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THE WEEKLY LEDGER: GAFFNEY, 8. C., NOVEMBER 28, 1895. A MODEL MAURI AGE. THAT MEMORABLE CRIDAL SCENE AT CANA. ALBINO HUCKLEBERRIES. ] Rev. Madison C. Peters Thinks There Is Something Significant In the Pact That Christ Began Ilis Miracles at a Wedding. Marry Only In the Lord. From his summer letreiii Rev. Madi son C. Peters, D. D., sends the follow ing article to his many readers: This wedding, made forever the most memorable ouo in history by the pres ence and grace of Christ, was celebrated in the lovely little town of Cana, three miles northeast of Nazareth, “lying in the lap of the Galilean hills, like a bird in its nest.” There is something sig nificant in the fact that the Saviour be gan his miracles at a wedding rather than at a funeral—the grave of Lazarus or the gato of Nain. It was a practical reproof of the asceticism that scorns the happiness of social and domestic affec tions and that would make of life a ghostly austerity, just as if men were heavenly because they were unearthly. No personal act more deeply involves happiness than marriage, yet the gener al conversation of this ordinance is lam entably below the high standard God has given to it. Marriage is the perfect ed life of love between two kindred spirits, and yet how often it is merely a society affair between two exquisite fools! Matrimony is made a matter of money, and how often the lips utter vows of love which the heart can never ratify! A marriage for anything but love is a humiliating stoop to the dust, a mockery that blushes to the skies. Love is founded upon esteem and is therefore under the control of reason. Marry “only in the Lord, for how can two walk together except they be agreed?” If there is one place at which husband and wife should meet in the completest harmony, it is at the cross of Christ. Together should their prayers ascend. Together should they humbly bend To praise the almighty name. Those who are one in Christ fight double handed against evil. The child of God will bring a blessing to your house above earthly riches. Make Christ one of your wedding guests. Never should iho duty, with the prayer, “Commit thy way unto him, and ho will direct thy paths,” bo more intensely realized than at the marriage altar. With your selected aud future companion say to him, “If thy presence go not \yith us, carry us not up hence. ” If earnestly solicited by you, Christ will now, as of old, by his presence beautify and bless your bridal hour, sanctify your joy and leave bis benediction upon your hearts to perpetuate your love and fulfill all the happy prophecies of the bridal day. Without the presence of Christ to bless the marriage the con gratulations and good wishes of friends will be only words, the dowers will wither and tho music grow discordant. Having entered upon your new home, get down upon your knees together and ask Christ to consecrate it. The faith of heart in heart will die without faith iu Christ. Love purified by religion is the fragrant blossom that will gladden the heart and Ix-autify the humblest home. Homo’s not me rely four ^(f5ro walls, and gilded. Home Is whe n affection culls, Filled with shrines tho heart hath builded. This sanctified love instantly recalls the hasty word. It stands upon no dig nity as to whoso place it is to yield first to the other. It lets not the sun go down upon an angry thought or feeling be tween two hearts that have been made one. It transforms blemishes into imag inary virtues. As Shakespeare has it: My love doth so approve him stubbornness, his chocks and A Curious Fruit Bald to Be Peculiar to the Btato of Wooden Nut megs. Farmer F. B. Crandall of Bozrah, six miles west of this city, came to town recently with five quarts of albino huc kleberries, which he readily sold for a round price to merchants and others who fancy freaks of nature. Mr. Cran dall’s fruit was tho finest sample of white huckleberries ever seen in Nor- wicb. The berries were all large, hard, firm of texture, sweet and luscious and about as white as milk. Albino berries are extremely rare—in fact, “about as skeerce as hens’ teeth,” said Mr. Cran dall, after be had pocketed 20 cents a box for some of the fruit. There are not more than half a dozen places iu Connecticut, probably, where they grow, and it is not known that they grow iu any other state. There is a patch of albino bearing bushes in the hilly town of Salem, which adjoin:- Boz rah ; another in Hartford county, a third iu Windham county, and there are two or three more in different parts of the state. The Salem albinos cluster about the apex of a wind swept, treeless knoll in tho middle of a heavy wood, aud tho whole plot is not more than 13 or 20 feet in diameter. By many persona it is believed that the berries are not al binos, but a distinct species of whortle berries, since they never mix or amal gamate with the common black huckle berry. Neither arc they greatly disposed to propagate themselves or spread on new ground. All tho widely separated plots are of about the same dimensions, while in tho case of tho Salem patch it is known to be of just about the same size now as 100 years ago. In most re spects tho albinos differ nut at all from the black berries except in color, al though some country people affirm that when fully ripe they are a triilc sweet er, with a more decided flavor. Like all albinos, whether of the animal or vege table world, they ai-o irradiated with a faint pink hue, seemingly from a light glowing within the rind, which is as beautiful as it is curious. Most of the albino patches yield not more than a quart of berries each.—Norwich (Cuuu.) Letter in New York Sun. That o'en his frowns Huvu grace and favor in them. To make it home you must strengthen the bonds of affection. The gospel of Christ hallows the affections and sweet ens tho temper. Come, then, often to tho throne of grace, and by prayer en liven your religious sensibilities, which is tho very soul of conjugal love and maturer of those graces that belong to wedlock’s string of pearls. How fitting it was that ho who came to restore lest paradise to man should give this significant approval of this sacred bond and make tho Christian homo tho mightiest instrument in the work of regenerating tho human race. The Christian home is tho master of life’s busy school, the brightest radiance that cheers tho darkness of man’s earth ly condition. It is tho guiding star of his good destiny, aud tho richest earthly prize a man can win is a wife from the Lord. ; Comstock Mines Timbering. Probably ^nothing iu tho world can be said to exceed in structural wonder of its kind the labyriuthian system of sub surface timbering peculiar to tho Corn- stock mines, tho sum of $35,000,000 be ing considered a moderate estimate of the cost of the same from tho opening of the mines to tho present time. The size of the timbers varies from tho huge pieces 10 iuches square aud 21 feet long to the smaller pieces 8 inches square used in cribbing. r J he species employed are chiefly yellow pine, iir and cedar, fully two-thirds of the whole amount being the first named—a favorite timber, in fact, with mine carpoutevs, on account of its exactitude iu joining. Cedar of course is inferior to no known timber, not even excepting redwood, for its last ing qualities underground, but it is said that yellow pine has been taken from tho lower levels of these i .iues so com pacted by tho enormous pressure it has withstood as to have a density and weight exceeding those of lignum vitae. None of the timbers in the Comstock mines has yet badly decayed, and their life thoro cannot bo accurately deter mined, but the heat and vapors of the v mines surcharged with mineral atoms appear to have a decidedly preservative effect upon the timbers.—Now York Sun. Teaching Pheasant* to Pock In Ceylon. Walking down a road ouo morning with a neighbor we suddenly noticed a little ball of (luff between my feet, and I could hardly avoid stepping on it, as it stuck close to me; almost iinmedi ately another appeared at my friend’s feet, and wo saw they were newly hatched pheasants, tho mother probably carried off by somo wildcat. As it was difficult to walk with these little things running so close and in the way, we lifted them into tho short grass along side, and hurried on some 50 yards. On returning we had forgotten them, but one ran out, and so pertinaciously stuck to my boots that, to save it, I put it into my pocket, and on our arrival at tho bungalow tried to feed it with small fragments of hard boiled eggs, rice aud white ants. Of all these it took no no tice. Next morning tho other chick was found at the foot of tho bungalow steps, having probably followed us unnoticed tho day before. I then called my “ba- bu,” as I could not get them to eat, aud he said, “They must bo taught.” He put the gauze wire cover they were under and tho crushed rice, egg, etc., on a hard wood table, and taking a pencil from his pocket and collecting the eatables toge’her, close to the edge of the gauze cover, ho lifted its edge, and, with the pencil point inserted, be gan sharply tapping among tho rice de bris. The two chicks at once ran over to that place and bent over, watching tho tapping, and, to o ar astonishment, they began tapping with their little beaks tho same way, aud before long had begun to feed cn tin h own account, just as the “bulm” had predicted, and after that lesson wo had no trouble.— Nature. Blood and Marriage. Tho other day several members of a family, who were either deyf or dumb, or both, camo within the writer’s cog nizance, and it was ascertained that all were tho offspring of first cousins. It has long been an established maxim that first cousins ought not to marry, though tho rule is very often broken. The ques tion of tho actual anatomical and physi ological causes of physical disabilities in the offspring of first cousins is well worthy of tho most thorough investiga tion. But if persons of the same blood aud family, such as first cousins, all of whom must necessarily bo more or less similar iu structure and function, marry each other then their peculiarities will tend, not to bo diminished, but to be increased, perhaps doubled. If people , would hut bear in mind that the union ! of persons who have similar defects, more especially if they are blood rela tions, tends to intensify those defects, exactly as piling coal on a bright lire infallibly produces augmented heat, they would save themselves much bitter remorse and avoid tho maledictions of u class of imperfect human beings who not seldom curse the day they wore born.—Loudon Hospital. STOLE TWENTY THOUSAND. The IVells-Fargo Compiiny Gives itn OfTl- ctal Stuteinrnt Kegur.ling the Bobbery. Colorado Springs, Colo., Nov. 18.— The Wells-Fargo express company has given out the following statement re garding the robbery at the Santa Fo depot about 1 p. m.: Twenty thousand dollars was sent from Denver to the First National bank of Colorado Springs early iu the after noon. This money was in curreficy of small denominations and was received about 4 o’clock and too late to be deliv ered to the bank. Tho package contain ing the money was pla<ed in the depot safe and both doors locked. There was nothing to indicate its value. Evidently the thieves knew of its ex istence. When train No. (5 came in about there were other packages aboard with the currency to the amount of $85,000 consigned to the same bank. These packages were delivered to the agent and placed in the safe with the other. After the train had depart ed, the agent. Go >rge Krout, went to the platform to straighten tho trucks which were standing there, and when he returned to the office he was met at the door by two masked men with drawn revolvers. The package con taining the $20,0 >0 was demanded, and the agent was compelled to open tho safe and give it up. The agent said nothing about tho remaining packages and the robbers left at once. The stand ing rewards of $80) each for informa tion or arrest of the robber’s of course holds gold and the amount will undoubt edly be increased. When Krout entered the efface, after performing his duties outside, two men, one tall, the other short, confronted him with revolvei-s pointed at his head and commanded him to throw up his hands. Krout, badly frightened, obeyed. Then one of the robbers, stepping close to the agent, said: “Not a word from you. Wo want you to open that safe and be quick about it. Hurry up.” 1 rout denied that there was arty money in the safe. The revolver was pressed close to him. and ho was told to open the safe or suffer the consequences. With trembling hands he slowly turn ed the combination. When the door swung open Krout explained that there was only one package there, and reach ing in he tricked up an envelope con taining ff iO.000, which he handed to the short man. He then closed the heavy door. The roblr. rs, seeming satisfied that the agent t >ld tin* truth, stepped away from the sate. Krout’s action in handing the $20,000 trackage through tke doors of the safe saved tire company $‘»5,000. Dmiugall tliri time the thieves did ii"t appear in the least excited. The robb“rs ordered Krout to undress himself and get into bed. After he had done sir, one of the robbers took pains to see that the quilts and c nnforters were drawn tightly over Kront's head and tucked down. Then Krout heard one of them say: “Now open the door and see if there is any one about.” Krout heard the door slide back and bumir and then one of the robbers sad: “Wait now, we have missed some thing. Let us take a good long look and see.” When BY SPECIAL REQUEST. An Incident of a Recent Concert In th® Wtrite House Ground*. A pretty aud very pathetic incident occurred iu connection with the prepara tion of tho programme for the Marino hand concert iu tho White House grounds last Saturday. Professor Fanciulli, ho it known, receives every day in his mail half a dozen or more letters from per sons who, request him to pi. y certain se lections at these open air concerts. Fan ciulli is a very accommodating man, and would he only too glad to comply with all these requests were it possible to do so. They come in such largo number’s that the professor is handicapped, and many requests must be disregarded. Early last week, however, Fanciulli came upon one letter that touched a ten der spot in his nature. The letter was in feminine handwriting, and begged the professor to play several selections at the White House concert to be given the following Saturday afternoon. Ho glanced at the end of it, and saw that it was signed by three names, all wom en. The closing paragraph of the note was as follows: “When we tell you that wo are three sisters, and are all blind, and that our greatest joy iu life is music, and that our circumstances are such we have but little opportunity of gratifying this pas sion for listening to music of any sort outside of those beautiful concerts wo hear each Saturday in what has been described to us as the glorious grounds back of the president’s house, v Inch wo know we can never gaze upon with our own eyes, then, professor, yon will grant ns this little boon and let us hear next Saturday these few favorite composi tions. ” This appeal was too strong for Fauci- ulli. When the programme was publish ed Saturday morning the notice stated that the concert arranged for was by “special request.” That afternoon at tho concert tho band “played,” as the atrical people would say, to tho three blind sisters, who were seated on one of tho benches to tho left of Fanciulli. Four of the numbers on the programme were selected by the sisters. They were: “Midsummer Night’s Dream,” cornet solo, “Tho Lost Chord,” “The Forge In the Forest” and “Love’s Herald.” Tho blind girls clapped their hands with pleasure, and Fanciulli himself appear ed to be as greatly pleased at the pleas ure he was bestowing on the blind as they were themselves.—Washington Post. A rsnc FINEST and A. 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 CARPERTER & HUMPHRIES. CLOTHWG! CLOTHIM!! CLOTHING!! A complete line of s Melntoshes. pants. 1 Slides to fit every h a in town, without an. .b ans and (’assinu ;i! s, ffo.(a) to .f! <)verc aits >ji8.f)0 to $12.5l>. ^nrs V IliH ! -rwe e.S IO mi at oh; pres |>! ion. 1 weights ::: its. ea| . Best S, iV( line childrens hoes mors atid at all prices. 'i I ’-OC 'or* a I keep a fitli • i ga ■ 2'2 • I line !>D oi tiro-’, to. .St •id .'I *S ill : :• lif ’• else i:i ii.’o ) ) V' ».i. i: 111 s i t.mit p III : oil an ml Ilnur $1.7’); $1.00. Every! wheat bran nice png and corn always iVj >lo (’amhi i Lump 1 )' 1 1 pric s before hiHvh y I dedvered it $LoO per ton. (.•all and get mv Kiout plucked up courage to i tion.’* Tlio Fuglinli Tippinff NuAmidcd. An English lady, writes u correspond ent of London Truth, who read what appeared last week in its columns about tips to servants, gives me an anecdote which shows how much the Princo of Wales’ crusade against them is needed. She goes in for temperance, liberalism, philanthropy, etc. One of her footmen canto to her tho other day “to present his case. ” “ What is your case, Joseph ?’ ’ she said, “I’m snro it will give mo pleasure to give you all fair satisfac- Respsctfuily, j- iv. I it A!! goods delivered m town. . V I *- • HARDWARE I HARDWARE! I She Will Study Theology. The president of tho Mississippi Wom en’s Christian Temperance union tells this story: “The other day a young Mississippi woman, one of my workers, came to me, and in rather an embarrass ed way said: ‘I am going to do some thing very unusual soon. I am almost afraid to speak of it yet.’ ‘Go ahead,’ I nuHuercd. ‘It is the same old story; you might us wcdl tell it. You intend to marry, of course. ’ ‘Of course I don’t,’ she retorted, with ill concealed disgust at my guessing powers. ‘I am going to study theology. ’ hho really meant it too. She expects to go to a seminary fur that purpose this fall.” has Didn’t Walt Fir the Ne*t Move. “Wo have to part, Horace. Pa put his foot down, and”— “That settles it,” said Horace as he made an inglorious retreat.—Detroit Free Press. jump out of hod and go outside there was no one in sight. An alarm was given and hy 11 o’clock posses wero scouring the vicinity of the depot on the eastern outskirts of the town, hut no trace of the robbers was found. Fi nally two bloodhounds were put on tho track and it was found the men had gone along Pike’s Peak avenue through the heart of the city. On the theory that they fled to Cripple Creek over the Cheyenne mountain r. ad, a p .sse start ed from that city to head them off. The depot agent was not 10!) yards away from Kront's office while tho rob bery was being committed, but ho did not see the robbers and knew nothing about the matter until he was informed by Krout. CARLISLE TO BLAME. The Mayor of G’ovlngtou Say* tho Secreta ry Brut 11 aril in. CoviNinuKk Ky., Nov. 18.—Mayor Rhinoek city, tho home of Sec retary Carlisle, says that the secretary is responsible for the defeat of Hardin. “When Secretary Carlisle came home to register a few days before election,” says Mayor Rhinoek, “a reporter asked him if he intended to vote the Demo cratic state ticket. He was quoted as answering : ‘I decline to be interview ed. I will vote for whom I please.’ “Every Republican paper in the state seized upon these words to prove that the schism in the Democratic ranks was great enough to defeat Hardin. As a consequence, thousands of Democratic voters went to Bradley. I believe that if Carlisle had replied in that interview that he was a Democrat and would vote for the nominees of Iris party, Hardin would have boon elected.” Ridden Out of tin* State on Ball*. Ashland, Ky., Nov. 18.—A report front White Post, Pike county, states that the Mormon elders were taken from a church there Sunday night and ridden out of tin* state on fence rails. The el ders who have been at work iir West Virginia for some time, crossed Tug river in defiance of the warnings of the farmers and were exhorting a largo con gregation to accept the Mormon faith when they were assailed by a band of men who rode them out of tho state, but subjected them to no other indig nity. Will Arrest United State* Soldierw. Sacramento, Nov. 18.—Alva Udell, a Los Angeles attorney, is here for tho purpose of securing warrants for the arrest of the United States soldiers who killed Charles Stewart in this city dur ing the railroad strike a year ago last July. Stewart was not a striker, but was shot when he refused to halt when ordered to do so by the soldiers. Udell will not tell who is employing him. He wants warrants ft / the arrest of Cap tain Roberts of the artillery, and 13 others of the soldiers. Wui-Mliips Oft’ For Constiiiitlnoplfl, Paris, Nov. 13.—At a cabinet council held here the minister of marine, M. L'x’kroy, announced that the ironclad Devastation, the cruisers Charner and Fanoon and the dispatch boat Linois had sailed from tho Piraeus, Greece, for Constantinople. “My case, your ladyship, is this: Your ladyship ’as on visits too many philanthropic and psychological women, and that sort of thing. They give such small tips that I feel ashamed of myself for receiving them. Tho temperance women give no tips at all. 1 suppose they think wo servants spend all our tips in drink. Formerly tho tips used to bo nearly equal to the wages. I counted on them continuing so. This is my ’ole case, and I beg to inform your ladyship that I speak for Jemima and Susan, tho housemaids, and for Green, the coach man. ” The lady answered that she feared she must get a new set of servants, and that, whether she did or not, she would cause placards.to bo posted in all the guests’ rooms to inform them that servants were not allowed to receive tips. She was ready to allow, however, a small in crease iu wages. If that was not satis factory, all might leave, aud at once, if they desired. They took her at iier word. B ! ■ i n o - V... i . I A voo Bolts, Nails, Gun Pocket spoons, see Cell! Feed Cutters, Ouviep 7 y s Roping, 3. Shells, Cartridges, Table r '” M ‘ F aDlespoone e Cutlery, 1 ea- and what you don’t t '5 f ’ 5 ,u ^ \ 8 8 ? P ii 3 3 !l If?! y Hi ii T: I ki :-/l men Did now Exaction* of French Exchequer. Our Paris correspondent writes: The occasional exactions of English income tax collectors seem trifling compared with tho demands of the French ex chequer. In England aggrieved taxpay ers write to the papers. In France a vic tim of excessive dues has taken tho more desperate course of attempting his life. A manufacturer of molasses—M. Guiet —has for several years appealed in vain (he ought to have known better than thus to waste his time) to the minister of finance to bo refunded excess duties which he had been charged between 1878 and 187G. He claimed that £8,000 was owing to him. On this account he called on Monday on ouo of tho chief officials of tho treasury, aud taking out a revolver said, “I have come to settle accounts with you.” Tho official under stood this to bo a murderous meuace and ran out of his room, locking the door behind him. A report was heard, and on tho door being opened tho unfor tunate man was found lying on the floor, wounded in the head. Hopes rvo enter tained for his recovery, which is at any rate more likely than tho recovery of tho £8,000.—Loudon Nows. I ’Twuh Engllnh, but Fatted Here. Following the example of somo Eng lish golfers, tho Cambridge Golf club 'some time ago purchased a flock of sheep iu tho west and put the animals on its golf grounds in Watertown, where they were to keep tho grass short. In various manners the flock was gradually being reduced, aud one afternoon when the shepherd left tho flock for a little while it was stolen and driven through Water- town. A patrolman frightened the thief, and some of the sheep was returned to tho grounds. Recently tho Massachu setts Society For tho Prevention of Cruelty to Animals discovered that tho sheep wero suffering so with foot rot that they could hardly walk, and re ported it to tho board of health. A member of tho hoard of health and the chief of police visited the grounds and ordered all tho sheep Slaughtered.—Bos- j ton Transcript. You THAT ALL VEHICLES have advanced? We still have a few jobs of the very best makes and will sell them cheaper than any body while they last. Mow is your time to buy a buggy or a wagon. Our stock of suits were bought be fore the advance and we can sell you anything in our line way down. Come and look at our line of pic tures, mouldings and frames. Our stock of coffins and caskets are up to date in every respect. Give us a chance to show and price our goods and we will sell you. Yours for business, Gadne/ Wap and Furnitun Co. Look Look 0:1 (in to the l ew sit. by it and your pt Utvltimoro S5 n.,:: 1 !> . ■fp, ■ i more . . wil •- -'orT u P ickelbook!! Pia ; i Ih use. You could save money lie s.iVeit r I Ioiiwa?. (’lot hi no. Bonis, "i We eau give ym t In Hut t yps ntul ig_est liiir^mus ever (tents’ offered. Furnishing Goods. 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