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0 Jess and Johnny. | A LOVE STORY. J — m By Annie Hamilton Donnell. ^ 5 CoPTHionr. 1900, m BtAnnie Hamilton Donnklu % &'*~4*44*44*444***4*'«A«**W*''J “Misfit? Johnny? That ho will! ' He’s too likely a ehai>~goln to be fore man, certain—to be wastin himself like that. W’gosh. man, it’d be the ruina tion o’ Johnny!” “You quit eoiniu clown on Jess. Tim Bradlee! There ain’t no other girl tendin looms to these works”— “Oli, Jess is good enough; she’s all right. I wouldn’t look further myself if 1 didn’t have my little old woman a’ready. Jess Is all right, but there’s the little un and the granny. That’s where Johnny’d miss ft.” “Yes. sure; there’s the little un and the granny.” The second voice had dubious notes In it There seemed no room for fur ther argument Noonings, at the Liberty woolen mills, the* men stood round in little groups of Atlirees or fours, clinking their dinner ^»ails as a needless whet to their appe tites. It was a breach of etiquette in the unwritten code of Liberty woolen mills’ law to open the dinner pails too Boon. The girl operatives collected in the open windows or by themselves out in the yard—all but Jess. Jess went home at noon, though It was a long walk back and forth. She shot past the two speakers now, her lithe, beau tiful figure balanced straight ahead. Of course she had heard. The litfie shabby man who had taken her part fidgeted nervously. “You’d ought to watch out, Tim," he muttered. “Watch out!" retorted the other. “You can’t watch out for comets scoot- I In acrost your tracks. Jess is a reg’lar I ^ comet.” The barren road, thick with white dust and scorching with stored up sun rays, stretched away from the groat looming bulks of the “works” as if making a bee line to escape from them. Dimly, at its terminus, one could dis tinguish the rows upon rows of little , houses flanked by two big boarding houses that made up Liberty. Liberty! The name was such a misfit. It was the one thing wanting in the little set tlement-liberty. Jessie Binney—or just Jess, as every one called her—sped down the hot roadway. She was going home to the little un and granny, and trying to outrun Johnny. Both spurs urged her on with equal incentives. She knew '^Johnny was behind—she could hear ^tbe pound of his big feet on the road, muffled by the carpet of white dust She was so familiar with the sound. Ahead—way ahead—the little un was 'Waiting. Jess was familiar with that too. The tiny, stooped figure always waited. “Jess, Jess!” Johnny called, pleading ly. A little flavor of injury was in the sound of his voice. It was most a pity, after braving the men’s Jeers, to be treated this way. Johnny cherisheo the sweet memory of three red letter noonings when Jess, like the little ur.. 'had waited. He made the most of them—it geen'*d so likely they would 'baj/e to suffleo for him. “Jess! 1 say, Jess!” The girl forged ahead steadily. “But •there’s the little un and the granny— 11that’s where Johuny’d miss it,” sound- ■ j(k ed in her ears. She had known it be- fore-yes, yes, certainly—but the men’s voices made it distinctly clear to her ‘:Dow. The reiteration in her brain— , “There’s the little un and the granny— the little un and the granny”—only un derlined it “I’ve found it out in plenty o’ time,” Jess congratulated herself grimly. Her ithln, handsome face was set lu lines of •palu. The pounding steps behind changed their time abruptly. With a fSpurt of speed Johnny shot by her, and .faced her in the dusty road. “Jess, little girl,” he said humbly. ,Hls good, brown face was wistful iu its pleading. “You’ll let me speak to I .you a minute, Jess? A minute ain't much to ask, uow, is it?” [ “No, no; let me go past. Johnny. I’ve t ,got to. Granny’s waiting for her tea. And the little un”— | “Must wait too. I’ll make it up to the j little un, Jess. What I’ve got to say | Is that I—I love you, Jess. 1 do It as Sionest and hearty as a man ever loved j « woman ever. The Lord A’mighty j knows I do. I want you to tet me mar ly you, Jess. I want to have a right i to take care o’ you, Jess. Jess!” ^ He had ;burried over the little speech W *• if time were precious, but the cry At the end came from bis soul. He bad his bard brown hands out to her. . “Let me go past, Johnny; let me go pastry cried Jess fiercely. She could not trust herself to look at him. It was her only safeguard. “Answer me straight out, Jess Bin ney!” demanded Johnny, with stern despair. “Ain’t 1 got the right to be answered same as other men? Ain’t I? Ain’t I waited long enough for an an swer? No, no; not that, Jess! Don’t say you don’t love me! I—I know that. But I want you anyway. I’ll lie that good to you, little girl! I’ll take that care o* you”— Jess stared down the white roadway tmseelngly. Even the little un's bowed figure.*'waiting, did not come t.ithln her vision. She begun to speak in a harsh, strained voice. “You want me to answer straight out—ain’t that what you said. Johnny? Well, It won’t take I mg. it’s so short." For one Instant Jess let her eyes meet Johnny’s. She towered, straight and pitiless, bet wet n him and the sun. “No.” she said quietly. “Now let me go past. Johnny." s. The little un was whimpering softly to himself. Jess held out her hand to him with gentle conciliation. She was always gentle with the l.ttlo un, and. for her sake every one else was gentle too. He was tiny and weird, and his little childish face peered out through a tangle of yellow hair. It was not a rnlstit. tills name. He would always he a little un In body and in mind. “I’m hunger-y,!’ he walled. "You’d Just’s Ueves I’d be hunger-y—yes, you would too! You—you want me to be hunger-y!” “Why. little un! Why. little un!” crooned Jess soothingly, the mother sound lu her voice. The little un could uot remember any other mother but Jess. For six of .bis seven years she had mothered Ids misshapen, stunted little body teuderly. “Why, little un. and sister was goin to give you such a nice puddln today! Witb”- She bent over and whispered some thing iu his ear. “Blums!” shrieked the little un “Blums in it—plums!” “Five of ’em, little un—all lu your piece,” Jess said, smiling In her palu, fur her heart was like a stoue iu her breast. She could look back and see Johnny slouching back along the white, glaring road. She had sent him away from her. How eouid she -dnd the looms day after day without Johnny’s tender words in her ears and Johnny to wait outside and walk home with her? How could she bear the unend ing grind of her young life without Johnny? The vista of years that opened be fore her and readied into the dim per spective of old age-old age like gran ny’s—stifled her and killed her courage. Her feet stumbled heavily along be side the little un’s. Granny was waiting too. There was scarcely time to get the plain little meal and hurry back at the clang of the factory bell. There was no time for Jess to eat, but It did not matter to her. Weeks crept by until they were months, and it was crisp, late fall. Since that hot. white day when John ny overtook her and the little un wait- e<l. whimpering. Johnny had never walked home with her. He had taken his answer stolidly and gone about among ids looms with the piodding step of an old man. Jess bad missed his sweet, shrill whistle above the muf fled thunder of machines. Johnny had always whistled loudly for Jess to hear. She had told him once that It shortened the hours. Now he never whistled at all. When he met Jess, it was just a grave uod of his head he gave her. On one of the autumn days Jess took the littie un to the works with her lie- cause granny was ailing and his noise fretted her sadly. He had never been among the looms times enough to get used to their whirring, ceaseless activ ity. The novelty of it amused him, ami for a long time he crouched contented ly by Jess. He was so still she forgot at Inst that be was there, and when be crept away on a little trip of discovery she did uot notice. She was minding her loom In a daze of broken dreams and only the mechanical training of her eyes to detect impe rfections aud the prompt response of her Angers to cor rect them prevented trouble. Her well drilled sight and muscles stood guard while she dreamed. In the middle of the afternoon a com motion arose at the farther end of the great room. People ran about, and there were excited shouts aud one shrill, clear, frightened cry like a child’s. Jess’ eyes and ears were un trained to such sounds. They failed to reach her. She worked on dreamily. Some one beside her shook her arm and shrieked at her. “Jess! Quick, Jess! Somebody’s caught In the shaftiu. Let’s go—oh, hear ’em shoutln! Hurry, can’t you?” But Jess woke slowly from her dreams. She was the last one to mix In the excited little crowd. The girls ami men were waiting for her with solemn faces. They made a straight path for her to the motionless form on the floor. The little un. with torn clothes, stumbled out of somebody’s arms and met her half way. "I’m killed! Oh. Jess, I’m killed!” he sobbed tumultuously. His poor little & I “He hclmigs to me. Pm gain to marry him.” twisted bodj was quivering like a little shriveled leaf In the wind. "I’m killed all to pieces—It kept goiu round and round. It wouldn’t stop—Jess. Jess, listen!" But the girl had thrust him aside and darted ahead to Johnny, on the floor. He lay iu a crushed heai). and even the men covered their eyes. One or two were sobbing like the little un. “Where we goin to carry him to?” muttered Tim Bradlee huskily. “John ny didn't have no home nor no folks.” He used the past tense unconscious ly. This was not Johnny now—it had been. The girls stood about, wring ing their bands hysterically. "lie '.vi!n't worth It such a little humpbacked thing,” somebody said shrilly. ’•Sh. can’t you? Do you want Jess to hear?" cried some one else. But there was no danger. Jess was wiping the blood from Johnny’s face. She had only beard Tim Bradlee. With a sudden movement she stood before him. “Carry Johnny to my house. Tim,” she said quietly. “He belongs to me. I’m goin to marry 1dm.” The girl's voice rang out distinctly. There was no quiver of doubt or of shame In it. She faced them all splen didly. One of the girls uttered a ner vous sound that might have been a sob or a laugh. Jess caught the look on her face. “I am golu to marry Johnny,” she repeated sharply. “Oh, you needn’t look that way. Moll Dixey! Johnny ain’t dead. He belongs to me. and I tell you I’m goin to marry him. Won’t somebodj carry him to my house? lias anyltody gone for a doctor?” “Yes. yes, two of the boys.” volun teered many voices. “He’d ought to be here inside o’ the ’arf ’our. Stiddy, boys—easy!” If Johnny had been a baby Instead of a brawny, crushed giant, they could not hav‘ carried him more tenderly down the straight road outlined In crimson and gold. Uefays followed, and the poor, unconscious load was shifted occasionally with the gentle ness of mothers handling their babies. Jess and the little un went on ahead. The child was sobbing still under his breath, and his little torn clothes trail ed. unnoticed, behind him. The hor ror of the terrible minute before John ny sprang to his rescue was overkeen for his unbalanced little mind. “I’m killed! I’m killed!” be moaned with patient reiteration. "You’d Just as Ueves I’d be killed. Jess; yes, you would too! You ain’t sorry.” Aud Jess was not even thinking of the little un. She bad forgotten him for once. When Johnny woke out of his stupor, he thought he had gone to heaven and one of the angels was bending over him. She was very sweet aud gentle. Why, it is Jess! Then Jess had gone to heaven too? Johnny experienced a sense of relief at %<e thought. It wouldn’t be real heaven without Jess. “Jess, little girl,” be whispered,' “when’d you come?” “Sh! Johnny, don’t talk. Yes, It’s me. It’s Jess. I’m taking care o’ you. You’ve bad a kind o’—o’ sickness. Sh!” And Johnny closed his eyes again, with a great joy mastering his pain. Slowly, very slowly, his awful bruises yielded to the gentle ministry of na ture and Jess. Very slowly Johnny lumbered back to life. The little settle ment of Liberty bad been under snow u mouth or more before he saw it again. At first Jess had staid away from the works to nurse him; then she had gradually trusted him more and more to granny. She could not lose the mou- cy she earned at the looms. One day Johnny sat up In bed and, demanded a looking glass. Jess was at the factory. The little un sat on the, foot of the bed playing with a bit of, bright string. “Say, little un, you know what a looktu glass is, hey? Well, you run! aud fetch me one.” said Johnny. ( “l know!” the little un cried delight* edly. "Fve got one myself. It came out o’ a winder, and you can look through it and see the trees and the snow”— “No, no! Ask granny. Granny’ll know,” the sick man said fretfully. Granuy came In with the looking glass, as a last resort, behind her, for Jess had said no. She looked fright ened. “There, there, Johnny! There, there! You go right to sleep aud git rested up, or. If you’d ruthcr, I’ll fetch you in some beautiful porridge. Jess made it,” she added artfully. “Fetch me a lookin glass!” roared Johnny. "I’ve been feeliu over my face—there’s somethin wrong with It.” Boor Johnny! It v s all wrong. He had hazarded and lost all his rough manly l>eauty. The thlu face on the pillow was wasted and marred. “Granny. I’ll get out o’ bed If you don’t fetch It,” he persisted, and gran ny yielded weakly. The little un peer ed over Johnny’s shoulder as he looked. “Ain’t you bombly. Johnny?” he piped shrilly. "My, your face Is all cross ways!” When Jess came home, Johnny’s face was turned away. He covered it with his great lean hands. “Johnny. Johnny,” quavered Jess, but she knew the mischief was done. It hud to come. All her tenderness and foresight could uot ward It off. Granny had only precipitated It a little. How Jess had watched the terrible wounds heal slowly into ugly seams and suffered for Johnny! Not for her self. for what did Jess care for the ug liness that blighted Johnny’s handsome face forever? It was still Johnny’s fa’ce. and Johnny belonged to ber. She was going to marry Johnny. But her heart ached for him. She could hardly bear It. Today, speeding down the long stretch of roadway from the works, she had wished her face, too. could be seamed aud marred like Johnny’s. Jess knew the fresh, sweet beauty of her own face, and the con trast hurt her for Johnny. “Poor Johnny!” murmured Jess. An other difflculty loomed over her—her public avowal before the men aud girls the day of Johnny’s sacrifice. Every word of it stood out like clear hand writing on the wall. They bad all heard—all but Johnny. What would be think when he beard of it. too, out side. as lie would In* sure to do? He was getting stronger all the time. Soon he would be out again, and some of the boys would let the secret out. But that trouble settled Itself while Jess stood and looked down at John ny’s hidden face. The pity and the love in her soul crowded out every thing else. Siie kept soothing the big white hands with her lingers over and over, and then she leaned down and kissed them. Johnny qulviiml from head to foot. “Johnny!" Jess cried. "Johnny, look up, look up! Please, dear!” She forced away his bands with gen tle firmness. She was looking down at him, laughing n little, shyly. A wave of crimson crept up across her sweet face. “What I’ve got to say is that I— love you. Johnny. The Lord Almighty knows I do. I want you to let me mar ry you. Johnny, you’ve got to! I said I was goin to. I told them all I was that day you saved the little un.” The rest she whispered with her face iu his neck as she knelt beside the bed. “Johnny, answer me straight out." she breathed. “Haven’t 1 got a right to be answered same as—other wom en ?” She was laughing softly under her breath, but he could feel the hot blood In her face. "I’m goin to marry you. Johnny,” whispered Jess. “I love you, dear.” The little un stooped stealthily out to granny. Ills uncanny, strange child’s face was fell of awe, and he prodded granny’s arm excitedly with a little sharp forefinger. “My, Jess is Kbssin Johnny!” he shrilled. “An Johnny’s kissln Jess!” —You’ll have to be an ••Early Bird’’ if jou are one of the JO to get a bottle of Sure Cure Sarsaparilla free. S B. Crawlev Si Co. In Bed Four Week* with L.:» Orlppe. We have received the following let ter from Mr. Roy Kemp, of Angola. Ind; “I was in bed four weeks with la grippe and I tried many remedies and spent considerable for treatme nt with physicians, but I received no re lief until I tried Foley’s Honey and Tar. Two small bottles of this med icine cured me aud I now use it ex clusively in my family.” Take no substitutes. For sale by Cherokee Drug Company. Fort Worth papers are authority for the statement that a conductor of the Chicago, Rock Island & Texas railroad, during the recent rush to El Reno, to register for government homesteads, collected on one run, 241 fares and tickets on the tops of the passenger coaches. Children Poisoned. Many children are poisoned and made nervous and weak, if not killed outright, by mothers giving them cough syrups containing opiates. Foley’s Honey and Tar is a safe and certain remedy for coughs, croup and lung troubles, and is the only prom- 'neut cough medicine that contains no opiates or other poisons. For sale by Cherokee Dru* Company. The woman who rides ought to be passing fair on a pass — Remember only the first gfi peo ple to buy a bottle of .Sure Cure Sar saparilla, 50 cent*, get a bottle free. S B Crawley it Co. The South Car >ilna \ Georgia Kxfenson itallroad aniiiun vtt the bhlnwiiiK low ro.uj*. trip rates to Charleston, S C.. on ureounn i<* the Snith Carolina inter-state ami We-.. Indian Exposition. Tickets on sale at al coupon stations. Excellent passentrer>- vice o* rforined. See that your tickets I'.+J via the S. C. & G. E. It. K: PIUM COCAINE*™ WHSSKV Jlabitn Cured at my Sanator ium. In 30 ilur*. Utnvir**!* of reference#. 2S »eam a xt-eoialty. hfxik on home Treatment (tent FUCK. AWdrt-x S. M. WOOLLEY. M. D.. Atlanta. Ca. BEST FOR THE BOWELS • pfn •'aven t a retrnltr, hea!*hy movement of the ■oeM- \crj diiy. you’re ill or will I, . Keep your yeiteis open, nnil tje well. Force, in tho sha;.c of" vio- e .t hys-Ic r pill poison, i< dangerous. The smooth it m.-lest, mort perfect way of keeping '.he bowels .ear and clean is to take CANDY CATHARTIC F rotn A B t Westvillc. S. e . * »> r .r* g 4.so f- i -V Kcrshnw. s. < - ... ti «0 4.9.) A t* - Heath Springs, S. c... .. 7.00 .Y2n Lancaster, S c ... Catawba Junction, S. C . 7.*» r,.t:<* -i 7< h.-Jr) li.on ■i.sii Rock lli'l, <. < h »*’> «.:h5 4 jo Tirzilh S. C * *5 ti.tX' 4 O Yorkville, 8. C ... '' Jo fi so -# jf« ! Sharon, sc ’ ■ »o A.tw j ! Hickory Grove. S. C 9-5 7.2.) 4 sc 8 my rna, s. c lb) 7 4o -> ’Ji* Blacksburg. SC. I0.4o 7.115 T*. ► Gaffney. S. c ... l-i 70 7.i>5 E» Earls, N C . 10>5 s-c, j 8be by. N. C. 11. 5 M . Tv :k I Lnt’ihiore. N. <'. 11..5 9X5 " .V M-•oresboro. N. C . 11 50 9.2o f\ Henrietta, N. c. ...11 j i*.:c> fk tiS Forest City. S'. C . 12.10 r ; . Kutherforaton N. C . 12.40 :*.b> '1 tiem.ii! City. N. C .. 13 oO I0.3O Marion, N. C ... 14..15 10.90 column A: Tickets to is- sold daily. Of / SA— mein.Mig Nov. v tli. uui. until and Miiv Hist. Its rj, BiihI limit June u,-,;. includir-s 1902. ‘ -iUtmiB: Tickets to be s .M dail v co :>>- n.on-ing .v v :: tin l.i"l. unCi and incl .ul.x.j: ! May .ilst. tir,;;! limit ten days in ; uloi.t- An English manutacturer of jim and jelly has a fruit farm of 1,000 acres at Histon, near Cambridge, employing at times 800 hands. The f .ctory is in the center l the farm. The many friends of G H. Hausen, Engineer L. E. Sc W. R R., at pres ent living in Lima, Ohio, will be pleased to know of his recovery from threatened kidney disease. He writes, "I was cured by using Foley’s Kidney Cure, which I recommend to all, especially trainmen who are usu ally similarly afflicted.” For sale oy Cherokee Drug Company. Oil developments in Texas, Califor nia and elsewhere are introducing new industrial factors, especially in railroading. —The first 80 people to buy a bot tle of Sure Cure Sarsaparilla, 50 cts.. we will give a full s’.e bottle abso lutely free. S. B. Crawley & Co. The lead pencil industry in Ger many is reported to be suffering from American competition. —Sure Cure Sarsaparilla, 50 cents, the perfect blood purifier. S. B. Crawley »fc Co When a woman marries a man to reform him gbe can’t accomplish much until his money is all gone. The World’a Greatest Fever Medicine. Johnson’s Tonic does in a day what slow Quinine cannot do In ten days, fts splendid cures are In striking contrast with the feeble cures made by Quinine. If you are utterly wretched, take a thor ough course of Johnson's Tonic and drive out every trace of Malarial poisoning. The wise insure their lives and the wiser Insure their health by using Johnson’s Chill aud Fever Tonic. It costs SO cents if It cures: not one cent if it does not. Id one New York factory 30.000 000 cigarettes a week are tamed oat on so average all the year round. SIww Arc Tsar KMwcjrs t Dr- Hobbs' Bpmragus Pills care all kidney Ills. Sam ple tree- Add. SterUne Remedy Co.. Cbioego or H- T. An ill-natared person is always sailing on a stormy sea. This signature is on every box of tho fpinulr Laxative Bromo-Quinine Tameu the remedy that cures a cold In one rin Trespass Notice. All persons are forbidden to trespass on my land for any purpose whatever. Emily K. Lipscomb. 1-10-lawkU Building and I'lnsterlng Lime, Coal, and Plaster Hair. Plaster Paris. Rostndale Cement, Portland Cement, Dynamite, Blasting Powder. Fuse and Dynamite Caps, call on limestone Springs, Lime Works CARROLL & CO., Lessees. Telephone 57. W0RKWHlU Y ?!! x EAT 'EM LIKE CANDY Pleasant, Palatable, Potent. Taste Good. Po Good, •«v?r Sicken. Weaken, ot .»rlp--, 10, 2.j, and 50 rents >e- Bax. Write for free sample, and booklet < n M-a'th. Address 4SS •vKItUSO REMEDY COJIPAXY, CHII'ACO or SEW YORK. KEEP YOUR BLOOD DLEAH Summons For Relief. (Complaint Not Served. State of South Carolina, i Court of Com- Cocsty or Cherokee, f iu«n Pleas Thomas Spencer and K. S. Spencer, Plain tiffs, against Albert Cook, Joe Cook. Ella Petty. Hannah Sparks. Edward Cook. Hattie Garner. Alice Nance, Nancie McWhirter, C. A. Spencer, Thomas Black, Lewis Black, James Black. Eugene Black, Waddle Black, Susan Black, Robert Black. Mason Black. Humphrey Black. Rebecca Littlejohn. Susan Mason, Frances Burgess, James Spencer. William T. Spencer, Della Barringer, Horace Mc- Kown. Alice Elmore, Vienna Hunimet, John G. Spencer and Joseph Campbell. Defend ants. To AUhti Cook. Joe Cook, Ella P^tly, Han nah Sparks, Edward Cook. Hattie Garner, Alice Nance, Nancie McWhirter. C. A. Spen cer, Thomas Black. Lewis Black, James Black, Eugene Black, Waddle Black, Susan Black, Robert Black, Mason Black. Humphry Black. Rebecca Littlejohn, Susan Mason, Frances Burgess. James Spencer, William T. Spencer. Delia Barringer, Horace McKown, Alice Elmore, Vienna Hammett, John G. Spencer and Joseph Campbell; Defendants In this action: You arc- hereby summoned and required to answer the complaint iu this action, which is filed In the office of the Clerk of the Court for the said county, and to serve a copy of your answer to the said complaint on the subscriber at his office at Gaffney, S. C„ with in twenty days after the service hereof ex clusive of the day of such service, and if you fall to ans wer the complaint within tin- time aforesaid the plaintiffs in this action will ap ply to the Court for relief demanded in the Complaint. (Dated) 27th day of December, A. D. 1901, Gaffney, S. C. J. C. Jefferies. Plaintiffs’ Attorney. Attest: J. EB. EFFEH1E8, Clerk Court of Common Pleas. To the absent defendants William T. Spen cer, Nancie McWhirter. Della Barringer and Joseph Campbell: Take notice that the Summons of which the foregoing is a copy together with the Complaint In this action Is this day Bled In the office of the Clerk of the Court for the County of Cherokee. J. O. Jefferies, .Tan-J-lawk-fit Plaintiffs’ Attorney. Summons For Relief. (Complaint Served.) State of South Carolina, i Court of Com- County of Cherokee, f mon Pleas. D. S. Collier, Plaintiff against John Posey, Defendant. To the defendant. John Posey: You are hereby summoned and required to answer the Complaint In this action, of which a copy is herewith served on you, and to serve a copy of your answer to said Com plaint on the subscribers at their office at Gaffney. S. C\, within twenty days after the service hereof; exclusive nj the day of such service; and If you fail to answer the Com plaint within the time aforesaid, the plain tiff In this action will apply to the Court for the relief demanded In the Complaint. Date: December 20, 1901, Gaffnet, S. C. ’• Hall a Willis, Plaintiff’s Attorneys. Attest: J. Eb Jefferies, Clerk Court of Common Pleas. Notice to Absent Defendant; To the defendant, John Posey: Take Notice, that the Siummons of which the foregoing Is a copy, together with the Complaint in this action. Is this day Bled In the office of the Clerk of the Court of Com mon Pleas for the County of Cherokee. Hall a Willis. Plaintiff’s Attorneys. l-17-lawk-6wks Opening of Books of Subscription. state of South Carolina. » COU SI Y O F C H EHO K E E. ( Pursuant to a commission issued to the undersigned as corporators by M R. Cooper, Secretary of fitate. on the lith day of Jan’y, 1> 2, Notice is hereby given that liook* of sub scription to tin* capital stock of the 41 ran a rd Improvement Company will be opened at National B iiik in tIn city of Gaffney. State and County aforesaid, on Dth day of Jan'y, 1902. at noon. The said proposed corp iratloii will have a capital stock of «l , '.c<in, divided Into Kill allures I of the par value of jl> , . icn, with its prln- I clpiii place of business ut Gaffney, t*. t'., and will lie empowered to en r ig« In the business ; of improving and •haling lu real eaiule. stocks, bonus, et ! ’. G, S ’ ACT, .1 A < ARltOLL. W. < . < ’Alll't N’t FK. 1-17-lt Corporators. Ion to date of sale, except that final U_.,u should In no ciis*-• \ct-d Jun- :;rd, IWfJ • olumn Tickets to be sold on Tuestl .yv and Thursdays of each we.-k. commenc g I b e. 3rd. 1'K'i. and until and including V ,v -'•tli, I.<•'•_. (i nil limit seven days In add it ». to date of sale, except that ffnai limit sim.~iu In no case exceed June 3rd. 1 , E. H. Si|AW, Gen< nil Passenger Ageist. FOR Up-to-Date Job Print ing, call at th e LEDGER Office. Gaffney, S. C. SOUTHERN RAILWAY’* Condensed S-hedalo of Passenger Train*. in E ffcci June IWth, 1901. Northbound. No. 12. Jaily. Yes. No. 3?. Daily E’-pr. X o. 34. Daily Fit 3?* No. ■tdk Daily Lv. A tlantaj T “ Atlanta.ET “ N _>rcr< >sa .. •* Buford. “ Gainesville “ Luia..,. “ Cornelia.... “ Mt. Airy... Lv. Tore .a. . 7 V» a 8 5oa 9 31 a 10 ue a I • 37 a 11 uj a n z5 a II 23 a 11 53 a 12 COm 1 00 p 2 25 p 2 43 p 3 25 • > 12 20 p 1 2up 1 52] 2 19 p 2 45 p 3 08;» 3 30 p 3 33 p 3 55 p 11 SO.IB 12 m 1 2 O.i *■ 2 ir -.w 2 *:>*. Ar. E ‘lertoa. Lv. Elber:on. 9 6u a it 45 p ti 45 p 11 M Lv. W minster. " Sereca “ Central..... " Greenville. •• b: nr burg . " Gaffney.. . “ Black-1 vary “ Kings Ut.. " Gastonia. “ Charlotte.. Ar. Gre’nsboro 12 3 m 12 i'p 1 blip 2 341) 3 3jn 4 25 ;> 4 47 p 5 lop 5 4up <5 40 p 9 55 P — 4 09 p 5 13 p 6 04 p 6 4-’t; 7 03 p ti' 13]' 10 47 p 4 27 p 4 4op 5 03 p 5 55 p b 55 p 7 52 p 7 4» p ’8‘2sp 9 lop 11 42 p 4 13 4 92 to 5 0i?«. 5 is - d ti Ska* 7 a* 8 tt- M. 6 ittSb 9 Ol- ou. lu IA m 1-2 «. » Ar. Durham. . Ar. Raleigh . • • • s 3 35 a 5 25 3 3 35 a 5 26 a 2 4T5* 8 Ar. Danville... 11 25 p 11 53 p 12 48a 1 32» Ar. Norfolk . 3 33 a 3 30a 3 30a Ar. Richmond.. ti uo a 6 05 a ti 00 a 6 * V Ar. W'hington. 0 42 a 7 35a “ B’ntoreP.K “ Ph’delnhia. " New York. 8 o-J a 10 15 a 12 4>;n 8 ib a 11 35 a 2 U3p 11 r> 2 5P*. 6 Southbound. Fst.Ma No. 55. Daily. VvS. No. 37. Daily. No. 11. Daily. F,xp>r N o. 31a. Da: iy. Lv. N.Y., Pa.R. “ Ph delphia. " Baltimore.. 12 15 a 3 50 a ti 22 a 4 »/0 p 6 57 p 9 20 p 10 45 p -••»#••• sir.?* fi 0t f» b y & Sty “ W'ash’ton.. 11 lb a Lv. Richmond.. 12 01 r. 11 80 p ii sup n Ssp Lv. Norfolk.. 9 35 a 7 40p 7 40p 7 Lv. Danville.... 5 43 p 5 50a 6 10 a 4 3E>a* Lv. Raleigh.... Lv. Durham... 3 50 p 4 43 p 1 00a 2 30a 1 00 a 2 30a 1 OOm 2 8C » Lv. Gre’nsboro Ar. Charlotte.. Lv Gastonia... " King’s Mt.. “ Blacksburg • Gaffney.... * Spar’burg. “ Greenville. " Central 7 10 p 9 45 p 10 42 p 11 O-'p 11 25 p 11 42 p 12 20 a 1 25 a 7 Of. a 6 25a 10 50a 11 0 i a 11 40a 12 40 p 7 37 a 12 35m 1 80 p 1 Sip 2 17 p 2 82p 8 Ibp 4 bOp 6 30 p 5 55p 8 13 p 7 ton 5 36-w 8 -voD. £> 0> «» b If m 9 Otm 9 Silm. 10 34raa 11 jr 12 12 4fc p. 1 (Cf» 1 Etta “ Beueca “ W’mlnster. 2 28a 1 40p “ Toccoa 8 14 a 22Sp Lv. Elbert on.. 9 00a ti 45 p 2 lop 9 in; *b 6 If, ft. Ar. Elberton. 11 53n Lv. Mt. Airy... 7 28 p 1 X p 2 0bf» 2 Arp 2 46 «► 8 Ibp 3 96 p 4 36 p 3 X>9 “ Cornelia... “ Lula 3 4tia 4 Of a 4 29 a 4 57 a "3 tip 3 27 p 7 82 p 8 08 p 8 28p 9 OOp 9 34 p 10 Ibp 9 15 p “ Gainesville " Boford. “ Ncrcross. 5 27 a Ar. Atlanta.ET “ Atlanta,CT ti 10 a 5 10 a 4 55p 3 5op Bat wsen Lula and Athens. Ko.1L| Ex. Na 18. Sao. 'Daily. STATIONS. No. 12. Daily • No. 14. Ex. Suu. 8 15 p • 45p 8 04 p 3 15 p 8 45 p 4 02 p 4 45 p Lv ...Lula Ar “ Maysville “ “ Harmony ” Ar. Athens .Lv 2 lap 1 7 36p 1 45p 7 2Sp 1 2sp 7 O&p 12 4a p 6 ‘4Up BiAdi line trains. “A" a m. “P” p. a. "M” noon. “If” niga* Chesapeake Use Steamers in dally secsssse between Norfolk and Baltimore. Noa. IT and IS-” Washington and Southwortb- am Limited.'’ Solid Pulmsn tram, being ceeer- posed exclusively of finest Pullman equlpmaoua of latest design, through between New YoaBt and Atlanta Through Pullman sleeping eon between New York and New Orleans, -tlm Washington, Atlanta aud Montgomery oed al so be: ween New York and Memphis, via Woats- Ington, Atlanta and Birmingham. Ek-gnnfc Pullman Library observation cart between Ms* eon and New York. Gentlemen's club casra between Atlanta New Yorx. Dining room serve all meals enrouto. Pullman sleepa.ft ears between Greensboro and Goldsboro. Mn coach service on this train. These tYslni wxA stop at Gainesville, Lula, Toccoa. Seneca. GoSV- ney and Blacksburg only to take on and let :sS pass, ngers for and from Washington and Isa- yond and for and from Greenville, Coluxnk&st and rtpartanburg-Columhia lines. Nos. llffond ii4-”At anta oni New York Bir- preso.” Local tram between Atlanta and Char lotte, connecting at Charlotte with trains same numbers for and from Washington, Nw* York and the east, enrrviag through Pwllmam between Charlotte and Nt sleeping cars Charlotte and Kichniond ana 7sw Vi rk_ Norfolk. Leav ing Washington Mondays, Wednesdays e*.»G Fridays s tounst sleeping car will be o:>eratwL on this train through from Washington 'o hwa. Francisco without change. Oouneetlua «a Greensboro with el< i*i>ers for Rnleigh. Mr. Pullman cars on this train between .'.tlent snd Charlotte. Arm lc first and second claw coach aocommaaa;ions for local and throwgpa. travel. Nos.35and3(k-’‘UnitedRtafe» 1 r, Maii’’rtmsf solid between Washington ami ..^w Or!e*.'jr> via Southern Railway, A. .v W. P. R as* j L. & N. It. R., being corrijymod of roach*- < through without change for i sesngcr-of / elas-e.-i Punman drawing room sleeping ctr a between New York and New Orleans via A: lanta and Montgomery and l>etwoeu *■ - mi'igb im an i Richmond. Dining cam Oil men is eu route. No*. 11 and 12—8 IK local train betw < -w Richmond knd.Ati.i u» (i se oonuectio r* • Norfolk f>r Old Point Com roar Esj • -ial attention is called teabovesche partlcuinr v that Not. Ji and 08 are mac •- - *.* SX'-.csive Pullman train, without ctai'l -•»- Vico. H< ANK b. UASNO Third V to# Fras k Gw ’ cr t. H. HARDWICK, W H. TAYU 1 .tt. EfcJI. Aitojul A-G. Ik t-AL» >% ..