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THE WEEKLY LEDGER: GAFFNEY, S. C., OCTOBER 1?, 1898. TIRED - WOMEN Tired and broken down women will find that DR. KING’S ROYAL 8ERMETUER is a priceless boon and blessing to them. It gives appetite, brings restful, refreshing sleep, aids digestion, tones the nerves, builds up the strength and puts disease and pain to flight. For FEMALE TROUBLES Including all menstrual and womb difficulties, it has no superior—used both locally and internally. It is emphatically WOMAN’S FRIEND. Pleasant to take as lemonade, and harmless at all times. New package, large bottle, 108 Doses, One Dollar. Sold by druggists. Manufactured only by THE ATLANTA CHEMICAL CO., Atlanta, 6a. WRITE TOR 48-PAOE BOOK: HAILED FREE. For sale by W.ii. Dul’KK, (Jullnev, 8. 0. ' W. D. ARCHER, TOrcsorti al ArcTitt'r. Hair-cuttintr. In the latest styles. Shaving and Shampooing at reason able prices. ^j^T’Shop next to .1. 1). tJoudo- lock’s store. L. BAKER, AND BUILDER. Will do any class of carpen ter work promptly and at prices to suit the quality, and always keeps on hand flooring, boiling, siding, sash, doors, etc. Also a good supply of heart pine shin gles at market price. Will also make out hills for building ma terial for parties who desire it and fill the same for a small per cent. Give me a trial. Respectfully, 1^. ! — HUDSON’S Business University, Charlotte, N. C. I’liys for the com- 'w *' v-f * v ^ v-f p]ete businesseourse. The only business college in the South that you can try before paying the Tuition. /P^Send for Catalogue. J. E. Hudson, LJ-inz-ipal. THIEVES BRAKE THROUGH. AND STEAL FROM GAFFNEY MERCHANTS. The Smith Hardware Company And the Gaffney Manufacturing Company’s Stores the Places Burglarized. RTP’A-N’S It — u J The modern stand- u ard Family Medi- fate cine: Cures the U > common every-day s ills of humanity. QJ TMDB Z O Your Attention 1 WE respectfully solicit yourpatron- ronage for the Morgan Iron Works. WE are prepared to do work of every description in our various depart ments, in quantity and quality, to suit the most exacting. WE car. furnish you heavy building materials, such as Lumber, Shin gles, Laths, Brick, Lime, etc., promptly and in good shape. WE are ready to get out any class pf inside finishing, such as Mantles, Doors, Sash, Blinds, Mouldings, Newels, Baliusters. etc., etc. OUR Iron Foundry and Machine Shop is equipped for constructing heavy CRstings as well as ordinary mill wotks. OUR Oak and other styles of MantlM* lire winning a reputation. Beauti ful wotk for very little money. b> your order* and we promlae to do all we can to pleaae you. Call on or correa* pond with ua. MORGAN IRON WORKS, Hpiirtunlaxii'if, Wl. O. MU* H. CARUBkK, Proa, and Trcaa. Last Friday night a thief broke a show window glass in the building of the Smith Hardware Company and extracted a shot gun. There were a number of guns in the sho v window, but one was sufficient to appease the desires of the would-be Nimrod and so the Smith Hardware Company were only lightly “touched.” There is no clue to the thief but Manager Hilliard Smith is almost positive that the “Kl«pto Maniac” is a white man. On Saturday night four thieves broke a glass of one of the large plate show windows of the store of the Gaffney Manufacturing Company and entered the building and stole a num ber of suits of clothes, several pairs of shoes, some knives pocket-hand kerchiefs, etc. Sunday J. W. Hopper went to his plantation near Blacksburg and on ins return brought the information that parties were down on Broad river trying t<> dispose of some knives and other merchandise, i’uliceman Barney Lipscomb and Mr. Ed. Cash, of the Gaffney Manufacturing Com pany, started on the trail and on Monday morning they arrested a ne- groe wh■> gave ins name asGus Rains. Ruins acknowledged the theft but implicated thr?e other negroes. Rains said he and his companions came to Gaffney on the local freitrlil about 11 o’cl ck Saturday night. They waited i ntil about 2 o’clock ihen one took a rock and broke the glass. They : II hid in a dark corner to wait and s<'' if any one would come. As no me came two entered the building and helped themselves while the other two kept guard out side. When those inside had gotten what they warded they came out and did the watching act-while the others two went in and helped themselves. Each one went, in twice and Bains says all got two suits of cloths except himself, who was quite satisfied with one, as he had no use for but one- suit at a time. Two of the thieves started south and two north—Ruins and ids partner. Nothing has been heard from the other the members of the gang. Rains is about nineteen years old, low and chunky, hardly more than five feet high and weighing probably 14o pounds. He is very black, and when asked to describe his compan ions said “the tall fellow who went to’ard Greenville is blacker ’en me,” but Chief Camp is of the opinion that that is impossible as Ruins is as black us the proverbial hinges of hades. — —► » The New Colored Methodist Church. Contractor L. Baker is pushing the work on the new church building for the colored Methodist. It is really a pretty building and when complete will be the equal of any of the churches of the white people. Con tribution have been liberally made by the people of Gaffney, both white and colored. It was the intention of Rev. M. M. Mouzon the pastor, to publish the list of contributors but lie has verily wisely concluded that to make the donors so conspicuous would make them the pray of all other causes that would be liable to uak aid. The colored people of this sec tion are enterprising and progressive and the colored Methodist church has an able representative in the per son of Rev. M ouzon. Unclaimed^Letters. last of letters remaining in the office uncalled for to date: A. L. Bui lew. Starling Coleman. Doss Morgan. Miss Nancy Gordan. N. B.—Persons calling for these letters will please say advertised in rim Ledger. T. H. Littlejohn, P. M. Oct., 14, 1895. • -*#»• »- Broke His Aarm. William Gaffney came to the eity Sunday for a doctor for his mother, who was sick. While returning homo in Ids buggy accompanied by his two sisters, the buggy was overturned and Mr. Gaffney’s left arm was broken be tween the elbow and wrist. Mr. Gaff ney is now nursing his arm in a sling. Card ot Thanks. Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Goudelock de sire to return their sincere and heart felt thanks to the kind friends who manifested their sympathy during the late illness and demise of their little daughto, Helen. Such evi dences of true friendship will ever linger with those who have the mis fortune to he bereft of ties which are closer than languue can express. —A few days ago. at the hospital In Charlotte, Dr. Wakefield, the oe- culist. removed a cataract from the eye of Calvin McGinnis, of Darling- ton. N. C., restoring sight to a blind man. —Dr. W. H. Wakefield, of Char lotte , N. C., will be at Lipaeomb’o Hotfd in Gaffney on Friday, Nov 1st until 2 p. m. His practice is limited to the eye, ear, nose and throat. —See Smith Hardware Co. for guns and shells. « - • Other Locals on Pa^eae an* 9, cfyinav/ cfjsas/y- ^ HT Co*rf>K,Hr uts " But the colonel’s eloquence was In terrupted by the Chicago Demosthenes, who turned rudely to Grey and said, without the faintest sign of German accent, but in the strong western vernacular: “See here, young feller. I’m tickled to death that the ole cuss hos had the sense ter put young blood on his one-hoss paper; for it’s milder now nor ef it was run by a woman’s Bewin'-circle; a chile might put more go Into it. See?” Grey nodded. "Now, I shan’t bother my head about Gilchrist any longer. You look as if yer could swing a pen, an’ I shall give the straight tip ter you every time, an’ cf yon know beans when the bag’s open you’ll follow my orders, jest es I give ’em to yer." "Docs the paper belong to you?" Grey asked, aghast at the possibility “Not by a long shot! but for nil that I guess I’m the heart an’ the liver an’ the lungs an’ the backbone of it. See?" "I presume," asked Grey, coolly, "you’re what they jail a professional agitator?” “You’ve hit it, stranger.” "And,” continued Grey, with aggra vating nonchalance, “you belong to a class of men for whose occupation 1 confess 1 have nothing but contempt." Schlossinger blazed forth in a torrent of oaths, while the poor colonel rose in bewildered deprecation. "To a class of men,” Grey went on, as soon as he could get a hearing, "who have no interest in the reform of social abuses, who prey upon the working man, and wax fat upon his hard-earned wages.” "Do you hear him?” yelled Schloss inger, advancing. "Leave this office, you hound, you dog!" "I am not a tyrant, and I am not a king. Mr. Schlossinger,” Grey said, with exasperating coolness, "except so far as every American citizen is a sovereign, and that is why I do not quake at your approach—nay, perhaps why, if you come one step nearer, I shall soil my hands by knocking you down.” Almost suiting the action to the word, he sprang upon the communist. "Down on your knees and beg my par don, or I will thrash you within an Inch of your life,” he cried, like one stung to sudden frenzy. “Gilchrist! quick! police!" gasped the fallen agitator, who, notwithstanding his muscular build, never moved a finger to defend himself. Grey flung him scornfully aside. "Pshaw! I have done with you; you are not wortli chastisement; but never dare to set foot in this office while I am here.” By now, however, the colonel’s scat tered senses had recovered their equi librium. "I, sir, am master here," he cried. "Herr Schlossinger, I humbly apolo gize for this man’s insolence—and I ig- nominiously discharge him on the spot!” "Don’t give me any o’ yer taffy." the agitator growled, turning his venom on one he dared insult. "I'll pay yer hack for this, yer see ef I don’t—I’ll ruin yer sure es my name’s Hermann Schloss inger!" "My dear, dear friend," the colonel deprecated, "how could I help it? Don’t visit on me the sins of another. Don’t—” But Frank Grey stopped the old man's abject ajwlogies. "Col. Gilchrist," he said, not without a touch of kindness in his tone, "don’t degrade yourself by wasting words on such a hound. It is painful to see a man of your education and antecedents subjected to the dictates of a loutish brute like this king quaker; but if you must continue your connection with him. do let me entreat you. adopt an other method in dealing with him. When he is insolent, kick him—kick him hard—it will do him good and you no harm—for though you are an old broken man. he will not dare to retal iate, and I am sure he has too sincere an antipathy to a police court to make you legally responsible for his whip ping." With this parting shot. Grey left the Labor Times to reconstruct the world without his valuable assistance. But this meant no work—and no work in Chicago means more than in any other city in the world—means that if a man falls down In the rank on the march none have time to stop in the rush and roar of that phenomenal Babylon to pick him up. Another trouble aavalted him, on reaching his boarding place: Stewart, his newly-made friend, had received his remittance, and. all elate, wae only de laying his departure to wish him gpod- by. “Good-by, old fellow; I shall never forget your kindness." "Good luck go with you,” was Grey’s warm rejoinder. "Remember my address in London. There’s no knowing in the whirligig of time when we may meet again.” The regret Grey felt at the loss of this young man he had kno\tn bo short a time puzzled him. "Surely," he communed with him- Bclf when he was left alone, "there U Borne force of electro-hiohjgy which "draws souls together-some subtle at traction which controls congt nial spir its, which we shall all understand some day in God's good time. ! few! It in my bones that Stewart add 1 wiU meet again." Yes, they would meet agate. CHAPTER VII] RBTtsrac it swetr For six weeks things went on from bad *u worse at the Whitford hOEse - for, though Dodd oo longer annoyed Elsie with his loathsome attentions, it wtis apparent that his hold on the old people was dally becoming stronger, and she felt that It was only a question of time when the renewal of the Wvtsld atMlus; •¥ ♦.•vejj nour was run or anticipated misery. Thus the weary days dragged on. As the spring advanced into summer, which it docs with a rush in this re gion. the unhappy girl's only recrea tion was to indulge, as Grey had done, in long, solitary, moody walks, not alto gether wholesome for one so young and naturally cheerful. On such a ramble, one Saturday aft ernoon. she had sought the retirement of a pleasant valley, in the midst of which was an abandoned mine, whoso treacherous shafts were dangerous to strangers, hut to her possessed no peril. Tired—ah, she soon got tired now— she sat down on a big bowlder behind a projecting rock—a favorite, lonesome spot, where she could enjoy the sweet bitterness of utter solitude. Suddenly her meditations were broken. Footsteps approached, and, to her discomfiture, the solid form of the Hopkinsite stood close beside her, ignorant that behind that big rock in the cavern-like recess the girl was trembling at his approach, hardly dur ing to breath for fear of betraying her presence. Then came a tall, slouching figure— a shambling wretch, with villainy written on every line of his bloated face lie drew near to Dodd, who evidently expected him, and spoke in a gruff, in solent manner. "It is all over,” he said, in sullen hu- mm. "For God’s sake give me bills an* let me go." “lie believed your story?” Dodd asked, eagerly. “You must have told it well." "Swallowed the hull passel o’lies like a blamed sucker,” was the satisfactory response. "How did you manage to speech with him?” Dodd asked, much in terested. "Tried the hard-up racket—wife an’ seven children, no work, family in Du luth, awful anxious to get a job, but I fetched him most on a story of my sick boy, whom I loved so much and’couldn’ get money to buy doctor’s stuff with. Blamed if he didn’t give me a night's lodgin’, an’ then 1 come the gratitude dodge on him. Told him I'd worked . 'V potlred forth her soul in prayer; men, i binding her shawl around her waist, ! she set about her perilous task. Feeling her way, step by step, for be ing without a lantern added tenfold to her peril, she readied in safety the first floor, where a greater danger awaited her. The second ladder must be ap proached in a light so di: i, just the ' ‘w faint (lashes that reached her from the mouth of the shall, thai she could only grope her way in despair to the black abyss before her. But she found the ladder at last, with its top fortunately projecting above the j lloor of the gallery. Very slowly and painfully, and In ut ter darkness, she made her way down, her delicate hands torn with splinters | from the half-decayed rungs of the old i ladders, and her feet, protected only by her frail shoes, aching with a burning pain. Once more she reached the ground. "Wilders! Wilders!” she screamed. The echoes of her voice rolled through those subterranean caverns with awful distinctness — repeated in the hollow j chambers, till it seemed to her heated i brain as though fiends were mocking 1 her. Then a terrible, soul-sickening si- ; lonce. She could hear her heart beat as she I strained her ears to catch som^ faint reply, but all in vain. The terrible step must be taken, the last ladder must ! be descended. Flinging herself on hands and knees the groped her way to the edge of the i precipice. Ah, what is this? A wall. ; She knew that she had taken a wrong direction and was wandering into one I of the interminable passages of the de serted mine where a sure and lingering death awaited her. Many were the stories that flashed across her burning brain of miners, who, once having lost themselves in these subterraneous lab yrinths, could never win their way back to safety. What could she then, a weak girl, hope for? All sense of lo cality seemed to have deserted her. TO HK CONTINUED NEXT WEEK. DEAL MERIT is the character- ■ w istic of Hood’s Sarsaparilla. It cures even after other preparations fail. Get Hood’s and ONLY HOOD’f. WE NOW HAVE r ady . r distribution the latest Price Li.t cl Doors, Suh, minds, Xc. Tta Price List is in the form of a folder, an contains many things of inter est to you if you think of buy : ng Doors, Sash, Blinds.M ould* ings, &c. Drop us a postal card and we will be glad to »e«d you a copy. AUGUST A LUMBER CO., AUGUSTA, GA. "buy of tht 9c COTTON. Although cotton has advanced to 9c and nearly all goods has ad vanced sharply, I am still selling goods in proportion to 5c COTTON. I placed my order for goods while they were at bottom fig ures and will sell to you the same way. Jeans cloth a little lower than last year. Hats, Shoes and Dress Goods at old prices. The best Keen Clipper Axe 5c less than last year. Yours Respectfully, I. iVI. if 'V i/f i; fi 'riu±: FINEST and BEST 4'^ _ f' lji 'Wl' V.V 'V-> LIE DREW NEAR TO DODD. with a gang in the Old Mine, an’ I knowed as that Now York company left off just as they was st rikin' it rich, an’ th m I out with the chart an’showed him tiv very spot where I seed the mouth o' the pocket.” “And he believed you?” “I should say so. It Y.d make a sick mule smile to see him suck it all in." “And then?” "Then said he’d make it all right if he found the pocket, an' he’s gone now, poor devil, to look for it.” “Your preparations in the mine were all properly made?” “You bet; I sawed half through seven staves o’ that last ladder an’ if he hasn't got wings, he’s lyin’ this m'mit seventy-five feet below the third gal lery.” “You saw him enter?” “Not an hour ago. He might stay awhile nosing around the gallery, hut It’s odds he made a bee line for the big strike.” “Good, indeed. Well, here’s your money." "An’ I’ve arn'd it too, mister; blest if 1 wasn't throwin’ the hull business up oncet; for, you see, lio’d a woman he called Millie us was a sweet-spoken lass, an’ a little kid as jus’ worshiped him. 1 wa’n’t alius sich a brute as I am now an’ those two kin’ o’ touched a soft spot in me somehow.” “Pshaw! man, go and got some strong drink and don’t forget you can't afford to indulge in sentiments if you continue to deal with me.” "All right, boss. I'll light out o’ these diggin's, and if you know what’s good for your health you'll make tracks, too, before long, for this job means murder, jist nothin’ else.” Dodd watched the departing figure of his accomplice till it was lost in the pine forest, then muttering, savagely: "Blow for blow, un eye for an eye -ah! that's good Bible leaching, Master Wilders," he slowly took his way back towards Ore town. Half petrified with terror, Elsie had drunk In every syllable uttered during this terrible Interview. With quick perception, aided by her knowledge of local liabits, she pieced the fragments of the conversation and read the story like a book. These villains, by u well- concocted tale, had induced Jack Wild ers to descend the disuned mine and there prepared his death. Never for a moment did the bnivo girl hesitate. Her one burning hope was to reach the third gallery before WlldiTh bad descended to the lowest floor. To appreciate the daring of her un dertaking one must be familiar with the character of her surrounding* The mine descends in several stories, each called by the hardy workmen a gallery, and each descent Is from fifty to seven- ty-« ve feet in depth, reached by long ItUldt rs. placed nearly pvrpcudloulurly^ •and ill some instances with the top hair* }y reaching to Hie surface. With flying steps she run to the dark, yawning chasm, which was the shaft of the old mine. Btavo us she was her heart beat an she gazed down the gulf of blackness. liut she was resolved. Flinging hcr- Aldi lux' «&• uuuujmt 0U kxf kiiwsa sk# That are made. And we sell them at prices to suit the times. We invite your inspection when in need of anything in onr line. CARROLL, CARPENTER & HUMPHRIES^ The Gaffney City Land and Improvement Company, Offer for Sale Building Lots in this Flourishing Town, O- iV ITITIV Y CITY. Also Farms near by and in reach oi ibe schools of Limestone Spring tnd of this place in lots of from 80 to lUO acres on liberal time rates. Also Agricultural Lunds to rent for farm purposes. For full particulars apply to MOSES WOOD, Agent. N. B.—All trespassing on lands of this Company cutting and removing timber, fishing or hunting are forbidden under penalty of law. JEWELRY! WE H WE ADDED TO OUR ALREADY completi i" f of General Merchandise a pretty, sub>l)itiSi:ii :ind attractive line of Jewelry con sisting of Gold and Silver Watches and Chaing, Charms. Badges for Roil Men and ot In-r secret orders, Scarf Pins, etc. In fact our line is complete in every respect. Dress Goods! OUR LINE OF LADIES’ DRESS GOODS is tin- neatest and m >st complete of any bouse in the city and the prices are made to please. Wcdo not exaggerate in writ ing our advertisements but each statt-ment Is weighed before made and we invito your careful inspection of our entire line. No trouble to »how goods. W. O. Lipscomb & Bro. “The Hustlers.” Gcirroll &: Stacy, Transact a General Banking Business. IIN'rcjJMCdlttT allowed on Time Deposits by 8I?QdAJL Arrangement. Safety Deposit Boxes for Rent. Your tronsi*»;o ^Solicited. Are Yoa Ever Downright Hongrj ^ sing? Do you ever feel that it would rest you through and through and give you new life for your daily tasks to hear some simple air be cause of its associations? Come to us and play the tune for youriolvGI, or we will play it for you. You may change your own piano or organ. Hit down and laugh or cry. Make yourself comfort able and happy—-bus* Inc** can wait. * At JOHNSON’S MUSIC PABLOft ii.-ar of Carroll k Stacy’s Bank