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0 THE WEEKLY LEDGER: GAFFNEY, S. C., NOVEMBER 21, 1895. SQUIRTS RUFUS fAXDERa Tho Portly Sr .r > i Ilorliy C.^ 6:111 Ll/ra. And Toll* flt*n :i,•«i'4 ''in to i l i ifn I’- wood <1 I,! 11*—A ii * ■ y 1 nr * * Vi • !i l*i'* ii.ul llono I’p in :i I*** l ** v—" l i-' 1 '", ft Ik U in 'Hill” mid * rn/.y r Uio Wood—'■Hill' N«‘IV* <10.11 l>ovvii on I'uiiUior. (Copyright, isr,.) With his turUoy-n'd b-indani If'op d and tucked and li d and twist'd all aronnd bis throat and for red m toe r' lar ni^ifcr fash ion— tv i th b.s br •c , cIj< s in his boot loos and a pair of Texas spurs tin, vvbiCu hep! iip a scatl- dlous ritlin— wilb his stake an’ ridered sb rt on, eiv n f ish si : ns of lol<:.i a), U le u ise a’>o ■onto few blood stains—v.itli his b it eye bunged and slim up, an I the other bruised and cloudy, to ne the n.. uni- born horse trader, eomo the uniy est Andy Luciis. ft'rt'Hli I rmn tin- Mill < ountry. Andy iie bad went on a ti p soine- wheres over in the bill country to sn if be couldn’t lay cl a- ms to some s'ray begs, and in the mai l t. me he hud been “a bavin a Hill” fun w ith one of the boys.” On his return I a -k home be rid by tog.vo me the g. n.'ril facts in the case b fore the news could leak out in the settlement. “Listen to a man what knows the road and has covered all the ground tint traveled all the gaits, Kul,” says Andy as he laid one linger alongside of his nose. ‘’Don’t you mvr start olT to take no long trips ridin of a blamed old mule by the name of Dei k without good tobacco and plenty of it in your breeches. That’s what's the matt' r with your site partner this ev nin. That's how come my noble forr d done up in a red rag, as it were, and Hint's tborneaninof Ibese wounds and sears, tb' so pay and g; u ly colors on my gen tle countenance. ‘T bad lob..ecu, two or three pliiL r s of it, and that wbieb was good, some- wberes around the plaie, but in t!i(‘ general burry and eonfusioiim' nt of Uio trip I had to sw p breeehes and I went off w thout ac.'umbin my cloth's I thought a'out it over i.eieatibe first creek, but I if.iln'L want tostopand tuni around and eome 1. elc and break my luck. 1 was beaded for the bill coun try, where everylndv uses the wo. d, and I reckoned as liow 1 would n't have to wait and suffer long. S> I r d on, wan tin tobacco so bad till I was spilt n whit'* right then. S on thin like a, half mile further on I met up w<ih a pale, Bickly-lookin, tillow-l'ici'd boy (Invin one ox and goin iom.ll. He lo. kel to me like a boy aa mo'.ignt may lie use t o bacco, so I flopped lie* (jijest on to him. But lio lowed he didn't uso t, and I says to h m, says I: \V< II, young man, if you don't use tobmci you ought to put a little salt in your d.rt. “So I rid on. A ni b* or so further down tho road 1 saw a ya 1 lor nigger pickin eot’on elost to the road, amt now, thinks 1 to myself, thar k the Lord I will git some toll iceo. 1 went at iiim kind tmd familiutis like, an I (ailed li.m Bill, ft'id then hr. u; hi. up tlr* y a a t and growin (jiiesiion of toha. eo with Iiim. “Yasser, 1 uses it,” says he—•‘dat is I uses it wliensomev r I can gi t it, but. there ain’t narry eiaimli .n my l.reeelies today, bos*. 1 done tuck and turned my pnckels ills rm ruin.” “So I popped the sfitirs to o'd li ck and rid on. Hut by his time, Rufe, blamed if I want weak and sick and nervious as a cat. I iri d eliaw n some persimmon bark, but nh 1st. it m de ut" spit free and spit y.il er it wouldn't sor ter half w iy do for loliie *o, ’i’11c■ more I rid and the further I went tho worse I got.” dot I'i/cn, I i litln Mud. “But now presently that sick feelin kinder wore off, and then I commence gettin mad—rale mean, p iten, fighlln mad. Ilufe, did you ever feel mean enough to hit your own bo ly and rob your old grandmol her? Well, tov that was mo to a nut’s le el. Win n 1 got way over there in M u-der ("re. U swamp I couldn't stand it n i longer. So 1 dis mounted and cot d wn, I d i, n l cut' mo a good hickory si irk tel Ii t, into that old mule Beck. Man sir. I give li< r tie* dad-biamdest most ttlloverest i.eatiu that any one mulo ever iut 1 to tote out of them woods. “But yet s'i'i at !h'* ?tame time that didn't bring in no tobacco, Ilufe, and tobacco was the mainest thing w Hi me at that time. As your fr i u I and fel low-servant, 1 do hope and trust you never will livo long enough to want anything an had ns I wanted tobacco. By gatlins, I was waterin at the mouth and slobberin worse tluin any steer calf roped olT from h s m 'inmv for the first time. But I rid on, and I didn't meet nobody till I got wav over tlr-ic in u,o old Staggers Inm*. Torectly I saw a man com in up tie* road ridin of a mule like me, only lie was ridin In a walk and me goin in a full gillop. By this time I r ckon 1 must of hr en about throo-thirds crazy as well as foam n mad. I was cuss n old B rk at the top of my vo ce and plow ri up lu r sides with my spurs ut every jump.” • ’„ r c, f . w ith bi n, nml blame If ho ,'t int * ii o ite* w hilst I had ono i i t ,e st:irup. So we had t right t i • hi; road, up and down and o. ! 11*1.1 r for a few rounds, but he trio r mi the I'trst lick and he m ide it c a ’. A d then, Bute, I was so scan- i k and nervious till I couldn’t f'. 'ht nuii b ttohow. '1’he truth is mighty even w hen it li tins, Ilufe, and the naked, uv.. he l truth is that tho stranger g :ve me a blame good heat n. I found a t rem ■u l. ti v liig pile of difference be ta ' n v. hippin a blamed old mulo name L ck and iickin a man by tho name of YU;.v r, w.iich tho stranger givo mo H;at as liis name. h n it was all over with ho wanted to know w hat in tho lliunderations was the matter, and all I could say was tidia co—to-hacco—to-bacco. Well, sir, nobody would of thought It, but blamed if In* didn't pull out a plug of the bul- i ton-bought stuff 1 have Hopped a Itti oit in many a day, and cut me off a fit!i Mjii re. Inside of three minits I ]>:. ■ ci.aie to my sen -es, and wo shook ! > mil part' d friends. “i’ .i reiiii'tuh r what J tell yon, Rufe. il .'ii’t you never start off to take no b'tii ipa on a Illumed old mule by tho inn ol Mi rk without plenty of tobacco in \ ■ ur breeches.” Sonii* New's I rum (‘anther Creek. At:at X mcy Newton driv by one day last v.’eek on her return back homo from Ib.nk Wi atherfurd’s. She tarried and r« n ii d over long enough to take a social family smoko with me, and when she wi nt away she left a big bundle of new s from down on Panther Creek. ‘•'i ae folks in our settlement are most .y <! d-fearin people, llufus,” says the d ar 'delightful old soul between the i .ffs of hluo smoke from her pipe, “t.n I they arc multiplyin and replen ish n t no earth aucordin. Right along i n d in i n of i he last three weeks thirteen r.r.v iiahii'S liavo come into our midst to face the tri.ls and troubles and tribu- 1 itimis of this vain and floet'm world, as it wi re. Misos Strickland Dunk’s wife —she was tin* llrst on" to showdown, and a. you and Blev and Andy would .-; y, s' e belt a pair of jacks, which is to say, two hoys. Next come John An drew X' w toii's wife—S illio Stringer as sin* ti so to lie—and kImj likewise also laid dow n a p dr, hut they was queens, you understand, two girls. That’s four. Tiii’ii Will Tom Pickenso's wife—Rose- bud l.uekalew that use to he—and she jest, naturally took tho rag and pulled up t .c bush by comin across with three j» — v » u itujn «s i ■u i* gi*,. That’s first one of the another had leg al on ■ trip—two hoys and a girl, seven. Well, then, neig .hors and then it 1. ms at their house till there was five mnr ' babies in the settlement. And the t's thirl' on. “Ti.oy an* all mighty pc >rdown there, M ili.s, in regards to mis world's goods. Lit • they don't moan no harm by that, tin 1 tboy va k upright and blameless in tin' con. maud men Is as b'*st they can. l! it want for tin* children ail the good- ne , .n the human r.ico would soon wash out. iinyliovv, tmd whilst I aint in that intire h of the business, it male s my old heart j lad to see the earth multiplied i.nd n iilenished reglar and frequent. “Whai's pist helpln should be past weopin, as Hu* old savin runs, but I do wi i m my soul the whole thirteen was i. in • and I could livo long enough to sen ’. in all grown and m rrled and sot- ti. d oil in thirteen different homes.” MetcorolomcMl Item. Ho—Do you know that you remind me very much of the weather? M;i*- In what respect? " ‘You are so changeable.” “! that so? Do you know that I don’t see the least resemblance between .von ami the weather?” “You don’t say so." “You are certainly not like the weal her. You know the weather is bib id occasionally—you never are.”— Texas Siftings. lie lleifO the ( im <lu Pit rt. Soon an ever I './of in henrin d s'anen of Hie man comin up the ro id I lit into cussln him and cillin for tolceco w tli ev<*ry breath, lie lic inl tho cmhh n part, and by tho time I rhl up to bim, lie was down on tli'» greti'cl. »iiii id** mnle bitched and Ids (*(111 off. rca'ly for a fight. And nothin else won <1 d 1 Iiim but a fight. 1 thou got down to argify Id ly* Nlie Krflented It. Iln-.v dure you accuse me of being a imuiiaaiue? ’ she said, Indignant- “V by,” replied the young man who w ti jV. his knees, “I didn’t." “I: n’t a kleptomaniac a person who piiil'iins things for which he has no pu .bit use?” “Yes.” “Did you not just say that I had ltd'll your heart? Hence, monator ( hcucul”—Washington Evening fitof. LODGES AND CHURCHES. With nil due Remark; of a Chicago Divine Dis cussed by fca a P. Julies. ’l .111 “tianil Moat l.oclileHt.” O'd 11. in Stiado Walton is now about Hi * ht.pp < st, as well as tho ugliest and 11.oit lu. .co si man in our settlement,” Ann* Nancy went on presently. “Tij<* < d man went up to tho county f ib- ih*' other day and when be come In. k iiume li<* had a five dollar hill in gold hie.iw .iy inhissock. Ilenceforwards af* ler teat lie aint done a blessed thing but Ir.ipse around Hie settlement ahowui ev ryi'i.dv his new money and tellin ho.*' in* got it. lie never win it and he d.du’t Hud it, but whilst up there seein of 1 ut* sights lie met up with a man from s- ni< wln res ovr in G.-orgy, which bo was ' rank blank stranger to old man Mi: d *. “.\iy friend, says tho man from (io rsy .‘oon ns eycr lie clapped bis 1 ye- on Shade Walton, 1 have got five d ,in gold which belong* to you. Itv.,.s guv to mo forty years ago by my pr n lfather, and he told me if I •• v r uiei, up with a man that was uglier Ilian m * 1 must pass it on down the line. Tin* money is yours. Hero it ia. Take it and lie happy. “V. < 11, naturally of course, old man Shade h" look the money. He couldn't h> n .Hun else convenient. And I reckon by rights it belongs 10 him, cause be it 1 lie -orriest lookin man I have ever saw, : nd bless gracious he is ugly enough to wi .111 a mule colt." V. li u Thanksgiv'.n comes I will have 1 iif.ip of th ngs t* ho thankful tor. But I w 11 return pm-ticlar thanks to tbo not Lord that my Aunt Nancy Newton iiuT gone nowneres. Rufus Sanders. Why the Secret Society I* More Popular with the Men Than the Church- Meed of a Warmer-Hearted Itrotherly Love. I COPYRIGHT. 1895 Rev. Mr. Mauss, u Congregational pastor of Chicago, is reported by one of the Chicago dailies us having uttered the following: “Many men who are antagonistic to the church will not unite with it be- eau.ie they feel their religious wauls better satisfied in the lodge. Who is at fault that women constitute 80 per cent, of the church membership? In Chicago ! here are 200 churches and 1,200 lodges with an average membership of 200 men. We cannot say women are More superstitious than men and heme unite with the church. The rabid social democrat extols the religion of Christ, though denouncing the church of to-day. But lay not the blame to the religion of Jesus Christ. It is charged that the pulpit of to-day emphasizes the sovereignity of God and has absolute knowledge concerning the world beyond, and loves to denounce the tins of Cain and other ancients, but dure not raise its hands against the vice-, of to-day. Yet who dared to face Tammany, but the churches of New York? Christian charity has assumed an official air, and the philanthropy of the church has become the distribu tion of alms. The church must return to the apostolic days in the cure of her sick and the providing of her gifts. The loeiety man does not regard ituscharity to If* taken care of. lie lias paid his assignments and his clues, ilis visit ors eome not as paid secretaries or as official clergymen, but as brethren. Lay off' the authoritative rolies.und let heaii touch heart. The democratic spirit which predominates in the control of affairs in the lodges is in marked con- irast with the ecclesiustieism of some of the churches. All men desire au thority, and in the lodge every 11111:1 can exercise his authority. In the lodge men know their widows and orphans will be taken care of. They have no assurance of this in the church. Y'et it is in Christian countries that we find orphan homes and asylums. The ideal secret societies are manifest or dor mant in the Christian churches, and to the external must lie added the .’elation of the soul to its God. Let the church claim her rights and exercise them. Let her live the life of her Master, and she will fulfill not only the demands 01 the lodge, but also lead men to satis faction of theyearningsof their iiearts." Without approving or disapproving, without agreeing altogether with 01 differing altogether from Bev. Mi. Munss, there are many suggestions to a mind which thinks in the quota! iom- above which I have given from liissei mon. In my perigrinations over this country I find the lodges in most quai ters flourishing, with large and grow ing memberships and with constant in tereut spurring them along. The masons, the odd fellows, the Knight: of Pythias, the Shriners, the Order ol Med Men, and so on and so on, flourish ulmost everywhere. The interest in these secret societies seems to be abid ing. It is not an unusual thing to at tend a masonic fraternity on a Tues day night and find 200 men present; and then attend the average Wednes day night prayer-meeting at a church and 40 is n full house, 00 isu perfect jam, and nine-tenths of these are women and children. Does the pastor aforesaid give the reason for such a state of tilings? Like the reverend gentleman from w hom I quote, 1 belong to several of these se cret societies myself. Men get very close to each other in a lodge. Having touched each other in the lodge they walk closer to each other on the street. Their words and signs and grips keej them close together; and yet it is in a Christian land that secret hocietie:- flourish most. The light of the Gospel the truth of the Bible makes it possible for brotherhood to exist and closest affinity to work. Do men get closer to gether within the house of God? Are they more in touch with each othei next day because they were together in a church the day iwifore? A church without its Christ, though it may have its Bible and its preacher, is coldet than a lodge, and there is less fraterni- : ty than we find in a lodge. What breth ren hi the same church look after each other in sickness and in distress? Dc they care for the widow and orphans 1 of tneir brethren in the church as they i do ’n the lodges? Have the lodges enough of the spirit of Christ to mak? them brotherly and generous to tin • widow and orphans? And yt tin.* than the Church of Hod. consideiation for srercl oidrrs of uli kinds 1 lie CliuM.*h ol Hod is broader aid Let ter and tin 10 in aII t he reint ions of life than all of them | ul together, if llie sj 1 • 1 it of ( hi I ..s» ml .dii d in tin* church, if Christ is bigger than the chinch. I owe more to (lie church than ail institutions combined. 1 would do inoro for thr church tlian all other institutions combined. I am jealous of l*.er name, of her iionor, of her integrity, of her life. It is well enough to discuss these things. We cannot turn them aside with a sneer or scoff. Facts must be met, and facts must be answered whether we w ill or not. If we do not meet and answer them they will meet mul answer us. I line the ministry, and love them as brethren; and yet him mueli of the blame, if blame should at tach. is to In* credited to them 1 will not .say if the chinch lias not tin* waimlii, tin' ‘ympatiiy, the motherly feeling lur beyond any .secret order know u to 1111*11. This lunch i know ^ BARRED FROM NAVAL COLLEGE | To Close Thank-giving Day. | Americans and OHicrs M’ot to Eujoy Uuluro ^ 1 avi 1 I’rlvllcs;"* at Greenwich. I It is certain that the American naval * officer of the future will not be able to i enjoy the privileges afforded by a course of study at Greenwich naval college. An order is about to be issued by the admiralty forbidding the entry of any foreign officer into the naval college or on British warships. This order is not specially aimed at any power, but America and Japan will ge the chief sufferers, as fora longtime past they have been sending young officers to Greenwich for a two-years’ course. At present the only foreign ers at the naval college are two gradu ates of Annapolis and one Japanese officer. The order, however, does not apply to those who are now there, but it will keep out future applicants. Men u 1 a ml go again ;n;d keep goii e where la arts touch t uni heni ts, ami w in . c im n w ill be their brethren united. b.\.u F. Jones. LINCOLN ANJ LCOTH. The i’t'.'.i'ieiii Il.ed on ti I t : lloutli Had OeC'il|»*etl .1 t civ lieu t t .o.e. *T once came within an ace of being hung,' was llie sinicn.c at made the other ii a,, u\ Air. HtO'i u .wo.viey, tie.* city bill poster, to a re ! \\asiiiugtou i pori.'i. I • u s. :■ i r; i came as aeai I demiicil et iiu.liai wna incut i {irmly believe tiiat i lo bcii.g Dung as any eon- 1 u waieli sel upon mm. il was w uen Lincoln was Mint by Louth, i hud been in the (iieal 1 tea 1 business as a ii.aiiugei. and in tins way became acquu.nicJ witii l.ooih. On lliai 1 veiiuui evening i vv is siamiiiig just outsail* me presi dent's box, on me iigni-numi side ot the door, when Houtu came by. lie stopped, ami i iiad no suspicion of the dri-titiiul net d lie v.a.-aboui to cumuli:. He stayed mete witn me, mining and ehatlu.g 111 a low lone tor about 20 nmiUles, ami in Hint i.me anoul liu.f a ilo/en pi i. .ins wn> Knew bom ot us came by ami saw us. I knew every one who cann by .0 well Unit they scarcely luontd al me, mul in that, lay my sait ly. Im ii :d 1 lai n icengm/.cd by anyone I would have been arrested as one ol tiu* eonspi.a.o. .. “it was milv afii r 1.001 ii hud iii' ii his shot that 1 uahzcd i.nai i . gal follow. As soon as i could >.o so nni.olieeil I left the meater uni. uairtcn nome, ex pecting to be at n: i>d et.'ry i..m:iep|. How I escaped is a n. v: . i _> to me, even now, and lor v.i el.: 1 .. n ana d at mini ", nev *1 daring to l< a\e l m hoii...* fm fear 1 niighi meet i.oim mu* v.;:i had seen me mat a.gin, ami 1'His 11 1 jvc my im pression in Ins ti .ml. I du! not feel safe uni il liietri.il v. ;.s o.et and the eoii- r.piratm s Inn. . d. “Anolla r si. u ;ge 1 iiinp 1 i.ai happi ned ttie 1 \t mag 01 me ei in.e 1.. om* of I hose eoiaeidt nees ulneli hapj.in so often when we least expeei tin in. I he I’eter- son house, on lenlh luet. wIkicMi'. Liueolii dieii, v.in-.a .o.iid.ng liou:-e for actors .it the time of the 11 aged;,, ami I have it mi icluible auliioritA tiiat Hot !i i.ml a room in in* iiome during Ii is stay m the inly. About Huee o’clock in the afieimaiii he eatiii* in and wci'’ din t to his 100m ami t rieil to sleep 01. tlu* hed. Now lu re 1 the stiung'e part. The very mom tiiat he had v.as tla* very one tiiat Mr. Liiieolii v a carried touf'• cr the riud. and Ike very bed on which Boo*’ h 11 it (I 1.1 .*• lee,, sion of liis crime wtih'li his vielim died. So far as I know ihis has jever ’ ( n made puli|ic. I>ul liiat it is true ! intvi* not hr slight est doubt.” Wasliiu ■ ton Most. li b: fm e l he eommi- • was tin* lad upon TWO LI FELON a A Sentence was noiseless, pai.sed the old pen chqrch, which ought to embody tbe ,1,^. otliee. Fm Christ, ia phnrged with neglect to n brother in need apd a widow amj orplinn in want. if the clergy ami offlcialti of the church put the chq.rcL above Christ and make the church big gcr than its Christ, this is the state ol ecclesiasticism which drives men tc 1 the secret orders and makes them feel that at the lodge 1 meet my brethren: ; nt ihc church I am u stranger nmomt strangers- Do men meet more on a level in a lodge than they do nt the church? What lodges ever have rented pew* ; nnda place net apart fortheSanhedrimi Does a member of the lodge ever fee' that his clothes are not good enough to wear to the lodge, or by reason ol l>overty he would not be welcomt among them? I know it is not seemly in this Christian land for secret orderi to prosper nml the- church drag iti length along from year to year, ft is not seemly that 100 or 200 men should gather in the lodges almost any week night, and not more tlian a dozen men will gather nt the stated weekly night prayer-meetings in the church. It i( not aeemly that any institution tliii •Ida of eternity should care for thi itab provlte tof Mi poor bttui Afcidou: «l!y t 11-* > t r.-t t. Tired by a long bay's work ami feel ing a bit “blue" over Mime matters which had gone eountc r to my hopes, I was vvnlkir.g down l.nnduay one night last week, on my way home. It 1 was after ten o'eloci t lie bow ntovvn streets wire nlmo.-t d'. m i l *i. As i turned thioit. Ii i'dii street i m tieed an old lady and an older gentle man walking slowly, aim in arm, evi dently husband ami w in . He was ap parently about jo, sin* perhaps live y eai s younger. They seemed very fond of cneh other. There wasjm l IliehaM iueiii.atioii of the bead of eacli t" aid |is* otlier, and they wete strolling itloni* so slow ly us ti* suggest I im thbb I iliat theii'pace wav n gnlati ti not : o miit'li t>y tin* in- finnitiis of age as l y ila* ilisire and pleasme of Leing aloi together. They were talking > :.i m i ly. It had rained ember in the evening unit 1 be side w a I l.n w ei e : till vv et. so that i bad pul 00 my rubbci s bciore leaving A AVomaa Wiio S'ltns Horse*. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Ifitchmun have laiiuehcd a peculiar and new industry at Mancie, I nil. It t's a horsehide fac tory, or that is what Mrs. Hitchman desires that it be referred to as being. Henry spends bis time in buying old horses /.om all parts of the country, sending them honic, where his wife shoots and skins them. She uses the knife with great accuracy and is as sisted only by her two sons. After the hide is removed the fat is rendered into tallow and the bones dressed and sold for fertilizing. The horses nre pur chased for mere songs, and Hitchman seems to be making a good thingoutof the business. The woman can icmove a hide in less than ten minutes. b'U'mt tire Co. ■ 1 1 v hours Index to Advertisements. Tin* following are the changes in our nil columns this week. Lkdoku readers are reqiteslfd to pursue them carefully and when buying tell them where you saw their ad. Bang, hang—John \\\ Bridges. Tho wheel*—II. L. Parks & Co. The Atlanta Kxposition—Paul V. CJalTney. Notice—The Cherokee Land Co. General tnerehutidiso—J. It. Tolle- son. —• ■«»»■ — Unclaimed Letters. List of letters remaining in the office uncalled for to date: M iss Lizzie Dur. M rs. Silvia Moore. X. B.—Persons calling for these letters will please say advertised in The Lkdgkk. T. M. Littlejohn, P. M. Nov., 18, 1 £}*•>•"?. iM Utimi was cirou- llltCfl \ (‘S * < • I ' ;; s \ ;j' - t ii,. |iUsinC88 men of (. iff , i , . u;coi they signotl it ; ” e. the und . I business !:h*i, of (iiiITney. ii .T, 1 , . , )«c onj- [duce of busiiifs-t d n ing 1 . ■ » niin* day of Thanksgiving. Nov, mb r -.xi,. Lshf,. Clary it Kmi 'rick John \V. Mrid o A. N. Wood, II. L. Park' (k>. Jus. Cook. D. IL Purei ll it Co. I. II. Clark so;:. J. N. JJpscomh. Garrett A Co. J. I. Sarraft. w. M. Webvter, Jr. J. G. Speueer. It. S. Lipsco:' 1!i. It. A. .1 om-:. (iulfi'cy Wug.jii VN . I). Arcl "•!*. J. W. Mo! i> A. J. Sc’:lc ■ y. r |J. Cr . >v l> >. r A. J. D ird.i -. postollic* wi:: T. G. McCr : ,. W. A. I’* .*! r. Henry Gr . (’apro! I A - < \ 1; Byars A . i CatToli, < kii ji li i IM. I’c. I. r. (’iirndl A St icy. Lime tom* Sj;.■ W. W. |lavs. W. L. Mor.mt Gairoey Marble W Siuit ii 121:r, 1 v are 1 Dispi usury. \Y. (I. Lipsc mi!) iS A. < Pri I'norc, W likius IJ. ns. J. I>. G 'iidcl . •!{. W. .1. T. M d ■ rl: 1 Swartz A Suys r. John B. M l lio : J’erry it Sc'ip u ; The Li:i>u;'.!{. W. W. IF .ml. W. C. G'lllaghe Correll Bros, J. It T'dlcsoti, I’. V. GafTi'i'V. W. B. Du Pri*. T. Davetipoi I. J. G. Gail sway Surratt. Sims A C Store < ia ii’ : y M a Now the r is: rs ii*e t at 1 1 ' mplims. Li.1 • 1 'o. •I’li s. ■ >. :'i 'tograjdier. Sr \ can readily j hit s'mess t ra 1:s: 1 (■ t and others are their putviias,.- day. If any wii . oinil Ic;| t heir ini':, next week. LOVERS Ovcrlieartl in Local Cotton Market. Strict Good Middling 8.00 (Jowl Middling.... 7.7-8 Middling. 7.5-8 The above are llie quotations for November 20, • * If you’re in doubt whether your trouble is Indigestinn or Dispopsiai. just tnk(* a few doses of Simmons Liver Regulator |t will settle the whole quest Ion. ' I have tried Sim- 11 mm Liver Regulator for liispepua, | the lit lie in: and find It ju>t the lltlng to relieve blessing to me. A small (lose after meals is sure to [in vent Indigestion,"—S, S. Perk ins. Sharon, Ga. “It Is the best medicine to aid digestion.”—J J. Black, Duncan, Arizona. —Go to J. R. Tolleson’s bef re buy ing your clothing, shoes, hats, dre-s goods, notions, Ac., no difference what prices are quoted you, for he will save you money. —Keep your pants on with the At wood suspender. WJien you once use them you will qsp no others. J R. Tollesdn, -—peiteh 'Oil. uk.cl ur’iig Co. > f Ledger 1 lure will In* no - * lious, keepers r ([ i"- ti d to make : .' i : iksgivini* i.i >*;•:-.• have been published Growing Ga’n Rev. and Mrs. Ik ik i receiving eor grat ul it i ai rival of a lilt I" da 11-liter home. Tin* happy p rents ready b< st iw c | which I a * 11 j k. 1 * Rut li—aid I 111. Mr. and arrival at l! to be ns I f the other Hamricks. b.'j't con SUM over t he ar- at their have al ii mm ii *r 1 !j C n uijt* ; i- mi hip—Lula ■ tnmls that ! ’ a j iy and '! ' tv i • t-*- d r . II: have a new e i. 1 ii a:. • v. bich li.-onilsies 1 ,! as qj| iite’e dc :..t Mas', or l'S:i I jled p|es nre a» good now as ] ^.,1, they ever wer«* and vou can get two Jll) cans at J, R Tollesotia for ]5 ids. —Chew Pure Honey, Mweef M}is|i and Ring tobaccos, for sale by J. R. I'olleson. Bucklcn’s Arnica 3alv»*. The best saivi in I’u* world Liretifs, bruises, son s, ulcer.-, sa t rh**uti! fe ver, sores. tetter, ch i; p* >i luitids. cliil- blains, corns, at ! al! -kin crtipliot .-, and positively cun s | or no pay required, it 1- guarantci d to gi”** pcflect sat ir I .1 1 ion or money refutir Piiee 25 cent."' per box. For iv \V. B. D il’n . W. D. ARCHER, TO-N«C»Wl M. >\ HT'lfc4’p. I’olle- —Best patent flour at J. ft, 1 •‘Oil’s. 1 No Overflowing Lamps. Buy an uiitoinutic oil can from J. ! R. Tolleson and .you will have no i overflowing of lumps when filling. * ^ Best New York tsItRp epapi cheese i at, J. R. Tolleson’s. —Tuscan Island seed wheat for sale by R. 8. Lipscomb, bearded va riety. 'I'bis wheat made the largest 5 yi iir average yield at the Virginia Kx| (‘rimeiiial Piirpipfapy [)tht*r. | fair-cut I in:;, in t|te latest styles. Slim dug and Si amp-mlng at reasoti- ahie prices. ££?->ho|, loex's st(it’c. nt \t J. I>. Goude- FOR I. ' Up-to-D.ito Job Print ing, caM at the • LEDGER Office. cipi idly my nppioacii ,1 usi as I oii i took ami the muo tinned ti be wife and said, a d 01 answer lo Koine ii ;nark she limi inadet But, Illy dear, | /like to lhim. (.oil sent you to me.’’ From a loun to Ins s weejhepi t or from a young liuslad.h ton young wife tlu* words ini/jlit h.’i'*' soiimlril coju- u.ooplaiT, lad iiom 11 lu.sl.and of three score ami li u ton wife oi e,» they hafl t 1 Weight and dp'liily Mhieh made them sweet to li> ar und 1 laib -on.’' to leeull. Ileie was I In* w hoc . 1 ory o t wo li \ es told in a Kent* ncc. lieu* was llie ao- Hwer to the old qiit i-li"n alion mnr- ringc. I*or tin iii ii tc* s.iirciy u d.'MIh’ Riieecss. Il* K . nt I* a • 1. vmis proof that tin* w ri ters of fairy t-di: end of old time novels spoke nuly when they mill that “they wen* 11:1111 5 d and liied happy aver after.” N. ’i. lieiuld. Am f tiifiFo % 4';h c t, I’leni’lier Y(:. my t i< iti:‘ ii. ihere l** only om* tiling nunc uldul, mor/ iinp-n lanl. than in lum iudli in liumav* ity*. and t hat is Wciiltiiy Stock F.roi.cr (in n w liisjuf) —To get iiuiuanity i^yjt l, • —Truth. The Gaffnej Citj Land and laipro imii Company, Offer for Sale Building Lots In this Flourishing Town, <L H PY. Also Farms near by and in reach of the school-of l imestone Spring and of this place in lots of from 30 to 1(K) acres on liberal i.a * rates. Also Agricultural Lands to rent for farm purposes. For full particulars apply to MOSES WOOD, Agent. X. b. All trespassing on lands of this Company eutt ng ami removing 1 mher. fishing or hunting are forbidden under I ' luili \ »i iii’i UMESTOHE * SPRINGS <* (JHE » WORM, fApRpLL & CO., Lessees. —r—Manufacturers of— BUILDING, * PLASTERING * AND * AGRICULTURAL * LIME, -7—And Dealers In — Coal, Shingles, Laths and Plaster Hah. Qyrnamite, Blasting Powder. Fuse and Dynamite Caps. ■■■-.■■..ij'g 1 " - Oeurrroll & St; UAdVKlSI***. Transact a General Bankin'? rtuslnoss ♦ NTXaHC-OWT allowed on Time Deposit’* by Arrangement. Safety Deposit Boxes for Rent. Your* tLroiiii Solicited.