The ledger. [volume] (Gaffney City, S.C.) 1896-1907, May 12, 1899, Image 3
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Oh, many ships have 1 at ben
That mailed away long j-ears ngnl
Some day they're coming hack lo me,
But when and how 1 cannot know.
Sometimes l wander on the shore
And watch the fur horizon dim,
Where vanished in those days of yore
. My aigosies so fleet and trif .
I scan with eager eyes the waves
That dance and sparkle in the light;
A vision fair my fond heart craves—
Alas, no sail is yet in sigiit!
Ofttliues 1 find upon the sand
A broken plank, a shattered spar.
A bent and rusty iron band—
Oh, voiceless tale of wrecks afar)
Then anxious fears crowd in my breast
And veil the sunshine in the sky.
Khali thus wy good ships end their questf
Khali this their fate be by and by}
O friends with ships far out at sea,
That sailed away so long ago,
Home day they’re coining buck to thee,
But when and how we may not know!
Perchance, with sails all rent and soiled,
Battered and bruised thy ships may be;
Of iieauty and grace they may be despoiled;
Heavy and slow they may come to thee.
But come they morning, noon or night,
With flying colors or broken mast,
Our hearts will cry with a thrill of delight,
"Thunk* God that our ships have come in at
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—Boston Transcript
HIS PLIGHTED TROTH
An old echoolfdlow nud great chain
of mine was one Robert Lethbridge, and
his society and example were anything
but conducive to application. He had
£&00 a year of his own and was waiting
for a commission in the army.
Nearly every shilling of my fortune,
past, present and to oome, had been
sunk in paying tbo premium and stamp
on my articles with Harstons, Mills &
Stammers, and so yon may suppose that
tbo companionship of a gay young scape
grace like Bob was not tho wisest that
a lawyer’s clerk on nothing a year could
have chosen. It led me into all sorts of
scrapes and extravagances, and when
after 18 months of racketing about town
Bob Lothbridge was gazetted fall ensign
in her majesty’s —th regiment and or
dered off to India I found myself in
difficulties nnder which I moaned and
groaned for many a year.
Ob, but ho was a right down good
hearted boy, was Bob, and if I had only
even hinted at my troubles to him they
would very soon have vanished, but 1
was too prond for that, and Bob had
troubles of his own at starting, which
prevented his thinking about me. There
was a girldown in Cornwall, where his
family lived—a clergyman’s daughter
—witii whom he had fallen in love, and
be would have married her straight off
and taken her to India, bat her father,
a proud man and a devoted worshiper of
Mammon—out of the pulpit—had other
views for iier and gave my poor old
friend the cold shoulder.
I never could see any beauty in Bea
trice Penrose, the damsel in question,
and later on I knew her for what the 1
was—a white blooded little simpleton,
without a siugle good quality to make
herself or any one else happy. In Bob’s
eyes, however, she was perfection, and
in one of their stolen interviews by the
Severn sea they vowed eternal love and
constancy, and Bob carried with him to
Lucknow her solemn promise never,
never, never to marry any one else.
Three years passed. One day I had
jnst finished preparing a brief in a great
trustee caso we had for trial and was
the last in tho office—for it was late—
when in came Mr. Stammers with a
couple of deeds in his hand.
“Oh, Mr. Needle,” ho said, “I am
sorry to detain yon, bnt the stationer
has been mnch behindhand with the
engrossing of this settlement, and, as it
mnst go off tonight by the mail train,
would yon be so good as to assist me
while I verify it with tho conveyancer’s
draft?”
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is r.,p«-Yim«ur on lull time and turni.iKout
tlrtH-clONM work. Remember us wlien you
vuiit work done. We will call for yonr
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Now, this was mere clerk’s work,
and I offered to do it myself, bnt he
was always considerate of others’ trou
ble and insisted npon helping. So he
took the draft and read it, while I fol
lowed him on the parchment to see that
it was properly copied. It was a mar
riage settlement, whereby Lord Snm-
merton, a nobleman of 72 years of age,
and possessing anything but a reputable
character, settled £{.0,000 upon his
bride elect, and this lady was no other
than Beatrice Penrose I
“Poor old Bob,^ thought L as I
walked home. ”What an awful blow!
How am I to break to you this rupture
of all your hopes?”
And my difficulty was not lessened
when, a day or two afterward, I receiv
ed a letter from him stating that his
regiment was ordered home and bidding
me wish him joy npon his prospect of
again beholding bis darling, constant
Beatrice I
Well, six months passed, and I beard
no more of Bob; nor indeed bad I much
time to think abont him, tor poor old
Bones’ illness ended in bis death, and I
was appointed, provisionally, managing
clerk in bis stead. The assizes wore on
and wo bad several heavy cases for trial
in different parts of tbo country. One
of these—the great case of Copping
versus Higgs—was entered for trial at
Exeter, and thither I went by the Fly
ing Dutchman, with my briefs and wit
nesses, and retained Mr. Hugo Young
as my oonnsel.
For want of something better to do
ns I dared not leave the place altogether
—I trotted into the crown court, where
the prisoners were tried. There sat the
judge in his near let robes, with tho high
sheriff of tbo county by bis side, and
before him three prisoners standing in
tbo dock upon their trial for burglary.
I began to chat with some young bar
risters whom I knew and was paying
no attention to the proceedings, when,
all of a sudden, I heard the name of
Lird Hnmmerton mentioned by the
counsel who was conducting the prose
cution. I immediately pricked up my
ears and began to listen to tho case.
It appeared that a week before the
burglary Lord Summerton bad returned
with bis bride from their continental
tour and had taken up his abode at his
country seat near Bturnross; that in an
ticipation of the festivities which were
to follow the whole of his grand family
plate and her ladyship's jewels bad been
brought down from his Loudon bankers;
that cue of tho prisoners was a discard
ed servant, who knew where those va!
uablcs were kept; that the house hud
been broken into and tho whole of tho
silver swept away, and that another of
the accused was caught in the act of
climbing down by- the trellis work in
tho wall, close to the place where an
entrance had been efleeted. The case
against this fellow, -who was indicted
aimer urn name ot tieorgo Mason, seem
ed to be clear enough ; that against his
compnnipus rested upon circumstantial
evidence.
One of them, named Barker, had been
seen in company with Mason the day
before the burglary, prowling about tho
park, close to the house, in a suspicious
manner, and the landlord of the inn at
which Mason had been staying swore
that a man, wboui be afterward recog
nized as Baker, called for tbe prisoner,
George Mason, the following night, and
they walked out together in the direo-
tiou of Lord Summcrtou’g park. Tbs
name of tho discarded servant was Ca-
rew, and be had been taken into custody
in the house of a noted receiver of stolen
goods at Plymouth, where, concealed
under the clothes, in the copper, that
were apparently waiting to be boiled,
was fonud a mass of silver plate, broken
up and partially melted, bat not suffi
ciently so as to obliterate the marks
whereby it was identified as Lord Sum-
merton’s property. Baker and Carew
were defended by counsel, and every
dodge that experience nud ingenuity
could devise was made use ot to get
them off and to throw all the blame on
Mason.
The dock in the Exeter assize court is
paneled in at tbe sides and raised a good
height from the ground. I was standing
in a sort of gangway there is to the
right of it and could only see the back
of the prisoners’ beads, so when I heard
tho above remark I began to press for
ward out of curiosity to see what sort
of looking man this George Mason was,
but my attention was diverted by a
rustling of silks, and tho noxt moment
Beatrice, conntess of Summertou, es
corted by her noble spouse, appeared on
the bench and was politely handed into
a seat on the left of the judge by the
high sheriff.
There she sat, proud and cold hearted
as ever, while tho judge pioceeded to
pass sentence on George Mason, who
was now alone in the dock, leaning over
tbe front rail with his face buried in
his hands in an attitude of despair. He
had stood up bravely during the trial
and while bis companions were receiv
ing sentence, but now he seemed to
have broken down. His lordship briefly
recapitulated the evidence and observed
that it was impossible for any man of
seiine to doubt that he (the prisoner)
was guilty, “and I should be strangely
wanting in my duty,’’said tbe judge,
“if I did not pass upon yon a severe sen
tence, and tbe sentence of the conrt is
that you be transported over the seas
for the term of 20 years. ”
Then tbe convict Macon raised bis
head and turned to quit the dock, and,
as ho turned, his features were revealed
to mo. They were those of Robert Leth
bridge !
1 started back in amaze and honor,
and a voice beside mo exclaimed:
“Oh, dear, dear, look! That charm
ing Lady Summerton has fainted. What
a shame it is that there is not better
ventilation in tbeso courts! They are
really stifling.”
I was cuming from the office of tbe
governor of tbe jail, where I bad been
to get leave to sue my friend, and be
was being escorted from tbe place of
detention under tbo dock, when we met
again nnder such awfully changed cir
cumstances. He recognized mo in •
moment, turned aside and sprang light
ly past me—not supposing that I knew
bim—into his cell, which was close at
hand.
I followed, and then he tnrned ronud
upon me, almost savagely, demanding
what 1 meant by Intruding npon him.
“Don’t yon think I am sufficiently
punished?” be asked, in a cold, hollow
tone, “without having the friends I
have disgraced coming here to gloat
over me?”
“Bob, yc /e not guilty. You a
thG4'“
^ - ie crossed his face as 1
spo " quickly vanished, and he
ansx ^vely:
“V ' . ns can tell what wo may
becom on see me as I am. ”
I h;fc ibed to his side to give him
my syd, dhy, to be indignant with him
against t i conspiracy of which I sup
posed hit ^o be tho victim, and to see
him thus standiu£j>efore me coolly,
without one word of thunks or greeting
—explaining nothing, deigning noth
ing, bat rather giving me tacitly to un
derstand that my presence was unwel
come, and be would gladly be left alone
—vexed me, and I replied:
“You must indeed have changed from
what you were if this is your reception
of an old friend, Robert Lethbridge.”
“Hush!” he exclaimed, seizing me
by the arms. “Never mention that
name again. Robert Lethbridge died tbe
same day that George Mason, the bur
glar, found himself in Jail.”
“Do you mean to tell mu that you
bad act or part in that robbery?”
“A jury of my countrymen have
fonud me guilty of it,” be answered
rather sullenly. “Isn't that enough?”
“Why did yon not write to me? Why
did you not defend yourself? Why, oh,
Bob”—
I stopped, not knowing what to say.
” What was the use?” he replied in ft
softer tone than he had hitherto used.
“I was caught in the aot What could
I say?”
“Bob,” I said, “look melu thefaoft.”
He did oo.
“Now toll me,” I continued, “and
tell me truly, I implore you, by tbe
memory of our old friendship, what
were you doing that night at Bunnnar-
tou purlr?”
“Go and ask the judge,”
“Then you refuse to tell me the
truth?”
“I do.”
“Then it Is not true that you partld*
pnted in the burglary?” I demanded
suddenly.
He flushed crimson, thou turned
deadly pale and stammered:
“1—you—I—did not suy so.”
“But I am sure of it,” I answered.
“So sure that I mean to sou Barker and
find out what you really wore together
about. He can have no object in con
cealing tbe truth now, and then”—
“Weil?”
“Well, I shall beg an interview with
tbe judge and tell him what I suspect.”
“And what do you suspect?”
“That you were ut Summerton park
at the time that tho burglary was com
mitted, bnt wore in no wise engaged in
it in any way. You were there to see
that false woman, Beatrice Penrose that
was, the Countess of Summerton that
is.”
“Well, then, look hero, my friend,”
he replied, “think so if you like, say
so to others it you dare, but remember
tbis-f-wbatever story you may get from
Barker shall be flatly contradicted by
me on the first onnortunitr. It will be
only tho word of ono felon against tne
word of another, ” ho continued bitterly,
“and so it will end. Better leave it as
it is.”
“And to screen her will you go to
the balks?”
“Yes.”
“For 20 years?”
“Forever if need bo.”
“A woman who jilted youi”
“A woman whom—God help me!—I
love in spite of all.”
And hero his forced reserve gave
way, his long pent up emotions burst
forth, and he sank upon tbo prison seat,
buried his face in his hands and sobbed
like a little child.
Six months afterward, when he had
trsted some of the horrors of his situa
tion, I tried again, and again utterly
failed to make any Impression on him.
At last the time arrived when, under
regulations of the prison, ho should be
shipped off to some penal settlement,
and, in despair of saving him by other
meaiis, I resolved to see Lady Summer-
ton and appeal to her humanity, if sno
had any, and implore her to save my
friend from himself.
She had. left England shortly after
the trial, having evinced a preference
for foreign life, and was living in Paris,
not upon the best of terms—so scandal
said—with her lord. (And serve him
right, thought I.)
I sought for her in Paris and found
that in one of his jealous tits ho hud
hurried her off to Lisbon. I followed
on there, but found that they had left
in his yacht for a two years’ cruise, and
no one knew where they had gone.
When I returned .o London, I discover
ed that the convict ship, with Boh Leth
bridge on board, had sailed two days
before for South Australia. Bo far all
my efforts had been fruitless.
One day, about two years after his
exile, I was very busy writing, when a
lady in deep mourning was ushered into
my private room, and the first words
she said were:
“Oh, sir, something must bo done—
do pray tell mo what to do for Bo—for
Captain Lethbridge.”
“Captain Lethbridge, ” I replied se
verely, for after the first moment of
surprise at being thus abruptly appealed
to I recognized my visitor. “Captain
Lethbridge,” I said, “lias boon treated
as a felon for nearly three years. It is
somewhat late n iw, I think, to inquire
what can be doni for him.”
“Oh, yes, yes,” she cried, “it is so
—it is so—but y ju do not know tho life
I have been led. I would have changed
places with him willingly. Look here,
and here,” and she turned up her sleeve
and drew buck her hair, disclosing two
deep soars, one on her arm and the oth
er on her temple.
“He struck me there for no cause at
all,” she said bitterly. “He has often
struck me. If he had known about poor
Bob, he would have killed me.’’
Then she told me her miserable story.
It appeared that, lacking courage to tell
poor Bob of her falsehood and the ap
proaching marriage tailo wkkoh dhe had
been lured by the daaols ot a aaeouet,
ahe had written to him «p to the time
of his departure from India; tbal, hav
ing lauded at Piymonlh, he had gout
straight to her father’s house and there
learned the truth; that, actuated by a
mad desire to see her once more, ho had
betaken himself to Bnmmerton park;
that, having seen her in the grounds
and not daring for her own sake to ap
proach her, he wrote a wild, desperate
letter, imploring her to seo him once
more, if only to tell him that she was
happy, and if she were not so—as he
know something of her husband—to fly
with him; that by ill luck he intrusted
this letter for delivery to the man Bar
ker, who was prowling about for his
own purposes; that he received from
bim her answer, in which she accorded
him a last interview on the balcony of
her boudoir; that sho had parted with
him there about 1 o'clock; that tho
alarm of robbers was not given until
nearly 8, and that, up to the moment
when ‘ he heard him sentenced as one of
the burglars, she never suspected but
that he had departed and returned to
his home. The fact was—as I afterward
found—that while pressing her to fly
with him she had torn herself from his
side and retired without bidding him
farewell and that he had waited, hop
ing against hope that she would return,
till tho alarm was given, and he was
captured as before described.
Well, to make a long story short, I
took her straight to the office of tbe
home secretary, and after a good deal
of bother a free pardon was granted to
George Mason—that is to say, her
majesty was graciously pleased to par
don an innocent man for having been
wrongfully convicted as a felon.
And the result was that Robert Leth
bridge came homo, was reinstated iu
his regiment and—and married Lady
Hiuumertuu.—Tyrone Constitution.
Manner* OnUlde the Navy.
The ordinary seaman’s respect for
rank and station when not connected
with his beloved vessel is decidedly
meager. When the president of the
United States visits ono of our meu-of-
war, bo is received at the gangway by
the admiral, commanding officer and all
of tho offioers of the ship, in full uni
form, the crew at quarters for inspec
tion, the marine guard drawn np with
tho band on tho quarterdeck, the na
tional Hag is displayed at the main, tho
drummer gives fonr ruffies, tho hand
plays tho national uir and a salute of
21 guns is fired. The same ceremony
also takes place on his leaving.
On ono occasion the president visited
one of tho ships informally, dispensing
with the salute and ceremony, when
ono of tho men rather indignantly ask
ed another who that lubber was on tbo
quarterdeck that didn’t “douse his
peak" to the commodore.
"Choke your luff, will you,” was
tbo reply, “that’s tho president of tho
United States. ”
“ Well, ain’t he got manners enough
to ralute tho quarterdeck, if ho is?’’
“Manners! What does he know about
manners? I don't suppose ho was over
out of sight of land in his life.” “On
a Man-of-war. ”
Tho humming of telegraph wires is
not caused by the wind, for it is hoard
during perfect calms. It has been con
jectured that changes of temperature,
which lighten or loosen tho wires, prob
ably produce tbo sound.
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AN 0,il) GAbLKRYGOD
PREFIXES OF VARIOUS KINDS AND
WHAT THEY MEAN.
Some of the Loenl IleniBnntion* of
Anplrnt TIiiu.m From Yt liit-li Hove
DeMoended Ilie 1‘eraonn! Konieiicla-
turv of tlie I'resc-nl Day.
In nearly every country where per
sonal nomenclature has assumed a suro
and settled basis—that is, where a sec
ond or surname has become a heredi
tary possession iu the family—we shall
find that that portion of it which is of
local origin bears by far tbe largest pro
portion to tho whole. Prefixes of vari
ous kinds wore at first freely used to
declare more particularly whence tbe
nominee was sprung. Thus if ho were
come from some town or city he would
bo William of York or Jehu of Bolton,
familiarly pronounced William a York
or John a Bolton. This, of course, is
met in France by de, ns it was also on
English soil during early Norman times.
If, on tho other band, the situation
only of the abode gave the personality
of tho nominee, tbe connecting link was
varied according to the humor or ca
price of tbe speaker or relative aspect
of tbo site itself. Thus wa find such
entries as John Above-brook or Adelina
Above-town or Thomas Bohiud-water,
or John Beueatb-the-towu. Tbe word
Lane is found attached to tho personal
name in the following ways: Cecilia in
the Lane, Emma a la Lane, John de la
Lane, John do Lane, Mariota uft le
Lane, Philippa ate Lane and Thomas
super Lane.
Of the definite terms icd SORM) are
purely Normuu, some purely Latin, a
few nu admixture of the Lwo, and tho
rest ars Baxon, a tty being the chief one.
This atte was “at the, ” auswariug to
tho Norman de la, del or du, and was
familiarly contracted by our forufathers
into tho other forms of ate and att, or,
for the sake of euphony, when a vowel
preceded the name proper, extended to
“atteu. ” This atto or att was occasion
ally incorporated with the aobriqnst of
locality and thus became a reoofnlMd
part of the surname itself. Thus such a
name as John atte Wood, or Gilbert
atto Wood, has bequeathed us not mere
ly tho familiar Wood, but Artwood and
Atwood also. In u like manner utte-
Ridge has become Attridge; atte-Field,
Atfield, while such other designations
as atto-Towu, utte-Hill, atto-Worth,
btte-Tree and atto-Cliffo are nowadays
Attou, Athill, Atworth, Attree and At-
cliffo.
Buch a name as De la Deno or Atte
Deii, of frequent occurrence formerly,
and as Dean or Deu, equally familiar
now, Is worthy of particularity. A den
was a sunken and wooded vale, where
cattle might find alike covert and pas
ture. We have u remembrance of the
brock iu Brockton, tho wolf iu Wolfeu-
dtu, the fox in Fuxdui, the ram iu
Romsdso, the hove In Xn*4eu and tbs
de«v la Daaaden, Buokdoa or Ztagden,
Raydu and liuden, or Bowdsn. The
more domestioutud animals aUde with
us In Horsdeu, Oxeudeu, Cowdon, Bor
den and Bugdcn, or Bowden, Bwinduu,
Eversden and Ogden, ut first written do
Hogedeno.
Tho lee afforded shelter to ell manner
of domestic live stock and some few of
the wilder quarry. Tbo equine species
has given us Horsley, tho bovine Cow
ley, Kiuleo and Oxlue or Oxley; the
deer, Hartley, Rowley, Buckley and
Hiudley; the hare, Harley, and tbe
sheep, Bhipley. Characteristic of the
trees which inclosed it wo get Ashley,
Elmsley, Oakley, Liudley or Berkeley.
Our Hargreaves hail from tho grove
where tho hares are plentiful, and our
Oougreaves represent the same in the
coney. Our Cloughs represent tho nar
row fissures between the bills. To tho
same root we owe our Clives, Cliffes,
Cloves and Clowes, besides endless Clif
fords, Clevelands, Turuicliffes, Sut
cliffes, Ratcliffs, Faircloughs, eto.
Another branch of local surnames
throws a light upon tho migratory hab
its and roving tendencies of our forefa
thers. Thus such a name us Peter le
Newo or Gilbert le Newcomen or Wal
ter le Newcmau declares to s at once
its origin. Then there is no village or
hamlet in England which bus not sub
scribed iu this manner to our nomen
clature, us Ralph de Debenham or Miles
do Ashford. A passing from one part of
tbe British empire to another has been
a prolific source of names. Thus wo
find Henry de Irluuud, Adam de Irland,
Roger le Escot nud Maurice le Scot.
Other countries also furnished many
names. Tho Arters, once registered de
Artoys, ciftue from Artois, the Gaskina
and Gascoignes, from Gascony, while
to Champagne we are indebted for the
Obumpucys. To Lombardy and the
Jews we owe the Lombards, Loumbards
and Lubburds. From le Aleman or de
Almaniu or le Alcmnund have sprung
our Alemans, Alnmines and Allmans
and through the French probably oar
Dalmaiues, Dalmans and Dolmans.
A class of surnames which occupies
no mean place is that bequeathed by the
dignitaries and officers of rnediueval
times. Tbeso include king, priest, abbot,
prior and many others. In considering
tho surnames of occupation, we remem
ber that every village had its tin ichor,
to make and mend tho roofs. From this
wo get the surnames Thatcher, Thacker
and Thackery or Thackeray. A hilyer
was also a roofer, and we have Uillyer,
Hillier, Hollier, Htllycr, Helmau and
Heilman. A curious memorial of a post
state of life abides with us iu our Board-
mans, Boordcrs, Bordmans and Bor
ders. They were tlie tenants of lands
which their lord kept expressly for tb«
maintenance of his table, the rental be
ing paid iu kind.- -Boston Herald.
■tranirn.
Mr. Crimson beak—Did you ever think
what a funny thing a lemon is?
Mrs. Criuihoobeak—Why funny?
“You know how sour it is?”
“Oh, yes!’’
“Well, people take ’em to make ’em
sing sweetly.”—Yonkers Statesman.
Mr. Choate'* Gout.
Mr. Choate, our new embassador from
the United States, says that he never
had gout and “never intends to. ’’ That
may ho so now, for Mr. Choate is young
iu diplomacy Let him wait a fuw
years until troublesome questions arise,
and lie will find intervals of diplomatic
gr.ut most useful In statesmanship
gout and greatness almost always go
together.—London (Jlolte
Tlie Indies wonder how Mr*. H. mnnnses to
preserve tier yoiUhrul looks. The st cret is
she takes I'hicki.y Ash Hitters; it keeps
the system la (s-rfei-t Order. For further
purtleulsrs call on Cherokee Drug UQ.
THE THEATER IN THE HAPPY DAYS
WHEN HE WAS A BOY.
Ilotv He Got In n I'"rouI S«-ni nn<! Kn-
joyed the Show—The Well l)re*K-;t]
Villein nnd tlie Tnttercd tint DUt-
lliond ItliiKed Heroine.
A prosperous looking man with it CS
inch waistband stopped and looked at
tho long line of boys formed before the
gallery door of ono of tbo local theaters
a little before half past 7 o’clock the
other evening.
“I used to be No. 1 nnd never worse
than No. 10 iu that line myself,” said
the man. “I’ve never enjoyed the the
ater so mnch since as 1 aid then. When
I was a kid in this town, about tbe age
of those boys in that line, 1 need to take
in a show once a week—on Saturday
night always. I couldn’t afford more’u
a quarter a week for theatricals, for I
was only making $2.50 a week carrying
bundles.
“Tho store that 1 carried bundles for
closed up at 0 o’clock on Saturday night,
tho same as other nights, and I remem
ber how 1 used to Fcramble home and
bolt my supper so that 1 could get down
town again to get tho best place in the
lino before the gallery door I'd general
ly make it by 7 o'clock or a little after,
and I don't remember ever getting left
on a front scat right on the rail.
“It used to bo as cold as tho dickens
standing iu that line sometimos, bnt
that didn’t make any difference. We’d
just stamp our feet and crowd closer to
gether, and tho cold didn’t bother ns.
Occasionally, too, it would rain hard
while we were standing in tho line, but
that wonldn’t cut any ice either. I never
saw tho rainstorm yet that could break
the gallery line up when 1 was a boy 1
don’t know how that is now
“Us hoys iu front of tho line could
hear tho man inside walking toward tbe
door from the iusido to open it on the
stroke of half past 7, and then we’d
crouch and gather ourselves together
for tho rash. The man that opened the
door had to bnstle for bis life inside the
box office to keep us from running him
down and stamping over him. I always
had my quarter ready and pat and tight
in my right hand, and to ulup it down
on the box office shelf, get a big paste
board ticket and dive for tho lung gal
lery stairs was about as quick work ns
I ever did. I’d surely keel over from
apoplexy if I tried anything like that on
now.
“Tho winding stairs were about a
mile high, hut I’d make 'em about fonr
nt a clip, and in no time I’d ho past tho
ticket taker ut I he entrance to tho gallery
and falling—literally failing—down the
steps to get a seat on the rail. Tbe
gallery 'u’d always he about as dark as
a dungeon at that early hour, and it
was a case of groping lo find the aisles
iu order to fail dovra tbu steps to a *mi
on the rail
“In my Uft band overcoat poobet 1
generally had a paper of peanut*, and
I’d mnuoh on ’em and watch tbe gal
lery fill up. 1 made it a point lo look
around a good deal in order to make tbe
hoys lu the back rows jealous of mo iu
my rail seat, right on or close to tbo
middle aisle. The boys iu tbe row be
hind the rail row would generally re
taliate on the toys sitting in the rail
row by wiping their muddy shoos on
tho overcoats of tbe rail row boya, tbe
overcoats being alnng over the hacks of
tho scat* and therefore tempting oppor
tunities for that kind of thing.
“Along toward 8 o’clock the boya iu
tbe gallery would begin to stamp and
whistle, ihe fallacious idea being tbat
the stamping and whistling would bring
the lights np and tbe orchestra ont
quicker 1 notice that tbo gallery boy*
don’t do this any more. But, then, the
gall ry hoys don't have so much as we
used (o have, I guess.
“When we smelled a strong odor of
gas, wo knew tlmt tho big chandelier
hanging from the ceiling was going to
suddenly light itself—that is, that the
cler trio current (it was a new and won
derful idea then) was going to light the
chandelier jets. They hud to turn the
gas on first, hence the premonitory
smell. When one of tbe orchestra men
Vd pop his bend ont of the little door
underneath tho stag*, we’d all see him
at once and give him a great send off.
“And how I nifld to enjoy n show iu
those days! How I ussri to hate tbe vil
lain with bis waxed black mustache
anil his shiny plug hat! How i used to
feel for tho heroine when she'd appear
with her shrinking little boy lu the
snowstorm, with a torn, redhooded
cloak carelessly thrown over her shoul
ders, and seven dazzling diamond rings
on tho fingers of both her hands I How
l did think the hero was tho real thing
when ho said to her, ‘I love you better
than 1 do my life!' Howl used to thrill
when tho heroine, in reply to tho top-
coated villain’s overtures, would twist
around and say to him, 'Rags are royal
raiment when worn lor virtue's sake!
A; . didn’t the stingglc on the cliff be
tween the hero and villain for tho pos-
ighhcu of the knife and tbo forged will
make my spine ohill! And all tho rust
--all the rest
“If the growing boy only knew what
be’s missing by growingWashing
ton Btar
I’ulftt* For th* I'lituo.
A piano tuner, who says that pianos
frequently deteriorate because they are
allowed to become too dry, proscribes
tiiis remedy: “Keep n growing plant
in tho room, and so long us your plant
thrives your piano ought to or else
there’s something wrong with it Jnst
try it. and see how much more water
you will have to put iu tho flowerpol
In tho loom where your piano is than
you use in any other room Borne peo
plo keep u huge vase or uru, with a
sopping wet sponge in it, near or under
tbo piano, and ket p it moistened, just
as a cigar dt-alur keeps bis stock. They
keep this up all tho time the fires are
on “
On* That U* IHKn’t Ml**.
“Brownling is a follow who has
missed many a lineopiMirtnnity, accord
ing to his own statements.”
“Yes, but I remember a time when
he rose to an occasion."
“When was that?’’
“It was seven or eight years ago
when ho and I were working in the oil
regions. He thawed ont a stick of dyr.a-
mite. A* luck would have it, he man
aged to catch hold of a corner of the
denick us he was going up, so ho saved
himself. -Cleveland Leader.
—We have received a ear load of
doors and sash. J. E. Ezell £ (Jo.
—Mantles from $1.50 to $15, glass
doors Irom $3 to & at J. E. Ezell <k
Co.
J. E. WEBSTER.
Attorney- At- l^:i-vv.
Office lu Court House. (Probate J udge'* o flier)
Gaffney City, S. C.
Practices In all tbe courts. Collec
tions a specialty.
J. T. MAY, Contractor.
ALL WORK AND ESTIMATES GIVEN
PERONAL ATTENTION, AND AT PRICES
AS LOW AS WORK CAN HE DONE HON
ESTLY. Mtutf
MONEY TO LOAN oN
IMPROVED TOWN PROPERTY.
Address Mrs. E. A. Kuuerre,
No. HF, Heynard Street,
M-l-tf Asheville. N. C.
CLINE & LEMMONS,
Livery, Feed and Sale Stables,
MONTGOMERY'S OLD STAND.
Flrst-cl»*s turnouts; prompt attention;
and courteous attendants.
Cfc^We solicit your patronage.
-+J. C. JEFFERIES+-
OAFFNEY, S. C.
Attorney and 'Counsellor at Law. Practice*
All the Court*. Collections • Specialty.
I>. R.Duncan. C. P. Sanders. W.S. Hall.Jr.
DUNCAN, SANDERS « KALI,
Attorneys-at-Law.
Office two doors al>ove Ledger Office.
All business attended to carefully and
promptly. Special attention given to collec
tions.
Real Estate For Sale.
For sale, on liberal terms, five tracts of
land adjoining Limestone property. Tract*
vary in acreage from U)% to 70 3-K).
Also eight lots of the hotel property at
Limestone. Excellent building sites and
cheap. 'I he old hotel and lot Is also for sale.
Apply to
R. O. Sams.
Dr. C. T. LIPSCOMB,
Dentist,
Office over R. A. Jones & Co.’* St«re.
Can he found at office six days iu the week
Probate Court Notice.
NOTICE is hereby given that I will mak
ivtinai return and settlement in the offle
of A rohuto Judge for Cherokee County a
administrator of tho estate of Mrs. K. I
Littlejohn, deceased, on Monday, MaylVtl
' ‘ foi ’
IsW, 10 o'clock, a.
on same (Jute.
4-28-1 w4t.
m., and ask for disc burg
N. II. Litti.ejouiv,
Administrator.
DR. J. F. GARRETT,
Dentist,
Gaffney, - S. C.
Office over J. R. Tolleson’s new store
In office from 1st to 26th of each
month;
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Atlanta, (j^
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