The ledger. [volume] (Gaffney City, S.C.) 1896-1907, May 21, 1896, Image 6
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THE WEEKLY LEDGER:
GAFFNEY, S. C., MAY 21, ISQCL
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I am.”,
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THE ftUIN OF THE YEAR.
11 gW^TTourt, ” said tho
Fpair. “Harsh as our roia-
fail to lx) moved by
r V^ntycf Jacinta. Sho
a . k i?a few hours at Jaast,
r ^cuict Which has caused our
inot without d'dlculty that ho
ntho youug girl to let him take
ft e palaco. She did uotjike to
•self and asked of what use
l a mirror; only to impress her
.■ply with lier misfortuuei But
wept her heart wannoved, urul
Rented to please him. i.
it is all this?” said the wicked
"Who are these people? And
they want?” ' r •
majesty, j-ou havo before you
unfortunate lover on tho faco
[arth.”
you consider that n good reason
^ug here to annoy mo?” ..
pity on me. ”
havo I to do with your love
|a would permit a mirror”—*
^ecn rose to her feet, trembling
“Who dares to speak to,mo
r?” sho said, grinding her
[be angry, your majesty, I
Along the hills and by the slw>pln* stream
A warning falls, and all tho glorious tree*—
V<‘Stnrrs of gold and grand embroideries—
Stand mnto ae in a sad and beautiful dream.
Brooding on death and nature’s vast undoing,
And spring that eame an age ago and fled.
On summer's glory long since drawn to red,
And now the fall and all the slow, soft ruin.
And soon, some day, sweeps by the pillaging
triad.
The winter'r wild outrider, with harsh roar,
And leaves the meadows sacked and waste and
thinned.
And strips the forest of Its golden store,
Till tho griip tyrant comes, and then they sow
The silent wreckage, not with salt, but snow.
—Archibald Lampman in Beribnur’a.
he was abundantly fed, and fnch ad-
vantage did betake of this novel crept rh
ence that on tho second day ho began to
Buffer from an alarming disorder. A sc-
Profitable
When
Avulnab!
▼ero pain oppressed his breathing, and per,id from
hi, h«irt throbbed violently. At Imp]., n.™ a V. tb
TRANSPLANTED.
with a ma-
I never saw
ty thero
Rnta, who
5u the rest,
Valentin. For
icantiful and
i so ho is al-
fould say.
k » >
[icncfs. ”
flaek?”
Br.ehead is
snow, and
ses. ”
fell,” said the queen
ms grin, “she Is right,
ore hideous object. ”
Jaeiitt' 1 at these cruel words,-thought
the womL'"' ‘ ^
was uo^
ugly. Her
o of mortification. Doubt
er possible; she must Ixj
eyes closed; sho fell ou the
aft-
fhted,
rords
nud
rself
So
ler
ked
stops of the throiftT in a deadly swoon.
But. Valentin was affected very diHer*’
ently. IIo cried out loudly that her maj
esty must bo mad to tell such a Ije. He
had no time to say more. The guards
seized him, and at a sign from the queen
tho headsman came forward. Howaa'fll*.
ways beside tho throne, for she might
need his services at any nioni<iut. 1
“Do your duty,” said the queen,
pointing,out the man who had insulted
her. The executioner raised his gleam
ing ax just as Jr.ciuta came to herself
and opened her eyes. Then two shrieks
lierced the air. One was a cry of joy,
lor in tho glittering steel Jacinta saw
herself, so charmingly pretty, and the
other a scream of anguish as tho wicked
soul of the queen took flight, unable to
boar tho sight of her faco in the im
promptu mirror.—From tho French in
tibort Stories.
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and'
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Tho cab was piled with luggage, and
within sat a young matron, her cheeks
fresh ns the meadows she -had quitted
but a few hours ago. Long Bill, lurk
ing on tho limits of tho railway station,
caught a significant nod from the cab-
drive. nncl at once started in pursuit.
* Long Bill.was not very tall, but had
limbs so excessively slender and so
meager a trnhk that his acquaintances
naturally thought <rf him in terms of
length. 'When unoccupied, which was
generally the case, he let his arms hang
straight and closo to his sides, as though
trying to occupy ns little room in the
world as possible. lie walked on his
‘ toes, rather quickly, and almost with
out a bend of the knee; his back was
straight and tho collar of his filthy coat
always turned up to shield tho scraggy,
collarless neck. Observe him in motion
at a distance, and yon were reminded
Of n red Indian outho trail. Catch sight
of him suddenly close at hand, and his
sidling, furtive carriage made yon anx
ious about your pockets or watch guard.
By his own account Bill was 19 years
old, but he had the wizened face of
in, and deign to hear me. This l senility; his hairless chocks hollow
irl whom you see before yon, so over tooth gaps, his nose mero cartilage,
!ud pretty, is the victim of. a • hi&Mnnll eyes a blink, yet ns eager as
delusion. Sho imagines that sho .■( those of a hungry animal.
For more than a mile ho ran along by
the laden cab, and seemingly, without
much eflort; when it drew up in front
of a comfortable bouse, Bill sprung to
tho door of tho vehicle.
“You’ll let a pore young feller help
with tho luggage, lydyr I’ve ran nil tho
w’y from Victoria.”
, IIo panted his mendicant humility,
and with n grimy paw shook drops from
n scarce visible forehead. Tho fair
young matron regarded him with pain
ed, compassionate look.
“Yon have run all the way from Vic
toria? Certainly yon may help, of course
yon may!”
the alighted, entered the house, and
stood there in tho hall watching Long
Bill as, with feverish energy, ho assist
ed a servant to transfer trunks and par
cels. Relatives pressed about tho lady,
hut sho could not give them due atten
tion. •
“Look at that poor creature! He has
followed my eab all tho way from Vic
toria, just to earn a few pence. Oh,
these things are too dreadful!”
The simple heart of this lady was a
law unto itself. Sho had possessions,
and spoko with authority. In happy
moment. Long Bill had pursued the
wheels of her cab. Holding money in
readiness, sho talked with him. Could
he not got work? What was his story?
Where did ho live? To every question
Bill made fluent reply, panting oft, and
squeezing the rag which served him for
headgear. Work! Only give him the
chnwuco ! See what it was to be rigidly
Jionest j pqt since yesterday at this time
kind a pmrsf 1 pf bread passed his lips.
-WorkI lie fbrew up jiig pyes ip appeal
to powers superpal.
“Copie pp<j spe WP teffPi?o\v
o'clock, M , ......
Hi* Immediate wants provided for,
Bill passed the evening jq contempla
tion. Ho felt uo.prompting to impart
to any one the wonder that had befallen,
^ Very punctually next day did he pra^
Bent himself at tho area door of the
comfortable heuso, and silently ho wa>
led to a r^om where tho lady waited for
him. To various searching questions ha
again answered with a tremulous candor
which had its full effect. Then, bidding
him listen and perpend, the ludy offered
hor suggestion. Fur away from Loudon,
in a very beautiful country, she had a
.hon.'-e, with gardens and fields, and
•there,, if so it pleased him, William
could support himself honorably by the
labor of his hands—could learn tho
rural. life, could gain health and
strength, could forgot tho horrors of his
j early ycari. Was William disposed to.
consider this? Tho head gardener, an
estimable man, would direct and sn-
oonrago him. He would receive wages,
and ot»t, tjic bread of independence.
Whiit-euid he?
William once more threw up his eyes,
and, in very truth, know not how to re-
spond, but his faco answered for him.
Very well; he should have this chance
of proving his sincerity. In a day or
two tho arrangements would bo com-
Lpp him come again, at a time
gd; qi.d be in readiness
lean while he niostiM ' '
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f ^
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A ie t
ry "'*1
• PuniNlilnx a Hell.
Tho Kamaoulio Koloko, or bell, is
one of tho um>t curious sights in To
bolsk. This bell is cajlc(j by tho Rus*
sians “tho bell with t|m <?ajr tom off”-
and is kept in a kind of shot) neat the
archbishop’s palace, where its jromnntip
history is always to be heard, In the
sixteenth century Princp Pimifft, thP
rightful heir to the Russian throne, was
deposed by -i revolt headed by Boris
Godunoff, who was then priKdaimcd
czar. Tho seat of tho Russian govern*
^mrnt was at Uglich, and there Dimitri
•us sent to be under tho immediate con*
rol of the unlawful ruler.
Tho usurper, fearing that the popn*
:o might, awake to the claims of the
lung prince, planned his nsfussination,
utterly overcome, he lay gasping a- ■
for life. A doctor had to be summoned.
Soon thero followed a second and no
less violent attack. William had secret
ly eaten two largo cucumbers and a
pound of cheese. Ho paid the penalty.
Work, from tho first not only distasteful,
but difficult, was for some days impossi-
bJe.
Presently it appeared that ho had
caught a very bad cold. Ho was threat
ened with congestion of the lungs.
Writing to tho lady of the manor, tho
doctor explained to her that William s
constitution had suddenly broken down
in consequence of the great and sadden
change. Thero would have to bo care.
Figuratively and literally this poor fel
low had ns good as no legs to stand
upon. IIo seemed ripo for all manner of
diseases. If his diet and habits were
not strictly regulated, tho result might
bo lamentable.
A month went. by. William bad pre-
ten % to work, but always gavo up on
the idea of weakness. Ho looked very
miserable and did not talk much. His
cough was bad. Ono day, after spitting
on the gravel walk, bo showed the gar
dened a red stain. Mr. Brown, though
ho did not like William, looked trou
bled.
“Ever seen that afore now?”
Ruefully and resentfully the other de
clared that ho had never known what it
was to havo anything the matter with
him. Then ho went apart into a quiet,
spot and lay on tho grass and was beset
with terrors. Moreover, a great wrath
awoke in him. Ho cursed tho place and
tho peoplo and above all tho well mean
ing lady who had sent him into bxilo.
Faroff London called to him with irre-
iifitiblc lure. IIo longed for tho streets,
tho noises, the smells, for his old com
panions, for the lurking places of his
homeless nights. Money ho had none. As
yet his weekly wages only paid for board
and lodging. But, with or without
money, ho would got back to Loudon.
His purpose must bo secret. If the en
emy got wind of it, ho would be forci
bly detained.
That evening ho contrived to make a
stealthy entry into tho grapehouso and
to rut the roots of all tho vines. Early
tho next morning ho did the like dam
age to a number of rose trees. A poor
revenge, but it soothed him. Suspecting
that his malfeasance among tho vines
must soon bo discovered, ho held him
self in readiness for flight at any mo
ment, and while listening eagerly for
every word spoken by tho peoplo about
him ho sought now forms of mischief.
His troublesome cough kept him in
mind of tho wrong ho had suffered. It
urged him to malicious activity. But
before bo could do anything worse than
pinch blossoms off certain valuable
plants tho alarm struck upon his car.
“Hoy, London Bill! Mr. Brown wants
you, and look sharp. ”
It was ono of tho undergardeners
shouting from a distance. In sudden
terror, in a mad desiro for liberty and
home, ho slunk rapidly out of sight,
then took to his heels.
In tho night, at a village some 20
miles away, tho constable curao upon a
tramp who lay helpless by tho roadside.
“Sovcro hemorrhago from tho lungf,”
said tho doctor. And, but a fow days
later, William Higgs was again trans
planted, this time to a yet more quiet
locality where no work would ever be
asked of him.—Sketch.
he was
Jabbed in tho yard, ,
lers showing the
help him.
|ho saw tho crime
fry, immediately.
r great bell, which
Eh ‘occasions as the
fe
at this expression
(hided that tho jiriost,
and exccq!p(l, and
be pulled down and
body of its ringer,
jlfllled, and tho boll
populace hcad-
( se.o
Siberian exiles wore
jug out on thoir jour-
sir nostrils torn off
It was decreed
exiled to Tobolsk,
jls the ruler of all
jth grim .
ihonld
.« dis-
trs.
of a
Hint
Animal* In Hie Ilaln.
Horrrs and enttlonever look so miscr-
ablq as jvhon standing exposed to cold
pm) driving rain. Every field in which
pat tie are furuct} loose should havo some
fpdo shpjter provider!, however rough
am) |mr4y tho stock. If left to thom-
Bplvps ip a stntp pf natpre, they would
travel piUes to pppie wclj (mown
op thicker, wliich wopkj pt least give
cover agnipst tjm wind, phut np bo-
tweeu four hedges, they are denied alike
tho aid of human forpthopglit and of
their own instincts.
Bewick’s vignettes of old horses or pp^
happy donkeys, huddled together in driy^
ing showers on some bleak common, ex*
press a vast amount of animal misery
in an inch of woodcut. It seems strange
that no animal, unless it be tho squirrel,
Booms to build itself a shelter with tho
express object of keeping off tho rain,
which they all so much dislike.
Monkeys nro miserable in wet and
could easily build shelters if they had
tho sense to do so. “As tho creatures
hop disconsolately along in tho rain,”
writes Mr. Kipling in his “Beast and
Man In India,” “or crouch on branches,
with dripping backs cot against tho tree
trunk as shelter from a driving storm,
they have tho air of being very sorry 'or
themselves. ”
But even tho orang outang, which
builds a small platform in the trees on
which to sleep at night, never seems to
think of a roof, though tho Dyaks say
that when thero is much rain it covers
itself with tho leaves of tho paudauns,
a largo fern.—Exchange.
iP>l
pat» \knks i
ded
|ly usetoj^
uthori*i?A 1
in
• tVtci
conducted,
Fai ‘.
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oh in, 1 r. d.: in a V* wuA-\
Mi -Tiri stating 'f*r, nv}
for two to cix v
lilio to bo Aloxi!
of Hebron, Barf
kota Red, Pearl
Now Y’orker No.
find the Triumph
Triumph and Ten
most prolific and if
Homo grown »
slightly better rosn
abroad,and at south
fcrenco in favor of h
marked. Spring plan
or second crop seed of
has everywhere given
than spring seed of th
Three stations have ex
seed from the best hill
that these improve yield
Twenty stations havo t
of ono eye, two eye, qua’
whole seed, with couflicti
this matter it has been
ever, that the larger tho s
earlier tho crop, and the ri
the loss difference in yield h
seed and small seed. Cn pi
large seed gives much tho
To plant largo seed whole req'
40 bushels of seed per acre,
single eye pieces tlirco to fop(
aro sufficient. For very early c
largo seed whole; otherwise
ecem most profitable. Ten stati
tested tho merits of seed ends, stl
and middle pieces, and tho ave:
suits show no material difference,
varieties and early planting give
salts.
Five stations havo experimenter!
depth of planting, tho best resn
most eases being from a depth of t
three inches. Eight stations have ox
merited ou distance, drills generally
ing better results than hills. A fair!
dnetion favors rows :»0 inches apart
small seed pieces 12 inches, quarton
inches, halves 24 and whole seed
inches apart in tho row. Alabama, Kii
sas and Utah stations favor level cultu
while the Indiana station favors ridgiu
ami Maryland, New Y’ork and Ohio fin'
no difference. The general tendency i
toward thorough preparation of soil am!
shallow, level culture.
In dry countries and dry seasons
mulching pays well; otherwise it is in
jurious. In ficfclo climates mulch half
tho crop. The best fertilizer depends ou
tho defleien-y of tho soil. Generally
commercial fertilizers aro preferred to
barnyard manure for potatoes. Rolling
seed in flour of sulphur or soaking an
hour in 1.1 gallons of water in which 21-j
ounces of corrosive sublimate has been
dissolved prevents scab. Sublimate cor
rodes metal and is a rank poison; hence
mix in a barrel and bo careful S^pray
the growing plants early and often with
Bordeaux mixture containing paris
green, and neither bugs nor blight will
troublo tho crop.
I.’nd Cato of V/ngon.
A cimplo and durable device for se
curely holding the end gate of a wagon
in place, and permitting of quickly
loosening it for convenient removal, is
shown in tho accompanying illustration
from the Philadelphia Times,. The end
gate slides loosely in cleats, extending
through ono of which ia a short screw
rod with a nut on its outer end and an
eye bn its inner end, and tho eye is: con
nected by a rod with a link adapted to
engage a projection from tho fulcrum
end of a lever pivoted in a bracket at
tached to tho other side of the wagon
body.
Tho link is readily engaged with a re
coss in tho outer end cf tho lever, when
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It is said that tho late Rev. Joel Jew-
originated tho word “teetotal- ”A'hn
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PKVKK ton ItOlUISQ Tin: j:xu (iATp.
tho latter is swung outward, after which
the lever is swung inward closo to the
wagon body, as shown in tho illustra
tion, thus drawing the two sides of tho
wagon body toward each other to bind
tho end gate in place. As tho screw eye
may bo drawn in by means of tho nut,
any slack in tho link and transverse rod
may bo readily taken up, permitting of
always closely binding the sides upon
the end gate, and, as the clamping lover
is entirely on tho outside of the wagon
body, it does not obstruct tho loading or
unloading of the wagon.
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dninltMonumunt
special. Agent
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