my grandfather’s characteris tics. I have never seen David Tal mage in the flesh, but on account of the conclusive “evidence of things not seen” I know' he existed. Why Colombna Knew It. Days before Christopher Columbus landed at San Salvador he knew he was approaching land. The Genoese admiral and his fleet had been sailing on, week in and week out. The mut- terings of a sailors’ mutiny grew loud er and louder In the forecastle. At last a delegation waited upon their commander and practically said: “Co lumbus, you are sailing away to cer tain death. We will never find land in this direction. Either you turn ship and head toward home or we will pitch you overboard and go home any way.” “Give me Just three days lon ger of a western course, and then if unsuccessful I will turn back,” an swered the great captain. Within the three days branches of trees were seen floating past the boats. “There is land!” cried Columbus. “Men, see. there is land! By yonder tree branch es we have the evidence of it!” For days and weeks the old North American Indians could follow’ their foes by the tracks left upon the ground by the enemy. They could tell by those tracks how many men, how many w’omen, how many children, how' many horses and how many wagons and cat tle composed the party ahead. They could unerringly read all these facts by the “evidence of things not seen.” In the same way in which the Indian warriors of old followed their enemies by visible signs we may find the “footprints of tho Man of Galilee” not only In Palestine, but also In all sacred history. We may prove by the same process that Jesus Is not a mere vision and that, our gospel faith is not merely a poetic dream. They are fur mono than thes*., Our faith Is rational. It is founded upon the conclusive “evi dence of things oot seen.” First, our fail ft Is rational. Its geo graphical foun dation stones are strong and true undi well anchored. I not only ilnd “thM footprints of the Man of Galilee” ^■hle all through Pales tine, but, a»R Thomson once wrote, I find tbeJ^P* a T»i tho book aro one. I find, ^°*\mong the holy hills, that ‘'U* w L)t a mythical charac ter, “w mythical people In u ^hythlcal * Chrl8t was God; Oh^B™ 8 * waM a, ^l man. He lived, he he f, e he ate, un^P> 0I1 K those Leyf people of fl>* east as one of themselves. We find the place of his birth. We can find the places where he passed his boy- j hood, where he went ns a man. where he died, where he was resurre ted and the hill from which he ascended. TIip I.-iimI iiimI the Hunk. The land and the hook are one. Tho pi. niiality of Jesus Christ, in the first pi: has a true, a vitally true, geo- gntjihiea! setting. No Bible student ever walked the Judaean hills witn eyes truly opened to the divine truth that he did not have his belief in Jesus Christ Irrevocably sealed and infinitely strengthened by the conformation of eastern customs and geographical facts with the recorded biographies of Christ’s life. Henry A. Harper, the great archaeologist, the author of that marvelous book entitled. “The Bible and Modern Discoveries,” presses home this statement upon his readers in a powerful way. On one of Dr. Harper’s pages I find these words: “A very dear friend of mine, a splendid explorer, a great traveler, w’as at heart and in secret an unbeliever in the divinity of Jesus Christ. Circum stances compelled him to explore Pal estine. To under tand the country he found that he must read the Bible, and, reading It In the full blaze of light, w'hleh custom and country and mod ern Investigations threw’ on It, he found that Jesus w’as Indeed his Sav iour. He brought the full power of his able mind to bear on all he read and all he saw. and, ns a result of those geographical studies and the Chrtst life, in humble adoration he bowed before his God and Redeemer. There was no sudden, no violent, change. All had been noiselessly and gradually accomplished. He w’as con- j vinced of the divinity of Jesus Christ by the wdtnesses of the dust.” I might ! go on and quote scores of testimonies just like Dr. Harper's In reference to ’ the harmonies of the Christ life with the geographical facts and the Hebrew customs of the Palestine hills. Studying today the “evidence of the things not seen” in reference to Jesus Christ, Is there nothing rational, noth ing overwhelming, to you in the har mony between the opened leaves of eastern rocks and the biographies of the four gospels? Is there nothing marvelous to you in the fact that there is not a detail in all Christ’s earthly life which cannot be verified by the rocks of the Palestine hills and val leys, which are absolutely In accord with one another? The men who wTote the Bible were not historical nov elists like the author of the “Tower of London” or of “Kenilworth" or of “Ro- mola” or of “The Crisis.” They did not accept historical facts w r hen they want ed to use them for the benefit of their | plots and reject those facta when it did not suit their convenience to use them. ! They did not put Christ in imaginary places at Impossible times and put fic titious and impossible statements in his mouth. Almost every detail of Christ’s earthly life can be verified by geographical position and eastern cus tom. That classic hook of travels written by Richard Henry Dana, called “Two Years Before the Mast,” is sup posed to contain a perfect g»“Ographical ; account of the early coast of southern i California and Its people. But the Bible is a more wonderful guidebook to the Holy Land than Dana’s master piece could ever be to California. The best guidebook through the Holy Land ever written Is the Bible. In its every detail the Christ life is found to have a perfect geographical setting. Is there nothing wonderful to you that the land and the hook in reference to Christ's life are one? Jesus w’ns not a mythological char acter. “Before you can obliterate the story of Jesus Christ from this earth, on which he so sublimely lived, you will have to grind out of sight and for ever erase the sacred hills of Pales tine,” once wrote David Gregg in a book for which authorship he was elected an honorary member of the Royal Geographical society of London. “You will forever have to grind out of sight the sacred hills of Palestine, where Christ was tempted, and where he preached his wonderful sermon, and where he was transfigured, and where he died, and where he ascended. God be praised for the gospel according to geography! God he praised for the Holy Land, with Its Jordan and Beth lehem and Hermon and Zion and Cal vary and Olivet! These are all inde- structible pages of the divine and in destructible book. These are all wit nesses that Christ has spoken to men and lived among men and wrought out salvation for man.” Christ was a God. Yes, Christ was a man! By the evi dence of the pages of rock I know it! Other Kvldeneea of Divinity. But we find Christ as the “evidence of things not seen” In another way. By the fulfillment of Scripture prophe cies in reference to his birth, his life, his death and his resurrection we know that the prophecies of his second coming,will he fulfilled as well as was bis first coming. We know there will cofne u time when, upon the white horse of victory, Christ shall ride down the blue hillsides of heaven. He shall come to put all his enemies under his feet. He ahall come to claim his own. For then his name shall be written, “King of kings and Lord of Lords.” We know by the words of his own lips that as he has gone to heaven for a little while to prepare a place for his chil dren, so he will come again and re ceive them unto himself, that where he is there they may be also. The prophetic studies of the Bible are among the most Instructive and fascinating of all the Scriptures, But in order to limit our studies let us con fine our thoughts for hut a brief mo ment to the wonderful birth and life and death of Jesus Christ. No ration al man can read the fulfilled prophe cies in reference to the birth of Jesus and not declare that his nativity was divine. Supposing I should come to j you some day and say: “Mra. So-and- so. that little child of yours is going to have a wonderful history. When he gets to be eighteen years of age he is going to the far east and will settle in one of the I'aeiflc islands. Then he is going to he elected ruler over that is land, and the people are going to obey him as their ruler and tin !r king. Then he is going to marry and have chil dren, and his children will have chil dren. His descendants are going to reign in that island for hundreds of years. Then one of his descendants hundreds of years from now is going to visit London, and while there he is going to have a child lx>rn in the out skirts of London, in the suburb of Chelsea. Then that child is to stay In England and grow up and become a leader of the people until at last the king of England will become jealous of him, and he will be hanged in the Tow er of London.” Puliillment of I'roitheoy. Suppose I should ramble on in a long rigmarole like that In reference to your baby, what would you say? Why, you would look at me askance and then say: “You are crazy! *io unin spired man can look into the future and tell what is going to happen to my descendants thousands of years from now. A crank or a fool might happen for once to declare aright, that it will snow in Canada in July—as one weather prophet did a few years ago. But to declare what is to happen a thousand years from now, that is be yond all range of human possibilities.” Yet the astounding statement that I made a few moments ago in reference to a little child is not nearly as won derful and seemingly absurd from a human standpoint as those Messianic prophecies which were made not by one, but by many writers of the Old Testament in reference to the birth, the life, the death and the resurrec tion of Jesus Christ. When the wise mec came to Jerusalem to find the new born King, who was yet to be “King of kings and Lord of lords,” what an swer was given to the oriental stran gers by those learned in the Hebrew law? They promptly answered, “In Bethlehem,” and gave for their author ity the words of the prophet Micah, who lived and wrote 700 years before Christ was bom. Yet, when the wise men went to Bethlehem, they found there the infant Christ, as Micah had foretold. Is not this fulfilled prophecy a startling evidence that Jesus was born a man, yet that he was the Be ing whose divine attributes were fore seen by the prophets? If as a rational man I want to find the proof that Christ is some day going to return to earth to claim his disciples as his own all that I have got to do is to turn to the prophecies of Isaiah and read first the account of Christ’s birth and early life. “He was oppressed, he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth. He is brought as a lamb to the slaughter and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth.” Did not the prophecy of Isaiah, written 800 years before Christ died, come true? Then will not also Isaiah's prophecy come true which declares that “there shall come forth a rod out of the stem of Jesse’’ who shall make the “lion eat straw like an ox and the sucking child play on the hole of the asp?” For then “the glory of the Lord shall cover the earth, even as the waters cover the seas.” Oh, my brother. If you believe that Christ's birth was a divine fact, then by the “evidence of things not seen” you should also believe that Christ is coming again to claim his own. But the divinity of Jesus Christ is found in the testimony of Christ’s con temporaries as well as in the prophe cies of those inspired men who lived hundreds of years before Christ was horn. It is not only’found in the gos pel biographers of Jesus, who knew Christ personally, but also In the tes timony of such mighty personalities as that of Paul, who was martyred lu Rome about 07 A. D., and Ignatius, who was martyred in 100 A. D., and Polycarp, who lived to be nearly nine ty years old and was martyred In 155 A. D. These men did not live hun- dreds of years after Christ was bom. By direct touch with events they were able to prove with their own eyes and ears If Christ was a fraud or whether Jesus truly placed the stamp of his divinity upon his life’s work by the miracles he wrought. Tmtlmony of the Martyrs. Explain away the prophecies? Oh, that Is Impossible! And yet it would be no less difficult to explain away the testimonies of the contemporaries of Jesus Christ, who declare that Christ was divine. Why? Because, as I read those testimonies, I find, with but one exception or possibly two, they were all sealed with the lifeblood of mar tyrdom. Here is the honor roll: Mat thew was slain with a sword In Ethi opia; Mark was dragged through the streets of Alexandria until his brains were dashed out and the matted hair stuck to the walls and the rocks; Luke’s mode of death Is not known positively, but tradition says he was slain for Christ: John, the only apos tle who died a natural death, was not only exiled, but also cast into a caldron of boiling oil; James the Great was be headed In Jerusalem; James tho Less was hurled from the top of the temple to the ground and there beaten to death with a club; Stephen was stoned to death; Philip was banged; St. Bar tbolomew was flayed alive—that means his skin was peeled off from his quiv ering flesh while he was yet conscious, the bystanders standing about the suf ferer at the time and mocking him: Andrew preached from the cross while the people scoffed at his dying agonies; Thomas was pierced by a lance; Himon Zelotes was kilh-d In Persia; Matta- thlas was murdered; Paul, Polycarp, j Ignatius and scores of others were all, as I said before, martyred. Is it rational to suppose that those men who lived In Christ’s time, who were 'ible to verify his miracles, would have been willing to aaEure hardship and persecution and finally to lay down their lives for Christ if they knew him to be an impostor? Why, the supposi tion is absurd! The Christian disciples who lived as contemporaries of Jesus Christ would never have been willing to come by night and steal his body from the tomb and then be willing to be martyred to make good their false cl:*im that Christ had risen from the dead. These men were not fools any more than you and l are fools. Before you explain away the divinity of Jesus Christ you must explain away the writings of Paul, of Matthew, Mark, i Luke and John, of Polycarp and Ig natius. When we consider “the evi- 1 dence of things not seen” let us not omit the testimony of these contem poraries of Christ who proved the sin cerity and truth of their record by dy ing rather than deny it. “Footprints ot the Man.” But not only do we find the “foot prints of the Man of Galilee” marked side by side with the footprints of his disciples who lived 1,800 years ago, but also with ids disciples who are living by our side at the present day. And, wonderful to state, Christ’s foot prints are best revealed when he has been walking with the vilest of mod ern sinners and outcasts, as they were when he walked by the side of Mary Magdalene and talked with the woman at the well of Samaria and followed Zaccheus to a despised publican’s house, built by the stolen moneys of a Roman tax collector. Oh, Christ worked some wonderful miracles when he was upon earth among the publicans and the sinners! But I do not believe a greater example of his power over sin and disease was ever more convincingly manifested than when he alleviated the sufferings of those unhappy maniacs whom the writers of that time describe as being possessed by devils. That was a vivid picture that Christmas Evans drew of the return to his home of that man whose home was among the tombs, where he dwelt like a wild beast, a misery to himself and a terror to oth ers. No sooner was he delivered by the mighty word of Christ than he started off to hunt up his wife and children* No sooner did the wife see him coming than she was struck dumb with fear. Then she cried: “Run, chil dren! Run to the house and bar the doors! Your father is coming! Run or he may kill us!” The family hasten ed into the house, while the older boy started off to the neighbors for help. They barred and barricaded the win dows and the doors of the house. The smaller children began to cry with fear. The older children knew if their father, possessed of a thousand dev ils, should ever be able to batter down the door of the house he might slay them. But, strange to say, as the trembling wife and children saw the father and husband come nearer, in stead of seeing him foaming at the mouth aud flashing his eyes and of hearing him rave with his cursing lips, they saw him with a loving smile upon his happy face. He kept calling to his wife: “Mary, open the door! Do not be afraid. It Is I, your husband, freed from all my devils. Mary, open! Jesus has saved me! Jesus has saved me!” That was a wonderful description Christmas Evans drew of the poor maniac who hud been possessed with the thousand devils among the Ga- darene tombs. But is the scene of that liberated Hebrew returning home any more wonderful than the scenes many of us have witnessed when we saw the drunkards who have been res cued by Christ from the devils of drink, and the outcasts who have been rescued by Christ, and the seven devil ed Marys of this age who have been rescued by Christ, all returning to their homes? Is the scene of the poor Gadarene maniac, rescued by Christ, any more marvelous than the scene of a Gough, or a Woolley, or a Jerry Mc- Auley, who have been exorcised of their thousand devils during our pres ent generation? And if Christ today is going down among the lowest of the low to rescue fallen men and women have we not a right to include among the “evidence of things not seen these slaves of sin among ourselves who have been rescued by his power? This studying of the gospel evidence as evidence lias won the allegiance of many of our greatest lawyers to Christ as well as laymen. This fact was true of the conversion of Salmon P. Chase, the great chief justice of tlte supreme court of the United States. Many years ago, after Senator Chase had been In the active practice of the law for some time, he one day unemotionally made up his mind to this one action. He said to himself practically tills: “Now, Chase, the Bible is the great religious book of my country. Jesus Christ is the incarnate God who is here wor shiped. As an educated gentleman as well as lawyer I should know what that Bible contains and whether or not I should give that Christ my alle giance or contempt.” Thus as a lawyer he went to work. With all the power of one of the most brilliant judicial minds this coumry ever produced Salmon P. Chase tried to find out whether “the statutes of the Lord are right.” He weighed calmly and delib erately all tlx* anrument i made against the personality of Christ. Me weight'd all the evidence made In Christ’s favor. Then, after he had weighed and com pared both sides, he rendered his ver dict. Salmon P. Chase, in the quiet of his law study, said this: “The Lible Is true. Jesus is divine. He died to save me. I accept that sacrifice for my atonement of sin. I here and now promise to serve him all the rest of my earthly life that I may dwell with him In glory.” Like Chief Justice Chase, are you and I ready today to accept Christ's promises of love by the gospel power of the "evidence of tilings not seen?” Will It win you, O sinner, today for Christ? (Copyright, 1904. by Louis Klopsch.] Fight Will Be Bitter. Those who will persist in closing their ears against the continual recom mendation of Dr. Kino’s New Dis covery for Consumption, will have a long and bitter fight with their troub les. if not ended earlier by fatal termi nation. Read what T. R. Beall, of Beall, Miss., 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. Price 50c and $1.00. Trial bottle free. A woman's intellect is seldom up to the standard of her conversational abilities. 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 constipatiug 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. Prosperity helps some men to forget their friends. 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. Indifference is a pump for drawing secrets from women Buy oil from the barrel at 50 cents given to churches whenever they paint. Don’t pay $1.50 a gallon for linseed oil. Liberal quantity of L. & M. Paint gallon, and mix it with L. & M. Paint. It makes paint cost about $1.20 per gallon. Call on Smith Hardware Company. BANNER SALVE the most healing salve 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 3rd, 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. York 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, All who wish to do so may make their returns at the office during that time as the office will he 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 the dates named below: Draytonville, Monday, Jan. 9th. Wilkinsvilie, 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. 14th. Thickety (Smith’s store), Monday, Jan. 16th. White Plains (R. C. Lipscomb’s), Tuesday, Jan. 17th. Macedonia, Wednesday, Jan. 18th. Butler’s Thursday, Jan. 19th. Ezells, Friday, Jan. 20th. Maud (Linders’ store), Saturday, Jan. 21st. Cherokee Falls (Factory), Monday, Jan. 23rd. King's Creek, Tuesday, Jan. 24th. Antioch (Church), Wednesday, Jan. 25th. Blacksburg, Thursday and Friday, Jan. 26th and 27th. Buffalo (school house), Saturday, Jan. 28th. Allens, Monday, Jan. 30th. Grassy Pond, Tuesday, Jan. 31st. All persons failing to make their returns within this time, the law re quires me to add 50 per cent. All males between 21 and 60 years of age except Confederate soldiers and those incapable of earning a support by be ing maimed or otherwise disabled, are deemed taxable polls. Please let all persons interest* d re member the days of my appointments and meet me on those days. Yours very respectfully, W. D. Camp. Auditor.