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» ANALYTICAL STUDY OF THE BOOK OF JOB I Is Beyond Doubt a Genuine Hebrew Original. HARD TO TRANSLATE. Many Word* and Thought* Occur lu It Not to be Found Fl*ewhere lu the Ilible and It Jiear* No Analogy to Any Other Hook of the Whole Ilible. The following meritorious essay was read before the Beaver Dam' Sunday School Union on June 29th: With the book of Job analytical criticism has only served to clear up the uncertainties which have hithtrto always hung about it. It is now con sidered to be beyond all doubt a gen uine Hebrew original, completed by Its writer almost in the form in which it now remains to us. Jr, is the most difficult of all the Hebrew composi tions—many words occuring in it and many thoughts not to be found else where in the Bible. How difficult our translators found it may be seen by the number of words which they were obliged to insert in italics and in doubtful renderings which they have suggested in the margin. There are many mythical and physical al lusions scattered over the poem which, in the sixteenth century, there were positively no means of un derstanding; and perhaps, too, there were mental tendencies in the trans lators themselves which prevented them from adequately apprehending even the drift and spirit of the com position. The form of the story was too stringent to allow such tendencies any latitude; but they appear from time to time sufficiently to produce serious confusion. With more re cent assistance, therefore, wt propose to say something of the nature of this extraordinary book—a book of wbieh^ is unequalled of its kind and which will one day, perhaps, when it is allowed to stand on its own merits, be seen towering up alone, far above all the poetry of the world. How it_found its way through the canon, smiting as it does through and through the most deeply seated Jewish prtjudiees, is the chief diffi culty abou it i!ow;to be explained otfly by a iraunionai accept among the sacred books dating b.o k from the old times of the naiio.. u . greatness when the minds of the people were hewn in a larger type than was to be found among tbe Pharisees of the great synagogue But its authorship, its date, and its history are alike a mystery to us; it existed at the time when the canon was composed, and this is all that we know beyond what we can gather out of the language and contents of the poem itself. The conjectures which have been formed upon this book are so various that they show of themselves on how slight a founda tion the best of them must rest. The language is no guide, for al though unquestionably of Hebrew origin the poem bears no analogy lu any of the other books in the bible, while of its external history nothing is known at all except that it was re ceived into the canon at the time of the great synagogue. Ewaid decides, with some confidence, that it belongs to the great prophetic period and that the writer was a contemporary of Jeremiah. Ewald is a high authority on these matters and this opinion is the one which we believe is now com monly received among biblical schol ars. In the absence of proof, how ever,(and the reasons which he brings forward are really no more than coo- jectures) these opposite considera tions may be of moment. It is only natural that at first thought we should ascribe the grandest poem in a literature to the time at which the poetry of the nation to which it be longs was at its best; but on reflec tion the time when the poetry of prophecy is the richest is not likely to be favorable to compositions of another kind. The prophets wrote in an era of decrepitude, dissolution, sin and shame, when the glory of Israel was failing round them into ruin and their mission, gkiwing as they were with the ancient spim, was to rebuke, to v-'aru, to threaten and to promise. Finding themselves too late to save, and only, like Cassandra, de spised and disregarded, their volets rise up singing the gran song of a dying people, now falling away in the wild wailiug of despondency over the shameful and desperate present, now swelling in triumphant hope that God will not leave them forever and in his own lime will take bis chosen to himself again. But such a period is an HI occasion for searching into the broad problems of human destiny; the present is all Important and all absorbing, and such a book as that of Job could have arisen only out of an isolation of mind and life and interest which we cannot conceive of as possible un der such conditions. The more it is studied the more the conclusion forces itself upon us that, let the writer have lived when he would, Id bis struggle with the cen tral falsehood of bis own peopfe’s creed, be must have divorced himself from them outwardly as well as in wardly; that he traveled away into the world, and lived long, perhaps all bis matured life,in exile. Everything about the book speaks of a person who had broken free from the narrow lit- tleness of '‘the peculiar people”. The language, ae we said, is full of strange words. The hero of th^oem is of a strange land and parentage—a Gentile,certainly not a Jew. The life the manners, the custom, are of all varieties and places : Egypt, with its river and its pyramids, is there; the description of mining points to Phoe nicia; the settled life in cities, the numad Arabs, the heat of the tropics and the ice of the north, all are for eign to Cannon, speaking of foreign things and foreign people. No men tion or hint of mention is there throughout the poem of Jewish tradi tion or Jewish certainties. We look to find the three friends vindicate themselves, as they so well might have done, by appeals to the flood, to the cities of the plain, to plagues of Egypt, or the thunders of Sinai. But of all this there is not a word; they are passed by as if they had no existence; and instead of them, when witnesses are required for power of God, we have strange un Hebrew stories of Eastern as tronomic mythology; the old wars of the giant, the imprisoned Orion, the wounded dragon, “the sweet influences of the seven stars,” and the glittering fragments of the sea-snake Rahab trailing across th<- northern sky. Again, God is not the God of Israel, but the Father of man kind; we hear nothing of a chosen people, nothing of a special revelation nothing of peculiar privileges; and in the court of heaven there is a Satan, people nothingof aspecial revelation, nothing of preculiar privileges, and in the court of heaven there is a satan, not the prince of this world and the enemy of God, but the angel of judgment, the accusing spirit whose mission was to walk to and fro over the earth,|and carry up to heaven an account of the sins of mankind We cannot believe that thoughts of this kind arose out of Jerusalem in the days of Joshua. The scenes, the names, and the incidents are all contrived as if to baffie curiosity, a» if in the very form of the poem, to teach us that it is no story of u sin gle thing which happened once, but that it belongs to humanity itself, and is the drama of the trial of man, with A.mighty God and the angels as the spectators of it. No readers cun have failed to have been struck with the simplicity of the opening. Still, calm, and most majestic, it tell us every thing which is necessary to be known in thejfewest possible words. The History of Job was probably a tradition in the East; his name, like that of Priam in Greece, the symbol of fallen greatness, and his misfor tunes me problem of philosophers. I . k-eping with the current belief iu is described as a tno M of excel lence, the most perfect and upright man on earth, and the same was the greatest man in all th» East. So for greatness and goodness hud gone hand in hand together, as the pop ular theory required. Ttie details of his character are brought out in the progress of the poem. He wa* “th- father of the oppressed and of those who had none to help them.” When he sat as a judge in market places, “righteousness clothed him” there, and “his justice was a robe and a diadem.” He ‘ broke the jaws of the wicked, and plucked the spoil out of his teeth;” and humble in the midst of his jaws, he “did not despise the cause of his man'servant, or his maid servant, when they contended with him.” knowing that “He who bad made them, had made him,” Above all, he was a friend of the poor; the blessing of him that was ready to perish came to him.” and he made me widows sing for joy. Betting these characteristics of his daily life by the side of his unaffected piety, as it is decribed in the first chapter, . we have a picture of the best mao who could then be conceived; not a hard ascetic, loving in haughty or cowardly isolation, but a warm figure of flesh and blood as man full of all human loveliness, and whom God himself hears theeraphbticjfestimony, that ‘there was none like him upon the earth, a perfect and upright mar,’ who feared God and eschewed evil.” A SOCIAL EVENT. A I.awii Tarty In Honor of Ml** Unlxy Hart. A social event that attracted more attention than anything of a like nature given in Gaffney recently was a lawn party tendered by Mr. and Mrs. Hiram I). Wheat, at their beau tiful home corner Granard and Bu ford streets Wednesday evening. The reception was given in honor of Miss {Daisy Hart, of Yorkville, who has been spending some time in Guffoey, and was on the eve of her departure for home. The pretty residence and lawn was tastefully and beautifully decorated with natural and artificial flowers. Japanese lanterns, aided by the moon, gave brilliance to theexterior whilethe house was illuminated with electricity. A string band discoused pretty music from the veranda and a booth erected in the vard especially for that purpose. The 11 wn wascover^d with chairs and tab)' s and refreshments were served. A couple of guessing contests added much to the interest and merriment fo the occasion. The evening was divided into two sections, from 8:30 to 10 for the married people, and 10 to 12 for those that would like to be married. Mr. and Mrs. Wheat were assisted in receiving by Miss Hart. The ladies were attired in costumes that were the latest creations of the man- tua-msker’s art, and each and every one was bewitcbingly lovely. The gen tlemen—well we won’t say anything about them. The entire evening was most de lightfully soeiit and each par<i.‘i;a <t retired with reluctance, but all happy to have been the guest of so charm ing and delightful host and hostess Those present were : Mr. and Mrs. A. N. Wood, Mr. and Mrs. W. 0. Carpenter, Mr and Mrs. J. O. Jefferies, Mr. and Mrs. Ed. H. DeCamp, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Elam. Mr. and Mrs. Robt. Gaffney,JMr. and Mrs. L. Baker, Mr. and Mrs 0 B. Kendrick, Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Ratliff, Mr and Mrs. Thomas Westhrope, Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Smith, Mr. and Mrs. Harry Gooding, Mr. and Mrs Charles Humphries, Mr and Mrs. Victor Gaffney, Mr. and Mrs. J D. Jones, Dr. and Mrs. J. F. Garrett, Dr. and Mrs. B. R. Brown, Dr. and Mrs. B. B Crawley, Mrs. H. Fay Gaffney, Mrs. Howard Kroh, Balti more. Md. Vrs. F.an’x Laney, Mui* roe, N. C., Mr anti Mrs. W. M. Web ster, Misses Daisy Hart, Yorkville , Eva Ross, Elizabeth Goodwin, Helen Browhaun, Addie McArthur, Mary McKnight, Annie Johnson, Agnes Littlejohn, lone Littlejohn, Inez Bar ratt, Ollie Scott, Lillian Wood, Chris tine Goudelock, Fannie Corry, Min nie McFarlan, Fannie Hopper, Messrs. J. H. Crews, Harry Byars, Fred Stacy, Claua Roes, Will John son, Frank Carson, Robt. Munro, Al- lie Culberson, Anthony Surratt. Claud McArthur, Joe McArthur, Ed. McArthur. Tank McArthur, Rochelle Rodgers, Tom Clarkson, Jones Darbj, June H. Carr, Cal Parish, Isbain Richardson O. P. Richardson. Dr. Chalie Jefferies, Dr. Charlie Lip- ocomb, Dr. Wofford Humphries, and Maynard Smyth. PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS. At Tanuituia, CoIoiiiMh, hy C'liauil>erlulii'* Colic, Cboleru and Ularrhoc-a Keinsdy. Dr. Chas. H. Utter, a prominent physician, of pHnnama, Colombia, i.i a recent letter states : “Lasr March I had as a patient a young lady six teen years of age, who had a very b*d attack of dysentery. Everything 1 on scribed for her proved .neffsc- tual and she was growing worse ever' hour. Her parents wi-ie sure -he would die. She had become so weai. that she could not turn over in uod What to do at this critical rnorner was a study f.-r me, but I tnougiu t f Chamberliiii ’* Colic, Cholera an i Diarrhoea Remedy and as a last re sort prescribed it. The most won derful resuh v as effected. Withi. eigiit hour* sbe was fueling muc i better; insioe >f toree days she wii- upon htK Let and at the end of oiw week was entirely weli.” For sale by Cherokee Drug Co. San Franc sco lias a new labor or ganization, the Newsboy’a Uoiot , with a membership of 850. applying for admission iio i the Labor Council. To ,11 y Frieiia*. It is with joy 1 reil \oi! w hat Kod. ) did for me I wa- troubnd wiiii my stomach for several months. Upon being adviaed to um Kodo! JI did so, and words ci , n' > 0’- t* tl the good It done me, A neighbor had dyspesbt so that tie had tried ijn.st t very thing. I told him to use Ko-ioh Words of gratitude have come to me from him because I recomuieudrci it.—Geo. W. Fry, Viola, Iowa He.titn and stren gth, of mind and bony, depend oo the stomach, and normal activity of the digestive organs. Kodo), the great reconstructive tonic, cures alt stom ach aod bowel troubles, indigestion, dyspepsia. Kodol digests any good food you eat. Take a dose after meals. Cherokee Drug Co. Je**e Uautt’* Caudldacy. The Yorkville Enquirer made the following reference to Mr. J. T. Gantt and his candidacy for secretary of state: “Mr. J. T. Gantt, who as assistant has virtually been secretary of stale during the past four years, seeks elec tion to this important office. As to the qualifications or ciuims of the other candidates The Enquirer knows little; but it is a fact that the people of the State are under many obligations to Mr. Gantt for much valuable information annul ibe office ihey have gotten t r iugh the oewspauers during the past four years. Mr. Gantt has done a great deal of work that he was not n quired to do. and mad° com mo i with the general oublic mu<*himpoi- taut information tliat was previou*!l >! neld principaily ny tne lawyers. Jf he ehouid tie elected and prove as efficient in 'be position of priucipri m be ha* oeeti in the position of (iret i assistai:!, lit' people will nave no j cause to C'lmolsin.” The Cduii>ui{{tit.'r*. I QuMe a niimoer of G.tffoey people i aticii'leii tin- county campaign nit • t- i ifig tti Blacksburg Tu' fid;:). Tl » m ! wh*. r o' isr^e an attendance a vv I aiiiici) "ted, but ir was a repre.-enta- I i• v» -r. .c • ur worth) brother < h i' kei an* nv-r he broad Kiel was ' ma il mor. i .o neciuse of the ; . re-,' ( j g ,0 i!\ lumber of ladies. I T u* same go' n 'r.ii r and feeling i '-hieh has c i.tiacterizrd all the cam- i ptugn pri vai t :. A me< ting was held 1 at Antio' n V V e.iM-edai , and yesterday they wound up on the east side of Broad river ut the thriving town of Kings Creek. Saturday the campaign •vil wind up with the meeting at G .ffney. to Supt. Mc4rtliiir'* Keport. Buffalo. Aug. 2C —In reply to Prof. McArthur’s report of the Buf falo school In Tuesday's Ledger I will kindly ask him to make it out as It appeared in the treasurer’s report as a part of it is calculated to deceive and mislead those who are not famil iar with Buffalo. I have a reply pre pared but shall withhold it to give Prof. McArthur a chance to correct his report. I also want the trustees deal me a blow if they can. I am anxious for a reply and It wounds my feelings to be treated with silent contempt. Bachelor. People You Know »nrl People You Don’t Know Frank Webber, s prominent citizen of Jon^sville, in Union county, wa in the city Wednesday visiting his daughter Mrs. Sam Thomas, on corner Frederick street and Mill Gap road. Mi** Ethel Sarratt is in Union vis iting her friend, Miss Louise Foster. Charlie Willard, of Spartanburg, was in the city Tuesday. Rev. J. B Wilson, of Anderson, was in the city yesterday. W. T. Scruggs, of Ezells, paid The Ledger an appreciated visit Wednes day. Mrs. A. R. N. Folger returned to the city Tuesday from a visit to rela tives at Pickens. Mr. and Mrs Z. A. Robertson and children left the city the first of the week for an extended visit to friends and relatives at Greers and Tigerville, in Greenville county. Vernon Baker is spending some time at Waynesville, North Carolina. Robt. L. Thrift, a monazite miner of Ezells, favored The Ledger with a visit Wednesday. Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Bonner, of Grassy Pond, were shopping in the city yesterday. W. L. J. McAbee, a good citizen and hard working farmer of Grindall, was a city visitor Wednesday. Mrs. M. L. Ross visited friends at Blacksburg Tuesday W. J). Byars, of Cowpens, spent some time in the city Wednesday on business and incidentally looked over The Ledger’s new home. W. T. Poag left yesterday for a social and business visit to his old home near Rock Hill. Mrs. W. F. McArthur and Mrs. Thad McArthur went to Piedmont Springs Tuesday. W. vV. Hopper, of Algood, was an appreciated Li-dger visitor Wednes day. A. B. Gaines left the city Wednes day to mak*- a visit to relatives and friends at Cross Keys, Union county. Zealy Corry, who has been spend ing some time in the mountains of North Carolina, came home yester day. Mr and Mrs. A. W. Watson, of Greenville, are in the city, the guests of Mrs. Watson’s uncle, Mr. J. V. Sarratt. Mrs. T. A. Burchfield, of Charles ton, is visiting her daughter, Mrs. D. H. Hall, on Jefferies street. Hod. and Mrs. J. S. Cantey, of f’larendon county, are in the city on a. visit to their son, Rev. S. O Can tey. on Cherokee avenue. Prof. A G. Davis will open a sing ing school at Sardis church next Monday morning. Prof. A G. Davis, of Mercer, paid us a visit in our new quarters yester day. J. C. Jefferies, a prominent young farmer and postmaster at Abingdon, was in the city yesterday. J. M. Cotie’ , of Spartanburg, was in the city the first of the week visiting his brother. Fred G. Hollis, a former Cherokee boy, but now a successful business mao of B» nnettsville, jn Marlborough county, has been spending some days in the city and county with relatives and friends G. W. Lemaster. a prominent citi zen and farmer of Wilkinsviue, was in the ciiy Wednesday on business. R H Taylor, a good citizen and farmer of IVnite plains, called to see The Ledger .yesterday. He reported fodder being pulled and cotton picket in his section, and that the cotton crop is medium and the corn good. S. L. i'aylor, of White Plains, paid The Ledger an appreciated visit yes terday. John M. Daniel, Jr, is in the city visiting relatives and friends. Robert Lipscomb, who has been spend ng some time in Campbell county, Tenn., is at home again. Johnson Viuesett, of Grassy Pond, made a business visit to the city \V eri ti*bd» y. E 0. Taj lor. E*q., who has been spending some days with relatives in Greenvdle county, returned to tbo citv ye-ierday. Mr. Spearman, of Goucher, was a Ledger vi»iior Wednesday. Prof. D.ivis Jeff ries, of Uoioo, was a welcome Ledger visitor yesterday 1) L Litu j nir, and his little sou Hal, w. r ■ L-hger visitors Tuesday. L. B Davis, of Srrvy, favored The Ledger w;th a call Wednesday’. Dr. Lei- Davis Lodge and Prof. H 1*. Griffith are attending the Spartan burg Association at Woodruff. Mr* pioonia Corry is in Spartan burg on a vi:it to her uncle Dr T. E. No't. John Crocker, of Union county, is in T»e city on a visit to his mother in the southern part of the city, J. S. Wood, of Asbury, came in to see The Ledger yesterday and re newed his subscription. T. F. Addis, of Jeter, a hard work ing farmer, favored The Ledger with a call Wednesday and renewed his subscription. H. F. Montgomery, of Jackson ville, Ala., is in the city visiting his daughter, Mrs. W. J. Wilkins, corner of Jefferies and Johnson .streets. E. P. Macomson, Esq., made a business trip to the city Tuesday. Sam Thomas has gone to Jones- ville as a deiagate to the Broad River Association which met at Gilead church yesterday. D. W. Cooper left yesterday morn ing for Jonesville, in Union county. Mr. Cooper goes as a deiagate from Providence Church to the Broad River Association which is in session at Gilead church. MRS. J. W. RHYNE DEAD. H!ieW»M» Heloved Citizen of Hlark*l>urK ami Succumbed to Heart UlHea*e. [Special to The Charlotte Observer.] Blacksburg, S. C., Aug. 17.—Mrs Martha Madora Rhyne died at her home at Blacksburg about 5 o’clock Sunday morning from heart disease, after an illness of several months. Mrs Rhyne was the second daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Mintz, and was horn near there, at the Broad river farm, April 17, 1855. She was mar ried, April 23, 1870, to Mr. J. W. Rhyne, and the mother of eight child ren, five oi whom died in childhood and infancy. The others, Miss Delia, Fred, Herbert and Willie, with the bereaved hutsband, mourn the loss of an excellent and devoted wife and mother. She is also survived by four brothers and two eisters—Mr. C. H. Mintz, of Alabama; J. S. Mintz, J. H. Mintz and Joseph Mintz, and Mrs. W. D and Mrs. D. D. Gaston, all of this community. From childhood Mrs. Rhyne pos sessed a patient, gentle, sweet dispo sition, and her many graces of person and manner, her kina consideration for the feelings and welfare of others, her right judgment in all things, en deared her to her own family and rel ativea and the high esteem of all with whom she came in contact. In early life she joined the Baptist church, but, after her marriage and »he organizaHon of the Presbyterian bnrfO, ‘i it t place, she became, v ito n< r nn-o md, a member of that d -n-tiiinati ,o. and remained a devoted a u coo*i3tti t adherent of its wor- Kiipa ..l loctrines. Her remains will os i’ terr-'d to morrow in the cemetery 4iiLat p.ute. SHORT LOCAL ITEMS. •• ‘e ye bier ay A live frog is said to have recently been taken from the stomach, where it bad lived five yeara, of a Hopeward Junction (N. Y.) woman. A f !<•« rai:, la afternoon. i N. H. Littlejohn ix 4 budding a cold storage house on his lot on Biroie | street near the railroad crossing. Mr. Belton Scruggs and Miss Pearl | Owens, were married near Ezells on , the Ifithinst. by W. T. Scruggs,notary public. P. C. Davis has given out a con tract to Baker A Cooper to build him a brick store house near his home on West Frederick street. The many friends of Prof. W. L. Johnson will be glad to learn that he : is rapidly recovering from the injuries ; he received by a fall recently. Cotton picking has been begun in many sections of the county. We learn that the bolls are small, olten ; appearing to be opening prematurely Before The Ledger goes to press again the primary election will be j On. Ln it be conducted so as to be a credit to Cherokee county and the ; State. There will be a special convocation of Greuard Lodge 18G A. F. A; A. M , at their halt louigbt at 8:30 o’clock. Work in the M. M degree Visiting ! brethren invited. I \\ bile the people were rushing to | fire yesterday a little son of Mr. Perry Holt was stepped on by ahorse which broke the bones of two of his toes. The little fellow was quicsly oared for is and now doing well. Prof. J. G. Clinkscales will deliver two lectures at Wilson's Chapel on next Wednesday, the 27th Inst., and win Ue.iver another in Limestone Street Methodist church at 8 p. in. on the evening of the same day. A mad dog invaded the inner court of one of the estate’s institutions in the city Wednesday and had a fit, which caused the force to take refuge cn the counters. Policeman Gaffney went to their rescue and killed the dog with a plow-beam. About 11 o’clock yesterday morn ing the fire alarm was souoded and the fire companies turned out prompt ly, but before they could reach the scene it was put out without muen damage being done It was in the kitchen of Mr®. White, in ward two. The Supply Mill Company will re b iiid their mill at once which was so teverely damaged hy the storm of t: e 14th lust. Messrs. Baker and Conner havejthe contract. In rebuild ing the p'art will be considerably en larged. When finished it will be 250 feet long and 50feet wide with a laiye engine room. Ur. Ed Keur, who spout the days of his youth at Limestone Springs but who now lives in Coliu county, 'J exas, isinthii county now paying a visit to his relntivea and many friends who are delighted to have him with them again. Mr. Keer soeaks in glowing terms of the “Lone Star State.” Farmers with early planted corn are pulling fodder now. The weather is fine lor curing it and frugal farm ers will give this important forage crop their strictest attention, for on many farms iu Cherokee it is the main dependence for long forage. Those who look carefully after it will have a good supply at home, while the more careless will buy western hay again. Klllott Advancing. Colombia, 8. C., Aug. 19 —‘‘El liott has advanced wonderfully, is rapidly making gains from other candidates, and is always placed with some other man as certain of the second race. The low country is solid for him. He leads in the mid* die counties and, if hia large gaina continue may get the largest vote in the Piedmont and Pee Dee sec- tlona.” MICA. JL * JHkakes short roads. a xle A XL ad light loads. QREASE ^i^Food for everything that runs on wheels. Sold Everywhere, lad* by STANDARD Oil* CO. One Minute Gough Cure For Coughs, Colds and Croup. JIM TILLMAN’S DEBTS. General Inter*-*! in a Flan Tliat Will In- iluoe Fayinent. [The Greenville Mountaineer.) When the Tillman DeCamp episode took piace at Gaffney several weeks ago there was cousiderabie inquiry around to find out Low Ed DeCamp managed to colieci hi* c;eht, and it set-ms thereby that renewed energy wus obtained by some of his creditors to get the money du^ tht-m oy the lieu tenant governor of IsoLitii Carolina. Hereby ha ri gs u tale w ieh can be ap plied locally in Greenville. In June. 1892 James II. Tillmnn, then a young men in Washington D. O., met with S Brook- Townes, a young law htudeotin Columbian Un'* versity and a son of Prof. A. 8. Townes of this city. Tillman asked young Townes for a Joan of ten dol lars, giving his word as a gentleman that he would return it the next day. He bus never returned ihe money, al though he has been repealed:)’ asked for’it. A few years ago a draft on him for :filU wa* sent to the Bank of Edgefield for collection, and the draft was returned with these cabalistic letters, “N. G.” Three weeks ago last Friday a letti r from Mr. 8. B Townes, now in Atlanta, Ga., asking Tillman for the payment of the loan, was sent to bis address oy reg istered mail at H int shore, 8. 0., and a registry r -ceipt, dated July 26, 1902, was returned io the sender, signed ‘‘James H. Tillman,” showing con clusively that the registered letter was delivered to him by the post master at Winneboro, unless some one else called for his mail and forged his name to the receipt; hut the signa ture appears to be genuine, and the receipt is now lying on our desk, whether or not .Mr. Townes has since been paid the money due him for ten years past. We are informed that he told Tillman when the money was loaned that ir would be needed the next day, and the promise was read ily giv' n to make the payment with out fail. AS OTHERS SEE US. Wonder if a peace jubilee could be pulled off at Gaffney without a scrap. —Fort Mill Times. The littls fistcuff that Latimer and Hemphill engaged in’ at Gaffney is not calculated to win any votes ior them —Edgefield Advertiser. “Training for the Senate” is the healing which The Detroit Journal puts over a recent dispatch from Gaff ney. 8. C.—thus showing a pretty good knowledge of late events.—Char lotte Observer. What’* in th“ name Gaffney? It is significant of ‘gaff” for game chick ens. And there is, or was, a paper publish-'* Ur re in the tnt‘'reet of the game chicken called ‘Grit and Steel.” So that there is altogether a fighta- cions element about the place that seems to be infectious— Newberry Observ-r. The Greenville Mountaineer says that Jim Tillman borrowed ijilO from an unsuspecting citizen of that town ten years ago and has never rep).id it or given any attention to rtquests to do so. The unsuspecting ciiiZ'm will accept our coLgratulations. He might have borrowed $15.—Spartan burg Journal. ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ There is nc mistaking tb? fact that Candidate Jim Tillman has been steadily losing votes In this county ever since the canvass ooened In the outset, owing to the larere num ber of Spanish-American veterans in this county, and especially among the cotton mills, he was looked upon as a possibility for the second place. Not so now. Heyward is clearly in the lead, and it is n p and tucK be tween Talbert and Ansel for second place.—Spartanburg Journal. The Newberry Herald notes that the atmosphere at Gaffney seems to breed beligerency. ‘‘There it was that Tillman and McLsurin shook fists in each other’s faces and resigned the highest office within the gift of their people. There It wag that Edi tor DeCamp called Jim Tillman a liar and offered to prove it over Tillman’s own signature. There it was within the past few daya that two candidates for the United States senate engaged in a fistcuff ” The herald awaits farther developments there with in terest.—Charleston New and Courier.