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This is deci(k‘dly one of tlie best skirts on the market to
day. We have handled several different kinds, but
none as good as the “Peco.’’
Elegant material, beautifully made, full sizes.
The price is less than you can buy the material from
the store. Price
One Ripple, .$1.00. *
Two Ripple, $1.25.
Three Ripple, $1.50.
Be sure and ask to see these skirts ; no wardrobe is com
plete without one.
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We carry a complete line of Eastman’s Kodaks and Supplies.
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FLAW PICKER AND
THE PARSON’S WIFE.
The Good Woman Has a
Breaking Out at Mouth.
IN THE SWEET LONG AGO.
The Parson’s Wife Tells “Flaw” About the
Customs of the Farmers in Her Sweet
heart Days The Freaeher Paid In Home-
raised ISueoii and Homemade “Tohaeker '
Coalin’ Guorsn, April 24.—Hit
was a bad case of breakin’ out of the
mouth the good ole Parson’s wife had
when dinner was all over and we was
a eettin’ around the family circle-
men t.
"The farmers of rhe Coalin’ Ground.
Flaw, are not a gittin’ along any to
speak of here of late, not as good as
they could,” said the Parson’s good
wife through her ginneral run of cou-
fiab. 'T remember way bai k vonder
whilst 1 was a growin’ up un’ in my
sweetheart days the farmers alius
nad plenty an’ to spare. They alius
raised their own hog an’ hominy,
made their own clothes, an tobaoker,
had fat stock an’ plenty of it, an’
most in generally alius had some mon
ey in their ole jeans to pay tax an’
doctor bills. Them what couldn’t
pay the preacher the clean cash would
pay him off in rale ole homemade
bacon, tobacker an’ so on an’ so
forth; an’ buy their sugar an’ coffae
with chickens an’ eggs an’ the iik-’.
“Ob, Flaw. I tell you them there was
good ole times, but now hits right
t'other way. Hard times an’ plenty
of it is all you can here of or see on
every hand. 1 tell you, Flaw, this
thing you call cotton is a curse to our
‘8unuy South,’ as preacher Jones is
wont to call it, to the poorer class
of farmers what ain’t got no land of
their owu. They j;st have to plant
an’ raise whatever ihe man what the
laud belongs to says raise an’ that is
most in generally cotton, cotton, cot
ton. They give papers on their lutle
part of this cotton before it is raised
for a bare existence whilst they are a
raisin’ of it. Meby what they raised
last year was taken from them by
these mortgagemeut papers an’ they
had to stare over this spring in new
with nothin’ to buy with, an’ con
sequentially another set of mortgage-
ment papers is filled out; then comes
the rub. Bated bay at extortionment
prices is to buy to feed their poor
stock, manufac tobacker; ole West
ern fat back which you understand,
Flaw, these poor farmers pays the
freight on clean from Baltimore or
wherever they are killed; Hour, an’
bless your soul, Flaw, tney don’t
only have to pay .the freight on this
from Sweetwater, Tenn., an’ further
west but their merchant what has the
papers of compelment on their part
of the crop charges them what he is
wont to call ‘time prices’ for all of
this stull which, you understand, is
from 25 to 50 per cedt, more than the
regular cash sellin’ price, or in the
plain, straight ole English, he charges
them whatever his conscience will
allow, because they aint got the mon
ey an’ he has got the papers ”
“Hit’s a rascally shame” chimed in
the Parson, right in the middle of
that interestin’ ole soul’s conflab.
“Honestly, Flaw,” his good wife
continued, “the poor people are a
gittin’ poorer an’ the rich people are
a gittin’ richer. Hit’s like the fat
cows a raisin’ up, as it were, an’ de-
vourin, the lean ones ”
“There, you’re wrong again.” in
terrupted the Parson, “hit was the
lean ones devoured the fat ’ns ”
“But, Flaw,” the good woman
went on, “as I was a going’ on down
to tell you, if these poor, ignorant
farmers around here don’t do some
thin’ they won’t be no more’n beasts
of burden in a few years. Before I’d
let a man bumfuzzle me in such a
style ' qg roots an’ sell herbs an’
ba'ks . v livin’, an’ let the land
owners gv grass. I'd raise my own
cows, hogs, '^ckens, corn, (I do love
lye hominy, Norn dodgers, an’ so
forth) wheat, s, beans, onions—
onions costs from v to four dollars
a bushel, an’ the av rage farmer even
goes to town to buy onion sets for
seed instid of raisin’ them their
selves, an’ to pay time prices for
these things—no wonder the poor
farmer gits poorer, hits jist becase
they aint got no better sense. Flaw,
I tell you, before I’d stick my fist
on them there papers of free will rob
bery an’ make my mark I’d see their
oie land sink to the bottom an’ a blue
sea rise up in the place thereof, as it
were.
“VY’bat these farmers ort to do is
to git together an’ lay out plans for
their own betterment au, v above all,
stop raisin’ so much cotton an’ raise
somethin’ they can eat an’ wear .n’
feed to their stock.”
“Flaw, that woman are a tellin’of
you the God’s'truth,” bre ke in the
Parson, but his wife was in a big way
of talkin’ an’, of course, me an’ the
Parson could only set there an’ listen.
“Hit raley do look to me, Flaw,
like these here poor farmers could
make some kind of arrangements to
raise enough meat, bread, molasses,
tobacker, seeds an’ so on an’ so forth,
etc., in one year to do ’em two years
an’ let the drotted cotton go to grass,”
she went on down to say, whilst the
Parson said “Amen” an’ I shifted
positionments in my chair, “then
they could begin to see daylight. I
know it would take more work an’
less rabbit buntin’, more self sacri
ficin’ an’ less whiskey drit kin’, but
when they would git a good start
they would be doubly repaid for their
two years of hardships an’ the time
merchants an’ land owners wouldn’t
be so independent.”
“I tell vou, Flaw,” said the Par
son, * unless the farmers git togeth r,
organize, un’ sti.k, stick, stick like
forty, they aint goin’ to be worth a
continential hoorah an’, rraachin’an’
religion is a goin’ to sufft r on account j
oi it. Hit raley do s*^m to me as ef
every cent the avf rage farmer gits he
loses a day out of his farm to trot
right straight to town to spend it for
somethin’ that he could of done with- '
out nr raised himself—hit’s a beastly
shame, so it is—the ritch a gittin
richer an’ the poor a gittin’ poorer;
an’ hit’s not only that way with the
farmers but with every other trade.” i
I sure enjoyed my visit at the Par
sons an’ will alius have a hot feeiin’
iu my heart for them.
Flaw Picker.
STEVY STATEMENTS.
runners l imsiiatly lluiy I'rtit Not Killed
Local Ha]>|tenii)f>;K.
(Corresnondenc-e of The Ledger.)
Near Stew, April 3<).—The farm
ers of this section have been ur -
usually busy planting the past most
beautiful week for work, and we be
lieve more cotton seed were planted
during the week than any one week
we ever knew; not that we think
that more cotton is being planted < r
will be planted up here than was the
past year Much corn is also being
planted; the more the better. Wheat
is now doing fairly well and spring
oats, where any were sown, look very
well.
Some weeks ago we said in an ar
ticle to your excellent paper that the
fruit up here was nearly all killed, j
We are proud now to be able to recall
that statement as premature, as if 1
nothing more befalls it there will be j
an abundance of ail kinds of fruit in
this section the present year.
We are glad to notice that you are
giving the subj-ct of good roads spec
ial attention. We have long felt that
no general subject was of greater im
portance to Chen k-eans than this
one. We have believed a long time
that our local commissioners have
missed much good that could have
been gauied by failing to employ the
farmers in hauling rocks from farms
near by in the spring before lands are
plowed up Then no one obj-cts to
hauling surplus rocks from off his
farm and will even give away all the
rock usually required to repair bad
places anywhere found. This is not
the case when crops are planted and
growing.
One of our practical farmers up
here says for all farmers who have
not done so to burn off at once all
waste broom straw patches where this
growth is found. He says he tried it
the past year and mowed it,; his
horses and cattle ale it very readily
and seemed to eat it in preference to
other forage.
Mr. W. X Turner has gone west
again, to Texas, so we are informed.
Messrs. Irwin it Co., of Tennessee,
are again in this country stock trad
ing, and perhaps prospecting for other
business enterprises. These gentle
men seem to be very worthy young
men and have done good business, so
we are informed, among our people.
We notice the candidate column
continues to grow. We say, come on
gentleman, as many of you as feel
like it; but if you wish to talk with
us you will have to follow us after
the plow this season, for awhile at
least.
Messrs. Carroll and Byers, of your
city, visited the splendid mineral
spring of Capt. W. P. Love’s the 27th
inst. This spring is quite a social re
sort as well ns one for health from
the effects of the fine mineral proper
ties of the water.
Kev. W. H. Waters, of the Spartan
burg association, whose home is at
Woodruff, gave us a call sermon on the
the 27th inst He preached us a
very interesting and instructive les
son from the Ittth verse of 103rd
Psalms, “Loye of God for fallen
men” being his theme. Our people
were well pleased with him. We
hope to hear him again. L it i>.
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Consider the Time
and place and put on what is appropri
ate. We can supply you with neat,
well made, dres-y clothes. You will
be disappointed if you buy before you
see our line. *
Our $7 50 and $10.00 Suits
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Men’s Suits from $5.00 to $25.00
Young Men’s from 5.00 to 12.50
Boys’ from 2.00 to 6.00
500 pairs Knee Pants, the kind
that wear, 25, 50 and 75 cents.
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Is how the PEOPLES MARKET sells so much fresh meats
and Eish, Country Produce, etc. That is easily told. We sell
the best and sell it for less.
We have on hand at all times the best lot of fresh meats in the
city. * We make a speciality of Roe Shad and Fresh Fish of all
kinds. We receive three shipments of each, every week.
We are headquarters. Come right along and get your money’s
worth. Yours truly,
Tlie I^eoples jYXtii'Icet.
—Try a Roe Shad today, thev are extra line.
Like a I>tim uliiff Man.
“Five years ago a disease the doc
tors called dyspepsia took suijh hold
of me that I could scarcely go,”
writes Geo. 8. Marsh, well koowo at
torney of Nocona, Tex. “I took
quantities of pepsin and other medi
cines but nothing helped me. As a
drowning man grabs at a straw I
grabbed at Kodol. I felt an improve
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am sound and well.” Kodol is the
only preparation which exactly re
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and consequently is the only one
which digests any good food and
cures any form of stomach troubles.
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Modesty seldom resides in a breast
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We have a large and com-
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Onr Furniture
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Undertaking and Embalming by a Licensed Specialist.
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Foley’s Kidney Cure makes sound
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It strengthens the whole system.
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Young men think old men fool?,
and old men know young men to be
so.—Metcalf
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If you will make inquiry it will be
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Foley’s Kidney Cure will cure. It
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IF YOU WANT
Blood and Bone Fertilizers
Manufactured by Swift tfc Co., Atlanta, Ga. ; E. S.
Royster, Norfolk, Ya. ; W. C. McMurphy & Co., .
Charleston, S. C., call on me, I have them as cheap
as any guano sold in Gaffney with tin- same anal
ysis. I al<£> have the Highest Grado* Acid and
Kainit.
Buggies and Wagons of all kinds and, cheap for
cash or on time.
1 carry supplies for the fanner for cash, or on
time with good papers.
If you want gooes cheap go to my Goforth store
and buy Molasses from 25e to 50c per gallon, in 5,
10, 25 and 50 gallon packages. Sugar, Coffee and
anything usually found in a general store.
Dowlaw and Hampton Cotton Planters, Plows,
Plow Stocks, Dixie Plows, Hoes and anything else.
Go and see and vou will find it at Goforth as
cheap as at any store in Gaffney.
Yours truly,
J. I.
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