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GAFFNEY CITY, S. C., THURSDAY, APRIL 23, 189«.
$1.00 A YEAR.
ARE ANXIOUS TO ADOTN.
THE HOUSE UNDER SRAKER
REED’S CONTROL
The Republican Prcsidental iituation
Unchanged—The AveragcSost
or Employees of th
House $939.
(Correspondence of The L< <?or.)
\Y.usiiixcp)N, 1). U., Apr '2.—Pres
ident Cleveland and every nember
of his administration are rjuitc as
anxious that Congress shoul hurry
up with the sc propriation Ills and
then adjourn as are the fends of
Speaker Kee 1 and Senator Allison.
Yet many have doubts abut ad
journment being as earl as now
predicted. There is no trouble
about the House. It is throughly
under Speaker Reed’s conrol and
will adjourn whenever ho ays the
word. Hut the Senate is uner con
trol of neither man nor pnty. and
if hu'.r a do/, ii Senators shotd take
u notion to delay ndjournmut they
can easily do so for an idefinite
period. That is why the Red and
Allison poople'were so bacp frigh
tened by a rumor that a combine
of Senators had been formecto pre
vent adjouriiinent until afteall the
national conventions had ben held.
No such combine has yet hen form
ed hut there is nothing to prevent
it, if Senators are so disposd. That
is why the date of adjourmrnt will
not he certain until the join resolu
tion setting a, date shall live been
adopted by both House ant Senate.
The republican Presidcnnl situa
tion is unchanged. The IcKinley
men are mak'ing the most nise, but
they are not so confident as they
appear to he, or else they xmld not
be constantly trying to itampede
the opposition by utartii; stories
about having received pominent
Hfecruits from his opponets. The
[opinion of the inexperiencc(is about
[unanimous that McKinley will get
|the nomination, but the od politi-
Icians, whether for or against him,
[doubt it very much. Tims opposed
[to him cite long lists of decedents
!showing that the man who cuds but
(does not have enough votei to win
(on the first ballot rarely wins. Put
the McKinley men insist that he
will have enough lo win on he first
ballot. There is no questia about
most of the . democrats wanting
McKinley to win ; they regrd him
as a weak candidate, and or that
reason they are helping his bom all
they can.
Although the House conmittee
on Territories has followed he ex
ample of the Senate commitbe and
ordered that the bills for tie ad
mission of \tw Mexico and *rizona
as States he reported, one loesn’t
have to be the seventh son of a
seventh son to predict that icither
biU will become a law at this sssion
of Congress. Whether it is right
/ or wrong to keep these torrtories
out of Statehood cuts of figure in
the matter at all. The antisilver
people have made up their ninds
that no more silver Senators shall
be provided for, and while the Sen
ate, which is dominated by diver
men, may pass both bills, nether
can get through the House, which
is dominated by anti-silver non.
Rut. even if the lulls could get
through both branches of Confess
they would he promptly vetoed by
President Cleveland, the bitterest
anti-silver man of them all.
Notwithstanding the statement
of Representative Pingham, in jre-
senting a conference report on the
legislative, executive and judbinl
appropriation bill, citing the Semte
amendments which the House con
ferees had declined to agree to, that
the average cost of employes of the
House for each member was a
year against an average cost of (im-
ato employes for each Senator of
$I.4n;5, the House agreed to acc;pt
amendments providing for an adil-
tion of thirty-eight clerks, to Sdh-
ator’s not chairman of committee,
and to an increase in the pay of all
Senator’s clerks from $1,200 to
$1 ,. r >u0 u year. And, mind you,’.he
clerks to members of the House ire
only paid $100 a month while Con
gress is actually in session. This
indicates the truth of the adage:
“Demand defence and you'll get it.”
Certainly the Senate invariable
gets what it demands from the
House.
Silver democrats are charging that
the National Association of dem-
|ocratio Clubs, which u Virginia man
culls “an association of a few dem
ocratic Clubs’’, is merely the tail
to the Cleveland single standard
(old kite, I be executive cominiteo
pf this association held a medting
Uasliii 'Ion Ibis week and named
• Poll S us the place, and Soptem-
Jer Toil,, next, as the time for hold-
pg the national convention of the
asocial ion.
The long string of World’s Fair
jmrrela was recalled by a petition
[is week sent to the Semite by c\-
Senator Palmer who was president
of the exposition, asking the passage
of a resolution to compel Mrs. Potter
Palmer, president of the Hoard of
Lady Managers; Mrs. Virginia C.
Mendeth, another member of that
board; President Higginbotham,
of the Chicago board of managers;
Georgia R. Davis, Director General,
and other ofliicials of the exposition,
to make their reports to him, as
lio claimes the law directs. Ho
says Davis made bis report to Con
gress, Mrs. Palmer of the President,
and that the others have made no
reports. It is fortunate that Presi
dent Palmer is an ex-Senator; other
wise his tempest in a teapot would
receive little attention from Con
gress. It is not certain that it will
get much, anyway.
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HOPEWELL HAPPENINGS.
SALEM SABBATH SCHOOL.
NEW OFFICERS ELECTED FOR
A NEW TERM.
A Disappointed Would-be Bride—The
Champion Chicken Raiser.
(Correspondence of The Ledger.)
IIoi’EWKT.L, April 14.—For some
time past we have been hearing
rumors of a marriage among the col
ored folks. Last Sunday evening
was the appointed time for the cere
mony to take place and all the breth
ren and sisters assembled at the
homo of the would-be bride with well
tilled baskets and with anticipations
of a good time. The hour for the
ceremony arrived and the young lady
was becoming very nervous, and ere
long the facts were well concecded
that the groom had changed his
mind. He did not arrive and at lust
accounts tho colored folks were re
turning home with the well filled
baskets and many loud denouncu-
tions of the groom. Woe be unto
him if tho disappointed bride gets a
pull at IPs wool.
The farmers of this section are
quite busy this week planting cotton.
The weather is certainly tine, in fact
one would think it was May instead
of bleek April.
Your correspondent is informed
that the citizens of Hickory Grove
have received some very flattering
offers for the building of a cotton
factory from B. K. Hardin, the pro
gressive and up to date agent of the
O. R. & C. Railway.
Joseph Jackson, an old and bravo
ex-con federate soldier, is quite ill at
his home and is not expected to live.
The Etta Jane correspondent will
have to como again with the cham
pion chicken raiser to keep up with
York. Mrs. Martha Smarr has about
150 young chickens and more to
hatch. Come again brother.
Til'/ Lkikjeu is immensely popular
in this section. In fact a sample
gets a subscriber. Well such is the
case with all good papers, and The
Leikjek certainly deserves tho sup
port of all good people.
The happiest man in this section
is my friend Frank Watson. It is a
baby girl. You have our congratu
lations.
The politicians are beginning to
feel around and one with two good
eyes can easily see the liveliest fight
before us that we have had in years.
Well I suppose wo “wool hat boys’’
can stand it, but wo are going to
bury the “old hatchet” and go forth
with the olive branch extended to ail,
therefore we shall select the best
that is afforded us regardless of past
differences. Myrtle.
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Bowiinsville Budget.
(Correspondence of The Lodger.)
Bowunkville, Apr. 21.—C. C. Ma
bry, our jug man, took a trip to
North Carolina last week.
James Petit, of Ccnterviow was
down to see his father lust week.
Adolphus Clary and one of our
hoys went down to Mrs. Kirby’s Sun
day.
lloraco Lipscomb went to the Web
ster settlement Sunday.
J. B. Carter went to Pacolet to see
his brother Saturday.
Sam Whelche), Jr!, is down here
hauling wood to Limestone.
Our base hall met at this place
last Saturday. Thov are getting in
shape for playing and when old Cor
inth gets started somebody is going
to get left.
Charles Mabry got in a serious dif
ficulty with a mule last week and
came out with a ciippled hand.
Mrs. Sarah Boyle went to Greon-
▼illo to see her sick brother, SainT.
Whelchel, last week. Wo hope she
will find him bettor.
Farmers will finish planting their
crops in tills section this week.
/.. Y
A man who goes about with his
head cast down and eyes on tho
ground, may pick up many a nicklo,
now and then a gold piece, and per
haps soinu day a hank note ; lull lie
ml mss tho great blue sky above, the
great beauteous earth about him and
tho sunlight in tho air.—Exchange.
•“ *-* *- —•»
“Half a span of angry steel’' will
produce no more fatal results than
a neglected cold or cough. For all
throat and lung diseases, Ayer’s
Cherry Petoral is the best remedy.
It is invaluable in cases of croup,
whooping cough, bronchitis, and la
grippe.
It is Said One Union County Farmer
Will Give $400 to the Morman
Church—Other Inter
esting News.
(Correspondence of The Ledger.)
Etta Jane, April 20.—Last Satur
day and yesterday I had the pleasure
of attending preaching at Mespo-
tamia church. The presiding elder,
Rev. Mr. Cauthen, preached excel
lent sermons on each day. He ad
ministered the sacrament of the
Lord’s supper yesterday to quite a
large number of communionests.
The best of order prevailed during
this solemn occasion. There was
such a profound silence that al
most the dropping of a pin could he
heard.
Rev. T. J. Brock also preached at
Abingdon Creek church yesterday.
His text was Acts lJ:2l>. lie hud a
full house too, of attentive hearers.
I am proud to say that a marked im
provement has been made in this
section of all our churches in respect
to the behavior of some of those who
attend.
My thanks are due the large pub
lishing house of Ginn it Co., New
York, for a copy of the history of our
county which has been sent me
through the urbanity of their gentle
manly and hustling southern agent,
W. R. Walker, of Sunny Side. It is
a splendid school hook.
Tho annual election of officers at
the Sr.lem Sahbatli school took place
with tho following result: T. J.
Estes, superintendent, R. A. Foster,
assistant, and Sam W. Strain, secre
tary and treasurer. J. L. Strain, the
former superintendent, asked to ho
excused from reelect ion as ho had
finished his tenth year in that capac
ity and he wanted of her and younger
men to he thoroughly drilled for the
work when the mantle falls upon
them.
From all reports we are going to
have one of the finest Morman church
buildings in this country than can bo
found anywhere this side of Salt Lake
City. For sometime I have boon
hearing of this hut have looked upon
it with a good deal of allowance. 1
will give the exact words of my in
formant, which 1 drew out of him in
an interview one day last week, ik
said: “Yes, wo are going to build
the church. Tho wind work has all
been done and wo arc now ready to
begin moving the dirt. It will ho
built four miles from Union on the
Skull Shoals road. We have secured
titles to the land, the subscriptions
for tiie building now amounts to
$'.1,000—a pretty fair start, I think,
although we expect the house when
completed to cost a great deal more
than that. Its exact cost wo haven’t
yet ascertained. But to give you an
idea I will say the house will he built
of brick after tho latest and most
fashionable style and will he fur
nished with tho best and most im
proved furniture to he had. The bell
we expect to order through the Ex
change. It weighs 7ou pounds and
is guaranteed to he heard twelve
miles at least.
“Tho trustees are I). G. Gallman,
T. J. Harris and E. D. Sharkey. No
subscription will he received for less
than $100. One of our wealthiest
planters agrees to subscribe $100 to
the building stock upon condition
that ho is to he allowed as many us
six wives ii he wants them.”
This, in b'ftjef, is the information I
have about thV work. I do not vouch
for its correct jicss in a single word.
1 iThe weather warmer than is has
been for ma^y months. Lust week
was like suminor time.
Meek Packer, mail rider on the
route from t/his place to Gaffney, hud
icrapo lust Thursday and
cart torn up considerably,
got kicked on the knee by
lie was not seriously
ter.
a runaway
got his rout|
besides lie 1
the horse,
hurt, howei
“Uncle
just like
keeps up
line and isi
for us to gj
ill” says this spring is
'the spring of 1NI5. He
itli tho times along this
kind of “Ready Reeonor”
b).
The planters are getting on very
well with Ihok planting.
Wheat End oats are needing rain
very inuclw—both are looking well.
Berry FJtes, •an ox-stave, lias been
visiting outliis side of the river for a
few days.I Ho is an old-time darkey,
and bus aVeputution for honesty that
many othils have not.
Tho irreWessihle Flaw Picker came
round last week and plied his voca
tion in this leighhorhood. What he
’ fault with perhaps ho
know tliis week. Ho
properly ho called tho
for ho never tells poo-
iiinks until lie gets it in
lilt In church at Mo- >-
lay and behaved like a
f
him and gave us some good music.
Ho has given his consent to attend
the picnic at Skull Shoals on tho 2nd
of May, when tho young people ex
pect to hr’ c a good time among
themselves. I bespeak for him and
The Ledc.kk a fair showing.
H. T. Estes is in bad health. He
has never fully i covered from the
effects of tho measi s.
I regret to learn t. Mr. and Mrs.
John H. Edwards, c. Gaffney, lost
their little boy last week by death.
He was buried at the family burying
ground near Wilkinsville last Friday.
Rev. J. D. (’rout, of the Methodist
Church, conducted tin funeral ser
vices. The bereaved mrents Lave
our heartfelt sympathies in this try-
ine ordeal.
Tho banks of tho creek wore lined
with fishermen and women last Sat
urday.
Love making isn’t out cf order.
j. l. s.
• Midway Messages
(CoiTc.^iieiKlcnco of The Ledger.)
Midway, April 20.—Planting
i cotton is the order of the day, hut
1 the ground is getting very dry. Now
l is a good time to plant cane ft stock.
I It beats most any kind of forage you
can plant, as it can he cut every week
or so. It is an excellent feed for
cows.
Mr . C. P. Teal is still on the sick
list. Dr. S. R. Crawley, assisted by
Drs. Hointisch and Rates, performed
a surgical operation 0:1 tho 12th and
she bus been improving some since.
Rev. J. L. Ellis filled his appoint
ment at Ccnterviow Sunday at 11
o’clock anrl preached an able sermon.
He will preach there again on the
third Sunday in May.
There will he preaching at Midway
i next Sunday at 1! o’clock.
Martin Sprouse and Mrs. F. J.
Medlin were married this week. Tho
ceremony was performed by J. T.
Campbell.
T. C. Petty and wife visited C. P.
Teal Sunday. Eis.
Midway, April 20.—Mr. J. C.
Fainter visited his brother at Trough
Shoals Saturday night.
Mrs. M. A. Gardner visited her pa
rents last week.
Mr. and Mrs. \V. M. Turner visited
Clarence Turner, Sunday.
John Hill is very sick of the
mumps.
1). F. L. Turner visited C. C. Petty
| Sunday.
Walter Huskey was the guest of C.
A. S. Campbell Sunday, as was also
! J. C. Rlanton.
Misses Antoinette and Minnie
Rlanton were guests at the home of
R. M. Jolly Saturn ay night.
There was a wedding hero last Sun
day.
“S,” of Cross Roads was in this
section Sunday. t. x. x.
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BLACKSBURG BUDGET.
A Number of Pleasant Social Events
Which Make Life Happy.
(Corn siiomli nco of The Ledger.)
Rlai ksim’uo, April 18.—A gold
bar weighing nearly four pounds
and valued at about $1500 was
shipped to tho United States
Assay olfiee iu Charlotte, N. C., by
the Calorie Reduction Works of this
city last week. This is the first gold
bar that has been shipped.
Mr. and Mrs. Gilchrist gave an
“Easter egg competition party” at
their residence Wednesday evening
which proved a source of much en
tertainment and amusement to tho
young people. W. A. Gillun won tho
prize while Miss Rertie Guyton won
the boobio prize.
The Indies of tho Presbyterian and
Methodist church gave a “birthday
party” at the Cherokee Inn ball
room on Friday evening for tho bene
fit of the church. It was a success
financially.
Dr. and Mrs. J. T. Darwin gave a
“competition quotation party” at
home on Carolina tSt., Tuesday even
ing. James H. Allison won tlio gen
tleman’s prize, Miss Luna Healan
the ladies’ and Ed Dutf the boobio.
If was a source of groat amusement
for those present.
Ham Deal is making a beautiful
tennis court on the vacant lot ad
joining his homo, and several days
ago ordered a large bill of tennis
goods for the young people. When
the goods come they expect to play
every afternoon. Rlaekshurg has
several line tennis players among tho
young ladies. s. m. d.
HOW THE BEAUTIFUL SPRING
BRINGS BACK MEMORIES OF
BOYHOOD DAYS.
found to fii«
will let mi
might veryl
“Silent Man]
plo what ho
print. He \\1
potamia Hatul
Flaw Goes to Preachin’ With the Ker
nel and Takes Dinner on the
Ground—Tells a Joke
on the Kernel.
good boy. il]
seat in the c
Flaw brou J
didn’t take a hack
troh. 4
tt liis banjo down vujth
Cure (or Headache.
As a remedy for all forms of llend-
uehe Fleet rie Ritters lias proved to he
the very best. It. effects a permanent
cure anil the most dreaded habitual
heailuehis yield to ils influence. We
urge all who are afflicted to procure
a bottle, and give this remedy a fulf
trial. In eases of habitual ennstipn-
I ion Fleet rlc Hitters cures by giving
the needed tone to the bowels, and
few eases long resist tlie use of t his
medieino. 'Try It once. Large bot
tles only Fifty cents at W. JL Du
pre’s Drug Store.
(Correspondence of The Lodger.)
Somehow or other I wanted to git
out of the buggy in my rounds an go
to the woods an make whistles out of
hark slipped oil of sowerwood an
chestnut sticks, an make whips out
of hickorywiths by slippin the bark
back for enough only to leave a stock
an cut out the wood an twist the bark
sorter rope fashion, you understand.
Beautiful spring, an in the country at
that, brought the memories of my
boyhood days afresh in my mind—
how I used to make whistles an whips,
climb trees an tear my clothes, hunt
bird’s nests an wade in the branches
an he in a general state of innocent
good-for-notliin’ness—hut the laws of
nature bids me not to tarry, so ole
Flaw dotTs his cap to her pleasures
an glides on down tho line. The
wheat is in its boots an the harvest
is next with ole Flaw. Will some
unkind bein’ cut him ol! before his
fruit matures, or will some unfriendly
wind blow him ill an crush him to the
soil from which he earnest? Verily,
thousands are the insects that ob
struct tiie maturity. Will I escape?
Ole Flaw hesitated, taken a sip of
the fragrance of spring by coverin’ up
Bob’s (formerly known as Charley)
head an the buggy with dogwood
Mowers, an moved on in the direction
of h.tta Jane. The sun was scorchin’
hot but that didn’t hinder Flaw’s
progressive resolutions. His heart
was light with refreshing spring, hut
do you know one thing? With every
spring tide there are roses an thorns,
butterflies an snakes, hutnmin’ birds
an sharpenutd bumblebees, an siteh
like.
Flaw’s heart was light with lovely
spring an blossoms greetin’ him on
every side till Friday about 10 o’clock
when he found himself in the Wil
kins Chapel settlement. A tender
stalk had bin nipped in the hud be
fore maturity—a funeral at 11 o’clock
was the talk of the community. The
busy farmers laid aside their plows
an hoes or what ever they was work-
in’ with and repaired to the church
to pay reverence to the mysterious
work of God’s own hand. Ole Flaw,
too, drove up, hitched an covered
up his banjer on the occasion an went
in an divided sympathy an shared sor
row with the bereaved parents, Mr.
an Mrs. Edwards. “Occasionally”
was there hut he had lost all memory
of ole Flaw an “didn’t know mo,” or,
was so much impressed over tho oc
casion that ho wouldn’t notice the
“irrepressible” scamp, as tiie Kernel
would have it.
I ate two boxes of sardines and four
hiskits for a noonday lunch at Mr.
Whisonant’s store an amused them
with my banjer while 1 was a waitin’
on Boh to devour a square meal.
I went from there to Etta June an
made friends with the Kernel. 1
tried to git the hoys to find another
jug hut, law me. they wouldn’t be
tray the Kernel for nothin’. On his
promise to go to church with mo next
ihornin’ (Saturday) an also around to
some neighborin’ houses I agreed to
“put tip” with him fer the night.
On one occasion ho axed mo if every
body seemed to he a stirrin’ along tho
lino an hit so hot an dry. I said,
”yes, with the exception of some old
lazy dusters that don’t intend to
work—I kotched him a sottin’ in the
house a noddin’ when I driv up, you
understand. But tho funpi,eat thing
of it all was the next uxornin* after
we started, when ole Rob got scared
at a hamper baskit on tho side of the
road. When he got to snortin’ an
ratin’ an wo seed it necessary to git
out, I made the break fust but the
Kernel skooted out over a hind
wheel an was on the ground before
I got cleverly stretched out into the
air, an ho only had ony laig to gU out
on, too. .list to stun oil an look at
him you wouldn’t think it was in ’im,
but my, my, lie keeps cocked an
primed for such eases of irnergeney.
But with all in all, tho Kernel is u
good feller.
Wo got to tho church <>. K. and
many were tho bright faces of Spring
I seed at that church (Mesopotamia.)
I can begin to understand how it is
that tho Kernel always takes up for
the women of that place. They are
kind, good lookin’, intelligent—hut
this is goiu’ too fer with the t ruth.
It might [.spile ’em if Flaw Picker
brags on ’em. Liiylu’all jokes aside,
they did treat ole Flaw a dog gone
site better than he (Jesarved—hut as
L was gojn’ to toll you, when me an’
tho Kernel drive up to the church
there wern’t many thar, so 1 amused
myself by lookin’ at a mule a pullin’
of two plows at one time—a plow to
each chain. This was quite a curi
osity to me as 1 had never seed the
like before in my life, an’ really it
looked to me like imposin’ on good
nature. Directly the crowd gethered
an’ the services begun. Tho preacher
man give a very forcible talk in my
estimation. But what was more
forcible to me was when preachin’
was over an I went out to arraigne
my banjer so hit wouldn’t bo so dog
gone conspicious at sitch a gatherin’
an’ on sitch an occasion. When I
went back up in the crowd the whole
ground was literally kivered with
chicken, fish, bread, cakes, pies, cus
tards, an’ God only knows what else.
Home would say “Flaw, I want you
to‘pick’some fish bones with me,”
an’ another would say “Yes, an' I’ve
got some chicken bones I want you
to ‘pick’ with me.” an’ they kep on
handin’ around till I thought I would
bust. I’m goin’ buck some time
soon, too. Flaw Pickek.
Ivy Clift News.
(Correspondence of Tho Ecdgor.J
Ivy Clikf, April 20.—A shower of
rain would delight the farmers very
much just now.
I ho farmers in this section are get
ting along fine with their planting.
A few are almost done.
W. H. GuHney and W. A. Hass
went to Hhelby Saturday afternoon
to hour Rev. Clarence Dixon preach.
Mrs. Tom Gaffney, who has been
visiting relatives in your city, re
turned home yeaterday.
If those who are bothered with
hawks catching their little chickens
will give them nuxiomica in dough
about three times a week it will bo
sure death to hawks. Care should
be taken not to give it to the chick
ens which you might wish to kill as
it is a poison. It wiil not hurt the
chickens in the least. It can bo
procured from any druggist.
I’ll bet a nickel against a brownie
there are more snakes around here
than anywhere this side of the jun
gles of Africa. I don’t wish The
Lkouek readers to think that this is
the wilderness or the backwoods for
it is not, although a hobgoblin did
get after a young man the other Sun
day afternoon (it was after sun down)
as he “wuz on his return hack hum”
to your city and it “skairt” the lifo
nerrly out of him. Ho hasn’t been
hack to—well I won 1 * say whore.
If wo could all write as interesting*
letters as J. L, S. you wouldn’t hefeii'
a waste basket. Beaty. 1
Memorial Day.
Will tho citizens of Gaffney recog
nize Memorial Day? They are not
below the citizens of other towns in
patriotism and in admiration for tho
heroes of the “lost cause,” and the\
bones of us true and brave soldiers
as ever fought in any cause are rest-,
ing in their midst. Wo hope that
steps will ho taken at once to observe*
Memorial Day. Will not tho ladies
who always honor tho brave, take
tho matter in hand and pusli it?
One of the most favorable signs of
the times is tho movement of con
federate veterans now being made
nil over the Sout h with a view to
honoring the memory of those who
fell and of vindicating those who sur
vive by putting a fair and impartial
record of the war before the world.
Let their children and grand children
turn out for one du^r- anrl honor tho
spirit of devotion and heroism that
characterized their ancestors. 11 will
do the men and women of this day
great good to catch a portion of the,
spirit of thirty-five years ago.
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Will We Issue Bonds?
In another column will ho fbtrudl
an advertisement for tin election to«
authorize tho city council to issue
bonds to tho amount of $12,000 for
city improvement. Every widc-a-
awake, up-to-date citizen will at once-
see that it will help the town. To
tho property holder it means tho en
hancement of tho value of his prop
erty. To tho laboring man it means:
more work. If a man argues that it
will increase taxation you can pot it J
down that it will not effect hi*
pocket-book to any groat extent, be
cause the interest is merely nominal'..
Let’s give the city fathers our con
sent to issue tho bonds and thereby
improve and make our city more at
tractive, thus inducing homoscckera
tu come and he one of us.
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About Papers.
We are in receipt of No. ‘inf Vol. 3
of The Lyceum. Tillman R. Gaines’
monthly. Tiie Lyceum contains in
thb issue twirty-two pages and is ex
cell *ntly printed from the presses of
tho Yorkvillo Inquirer.
We are in receipt of No. 1, Vol. 1,
of Evening Hours, published by A.
L. Ilci.no, of Cldengo, 111., in tho in
terest of araatuor journalism. It is
nostly printed in pamphlet form ando
contains 1(1 pages of interesting read
ing matter.
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R»* sure to get Himmons Liver Reg
ulator for your Spring Medicine.
It’s the old reliable that did tho old
folks so much good. Don't let any
one porsudo you to take anything
else instead. Ynu can always tell
Himmons Liver Regulator by the Red:
Z on tin* package. Don't forgot tho
word Regulator—Himmons Liver
Regulator—hotter than anything else,
and sure to do you good.