The ledger. [volume] (Gaffney City, S.C.) 1896-1907, May 20, 1897, Image 6
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THE LEDGER: S. C., GAFFNEY, MAY 20, 1897.
MKLOMERATED CHEROKEE
ITEMS OK INTEREST TERSELY
TOLD.
Tzt News tTom Town and Conntry
Rolled Down lor the Special
Benefit of Busy Led
ger Readers.
GOOD ROADS.
A NEW HOTEL IS CERTAIN, how to apply manure.
BLACKSBURG BUDGET.
IVi-see vt*ry few eolts on our streets
1-Lis Spring.
Un»din<r on the 0. I». A C. is prc-
, ressing finely.
All gurdens are backward on ae-
tuuntot tlie dry weather.
J. S. Solomon has accepted a posi-
lion al the Star Bakery as baker.
The hog crop must be good. Our
p>“, pie are beginning to talk about
liaor big ones.
iVmdon money granted by the
ftja.-e. is intended for tlie actually
din/jM'ing needy.
r / '.)ih are being fixed up that will
dry land to hundreds of Cat
fish ibis summer.
fv.-frv body is asking where the
' O. R. <(' C. will come into town and
where the depot will be.
The Methodist have bought a lot
on the corner of Main and Betty
>!reets for their new church.
The chairs, scenery, etc., for the
r?w f/ty halj have arrived and are
hung placed in the building.
fiigns of more activity are seen
uinmt the otTices of our local attor
neys as the time for opening court
wpprotiefier.
On Sunday, .Tune III. Rev. C. F.
Febnet will hold the funeral sendees
»f the late Mrs. J. C. Crocker at Cor-
}r tb rhnrch.
Rasiness is active in UafTney, and
erery worthy enterprise receives sub-
stantinJ encouragement from our en-
terprising people.
Potato bugs have made their ap-
peurance in our gardens. Baris
> THfnia the remedy for them—give
n to them liberally.
A farmers wagon loaded with baled
lay going to the country, is not the
fiist prosperous sign for the farm
where the wagon belongs.
Two brick machines are now put
ting in full time in GalTney. and the
hsdkations are that their output will
net supply the local demand.
While stands are not perfect our
fanners are working their crops with
a vim. Some are ploughing their
cotton the second time.
.Some large deals in real estate
haw* been made in Galfney in the
Ja?t Tew days. While prices have
leen fair there is nothing booming
ia them.
Rer. B. P. Robertson Monday went
to housekeeping in the pretty new
cottage of County Treasurer Jones.
**n Depot street, where he will proba
bly remain until the new parsonage
>* meted.
learn that Governor Elerbe has
rtet/ved a letter from Senator Till-
jman. relative to the Agricultural Hall
*ir.*d the Dispensary Scandal. The
Senator asked that the letter he made
public but the Governor declined to
so muse it.
There will be services at the Meth
odist ft urch next Sunday night be
ginning promptly at 8:510 o’clock.
Tberewill he no services in the morn
ing on account of the Interdenomina
tional Sunday School conference at
the Baptist church.
The Chester Bicycle Club is nego
tiating for a tract of land near that
cily on which it will grade a fine
txa: k and convert the whole plat into
a purtt for the city. GalTney Cyclist
miM move up. No place mustbe ul-
.uk cd to pass GalTney.
•
F" erifT Ross lust week conveyed a
puTent from Cherokee to the insane
asylum. This makes the second un
fortunate to be taken to Columbia
nitre the formation of Cherokee.
They were both cases of long stand
ing however, and should have been
attended to by the old county ofli-
«-!*!.s some time ago.
Manager Robert Roundtree* of the
Cumpany Store, is nothing if not
pruirrvssive. He has lately had eon-
rUntied u hitching post with a shed
orer it for the convenience of his
ptcimns who desire to rest tlieir teams
and has placed in the store an electric
lau to cool the prospective purehus-
•r while spending their time in his
htorr. Not content with this Ed Ei-
koi. has dressed the show windows in
a truly artistic manner so as to at
tract and delight those who pass by.
<KT(iijg to the convention of the
Utoesfone Interdenominational Sun
day School which is to be held in the
Firtl Baptist church Sunday morn-
tog and afternoon there will he no
•rnnon at that church in the fore-
Min). After the morning session of
tb* convention is over a church con-
ferm^e will be held. Pastor Robert
son earnestlry requests all the mem-
of his church to be present us
feuiiri**)! of Importance Is to be trans
acted. This will he the usual night
seriice.
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I—ae*nt no cure no |»i*y.
OukuoKCK Intro lo.
i n(.tMiNc (ircrisr lilniilncilt. I’ttrt’H nil
t.at’.t's .ml pulnv Sold nnd uuitrnnlt'rd liy
CutHOKt:*: lutcu < i».
Prof. Holmes, of North Carolina, Gives
Us a Fine Talk.
State Geologist Holmes, of North
Carolina, delighted a large audience
on Tuesday afternoon at McArthur's
Hall on the subject of “Good Roads.”
Mr. Holmes was introduced in nice
style by Hugh H. Long, one of Gaff
ney's promising young attorneys.
For more tha hour Mr. Holmes
held the undivided attention of his
audience. His stereoptican views of
the McAdetn roads of England,
France, Germany, Ireland, Italy.
New Jersey and North Carolina were
fine and brought vividly to the inir.ds
of his auditors the necessity of good
roads in Cherokee county. He paid a
trilute to the young coin ty and im
pressed upon it the neeess ty of begin
ning aright. Every'man in Cherokee
county should have iieard the lecture.
It would have given an imj e us to
good roads that would have b-en of
incalculable benefit to the countv.
We hope to have Mr. Holmes wi li
us again and enjoy the practical good
roads lessons he so ably teaches.
The following are a few of the
practical suggestions in road build
ing as mentioned by Prof. Holmes.
Learn all you can from the expe
rience of other countries add other
counties that have good roads and
prolil by their experience as far as
possible. This may save much time
and money. Employ the best men
you can get to take charge of your
road work regardless of their politics,
religion, kinship nr anything else,
save their fitness f,or their work. Be
sure that your roads have the best
possible location before you spend
money to improve them. The dis-
tnr.ee around a hill is no greater gen
erally than tiie distance over its top,
and it is far cheaper and better in
the long run to build and keep up
the more level road. No road in
the Piedmont, S. C., should ever
have a hill on it steeper than oft in
100ft. Grade and drain your roads
carefully and let them settle before
ma e ad a m i z i n g t h eni.
Bad roads make people poorer and
noor. Good roads makes the
b st investment for the counties’
money and labor. Money invested
in road building comes back to the
county both directly and indirectly.
If you delay building roads until the
county gets rich, you will never get
rich and never have the good roads.
The entire people must pull and
push together in this great industrial
movement. Let the building up of
the roads and schools he the county’s
highest politics for the next decade
and you will find yourselves entering
a new era of prosperity. Do not ex
pect to have good roads all over f lie
county in a week or in a year. Be
gin with the most important roads
and make them good as fust as you
can. Be patient in well doing and
go ahead with a long pull, a strong
pull and a pull all together and you
will meet with better success than
you expected.
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BEATING FATHER TIME.
A COMPANY ORGANIZED TO
BUILD ONE.
It is to Cost Not Less than Twenty
Thousand Dollars—It Will be
Modern in Every Re
spect-Sites, Etc.
Last Thursday night upon invita
tion of Mr. H. I). Wheat the follow
ing gentlemen met at his residence
to discuss the erection of a new hotel:
A. N. Wood, J. A. Carroll, R. C.
Thompson, J. I. Surratt, N. Lipscomb,
T. <5. MeCraw, W. H. Smith, L« Ba-
k'r, W. C. Carpenter, J. G. Wardlaw,
J. N. Lipscomb, J. (J. Little, K. S.
Lipscomb, S. L. Cutting, J. F. Gar-
r.-tt. F. G. Stacy. R. A. Jones, R. M.
Wilkins, O. E Wilkins, J. I). Jones
and II. L. Parks. The subject was
carefully and fully discussed and it
was finally decided to build a hotel
to cost not less than $20,000. A
committee was appointed to select a
site and to report at a meeting
which was held Monday. This com
mittee wt i t to w rk Friday and se
cured option- on a number of sites
and reported at the meeting which
was he’d at t! e office of the Gaffney
Manufacturing Company on Monday.
After discussing the subject it was
decided to defer the selection of the
site to a meeting which is to be held
next week. At any rate the hooks
for subscription to the capital stock
of the new hotel have been opened
and a large part of t he stock already
subscribed.
The building will he modern in
every respect and will till a long
felt need. These g-ntlemen have no
fight with the proprietor of the pres
ent hotel’or the management but be
lieve that Gaffney needed a modern
hotel and determined to give her one.
After the hotel hud been discussed
at Mr. Wheat’s on last Thursday
evening the company was united to
partake of an ch ga it rep :st prepar
ed for the occasion. This was highly
enjoyed by all present and the com
pany r< solved themselves into a com
mon b o hi rheo 1 to wt rk for GalTney.
The Mormon llishop Wan Frightened nt
tho null road Speed.
Speed was once demonstrated on :
western road in a fashion to cnrl tho
I hair of at least one old Mormon bishop.
The churchman considered it a phenom
enon and got off the train as quickly an
he could. He had bullwhacked across
thp plains in the early days, and, strange
to say Jpid never ridden on a railroad
train tmtil the time when he intend
upon his trip from Green river to 8an
Francisco. The speed was, therefore, a
revelation to him. He had never before
seen anything so swift, and lie was
scared. About 12 mill s from Ogden he
asked the conductor for the time of day
and was told that it was 7:555. He im
pressed this time forcibly on his mind.
Now, for a wonder, the western con
nection at Ogden was quickly made,
and after the lapse of but a few minutes
the .San Francisco bound travelers were
on their way Califi rniaward. Ogden
had been left behind only a few miles,
and the train was whooping along at a
behind time rate of speesl, when the old
bishop, frightened ami trembling, dared
to ask the ccneluctor what was the time
of day.
If you have traveled westward, you
know that at Ogden tho limei changes,
and San Francisco time, tine hour ear
lier, is adopted. Tho conductor had San
Francisco time, and he said:
“It is 7:1.)—ten minutis after 7.”
The old bishop, previously haunted
by a dread of impcntling elcstruetion be
cause of the horrible rate of speed at
which he was being whirled through
space, rose with a wild cry and made
for the door.
“Lemmc off!” he cried. “It was 3.1
miiHdceHtfti r 7 an hour ago, an we’iv
goin so fast we are goin faster than
time can count itself. L mme off!”
Had ho really been g< ing as fast as
I the old man had l>ciievod, he would
! surely have !;e-u beaten to bits as ho
I jumped frtuu the train. As it was, lie
i was only rolled something like a half
mile and was carried back to Ogden on
| a hand ear.—Chicago Record.
Fit lit IVw.
Professor Shaw of the Minnesota sta-
, tiou is credited with saying that the
! Prussian Blue pea is possessed of a
wider adaptation than the other varie
ties of peas grown and should he suited
to New England. For the west he
names a variety known as the green
field is'a; also another variety called
the green or gray lieu. The Chancellor
is mentioned us tx ing a popular variety
in tho norttiwert.
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I f Ul.v (itHMe lirt'Hst* tloti't cure your aches
and twins. I>«rn», bruises uud spruliis. we
pay you luoncy Lick.
Diini i o.
• 'roup. •'.<liL. buCrippi- mid Sore Thrimi,
cured by Uoimc lirease' no cure no pay.
Del'MK Dm d Co.
Other Building Notes.
Contractor L. Baker is adding a
handsome dining room and porch to
the Limestone Inn, of which Mr. and
Mrs. S. L. Hoper are the delightful
host and hostess.
Prof. Zed Rupert son lias let tho
contract for a pretty cottage to be
built next to the Episcopal church
building.
Contractor Baker has just com
pleted a pretty eight-room two story
dwelling for A. F. Kendrick on Lime
stone street. Mr. Kendrick moved
into it this week.
The contract for the Baptist par
sonage is to be let tins week.
R. A. Jones lias let the contract
for a two-story brick store house on
the vacant lot between the stores of
It. A. Jones & Co. and T. Davenptr .
Cherokee Chil! Tonic
guaranteed to cure—
%
no cure no pay.
Cherokee Drug Co.
News From Willie.
WTli.ij;, May 17.—Marion Bagwell
begun chopping out his cotton Mon
day tin* 10th instant. You will al
ways find Marion on time whin It
comes to farming.
Our commissioners have about got
the roads in this section worked over,
or rather walked over, as they have
done hut very little to them. They
just gave them a “lick and promise.”
\Ve suppose that they intend working
them again this summer, If they
don’t we will certainly have desper
ately bad roads next winter.
G. \\\ Williams’ baby has been
right sick for several days with den
tition.
We had a splendid rain last Wednes
day, the 12th instant, and I believe,
after all, that we are going to get u
pretty fair stand of cotton. “T. L.
G.” su^s in his “Hungry Hill” letter
of week before last, that if the prizes
offered by the cotton mills for the
best I and lucre cotton patches were
reversed, that he would be certain to
win both prizes. Now we are almost
satisfied that some one in this sec
tion will win the prizes, as it is. and
were it reversed, “T. T. G.” would
stand no chance in the world of win
ning tiie prizes. Why, we have plen
ty of land in this section upon which
ii we were to produce us much us 1<H)
lbs of seed cotton per acre, why, er—
we would be almost tempted to pay
forour guano. While upon tho i.th- •
er Hand, we have in this section plen
ty of land tiiat will produce from one
to two bales of cotton per acre.
J.wurs.
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Bucklen’s Arnica Salve.
The Best Halve in the world for :
Guts. Bruises, Sores, Ulcer, Halt ,
Rheum, Fever Sores, Tetter, Chapped I
Hands, Chilblains, Corns, and all j
Skin Eruption, and poetively cures
Piles or no pay required. It is guar- .
anteed to give perleet satisfaction or
money refunded. Price 25 cents per
box For sale by The DuPrc Drug
Co.
Fomparatitr Merit* of Surfarr Manuring
autl Plowing In Manure.
Elias A. Long learned a h ssou in the
application of manure when a hoy in
his father’s nursery. Hr tolls the story,
as follows, in American Gardening: We
purchased from a tannery a large pile
of compost, hair, ashes, lime and other
refuse, with enough bark in layers to
make all pile up well. In the winter we
drew this on land devoted to iiurx ry
and other crops, usually plowing it un
der in the spring. Soup times ou fall
plowed land we would iucerporate the
mixture with the soil, by th - use of the
cultivator tr share harrow, in the
spring.
One of the things that vividly im-
pre-sed mo as we dug trees and plants
from soil thus manured was tho way in
which rootlets would lay hold of con
genial hits of plant food. The tufts and
felted km ts of hair would he the attrac
tion to a mass of small roots. This is
illustrated in the accon pauying sketch,
in which a a a show bunches of hair.
This thing was seen not only in the ea e
of seedling and tree roofs, but also in
those of strav,’berry plants, which lio
much nearer the surface.
A lesson to be drawn from this is
that the plowing in of manure as a
method of applying it should not yield
to surface applications in any markt d
degree. The avidity with which roots
seek out and lay hold of particles of
manure in the case stated showed to rue
that there can be no mistake in putting
the plant food right whole it will be
needed. With the surface and applica
tion cf manure in tfie fall and winter
there is often {treat loss of fertility
through escape by leaching and surface
drainage during thaws in the winter.
If it ho drawn to the plat and be kept
in piles until just before spring plow
ing or cultivating, such loss is not ap
preciable.
The question of the comparative mer
its of surface manuring and the plow-
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A Batch of Newsy Items from the Iron
City.
Bi.ai KsnoRO. May 18.—Cycling is
the fad here at present. There arc
twenty odd machines in town, and. I
understand that the ladies are con
templating organizing a club.
W ork on the branch <>f the O. R
and <’ R. Ii. is progressing satisfac
torily. Between two and three milts
have been graded, and, as soon as the
trestles are built, laying of the track
will he began.
Last Wednesday night ErnestGun-
tiirop, one of the most popular em
ployes of the O. 11. and R. It., was
married to Miss (Mara Whisonant, a
lovely and attractive young lady of
this place. The ceremony was per
formed by the Rev. Mr. J. 1). Bailey,
of Oowpens, H. C., at the residence
of the bride. After a few days stay,
with the grooms parents at Shelby,N.
0., the young couple returned here,
and are now with Mr. and Mrs. Gra
ham.
A negro man by the name of David
Groves.hailing from Augusta.Ga.,died
suddei !y at this place Thursday. As
no inquest was held, the exact cause
of his death is not known. And, us
he had no relatives or friends, he was
buried at tiie expense of tiie town.
Friday, A. F. Did- of tnD place,
was arrested by D. puty Marshall
Dobson, at the instance of Post Office
1 nspector Gillespie, for having ob
tained an^ opened an official lei ter ad
dressed to one W. M. Smith. He was
admitted to bail in the sum of iJ'IUO.'.X),
by the commissioner at this place,
for his appearenee on the 2Sth, inst.
Saturday a number of State Con
stables made their appearenee here,
and proceeded to try and make things
lively. First, a lew bottles of beer,
shipped to a gentleman here from
Shelby N. C. were siezed and tiie car
rier arrested. A trial by jury being
demanded, the case was continued un
til next Week.
Sunday, they went out on a road
leading from this place to a Govt.
Distihery. just across the line. After
some hours waiting, they caught a
m gro man from this place by the
name of Ike Simms, coming from the
distillery towards Blacksburg, with
about three quarts and a pint, of
corn whiskey. The offender was at
once arrested, and upon trial Monday
was convicted and sent to the county
chain gang for thirty days, in
ilo-
A I.ESSOX IX IfAXURlNG.
ing in cf manure may depend somewhat
on tho crop also. It is plain in tho caso
of shallow rooted crops, like lettuce,
radishes, onions, strawberries, etc., that
the manure is not wanted at the same
level as with parsnips, cauliflower and
other deeper rooters. Then, again, sur
face manuring may, as in tho case of
strawberries, serve an excellent purpose
as a mulch in keeping the soil cool and
in preserving moisture.
Another thing, all crops do not need
tho same amount of manure. It is a
poor plan, for instance, to he lavish in
the use of manure on potatoes and
then slight it on onions and celery.
Among crops that do the better for high
feeding I would place strawberries, cel
ery, onions, lettuce, spinach, beets,
radishes, cabbage, cauliflower, squashes
and cucumbers. Of such, the extent of
the crop is almost measured by the
amount of manure, and 30 to 40 tons
per aero each year is none too much.
The bush small fruits need loss manure
than do strawberries, while vegeta
bles, potatoes, peas, parsnips, carrots,
beaus, tomatoes and melons wx along
very well with one-half the manure
called for by tho others named.
Tiie Velvet Kean.
Seme Florida farmers are experiment- |
ing with a new legume for forage. It is
called the velvet Lean. The Leans aro
planted about tho same as corn. As de
scribed by Field and Farm, the growth
is rampant, making in Florida soil some
eight or nine tons to the acre of green
feed. It is hardy, taking a very heavy ,
frost to kill it. The green forage bean, 1
pod and all, is greedily eaten by stock.
The pods are thick and leath ry and
contain from throe to live beans each, i
The pods are cove red by a clu-e, thick
dowulike velvet, from whence it di rived
its common name. It is a climber when '
1 it gets a chance.
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Itcma la Coru Culture.
The three varieties of corn giving the I
highest yii Id per acre at the Texas sfa- i
tiou were Meshy’s Prolific, 48 bushels; |
Gulden Beauty, t? bushels; Blount’s
i Prolific, D! bushels. The prolific vario- i
ties were thinned to one stalk every 18 I
i inches, while the other kinds were i
thinned to one stalk every 3 tier. The
j rows of all varieties were * feet 10
inches apart. Tiie te.^ts covered two |
years, and M varieties of corn wero
tested.
Varieties of Orancrs.
For the benefit of growers renewing
their orange orchards or setting out new
ones the following varieties are recom
mended in a bulletin from the Florida
station: For autumn shipping, Centen
nial, Parson Brown, Boone Early, Non
pareil, Homosassa, Tangerine,Mandarin
uud Hatsuma for midseuson, Jaffa, Ht.
Michael, Maltese Blood, Majorca and
in rich hammock lauds Pineapple for
late, Hurt Turdiff, King and Valencia
Late.
DICH RED BLOOD > s thefoun-
■V d ttiou of good health. That Is why
Hood s Sarsaparilla, the One True
Blood Purifier, gives HEALTH.
fault of u hundred dollars line.
Not yet content, on Monday they
went to Cherokee Falls and arrested
John R. Martin. Waiveing a preltm-
inury hearing, the case was sent to
court and the defemlent admitted to
bail.
It appears that Martin had betT
reporttd for selling liquor, and, last
week, the officers went to Cherokee
Falls with a search warrant. After
reaching that place, they enquired
for Martin. A man by the name of
Cobb, sent them in a round about
way, in the mean-time, going to
Martins and tellingall there, that the
officers were coming. Those present,
at once locked up the house and skip
ped. A little later the constables
appeared. They found Mrs. Martin
and asked for her husband. She said
he was in the field somewhere. After
searching his house they asked to be
allowed to enter one of the out
buildings which was locked. She re
fused, whereupon they broke open the
dr o'and entered. They had no idea
that an illicit still was being run in
the house, hut, investigation soon re
vealed the fact. In the cellar they
found a slijl, furnace, cap, tfonnand
about seven tubs. Tho tubs con
tained beer, and, the room was badly
smoked. The still, cup and worm
wen ta .en to Gaffney City and the
revenue officials notified.
The still was of about lo gallon ca
pacity, made out of a large cap in
verted, while the cap was made out of
a piece of copper riveted together and
and about the size of a large dipper.
M. M. Freeman, formerly Sec.
and Tr> as of the C. S. A. Mfg. Co.,
has been appointed Postmaster at
this place, vice J. M. Guyton remov
ed. Mr Guyton made an obliging
and efficient Postmaster, and, while
ids many friends will regret to hear
of removal, the public here have the
s itisfacl ion of knowing that a good
amlTftieient officer has been succeeded
by another.
Messrs. Russell and Fretwell, of
Andezson, have signed a contrrct
with the O. R. anil 0. Railroad for
the filling of all the trestles along the
line. The company’s steam shovel,
under Capt. Patrick Bergen, will con-
tinu'', while Messrs. Russell and
Fretwell will have one of their own.
Shelby street has been considera
bly improved, (‘/) a few stray coble-
stones have been moved from one
part of the street to another, i:. a. t.
Bi.m ksbi'ug, May 17.—The Sto'k-
holders of the Cherokee Fails Man .-
facturing Company, hi* d their annut 1
meeting at the fuct< ry, on Wednes
day May 12ih .v large majority i f
tiie stockholders were present, unit
all seemed well satisfied with the
showing made by the mill during the
past year.
Four car loads of young ladies from
the \\ iiittop Normal uud ludusirial
College, of Rock Hill. H. passed
through the city on Friday, on their
annual school picnic. I hi* year • hey
spent the duv at tiie celebrated Pat
terson Springs, N. C. Ample dimicr
was provided for tbe large crowd,
and teachers and pupils alike spent a
very pleasant day.
Three of the young ladies from
Winthrop. stopped off at Blacksburg,
and spent the day. They were Mis
ses La I la Black, Mira Connor, and
Delia Kirkpatrick.
Mr. Will Banks, of Rock lleruld,
spent Friday in tho city.
An unknown negro supposed to
hail from Georgia, died bore several
days ago. It seems that he had been
drinking very hard of late, and a short
time before his death ho M-nt u A to
boy to the dispensary for un^^^r
bottle of ''chemically pure,” but
fore the boy returned lie hud “passed
in his checks.”
A telegram fiom Washington was
received by Major John Y. Jones, sev
eral days ago, annouM'-ing that Mr.
M. M. ]• reeman had been appointed
postmaster at tliis place. As yet tiie
matter has not been d< finitely set-
lied, and Mr. Guy ton still lias charge
of the office.
O hio a crowd went from here to
Charlotte, N. C.. on \V oi.esday, to
see Barnuni W Bailey's e>»"is.
At tbe residence oft lie brib-s’fath
er. on Wednesday evening, at 8 i . m..
Miss Claire Wiiisonarit.'e 'oiui daugh
ter of Mr. Charles Yv bi.- uiant. was
united in marriage to .Mr. Ernest
Guntharp. Rev. Mr. B: liey, pastor
of the Baptist Church, ollb-iatod. The
young people, are \v« 1! known in
Blacksburg, and have th -b >t wi-b.es
of their many friends. s, m. d.
THE FROZEN BREEZE.
A Straiig.' I’l'.eaoiJK ;:oii 05;s<tv«mI l;y a
•f.’iv, r ot Nat are.
Did you cv< r s< v a I'roxi n Ln i a- - You
might have s- n om if you had goao
wit li me into tho country cue winter
morning.
’IJiis was tho way it i ame to be frcr.i n:
All nignt 1 n.g tlio mr 1 ad D-en ludiu
with mist. Over the il J.’s, in tho hol
lows, all through the \z< , ds, eve a on
top < f the hills, the fog Lang heavily.
•Ail that time tin- wind How steadily,
but not fiercely, from some nor'.horn
quart, r.
At nightfall the mor u:y Ml bolow
tho froi ::ing point, so that ihi- mist, as
it drifted through the In vs, was trozi u
upon th‘ir branches and twigs. The
elms, the oaks and the ether leafless
trees took their ice coating quite evenly,
but the thick, impem trablo masses of
tho needles of the pine trees were cov
ered noticeably only upon tho sides to
ward the; north er northwest, from which
the wind came-. The strong, steady
breeze bent the branches to leeward,
while it was icing them, and when tho
wind went down in the morning they
all romaim d just there, leaning to the
s :uthwaril, iced and frozen to immova
bility, but looking just as if tho wind
were still steadily blowing.
Even in the alti rnoon, when tho rain
began to fall and the wind came from
quite another ouarti r, that north wind
of tho night before still remain 1 win to
and frozen over the piny woods, tho
pul?, rigid corpse of a thing once keenly
alive.—-Listener in Co.vitrv.
' TmusiL.; „o)<i. —
Of Ids recent extended, study of the
gold resources of South Africa Dr.
Becker says that the Transvaal republic
contains the largest gold deposits in tho
world. Within 15 miles of Johannes
burg there is an amount of gold, prac
tically in sight, estimated to be wortm.
$3,100,000,000. or nearly as much sw
the entire volume of gold coin now in
the world. The geld is extraordinarily
uniform, as uniform us coal in an or
dinary diqiosit, as shown by shafts
which have been sunk to a depth of
1,800 feet ami diamond drillings which
have gone still farther. At present the
gold is being taken out at the rate of
$100,000,000 a year.
The most surprising news which Dr.
Bi cker brings is the testimony of an
American who was formerly Ids assist
ant in the geological survey, and who
is now engage cl in mining in the Trans
vaal, where lie has made several mil
lions cf dollars. TM American mining
expert rays to his knowledge and belief
the gold deposits, instead of being SO
miles long—the region now in sight—is
practically 1,200 miles long, except that
in the rest cf tho region later deposits
have come in over the gold. This, how
ever, will not prevent economical min
ing, but will simply delay it.—Popular
Science News.
W. H. PALMER,
WATERLOO, IOWA.
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