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j strong and hopeful, and stop tho ; ind \on Rvt*r See n llorxe Cryt
J feeble current of life in tho old and ! .Many people believe that horses do
! infirm. It will hallle manv a WP |l ! not weep but those who have imieh to
do with these faithful creatures know
that on several occasions they will
; shed tears as well as express sorrow in
1 tin 1 most heaitbreaking manner. In
! tin' wist, where the hardiness of the
pruies causes the riders to almost over
look the necessity of providing for their
in i*s. It Is «iulte common when the
weather is extremely cold to 1 ave an
tinblnukeleil pony tied up for two or
three hours when the t.-mpeialure is
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at ■)!'! e.-int it word.
Reading notices will be published
ts ji. line each insertion.
Obi* uaries will ho published at five
All correspondence should be ad-
. K.i. jj. DeOamp, Manager.
A.YNOtM l 5IKNT.
Sotiie months ago we announced
that the price o: The L (Igor would he
advanced to ^ 1 .M a year for subscrip
tion or. time after January 1st. This
will only apply to persons whom we
are obliged to dun. If you call and
pay your subscription before the ex
piration of a year, you get it for a
tjil.OO. If you wait until the year is
out and we have to send you a bill it
will be u $1.50.
In view of the fact t hat white paper,
ink and printing material of all kinds
has advanced L , 5 per cent, in the last
few months, we at one time thought
to change the price of the paper to
$1.50 but have decided to continue at
$1.00 for a while, at least. You may
depend upon The Ledger remaining
as cheap us it is possible for a high
class paper to he.
ONWAKI).
The index on the dial plate of
time points to a new year—a year
never before known in all the annals
of tin past, a year just born of a
mm er still fruitful in her old age,
a y ur the youngest of thousands,
the lairest of a long line of years,
the fullest of promise, the most bar
ren of performance of ail that have
gone before.
How shall we greet the niw year?
Shall we crown it with garlands of
Imp, and joy? Shall we pour upon
its altar lihii‘ions of gratitude and
love, or shall we stand in its pns-
enre with unmanly fear and gloomv
foreboding- 1 , whib- we vainly look
within and without for some suer -
ficial offering with which to propi
tiate a silent and remorseless muster,
whose plans ait i. it '.it unfolded,
whose purj s - are unknown?
Wo know t ; oiigij of old “Tim •,
the I rav- • i ii) know that tui ;
niio t< i
balm of consolation to the wounded
heart. It will wear away animosi
ties, bury old prejudice?, and bring
together many who have been
strangers to each other and bless
them with all the wealth of friend
ship, confidence, and love.
Ail hail to the new year! We’ll
move onward with its rising tide,
know irig full well that it will keep
fuilh with all tin true, the faithful,
ami the brave, and ti at for every act
of duty done, for every unselfish
sacrifice for truth, and right and
honor, for every honest service
rendered to God and humanity, it
will bestow, from its store house of
fadeless treasures, a reward which
the world cannot give nor ever take
away.
NOTIvS AND COMMKNTS.
nearly zero and w
owner is
transacting busine e.
ling trunk.
In this ease the sur:*:'
i\. is evidenced
by the cries, which ;
ire almost like
sobs, and uuniistaksLIe
tears freeze on
, to tin* cheeks like icicles.
When a horse falls in the street and
gets injured,the shock generally numbs
the senses so much that it does not ei
ther cry or groan, hut under some con
ditions an injured horse will solicit
sympathy lu ttie most distinct manner.
; 1 remember a favorite horse of my own
' which trod on a nail long enough to
pierce its foot. The poor thing hob
bled up to me on three legs and cried
as nearly like n child in trouble as any
thing l can describe. The sight was a
very touching one, as w as also the crip
pled animal's gratitude when the nail
v as pulled out and the wound dressed.
—St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
The coldest weather of the season
lias prevailed during the past few
days. The themometer has ranged
from 18 to 52, exposed water pipes
have burnt, and whatever could be
killed or damaged by cold, has
caught it.
♦ ♦ ♦ -*
The meeting called for today in
!he court house by the Cowpens
Memorial Association should bo well
attended. If the people of Cherokee
really want a park at Cowpens, to
commemorate one of the most
glorious e vents in our country’s his
tory, the surest way of getting it is
to show that they are in earnest by
doing what they can to establish it
The best way to get help is to show a
disposition to help themselves.
Suppose that the Legislature to
meet next week, in addition to the
usual enormous appropriations to
the state colleges, vote an additional
000 to Wit throp for building new
dormitories, and suppose tin se dor
mitories shall, be quickly filled, a
na-onable supposition, when girls
are literally hind i> attend this
sc! ud. Will there not ho another
<1 m u d fur more room? And will
' ted tn.iUil g' 0:1 multip yit.g a-:
1 • ■ i contlnu I"
ta\ tho nun sc.a for tho purn -se of
frown, » i fori: it bull pass from our
vision and live only in memory. We
i. :i vo ■, i n t i, f . r ; erf the morn-
n is t a *1.
! llelfii Himl ]
Yn.'.bt-rs. I ii yni with your nursery liflit.
I.i'i.iiiii'j v r fm11—, all in whltr,
To l in it- swei t re>(;
< lit i-i, i lio i In >i| siit-pli'-rd, i arri'-i iniui-to-
nkrlil.
A “Growlt-ry.”
‘Tlease don't go in there. That’s tho
growlery, and it's occttpiod.” It was
a young West Philadelphia matron who
made the remark as she was showing
a friend through her new home.
“The growlery!" repeated the other.
“What’s that? Not where you rush the
growler, I hope?"
This was said in a jocular spirit, and
the visitor was rather staggered by the
reply.
“That’s it exactly; where we rush the
growler, although perhaps not in the
way you fancy. You see, my husband
is an occasional sufferer from indiges
tion, which doesn’t improve his temper,
and there are also times when my own
temper—I tell you this in confidence--
is not of the best. Well, when wo
moved out here and had more rooms la
the house than we actually needed l
hit upon the plan of setting aside one
as a place of solitary retirement, where
we could go and he alone when either
of us felt our temper getting the best
of us. 1 have called it the growlery
because we can lock ourselves in there
and growl to our hearts’ content until
we have quite recovered. We both
avail oursel' es of it. and l think it’s a
very good idea. George is in there
now, and I wouldn't disturb him for
lire world.”—Philadelphia Record.
KmnceH AV iIIhimI’h I-tuipty 1 arse.
It was characteristic of the late
Frances Willard that sin* never hid
any money. Miss Gordon attended to
her linances, and it was found on *he
whole best to leave Miss Willard's
purse empty, because if she started
out in tho morning with a full pocket-
book she came back penniless in the
evening. One night she told In her in
imitable way of having gone to Chi
cago and reached Rest Cottage again
on the capital of a postage stamp. At
the station she turned her pockets out,
but not a bil of change was to be
found. She had forgotten all about it.
“What am I to do about UV ’ sin* asked
the agent perplexedly. "Anna is out, I
think, and I haven’t a cent of money.”
“I'll give you a ticket. Miss Willard,”
said the clerk.
“When 1 g h into the bus I rentetn-
Tlio s.inVi Journey TlirotiKh S|iru*e.
By means of iho spectroscope we can
! obtain a probably more accurate deler-
uiinati >n of (be sun's velocity through
space. As is well known, the velocity
| of a star In the line of sight can he
j found by measuring the displacement
of the lines visible in the star’s spee-
! trum. Now, the stars near the position
of the solar “apex" should lie ap-
pn aching the canh on account of the
) solar motion, ami those at the opposite
i point of the sky. called the “ant apex,”
j should he receding.
This method has been employed by
i several astronomers, especially by Vo
gel at the I'otsdum observatory. This
; able astronomer has found from an ex-
| amiuntiou of 40 stars that the sun's
! velocity through space is about V/j
mill's a second, hut an examination of
a larger number of stars would he uce-
! cssary before we could consider this
! result as thoroughly established.
Fiom an examination of the spectra
of It nebuhe Professor Keeler of the
Lick observatory has found velocities
] in the line of sight, and from these the
French astronomer Tisserand lias de
duced a velocity of about 1) l-!5 miles
for the solar motion, a result which
does not differ widely from that found
by Vogel. We may therefore perhaps
Conclude that the velocity of the sun’s
notion through space is between G and
i” miles per second.—Gentleman’s
Magazine.
bored again," sm> said, “an !
In
the
lit'*
til
<v>
pass into years ana me yens inio
centuri m> 1 i ; will lids scene of
human life he checkered with sun
shine and shadows, now beset will)
calms‘ind anon rent with tempests
J\rhaj;s we should like to linger in
1h v. kv of tlie ji ur that is gone,
and mu- upon ail that the year
brought and carried so quickly away
—upon the love that softened and
gladdemd our hearts, the friends
that came into our livis like gentle
messengirs from a land of bliss, the
hajpy hours that reigned in the
home and sped all too quickly from
the hearts and lives of the young and
the old, tho hopes that encouraged
our souls, the prospects that rejoiced
our eyes. Then, too, will rise the
recollection of our follies, of our
burii.d hopes, of lost opportunities,
of sorrows that pressed with a crush
ing weight upon our hearts and
wrapped our lives in gloom. And as
we linger now and feel the chasten
ing, strengthening influences of all
tlml the old year brought us, we
should love to linger still and muse
long and fondly upon the joys and
sorrows too, that have now departed
forever.
lint the rolling tide of life never
ling r-*. The new year knows noth
ing of helpless infancy. It springs
full grown into life, with tho stride
of a giant, with wings riady plutmd I
for ra
pid
lligl
tit. Th
(.*£(»
fvings
will
r ever
l irt
t in r
droop till
the de?
diny
of the
: hu
mun
race shall
have
In en
contmimi)
Utei]
and all
ti
ml peri
ains
to humar
i hop
* » or ft*
urn
shall
fill vo
been
real
ized.
\\ e
mu
st 111
five on—
-on
to new
l X-
peri
CCS
, to
Ulitriei
1 r
vain ie.—
let i
t lit
s!, t<
) )ii<die
r a*
•iliet elfM
to a l<
oft it
•r pi
a no of
in
anhood
nnd
won a
mho
od.
We
f f 1 ti
ii in
i ti
rials, d i
I » i» r\ w
! niii i |> U-urs wh ■ i ce them twine
I'lu-b- liii'.-i ! -. in yiniiN, iiik! lln-lr brDht 1 ni 'S
shine
On vmir warm breast;
l!ul tlie Savi'Mir's is purer lb,in ymirs or
‘ He can love best!
A i u Ire’iibie i ;i Ii bon: b cnusc yur arms
Ale \v» t!.: \our lie n-1 is wrum-T with alarms,
\ ii.I M>re oppn
• ly diirlin- . an .ale, out of reaeli of harms;
\mi 111 it is Itesl.
\ . s iiu.', over you is may hang even now
Pain ami disease, whose liillilling slow
.Naiif.‘lii ran arrest.
Mine in l• oil's irardens ran to and fro.
And that is liesl.
You know that of yours tin- feeblest one
And the dearest may live long years alone,
I’lilovcd. uuhlcst;
Mine are rherislicd of saints around Hod's
t hrone,
A ml that is h< st.
Yon must dread for years I lie crime that
sea I s.
Hark guilt unwashed by repentant tears,
A ml uncoiifessed.
Mine entered spotless on eternal years,
Oh, how much (lie best.
Hut grief is sellisli, and I cannot see
Ahvnys why I should so stricken lie.
More I ban I lie rest ;
Hill I know that, as well ns for tiieni, for me,
Hod did the best?
Fraternal l iilon Or|(aul/ed.
A lodge of the Fraternal Union of
America was organized at the Ma
sonic Hull last night by Deputy Su
preme President, F. 15. Iliddulph.
This is a rapidly growing social,
fraternal and benevolent order,
which in its insurance branch, pre
sents Hcverul novel features which
possess great merit.
The officers of our local lodge
elected for the ensuing term were:
Wm. II. Smith—Fraternal Master.
N. H. Littlejohn—Justice.
Wm. H. Pierson—Secretary.
C. M. Smith—Treasurer.
Geo. W. Cotton—Protector.
O. T. Hallman—Truth.
W. F. Smith—Mercy.
J. K. Kzell—Guide.
L. W. Cooper—Guard.
S. W. Clary—Sentinel.
T. 15. Butler and K. It. Cash-
Stewards.
j J. N. Nesbitt—Med. Examiner.
It is much harder to get a dollar
into one’s pocket than it is to get it
out.
driver, "1 think I'll have bi walk, for 1
haven’t any money.” “Oh, thrift all
right, Miss Wiliatd.” paid the driver.
And so sill day. gnatly to h. r amuse
ment, she xv.
on
ling in debt to
tin* railroad a, cabmen and restamauts.
I —Chicago Inter Gecan.
ffe Dills n Cut.
In a rural conununiiy in one of the
: middle states dwelt a man who made
a vow in is.u; that he would wear his
hail and board untrimmod until John
C. Fremont should be elected president
of tho tinted States.
He kept that vow for 40 years, at tho
end of which time ho had nearly a half
bushel of hair on his head and face.
Then, coming to the eonelnsljn, to
ward which his mind had been gradu
ally working for a long time, that Con-
ora! Fremont's doatii in tho interval
had practically absolved him from bis
vow, he decided to have Ids hair cut
and his heard shaved off cl< an. On
his next visit to the comity seat lie
went to a harbor shop and was soon
relieved of the hirsute burden ho had
carried for four decades.
“Ilow much?” he asked.
“Have to charge* you half n dollar
for that Job,” said the harbor, looking
at the mass that lay on the floor.
“Half a dollar!” he gasped. “Don'! I
get anything for tho hair?”—Youth’s
Companion.
Ke ma
-kablc
Itt’SCIM*.
Mrs
M ichae
C:ir
aiu, 1’
ait
(1 Id,
III., m
ikes the
st at *
incut,
that she
caught
cold, w
hich
sett led
on her
lungs;
she was
t reuti
d for u month
by her
family
physician, but
grew
W n r *4 (»,
IU* to](
1 her
dm was
a
hope-
1 I vi<
•fi t (• f /•
a sum
ption a
nd
that
Mo me
licim* e
ould
cure 1)
r.
Her
druggh
d SUgg s
i. 1 D
r. Kin;
New
Ul>i- :ov
1■ )I'if I * t
■ry for
u bolt It!
Cot
•umpti
>n
*ho
found
herself
be nr fit
to fif*r
ted fr.
11
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, iIt*lit
first
| do e.
Sho co* 1
inaed
its Use
ai.
d uf-
ter t:*.k
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Ol til?
found
h
erself
An ONI Timer.
A crowd of young men were seated
in one of the steamboat olliees In the
city the other afternoon while an old
steamboat veteran regaled them witli
stories about old times on the Missis
sippi and reminiscences of old time cit
izens.
“Did you know old Rill .Tones?” ask
ed one of the men, after the captain
had finished relating how he ran a
gantlet of Indians with his boat way
j bnek iu the forties.
“’Member Bill Jones? Well, I guess
j 1 did,” replied the captain. “Let’s see,
! lie died just after the war. He was a
^ good old fiilow too. 1 knew his father
| before he was married to Bill's moth
er.”
One of the boys thought tin* old man
was "»!' ping" and by wpiy of tripping
him up on his dates asked, “Cap, how
long have you been running on the riv
er? •
“Who, me? Why, I started on the
Mississippi when it was nuthin hut a
crockMemphis Scimitar.
<'!ies* anil War.
The origin of chess is shrouded In
mystery. There is little doubt, how
ever, that its birthplace was in India
itnd that it is an offspring of a game
called chaturanga. which is mentioned
; iu oriental literature as in use fully
i 200 years before the Christian era.
From India chess spread into Persia,
j and thence into Arabia, and ultimately
i the Arabs took it into Spain and the
rest of western Europe.
The game was in all probability in
vented for tin* purpose of illustrating
the art of war. The Arab legend upon
tliis point is that it was devised for
the instruction of a young despot by
Ms father, a learned Brahman, to teach
It 1m that a king, notwithstanding his
power, was dependent for safety upon
Ids subjects. The Greek historians
trod it the invention of the game to
Palamedes, who, they claim, devised
it to beguile the tedium of tlie siege
of Troy during the Trojan war.
True Drcnin of IlrVr WIlllniiiN.
“Alter dis,” said the old colored
farmer, “I ain’t gwine tek nobody’s ad
vice ’bout whar I in ter keep my money.
You know, Br’er Williams tot’ me dat
hanks wuz onsafe—dat dey all time
failin cn swallerlu up what yo’ puls
lu Tun?”
“He did?”
“Dat what he done! En he say, ‘Wen
yo’ sells yo’ cotton, tek yo’ money en
dig a hole In de ground en bury it.’ ”
“En yo’ done lak he say?”
“1 did, for sho’! En what yo’ reckon?
Rr'cr Williams gone ter tied dat ii'.ght,
en, please God. he see money in his
dream, en whilst he wuz In a trance
en wall.in in his sleep de sporit what
w uz a inovin er Mm led right whar dat
money wuz, en ’to' he knowod it he had
done digged it up en lef do state wid
It!”—Atlanta Constitution.
Where Quinine Is Hood.
Dr. Crosse, in an article in The Lan
cet on hlackwater fever, incidentally
calls attention to tin* fact that it Is not
wise for those who have an idiosyncra
sy against quinine or who suffer from
even slight albuminuria to go to mala
rious climates. Ho believes that iu the
more iiWlarious districts at least live
grains of quinine should lie taken a
tlay to prevent chronic malarial poison
ing. This he considers necessary In ad
dition to ordinary precautions in re
gard to exposure to chills, wet and tho
Min and as to moderation in eating and
urinking.
CoiifntliiK nn IniponHlliiltt>'.
“I want to see Mrs. Smythe,”
the visitor.
“You can’t,” said tho servant,
has the toothache.”
“You must he mistaken,” the
replied. “Pm her dentist, and I
her teeth here in this package.”—Cath
otic Standard and Times.
man
Due
• ver Die m. * ks of the young ami
beautiful, paralyze the limbs of the
puny. Only 50 cents and $1.00,
J every bottle guaranteed,
Slnrfct! u Hun.
A very simple statement proved
very unfortunate to a savings institu
tion in the rural district recently. An
editor, in writing of the institution in
liis paper, said:
“The president is a very tall man;
the cashier Is short.”
And in less than nn hour tin* excited
depositors were asking, “How much -
how much?”- Atlanta Constitution.
It Is said that cowbells are produced
in only four factories in the United
States and are made Just the same as
they were 100 years ago and sound the
same.
In India elephants over P2 and up to
45 years of age are deemed the best to
purchase and will generally work until
they are 80 years old.
Spnnliili Courfcuy.
In tin* Spanish Bibles and prayer
books the nnmeof the Saviour and those
of the jtnints are always printed with
tin* title “sonor" (mister) before them,
ns Mr. John, the Baptist. Mr. Saint
Paul. Mr. Saint Matthew, etc.—Chicago
Record.
Most men give up what they like
to do in order to get what they like
to have.
Volcanic ICruptluiiH
Are grand, but Skm Eruptions rob
life of joy. Buckleo's Arnica Salve
cures them; also Old. Running and
Fever Sores, Ulcers, Boils, Felons,
Corns, Warts, Cuts, Bruises. Burns,
Scabls. Chopped Hands. •TUhlams,
Best Pile cure on inrth. Drives out
Pains and Aches. Only 2.> cents a
box. Cure guaranteed. Sold by
Cherokee Drug Co.
A Ttjxcr’n ni»c.
! have more than ome heard of a
man defending liiimi If from Ike on
slaught of a li"ii or tiger by thrusting
his rifle barrels down it? throat In the
last resort. Poor Major Kandbach of
the artillery came to Id? dealli iu So
maliland a few y * ais as i in altompting
to thus -hold off a lioness., which never
theless managed to bit!: t on Id . hand
and arm bites which proved fatal. A
curious story <>l tin* same kind comes
from tin* Khandwa district of northern
India.
Mr. I’.ayley, also an artillery officer,
was charged by a wounded tiger which
he was following up. He missed it
with Ids first barrel, and the second
failed to go off. The tiger sprang, and
Mr. Bay ley jumped to one side, thrust
ing oul Ids rifle to keep the brute off.
The tiger, it is stated, seized the bar
rels and drove his teeth through them
and. being unable to withdraw them,
was shot by Captain Harrison, Mr.
Bayley’s companion.
In his death struggle the tiger drag
ged the rifle fiom tin* owner's hands,
and the jar caused by the stock strik
ing tin* ground broke off two teeth
which were imbedded in iho steel. This
story is said to be absolutely true; but.
with the profoundcst respect for the
strength of the tiger's jaws and teeth,
I venture to think it wants explana
tion.- London Sketch.
Hard on the Ilnrglnr.
“There is a family In my town,” said
a Baltimore man, “where the children
are all hoys. They are very rich, and
each of the three sons is in receipt of a
liberal allowance, but the manner Iu
which they expend it and certain of
their characteristics were as succinct
ly and tersely described as possible
the other day by Bob. the eldest one, in
telling the story of a burglary that oc-
eurreu last summer at their country
place. Boh is tlie oldest, Jack tlie sec
ond and Albert the youngest son. Bob,
iu telling tin* story, said:
“Tie didn’t get very much, as some
one of the servants thought he heard
something about 15 and in going to in
vestigate probably scared him off. but
when we discovered the next morning
that a burglar had visited us we natu
rally took an account of stock. The
only.rooms in the house he had entered
were those of my two brothers and
myself, and in each of them he had
gone through tin* clothes avi* had been
wearing the day before. Out of my
clothes he got 10 cents, from Jack lu*
got nothing, and in going through
Bert’s jo. 4 ,ns he got iu debt.’’’—New
York Tribune.
Women of n l*t!!«*!i V111 n««*.
Thi* village women of Holland take
special care to keep the tips of their
white lace hoods stiff with starch,
which is as necessary a perfection in
their toilet as polished linen and spot
less collars with ours. This delicate
hood is worn over a black skullcap
that (its the closely clipped head very
much like tin* headgear of a nun. The
elderly women, widows, often wear a
straw bonnet over it. A jacket of dark
blue, with a breast piece of cream cloth
and dark him* border of the same cloth
at the hips, constitutes the dress of
the women end the girls.
The skirts protrude at the hips iu a
grotesque fashion on account of the
many flannels which they wind about
the body, evidently a fad with them
as with many peasants of the Black
forest, where the custom prevails to
wear as many skirts as the spare box
will allow, adding at least one skirt
every year. They all dress alike, and
the talk about dress therefore does not
slip into their conversations, and on
that scon* they are at eternal peace
with one nii' tlier. for no change of
dress has occurred among then) for
centuries and will not for years to
come.—Donahoi
Credit.
Embarrassed country dealer In a
Boston wholesale grocery:
“I would like to make a settlement.”
“How much can you pay?”
“Seventy-live cents.”
“Very well,” s.inl Wholesale, “we will
close the account.”
“1 suppose you will continue to let
me have goods?" said Retail.
“Not a dollar's W'iffii.” responded
Wholesale, and the fonner, discour
aged, dropped into a chair.
Embarrassed retailer No. *2 stepped
to the desk and wanted to settle.
"How much do you offer?”
“Five cents.”
“All right,” said the unembarrassed
Wholesale.
“Can 1 have any more goods?"
“Ail you want.”
Retail No. 1, rising:
“How is this? 1 propose paying you
75 cents on tin* dollar, and you refuse
me credit. This man offers you only 5
cents, and you will trust him with all
he wants.”
“My dear sir.” exclaimed Wholesale,
“you are paying too much. You won't
have any capital left with which to
commence business again.” Where
upon the creditless retailer went his
way. wondering who originated the
proverb, “Honesty is the best policy.”
—New York Observer.
A Danlnt ki (Tmiigc
As will be noted by reference to
our advertising columns the firm of
Bridges A Reason lias been dissolved,
Mr. (), I*'. Holland having purchased*
Mr. Bridges’ interest. The business
will he continued under the firm
name of Benson A Holland. The
Ledger wishes for the new linn the
success that attended the old and
there is no doubt but what Messrs.
Reason A Holland will succeed, as
both are popular with the purchas
ing public.
We have not been able t) learn
Mr, Bridges intentions, but it is safo
i to say that John will not long re-
I main idle.
Stsir Farm Statemculft.
(Correspondence of The Ledger.)
St\u Fahm, Dec. 30.—We aro hav-
i irtg some cold and windy weather.
Mr. J. Eh. Jefferies has been visit-
ir.g his old home at Star Farm.
Miss Louise Jefferies has been
spending the holidays at her home.
She left for Union this morning.
Mr. and Mrs. J. K. Littlejohn are
rejoicing over a fine daughter.
It lias been a dull Christmas in
this section. Littlk Dickii:.
A Cure Tin*.t Killed.
Notwithstanding tin* spread of edu
cation iu Galicia, superstition is still
alive among tne R» bsli peasantry. I lu*
wifi* of a well t > do country man in
Niiporonta, Ka-par Kafka, laid a ma
lignant ulcer ami was in a very dan
gerous state. IN*r husband decided to
call in a shepherd renowned for ids
wonderful healing powers.
The latter, having examined Ids pa
tient, proceeded to tie her left elbow
to her right knee and her left knee to
her right elbow, announerd that she
was possessed with a devil and direct
ed tlu'm to anoint tin* ulcer with a
mixture of soft son;) and 15 chopped
hairs from a horse’s tail. If tin* pa
tient seronmed, it was the devil
screaming within her, and she was to
In* h ft alone, securely bound to the
bed, that sin* might not remove tin*
appliance. He then took Ins fee and
left.
Ills orders were conscientiously car
ried out, with the result that after a
night of indescribable agony the poor
woman died of exhaustion.—Cracow
Letter in Chicago Record.
Kool l.tiek.
“You can bet it is always a fool for
luck,” said the man who has had his
nose to tho grindstone all his life.
“Now, there was Jack Shane of Ten
nessee, who drew $25,000 in a lottery.
Jack didn't know enough to go In out
of the wot, hut he hml a little money,
and he bought a ticket that won. while
I got ten and didn’t fold) a cent. The
winning number was 42, and when I
saw Jack I asked him how he happen
ed to take that number. ’Well.’ he
said, ‘you see. it was this way: 1 had a
dream one night, and I dreamed that
the door of my room opened all of a
sudden and a big number seven walked
In. Then right after it came other sev
ens and mi.re and more till tin* room
was chuck full and 1 was about smoth
ered under them. Then 1 woke up and
began thinking it over. I knowod that
one seven wasn't the number to draw
nor 77 nor 7.777, for there was a mil
lion of them, and no lottery had that
many numbers. But 1 figured awhile
and at last made up my mind that sev
en times seven was 42. and 42 was tho
number, so 1 drawed that one. That
was all there was to it.’
“Now,” concluded the talker, “if that
isn’t a ease of a fool for luck what tlie
dickens is it?”—Washington Star.
DeKeneruie Cockney.
The language of the lower Londoner
Is changing:
“Getcb trine?”
“Now. Trine gawn, cut it?”
Tra nslnted:
“Get your train?”
“No. Train gone, hasn’t it?”
Ent (the old ain’t) seems to cover
Isn’t, wasn’t, weren't has, hasn’t, have,
haven’t, had, hadn’t.—Notes and Que
ries.
Pni-tmuny's Pnrticnfnr FIcmn.
Perhaps the plague In Paraguay is
merely an attack of pigue. or sand Ilea.
This insect is called nigua in the native
language. In INTO it killed a whole
colony of Englishmen, consisting of
2bo families, turning the colony, which
was at Itape, into a cemetery. A Ger
man colony at Acegua was driven out.
The pigue causes buboes and attacks
tlie warmest parts of the body—that is,
the cavities and tin* groin and armpit-
just the same spots as the eastern
plague. It attacks Englishmen itnd
Germans preferentially and avoids
those that use but little soap. Soaps
clean tin* body, and tho pigue likes
clean persons to eat. It also avoids
people who eat more or less poisonous
food. A man saturated with alcohols,
Boea gin, nicotine and Pasco de Julie
cookery is pretty well safe from the
sand Ilea.—Buenos Ayres Herald.
Governors
There is a large expanse of rolling
sward on Governors island kept at all
times in the pink of condition. This
little island off Battery park is con
ceded to be the best kept army post on
the Atlantic coast. There are two
reasons for this. Fort Columbus is the
headquarters of the department of tlie
east. It must assume an appearance
in keeping with its high standing In
the department.
It also has a military prison, and the
convicts sent there for terms of months
or years tire sentenced to hard labor.
Under the supervision of sentinels
these men keep the walks and prome
nades scrupulously clean and the
sward closely clipped and free from
falling leaves and other litter. They
also give proper attention to the vari
ous buildings and their Immediate sur
roundings.—Now York Press.
AiMtlniiNc Hitd CrlticiBiil.
It was after tin* piano recital, and the
audience was still applauding. There
were two English women, though, who
did not clap their hands. But they
commented in tones that were audible
for some distance around llius:
"The poor man! Will they make
him play again?”
“Isn’t It awful the way the Ameri
cans applaud? It’s so vulgar!”
“Yes; It’s the most vulgar thing they
do.”
And tin* Americans took meekly their
lesson In manners. New York Com
mercial Advertiser.
The Clinnm* of n f'oiiiinit.
“When vi r sin* asks me to do any
thing,” soiiloquiz d Mr. Meeker pen
sively, “I always go and do It. like a
fool."
“Yes,” said Mrs. Mickcr. who hap
pened along iu t me to overhear him.
“Whenever 1 ask you to do anything
you always go and do It like a fool."—
l 'hicngo Tribune.
Sovuko Crabs.
The most savage specimen of the
crab species is found in Japan, seeming
to dream of nothing but fighting—to
delight in nothing half so much. The
minute lu* spies another of his kind he
scrapes Ids claws together In rage,
challenging him to the combat. Not a
moment is wasted in preliminaries, but
at it they go, hammer and tongs. It
sounds like two rocks grinding against
one another as their daws rattle
against the hard shells. The sand flies
as the warriors push each other hither
and thither until at la t one of them
stretches himself out in the sun, tired
to death.
But he does not beg for mercy or at
tempt to run away, only feebly rubbing
his claws together iu defiance of tlie
foe. That foe comes closer, and, with
his claws trembling with Joy at his vic
tory, the conqueror catches hold of one
claw of the vanquished crab, twists it
until it conies off, and bears away the
palpitating limb as a trophy of his
prowess. Such is a battle between
warrior crabs.
A nibliophile'H Reilly.
Mnndcll Creighton, the bishop of
London, lias a horror of lending his
favorite hooks, says a London corre
spondent. The bishop is a ('harming
wit as well us a great scholar. A fel
low clergyman once visited the bishop
and took a fancy to an old edition of
Shakespeare. lie borrowed the volume
and did not think to return it for sev
eral mouths.
Finally the minister returned it with
a letter, saying: “My Dear Bishop—I
have great pleasure in returning the
volume you loaned me.”
The bishop answered: “My Dear
Brother—All the joy is mine.”—Denver
Republican.
A Book She Wonhln't Rcntl.
“There is one hook of Mr. Steven
son’s that 1 myself have never read,”
said Mrs. Stevenson. "I refused to
read It and held to my refusal. 1 make
It a rule never to read a novel the
scene of which Is laid in a bygone age.
The author always deems it his duty
to make his characters talk in what
he considers the language of that pe
riod, and 1 am always sure that he
doesn’t know positively how they did
1 talk, so 1 won’t read such books. 1
; would never read the ‘Black Arrow,’
j and Mr. Stevenson thought it such a
good joke that he insisted upon dedi
eating it to me.”—Illustrated Indiana
Weekly.
A .Strictly First-Cliiss l.lnc of Jewelry
Hiiurunteetl to Hive Si«tlsfaetl<>n or
Hie Money Will He Kernmieil.
A full and very fine line of jewelry
is now offered for sale by R. If.
Brown A Go., of Blacksburg, 8. C.
This lint* includes rolled gold plate,
gold filled, gold front and solid gold
goods of our own manufacture and
we warrant them to give perfect sat
isfaction or we will refund the
money paid for them -by the pur
chaser.
We manufacture over 5 000 designs
and patterns of jewelry and do not
hesitate to warrant our goods to the
fullest extent. Wo know they are
exactly as represented.
In ease this notice should reach
patrons who are too far troin Brown
A Co.’s place of business, or other
stores where our goods tiro sold, to
admit of their going there to pur
chase our goods, write us what you
want and we will supply you by
mail, at the regular prices.
Wo will he glad to correspond with
the wearer of our goods concerning
them. Will send full instructions as
to the care of jewelry, bow to clean
it. etc., on application, bv mail.
W. F Main A Co.
Eastern Factory, Corner Friendship
anil Eddy Streets 1‘rovidencp,
Rhode I?land. Western Factory
(largest in tin* U. 8.) under process
of completion at East Iowa City,
la. Over 52,UOO feet of Hour place.
Have You
Heard
Of it?
You may have heard
about SCOTT’S EMULSION
and have a vague notion
that it is ccd-liver oil with
g its bad taste and smell and
^ all its other repulsive fea-
J tures. It is cod-liver oil, the
^ purest and the best in the
e world, but made so palata-
~ ble that almost everybody
can take it. Nearly all
children like it and ask for
more.
SCOTT’S
EMULSION
looks like cream; it nour
ishes the wasted body of
the baby, child or adult
better than cream or any
other food in existence. It
bears about the same rela
tion to other emulsions that
cream does to milk. If you
have had any experience
with other so-called '‘just as
good” preparations, you
will find that this is a fact.
The hypophosphites that are
combined with the cod-liver oil
give additional value to it because
they tone up the nervous system i
and impart strength to the whole
body.
Soc. am! $i,oo. all ilruggisls.
SCOTT iX DOWNl-:, Chemists, New York.
J. Olocuii Wai.lacn. J. COUNKMUS OTT9.
WALLACE & OTTS,
LAWYERS.
All Imsincss Intrusted to us, ptvon prompt
and vigorii? attention. (UHco up stairs, next
to K. A. .tones A Co. ’I’lioni*. 87.
— "
H.U.Duncan. C. I*.Sanders. W.S.IIall, Jr.
DUNCAN, SANDERS & HALL,
Attorneys-at-Law.
Office two doors above Ledger Olllee.
•*J. C. JEFFERIES *-
CiAFFNEY, S. C.
| Commercial Law, Corporation Law
ileal Cstate Law,
Money to loan on approved security.
J A M ICH A. WILLIS,
Attorney-at-Law,
CVAK1*'XKY\ C.
Money to loan on Real Fstute.
Offiee over It. A. Jones At Co.’s store.
HARDIN & MCWHORTER,
iVttorneyw t\t
GAFFNEY, - - S. C.
Money to loan on rlty real estate.
Office over It. A. Jones A Co.’s Store.
J. E. WEBSTER,
Attorney-A. t> Iwti'vv*
Otllcuiu Court House.(Probate Judge suffice
’ Gaffney City, S. C.
PracticeH in all tbe courts. Collec
tions a specialty
Business Change.
Tlie linn heretofore known as bridges A
IteitHoii having lieen dissolved by the pur-
ehlise of Mr. Bridges’ interest by Mr. O. F.
Holland tlie business will hereafter be eon-
dueled under the tlrm nnmeof Iteavui ,x li,>|-
laitd. iieusoii A Holland assume all liabili
ties. We respectfully solleit tho eoutllltled
|>at romige of t be many friends atel customers
of tho old tirtu. Vorv truly,
Itl DoS \ HOLLAND.
We wish to extend to the public our most
kr.itefiii thanks for the patronage Is'slowcd
n|hhi us the |>ast two years tint to asstmt
thorn that our purpose at all times was to
g vc Inn cents value for every dollar we re
ceived, mnl we desire, so far as practicable,
that our customers and friends continue to
P iIronist our : uecossors.
\ ours trttly. ,
UlUlMiKS A IlLASON. |