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^N'DIAL SCAVENGERS. MAN’S ATTITUDE TOWARD NATURE’S SANITARY BRIGADE. An EnKlifth TVrltrr'N I’lon Fop n Hot- \ ter Appreciation of the IUpiIm mid ; lieuntH Tlmt ilei|i to Keep the Knrth | Free From Pentilctice and Plaaite. We human beings uro odd in our at- | titude toward the nuimul world, in our | likes and dislikes of the creatures of ' our own class and other classes of ani mals. Wo seem to base our feeliuK* on no logical ground of reciprocity, of good will, of gratitude or the reverse, but rather on some almost inexplicable whim. Certain creatures arc without reason given a bad name, and no proof of service rendered will ever reinstate them. Others aro popular favorites and may steal grain and make lifo hideous with their discordant cries. Tho entire snake tribe, for example, is anathema with all right minded folk, though if they were asked tho reason of their prejudice they would, with a pitiful and superior shrug, bo driven back in all probability on the ridiculous trans lation of Holy Writ, which, however deep in its charm, cannot be relied upon in matters zoological. It is a fact that, though few’ would credit it, a gentleman charged not long ago in an evening paper with needless 1 persecution of onr common, harmless snake quoted in his defense some an cient injunction about bruising the creature’s head iu retaliation for an apocryphal bruising of his own heel. As a matter of truth and not Scripture, ser pents do not bruise our heel, but are only too glad to glide away from it. I understand that in the breeding season there are certain Indian snakes that re sent uninvited witnesses of their nup tial ceremonies and go tho length of chasing them off the premises. This may or may not bo the case, but I have tramped after kangaroo through miles of tall grass simply infested (as proved by periodic fires) with snakes, venomous aud otherwise, without coming in con tact with one, although gaiters to the knee were de rigueur on such occasions iu case of accident. The vituperation, however, reserved for tho reptile is not more forcible than that meted out to the whole unpaid company of nature’s scavengers, aud it is to this very remarkable ingratitude that it seems time to draw attention. It cannot, it is true, be claimed for these useful servants that they possess beauty or charm of manuer, but there aro folks who aro ornamental, others merely "Use ful, and the earth would not bo pleasant without either. It would not, for in stance, be correct to assert that the gen tlemen who, under tho auspices of the sanitary board, impel gentle streams of water down tho classic and verdant slopes that lead from Coveut Garden to the Strand are among tho most pictur esque individuals iu that neighborhood, but it would be equally futile to deny tboir place in tho scheme of tho crea tion. Death is ever busy to render this earth an unclean abode. This, apparent even in these latitudes, has a very much more serious aspect in tropical lands, where tho burning caress of a pitiless sun brings decay close on the steps of death, aud tho corpse but an hour old is already at work poisoning the sur rounding air and spreading the germs of disease. To frustrate this baleful work nature has enlisted an efficient army of scavengers, drawn from all classes, and commissioned to keep pure the earth and cleanse it of all that is foul. It might be expected that a rational generation would not bo slow to recog nize the value of sucli officials and would give them at least protection aud consideration. Yet it is actually a fact that, so far from according these invaluable crea tures the e me kindly forbearance that is given unetintingly to thousands of email fowl, more picturesque perhaps, but certainly more harmful, wo have not, most of us, a good word to say for any one serving iu the scavenging brig ade, aud the encomiast who should plead their cause, individually or as a class, would run the risk of being voted eccentric. The very names of the crea tures call up all the worst epithets ap plicable to tho brute world. Vultures are repulsive; hyenas, for all tho world as if they^subscribed to the national church, are called sacrilegious because they rifle graves; for sharks no term is strong enough, and the honest sailor who occasionally contrives to haul one of these ocean scavengers aboard metes out to it treatment that would bo worth ier of the Grand Turk of tradition. Nature, not being a European power, beeps her forces in readiness where they are needed, in consequence of which the scavengers muster iu strength in hot countries. Vultures wander but rarely to those parts, and such sharks as occur arc with few exceptions but minnows of their race. Yet we have even in these islands humbler purifiers at work, tad poles and burying beetles and others suitable to tbo comparatively easy work that falls to them. One of these days, when natural his tory is taught in a rational manner iu our schools, when the rising generation learns to appreciate the living world around instead of banging pianos and splashing pigments, we shall have a re cantation of the modi rn zoological faith and a better appreciation of the beasts and birds. We shall find nothing to shudder at in the meal of the vulture, hut we may, on the contrary, even learn to protect that remarkable bird and its fellow scavengers as among the worthi est of earth’s children. To the last tho vulture is active in its allotted mission, and when at length it falls no living beast or bird or insect will touch its body, and it mutt crumble quietly to dust, a lasting—somewhat too lasting, as those know who have camped near an undiscovered dead vulture for some da)|r monument to the usefulness of thereat scavenging army of which it once was so active a member.—F. G. Afcalo iu Saturday Review. THE LEDGER: GAFFNEY, S. C., OCTOBER 6, 1898. 3 MOVING ON SATURDAY. Haw « I.MMilloiiI'm TrnnntM Who Did So Cnina* to (irlef. . “There aro lots of mysterious things about letting tenement houses," said Colonel J, T. Small. “I am not super stitious, but I would no more lot a house on Saturday than I would set fire to it. Iu all the ( 20 or 80 years I bavo been letting tenements no one ever mov ed into a house of mine ou .Saturday who didn’t give me some trouble. “It used to happen again and again, till at last I got on to the freak of for tune and stopped it. Ouco a man moved into one of my honses late ou Saturday night. The next day ho died, and I had to give his family three mouths’ rent Another time a man moved in on Sat urday aud inside of a year committed suicide. Another tijpe the house caught fire while a family was getting into gear ou Sunday after moving iu on Sat urday. Sometimes the family that moves in on Saturday has scarlet fever, some times the wife dies of cons’umptiou, or some other wasting disease plays havoo among his tribe. “The other day—not many months ago anyway—a man came to mo one Friday aud wanted to hire a house. He wanted it the worst kiud, aud when he said that I asked him when he intended to move in. “ ‘Tomorrow,’ said he. “ ‘Then you can’t have one of my houses,’ said I, aud all the folk who were present laughed at me. The teu- unt laughed, too, but I stuck it out. I wouldn’t let him move in ou Saturday. ‘I should expect the devil to pay if you did it,’ 1 said, ‘for I have never known it to fail.’ “Well, he wanted to know if I cared if he moved in a few things ou Satur day, if be wouldn’t go in with his fam ily till Monday. I said, ‘No, I don’t care,’ but as for his sleeping there Sun day and Saturday, I wouldn’t let bim. “So he went away, promising, aud I vow if that fellow didn’t move all his things iA on Saturday and slept there Saturday night. Aud inside of a week the factory where he worked was burned to the ground, and ho lost his job and was out of work for mouths. He owes me rent now, and he’s the last man who will ever move into one of my houses ou Saturday. “I suppose the underlying principle of it all is that a man who will observe and keep holy tho Sabbath will not move Saturday, because ho knows ho must do some work ou Sunday, aud a man who will never give his landlord any trouble is the man who will not break the Lord’s day. ” Moral.—Don’t move on Saturday.— Lewiston Journal. INDIAN AND TIGER. GOOD REASONING. A Clever Trick l.y Wlilrh the Forn-cr Oat- vAUetl Hie l.atlcr. According to a good and true tiger story in Gornhill, an Indian who had learned some of tho elementary princi ples of jugglery aud coutortion went out one evening to walk upon a ridgy plain. When ho reached the top of ono of the mounds, he saw a tiger ahead of bim, 500 or 600 yards away. Before tho man could hide belrfnd a monnd tho tiger had seen him aud begau to bound toward him at its topmost speed. Having no means of defense, there was nothing for the man to do bat to race for the nearest tree, but though he tried it aud put forth his utmost strength the tiger steadily gained upon him. What was be to do? In sheer despera tion he resolved upon an unusual scheme. Just as he disappeared for an instant from the tiger’s sight in run ning over a ridge he halted, stretched out his legs at right angles, curled down his.head so as to look between his legs to the rear and extended his arms upward in a fantastic maimer, like the sails of a windmill. In a few seconds tho tiger hove in sight, and at that instant the face of the object assumed a hideous grimace. A prolonged yell arose, such as had per haps never before pierced the ear of any tiger, aud the ..ails of the windmill be gau to revolve backward and forward as if a sudden whirlwind hud burst upon the scene. The tiger recoiled. What, he evi dently thought, is this? There stood a ferocious star shaped monster, gigantic against the sky. Its hideous head was situated in the very center of its body —nay, its viselike jaws, between which those fiendish roars were issuing, were actually placed above its two fiery eyes. Its limbs were furiously clamoring for action, and the man ho bad been chas ing, where was be? Already devoured by this terrible beast? Tho tiger could not pause to reflect. He turned tail, ; and as bo disappeared over a friendly ridge a last awful yell caused him to redouble his pace, lie was conquered by the unknown. A I.odiHt riiiKue In Africa. The largest locust swarm I ever wit nessed I find recorded in my diary un der date Sept. 16 of the same year. Be- iug ou that date at the Limbi planta tion, about six miles from Blantyre, I saw them passing, like a dense cloud, some distance to the westward. Return ing to the mission on tho following morning, I saw, as I find noted, “the trees beyond the Nasolo brown with lo custs, the stream full of them and not fit to drink”—in fact, it was black and loathly; the word may pass unchal lenged this time. I remember being struck, some distance off, by the strange appearance of tbo trees. They looked all brown and dead, whereas, though this was winter, they should iu those parts iiave shown a fair proportion of green. I asked my hammock boys what they made of this unusual phenomenon— were the trees burned or what?—and they replied, “Dzombe.” As we drew nearer we saw them roosting in the branches iu clinging masses, almost like swarms of bees. It was a damp, chilly morning, with a driving Scotch mist, and doubtless they felt no inclination to turn out. Later in the.day I find the following entry : “Went to Mlomba’s, saw Che Ndombo, who, says the locusts have eaten the mbelemende. ” They were getting sharp set by this time.— Longman’s Magazine. DiMhop Dudley. Bishop Dudley says that when he first told bis friends in Baltimore that he was coming to Kentucky some of them were astonished. “ You’re not going to Kentucky, aro you?” asked one startled man. “Yes, indeed.” “Why, do you know what kind of a state that is? I saw in the paper where a man killed another in Kentucky for treading on a dog. ” Tbo bishop said nothing, and the man said impatiently, “What’re you going to do about it?” “I’m not going to tread ou the dog,” was the bishop’s answer. “One of the first places I visited in Kentucky/’ said the bishop, “was Leb anon, where I went with our friend Waller there. I ‘killed’ Lebanon at ono visit. * * * I went to bed at the tavern , and left Waller sitting up. I thought I i must have slept half the night when I ! was awakened by a vigorons coutro- ' versy in the room. 1 peered out of tho bed aud saw Waller still sitting up. i Beside him was a big, ruwboue man in ■ his shirt sleeves. “‘Waal, I want this hyar question 1 settled, ’ tho shirt sleeved man was say ing. ‘Thar’s a ’Piscopal down my way what says you’s got to w ar a white or black gown. Naw, how about it? I wants the bishop to settle it. Do you have to wear white or black?’ “I spoke up. ‘I’m the bishop, ’ I said, ‘aud I’ll say that I’m not particular. I’ll preach in u white or pink gown if auybody will listen to me.”’—Sioux City Journal. A I’nuper'a Contribution. A poor workman of Cologne, known by every one not to possess a farthing, put down his name for 20 marks ($5) on a subscription list which was circu lated in the city in order to purchase a present for Bismarck’s seventieth birth day. The workman was receiving an al lowance from the public relief fund, and the overseer of the parish, seeing bis name on the subscription list, sent fur the man and said to him: “Now, what do you mean by this? Aren’t you getting parish pay?” “Yes, sir.” “.Then I should like to know how you are able to give 20 marks toward tho testimonial to Prince Bismarck ” “I don’t intend to give them, sir, if you please.” “Well, what did yon put your name down for, then?” “Why, 1 haven’t paid anything, and when they come for the money 1 shall just ask them to let me off with so tuany days in jail.” Tho jsior fellow was much disap pointed to learn that police court meth ods would not work in this ease. A Ualdheaded Keply. A naval officer, very well and favor ably known in London, has for some unknown reason been advanced in his profession very slowly, though he has grown gray in the service ami indeed lameniably bald. Recently one of his juniors was bold enough to question him as to his remarkable absence of hair. “How comes it that you are so very bald?” The officer replied promptly and with much vindictiveness: “You, man, you would be bald, I think, if you had had men stepping over your head for years in the way I have. ” —London Judy. The Donkey Brigade. The New Haven News says that a Connecticut clergyman on u recent Sun day gave out the following notice: “The regular session of tho Donkey club will be held, as usual, at the close of this service. Members will liue up just out side tho church door, make remarks and : stare at the women who pass, as is their" custom. j(uy member known to escort a young woman to a church like a man and sit with her like a gentleman will be promptly expelled from member- ship.” ! Dr. Bull'll Cough Syrup i* the br*t medicine for m :<• thi' :u. .m vieri;. • i|’i v or I .ins' >tis. Fvi ty nr' p ci it M.iitlir . ,i i.' In-," s ,\ IIVci Iy-III »• i i•r t U , i.f 111 ■ m • i <1 i li! . iciiiciiy will i u. c ,i riuiji’li nr i n,i! in nnc tiny A Bright Cherokee Farmer’s Bright Letter. (Correspondence of The Ledger.) Ravenna, Oct. 4.—A sprightly old lady in.ber Gath year after trying in vain to get her garden plowed con cluded to do so herself, so she hitched the horso to the plow, took hold of the lines and in a short time plowed her garden ns nicely as it could have been done by any one. She says that comes of her having learned how to do all kind of work when she was young. And says further the reason so many farmers are making failures these days is because some of the men are too lazy to work. While speaking on this line I will add that for genuine industry do mestic, or otherwise, our young ladies here can not be excelled in any other part of Cherokee county or in the State as to that matter, and as for “good looks” they will compare favorably with any girls elsewhere. As two of our young men were re turning home from preaching at Trough Shoals last Sunday night they had a narrow escape from se rious injury. Coming at a lively rate down the long steep hill toward Brown’s creek a part of the harness gave way, causing tho mule to run away. By making an extra effort to check the frightened animal the lines broke leaving the occupants of the buggy without hope Of stopping him. The buggy began to bounce at a fearful rate and directly things be gun to look equally, and they were not sure which would goto tiie bot tom of the hill first, the buggy or the mule as they were beginning to be very much mixed. The yourg men concluded to jump out, and out they went one of them receiving a painful, though not a serious injury. After coming to themselves they be gan to make tracks for home, fording the creek us best they could. On arriving at home they found the the mule safe but the buggy had been completely broken to pieces. It might have been much worse. Well here we are with another big cotton crop on our hands and of course we will get next to nothing for it. As usual a great wail will go up about trusts cornering the crop and forcing down the prices. What sim pletons we farmers are, to say the least. We expect to get pay for our own folly. A friend of mine a few days since said, the monopolists have cornered the cotton crop again and can as easily put the price at 2 cents as at 5 cents. Well, if they can do that why don’t they do it? It is the part of human nature to get things as cheaply as we can and what is the use for us to cry down what we are constantly do ing ourselves. Just look! \yhen the country is flooded with melons we buy them two for a nickle but when they are scarce we pay much more, so with chickens, corn, and every thing else. Let us exercise a little common sense, make less cotton and thereby create a demand for it. It don’t pay debts and what is the use to wear ourselvers out in making it under the present conditions. But are we go ing to quit making it? No. making cotton is not much unlike gambling. There is always some good thing ahead. It is a habit to raise cotton, and habits are hard to get rid of. Felix Littlejohn got badly burned recently. He stepped backwards into a‘ hole of hot molases skimmings, burning bis ankle and leg fearfully. Mr. Bryant Fowler is on the sick list. Messrs. Robert and Terrell Goforth are threatened with fever and the doctor is waiting on them. Mr. Jim Moore, of Goucher, has been very low with fever. Augustus Littlejohn, an old col ored man, is suffering with dropsy. J. B. Brown is building a large barn. , Rev. J. 1). Huggins, of Williston, preached at Trough Shoals Baptist Church last Sunday at 11 a. m. and at night. Ho was formerly pustor of that church, and, we are|informed, had a crowded house at both ser vices. Corn on the bottoms was very much injured by the late freshet. There have been several new comers in this neighborhood recently —boys. . r. c. Mrs. Brewer’s Humane Work. A well-to-do Rhode Island lady, who looks after the sick of her cily, writes to Dr. Hartman of_ her practical experience with Pe-ru-na. TUMANITY is blessed with some good Samaritans. Mrs. Lizzie M. Brewer, of 190 High St., Westerly, It. I., is a noble woman who devotes a great deal of time and money to caring for the sick of Westerly. She has been for several years one of Pe-ru-na's strongest friends, and under date of March 17, 1898, she writes the following letter to Dr. Hartman, Columbus, O.. the originator of Pe-ru-na: “ Your welcome advice is at hand, and my gratitude is unbounded for the privilege [ enjoy of consulting so renowned a physician as yourself, always receiving such prompt and satisfactory replies to my questions. And what amazes me most is that this can be done year after year, with unfail ing certainty, free of charge. I have learned that you have become to thousands and thousands of households the same beneficent guide and adviser that you are to my household. “As for your free books, I read them everyone, and treasure their contents as the choicest wisdom. I t, I have used Pe-ru-na in my family Mrs. Lizzie M. Bbeweb. for over four years. I find it a sure cure for all catarrhal affections so common in this part of the country. It cures a cold at once; there is no cough medicine that can at all equal Pe-ru-na; as for la grippe there is no other remedy that can at all compare with Pe-ru-na. 1 notice iu medical journals and from the testimony of my neighbors that the doctors seem quite unsuccessful in treating la grippe, especially in removing the after effects of la grippe. From personal observation in many cases 1 know that Pe-ru-na is a sure specific for these cases. I am among the sick a great deal in our city, and have supplied many invalids with Pe-ru-na, simply because I am enthusiastic in my faith as to its results. I have never known it to fail to quickly and permanently remove that demoralized state of the human system which follows la grippe. “ In cases of weaknesses peculiar to my sex I am sure that no other remedy can approach in good results the action of Pe-ru-na. It meets all the bad symptoms to which females are subject. Tbe irregularities and nervousness, the debility and misery, which afflict more or less the women from girlhood to change of life, are one and all met and overcome by your excellent Pe-ru-na. I wish every young lady in our city could read your book ‘ Health and Beauty.’ Any one wishing to inquire of me further can do so by enlcosing a stamp lor reply.’’ ■ —— , '•■ ■■■■_ . . 1 a; ■ Jem < > ,n .m ; ^ Shorter Days, Longer Nights, CALL FOR MORE LIGHT. Sep my lim* of Decorated LAMPS before you buy. Also my complete line of China, Crockery, Glassware and Fnrnitnre. Also a complete line of Medium Furniture. The prices of all my ffoods meet the be. cotton. Now to save yourself some money call and see mv store. Yours for business, A MACHINE SHOP :vi> * FOR * GAFFNEY! I'lciii sr tlii- ,'vit and liowcis and icgnlutc On-*>• vn: |,y um!*:: i «.i kvy Ash Km-tats. Ii «reates sustains cue'fj Mold i>y ( licn.ki’f I Tin.’ »'i>. Tims. it. Bt'Ti ru. IIknuy K.Ohwokm: BUTLER & OSBORNE. ATTOU X i-CV K-AT-I. A\V. Gaffney, S. C. Very curcfi;l jfiuJ prompt attention kIvcd to a 11 I in vines-, ent rusted to Us. Practice in till the courts. Believing that the time lias arrived fora Machine Shop in Gaffney, a number of gentlemen have formed a com pany and will conduct a general machine shop and foundry for the purpose of doing any all kinds of work in that line. We realize that there is quite a lot of this kind of work which can be done at home, thus saving the customer enormous freight to and from neighboring machine shops. Our motto shall he “honest and faith ful work promptly executed'’and we respectfully solicit the work of all, promising to endeavor to live up to out motto. Respectfully, The Gaffney Machine Shop. Guano and Acid Phosphate. I have just received <’i large lot ol Guano and Acid Phosphate for grain. Remember, my line of Groceries, Dry Goods, etc., is complete. My stores at Gaffney and the Goforth place are well supplied with all the necessities you need and tho prices are just right. Get your bagging and ties of me and you will not he disappointed. J. I. SARRATT. The Gi.Tiej Cily Land and Impiovenitnl Ceiupj Offers for sale UnlNlirij? Lots In t Ills iliftSvisliiny' town, liiiffncy City; Also Farms nci l>> and in rouclio! tlic Seliools of Liinc t^'iic Springs itnii of this plticc. in lotsoffni to inn Herrs on liU nl t;;T:c rutt s; ulso A| riuultitt :il Lands toSvnt lor Farm |>n poses. For full purtii'iilars n|i)iiy to Why Tnltliy For Catf A Florentine authority says that | when we use tbe word "tabby” asso- eiuted with cat we go back to the time whi ti Mohammed named Attab govern or of Mecca. Then, later on, there was j a quarter in Bagdad called “Attu 1 Biyah,” where doth was made of silk and cotton, which material was famous in the eleventh century. Tbe S|uuiisb Moors made this stuff, which was ! striped, and so in time “tabby cloth” became common in Europe; hence in low Latin “attabi,” iu Spanish “tab- bi, ” iu French “tabiii” and in German “tabin.” Pepys tells of “taby waiat- I eciat with gold lace,”and in the eight eenth century there are many references to “tabby Milks” worn by great ladies. Today iu the south tabby means & striped stuff. Something Now Under the Sen. Tiir Staph* and Fancy Grocery Store of J. If. Sparks is n< w. Everything in it is new. No shelf-worn goods in the house. The prices, too. atv new—that is they are now in their low- ni’ss. which has Ix en made in accordance with the times, tiive me a trial and I will eonvinee you of the truth of my as sertions. Respectfully, .MOW I AVOOI >, i\ja:ent J. R. SPARKS. V R. All tresspussiiur on liuidsnf tliis company, cutting mid i cbiovim: t Imlicr, fl.sliing hunting, arc forbidden under penulty of l.-ivv Money to Loan. The Citizens Buihliitfr and Loan Association of Gaffney r** v has money on hand to loan and can meet any demand. The rate of interest is s por cent, per annum. For further information apply to N. h. LITTLEJOHN Secretary and Treasurer.