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ir<>r
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RlastiiiK Powder. Fuse
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THE M'
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(Hill 11(115,"
Has just received a large stock
of Sash, Doors, Mantelpieces
and all kinds of Trimming,
Flooring, Ceiling, Siding, Box
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1 Heart Dine Shingles and a
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when you want anything in his
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estimates.
Ninety Per Cent.
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Cherokee Drutf Co’s, nud have the de
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DR. J. F. GARRETT,
Dentist,
Gaffney, - - - S. C.
Offlco over J. R. Tolleson’s new store
In office from 1st to 2Gth of each
month:
Dr. C. T. LIPSCOMB.
, Dentist,
Office over R. A. lone* ft Co '• Store.
0»bbe Tor».od atoWcesii davs In the week
G. W.'SPEER, J
ATTTO IS K Y- A T-Iv A W,
GAFFNEY, S. C.
Office over J. \V. Tolleson's Store.
wiiucE & ons,
LAWYERS.
Office upstairs, between It. A. Jones and
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Phone H7.
J. E. WEBSTER,
A^ttoniey A.t-
Office In Court House. (Probate'JudKe s office
Gaffney City, S. C.
Practices In all the courts. Collec
tions a specialty
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rstev, *•*. cj.
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irtvmi to all husluess.
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Il\ ANSI K VI II \ III.NK (1|
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CHAPTER
8IX f.ITTI.E on.AV.h;'
Tliere was but one topltkdiscussed In
the countryside Hint dsy, and that was
the life and character of Agatha Webb.
Her history had not been a happy
one. She and Philemon had come from
Porcliester some 20 or more years be
fore to escape the sorrows associated
with their native town. They hud left
behind them six small graves in Port-
chester churchyard, but though evi
dences of their uflliction were always
to be seen In the countenances of ci
ther they had entered with so much
pornose hRo the life of their adopted
town that they had become ptrsons of
note there till Philemon's health began
to fall, when Agatha quit aL outside
work and devoted herself eX’luslvely
to him. Of her character and winsome
personality we can gather souio idea
from the various conversations carried
on that day from Porcliester greet, to
the shipyards in Kutherlundtowu.
In Deacon Braincrd’s cottage the dis
cussion was concerning Agatha’s lack
of vanity, a virtue not very common at
that time among the women of this
busy seaport.
For a woman so handsome,” the
good deacon was saying,‘‘and l think I
can safely call her the finest featured
woman who ever trod these streets, sin*
showed as little Interest in dross as
any one l ever saw. (’allco at home
and calico fit church, yet she looked as
much of a lady in her dark sprigged
gowns as Mrs. Webster in her silks or
Mrs. Parsons In her $1,000 sealsk
As this was a topic within th<f‘°b c
of ids eldest daughters ij)tetf*“ ul<;
slip at once spoke up: ‘‘I never /ought
she needed to dress so plalij.v.
believe in such a show of pvk^y lu< '‘
self. If one Is too poor to 4 decent*/ 1
right; but they say she ha» more inH} 1 '
ey Ilian most any one In t"u. I won
dor who Is going to get tjc benefit
it?”
‘Why, Philemon of course. That i
as long as be lives. He doubtless bad
the making of it.”
“Is It true that he’s gone clean out of
his head since her death?” interposed
a neighbor who had happened in.
“So they say. 1 believe Widow.Tones
lias taken him into her house.”
Do you think,” asked a second
daughter, with becoming hesitation,
“that lie had anything to do with her
death? Some of the neighbors say be
struck her while in one of his crazy
tits, while others declare she was killed
bv some stranger equally old and al
most as infirm.”
We won’t discuss the subject,” ob
jected the deacon. “Time will show
who roblHsl us of the greatest hearted
and most capable woman in these
parts.”
And will time show who killed Bat-
sy?” It was a morsel of a girl who
spoke; the least one of the family, but
the brightest. “I’m sorry for Batsy,
she always gave me cookies when I
went to see Mrs. Webb.”
“Batsy was a good girl for a Swede,”
allowed the deacon’s wife, who had not
spoken till now. “When she first came
iuto town on the spars of that wrecked
ship we all remember, there was some
struggle between Agatha and me as to
which of us should have her. But I
didn’t like the task of teaching her the
name of every pot and pan she had to
use in the kitchen, so I gave her up to
Agatha. And It was fortunate I did,
for I’ve never been able to understand
her talk to this day.”
“I could talk with her right well,”
lisped the little one. ‘‘She never called
tilings by their Swedish names unless
she was worried, and I never worried
her.”
“I wonder If she would have wor
shiped tlie ground under your feet, as
she did that under Agatha?” asked
the deacon, eying Ids wife with just
tin* suspicion of a malicious twinkle in
his eye.
“I am not Hie greatest hearted and
most capable woman In town,” retort
ed his wife, clicking her needles ns she
went on kuitHug.
In Mr. Sprague’s house on the oppo
site side of the road Squire Fisher
was relating some old tales of bygone
Porcliester days. “I knew Agatha
when she was a girl,” be avowed. “She
had tlie grandest manners and the
most euchiMitlug smile of any rich or
poor man’s daughter between the coast
ami Springfield. She did not dress in
calico then. She wore the gayest
clothes her father could buy her, and
old Jacob was not without means to
make his daughter the lending figure in
town. How we young fellows did
adore her, and what lengths we went
to win one of her glorious smiles. Two
of us, John and Jacob Zabel, have lived
bachelors for her sake to this very day,
but I hadn’t courage enough for that.
! married and”— Something between
a sigh and a chuckle filled out the sen
tence.
“What made Philemon carry off the
prize? Ills good looks?”
“Yes, or his good luck. It wasn’t
his snap, of that you may bo sure.
James Zabel had the snap, and he was
her first choice, too, but he got Into
some difficulty. I never knew Just
what It was, but it was regarded as se
rious at the time, and Hint match was
broken off. Afterward she married
Philemon. You see, I was out of It
altogether, had never been In It per
haps, but there were three good years
of my life in which I thought of little
else that Agatha. 1 admired her spirit,
you see. Them was something more
taking In her ways than In her beauty,
wonderful as that was. She ruled us
with a rial of Iron, and yet we wor
shiped her. 1 have wondered to see
her so meek of late. 1 never thought
she would !>c satisfied with a brick
floored cottage and a husband of fail
ing wits. But no one, to my knowl
edge, has ever heard a complaint from
her lips, and the dignity of her atltict-
pd wifehood has fur transcended th*
hsUKidliirsH of those days when sin
hud but tu smile f<> lisve nil the youth
of Porehestor At her feet/'
“1 suppose It whj the loss of bo uitti|y
children that reconciled her to a quiet
Ht« 4 woman CftgQot cluae Uia fff M 0/
mine Hint*
7or forget the night
'fell nick,” slu* faltered. “I
out of lied myself, and, hav
ing no nearer neighbors then than
I
ih
Hie hillside,
now,
Alec being at sea. I was too young to
know much about sickness, hut some
thing told me that 1 must have help be
fore morning or my baby would die.
Though 1 could Just walk across the
floor, I threw a shawl around me, took
my baby in my arms and opened the
door. A blinding gust of rain blew
In. A terrible storm was raging, and
I had not noticed it, I was so taken
up with the child.
“I could not face that gale. Indeed,
1 was so weak I fell on my knees as It
struck me and became dripping
before I could drag myself iq
baby began to moan, ami,
was turning dark before
beard a strong, sweet volcf
the roadway:
“ ‘Is there room In this
till tlie storm lias hlowui
see my way down the ij
“With a bursting ht
woman
w&v, wl
eyes^ ii
was
deal it
cried:
“ ‘My
tl
h
r-
“p
next
the hel
which
white
baby’s
ast
mue.
‘“I
else,’
ar'is
not
let
if
ty,
dnzzlil
the siglir oi
Jumped to imj
what Halrey
ever a word lefP
(I can hear her
the matter with
though Salrey mmU
that in* was only nf
ill she trrned upon
look none of us ever
He changed so c^
just ns slipJmd ul
neither
will ui
you
what to dd
but she
tie darling,
watched it 1
set on his gq
In an hour
and the terril
my heart ail
storm stopped
house, she gave iuF"
she gave him meant m^
(lod must have forgotten
to me that night when M
so pitiable a death.”
At the minister’s house thejT
commenting upon the look of serenity
observable In her dead face.
T have known her for HO years,”
her pastor declared, “and never before
have 1 seen her wear a look of real
peace. It Is wonderful, considering the
circumstances. Do you think she was
so weary of her life’s long struggle that
she hailed any release from it, even
that of violence?”
A young man, a lawyer visiting them
from New York, was the only one to
answer.
I never saw the woman you are
talking about,” said be, "and know
nothing of the circumstances of her
death beyond what you have told me.
But from the very incongruity between
her expression and the violent nature
of her death I argue that there are
depths to this crime which have not
yet been sounded.”
“What depths? It is a simple case
of murder, followed by theft. To be
sure, we do not yet know the criminal,
but money was his motive. That is
clear enough.”
Are you ready to wager that that Is
all there Is to it?”
That was a startling proposition to
the minister.
“You forget my cloth,” said ho.
The young man smiled. “That is
true. Pardon me. I was only anxious
“/n there ruom in the home for met"
to show how strong my conviction was
against any such easy explanation of a
crime marked by such contradictory
features.”
Two children on the Porcliester road
were exchanging boyish confluences.
“Do you know what I think about
It?” asked one.
“Naw. How should I?”
“Wall. I think old Mrs. Webb got the
likes of fahat she sent. Don’t you know
she had six children once and that site
killed every one of them?”
"Killed ’em, she?”
“Yes. 1 heard her tell granny once
all about It. Hhc said tliere was a
Might 011 her house. I don’t know what
that is, hut 1 guess it’s something big
and heavy, and that it fell on every one
of her children as fast us they came
11 ud killed ’em.”
“Then I’m glad I beu’t her child.”
Very different were the rceoilectloua
Interchanged between two middle aged
Porcliester women.
“Slu* was drinking tea at my house
when her sister Salrey came running In
.vith the news that the baby sK' J**d
left at home wasn’t quite right That
was her tlrst child, you know."
. '’Yes, yes, for l was wl
he
the
In her
“Tills:
“ ‘And
him/ ”
Farmer Waite
say.
“She came to me whe
the smallpox, the only per?
who would enter my doors,
that, when Sissy w as up and I
pay the doctor’s bill l fount!
been settled. I did not know tliemvao
had enough money am! compassion to
do this for me; now 1 do.”
Many an act of kindness which had
been secretly performed in that town
during the last 20 years came to light
on that day, the most notable of which
was the sending of a certain young lad
to school and his subsequent education
ns a minister.
But other mommies of a sweeter and
more secret nature still came up like
wise, among vhem the following:
A young g'rl who was of a very
timid but deeply sensitive nature had
imeii urged Into an engagement with a
man she did not like. Though the
conflict this occasioned her and the
misery which accompanied it were ap
parent to everybody, nobody stirred in
her behalf until Agatha Webb took it
up. She went to see her, and, tbnugh
it was within a fortnight of Hu* wed
ding, she did not hesitate to advise the
girl to give him up, and when the poor
child said she lacked the courage
Agatha herself went to the man and
urged him Into n display of generosity
which saved the poor, timid thing
from a life of misery. They say this
was no easy task for Agatha and that
the man was sullen for a year. But
the girl’s gratitude was boundless.
Of her darlig, which was always on
the side of fight and justice, the sto
ries were nfmerous. So were the ac
counts, mofly among the women, of
her rare tefderness ami sym
the weak iftd the erring,
man talkd to ns she talke
Coblelgh Jie evening nfte
his uiotlif’. and If she I
town on ilie day when C
hew ran away with that
rascal ii/biy. said It would if
happemd. for 110 girl could
admonlion or resist tlie p,
this chldless inothci. .
It was reserved lot
and Af. Sutherland to t
mental" qualities. He? cha
so marked and her manners s
that fAv gave atteltiiti to the Intellect
that Aus the real bails of her power.
The two mentioned gentlemen, how
eviC appreciated her to the full, and it
was while HatdilWC to their remarks
Unit Frederick was suddenly startled
by some one saying to him:
“You are the only person in town
who has nothing to say about Agatha
Webb. ^Didn’t you ever exchange any
worda/wlth her, for I can hardly be-
Ileve you could have mot her eye to
ey<? without having some remark to
make aliout her beauty or her Influ
ence?”
The speaker was Agnes Halliday,
who had come in with her father for a
mk*1m1 chat. She was one of Freder
ick’s earliest playmates, but one with
whom he had never assimilated and
who did not like him. He knew this,
as did every one else In town, and it
was with some hesitation he turned to
“ tier.
1 ,n( <1110 recollection." lie be-
ho
wou
that s
bed.
moment' 1
thought
Cholera a
pha
Tiarrh
c
eve
sure she
6 so weak
cr *n the
critical
,y me, hut /
Dili’s
('olio.
emedy and
as a last resort prf c ^ ^‘ e
most wonderful ‘
Within eight hour Xce dayt
much belter; ineif the end
she was upon her * ,, .. Kor
of one week was eff, ‘ r
sale by Cherokee |_«"'*'P I *">'-
. r . <have been found
Many traces "(SJ lnhoma | a „ds.
in the newly ope? „rnv»ilo
and the wildest t» mcnt P' 6 "" 1 ’'
ni liifiiutam.
Mrs. Curtis
an in-
was snf-
<> 1‘oonr
l"‘ r niontii : oui
Hi!
Maiuilartining
>it(‘s cohn anientl
GalVm’Y "iH '1° w j
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A Cure for f
“Last Msy,’ ft y 3
Baker, of Book*? 01 '* “. SU1 .
(aat child of T|ie
fering from ch r ‘ l * . re-
doctor had p Chamber-
covery. I too* nom^
lain’a Colic 1
Remedy to t l 0U80 -J, •/ u8e( l ac-
felt sure it f l° K/. 1 (lavs’
cord ini' to d^ti on9 * ^ 1
corning 10 nr- ./ ii tf recovered,
time the ch/had ^Hy
1 • Ltiv 11 year sino; «
and rl 5 , |, tt ve recoin-
vigorous, hdthy K ,rl - 1 lini i
mended thiAemedy i rf< l ut
have cover low., H W » 1( ,- oh ft 0 .
single instate. l
kee Drug Copuny-
/ . „„ Halifax was
The 1’1*J steamer ,
wreckftrtjtfte. entering foston
bor. "T” l0 , 8t ;
now TV lint | ou Are Ti»UiuK.
ou take B r0 v«*’s Tasteless
ic because the formula is
tinted on every bottle show-
t is simply Iron and Qoi-
tasteless form. No Cure,
60c.
imed thnf strong evidence
trlf/vL Jo slow that a
Tue exists between the police and
Amblers of New 'i o\k.
Hail Drinkiite Water. V£\.'ry one
creiitlv from the (Mermt kinds «( wnt'-r
lie is compelled t<» drink, ni.d not long i*
so likely to bring ou uu uttudf Of tUiirrliaju.
Pkruy Davis’ Pain-Kim.H i« the only safe,
quick and sure cure for itafnipsand cholera
morbus. Avoid subst.t* i. thercis but one
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Contracting
is I Hi fMUK r i g j t
lire some rXqjcr* 1 '“ lmi1 ™' ,l
not know Unit ajyji
you start to figuffiMTn your )i
11 Chance. I will treat yon rlgW and *(*
you the worth of your money.
I have on hand more than kri.wtt feet of
dressed stock, Including Moulding, etc.,
and I sell it at rook bottom figures
My stock of Poors, Sash, Minds, Paints,
Oils, etc., is unsurpassed by any other
dealer in Gaffney. When In need of auv-
tbtng In my line hoc me. My good* are
right and my prices are right.
SOME FRESmWRlVALS:
('ral> A]>i>le, Whiuj Boso, Yiolot, LozoB’s Coranaria and Sweet
Garnatoin Pink at f>0e ounce. Try them.
TOILET SOAPS.
Ye have sold movqsoaps in the past year than in any two years
rWorc. The reason was : Splendid brands at extra low prices.
Have fTesh lino in this week direct from the factory. The odors
an*: Violet, Hyacinth, ('.rushed Roses, Crushed Lilacs, Royal
Begonia, Sovan (ilendore, Imperial Carnation Pinks, Sovan
Julienne, AIcxandpiie, Verbenas, Royal Iris, Cassandre ; 10c a
cake or‘Joe a box ; assorted brands il you like are put up in
handsome boxes; ve nave splendid soap at T>c cake or 10c box.
These soaps aie equal in purity and quality of ^ ' 1 to many
of those sold at higher prices.
GIFTS FOP SMOKERS.
The man who likes to smoke likes to have his liking pampered,
and if ever a man thinks real good things about his friends or
sweetheart it is when he leans back and watches the dreamy
elouds Moating upward from one of our best 5c cigars. He never
forgets the donor of a requisite for bis pet folly.
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DEERINGV
Mowers and Rakes, Disf Harrows and Superior Drills are
next in order.
Gandy Belting, Rubber Belting, Leather Belting, Ivace
LeaHiiD Frietionics* Babbit Metal, Pipe and PqK), Utlings,
Valves a^d Injectors, Packing, Jaehiue Oil, expansion Tanks
| ;UH j Hinks, llatb libs ami tittingsand many other tilings too nu
merous to mentiir.
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