Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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4 Money Loaned^ L OANS on improved farms for a term of years at seven per cent. Interest. No commissions. For information apply to J. C. *6fferles. Attorney at Law. 11-22-lyr Money to Loan. We have money to loan In any amounts on city and county property and stocks and bonds. Interest 6 to 8 p»;r cent, according to amounts. Terms to suit borrower. Hall & Willis, Attys., Gaffney, S. C., SIDE LIGH lfc HISYORY. Money and Mill Stock. 40 shares of Limestone Mills stock at 102. subject to prior sale. : : : Loans on Real Estate. K-iti-tf J. C. OTTS, Attorney. Dr. C. T. LIPSCOMB, r> e i* t i e x is now locat<Ml In his handsome new suit of rooms in the Star Theatre building, Can be found in office six days in the week. J. C. OTTS, Attorney and Counselor. Office upstairs, between R. A. Jones and •Javenport. Office and Residence .Phone. Dr. D. P. THOMSON, Dentist. |3 r *OfHce over National Rank. William S. H all, Jk. James A. Willis. HALL & WILLIS, ATTORNEYS AT LAV,’, ST A it THEATRE BLLKI. o A. i- r i-'' rv: lc Y. o. Notary Public in’offlee. Prompt attention jfiven to all business. JR. J. F. GARRETT, Dentist, Gaffney, - - . S. C. Office over J. R. Tolleson’s new store In office from ist to 26tb of each month: ■5 SHINGLES, 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 Curlona Letter* by a Harvard Man Who Served Under AVaahlnatnn. Some curious side lights on history, as valuable in their way as the more seri ous studies, arc found in a little collec tion of letters from a Revolutionary soldier which arc preserved in the Har vard library. They were written tc relatives and friends in New Hamp shire by one William Weeks, a Har vard graduate, who was an officer in Washington’s army. Homesickness must have been sevor€ at times, though in one of his letters from Valley Forge this soldier seems to have had a hard struggle betweeu his natural pleasure at the honors which he was fortunate enough to be accorded and .his nostalgia. “This Day,’’ he writes, "I must be at Gen’l Sullivan’s to take Dinner with him, the other day I had as great an Honour coufcr’d upon me—I had the Honour to take a Glass of Wine with Gen’l Washington his Lady—But at the same time I should count as great an Honour to have the satisfaction of see ing, conversing & taking a Glass of Wine with my—Friends at Home.” There is a curious indication of the state of mind in the Continental army at times during the war in another letter, where Mr. Weeks says, “If tuy Wages were not higher than I expected when at Home. I would by no means tarry, but as they are rais’d, and for the Love I have for the Country, I can by no Means think of leaving the Army.” That the manner of obtaining a Her- yard degree has changed radically in the last hundred years appears in a paragraph written at Valley Forge in 177s. Weeks had taken his A. B. three years before that, but evidently was antieipating an A. M. “As the cam paign is coming on,” he wrote, “I have but little expectation of coming home for my degree.” But it appears that in consideration of the $10 which his fam ily forwarded to the college in response to this request the desired honor was conferred. THE FIRST AUTOMOBILE. it STAGE LIFE TEN YEARS. FOR SALE F Olt SALE Four hundred acres of trood famiiro: land at fT.r>o per hcp-. The tract, includes seventy-live acres of forest tiuilx-r and thirty-live acres bottom land on Paeolet river: good dwelling and outhouses; well ■watered. Apply to lb J). MATHIS. 7-2(i: 1 rno Ravenna, S. C. Alwa>» Wn.U Before They Pray. Moslems always bathe before they pray. They would not dare enter the house of prayer with unclean hands or feet or faces; hence when the muez zins call is heard from the minaret five times a day faithful Moslems go first to the fountains that are found outside of every mosque and bathe themselves. There are innumerable bathhouses also in which genuine Turkish baths and massage are given. At the same time their houses are positively filthy—too filthy, as a rule, for human beings to occupy—and the streets of Constantinople and every other Turkish town are indescribable in their nastiness. The clothing they wear is as dirty as their bodies are clean, and their food is often unfit for sanitary reasons.—Chicago Record-Her ald. Don’t let your charity cover too many sins. Self-trust is the essence of heroism. Hancock’s Liquid Sulphur will give you imrnediHte relief anti per manently cure all such diseases as Ec zema Pimples, Tetter. Herpe«, Ring worm, Dandruff. Diphtheria, Sore Throat, Cuts, Burns, Open Sores, and all blood and skin troubles Hundreds of cases of skin diseases have bten permanently cored by the use of Hancock’s Liquid Sulphur after all other remedies failed For sale by the Cherokee Drug Co. Was mi Ancient. Self Movtaff Slirlne of Bnccha*. Few, perhaps, are aware that the first automobile, considered in the sense of a vehicle containing within itself powers of locomotion, of which there is any authentic account was a self moving shrine of Bacchus. This was the invention of Heron of Alexandria, who describes it in his work on automatic mechanism. The shrine in question was mounted upon two supporting and two driving wheels. On the axle of the driving wheels was a drum, about which was wound a rope, which passed upward through the space on one side of the shrine over pulleys and was fastened to the ring of a ponderous lead weight, which rested upon a quantity of dry, fine sand. The escape of this sand through a small hole in the middle of the floor of the compartment containing It allowed the lead weight gradually to descend and by pulling upon the eord caused the shrine to move slowly forward in a straight line. Heron describes the method of ar ranging and proportioning the wheels in case it was desired that the shrine move in a circular path. He also shows how the shrine can be constructed to more in a straight line at right angles to each other. Officials of the patent office overlook ed the device of Heron when they granted patents on slot machines, not withstanding that previously Thomas Eubank, commissioner of patents in 1850, illustrated and described Heron’s invention. The mechanism of the lat ter is almost identical with that in the modern device and simply serves as an other proof of the saying, “There is nothing new under the sun.”—Wash ington Times. A F«kk>- Story. In London an American, boasting of the superiority of his country, was in terrupted by an Englishman, who said: “There's one thing in which this coun try surpasses America. You never saw on the other side of the Atlantic any fog that could match tha one which hangs over London tonight.” “Fog! Fog!” came the unhesitating reply of the irate American. "Why, tliis is nothing compared with some of the fogs we have around New York harbor. Sometimes the fog is so thick around there that it’s a common thing for the captains of the ferryboats to put on extra crews simply to pump the fog out of the cabins. Why, there's a corporation organizing in New Jersey right now to can American fog and supply the British people with ‘the real thing.’ Argonaut Hew Crop of Minor Actor* Harreated Kvcry Decauc. A new crop of stage people is har vested in the United States every ten years. Each decade marks the begin ning of a new epoch in theatrical his tory. This fact does not apply so aptly to stars and stage people who dominate in the profession, for the life of these, so far as the public is concerned, is usually somewhat longer. Bat with the rank and file—those who never rise higher than the level of minor roles— ten years is about the limit of endur ance. After having served before the public for that length of time without doing anything sufficiently meritorious or novel to attract unusual attention the actor or actress, as a rule, passes away in so far as the profession is concerned, and a new crop Is harvest ed among the many anxious recruits on the waiting list to fill the depleted ranks. Men who deal in the talents of stage people to the extent of reaping finan cial return from their labors are better qualified to “size up” the situation than others, and their experience teaches that few ordinary people of the theatrical profession remain longer than ten years in the business. They either achieve distinction—although this is the exception rather than the rule—or else drop into other lines after having been convinced by experience that the stage, so far as they are di rectly concerned, offers practically no opportunity for advancement. For this reason the rank and file of the profes sion is constantly changing, and the popular idea “once an actor always an actor” is easily disproved.—Chicago Tribune. A Dinenoni*. Ada--He hasn’t proposed yet. May—I wonder what is the trouble? Ada—Heart failure. I think.—Judge. Sprang; a Surprise. The man bad not settled with the grocer for nearly six months. The grocer, needing some money, presented bis bill. “Surely,” said the man. looking in surprise at the long list of items, “there must be some mistake in this.” “No mistake at all, sir,” answered the grocer belligerently. “I am pre- pared to make affidavit that every item is correct and that the footing is right to a cent. When an account runs as long as this one has run and the cus tomer hasn't kept track of it, he near ly always kicks.” “Oh, I’m not kicking,” said the man, proceeding to write a check for the amount. “What surprises me is that the bill is only about half as big as I expected.*'—Chicago Tribune A Typical South African Store. O. R. Larson, of Bay Villa. Sundays River, Cape Colony, conducts a store typical of South Africa, at which can be purchased anything from the pro verbial “needle to an anchor” This store is situated in a valley nine miles from the nearest railway station and about twenty-five miles from the near est town. Mr. Larson says : “I anu favored with the custom of farmers ! within a radius of thirty Oiiies. to ^ many of whom I have supplied Cham- berlaio’s remedies. All testify to their value in a household where a i doctor’s advice is almost out of the question. Within one mi e of my store the population is perhaps sixty. ; Of these, within the past twelve months, no less than fourteen have ; been absolutely cured by Chamber lain's Cough Remedy. This must j surely be a record.” For sale by j Cherokee Drug Co. EVERY MQTHER WANTS TO DO HER FULL DUTY TOWARDS HER BOYS. ONE DUTY SHE OWES IS TO : : : • SEE OUR Line of Fall Suits and Overcoats before buying. Wilkins-Bristow Clothing Co. THE CLOTHIERS. YOU HAVE THE CONFIDENCE, WE HAVE THE GOO 0. Let’s trade. There’s an abundance of excellence here for the one who wants rare things at rare prices. We watch the buying and selling end of the business, and the satisfac tion comes from taking advantage of what we have to sell. Goods Well Bought Are Hall Sold. We buy right because we know how; we sell for a low' margin of profit because we sell STRICTLY FOR CASH and have no bad debts to lose. Our lines are complete: Dry Goods, Clothing, Ladies’ and Gent’s Underwear, Ladies’ Ready-Made Skirts and Shirt Waists, Men’s Shirts and Neckwear, Hosiery, Suspenders, Overalls and Notions of all kinds. Buy of us once and you will come again. We have things not kept in any other store in Gaffney. The Red, White and Blue Store J. M. NELSON, Propr. Next to Carroll, Carpenter <fc Byers. When money ia tight it is up to a mao to keep sober. A roiuiiinnlcatlon. Mr. Editor—Allow' me to apeak a few words in favor of Chamberls'n’s Cough Remedy. I ouff<‘retl for three years with the bronchitis and could not sleep »t night. I tried sever:-il doctors and various pwtent medicines, but could get nothing to give me any relief until my wife got a bottle of this valuable medicine, which has completely relieved me. — W. 8. Brockman, Bagnell, Mo. This rem edy is for sale by Cherokee Drug Co. Here is a Bargain. Two excelent corner building lots within five minutes walk of Carpet Mill. These lots will be sold on the Easy Payment Plan of only $3 per month. Here is an opportuniti of a lifetime for working people. Apply to tCI>. M. I>eOiVTVlF>. EARLY SEASON GOODS AT LATE SEASON PRICES We are thoroughly satisfied that your every wish can be gratified in the different departments which comprise our immense stock; styles, make, finish, prices, all combine to make this an ideal store. We are showing the latest and best in everything that’s good in Men’s and Women’s wear, and, in fact, in almost everything that is needed in the household. But, while our goods are new, stylish and up with the times in every respect, the prices on them are very “old and common,’’ and not in it with the quality of the goods they represent. Dress Goods. Broad Cloths, Zebol i n e k , Brilliautines, Mohairs, Serges, Cashmeres, Skirtings, Repel- lants, Suitings etc. Waistings. A large and beautiful line of Waistings in Velvets, Silks, Satins, Flannels, and Silk and Wool mixtures. If you need a Silk or Satin dress, see us. Cotton Fabrics. Plaids, Checks, Chivattes, Percales, Calico and Cotton mixtures, Madras and Ging hams. Coats and Jackets. Ladies’, Misses’ and Chil dren’s Coats, Jackets and Wraps, all styles, all sizes and all prices. Coverings. Comforts, Counterpanes, Sboe Department. A Bostonian shoe for Men p . i . T n , o-,. and Boys, a Drew Selby shoe Walking Skirts. Ladies’ Wool Blankets, Lace Curtains, Silko- 3 ’ J , Knit underskirts, all kinds and prices. Di •ess Linings and Trim mings to supply the whole county. A full line of Ladies’ line Draperies and Curtain Goods. Clothing. Men’s, Boys’ and Children’s suits, Overcoats and Pants. Men’s and Boys’ Hats and Caps. See our stock of Watches, Clocks and Jewelry. for Ladies and Girls, a Star shoe for the Children. These are the best made, ami fit and We carry a medium priced i , e ii stock of Furniture that sells wear the best of all other . , r „ , , itself. Suits, bares, J&bles, makos. Rubber slices of all chairs and all that you need. kinds. Stoves, Heaters, Piping and Tinware, China, Glass and Bleaching, Drillings, Dinirus, j Crockery Ware, Wood and Wil- Bed Tickings and Sheetings, low ware, Lamps and Lanterns Men’s, Ladies’, Boys’ and Children’s Hose, Towels, Nap kins, Doilies, Pillow Cases, Sheets and Shams. Shirts, Collars, Cuffs, Ties, Cravats and Buttons. Ladies’ and Men’s Gloves of all kinds. Handker chiefs for everyone. Curtain Poles and Window Shades. Table Damask and Lound Cloth. Trunks, Grips, Telescopes, Satchels and Valises. Shelf Hardware. Lap Robes and Horse Covers, Umbrellas and Gum Coats. Ladies’, Misses’ and Children’s Underwear. Stationery and School Supplies. Men’s and Boys’ Underwear. We can’t tell all that we carry here, but will say that we are the people to buy all you eat from. We are the Big Grocery People and supply the wants of more folks than any other store in the up-country. Give us a call and let us show you through our different departments. A