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t \ fill I g V J^1 J 1CI^« usual comforting aflsur- Si.oo per Yenr. PdRLISHKl> i'UK.SDAY AND KKIDAY BY En. H. DkOamp. Thk Lkduf.k is not responsible for Uiu views of correspondents. j ance was given out that blood hounds i were on his tnTII and would no doubt I run him down. Just so. And by ! some mysterious principle of associa tion, this leads us to asK what has become of our ponetentiary investiga tion? The last time wo hoard of it the scent was warm and the blood hounds were expected soon to run down the game. We are losing faith • Correspondents who do not contri bute regular news letters must fur nish their name, not for publication, hut for ident iticat ion. Write short letters and to the point | in b|( , 0ll |, 0ljnHl| all aroun( |. to insure publication; also endeavor to get them to the office by Monday and Thursday mornings. All correspondence should be ad dressed to Kd. 11. DetCamp, Manager. Obituaries will be published at live cents a line. Cards of thanks will be published at one cent a word. Heading notices will he published at t ‘ii cents a line each insertion. tiii:mi«ki:\ casi:. John Stuckey, of Spartanburg, was convicted of manslaughter by the jury last week and received a sen tence of ten years at hard labor in the penitentiary. His counsel gave notice of an appeal to the Supreme Court', and Judge Cary signed an or der allowing t he defendant bail in the sum of *;,.0U0 pending the npp.nl. We think that the jury rendered a righteous verdict, and that Mr. Stuckey, as a sensible man, must ad mit thai hi- had a fair and impartial trial, llis defense was weak, espe- oi il : y tiiat “ru.-tty pistol'’ part of it. i.nd I . e was tiling hr mg lit out in the trial that v..mld give even a coior- lug of j .i slili. ation to liis sic! io tak- 1 ri. n;;! e writer soy large of thi crowds iug John Sevi r’s life. Mr. Stuckcj' ' i i in • world, hut he has hi en a succes- f:t i husin < - m in i m re order! v, good- und a man of steady hubiis and (f goo l ciiaructer. Ii is deplorable thut this great shadow should come over his life from no other apparent cause than the impulse of an unguarded moment, .prompted by the general craze for taking human life and the over-ready pistol. Whatever may he the decision of the Supreme Court his own life is blighted, and two fam ilies are ruined, all for the lack of one moment of reflection, of reason, and of self-control. When will men cease to act like wild hens’s, and rise to the plane of rational, intelligent creatures? Tin: t uors. The pinch of the game is near at •hand with the crops and the chances seem to be rattier against the farmers. The loss of the oat crop and the par tial failure of the \vh">il emp wmi'd be largely compensated by an abun dant com crop; but so far as we can learn the outlook for corn is not very assuring. The stalk has been stinted by dry weather, and the ravages of the worm are general and extensive, and with the most favorable seasons henceforth a maximum crop will be unattainable. It behooves the farmer then to provide as far as possible against u short crop of corn, I’hint a large crop of vegetables for fall and winter and sow the stubble land in It I’ay*. I ('nm ritnitcil l>y a I.eilaer mlmiici'. | \\ c’<l lil.r your :■ I Imii ion A u liilf. ju .1 lo mi ll)ion A fm't wliieli all |>i‘0|»le slioulil Know; A fact >villimit vapor, (Concerning our paper. Ami ilie way it cmitiimcs lo grow. list iiousamts of remic ■«. A re eert ainly liecdm * < it every 1 liing Ilial it says, And dial is why. sirs. \Ve tell ad \ erl isel s If you pul it in The l.edger il pays.' Wherever you're dwelling, W hatever .you're sellin;;'. No mat ter at wha I price 'I is sold, f dher dollar or penny, tiiMid customers many Througli Tlie i.edy er you're sure to lielinld. A ad I hut is I he reason Through every season. That The I,edger receives so much praise. Advertisers who'rc "in il." \\ ill tell you dds minute If you put il in The Ledger it pays. Dr. Lodge Speaks Kind Word*. Ijmlstonk Collluk, ) ( Mliee of t he President. July S’h, IS'J'J. \ To the Kditor of The Ledger: .Sir:—Will you permit one who has recently become a citizen of (iylfucy to express his admiration for the ex- ei Held heloivior of the vast throng of p .pie who spent tin* Fourth of July on i he ground s of Lime-tone College? note has s.i.'ti n many parts of never beheld a duiid, decorous gdheringin his life. It was a de- iigld to the eye and u joy to the heart to si e .-o many thousands happy. Tiie college uutlioriliea were more than glad to have the pen;de present in Limestom's lovely delis and groves. We want the city to feel that Limestone hi iongs to (iutT- ncy, and then—ah, then we , want (iaiTney to belong to Limestone. Hut here I am running on about the col lege, when I only meant to t xpress my appreciation of,the fine deport- THE “KERNAL” AT THE REUNION. Things that He Heard and Saw. INTERESTING INCIDENTS Aiiiiiuk tile I'aeimitina lleaulle* of Ilie Ite- uunili wu* I Iiat of Alionl 'I'wenty-ll\•* oi* i lilrly Yoiinir tilrl* from tin* OraiofidmrK College. Among the various claims set forth by the dilTeruot camps of l . \et- erans attending the Charleston re union was that of the District of Co lumbia, which claimed to have more distinguished members in it than any other, and to which claim we readily accede. On its rolls are the names of Lieut. Cell. Joseph 11. Wheeler, Major (fens. Lomax, M. (!. liutler and Harry Ifcth. The next forty-five names are loiga- dier gei orals, colonels and lieutenant colonels. Several color hearers fol low ai d more than one hundred and fifty privates close the li-t. They represent every arm of the military service ami every arinv in the South. | continents. These were the girls that some of our (JulTney boys took on so i much about as we passed through Or- : angeburg, going on to Charleston, , when we began to think we would j lose part of our Cherokee delegation I at least if the train had stayed much longer in Orangeburg. Boys, I don’t | blame you. J There are hundreds of other things of which 1 would like to write, but as the time has come to close this nar rative I must do so. But before doin*’ r> this, I wish to say tjiat no county in the Slate sent a more orderly and 10- spectuhle delegation to Charleston then did Cherokee. ’Tis true we could not he with them all the time, but seeing or hearing from them every day we took it for granted that all went well. 1‘encil pushers are generally be sieged by t wo classes of people—those j wanting to get information and those wanting to give it. We can’t tell which is the most annoying or ac ceptable; hut, any way, during our trip to Charleston, we heard one of Cherokee’s married ladies highly complimented. She was surrounded by bevy of girls, who were chatter ing Hkc ho many birds, when a gen tleman asked, “What lady is iliut wearing spectacles?” “That’s Mrs. since April, o(|uei)ce, the averago cot- We of (infVney was our r< ply. A forim ^r Ch irleston man—! rank Mackey- —is t ho eointmini er. II e was a tneinbt r iif t h e gallant )ld 5'it S. U. regiment, and s erved thi on; ;hout the war tinder th. brave ar d la u it less Col. A: bury Coward. 1 n om penimhulat ions w st riy Hi it: to t he (■ i t ii' h wltere v.. - i i t rodtii' d ourself tnd to 1>I tin- o! •j"- t 0 f our visit. L ieut. ( rouch w: ts on duty, and be xi telly took us hr >ua i the building s and made tt- IK q nt» d w i t h all the v. orkings o f t i is l ime- ho non .1 inst it ut ion, t his “A est Foint n great- ment of the great crowd, est ha-te, very truly yours, Lkl D.n is LoiKii:. of the South.” Toe development of tin* physical, moral and intellectual beings of the students, ns well as their sanitary welfare, is one of the prime objects of this institution. They have a 1 M. C. A.-soeiation hull neat!) and weli furnished, and over the youth in their cure a watchful vigil is kept. The premises are regu larly pat ruled, and all the hoys must respond at roll call or account for themselves. The least deviation from said he, “I believe she’s tin best looking one in the crowd,” and passed on. We had an impromptu meeting on the train returning home, and veter ans representing camps in Kentucky, North Carolina, Alabama, (Jeorgiu, Tennessee, West Virginia and Mary land agreed and authorized your cor respondent to say that South Carolina could heat the world for good looking women. To which we said, “amen.” j. i. s. lienutifnl l.liiH-Htone, Mr. V. M. Montgomery has had a lar,.e squad of hands engaged for a week or two on the grounds at Lime stone. He has had the old “Match House,” which was eve r an eyesore to the visitors, removed, uiid the place where it stood leveled and smoothed olf to e nespond with the campus. Many of the trees, where they wa re thick and unMghtly, have been reinovid, a large new burn has been « r, eted just outside of the cam pus; stately stone piers tire xyjijjr up at the gateways, built of Limestone marble, which present quite an im- ANlturst, Today is July d I the weather continues dry and n. The rains have not been g and, as a natural crops are far below ton that was plant* ly on grey or light soil came up le the drought was too severe is | bly good, but our red hinds have | ai.il irregular stands of cotton, uni many places none at all. If ounion is a fair specimen of the cijof Cherokee county the outlook lleed gloomy, and it is incumbentin the firmer to use all the frugaltconomy and wisdom within his |r to keep the wolf from his door l■.'inter. I’eas for forage may stiii Awn. L’lenty of turnips should Ijutitcd in Au gust and Septembeijfve sown for early spring paslunind other re sources, may he l^ht to In ar, which have not herojre been used as they should have pi. 1’erhups. after all, t his set miiibimity that now rests upon the niilturai class es of our country is ila blessing in disguise—teaching thinner to he more sill-reliant aihoughtful— u ing more of the mupneans within his reach that tends tis prosperity. I would that tie faruput knew the grand opportunities freedom with in his reach. 1 spent three days ing court in your progressive littfity, was de lighted wilh the host I i ty of your people and pleased ajie marks of improvement 1 saw j every side; hut (must I -ay il?) |i- somewhat disappoiliti d in the d<um and dig nity that should hnvei and around our court rooms and ipenal'y im posed upon I In* p-Tpetbi's of crime. We recognize the aim ill law to he to restrain the had a protect the good, and our courts juld ever be regarded as a means Hi- end. i N. <!. L. Royal Absolutely 'Pure Absolutely 'Pure Makes the food more delicious and wholesome ROVU BAKINO POwOER CO., NEW VON*. i./.'il ia<-tiii 'l“»i;ie nee of ' Lodger.) 7 —Fartwork is pro posing appearance and remind one of t he rules, or neglect of duty, subjects | the entrances to some great stone cas- Dl The re has ing of base lately . Mr been in the .‘-'uccei .1 Mr, ticket ollice to tele 'graph ceeds Mr. nat ii v has t mi l F r.lger, cepte.f 1 a poi ill llii* Sioiitltcrn i been eonsiuerable ehang- at the Southern depot . A. \\. ’rurner, who has fr.-ight department, has L I'. Howell in the Mr. Howell has gone ling. Mr.Callie I lollis sue- Turner. Mr. (ius A'ier- aken the place of Mr. IC1- Mr. Folger having tte- sition on the road and. Anthony succeeds Mr. at the crossing. Cupt. I air. Ccorge Abernathy | Caffney now has an ideal force and ; the work of the Southern at this ! ; place is in most capable hands. ,%<‘<’l'l<‘ii!:ilU Stiot. < Jovan Lipseoinh, a well known colored man of this county, was acci dent iy shot Saturday. He had a loaded gun and was watching some | crows near by. In raising up from j the steps on which he was sitting he j let the gun slip and the hammer { peas. Much of the land that was in i came in contact •with the step, dis- oats has plenty of seed ieft on it the gun. The load entered t - .. t>i .1 • ,1 the shoulder and neck inflicting a for another crop. Flow tins in with r i i . . ., „ . , 1 painful but not necessarily fatal the peas, and "ben jou inov> jour wound. ])r. (’has. Jelferies was sum- peas in the fall you will find your i inoneil and administered to the land already seeded down in oats for another crop. little intelligent i v I'fniie LiikI l‘'i-|«lay. A crowd of young [n op' picnic at (ioat Island last I'M ;.iv in lemor of the Misses Amos and Miss Lizzie Becker,of Spartanburg. There wt re just sixteen in the parly and us one of t he gallant’s expressed it it was a “sweet sixteen” picnic. The young folks finent a most enjojalde afternoon and all returned to tin* city in love w it Ii each ot her—more (L ill! Hland am! |)lannitig mid work will do much to wards making amends for short grain crops. NOI LS AND COM >1 KNTS, The dispensary has turned over tweiitjflive thousand dollar.-to 1 he free school fund. \\ itli the l idted States army shooting the gospel into ten millions of May lays and the State of South Carolina c<>n\citing the dispensary iniquity into an en gine f- r ramming knowledge into the people s heads, it begins to look hke the devil is going into the missionary business. ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ Honerul Joe W heeler lias been given a chanco to do some more lighting, much to his 'gratification, it siiti. He lias been ussi^ned io tb^ i i» s hIih* p* i i""' * ^ I TiD-ttlt/f wounded man. At was doing as well peeled. Iasi accounts he as could he ox- i spicially the l it- li r. Mrs. It. (J. Surratt and Mrs. I . Humphries :ii ted as chaperons for th ) party. Tin \ii:il}>i* «»f D«-«-p V. fll Water. following is the analysis of I (iMToey's <ha p well water, made by ! to.* cl emi-t of the Southern Railway ^ Company: Water Clour. ItoueUoii ... I’r.ico ulkalliio. lot.0 si!' i i*i‘s1(1m** •: «'> urs. |!C|- u -;il. 1 ^ ■’o formlnjrsoliils . ■ - *1 IS., < \ il|>- ippines, w hitht r iie will sail on liu oralod imhiimK. I in* le-idue ninsiols chielly of car- of id of the defaulter to extra duty. I’mic- tuaiity is taught toim an what it does mean, and nothing else. AfP r wo had made a thorough in spection 111 tin* Citadel premises wo bade our guide adieu (but not w it bout his insisting on us lo call again) and went out to see other places of inter est. Our next stop was at the police sta tion where we enjoyed a chat with two jolly Iri-hmen w ho were on duty. We soon found out that they were old Confederates and we held a kind of reunion of ourown under the awning ( I he Irish, by the way, out number any other two nut inutilities in Charles ton—it’s an Irish city). It wag not long until others came up, and the subject of the Confederate reunion became the topic of conversation. “Well,” says we, “have you fellows hud any trouble with any of the ex- Confederates since they captured the city?” “<)!i no, no,” said the ser geant, “they can’t trouble us. We allow you old fellows to do .is you plaze, and if any of ye get a wee dhrop too much, we will take care of ye till ye come to you’sells again.” “Have you found any of them out of the way?” we asked. “Oh yes, plenty of them; but we took them in and kept them till they got straight. Sometimes wo call in a doctor, if wc think they reed one. and the city pays him for his services.” “Well,” said we, “that's very kind—its very generous. r l he old fellows don’t mean to do any harm if they do so. The Confederate soldiers, as a general rule, are gentlemen of the first type.” About this time a big, square built, middle aged Irishman, spoke up and said: “1 was horn in this city; was a small brut when the city was bom barded, and wc went to the upper part of town for protection and there j remained till the war was over. I | know the Confederates protected tin* city when it was not aide to protect itself, and now we are going to pro tect them when they need it ” They told of some funny instances in which they too:c up some who were too boozy to navigate, and while scureh- | ing one fellow for ids valuables (w hich | t liey are expected to account for win n | he is releast d) he began calling fur i I he pn!iee to come there quick, tor j H>« [lickpockets had him I got so much interested m conversation that ! tin hour passed without my noticing I it. I had rather forgotten myself; had no idea of the time passing so : quickly. I hide* ihe j illy crowd good* | bje i.ini took the strut tar to my j boarding house. I 1 nuking over the notes I had gath- medieval history; the large i'hilippines, w hi! I the liO.'u instant. Hen. \\ heeler has i, ,,r n , I Donate of lime, some sulphate not added to his fame nor to the love i lime, a little chloride of sodium ! and admiration bestowed on him, by ' iron and aluminum, with traces his conduct since the close of the j Diagnosiu :, d<1 alkalies, war with Spain, llis childish eager-j nik-YVa* i>o*d-«i. ness to increase his stock of military ! A sensible husband said to his wife glory does not speak well either for , ?,!<! 0,,Kr (I »y. ‘ -I'ine, don’t spend u i . mll . . .. w or h,.«. He „ loo „U | ™»»'«'!* «•'•*»»•* "X Zion i . ». t , , . i / t vtTiiso. I ijo wife who is u businesH 1 liti8 done loo rpuch for iii& countrv to , , , nuuiiLry to ^ woman replied, “\ouold goose. I bu now making a fool of himself. I learned better long ago than’ to go ♦ ♦♦♦ ! where I was not invited. You would There have been disastrous Hoods ' ,n 'an old bachelor now if you bad not invited me* to be* your wife. ('aich me going to a store without an invitation. I guess not.” tie of garden has been taken into the cam pus; ami altogether the* Limestone* grounds receiving such a dressing as they have never had before. The fin- i-hing touches, however, cannot be given until the new building shall have Leen completed amt the rubbish all cleared a way. Contractor Cooper broke* ground yesterday morning for the new build ing with about twenty hands, and at the same time started a train of wag ons to hauling in the bricks. There are* altogether a force of about thirty hands engaged on the Limestone premises, and the* vigor will) which tlu* work is being pushed is inspiring to our whole community. Let the town authorities now take hold of tbu Spring ground and have ball and bicycle grounds and put them into apple-pie order. Hullney will then have the lines! college cam pus and the* most beautified and ro mantic town park in South Carolina, 11«* T;il;e.v< ()i<‘fiikt* for I Ht/.yiH'S*. The lazy man of this county n- sorted to the meanest, strategy of re cord toget his better half to dig up the garden, says an exchange. He sallied forth one morning with spade and hoe* and after scratching around a while came* in to wash the dirt oil' a and a dime; In* had struct it rich, lie said. Buck to Ihe garden he want whiatleiiig “Sweet Marie.” Direcily be came in showing a quarter, saying he could afford to take* a nap, having gaintdenough for one day anyhow. When he awoke Mollie had tin* whole plot turned over—also a bras.-btaechs button. She don't know yot that the mine was salted. A New I-in ii. Messrs. VV. J. .Surra11, J. J. Muir- nt*»s and \\ in. T. Magness have formed a co-partnership for the pur pose of conducting a gem ral whole sale grocery business under the name of tiie Sarrut t-Magness Co. All tln- gentlcmen are well known in this section and there can h ■ hut little doubt but that the,' will make tlu* bu- in -s a mo.'t mi cftssful one. Wo wish tor the new liim all manner of pros;a rity. Ke«-«‘l>tloii In .Mi*.* Carivtt. 1 l.e hospitable home of Hr. and Mrs. J. F. H irrett was well filled with llu-ir young friends, who were delight fully entertained, last Friday even- occasion being a reception (f'ljii i Kzki.t , J uly grossing nicely, somte laying by their crops but no roof any con sequence at this writ id Ii. (). Hicks got s!u<i the fourth inst., but it is only s!k a wound in the forefinger of left Ini. Carles ness was the cause. Hco. 1). Scruggs at Mrs. S. E. Roberts wvnt to Haly to-day on business and pleasure mliined. Tiie people of th; section are 1 joking forward for other celebra tion. They ail seeuuit i enjoy the 1 27th of May. g'l; Hawk. onsyilion is robbed cf iisrrrors by f the fact that thecst med- S ical authorities sic that it $ is a curable diase; and % one of the hajy things J about it is, thdts victims rarely ever lose ^-c. © You know thfeie t ail sorts of ^ secret nostrums advised to cure • consumption. Smiujukc absurd ^ claims. Wc only sajiiid if taken in time and ti e lawsif health are properly observed, SCOT'S EM OILS ON will bed t!',c inflamaticn cf the th rcat and lungs ar nourish and strengthen the bodjo tltat it can throw off the disease We have thousjls of testi monials where peep claim they have been pcrmamtly cured of this malady. V*'. anil fi.oci, .WriiaM-O. Si'.OT"! i v < HOWN1. i In .!'. 'Sew A'ork. ^ CWJ' Star Farm KtaD-im-iil*. The hud-worms arc eating and kill ing the corn very had around this placo and it is suffering for rain. Th? cotton is looking very lino; it is not needing rain, Mrs. M. If. Jefferies, of this pluc**, went ta visit relatives at Oowdeysville July 5th. We had a little shower of rain on Tuesday morning, but not enough to do much good. Mr. Allen Jefferies went to your city July 5th. The people of this section are busy gathering blackberries to can and to tnake jelly. Those tiiftt have apples are canning and drying every day. The watermelon patches of this section are looking verj' fine; a good rain would do them good. Mr. H. W. Maynor, of this section, was at the celebration of tiie Declara tion of Independence at Limestone, S. (I., Tuesday, July 4th. Your correspondent was at the cel ebration July 4th, with miinv good cheers for the day. There were a gmul munj' people from this section there, and they said tiiey had a jolly good time*. Liti i.i: Du kik. UuIIi-I'm iSaMiNt*. It r,lands on the Via St. Si-hastiano, and the: culptnrcd Iiat, “cappello, ” thu ancient cognizance of the Cnpulcts, s< cn over the gab way of a poor, second rate inn, alone marks the home where dwelt one of the “two households, both alike in dignity, “ whose feud affords the staple of Shakespeare's tale. Tall houses had covered every foot of Capnlet’s gar den. One could not say with Juliet, “The orchard walls are high and hard to climb,’’ for no garden, no orchard, no walls were there to be seen on either side. Fronting on the street, surround ed by shops and dwellings, her# was the spot where followed thick and fast the scenes of the “fearful passage” of that “deatli marked love” which thu great dramatist describes. I»ril C'r<»in*-r. To read Egyptian French accounts of Lord Cromer, you would picture him a' stiff browed, hard mouthed, cynical,, taciturn martinet. To look at the real man, you would say that lie gave half of hid time to sleep and the other half to laughing. Lolling in his carriago through tiie streets of Cairo, or light ing a fresh cigarette in his office, dress-; 11 in a loose lifting gray tweed and a striped shirt, with ruddy face, short white hair and short white mustache, with gold rimmed eyeglasses half hid- elosed, mellow of voice speech—is tliis the pr-r- you ask yourself, whom ing eyes half and fluent of Odious Barin£ Frenchmen detest and strive to imitate? —this the terrible L ,rd Cromer whom khedives obey and tremble? His demeanor is gi uial and courteous. His talk is easy, open, shrewd, humor-! :ous. His subordinates admire, respect, even love him. He bailie mildest man nered man that ever sacked prime min- ! ister. Only somehow you still felt the i steel stiffening the velvet, lie is genial, ; but he would boa bold man who would 1 take a liberty with him; ho talks, only, ! not for publication; he is loved, yet ho must always bo obeyed. Velvet as long i as lie can, steel as soon as he must— 1 that is Lord Cromer. — “Egypt in i Ib'JH,” by Cl. W. Stevens. Do Not Read In tfie Cars. A London publisher whoso eyesight has become so impaired that lie finds himself able to do scarcely any reading; warns readers against working their eyes when tijvcling iu thu cars. Ho says: “For many years past I have been in the habit of reading and writing for some hours in.the train almost daily, and my present trouble is undoubtedly traceable to this cause.” Oculists are now unanimous in tbo statement that after a certain time, which varies in different individuals, reading in the cars is a positive danger to eyesight. Tiie page is in constant vi- Wo ventured into the open inclosurc, i hration, and tho eyes are strained in and lingered for awhile amid the squalid surroundings of this wretched tavern. Some quarrelhoino inmates were busied in a corner of the courtyard in settling their disputes. Amid the war of words we remembered that no one in modern days “hath forbade this bandying in Verona. ” Then* vi re one or two wag ons at one side, from which the jaded steeds had l>ei n unharnessed. Near tho entrance, and in the only dycent part of this old ruin, two women sat, one kuiUing. The other answered our in- quhic.s and pointed out our way to tho next object of our quest.—Lippiucott’d Tiie Pearl 'i'iieir Ki«im-t. Proverbs, like grammatical rules, are liable to exceptions. For instance, tho familiar saying, “Lightning does not strike twice in the same place,” had its exception during tho bombardment of Widin by tho Russian batteries of Kulafut on the opposite shore of tho Dannbo. Tho incident is described by Ur. Rjan in his book, "Under the Red Crescent, ’’ the Turkish equivalent for the Ri d Cross society. The shi lls from the hcu\y siege guns at Kalafat were dropping iueessantly within tho fortress. One of them as it exploded torca great hole in the ground large enough to contain a horse. A Turkish woman, who was cowering witli her three children under the shad ow of tho wall, took refuge in the hole. According to the law of chances, it was the least likely spot to bo again hit by a shell. But scarcely had she crept in and drawn tiie three children after her when another shell, leaving the cannon’s mouth at Kalafat, nearly two miles away, dropped into the same hole and blew mother and children to atoms. To the Turks tiie grim exception was a viyid illustration of their doctrine of kismet, dr fate. The woman’s hour had come; kismet led her into that hole; it was the place assigned for her departure from earth. Another shell struck the angle of a house, tore down tbo walls and reduced one half of a room to ruins. In the oili er half of tho room were a Turkish wo man and two children. They were not even hurt. Their kismet, according to Turkish ideas, saved them. trying to follow automatically tho rapid movements. Too much light is almost as bad as too little. Reading by a pow erful electric light invariably brings on eye troubles. People would make their eyes remain serviceable much longer if the instant the printed letter becomes blurry or tho reading matter gets out of focus they would s> ek tho best pro fessional skill and prepare to use glasses. This may ho at any ago between IS and 40. A Flirtation F’.ieckc-;!. Quo day when Queen Victoria was present in her carriage at a military ro-i view the princess royal, then rather a willful girl of Iff or 14, sitting on tho front seat, seemed disposed to bu rather familiar and coquettish with some! young officers of the c.-:ort. Hermajesty gave several reproving looks without! avail. At length, in tlirting her hand-j lurehit f ovt r the : id s of thu carriage,, the prince: s dropped it, too evidently; not accidentally. In-tantly two or three ! young oldeers sprang from their sad dles to return it, but tho voice of the j qni en staid them. “Stop, gentlemen, 1 ave it just where it lies,” she said. “Now, my daughter,, get down from tho carriage and pick upl your haudkerchii f. “ There was no help; for it. The royal footman let down tho steps for the little lady, who proceeded! to lift from the dust tbo pretty piece of| cambric and laco. .She blushed a goodi deal as she turned her head saucily, hut was doubtless angry enough. ing, the ered during the morning that might ' ^''“h red to Miss Ltiey (iarrett, of ponsihly interest our Ledger •'‘ ou,, 'aifi. All the attendants ’ ‘ ^ ’ left with gracious thunks to the host nnd hostess, and each and every one in Texas, and it is thought that over Jou r-quare miles of cotton land have been inundated, thereby entailing u loss on the Texas farmers of .jU 000,. 0)0. No doubt this looks like a big disaster to the Texans, and it is to those upon whom it falls directly. But it is a small affair to the world at large, and will not iiffi-et the price f ,ur< ‘ l,,00< * ft,| d strong nerves and cl cotton next lull to tho thou S ;„,,ltl, I ^ '-‘e' l » part of one cent on the pound. The | buck if not cum!. Sold by Cherokee country covered by water is about | Drug Co. half u* large as Cherokee county. The world is getting to be a eonshler- I lull TliroM.lnj- 11 < u.ln.-lit' Would quickly leave you, if you used Hr. King's New Life Fills. 1 housands of sufferers have proved their matchless merit for Sick nod Nerveous Headaches. They make mg 1 was ufiiiiii Unit if in my report I had too much to say under this head some reader might j think my detention at that institu- , tion was involuntary, so I agreed to ; discard nil hut what I have given. Among tho fascinating beauties of the reunion was that of about 25 or ff‘» young girls from tbe Orangeburg College, all dressed in gray uniforms. I hey were the objects of many ph as- ant comments from all sides. During tin* parade they were stationed on Calhoun street opposite tho Citadel. There was no end to the cheering as the old Confederates marched by nnd caught a glimpse of them. The State of South Carolina presented no grand er spectacle during the reunion fes tivities than this. Each State divi- vot«• I i hem a* of hospitality. a prinev and princess -a little bigger limn some able pluc people tbink it is. ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ A railroad engineer, named Weath- othi r scrap of history is made. Fore, clean blood and a healthy livernsult from tbo use of DeWitt’s Little L trly Risers, tbe “famous lit- , , , ...... i P'^ M - ’ 1 bey cure constipation, i iford. was a sminuted while asleep biliousness and sick-headache. Cher- in a pas •.eiii'cr coach by some one d 1 -'*' I>rug Co., (JafTney, S. C., and U. who shot him through the window, X " dhers, Blacksburg, S. C. and then made his escape. No clue | rc<iu<-ato Yimr iioweu wuii ciMrnrets. na to tho assassin could he obtained i uv' /"rever. » j l*(/. Cy L. litjl, uruifKisiru< iumi uioDuy. sion, as It passed in line of march, Every time a battle is fought an-j l,U! ff irls '» f Ihe I’almetto Slate until it seemed as if they hail captured the reunion. A shower of hoquetsand hadg» s were thrown them from the marching column. VS lien the carriage containing Mrs Stonewall Jackson and other distin guished occupants drove up, at the request of Mrs. Jackson it was halted, A riiouiutiKi’ri>ii£ii<-* Could not express the rapture of An nie E Springer, of 1125 Howard st.. Fhiladelphia, Fa., when she found that Dr. King's New Discovery for Consumption hud completely cured her of u hacking cough that for many years had made life a burden. All other remedies and doctors could give her no help, hut she says ot this Royal Cure—“it soon removed the pain in my chest and I c m now sleep soundly, something 1 can scarcely remember doing before. I feel like sounding its pruisi s throughout the Universe.” S<> will every one who tries Dr. Ding’s New Discovery for any trouble of the throat, chest or lungs. Fries 50c. and .fl.OO. Trial bottles free at Uherokeo Drug Store: every bottle guaranteed. Don’t kick a hornet’s next just to ascertain if tho family is at home. Mr. and Mrs. B. Luekump, Elston, Mo., write: “One Minute Cough anil she shook the hand of each of Cure saved tho life of our little bov tho girls who crowded around her to when nearly dead with croup.” pay honor to hi r us well as < lie man j Cherokee Drug (Jo., tlaffney, S. C., whose name ami fame has filled two I and U. H. Withers, Blucasburg H. (L 01/ -i M i fev 1 ). ■ p jp ; I* npi ri'intr on lull timouiil lui'ntiiK out lirsi-claai work. Benieutiei - us when you want work done. \\e Jdl call for your paekajee. We also have h operation A First-Class Grist Mil. We respeelfully sollcltyour patronape and ask the people out’i.f town to hring I heir eoi n aloiut when t l)ey come in to do their shopping’. Will i)akc your meal while you are busy l,< re »ud you will lose no time. Corn around jus! as *i*ni as received every day in the week. Mclemore Bios,, Prop’s. W. T. THOMPSON, Blacksmith and Wend Shop. All kinds of work mine on short uoth-o. Shoelrijf, Tire Settlnjf. Win-Is In Itoilina •Hi a Spe-laity. Wood 4 feel louti- lllekorv. Dak. Poplar and Pine l,uml«-r and all kinds of market aide produce taken in payment lor work. Dome let u-> iea.*on ttc ilier. I or my representative always at shop, t'jo feet west of dummy Hue on UuDodgo si reel. WATCH and see If my wateh. He w ok Is utvliijr s,i*i s f-n lion; me your work, and have prom|dly repaired. •k. and Jewelry I f *o. t lieu hrliv It property end J R. CODDER, At Darroll .V Durpenioi *. Embraced by a Devil FUh. A diver engaged in Moyne river in Australia had a terrible exporieuco with a sea devil. Having fired off a charge of dynamite and displaced a large quantity of stones ho went to tint bottom of tho river and while engaged j vi rolling over a largo stone ho saw something moving about in front of him. This object quickly came in con tact with him and coiled about his arm. Tho diver walked slowly and painfully along with the sea devil’s feelers twined about his body and legs. Ho made tracks for tho ladder and gained tho boat, a curious looking object indeed, with this huge ugly thing entangled about his body. With the help of the sailors ho was in time freed from his submarine companion. Tho body of tho octopus was only about tbe size of a large soup plate, with eyes like a sheep’s, but it possessed nine arms, each four feet in length, at tho butt as thick as u man’s wrist and tapering off at tho end like a penknife. Ail along tho under part of tho feelers of this strange sea creature are suckers every quarter of an inch, giving it immense power. A PulicetiiMi. The Golden Penny tells an amusing story—some readers may think it im probable—concerning tho examination of a young man who desired to bo ap pointed a member of tbe Hampshire ooiinty (England) police. He putin an appearance one morning, accompanied by his mother and was taken in hand for examination by tho inspector. This pr tgressod satisfactorily until the inspector observed: “Of course you’re aware you’ll have a lot of night work to do? You are not uiraid of being out late, I suppose?” Before tho candidate could reply his mother electrified tiie amazed official with tho statement: “That’ll bo all right, sir. His grand mother's going round with him the first two or three nights until he yets used to it!” The Screw of Archimedes. Archimedes of Syracuse, when howa# in Egypt, invented a machine fur pump ing bilge water out of the holds cf ships. This instrument was also used in the delta for purposes of irrigation. Diodo rus Siculus twice refers to it (i., 34, 2;; v., 37, 3). A curious model of such am instrumeut, probably of tho late Ptole maic period, lias been found in lower, Egypt. It consists of a terra cotta cyl inder with a screw inside it 10 incheaj long and 4.'^ inches in diameter. Neap tiie center of tho outside is a band with’ crosspieces. These may represent foot-' bulds and suggest that tho machine was worked utter the manner of tho treadmill. Such screws were probably] made of wood. No other example of this screw scents to have cuine to ligbLj —American Journal of Archmology. Tlio Larly l'mbrella. Wo may infer from the following an nouncement, copied from Tho Female Talk r of Dec. 12, i?U!) p that the um brella at this period was regarded a» too effeminate for tho use of a man:, “The young gentleman borrowing tho umbrella belonging to Wills’ coffee house, Comb ill, of tho mistress, is here by advertised, that to be dry from head ! to loot on tho like occasion ho shall b« welcome to the maid’s pattens.” About' this time it was customary to keep an umbrella in the halls of larger houses for use in rainy weather, for shelter in proceeding from tho house to a covered' conveyance, and doubtless tho one aK ludtd to in tho advertisement above quoted was for that purpose. I Tlu* Wont* of h I a moil* M Union Worker. Perhaps no man in Atlanta is better and more favorably known than Mr. John F. Barclay. He for a long time has been a sufferer from indigestion and dyspepsia. This is what he says: “Atlanta, Ga., January 23 1895.— Hr. C. <>. Tyner: Having used Tyner’s Dyspepsia Remedy for several years in my family I gladly add my testimony to wfiut has already been said In its praise. Without any exception I think it is tho finest re medy on tbe market and nothing would induce mo to do without it. 1 ‘J xu. F. BakdlaY.” A baby cries itself to sleep and ev- | t rj body else awake simultaneously. |)o you wun! ii imiKl Ii i or, viiroroti* dtpim- Uoii, Mirona Ic ullliy ktiiiicys. r> In111y In fIm* Ixiw<■!*? Take I'UM Ki.tr A*it lUnciis. I It hits Ihe ruclli'nl iiioiM-rties that will pro iluce tills roMulf. >k>ltl by Dtierokci'Iiruff (.'o To Cura l'oii*D|> illmi I'o'ev.-r, I TaUc Dim a rets Dumly Culhurilc. too or 9Mi It C. C. U. fall to eurt). arutftfisU rvlumi woiisy.