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I Best CORES WHERE AIL USE FAIISl Cough Hyrup. Taates Good. In time. Bold by druggist*. FIERCE, FEARFUL AND FURIOUS FLOOD Look for Ihe Parlor Market [continued from page one.] box. I have a lot of nice S«|UHjsho» a> 30c per g-itl- Ipn. Fresh Snap Beans ;»c per gallon Nice. | 0a ^ rp n j v fresh (’iibba^re lie per pound. Fine Western H were a ary gooaH Steak 15e perpound. Gold Band Ham. sliced The work of recovering the bales of 20e per pound. All kinds Canned Goods and | .. . uhonr intho Heavy Groceries. Fresh Flsli when obtaina-1 co 't otl that were noating about id the ble. t'uil line of Bicycles and Sundries. Phoned. W. J MANESS, Prop. BE IN THE SWIM Give me your clothes to clean, press or dye and you will always look n'ce an'l stylisii. Old suits made to look like new Experienced workmen and prompt ser vice rendered. W. H. ROBINSON, Tailor. .Over \V. U. Telegraph Office. William S. Hall. Jr. James A. Willis. HALL & WILLIS, ATTORNEYS AT LAW. STAR THEATRE BLDG. O A EC FC rsj fcC Y. ». c;. Notary Public in office. Prompt attention given to all business. eddies was begun as soon as the waters began to recede at about noon. FAITHFUL EMPLOYE’S DEATH. It was in this way that Quay Wor thy, a cotton helper, lost his life. In his anxiety to save soma of the prop erty he swam out in the -tream too far. He was caught in u whirlpool and drawn out in the stream. The body was caught and whirled around two or three times, after which it disappeared. THE HALF NOT TOLD This is briefly the recounting of the vitally important incidents, but it is not half of the story of the worst flood that the State has ever experienced and it will be days before the whole truth is knovn. At this late hour the : ture on ed, is a picture rare in the gamut of human misery. That the worst is over many of the villagersdecline to believe. The wreck and desolation they regard as simply a forerunner of something worse to come. Certainly thg out look is far from promising to the most optimistically inclined. It is roughly estimated that nearly two inches of rain has fallen here today and there is no cessation at this writ ing of the rainfall. On the oiher hand, since 9 (’clock the rain has come down with renewed vigor and the crowds who have come for miles around are huddled together in the four places of shelter on this side of the river, with no comfort but hope. Your correspondent went over the scene of destruction just before night fall. It would take a more graphic pen than his to begin to paint it. Around the roadway that overlooks the town and near the one and two mills is a stone walkway. It is prob ably 100 feet above the river and looks out over the entire devasted waste except the mill No. 3. A birdseye view of this once peace ful, thriving valley from this view point must have been a beautiful pic- Friday. Yesterday, as the clouds wafted away for a moment and the lights and shadows fell on the carmine stream with its side picture of deso lation, it was incomparable. The new mill from the right of this out look had net a fragment of even masonry to show where it had stood. _ Down where the great warehouse, the Dr. D. P. THOMSON j tain it rises out of the angry mass of market, the postoffice, the black- waters the very incarnation of their smith shop and the barber parlor had J. EMILE HARLEY, Attorney-at-Law, Gaffney, - - S. C. Notary public. All business receives prompt and careful attention. MONEY TO LOAN ON.KEAL ESTATE river, although it has fallen fully 25 feet, is still a spectacle terrific and threatening. In front of the place where the mill building stood is a great boulder about midway the stream. This great rock is the parting of the ways and as the stream strikes it, it bursts into a mountain of spray 50 feet high. Like some great foun Dentist. "Office over National iBank. majesty and force. Even at this late hour the whole scene is fraught with such fearful possibilities that the mill operatives are awed and almost panic-stricken. When the bridge washed away it left many of them separated from their families and homes and they are wandering about on the great storm sjeue that still leaves the picture of misery and des pair. ALMOST MOBBED TRAINS. '— ——————— On the train on which your corres- Dr. C. T. LIPSCOMB, pendent came up hundreds of opera- * tives at Union simply mobbed the IJ 13 T 1 S X train, and when as many of them as Office ill Star Theatre Building. could e ot aboard they precipitated J. C. OTTS, Attorney and Counselor. Office upstairs, between R. A. Jones ami Davenport Office and Residence .Phone. Phone No. 20. J. F. GARRETT, Dentist. Office Over IThe Battery. ’Phone 32. several fights in which knives were freely used and the train crew threat ened An effort was made to break into the private car of Assistant Gen eral Manager Thomas, of the Southern railway. Many of these operatives are now on the scene here distributing flasks of whiskey. It will be remarkable if there is not trouble as a result. Ninety Per Cent stood, was a flat bottom of sand and debris. The place where the old church and schoolhouse stood out in a picturesque environment, was an idle expanse of sand and an im- promtu island on which the waters had thrown two or three wayward trees and l)gs. Around the bend under the mountainous banking of the hills the only thing that saved the homes and hotel which are set high, was banked up bales of cotton, timbers from the Clifton mills and the little farm houses that are dotted along the river banks. The ends of the bridge stand out as clean as if they^were.cut off with a knife. The red waters rushed on ward in waves that would have done no small credit to an ocean On either side of the banks were thousands of spectators in groups and throngs, their countenan ces vividly disclosing their innate horror. Many trees had been wrested from the sides of the hills and the holes polka dotted the banks with spectacular gaps. Many bolts of the output of the mills were saved. of all chronic headaches are due to eye strain. Go to Dr. Griffith at the Chero kee Drug Co.’s and have the defect in vision corrected, and thus be QUICKLY AND PERMANENTLY CURED. Glasses Fitted WithQScientific Accu racy aud all the diseases of the Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat treated according to the latest and most approved methods. ENOUGH TO PROSTRATE him. The negro hands spread some of Victor Montgomery, the president them out across the hillsides making of the mills, was almost prostrated a s>hroud-like winding on the green of when he was informed of the disaster the hills. The valley as it stood out in Spartanburg this morning. Coming ' n the meagre light, with it red river, so soon after the Gainesville disaster the foliage topped banks and the it naturally strongly affected him, white crepe as it were, may prompt a but he was about the scene of the recall in the memory of those that the lighting was almost continuous and lit up the heavens so brightly that observers could see the rain fall as if the iupporting structures had been removed from some aerial lake. It seemed to be heaviest about 3 o’clock a. m., when the ciiy electric plant was put out of business, which left us in daraness Shortly after this the rain ceased to a degree, but by 5 o’clock Saturday morning the clouds had thickened again, and full of electric grandeur they once more emptied themselves upon us and added their stores to that which had already fallen. The water gathered in the smaller streams and rushed on to Broad river in volumes without many precedents, which spread over the lowluncs from hill to bill, and in their mad rush destroyed the young crops on ail the lowland fields and rendered many of them useless for farm purposes for years to come. By noon Saturday Broad river had risen to an altitude that was greater than any in the memory of the oldest citizens since the freshet of August, 1852, and was rushing on to the sea in volumes and velocity that bade defi ance to all obstructions and threat ened everything in its course with destruction. Much damage has been done the farms. Lands are badly washed and the standing grain ready for the scythe has been materially hurt. There has been much damage done to the roads and bridges in the county, bu; up to the time of writing we have heard of the total destruct ion of only one small bridge, near Love Springs. Many of the others have partial injurit'S, which are con fined mostly to the approaches. The new iron bridge across Broad river had the water up on the floor but re mained in place and is as good as before the freshet, except the ap proaches on the east side, which can be repaired in a few hours. The bridges across Thickety as far as heard from are ail safe, but the bridges at Grindal Shqals on Pacolet went bodily before the rush of the first great torrent that struck it, and we learn that the storehouse stand ing on the hill on the Union side nf the river, and a portion of Mr. W. F Eieon’s residence, which is just across the road from the store, were washed away. The bridge across Pacolet at bkull Shoals soon collapsed and went off on the flood. From every point on Pacolet that MEN’S FIVE SENSES. CURIOUS FACTS ABOUT THEM NOT GENERALLY KNOWN. The Nerven of Timte Are P«ralr***l by Kit her Very Hwt or Very Cold Liiioidu—The Eur la 11 Wonderful Orirun—The Eyee Eaally Deceived. For some unknown reason (Efferent parts of the tongue are assigned for the perception of different tastes. With the tip we taste sweet substances and salts, with the back we taste bitter things and with the sides we taste acids. The middle part of the tongue’s surface has scarcely any sense of taste at all. The long named substance parabrom- benzoic sulphinide produces a most re markable effect, for It gives a sense of sweetness to the point of the tongue and of bitterness to the back. Pure water tastes sweet after sulphate of magnesia. We can only taste things in solu tion; hence if the tongue were perfect ly dry it would not be affected by the strongest flavored substance in a dry state. The taste nerves are paralyzed by very hot or very cold liquids. After drinking very hot or ice cold water we could not taste even such a sub stance as quinine. This fact supplies a useful hint for consumers of ill fla vored medicines. Smell, though the least useful, is the most delicate of all our senses. We can smell the three-hundred-miUionth part of a grain of musk. No chemical analysis can detect such minute quan tities. The most powerful microscope would not render a particle ten thou sand times as large visible. We could not taste It were it many thousand times as large. While we taste liquids, we can smell only gases. Fill your nostrils with eau de cologne, and you will experience no odor whatever. Fine as our sense of smell is, it lias deteriorated immensely since the time when our forefathers were wild men. The Galmucks can smell an encampment twenty miles away; the Peruvians can distinguish all the South American races by their odor. But smell is a sense highly suscep tible of cultivation even by the modern white man. Dealers in tea, spices, per fumes and drugs, in consequence of their training, can distinguish the faintest differences in odors. . , , The organ of hearing is one of the we have heard from farmers caught i . , , .. i i , . . ^ , , . ; most marvelous pieces of mechanism LITTLETON COLLEGE. disaster here early today, trying to get some order out of the frightful chaos. It has been a difficult task with the operatives however. The fact of being thrown out of work in definitely has made many of them desperate, and unless succor is sent them their sufferings will be great. THE CORPORATIONS. witnessed it. ABSOLUTE DEMORALIZATION. up many bales of cotton and cloth and much furniture from the houses, j and other wreckage that went from Clifton and Pacolet mills, and have placed them in safe places so that they may, if possible, be restored to the proper owners. Two bents of the S. C. A’ G. railroad bridge at Cherokee ford on Broad river were washed out. Aside from this we have not heard of any mate rial damage to the railroads in this county, but the damage to the South- Spartanburg and pieces iu the body. In animals the external ear acts as a trumpet to eolleet the sound waves; in man it is little more than an ornament, but the internal ear is alike in both. So wonderful is its construction that we can distinguish sounds varying from forty to 4,000 vi brations per second. This feat is per formed by a portion of the ear called the organ of Corti. What a wonderful organ that is may be understood from the fact that it consists of 5,000 pieces of apparatus, each piece being made The absolute demornli/Hiinn nf tho ern Wpartan ^“ r S and ^ r,jeDvi l le , up of two rods, one inner hair cell aud nennlPof^h^LiL K ^ counties, where the storm seemed to f( , llr mitpr , inir f . P iis-th n t is . as.ooo people of the valley may be gathered be the severest, has been consider- from the fact|that not a supper bell able. Many bridges are gone. The was ringing in the valley tonight. The trestle at Lawson's fork, in Spartan- tnore intelligent persons have done all burg county, was washed away and , they could to reassure and quiet the do trains have come from that way many that are violently alarmed. It since Thursday night, and all trains The Montgomery mills were among * 8 futile work and dj one knows what from Charlotte were annulled Satur Building and Plastering Llaie, Goal, and Plaster Hair. Plaster Pans Shingles. Portland Oeri>ent, Dynamite, Blasting Powder, Ease and Dynamite Caps, call on Limestone Springs Lime Worn CARROLL & CO., Lessees. telephone A Season of Danger You’re wise if you have an Insurance Policy safe and sure. If you have not, you run a good deal of risk. The ex cessive heat and the dangers of travel at this season all make life A Utile More Uncertain Get your Insurance arranged by the Aetna Life Insurance Company, then your work or your vacation will be more care-free. Jones J. Darby, Agt. GAFFNEY. S. C. the most prosperous iu the country, the stock being quoted at 190. It has been the purpose of the management to keep the mills going at full force all summer, us much to keep the operatives’ organization intact as for any other reason, and the calamity coming as it has will perforce of ne cessity work endless injury to all concerned, and the fear in the hearts of the village people;here is still great, not only for the trouble by the loss of wages that must be theirs, but be cause of the ominous outlook here WEATHER STILL THREATENING. All day tha weather has been of a character well calculated to excite horror in any heart. Black, murky clouds have swirled over the town and four or five times there have been downpours. A PEN PICTURE. Since 8 o’clock the rain has come down in torrents and the roar of the river can still be heard in the hotel far above the town This, the cen tral theatre of the storm’s worst work to property, is itself a rugged spot. The cottages of the jperatives are perched upon the bills above the village where they felt the full force of the storm. Many of the operatives are separated from their families across the river and the storm and drakness, blacker than the background of a Dore painting, makes it impossible to signal from shore to shore. The whole scene would turn a heart of adamant. The suffering of the operatives and their dire anxiety for those from whom they are separat- OUR HOUSE IS WGiMy Adding the Latest Things IN OXFORDS * AND * SHOES l^or Men, JUadiew and Children See Us Before You Buy Tbi R. S. Lipscomb Shoe Co. Next door to Cherokee Drug Co. the morrow will bring forth. At this hour, 1:30 o’clock Sunday, the river is not going down further. It fell 20 or more feet by noon, but since that if anything there has been a slight rise at this point. MAY PASS COLUMBIA. Hundreds of bales of cotton are go ing down the stream and a patrol has been established to look out for the cotton as it floats down. The authorities at Columbia have been wired to stop the goods there if possible. The remnants of a number of small houses are floating down the river, and it is thought here there that will be an additional death list tomorrow Communication with the farm houses along the river has been abso lutely cut off. There is a foot path from here to Clifton, but it is, of course, impassi ble now. Several houses line the eight miles of banks from here to that point,and it is hardly probable that all of the inhabitants got off safely, as the rush of waters was so early that many of the women and children were not out of bed. EARLY THIS MORNING. At 1 o’clock many spectators still watch the rushing waters. The moon has broken through the banks of black clouds and the Xiagara-like stream shimmers ghastly ia its fitful light. The miles of house timber, wreckage of every possible descrip tion and numberless bales of cotton might a tale of additional horror un fold if they could. LOCKHART ALL RIGHT. A telegram to Dr. Park Thompson from Lockhart late yesterday says: “No damage worth mentioning. Mill ready to run.” THE MARY LOUISE GONE. The iuformatioo obtainable here is to the effect that the Mary Louise Mill, a few miles out from Spartan- burg, owned by Mr. B. E. Wilkins, is also a total wreck, there being noth ing left but the back wall. This loss falls entirely on Mr. Wilkins and la a heavy one. day except wor<ing trains and the passenger train which arrives here it 2:20 p. in. They go as far as Law son’s fork, near Spartanburg, where the bridge wa« wash a d out. The railroad people are working day and night and trains may get through soon, but we have no assur ance of any at any specified time. Georgia Woman Doctor of Laws. WashinRton, June 8.—The feature of the graduating exercises of the law partment, of the Columbian university last night was the conferring of the de gree of doctor of civil law on Mrs. Emma Rea Bailey, of Georgia, tha first woman to receive this degree from the university. The determination to confer the degree on Mrs. Bailey aroused such opposition among tbs members of the class tha/t the majority at one time decided not to accept their degrees. The only one, however, who protested to the end was Paskell B. Talley, of Tennessee, the president of the class, who remained away, and thus failed to receive a degree, al though he qualified for it. IN CHEROKEE. Heavy Rains and Damage to Karma la the County Friday night the immenfe rain and electric storm that spread over and vented Its fury on the upper tier of counties of South Carolina was with us in Cherokee alike with the others. The thunder rolled Id deafening fury, Association of Creditmen. New York, June 3.—(Secretary Pren- dergast has completed the program for the eigth annual convention of the National Association of Creditmen, which will be held at St. Louis June 9, 10 and 11. The convention prom ises to be one of the most Interesting In the history of the orglnazation. Many topics of Importance to merchants gen erally will be discussed a*d acted up on, including efforts to secure legis lation to regulate the sales of stocks of goods in bulk, exemption laws, con- ■nlar reform, Are insurance, fraudu lent failure* and other questions. Explosion Caused Panic. Pittsburg, Pa., June 3.—An explosion of a large quantity of iodyne in the laboratory of the wholesale <drug house of W. J. Gilmore ft Co., on Seventh avenue today caused much excitement and the burning of seven persona. One young woman, Minnie Prim, aged 20, was perhaps fatally hurt by jumping from a third story window. G. Hutchins, the chemist, was dangerous’ ly burned and may die. Oh, Yea! You wish you bad ordered Bra ford’* “Clifton” flour for to-day you didn't. It isn’t our fault ; we bad plenty of it ready to driver at your order. Dou’t get caugUe napping next time. 7 W. J. Wilk&s <fc Co. four outer hair cells—that Is, 35,000 separate parts. In some mysterious manner the rods, •with other things, are tuned to different notes, and when they vibrate they cause the hairs to trans mit an impulse to the nerve of hearing. To be musical, therefore, is to have a good organ of Corti. Why is it that scratching a piece of glass with metal causes such an un pleasant sound? Because it is what is called the fundamental tone of the ear, which is very high. What the funda mental tone exactly is would take too much space to explain, but if you blow across the mouth of a bottle, a hollow globe, etc., you get its fundamental tone. The ear is a deceptive organ, and It is often a matter of guesswork to tell whence a sound comes. Indeed, if you place frhe open hands in front of your ears and curve them backward sounds produced in front will appear to come from behind. Human beings and monkeys see most things with both eyes. Our whole field of vision extends over 180 degrees or half a circle. The middle half of this we see with both eyes together, but the quarter at each side is seen only with one eye. All other animals sec most things with one eye only. Scarcely ever can they fix both eyes on anything at the same time. But there are considerable variations. A bulldog, for instance, somewhat closely approaches the con dition of a monkey. The larger the pu pil the greater the quantity of light which enters the eye. Large pupiled people, therefore, see the world in a brighter and more cheerful state than those with small pupils. They can see things better in the dusk or at night As every one knows from the optical illusion pictures, the eyes are easily deceived. A white square on a black ground appears larger than a black square of the satne size on a white ground. Red near green looks redder; blue near yello>v looks bluer; white near black look* whiter. Touch really Includes several senses. Thus there are spots on the skin which feel heat only, spots which feel only cold, spots which feel only pain, spots which feel only pressure and spots which feel tickling. These spots are supplied with nerves capable of doing only one particular duty. The sensa tions of the skin are grouped by physi ologists into three kinds—touch, pain and temperature. The skin which cov- era/a scar has only one kind of sensa tion. It can feel neither pressure (touch proper) nor temperature, but perceives pain very acutely. The tongue is the most sensitive of all parts to touch, the forehead and elbow to beat or cold. We only dream sights and sounds. We never dream tastes or smells. If we dream of a flower garden, we see the flowers, but do not smell them. If we dream of a dinner, we see the dish es, but do not taste them. Com in? nee men t the (ireHteitt Kvent In the School’H lilHtory. • Correspondence of The Ledger.) Littleton, X. C., May 30:—The Commencement at Littleton Female Jollege was by very much the most larg ly attended and by common con sent perhaps the greatest occasion ever witnessed at this famous school, which has won renown that has brought patronage from as far North as New Jersey and as far South as Florida. The presence alone of Bishop A. Coke Smith and Governor Aycock would make any commencement a great occasion. Both these men were at their best. It is not every n. p who can preach a sermon that will live a quarter of a century, but we think Bishop Smith did this last Wed nesday morning in the Littleton Col lege chapel. People came expecting much, but many said the half had not been told. There are few men living who can preach such a sermon as this was—so full of tenderness, pathos and power—and we do cot be lieve any man can do it often. The reception given Governor Ay- cock was something wonderful, and we think a surprise to the Governor himself. He came into the chapel about twenty or thirty minutes after the exercises had begun. When be made his appearance, through a side entrance, on the rostrum, just as one of the graduates had finished reading her essay, the whole audience sprang to its feet as if by magic and the scene which followed was an inspira tion; for several minutes the people, especially the young people, of whom there seemed to be an almost endless sea of laces, stood and waved their handkerchiefs and cheered. • This scene was repeated with almost equal enthusiasm an hour or more later when the Governor began to speak. Something had certainly filled the minds of these people with almost boundless enthusiasm. President Rhodes, who is a Wayne county man and an ardent admirer of Governor Aycock, introduced him in a very happy speech, “not as the great man of the nation, a peerless orator and a much-talked-of candidate for the U. S. senate and vice-presi dent,’’but as “Governor C. B. Aycock, of Wayne county.” The climax of this ‘ inverted pyramid,” as it was happily ce'led by one gentleman on the rostrum, was anticipated by the audience, and before the words “Wayne county” were reached the clear, strong voice of the speaker was completely drowned, so that while be raised it to the highest on the last two words quoted above, we doubt whether they were heard by more than half the audience. We do not remember when we have ever wit nessed such a scene, amid which the Governor arose to his feet, nor do we remember when we have ever heard a speaker utter words of soberness and truth with such ease, grace and power. For perhaps an hour and a half the people listened seriously or laughed or cheered under the touch of the magic wand of this peerless orator. We had intended to write at length regarding the splendid essays of the young lady graduates and other exer cises, but space will not permit. There was but one voice among the people—“This has truly been a great commencement.” The success of this school has been little less than miraculous, and the year now closing with a matriculation of nearly 200 pupils, has been in every way the most successful in its history. Will Levy Commutation Tax. Macon, Ga., June 3.—In order to lighten the tax burden of property holders the county commissioners met and decided to levy a commutation road tax oq all persons In Bibb county of road working age. This will apply to all men between the ages of 18 and 45 and will amount to about $2.50 or $3 per annum. Wreck on Tennessee Central. Knoxville, Tenn., June 3.—The Ten nessee Central passenger train due to arrive In Harrlman from Nashville this morning was wrecked between Harrison and Oossville early this morninr. The train jumped the track. It is reported here that the engineer and several passengers were seridus- ly if not fatally injured. ‘ Funds For Flood Sufferer*. Philadelphia, Pa„ June 3.—A meet ing of the permanent relief committee of Philadelphia was held in Mayor Weaver’s office today and at its con clusion a telegram was sent to Mayor Burgenth&l, of Topeka, Kans., author ising him to draw on Drexel ft Co., of this city, to the amount of $5,000. ANIMAL ODDITIES. really Birds never eat fireflies and *eem to shun their vicinity. North American reindeer usually *e- lect an old doe for their leader. The temperature of a swallow’s body Is extraordinarily high, no less than 112 degrees F, Cats and beasts of prey reflect fifty times as much light from their eyes as human beings. The average lake trout lays 6,000 eggs each season, and the whitefish a greater number. Th( female English viper does not lay eggs. She hatches them internally and brings forth her young alive. Parrots are usually vegetarians, though the Kea parrots of New Zea land have developed a fondness for sheep. Garfish, sunflsb, basking sharks and dolphins all have the habit of swim ming with their eyes above the surface of the water.