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GAFFNEY CITY, S. C.. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1896.
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Silver or Goldbugs—Et
ta Jane News.
(Co:nTpofidfnee of The Ledger.)
Etta .1 \':K.!v<!.,_0et. 19.—On the
night before Iho buttL* of Summer
ville, near Charleston, S.' C., (Juno
lb, 1802.) Lieutenant Bellinger, of
Lamar’s artillery, had given his
sword and pistol to his servant, Dan
iel, who had taken them to his quar
ters, about one hundred yards from
the battery, to clean them up for in
spection. After ho had finished his
work he fell asleep and knew noticing
more until he was aroused by the
roar of the enemy’s guns next morn
ing as they charged the breastworks.
RemembcVing suddenly that his
master was unarmed, the faithful
slave sprung from his rude couch and
gathering the sword and pistol,
rushed toward the battery where the
battle was raging in great fury. As
he pressed toward the guns where
his master and the canoniers were
fighting like tigers, he fell pierced by
three mintiie bails from the enemy s
guns. Hut faithful unto death, lie
entreated the men near him to carry
the sword and pistol to his master.
One of thorn (old him that his master
was already dead. “My God,’’ said
ho ) “they killed him because he was
unarmed.” He reprimanded himself
for Ills carelessness, which he thought
had caused Ins master’s death. As
soon as the battle was over the Lieu
tenant, hearing of Daniel’s condition,
hastened to him. The faithful slave,
1 earing his master’s voice, raised his
languid eyes and exclaimed: “Ah!
my master, 1 was told that you was
dead, but thank tied its mo instead
of you,” and taking the pistol from
his bosom handed it to his muster
saying: “I tried to take your sword
to you, but when they shot me it fell
and 1 fear it is lost.” The Lieuten
ant assured him that he need not
trouble himself about that now, but
that he would take him to the sur
geon and have his wounds dressed.
Daniel, however, felt the cold clamy
hand of death stealing over him, yet
lie lamented that ho could never see
his master’s children again. “Tell
them at home,” said lie, “that I
promised to take care of you, and
that I was killed in the attempt to
do so. Little Duncan and Nannie
(that was the names of his master’s
children) will cry when they hear
that poor Daniel is dead,” and then
his voice hushed us his spirit took its
flight to the God who gave it.
Our ignorance of happiness consti
tutes its charms. For that reason,
no doubt, God lias made Paradise a
mystery to us.
We should associate ourselves with
good company if we value our repu
tation. It is belter to be alone any
time than in bad company.
Some pooplo want to stick every
little family row they hear of in the
papers for the gratification of profes
sional gossips. I am glad that Ed
itors (as a rule) are too well raised to
allow such stulf in tlieir columns. It
wouldjnake respectable readers hold
their noses while the report is being
read.
If that fellow in The Ledger office
who makes me spell so badly don’t
quit it, I’ll get Flaw Picker on him.
The idea of my using two “r’s” in
spelling parole or buried is ridiculous.
Of the 1,892 people who went to
Yorkville lust Friday, not more than
98 went purposely to see the show.
The rest went to see a fellow or at
tend to business of some kind.
'“Some excuse is better than none.”
I had the pleasure of attending the
wedding of Mr. H. W. Thomson and
Miss Anna E. Howell last Tuesday.
Rev. W. It. Owings was the officia
ting minister. A large crowd wit
nessed tin* happy affair. Both the
bride and groom were elegantly
dressed.
Those people who misbehave in
church arc generally idiotic and can’t
help it. They are objects of pity,
rather than contempt, and ministers
should be very careful how they re
buke them. fit. Paul says: “We
then that are strong ought to bear
the infirmities of the weak, and not to
please ourselves.” We occupy high
ground when we stand on scripture
teaching.
Our farmers generally average their
cotton crop at one-half. Corn is a
fair average except whore it lias been
destroyed by high water or cut off
by drought.
Mr. W. T. Osment has got him a
new ’possum dog. • Look out ’pos
sums.
What we need in this country more
than free silver or goldbugs either is
rf’ood teachers for our children—men
fchd women of bruins, nerve and char
acter to take charge of our schools—
and parents to become interested and
lend them a helping hand by encour
aging both children and teacher. If
the masses would turn tlieir atten
tion from deceptive and demoralizing
politics to preparing tlieir children
for the great duties and responsibil
ities of life. All these intricate prob
lems would cease to disturb our do
mestic happiness, and office-holding
would be shorn of its attractivenesss.
No politician or politics can change
scales of eternal justice. Our land is
in trouble. The distress may be at
tributed to either a vicious system of
finance or free trade, yet with the
saloon in the saddle and a billion
dollars annually flowing into its till,
while our good citizens arc taxed to
pay bills of overflow—viz: crime—
can we expect to be any better oil
than wo are? It is said, “drinking
makes thinking impossible.” If we
do our duty, “thinking will make
drinking impossible.” Dr. Cuyler
says: “If one-leuth of the efforts
made to reform drunkards were spent
in pursuading young men never to
drink at all, the result would bo in
finitely better.
The sand has accumulated in the
river at Howell’s Ferry so that the
flat cannot run at times.
We have had some frost, but the
weather being so dry, vegetation
hasn’t been killed yet.
Sum Foster and Sam Strain made a
flying visit to Trough Shoals last
week.
C. W. Whisonant is building an
addition to his store-room. He car
ries a large stock of goods and needs
more room. He’s a hustler.
Our new county friends seem flat
tered at the cordial reception their
delegates received at the hands of
Governor Evans, and the encourage
ment lie gave them in the new county
project.
it is sometimes hard for a county
correspondent to find material for a
weekly letter to his newspaper. If
he can keep up with all the visiting
and neighborhood gossip he is all
right. This I can’t do. J know that
a good deal of it goes on, but that is
all.
Flaw, you are rather hard down on
the women. A good portion of your
talk sounds like exaggeration to those
who can’t find a better name for it.
However, when a few women, good
talkers, get together and begin to
analyze the sins of “omission and
commission” of other pe >pie, the
acme 4 of tlieir temporal glory is
reached. To this you may add the
deceit they practice on each other,
and you have the situation in full.
When they break up each one thinks
she was Hie centre of the day’s at
traction and the confidant of the
whole party. But after all, Flaw,
they are bettor than men are who
congregate about the street corners
‘and i ther loafing places to kill time
by growling about the misdoings of
other people—tell smutty tales and
shirk the duty of providing for their
families as .liov ought.
If wo would bring our prayers
nearer together we would put our
sins farther apart no doubt.
W. H. Webber made a business
trip to Lockhart Mills last week. He
speaks highly of the people and pro
gress of that town.
Rev. Arthur Kennedy preached at
Abingdon creek yesterday. Q-uito a
large congregation assembled to hear
him. He is the son of our respected
neighbor, Ben Kennedy, of Jones-
ville, and a young man of high moral
and intellectual attainments, and
will make his mark in the world as
well as take a high stand in his
chosen profession—the ministry. 1
hope the Abingdon Creek people and
also the Arara congregation will see
their way clear to call him to the pas
torate of their cliur^li v.ho are now
without a minister since the resigna
tion of Rev. T. J. Brock. Let us give
the young men of our county a chance
to make something of themselves,
friends and brothers.
Rev. W. R. Owing will preach his
farewell sermon at Salem Nov. 1 at
11 a. m.
The Salem Sunday school has ap
pointed Thursday Nov. 2(> as a day
for their annual Thanksgiving, and
invito all Sunday school workers to
join them on that day.
j. L. s.
Died.
Mrs. Sophroniu B. Gault died at
Glendalo on the JGth inst. in 8!th
year of her ago and was buried at
Glendale on the Kith. The services
were conducted by her pastor Rev.
Mr.|Harley. Mrs. Gault was a native
of Union county and hud been a
member of the Methodist Church
since her childhood. She had the
respect and confidence of all who
know her, hod lived up to her pro
fession and died rejoicing in her
faith.
• — - ■* — • ——
In many cases, the first work of
Ayer’s Sarsaparilla is to expel the
effects of the other medicines that
have been tried In vain. It would
be a saving of time and money if ox-
•perimenters took Ayer’s Sorsaparilla
at first instead of at last.
—- «t» i —.—
—Physicians recommend Graham
bread for indigestion, fitar Bakery.
FLAW PICKER vs. BANJO LU.
FLAW PICKER AND BANJO LU.
AT THE SHOW.
Flaw Interprets a Remarkable Dream
for Banjo Lu. and Imparts to
Him Some Valuable
Information.
(Correspondence cf The Lodger).
Draytonviu.e, Oct. 19.—Gentle
folkses and feller citizens: This is a
time that ole Flaw will haf to break
over his general rule of writin’ an
personate a little. Hit’s somewhat
painful, I’ll admit, but what’s the
use to be a flaw-picker unless you
pick flaws, or, what’s the use to pre
tend to be anything else unless you
be it in deed and in truth? Ef my
bosom friend has a flaw, aint it my
duty to find it in him as well as any
body else? Since I have taken upon
myself the disagreeable tusk of Haw
picking I’m a goin’ to treat all alike,
both friend and foe, an do my duty,
even of the gineral class of people
gits to hatin’ mo as bud as—as they
do a Tillman spy.
Ole Flaw has one groat flaw in his
self, an that is, associatin’ with a
certain individual—Banjer Lu., also
known as Luther Sherrill, but it is
necessary for Flaw to he in the world
and with the world to be successful in
findin’ flaws of the world, an as I have
bin associatin’ with this Banjer Lu.
for the last twenty-four years 1 have
got him down to a fine pint, an he’s
jist excellent material to work on, too,
to bring out some important points in
human nature an show up the inner
man an outer man that inhabits ouch
body, as Paul has heretofore tried to
explain in his feeble way.
This Banjer Lu. heard about John
Robinson’s show a goin’ to show over
to Blaxburg last Thursday an ho said
to me:
“Flaw, I’m goin’ over to the show
Thursday, how about you?”
“Ef I was you I wouldn’t go narry
step, for you know your failin’, Lu.,
you’ll jist about go over There an git
drunk an the cops will haf to find a
suitable place for you to tako out an
turn in at; an another tiling, you
know I bolievo in doin’ what’s right,
an timt’s no fitted place for me to be
at, nohow.” I said.
“I thought about gittin’ drunk but
ef you’ll go with mo I’ll not letch a
drap. You know we’ve bln raised an
reared up together all our lives un we
can’t handy separate now, so you
git ready by mornin’ an I’ll guar’ntee
you that I’ll not git drunk an that
everything will be lovely,” he said.
Me thinkin' as he, that we had bin
together so long, etc., consented to
go with him.
Bright and early Thursday mornin’
wo was gathered together with the
crowd at the depot preparatory to
goin’ to the show at Blaxburg. Me
an Banjer Lu., with his banjer,
boarded the train at the same time,
set in the same seat p.n road on half
fart—the same ticket answerin’ for
both. We got separated after awhile
—ole Flaw, as the inner man, to dis
tributing papers an spoakin’ kind
words an doin’ business in ginncrul,
while Banjer Lu., the outer man,
went to pickin’ his banjer an knock
in’ ’round 'inongst bad company. I
got in some good work till ’way after
12 o’clock, when my work seemed to
lag an was soon no more. There was
something about it all that I couldn’t
understand, till after a while I learn
ed that Banjer Lu. had got to drink-
in’ an was purty topsy. Then I un
derstood the whole situation'an giv
up the job as a bad ono. I tried to
git him home, but no sir, ho wouldn’t
budge a peg, an finally at last I jist
let ’im go his route, you understand.
Next mornin’ ’bout 4 o’clock I met
'im in the “coop” an said:
“Hello! Olo feller, how como you
in here?”
“Flaw, I jist don’t know, to tell
the down wright truth about this bis-
ness. I was—er I—”
“You was drunk, was tho long and
short of the whole fix. You broke
your promise an wouldn’t listen to
mo. I have told you about these
things a thousand times,” said I.
“Yes, but it seems tho more you
talk to me tho less I listen to it. I
can’t git my mind made up to mind
you some how or other, although I
know you always give me good coun
cil. It must be a disease of weakness
in me.” said Lu.
“We can never git along In har
mony, an you will always be In
trouble of some nature until we como
closer together an git better organized
an you listen to mo better than you
do now,” I said.
“Yisterdy I slipped a drink on you
nn that jist literally set me on fire.
Later on I was a playin' of the banjer
for some people to dance, later 1 was
a slickin’ up on the side of an apple
wagon a pickin’ of the banjer while
tho appleman filled my pockets with
apples; later still, after the perform
ances had como to u close an tho show
was on wheels an tho women folks all
In their respective places in the coach
a showman como to mo an took me
up to the coach un introduced me to
the showladies nn entreated me to
take a drink of wine first an then
to lemonade on my banjer, that the
gals wanted to dance a little. Flaw.
I tell you what’s a fack, my fingers
got loose nn through the excitement
strains of music rolled up which set
the gals—big, little, old and young—
to spinning away as only artists at
dancing could do. After ten minutes
of fun, two drinks of wine an a nice
bow I repaired up town, an Flaw,
right up thar’s where the devil sot in.
The balance is a dream, Flaw. I
dreamed that I was in a fine city at a
ball an lyin’ on a lounge made of
white pine an wire nails in-the south
western corner of the hull room, un
it came to pass that a hungry man,
dressed in purple (blue) an fine linen,
whose breast-plate was studs of pol
ished brass and his crown was made
of shinin’ silver entered the ball
room having a stick of go-fer-(’lm)
wood in one hand and endowed with
great power, and behold, ho said with
a voice as one with great authority,
‘Thou art Banjer Lu., by .loner, an 1
will make you a mighty tester of hard
woods by the layin’ of it ou your
head, and you shall dwell within the
walls of the great and powerful where
tho rest of your nation have dwelled,’
un I tested the wood an it was mar
velously hard, an ho guided me with
in the walls of the great an powerlul
an I dwelled within them where the
rest of my nation have dwelled, an it
came to pass that he feasted on my
substance two un one times an was
filled. Now Fla, I pray, interpret
my dream an I’ll have the show down
in full,” Banjer Lu. said in un en
treatin’ tone.
“Banjer Lu said I, “I can see
into it all. You jist naturally got to
monkeyin’ with them thar show peo
ple un tlieir win©—mixin’ wine an 80
proof together—until you got drunk
an sleepy, consequently you got into
a frolick somewhere an piled up on a
goodsbox an went to sleep an the
cops pulled you an you resisted un
he tapped you on the head with his
“hillie” an then locked you up
here in the calaboose where he
had those other fellers from your
town last night an it will he three
dollars that you wiB haf to pay to git
out of here that he will feast on.”
"Flaw, they didn’t treat me right
I don’t think.” Lu. said to me.
“Yes they did. You look at it
from a selfish standpoint as many
others would. You had no husineitf
drinkin’ anything but what God gave
you to drink. You know I always
stick to you an when you git in
trouble I always haf to share it alike
with you, nn I never caused you a
bit of trouble in my life, hut happi
ness Instead. Oh, Lu! but for you
wo could be so happy. Flaw never
gives you bad council.”
I think I have sorter got Banjer
Lu. under controle for a while at
least, but Cant trust him as far as
you cun throw a cow by the tail, he
is so weak an uncertain. Vor about
live years of our lives I succeeded in
keeping him under my cor.trole un we
were happy but he finally got holt of
somo unknown power an choked mo
down, but I’ll ever stick up for right
as long as I am Flaw Ticker.
—* -««►
Algood Items.
(Correspondence o* The Ledger.)
Algood, Oct. 20.—Many ol our
farmers are done picking cotton and
have turned their attention to sow
ing their small grain crop.
Corn shuckings are becoming quite
fashionable these nights.
Township Commissioner J. L. Clary
is kept quite busy looking after pe
titions for the opening of new roads.
J. L. Clary, accompanied by his son
George, wont to Spartanburg last
Tuesday on business.
J. and E. Gardner were in Gaffney
last Friday on business.
Calvin and Bev Turner visited
friends and relatives here Sunday.
James Byars has been on the sick
list for a few days, but is able to he
out again now.
We hear it reported that somo vil
lains broke into Joe Medley’s house
last Friday night and, he being ab
sent, they frightened off his wife and
helped themselves to what they
wanted. I think the women us well
as the men up here ought to use
double-barrel shot guns with deadly
effect, as there seems to be an or
ganized band of thieves up here who
mako it their especial businonB to
plunder houses after night.
By the way, wo learn that Ole
Flaw went over to Blacksburg last
Thursday evening and got drunk and
was “caboossed” for tho night, and
came back minus $11.00 hard cash
besides losing a tremendous big pile
of reputation. Wonder did he lose
Rat and his banjo? I imagine 1 can
hear him humming to himself;
Lord, if you will forgive mo this
time, I’ll drink no more of that dog-
goned stuff they call 80 proof while 1
live. Cokxcbackku.
GAFFNEY
TnT
Coming On its Own Cnat Traits, Drawn by its Own Poi- r al Lo(o notives.
Walter L. Main’s
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drome,
euhir.
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-'—GCANSNOAIGUA, shallest po»y colt in the world,
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of nose to end of tail.
WALLACE, THE WONDER.
The only hot se-ridlnn Lion. A Circus Champion. Surely the only one of Its kind. A be: u-
tIfuI. Intelligent, artistic animal. Herds of Wild Beasts. Bairs of Serpents. Flocks of
Hint*. Droves of lame Dcusts. Dens of Vicious Reptiles. It All-Star Acts. 100
L<altcd Champions. 1.000 Men. Women and Children. :#)() Finest Aristo
cratic Horses. Giant Camel. Longest Maincd and Tailed Horse,
Surprises, Wonders. Features, &c., Ac.
Grand Free Street Parade.
Bucklen’s Arnica Salve.
Tho Best Salvo In tho world for
Cuts, Bruises, Soros, Ulcer, Halt
Rhoum, Fever Sores, Tetter, Chapped
Hands, Chilblains, Corns, and all
Skin Eruptions, and positively cures
Piles, or no pay required. It is guar
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money refunded. Price 26 cents per
box. For sale by Tho DuPro Drug
Co.
at Open Dens of Wild Deasts, 5 Hands of Music, Silver Cathislral Chimes. Steam Calliope,
Bold and Silver Chariots and Hand Wairons. a Mile of Splendor ami Wonder Every
Mornlni: at 10 o'clock sharp. Twice daily, free toulllIlKh Dive. 10:.tn a. m.
and tl::tl) p. m. Cheap excursions on 'alt lines mf travel. One ticket
admits to all. Doors open at 1 and 7 p. m. Performances at 2
and H p. m.. rain or shine. Tickets on sale at Dul’re Druv
Co's, store. Bicycles Chocckd Free of Charge.
General Admission 50c, Children under 12,25c.
This Great Show In its entirety will also exhibit at Charlotte Monday, Oct. St
U'M-k Hill Tuesday. Oet. 37; Gastonia Wednesday. Oct. E8; Statesville Thurs
day. Oct, 30; Greenville, S. C\, November the 4th, Itwo.