The ledger. [volume] (Gaffney City, S.C.) 1896-1907, May 01, 1900, Image 3
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Many
Girl
school-
said to
be lazy and
shiftless
when she
doesn’t deserve
the least bit of it.
ic can’t study, easily ^
asleep, is nervous
and tired ail the time.
And what can you ex
pect? Her brain is being
fed with impure blood
and her whole system is
suffering from poisoning.
Such girls are wonder
fully helped and greatly
changed, by taking
AN ASTONISHMENT.
There'* a rriRhty cuiious feller who is livin out
our way;
He rover seems ns anxii us as Hie rest to have hii
He listens to su argument ns quiet a' 1 kin ho
An never makes an thirl to huak in an referee.
An one" upon a time- us folks is taikin ’hout it
We asked him ids
hit.
Tt was on a general topic that
low.
This fdlrr thoujrht a minute;
didn’t know.
pinion go's to help decide a
excited hi|(h and
then he said ho
We'd heard a lot of people who had sinisritlod to
explain
Each query. It 'u’d uive you palpitation of the
hrain
To hear the way tiny figured. An their words
were of such lemitl
That tryin to romemher them was jes’ a waste of
strength,
Hut the wisest of them never, with tiieir great
displays of wit,
Within my recollection made the memorable hit
That he scored when, after thinkiu very carefully
an slow,
He faced the situation an confessed lie didn't
know.
. —Washington Star.
Hundreds of thousands
of schoolgirls have taken
it during the past 50 years.
Many of these girls now
have homes of their own.
They remember what
cured them, and now
they give the same medi
cine to theirown children.
You can afford to trust a
Sarsapariila.that has been
tested for half a century.
$1.00 a bottle. AH druggists.
If your bowels arc consti
pated take Ayer’s Pills. You
can’t have good health unless
you have daily action of the
bowels. 25cts. abox.
“ One box of Ayer’s rills cured my
dyspepsia.” L.D. Cabdwill,
Jan. 12,1899. Bath, N. Y.
Write the Dactcr.
If you have any complaint w hatever
and desire the best medical advice you
eau possibly receive, write the doctor
freely. 'You will receive r prompt re
ply, without cost. Address,
Dr. J. C. AYER, Lowell, T.tass.
1 A SOUTH AFRICAN PASTORAL. £
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Night had just fallen upon the veldt, j Koine deserted ant heap as the rumble
the wagon now with the vrouw, and
the girl would not be so tired.
Ah! Baas I’iet was a good man, bet
ter than Baas Jakob. He would help,
and later on he might even be rich
enough to buy a few head of cattle and
some ponies, and they would all go
back to the old place on the Krel, and—
lie started to his feet as the pipe of a
honoybinl came faintly out of the dis
tance. Betta was there at last.
♦ ♦♦****
The wagon was creaking along under
the burning noonday sim. The oxen
stumbled lazily with lolling tongues,
crawling .'it a snail’s pace without fear
of the Hick of the lash, for every one was
asleep except the little voerloper trudg
ing in front of the two leaders, croon
ing an endless native song to himself.
The wind, more burning than the sun,
came in ceaseless gusts across the arid
veldt, destitute of grass or tree, and,
catching up great clouds of red dust,
whirled them in eddying, choking
masses about the wagon and then
swept them away until they vanished
in the shimmering heat haze. Now
and then a tortoise dragged his black
and yellow shell out of the way of the
span and lumbered heavily off the
track to a safe distance, there to re
tire within himself until the unwonted
apparition had disappeared beyond his
limited horizon, or a snake would shoot
out a shining head from the shelter of
and whizzed down lyith a crack like a
rillc shot, cutting into the steaming
flanks of the plunging mob until they
bellowed again. Scarred and bleeding,
deafened by the report of the whip and
the hoarse yells of the men, the mad
dened beasts straightened out, and
with Klaus and the voerloper tugging
at the lenders’ heads, strained, panting
up the farther bank of the drift, ’’.le
wagon creaking through the rocky
river bed behind them and then trailed
wearily forward into the dusk.
And when all was still the lizards
came out of the crevices, only to scut
tle back with a whisk of their tails.
There was water in the drift now—red
water, dripping softly down between
the stones and sinking into the thirsty
sand. Overhead sailed a vulture in
ever narrowing circles. And then the
night fell.
It was late that evening before
Klaus crawled stealthily away from
the wagon, taking a full beaker of
fresh water from the pool aud Ids sup
per. The baas was very angry with
him because the wagon had stuck in
the drift, though how could lie help it
if the oxen would not be driven, and
be bad forbidden him to leave the wagon
to see Beltn. But no baas could keep
him from doing that, no matter how
many hidings he got for it.
He walked back as far as the edge
HE LIKES TO WORK.
A Millionaire Ilolol Owner Who Knna
(lie Elevator.
There is a millionaire in San Francis- I
co who runs an elevator every day as !
industriously as though ho belonged to !
a cage operators’ union instead of a j
capitalists’ club.
It is decidedly out of common to see |
a thousand dollar bodiamonded hand
controlling the lever of an elevator and
to know that the man who opens the
door of the cage for you could draw a
negotiable check for $100,000 as easily
us you could step in or out of his pres
ence. Nor is it at all usual for elevator
passengers to have their eyes dazzled
by a diamond worth $1,G00 blazing at
them from a cage operator’s shirt.
But notwithstanding this capitalist’s
strict attention to business and the
brilliancy of his jewels he could never
get a jolt in any hotel not his own.
Nobody in need of an elevator man
would consider him seriously for an
instant should he apply for employ
ment. Yet he is an excellent mechanic
and does not read yellow papered nov
els while on duty.
The reason of Millionaire Bradbury’s
ineligibility is bis avoirdupois.
What would be the use of lifting 200
pounds of man each trip when a 50
pound boy could do the work without
The New Teacher.
“It was in the English class,” says
the Louisville Courier-Journal, “and a
new teache i had just been employed.
Sbe was from the north and call'd all
the pupils ‘Miss,’ at which they mar
veled greatly. On the llrst day tin*
teacher told her cl iss that she would
not give a regular lesson, but each girl
should write down all the slang she
knew and bring that to the next day’s
recitation. That was a ‘cinch.’ Sever
al girls who possessed brothers and the
rest who possessed other girls’ broth
ers set them to work. The result was
tuarvelous.
“When the class was called next day.
there was not a girl who could uot
show two closely written pages of
slang expressions. The teacher looked.
‘Very good,’ she said. ‘Now translate
them into readable English.’ They
haven't fooled with her since.”
How GI«J are You ?
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ONE CABINET PHOTOiiRAPH
t<
<‘very man. woman or
i) .v<‘mt's old ihut will i’o
t I VI'.
( Til tills oul iind l>i
a liiiv (,'iiliiurt I’liotii
(leluy.
This otlVr cx|)irt s
•hi!'! .over seventy
unic sit for the negu-
: it v.hh you. uiol gi t
'IjIi for nothing, lion’t
lav, 19. 1!*C0.
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J. Clough Wallace. . ounelios Otts.
WALLACE & OTTS,
LAWYERS.
All business Intrust ed to us, given prompt
and vigorus attention. Office up stairs, next
to R. A. Jones & Co. ’Phone S7.
“JAMES A. WILLIS,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
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G i-' I-* >; i c v, t-8. c_\
Notary Public in office. Prompt attention
given to all business.
Office over R. A. Jones .V Co.’s store.
HARDIN & MCWHORTER,
JVttormrvs i»t 1^sl\a.v 9
GAFFNEY, - - S. C.
Money to loan on city real estate.
Office over U. A. Jones & Co.'s Store.
D. R.Duncan. C.P. Sanders. W.S. Hall.Jr.
DUNCAN, SANDERS & HALL,
Attorneys-at-Law.
Office over J. R. Tolb son’s & Co.’s Store.
hos. B. Butleh. Henry K. Osborne
BUTLEB & OSBORNE,
LAWYERS.
Prompt attention given all business en
trusted to us. Notary Public in office.
A
J. E. WEBSTER,
A-ttorne^r-Ajt-
Office in Court House. (Probate-Judge soffice
Gaffney City, S. C.
Practices in all the courts. Collec
tions a specialty
C. JEFFERIES 4~
GAFFNEY, S. C.
Commercial I.nu. Corporation Law
Real I'state Law.
Money to loan on approved security.
Rutledge St. Smith Shop.
■M - can do your shoeing', lire setting, wheel
■*- oiling. Vehicles and Implements repaired
and paint'd.
"Wiuu
i
you to gi vi* mo a trial. Lame
horses and mules examined
free for all patrons. Your
"JVf will gel you good value.
^> Yours for pleasantness
W. 'I\ 'riJOJVlL'SOM.
Plain Facts.
I will sell you for cash any
thing in my line consisting of
Dry Goods, Notions, Shoes,
Hats, Groceries, Shelf IIaid-
ware, and almost anything car
ried in a general store, as cheap
as any house in the city.
When iii need of goods see
my prices.
Yours to please,
I.
PEELER.
A
N. WOOD,
BANKER,
^does a general Banking and Exchange
business. Well secured with Burglar-
Proof safe and Automatic Time Lock
;ty Deposit Be
it moderate
ana
dBon
Buys County and School C
Your business solicited.
The short dusk had suddenly deepened
into a heavy, thick obscurity, impeue- j
treble for a space until there rose the
rim of a full moon over the edge of the
plain which showed hard and clear cut
against the great disk. The ant hills,
that alone broke the monotonous flat
ness, flung interminable inky shadows
as the cold, white glare; electric in its
fierce intensity, shone out level across
the plains. The sense of loneliness, of
utter isolation, was overwhelming. The
heavens, sown with lire, seemed so re
mote, and the bare earth, stretching
| away into the dim, starry distance, so
empty and limitless. It might have
been the roof of some dead worlfl.
By the edge of the marsh a transport
j wagon had outspauned for the night,
I and within the circle of firelight, where
moon and flame struggled for the mas
tery, loomed the wavering outlines of
the trek oxen tethered to the di.ssel-
boom aud now and again the figure of
a man.
The only sounds were the crackling
chirps of the bullfrogs in the vlei and
; the voices of two men who sat leaning
] back against the kaross of meerkat
j skins flung over one of the wagon
wheels.
j “No!” repeated the elder man, the
transport rider and owner of the wag
on, raising his voice. “With us they
shall not come—either she or the brat.”
“But look, Jakob,” persisted the oth
er, “it is now three weeks, four weeks,
that we are on the trek, and she has
followed all the time aud carried the
child too. How the poor girl lives I do
not know. Take only the child,
J a kob.”
“How are we to eat? How is the
vrouw to eat?” demanded the Boer
querulously. “Are there not enough
mouths to till already? And God knows
how much farther the span can go
without water in this accursed coun
try; they have enough to pull as it is.
And why should I feed the wife and
child of every black selielm that is fool
enough to want them? Yordomte
swartzkop!” And he spat angrily into
the lire.
“But the child,” persisted Piet. “That
is small and eats but little, not a quar
ter as much as a dog. Besides, Klaus
may run away if the girl falls sick, and
he alone knows the road aud the drifts
across the river.”
There was a moment’s pause. “Well,
the brat, then, in God’s name,”snapped
the other. “The girl can walk, as she
has walked these three weeks," he
added aud rolled himself in his rug to
avoid further surrender.
Piet rose stillly to his feet: the night
breeze was growing chill. He knocked
the ashes out of his pipe, kicked some
fuel into the embers of the tire, and
went around to the other side of the
wagon, where the three Basuto boys
were lying.
“Klaus!” he called. “Here a mo
ment!”
A grunt from one of the blankets
answered him.
“Baas Jakob says the baby may ride
with the vrouw in the wagon, but the
girl must still walk.”
There was a sudden movement at bis
feet and a dark figure rolled out of the
blanket.
“No, boy; no! Not that!” His hand
was being covered with kisses. Piet
drew it sharply away and, taking a
strip of biltong from bis pocket, thrust
it into the Basuto’s grasp. “Here; this
may help for the girl. It was all I
could get,” he said roughly. Aud, turn
ing on his heel, he went back to where
his brother lay sleeping. Baas Piet
was as averse to being generous as the
transport rider, though for other rea
sons.
For awhile Klaus lay still.
Presently, carrying the piece of hard
sun dried meat and his own supper of
boiled mealies, he crept, shivering,
from his blanket and went slowly out
on to the silent veldt in the direction
from which the wagon had come, as lie
had gone every night to listen for the
signal that told him Betta was there
among the ant hills. Then he would
cheer her up and sit beside her while
she ate some of his poor rations, though
they were not enough for her and the
child.
Betta was a good girl. He knew that
alien he gave her father two oxen and
some wethers aud took her away with
him from the old kraal by the wagon
drift across the Krei three years ago.
She bad been with him ever since, and
now, when the trek began. Baas Jakob
would not let her ride in the wagon or
even come near it.
Klaus grasped the kerrio dangling
from his belt at the recollection of the
cut across the mouth that the drunken
transport rider had given him with his
i sjambok when be bad asked his per
mission. Besides, there was the baby,
I and he could not have left both of
them behind, so far from the kraal and
her civu people. But Baas Jakob was
j a hard man; he did not understand
such things.
Fvcr since they had left Burghers-
! dorp, many weeks ago, she had walk-
I od after them, the baby slung at her
I back, and there were yet three weeks
more and the desert strip to cross be-
I fore they reached the g.eat belt and
the river. But the baby wga to ride iy
of the drift and sat there waiting. Ho | wear and tear < n ti c basement ma-
of wheels roused him from his nap,
and far up in the clear, blue air floated
a great vulture, without a tremor of
his wide pinions, just as he had floated
for many days past, watching and
waiting.
Suddenly there was a stir under the
tilt. The curtain was flung aside and
Baas Piet stepped out on to the fore
part of the wagon, yawning sleepily.
“Boy,” ho shouted, "onsaddle the
mare. I shall ride on to the water hole
beyond Hie drift. It cannot be far off
now.”
Klaus appeared from underneath the
wagon, where his blanket was slung
hammock fashion in the daytime.
“No, Baas Piet; the spruit shouh. not
be more than one hour’s rldo now, and
the hole is only two, three mile far
ther.”
Presently he brought the mare
around from the back of the wagon,
where she had been tied up, tightened
the girths and rolled up the riem of
the neck halter. Baas Piet swung him
self off the edge of the wagon into the
sadle.
“Tell the baas when he wakes up,”
he said, aud with a shake of the reins
cantered off through the dust.
“It cannot be far off now,” repeated
Klaus to himself, as be watched him
until he became invisible In the midst
of the vast brown expanse of sun
scorched hillside.
It was now live days since they had
left the last vlei, and he had given
nearly all his share of the hot muddy
water that the vrouw served out to
the girl for the last few days, but that
was very, very little, and she was sick
too.
For a moment he stopped and looked
backward. There, just topping the
last rise, miles and miles away, his
keen sight could pick out against the
sky line the little black speck that had
been behind them fpr so many weeks
now. /altering on with parched lips
through the heat and loneliness of the
plains, always dropping farther and
farther behind as evening drew in.
He heard the snores of the transport
rider and his vrouw as they slept com
fortably under the tilt. If they could
only feel what Betta felt—yet It was
easier for her now that she had not the
baby to carry, and the water was close
in front, and after that only two or
three days’ trek before the desert end
ed. And, comforted by the thought,
Klaus walked on after the wagon and
returned to his blanket.
The baby was certainly the most con
tented of all, lying in an empty sugar
box under the shade of the tilt, engag
ed in coiling the soft end of the 1$ foot
lash round and round its chubby arms.
It -rew fatter and merrier every day.
The vrouw rather liked it, black as it
was, for she had no children of her
own.
All at once came a warning shout
from the voerloper. They were right
on the edge of the drift, and the lead
ers began to pick their way slowly
down the steep bank over the loose
rocks and sand. Klaus was busy put
ting the heavy iron shoe drag under
one of the hind wheels, while Baas Ja
kob, in a bad temper at having Ids
sleep disturbed, sat upon the front of
the wagon, swearing at him and the
other boys for being lazy
Now sliding sideways over a smooth
shelving rock, now plunging down over
a ledge with a jar that wrenched every
bolt and wheel spoke, the heavy wag
on crashed down the bank, only to
come to a dead stop at the bottom, im
bedded in sand up to the axles. The
span were knotted in a tangled mob of
clashing horns aud twisted yoke reins,
snuffing aud pawing up the sand with
Impatient hoofs. Instinct told them
that water was there, but it was far,
far below, for the last rains had fallen
many months back.
“Yerdonite ruiueks!” raged the an
gry baas, beside himself. “Twist their
tails! Get that iron spike there, Hen
drik. That will make the devils move!”
But it was of no use. The span only
became more hopelessly entangled. In
vain Klaus dashed In among them
sjambok in hand, kicking here am
slashing there, while Hendrik and the
voerloper called upon the beasts by
name aud urged them forward. Water
they knew was there, aud water they
would have
“The whip! Why don’t you take the
whip, you sehelms? Where is It?
roared the infuriated Boer, risiug am
glaring about the wagon.
As be went forward he stumbled over
the baby and its box, upsetting it am
sending the child rolling across the
could not see far tonight, for there was
no moon, only the half light of the
stars, and the bottom of the drift
yawned black at bis feet. A prowling
jackal snarled close by, and at Ids ap
proach a great vulture, gorged with the
remains of some wornout trek ox that
had fallen there to die, though he did
not remember noticing it, had flapped
heavily off into the night.
Klaus waited for many hours, but
the girl did not come. Of course, hav
ing the baby to carry again would
make her take longer, for Baas Jakob
bad told him bow be bad seen it roll
off the wagon that morning trying to
reach a big tortoise on the road and
crawl after it unhurt, and bow he had
watched it there until Betta had pick
ed it up when she came along. Still,
she would catch them up next evening,
and he left the water beaker and the
food tied up in a piece of rag under a
heap of stones in the middle of tiie
road, so that the aasvogels could not
get at them, and Betta might find them
there in the morning.
But Betta did not catch the wagon
up next evening or the next.
Four days afterward they had pass
ed the edge of the desert and out-
spanned among the shady tamarisks
ind the willows by the banks of the
Great river.
“Never mind, Klaus,” said Baas I’iet
indly, patting him ou the shoulder.
Hunger is a bad death, but it Is God’s
will. Besides,” be added, with a smile,
’there are yet many good girls in Ba
sutoland. But you will stay with Baas
Jakob aud me yet a bit?”
‘I stay with you—and Baas Jakob,”
answered Klaus simply. “Ho treats
me as well as any other baas.”—Ball
Mall Magazine.
V1VIER, THE HORN PLAYER.
chinery. not to mention the unnecessary
fraying of wire cables?
A representative of The Examiner
found William U. Bradbury in the cage
of the elevator at bis hotel, rushing it
up and down the shaft as fast as elec
tricity could send it. But Mr. Brad
bury would not talk. He was busy
running bis hotel aud his elevator, he
said, and, besides, it wasn’t any busi
ness of the newspapers anyhow. Leav
ing the elevator, lie slammed the door
and disappeared in Ids private office.
Mr. Bradbury is a man of moods,
lu subsequent interviews be good na-
turedly explained that he works be
cause be wants to. He lias worked all
bis life long, he says, and has a right
to keep ou working. Asked for the
names of other pioneer millionaires
who work, he said there is none, be
cause they are all dead. Then he re
called the names of some of them—
Fair. Flood, O’Brien, Stanford, Crock
er, Hopkins, Sharon, Ralston, Sutro
and Blythe.
“A man’s got to work to live,” said
he. "That's what bone and muscle are
given us for. When you shut down
your engine, your holler is going to
burst.
“How to get rich? That is just as
easy as anything else on earth—just as
easy, mind you. All you have to do is
to center your mind ou it. (live up
everything else. Give up friends, chil
dren, peace and comfort. Pleasure?
’lake it seeing the dollars come in.
There is a tierce joy of conquest that
you feel over each one.”
Millionaire Bradbury talks like a
miser, but bis deeds are those of a
philanthropist, for he gives away dol
lars by the thousand to charity aud
asks those benefited that nothing be
said about It.—San Francisco Exam
iner.
Wiiat (he Hrillsli Soldier Im Fighting
For.
There was a residuum of horrid real
ity in the reply of the warrior at the
front whose parents had asked him
for help to keep them out of the work-
house. He told them, as we related,
to wait till he returned, when they
could all “go to the workhouse togeth
er.” Writing from Modder river, a
corporal in the Black Watch complains
that out of 7 shillings a week be must
pay 1 shilling for a small pot of jam
and the same sum for 18 very small
biscuits. Milk costs 1 shilling a tin,
and then there is tobacco. No wonder
the workhouse looms ominously!—Lon
don Chronicle.
Ho Was FnmoaH For Practical Jok
ing t'udcr Napoleon HI.
The death, announced from Nice, at
the age of 7b, of the famous horn play
er aud practical joker, Eugene Leon
VIvier, will recall stories of a man who
figured largely iu London and Parisian
society In the early days of the third
empire. Vivier was a magnificent solo
horn player, but he was even more re
markable us a humorist His practical
jokes may seem rather stupid now, but
iu their day they were the talk of Eu
rope. One of them was to tie a young
calf ou the second floor balcony of Ids
house, so that a crowd assembled and
blocked up the street. Yivior's excuse
was that he hated to see boys hurrying
on their errands and adopted this plan
to tempt them to loiter. Then he kept
the calf in his rooms so long that it
grew into a bullock, and when the po
lice Interfered they found it impossible
to get the animal down stairs.
Vivier invented a plan of mixing gum
with soap, for the manufacture of soap
bubbles, of a particularly large and
tough description, which he set flying
over 1st. Petersburg, to the alarm of
the Emperor Nicholas, who Imagined
it to portend some new Insurrection.
In London he had a fancy for keeping
in his rooms, off Regent street, a cock,
for the board of which he insisted ou
paying 18 pence a week and which he
pretended to treat as a familiar spirit,
jabbering to it for some minutes and
then rushing frantically out of the
house, his handkerchief to bis eyes,
sobbing as though his heart would
break.
In an omnibus he once pretended to
be mad, shouted at the top of his voice
and presented a pistol at his own head.
Then, when seized, he gravely broke
the supposed pistol in half, handed one
piece to the conductor and proceeded
to eat the other half, which was choc
olate.
Napoleon III was especially his ad
mirer aud gave him many sinecures,
among them an inspectorship of mines,
which meant the drawing from time to
time of a comfortable salary. When
Vivier wanted to travel, Napoleon used
to seud him, at the government ex
pense, as a special imperial courier
with secret dispatches.
Vivier was a self made man and as
little more than a lad lie came (part of
the way on footi from his native Ajac
cio, where his father was a tax gather
er, to Paris and became a player in the
band at the Italian Opera. Afterward
he studied seriously under Gallay and
soon, as a soloist, took the foremost
place, lie first visited London in 1818
on the recommendation of Louis Phi
lippe. who thought a great deal of him,
and his celebrity lasted practically un
til the fall of the empire.
Clerk's Sales.
State of South Carolina, i In Common
County of Cherokee. ( I’ieas.
C. II. Gaffney et al.. Plaintiffs,
against
Miss Edna Northey t t al., Dei't mlants.
In obedience to an order made in-rein. I.y
llis Honor James Aldriel), Presiding Judge,
dated March ItSUi. 1900, I will sell a. Gaffney,
before the Court House door, during lire legal
hours of sale, on Saiesday, i th iff May, 1900,
tin* following described lands, to wit:
Twenty-five (25) residence or building lots,
located in Hit western part of said town, front
ing on Oranard, Logan and Wood street;
each lot being eighty (>0> feet front by two
hundred (200) feet dee;> to an alley, and same
being a part of the estate lands of Tho... W.
Gaffney, deceasrd.
A plat of same eau be seen in (T i b's office.
Termsof sale: One-third easii, balance on
a credit of one and two years, in equal an
nual installments, with inti rest from day of
sale at 8 percent, per annum, lo be secured
by bond of purchaser aud mortgage of the
premises. Purchaser lo pay lor papm-s. reve
nue stamps and recording.
A pril 9th, 1900-st.
J. ER.Tr.FFF.UlER,
Clerk C. C. Pis.
Wallace & Otts.
Plaintiffs’ Attorneys.
I Us Mm pprVb!
him tmcL!*,
Piictorrapiiei. (iaffney, S, U.
Iveop Oool
at a small expense (luring
the hot summer mouths by
buying vour
IOI
from me
every dav
ice delivered
J, L. ALEXANDER.
He then retired to the soutli of
floor of the wagon, where it lay iu a I France, keeping up his character for
ball on u heap of skins, crowing with j eccentricity. He invented a trick which
delight. People so seldom played games
with tt.
The Boer thrust the empty box back
against the side with his foot aud
snatched up the bamboo whip handle.
Poising it carefully above his head in
both hands, lie gave a little preliminary
flourish, but the end was .caught iu
something—the brat again, curse it!
It opeued wide eyes of pleasure at
him, holding up Its dimpled wrists,
wound round with the eud of the lash.
With a savage oath lie kicked it off
the end of the wagon into the midst of
the struggling cattle uud brought the
great whip down upon them with nli
greatly perplexed the last generation-
playing. or pretending to play, four
notes at once ou the horn, the effect
being somewhat similar to that of four
horns playing together.—London News.
The Wlrelea*.
“As 1 understand it,” says Mrs. Gaz-
sam, "by the wireless telegraph - sys
tem the messages go right through tho
air we breathe.”
"Yes, that Is correct,” assented Mr.
Gazzam.
“Then a person who has just tiled a
message In the telegraph office may
swallow Ids own words ou Uia wa;
A FIGHTING PARSON.
How Dr. MoKaue (‘ompletely Con-
*4?rtc<l a Uiilljintv I’iucksinith.
The conversation had drifted some
how or other to fighting clergymen.
“That reminds me,” said a Georgian in
tho group, "of a story that is told on
Dr. McKane. The doctor was a fa
mous antebellum character, who lived
between Washington and Augusta—a
district, by the way, which produced
nu extraordinary number of men of
ability, lie was a physician of tbo
good old school, and, being a man of
strong religious views, he was in tho
habit of occasionally pi t aching i". the
rural churelics. PhyVca’dy .McKane
was a giant, and if he failed to convert
a sinner by word of mouth lie was uot
averse to finishing the argument with
his lists; so, needless to say, his prose
lyting was singularly successful.
"One Sunday, as the story goes, lie
drove to a neighboring village fur the
purpose of holding services and was
met as he descended from ins buggy
by the local blacksmith, who was the
bully of the community. Tho black
smith had heard of the doctor’s prow
ess and regarded his presence as a
menace to his own prestige aud decid
ed not to let him preach.
“‘Well, stranger, who be you. any
how?’ he asked as a starter, pTnling
himself in the visitor's path.
“‘My name is McKane,’ replied the
doctor, ‘and I’ve come to hold a meet
ing in the church yonder.’
“ ‘My name i* Bill Williams,’ paid
the blacksmith, ’and I’m hero to tell
yon that you can't hold no meet in in
this town today.’
“ ‘That’s something we’d best settle
Immediately.’ said McKane, with ^t-
fect coolness, and proceeded to pull off
his coat. Tho blacksmith had tho ad
vantage of brute strength, but McKano
was a skillful boxer, and after a few
swift passes be saw an opening and
knocked bis man down. The bully got
up raving and was promptly floored
again. The third time McKane stretch
ed his adversary out he jumped on his
chest and began slugging him about
the face.
“‘Hold on!’ bellowed the blacksmith,
spitting out a couple of teeth. *I’vo get
ter ’uuf!’
“‘Do 1 preach here today?” asked
McKane, landing a stiff punch on Ids
nose.
“'Yes! Yes!’ yelled the other.
‘Preach all you want to!’
“‘And will you come and hear inc?'
continued the doctor, hitting him a ter
rific lick in the eye.
“‘Yes! Yes! I'll come."
“‘All right, brother.’ said the fighting
parson, rising and wiping his hands
‘The services will begin at lo sharp '
"The blacksmith kept Ids word and
was cn the front bench. They he
afterward l.(( , nuie a chi • I . lec."
New Ui'icaos Thin • Dc *• .a.
A Marvel of OI«con»forl.
The monitor, which used to be the
terror of the navy in the matter of di
comfort to Its crew, will have to yield
that unquestionable distinction to the
torpedo boat destroyer, In wld(<i the
demands upon the officers and men are
enormous. Comfort, as It Is understood
in a big ship, is unknown. Even In
what Is known as moderate weather
cooking Is almost an impossibility. The
whole structure vibrates and trembles
under the strokes of the engines ami
the kick of the propellers.—Army aud
S. C. & G. E. R. R. CO.
Schedule No. 4.
In Effectii'.oi A. M.. Sunday.December 24th, ’99
Between Caraden.S.C. and Blacksburg,S.C.
W i:s i\ EAST
asT"357 , 1 32 , 31.
Sheriffs Sale.
State of South Carolina, ' In Court of
County of ('hehokee. 1 Common Pleas.
S. M. Littlejohn, et ;ih, Plaintiffs,
against
!'• P. Cani rel, et ah, Defendants.
b.v viitue of a decree in the aljove cause,
made on March the 14th, 1900, 1 will expose for
P’d'lic sc.ie at Guff my, S. C., before the ('ourt
Mon ■' door, on Hu first Monday in May. 1900,
mwi isah -day) during the legal hours of sale,
the follow in : dt serihed real estate, to wit:
Lots numbered sixty-six (Oii) aud sixty-seven
(Jo on Sage >1 reel in the town of Gaffney, and
being a pari of a ten acre lot formerly owned
by L. C. I’yars and li. IC. Humphries, and
b •ing the same lots in which N. K. Littlejohn
and J as. it. Littlejohn purchased an interest
at Sheriff's sale al Spartanburg Court House
on Hie seventh (lay of March. 1887; each of
lid lots Ironting on Sage Street sixty-six
feet and running back one hundred and six
teen feel, mure or less,
said lots io be sold separately.
Terms of sale: One-third cash; tho i«il-
an a* on a credit of t welve mont hs with inter-
1 -t irom day of sale, to be secured by bond of
1 he puiohti.-er With m at gage of the premises,
• he purchaser to have tin privilege of paying
ail ea ffi, if he or she so desires. If termsof
sale are not complied with within twenty-
four hours said premises to lie resold at next
sab sdny at 1 isi< of purchaser. Purchasers to
1 ay for all pa pi rs.
W. W. Thomas,
4-i7-19H'-law—3t Sheriff.
EASTERN TIME.
SOUTHERN RAILWAY.
1!
Condensed Schedule of Passenger Trains.
In j£?lect l)ec. 10,1309.
STATIONS.
>1 ;
- X
1*.
I*. >1.
1
P. Me
P. M.
8 20
12 50
CAMDEN
12 25
5 30
H 5()|
1 15
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12 021
4 50
9 r.'"
1 27
. . WEST V 11.LE I
11 501
4 20
10 501
t 40
. ... KERSHAW |
n ;;5
4 10
11 2"
2 id,
HEATH SPRINGS ,
1! 20
3 15
ti :s>i
2 15
.PHEASANT HILL.
11 15
;j oo
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1" 551
2
1 00!
2 50
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10 40
1 00
1 30
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10 :;o
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10
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to 20
12 20
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10 101
11 no
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10 40
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9 :ci
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4 45;
4 tr2
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<i 30|
8 00
4 20
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9 15
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9 on
•) 50
(1 251
4 50 j
HICKORY GROVE I
8 45
ti 20
ti 95
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ti U>
•7 00
5 20
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8 15
5 30
P. M. j
P M.
A. M j
A. M.
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W ESI
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11 45
7
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2 50
12 05
7 4o
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2 45
12 25 7 .V
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;
17
2 20
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.MARION
I 5
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M. I P. M.
A. M. J P. M.
Gaffney Division.
EASTERN time
STATIONS.
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No. 18.
FstMa
Northbound.
No. 12.
No. 38.
Ex.
No. 38.
Daily
Daily
Sun.
Daily.
Lv. AtlantisT'j
7 59 a F
12 10m
4 30 p
11 50 p
“ Atlanta ET
8 5(1 a
1 00 p
5 30 p
12 50 a
“ Norcrosa..
9 39 a
6 23 p
1 23 a
" Buford.
10 05 a
7 03 p
1 63 a
" Gainesville
10 35 <i
2 25 p
7 33 p
2 13 a
“ Lula
19 o3 a
2 45 p
8 OOp
2 38 a
•• Cornelia....
1 1 tit) i\
8 30 p
“ Mt. Airy.
11 30 a
8 35 p
Lv Toecua..
11 53 a
3 33 p
0 OOp
3 23 a
Ar. Elbertou.
Lv. Elberton..
9 66 a
5 40 p
11 45 a
Lv. Vv 'minster.
12 31 in
4 04 ft
“ Beneca.
12 52 p
4 15 p
4 28 ft
“ Central
1 4>i p
4 55 a
•• GreeiAille
2 34 p
5 22 p
,
6 00 a
bpar’burg .
3 37 d
tl 13 p
........
7 03 a
” flaffuev....
4 20 p
G 45 p
7 45 a
Blacksburg
4 38 p
7 02 p
........
8 02 a
'• King's ML.
5 03 p
8 27 a
•' Gastonia...
5 25 p
8 61 a
" Charlotte..
6 30 n
6 18 p
.•••••••
9 50a
Ar. Gre'naboro
V 55 p
10 47 p
12 23 p
Lv Gre’nsboro
il 45 p
Ar. Norfolk.. .
......
8 25 u
Ar. Danville...
11 ‘25 p
11 5Gp
1 38 p
Ar. Richmond..
0 10 a
ti 00 a
6 25 p
Ar. W'hington.
6 42 a
8 50 p
H 25 p
" li'more P K
8 00 a
“ Ph'delnhia.
M New York.
* • •
10 15 a
'! 53 a
12 4 m
J 23 a
FstMa
V f 9.
Soutli bound.
No. ;15.
No. 37.
No. IL
Daily
Daily
Daily.
Lv NY.,Pa.R.
12 15 a
4 30 p
“ Ph’dclphia.
3 50 a
G 55 p
• •
“ Baltimore..
6 22 a
9 20 p
“ Wnsh’ton.
H 15 (t
10 45 p
Lv. Hi Linond..
12 01 n
11 00 p
5 50:.
11 00 p
Lv. Danville..
5 48 p
« 10 a
Lv. Norfolk. .
9 00 ti
8 35 p
....... .
. .*•••••
Ar. ((ro’iisboro
0 35 p
5 10 a
i
Lv. Grc’n ff.oro
7 10 p| 7 05 u
7 37 ft
Ar l harlot to .
9 45 p 9 25 a
12 05 m
Lv Gastonia.
10 42 p
1 10 ui a
1 12 p
“ King's Mt.
|
1 3s p
" Blacksburg
li 25 p
10 45 a
2 lei p
........
*• Gaffney.
11 42 p
10 68 a
2 24 p
•' Sjinr'burg
12 ffliu
11 34 a
3 15 p
•' Greenville
“ Central
1 30 a
12 30 p
4 30 p
o 42 p
rnr
Ex.
Sun.
•* frVneca
•* W‘minuter
2 32 a
1 30]
6 08 p
6 25 p
" Toc< >;i
3 28 a
2 15 r
7 OOp
u U» a
f.v Eibcrton.
9 00 a
1 301
/ . . Ml her 1 (in.
11 45 u
6 40
Lv. MI Airy..
7 21 p
6 3o a
“ Cornelia .
7 32 p
6 35 a
“ Lula
4 18 a
3 Up
8 Oi'p
tt 57 a
Gainesville
4 3d a
3 33 p
8 20 p
7 20a
“ Buford...
6 02 t
8 48p
7 48 a
•' Nor,toss.
5 25 a
9 18 p
8 27 a
Ar. At lanta.ET
(1 10 a
4 55 p
10 OOp
9 :xt*s
» At lanta,CT
5 10 a
3 55 p
9 OOp
8 30 a
Betwceu Lula aud Athens.
So. 1 i.
Ex.
bun.
No. 13.
Daily.
STATIONS.
11 Do a Lv .Lula
II i)l , a “ Maysville
11 62 a “ Harmony
12 Uhp Ar. Athens Lv
No. 10.
No. 12.
Ex.
Daily.
Sun.
10 60 a
7 35 p
10 19 a
7 09 p
lu Uta
6 38 p
9 25 a
6 00 p
with the southern
SAMI EL
A.TKHT,
Mil
III NT.
I'roftliieni.
intcudent.
8 lOp
8 !!( p
8 69 p
H 9Up
Note c)on6 connection made at Lula with
main line trains.
••A''a m. “P’'p. m. "M” noon. “N” night.
('liesnpeftkc Line Steamera in daily aarvica
be'ween Nor >lk and Haitimore.
Nos. U7 a no 88—Daily Washington and
Pouthwestern Vestibule Limited. Through
PulliMin KleeplngcarH between New York and
N**w Ur leans, via Washington, Atlanta and
Montgomery. and also between New York and
M'-mphi*. via Washington, Atlanta and Blr-
ininiriatn. Also elegant Pullman LibharT
Cn t ovation Cars between Atlanta and New
Y"tU kirstfliiaa thoroughfare coachet be-
twri n Wii-hmston and Atlanta. Dining *ara
l»*-i e nil nieois eu route. I^t7ing Wash ug-
ini’tou Mondnya, Wednesdays and Fridays
r totiriv s is-ptngfar will run through bet ween
Waa.itngtim and bun Franciaro without change.
Pom.i in .ii uw mg room a.ee; tng oara lieiwwen
((roe .sir ioaii'1 Noilollt Clou connection at
Norto n for oi.u Point Comfort.
No- .A and .»>—L'niled States Fast Mall runa
eoltd lad ween Washington and New Orleans,
via Southern Hallway, A. A W. P. R. R. ana
1, X N K. H.. IrtCng composed of coaches,
thrnn. n without change tor iiasaengers of all
chi* i-i I'nhiiiiui drawing room sleeping cars
t»-iwien New York iticl New Orleans, via A'
lanta and Miinlyniiiery and between Cha
hrtie Hint Atlanta. Dining cars nervs at.
ti eu's en rou(«
No. II, 1L 1 end 12—Pnllmau sleeping car*
between Ith'limoud ami Charlotta. via Dan*
VlUft. MOIlt h hound Nos. U and 88, north ho nod
No* 84 and 12
FLANK h UANNON.
Thild T-f