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A HOMLMi INSTINCT.' houuoos on a train. DEVELOPS IN YOUNG ANIMALS ALMOST AT BIRTH. PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS. A FKAGKANT HOMM K1. The Ledger appreciates the sub joined compliment from the Vorkville Yeoman more than words can tell, while at the same time it realizes that such compliments honor the giver more than the receiver. It is only broad, cultured, generous minds, conscious of their power and worth, that voluntarily offer such tributes to a contemporary. We believe that without ;i single exception, the Gaffney Ledger is t he best edited coun try newspaper in South Carolina today. Chaste, clean, free from rancor and the petty spites that characterize some of greater pretensions and more arrogance, it Weeps fully abreast of tbe times, treating intelli gently and charitably, yet fearlessly, every topic it uttemps to discuss. In some respects it is a model paper, and the people of Gall icy ought to be pioad "f it. NOTliWi AM) COMMENTS. Let the winter oats stand. They are spreading themselves and will surprise you by the middle of June. ♦ ♦ ♦ ◄ The May Festival at Limestone College is drawing near. Secure your ticket and thereby secure a seat. It will be the biggest thing of tbe kind ever seen in Gaffney, and there may not be enough seats to go round. ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ This portion of the country was visited last Thursday night with the heaviest rain that has fallen in a long time. The water courses have been booming and farming operations have received a serious set back. Many lields will have to be planted with little or no preparation. Our attention has been called to the fact that a correspondent of the Greenville News from this place con gratulates that paper on the manner in which it has handled ‘‘the local paper.” The Greenville News is wel come to the congratulations, but an intelligent public will wonder where they come in. ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ The latest accounts indicate great activity in both armies in the Trans vaal, but no general engagement had taken place. The truth is the IJoers will hardly risk a general buttle They cannot alf >rd to stake their cause on one battle with the main British army. A wiser and safer policy will be to worry and harass the invaders, to strike small bodies and scoop in detachments—in a word, to wage an extensive guerilla cam paign. ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ A writer in the New York Nation thinks the British soldiers in South Africa are much more intelligent than the Boers, just as in the Civil War in tiiis country the northern army was more intelligent than the southern. It may he a slight tribute is writer’s veracity to know that s not in the northern army for had carried into that army ♦he nt of ignorance which lie now bits before the world the status of comparative intelligence between the two armies would have been greatly changed. ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ Sunday’s edition of the Charlotte Observer contains a very interesting article on ‘The Failures of the Cen tury.” It is time now to sum up the triumphs and failures of the race during the past century and to take its bearings for the century to come. It is certain that in material progress ijind the development of science the world has made greater advances than in all other centuries combined. It is questionable, however, if the average man of today is a better man than he was a hundred years ago. It is certain that he lias not yet b< uteri bis sword into a plough share nor his spear into a pruning hook. for AdverttM-rH. Home merchants have hard rows to hoe when they try to sell laggard- stocks. Other merchants plow in stead of hoe—they advertise. ‘‘Competition is the Life of trade,” but if your competitor advertises and you don’t, jou will soon discover that competition is the death of your trade. ‘‘How much are the e?” ‘‘What do these cost?” are the fi st questions asked by tiie prospective buyer. Can you not, therefore, readily realize | how incomplete, how thoroughly de fect H/e is the ud which fails to quote prices? Let the oth. r ft How how 1 , u ; e j iw- brejLing adjective s and oGc r* i.sc jug gle with the <} letn’s Logllsh. JurT go ahead and make u plain, unexag- gerrttd believable, business state ment. He will make the loud *et The Wonderful Alii lily Displayed by Various Specie* In 1'iiidinjff Their Way Home—A Tule of Little Pik* and the Story of a Mure. The homing instinct develops in young animals almost as early as the desire for food. In the wild state it is a necessity, since without it the young could never keep in touch with herd or pack. Even after centuries of domesti cation it is still acute. Witness tins tale of little pigs: They were under a mouth old when their owner decided to move. He wanted to fatten and kill their mother, so offered the lot of 40 at a bargain price. A neighbor live miles away bought the pigs, put them in a box, hoisted the box on a wagon and hauled it home. There the pigs were put in a close pen, fed on milk and mush for two weeks, then allowed to run in a small lot adja cent to the pen. Three mornings later every one was missing. A small hole carefully rooted under the gate was the sole explanation of their disappear ance. Their buyer searched high and low for them, sending even to adjacent farms, but could not find them. That afternoon the original owner sent word lie had found 3!i of the 40 standing squealing at his gate when lie awoke. The buyer going to reclaim tbe strays found the missing fortieth pig lying exhausted by the roadside, but still struggling to follow the trail of its mates. Upon the same middle Tennessee plantation a 4-year-old mare was bought from an Ohio drove. The drove had been brought down ou stock cars to the country town, seven miles away. The mare seemed perfectly content in her new surroundings, so after a week or two she was allowed to pasture with other stock. For a day she was happy, grazing and frolicking with the rest. Toward noon of the second day a watcher saw her suddenly fling up her head, cock one ear forward, one back, it;, though lisioning intently to a faroff call, then start in a swinging gallop for the past ure fence, clear it with one flying leap, cross a field of young corn, la’ e the boundary fence, a much still er one. and go away due north. Nothing more was seen or heard of her for three mouths. Then by a sin gular chance she was discovered, im- irmnded n.s an ('.stray, more than half way across the state of Kentucky. Hire had swum a considerable river to get so far and had !» en taken up through Livaking imo a pasture to graze. Hhe was going home straight as the crow flies, making no account whatever of the bends ami turns in the route by which she had been fetched. Among fowls, domestic turkeys are the most persistent homers. This same plantation’s mi. w-ss found that out in a way at once odd and provoking. She raised a brood of 14, which turned out to contain 13 gobblers. They were fine, lusty, bronz'* brown fellows, although this was in the year when bronze tur- keys, so called, were unknown. She gave away seven out of the 13 to as la: ny neighbors to put at the head of their breeding flocks. As a consequence almost every day for six weeks sbe had to go out ami help to separate her own turkeys from some other flock. Each of the gift gobblers came back hoim‘. not once, but many times, with his harem at his heels. Cats are proverbial homers. South ern irgo'es have many entertaining superstitions connected with their 'transfer. In moving they say it is the worst luck in the world to take along the cat. It is also very bad luck to give away a eat unless its feet are greased ami a I lowed to make murks on the threshold it goes over. They say, further, the homing propensity can he destroyed by putting butter on pussy’s feet before they touch anything in her new home. Black walnuts, which it is nearly as bad luck to move as a cat, may he made to serve as ill iuek antidotes by Clacking them carefully and either ty ing a necklace of shells on the cat or putting tlieiu upon her feet for boots. It is lucky to have the gift of a cat and luckier still to have one come to you of its own motion. A gift cat ought to be taken home in a bag securely tied so none of the luck will escape. Notwithstanding tins was done in the case of a tortoise shell tabby, she came home over a distance of 13 miles. She took all summer to do it in. Thu road home* led through pleasant woods and was never very "far from a clear creek. At various times between June, when she vanished from her new home, and November, when she reap peared at her old one. tabby was seen scurrying throng!) the woods with a bird in her mouth or sunuiug herself luxuriously high in some safe tree crotch. The first nipping frost brought her to the familiar door mewing and looking up at her old master as if she had never left it.—Chicago Inter Ocean. .'i 1 get noist—ymi Aid U) u.-k chi -'i w old be superflm , i most business )u would prefer ms. The Decline of <'lluroll Attendance. The pulpit list'd to be the chief means of instruction and of intellectual and moral stimulation for the people. The pulpit orator was the people’s orator. The pulpit lias in great measure lost its attractive power In this regard. The daily and weekly press have .*i greater Influence In public instruction. The multiplicnllon of cheap books also I takes from the pulpit a large share of ! its influence in this regard. Oratory in legislative bodies lias to a great ex tent lost its Influence. Its place has been taken by simple, compact, time saving statements, often printed, but not delivered. Committees do the work which used to be done after discus sion before the public. So the people will not listen now to the pulpit orator of former generations. They demanl short, or p sermons that bristle with points and a: ■ practical and helpful. In oilier words, the oratorical and high ly intellectual character of the pulpit which u.- .'d to attract worshipers no longer attracts them. They feel that they cun get more benefit in tills re gard by ivading in the comfort of the home.- IToft ssor ('. lur Science Monthly. T’-e WbUtlina rnsaeusier and th« Owe IV if It Ear Muff*. The conductor of a railway train that pulled out from Jersey City was taking up tickets. One of his passengers was whistling as he hauled out his. The conductor handed it back unpuuched. When the conductor returned from Cue rear coach, he hesitated at the seat of the whistling man and then passed on. When he made ids second trip through the car, after the train had left Tren ton. he again took the ticket of the sib ilant passenger and returned it without the usual perforation. After this had been repeated a baldheaded passenger in a starboard seat apologized to the conductor and asked him why he did not punch the whistler's ticket. “1 am not superstitious.” was' the re ply, "but 1 am afraid if that fellow doesn’t stop whistling we shall run in to a blizzard or off the track or have a collision.” The baldhead said that was cheerful Information coming from a conductor. "Well, you asked me, and I have told you. I never kuew it to fail. I know whistling is considered by some as an eviilenge of good nature, lint when it is done iu a railway coach it is in line with the crow of a lion. What on earth a man wants to whistle for when he is in a car I don’t know. But that is nei ther here nor there. It is bad luck, es pecially if the conductor punches the ticket while the man is whistling.” "Why don’t you ask him a question and punch his ticket while he is an swering?” "That would do no good. lie must not have his lips puckered when I take the ticket. Besides. I don’t know what to ask him without appearing imperti nent. 1 can’t think of anything to ask.” "Is that a notion common to conduct ors V” "1 cau’t say how general it is, but I have had it many years, and I know others who think the same. A locomo tive engineer doesn't like to have any body whistle in his pilot.” “But you will have to take up that man’s ticket before lie leaves the car?” “Certainly. But lie may stop whis tling. If he doesn't, 1 shall have to take it up just the .-anic; but the dam age will be done then.” “What damage?” “Why, the hoodoo will be running the train by that time. 1 know what I am talking about.” ‘Thiiadelphia! All out for Bhiladel- phia!” shouted the porter. The whistling passenger seized his satchel and started fur the door. The conductor overtook him and said: “This is not your station.” "I am going to step over here one train.” "Give me that ticket, quick,” cut in the conductor, "so that I can fix it, or it won’t be good for a stop over.” The passenger complied as lie re sumed whistling. The ticket was fixed, and the passenger left the car. The conductor usually turns his train over to another at Philadelphia, but this time the same conductor continued to. Baltimore. When the train was under headway again, the* baidbeaded pas senger congratulated the conductor, lie smiled and made* no reply. Just after the train loft Wilmington it came to a stop in tli" op":: : . i me ! there for an hour. The locomotive I ad got the kinks. When it started again, it was at fitful speed. When it finally reached Baltimore, a snowstorm had overtaken it, or it had run into one. The conductor left the train there. “It might have been all right.” he ex plained to the baldheaded passenger, “but a man got on at Wilmington who wore ear muffs, and I knew then we were iu for it. I may be wrong about whistling men, but when a man gets on my train wearing heaters on his ears 1 then know there is trouble com ing. 1 am not superstitious, but there are things you can’t get round.” The train was three hours late at its destination. The storm was at its height. The street ears had stopped. Cabs were S3 apiece 1 .—New York Hun. POINT OF THE JOKE. A Will if In in Wliicli ruzzlcd 11 \lim iter ttf I'cnton*. The following alleged witticism, taken from the columns o£ the New York Life, appeared in The News a few days ago: Teacher—And who was Cain? Bmall Boy I guess he must have been the first Englishman.—Life. Since* that time many letters have been received by The News from in terested readers asking that the point of the joke be explained. A well known musician, who is an English man by birth, called at The News of fice: to get at the bottom of the joke, lie said that English people were said to be slow in seeing tbe* point of a joke, but that lie readily saw the fun iu most of the current jests. This one, however, he was unable to fathom. Here are solutions suggested by a reader: “It might be said that the charm of this particular joke lies in iG variety of points. It might he that Cain was like the first Englishman because he killed his brother, "’ins interpretation A. Briggs in I’opu- 1'nin-KHier a* an internal remedy, has no cquul. Ill * of HlllUlller I'OlllplailltH, diuiTluca, dynen'ery, iti uich quickly. U.-ed kb u liniiiient its action is like magic, wheti applied to bad sores, burns, (r aids, and hjtrams. For the nick headache ami tooth- lie, don’t f nl to try it. In short, it is a Puiu- Jtdler. Avoid Hubstitutaa, there is but ouo Otto Iv.rb I* B mvilie Witch II zt-l dc ioate skin Grind Chancellor Is. J mi.. sti ys ‘‘ 1 )eV\ ill’s Halve soothes tie most a* . 11eiiIs ill'- m' -t stub- Puifl-Kihcr, Perry Lavish Price iiCc.aud 60c. , Lrug Co. born u!< r v .ih certain and good re- - ilts.” Cur* > nile aud skin diseases. It tu’t buy Imitations. Cherokee is given presumii ' that the reader is familiar with the South African situa tion. Tin'll, taking into consideration the inability of the English to down the Boers quickly, it might lie that Cain is like the Englishman because ho wasn’t Abel. Then, too, Cain is like the Englishman been use nobody now living ever saw either. “The fact Unit Cain killed Abel with a dub or s!i-k ha some connection with the* Engli i.me.ji who cannot see a joke, for ;.M not Abel have said on being struck, ‘That sticks iii"?’ “Again, it the first Englishman was u • particular about Ids appearance as the members of Ids race, both might have r< muritetl ‘1 want to he perfectly killing.’ Ballina r< N< He It* \ 1 nety-fuui'. The Bov. Dr. Daniel Hauer of Han over, Pa., who has just celebrated his ninety-fourth birthday, Is said to bo tlie oldest Lutheran clergyman In the United States. He once met General Lafayette afld lias a vivid recollection of the exciting events of the second war with England. From Ids home he saw the light ami smoke from the burning of the public buildings at Washington la Dll and witnessed the troops passing through Ids native town inarching to the defense of Baltimore, when attacked by an invading foreign fne. '■ * I’eople You Know it ml People You Don't Know. Col. T B. Butler went to Green ville Friday on professional business in the United States court. He re turned to the city Saturday morning J. F. Smith, of Tbickety, one of Cherokee’s successful railroad men, favored The Ledger with an appre ciated call yesterday. Mr. Smith, at present has charge of u section on the Southern. Lang U. Lemmons, Esq., of Bycrs- ville, N. C., who lias large inti rest in this county, paid The Ledger a pleasant visit Monday while in the city on business. Lem Blanton came to the city a short time Saturday afternoon. Mr. J. F. (tuinn, of Martinsville, accompanied by his son, H. M t^ui* n were appreoiattd visitors in The Led ger cflice yesterday. Mr. Quinn says tliat vVm. Laker, of his section, has ten acres of the finest wheat lie ever saw. John E. Jefleries, who has been spending eome time on his faim, returned to the city yesterday. Mr. Jefferies reports slight damages to farms on Thickety creek. John Wilkins, of Ravenna, was a visitor in the city Faturday, and while here paid The Ledger a pleasant visit. W. W. Hawkins, of Byersvilie. N. C., favored The Ledger with a visit yesterday. Mr. Miller Anthony, a prominent citizem of Gaston county, N C., came to the city the first of the week to visit Ins brother, Uaj.t. Daniel An thony, who has been in feeble health for several years. John R. Peeler, of Wiikinsville, came in to stw- The Ledger yesterday. Chief Coke Duncan, of Backsburg. was in the city Saturday, ou bis way from Greenville court. lion. C. W. Whisonant was among the people in the city yesterday. 1). W. Cooper came to the city Sat urday. Joseph Reason, of Cleveland county, N. C., was in the city yesterday with mules to sell. Mrs. M. S. Clary accompanied by her daughters, Nettie, Ina and Lima, are vinting relativts in Spartanburg. Landrum Spake, of Wrights, was in the city a short time yesterday. S. O. Walker, a prominent planter and cotton buyer, came iii from his farm to the city Saturday. J din S. Harmon, a prominent Wiikinsville farmer, was in the city yesterday. C A. Petty was among his friends in tlie city Saturday. Joseph Pryor, an enterprising Cher okee farmer, was in to see The Ledger yesterday. We had a pleasant call yesterday from Mrs. W. S. Hail, of Mitford, Chest* r county, who lias been spi tid ing some lime in the city v\iih her sou, Prof. W. S. Hail, and her daughter, Mrs J. R Dye, on Race street. Mr. J. F. Estes, oi EG a Jane, one of Cherokee's good lanm r«. v u> in lhe city yesterday. M. John FKtes, of Etta Pine made a business trip to the ci;y Mot day. Haiti r Littlejohn, a *v-ru.v 'ird hard working young f irmer ul H i li ster p..:d Una pleanutit visit - day. l)r. B. D. Bat s, a promin nl an 1 popular young physici 'o cl *;.i ! i spent sonu. tiim among hG fri; nds in the city Friday. We are giad to learn that the doctor may soon be come a eiiiZ' n of Gaffoey again. Lewi* Scruggs, u now souiewii t fa mous veteran of Cnerokee, ,>p iu some time in tin* city yesterday. .Mr. Scruggs is one of Cherokee’s most worthy citiz* ns. li. M. Manor paid us a pleasant visit yesterday. Mr. Manor is a ^od farni'-r and an appreciated patron ot Tne \j dg' r. J. J. Richards, of Powells, paid Th L* dgi r a vir-it yesterday while in tin oit y oo busin s* E P. Mu joms m, E-;q , of Mercer, v\u-i among t.lr.* m my C'herokeoatis in the city yesterday. I t,loll The llunttur. f t'n ion Times.J ‘ Hon A. N. Wood spent yesterday in the city of Pnion on business. Union is u pretty good town but it take-a hustl* r like Gaffney to keep Mr. Wood in it long at a time, so he came home yesterday evening.”— Gaffney Ledger loth. We are glad to have the good citi zens of Gaffney visit our city and would be glad for them to make their stay long enough for us to show them the town. We have no doubt that it was a matter of regret to Mr. Wood tliat the nature of his visit did not allow him time to remain and take in the town. He was on his way to Columbia to visit a sick child when lie received a telegram here, that his child was better and he did not go further. Gaffney is a sprightly child, end lias u live and wideawake paper in The Ledger to push it along. We wish for the little town continued posperity. But when The Ledger speaks of Union us a ‘‘pretty good town” lie don’t half express it. and it makes us smile when Bro. DeCamp attempts to hold Gaffney up to Union as an example in the hustling busi ness. If our esteemed contemporary will compare tbe Union of today with the Union of ten yiurs ago, be will see that Union is the pilot, arid hust ler in the broadest acceptation of Die term. Keep yyur eye on Union for points, brother, in the hustling busi ness. [Hurrah for Union, grand old town that she is. Hliy was only about 300 behind u- in popuia'ion in 1800. Our I* v for h* r makta us have hopes foi L< r future.J Mat Cunt*. The ft ri y b. at ut Howell’s F t ry was wuslit 1 away I y the recent fresh- jet. 'Ibis will be a gnat iueonveil- , ienco to p 'opIe on bol h sid* s of Broad 11 vi-r in Dili m cl i >.• as we It i ’ l hi party who owns tin firry wiii pi'ob ably mis. ini u *■ u* i" * boat. i H Cbtik. * iiiuiicy. Gu., cay s J to wn*.'- V» ilt Ha/i . •'ie.lv cured him >if the p H's that hud i libeled him for twenty years, it is also a speen flirt fnr sain rlir-casea. IfiwjiC"-* 1 Haiigi rous couiiterteus. ( Diug Co. Kruiier’a Dent. One of the things which the Trans vaal seems to have forgotten is that, when it was in money difficulties many years ago. the English government * proved to be its friend in need anil I lent I’resideut Kruger a large sum cf money. At that time, too. there did not appear to be much prospect that the Transvaal would ever fie rich ’ enough to return the loan. However, the debt has been gradual ly lessened, and now it stands at about £l-fi;,000. This bears intere * at AR* per cent, and a sinking fund is at- . taclied. which will automatically pay off the whole debt by tbe year 1P22. Although £143,000 sen*ms a large sum, it amounts to no more than seven- eighths of a penny divided among the 40,000,000 inhabitants of the United Kingdom. But obviously President Kruger is the debtor to this amount of every English, Irish. Scottish and Welsh man, woman and child. Putting the matter obversely, it appears tliat every Boer in the Transvaal owes the United Kingdom £1 IGs. Gd. But there is no fear about the pay ment, for the Transvaal has state lands of considerably more value titan its total national debt of £2,700,01)0.—Lon don Answers. Dr. Osgood'* ttetimuent. Tbe Watchman of Boston says: “The news of the retirement of the Rev. Dr. Howard Osgood from the headship of the Old Testament department of the Rochester Theological seminary aftc*r 23 years of notable service will be re ceived with regret by the many who have profited by his instruction and by all who are acquainted with his work as teacher and man. Dr. Osgood has won a recognized place among the scholarly authorities upon the Old Tes tament.” He Made It Clear. A Japanese who believes that the twentieth century lias already begun has sent the following letter on the subject to The Congregatioualist: “Sir —It is to be. time is au allow, already had gone nineteen century and come twenty century. I think so that you will welcome happy new a year. Ex cuse me for past of communication and entreating acquaintance better than before year.” Cherokee Still Huatliug, On Saturday last the secretary of state issued a commission to the Biacisburg Spinning and Knitting Mill Company of Blacksburg. The corporators are, A. If. Pollock, J. G. Black, J. W. Duff, A. Tripp, John Meier and J. F. Whisonant. With this enterprise in the hands of the above named inert we will look for active work soon, and when they be gin it will only be a short time till Blacksburg hosiery is on the market. The capital stock of the mill will be |15,000. Married. Mr. Thomas Stewart and Miss Jolinie Carroll, of Kings Creek, were married on Sunday the 15th inst., by Rev. W. V. Moi-s GRANDMA HAD CONSUMPTION and I am afraid I have in herited it. I do not feel well; I have a cough ; my lungs are sore; am losing flesh. What shall I do? ' Your doctor says take care of yourself and take plain cod-liver oil, but you can’t take it. Only the strong, healthy person can take it, and they can’t take it long. It is so rich it upsets the stomach. But you can take • SCOTT'S EMULSION It is very palatable and easily digested. If you will take plenty of fresh air, and exercise, and SCOTT’S EMULSION steadily, there is very little doubt about your recovery. 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