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How Is Baby Today? Better, thank you. la (act, quite well. Ffet, round and full of UJ« and mischief. Pink and white Cash, dotted with dim* pies. No coufh, no indigestion. All on account of Calm age Sermon By Rev. Frank De Witt Talmatfe, D. D. administered by a mother whose love Los Angeles, Cal., March 4.—In this iras tempered with common sense. lermon the preacher pays a tribute to She knows that OZOMULSION is; mothers-in-law In general and shows n fountain of energy for grown-ups, that gratitude and fidelity to friends too. It stops waste of flesh. It makes and to religious principles are essential plenty of rich blood. For pale, feeble parts of the ideal character. The text folk it is the chief nourisher at life’s' is Kuth 1, 10, “Whither thou goest, I feast. It cures Consumption when will go.” taken in time. All druggists sell it—, The mothers-in-law from time im 50 cents and $1.00 the bottle. Let us, mi moriul have been an object thr Rend you Free Sample Boffle by Kail Write letter or postal to OZOMULSION CO. C8 Pine Street, New York Take Care OF- The Cents from time an object cheap and coarse wits of the day have never tired of ridiculing. We do not know why this is, but as soon as we mention the name of mother-in-law ai- gratefnl character was Ruth. She was not one of those deceitful women who have smiles and affectionate words and loving caresses only for those she is using for a mercenary object. She was not like the ungrateful elder daughters of King Lear, who had rap turous terms of endearment for their father only while their parent sat upon his throne. But she was one of those noble women who, if a friend had been i good and true to her, never forgot that goodness. That friend might live in a palace or in a hut; she might be hon ored or despised by the world; she might be old or young, but Ruth would love her and cling to her just the same. She had all the characteristics of S ataTidiness to her friends as had the great and noble Emperor William I. of Germany, who % was never known to turn bis back upon a true frieud. So true was his heart that when the Ger man army started forth on the Franco- Prussian war it is said that he left the battalions and went to Potsdam there knelf at the tomb of his mother, Queen Louise, who had been bumbled by Napoleon 1. And when he returned as a conqueror, while all the capital of Berlin was ready to give him the wcl- most every one's face begins to smile a. though he 1 were expecting a joke, come of triumphal entry, he again left “Sunset” t’ox. the famous wit of con- the ranks and whnt to that same tomb And the dollars will take care of themselves. Some people make fun of “thirty •ents” but it is an account worth saving, nevertheless, and that is what we can save for you ever time you buy ten Electric Light Globes 4, 8, 16 and’32 candle-pow er from us. It’s this way, we have made arrangements with the manufacturers whereby they allow us three cents for all old burnt out globes returned, and in stead of putting this money in our pockets as many merchants would do, we give it to our customers. Bring your old globes to us when you come for the new ones and we will allow you three cents a piece for them. If you can’t come ’phone us. ^ The ^ grc.ss, used to say that his audiences would never take him seriously. When ever he arose to speak the meu and women sitting before him generally began to laugh. “And,” said James A. Garfield to a frieud many years ago, “ ‘Sunset’ Cox never got the credit which belonged to him as a farseeing I statesman because the world always J looked upon him simply as a funny ! man.” As the world looked upon “Suu- 1 set” Cox, so it looks upon mothers-iu- | law. It considers the subject simply ; one to tickle our risibilities and to i start forth a whole chorus of cachinnu- j tions and guffaws. But, though cheap j wits may make fun of our motbers-in- I law, I for one am not to be classed j among these satirists, for of all peo- | pie I do not know any who are nobicr i and truer and more self sacrificing as ! a class and who can rise to higher heights of inspiration than these same j women whom some of us may sneer at | with the derogatory appellation of 1 mothers-in-law. Of course some mothers do object to their sons and daughters marrying. But in ninety-nine cases out of a hun dred this .objection is not based on selfish grounds. When the subtle life companion for the boy comes along, inevitably the mother will say: “My son. I want to see you man-led to a good wife. Helen is a good girl. I am glad you are going to wed her. Of course It is awfully hard for me to and knelt to thank God that her dis grace had been avenged. So with Ruth. She never forgot those who had been true to her. Naomi might be de spised by the world, but Naomi had been her friend. And because Naomi had been true to her Ruth would never leave her side. A CrlxlM In Ilntli’M I.lfe. Can you picture this beautiful young girl at this critical moment? The mother-in-law comes to her and says: “Ruth, my dear. I must go away. I cannot make a living here. My hus band is dead. My two boys are dead. And all these people are prejudiced against me because I am a foreigner und not of their blood. You stay, my child. Your parents will take you home and ail will be well. Don’t ruin your life for my sake.” Then I be lieve I read the thoughts that rapidly pass through Ruth’s brain. At first she soliloquizes, “Shall I stay?” But the noble part of her soul says: “Nay. Naomi has been a mother to me. For over a score of years she put her whole life into the developing of her two hoys. Then she gave to me one of her sons. She said: ‘Take him, Ruth. lie is thine.’ Then she took me into her great loving heart as her own daugh ter. All that she had was mine. And now, after she has given to me her all, shall I desert her In the dark hours of 1 distress?" “Nay, Naomi,” she says, “I will not turn my back upon thee. band’s family, In her affections, must take first place as it does In the east. By the law of the Scottish clan as soon as the daughter of one clan mar ried into the family of another clan at once she ceased to have any affiliation with the clan of her father. In India no sooner does u girl marry than she goes into the home of her mother-in- law and at once ceases to have any as sociation with the home oi her child hood. Thus In one sense was It with the Hebrew and Moabltish marriage laws. When Ruth married she be came part of her husband’s family. Naomi became ber mother. And, ac cording to the marriage laws of her time, she was in duty bound to care for Naomi for better or fer worse. Cannot you and I learn a mighty lesson for fidelity to our marriage altars of the west by Ruth’s faithfulness to the marriage laws of the east? The simple fact Is too many people look upon the marriage altar simple as a trysting and Ptace and not as a sacred shrine. They seem to think that the marriage ties are not unbreakable bands of steel, but mere gossamer threads, which can glitter for a little while in the sun and bo snapped at will. They are ready to plight their troth and say, “I will wed thee for better,” but they are not ready to say, “I will wed thee for worse.” Why, so lightly do some people think of their marriage vows that a popular, literary man of England some time ago advocated the idea that marriage should not be for life, but for only a term of ten years. If at the end of a decade the husband got tired of bis wife because she had lost the bloom of youth, or because her hair was streak ed with gray, or because the burden of supporting the household was too great, or because, like Brigham Young, he might see the pretty face of some other woman whom he would like to make his favorite, then the mar- found In the book of Ruth: “And Na omi said unto her two danghters-in- law. Go each to her mother’s house, the Lord deal kindly with you as ys For Sale great soulful eyes upon Naomi as she says: “Mother, why speak thus to me? 385 acre farm, $20.00 per acre. 67 acre farm in Yorkville $27 50 peracre. have dealt with the dead and with me.” Lot 72x100, 3 miles from Gaffney. Then metbinks I can see Ruth turn her *3 acr e farm, I14.00 per acre, 6 miles from Gaffney. 17# acres $100.00 per acre. . . , « , acre farm 43^ miles from Henrietta and Thou didst ti-o to me for a husband i asCliffsides, 22 acres of it in timber $16 thy dearly beloved son. But thou didst 50 per acre. ’ * do more than all that. Thou didst 1 , teach me about the God of Moses and HOUSES and LOTS. of Joshua. Thou hast shown me the 8 r0 om house and 6 acres in Blacksburg way of life and what the purity of £1,300.00. Br the home means. If thou dost leave Fine 6 room house,newly finished, $i,8oc me, then back to Idol worship 1 may Lot 72x135, $700 00 down, go. Nay. I will not abide here. Whltb- acre farm, $1,350; 2 years to pay for it. er thou goest. I will go, and where thou ? ac, :? s 3 bl °c ks ^om depot, $3,300.00 give you up. You have always been j whither thou goest, I will go, and Gaffney Drug Company R. C. GARLAND, Mgr. Opposite Hotels and Depot. The Oliver Vitible Writing, Rapid Escapement, Superior Construction, Interchangeble Carriage. The Art Catalogue Telia All About It—la Free on Requcat. J. I Crayton & Co., Gen. Agts. Trust Bldg. Charlotte, N. C. Jalf tttb-pd. FOR ALL COUNTY NEWS, IM PORTANT HAPPENINGS IN THE •TATE AND EVENTS OF INTEREST IN FOREIGN LANDS, TAKE AND READ THE LEDGER. my baby. Your room has always been just off miue. Night after night I would sit up waiting to hear your step and to have our little talk and feel the good night kiss. That must all end now. But, my boy, 1 know it is for your good to marry. Helen Is a good j glr). Be good to her v my son, and re | member, i will always love her as a daughter for your sake.” Was not that > the way your mother did when you started out in life? Was not that the way your wife’s mother did when she gave her daughter to you at the mar riage altar? Then there is the charge that our ; mothers-in-law are always ineddliug. Of course some of them may. Mothers I in-law are no more perfect as a class than we are perfect But I for one have never looked upon mothers-in-law as vicious idlers. 1 have always looked upon them as a great reserve corps, ready to come to the world's ; help whenever they are needed. Look ' back into your past life. Was your ! mother-in-law a vicious meddler? Did i she hang around your house until she | became u nuisance? Nay. She never : bothered you lu that way. When that 1 awful sickness came into your .house ! she came as u ministering augel. Day after day and night after nigL. she hovered about that sickroom. Don't talk to me about mothers-in-law as a 1 class being pests. They are the nooiest and the most self sacrificing women on earth. In the first place, they say to the world: “Here Is my son. Here : Is my daughter. Take them. Let oth ert go and live with them and he first in their affections.” Then after these mothers-in-law have effaced them selves, when trouble heads toward our homes, they are the first to come to our rescue. Ah, that was a sad day In your life when your mother-in-law died. There would not have been the difficulties which have since separated ! you and your wife from her relatives , had your mother-in-law not been car ried out to sleep among the flowers. A I'erfoct Mother-in-law. Well, all that a perfect mother-in-law ought to be Naomi was. She had rear ed two fine boys. She had given these two sons as husbands tp two young maidens in the land of Moab. Then by a strange series of fatalities Naomi I not only lost her husband, but her two j sons. There were three widows alone > to face the struggle of life. Naomi said to the two girls: “I will go back to my own country. I hear that the famine in the land of Judaea is over. I will go back there and live and strug gle ou, but you two girls go back to your mothers’ bouses and marry new husbands and all will be well.” Orpab, one of the girls, wept over her mother- in-law. She kissed ber and left But Ruth, the heroine of my text, would not do this. She came near to Naomi and said, “Whither thou goest. I will go.” And she not only said this, but she stayed by Naomi’s side. Such la the simple story of this perfect mother- lD-law, Naomi, in ber relationship to this model daughter-in-law, Ruth. And as we study this subject you will see bow Ruth wbo became the ancestress of the Havlour, successfully met the duties pf life In this the darkest hour of ber earthly existence. Not a miserable, contemptible, un- where thou lodgest, I will lodge; thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God." Could Ruth the true, Ruth the noble, speak otherwise? My friends, have you these noble charac teristics of gratitude? After a per son has been true and self sacrificing for you, afier that person has given to you practically the whole of her life, are you going to turn that person adrift as soon us the dark clouds of adversity gather about ber head? Are you go ing to use the word “friendship” as a synonym for “convenience?’’ As soon as you think it is for your owu best interests, tire you going to turn your back upon your true friends, as the de ceitful Duke of Alva seut Admiral Hoorn and Egmont to the block and as Napoleon 1. exiled Josephine, the best friend he ever had? Oh, the contemptible actions of which some of us are guilty toward those who have blessed us in the past! The story Is told that many years ago In the is land of Mauritius a poor old black wo man, who was u slave, workVd and struggled at odd. hours and saved until after awhile she got together euough money to purchase the freedom of her daughter. Ah, that was a happy day for the old black woman! She went to ber child's house with the good news and said: “My child, you are freel You are free!” With that she seated her self by her daughter. But the story goes that the daughter drew herself up and said: “Woman, how dare you sit In my presence? Do you not know that I am now a free woman and you are still a slave? Rise at once and leave the room!" The story at first seemed to me to be a farfetched oue, and yet, after much consideration, 1 doubt If it is. Almost every day we can see un grateful children acting thus to their parents and ungrateful meu and wom en turning their backs upon those wbo have lifted them to their thrones or started them on the road to success and happiness. Not thus was Ruth. In Naomi’s adversity she remembered Naomi’s past love. May God help us to be true to those who have been true to us In the troublesome years that are goue! Tr«* to Marrlaar* Tows. Ruth measures up to the full stand ard of the test of human gratitude. She does more. She measures up to the full test of ber marriage vows. And when I speak thus I am placing that standard very high. The marriage law of the east la a far more difficult one to which to do justice than the marriage law of the west Tot she obeyed those eastern laws to the last letter Let me try to contrast those two laws for you. When a young woman stands before the marriage altar of our land and the Bpiacopai rector says: “Wilt thou have this man to be tby wedded husband, to lire together after God’s ordinance in the holy estate of matrimony? Wilt thou obey him and serve him, love, honor and keep him in aickneas and in health and, forsaking all others, keep thee only unto him so long as ys riage relationship could be terminate J. while, on the other hand, if the wife was a frivolous, good for nothing gad about and she got tired of Per husband because he liked to sit at home and play with the children, or work over his books, or plan how they could de crease their expenses so tlioy could lift the mortgage off the home, then at the end of ten years she could pack up her trunk and leave that home and go off with Iho first worthless charac ter toward whom she had been casting her flirtatious eyes during these ten years of her married life. Is that right ? Ah, no, that was not Ruth's Idea of marriage! When she married Naomi's sou she realized the full re sponsibility of the relation. She was ready to meet those responsibilities for better or for worse. The Old I-'uMliioned Idea*. Her ideas of marriage were a great deal like the old fashioned ideas with which our grandfathers and grand mothers were wedded. They may have started out witli little of worldly goods, hut they had a big balance in tbe bank of trust. When they started housekeeping they were both ready and willing to put forth their hands to lift the common burdens. The babies came, and the father’s hammer and saw made the crib, and the mother's foot rocked it, and he mother’s needle sewed the garments for the little strangers. When sickness came they nursed oue another through it. When financial trouble and want came they starved together and made the old clothes do. .Side by side they met the storms of trouble. Side by side they smiled in the sunshine of prosperity. They sobbed together. They sang to gether. They prayed together. Their bodies, side by side, are now sleepiug in the little country graveyard, and their spirits are now side by side iu heaven together. “For better or worse,” read their plighted troth. “For better or for worse,” was Ruth’s marriage pledge to Naomi’s son. May God help us to he true to our marriage vows. May we be true for our owu sakes and true for the sakes of those whose hap piness is dependent upon our faithful ness to that plighted troth. But Ruth measures up full to her religious stand ard as well as to her love test and her mental test. She stands before us the noble example of a woman wbo has surrendered her heart to the true God as well as her life to the service of those human beings who were dear to her. And unless you can have this commingling of the divine love with the human love you cannot have either man or woman meet the full require ments which God or the world has de manded of them. Some time ago it was my privilege to spend a holiday with three children who had an Infidel and a skeptic for a father. The mother was dead. They were three beautiful children. They were exquisitely dress ed. Iheir manners were perfect. But, though they were only children, you could see and feel something was lack ing In their makeup. The spiritual part of their lives was stunted. They bad learned to love man, but they had not learned to love Jesus Christ. Not thus was Ruth. She measures full to tbe test of human love. She also me&s- Lot 80x200, west end, $350.00 Lot 2j4 acres, 4 room house, $1,050.00 Lot 135 feet by 200, 3 blocks from depot $72500. Lot 200x200, 4 blocks from depot, $700.00. Fine 6 room house, newly finished, near graded school. 3 hue houses and lots near depot, $6,000 125 acre farm 7 miles from town, $13.50 per acre, ^ in timber. 185 acre farm near Pacolet Mills, $15.00 per acre—enough timber ou it to pay for it. 185 acre farm 7 milesfrom Gaffney, $15.- 00 per acre. 140 acre farm near Cherokee Falls, 40 acres in fine bottoms, 60 acres virgin timber, $15.00. 114 acres close to Gaffney, $28.00 per acre. 122 acre farm good houses. Lmtia etc., part iu corporate limits, $4. 100.00. 125 acre farm near town, $1,350.00. 78 acre farm 3 miles out, $1,350.00. 129 acre farm 3 miles out, $16.00 per acre. 81 acre farm extremely cheap. 202 acre farm, good houses, good barn, etc. Price $1,800.00; easily worth $12.00 per acre. The Hill house ^.nd lot, 5 rooms $510.- 00 the cheapest place in tow : for money. Would rent for $6.0 • per month. The Charlie Stacy house, only $800.00 75 acres most all in timber, $1,000.00. One fine lot right in heart of town $2,000.00. One farm (extremely large) $10,250.00 50 a^res. house, etc., edge of town. Price $4,000.00. 412-5 acres of laud, new 3-2«om house, circular piazza, 4-acre orchard, goad barns and outbuildings. Price $2,350. 100 yards from car line. Lot 80x180, corner Jefferies and Laurel streets, near graded schooL Price $375. 4 room house, L<trn, store room and 1 acre land at Thickety depot, $425.00. Lot 80x200 in left of resident portion of town. Price $800.00. 147 acres (De Loach lands) $”.00 per acre. , 380 acres (De Loach lands) $7.00 per acre. 518 acres eight miles from Gaffney. Price ,6$250. Seventy-five acres In bottoms. 316 acre farm six miles from Gaff ney on R. F. D. No. 1, lying oa Bar- ratt’s creek. Twenty acres good bot toms, 125 acres In timber. Three settlements. Price $15 per acre. Two lots four blocks from depot 75x300. Price $100 per lot. Seven-room house, eight acres of fine land. Good barn, out buildings, etc. The Morgan home, Price $4,000. One beautiful lot corner M „^ow and Grenard streets, 80x200, price, $1,750. 118 acres all in timber 8 miles out Lies good. Price $16 2-3 per acre. 67 acres 4 miles out. 2-3 In timber, on R. F. D. and public road. Lies well, $850. 281 acres on Thickety and Gilkey creeks. Lies fine, fine buildings, high ly improved and good timber. 128 acres, 8 acres original forest plenty of 2nd-, growth pine timber, houses, etc., has well. $12.50 per acre. Nice house 1 1-2 acr , of good ground, near depot. Price $2,000. 8-room house and nice new barn, 5 acres, beautiful land In Blacksburg, $1,100. 6-room house, lot 150x150, good barns and out buildings, $600. Will exchange for farm. Nice brick store room, house and vacant lot in Gaffney, Is rented for $15 per month. Price $2,175. 5-room house and 1-2 acre ground, fine orchard, $1,225. FOR RENT. Lroom house and one horse farm In town. House being fixed un. UNION COUNTY. One pretty new 6-room cottage In Union; nice barn and outbuildings. Yard and garden: nicely fenced; on Wardlaw street near E. Main. Only a short distance from railway station and school bouse. Young rohard, splendid water. Price $1,500. Two- thirds cash, balance in one year. CHEROKEE COUNTY. lodgest, I will lodge; thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God.” Do you not grasp what I mean? In order to worship the true God, Ruth, gentle Ruth, was ready to turn her back upon the land of her birth. She was ready to go forth into exile, ready to starve and even die In order that Naomi’s God might he her God. Are you and I ready to suffer as did Ruth to be a true disciple of Jesus Christ? Ah, sometimes we change our minds in reference to a human love. There s a beautiful story told that when Hen ry M. Stanley started on his last great trip across the African continent he went with a heavy heart, for the only woman he had ever loved did not love him. But when he returned and met her the first question he was asked by Miss Dorothy Tennant was this: “Mr. Stanley, do you find London much changed?” And the intrepid explorer quietly answered: “No. I have not found London changed, and I have not changed, either.” Then he looked her gently in the eye us he said, “Have you changed?” With that the famous model offiMillais’ great picture, entitled “Yes or No?" softly answered, ‘ Yea, I have changed.” And the “No” of re fusal was changed to the “Yes” of wedding bells. But, though some of us may change in reference to the wooing of a human love, Ruth never changed In regard to her allegiance to the divine love. She was ready to go into exile, to starve and even to die, as she de clared to Naomi, “Thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God.” Can we, dare we, say as much? Will we give to God today our whole hearts, full of devotion and self sacrifice? And what was the result of this self sacrifice and love for the divine Mas ter? Ah. Ruth herself uever realized what its far reaching result was to be. I think, even from Ruth’s standpoint, at times she must have become very discouraged and felt that her sacrifices amounted to naught. Everything that she expected miscarried. She left her own home to go to the land of her husband's family. There, of course, she expected to be welcomed and cared for. Was she? No sooner did Naomi and this beautiful young girl cross the Jordan and come up to the home land of Bethlehem than her old neighbors and friends came out to taunt and to ridicule her. They met her with these mocking %\ords: “Is this Naomi, who persuaded her husband to go and live In that wicked country of Moab? Is this Naomi, who went and married her two sons to 1 lie daughters of the heath en Moab'u *s? No wonder your hus band und boili your two sons are dead. God has cursed you with poverty and bereavement.” Cannot you see the tears trickle down the poor wrinkled cheeks of the old woman and hear the panting sobs choke the throat of the beautiful young girl when the sneer ing, mocking words are uttered, “Is this Naomi?” Naouil'a Trial. And this is not all. Not only did the neighbors and the people mock Naomi, hut they liierally left her to starve. She seemed to have no frieud in the world. She went down and down, as some of you have gone down in the struggle of life. She got so low that one day Ruth, who was compelled to do something to earn bread for them to live upon, went out to glean after the reapers. The few grains of wheat which the reapers accidentally dropi>ed were not allowed to be picked up by the reapers, but were always left to be gathered by the needy poor. Then It was, when It seemed as though Ruth could not sink lower, that Boaz. saw her aud loved her. When we think we are the most friendless and hopeless, then the Lord Is going to open for us, as he did to Ruth, our greatest oppor tunity of usefulness if we only remain true to him. Are we willing to go to the land of exile for him? Are we willing to trust him? Are we willing to let him use us for his service? I ask of you this question here and now, amid the dark clouds In your life. Will you trust him and remain true to him J . One four-room cottage near Irene j now/ , ,. Mills in splendid condition, on nice Like Ruth gleaning In the fields as a | 0 . j a ren t e< j f or $6.00 per month- pauper, in the darkest hours of your life pr^ $700. can you not learn to trust him and be both shall livs?” the woman answers, Rutb - ^ D™- .■^ms dla- •T will’’ mean the But that promise does not woman shall loae bar own identity in that of bar husband as it does in tbe east. That does not mean that her mother-in-law and bar bus- true to bim? Ah, Ruth had her Boat. Through her Boaz she became the an cestress of Jesus Christ. You today in your ’fields have your Saviour, and urea full to the divine test Let me through him you shall yet win a mighty draw a figurative picture of what I triumph. Are you, like Ruth, able to mean. stand the test of being true to your *» L»»e •* *<*•*- divine Father’s love? It was a sad, sad sight in one oi tbe Qur sermon opened with a dirge. It homes of a city of the great and rich began at the door of three gaping country in the land of Moab. You graves. “The book has a sad open- ought to know a little of the history of ing," once said Joseph Parker. *Tt be- that land. Its cities were as rich as gan with famine and misery. It opened the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah, and him> a clondy day. It went onward la the inhabitants of these cities were Just (0 widowhood twice told, and the first as vile as the Sodomites. They were chapter is like a rain of team.” But, not only Idol worshipers, but worse, thank God, It ends in triumph. It ends Their worship was similar to that by the ringing of the wedding chimes, which was celebrated in the temple of Like Ruth, let us all bend the knot to Baal. In this borne are three weeping the King of kings, who Is Lord of widows. Naomi la there and Orpah lords. My dear friends, as Ruth found ahsl- ter in the home of Boaz, const thou not find a haven in the love and tbe rescue of Jesus Christ? Child, wilt thou glean today in thy Master's harvest field? fCopyriftat, 1901 by Louis KlepesM monds, glittering amid the filth of a •wine trough, is the purity of this home compared to the vileness and sin all around it Naomi now is speaking to her girls those beautiful words CHEROKEE AND YORK COUNTIES. 900 acres of nice land in near Smyr na, Hickory Grove and King’s Creek. 700 acres in nice timber only a couple of miles from R. R. station. 100 acres In good bottoms on King’s and Wolf creeks. Several settlements. Price $15.00 per acre. 700 acres of land on Broad rlrur adjoining the above tract, nicely Um bered, two good settlements, in fine condition. Price $15.00 per acre. 455 scree close to Smyrna and Hick ory Grove, good land, lies well, good settlements, near good school. Prior $15.00 per acre. 218 acres, good settlement, pretta land, lies abreast np to railway sta tion, well timbered. Very cheap at $16.00 per acre. 85 acres on Thickety creek, 85 seres in good bottoms, house, barnc, ate. Being put Into good shape, good sotl, not rocky. Price $16.00 per aer* About 7 miles from town, cloee fit school. Prices reasonable. / R. L. Parish 1