The ledger. [volume] (Gaffney City, S.C.) 1896-1907, November 23, 1894, Image 6
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tiii: wi:i:klv u:ixfEi{, frtday, novembee sjmsjm.
i N. i M. SII0P-KEEPEK8. ! BOOTS HAVE HAD IHcIR DAY. V • .an no LONGER CHATTERS. warfare with snowballs.
-t'ok and Placid Mon Pationtly
Waiting' for Cuatomors.
in I niembpp of 1’arlliuuent UIvm
n Gr:ti>hU' Site Jell of Street Scenes
in Canton -Novel Effects
in Color.
i i
'h.
lit tat interesting paper iu Century
Flounce O'Driscoll. M P., has given
Many graphic sketches of Chinese life.
Mr. O'Driscoll says:
The shops were of all sizes. Some
were seven or eight feet square, with
the hack premises closed from sight;
; me w re twenty or twenty-five feet
wide, reaching back thirty or forty
feet. Perhaps an average-sized shop,
in tt fashionable neighborhood, was
ft bout fourteen feet wide and twenty-
two feet deep. It jvas open, of course,
to the street, with no shop-front, but
generally there was a counter along
one side, and another at the back.
Thera w.:s almost invariably an oblong
opening through the roof, to admit
light and tiir, unclosed to the sky in !
summer, but with provision for a glazed
light in winter, in the poorer class of
hoiis. s this skylight could be shut by
drtiwin; a cover over it.
T. a certain extent the wares were
cl -pht, ed. but not tis iu our windows.
Potters and hardware had a better dis-
|)];iv than soft goods: food was exhib- j
itsd iu open trays, or was hung up.
The >ids, as a general rule, were
io;s e in the shops where they Were
Id. and workmen were to be seen !
i:i■ T sing the articles in all the stages
<>i their manufacture. There were
-oini shops where no workmen gould
h•: een. and in thi’ir ]>lae«‘ a staff of
Hills- Mit re;id\ to wait u]ion custom
er:,: these were not numerous, and
Wfiv as a rule shops relying chiefly
up< n tourist trade. The t antonesc
.Toji-icei'iii i'a struck me as being gen
erally fat, sleek, pot-bellied gclitlc-
i:n u o;nm 'idy the only articles of
Hnihing \s rn either by them or by
tiii ir a : ianls were loose Chinese
«bawci 'fast' ned round the hips. In
wiuti r i hey d >n a soft. warm, padded
blou-c. Placid. unexeita liledooking
folk were tla y. taking life coolly, sit
ting thus naked to the waist. ocaselcss-
h wavi.i " their Ian - while they waited
for ( ii'li in for which. howe\cr. tliey |
lid not appear to tout.
Si-.iso! all colors, si/.t s and shapes
biio .'oul from the shops: from a board
t i wad ve iiudies wide and six or
; i > .-u fr-•! long, hanging vertically to
It!: trip of wood or pajw-r of
it ilie same proportion'; in iiudies.
h i li riug of these signs was !
•eon- gobi letters on a crimson
ml, vermilion on a bhu’k ground,
on ". Iiite. or some otlu-r striliing
i:isi. Priglil-eolored lanterns liung j
I: i*o -ibe hop-fronts and around
walls, or were u pended in the
er. 'file', were bamboo eonstruc-
, ewered wiili tough, oiled ]taper,
. jiainted witli signs and hie ro
le,s, indie uidike the llimsy for-
•s old iu !fur ipe as Phim’se lan-
s. i ft tiii .e were lighted,
CCnhico being very fond of illuini-
All sorts of oils were used—
ill<>w‘, vegetable oils, kero-
lieh last i>vcr one million
Ihe American variety are
|^V in the city. At the time
je authorities were intro-
le lighting for their streets
better class shops and
Thing was well alight
very fine. Even in the
effects of color were
Ig and warm, black and
red-work cabinets, metal-
1,tables inlaid with ivory,
bther-of-pcarl: deep blue
[colored pots, gray and
.llow and green: gold
Iider*d on black satin
[lid silver wraps, and
ilion and purple; richly
•quaint fantastic shapes
that was bewildcr-
, was endless,
onablc (juarters the
fcilly sonuwvhat een-
|x" fish shops stood
fnd so it was with
ligers, glass-bh >w t rs.
' carpenters. eabinet-
-huilders. hlncksinit hs.
[restaurants. Where one
located there were gen-
Peveral fellows.
■R IN A THEATER.
Ctlile Story of Ono of
pliis n l iiri-iiiii'l l iti/iuis.
^ml Vans has never been to a
ler in his life to see a theatrical
performance, says the Philadelphia
Times. An interesting incident is
civeu of his boyhood days, over three
score year:, ago. His father, a highly
iv .pi cted and prominent Friend, re-
,ided on An b tiiil. and believed it
gi I" t fur lb . i liibli i n to I e trained
^t nin (In' inf of lie m i< H old (Juaker
■ it-. At that pi riod Med Forrest
the brilliant young American tra-
[iaii. and hud captivated all tin*
iof I’hiludelphia in his character
le llomau gladiator and big Indian
mora.
ling Vatix naturally desired to see
'•eat actor play, but shrank from
[without his father’s consent, so
iv he ventured to ask his fatiier
|f a dollar to get a ticket. The
Lleiiian kindly replied in t»ua-
[iit:
|fard, 1 don't In grtulge the mon-
thee knows 1 don’t approve
'houses, and w ish thee to ])rom-
not to go to a theater w ithout I
:*rnib i'>n.'
fe promise was piven and his father
suddenly soon after w ithout giv-
^til© permission. Kichnrd Vanx has
liscientioir-ly refrained from guiing
khc theater ever since.
Trade vM7c*<’trt| ?>y tli«* iiirrrased Wrar of
Shocr* f>y Anuvicans.
Thcdiminislu'd useof b<lotsisa matter
of concern to the manufacturers of them
and to the producers of heavy leath
er and heavy calf skins, say- the Shoe
and Leather Reporter. Twenty years
ago the calf boot industry was a lead
ing one in Xew England. Whole towns
were studded w itli factories which pro
duced calf boots exclusively. I ora dec
ade the sale has been gradually fall
ing off. and to-day it is of hardly any
importance. A few manufacturers of
shoes include boots as a specialty, but
the demand is too light to amount to
much. When calf boots were in vogue
manufacturers consulted the partial
ities of the cowboys, to whom juice
was a secondary consideration. 1 be
legs were frequently corded with silk
stitching. The star and crescent and
other fanciful ornamentations were in
laid on the legs of the l«>ots: tin re
were high heels and the boots were
striking specimens of meehanieal art.
The soles were inlaid with eojiper.
zinc and brass nails. The cow boy -no
longer {iay fifteen or twenty dollars for
a pair of boots. They w ant substance
instead of -how. but they were not
W..«-u Stic Has Anytliim? 1<> ‘-“.V N<>« SSo
Write It.
: One of the joys oi my ebm h • s! v. es
to stand in front of a iicum si er • . 't>,
, w ith fiiee close to the phis • devouring
eager!vall the illustrated comic pc;"
in sight. The in \vs agent was < . ■ o
Inconsiderate, in that the pt'P' i's w>
folded in two, so that half the pictun
or the moral tin re.>1 was lieqi’.eiitl.l
missing. Then i used to preti :,.l th.it
it w as a stupid joke, ami I us I m t
tare to read any more. Even in those
days the critical spirit of tiie age must
have infected me. for 1 remember,
says a writer in the Mew \ork Adver
tiser, a vague discomfort, due no doubt
to the unexpressed idea that, had it
not been for talkative women and for
warlike mothers-in-law. the edito'-s of
comic pa tiers would lie sliort of'ma
terial.
Mothers-in-law ha vc lici' i grossly ma
ligned, but we till know. th. talkative
woman. The disciplinary ell'eets of
contact with Midi a beinp arc un
rivaled. t'oneentistion if th. tglit can
not be attained more .siudv Ilian by
reading iissiduously while t!ie Wisnan
talk's. ( me of two things is inevitable.
You either quarrel vi< dent !y nr iearn to
the only w earers of ,
i-alf fi.iots. Tliey
read stea lily tlirou
.' h CV, 1
■y thin
g, and
were 1‘Xteiisively w,
irn. .Many men
to quarrel witli ;',■>>
de Win
> know your
prefer them to-,la
y. t hough the
j*ri\ ate affair, is t'o.
di.-ll. fi
i it 1,
:.:is To
numfier is growing
less, ’the old-
a pufilieity wlii'di n
| A
:i- >: ti ’ft.T,
soul.-,
.* imn.
fashioned stoga 1
it, were for-
'rii,: only thing to
be d,
ie is t
»>
merly sold iu large
quaiitities: they
with persistence.
1’met
ice r,
M»(lrVS
are well-nigh obsolet,
■. There followed
this quite simjile.
\\ bell
vou :
• rt i:n
a demand for a lig’nte
r and more styl-
adejit \ on will find
y< (ins..
if thr
ish article. A kip
boot of lighter
in a gracious " Y’es"
,,r "Xi
win
*n» vrr
texture was produced
. al"nit equal in
the woman stops to
take 1.
r ifth.
aiiju;
this
aranee to the best caif boot, but
too, has fallen somewhat intodis-
use, and the sales tiii season are
sea reel v over one-half the usual
amount. Where tin re were twenty
factories producing boots exclusively
there is now not one. Kveil the farmer -
are using heavy shoes instead of boots,
and if it become., a tie sity to wear
long legged boots they buy rubbers.
Twenty years ago the entire product of
Salem and IVabody was heavy boot
and hrogan leather. To-day there are
less than half a dozen tanners making
it. brogans and plowshoos are indis-
jiensabli,'in many sect ions of tin* coun
try. but there are comparatively few
exclusive inanufaetnrers i.f these now.
Tin* t’reedmoor, Doin I‘t*dro, English
ties and (yeole eongres , are sunjilant-
itig them. The decline in the consump
tion of calf boots atl'eets the tannersof
calfskins. It is a question wliat is to
be done with heavy skins. 'The tan-
ner-. must necessarily buy more or less
of them. They cannot select light and
medium weights exclusively, and if
they tan them tliey feel no certainty of
being able to dispose of them in the
finished state. Then 1 is, nevertheless,
a use in this world for whalevr b.good
for anything, and there w ill be some
way of disposing of heavy calf skins,
though for tlie moment it appears dilli-
eult to point out the direction into
which they will be moved.
Slept and Hied ill :t Coffin.
An interesting and original person
named Yaszary Kovacs died in Hunga
ry tlie other day, says the bondon
Daily Mews, lie had been a llonvcd in
ls|s and then became a popular comic
actor. When too old to go on the
boards lie discovered a strange occupa
tion, which liarmoni/isl w ith the hob
bies he entertained all his life. For it
small fee he carried the wooden cross,
customary in till Hungary, iu all the
funeral processions of the capital. The
hist tim. he w.as noticed in this part,
which four correspondent, says) lie
jilayed like a true act was at Kos
suth's funeral. With bis snow-white
beard and llowing white hair, the
wooden cross in his right hand and the
left on hi'-sword, he was a eonsj>ieii>>a-
and dramatic figure. l'..r the la *
twenty .years of hi-life he slept in his
cdfiiu. which with hi .own haiul le had
painted in-tlie n:iti"...'l eolort of liun-
garv. lie died in the eofi'm, and ids
last wish was that tin* lid should be
merely nailed down ox r him and that
no one should touch ids dead body.
In the
down the
lake, is
Musienl Mmuitulll.
old True!., e mining district,
Triiehic
sit uated
aver, near
M. va la's
I’yramid
musical
Two Years’ Change*.
f ars ago this country was feed-
starving peasants of Russia,
[•ports come from that conn-
\c wheat crop is so great
Jt will not be harvested,
be turned into it in*
,111011.
[oldler who took
^pcilil ion found a
fi'oeceded to eoii-
ardships lie liad
[mpaign. On ro-
Itr |ilaced iu tlie
iidition ri jiorted
into tlnil coiidi-
laiu.
Jtli of wlii ,I
l« to do t haiy
|r, ' said the ser-
»e surrijuuded it.’’
liioitutain. '1'id'. moimtain was first
discovered by the wh'de settler in lsi',;j,
at whielt time there was some excite
ment in regard ^'> the mines feiind in
tile neigh borllood. The diseovereis,
were a jiarty of pros) tors from Com
stock. They had pitched their tent at
tlie foot of the mountain, aijd f.-r a
eveldll"' t In night t llems'd Vesbewitched.
says t lie Virginia < it v Knterjiri -e. Eaeli
evening a little after da rk, when the
air was calm and all was quiet, a mys
terious eonet rt began. Out from the
face of the big mountain were wafted
strains that sci med in cause the whole
atmosphere to quiver a- they floated
over the camp. The music then ap
peared to pass uver until it was far, far
away, and almost lo-.i in tl:c distance,
when, beginning w ith a twinkling os
of many littlet ilvcr bells, there would
he a fresh gu..l of sweet notes from the
mountain.
Il:(< lt'i'l:i* :i, lliilli'l*.
“One of the latest and most singular
experiments with bacteria." said iVof.
L. Werz, of Iterlin. aceonling to the
St. Louis Olobe-Deaiocrnt. "is tliat
made by a friend of mine at home, who
has proved that those microscojiic ene
mies of life and health can lie dis
charged from a gun withoiit sulb rng
any apparent injur i. He has infected
rifle bullets with bacteria and then
fired the bullet'- SiOo tbi boves tilled
with a gelatine pr« paration suitable
for the iiourislnneio of miero-orqaii-
isms. Fjkiii examining the lutes made
by the bullets in the preparation he
found that the preei-e forms of bac
teria with which 1 in* inlet- had 1" ■ n
Hiarged rapidl. de’,elojied iheie, al
though it was known that no organ
isms exist 'it iu the gelatine previous to
the exjierimellt. J le lias al'-o disci iViTed
that a bullet will pick up bacteria
from the air during its flight, or from
clothing tliroii"h which it jiasses, and
dej io'-it them, still living and active, in
a gelatine target.”
«||>,. .
Tlie raising of silkworms lioeiuno
prominent, in Italy during th<* twi Ifth
and tlilrteentli eenimies.
Tim fir t hat maker' who plied their
tii«b< in England wen Spaniards, who
cninc to i loO eoiintn in I MO.
Till- late-t Cl I,-if Em opl shoWS I lid
populaliou to eousj>-t ,! ;o ' C ,.Vil
males and I. I,til I, I lit leniah -
The carlu -t iiu ihod ol spiiniiu:: w.Tt
by bull'tnug a lew IdH is and lolling
them intii a thread with the hand:
General (tisni s t»ook iu.s earned
^ !f£*0u,00O, and it is not unlikely that
Mm. Grant will get a million oat ot t
Owing to the va t increase in news
paper correspondence and t > other lit
erary causes, t he voluble womari i - i :qi-
idly becoming extinct. A few years
ago a Inn >st all the .writ in was dear 1 y
men. Consequently v.heiw.er a man
was filled with exuberant vitality be
wrote a novel or a poem. Thu. he u n
able to remove the pr. -are from hi-
brain. and donb!' jny ex|iound hi;-
views without contradiction. If he
could not g( t anythi.e j>rinted. lie
could still write. A:, u !: -• resource, lie
e<mid always write letters to the re • --
pa]>ers. sign them ’•I’aterfamilia:-,”
•'1’r > Kmio Fublieo." or "An In Vcrmint
llatejiayer." Tliis itind of tiling 1 has a
particular charm f r caue itn,ple; you
can say so many nasty tilings about
your enemies under cover of a swim
ming bath agitation or a school board
question.
For woman, till lately, there was
nothing of tins kind. Consequently
her vitality bubbled over In foolish
ness, and her sex Win stall! eii as; e\
of babblers, through no actual fault of
its own. Thos ■ v ii ien who did not
chatter were either dull aed unre-yon-
sive, or they were eiisii'ie anal ex
pressed their exuI*erniiee. As physi
cians might say. - repression induced
ennst ie speeeln \vh tin 1* livi Inal
was off gnanl and thus .vnmen gi 1 the
reputation of be'in • ■ .\ 'sin.
through no fault of ti>. !r n’.\ a. ;J1 tiiis
i- being altered. Xc-w. nearly every
woman at least .vrit. t i tlie nc.. pa
pers, iind many .write for tbe :.. *. pa-
j>ers, and very well, i.,o sometiioes,
and so a bles-ed end is erved .biiinia!-
i' in is :i liealinpe 1-iIm. Tin voice rf ihe
tiilkutlve woman v..! 1 o n be h'-urd no
Inie er in the liin.d : ia. > : ■ m T ;laper.i
will have to take a " life.
A FAMOUS YEAR.
n Who Hero
Nuimleou at School Was Miulo the leader
of the Sport*.
1’mf. \V. M. Sloant* tell ninny inter
esting anecdotes of the school days of
Napoleon in his new Life of the Little
Corporal, in Century. Writing of the
time when Napoleon was at Kriennc,
I’rof. Sloiine says: Each of the hun
dred and fifty pupils had n small
garden pot assigned to him. Kuona-
par; d'.'VelojH'd ;i jiiission for Ids own.
r ml, annexing by force the neglected
plots of his two neiglilmrs, created for
himself ii retreat, the solitude of which
was insured by a thick and lofty hedge
planted about it. To this citadel, the
sanctity of which he protected with a
fury at times half insane, he was wont
to retire in the fair weather of all sea
sons with whatever books he could se
cure. In the companionship of these he
passed hapjiy, pleasant and fruitful
hours. His youthful patriotism had
been intensified by the hatred ho now
felt for French school boys, and
through them for France.
"1 can never forgive my father,” he
once cried, "for the share he had iu
uniting Corsica to France.” 1’aoli be
came Ids hero, and tin* favorite sub
jects of his reading were the mighty
deeds of men and peoples, especially in
antiquity. Such matter he found
abundant in "Plutarch's Lives.” More
over, ids degradation by the school au
thorities at once created a favorable
sentiment among his companions,
which not only counteracted the effect
of the punishment, but gave him a
sort of compensating leadership in their
games.
The well-known episode of tlie snow
forts illustrates the bent of his nature.
When driven by storms to abandon Ids
garden haunt, and to associate in tlie
public hall with tlie other hoys, he
often instituted sports in which oppos
ing camps of Greeks and Persians, or
of Homans and < urthuginiuns, fought
until Hie uproar brought down the
authorities to end the oonllict. <>n one
occasion he proposed the sport, common
enoug-h elsewhere, but not so familiar
then in France, of building snow forts,
of storming and defending them, and
if lighting witli snowballs as weapons.
The proposition was accepted, and the
preparations wore made under his di
rection with scientific zeal; the en
trenchments, forts, bastions and re
doubt- were the admiration of tlie
neighborhood. For weeks tin* mimic
warfare went on, Hour, a pa He, always fn
command, being sometimes the be-
sic, 'i r and as often the besieged. Such
was he aptitude, such the resources,
and aeli 1 in-commanding power which
he h"Wi d in either role that the wln-
U r v,a always remembered in the an*
mils of * he school.
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Mr. Oeorqe IK. Tuley
Itriijuiiiin, Missouri.
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t nin
iks ,
Mar,'ll Iso'.,. i i; Del! j:, in'm. v. ho
died iu ls.;t. vi a- boix: in i :•,• ime year.
For Ai:i"id' *i ii vdiiah 1 S 'memo
rable as the year in which Abraham
liineoln was bor/i.
The <ieatii oi Dr. lloltnes has ealh"!
npallo,;,! of reinini .( ei,,-, s on t he sub-
jeet if old men. Titian tin- Italian
painter, Mas L years old when be dit I
ut Wadore, Italy. D, ,,aldo. \* i,eii j'l.-.f
bo. and utterly bli
tinojik*. Isnui
of tlie Roval -<
was a debater
• >rds. Friinklin wa'-Governor of lYnn-
Marshal Me-
blii
id. s
t .rmed
' ' ,l1 j a e;
v
. s r
. t. Oi
i was
l"' 1 "' " , h.-.
eiety lit
the a
->■ " r burl
she.
1 his
imagin
a w "< on- !
!>,
age i
,f s’*. 1
kotigham ■
at
i.
and L\
iiulliurst.
S|>,
>ke
in the
b' 'U c of Tin
<,f nature so curious that if 1 hud not
i,een it with my own eyes I could
►c.irely have believed it jiossible. says a
••in the Kansas City Times. On
’!c: ! ,nk of Elk river rises a large tree
that towers high above tin* neighbor-
i::g irees. At the ground a solid, but
tress trunk appears, fmmeight to ten
feet in oiameter. A little higher than
e vi.au'.s he;id this high trunk divides
into four lesser trunks, the two smaller
of which are in themselves fair-sized
tr , while the other two ure far above
the av. rage size. Here comes in the
queer part of the story. Of those diver-
",mt t runks the two larger ones are re-
i\i ly an elm and a sycamore.
I’. lille t he two smaller ones are an oak
and e ’.••aniore. Above the union of
cmmuoii trunli onek tree, in leaf,
braeeli ai d bark, is normai to its tyjK*.
'Idle trunk itself seems, on, Immo-
a . '.,!.•,le. 1 woubl not presume to
ib it ,dose examination would not
i tie* bark from different see-
trunk those i»eeidiarities
guish ti e bark of one tree
that of another, but certainly
haraotcristios do not show on
examination, jior aru their
i' jointure visible where the four
trunks i"'llle.-co. 1 doubt if iiu.Yolie can
1> .iid ton stranger growth than this
l ,vo syeamores, an oak and an elm. all
; rowing from one common trunk. Thi-
iiHeiing togetherof f<*ur youthful tree
trunks as they thickened with age is
occasionally seen, but this is an umi-
Mialiy fine illustration. Each tree
must, however, form its own hark
that is to say, no one of them lias been
lly envelojM'd by another, lienee
ivful investig^ation ought to dis-
:i slight line where the incurving
of each original tree meets.
meats in the city. Otir line consist.*
of
HE EE. FORK.
SAI SAGE \M>
(FV.ME IN SEAFmN
and we st !l them e,insist ant with
lirst-elass goo,is.
I f \'oll want I lie best go to
'111 E (THY .MEAT MARKET.
S. B. CRAWLEY & CO.
L. BAKER,
I am the Man
Who Adv< rtisc . Mw. Pant at. 75c.
I am the Man
, n vwtmm-n mm** . «
Who Sells Clit. I- Clothi'.'q; l i t as Cheap.
I am the Man
Who Keeps a Variety ol Gene:a! Metchandise.
I am the Man y
Wh.o Sells Groceries .1. Cheap as Lite Cheapest.
V J. I. Sed'Mirsgi 11.
AND BUILDER
I> l’< A I - 10 i* I N
deceived.
\ lot of fresh I'rnit.s. .-.;<*li as Rai-i , ••.m . ,'a, aais, Hrunes, etc. •
New Nut- this years growth. Christtm: Y.*;, ar.hvii. : da',,v.
Come ami see them. ' IK H.Ai !m A' !‘R 11 >.MoR K.
Blinds,
-and all kinds of-
Building Materials,
Elans and specifications for build'
ings made on sliort notice.
CAT KILLS AN EAGLE.
,t
sylvania iit tlie n
Mahon was s', when he died. Meal i
Dow is now in his b 'h year. David
Dudley Field was s'.i when In* <!!• ,*.
( hevrelll, the French , heinist. wa - 1 <r. 1
when he died iu 1 -:•. Ca -iti' M. ( lay. j
now living in Kentucky, is sj. Hiimil-;
ton ! ish. governor. Fiiitci State-, sena
tor and secretary of late, was another
of the famous men born in Iso'.i.
Hath Naiintt Un-
This largv uiuaTlaiiity svliich is now
cliariieteri/.ing all things Russian adds
u new clement of e,mfi i',n to tbe al
ready complex ami dois 1*1 fu I situai ion in
the far east, it i-. understood hero 1
that England 1,a: mad,; |*r,>j*osals for a |
j-iint aeiii nof tbe j.,'wen; in the Hn-
eilie and ha- been refused by all save
Italy. Wh- ,her tins be true or based ,
only on the gem r l I'Yiun- of the .
• ii'liiiii'istniFiiin to I
nis to d(> is m*t
of the .-.ciui-otiieial ,
Vi nna, and J’aris
,4 i » .. 1 1 1 ., '
; . ' . • '.:•■■• i: * • 1 1 ' * (
■ reliing ! .r tin* sake j
• il J, reia n ,, 1 ‘:
ie 111 i I e' il
blit t lie 1 |
. in Herbm
makes ii iii*
page
alike
intends to risk a
of bringing the Hrilisii ide stnats out
of the tin*. The is ie involve l in the
t'hiiia-.liqi.'inese stnigqde too big
nnd tlie ehaiiee- of imli-, idual profit, in
ea-e of a general or?, ntnl bn akii up,
ere toofasciiiutingfor any j* *w> i tobur-
remter thus curly the ailv intage of a
free
kviis pi'iieli.'' 1 1 in
^*.r.-; ago. To p
*i • WfitI "H
ri’.vn (■ * tb'
euf
r < r, . k
oriental 1
and the i
Vim-par-
i:ir,t of I'roeiloni No .lluteli for It*
I’mir-I o,»t»*(l 0|i|M)iient.
Hers, iiis living at (airboimte, Luwrence
county, S. D.. the otlier day witnessed
a remarkable struggle between a eat
and an eagle, in which tlie eat was the
victor, killing'its antagonist. The eat.
m:v • the ( hieago Herald, is owned by
< haries M i-well, of Carbonate, ami has
for (line time been in the habit of kill
ing rabbits, nighlha wks, mountain
lilts and other small game. While
watching for the rciippc;i.nincc of a chip
munk which it had chased into a hole,
the eat was pounced upon by a full-
grown eag'le of the bald species. Hussy
aeccjit d the gage of battle thrown
down by the eag'le. It was u desperate
xtrujrgle, and although the eat was
badly scratched by the eng'le's talons,
it secured a decided advantage. For a
few moments tlie air was filled with
fur and feathers and tin* ground was
all torn up for many yards around the
got. I,ut pussy in a short time sue-
e(,d,si in biting through the neck of
t:>'c:e ]c. Tin strug'g'lcs of the bird
(a fie:'lom grew weaker and weaker
a ceils,*,' altogether. I ‘ussy,
exhaustc i by thq violent exertious and
S' .re from the wounds mfijctf,) by Jh»,*
, axle’s talons, rested for a moment;
then. ax calm ns thoug'h sitting mi a
:e;: before the kitchen fire, went
carefully about smoothing out its ruf-
licd fur. 'i'lie emnbat was witnessed bj r
n numb, ’.’ of p. ople, everyone of whom
exjire sed a de ire to buy the cat, hqt
Mr. Wiswell ays he would not sell it
for tlie hest mine iu the black hills.
The eagle measured six feet four Inches
fr<>m tiy to lio.
i .. , pain in tbe side or elie*'t i
• i ,>1 hi a " -'o ", »od ‘i ;i piece
i n ■ la. I ". it Ii i'liiimbi r-
!' ,i ii Him end bon ml on over
j.i:i it afioi'd- |,1’onipi
,i : j,. riuat:,' r, Ii• f and olleii |>re-
,, mi a cold from re nil ing' in piieu-
i imi i.i. I ' - - i:ii, t n ni ment is a -nre
e i' for ki.m biles. I'or stile b\ \\ .
11. JAul're. i
Call or a Road Congress for Spartanburg
and Adjoining Counties.
R. M. .lolly baving been selei’led
by I In Hoard of Commissioners to
represent them at Ibe Mecklenburg
Road Congress held In Clnirlotte, \.
t’., last slimmer, ami be having be-
eome soniewbat aeqnainted w it Ii the
working of the Miekienburg s\sir in.
and very much interested in road im
provements in tiiis county, nnd be-
iieving our county tobesuUieicntiy
progressive and mil it led to sueli ad
vantages as a,’erne to such improve
ments, we. tiie Hoard of County Com
missioners. do hereby call a meeting
of the citizens of Spartanburg county
to meet with the State Senator and
Represent at ives I,* i he Legislature in
mass meet ing todiseuss t he propriety
of taking steps for tlie betterment of
the public highways, the best system
of working and most practical method
of paying for same.
All the adjoining counties are
urged to be present b\' representatives
and unite witli u> in the discussion.
The Mon. S. H. Alexander and Mr.
II. 11. Moore, of < ’harlot t, VC., are
expected to be present, and address
the meeting <*n this occasion.
The meeting is call,■,I for Ihe 'Jllh
day of November, I Mi i.
.1. L. I low i.i 1 i 'liairnuin.
.1. I>. Ll ox \qie
n. M. ,li,i i v,
I »o:; rd Co. Cotu. t
\V. \V. II M.’i.’is,
• 'lerk t 'o. < 'om.
.,, fur Timer DotiAas»
iifwis Tr r M ei 7 ^<2 ^cqiocnt
ff\ /’ J i V) U r A Hi C C |°G JlCY
r-.' > X ■> n J
\\ >T/, 'UTT
R. (I. SAMS.
I I "Si uM |i.
\. IF I ITTI.E.H »MN.
■AFu
nany iGEn 1
S IIP'
have for sale some desirabi property for dwell
ings and business which must be sold at once.
Gaffney is a Growing' Town
and a small investment in Real Estate will pay
handsomely in a short time.
a ti
iARK PENNYROYAL PILLS D , c . t , ,■ f 7
FemaleRoguia- on Real Estate on long time at , percent, in-
tor an perfectly safe itmi always terest in large or small amounts.
reliable. For all Irregularities, 13
jiaitifid Meiistruulion-, Suppies-
sion efe. Ibev inv r fail to a fiord a
d i ; id 1 rl a in tviie!. N,, I. i r-
l.'IMi'. I. but a -an inpl' .llnj p* 1 'liv,
rdi; f. ad.'pi • Y mi I \ ali a y 'i'i' •! e\-
peri\ 1 1 oi'i|er- * -'i p' ■' x . 1 1 1 "eel
from onr ofii", ;• . , • .aye
I imi or *i\ pie I - i i b\
mad poxtpanl F.'. ii.", I'\, k\,.i
Gl \ t; \ \ 11 1.0. I 'a rl ieillai - Sealed / I,
PARK REMEDY CO., lioston, Mass.
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