The ledger. [volume] (Gaffney City, S.C.) 1896-1907, November 28, 1895, Image 5
THE WEEKLY LEDGER: GAFFNEY, 8. C., NOVEMBER 28, 1895.
A MODEL MAURI AGE.
THAT MEMORABLE CRIDAL SCENE AT
CANA.
ALBINO HUCKLEBERRIES.
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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.
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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 ?’ ’
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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.”
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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.
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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.
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’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.
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