The ledger. [volume] (Gaffney City, S.C.) 1896-1907, May 05, 1899, Image 3
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you will Iom
THE BACHtLOtUS LAMEffT.
The great man sat ir hr. vwty chair,
AOdrrs.-ing a small blir'!; poodle there.
Farewell, my ling, fnicwrll
Ills eyes Were blutti i with ruuttlug tears,
And ungv.ish on hie brow uppeftra.
Farewell, my dog, fatcwill.
V-ivcs don’t like du.-v, so 1 nm told,
Aiid now, when nights are hitter cold.
Farewell, iny dog, farewolL
Instead of you upon my feet
I’ll water liottles have for heot,
Farewell, my dog, farewell.
My heart a lonely aching feels
To think outside you’ll take your meals,
Good by, iny dog, goodby.
Upon the mat like comoinn ours,
You, who've be» n used to richest furs,
Goodby, my dog, goodby.
But sometimes, when my wife's a wav.
And cannot sternly say us nay,
Goodby, my dog, goodby.
At table you shall sit once more,
And all shall be us 'twas bolore,
Goodby, my dog, g tod by.
And you must sleep no more, my dog,
On mats before the smoldering lug.
Farewell, my dog, farewell.
A kennel now is in the yard,
Where you must dwell—ah, yos, 'tis hard,
Farewell, my dog, farewell.
And when we drive, O hardest fate!
The seat where you so lung have sate,
Goodby, my dog, goodby,
No more a resting place you’ll find.
For dogs must run along behind,
Goodby, my dog, goodby.
I’m not a traitor, doggy mine.
My heart is just as truly thine.
Farewell, my dog, faiewelL
But 1 must give up many n craze,
And seek some other little ways.
Farewell, my dog, farewell.
— Mopoko in Adelaide Observer.
broutflit the rt tuniuH of the bread ami
butt r fium the otijibuinl; also a buwJ
of util!:.
“< Gaudat!,” lie eytlainud, “ v. ill may
be btiii^ sutuethlli 1 Uber. Was lie e\-
peetiti yo tit all, t-.trr?”
“1.1 • was for It! si.it me u letthcr.”
ii'i it vas vn ll>" loll
•ttvwav
ter winl to?”
’ Natty won
^m.'ly aiitiei-
“T
“it koru to me
db-niijx.iiiD'd. lie btol \a
pa ted greater results thau this from the
letter.
“Ho wouldn't expect me tonight,”
the other explained. “ ’Twaa tomorrer
murnlji I should have cotue, but I hud a
flack day, worse luck, an need it this
way.” The boy nodded. Tbcu he aaked,
“Aie ye one nv mine?”
“Wba* do yo mane?’’
4 * ’Latioue.”
“To bo sure I am—yer cousin. Did
yo niver hear av me?”
“What nar’c, have ye, fnrr?”
“Me name,” said the little man,
with crackling dignity, “is Timothy
Daly.*’
“Thin ye’re Cousin Tim?”
“I am.” Them was another pause, in
which Natty h gan to ft \ - slight
natural drawn
tion, and with
1
toward the new’ rda-
itm came a renewed
TOM’S GOOD NAME.
Natty Byrne sat on Lis high stool
near thu one window of the cabin in the
falling dusk. He was tired of waiting,
very tired, but his grandfuthir’s orders
had been explicit, “fcjhtay here, Natty,
till ye see me ag’iu. There’s bread in
the cupboard an maybe u taste o’ but-
ther, an I’ll bring somethin swute for
ye from Carmore. ” 1 do not say that
Natty Lud net thought of disobeying.
As a matter of fact, the temptation had
recurred at short intervals during the ;
whole afternoon, once in the almost ir
resistible form, that he ought to go and
look at the pig, but he had got no far- j
tfccr thau the door. Ho hud a great feel
ing of importance too. He had never j
been left alone for so long before, and
the burden of responsibility pleased
him. He had also a vague idta that
something was going to happen, because
two days before his grandfather had
written a letter. The letter had cost
old Nat half u day’s work, and he had j
used a whole penny packet of stationery
over it.
As it grew darker Natty began to
feel a little afraid. He would have left
the high stool if the dignity derived
from his exalted position had not bal
anced the fact that his bare feet did not
touch the ground. IIo was very proud
of the stool. No other boy be knew had
one like It, m4 t« wae
tremely inoooveulent he often Intitied
upon eating his meals at that distin
guished altitude.
From time to time ho glanced furtive
ly around the cabin. Old Nat’s bed,
narrow and dark, set against the wall
like a ship’s berth, had a sinister look
in that ambiguous twilight. Even Nat
ty’s own little crib, which consisted of
a deal platform raised a foot from the
door, with a mattress on the top of it,
looked unfamiliar. The peats on the
open hearth burned dimly, the chairs
seemed to have doubled in bulk since
the sunshine faded, the rough wood ta
ble loomed large and grim, /fter every
furtive survey the boy brought his eyes
back to the gray square of the window
with a little shivering gasp, it occurred
to him to light the lamp, hut as that
was an oflice ho had never performed,
it being beyond his years, he felt him
self unequal to the task. Besides, that
would mean trotting over the door, and
in the darkness h ; s bare feet might
touch something horrible.
But all at once ho grew quite brave
again, for ho heard the sound of foot
steps coming slowly up the mountain
pathway. It was too dark to soil who it
was, but, of course, it must be old Nat,
and Natty promptly began to wonder
what the “somethin swute” might be
that was at Tfcat moment doubtless get
ting warm and sticky in his grandfa
ther’s pocket. He climbed down from
his stool and pattered softly over the
hard earth floor to the door. The foot
steps paused and there was a knock.
Natty’s heart went down into his
plump toes. Hu was so terrified that lie
could not move to raise the latch. The
knock was not repeated, but the door
was softly opened, and Natty saw a dim
head thrust in.
“Is Nat Byrue at home?” asked a
voice.
“Blase, sorr, no!” gasped Natty.
“ Whia’H he be back, an who are you
at all?”
“HoTI s hack, sorr, this minute an
plase, fj* ».<atty. ” The stranger came
in and closed the door. He peered curi
ously around the room.
“An who is Natty? Where are yo at
all?"
“Here,” said Natty.
“Is it down there ye are? Well, well!
Havo yo a light? Sure a cat couldn’t see
in the like av this!”
Natty, somewhat reassured, set a
small lamp on the table and carried a
box of matches to his visitor,
“Will yo light it, sorr? i don’t know
the way av it I”
The matches were taken from his
hand, and presently, to the boy’s re
lieved eyes, the familiar cabin shone be
fore him again. He was afraid no lon
ger. The idea of a thief never occurred
to him, and if it had, so far as Na ttj
knew, there was nothing to steal.
“hit down, sorr,” he said, “in the lit
tle chair,” ho added. “The big wan’s
grandad’s.’' The stranger obeyed him in
silence, and Natty climbed up to his
stool again to bring himself to a propsjr
conversational level.
"So ye’re Tom’s and Biddy’s boy* '
“1 am that,” said Natty.
“Ana pretty pair they was, ” mur
mured the stranger. He was a little,
uairovr chested man, dressed in what
seemed a Sunday suit of rusty black.
His jaw was square; thu lips were thin
and pursed; a pair of NinaJl black eyes
glinted above w rinkled cheeks; the hair
was close cropped around his bullet
head. 'The hoy decided that he didn’t
like him much.
“How ould are ye?’’ thu man asked.
“hiveu,” said Natty.
“is it so long?” said the other. After
g long silence Natty arose suddenly to
the responsibility of his position.
“Arc ye hungry, sorr?” ho a.-ked.
“I am dead hungry,” The boy
sense of his duty as host.
“Arc yo tirud, Cousin Tim?” ha ask
ed.
“Deg tired, boy.”
“Thin yo might sit in grandad’s
chair. ’Tin finoauais-y.” Daly made
the t x-hange of seats without speaking.
He was, in fact, very tired indeed and
not overpleuted at old Byrue’s myste
rious bumaiont;. The men had not met
lor six years, and there Lud been no
love lost between them ui any timo.
Daly was a well to do, haid headed
man to whom poor relations were us the
dregs in hi.« cup of fortune, Lut ho nev
er dini.id the bond of blood if lie some
times disregarded its rlniuH.
“Do thin; boots hurt ye?” Natty in
quired, curling up his own naked toes.
“They do,” said Daly, “an I’ve
walked tvviivo mile in ’em.”
‘’ T* k ’em utT,” said Natty. “Wait,”
he lidded, jumping once more from his
stool. “IT1 do it fur ye, Cousin Tim.”
He was down on hi? knees before Daly
Lud time to say a word, and whether
it was (he simple kindness of the action
or thu sight cf (he* curly bent h. ad or
the unfamiliar touch of little lima rs I
cannot say, but the man was struck
home.
“Ach, but it's a good boy ye ore,” ho
said, patting Natty’s cheek.
“Bouts,” said Natty, speaking from
an iuiinitesiinul experience, “is terrible
i
tirin to the f;
ore. There, Cousin Tim,
the Lie an put on au-
now I'll stiiir up
oth. r pato. ”
This : • lug accomplished, Natty again 1
perched himself on his stool. Daly i
watched him v.ith blinking eyes. The ;
keen mountain air had made him sleepy,
ami :s feeling of drowsy kindliness crept
fie nodded now and then,
over him.
awaken in i
with a jerk, and always to
f n«i Natty’* iMtnifi! §•** futd opoct kti*.
“Oo te Natty, “a«i I’ll
wake ye whin grandad cornea.” Daly
smiled and Fettled back In his chair. In
a moment be was asleep. It seemod to
the boy that Cousin Tim’s head must
bo uncomfortable against the bard wood,
so be got Ms own small pillow, which
had a chronic dusky hue, and Fettles’ it
under
again
eyes.
Half an hour after this Natty hoard
other footsteps. He held up a warning
fii.gs r as Nat entered ami pointed to the
the man’s wiry nair. Duly smiled
feebly, but without opening Lia
murmured the old
sleeping visitor.
“ ’Tis Tim, sure,
man.
“He’s slapiu,” whispered Natty.
Nat set down thu great basket he was
carrying cautiously upon the table and
examined Tim Daly with the closest at
tention. The survey did rot appear to
please him particularly.
“.list the same, ” he said. “Divil a
clang'’—a Mack, hard man, Cml help
’im!” There was a strange glitter in
the old man’s red rimmed eyes, a look
in which auger and triumph contended,
but the latter won. lie had the marks
of a hard life upon his lace amt body,
deep lines, l ent shoulders, knotted and
clumsy Lauds. His fi ;.t dragged as he
moved, all the spring had long since
left bis joints; yet he carried himself
with u cerlain open dignity. Bagged
giay hair fell round a Lee sharply
eager and aquiline.
The first thing he did was to take a
bag of sweets from his pocket. These
were trni.sftired to Natty, who imme
diately fell to a contented munching of
them. Then he unpack* <1 the basket and
revealed to the boy’s astonished gaze
luxuries which he had only dreamed of
or seen in shop windows at Carmore—a
tin of salmon, a i* t of jam, three loaves
of white bread, a cake in silver paper
and a bottle of wine. Nat bad hesitated
long over the wine, but lie had con
vinced himsilf that it was the prop 1 r
thing, and so at la.-t hud bought it. All
these viands were si t forth upon the ta
ble, and Nat fell back to admire the if
feet.
“ ’Tis shplendid,” said Natty.
“Ye may-ay that, iudade! This'll be
a gn at aveniu, bedad! Not that ye’ll
undi isbtand it, pet, but thim as wintTl
know, Cod rest ’em!”
“Is wo to ate thin, things?” asked the
boy.
“What else’il they be for? An ye’ll
have jui share too.” Natty niado a
noisu that indicated passionate inner
surprise and joy.
These preparation!) had not disturb
ed the sleeping man, so Nat sat down to
rest. Ho looked very obi and weary,
very near the end of life, but what re-
maided burned clearly. His one hope
for tix years had been to accomplish
whnt be v.’sh nt last n ady to do that
night, hot whin he looked at Natty bis
eyes grew a littl ' dim.
At last he ruse and touched Daly up
on the should* r.
“That's a good boy, now,” the man
murmured.
“He thinks 'tis me,” said Natty, grin
ning. A move vigorous shako brought
him upright and fully awake.
“Ye’re welcome, Tim Duly.”
“Ah, an ye’re buck, thin, Nat.”
They shook bunds with manifest re
straint.
“YV1I egsense me,” said Nat, “fur
kapin ye waitin, hut ’twaa tomorrer I
egspretod yo.”
’ i’was tomorrer the hither said,
but I bud a slack day uu kern. I was
telliu Nutty there uv it.’’ lie rested his
Land for a moment on Natty's head.
Nat drew the boy quickly away.
“Dave ”ui be!” b< a.tid.
Tim colored slightly and turned to
roach his hands over the tire. “1 s'posn
yo think a power av that boy, ” ho said.
“I think the world «v him. Ivor
sinoo bo \v* re a raw babe I’ve dune fur
hi::, ::a why wouldn't 1 bn proud av
’im now?”
“Timm f"r ye,” said Tim. “Why
not, iudade?"
“Dhru-.r up,” said Nat, “an let's ate.
Aftber, well talk av why 1 hint fur ye,
Tim.”
Th y drew near the table and f. 11 to.
The mu glanced at i ach other furtively
ir :u time to time. In Nut's eyes the
triumph Ftill shone; in Tim Daly’s
there was a half pathetic, questioning
lock, as though ho did not quite under
stand it all. But Natty ws;: perfectly
unconcerned. This godlike Bust exclud-
i d every other po; silde thought or eou-
sation—he ate and was satisfied.
After the meal was over came the
time of pipes and siletioo. Tim and Nat
sat on opposite sides of the hearth.
Natty, feeling unequal to the ascent of
Lis high stool, squatted complacently
on the edge cf bis bod. Ho soon became
so slier y that Lis head dropped forward
with n jerk.
i inside yi r bed, Natty; not
cut idc, ” said the old man. “Aft wid
thim tilings, boy, quick. ” Nutty dis-
11 l i d iii an Luciiidibly short time—the
untying cf u single string seemed to
complete thy operation. Nat looked
lovingly at the plump, brown body.
“Fat?” he murmured to himself.
“II ’s I.-fat as butt her, tho darliut!”
Natty clh’cd undir his blanket and
promptly went to sleep.
After a time Nat rose and crossed the
uneven Loor to tho bedside. IIo turned
back the blanket to make sure that Nat
ty was safely dreaming and then stoop-
1 cd awkwardly toward the boy’s face,
tut his hack wa* too stiff for such an
ex rcise, and he had to fall upon liia
km is twin*-, tho moist forehead. Tim
; Daly did not turn, but he saw what
| was happening by the shadow thrown
on tli. white wall. Nut remained on
Lis knees for a minute, and the watch
er of the shadow saw the sign of the
crcm made on brow and breast.
Ye - old man rose and came back to
the hearth. For a moment he stood
there ga/ing down into tho glowing
peals, and it v as clear to Tim that a
struggL was going on in Nat’s heart, a
i Btrug/io that shook him bitterly, but
! presently ho thr \v his head sharply up,
and it v, a j over. IIo moved a loose etouo
from the wall above the chimney end
| t< k cut :* little leather bag; from bis
po-' ket 1 took another. These ho laid
: trembling!y upon the tal ly and untied
; th •• strii v •’. Tim Daly, still watching si-
: lently, b:-»vr a glittering stream of gold
' trickle from the bags. Nut counted it
in ten a There were four little piles of
: ten tsoYoreigiiB each.
Ho ttimed to Daly with a face that
eh j wed pale beneath its tsn. “With
that,” he said, “I pay back what me
son Tom Byruo borrowed, an 1 ask yo
to on: uy tho bitthor word yo spuko. ”
“Wh;j» do ye irune?” asked Daly
chokingly.
“Ye liajaw woB wiMt I mnuis iftia’t
the poar boy borwur £4$ ar yFf**
“H-sdW.”
“An didn’t ye say to ru«, th* breath
bciti lia!diy cut av ’is body, ‘The blag-
yatd niv-r mint to pay mo back!’ Thim
was the words uu 'ini dead—‘The blag-
yuid niver mint to pay me back.’ ”
“I v.as in dhrink,” said Daly.
“An 1 was dhrunk, too, wid sorter
for ’im as ’ad gone. I pay tho debt to
yo tonight, Tim Duly, an I ask yo be
fore (h d to unsay thim words, an ye’ll
dhrink to 'im as died for an honest
man. Fnr six years 1’vo sweated to win
tho gould an mo boy’s good name, uu
thei c it is, Iviry penny uv it, an if I die
tonight 1 11 die ait-y.”
Daly glanced toward tho sleeping
Natty and rubbed his dry lips with tho
buck of Lis hand.
“.-m that’s why yo slut fur mo?” he
asked.
“That I might gev it into yer own
band.”
“Thin ye’ll bo a rich man now, Nat?”
“Bich? Bcgorra, how ’ud I bo rich?
’Tis all I have, uu well spiut for tho
boy. 1 ’
“An what’ll Natty do?’’
“Don’t spake uv ’im!” cried tho old
man sharply. “Ho must work now;
ho’s stbrong an well.”
“But £40, an what yo might add to
ut ’cd make ’im a good start in life.”
“I've no £40 fur im. Take yer gould,
Tim, an onsay thim words.”
Daly looked again toward Natty’s bed,
and thin at the gold. Tho money drew
hard at his heartstrings, but something
in him bad sprung to iifo stronger than
bis passion for gain.
“Yo musht think well av me,” ho
said, "to trato mo tho like av this.”
“I think no ill of yo beyant bein
bard man.”
Daly craned forward and spat fiercely
into the lire.
j “I’m not sod ilburd as that!” he
1 cried. “Would I take the gould from
the child there? God save me! Would
I touch a pinny av ’is as celled mo
cousin im rested mo nu put ’is own pil-
br umiliar me head? Would 1 bo tho
bbtek villyan to do divil's work on a
child? Eapo yer money for thim as
wants it. i'll not soil me fingers v/id
it!” 1 iis voice Lad risen to a shoot.
“ 'Tis yours,” said Nat doggedly,
“an vid it 1 clear mo sou Tom.” Tim
sprang to hi feet, a wild, gesticulating
figure, and hurried to tho tablo. He
1 crammed the money into tho bugs again
and dashed them down with a clash.
“But the gould in yer pocket,” Nat
: said.
"Auithcr word,” said Daly, “an I
1 fling it in tho fire, by God!” Nat roso,
and the two men fated cadi other.
“ii-causo 1 was a Llagyard once an
in (Hirin', mint yo always ebuko me wid
It? i bold Tom’s namu an big!) as mu
| own, uu tho man a* blackens It 1 11
LmiU! That money belongs to Natty
thiro. ”
Tho loud voices bad awakened tho
boy. Ho was watching With round,
wondering eye*.
"Thin y ( ’ll char Tom, an will uwoor
bo \.an honest man?**
“1 will.”
"An tho g nld’:i for Natty?”
“Fur n. Cumin Natty, God bless
Tho old man Jltlcd two glasses
m l into a third be poured
I ccious stuff that was to
cli ariug of Tom Byrne’s
numo.
“Lit up, Natty,” ho said, “an
dhrink. ”i'i; fur yer fatlu r, uviek!”
And Natty Kit up and drank and
spluttered ovi r the strange liquor while
tin two n i n watched him with burning
eyes, —Charles Keunctt Burrow in
1 in: White Man'll Iturden.
Hudyard Kipling, the greatest jroet
of the present day, has a recent
poem entitled “The Whito Man’s
Burden,” in which ho portrays the
whito man’s great opportunities anil
terrible responsibilities to the other
races of the world ; and how truth
fully does this burden rest upon the
white people of the United States,
and especially the Southern States,
towards the millions of negroes that
are in our midst.
The white man stands forth as the
crowning act of God's creative en
ergy so far us this world Is con
cerned; and the burden of responsi
bility for the uplifting of humanity
rests mightly upon his shoulders.
I venture the assertion that the
while man is largely responsible for
the pitiable condition of the negroes
of the South, who are rapidly going
from bud to worse.
The negro, incapable of appreciat
ing and assuming the rights of free
dom and self control, were, a third of
u century ago, made a part and pur
ee! of our common country, and as a
natural law of gravitation, they
soon sunk to their level. But alas!
they are still sinking, and here is
where the strong arm of the white
man should come to their rescue.
The state of Georgia is but a fair
specimen of the condition of the
negro all over the South, ana there
we find four thousand negroes today
in tiie chaingang, and it is not for
the want of eniightment, for seventy-
five per cent., or three thousand, of
these convicts can read and write.
The chaingang is only a neces
sary outgrowth and consequence of
idleness and unwarrantable liberty.
Who ever, in ante-belum days, heard
of the hideous and blood curdling
lynching that now so often darken
end defame the pages of our coun
try’s history. In slavery time there
was a reciprocal feeling of respect
and love between the kind master
and faithful servant that lasted as
long as life. But, sad to state, those
faitliful old servants are passing
away, and with them the feeling of
respect and love that bound the two
races together is dying out.
Brorainent physicians assert that
in slavery days consumption was al
most an unknown disease among the
negroes, but now this disease imbred
and imborn in them sweeps them
from the earth bv the tens of thous
and.
The present manner of life among
the colored race contributes solely to
this terrible disease. With no re
gard for the Jaws of health, with
scant and irregular food they turn
night into|day, contract t coIds—their
systems are not able to resist dis-
eise.—deprived generally of proper
nursing and treatment, death is a
natural consequence.
Virtue, purity, of life and charac
ter, Is scarcely known or recognized
In many places among the colored
people, and sad to say debase white
men are largely responsible.
The white man’s burden of to-day
calls for laws to defend and protect
the negro Jwhen in his proper sphere,
laws to restrain crime and promote
well-doing.
The negroes are a part and parcel
of our population beneath their
darken skin there dwells a human
heart and In every human heart there
is something divine. Then let us as
white men
“Take up tiie white man's burden
And wottflj it well and Ioiik,
Take up tin 1 white man's burden
Nor do our neighbor wrong."
N. G. Littlejohn.
I'nelalmed Letter*.
List of letters remaining in oflice
uncalled for to date ;
Bullock, Geo.
Edwards, J. D.
Ford, B. L.
Greer, B. W.
Gowan, Thos. B.
Hauser, Pink.
Hale, W B.
Humphries, Mrs. N. L.
Ingle, W. D. -3.
Jefferies, Mrs A. D.
Kmith, B. L.
Shaw, F. G.
Swift, E. B. C.
Hhcrer, Clarence.
Satecy, II. P.
Turner, Joe.
Thomas Mrs. Mary.
N. B.—Persons culling for the
^’mve letters please state that they
#*e advertised in The Ledger of
21. One cent due on all letters
after having been advertised.
A. B. N. Folger, P. M.
’liii!”
tmmilou.-!/ .
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signify tiie
Longman's Magazine.
I'Hii ki.V'Asn 11 IT! Ml* cures On: kidneys,
roxulale* Oio liver, tints im U’e slommdi
iind puritti s tin: Isiwi Is. Sold by Cherokee
Drug Co.
I consider it not only a pleasure
but a duty I owe to my neighbors to
tell about the wonderful cure effected
in my case by the timely use of
Chamberlain’s Colic, Cholera and
Diarrhoea Remedy. I was tak^n
very badly with flux and procured a
bottle of this remedy. A few doses
of it effected a permanent cure. I
take pleasure in recommending it to
others suffering from that dreadful
disease.—J. W. Lynch, Dorr, \V. Va.
This remedy is sold by Cherokee
Drug Company.
All Aboard for ('liiirlcMton.
The Charleston line, the “old re
liable” South Carolina and Georgia
railroad, extends greetings of wel
come to each and all and invites
your attendance at the great re-union
of “Confederate veterans” to be held
at Charleston May b-13, and to show
that;
She want* them all
Both ureal and small
has offered the extremely low rate of
one cent per mile traveled. This
rate isopen to every one, Confed
erate Veterans, Tons of Veteran*,
United Daughters of Confederacy
and all others who desire the privi-
ledge of witnessing tho march of the
silvery locked survivors of the “Ix)Bt
Cause” through the streets of the
historic old city, awakening echoes
of tiie thrilling events between '01
and ’05 sc dear to the heart of every
.Southerner,
Unsurpassed schedules and com
fort are guaranteed und any informa
tion regarding tho advantages offered
by tholr line will ho gladly given by
; the agenta or by L. A. Emerson,
Tra Hii! M hunger, 10 Broad street,
Charleston, H. O,
Tho fare for tho round trip will be
$1,80.
Shoes for
Everybody!
We are better shocsellers for not being shoemakers.
Trade runs to specialists. Tho development of shoe
making machinery inclines manufacturers to build reputa
tion on grades in which their experience and equipment
enable them to excel; few makers have facilities for pro
ducing many qualities.
We select the best maker of the different sorts of men’s,
boys , ladies’ and children’s shoes we handle.
RESl LI—^ ou have a safe store at which to buy your shoes.
Carpenter,
The Leaders.
TO DEDICATE MONUMENTS.
Georgia nn<I Kentucky Will He Rep
resented at Chtckainauga.
Chattanooga, May 1. — Governor
Bradley ami staff of Kentucky and Gov
ernor Candler of Georgia with an offi
cial party will arrive here tomorrow to
dedicate tho monuments of their respec
tive states at Chickamauga park and in
cidentally to enjoy the receptions given
in their honor and the pageants and
concerts of the Chattanooga spring fes
tival which begins tomorrow and will
continue several days.
The reception to the Kentuckians at
the great auditorium building and tho
pageant of allegorical floats and the
brilliant ball which the; will attend
afterwards will take up tomorrow night.
The next day they will witness the
flower parade of the festival in the
morning and dedicate the Kentucky
monument in the afternoon. The Geor
gians will join them in the dedication
of the Kentucky monument on Tuesday
and the Kentuckians will stay over to
participate in tho Georgia dedication on
Thursday.
The parties from both states will take
in the Boston festival and the singing
of Campauri on Wednesday evening.
Chattanooga will devote itself to these
entertainments and festivities during
the week.
mtm Streak at Hava*.
There is a fat boy who sells papers
and whose customary stamping ground
is the corner of Euclid and Wilson ave
nues. He is a popular fat boy. He is a
fat boy with a humorous streak. He
makes funny impromptu remarks on oc
casions, but usually life with him is
too full of car jumping episodes to war
rant much levity.
Not long ago be bad another boy
with him. Perhaps he was couching
the boy, perhaps the newcomer was a
rival. Anyway the fat boy wus close at
the heels of the other boy when a cer
tain car was boarded a few mornings
ago.
"Mornin paper!” yelled the new boy.
“Ail abont th’ big fire in th’ shoe shop
—17 lives lost I”
The fat boy fiercely yanked the new
boy’s coattails.
"What’s th’matter wid yon?” growl
ed the new boy. “Ain’t I doiu it
right?” And he gave (he cry again.
“Yon chump,” snorted the fat boy,
“you want to say ‘souls,’ not ‘lives.’ ’’
“Theunder, ” said the now boy, “I
forgot. ”
Then his voice solemnly arose again.
“All about th’ big fire in th’ shoe
shop—17 souls lost.”
And the face of the fat boy broaden
ed with wild delight.
And all the passengers enjoyed his
amusement as much as they did the
evident joke.—Cleveland Plain Dealer.
A Ilond Issue Decided On.
Blacksburg, S. O., May 1.—At a
meeting held here to take steps in re
gard to building a line from Gaffney to
Spartanburg, the Sooth Carolina and
Georgia extension stockholders decided
to bond the road for $1,800,000. These
bonds are for the purpose of building a
road from Blacksburg to Spartanburg,
E iralelling the Southern. The South
aroliua and Georgia extension is the
old Charleston, Cincinnati aud Chicago
road, that was not included in the lease
to the Southern, as it could not be, un
der the state constitution, being a com
peting line.
Advice For Ucualou Visitor*.
Charleston, May I.—Intending vis
itors to the United Confederate Veto-
erans* reunion in Charleston next week
are urged by the committee of arrange-
ments to engage accommodations in ad
vance of their arrival, and thus avoid
the rush and inconvenience which will
be sure to oocor if they delay doing so
until arrival in the city. If intending
visitors will write or wire R. P. Evans,
chairman, at once, instructing him ex
actly as to the number in the party and
price of accommodations wanted, he
will try to seenre it.
Chivalry of th« “Slum*.’'
A touching story is told of an Edin
burgh street waif. There was a Christ
mas treat given to poor children at a
mission hall, and hundreds of little
ones were assembled at the doors in ad
vance of the hour of admittance, many
of them barefoot.
Among thu number was a sweet faced
little girl, who seemed less burdened
than most to the cold, for she shivered
in her poor jacket aud danced from one
foot to the other ou the cold, hard
stones. A boy not much older watched
this performance for a few miuntes, aud
then, with a sudden impulse of proteo-
tion, took off his cap, put it down be
fore tier, und said:
“Yo maun stand on that."—Chris
tian Endeavor World.
An liidui-Beiiii-nt.
£hu—Whut did you think of the min
ister's expression of the belief that the
world would soon come to an end?
He—I was rather inclined to think it
would before he got through with hifl
eormon.-—Boston Courier.
NAVAL STORES MEN HAPPY.
Dearth of SpiritsTurpeotinA Reported
In London mid Other Place*.
Savannah, May 1.—Mr. W. T. Geddes
of Glasgow, Scotland, aud Mr. Hole of
Moore & Hole, London, both leading
naval stores brokers in thsir respective
cities, are here in ocnnection with trans
actions In spirits turpentine.
Mr. Geddes substantiated the report*
which have come of a dearth of supply
of spirits turpentine abroad. Every
where, he says, the stocks are either ex
hausted or nm down to an unusually
small quantity.
Distributing point* which have gen
erally stocks on baud to meet pressing
needs at this season of the year are now
forced to look to London for supplies.
At London the stock is at a low ebb,
barely over 5,000 barrels at the present
time, and with but little afloat.
From what Mr. Geddes heard north
and west, aud from his knowledge of
conditions abroad, he was evidently im
pressed with the strength of tUe posi
tion of spirits tnrpentino at this time.
Local operators look for better prices
during the current season than have ob
tained for many years.
Probate Court Notice. ~
N OTICE is hereby given that I will make
final return aud settlement In the oflice
of Probate Judf-c for Cherokee County as
administrator of the estate of Mrs. R. L.
Littlejohn, deceased, on Monday, May IWth.
IKK*. 15 o’clock, a. in., and ask for discharge
ou same date.
N. II. Litti.ejohn,
4-q -lw4t.Administrator.
DR. J. F. GARRETT,
Dentist,
Gaffney, - - S. C.
Office over J. R. Tolleson’s new store
In office from 1st to 2Cth of each
month;
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rRANK H. GANNON.
Third V P. A Gen. Mgr.,
Washington, D. C.
W. A. TURK. L _
Geo'l Paaa Ag't .. Ass t Gea l Pam. AgX
..'"vtouteiVJSL Attyfrs&i
Washington,
•. H. HARDWICK,