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r 11 ic i^irci >o ic i*. BY Ed. IT. DeCamp. PUBLISHED Tl’ESnAY AND FKll’AA si list KUTION Pit ICE: pensions! Think of it. Thirty-five years after the war closed, a period in which a whole generation has { passed away—the pension roll is j larger than ever before. And under THE LKTONE COTTON MILLS. the present corrupt system wo see It ig Now Under Course of Cash in advance, per year $1 t o notliieg to prevent if fiom continum On time, per year. i ncr> ast rn;. f-r a generation to come, i ain of '• vt ry man, woman, The Ledger is not responsible for j and chil l in tin l mud States being A the ylows of correspondents. | taxed $10 apiece to meet these faUn-| ay be able to ! Sixty Tenement House* to he ITeeted hy Construction. BEAUTIFUL LOCATION. Co-respondents who do not contn-, (iU , j.,y S an j you maj nte regular news ! form some faint conct pti PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS. People You Know ttml People You Don't Know. Mrs. T. H. Butler went to Shelby, I N. 0 , yesterday to visit her sister, Mrs. (ieorge Hlanton. Joseph N. Littlejohn, a student in I the South Carolina College, returned ' to his home in the city Sunday where j his many friends are glad to see him. Simpson Wanton and daughter. ! Miss Olive, of Star Farm, spent Sat- | urday in the city with their friends. Lucius Randall, the efllcient man- SHORT LOCAL ITEMS. Komi Item* Too Short for 11 Until tiroupecl Together. Walt Whitman, of Union, is again a candidate for governor. W. 1>. Thomas has moved into his handsome new cottage on Victoria STRANGE EATING CUSTOMS. bote _ „ , . nifch their name, not for pnbiiCAUon, but for identification. Write short letters ami to the poi nt to insure publication; u!«o endeavor to got them to the office by Monday and Thursday mornir gn Cards of thanks will be pebnsntci at one cent a word. Reading notices will be published at Vsn cents a line each insertion. Obituaries will be published at uvo cents a line. All correspondence shou.d be ad dressed to Kd. H. DeCamp. Manager. on tiv«* -It U Expected ti( Have the .11111 in Operation hy Oflohcr 1st. N»>a :i't week a burdens which the pe-opli: Hr«.' doomed to carry, iiy far the greater por tion of this money is raised by incti- , r taxation, and tliut is t!i .• reason ; hadibe pteasmo They j of the Limestone Cotton Mills ' What was a few short months mo an Ledger representative of visiting the site * ” 'TT i . .. ' , . . _ why the people stand it. would turn things upside down be fore the expiration of a month, if | unoccupied wood, save such a tax were levied on than recti}’. And vet it comes out of i ,]j. | oen. is now a scene of activity. Huu- j dreds of men and boys are busily en- their gaged making and laying brick, saw- pockets in the end, ail the same. I - ',very man that buv« a coat, or a hat or a pair of shoes, and. every woman TAN IIA UK. 1 or I Thirty years ago. the tan vards in ; j )Uys a f } rf , SH| or u wrap, or a this country were about all compnlled j V(ir j (jf ^pbon—in short every ot.e to close operations, on account of the j w , io eat3 an( j wears contributes to scarcity of tan bark. Oak 1 I t i.j s colossus of extravagance, became so scarce that owners would | j. i m p ro |j Q bi e _alinost impossible | work, no longer destroy it just for the value i —,| ial amovm t time - other l ’ It will ing timbers and j uttii g them in place *, etc . Messrs. Oct il A Curry huve the c •r.tract for tin* brick work and Contractor L. Bukei • is super- visin g the construotion. Mr. E. R. Cadi , who is to Ije tiie tuperinten- of tlB! - mill, is also d irecting tiie avenue. There will be a partial eclipse of the moon tonigh f ten o’clock. Where (he Gema Cnme From. A speaker at a Sunday school teach- 1 Kong and Short Sv.eelenlii* aa an ! ers’ meeting touched upon certain Adjunct to C’otrcc. . I tilings a child should be taught and “Talk n> ut strange eating customs said the teacher ought to be very sura ] In strange ! uids,’’ said Promoter Pirn- that the child understood its lesson,< Icy, "PI! Li t a hat I can pick up as giving the following story as an illua-' of the bark. Since that the stationary. should remain tow larger every the ! the Company for the t «e <>r it* opera- j agor of the Cherokee Foundry and Machine Shop, took advantage of the excursion to make a business trip to Atlanta. John K. Mosteller, of Grassy Pond, was a Ledger visitor yesterday. Miss May Harris, one of Galmey’s charming young ladies, is visiting friends in Spartanburg. We hone for her early return, or we fear The Ledger oliice may sulfer some inccu- | venience on account of help. Rev. C. K. Robertson went to Con cord, X. C., Sunday. F. G. Rates, a prominent young man of Clifton, was among his friends in tne city last week. Miss Mary Thompson went to Spartanburg Saturday on a visit to friends. Deputy SherilT Dellinger, of Lin- colnton, X. C., came over Saturday after John Rhyne who was arrested here and wanted in Lincolnlon for the murder of Will Dellinger many uncanny table habits between here and the Mississippi river as you can tiud in China and the Malay archi pelago put together. When 1 say that, v between nine and ) Pm not thinking »f naked, grasshopper ; eating Digger Indians, if there are any Digger Indians cast of the Mississippi, hut of respectable, God fearing partici pants in what's called our glorious American ci viliznt ion. The summer term of court for Cherokee county will convene on next Monday, the JSth inst., Everybody who has subscribed to the Cowpens park fund must nay at once as the land must be paid for by Friday. Miss Edith Fort entertained quite "Last month, for instance, I had a deal on that took me to southern Ten nessee to look at some land, and Mrs. Pimley went with me for the sake of j the trip. The man who owned the land t rat ion: A teacher asked a class for a definl- 1 ! tion of the word “jewel.” The answer came quickly. "A jewel is a gem.” The teacher not b ing sure that they knew what a gem was questioned them fur- tlier. What is a gem? Then there was silence. Finally one little girl piped up. "Gems comes from gpra pans." „ ‘ , , , . , .,* , turned out to be a woman, a widow, a number of her friends onWednes- l , , , , . . . . , day evening, in honor of her charm ing little visitor. Miss Rernico Buck- ho!z. ii v on the premises and •-up- sources of tannic acid, winch is .... j Year U!i ^;j private property ’ ' of the bark, have | ^ lid, which active principle of u..- ^..v. { be virtually mer'.' been discovered, and it is probable j ^ that the tanning of leather will again n H d political )rtant industry in the j only a name; or there w Tiie company have co mini ply the workmen with mcrehandi e Mr. ('. S. Liam, formerly bookkee: e fijr (he stor; of the Galfney M tin ficturiug Company. lias cimrge o: t/ enininitsary. Mr. Elam w:’l kceji lie a who besides the ”,000 acres I was look- j ing at was reputed to own some 30.000 j more and to be worth in the neighbor- | hood of $700,000. Rut she wasn't a Miss Volina Hamrick gave a de- ! proud woman. Wo stopped at her lightful lawn party Friday afternoon. ; house the first night we were in the complimentary to Misses Fay Webb i town. It was a two story farmhouse and Rernice Ruckholz, two lovely that hadn’t been painted for a hun- iittile visitors. dred years, and what furniture there On account of scarcity of seed, ''«» In It liad coinc over at soinc perlo.1 os will not he sowed hroadc.ast as '.'g"; 1 V' a1 " 1 ,l " ! ha,1,a Now. said the speaker, if a child | tliinks a jewel is a gem and gems come t from gem pans the eliilu s idea of the time “when he cometh to make up bin . jewels" will be a very peculiar one.— j Reading Herald. a pe; generally as last year; but probably an equal area of them will be planted in the drill and cultivated. The wheat crop is very promising. Much of it is ready for the scythe Maria and wasn’t worth its transporta tion at that. We removed the traces of travel from our faces and hands with the aid of a tin basin and soft soap out behind the house, but we didn’t stop to find fault witli our toilet aeeoiniuoda- Miss Dora Hamrick, a prominent and is being harvested as rapidly as 1 lions with supper ahead of us. We young lady of Shelby, X. C., is in the possible. Several farmers have j hadn't seen a dining ear since breuk- tlnnj olit: dievillo 1 > which will purify the earthquake at mo- idu re dy for liio retiu’R l he la re become an impo South. In a recent trip beyond A we noticed the rubs of mountains , fi j e Ul .,j honest principles on that were white with felled trees ; t » u , jrovnrnrnoitt wua originally from whicli the bark bad ai! iiccn founded, slipped, and we noticed at several stations great stacks of the bark . awaiting shipment. We read in soin" ( paper that about GO'J men are no-.ven- oagod in this business in the maun- ; tains beyond Ashevule. W e coma j not look upon the great we saw, lying prestrat bark all slipped oil them, mental protest. The work s us, wasteful arid sacril _ timber of all kinds is becoming scarce and, so far as oak is concerned, j is now confined almost whoky to the | mountains, and that it should bo so j 1 ruthlessly destroyed f^r the little r.- | ( mu Deration which the bark will bring, seems to us a tiling tnat ought i two oi ic new Ol'il | ill! 1 lilS. id ill will be ill ixi' K) ft it hurl), vitt- u: tid hoik r room p "< K) an engine f t- f !';».. Let. i iju oaks that remarcai witii the turc*. V* without a anything seetrud to what arc ous Fine of ecienc .M .\»JOK i\* 5‘> I.I* > S Ti / S. ? .** v ’• i'he a«)in delivered by iiajor I’oweli at Limestone Goliege com- mencetiu nt and puhii^oed in fiiil in cl;!} .? issue of 1 .ic L 'dgcr, is u !e piece ot current iitera- 2 have never before seen iike it. Whik it contains wails are twenty-eight inches thick: and the work is being r >nstrucLi.ii i ; j tiie most substantial fiuniu-r possi ble The engine uni ttoiier plant | will be shipped by the I Vh of July j and it is proposed to have the new mid in operation by October 1st. The casting:; iMr this mill an hy ing made by tliu Galiney koundi'y | and Machine Siiops and Treasurer Hamrick says they are fq'iai to any , city visiting Dr. and Mrs. W. O, bought new reapers, and we learn are j fant and were ns hungry as wolves. Hamrick on Limestone street. j pleased with their work. W. F. Marion, of Chester, was in : D r- j^yjg j. 0 ,|,. ( . |,vf t t hc city the city Katurday on business. ; Sunday to deliver an address before Sun v\. 1 oMer, of Etta Jane, paid j (be iigersviile High School yester- ' Js : vi - .-it hiiday. j dtty, from which pLieo he will go to .Mrs. Perry Glenn visited in Gusto- j Anderson where he will deliver the idu. . I/, nird week. , literary address before the Patrick usua Hy caMei ;1 the d iry fi*.i .1^1 1 tiicr, e, 1 c reads 1 i k (* a Persi m< ; coi.l* luj ir ifinvell could prep: • Uit’ii j.re i I Ul: r U ■ct or.: ■ on short not le (-, in 1 | diffe ot lie: : heavy and exact: :i:g ! diffe worw tnat can i> 1 uotii. e M. ilainric.% heiic-vos in pa home industry, all tiling-- ha! ore gave the wi a to Tl. enmpuny will erect si houses, part of which construction. They lohn Kirby and Ed Durham, two of GaToey s worthy and hard work ing young men, were among the ex- ourMoii visitors to Atlanta. M Poliakoff, one of our enterpris ing intrehants, went to Atlanta on : t i: ‘ (’C11 ri*? i<) Tl. E. jX. Beiue, of Blacksburg, was in ! ihc city Saturday. Janies M. Wilson, of Slate Line, | ; was a citv visitor yesterday. J e-oc Pitkin, the eflident post mas- ; »'er and r.iiiivad agent at Thickety, | was in the city Saturday. I R. P. Scruggs, of Ezells, was in the "The widow had evidently laid hor- ; self out on that supper. She’d got some fresh beef, which we knew was a rarity in those parts. It was a steak, and slic’d fried it. Did you ever taste fried steak? Don’t. And there were saleratus biscuits as big as grape fruit j and as yellow and boiled potatoes and ! a (date in the middle of the table con- to taining what we decided was cake. Didn't Ilnrry (he Train. A railroad conductor on the after noon train of the Yazoo and Mississip pi Valley road was staggered one by the request of a very plainly dr ed woman. She approached the conductor while the train was waiting at the South Memphis station and said: "Mister, I wish you would git an early start this evening, for I've got a heap of work to do when I get home. We just n iivcd down into the delta from ‘Alaha’. i.’ and we ain’t got things straightened around yet. It will be a big accommodation to me if I git down home before sundown.” The conductor, polite as eonductoi'a usually are. promised the woman hd would do the best he could, but tbel train left on the regular schedule i time.—Memphis Scimitar. ! Military Institute today. j The Ledger is under obligations i the board of tnu-tcos of Washington j This last and ourselves divided the j and Lee I niversity for an invitation | awed attention of the eight children at ! to be present a* the dedication of the i the table. It was the coffee, however, i new law building erected to the | that was our downfall. memory of John Randolph Tucker. ! “‘.Miss Pimley, d’you take loug or I The dedication will take place on the • short sweetening in your coffee?' our i hostess inquired as she was about to fill my wife’s cup. “Now two marked characteristic's of Mrs. Pimley aie a disinclination to flaunt her ignorance and a fondness for : C ('apt. ’ll. ! daughter, Mist Griffith and his lorence, left the city duties, winch we h,-. tiie C ‘.-.‘, st ioip; Iran -is -in. varic not to be allowed. Gentlemen of the mountains, your timber; and gentlemen of tannery business, get you LYC < ' ,c tannic happen to know to man of vasi and wonderfully varied powers. The closir g sot g or has in flow <*. < > f i i»* / the production t >1 .!most every iine a depth i br -adth of s veep worthy nvatest iu;tsD.:r-) of science acid from other sources, even if you < Uli .f son roan r of i hei have to charge us a your leather. You can’t get ou.c bark much longer and you hud just! as well make the change now. - 1 if;' f Ime:’ use ot ll ‘- n a na.-.u; ioi: on; ck.metkp.y. Our cemetery is rapidly filling up. j Every year it becomes a place of ; < tender intercut to hearts frostily j Mi smitten with sorrow, and every wet l oil ! and almost every day it h a pi-ace of ; and resort f T many who steal away for , by t awhile from the busy cares of life | Tl: _, to hold sweet and holy communion tie with the dead. There is an instinct j We t in the heart which seeks for softened in i names for death and all that is a?-: H. sociated with it. We iike to think ; and speak of death itself as a sleep, and we talk of our loved ones who are dead, as having departed or gone before, and we can hardly bear to think of them as dead in tin having ceased to exist. Tne word “cemetery” itself, which m :tn= “a sleeping place,” is an attempt to soften the associations that cluster around u grave yard and to mitigate the gloom that is naturally suggested by t'ne grave. (Jar cemetery ought to have a name in keeping with this feeling—a [ name soft to the ear and refreshing to | the heart—a name associated with ' nothing like sorrow, but suggestive I of peace and love, of home and | friends, of blue skies and singing I birds. We propose that it be eolied “(iak- ; Mr. L. land Cemetery”—a sleeping piano j ‘ L' n 3 among the oaks. Other citb have j ! :j a . 1,0 named their cemeteries after difTt-reut i \,‘ t kinds of trees. Spartanburg hai < tm- j * j ; ,i wood, Greenville, Elmwood, Rich- j ‘ilu moud, Hollywood, but we do not u know of any cemetery that has tin* i ' ^ ' .arm r name we propose. The prec.r.i ; ^ na ne, jhmestone, has been given t j chick--! from its locality, and aside from its local a;-oc iiit ic* ns, suggests nothing pleasant—nothing but thoughts of a stratified rock, emblematical only of a hard fate, l.urfi d fossils, and un feeling hean s. Ledger who has any appreciation «/<>.!I literature, should lay this !■ i ure away for futur * nading. MIDWAY MATTERS. ! r. sunt ' 1 rs. 1 monotony usually att-ndar.t upon the con traction of teneimut I: jus< - f ir cotton mills. Toe villeg: Jit.s been laid oil in nice style utnl each house will have a nice yard and gar den sO'it 1 tic mill i■■ situated in a location, Ling upon an between the K. C. A G. i! 1 ttii Southern. The fur- !ius a si 1 if track to the Niiii liortiycom- o work on one. i iio main ot- aiiil company s'ore will he d m.ui the South- r.i’r-; track. ,iii !)»J OWL wf t !.0 *IiO % l CbJllVL tl- Mii'jt ati i r.' iT -Oll&JS 111 l .Jh X. Drown. ll . ll. <>. 'l urm i- \ i-iit I St i . vi t AHiit tioJi. >r! in!*-iiCt* of !‘.J v. av, JniiC 11.—Since I wrote j our fri. iuJ. Mr. R. O. Turner ! .-ot J wife, have been visited most he;.r‘.-rei dm;.; a'J.ction. ,..v- I-- t u swfct t, ini. Jj-nt lit- :oe of about mx month o.d. cdei to them our .-0-. he re.*, vein e t i. vesting of tiie w dug on. Tn ire up here. leni in MCl.'l 1 lie plant utsidi the ind friend, Col. Joseph IbiH k Ream, of Grindal, was on nr tn-i t.- Friday. Miss Suliie Kcndri k is spending om-- tim- in Union with friends. Uiicie J Brice, of Ezells, came in . t j 7 • * i .1? Jv i *; i« I* i * li V • M. j 1>. R Duneun, of the Spurtan- | burg bur, was on professional bus!- ! u. s Mi this city rri.lay. Rev W. M. White made us a visit I yesierdny. Mises J'an soy Tray wick and Mut- ! t: CaUwell, of Clover, who have b •' ape!.ding some time in the city ! witii their friend. .Miss Eva Ross, re- 1 C ". VW ’V.” . ‘" , •; '., : T, i tur city iiiiiits Dui wiiiiiii inc bciwu) j ^ limits, ill ruiore the operatives \.ili 1 have t‘ ' Hr. 111 ijl till* C A ;]0 I ( i t. i' ' v I i i d to tiieir homes Saturday, Byars fair sex” in Blucks- loyd Raker and Harry Byars were leiieVMi and ii--- st of city taxes. Mr. J. A. i'a:T./li isiiie nresident of th’i new n-.ili. vvid.’e Dr. W. C. 11am- rici. fills very er.ergL tically the j; >si- i treasurer, ’ine t ‘d with an i on a visit to th hurg Sunday. Kmanned ^Jefferies a Ch in sou Coikge homt- M ndav to sp ot Star Farm, student, came * his vacation. 1! 11 h inst. Among Hie nnte-helluin aluinnuo of 'Limestone College who were Dresc-nt at the meeting of the associa tion last week, wore Mrs. A. V. | Montgomery, Mrs. Win G. Austell and Mrs. Sal iio Smith all of Galfney. Each of these ladies are worthy rep resentatives of Die institution they love so well. While it rained some, nearly every day la.-t week in Gaffney an 1 in some po'tions of the county, the rains w< re by no means general The ground in most places was in line condition for work and the Cherokee- ans worked. Tiie farmers report the crops as in good eon iition and growing finely under the influence of the present warm weather and good work. Limestone College is now closed for the vaeaDon. The students are all gone end most of the faculty are at their homos. Those still at the cob. ge w ii I probably take a fe w weeks at the ncasiiore or in the mountains. All will be in their places ami ready when the next sis.-ior, ! <--_■;{» s in Sep- temn; r, v.bt-fsi: i.- ,xp: ctcd ne of the most prosperous sessions in the existence of the college will be in augurated. Don’t Stop taking Scott's Emulsion cause it's warm weather*. ' | Keep taking it until you are} & cured. Ijl It will heal your lungs and h give you rich blood in sum- M mer as in winter. It's cod tr liver oil made easy. aa 50c. and $1. All druggists. plenty of sugar in her coffee. She con sidered for a moment and said; “ ‘Long sweetening, if you please,’ as | though she’d ben accustomed to the expression from her earliest youth. “Our hostess took down a sticky looking jug from an adjoining shelf and poured a quantity of very black molasses into the steaming cup. There were several flies in the molasses and two or throe other insects whose iden tity could not he determined, and \vhen they rose to the surface site carefully skimmed them off with a spoon. “I didn't wait to be asked. If ’long ! July: sweetening’ meant molasses, 'short sweetening’ might mean plain sugar, or it might moan no sweetening at all. ; ^ 1 looked at Mrs. Pimley, who was giv- i ~ ing a correct imitation of Lot’s wife. Perhaps also she was waiting for more Insects to come up. ! ^ “ ‘Short sweetening for me, if you’ll a isoi-ieoo. ✓' | SOUTH CAROLINA COLLEGE, eoi.u-Mni.A, s. c. A. B.. U. -v. A. M., LL.in. L. !. Hon tom. Spring< ur-i •> free for Tea.-hers. Fourteen i'r-!«-»-,!•■>; a:,' -ll volumes in llltraiy. exci‘1- lent lutioiiii.iii. - ei.i-,s rooms, ‘tyomusiuru, luliriiDii-y. a ill!, tie uh.uikK. Tuition SJO. ol I i-t i. . - *i - . a session; t nil ion reiuiUed lo ll. e.iy sii;■ 111-, i; ,|» -User, •!.;> to si.a il SOS- s oit. < '-Mili. il I’ujiiis froin 1. r'y-five Aei-re- o.ii .1 - -‘,...,1- enter Us Freshman < lass with out . 'amiii -tion. I .a i :ain .nnl 'o;iiial Seli.earsiiip F.xam- l> In at ev.-ry rouniy al, Friday, l -i! I.y r.iiitity >uj).-rfulenderits. .-si.im opens M-pi. rjii, r.tnt). For le, iiddli I-', t.. \V()OI>W KD, rrcsidej# } mputhics :at crop is j ! Uon of reeru’.; I mill is b*. i'.g t >u. :-ye Mrs. J. D. Hamrick, of Boiling -SyriX. C.. is in the city attsn- I dii g i!.e county summer school, and large cake of maple sugar, bit off a £ what one thing, in his opinion, it Hi' till Jan c t < at < 1, able dinc?vrship <! . ; t vt-ryv. i The fruit crop is good. The vegetable crop h \ 1 io so iar. We i.:ve i-u • of beans and pet tl e- ; ha since tbe 20th i \\ e are giad lo runicc S.” c o cur.' with u.- r-lat y is good j os energ: now tTi, > very | !! ‘* idai-ce j Of: •n ' at- i ■ l,:i T i is tne guest of Prof, and Mrs. \V. F. MeAr .nr,.". Race street. J. Russiil Srutks and Bob Swofford atten-.le - the VVofford commencement in S_ jiLaci urg yesterday. J. G. ri. Woo 1. of Grassy Pond, was in i o :• * i* u • -Talijr !ny. Mi s !Mn.i li bertfion is on a vit?it , 11 / i to ij*r friend, Miss Dot Urquhart in tl 11 (’Hi 1 11 LlL• * j f j , r , . , ; . I ■ • y . . ‘ . I * t J J • : tna will be Mr. and Mrs. bill inlay niii ;c tl.iflney’ri birth' John (iaffney gave a .Sunday, Mr. to a few of their i cl > lump and dropped It in my cup of cof fee. “Somehow both Mrs. Pimley and my self entirely forgot our coffee until it was too cold to drink, and we declined tine £U' v cei3 of the concern most due. He replied: f.ou:M-r of the f.m In.- t rs it wall not be !■ n other enterpri-j in this city, and, ! r, t ■'.(" ■ 1 aii ;;ey . ! an- I will uece .a-!t- U’ ■hi.on-n i; t' 1 i ii :u: believe, : ry rewards, vgether with iruin: :s, characterize '■u> .ii to r. aioii and i:.- Mi. s Lola Turner is spendirg her v tch*ion in, this city with her uunt, ( Mrs. Park. r. Miss M.'E. Durham, of Sratr- Line, i 11(-iti V> tk nf lh*.- Co!..ni;a»-o V, iiich 1 aa" US a i•! .'i'.-. J01 visii -loouay CHARLESTON EXPOSITION. i a: .1 1. litl'e unpleasai ally, are cleay, alio fa! cultivation; go*, and tot ton. Cot from l!»:(•. to four most places, is ; growing. \Yt- an- -.Lad to r*. pr jgn. -.n g jvv. Crops jv/ifT*; signs- of care- ! oil stands of corn i ttou, however, is ! j hut. in - ('Olll v Yuri*. i i i.c fcxcoiicii t W'^rK U'i ii'C* ‘a p c * j j u 1 i eummiUte on Exposition s'jbs .rip- ' tioiis, which visit;.! X -w York to eon* i fi r v-dih the pr sideut.. of r:.ilr.ads finely i entering rener- • • . CiiiiriestOD, has re suited in GOjMJO to the stock oi the We* Ks K n good w ■ ::(]!<; for 1! i Sout'o C-irolina luter-Slate and West Indian ii.:po.-»tion Company. 'I his sol : rij lion was made by the South- rn Railway, the Atlantic (’oast Line and : (Jit lot! tO p Clyde iSteamshiu Lin leas ant visit Mond i Oilicer Thoma.' H. Lockhart took a ! few .'ays of deserved rest and went to Luiar.ta on the excursion. Iloblx-il tin- Gniv<-. A startling incident, of which Mr. Jolifi Oliver of Philadelphia, vans the suhj"ct, is narrated by him as follows: “I was in a most dreadful condition. My"akin was almost yellow.(yes sunk en tongue cot friends; among them, Mr. Moses Wood | to think of putting our hostess to the After i trouble of refilling our cups. And for breakfast we drank milk. And during the n st of our short stay in Tejinessee we stuck to a diet of fresh eggs at the local ft i R a v.us a great , .r.d to this tact enormous business y, th< c I’iatit System. in ad* thi.- .f2,'JjO was secured >:n i.e i-on, Jimmie dinner Jimmie drove over to Blacks- hurg and must iiuve met some of her fair little danMitc-rs, for he said to ins father on his rcturni “If tha Blacksburg girls look as sweet, when I get a litlle bigger as tmy do now, I am going over there again. >1 aj-or’» Court. The docket in the mayor’s court was light M-Hidav morniog, but there was a good attendance to hear the ease against Robert Ratchford, a colored farmer of Wilkinsville, tried. Robert came to town Saturday morning, bought a bicyle on credit and mortgaged his cow and hog to secure the payment of his obligation for it, and spent a great portion of the day in riding about town. Awhile after night he went into Mr. M. Poliakoff’s store and asked permission to lake a seat near a clothing counter. The permission was granted and Bob was soon detected concealing a pair Three phy.-icians had given me up. j of pants under his clothing. When i irtunafi ly, a friend advised trying he started to leave lie was r. que-tod .1 pain continually in my back an 1,sides, no appetite— gradually gr nving weaker day by day. 0 There is no business, however 6 small, that cannot be increased cal hotel.”—New York Sun. Co by judicious, systematic, per- • a Erightiiti lii'iixier i o si-tc.it sc.iVertisliig. The giant A ’ill often cause a horrible Rum, (h, oak does not gain its strength in L raid, Cat or Bruise. Buckien s i a day. Magnificent buildings Wil Scald, Cat or Bruise. Buckien s ^ a day. Magnificent buildings Arnica Salve, the best in the world. . » are no t reared all at once, nc w:il kill the pain and prompt.y ii -al ^ can t h, 2 j r strength and beauty be Ulcers. Boils, F. !or:s, Corns, all i appreciated unt:l the finishing Skin Eruptions. Best Pile cure on '• touches are put on. earth. Only 25 cents a box. Cure ^ Is your business satisfactory? guaranteed. Hold by Cherokee Drug Q Are you making headway? Are Company. j £ y OU t 0 the best advantage Georgia and Alabama have fine j greatest of ail business lev- wheat crops. ' ^ ers—advertising? If you are Reports show that over fifteen hun- 6 satisfied that you arc, well and dred lives have been saved through ^ good; if not, drop in and talk J the use of One Minute Cough Cure. ! * it 0Vcr with us> j Most of these were cases of grippe, 1 J croup, Ubtlima, whooping cough, i (i V/e have advtnisiug g^ace bronchitis and pneumonia. Its early ^ to soil, and use prevents consumption. Chero-! * aJvrrtisingisa part of our businesg. kce DrU" Co. 1 ; Perhaps wc caa help you. True sympathy is putting yourself ■n 1- oscnptions posuiviy insure ; 1*"" i ., of tne proj at ai.fi 'iin. ai.it -'irpiise, the first bottle made j struck a lively gait to save himself mi Company will lR.t-iy»hi wr- a cidefi improvement. I continued | mi l the pants, bu f was caught by a within a ft * lavs itb ;r \i><- f(-r tliree weeks, and am I oystunder, lurned ov.-r to the police .-•xiixiitte' now • * the North j now a well man. 1 know they saved j ard placed in jail. robbed Hie grave of It took only a few minutes before the mayor to secure Bob’s services on the city chaingang for thirty days. « Bitter-: and to my great joy remain, hut Bob declined and 1 in another’s place, and occasionally! ; .10' |.|: lit) iI!C, ill: anolli. r \idim. to Iry t h in. 1 h al Cheiok- e lira b( (l the grave of No one should fail !y bOcts. guaranteed : Store. I. r ■ luu su- tur; i un: mo^t en- s are heard an i the see ins to b" willing .(■Jp South 1 aroii’.:-. ; -i.oan a (Jisp"sition doing the suffering business yourself. 11 I-t ! 1 rs,:f. HOW a 1IK A*ONI.V <,o»-> Congress, during the scs ch : t. r ini-K y v.i-r • 1. : dence of 1 ij(- bri i" 0 Car tn- iris g > out coup!( wit .h R e v ry t heir f -.i urc w • Rare a With the stock previously taken at Mai'-donia 1 the figures now stai.d at about -f 175,- y :i g jjeople mmiD and there is much more “in •re for us up bigot. ’’ 1 he people of South CaroRi; . g-n- uid Mr. Wul- 1 erHily. have b enitivit d to join in d at the r-si- ' this movrinent and tn<- :iiar<s have b is jus: cloeid, la- appropriated in round i.urnher.s .tTB),<'< 0,1(00. If we allow tne population of the Unite i States to lie at present 70,< 00 000, j Rfe. Mi*s Y< this will amount to over $10 a for every man, woman and within the national limits. tire 10:1. in.-l. | < n placed at iich, in or it r that to th: Sin •(• 1 >01 C-.lora io has produced | over .ft5 00 ),0<"t in gold. I ii.it • it’ )hhtn% il ( ittl.if 1m:» W0.1 i-J quickly leave you, if you used Dr. King’s New Life Pills. Thousands i f sufferers have proved their matchless merit for Sick and N’.-rveous Hi-udaches. They make pure blood and strong nerves and iniil 1 up your health. Easy to take. Try them, only 25 cents. Money b;;-< if not cured. Sold hy Cherokee Dm * Co. young . t very c.tiz n may ne hurt wishes for ( tcrested, if lie so desires n ! happiness in , tion books have hem s. i t to nearly In oldest dau; every county in the ■tilt' head ' ter (ji our esteemed friend and neigh- d. -ire to aid in the splendid pro* ;hild hor, Mr. W. L. Young, and Mr. Hus- ' j ct can sign for sncii tiinounts as they I ( key is the clde-.l son of out of our | they see iff. in tiie p " 1! " ! most ejuiet and industrious farmers ! the advice of their I year the appropriations were ♦521),- 1 in this community. We hope happi- | Mr. A M. Bridg: ness may attend all. | is a member of the Wo heartily coiomend Brother ; mitte from < lo r .k* J.ipscomh’s propn-.ed family reunion, i We believe it a good plan for ail fam- ; ilios, as long as circumstances will j permit, to keep alive and warm ali j . t ,, (; f , as to why the people’s money , family ties which have so endeared ns j" 1 ", ^ V* ( '. ;nt, aie always us plentiful us 1 t0 each oliur. ifie sweetest thougut | , bod / 1 to u.-, in the promise of a l.fe ! . j tne worn out or, i s' rue t ed. 1' i J O(j<j,0 JR, the year before amounted to $51 (i,000,000, (Jf course* an eh'borate explanation is given as to why the amount has j been so greatly increased. Explana- ! lions is Hpt blackberries in June. The Spanish war is chargeable with a large amount; the increase in the navy explains an additional block; but lent*, • and with o.v l ovvngmen of B lacksburg, K. C V." live com- t y» a: nd Starvation never yet cured dyspep- : J he Clierok«•••"» siiiiuiii r s<-l>i»i»l. Cherokt e’s summer ‘olmjl op. ned yesterday under very favi.raido cir cumstances. Profs. McArtliur and Martin are to he commended for the grand way in which they Rave siurti d out in tiiis noble work’ It lies with the teachers oi Chen zee county to make this school u success, for we are sure Profs. McArthur and Martin will do ail in their power to make it both profitable and pleasant f;r those who av.ti! tin 1 v*.-s i.f the opportu nity offered tbem. Twenty-nine of the teach' rs of tiie county were pres ent yesterday. Tnut is not ail of the teachers, though, and Hie others come out and j day. help u«; both teachers and prospec tive teachers should attend lids summer school. Yesterday’s session was devoted entirely to getting things in shape for the school. The school opens at 8.15 and vaiu" of the gold product of ! closes at 1 p. in. each day. Neglectj is the short stepjso many take from a cough or cold, to con sumption. The early use of One Minute Cough Cure prevents con sumption. It is the only harmless rem-dy that gives immediate results. 1 It cures a!! throat and lung troubles. Children ai! like it and mothers en dorse it. Cherokee Drug Co. Dyspepsia Cun Huhscrip- (J-ififornia will raise 125 ()<hj,(JOO pounds of prunes this year and all All who suffer from piles will he -dud Li* b urn that DeWitt’s Witch lUz I Halva will give them instant permanent relief. It will cure I ec/cuiu and a!i skin diseases. Be- ' ware of counterfeits. Cherokee Drug Co. Grasshoppers are playing ba nc the •1 hi ^ “ Digests what you eat* 11 art ilicially digest s the food and 1 Nature in Mrcngthcning and recoil structing the exhausted digestive red dig* with the cotton crop in sippi delta. The Chinese ask “how i- vour ; guns. 1 Lis the latest discover liver?” inst'-ad of “how do you do?” 1 ant and tonic. No other preparat for when tin* liver is active ti e h -alth I c ? n approach It In efliciency. lt is good. DeWitt’s Little E irly I l^ ant ^ relieves and permanentlyctt Risers are famous little pills for the liver and bowels. Ch* rnk‘-e Drug Co. Florida, Georgia, South Caroliia and V'lrginia have made Jell-is'n Davis’s birthday, June 3, a legal hoii- Dyspepsia, Indigestion, Ileartt Flatulence, Sour Stomach, Nai Sick lleudache.Gastralgia,Cramps: all otherreJultsof iiuf>erfectdige I’rico 5(lc. uml Jl. Tairtxo olio contains 1 brnall si/.e. Book all uljoatayspepslax Prepared by E. C. DeWITT A CO.. Chi Now i» tlu- Schhoii when the siriiill Roy’ 1 fillshiins»lf with giv<-ii tmit, whi')^invai'i:i. hly leads to cramps, dial rleea or dyscntc-rv. | If parents ai»-prudent,tin y will have a l»ot- j tie of Pain Kili.kb, ready for such summer einerg'-m ie,. Avon! suh-titutes, there is hut one I’aiu-Killer, Perry Duvra’. Prie* 23c. and 50c. w W. S. GOSSETT, 1 El VIKKH OK BICYCLES, SEWING MACHINES, COTTON GINS. • < all at Bg (1 all lie rnarunt s. 1 The name “milliner” really means ! “Milaner,” the first hat tiimmers in ' the prormso b'-y u {uJ i.i m. overlastiiig reunion witii all friends and dear ones wdio iinii, * sti -n arc | the* 1 nitnl States is iiL-arly four times d. J'h- y need ! the value of the silver product. le food. K'odol ; .' hat you ' oi Uolfcps foo 1 is aigested quickly it I England having come from Milan. . jii.'-i. 1 : de "'a.i! leruieot uni irritate the atomach. ! Italy, in i- :/ .ecou- j Afti r each in* ai take a teaspoonful of mRy po p:-rat ion ■ K'/d d i*ysi>ep-iu Cure. It dig(jts Commercial Printing i 1 U ve passed on fief or. 1.. J». l :. -:i ut. :y ) • it<- v«- and • v, hat !l stoinacli ‘ ■' 1 p u- i.um sunhgirt, ;-.deless Dyes ar-* fast RJ washing ami rubtic ar< nufferuig wi'l certain perhaps the most curious item in to lint of explanations U the increase in : nol i by Cuuroaee Drug Company. J good. Cheroatc Drug Co. u eat ai d wiil allow you to roiioj* s. I (. ;i t all yoti me.I of what you like. fro:n iuoi- |t r t-v* r fails to rure tiie worst casta y do you j of dyspepsia, it ie pleatant to take, i Cherokee Drug Co. Ivy poisoning, [ oison wounds and , ail othi*r accidental ii juries may he j j qui. kly cure.i by Using DeWitt’s! \\ iti-lj Huzc! Halve. I' is also a cer tain cur.- for piles and skin diseases. J j Take no otner. Cherokee Drug Co j (JI I'Vel’V ili-.-i I iptioil 1XeCllB.1l with IB UtlU at 1' 11 k Lkbcki; oflice, (iaili. y, S. C. ! J'ro.sses, the liiici*t (jiitil.ty ol Irk *i*bi 1 ,1 ^ tent Workmen. )Send us your orders. '.s and dispat cvv Type, Nt * r, and Conji