The ledger. [volume] (Gaffney City, S.C.) 1896-1907, April 27, 1894, Image 2
THE WEEKLY LEDGER,
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R. O. SAMS, - - Editor.
FRIDAY, APRIL 27, 1894.
PORT ROYAL AND LIVERPOOL.
It has long been admitted that
Port Royal possesses the finest har
bor and the deepest entrance of any
South-Atlanticport. Neither Charles
ton, Savannah, Wilmington nor
Brunswick can equal her .in this par
ticular. The question might well be
asked, why then have such facilities
for commerce been so long neg
lected?
Estimate if you can the power of
capital to keep open long traveled
routes thai, lead to invested millions,
whether that power shows itself in
buying up railways already running,
or in forming syndicates to favor
some particular terminus, and we
will begin to see a reason why.
The vast amounts expended in
deepening the harbors already men
tioned have never made them equal
to what nature has given Port Royal.
The time has come when deeper
channels must be used if they can be
found. Port Royal now comes to the
front and becomes a highway for di
rect travel to European ports. Now
that the necessity is upon us, minor
differences are held in abeyance, and
Charleston, Savannah and Augusta
can send delegates to welcome the
pioneer steamship of a new line of
direct trans-Atlantic travel. This
means a great deal for South Caro
lina—for the entire South and West.
The steamship Mexican sailed on
Saturday heavily laden with cotton,
flour, phosphates and staves. She
draws 25$ feet of water, and runs
across the bar with four or five feet to
spare. Excursionists have been to
see her as she lay at her wharf tak
ing in her immense cargo, or ns she
loosed her hawsers and steamed away
for her foreign port.
The Monckseaton is already on hand
storing away the products of North,
South and West. And the British
King, with a capacity of 12,500 bales
of cotton, the largest ship ever seen
in South Atlantic waters, commences
loading May 15th.
Port Royal has a bright future. We
rejoice with her and would be glad to
see realized the dream of our youth
ful days as we sailed in boyish sport
over her spacious water way.
change the
THE WILSON TARIFF.
Elections North and West indicate
a change of sentiment. In nearly
every instance the Republican candi
date is successful. This is so differ
ent from 1892 that one cannot but be
impressed. The Tribune believes
that it is the voice of the people
against the Democratic tariff. It
says:
The voters want the tariff bill killed
and taciff agitation stopped.
In reply the World insists that:
The voters are disgruntled not be
cause a tariff bill is proposed, but be
lt has not been passed. They
a clearer or more em-
1 rendered in
iff reform.
f^aiisient sentiment due to temporary
causes. It was rendered during a
business calm after a long period of
unusual prosperity. The rational
judgment of t he people was appealed
to, and they decided on tariff reform.
The disgust that manifested itself in
the elections is with the delay and
with the dishonest politicians who are
trifling with the people’s mandate for
reform. A fortnight of honest, vigor
ous, straight forward action by Con
gress, of. a kind that would make
tariff reform vital, would
whole situation.”
Congress is slow, all ponderous
bodies move slowly. The tariff bill
will eventually puss both houses, and,
receiving the President’s signature,
be the law of the land. After that,
the country will experience a calm ;
business will flow in its accustomed
channels, and with the revival of
prosperity the people will forget their
present discontent and again put
themselves in line with the leaders of
Democratic sentiment. No wonder
that McKinleyism dies hard, but its
doom is sealed, for the people demand
it. There is a change of sentiment,
but it is not against tariff reform.
PROTECT THE WELLS.
A scientific experiment has been
made in Europe to demonstrate from
what distance impurities can be cur
ried by percolation through the soil,
from a distant point upon its surface,
to a well from which u family’s sup
ply of water was obtained. A salt of
lithium, which can readily be de
tected in water, was spread upon
plot of ground 450 feet away. The
water was daily examined, and on the
eighteenth day lithium was apparent
in the water. If it hud been the ex
crement from a typhoid patient, as
happened in another case, when the
nurse rhrew the discharges into an
open wheat field some hundreds of
feet from the spring, we should no
doubt have had, as happened in that
lose, an epidemic of typhoid fever—
for thi* i* the way it ij^ftencoimnu
ii-M n t
Homes, says that of the danger of in
jury to health from polluted wells it
ia hardly possible to say too much.
The water may be clear and bright in
appearance, and agreeable iff its taste,
yet dangerous to health.—New York
Weekly Witness.
Well water is not always pure. The
human body when healthy and vigor
ous is perhaps able to eliminate from
the system many things that are
harmful, and which might cause
death to a weaker organism. But
that is no reason why we should give
it this extra work to perform. Be
sides there are many things that can
readily find their way into our wells,
which, if taken into the system, bring
on many ills that flesh is heir to,
Prevention is better than cure, far
cheaper, and much more pleasant. It
will never do to laugh at the teach
ings of science, it is bad policy to
close our eyes and go blindly forward
drinking water that we have every
reason to believe is not pure. We
suppose we have as pure water in
Gaffney as can be found except where
it has been subjected to the filtering
process.
Our wells are generally reservoirs
for surface drainage, and as such, the
water contained in them is apt to be
contaminated with the waste thrown
broadcast over our own premises or
those of our neighbors.
When a little foresight and a small
outlay of capital would minister so
materially to the health of our peo
pie, to our comfort, to our conven
ience, yea, even to our necessities,
why cannot we be alive to haring
waterworks in our midst?
We have been trying to agitate this
subject for the past three months,
and so far as we know we are doing
it single handed. Surely we are not
asleep?*
DR - cT f. shrady.
The Atlanta Journal gives an ac
count of a recent interview with that
eminent surgeon, Dr. (1. F. Shrady of
New York.
Dr. Shrady is held in highest re
pute in Europe and America.
When Emperor Frederick of Ger
many was suffering with his last ill
ness, his surgeon, Dr. Mackenzie kept
in daily communication with Dr.
Shrady.
The doctor speaks of the rapid
strides made in surgery within the
lastdecade and looks hopefully for
ward to still greater achievements
both in surgery and in medicine.
After enumerating noted feats by
American surgeons, and stating that
many diseases once regarded incura
ble are no longer considered so, the
doctor gives some good advice. It is
the cream of his personal experience
and observation, uud is so good that
we copy it here:
‘‘What manner of life, Dr. Shrady,
do you think is most favorable to per
fect health?”
A moderate life. Take plenty of
sleep. Take plenty to eat. Take
plenty of exercise. We need more
walking philosphers in this world.
Keep a contented mind.
Remember that the man who wants
little is always rich, and the man
who has much isn’t always. Some
times a man owns a house, but some
times the house owns yi&jniUMtl
better foi
wages t lian your
11 goudhy, know-
iist nken. Everyone
cannot
get a job wit h big,
board and clothes
“Then I hade h
ing that he was n
must work for himself—he
run away—and the best wages be can
get will be his board and elothes—
with variations. If every man real
ized this the doctors of the future
and the surgery and medicine ioeoine
would have an easier time of it.”
And then Dr. Shrady said good
night. Edward MahhIiiiII.
—•
SENATOR VANCE’S SUCCESSOR.
an to own the house,
bear in mind that a very big
man can live in a very little house,
t naed not say that little men often
ive In big houses, This life can only
give a man at best one thing—-con-
ontment.
“I once had a summer place named
Pine Ridge,’ seven or eight miles
north of Kingston.. There were pleas
ant roads round about, and almost
every day I went out with a team,
driving myself. One day when driv-
ng alone on Albany avenue, Kings
ton, a butcher's boy, mistaking me
for a coachman, and seeing that I
had no companion, hailed me, shout
ing:
“ ‘Say, John, can’t you give a fel
low a lift?”
How far are you going?’ I
asked.
“ ‘Only out to General Smith’s re
plied the boy.
“The urchin sprang to my side
when I nodded my head, and after
we hud started, said:
“ ‘Whose rig is this?’ ,
“ ‘Dr. Shrady’s,' I replied.
“ ‘Oh, yes. That feller from New
York. He lives in ‘Pine Ridge’ by
the river. Do you work for him?’
“ ‘Yes.’
*• ‘How much does he give you?’
“ ‘My board and clothes.’
“•Golly 1 Is that all? Well, he
gives you pretty good clothes, but
you could gat mor’n that. Major Cor
nell’s coachman gets his board and
clothes and $30 a month besides.
How long have you been working for
this man Shrady?’
“ ‘Ever since I was a boy.’
“ ‘Never worked for anybody else?’
“ ‘No.’
“ ‘Well, may Ik* that explains it.
What do you do for him?’
“ ‘Oh, anything he asks me to. I
wash him and dress him in the morn
ing, and then I take him down to
breakfast and feed him. During the
day I am his man of all work, and
when night comes 1 undress him and
put him to bed.’
“‘Great Seott! Is lie us old as
that?’
“ ‘Oh, lie’s uIkiuI my age.’
“ ‘Must be an awful lazy cuss, ain’t
lie? Do you like him?’
“ ‘Sometimes I do and sometimes
I don’t. Occasionally I think lie is
a very good fellow; then again I see
him do foolish things very often.
That makes me want to run away and
hire out to some one else.’ ,
“ ‘Why don’t you?’
'OhI It’s no use; 1 cannot. I
vejto be satisfied.’
fell,’ indignantly asserted the
ou’rc a darn fool. But
off- (Gqiiie over to
y day, John, and you can
Ex-Governor Jarvis is the Favored Man.
He is a Friend of Cleveland.
Raleigh, N. C., April 22.—Hon.
Thomas J. Jarvis lias been appointed
and has accepted the I’nitod States
Senatorship to succeed the late Sena
tor Vance. The News-Observer pub
lished a letter from Senator Jarvis stat
ing that he will not stand before the
Legislature next June for the residue
of Senator Vance’s term the inference
being that he will be a candidate for
the six years’ term then regularly to
be filled, as has heretofore been under
stood. In an inteview be has said
that he stands on the Chicago plat
form as Construed at the Sout h. I [is
relations with the Administation, so
far as he can control them, may he in
ferred from the fact that he was min
ister to Brazil under Mr. Cleveland’s
former Administration.
Weather Crop Bulletin No. 3.
The cold, dry, and generally un
favorable weat her that qjiaracterized
the week previous to the one just
passed, gave way, in rapid transition,
to warm and in every way good grow
ing weather, which is reflected by the
tone of cheerfulness and encourage
ment that pervades the reports of all
correspondents, covering the past
week, except from those in the re
gions where the improvement was not
marked, on account of the lack of
much needed rain.
The temperature was slightly above
the normal in all sections of the
State, being proportionally greater in
the centra’ and western parts, until
the latter part of the week when the
nights became quite cool but from
no place was frost reported. The
warmth in the early week, caused an
immediate improvement in the ap
pearance of vegetation of all kinds,
more especially in gardens, grains
grasses and foliage, and many trees
present the peculiar effect of with
ered and dried, as well as budding
and tender green leaves on the same
branches.
There were showers on Thursday
and Friday, with considerable hai
in places. The latter, however, dii
little or no damage. The rains were,
in all instances, needed and were very
beneficial and very timely for the
newly planted crops; also for grams
and food products in general. The
southeastern part of the State am
along the coast the showers were
very light, or altogether absent. In
those sections the effect of the
drought is to give cotton a very poor
stand, where up; to cause oats to
yellow with little or no growth; to
give the natural enemies of young
corn, such as worms, birds, etc.,
chance to do much damage; and to
retard gardens and field crops in gen
eral, In short to use the expressive
phrase of a correspondent “everything
going from bad to worse.” The fol
lowing excessive amounts of rainfal
for the week were reported: Cheraw
4. 36; Society Hill 2. 61.
Time of sunshine was, generally
above the average except for limitec
areas. High winds did some damage
to cotton in a few localities. Cotton
planting was general over the entire
State during the week and in the low
coun '-^UiMfSWifiiS'ng'^ompIenon,
likely to be finished this present
week if the weather remains favora
ble. I» tlje central counties, farmers
are also well advanced with this crop,
with the expectation of finishing
planting before the first of May. In
both sections the early planting is
coming up nicely where there is suf
ficient njoisture, and promises a good,
even stand. The fanners are not as
well advanced in the “up counties”
although they have been favored with
more rain and consequently the ger
minating period of their planting
will be shorter. A generalization
of all rep irts on cotton, indicates
that at this period.it is equal, in
every respect, to the average of for
mer years, Corn planting continues.
Some up and ready for first working.
Oats doing better, it is estimated to
promise half a crop. Wheat improv
ing but no crop estimat can yet be
made. Melons arc coming up poorly
from first planting but those from
second planting promise better. The
fruit prospects are not improving to
any great extent. Rice, sorghum
and food products in general are be
ing planted in greater quantities than
usual in many localities. The
weather lias favored farm work which
is well up With the needs of all
crops.
J. W. Bauer,
Director, S. C. S. W. 8.
Columbia, H, C,, April 24tli, 1894.
Mrs. Priest ly Watson died suddenly
at Piedmont Monday afternoon about
4 o’clock. She was sitting in her
house apparently in good health,
pleasantly conversing with some
neighbors, when she suddenly gave a
gasp, raised her arms, and instantly
expired. It is supposed Ihe cause of
her death was heart disease. Her
husband and children were at work
in the mill. Mrs. Watson was 45
years of age. Khe was greatly re
spected by her neighbors, and was an
excellent woman. She leaves a hus
band and five children.
FROM WASHINGTON.
A Newsy Letter From the Nation's
Headquarters.
[Correspondence of The Ledger.]
Washington, April 25.—So many
misrepresentations have been sent
from Washington concerning the
intentions of the authorities towards
Coxoy’g army, of the coming of which
there is no longer any doubt, that
your correspondent has ascertained
and presents herewith exactly what
those intentions aro. There is no
element of sensation about the mat
ter. Coxey’s army lias nothing to
fear from the Washington officials so
long as its members comply with the
law, as all other organizations are .re
quired to do. No organization local
or visiting, can parade the streets
without a permit, hut there will be
no difficulty in Coxey’s army getting
that permit. It cannot as an organ
ization march upon any part of the
Capitol grounds without special per
mission from Congress, nor can any
other organization, because of a law
against it; but it can march to the
Capitol grounds, break ranks and go
into the Capitol ns individuals, just
as was done on Saturday by about
I, 000 of the National Workingmen’s
Protective Turiff League, who came
here to protest against the pas
sage of the tariff bill. They cannot
hold a meeting on the Capitol stops,
nor upon the grounds, because the
law forbids it. They cannot present
their petition to Congress In person,
but they can have it presented, and
as many of them as the House and
Senate galleries will seat can hear
them presented. In short, the au
thorities have no intention of treat
ing Coxey’s array in any manner dif
ferent from the treatment they usu
ally give to any body of men com
ing here, and no unusual prepara
tions have been made in the expecta
tion of trouble, simply because no
trouble is expected. I am aware
that this differs widely from the
sensational statements sent out, but
it is simply the plain, unvarnished
truth. Coxey’s army will not be In
terfered with, unless its members
violate the law.
Readers of this correspondence
will remember a paragraph concearn-
ing a proposition before (Congress for
the purchase of a portrait of Dolly
Madison for $5,000, which I charac
terized ns extravagance. Well, evi
dently the shot went home as a new
proposition has now been made and
the prices scaled down to $3,000. It
is too high yet, when the status of
the artist is considered; that is what
makes the price for private buyers of
paintings.
The strength of the home rule sen
timent in the Senate was shown by
the vote on the nomination of C. H.
J. Taylor, of Kansas, to be Recorder
of Deeds for the District of Columbia
in the Senate D, C. oommittee. Only
two Senators—Martin of Kansas, and
Harris of Tennessee—voted for a
favorable reported, while eight Sena
tors—Faulkner of West Virginia,
Hui^onof^vtrgnmiTTjttpson of Mary
land, McMillan of Michigan, Gal-
jtt/ii*k y
Two Lives Saved.
Mrs. Phoebe Thomas, of Junction
City, 111. was told by her doctors she
had Consumption and that there >vas
no hope for her, hut two bottles Dr,
King’s New Discovery completely
cured her and she says it saved her
life. Mr. Tlios. Eggers, 139 Florida
St., San Francisco suffered from a
dreadful cold, approaching Consump
tion, tried without result everything
else then bought one bottle of Dr.
King’s New Discovery and in two
weeks was cured. lie is naturally
thankful. It is such results, of which
linger of New Hampshire, Proctor of
Vetmont, Wolcott of Colorada, and
Hansbrough of North Dakota—voted
for an unfavorable repott, Hjs rp :
jection is now certain.
There is going to be some lively
legislating for a record on silver as
soon as the House can get the regu
lar appropriation bills out of the way.
There are a number of members in
the House who voted last August for
the repeal of the purchasing clause of
the Sherman silver bill who are anx-
iousto put themselves on record before
the Congressional nominating con
ventions are hel4 jn thejr districts by
voting for straight free coinage bill,
and, strange to s» y, the men who
stuck to silver in the memorable
fight at the extra session are going to
help them to do it. The present
programme is to report a free coinage
bill to t lie House as soon as the ap
propriations are disposed of and to
rush it through wjtli ns little talk as
possible, Of course everybody knows
that no hill favorable to silver can
become a law while Mr. Cleveland is
President", unless it can get a two
thirds vote in both House and Sen
ate, I>p< « vote for a free coinage bill
will square a great n»4*.y Rpresenta-
tives with their silver constituents,
and that is expected to come out of
tli is programme.
Senator Gordon’s resolution in
structing the Senate committee on
Finance to report a hill for jhe repeal
of the tax on state hank cqrrewy
must also be classed as a play f >r a
record, as Mr. Gordon knew when it
offered that it would he referred to t he
tiunace committee, a majority of the
members of which are opposed to re
pealing tliis tax, unless some of them
have undergone a recent change of
mind on the subject: which isn’t
probable.
Representative Straus, of New
York, 1ms introduced one of those
hills which sound so nice and which
everybody knows would not be pract
icable, even if enacted into a law,
which tiiis one will never be. It pro
hibits personal applications for fed
eral positions either to any Senator,
Representatives or Federal official.
hundred-odd of them would wiiliifgly
give up their supposed “pull”—its a
considerable stretch of the imagina
tion to even suppose it of one of them
—upon the officials who dispense
patronage, because it is their princi
ple hold upon the party machine
upon which they rely to send them
back to Congress.
Ten Night In a Bar Room.
Remember “Ten Nights in a Bar
Room” at Wood’s Hall tonight by the
Sylvan Dramatic Company. The
procceeds are to go the fitting np of
the Forest City College. The com
pany is well spoken of by those who
have seen it.
Mr. Baker on the Queston of the Hour.
Gaffney City S. C. April 23.
Editor Ledger :
Dear Sir : Since the supreme
judges decision in regard to the
dispensary law is - the leading
topic, permit me to express my
opinion among others in your
columns. Every one, even our best
lawyers, are at sea as to how we stand,
or, in other words“where are we at?”
I have heardjinany opinions expressed
and I think the majority conclude
that there is an open field for the
traffic in liquor since our State bar
rooms have been closed. Probably
this may he Hie case, and possibly it
may not, I doubt if any one knows
exactly in what condition the learned
judges left us.
However had we not, ns law abid
ing citizens, best give the case the
benefit of the doubt and be on the
safe side?
We submitted as quietly as possi-
ble to the enforcement of the illegal
dispensary law, when any fair-
minded citizen was satisfied that it
was oppresive and totally wrong, and
Hint it whs calculated to antagonize
our people, and create strife, eon fus
ion, and hatred. Still it was law,
although conceived in sin, and horn
in iniquity, hut was submitted to
with the hope that relief would soon
come, and Hint our opinions would
be justified by our unprejudiced legal
decision.
Our cities and towns passed ordi
nances to sustain that part uf the
law in regard to prohibition etc. and
to arrest and punish nil who were
found guilty under the law. Are they
not still bound to enforce Hint ordi
nance? Docs tin* judges decision re
lieve tluiu of their obligation or
duty? Unless they repeal the law,
can they, even, if they do repeal
their ordinance grant licenses for the
sale of liquor and protect then! with-,
out authority from the State? I
hardly think so. Therefore, ns 1 said
before, let us be on the safe side, and
be as alert and active to enforce and
uphold the laws we have and believe
to be right, ns we were when wo l>e-
held them to be wrong.
I understand that in order to puss
the dispensary law it was nec
essary first to repeal all the previous
liquor laws granted heretofore, virtu
ally making totaj prohibition in the
State, which has been declared legal.
This I contend is in force until re
pealed by the voice of the people.
Immediately afterwards the obnox
ious dispensary law was passed which
has since been declared unconstitu
tional by the highest power in the
State. Does that nulify the prohibi
tion act, or relieve us from our duty
in enforcing our part of the obliga
tion? I think we are as much bound
to enforce the prohibition law now as
though the dispensary law had never
been heard of, and I do hope for the
sake ofhannony and good feeling tl
all our peiipJej^jn^Ui^le
1 iuids—until a ujajorlty wills
it otherwise.
Our noble old State has been jeered
at, and made the laughing stock for
all the Union, Hie main cause of
which is legally dead, and I hope very
dead. So let us close our closets and
their skeltons of the past, and resur
rect no more ghosts and hobgoblins to
lead us into contentious and recrimi
nation, but bury them all in the deed
grave of oblivion, and turn our
thoughts to the upbuilding of our
country and its peop’e, and let petty
politicians and their dupes, like the
Kilkenny cats, fight themselves away.
Time will heal all old differences, and
in the end all will be right, for truth
is mighty and will prevail. Respect-
The YoQifj People’s Bureau,
What ia Tact.
We Hi ink it is a nice perception or
skill in disentangling unpleasant
circumstances, or as Webster defines
it, “A ready power of appreciating
and doing what is required by cir
cumstances.” From our present
standpoint we give our meaning thus:
By kind manner and tender words
relieving an cm ha missed person. We
all know that true politeness emi-
nates from a benevolent heart, a heart
that feels and speaks the Golden
Rule; when ever we can adroitly in
manner or words bring relief to a per
son and cause him a pleasant and
comfortable position, we are equipped
with a force of sagacity that makes
us masters of the situation. Ladies
are particularly called upon to exer
cise this magic power, and just here
we hint, that good-breeding sends
satire far from a genuine woman!
At a large evening party an ungainly,
shy young man just from his seclu
ded country-home was brought up
and Introduced to a bright city belle.
He made an awkward bow and trying
to play the agreeable promptly re
marked, “Miss I have named my new
pony Hero, and he is a beauty.” Miss
C. sweetly replied. "Why, you have
choosen, indeed, a noble name, and
we must hope that he will do you
good service and prove worthy of all
honor.” Pleasant conversation fol
lowed, and this young boy, after
wards an eminent city-physician,
never ceased crowning his lady-friend
as a paragon of politeness—bis bene
factress.
On another occasion a gentleman,
as modest and coy as any girl, was
introduced to his hostess and imme
diately with painful timidity said,
“There are great many rats on
Brown’s wharf.” His sympathetic
friend assumed a thoughtful attitude
and said, “I am very sorry to hear
that you are so intruded upon; I fear
tiie destructive pests will devour your
rice-samples and nibble your ledgers,
indeed, make general havoc in your
office.”
Tills pleasant rejoinder relieved the
sensitive, embarrassed guest and on
leaving lie took the hand of his kind
hostess and said, “I am obliged to
you for my charming evening.”
A music professor, very rigid as a
teacher, on 11 bright, enjoyable after
noon suddenly turned a corner and
confronted a lady pupil; he bowed,
apologized and stammered, “An angel
has crossed my patli,” she sweetly
said:
“Times of joy and times of woe.
Each an iingel-presence know.”
fully.
L. Baker.
these are samples,that prove the won- Senators and Representatives are very
derful efficacy of
Coughs and Colds
at W
B.DuPre’s Drug St on
tilzo 5t»c, uud $1.00. " .
this medicine in
Free trial ho tiles
Regular
fond of complaining of the number
of applications made to them for help
to get positions, but it is doubtful
*1 whether twenty of \h? whyle fyur j W. B. Duyrv’a Drug Store.
Special Rates.
For the occasion of the General
Conference, M : E : Church, South,
Memphis. Tenn., May 3rd to filet 1894,
the Richmond it Danville Railroad
and Georgia Pacific Railway will make
special rate of one first class fare for
the round trip; tickets lobe sold
April 30th and May 1st and 2d with
extreme limit June 1st, 1894.
The route via Birmingham is the
only through ear line to Memphis,
and the time going and returning by
the Richmond & Danville and Geor
gia Pacific in connection with the K.
C. M. 4 B. is several hours the quick
est.
Be sure your tickets read over these
lines.
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fSnnday about 2 o’clock Hie barn
and crib’on a plantation belonging to
W. L. Roddy, of Rock Hill, situated
seven miles from Hint place, were en
tirely consumed, together with a
wagon and harness. It was thought
to lie the work of an Incendary as no
one had beuti [ij the barn since early
moaning. Ross McFudden, who looks
after the place for Cnpt. Rodfly, was
absent at church with the keys when
jt pucurfpd,
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The Story of a Rich Man.
[This grand old man was personally
known and valued by the clipper of
this sketch. Mr. Colgate was a noble,
generous, useful Christian, ami many
in New York nml elsewhere rise up
and eall him blessed.]
Many years ago n hid of sixteen
years left homejjj|«enkbis fort une. All |
hi* wojrWfly possessions were tied .U.» [
undle, wliieh lie earrled in his
ind. As In* trudged along lie met an
old neighbor, t lie captain of a canal
boat, and the following conversation
took place, which changed the whole
current of the boy’s life:
“Well, William, where are you go
ing?” •
“I don’t know.” he answered;
“father is too poor to keep me at
home any longer, |[lid says I must
now make a living' for myself.”
“There’s no trouble about that,”
said the captain. “Be sure you
start right and you’ll get along
finely.”
William told his friend that the
only trade he knew anything about
was soap and candle making, at which
he had helped his father while at
home.
“Well,” said the old man, “let me
pray with' you once more and give
you little advice, and then I will let
you go.”
They both kneeled down uppn the
towpath (the path along widen the
horses wliieh drew the canal-boat
walked.) The dear old man prayed
earnestly for William, and tjien gave
this advice 1 ‘’ftome one will soon be
the leading soap-maker in New York.
It can be you as wellas any one. I
hope it may. Be a good man, give
your heart to Christ, give the Lord
all that belongs to him of every
dollar you earn, make an honest
soap, give a lull pound. ft»‘d I »«l
certain you will yet be a prosperous,
rich man.”
When the boy arrived In the city
he found it hard to get work. Lone
some and far from home, he remem
bered his mother’s words and the last
words of the canal-boat captain. He
was then led to seek first the “king
dom of God and hjs righteousness,”
and united with the church. He re
membered bis promise to the old cap
tain, and the first dollar he earned
brought up the question of the Lord’s
part. In the Bible he found that the
Jews were commanded tq give one
tenth, so he said: “If the Lord will
take one-tenth I will give that.” And
so he did, »nd ten cents of every dol
lar was sacred to the Lord,
Having regular employment, he
soon became a partner; and after a
few years his partners died and Will
lam became the sole owner of the
business. He now resolved to keep
his promise to the old captain. He
made an honest soap, gave a full
poqnd, and jnetrupted l]!t[ Rook
keeper to open an account with the
Lord and carry one-tenth of all his
income to that account. He pros
pored, his business grew, his family
was blessed, his soap sold, and he
grew rich faster than he ever hoped.
He then gave the Lord two-tenths,
and prospered more than ever. Then
he gave three-tenths, then four-
tenths, and then five-tenths. He
educated his family, settled all his
plwi6 UIC| Attd gftve till his income
to the Lord. He prospered more
than ever.
^ This is the story of Mr. William
Colgate, who has given milliona^
dollars to the Lord’s cause and left
name that will never die.—Kind
Words.
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. Neatly Turned.
The New York Times quotes a lady
of that city as saying that she had
just received the most satisfactory
compliment (hat had ever drifted in
her way. She thus describes how it
happened:
I was hastening along the sidewalk
when I saw npproaching.as I thought,
an out-of-town friend whom I had not
seen for some time. I hurried my
pace, and without waiting fairly to
reach her, began to express my de
light at the meeting. But the words
froze on my lips, for just then I saw
that I had been mistaken.
“Oh!” I said, with a smile of apol
ogy, “I beg your pardon. I thought
you were a friend of mine.”
The woman smiled in response, and
then after a second of survey and
hesitation, which pointed the remark
she said, with a graceful bow and a
charming air of good-breeding, “I
wish I were, madam,” and passed
on.
It all passed in a breath, and she
was almost out of hearing before I
rallied myself and called, “Thank
you,” after her.
Etta Jane Notes.
[Correspondence of The Ledger.]
Etta Jane, April 25.—There is a
good deal of sickness on the South
side of Thickety. Mrs. A. Mark Ken
drick is in a very bad state of health.
Her disease is indigestion and a gen
eral breaking down of the system.
Since the Supreme Court, knocked
the bottom out of the dispensary law
we are having a free liquor prohibi
tion. Some people think Governor
Tillman will cut a political somerset
by which the dispensary law will be
re-enacted and made “horse high,
bull strong and pig tight.”
The cool went her keeps crop^, gar
dens, etc., in the hack ground.
The cut worms are making hovic
with the plants in both field and gar
den.
The rain came lust week in. the very
nick of time it was needed most.
Since then Hie wheat and oats have
shown a marked* improvement.
A military company was organized
at Owen’s Ford last Saturday. The
following officers were elected: J. W.
Greer, captain; R. F. McKown, 1st
lieutenant; M. R. Macumson, 2d
lieutenant; J. L. Pools, 3d lieutenant;
Allen Jeffries, 1st. sergeant; Richard
H uglier, 2d sergeant ; Will Mabry, 3d
sergeant; (». A. Byers, 4th sergeant;
Luther Davis, 5th sergeant; Albert
Hammett, 1st corporel; J. 1). Hughes,
2d corporel; J. A. McKown, 3d cor
porel; Joe Estes, Jib corporel; Dr. B.
D. Bates, surgeon; K. A. Goforth,
chaplain; .1. Eb. Jefferies, quarter
master. The name of t :e company is
Thicket}' State Guards. Seventy-nine
names were enrolled.
A little negro girl was accidentally
shot near skull shoals las' Saturday
while careless!}' han ilrtig a pistol.
Tilt* ball passed llirougii her body
and she is reported to be in a critical
j condition. Reports also say she
' it from the coal pocket
gentleman who was (•;•:•
for fun. Poor fun f > •
should say.
There have hem a
fools” lying iiroiri;! .! 1
three •*•• ’
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The cro vs are doing a vast deal of
‘..veto 1 pulling up cor a. We put acid
under ours v.ipl so far i! has not been
interrupted. None pe.Ti'frr MUyUoxn
wet mid rolled in lime will not he in
terrupted by birds or cut by wprms,
and another wise farmer says) that
corn planted “on th * fail moon]’ will
not be hurt by the bud wonnb. So
the farmers know something [after,
Mr. Editor, don’t they? j. s.
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Pccolet Points,
[Correspondence of Tiik Leugkr.]
Pacoi.kt, April 24.—A young j man
named Rolnm Hynman, an operator
n the Paeoletmill got into.adifficulty
with Mr. Brooks Covoney. Hynman
cut a severe gash in (’ovency’S left
arm. They were tried before Squire
Bates and settled Hu* mutter by Hyn-
inan's agreeing to pay Coveney’s doc
tor hill and hoard while lie is unable
to work.
Mr. J.t'. Kennedy, of I.incojnton,
N. ('. has pul up a jewelry slop in
Elmores’ picture gallery. Hi says
lie is doing a fair business.
Elijali Carter, son of Win. Carter,
died last Sunday morning ai 11
o’clock of heart disease. He was I
seventeen years old, He leaves many
friends and relatives to mourn his|
loss.
Wheat crops look well considering!
the cold weather t^o hare had. Corn!
is coining up nicely and a good stand [
is reported. Jun. Hustler.
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Hr, Jus. II. McIntosh was vailed tol
see Mr. Frank Moon, who had beenl
guyed by a bull on Sunday afternoon.I
The doctor says Mr. Moon was se-l
rerely injured, the beast having gored]
him across the stomach, but the]
horns not entering the cavity, al
though lie made a narrow escape,
of the horns penetrating his side and
also scraping ids chest. He wgs ah
pawed by the animal. From )wl
the doctor can judge, the would
not necessarily dangerous,
says Mr. Moon is badly liurt.-
berry News and Herald.
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State of Ohio, City of Toledo,
Lucub County,
Frank J, Cheney makes oatl
lie is the senior partner of the til
F. J. Cheney 4Co.,doing hus'ui
the City of Toledo, County and]
aforesaid, and that said lirm wi|
the sum of ONE HUNDRED [
LARS for each and every «
Catarrh that cannot lie cured l|
use of H all’s Catarrh Cure.
FRANK J. CHEN1
Sworn to be tyre me and subsi'|
in my presence, this (Hh day
cember, A. D. 1886.
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Notary Pi
Hall’s Catarrh Cure
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