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G THE LEDGER: GAFFNEY, S. C., JUNE 1G, 1898. A riilSON IN MEXICO. CURIOUS CUSTOMS THAT PREVAIL IN BELEM JAIL. Miidlral In«trumrnt, In tho Cell, and a Concert Alincmt Every Kvenlns »»y tin ! I’risoners—Dinner Hour Marked by a Cnriuun Spectacle. Among the various nscs to which ; lit xico h;;s pat Bo»:e of hur old moms- i torios and convents is that of serving for tho incarceration of violators of tho I law. Tho Couveuto do Helen at Mexico j City has become, in common parlance, , Belem, tho city jail and prison, accused ; and convicted persons, men, women and children alike being confined there in ( difTt rent compartments. Tho building was put up by the .Spanish governor in , If.so, as an inscription at tho head of I the main stairway tells. A casual visit paid it hy a reporter of The Mexican * Herald reveals a condition of prison , management in Mexico worthy of pass- i ing attention in the days of prison re- j form associations and international pris- | on congresses. The Herald said that Belem had been • commonly spoken of as a second Black ; Hole of Calcutta, but the reporter found | that tho prison was kept in a state of ! comparative cleanliness; not so, how- ! ever, the prisoners. Their condition he described as one of disgusting filthiness. Although there was a hydrant in every cell and general Lathing facilities in each compartment, tho reporter found only one inmate either at bath or with any indication of having bathed within a year. It was explained to him by the prison authorities that formerly tho regulations required prisoners to bathe daily, but that this was regarded as such a hardship that the sufferers man aged to have it declared a form of cruel nud unusual punishment and so to have the rule abrogated. There are in the prison now o,4.jl prisoners, of whom 2,93;5 are men and 80 are minors. A curious feature found by tho re porter was tho Spanish regard for tho arts, even within prison walls. He found in the south wing tho writers of libel, “and tho colls reserved for mu sicians, artists and others of tho fine arts.” It would seem to bo u charitable as well as an inclusive provision, that “and others” (besides artists) of tbe fine arts. Tho musicians are permitted, apparently, to take their instruments to jail with them, much as mechanics take into tbe prison workshop their own tools of trade. “Tho walls of tho mu sicians’ cells are decorated with differ ent musical instruments, and the re porter was told that nlmost every even ing there was a conceit in one of the patios.” Men sometimes do in Mexico what in this colder clime they content them tdves with wishing done, for the re porter came upon one Adams, under sentence of 20 years “for killing a wait er at the Club do la Opera because he did not briug his dinner quick enough.” Adams has the freedom of his galley. There are in each galley three trusties who go about with dubs nud preserve order, using the club “only when moral ■aasion will not do as well.” There were stoics among tho 57 men condemned to death. One of these, un der seutcuve for assassinating a man, expressed his serene coutidenco as to his future, but, “if worst conies to worst” —a shrug of the shoulders and palms up. This man and some others under death sentence hud the run of the com- maudaut’s offices, notwithstanding there were on the walls, serving as decora tions, confiscated weapons of prisoners. Oddly enough, as it would seem in this country, though it wouldn’t have been strange in the Italy of Machiavelli, there wasn’t a gun among these. The nearest to it was a bayonet, and tho rest Mere poinards, scimiters, stilettos, butcher knives, table knives, penknives, and shoemakers’ knives. The dinner hour was marked by a curious spectacle. The street ontside the prison was filled with the “wives, children, dogs and other members of tho prisoners’ households.” These brought baskets of edibles to the prison ers, sumo of whom were permitted to speak to their relatives through a grat ing. To the convicts not permitted to come to the grating, their relatives were allowed to send in notes accompanying tho dinner baskets. This privilege had given rise to a peculiar way of making a few pennies among persons able to write—“itinerant scribes who for a cent or two wrote messages to the pris oners. ” One woman bade the scribe to pot her message in red ink. She would have none of the “purple stuff." “Tell him,” said she, “that I send him two little tamales and tell him that la porrita died yesterday.” Says tbe reporter, “And tbe scribe, leaning under the shade of his umbrel la, sitting on a rock, wdth his bottle of red ink on another rock beside him, worked away assiduously, with an ety mology all bis own, beginning para graphs with lower case letters and pat ting in caps in the most unexpected places, so that it wonld take an Igna tius Donnelly cryptogram to decipher the meaning of hi> hieroglyphic*. ” Tb« IklUlaar Trick. A wandering sleight of hand man was entertaining some lonngera with an exhibition of his tricks. After show ing a good number of them, he said: “fint I have one good trick that 1 call tbe shilling trick.” Of course they all wanted to aee that, ao be instracted a good number of them to give him a shilling, after having marked it and carefully noted tbe date. About a dozen of the bystanders did so, and be took them all, shook them np, and then showed each man another ■bill ing than the one be bad marked, ac companying each sbilliug with tbe question: ”1* that yours?” Each man, of couree, said "No,” and be strolled away, saying: “Then they most all be mine.”— London Globe. Ar« W«* IiiIiuuiaii? Prato of humanity? Hot! What did the United .States do to the Indians? Kemember Wind river. Three thousand red men, women and children were cor ralled there, and 1,000 of them escaped. The others? Oh, they couldn’t escape! Weren't ablo to. They were starved to death. Dying babes nursed mothers whose breasts afforded no nourishment. Dying mothers nursed dead babes. Hu manity: Old Tippecanoe, the grandfather of “Our Ben,” handled tho Indians with out gloves. In one of his campaigns ho supposed his arms had destroyed every buck, squaw and pappoose, but one day a soldier brought to his tent a fat young ster who had escaped the general mas sacre hy hiding under a tepee. “What shall I do with him, general?” “Kill him,” was tho mandate of tbe “Washington of the West.” “Kits make lice.”—New York Press. Battleships and Cruisers. “Say, pa,” asked littlo Willie Spriggs, “what’s tho difference between battleships and cruisers, anyway? They look about aliko in all the pictures that I ever seen.” “Pooh!” Mr. Spriggs ejaculated. “Don’t you know tho difference between a cruiser and a battleship? “K'o, and I ain’t seen anybody that does, either,” tho boy replied. “They must be cra/.y, then,” said Willie’s pa. “Why, tho papers have told tho difference dozens and dozens of times. Cruisers are named after towns and battleships are named after states. Any fool ought to kuow that by this time.”—Cleveland Loader. Encontontlonal Cady Aberdeen. Her ladyship’s dinner parties are rath er tho outcome of a happy thought sud denly conceived and equally suddenly executed than the result, as with most people in her position, of careful consid eration. And so, instead of the custom ary note conveying my lady’s commands for semo night, say a fortnight hi nee, tho telephone is requisitioned to invite Mr. and Mrs. So-and-so to dinner “to morrow evening,” or even “this even ing. Now, it so happened that on one of these occasions Lady Aberdeen teh - phoned her commands for the same evening to a Mr. and Mrs. X., persons of considerable social position, Mr. X. holding an important post in connec tion with tho Hudson Bay company. Mrs. X. was naturally highly incensed —besides, she had a long standing en gagement for the same evening—and tho result was that she decided, not without trepidation, that she would not 80. It was not till tho viceregal party were seated at dinner that the double vacancy made Lady Aberdeen aware of tho absence of Mr. and Mrs. X. “My dear,” said Lady Aberdeen at once to her husband across tho table, “Mr. and Mrs. X. are not here. They must have got cur message this morning. ” Thi n turning to a servant, she said, “.lust telephone to Mr. and Mrs X., at , that wo are expecting them this even ing. ” A perceptible flutter among the guests followed on this littlo speech, and then Lord Aberdeen came hastily, if not diplomatically, to the rescue. “No, no, mother,” ho called across the table, “I cannot have that. Wo have all of us had quite enough telephoning for ono da$\ ”—Today. Next Time They’ll Draw. “After a half hour’s fitting. ” said ono of tho select few that hud been play ing the national game tho night before, “a )?- r i0 jack pot was on the table. Bill opened it for .$50 with a pair of jacks, Sam laid down, Ed remained with a pair of ti ns, and Frank staid with three kings, raising the bet $75. That was a pretty stiff price to pay for tho privilege of drawing a few cards, so everybody laid down, and Frank pulled in the pot. “‘Now, just for luck,’said Bill to tbedealer, ‘run off the first three cards.’ This was done, and a jack and two queens were revealed. Bill said some thing that couldn’t be recorded. “‘Now let mo see the next three,’ said Ed, and Sam gave him two tens and an ace. “‘Would have made mo four tens,’ said Ed, fini.shiug tho remark with ‘ , ’ or something like that. “‘My turn,’ said Frank. ‘Let mo look at tho next two cards.’ Ho got them, hut they didn’t amount to any thing. “‘What did you have?’ asked Bill and Ed in chorus. Frank show’cd three kings, hut Bill and Ed could think of nothing but the full house and the four tens, and for tho next 10 or 15 minutes you could have cut largo chunks of blue atmosphere out of that room.”—Pitts burg Dispatch. Of Course. “Do you belong to a Don’t Worry club?” “I do, and I don’t mind saying that tho rules and regulations and theories and plans worry me nearly to death.”— Chicago Post. “One Minute Cougli Cure is the best preparation I have ever sold or used and 1 can’t say too much jn its praise.”—L. M. Kennon. Merchant, Odell, Ga. Cherokee Drug Company Gaffney, and Macon Thornton’s? Pharmacy, Blacksburg. Spare tho rod, and you will miss half the pleasure of fishing. Late to bed and early to rise, pre pares a man for his home in the skies. Early to bed and a Little Early Riserr the pill that makes life longer and better and wiser. Cher okee Drug Company. Gaffney, and Macon Thornton’s Pharmacy, Blacksburg. There’s always room at the bottom of the early strawberry box. The Cuban question and political issues sink into insignificance with tho man who suffers from piles. What he most desires is relief. De Witt’s Witch Hazel Salve cures piles. Cherokee Drug Company, Gaffney, and Macon Thornton’s Pharmacy Blacksburg. No man ever lives up to the repu tation he wants people to think he has. Tho human machine starts but once and stops but once. You can keep it going longest and most regu larly by using DeWitt’s Little Early Risers, tho famous little pills for constipation and all stomach and liver troubles. Cherokee Drug Com pany, Gaffney, and Macon Thornton’s Pharmacy, Blacksburg. Some people kick because their daily bread doesn’t come already buttered. S. E. Parker, Sharon, Wis., writes: “I have tried DeW'itt’s Witch Hazel Salve for itching piles and it e.lways stops them in two minutes. I con sider DeWitt’s Witch Hazel Salve the greatest pile cure on the market. Cherokee Drug Company, Gaffney. Macon Thornton’s Pharmacy, Blacks burg. Defects In Steel. Different opinions have long been en tertained hy practical experts as to the causes of defects in steel, and attention has lately been called hy a writer in j The Mechanical World to the fact, as elicited hy the most careful anil repeat- ■ ed investigations, that most of the de- ; fccts peculiar to rails, plates and bars : are due to blowholes in tho castings, that is the ingots, such plates and bars ; being rolled out of what is supposed to j be a homogeneons ingot, bnt which is liable to have a cavity inside, not de tectable by chemical or mechanical tests, even tbongb every rail were tested in its entire strength. The blowhole, according to this writ er, might be in a position in tho ingot that it could not ho rolled out, hut would remain in tho center of the head of the rail, and that would run, per haps, about one-fourth tho length of tho rail. If, however, tho blowhole was in some other part of the ingot, it might work out as a flaw on tho surface of tho I rail when finished, and this could bo < detected by the inspector. But how to detect tbe one which is hidden in the head of the rail—which cannot bo dcuu by tho present and old mode of iuspec- 1 tiou—is tho problem. Hm Its Dliiarivantaces. “I suppose you are very glad that 1 your husband is entirely cored of his rheumatism?” said a doctor recently to * a fashionable lady of Germantown. “Yes, I suppose 1 ought to be,” an swered tho lady, “but from now on we will bavo to guess at the weather or buy a barometer if his bones quit ach ing before a damp spell.”—Philadel phia Call It kills but never cures. Sure-Pop Bed Bug Killer. Cherokee Drug Co. only. Youthful Miirriagr*!!* In AlgicrH. A census was taken lately in Algeria, and it was found that the youngest Arab married man was 12 years old and that there were very many hoys who were married at 13 and 14, while some at 15 years of ago had several wives. There is a youthful Algerian widower of 15 and a divorced husband of the same age. Girls are still more precocious and are sometimes married when only 11 years old, though 12 is tho more usual age. There are 189 wid ows of 15 and 1,170 divorcees of the same age.—London Sketch. Qualified. “So Blix passed his law examinations with Hying colors?” “Yes, the examining committee pro pounded 100 principal laws to him, and ho told how 95 of them could bo evaded. ” —Detroit Journal. Maxim’s cavalry gun, which fires 700 shots a minute, weighs but 30 pounds and cun be carried strapped to a sol dier’s hack. Tho gun he made for the sultan fires 770 shot a minute, but it is a tieldpiece on wheels. It is said that GO percent of tho cases of shortsightedness are hereditary. T hink about your health. Do not allow scrofula taints to develop in your blood. Take Hood's .Sarsapa rilla now and keep yourself WELL* There is Only One Bakery in Town, And Only One First-Glass Restaurant. I run botli of these and solicit your patronage. The broad I am now turning out is as fine as Hour can make it and my cakes are unsurpassed. In in)’ Restaurant you can get HHt-class fare every day in ihe week. Coffee served with 10c lunches. Meals at all hours. Yours truly, A man never finds life what it is cracked up to bo until he becomes insane. * J. F. FINCKEN, Prop. Cherokee Bakery. S. C. P. Jones, Milesburg, Pa., writes:—“I have used DeWitt’s Little Early Risers ever since they were introduced here and must say I have never used any pills in my family during forty years of house keeping that gave such satisfactory results as a laxative or cathartic. Cherokee Drug Company, Gaffney, Macon Thornton’s Pharmacy, Blacks burg. Judging from tho way stories get over ground Dame Rumor must ride a bicycle. j'he Gainey City Land and Improvement Company OlTisrs for siiW> lliillilliur LotH In this (lourishincr town. HntTney I'lty: Also Farms near hy anil In roach of tho Schools of Limestone S|>rln»rs and of this place, in lots of Iron :»> to 100 acres on liberal time rates; also AkHcuII ural Lands to rent for Farmpur- poses. For full particulars apply to IVIOSISS WOOT>. A Kent. N. U.—All tresspassing on lands of this company, cut ting and removing timber, llshlniror hunting, are forbidden under penalty of law. $10 in Gold 8. M. Geary.1 Pierson, Mich., writes: — “Dewitt's Witch Hazel Halve is curing more piles here to-day than all other remedies combined. It cures eczema and all other skin diseases. Cherokee Drug Company, Gaffney. Macon Thornton’s Pharmacy, Blacksburg. There’s a limit to the beauty a woman may acquire, but homeliness is unlimited. On Minute is not long, yet relief is obtained In half that time by the use of One Minute Cough Cure. It prevents consumption and quickly cures cold, croup, bronchitis, pneu monia, la grippe and all throat and lung troubles. Cherokee Drug Com pany, Gaffney, Macon Thornton’s Pharmacy Blacksburg. To be given away to our subscribers. We will give to tho subscribers answering the largest num ber of advertisements of Ga if ney merchants between June 1 and Oct. 1, $10 in gold, viz : Wo will furnish each merchant who advertises in this paper with a register for the purpose of registering the names of those who come in answer to their advertisements and at the end of the time specified above we will go around and get all these registers and the person who has registered the greatest number of times will receive $5 in gold ; the one who has registered the next great est number of times will receive $3 ; and the third, $2. ■vary body Soys So. Cuoaret* Candy Cathartic, tbe moat won derful medical diocoveryof the age, pleas ant and refreshing to the taste, ac&fently •nd positively on kidneys, liver end bowels, cleansing the entire system, dispel colds, cun haaaapbe, fever, heMtual constipation and biltousnesa. Pleaae buy and try n box Of C. C. C. to-day; 10, ‘AV, DO cents. Sold and guaranteed to euro by all dragf late. Every purchase, no matter how small, just so it is in answer to a Ledger nd, will count. All you have to do is to tell tho merchant or dealer you saw his nd in The Ledger. Endeavor to win one of these prizes. It will cost you nothing. Just tell them that you saw their ad, and they will do the rest. The Greatest Cure on Earth for Pain. Cures permanently Rheumatism, Neuralgia, Sciatica, Sprains, Cuts, Bruises, Scalds, Burns, Swellings, Backache or any other pain. SALVATION OIL is sold everywhere for 25 cts. Refuse substitutes. Chen LAHCE'S PLUGS. The Guid Tobacco Ar.iiJotc.KH. 0e:ii nwf r.iail,A.C.Mpfer A Co., Salto.,Md. G. MONTGOMERY, A TNI} FURNITURE DEALER. r l lie prettiest selection of picture mouldings, window shades and wall paper ever shown in Gaffney, just received. “SEE On! NEW LINE OF REFUTGEKATOES.^rj Our Furniture stock is now complete in every respect. M. G. MONTGOMERY. Big line of Crepe Paper For decorative purposes Just received at CO. Buy Your^* > Corn, Hay, Oats, Cotton Seed Hulls and Meal at T. DAVENPORT’S Cheap Store. 12011b P’k’gs. Roasted Coffee for $1. | IF YOU WANT TO BUY AInlcss, Wilson Onano and Aoid I IPliospliates CALL ON J. I. SA.RRA.T'T. N. B.—Oak ivood delivered at 7oc per load. ! # . ..'J One jeweler in Gaffney says he is “the Jeweler of Gaffney,” another says he is “the Jeweler of Cherokee.” I advertise myself as DANIELS, THE JEWELER. I do not claim 1o he the Jew’eler of either Gaffney or Cherokee county hut am content with being your Jeweler or anybody else’s Jeweler who has work to he done and wants it done right. Call on me. ^J-Office in Bridges & Benson's Store. The Palace Cenfectionery *• V if \ : Is headquarters for the nicest and newest drinks, cold as a morning breeze on Greenland’s icy mountains. Ice cream served in all Havers in our parlor. Com plete line of fancy groceries and confectioneries. Call on us.. i BROWN & CLARKSON, Plop’s.