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FOR RENT. FOR RENT—Six-room cottage, gar den, water works, all conveniences, ou Johnson street, within two blocks of graded school apd Bu/ord Street Methodist church, j 12.50 per month. Apply to Mrs. J. OQtoi or O. S. Kendrick. * ' ' ' 1-24-ti' i TEN-ROOM HOUSE to rent near dummy line. N. Lipscomb. 1-13-tf. SIX-ROOM HOUSE to rent just out side incorporate line. N. Lipscomb. 1-13-tf. FOR RENT—Ollice pled by J. C. Otts. Littlejohn. formerly occu- Apply to J. S. > FOR RENT—The John White house. Apply to \Vj, il. Smith 12-10-tf. FOR RENT—Store room on Robin son street. Webster & Jefferies. 12-G-to. FOR RENT — Five-room, cottage. Centrally located. Mrs. A. V. Mont gomery. 12-16-tf. FOR RENT—House next to Smith Cook’s residence. Wood & Carpenter. 11-15-tf. SUITES OF ROOMS to let in the Star Theatre. A. N. Wood. 3-22-tf WANTED. Hair Per WANTED—1,000 Customers. Cut. Shave and Shampoo, 25c. month 80c. Talley & Petty. Robinson St., Webster & Jefferies Building. 2-3-2m. WANTED—To pay cash for a few hundred second-hand beer botMes. J. L. Alexander. 1-3-tf. WANTED—Everybody to see us be fore buying their Furniture, Stoves, Crockery, Glassware, &c. The Acme Furniture Co. 12-9-tf. WANTED—Hides of every descrip tion; chickens, eggs and butter. Z. A. Robertson. 9-9tf. FOR SALE. FOR RENT—A four-room cottage on Victoria Avenue. Apply to Mrs. R. C. Howard. Feb. 3-tf FOR. SALE tures cheap. 2-3-2t. -Bicycles and all flx- W. J. Maness. FOR SALE—I will sell on first Mon day in February, (salesday), twelve beautiful residence lots on North Frederick St., Gaffney, S. C. J. I. Sarratt. FOR SALE—Fine mule, G years old. Sell cheap. Also one horse 3 years old. W. L. Spake. l-13-3t-pd. FOR SALE—The Johnson-Tillotson house. Apply to J. C. Otts. 11-18-tf. FOR SALE—Some fine Cockerels and Pullets, Buff Plymouth Rocks, Wyandottes, Black Spanish, White and Brown Leghorns. J. J. Gaffney. i-3-tf. ■ FOR SALE—Several nice residence lots, convenient to the schools and town. Mrs. A. V. Montgomery. 11-8-tf. FOR SALE—“Bay State” organ, at your own price. Apply to R. G. By' ars, 901 Peachtree St. 10-28-tf LOST. LOST—Sunday, between Gaffney and J. C. Camp’s, a grey overcoat Finder rewarded. Leave at Ledger office. 1-24-lt. MONEY TO LOAN. We negotiate loans on improved farm lands at 7 per cent, interest, on amounts more than $1,000, and 8 per cent, interest on amounts less than $1,GG3. Long time and easy payments. HALL &. WILLIS, Gaffney, 3. C. ers For coughs, colds, bronchitis, asthma, weak throats, weak lungs, consumption, take Ayer’s Cherry Pectoral. Cherry Pectoral Always keep a bottle of it in the house. We have been saying this for 60 years, and so have the doctors. “ I have used Aver’s Cherry rertoral In my family for 40 year*. It is the he»t medicine in the" world, f know, for all throat and lonj; troubles.” Mu*. J. K. None ROSS, Waltham. Mass. '2.V.,Me., ?!.00. J. C. AYBR CO., All druggists. £ Lowell. Mass. for TheLungs GREAT MEN MODEST OF ACHIEVEMENTS MRS. HETTY GREEN, THE RICHEST WOMAN IN THE WORLD. Women Are Becoming More and More More Interwoven in the Professional and Industrial Pursuits. Forest City, N. C., Jan. 30.—In our last letter we quoted Lord Byron as ; relatives. (hat parents should give their dauph-! ters a business education the same as their sons? First, we do not be-! lieve ail persons are destined (if there j is such a thing as predestination), to marry. There are others who center i their whole heart and affections up on one who proves to be false and «ho is left to pine away, eking out. a miserable existence. There are still others who set sail upon the sweet, peaceful waters of matrimonial bliss | that in a short time are left a widow! with a famiy of little children and : no visible means of support. Many a poor heart broken young' widow has spent weary nights in bit-; ter weeping because she was thrown i upon the mercy and liberality of her ! A VENERABLE PASTOR CURED BY PE=RU=NA. Old People Are Especially Liable to Catarrh. follows; “He who ascends to moun tain tops will find the highest peaks most rapt in clouds and snow.” This is a very broad assertion and to a great extent a truthful one. How ever, in a strictly literal sense it has one exception, as any student ver sed in geographical science will readi ly perceive. Mountain peaks may be so high as to be entirely free from snow, while It is under such conditions 1 Pc-ru-na is a Tonic Especially Adapted to These Cases. Daily action of the bowels is neces- a belt of snow girdles the lower part sary. Ait! nature with Ayer’s Pills, of the mountain. Perhaps the rare faction of the air is the cause of this. At any rate, it seems that at certain Curing a Smoker. (London Tid-Bits.) A wise mother caught her little hoy smoking a cigarette the other day. Instead of inverting him over her knee and nearly spanking the life out of him, she said; “Johnny, dear, I see you are getting quite a big little man. Come away in. and I will give you one of papa’s great big cigars to smoke.” So she marched Johnny away into papa’s study and sat him down to smoke one of papa’s cigars. She sat down opposite and watched, while his lips grew white and his eyes yellow and his hands dropped helplessly, and as a little later she ministered to him she had the satis faction of receiving his vehement nromise that he would never, never smoke again until he was older. Arrival of Trains. For the convenience of the people og Gaffney and vicinity, we publish below a correct schedule of the ar rival at Gaffney of the passenger trains on the Southern railroad: GOING SOUTH .No. 39 arrives at..' 9:10 A. M. No. 37 arrives at 10:57 A. M. No. 11 arrives at 2:52 P. M. No. 97 arrives at 6:43 P. M. No. 35 arrives at 11:50 P. M. GOING NORTH No. 36 arrives at 7:22 A. M. No. 12 arrives at 4:40 P. M. No. 38 arrives at 6:43 P. M. No. 40 arrives at 8:30 P. M. No. 97 is a mail train only, and Nos. 37 and 38 are “the vestibules;” and none of the three stops at Gaffney. All the others make regular stops. Mail is sent from Gaffney on ail trains except Nos. 97, 39 and 40, and is received from all except Nos. 39 and 40. The mails close at the post- office thirty minutes before each train is due to arrive. | altitudes and under certain atmos- ; pheric conditions, snow evaporates so rapidly that it cannot accumulate. Taking the above quotation in a figurative sense, there is also one ex- , ception. There is such a thing as living above suspicion. It is possible for a person, by a life work of con- j secrated effort and prudence, to reach an attitude on the mountain of | human attainment where the “snow ! and clouds” of censure and abuse evaporates as fast as uttered by his adversaries, and he may he enabled to look down upon all attacks against his reputation with perfect serenety. However, both the literal and figura tive exceptions herein depicted are I conspicuous by their scarcity. When a man launches his ship upon the j ocean of worldly ambition, seeking dominion over his fellowmen, he is 1 sure to meet with a conglomerated ; mass of praise and honor, on the one | hand, and censure and abuse on the other. The calm belts are detrimen tal to navigation and ships are some times detained ’3 M 3 MONEY TO LOAN. I am prepared to negotiate loans on improved farms for a term of years in amounts of $1,000 and upward, at 7 j;er cent, and from $303 to $1,000 at 8 per cent. Apply to J. C. JEFFERIES, Gaffney, 8. C. J. NELSON RICARDO, M. Pathologist and Diagnostician. Special Auenikm paid to Diseases oi the Throat, Lungs and Stomach. Oflices and Laboratory, 206 Buford St., • Gaffney, S. C. Local ’Phone. DR. B. L. ALLEN, Physician and Surgeon. Offices In the Star Theatre building. Dr. D. P. THOMSON. Dentist. Over Cherokee Drug Co. Phone 5b. J. F. GARR'ETT, Dentist. Office Over The Battery. ’Phone 82 Store’s I The accurate compounding of |J^| prescriptions and receipts from V] drugs of known potency is the important work of any drug store. It is reliability in this that eventually com- 3 VDR. W. K. GUNTER, 1> K I* T 1 W TL' Office in Star Theatre Building. Phone No. 20. Crown and bridge work a specialty. M regard mamls the confidence of both the physician and the public. This branch of the business has always had our special atten tion. We have a superb stock of prescription drugs, including all the newer remedies, and every prescription brought to us is compounded in the most scientific manner. The simp lest recipe has as careful atten tion as the most intricate pre scription. Prices are just as reasonable as the service is fine. No matter what you get here, you get what you ought to get. Cherokee ■ft within their borders for many days. Just so it is on the tide of worldly distinction, the sailor must beware of tho calm belts. While in the trade winds of public j praise, constant action is the only I means of success—stagnation in i death. On the other hand distinction | should be the watch-word rather than haste. On the race-track of human endeavor, the fleetest runner does not always win the prize—a constant and prudential plodding is essential to ultimate success. But few r of the really great men of the world attri bute their success to brilliancy and j are very modest concerning their wonderful achievements. Mrs. Het- j ty Green, the richest woman in the world, doesn’t seem to consider her career as being in the least unreason able. About seven or eight years ago, in the midst of the hard times, she was worth perhaps $50,000,000 (fifty million). Her income was es timated to he $5,000 a day, and since then she has prospered with the country and what she is worth today no one hut herself knows. She deals in stocks and bonds and few are the men who can equal her in a business deal. However, she doesn’t believe in speculation and trios to steer clear of Wall street. She makes a special ; study of stocks, their history, their dividend—paying possibilities and , what they have sold for in the past. How well she has mastered her busi ness her success is explanation | enough. Mr. Frank G. Carpenter, special correspondent of the St. Louis j Republic, in an interview with Mrs. Green enquired concerning the secret 1 of her success. Tie received the fol- I lowing reply: “I cannot say, save that I have tried to use common sense 1 in my business. Before deciding up on an investment I have sought out i every source of information, and have 1 acted only when 1 knew the facts. There is no secret in fortune making. Success is based upon the principle of buying when things are cheap and ! selling when they are dear. When | good'things are so low that no one wants them I buy them and lay them away in the safe, and when, owing to some new developement, they go up ! and my shares are so needed that men will pay well for them, I am ready to sell.’ This substantuates our assertion that success lies in dis- the cretlon rather than haste and it fur- | nishes a striking illustration of the : possibilities in the reach of our j American women. As time passes on women are becoming more and ; more interwoven in the professional and industrial pursuits of this great land of the free. Women are rapidly | taking the places of men as book keepers, stenographers and type writers. Perhaps this is as it should lie. There is one advantage in regard to this that is generally overlooked, which lies in the fact that the male employees will he inspired to greater efforts when they realize that their principal competitors are not with i each other but with the fair sex. But 3 and circumstances as these that a ! Rood business education is indispen- sihle. It is a great relief to a wo man’s sorrow for her to be enabled I to rely upon her own efforts and | judgmtnt in the securing of a liveli hood. It is a great consolation for her to realize that she many look the business world square in the face— that she is capable of successfully competing with her rivals. But this does not detract one mile from the assertion that the homo is the sphere of woman. Perhaps at no time was the business world more alive with competition than it is today. And men who figure as a type of perfect gallantry in society seem to throw off all restraint when they enter their business office and feel no remorse of conscience in taking advantage of a rival, whether it he a man or a wo man. While woman can adopt her self to all the walks of life, yet, it is unwise for her to enter the business arena from choice. Perhaps a little incident, (which is true), might here he produced as an illustration of this fact. A certain memehr of a certain church was before the con ference on the charge of fighting. When he was called upon for his ver sion of the matter, he rose to his feet and said: “Bro moderator, I plead guilty to the charge. I don’t deny fighting a little hut with me it was more a case of compulsion than I choice.” It is hardly necessary to! add that the church reconsidered the case and bore with him—it would have added insult to injury had they 1 withdrawn fellowship from him. Lofty asperations and an earnest de sire to he self-reliant is commendible in the fair sex but she should exhibit the latter qualification. It Is not only woman’s privilege hut her duty to engage in religious enterprise. Wo man can reach a higher state of per fection and sink to a lower state of shame than man. A mean woman is the worst thing in the world hut all will agree that a good woman is the noblest work of God. Therefore, it is here manifest duty to let her light so shine that the world around her will be illuminated by her Christ-like example and Christian influence. However, personally, we do not be- live the pulpit is Included in her sphere of religious activity. We be lieve in women’s societies to a cer tain extent hut we don’t believe in relieving the pastor of his just duties and turning the church into a money making machine. A woman preacher and a woman political demagogue have missed their calling. However, Hie nation will very greatly profit by adhering to the timely suggestions on important national issues given by our great great American female writers. Women should he patriotic as well as men, hut their course of action is not, and should not be indetical. Patriotism such as was :naritested by the wives, mothers and sisters, of this dear old Southland during the rise and fall of the South ern Confedracy is unsurpassed in the! annuals of history. Now tliait the i nation is at peace with her world and ail sections reunited, woman's; greatest patriotism lies not toward he-; coming a Catherine the Great hut, in the rearing of noble sons and daugh-1 ters to the perpetuity of American j honor and liberty. But what does it i take to constute an honor? The abode of a multi-millionaire may he only his hoarding house compared with what a home should he. Lets behold him, in immaginary vision, for a moment, as he leaves his office at the close of day and passes by on his way to the magnificent structure he calls home. His financial standing is perfect and his stocks and bonds are paying hand some dividens—more than he can spend, much less the principal—and now that he has closed the door on the business world for the day, why does he look so sad? Why does he saunter along with a listless step, manifesting no signs of joy that the Jay’s work is done? He passes along walk and up the marble steps and—now we reach a phase in the narrative, which may he seen by the mind’s eye but which would require a far more skilled writer than we to describe. Suflce it to say that the rooms of his home shine with glitter ing splendor and all the different ap- partments are furnished with the most exquisite taste and magnifi cence. The butler, dressed in gor geous livery, escorts him to his ap partment. He has a score of servant to do his utmost bidding. Why is lie not happy? H. M. [To be Continued.] J. N. PARKER. Rev. J. N. Patfcer, IT tica, N. Y., writes: “In Jane, 1801,1 lost my sense of hear ing entirely. My hearing had been somewhat impaired for several years, bat not so much affected but that I could hold converse with my friends; but in Jnne, IfiOJ, my sense of hearing left me so that I could hear no sound whatever. I was also troubled with rheumatic pains in my limbs. “I commenced taking Peruna and now my hearing is restored as good as it was prior to June, Strong and Vigorous At the Age of Eighty-eight Years. 1901. My rheu matic pains are all gone. I cannot speak too highly of Peruna, and now when eighty-eight years old can say It has invigorated my whole system. “I cannot bat think, dear Doctor, that you must feel very thankful to tho All- loving Father that you have been per mitted to live, and by your skill be such a blessing as you have been to suffering humanity.”—J. N. Parker. In old age the mucous membranes be come thickened and partly lose their function. Peruna corrects all this by Its specific operation on all the mucous membranes of the body. ■m A Pleasure to Endorse Pe-ru-na. Rev. Chas. Leander,pastor First Spir itual Society of San Francisco, writes from 811 Tnrk street, San Francisco, Cal., as follows: “It is with pleasure that I give my endorsement oi Peruna. My exper* lence has been very satisfactory from its use, and I do firmly believe that It is the best known remedy for catarrh in all its different forms.”—-Chas. Leander. No other physician in the world baa received such a volume of enthusiastic letters of thanks as Dr. Hartman for Peruna. IN NORTH CAROLINA. Company. Prescription Druggists. You have to flatter some people to we haven’t any patience with socalf-1 keep on good tcrR 8 wlth them - ed woman’s rights. We believe that af- . f.-irs of the nation should he conduct- tax | f1 ^ rmi st *8 not the only man ed by men. not that women make j who 18 for the stuff, poor rules hut because, in accordance with the general fitness of things, it is her duty and privilege to love ami obey. We believe the home is the | sphere of women. Her first and ; greatest effort should he to make; pleasant for h -r husband and family, i Most of us would be perfect If we followed tho advice we give others. Trespass Notice. All persons are forbidden to tres- Not. that she should make a slave of pass on what is known as a part of the herself, but to the contrary, it is part Thompson lands in lower Cherokee, of the duty she owes to God. to her family ami herself that she should set apart a portion of each day for re creation. After she has preformed her greatest obligations, then if she finds time for other enterprises by all means let her attend to them. It Is well and good for girls to obtain a business education in order to fortify against unseen conditions, but it is a mistake for a girl to learn a trade or profession merely for the sake of gaining worldly honor anu power in preference to the duty she owes to God and the postenity—the duties of home. Why, then, is It imperative bordring on Pacolet river. S. G. Gault, H. M. Gault, D. B. Gault, - and Sisters, 1-27-3L CITY TAXES. I will be in my office every day until Tuesday, March 6th, 1905, from 8 o’clock A. M. to 4 o’clock P. M., for the purpose of collecting taxes on property, street tax and special li cense* tax. « W. H. Rosa, 1 a. w.-4L City Clerk. Mr. Wm. R. Lipscomb Tells of a Trip to Polk County. Ed. Ledger:—Believing that my friends would like to hear the result of our big hunt in Polk county. North Carolina, I will try to give them & brief sketch of our trip, &e. We left Gaffney Tuesday, the 17th of January, and stayed all night with G. W. Bonner. Mr. Bonner lives at home and boards at the same place. But we found him with the “sore head,” as we found many others who had their cotton on hand. Mr. Bon-j ner has twenty-six halos of cotton un- i sold, and I counted twenty-six bee: stands, eight young hogs and two big, far hogs in tho pen yet to kill. I was somewhat surprised to find him with the sore head on account o? not having sold his cotton at 10 cents per pound. lie is one of the many who is able to hold his cotton until it will pay to raise it. We saw cotton piled up all along the roads to the moun tains, and some in the fields not picked out. Well, we had a bully drive up. I suppose we travelled two miles an hour. I had to sing to keep from saying bad words. We found lodging that night, after being turned away several times and traveling in the night by moonshine; and our supper was roast potatoes, roasted in the ashes. I was very thankful to get them. Next morning we had a good breakfast. After breakfast we start-' ed out for the ’possums, and bless your soul, we couldn’t find one. So we put out for Columbus, the county seat of Polk county, North Carolina. We arrived there just at 12 o’clock M. We went to the hotel, where we had a fine dinner, good enough for Booker T. Washington, or any other Washing ton. And here my chum left me; said he was going home to see his wife. I told him there were just as pretty wo-1 men in Polk county as his wife; hut he left me right there In rain and mud, red mud at that, and sticky. But I got home before he did. I st lyed all night at the hotel and left next morning with the mail rider on a one-horse wagon for Tryon station, and got breakfast there, and arrived in Spar tanburg at 10 o’clock; : tayed at Spar tanburg xix hours and left at 4:40 P. M., amvlng in Gaffney at 5:25. I suppose Bonner got home by 121 o’clock that night with his fine trav-: eling mule. Well, what did I see while gone? I saw cotton bales piled up all along 1 the road and some in the fields not picked out. My farmer friends, don’t ; burn your cotton, as I think it wicked to do so. Just let it stay out exposed to the weather as it is and it will soon rot, and you will he saved burn- i ing it, and Killing it, too. We went after ’possums and got ! honey; ft is sweet, too. I conversed on tho train with a New , York man. He said he was looking' for 4 cents cotton. I told hint some ! fool might sell his cotton for 4 cents,! but I thought there would be but few of them. Farmers, hold your cotton for 8 cents; dont sell it below 8 cents unless you owe it in debts. If you do, sell and pay your debts. I saw on the train eight or ten fam Hies from Haywood and Madison counties, North Carolina, going to the factories at Lockhart and Pacolet. Mr. Page, a New Yorker, during our war was in a regiment of 1500 men when they first went out to war, and returned home after the war with 300 men, his company with only three men. That was trimming them pretty close. He is now living at Columbus- N. C.; been there fourteen years arid married Noah Hill’s daughter. He was on Morris Island, and he said many died ther’e of bloody flux. The water, he said, was very bad. He was at. the “blow-up” at Petersburg, and said the officers were drunk. He said if they had made a charge they would have cap tured it; if they had charged just af ter the explosion. He said our troops just slatightered them there; negro troops in front. There were many killed there with the bayonet. 1 hope Bonner got home all right. VV. R. L. Notice to Cotton Growers. In accordance with a resolution passed by the Southern Cotton Grow ers' Association at New Orleans, La., a call is made to the farmers of Cher okee county to meet at their respective voting places on Saturday, February 11th and sign agreements to cut the acreage 25 per cent and commercial fertilizers a like amount, and to indi cate the number of bales each is will ing to put in the pool of 2,000,000 hales to be put off the market. It Is desired that every cotton farmer will sign the agreement and thus help to raise the price of the staple. On Saturday, February 18th, the far mers of the county will meet in con vention at the court house to ratify precinct work and elect delegates to a State convention in Columbia on Feb ruary 21st. Let every fanner in Cher okee county be present at the county meeting. . * R. C. Sarratt, President. S. F. Parrott, Secretary. Low Rates via. Southern Railway. The Southern gives below a few special low excursion rates to the fol lowing points: 3 To New Orleans, La., Mobile, Ala., and Pensacola, Fla. One fir«t class fare pins twenty-five 'cents for the round trip from all coupon stations. Tickets on sale March 1-6, limited March 11th, 1905; may he extended to return March 25th, 1905, account of Madri-Gras. To Washington, D. C., presidential inauguration. For civilians, rate one first class fare plus twenty five cents for the round trip from all coupon sta tions. For. military companies and brass bands in uniform accompanying them in parties of twenty or more on one ticket,at one cent per mile plus arhitraries. Tickets sold March 2d and 3d, limited March 8th, 1905, but may be extended to March 18th, 1905. Very low rates to other points now in effect. The Southern Railway is the best route to the above points, operating through pullman and dining cars on all through trains. For full information apply to any Southern Railway agent, or R. W. Hunt. Division Passenger Ageni^ Charleston, S. C. Mch. 7. PORTANT HAPPENINGS IN THE FOR ALL COUNTY NEWS. IM •TATE AND EVENTS OF INTEREST IN FOREIGN LANDS, TAKE AND READ THE LEDGER. ■My.