The ledger. [volume] (Gaffney City, S.C.) 1896-1907, December 18, 1900, Image 12
Till: LEDGFR. <;AFFXE> , S. C., DECEMBER IS 11)00
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CHRISTMAS
GREETING.
T HE past year has been a most successful one for the First Wholesale Grocery Establishment of Gaffney. A little more than a year
ago, we started the business with misgivings as to its ultimate outcome, but by perseverance and strict attention to business we *
have done a remarkably good business. Now, that the first stages of experiment have passed and the business is an assured suc
cess, we propose to branch out c nd do a larger business this year than ever. In fact, it is our purpose to do more business the coming year
than has ever been done by a single wholesale grocery business in the upper part of the State. The only way to do this is to map out a plan
and adhere to that plan. We have done that, and the plan is simply this:
GIVE THE BEST POSSIBLE BARGAIN TO EVERY
CUSTOMER.
We start the new year with increased facilities and all orders will be filled with promptness. Any business entrusted to us will
be judiciously executed.
We Do Not Retail.
WE ARE JOBBERS OF ALL STAPLE AND FANCY GROCERIES
AND MAKE A SPECIALTY OF
Flour, Grain and Hay.
We Carry in Stock a General Line of Everything Sold by an Up-to-Date Grocery Store.
Secure Our Prices Before Making Contracts for the New Year. We can Save Money for You.
Wishing a!! a Merry Christmas and a Happy and Prosperous New Year, we are
Yours truly,
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a 1 n.i ia iwi at a tiiiu-. hot <-\*-n at
that I toijl. a ^ .oil many lon^ walks
foi .m ii is*- ami to s*-»- tlu- city, leaving
ii Sam my helper- ami th*> two
ra^i i-ham-rs for tin- animals to look
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sf11Ye. -eelin**I to I,HoW I Was III troll
till- and teel sofi v !ol me I In-V Wol!l*|
staml •'dl a loim lime looking at i.n-
and the elephant I in sure ti :ei| to ask
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ter < in v ih-ii nn-an eninel si.*-w*.*!
up a - in i srorilttlllik*-. as || In- didn't
'•are a eiiss win* tell had. which In- cor
ta :il\ ilnln't
i t dav morning the thinJ day hefor*
<'hr.stmns lack Ileiu|i-rs*in a young
ej -iitei ilr<-hpe*| m as he often did.
. ' iiappein-d t" remark “It seems
hard to he imprisoned tor lit*- without
.in n'a~;oiinl liappv day to vary tin-
n.i■ i i ag< i! r. h als oii_,lif to
tia ' holidays "
i -'t nn thinking attei in- was
- .ne and I made up my mmd tin- men
agent- uinlei lll\ eliarge -hollld to)
iin i ay w'a.\ na' e a < hr.-t n:a- I eon
s,in red what ever> hint ami iteasi in
tin- lot liked hesl and llio-tly lievel
got a’ d all those things I meant the\
should nave on t’hristmas ila\ lluii
iitternoon I went out huying ami Ulugh
i d to mys* It w hen I thought I wa- :e
tih.il> ptireluising t'liia-ti a.- present-
foi a lot oi folks w in* would he sun- h
appreciate tie-in
I got for the birds all sorts of eh it*-*
fruits, nice seeds, ants’ eggs iiical
worms, and so on. according to their
several tastes, ami for the monkey*
more tine fruit, lig paste, candy ami
ceive tln-ni Sam wore a ucv
had given him I !i«-i-ag*-<d, am-r
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we--**
so washed and draped up the> hardly
recognized eaeh o'liet and I wa- got
up w ith as much style a- a ringmaster
myself.
I'rcciseh at mum wo sprung our
glad surprise on the aiiimals If >011
imagine those hirds ami leasts didn't
notice any eluinge in their hill of fare,
you are wrong You never saw such
joyous excitement among feathers and
fur They jabbered, chattered, shriek
ed and toared tln- t delight in all their
various mod* - of spe,-*-h Tlu* moil
keys seemed half <-ra/v ami even tlie
sedate eh-phant danced. Mapped his
ears like fans ami sipicaled. (inly
that nu-an camel was indifferent and
at*- his fancy dates with a sneering
twist of his nose, as if ho meant to
say “You can't soft sawder mo"
The sight i f the general happim-s
gladdened *-v**ryhoil> .ami nom- more
than Id I'.idw* 11 ami Id- daughter,
who staid until till the other visitors
wore gone, talking with me ahou! the
animals ami. as i afterward remom-
bered. it good di-itl more iilioiit my-elf.
Near dark, just when I was thinking
of going out to a restaurant for my
dinner !*r I’..dwell came back, am'
nothing would do hut I must iko with
him to get a glass of eggnog
We wort* not gone more than halt nn
hour, but by the time we returned a
trausformatli had been worked m I
my room In the center a big table
was set with dinner fov •four the best
around my neck ami -aid You shall
never be alone in the world ant more,
dear lather!"
"What." I cried taking m-i in my
arms "you yon. my litile Jennie: Oh,
is Ooil really and truly so goo*l to me
after nil7”
It so-med Impossible tun was true.
When l hud grown calmer they told
me how hr Itidu t-ll. then praetii :ng in
New York was with my dcu! wife
when she died and. .-it her rei|U*-st. took
charge of her littl* daughter 11*- and
h:s good wit*- adopt*-*! hoi imi always
hoped to liml me soiu*- time, tor her
I child heart never forgot oi ceased to
love me. ami they were too good to
l wish us kept apart, and at last Jack’s
Ktorv told them w here I w its
Still l go my way each tenting sea
son '.id as I am for show lit*- gets Into
th*- blood and irresistibly draws one
who ha- lived it so many years as 1;
but wherever I may be. nevci more
am i lonely or unhappy, for winter al
ways nrings me hack to my dear Jen
ill*- And note this that none of this
great happiness would have come to
tm- had I not given the animals a
Christ tua-
\ sort ol l-tmllt**** 4'ltnln.
"<'l.risi mas eoim-s but once a year.’’
"Clad you think so What with sis
1 tors and eotisin- ami aunts It has come
1 to m*- loin hull bed and forty eleven
times already with waiters bootblacks,
barbers am) ottl* •- boys to hear from ’’
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TH K KT11ST Cll HISTM AS 1)1 N X UK IN AM hllll A.
mas eve, 141(2, he Imd lost his Mag-
ship. tin* Santa Marin, which had run
on a reel on tin* north coast of Haiti
Fortunately for him and his crew, the
native Indians of tin* island were
friendly, and they not only eam*- to l.i-
rescue, but saved all the wreckage of
his vessel, which they pile*! up on tin
heacli iit Cuarico, near tin* present city
of Cape Haitian. The Indian eiici<|iie
did all lie could to allay tin- grief of tin-
Spaniards ami on Christmas day
spread a ban<|Uet to which they were
Invited and at which many of hi- p*-o
pie acted in the capacity of servants.
This was tin* tlrst (’Ini tma- dinner
in America, ami at tin- uboiigniul
’’spread" so many new ami strange nr
tides of food wer** offered the Span
lards that Columhiis mail*- a not*- of
them, so we are enabled to state exact
ly what they were. In the tlrst place
for a
an
. ell
t ’jf
1-al,
th*- ■
bui it i> d . . in it i It* pi 'tat > wa - on
the festal board, though it may as well
i have been found in tin- highlands of
' Haiti as in South America, where it is
i said to have been discovered long aft*
er. Anyway, there were several new
fruits, ail tropical, such as the guava,
custard apple, sapota ami pineapple,
and m meats there was a great varie
ty. for tin- Indians shut and trapped
tin- wild parrot, pigeon, doves, agouti,
| iguana and tin- utia, tin- three last
named being animals indigenous t" th'*
' inland.
There was one function at that ban
quet which Columbus may nave in
dulged in. though h<* has left no record
of having been suddenly indisposed,
and that is tobacco smoking Me had
seen Indians on the coast of Cuba roll
up dry leaves of a plant unknown to
him and after lighting one end of the
roll inhale and puff out the smoke
thereof with evident enjoyment Hut
at this banquet he was astonished to
see the chief and his hig men cram
portions of tli** weed into a curious
pipe, with a branched stem shaped like
th** letter Y and after Inserting a stem
into each nostril proceed to fuddle
themselves with the narcotic, to the
great disgust of the Spaniards, who
had a few vices of their own. even
then but did not smoke It was only
because they did not know how. but Co
lumbus lost an opportunity for adding
another laurel to Ids immortal wreath,
and left to Sir Walter IJalelgh the In
troduction of smoking into liurope a
gcidury later
The main object of this article is to
point out that down in the West In
dies where dwell mir nearest foreign
neighbors, and v\ here we have a tidy
Ittle island of our own in I’orto Ulco.
th*- first Christmas anniversary In
Ana-rit-n was celebrated and the tlrst
dinner eaten with aboriginal Indiami
as the host*.