The ledger. [volume] (Gaffney City, S.C.) 1896-1907, March 02, 1900, Image 3
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other foes to buttle with after his return
from the late war. Ho recently wrote:
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THREE ANGELS.
They uy this life is barren, drear and cold;
Ever tbs same sad song was bung of old,
Ever the same long weary tale is told,
And to our lips is held the cup of strife—
And yet • little love can sweeten life.
They say our hands may grasp but joys destroyed,
Youth has hut dreams and age an selling void,
Whose dead sea fruit, long, long ago has cloyed,
Whose night with wild, U uipesluous storms U
rife—
And yet a little hope can brighten life.
They say we fling ourselves in wild despair
Amidst the broken treasures scattered there,
Where all is wrecked, where all once promised
fair,
And stab ourselves with sorrow’s two edged
knife—
And yet a little patience strengthens life.
Is U, then, true this tale of bitter grief,
Of mortal anguish finding no relief?
Lo, midst the winter shines the laurel’s leaf—
Three angels share the lot of human strife.
Three angels glorify the path of life.
Love, Rope and Patience cheer us on our way,
Love, Hope and Patience form our spirit’s stay.
Love, Hope and Patience watch us day by day.
And bid the desert bloom with beauty vernal
Until the earthly fades in the eternal.
—F. S. in Temple Bar.
Don’t taUo my word for it but ask ladies
who aio uiiipg Dcmorest Sewing Machines,
vi/.:
Mrs. Clayton Phillips, Home. S. C.
Mrs. T homas Sunders. Star Farm, C.
Mrs. Mid Manor, Wilkinsville. S. C.
Mrs. Shelton St Mors, Mercer, S. C.
Mrs. II. K. I'rloinore. Gaffney, S. C.
Mrs. A. It. N. bulgier, Gaffney. S. C.
Mrs. S. (,*. Surratt, Gaffney, S. C.
Mrs. Joe Phillips, Webster, S. C.
i*. s. r.ii'ScoiviH, Aart..
Crtiffney, fc-5. O.
J. Glouqh Wam,ace. J. Cohnemus Otts.
WALLACE & OTTS,
LAWYERS.
All business intrusted to us, given prompt
and vlgorus attention. Ollice up stairs, next
to K. A. Jones & < o. ’Phone 87.
J). U.Duncan. C.P.Sanders. >V.S. Hall, Jr.
DUNCAN, SANDERS & HALL,
Attornoys-at-Law.
Office over J. It. Tolleson’s & Co.’s Store.
C. JEFFERIES 4-
GAFFNEY, S. C.
Commercial l.avv. Corporation Law
Iteal Kstate Law.
Money to loan on approved security.
JAMJCS A. WIXvTvIS,
Attorney-at-Law,
v. e. c.
Money to loan on Keal Kstate.
Office over It. A. Jones & Co.’s store.
HARDIN & MCWHORTER,
GAFFNEY, - - S. C.
Money to loan on city real estate.
Office over It. A. Jones & Co.’s Store.
J. E. WEBSTER,
AAtoi'j iiiy- AA- Xva.'W'y
Officeiu Court House.(ProbatC'Judge sofflee
Gaffney City, S. C.
Practices in all tbe courts. Collec
tions a specialty
A New Front.
I found out that I had my counter ar
ranged wrong so the other day I had it
changed. As now an tinged my market pre
sents the neatest appearance of any market
inthcelty. I propose to keep It that way.
All my customer-, are pleased with the ncut
appearance of everything and th y say the
quality of my Hi ef. Pork, .Sausage, Etc., can-
.iiot lie excelled. A eoud evidence that they
^ire telling the t mill is that. I have retained
til tlie eustomers that have commenced with
Ka and I am constantly gaining new ones.
M oats delivered to any part of the city free
Of charge. I gnarautcc everythlngto be Just
as I represent It to U“.
Sam L. Morgan.
flKE, LIFE AM ACCibENT INSURANCE.
When you need a Fire. Life or Accident
I’olley call and get rates and Information.
Your business solicited.
Prompt attention.
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Office over K. A. Jones & Co.’s store.
A. N. WOOD,
BANKER,
does a genor 1 Babkin}'and Exchange
business. Well secured with Burglar
Proof safe and Automatic Time Lock
Bafety Dapoelt Hoxes ut modorate
rent.
JUiyh and soils Stocks undlionds
Buys County und School Claims.
Your bdilu^ss solicited.
By Mathazuel Hawthorns.
A new fragment by the great
American novelist.
When Hawthorne was American
consul at Liverpool, be was often a
guest at the house of the late Mr. John
Pemberton Heywood of that city. Up
on one occasion when lie was dining
with the family he related a ghost
story which Mrs. Heywood thought so
remarkable that she asked him to
write it out for her. Tills he did, ap
parently keeping no copy of the manu
script, for It has never appeared in
any volume bearing his name. The
manuscript has been for all these years
in the possession of Mrs. I ley wood’s
sister, the Hon. Mrs. Richard Denman,
who lias allowed It to be communi
cated to The Nineteenth Century for
publication:
I am afraid this ghost story will bear
a very faded aspect when transferred
to paper. Whatever effect it had on
you or whatever charm It retains in
your memory Is perhaps to be attrib
uted to the favorable circumstances
under which It was originally told.
We were sitting, 1 remember, late in
the evening In your drawing room,
where the lights of the chandelier were
so muffled as to produce a delicious
obscurity, through which the lire dif
fused a dim red glow. lu this rich
twilight the feelings of the party had
been properly attuned by some tales
of English superstition, and the lady
of Smltbills Hall had just beeu de
scribing that bloody footstep which
marks the threshold of her old man
sion when your Yankee guest (zealous
for the honor of his country and de
sirous of proving that his dead com
patriots have the same ghostly privi
leges as other dead people If they think
It worth while to use them) began a
story of something wonderful that long
ago happened to himself.
Possibly in the verbal narrative lie
may have assumed a little more liceuse
than would he allowable in a written
record. For the sake of the artistic ef
fect he may then have thrown In here
and there a few slight circumstances
which he will not think it proper to re
tain lu what he now puts forth as the
sober statement of a veritable fact.
A good many years ago—it must he
as many ns 13, perhaps more, and
while I was still a bachelor—1 resided
in Boston. In that city there Is a large
and long established library styled the
Athenaeum, connected with which Is a
reading room well supplied with for
eign and American periodicals and
newspapers. A splendid edifice lias
since been erected by the proprietors of
the institution, but at the period I
speak of It was contained within a
lar};-’, old mansion, formerly the town
residence of an eminent citizen of Bos
ton. The reading room, a capacious
hall, with the group of the Laocoou at
one end and the Belvedere Apollo at
the other, was frequented by not a few
elderly merchants retired from busi
ness, by clergymen and lawyers and
by such literary men as we had among
us. These good people were mostly
old, leisurely and somnolent and used
to nod and doze for hours together
with the newspapers before them, ever
and anon recovering themselves so fur
as to read a word or two of the politics
of the day, sitting, as It were, on the
boundary of the land of dreams and
having little to do with this world ex
cept through the newspapers which
they so tenaciously grasped.
One of these worthies whom I occa
sionally saw there was the Iter. Dr.
Harris, a Unitarian clergyman of con
siderable repute nud eminence, I|b
was very far advanced In life, not less
than 80 years old and probably more,
and he resided, I think, ut Dorchestei,
a suburban village lu the Immodlnto
vicinity of Boston. I had never been
personally acquainted with this good
old clergyman, hut had heard of him
all of my life as a noteworthy man, so
that when he was tlrst pointed out to
me I looked ut him with a certain
specialty of attention and always sub
sequently eyed him with a degree of
Interest whenever 1 happened to see
him at the Athenmum or elsewhere.
He was a small, withered, infirm, Hut
brisk old gentleman, with snow white
hair, a somewhat stooping figure, hut
yet a remarkable alacrity of move
ment. I remember It was In the street
lliat I first noticed him. The doctor
was plodding along with a staff, hut
turned smartly about on being address
ed by the gentleman who was with me
and responded with a good deal of
vivacity.
“Who Is he?" 1 inquired as soon as
be hud passed. ‘The Rev. Dr. Harris
of Dorchester," replied my companion.
And from that time 1 often saw him
and never forgot his aspect. Ills espe
cial haunt was the Atbcmcum. There
I used to see him daily and almost al
ways with a newspaper, the Boston
Fust, which was the leading journal of
the Democratic party lu the northern
states. As oh) Dr. Harris had been a
noted Democrat during Ids more active
life It was a very natural thing that
he should still like to read the Boslou
J’ost. There his reverend figure was
accustomed to sit day after day In the
selfsame chair by the fireside, and by
degrees, seeing him there so constant
ly, I began to look toward him ns 1 en
tered the reading room and felt that a
kind of acquaintance, at least on mjf
part, was established. Not that i hau
any reason (as long as this venerable
person remained in the body) to sup
pose that he ever noticed me, hut by
some subtle connection this small,
white haired, Infirm, yet vivacious fig
ure of au old clergyman became asso
ciated with my idea and recollection of
the place. One day especially (about
noon, as was generally his hour) 1 am
perfectly certain that I had seen this
figure of old Dr. Harris and taken my
customary i*>te of him. although I re
member nothing in his appearance at
all different from what 1 had seen on
many previous occasions.
But that verj evening a friend said
to me, “Did you hear that old Dr. Har
ris is dead?” “No,” said I very qui t-
ly, “and it ■ annot be true, for I saw
him at the Atliemeum today.” “You
must be mistaken,” rejoined my friend.
“He Is certainly dead,” and confirmed |
the fact with uch special circum
stances that I cot ill no longer doubt it.
My friend lias ol en since assured me
that I seemed much startled at the In
telligence, hut as well as I can recollect
1 believe that I was very little disturb
ed if at all, hut set down the apparition
as a mistake of my own or perhaps the
interposition of a familiar idea into the
place and amid the circumstances with
which I had been accustomed to asso
ciate it.
The next day as 1 ascended the steps
of the Atliemeum I remember thinking
within myself, “Well, I never shall see
old Dr. Harris again!” With this
thought In my mind as I opened the
door of the reading room I ginne d to
ward the spot and chair where Dr.
Harris usually sat, and there, to my
astonishment, sat the gray, infirm fig
ure of the deceased doctor reading (he
newspaper, as was his wont. His own
death must have been recorded that
very morning in that very newspaper.
I have no recollection of being greatly
discomposed at the moment nor Indeed
that I felt any extraordinary
whatever. Probably if ghost
the habit of coming among
would coincide with the onlii:
larly that we should not he shocked at
their presence. At all events, so it was
in this instance. I looked through the
newspapers as usual and turned over
the periodicals, taking about as much
Interest in their contents as at other
times. Once or twice no doukj 1 may
have lifted ray eyes from the page to
look again at the venerable doctor, who
ought then to have boon lying in his
coffin dressed out for the grave, hut
who felt such Interest in the Boston
Post as to come hack from the other
world to read it the morning after ids
death. One might have supposed that
he would have eared more about the
novelties of the sphere to which he had
just been introduced than about the
politics he had left behind him.
The apparition took no notice of me
nor behaved otherwise in any respect
than on any previous day. Nobody
hut myself seemed to notice him, and
yet the old men round about the lire
beside his chair were his lift long ac
quaintances, who were perhaps think
ing of his death and who in a day or
two would deem it a proper courtesy
to attend las funeral.
I have forgotten how the ghost of
Dr. Harris took its departure from the
Atliemeum on this occasion or. in fact,
whether the ghost or I went first. This
equanimity and almost indifference on
my part—the careless way in which I
glanced at so singular a mystery and
el is< s me
An(T"wnat an absurdHgnre should I
have made solemnly and awfully ad
dressing what must have appeared in
the «
»V('
s of all the r<
*st of tlit* company
an <•
I’M
i!y clialr. B<
sides, I had never
hopti
1 l
■ ' luced to 1
ir. Harr's, dead or
aiivi
J
p.l ! am nut
aware that social
regu
2 ns arc to lie
abrogated by tiic
accit
lu:
Hi! fact of c
me of the parties
I laving
crossed the
imperceptible line
Will
h
separates E e
oilier party from
the
spiritual v/oriil.
If ghosts throw
c.n ;
ill
conventional
i ni iimong thrm-
ptlvc
■s.
il does not th
'iV-DTro fellow that
it c.
in
ho safely d
i. p; u.-ed with by
tiios
3
wl.o are stH
1 hampered with
fl< I)
a i
id blood.
For s
uch n asnns 21
s these and n fleet-
i
m<
roovor, that 1
lie deceased doctor
ini;:l
it
lur.'icn me with some disagreca-
ble t
; with whkh
I had 110 business
nor
wi
^h to he cone
■rued I stubbornly
resolve
;1 to have not
ling to say to him.
To thi:
, <h terminati
in 1 adhered, and
not :
l s
yilahle ever ]
assed between tlie
giio.s
t (
f Dr. Han is 2
:nd myself.
To
tho best of my
•eeoileetion I never
ol)S(
rv<
■d the old m:
.n either enter the’
reading rooi i <ir doji:
irt from it or move
fron
h
is chair or 1.
y down tlu* news-
pa jh
r
or exchange
a look with any
PCI’S
•ui
in the comp;
iny unless it were
my 5
if
lie was no
by any means in-
var!
lid
y in his piaec
x In the evening,
for :
ns
tance. though
often at the read-
lug
'O'
m iny-eif, I
lever saw him. It
was
at
Fie Inighte
:t noontide that I
used
to lioliol'.l him,
silting within the
mos
e
u.ifoi ia’.le fo
cus of the glowing
fire.
real and life
like an object vex-
cept
til
at he was so
very old and of an
as!:'
n
joinplexion) a
s any other in the
roon
i.
After a lo
ng while of tills
S ;' ,:
- intercourse,
if such it can lie
called. I
cnee, at ! a:,t. and
,w not hut oUenor a sad, wistful,
ire which the ghost lix-
.’ii beneath his spccta-
huly look of helpless-
my heart had not boon
, • i 1
emotion
I'.ard a pavin
•; stone. I could liardly
1
s were :n ! ‘
have will.aloud
But I did witlisiand
us t
it. and i think 1
saw him no more after
ary train j
l'.:S ia.-'t Oppt •
Bing look, which still
so famil- i 1
dv.T-lis in iny 1:
emory as perfectly as
MV <
,n e
1
, s were encountering
red eyes of the ghost,
ucall this strange
passage of my life I see the small, old,
withered figure of Dr. Harris sitting in
his accustomed chair, the Boston Post
in his baud, his spectacles shoved up
ward. and gazin.' 1 , at me as I close the
door of the re. ling room with that
wistful, appealing, hopeless, helpless
look, it is too late now. His grave
has been, gross grown this many and
many a year, and I hope he has found
rest in it without any aid from me.
I have only to add tiiat it was not
until long after 1 had ceased to en
counter the ghost that I became aware
how very odd and strange the whole
affair had been, and even now I am
made sensible of its strangeness chief
ly by the wonder and incredulity of
those to whom I tell the story.
QUEER MILITARY METHODS.
YYliat Lord Clmrloa KorosiTcrd Haw
III* \ Isit to CtiLra.
How much room still remains in Chi
na for the exerc.. e of educational effort
was illustrated recently in an interest
ing manner by Lord Clairics I» 'rc.riord
in an address bcloie il.e institution of
lechaiiical lui;
crs.
left it aside is wha now s
as much as anything else in the affair.
From that time for a long while
thereafter- for weeks at least, and 1
know not hut for mouths I Used to see
the figure of Dr. Harris quite as fre
quently as before his death. It grew
to he so common that at length I re
garded the venerable defunct no more
than any other of the old fogies who
basked before the lire and dozed over
the newspapers.
It was hut a ghost, nothing hut thin
air, not tangible nor appreciable nor
demanding any attention from a man
of flesh and blood! 1 cannot recollect
any. cold shudderiugs, any awe, any
repugnance, any emotion whatever,
such us would he suitable and deco
rous ou beholding a visitant from the
spiritual world. It Is very strange,
hut such Is the truth. It appears ex
cessively odd to me now that I did not
adopt such means ns I readily might
to ascertain whether the appearance
had solid substance or was merely
gaseous and vapory. I might have
brushed against him, have jostled his
chair or have trodden accidentally on
his poor old toes. 1 might have snatch
ed the Boston Post—unless that were
au apparition, too—out of his shadowy
hands. I might have tested him In a
hundred ways, hut I did nothing of the
kind.
Perhaps I was loath to destroy the
illusion and to rob myself of so good a
ghost story, which might probably
have been explained in some very
commonplace way. Perhaps, after all,
1 had a secret dread of the old phenom
enon and therefore kept within my
limits with an instinctive caution
which I mistook for Indifference. Be
this us it may, here is tla* fact: I saw
the figure day after day for a consid
erable space of time and took no pains
to ascertain whether it was a ghost or
no. 1 never to my knowledge saw him
/ •ome into the rending room or depart
rom it. There sal Hr. Hums in ms
customary chair, and I cun say little
else about him.
After a certain period—I really know
not how long -1 began to notice or to
fancy a peculiar regard In the old
man’s aspect toward myself. 1 some
times found 1dm gazing ut me, and, un
less I deceived myself, there was a
sort of expectancy In his face. His
spectacles, I think, were shoved up so
that his bleared eyes might meet my
own. Had he been a living man 1
should have flattered myself that good
Dr. Harris was for some reason or oth
er Interested in me and desirous of a
pct'ronul acquaintance. Bring a ghost
and amenable to ghostly laws, it \.ns
natural to conclude that he was wait
ing to he spoken to before delivering
whatever message lie wished to Im
part. But if so the ghost had shown
the had judgment common among the
spiritual brofherhood both as regarded
the place of interview and the parson
whom he had selected as (lie
of his communications. In tl
room of the A them cum eonversntim: 'n
strictly forbidden, and I emild not have
addressed the apparition w ithout draw
ing the Instant notice and indignant
frowns of the slumbrous old* mea
jirouud me. 1 myself, too, at tiiat time
tvas us shy us any ghost and followed
the ghosts’ rule never to spcgU Jii>^
Lord Bcres-
Im’fi, almost tiv.-ih from a (Jhinese tour
of inspection which had for its immedi
ate object the stirly of posslhl? British
Lade extension in the far east, had en
joyed exceptional opponiniities for ecd-
lecting experiences, and one of these
was the following:
In the arsenal at Shanghai he hap
pened to notice a Krupp gun fitted
with au Armstrong breech piece. He
was told that tills had been rendered
necessary because the Chinese had
blown off the original breech piece, and
upon going to a fort upon the river in
charge of a mandarin he found out
how the accident happened. They
were using for the <17 ton gnus a pow
quite unsuitable, and
dcr w
hi
Cil
Ik* sail, “That powder will blow the
breech piece off.” The mandarin nod
dad, smiled and answered, “Yes. it
does.” The last time the gun was fired,
he said, it killed 11 men. So then they
loaded another gun and fired it, and
that time 24 men were killed. These
guns must have cost in mcunliug and
breeching at 1< ast £.'J).dOff.
In another place there was n battery
of five (50 ton muzzle loading guns. He
asked where the front of the battery
was. The mandarin pointed in one di
rection, hut the guns pointed in an
other. On this being mentioned to him
the mandarin replied, “Yes, 1 think
there has been a mistake.” The guns
were arranged in echelon, ?o 'hat the
men working one gun would have in
fallibly been killed by (lie next. lie
demonstrated this to the mandarin,
who replied. “Yes, some men would no
doubt ho killed, hut the shot would
reach the enemy."
At another piece he found that the
gun was actually loaded in the maga
zine, and lie said, “If there were any
carelessness in sponging the gun after
firing, the magazine would he blown
up.” The mandarin In charge gave
Mm a slap on tiie had; and replied;
"You are one of the cleverest men I
have ever met. The year before last
we did fire tkes guns, and we blew up
the magazine, just as you have said. 1
will show yon where it was." The
mandarin added that he did not re
member how many men were killed,
hut he believed that It was SO.—Cas-
sler’s Magazine.
Twelfth Day Cuatoms.
The festival of Twelfth day has an
yjifamilmr sound to most of us, hut for
giauy years the night of Jan. (», 12 days
after Christmas, has been commemo
rated with special services. This day
is in memory of tile visit cf the magi
lo the child Jesus, their Journey being
i.uppostd to have occupied that length
of time from ti e appearance of the star
until their arrival at the manger.
It Is known as “old Christmas,” dat
ing from the old style calendar still
used by the Russian church. In every
European country this day Is remem
bered with j.-:>ycly. In the Isle of
•GOD
m Cam
Man
irn deuces” are given, every
i ■■ rlplcnt
i reading
parish hiring a tiddler.
In Germany Twelfth day 1b called
“Three Kings' day" uud In Franco
"Beau King’s day.”
The feature ef Twelfth day Is the
baking of a cake which contains one
bean. When the cake is cut nud tho
pieces divided, he who finds tho beau
In Ids idice Is declare 1 king, and he
iaust arrange all amusements until tho
following Twelfth day, wheu the new
king Is chosen.
OLD AGE IN THE SOUTH.
Go’itl S|i<>ri!nu Blocd n T!irll!ln;c
SGiiiuby kivt-u In Declining Yt-ai-».
"Some one has said,” rcmrirkt 1 Ja •!< |
Tollifer, “that the closing years in tho !
life of a southern gentleman are sad j
and lonely; that the man who leads '
nn out of door life, hunting and horse i
racing, has no resources left with which !
to ligliti his old age. Well, it may lie j
so, hut it seems to me that that's a j i
rather sweeping statement. Just take | w
my Uncle Archie in Virginia. who:,i I i K
visited during the holidays three years j
ago.
“‘Why, Jack!’ be exclaimed as lie f'V;
met me at the door of the square old ; n—
fashioned homestead. *1 am glad to s- e |
you. Come right in and make yourself '
comfortable.’
“I followed him into the dining room,
where the carved oaken legs oi tbe
old side table were almost bowed un
der the game and fruits and wines.
“ ‘Yes, Jack,’ my uncle said when
we were seated, ‘it certainly does seem
good to see you, and I only wish you'd
come ofteuer. But 1 suppose I’m get-
tin to he poor company for a young
chap like you. The boys, they have
their huutin and ridin, hut we old fel
lows have lo just sit round and think
it all over. No more foxes or coons
when your knees get feelin tlu’.t stiff
way. 1 guess there isn’t much left
In this world for your uncle now. But
it's a great comfort to see you again.
Jack; ’deed it is.’
“It did seem hard for an old widower
to he living that lonely life, too o! ! to
take any part In the hunting that lie*
was so fond of and with no one 'o t-i!k
to hut old Joe and Aunt Sally. His
one remaining inlcrcst seemed to cen
ter in his pet horse, who, like ins mus
ter, was of good thoroughbred st- ck,
hut well on in years.
“‘Jack,’ my uncle said on the morn
ing of my departure, ’Robert L and I
may he well on past huutin and ravin
days, hut I’m goin to drive you down
to the station behind him, and. though
there may be horses in the counuy
that are faster now. 1 don’t thin!; we'll
miss that train of yours by very much.
Jo'\ just let that shoveiiu res! awhile
and harness Robert L to the light bug
gy. 1 shall drive Mr. Tollifer to tin*
station.’
“The oh! darky touched his hat and
hobbled off to the stable; Boon in* re
turned, lending Robert L witli one
hand and dragging the clinking har
ness with the other. In th-* road lie
stopped, threw the lines over the horse
and hobbled back.to fetch the buggy, i
Just then we heard a shouting ami the J
sounds of galloping hoofs up the road. !
Nearer and nearer they came utit.l a ;
small party of horsemen dashed into i
sight and did not stop until they "drew
rein in front of Uncle Archie.
“ ‘Colonel Tollifer,’ the leader began
breathlessly, ‘have you seen er—the
hoys — er — go by here lately? Just
scared up a big red fox—er—biggest
ever seen here—started up hack of’—
“‘What!’ shouted Uncle Archie, his
eyes suddenly snapping. ‘Big red fox?
First in two years? No. Which way?
1 haven’t seen ’em. (loodhy, Ja< k!
God bless you, my hoy! Joe,’ lie cried, qq
‘you drive Mr. Tollifer to the station!’
“Sweeping the harness off, he scram
bled excitedly to Robert L’s hack and,
without saddle or stirrup. Mew on with
the rest in their mad tear down the
road. Soon I could only catch glimpses
between the clouds of dust of the white
whiskers blowing back over his shoul
ders—an Impressive reminder of ti at
old age which, they say. so saddens tho
lives of gentlemen of the south.”—New
York Sun.
Written from AhI>ui'v.
(Conenpondence of The L"dLTer.)
Asiu ky, Feb. 27.—We have had
some of the roughest weather this
winter I most ever saw. Some are
complaining of their oats being killed
out to a half stand or less. The
wheat in places is looking very
gloomy.
Mr. Richard Baines had a working
last Saturday; all those that at
tended say there was not anything
liking for a fine sot table.
Mr. William Mabry killed a hog a
few days ago that neated 27<) l bs at
the ago of seven months. Who can
excel that? Mr. Mabry never fails to
have fine hog a .
Oscar Bryant has killtd forty beefs
since last November; lie says he has
bought most all of them out in tho
neighborhood, so he will have to stop
for a while.
Mr. James Mabry and Kiiphus
Harmon were in your city Saturday ;
they say they got as wet as water
could make them.
The Asbury school is being taught
by Mr. Walter Crocker, one of the
most excellent teachers tiiat wo have
ever had. The school is progressing
nicely.
Homo one said in the columns of
your paper that he thought it would
be better to have no public schools.
We differ from him on that, bicause
that is the only chance for some, be
cause some are not hardly able to go
to public schools let alone pay school.
1 guessjt would suit the town people
very well for the country people to
have no public schools.
LKLin.n liKAur.K.
wi
At t'lzureh and at Home.
Just what the good, helpful church
member is in church he lu at home,
witli an open heart and au open hand,
never content unless Ids friends nro j
coming and goiug, never angry unle.- s
they will not stay nud have a meal ;
with him, never so full of Joy as wheu i
he is doing a good turn, or going over ]
old days with those to whom hi* is ; I
hound by a hundred ties of kindly A
words und deeds. As he has <! alt with ; i„ ; ,
all men. strangers uud fi lends alike, in | i' ;," 1,; ^
ids church and in Ids house, so will | j,, , ,
Gisl deal by 1dm, and for Id; i wo may | A' n. .. »
feel sure there will he a hospitable v.’d- | . I, ,, 1 ,
come waiting where the churches of
earth have changed Into <> ;r Father's , .
house.-Ian Maclaren in Ladles’ Homo
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Journal. , ,, ,: :n;r. t
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An llom-Kt Medicine f«r Lu Grippe. 1 i ulu X
George W. Waitt, of South Gurdi- .[•
ner, Me., says: ‘T have had the ! 1 •
worst cough, cold, '■hills and grip ui d i ,
have taken lots of trash of io uc- ' ' : '
I count hut profit to tho vend r. | .
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SLID BY felt SfUSQISYS.
Price $1.C0 lu bottle.
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££SP“Oherokce Drug f’o. iSpcciul Agents
Ills I’uKt Cnrccr.
Julius Kalin, the new cover
from San Francisco, was an r.<
era I years before ha studied la
li'-'.l at tho bar and got into
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fecrofuia, dyspepsia an*! rheumatism,
i ieporU agree that S-IOGD ; S CURE J
S. C. & G. E. Iff iff CO.
Schedule No. }.
In Effect :::oi A. Sunday.D:c« ml
and il-ci
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DR. J. F. GARRETT
Dentist,
Gaffney, - - . s. C.
Glfioc over J. R. Tollc.son’s new store
lo office from Itt to 2(5th of each
month;
Dr. C. T. LIPSCOMB,
Dentist,
Ollice ever R. A. Jones & Co.’s Store.
n he found at office six days In the week
SOUTHERN RAILWAY.
Condensed Schedule of Passenger Trains,
lu Effect Dec. 10,1809.
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nly thing tiiat lias done any :• h
whatever. 1 have used one hottb <
it and tlie cliilli, cold end grip h. v
all loft mo I congratulate the mni
ufucturera of an honebt mediwim
for bale by Chorokoo Drug Co.
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ft .. .i 1! .' 3 a “ llanuuny ”
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Diikiii line trainM.
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Gl.< - |.i ikf'F.lne Sleatnors lu dully ssrvics
Im w, . a ?.'or !k and Halllmoro.
.’fin 2. nuo 3b—Dai'y Wimhington and
R»uthv, <*«fpi n Vcutihulu LiinPud. Through
I'liRimiii sfi i)i.lnj»i-un ludwcon New York und
N. v <)rl<ans, via WauhiiiKtOU. Atlauts sad
M. niK.mery.nndulKO D twueu New York und
M« hipM*, via Wushinijlon. Atlauts snd Blr
nnrir'ium. Al#> eh-zsiit P'Ji.i.man LiukahT
Oii'i'.iv atidn i ’ a lu, Ixl wfci-n AGimta and New
Y"ik ftn i-hiHs thoiouKiifuib cuschsn be-
li i n Wu . inr.iou uud Atlautu. Dining cats
Miivtnll inci. i pi) n.iiio. Lcuving Wuuhing-
Ingwn Momi.iys, WpitMisdsys snd Frldsys
n (i.i.riki -liwpliii/tiBr »il) run throu^ii lie tween
W Illusion und Bun Kritiu m-o without chnuge.
l'u:;ini ii iiiuwliiK ipoi.i ulecptng csrs betwettn
(1 r«-c ^iji.ro nud Norfolk. O'im-nonutuittou si
Noifolk furOi.ir Point Comroiix.
fip ■ 5.3 nud . A- Uuttid ftiliitP4 Fast Mstl runs
tw, id I-p: v. - ,.-ii VVaMiiugti.il and N’.-w Orleans,
vi.i '•ciilii-rij Railway, A. At W. 1'. R. K. and
L .V U. It., I .'liii; con.p-4, d <>t j-oschee.
Hu . p h w ithout chaiigo lor piGKcngpry of all
p I'u'iiiPin dritwiug looui s t-ptiing cars
l> will. • York and Now Orli-snu. via At-
I ...i.i u.. I Mo u,:i.mety and la.tv.ecu Char-
j. . und A .i.itu. LduU.g cum twrve all
,1. ' ■'!, i '.U'.:
i.H.3 Ih : 1FuIIp. iii k)pp| tng curs
li.inciii I’, l.ip',’ I and Churlolte, via Duu-
Vi.li- ■ .oiiiIdKiuti 1 2»-.3. 11 uud 38, northbound
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