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GAFFNEY. S. C., TUESDAY, JUNE 83, 1903.
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FLAW PICKER IN
THE GATE CITY.
He Writes of the Sights He
Sees There
IN PERSONAL LETTERS.
Flaw Has Gone to a HoHpital for Treatment
but the Spirit of Humor Is Still In Him —
Personal Letters from Him Reproduced
Because of their Originality.
The only, original, inimitable
Flaw Picker is laid up|for repairs. He
has been ailin’ for some little time,
and last Wednesday night he left for
Atlanta to enter a hospital for better
or wor-ie. He still flourishes, though,
and, like Mark Tapley, continues to
be “jolly” in spite of ill health and
the reverses of fortune.
Several letters have been received
from him since his arrival in Atlanta,
and they are so original that we
have decided to reproduce them for
the benefit of many of our readers
who admire Flaw and his writings.
We give them in the order in which
they were received:
Atlanta, Ga.,
Thursday, June 18, 1908.
Dear Ea.:—I’m here 0 K. but my
neck’s broke a-ready, lookin’ to the
tops of these here dog gone high
houses, an’ .cs not 9 o’clock yet—got
in at 0:20. Am now waitin’ in front
of T. U. Hall until the Prest. comes.
Will see what kind of advice he has
for me and write you again this eve.
or tomorrow. Flaw.
Atlanta, Ga., Friday, 19th, 1903
Am still alive, buthurtin' powerful
bad. I ain’t got in no hospital yet.
President of A. T. U. (48) was to see
a friend yesterday and put me on to
the route to Grady Hospital today.
Am waiting in hall to see him now.
I took bedroom with—or rather—in
the Salvation Army hall last night.
Cost me twenty cents,includin' a hot-
water bath—hope I won’t take
cold. I haven’t been a block
away from Marietta since I've been
here, and have spent less than one
buck since I arrived I have met one
person since I’ve been here what
called me “Flaw ” It was John Me
Abee what used to live on the factory
hill there about four years ago. He
wanted to pay my way out to De-
Catur, to his house, about eight
miles from here, and give me a good
time; but I declined his hospitable
offer by tellin’ him it was a baa time
an’ not a good time I was a lookin’
for this time. The boys are out on
strike here now and there’s licker on
every hand ; but if the Lord is willin’,
I’ll not drink anything but water. I
could have went to work yesterday,
but I tole them J raley didn’t see
how that would help my cause any.
T have been advised by some friends
to fall down an’ holler “O, Lordy,”
an’ have some friend along to ring
telephone for Hospital Ambulance to
come git me, but I’m feard that hit
would take a star actor instead of
myself to work the trick.
Wish ole Nat was down here—bet I
could pitch a quart of penuts down
bis mouth the first time he’d look to
the top of some of these buildings. I
wondered to myself yesterday if my
Deck raley was rubber or was it
doublejointed.
Tell Mr. Thomas there’s nobody
hurt yet—either me or tho hospital.
If I manage to git in I don’t know
which will be hurt worst, me or the
H. P.
Well, good bye. Give my regards
to all the boys. With a big heart of
love an’ gratitude, I am, as ever,
Ole Flaw.
Atlanta, Ga., June 20th, 1903
I am feeling lots better this morn-
ing than I was last night. I was
hurting awful bad last nigh. I went
to the hospital last evening and they
told me to come back today. A
friend gave me the address of a minis
ter who, he says, can get me in if
anybody can. I’m going to see him
today with a recommendation from
the president of the union. I’ll come
back home before I’ll give them forty
dollars. I just can’t afford it. I get a
bed for fifteen cents a night and a hot-
water bath—cover all over in hot-
water—for five cents. It helps my
feelings lots. I didn’t eat anything
all day yesterday but a fiveceut beef
steak and a five cent bowl of tomato
soup—I didn’t feel much like eating.
The more I see of city life the
more disgusting it is to me, ar.d the
bigger the city the worse it is. The
streets here are laid with stones like
the main square in Charlotte. Ve-
hickles of every description are so
thick I don’t see how they manage to
pass, and when an old wagon sees a
few vacant rods in front of him he
proceeds to trot, and that makes a
bigger fuss than ever, and adds the
noise of that to the rumbling and
screeching of the street cars—a dozen
passing at most all the time and you
only have a faint idea of the racket.
If you speak to anyone on the streets
you Iiave to talk like when you are
In a cotton mill to make oue hear.
This racket keeps going until after
12 o’clock—and you are awoken next
morning by daylight with the same
din in yonr ears. It seems to me
that the suffering the poor dumb ani
mals endure with their feet and legs
from constant pad on the hard rock
from early morn till late at night is
enough alone to invoke the wrath of
a merc'ful God on a civilized nation,
to say nothing of the vice and im
morality that must be in a place of
this proportion. Ah, my little home
(if I ever get it paid for) in the quiet
suburb* of old Gaffney, with its con- j
s^ant cooling breeze, is much prefer-
able to me than the whole of Atlanta.
The hospital is the prettiest place |
I’ve seen here. Its flower gardens
and cool, open doors and windows
have an inviting appearance, but
when one thinks of the suffering and
misery of humanity inside he feels a
commotion within which adds to his
horror of city life.
It’* in the cities you find so much
wickedness and crime—no wonder'
God burnt up Sodom and Gomorrah j
after sending His good people to the
country.
You find all classes of people here.
In the reading room of the Salvation
Army hall, where I am now writing,
is one old crippled, drunken, harm
less man, slobbering—and another,
whose days can’t number many more
summers, preparing some kind of
FHRQUGHOUT THE NEWS OF THE WEEK
PALMETTO STATE, IH LOWER CHEBOKEE
items of Interest of Passing From Our Correspondent at
Events.
OVER THE STATE.
Etta Jane.
■events that Have Taken Place from One
End of the State to the Other Culled from
Exchanges for Quick Reading by Scores
of Hasy People.
The Abbeville cotton mills will re
duce the hours of labor to three-
fourths of full time.
The William McKeithan Lumber
1 Co., of Darlington county, has been
I chartered with a capitalization of
$300,000.
Henry Richardson, colored, of
Lexington county, who has been
blind for thirteen years, fell from the
window of his housejthe other day and
broke his neck.
The eight-year-old sou of P. B.
PERSONALS AND LOCALS.
Interesting Paragraphs and Recent Hap
penings in Lower Section of the County
Gathered Up by Our Regular Correspon
dent for Benefit of Ledger Readers.
(Correspondence of The Ledger.)
Etta Jane, June 20.—While in
Gaffney last Monday we met “Ole
Flaw” and were very sorry to know
that he has been unwell for some I
light of day and knew nothing what-
i ever about the kingdom of light.
Therefore according to owl logic, as
sumed that what he didn’t know must
be incomprehensible to any other
creature.
Presently a bat, which had been
fluttering awkwardly about, ap
proached the owl and ironically in
quired what the nature of the medi-
tatiocs were that made him look so
wise.
The owl replied that he was con
sidering the possibility of such a
thing as sunlight.
At this the bat, to whom the sun
light was impenetrable darkness,
with some heat rejoined that any
creature who had doubts on that sub
ject was certainly a decadent and
ought to be caged.
The owl staring contemptuously at
the bat replied that there might be a
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NORTH CAROLINA NEWS.
sun, but even if this were true it;
time. We hope, however, he will QeV er shone, because he bad never
soon be well again and at his post seen the sunlight, and challenged the
among The Ledger contributors where ' ;0 P rove there was any sun at all.
The bat then said that although he
made no pretense of wisdom, yet he
Bryan, of Saluda county, died of
fake medicine to hawk on the streets, : hydrophobia. He was bitten two or
and nearer to me are some well dress- three months ago by a mad-dog.
ed, pleasant fellows, some perusing Jesse, the seven-year-old son of
books and periodicals while others Jouson Brabham of Greelyville, died they throw
are conversing intelligently—and one on Friday from the effects of a dose | erec t
remarkable feature is that all seem of morphine administered by mistake
to be pleasant and good-natured.
Well, I will close for this time.
Flaw.
he makes things lively always.
We heard a very intelligent lady
say not long ago, in speaking of those
octogenarions who want to marry
after they lose their wives: “They
usually go to the grave on a stick,
but soon as they want to marry again
it away and try to
knev that the sun shone in the day
time because daylight was so intense
ly dark.
And thus they argued until they
finally engaged in a fierce battle, each
hoping to vindicate tf.e truth of his
convictions in proportion to the in
walk jury he could inflict upon his antago
nist.
A NEW CHURCH.
Uedi-
Centml ItuptiHt Church »t Cowpens
cate-.l Sumliiy.
(Correspondence of The Ledger.)
Cow tens, June 22:—The Central
Baptist church of Cowoens was or
ganized the first Sunday in February
of the present year with about forty
members. The house of worship has
just been completed at a cost of
about $1,800, all of which is paid.
The new church was dedicated
yesterday. Dr. T. M. Bailey, corres
ponding secretary of the State Mis
sion Board, preached the dedicatory
sermon. His text was 2nd. Cor.. 5th
ebapt.. 21st. verse. Outline: 1st The
sinlessness of Christ. 2.od. Thus o’-
fered as a sin off ring—“made Him fo
be sin for us ” 3rd. That we might
He made righteous.
Dedicatory prayer was offered *by
the pastor.
There was an exceeding large crowd
present and the behavior was per
fect. A collection for State missions
was taken up and amounted to $11 65.
At 3:30 p. m., the pastor, Rev, J.
D. Bailey, preached, taking as bis
text 1st Tim., SrdJJchapt., 15th verse.
Theme: “The church, the 1’illar and
Ground of the Truth.” Outline: 1st.
The Church of God a living Church.
2nd. The church the base and sup
porter of the truth. 3rd. The church
the herald and propagator of the
truth.
Five candidates were received for
baptism. The congregation at the
evening service was also large. Thus
closed an eventful day in the religi
ous history of Cowpens.
Quite a large delegation from Gaff
ney attended the services.
J. D. Bailey.
News Around Kings Creek.
(Correspondence of The Ledger.)
Kings Creek, June 16:—Mr. W.
C. Wilburn has gone over to Cross
Keys on an extended visit to rela
tives and friends in Union County.
Dr S. B. Crawley, of Gaffney, was
at the Station recently, and also
visited Piedmont Springs.
Mr. J. A. Cooper, formerly of your
city, but now of Lincoiton N. C., was
down at the Station Sunday and
Monday at the residence of Mr. T. P.
Whisonant, where Mrs. Cooper and
little son, Charlie, are staying for
a while. It seems quite natural to
see Mrs. Cloe around the Station
again. Miss Inez Smith, who has
been or, a visit to relatives at Blacks
burg, returned home Monday. c.
R. A. Rockwell, a son-in law of H.
B. Register, captured last week with
his son, Jabel Register, charged with
the murder of Jesse Soles and Jim
Staley, near Whiteville in March,
has also been arrested on a charge of
having harbored the last named when
he was a fugitive from justice, there
by becomitg an accessory to the mur
der after the fact. Rockwell was com
mitted to jail with the other two. It
is said that the Registers will be taken
to Wilmington for safe keeping, as
the feeling against them in Whiteville
is very strong and the jail there is not
very secure.
for calomel,
Chief Hammett submits a report
showing that the cost of the con
stabulary has increased about $3,850
a month to $4,750, but the results
justified the increased efforts to en
force the law. The value of seizures , p a y an( j reimburse himself from the
of liquor has increased from $1,230 to ! proceeds of the farm.
„ u u , ... i Moral:—Fools always try to prove
Farmers have been very busy this . . .. ... J J 1
^ nlanfi ncr r«nl» nH n„ 1 h«, r . 1 heif P 01 D ^ tlD g tUad.
J. L S.
week planting and replanting their
low lands; and thinning out their
cotton. Hands are scarce and labor
is high, in fact, hired farm labor is
the most expensive commodity in the
mirket for which the employer has to
SHORT LOCAL ITEMS.
Mils Ruth Hanna, youngest daugh
ter of the Ohio Senator, was married
to Mr. Joseph Medill McCormick, at
Cleveland, before a*distinguished as
semblage, including President Roose
velt.
If You are tbe Hoaxekeeper
You will appreciate our suggestion
that you use Braueford’s "Clifton”
flour. It makes the best bread, cake
and pastry for home people as well as
visitors. Don’t let your prejudice In
favor of another brand prevent yonr
trying it.
W. J. Wilkins & Oo.
$4,414.15, a difference in favor of the
new constabulary of $3,184 12.
Dr. Bacot, of Charleston, secretary
of the State Board of Health, to
whom was referred the rep rt of an
epidemic of lung disease among the
negroes of Williamsburg county, has
made an investigation and says there
is no epidemic, but many negroes
have consumption resulting from the
dissipated life they lead, and that ih»-
matter is not, within tbe jurisdiction
of the board to act upon.
Rev. J. Barr Harris, a young
preacner who gained considerable
prominence in upper South Carolina
through his revival meetings, where
in he ardently preached sanctifica
tion, has been convicted of seduction
in Montana and sentenced to one
year in the penitentiary. Previous to
his conviction he was charged with
another case of like nature out there.
He is well known here.
After months of parleying and spin
ning red tape the much-mooted claims
against the Charleston Exposition
company are to be paid. W. H-
Welcb, chairman of the board of re.
ceivers, received from the treasury
department at Washington $95 745.88,
which will be devoted to the purpose
aforementioned. The money is in the
hands of M. Rutledge Rivers, attor
ney for the receivers of the exposition
company.
A heavy wind and rain storm passed
over St. Matthews Thursday after
noon about 5 o’clock, accompanied
by a severe fall of hail. Corn and
cotton are injured more or less, but the
tobacco crop of Mr. John McLauchlin
is well nigh a total loss. He had 45
acres of beautiful weed which he held
as worth at least $4,000. Now he de
clares he will take $500. This is the
third time that section has been
visited by hail this season.
Johnson Smith, a colored man that
lives in the suburbs of Jonesville,
while on bis way from the harvest
field late Thursday evening riding a
mule and carrying his scythe, was
thrown from the mule. He fell oo
the scythe blade and cut bis hand
nearly off. Drs. Southard, Douglass
and Hames attended him and found
it necessary to cut the arm off above
the wrist. Friday the wounded man
was doing very well.
Mr. J. C. Wasson, a prominent
farmer of Alma, Laurens county,
was in Laurens Thursday searching
for his son. The boy is 13 years old,
well grown for his age, and bright. His
name is Grady Wasson. It was as
certained that he boarded a south
bound train for Greenwood at Mad
den’s station oc the 0. & W. C. rail
way. It was thought that be had
gone to Greenwood, but inquiry by
telephone in that town failed to bring
any informatior The boy’s father
thinks that the lad had absorbed big
ideas about traveling and seeing the
world from a negro who was hired
on the farm.
Frioay morning a tragedy was en
acted at the Appalachian mills, near
■Greers, as a result of which “Shug”
Calhoun, colored, lost his life, and
Mery Dent, a negress, is in the Spar
tanburg county jail charged with
his murder. From what can be
gleaned of the affair it seems that
Mary Dent, who is a Spartanburg
negress, was conducting an eating
bouse at the Appalachian mills for
the colored laborers. She and ‘ ‘Shug”
became Involved in a difficulty when
“Shug” ejected her from the house,
and, pureuing her, fired eeveral shots
at her. The woman finally turned
and shot “Shag,” killing him almost
Instantly.
We regret to state that Miss Evira
Bankhead is very sick, and that
Mrs. Betsy McCulloch is also in a
low state of health. She is a very old
lady, too, and that adds to the anxiety u-TT'j "
of her family and friends. She is one ‘ ^
of the oldest white ladies in this part
of the country that we know of, hav
ing nearly, if not quite reached her
four score years. The was a Goude-
lock. a -ister <>( Mr. Win L. Goude-
lock. She was Mr a widow ab)Ut the
beginning of the war and has raised
a family of boys, whom we are glad to
acknowledge as some of our best
citizens. They are : Ben, Bridge and
John D McCullouch. Adam, another
son, is living in Texas. They are all
well-oo men.
A gentleman passed here yesterday
moving his son from Trough Shoals,
back to Rock Hill.
The recent rains have done much
damage to the roads. In many places
they are welljnigh impassable—washed
into gullies.
Farmers would like to have a
showtrof rain. The ground is get-
There was a good rain at Camp’s
; cr^ss roads ytsterday morning and a
light one in the city.
A freight train passed here Friday
morning consisting of forty-nine box
; cars and one passenger coach.
Rev. W. T. Thompson left the city
to fill his appointment
Sunday at Bethesda church, in Spar
tanburg county.
The ladies of the Presby:erian
church will serve ice cream in the
park near the conrr ■« I hnr*-
dav evening at 6 o’cio. k
ting hard in places—aspoialiy where
it^was packed by the rain.
Mrs. R. A. Foster and her children
are visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs.
S. F. Estes.
Some of our people attended the
communion meeting at the A R.
Presbyterian church at Hickory
Grove last Sabbath.
Before this letter appears in print
our readers will have had an opportu
nity to know whether that phenome
non predicted by some scientific man
—that the sun is going to stand still
on the 22nd of June—is true. We
could havejmentionedjthis sooner, but
it is sooa enough for tbe interest our
readers feel in it. The fact is the
sun stands still twice a year, anyway
—when the days change from long to
short ur from short to long—certainly
it is still while the change is taking
place. But some folks say it never
stands still, and so we dismiss the sub
ject.
Mrs. Jimmie Strain is still quite
sick.
We never saw fewer country peo
ple in town court week than were
there last Monday, and most of those
who were there seemed to have a
great desire to get away. The next
ten days will largely, if not entirely,
decide the crop prospects for this
year, and nobody knows that better
than the farmers themselves.
The cuts of the wrecked mills, etc.,
on Pacolet which appeared in The
Ledger of yesterday are as natural as
life itself and certaiuly.speak well for
Artist Carr’s work as well as the en
terprise of this paper. To those fa
miliar with tbe scene these pic
tures will be forceful reminders of
tbe almost inconceivable destruction
of property there.
If it’s not making our letter too
long we would be glad to reproduce
one of Frank Beard’s Fables here,
which ^ will teach a lesson
people ought to know:
THE OWL AND THE BAT.
IA Fable, by Frank Board.1
An owl, who on account of bis pom
pous ways and solemn aspect bad
gained the reputation of being a great
scholar and profound philosopher,
and who himself believed that he was
a point or two iu advance of the rest
of the world on any or all matters
pertaining to a rational perception of
tbe logloai fitness of things, and who
moreover had a habit of hooting down
all views opposed to his own, sat one
night on tbe dead limb of a sycamore
tiee, blinking wisely at nothing In
particular.
The owl was entirely blind in the
Sunday was the longest day iu the
year. The sun rose at 4:52 and set
at 7 :10, which made the day fourteen
hours and eighteen minutes between
sunup and sundown.
Cotton, cloth and furnitureare still
being recovered from 1’acolet river
and adjacent rafts and low grounds.
And occasionally a human body is
found, but none of them found now
can be recognized.
Mr. Adolphus Gaffney presented us
with a very thln-sbelled egg yester
day with several protuberences on the
shell, which elastic imaginations
many
might conjure into faces, letters or
anything else that might suit their
fancies.
The Blacksburg Building and Loan
Association, with a capital of $10,000,
applied to the secretary of State Fri
day for a charter. The corporators
are: Chas. Baber, J. R Healan, P. R.
Freeman, W. E. Anderson and N.
W. Hardin.
A “dinner on the ground” mission
rally at Grassy Pond Baptist church
Sunday was attended by a number of
our people. Tbe meeting was a suc
cess and the proverbial hospitality of
the good people of that section was
fully sustained.
Many of our people attended the
dedication of the now Central Baptist
church at Cowpeus Sunday. Among
them were: Mrs. I. W. Avery,
Misses Maud and Nancy Thompson,
Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Gaines and little
son, Willie, Needham Avery and Green
Avery.
Mr. John B. Pettit, while at the
baseball game Friday, accidentally
touched a bulldog which bit him
twice, once on the hand and once on
the leg. We learned that the bites
were|right severe but are glad to know
that be is doing well and that no
serious results are expected.
Magistrate A. J. McCraw made a
business trip to the city Friday. He
says his fields have had his undivided
attention since the floods,and while
they were greatly damaged, work is
making a marked difference in their
apperance and most of them will
soon be in a hopeful shape apain.
There was a big crowd iu the city
Saturday. Merchants report good
sales and the farmers good prospects
with their farm work. They say the
crops are small but that last week’s
work put most of them in fairly good
condition. Growing wheat is cut
and some of it has been thrashed, aud
while once the yield was is better
thought it would be, it is far from
good.
SucceHHful MImhIoii Rally.
The mission rally at the Grassy
Pond Baptist church on Sunday was
perhaps the most successful in the
serU* recently held throughout the
Broad River association. Tbe col
lection ($50) was tbe largest single
collection for foreign missions Id tbe
history of the ohoroh. This will
place Grasay Pond church well to the
front at the next meeting of tbe asso
ciation.
Intereiitlng Itema Concerning Onr Neigh
bors Ileyond the Line Which May Prove
Entertaining Reading for Hundreds of
Ledger Readers
Hon. H. F. Sewell gets $4,500 for
the egging he received in Shelby in
1900.
There are no less than 23 divorce
suits on the Wake county docket, and
during the past year 25 divorces were
obtained.
It is said that there have been 4,-
400 cases of smallpox in North Caro
lina during the past twelve months.
Of this number 160 proved fatal.
Greensboro enjoys the distinction
of being the first town to have a hus
band swear the peace against his wife.
He says he is afraid she will do him
bodily harm.
Another landslide has occurred on
Saluda Mountain in tbe same railroad
cut that was filled by the slide of last
week, and railroad authorities say
that it will be at least a month before
the track can be cleared for through
traffic.
Martin Nordstrom, of New York, a
Dane, aged 47, who was decorating the
Capital Club at Raleigh attempted
suicide early Thursday morning. He
leaped from the window of his room
at the Park Hotel to the sidewalk,
fracturing his skull, breaking his leg,
and arm. and receiving internal in
juries. He had been drinking nightly
for weeks.
J. T. Rogers, of Durham, who on
Wednesday morning drank an ounce
bottle of laudanum at his home in
Edgemont, was ref' Thursday to
be getting along vf r d consid
ered out of danger, no uud a pretty
close call, and it is said that but for
the faithful work of the physicians,
he would not now be in the land of
the living.
The Ada Manufacturing Company's
plant in Charlotte will in all prob
ability be bought injand the company
reorganized by the directors of the
present company. The directors are :
J. H. Weddington, chairman; Dr.
Joseph Graham, Mr. Geo. A. Howell,
Col. W. C. Maxwell, Col. J. T. An
thony, Mr. Frank D. Alexandfr and
Capt. David Clark.
James Wilcox, convicted of killing
Nellie Cropsey at. Elizabeth City, is
now number 13,994 on the roll of con
victs at the penitentiary. He arrived
in Raleigh in the custody of Sheriff
Winslow and Deputy White about 5
o’clock Tuesday morning. At the
prison Wilcox had nothing to say,
simply moving about quickly at the
direction of the officers.
Burglars entered the Forsyth Roller
Mills at Winston Wednesday night
but they were frightened away by the
night watchman before they opened
the gate. The watchman saw three
men. Two of them were in tbe office
but they escaped through a window.
A hatchet and monkey wrench were
found on top of the safe. Tbe watch
man fired at the men as they were
leaving.
Capt. James M. McGowan, a well-
known justice of the peace of New
Hanover county and a prominent sec
ret order man of the State, died in
Wilmington Saturday morning, after
a brief illness with asthma, following
chronic bronchitis. At 4 o’clock he
arose In bed and asked for a drink of
water and before his wife could com
ply with his request he sank upon his
pillow and was dead in a few minutes.
In Crab Orchard township, Meck
lenburg county, Thursday, Archie
Benton was seriously wounded with a
razor by Sam Orr, a colored man. Orr
cursed Beuton’s son and Benton pro
ceeded to thrash him, when he pulled
out his razor and cut Benton seriously
on the side and on the left arm. Orr
escaped. The same afternoon one
negro woman split the skull of an
other with a hoe, on tbe farm of Mr.
D. A. Johnston, in Crab Orchard. Mr.
W. H. Hartis had a difficulty with a
negro on his farm, in tbe same neigh
borhood, aud broke a hoe over his
head.
Mr. T. Blackwelder’s house, at 414
East Oak street in Charlotte was
struck by lightning Saturday evening
during the storm which passed over
that city about 7 o’clock. Mr. Black-
welder was standing on the front
porch at tbe time and was severely
shocked, as was his little son, who
was closing a window from the inside
of tbe house. Neither was seriously
hurt. Besides tearing a bole in the
root about two by four feet square
and scattering shingles to tbe four
winds tbe bolt passed down the chim
ney, damaging It considerably, and
tore a stove down in tbe kitchen. Tbe
tower of tbe Beoond Presbyterian
church was also struck and some slate
knocked off.