Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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J. C. OTTS, Attornky and Counselor. Office upstairs, between U. A. Jones an<1 iport. Office and Residence .Phone. >r. C. T. LIPSCOMB, Dentist, Office over R. A. Tones ft Co ’s Store. , Clan be found at office six days In the weeU Dr. D. P. THOMSON, Dentist. ’Office over National Rank. J. E. WEBSTER, A.t> filcein Court House. (Probate'Judt?a s office Gaffney City, S. C. Practices in all the courts. Collec tions a specialty William S. Hall, Jr. James A. Willis. ; HALL & WILLIS, ATTORNEYS AT LAW. oa tc tc rsi h; y . o. Notary Public In office. Prompt attention ' given to ali business. Office over R. A. Jones ft Co.'s store. DR. J. F. GARRETT, Dentist, |$affney, - - - S. C. Office over J. R. Tolleson’s new store In office from 1st to 26th of each month: J JHINGLES, BRICK, SASH, DOORS, BLINDS and all kinds of Building Ma terial, Paints, Oils, Etc. for sale at a small per cent, above cost for cash. Estimates^made without charge. L. BAKER Do Your Duty. England expects every man to do his l<JPly,"snid Nelson at Trafalgar, and “duty ■ performed Is tli.) sublimest achievement/’ I said It. E. Leo. Then why not insure your property in the Cherokee Mutual Fire In- | surance Company and he happy, freeing yourself from anxiety as to the effect a loss | of your house would curtail on yourself and family also. This is the cheapest insurance known among men and your, money kept at home. Instead of swelling the Coffers of Northern j Co-operations to be used for enslaving the many for the benetit of the f>'W in the Gigan tic Trusts which seek to control the staple | necessities of life, or is loaned to th<' <les|>ots Of Europe to bind the shackles of slavery I tighter upon the limbs of their helpless sub jects. If you feel it your'duty to insure, tills ] company asks that you consider the claims j It has upon you. Rev. A. 1). Davidson, and Frank McClcny, Agents. llTor Building and Plastering Lime Goal, and Plaster Hair. Plaster Paris. Bosendale Cement, Portland Cement, Dynamite, Blasting Powder, Fuse and Dynamite Caps, call on imestooe Springs Lime Works CARROLL & CO., Lessees. ilephone 57. NE H. CARR, IT I STIC PHOTOG RA PH ER 812 Limestone Street. Gaffnky, S. C.'" r ’Tj “Artist Proofs" are deservedly J popular cause they stand without’a peer *5for auty and originality of deslgnl-and ilnlsh. WE MAKE THEM. Our complete line of photographic work Bbraces the best materials, tbo bes thods and that painstaking care so e«sen ll to good work. Our guarantee against ling goes with all photos bearing ^our oe. Jng us your kodak work, our prices are 'us the lowest. Remember us for'any Dtographic want. ’Phone 170. Bankrupt Sale. Notice Is hereby given that the stock of ebandlse formerly belonging • to W. Dodeuhoff. bankrupt. Gaffney, 8. C., be offered for sale until,July 2nd, 19<e. i stock amounts to (l.Jtl.JO; consisting of i lot of Jewelry, Clocks. Silverware, Sewing lines, Oils. Needles, Accounts, Glass, li. Tinware, Show Cases, Wall Cases, f#, Pictures. Frames, Toys, Xmas goods, Shove stock was carefully appraised i Invoices at less than cost by 30 per cent [ will be sold by the Inventory. trustee will receive sealed bids for the lie Stock, or for separate lots of same, in alternative until Aug 27th. 1902;reserv- I the right to reject any and all bids. wishing to inspect the stock, or Information concerning It, apply to i 0. Otis, Trustee, Gaffney, 8. 0. Aug-1».». vm Simpkins, Spinster By ZOE ANDERSON NORRIS Copyright, 1901, by Zoe Anderson Norris Y the window Miss Simpkins sat knitting. The young girl stood before her. “I know by the way you’re standing there, Elizabeth,” said she, “a-twisting your apron strings and a-smiling. just what you’ve come to tell me. You and Ned are engaged. You’re going to get married. “I knew it the minute I laid eyes on you. Well, sit down in that rocking chair over there. Draw it close and make yourself comfortable, and excuse me if I go right along with my work. I want to finish this heel. I can knit and talk at the same time. “Now, what 1 want to know is this: What makes you young girls come to me with your love secrets—me, an old maid, going or^'orty and alone in the world? What are you trying to do- make me wish I was young and pretty again, flirting and frisking and galli vanting around with the boys, getting engaged and buying wedding finery to sew on and lay away in presses to take peeps at when nobody’s n-looking? Is tlifit what you’re trying to do? lie- cause if it is you ain't succeeding, I can tell you that. I’m glad that I’m single. I'd rather be Sarali Simpkins, spinster, nearing forty or thereabout, independent and self supporting, look ing to nobody for nothing, than mar ried to the best man living. So there! You needn’t be snickering. It’s the truth.” The busy needles flashed. “Just take a look at all the women my age that married when I was a young girl.” she went on presently. “What’s happened to ’em? Everything under the sun that could happen short of lightning striking ’em dead. There’s Liza Banks, for instance. See how her husband up and died and left her with a big family to support and nothing to support ’em on. What with working day in and day nut she did manage to raise them children, and raise ’em well. Then sonic? of ’em died and the others married, and now there she is all by herself in two rooms taking in sewing for a living and louesomer than I am, if anything, after all her hard work and trouble. “Another is Sue Chambers. There never was a prettier young girl raised in these parts than Sue Chambers. She married one of the handsomest men here too. We all thought he was a catch, and some of us envied Sue when klie carried him off. We didn’t envy her long. He turned out to be a drunk ard, and now she's taking care of him and the children, doing any sort of work she can lay her hand to to keep ’em from starvation. “Who’d ever,have thought Sue’s hus band would have turned out to be a drunkard? Nobody, and that's what I'm trying to drill into you. You can't tell a single, solitary thing about a man from appearances. “Don’t set there a-laughing. I know what you're thinking—sour grapes—but it ain’t. Why, child, I could have had my pick of the best, but I wouldn't marry a mother’s son of ’em, because I could not make up my mind to take no risks. “Risks! It’s worse than shooting craps or buying tickets in a lottery or fishing in a fish pond at a church so ciable—this thing of marrying a man. You can’t never tell what you’re going to get—never! You can take my word for it. I ain’t been married, but I’ve sort of set off and looked on at people what has been, and that’s the safest r- T “YOU’RE GOING TO GET MA HEXED. ” way, if I know anything about it. And I ain’t been looking on all these years for nothing. I’ve learned a thing or two, and one of ’em is that when It comes to this here question of men most women gets rattle brained and daffy. If you could see the way Sue Chambers chirps around, happy ns a lark the minute that good for nothing husband of hers sobers up a bit, a-bon- eying of him and treating him Just like be was a baby, trying to get him to sign the pledge and quit for good. ready to work her finger ends off for him if he will only quit, stopping her work to smile at him, setting there in the chimney corner—lazy, trifling hulk —smokiug his pipe and holding his hands and taking it easy when lie ouirlit to be out in the fields plowing, you’d be like I am—you’d think the women was fools the way they hug their chains. “So, now, seeing all that, even if you do come here a-perking and a-smiling this spring morning, when the flowers is just beginning to bloom and the birds is mating and the bumblebees is buzzing, a-talking about that sweet heart of yours, you don’t make me wish, not for one single minute, that I had a sweetheart myself, not for one single minute. You don’t make me re gret the long years I’ve been an old maid, setting here by this window ot mine, watching the boys and girls pair olT, thinking, every pair of ’em, that they're going to be the happiest pair in all creation and ending by being the most miserable till some other couple outtops ’em in misery. Tuck in that lock of hair at the back of your neck. Maybe that was what made Ned fall in love with you—all them lovelocks dangling around that pretty white neck of yours. Tuck it in.” Elizabeth tucked the lovelock in, while Miss Simpkins, dropping her “HE’LL COME HOME STAGGERING.” knitting, looked out at the yellow sun shine slanting across the green g ass. “Women ain’t got no sense,” she re peated reflectively, “and it seems to me they ain’t never going to learn none. Rather than live by themselves—and what’s more independent than living by yourself, if it is kinder lonesome sometimes? Yes, it is kinder lonesome sometimes, but it’s a long sight better than taking such awful chances as some of ’em take. A woman won’t ex actly put her head in the fire and burn It off, but she’ll marry a man she hasn’t known more’n three weeks or a month. She’ll do that. And what can you know of a man in that short time? j.Iow do you know but what he’s a burglar or a cutthroat or a bigamist or a thief? You can’t. My land, but women is fools!” The needles flashed again. “Most men are full of faults, girl,” she recommenced by and by, “as a dog is of fleas, but I want to tell you, Eliza beth, that it ain't always the glaring faults that makes a woman most mis erable; it’s the little meannesses. It’s Jane Lawson I’ve got in mind now. I’d rather be dead and buried than married to that husband of hers. “He ain’t no burglar, he ain’t no com mon thief, and maybe he ain’t no big amist, but they’re generally pretty cute about keeping that dark; but he’s stin gy and mean. According to ray way of thinking, there ain’t nothing. warps ) a woman’s life so much as meanness in a man. because a woman’s such a queer sort of creature she gets* to be a looking glass, reflecting the man. Jane, living with him, has got so she’s saved and scrimped till she don’t know noth ing but saving and scrimping. For in stance, one morning last week 1 went to see her, and there she was at the back door bargaining with the vegeta ble man for corn nubbins Instead of full ears of corn. They comes cheaper,’ says she, turning to me, and she wa’n't ashamed either. That husband of hers had changed her nature so she couldn’t stoop to nothing too small to please him. “I wish you could have seen her when she was a girl. You’d never be lieve she could have shriveled ao. I’d hate to be in that woman’s shoes. I’d rather live by my lone self ail the rest of my natural life.” And she knitted. “That man,” she resumed after a time, “would hang on to the dollars till the eagles flew off. He’d give a plug ged nickel to a blind beggar if he gave any, which ain’t likely. Before I’d marry a man like that I’d be an old maid for the rest of my life, if it is lonesome, and it is lonesome.” The needles clW-^d hard. “If you could only catch the least bit of an idea of a man’s nature from the looks of him,” she complained, “it wouldn’t be so terribly risky. But you can’t Deceiving! They are deceiving as—yearling colts. Why, a man will tell you he loves you better than any body else in the world, then go and tell the same thing to some other wo man in less than half an hour. He’ll make love to some other woman, with a wife at home and a baby In the cra dle. He’ll come home staggering, hunt ing for the keyhole with both hands, and say he’a Just come from prayer meeting. He’ll go the Lord knows where and stay till the Lord knows when, then come back and tell you he’s been downtown to see a mad on par ticular business—business Hint had to lie attended to, that couldn’t wait. “There ain't no trusting of ’em. The truth ain’t in ’em, and that's the gos pel truth sure's I'm setting by this window knitting.” She raised her head and looked up at the girl. “But what’s the use preaching to you, Elizabeth?” she argued. “You are like all the rest. You've got your head set to marry, and marry you will. You've got to go through the mill if you’re ground to powder. But I will say, from all appearances, you’ve made a good choice, and I’d calculate you are likely to be happy if there was any dependence to be put in appearances, which there ain’t. If you will put that little yellow head of yours into the tire, all I’ve got to say is I hope it won’t be singed. I hope you’ll be hap py. girl. I’ve watched you grow up from a little tot in aprons, and I’d hate to see you unhappy. Maybe Ned’ll be good to you. Maybe he won’t let you work your little lingers off slaving for him. P-ut. then, if he does^|u'll be just as happy that way or think you arc and ’that amounts to pretty much the same thing. There are plenty of women like that. They keep their love so warm—and how they do it is more than I can see, with the cold blasts for ever blowing—that they make believe they are happy to the very last. “There was Kate Saunders. Money couldn’t have made me marry the man she married, lie was that overbearing and purse proud, but you should have seen her on her deathbed. “ ‘Don’t go away,’ she begged him. ‘I want to see you till I can't see nothing no more.’ ” Crooking her forefinger, she meas ured the heel of the stocking, which was now almost finished. “Women is fools,” she reiterated sen- tent ion sly. Elizabeth arose. “I must go,” said she. “Must you? Whore is that little sun- bonnet of yours, then?” She got up to look for it. “Here, let me tie it on for you. Are you sure you can’t stay awhile longer? Then come back real soon. Elizabeth, and tell me about your wedding finery. Are you going to stand under a wedding bell? I’d like to hear about that even if there ain’t no earth ly chance of my ever standing under one myself. But what am I talking about? I had my chances with the rest, and I wouldn’t take ’em. Look at all these years I’ve had to live alone because I wouldn’t take ’em.” And she sighed as she followed the girl to the door. “Iloro,” she said, “let mo brush that speck of dust off your skirt before you go into the street. That’s a pretty skirt of yours. Elizabeth. I like to sec young tilings like you wear bright col ors. They are so becoming. Now, for me, starting down hill and beginning to whiten for the grave, anything will do gray, drab, black, solemn, somber shades that suit my somber life, for ever setting here all by myself knit ting. Is that your wedding ring? Take it off and let me see it. It’s a beautiful ring. “The Bible says, ‘It is not meet for man to live alone.’ Then what about a woman? It’s a thousand times worse, because a woman, made out of a rib, is naturally sort of helpless and depend ent, and, there’s no use talking, they ain’t altogether happy, none of ’em, un- OF INTENSE INTEREST TO FARM “LET ME TIE IT ON FOB YOU.’’ less they’ve got some good for nothing man around to lean on or to pretend to lean on. They’re mighty shaky reeds, most of ’em, I can tell you. “Here’s your ring. Let me put it on with a wish. I mustn’t tell the wish or it won’t come true, but you know I ain’t wishing you nothing at all but happiness, Elizabeth. “And now run along, or what with thinking of your life, so bright and promising, and comparing it with mine, sotting cooped up in this cottage from morning till night, like some wilting old plant in the shadow, pretty soon I’ll be weeping and wailing. Go along now, and goodby.” She watched the girl through the gate and on out of sight; then, returning to her chair by the window, she took up her knitting. The needles once more flashed In the sunlight that by now bad strayed across the yard, coining dangling in at the window, seeming, like the brilliant promise of Elizabeth’s life, to mock her loneliness. A solitary tear fell upon the point ot one of the needles. Then methodically, almost musically, they clicked Into the silence of tbe room. How High Priced Beef and Cotton Seed Are Related. The Texas Cotton Seed Crushers’ Association at a late meeting held in Texas, passed a resolution confirming that the high price of beef was due to a shortage in seed products. The fol lowing taken from the Cotton and Farm Journal, throws some light upon this subject: “The rules adopted by the Texas Cotton Seed Crushers’ Association puts It in line with the other associations of a similar kind in the South. It is prob able that there will be no more invas ion of Mississippi and Alabama by Texas mills in search of seed. “The cattlemen who were expected here to expostulate over their alleged had treatment during the past year have not put in appearance as yet, and may not. The crushers do not seem concerned over the threat of some of the cattlemen to operate their own mills. The fact that the Swift Com pany has recently purchased half a dozen mills at different points was not commented on by any of the crush ers to whom it was mentioned, save to the effect that Swift would probably be able to use more feed than those mills would provide. “A resolution was adopted deprecat ing ‘any act of congress that may tend to reduce the price of cattle and hogs,’ and alleging that the present high price of meat Is due ‘to a shortage in seed products.’ ” This would seem to show there were two sides to this question of high beef and that in so far as Texas is concerned the price of beef is bound to vary with the price of cotton seed hulls and cot ton seed meal. In proportion as the grass area of Texas has diminished, the cattle-raisers have been compelled to buy feed stuffs, and the only avail able feed-stuffs in quantity is cotton seed hulls and cotton seed meal. Hulls have been selling within the last year or two in Texas as high as $14 a ton. This means that the meat supply in the future is largely dependent upon the cotton seed oil business, and that the people of the Southeastern States will probably go much more extensively into the business of raising cattle for beef purposes after they find out as much about the values of hulls and meal as the Texas cattle man has found out by the necessities of the case. It would seem as though the eastern farmer now has the advantage of the Texan in raising cattle for beef purposes and in handling cattle for dairy purposes. All the cotton seed products that are needed for cattle raising and compe tition with other markets can he had right at home through the Southern Cotton Oil Company of the Carolinas and Georgia, through any of its mills or its headquarters at Columbia, S. C., Charlotte, N. C., Goldsboro, N. C., At lanta, Ga., Augusta, Ga., and Savan nah, Ga. Kodol Dyspepsia Cure Digests what you eat. This proparation contains all of the digestants and digests all kinds of food. It gives instant relief 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. Is unequalled for the stomach. Child ren with weak stomachs thrive ou it. PANTS. -O- You always need more pants than coats and vests. Are you not short a pair now? We carry good ones, among them the Dutchess, 1 Oc for a button, $1.00 for a rip. They are better made, so wear you longer, and they cost no higher. Full line all grades of pants, from 50c to $6.00. Clean nice nobby goods that you will be pleased to wear. Complete line of Shirts, Collars, Hats and Neck wear. All kinds of Furnishings for Men and Boys. One cash price to all. -0- Wlins-Bristow Clothing Co. Gaffney, S. C., August 22nd, 1 902. FOR Cures all stomach troubles Un-tn-Datp Jnh Print- Preparcd only by E. 0. DzWrrr ft On., Chicago | ^ ^ J 00 rTini • ing, call at the LEDGER Office. Gaffney, S. C. 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