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galloping toward the spot where Flan Bigan la.v on his stomach, Itlazing *wa.v. Do Mores dismounted when he reached the railroad embankment and itartisl on a run for the bad man, re- ro'.rer In hand. He approached Flannl- pii- from the rear, so that that gentle man did not hear his footsteps on the •oft earth until the marquis was with in two yards of him. It w T as then too | late to get one of his guns into action in the new direction, and before tin* bad man could think twice the angry Frenchman had him by the collar and was pounding his head against the ground. “You miser Ale scoundrel,” the bad man beard him say, “you may break all the windows in Medora and shoot my slaughter house full of holes, hut when you turn your guns on that little church you’d just as well turn them on | me!” The desperado was disarmed and banded over to a deputy sheriff, who Grit of Marquis De Mores Alone He Faced The Montana Rustlers And Conquered ) \\ /'“j ' ••• • t' V : A 4 C KifllSo H / f r. 7*/ 3 t: ii 1 M S/k: ONE MAN I’LfNGED FROM HIS SADDLE. came crawling out from under the de pot platform, where he had been trying to make a tunnel to open air through which he might shoot. One day the Frenchman adopted the tactics of his Indian neighbors and brought down his man. lie liml from ambush into a party which had just cut his fence and was riding away, laughing over the trick they thought they had played on the silly marquis. One man plunged from his saddle, and tbe others galloped over the hill with bullets from the enraged nobleman's gun clipping the sagebrush around them. The man who was killed belong ed to a baud of cattle rustlers who operated all over the Little Missouri ■country. They rode Into Medora one afternoon, hitched their* horses in front of the saloon and openly announced that they had come down to hang I)e Mores to a telegraph pole. “We’ll hang him," said the leader, “where the madam can look out of her winder an’ see him claw air.” They hung about the saloon nil after- soon, and about sundown the leader o tbe crew and his lieutenants retired be hind the church to perfect their plans. It had beea one of those skin shriveling days in the Had Lauds, but “the mad am” had walked across the bridge to the little church. She was sitting bo- aide an open window when the men Who were hungry for her husband's life left the saloon and disappeared be hind the church. They stopped within two yards of the spot where she sat and unfolded their plot In detail, the leader giving each of his subalterns tbeir Instructions. They were lo watch for the marquis' arrival, and one of the gang was to ride up to the gate, cal! him out and hold him in conversation regarding his fences until the others could surround the house and close in. “The madam” waited until she heard the men move away, then crept along tbe iloor to the door, determined to warn her husband. When De Mures heard her story, he was furious. He mounted a horse and. unattended, rode over to Medora. Tlmre he learned that his enemies had crossed the river ami gone into camp. The marquis swung into the saddle again and rode away toward the river. The rustlers were eating their supper, some drunk and none very sober, around the embers of their lire when the thump of a horse's hoofs and the ru. tie o the scrubby sagebrush us ti;<‘ animal onmo on, picking its way in and ©m. brought them to their feet. All stood with brows drawn ami revolver.-! clutched tightly, trying to bore in o the wight and see who the Intruder was The stranger guided his horse up to the llro, sprang to the ground, dropped the long bridle r ins at his feet, faced the astonished men and remarked: “Now. gentlemen. If you have a ropt ready, here I am. 1 am the Marquis dc Mores." The unsteady blaze, leaping up and fulling low, like the pulse of a man who is dying of thirst on the desert, ■bowed the marquis’ strange, pale face. One of the long pistols in his hands pointed at the breast of the leader of the gang: the other persistently follow ed his head no matter how he turned It. Presently the leader of the gang threw his revolver down with an ontl which made the marquis' heart start, Jer ked his hat off and advanei <1 toward the Frenchman, holding out his hand: “Put 'er there, paid,” he said. “You got a blanked sight more prit'n I give you credit fur." Then, facing his grim faced crew, he continued: "Hoys, they won't he airy hangin’ up to Medora to night. That affair has been indcf'ulte- The picturesque career of that bril liant and erratic Frenchman, the Mar quis de Mores, in the Had Lands of Montana is recalled by a recent article In Everybody's Magazine, which re lates the story of his tragic death in Tunis. De Mores proposed to establish in the Had Lands an immense fresh meat Industry to compete with the packing houses of Chicago, Omaha and Kansas City. His scheme was to raise cattle on ids own ranch, dress their carcasses in his own packing houses and ship the finished product to the east instead of sending the live boasts there to be slaughtered. The lirst thing necessary to the success of this plan, according to the Frenchman’s idea, was to fence his 2U,ihhi acres about with barbed wire. 80 he had no sooner housed his belongings than he set a surveyor at work running lines and a corps of fence builders a'ter him planting posts and stretching wire. The fence building was pushed, and soon miles of bristling wire heig^ned in what had for all time before llcfu free land. One of the first to meet this in novation into the Had Lands was a hunter named Frank O’Donnell. He was heading in for the river one day and aliuosi :ell from his horse in aston ishment when he saw the new fence. So great was his surprise that he could in<t call to mind any appropriate oaths. He cut the wire and rode on toward Medora in silence. They told him there who was responsible for the breach of Ha l Lands etiquette, and he called on the marquis. "Say. pardner, what do you nn an by puttin’ up that fence?" he demanded, with an injured air. De Mores replied that he was merely fencing his own property, as was customary in civilized lands. “Well. I Just cut a gap in the blank- ety blank thing up yonder on the hill," said the hunter deliantly, "an’ that’s the way I'll treat your fence whenever it conies in my way.” “The next time you cut my fence.” De Mores said, without changing color or showing the least sign of auger, “I'll shoot you on sight.” O'Donnell s jaw fell, and he looked in amazement from one to another of the nidi who stood around. Then he mount ed his horse and rode away. The marquis erected a handsome dwelling, and then the madam came. “The madam” had not been long in the Had luimis when the busy masons and carpenters were set to work again, this time at building a little brick church close up against the wall of the mesa and not far from the slaughter house. It was soon finished and sur- mounted by a little gilt cross. A priest (•ami? from Miles City once a month and celebrated mass there. "The mad am" was the sole worshiper. A certain “Had Man” Flaunigau, who recently completed a term in the peni tentiary and now lives in North Dako ta. undertook one day to wipe Medora off the map. He had a grievance against the Inhabitants. Xu he descended from the easthound passenger train one Sunday afternoon, took possession of the depot, drove the telegraph operator out and Intrenched himself in a ditch beside the railroad. Hy this time there wasn’t a living thing in sight in Medora. “I’ll bring 'em out," said the bad man. training his weapons on the un protected windows of the village. In stead of bringing them out he drove them to their cellars. Chuckling to himself, he divided his attention be tween the line of shanties and the slaughter bouse. For more than an hour the bad man continued the siege. Then he began to tire of shooting away his ammunition at something that wouldn't shoot hack. The church offer ed four windows with whole glittering panes. He argued that perhaps the priest would come out to protect his <o 1 / r, & yi \k M v A® L\ W )l rr* ly post Aned.’ t^vi VISHNU'S COMING. The Great Event Tlmt la Expected by 1*1 (ium ItintlooN. Just at .his time, if the predictions of pious and learned Hindoos are worth anything, millions of women— all the “caste" women throughout In dia—will l>e thrown simultaneously in to a swoon lasting an hour and a half. It is the tenth incarnation ol the god Vishnu that is looked for. and this to the Hindoo means the end of all things earthly, just as to the Christian means the judgment and destruction of the world. | Vishnu has come on earth nine times in as many dltferent forms. This time he Is to appear in the lieavens mount ed on a white horse, brandishing a flaming sword resembling a comet. Women of all castes are expected to swoon—all the women in India, save . those who have forfeited their rights by trafficking with the unclean. Vishnu is the second god of the Hin doo trinity and to all intents and pur poses the supreme god of the Pan theon. In the great Sanskrit epic, the liumayana. he is treated as the ruler of all things. He made heaven and earth. He reclines on the lotus and Is shaded by the many headed serpent. , Brahma, the four headed, springs from his body. Hut it is for his ava- l tars, or reincarnations, that he is , chiefly remarkable. It is believed that whenever the world has been disturb ed he iias descended in a small portion of his essence mid corrected the evil. Sometimes he has been a wonderful animal, a monster, a superhuman be ing: at other times he has been born in human likeness, but has possessed divine powers. If such a character as Moses, say. or John the Haptist or St. Paul or per haps even Shakespeare or Napoleon had appeared among the Hindoos, his overmastering spirituality or eloquence or wisdom or military genius, as the case might he. would so powerfully have Impressed Ids contemporaries that the tradition of his greatness, handed down to tin* next generation, might easily give rise to the conjecture, then the hypothesis, then the theory, then the positive belief as an article of religious faith that In* was indeed tin* gr'*at Vishnu, come on earth again clothed in divine powers to help hu manity over its rough path toward perfection. Vishnu’s reincarnations iti their ac cepted order are: 1. Matsya (the tisln: ‘2. Korina (the tortoisei: 3. Varaha (the bean: 4. Xarnsingha (the man liom: ■>. Vamana (the dwarfi: (». Parasurama; 7. Hama: S. Krishna: 0. Buddha. There are other versions of his ap pearances on earth which vary widely from this. Some Hindoo theologians ascribe as many as 30 avatars to the illustrious deity. Hut these are not orthodox, and the reincarnations preached hy them must be regarded as apocryphal. Orthodox Hindoos are very strict on this point. The tenth, or white horse avatar, is known as Kalki. An ancient prophecy assigned it to this present age. the fourth, or Kaliung.—New York Jour nal. IlnlldlnB n Fire. To kindle any tire small sticks should be laid across each other, basket fash ion, with paper below. See that the drafts and dampers are all open, the upper front cheek closed, and apply the match before a bit of coal is put upon the wood. When it has begun to burij well, put on one shovelful, allow ing the air to pass through unchecked •<> as to kindle that. In a short time more may he added, then more, and when the coal begins to glow red shut one draft, then another. Turn out of doors the flrst person who dares to dream of using kerosene to help start a tire, and severely ad monish her who persists in tilling the firebox to the top of stove or range. That is the way to burn out or crack the stove and destroy the firebrick. Resides, it chokes the draft, causing less heat to be given out. A hot tire is a clear tire, with the draft coming unchecked through the bottom damper. The persons who boil their tea are the same that till the range as full as it will hold, and when it fails, as it then must, to give out the needed heat, take off the cover and punch and poke it down from above, thus crowding the c(»al into a still more compact mass. Such a cook has her range speedily tilled with clinkers and wastes much fuel.—Good Housekeep ing. She Wn« Wllllnir. Perfect eoulidcuce is desirable be tween couples engaged to be married, but it is not always that the young woman has as line an opportunity to establish it as din a Norristown belle, to whom a wealthy young bachelor had been paying assiduous attention. After worrying her a good deal about how many young men had been in love with her and how many she had been attached to. he asked her to marry him. adding: “Now. l*-t there be perfect confidence between us. Keep nothing concealed from me." “Certainly,” replied the giddy girl, “let us have no concealments,” and. jumping tip, she snatched tin* wig he wore from his head and danced around the room with it. In spite of this levity, the couple married and. from all accounts, are liv ing happily, more particularly so. by menus of using crude petroleum a nice little crop of soft brown hair is grow ing all over the husband’s head. The man had never heard of crude petro leum as a hair tonic until his wife told him about it. so if she had not enforced his confidence he would still be bald.— Philadelphia Record. Mr*. Lelnntl Stanford a Poor Woman. Mrs. Leiand Stanford writes to friends in Washington tha: she has now disposed of every vestige of the enormous fortune bequeathed to her by the late Senator Stanford and has recently signed deeds transferring all his real estate to the trustees of Leiand Stanford university. This includes the largest cattle ranches, horse breeding establishments and vineyards in tiie world, with various farms, country houses and large tracts of wild laud. The deed covered (5(5 pages of type written manuscript and required $7,000 in internal revenue stamps. Mrs. Stanford had previously transferred to the trustees of the university all her personal estate, embracing stocks and bonds valued at $15,000,000. and. so far as the actual ownership of property Is concerned, she is now as destitute as the day on which she was l>oru. She has a contract, however, with the trus tees under which she is to receive for life an annuity of $25.1*00. to be used as she pleases, and all her relatives are liberally provided for in Mr. Stanford’s w111.—Chicugo Record. A South Dakota Farm. A South Dakota paper tells of a farmer who during the year disposed of 7<Xi bushels of potatoes for $245 and 800 bushels of wheat for $418. Besides this he received $210 for wool and $475 for milk. The Increase from cattle and sheep came to $300. Thus he has made n neat total of $Lt‘*4S apart from the products us<*d in supporting himself and his family. In commenting upon this favorable showing the Sioux City Tribune ••His attention to the fact that the djjry products were the most profltaldi .»f all. The farmer’s cows brought him more gross income and net profit than eight acres of wheat land at ten bushels to the acre or sev eral hundred sheep. Thntflvas the marquis’ luat adventure tli the northwest. “Yuli MLSF.ttAliLE BeOENDLEL property If no one else would, so he be gan pit king out the window panes one by one. The second pane had scarcely crnHi ed upon the floor before the Marquis de Mores, who had been sitting on Ids veranda watching the bombardment, sprang to his feel. He ran to the gate, where a hnnic, saddled and bridled, stood waiting. Tin* next moment he was Nplashlng through the river and I’urln as Slit* KnoM* I'm. The Llherte publishes a really intelli gent telegram from New York, describ ing how Sir Brooklyn (eagle), the great est politician of tin* Washington gov ernment. denies the possibility of tin* new triple alliance, in order to explain tin* status of Sir Brooklyn the editor adds in a note that "eagle" is a word which has no equivalent in tin* French political language. That editor, like Bottom, ought to lx* translated.—Lon don l Jlobe. Tin* Fantor'* t'nniinken Mrrmon. The Rev. Nisili Rodgers of Ibdslng- ton worked far Into Saturday night preparing his sermon for the morrow. On Sunday morning his wife found him dead in bed (in the table lay the sermon which he had written In the still watches of the night, and its title was “Prepare to Meet Thy God.” — Kansas City Journal. GOOD HEALTH by the Quart. Every bottle you take ot Johnston * Sarsaparilla means better health, and every bottle contains a full quart. It makes better blood—purer blood. For thirty years this ramous remedy has been creating and main taining good health. Johnston’s Sarsaparilla builds up the system, tones the nerves, and strenKthens the muscles 1 more promptly and effectually than *ny other remedy known. The pallor of the cheek disappears, energy takes the place of languor, and the rich color of health flows to ! the cheeks. Uuequalled for all disorders of the stomach and liver, and for all weakening com plaints of men, women and children. Sold eterywhere. Price* $1.00 per foil quart bottle. MICHIGAN DRUG CO., • Detroit, flich l or sale by Co'ayiny St ire O ttT<i>*y >lfg Co Gaffney, S. C. I^or Bulldln and Plastering Lime, Coal, and Plaster tt a i r| Plaster Pari*. Rosendale Cement, Portland Cement, Dynamite, Blasting Powder. Fuse and Dynamite Caps, call on Limestone Springs Lime Works CARROLL & CO.. Lessees. Telephone 57. On XVhom Was the Joke? A coupie of ladies in Funa desired to play a joke on the husband of one and got things into a pretty mess before they got through. The husbands were absent from home when the holies gave birth to children, twins being born to one and one to the other. The single baby was transferred to the bed of the twins in order to make the father of th<* twins think he was the father of triplets. Then, after the joke had been allow ed to cause consternation for a time in the mind of the supposed father of the triplets, the whole thftig was exposed, but the mothers were unable to iden tify their children. One woman took one and the other retaineu two, but neither is certain she has the right ones. Hysterics and other evidences of excitement are in order, but the complete identity of those children will never Ik* established. The mother of the twins will know that she has one of her children, but which one? While the mother of the one child will never be certain that she hasn’t one of the other woman’s ba bies.—Taylorville (S. C.) Courier. Made Them Even. “I have seen many a funny incident in knocking about," said C. .1. Griswold of Denver, “but I don’t remember any more amusing than one I witnessed at Friar’s I’olnt, Coahoma county. Miss., some years ago. I was In that part of the country on some business, and. having nothing in particular to do for the* time being. I went up to the little courthouse to witness a jury trial that was going on there. One of the Jurors, a rustic looking chap, kept going to sleep in the box, which Irritated the presiding judge extremely. The judge sent a court officer to awaken the juror once or twice, but when he went to sleep for the third time the Judge evidently thought patience had ceased to he a virtue, for. leaning over the rail, he said to the juror with severity: ‘“John Doe. I tine you $50 for per- sIsteuHy sleeping In court.’ “ ‘All right, judge.’ replied Doe. ‘that makes us even on that game we had last night.’ “Inquiry developed that the night previous had witnessed a poker game at Friar’s point, from which the magis trate had risen a loser of exactly $50 to Doe.”—New York Tribune. XVliat the Spider Said. “I was spinning a web in the rose vine.” said the spider, "and tin* little girl was sewing patchwork on the doorstep. Her thread knotted, her needle broke, and her eyes were full of tears: *1 can’t do it,’ she said. ’I can’t! I can’t!’ “Then her mother came and bade her look at me. Now. every time I spun a nice silky thread and ti*h*.i to fasten it from om* branch to another the wind blew and tore it away. “Th's happened many times, but at hist l made one that did not break and fastened It close and spun other threads to join it. Then the mother tmihd. "'What a patient spider!' she said. “The little girl smiled, too. and took tip her work. And when the sun went town there was a beautiful web in the m*e vin<* and a square of beautiful jntchwork on the steps.” — Weekly Bouquet. BEST FOR THE BOWELS r*-> ••aven't a regular, healtliy movement of the - very day. you're ill or will In . Keep your y “vels cpt n. ami b<* well. Force, in the ehaieof vi « .T hvsie «>r pill poison, is dangerous T‘ie smootl ■; •io—t, most perfect way of keeping 'he bowel; .-*1 and clean is to take CANDY CATHARTIC EAT ’EM L!'<E CANDY ►*ii.*sant. Paint ;! \ I’otent. Taste Coo.' J' .e.ood, "“r Sicken 'Venlmn. 01 .Irip . 10, ■_'. ami .'s' cents ■e- box. Write for free saini b . and booklet nn Addle-: t:'3 ■ •(■HUNG Ktxi av MIXPANY, ( HU AGO or XKW YOLk. KEEP YOUR 8L000 CLEAN y; CURE ALL V0UR PAINS WITH 8 :< Pain-Killer. | A Medicine Chest in Itself. Simple, Safe and Quick Cure for ■ CRAMPS, DIARRHOEA, COUGHS, | COLDS, RHEUMATISM, NEURALGIA. 25 and 50 cent Bottles. BEWARE OF IMITATIONS- BUY ONLY THE GENUINEJ PERRY DAVIS’ ty&U/UmAS GUARANTEED UNDER A $5,000 DEPOSIT R. R. FARE PAID 200 FREE Scholarships offered. V, rite quick to QA.-ALA BUSINKtaCOLLEGE. Macon. Ca. Dyspepsia Cure Digests what you eat. This preparation contains all of the digestants and digests all kinds of food. It gives instant rel ief and never fails to cure. It allows you to eat all the food you want. The most sensitive stomachs can take It. By its use many thousands of dyspeptics have been cured after everything else failed. It is unequalled for all stomach troubles. It can’t help but do you good Prepared only hy F.r. DeWitt & Co., Chicago The |1. bottle cental us 2 H times tbeSOc. sire. IKICHESTER’S ENGLISH PENNYROYAL PILLS A r* ••#. AInnys reliable, ■.••'lie*, ask Druccud ftr "'<« HKKTCKN »:*<,1.1*11 in H»«l and • *•*1 ineiullic iai.x;denied willi blue r iibon. • no<Mh<*r. ItefYiM* Uaiiiceron* kub«tl- • .in«l toil*. I’m id youi I'nurgist, vi d l«*. in v jnp-. for l*nrii«':ii) r». T»*««tl- noriuiih and “Keller toi J.a«1i«*»." in///r.r, •; .Mail. lil.OOO I'estliuoiuals. psold by U - (m.ggisla. CHICHESTER CHEMICAL CO. .flatlUon Si|utire, I’HILA., PA. Mention thU paper. Assignee’s Sale. Stayk or Smi th Cahmi.ina. i ClIKROKKE Cor.NTY. t By virtue of authority contained In a eer- t ;in real estate mortgage executed hy D. K. Buy to c M. Arnos, and as>igni*cl to the nn- dersignrd and recorded In the office of Clerk of i'oiirt of Cherokee county, in Vol. g, page ;Ki, 1 will sell it puhlh* auction, to the high- | est bidder, before the court house of Chero kee county, tlaftney, s. c„ during the legal hours of sale on salesday In Oetolier. all the right, title and Interest <>f D. K. Ray In all the real estate of A. D. Bay, d censed, lying In Cherokee county, near Maud postofllce, S. on wafers of Suck creek, containing *Js5 acres, timr*- or less: the said Interest lielng ; one-tifth of said undivided estate. Consent of the mortgagor lielng obtained in writing and recorded in office of Clerk of Court of Cherokee county on the >tli day of June, I'.ml, in Vol. 2. page :t> If. c. Harhatt, Assignee. Ninety Per Cent. of all chronic headaches are due to eye strain. Go to Dr. Griftttli at the Cherokee Drug Co’s, and have the de fect in vision corrected and thus be Quickly and Permanently Cured. Glasses fitted with scientific accuracy and all diseases of the Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat treated according to the latest and most approved methods. Beware of Traveling Frauds ! ! > uo You Want Insurance ? i am prepared to furnish poli ces in the very pest companies At the lowest rates. If you want a bond I can make i for you. See me before you insure. F. G. STACY. For the Building Season, L. BAKER I Has just received a large stock ->f Sa>h, Doors, Mantelpieces tnd all kinds of Trimming, Flooring, Ceiling, Siding, Box ing, Molding, Brackets, etc. No. I Heart Pine Shingles and a good stock John \V. Masury & Sons Guaranteed Paints and Varnish, all at the lowest rea sonable prices. Call and see him when you want anything in his line. No charge for making -•stiniates Contracting and Building no new departure with me, hut there re some readers of The Ledger who do not know that I am In the business. When you start to figure on your house give me a chance. I will treat you right and give you the worth of your money. I have on hand more than 400,000 feet of dressed stock. Including Moulding, etc., and I sell it at rock bottom figures. My stock of Doors, Sash, Blinds, Paints, Oils, etc., is unsurpassed by any other dealer in Gaffney. When in need of any thing in my line see me. My goods are right and my prices are right. T. I. WALKER. Spectacles and Eyeglasses % Scientifically fitted for the correction of all defects ot vision. H. R. GOODELL, Opticiin, SPARTANBURG, S. 0. No charge for eramlnatlnn. 10-12-01 JR. J. F. GARRETT, Dentist, iaffney, - - - S. C. •ffice over J. R. Tolleaon’B new store In office from 1st to 26th of each oontb: Or. C. T. LIPSCOMB, Dentist, Office over R. A. lone* A Co ’• Stor*. tu De found at office six davs In the week G. W. SPEER, v TTFOK rVISY-AT-IvAW. GAFFNEY, S. C. -fftce over J. \V. Toileson's Store. WALLACE & OTTS, LAWYERS. Office upstairs, between R. A. Jones and •avenport. Phone 87. J. E. WEBSTER. A11 ornov- fftce in Court House.iProbate Judge .office Gaffney City, S. ft. t'racticoe in all theoourtt. Oolleo- ions a opeelaltv JAMES A. WILLIS, ATTORNEY AT LAW, O A Fe^r ^ fcc-v. ». C7. Notary Public In office. Prompt attention given to all bustueu. Office over K. A. Jones A Co.'t store. D.K.Drncan 0. P. Sander*. 9.8. Hall, Jr DUNCAN, SANDERS & HALL, Attorneys-at-Law. u_ out e ver L IL ToU**'-*'* A Do *• ilor*.