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THE LARGEST / Circulation of Any Newspaper in the Fifth Congressional District of S. C. —-——■■ — *— I 1-117 X 1 JLxl< SEMI*WEEKLY—PUBLISHED TUESDAY AND FKIDAY. WE GUARANTEE The Reliability of Every Adver tiser Who Uses the Col umns of This Paper. Newspaper in all that the Word implies and Devoted to the Best Interests of the People of Cherokee County, ESTABLISHED FEB. 16, 1894 GAFFNEY, S. C., *IUDAY, JULY 1908. $1.00 A YEAB. THROUGHOUT THE PALMETTO STATE. CROP BULLETIN. Report of Condition of Different Crops Throughout the State. Columbia, S. C., June 30:—The week ending 8 a. m., Monday, June Hems of Interest Of Passing 29, 1903, had a mean temperature 70 degrees which is about 4 degrees be- NEWS OF THE WEEK IN LOWER CHEROKEE Events. ALL OVER THE STATE. M.ventH that Have Taken Place from One Knd of the State to the Other Culled from tSzchangeH for yuick Reading by Scores of llony People. The secretary of grate iVonday is sued a commission to the Enterprise Mercantile company of Heath Springs, capitalized at $10 000 J. A Bridges. E. S. Croxton and Perry Mobly are petitioners. Sunday morning Mrs Fannie Fun derburk, wife of the Rev. B S. Fun derburk. of Chesterfield, while reach ing in a barrel of meal In a barn ro get some for her cow, was bitten by a rattlesnake pilot. A charter has been issued to the Star Publishing Comuany of Marion, capital stock $2,000; J C. Mace, pr.s dent and F. W. McKerall secre tary and treasurer. The Mace Drug Company with the same officers was also chartered, the capital stock b(j^g $3 000. The body of Henry P. Withington was found in the river near the Bat tery in Charleston Monday morning, and it is thought the deceased com mitted suicide while under temporary aberration of the mind. He was mis sing from his home since Friday. He leaves a widow and children. One hundred and fifty men, mem bers of the building and trades coun cil in Charleston, struck work on ac count of the ultimatum of the con tractors, requiring them to withdraw from the council or give up their jobs. As a result there was a partial sus pension of work all over the city. The governor has been notified that the people of Kershaw are get ting up a good road convention to be held July 30 There will be hundreds of people present from Lancaster, Chesterfield and Kershaw counties, an i .Senator Latimer, Gov. Heyward an^ot hers have been invited to spi ak Mr. Oscar Bnzhard, a clerk at the Hotel Seash ire, Isle of Palms, near Charleston, was accidentally shot and probably mortally wounded at 11.30 o’clock Monday night, by Mr. Henry Weisiezer, who is also employed at the hostelry. The unfortunate affair took place in the restaurant attached to the hotel. Both of the young men are from Augusta Ga. M*s. Tnomas McKellar, a young married lady of the Phoenix section of Greenwood county, died very sud denly there Sunday afternoon at the residence of her husband’s parents. She and her husband hud gone up from their home in the country to spend the day. In the afternoon she was taken suddenly very ill and died in a very short time. Isaiah Gadsden, colored, received serious injuries Friday afternoon at the works of the Catawba Power Co., near Rock Hill. He fell in front of the small locomotive used in hauling stone and the engine was upon him at once, with the result that both arms were broken above the elbows and his right leg was broken. He was put on a stretcher and taken to Rock Hill for treatment. Mr. J. Leslie Andrew, president of the Durst-Andrews Company, of " Greenwood, while overseeing the load ing of some freight Monday, by ac cident was knocked out of the car, and both of his jaw bones broken. He became paralyzed, as a result of the injury, and subsequently he died. The deceased gentleman was 35 years of age, and was a leading citizen of bis community. A wife and three children survive him. He was sup- ’ erintendent of the Baptist Sunday school and a deacon ic the church at Greenwood. low normal. The nights continue too cool for the favoiable development of cotton. There was more than the usual amount of cloudiness, and there is an indicate! .eed of more sunshine for corn, cotton and melons. There were local high winds accompanying thunderstorms tha caused slight damage ovei limited sreas. The western half of i beneficial rains on the 22nd and 20th, the latter heavy enough to stop cul tivation for the remainder of the week, but the raiu was needed to soften crusty lands that had become too hard to plow. The central and northeastern counties had rain nearly every day, with some excessive rains that washed lands and rendered all out hillsides too wet to cu.tivate. In Barnwell, Bamberg, Orangeburg, Beikeley, Williamsburg, Sumter, Clarendon, Florence, Darlington. Marion and Marlboro, and parts of adjoining counties, crops a~6 suffer ing from lack of work and excess of moisture. The immediate coast coun ties had moderate and beneficial rains. The average rainfall for the State was nearly two inches. Hail storms occurred in many c inties, but serious damage by hail was re ported from Berkeley, Marlboro and Saluda counties only. The general condition of all crops is better than any time this season, but the improvement is comparative ly slight in many places, and all cultivated field crops need dry weath er to permit cultivation, and to rid them of grass. They also need sunshine to give them a color, and greater warmth late a more rapid growth. The corn crop is fairly promising, except in a few central counties where lack of cultivation ana an excess of moisture has given it a sickiy color and a stunted growth. Early corn is being laid by in the eastern and cen- fields in a tasseling. Bottom land corn has not recovered from the effects of t he recent floods and is poor. There is a general improvement in cotton over last week both in color and growth, but the plants continue small and in places still lack a heal thy color, while stands are broken and irregular. Lice are less preval ent than last week. First bloomy are reported, since the 19"h, from eastern and central parts of State, but blooming is not general. Last year cotton was in full bloom by the first of July. Tne work of clean ing fields has made rapid progress but many fields are still grassy, and some have not been chopped to stands. Sea-island cotton is small, but vigorous and healthy. Tobacco curing is in progress, tobacco crop has improved recently, and now ranges from fair to exceed ingly fine. Rice is doing well. Gac- toloupe shipments have begun. Hay meadows, sweet potatoes and cane look tine The fruit prospects are promising, especially for apples and grapes. Gardens are fine. From Our Correspondent Etta Jane. at PERSONALS AND LOCALS. ! in the guano used being the new fer- , tilizer made up by farmers who bought the right to manufacture it. We don’t know that it is the case—we | are only quoting some of those who bought and made it The most abundant crop of black berries found along the creeks has been destroyed or badly injured by 1 the water being over them. The berries, and briers, too, seem to have | dried up. j. l s. FOUL PLAY SUSPECTED. Talk of Kxluuuing liu<ly of (iovan ltra<ll«y Who was Drowued. iCorresnor.dence of The Leader.! Ezell, June 27.—After what seemed an age, our mail has got to running State had Pacolet In terden 0 minational Sunday ! re g ular| y ! the br,d g« 9 bein « ttl1 School Convention met at Corinth wa9hed awa y our carriers could not church last Sabbath,28th inst. i get here. So we have been cut off from the rest of the world, as it were, and then, too, when we were most anxious to hear. W’hen our mail did come, The Ledger was the paper we IntereHtliiR Paragraphs and Recent Hap pening* in Lower Section of the County fathered Up by Our Regular Correspon dent for Benefit of Ledger Reader*. (Correspondence of The Ledger.) Etta Jane, June 30.—The North Notwithstanding the clouds came up early in the morning and threat ened a down-pour of rain, yet quite a number of people bravely started read first, for we knew it would give out for Corinth, expecting to find what they did tied—a large number a correc l | account of the dreadful of the good people of Cherokee coun ty who are interested in the work of the Sunday school ready to meet and i singing treated All the well as weather distance more healthier to stimu- trai counties, with many grassy condition. It is A Caturact Removed. A ftw days ago Dr. Griffith removed greet them. For a while the raiu fell briskly, but by 10 o’clock the clouds passed away and the sun shone out. We reached the church just as Superintendent E. J. Clary called his school together to prepare occasion. They have a fine class at Corinth and we were with some choice music, school joining in—old as young. Owing to the unfavorable not a great many from a were there. Only six schools—Corinth, Dray- tonville, Gethsemaue, Mount Moriah, Mesopotamia and Salem were rep resented by delegates and written reports, aggregating 407 scholars. The exercises of the convention were well attended and good order kept. One of the interesting features of the conventional work was that done by Lie children. 'The infant ciu?>rf of the Corinth school sang some pieces. They had their own leader and chose their own pieces. The Mount Moriah school, under the superintendence of | Mr. J. A. Hames, was well represent ed Quite a number of his young scholars stood up and repeated texts of Scripture while others repeated several consecutive verses. Mr Hames brought most of his school J there in a body, and the ground look ed as if all the children in the town ship were present. In speaking of the Mount Moriah Sunday school Mr. tne William Jefferies, who has known tne fcb ' H country longer and better than any other men in it, said: “Thimt of Mount Moriah school having ninety-seven scholars in ic.” “1 knew I that place” he said, ‘‘when olu Mrs. Dawkins taught a Sunday school there with only eight scholars.” Of course an abundant supply of good things to eat was on hand, and every- iq )e body invited to come up and help themselves which they did, we sup pose. If they didn’t, it was their own fault. The people of Corinth are u prosperous, good community. They do not put on any airs. They are a solid, unpretending people who want their guests to enjoy themselves, and, besides, they are a people who live at home. Mrs. Lizzie McCulloch, whose ill ness was mentioned iu our last letter. storm. Our farmers are nearly all up with their work. While corn and cot:on are very small for the time of year, they seem to be growing nicely. The stubble land has nearly all been planted and is coming up ready for work, although the storm damaged us a lot. We hope, with the late for* the corn ’ 1,0 como out all right. We learn there has been considera ble talk of taking up the body of Govan Bradley, who was drowned near Island ford during the big storm, on suspicion of fowl play on the part of his wife, who was the only witness to his death. There was a hole in the side of hie head us if he had been struck. These busy-bodies pretend to think his wife struck him, and then placed his body in the creek, which is not at all probable, for he was]* large and strong mac, while she is rather a small woman. Dr. James Wilkie died the 21st of June at the home of his daughter, Mrs T. 0. Martin. His remains were taken to Sh-i ih, N 0 . his former home .for iii.e.m He wasjau old man. probably about 70 years. He was a noted Hebrew doctor and used to practice successfully. He made the medicine known as “No. 0.” On June the 24th, Rev. J. C. Me Kinney died at his home near Line, N. O. Hdtvrts buried at Trinity M. E. church near Brooklyn, S. C., of which church he was a very consitt- ent member. Truly a good man has gone and one perhaps that will be more missed than anyone in that community, for he like,this divine Master, went about doing good. He left a wife and one child to mourn fche'r loss, to whom we extend our heartfelt sympathy. NEW BOOKS FOR LIBRARY. THROUGHOUT THE TARJHEEl STATE. From the Mountains to The Sea. NORTH CAROLINA NEWS. IntercHtinj- Item* Coni-Friilng Our Nt-lgt'- hor* HeyouU the Line Which May 1’rov* KiitertHlnliiK ReHiliiii; for Hundreds of Lediffr Reader* Two bales of cotton were sold on the Charlotte market Wednesday for 13:65, the highest price yet reached by the staple. An election is to be held at Salis bury August 4,b for the i urpose of voting on tite question of issuing $90,000 of bonds to be used m the improvement of the streets of that city. Monday evening at 2:30 fire was disjovered iu the roof of Hotel Ma rion at .Marion. The alarm was soon ’pbuuea all over town and by the quick response ot almost every man in Marion tne lire was extiuguisut-u before much damage was done. News trom Jackson (Springs is that Rev. Dr. Thomas E tSaiuner, of Ka- itigb, 79 years old, is dangerously ill Witu pueumuniu. lie is one of the noblest Bapust preactK-rs in the 6 ate. He AS the lather ol the late Ludlow okiuhcr wno was killed by Ei uust \ luj wood. Arista Mill Co., oi *\ instou Salem, was chartered vVedhesday. Capital $350,000 authorized, liu incorpora tors are J W. Fries, F. H. Fries, W. A. Biaiu aud Clement Alainy. i :ie purpose especially naintd is to ac quire cottou mills and their business now iu operation in North Caruliua. Mrs. C. H. Dudley, the wife of an insurance man of Charlotte, attempt ed self-destruction Tuesday morning, anil, hut lui . in ae . ' Ad _ ..i‘ Old UUUghlci, wuU.u t _. — —Vt- succeeded She attempted to jump from a window of her room, but was discovered by her child, wuo seizeu her and screamed for assistance. Marital troubles was given as the cause. A temporary receiver has been ap pointed to take charge of the affairs of the Toxaway company. The order directing the appointment of a re ceiver was Wednesday afternoon made at Flat Rock by Judge Simonton on motion of Alf. S. Barnard, of Ashe ville, representing the minority stock holders who declare that Manager Hayes and others have conspired to keep them in ignorance of the com pany’s affairs. ‘DOWN IN GEORGY.” But died last Friday and was buried at a cataract from the eye of Henry Bon- family graveyard near the resi- ner, colored, who lives a snort dis dence of Mr. W. L. Goudelock, on tauee iu the country. The operation ^“Duday, Rev. F. C. Hickson con- was successfully performed and the I ducting the funeral exercises. Those negro is doing nicely, though of *8° were present say it was a very course the ultimate result cannot foretold as yet. be From Five to Seveu. Miss Munro requests us to an nounce that hereafter the library will be open from 5 to 7 p. no., until fur ther notice. These hours are adopted on account of the severe heat which generally prevails in the earlier part of the afternoon. Some (ienerou* Donations to the (Jaffney Library from Public Spirited Citizen*. During the past few weeks the Gaffney Library association has re- ceivtd many generous donatious from our public spirited citizens, fur which the trustees are profoundly grateful. More, they are greatly encouraged by this manifestation of substantial in terest. Mrs. M. H. Jefferies has sent some rare old volumes that are espe cially prized, because they arc the production of well known authors whose writings are not now to be found in the current catalogues. Then most acceptable and readable new books have been given by Mrs. Cut ting, Mrs. Burroughs. Miss Carrie Robertson, Mrs. O. E. Wilkins, Mrs. Allein, Mr. E. L. Eison, Mr Welles Littlejohn and Mr. D. C. Ross. Mr. James D. Buice has been ex tremely liberal In giving thirty volumes, an entire set of the works of a standard author. It affords us Frank Wright, colored, of Zorah, Craven county, twelve miles from New Bern,]died .Saturday in the 112rh year of his age. Frank was 21 years old while the war of 1812 was going in. He remembered it well and told many incidents of the same. He was considered the oldest inhabitant of Craven county. He was in good health and worked up to two days ago on the farm. He leaves great grandchildren. Mr. Frank H. Mauney, of Gold Hill, one of the most experienced mining men in the South and thor oughly conservative aud reliable in his statements, said Wednesday that they strike of gold made by the Whit- net Reduction Co. at Barringer mine, in Stanley county, was probably tUe richest ever made in the South. Mr Mauney said that $5(4),000 worth of gold was in sight, and how muT'h more remained to be seen, perhaps an immense amount. While returning f jm a drive Tues day evening, J. H. Sloan, president of the American National Bank of Spartanburg, and Miss Helen Nott,: daughter ot Dr. T. E. Nott, Sr., also of that city, had a runaway which came very near being fatal to the for- bu c l° 8ei L I’olger will observe mer. Mr. Sloan was in the act of help- ^tmcUy hours at the postoffice, fog Miss Nott from the buggy when W. E. Shargreen, a collector for top story of the Gainesville mill an’ peculiar pleasure to acknowledge the Collier’s Weekly, was run over by u light on their little feet a runnin’, patriotism, generosity, zeal and kind- rnaking-up train on the shifting yard whilstjhe overseer what was a workin’ ness of the members of the seventh a i. Greensboro at 11 o’clock Wednes- the-little innocent things too hard day morning and instantly killed. biowd out’n the same story about He stepped from one track to escape 200 yards an’ killed. I tell you I am an approaching shifting engine and bitterly opposid to was knocked down ny a box cur on Hank* Will Ulo*« Tomorrow, Tomorrow, the 4th, being a legal holiday, both banks in the city will the horses dashed away, jerking him under the wheels The young lady- seized the lines and after a mud dash /)f 500 yards succeeded in stopping the animals. Mr. riloan was con siderably bruised. Ofie of the most horrible murders was committed in Norway Monday that has ever been known it this country. John T. Phillips, was sitting down eating with his family when some uo- Known party shot through the win dow bitting him In the back of the bead and shooting out his brains. Tt^e shot also hit two of fils chil dren, a small girl about 9 years old and a little boy about 11. Hat- urday evening Mr. Phillips aud two of bis son bad some trouble with some negroes, but notbing of a char acter to provoke such a deed. Cholera lufantuiii. Thh has lorg hem regarded as one of the most dangerous and fatal dis eases to which infants are subject. It can be cured, however, when prop erly treated. All that is necessary is n0 ^ compelled to put over an to gire Chamberlain’s Colic, Cholera he has a right to charge regul and Diarrhoea Remedy and castor oil, when doing so. as directed with each bottle, and a tb ’ n k this a very wise mre is certain. For sale by Cbero- at i° D 00 th® part of our co wbit0 ' kee Drug Co °rs, to give the ferryman a chance to supp** rest. For years and years the ferry- j Even a man of high degree may be m * Q there has been Imposed upon. ■ taken down by a stenographer. There is so much Huuday visiting and ; and running about to do that the v . . .* j j .ii» ! t«wyno*o been kept hard st work , ^ ! ■" <l»y wlllnot one otnt'a oompeo* font e Cllf.oo flour for tO'day, but Hat Ion or a moment’, rent. you didn’t. It leot our f.ult; we Muoh ol our bottom land, are too had plenty of ,t ready to deliver et „„ t0 p| 0 », Cor „ look , , lckl wbere your order. Don’t get caught Dapping „ been drowned out. Cotton Is very small fir the time of solemn sight to see this dear old mother in Israel laid to rest so near the scenes of her • Jhood and her well-spent life. She was a Chri mn lady and might well say: My ilesh shall slumbur in the ground Till Hie hist trumpet's joyful sound; Then burst the chains with sweet surprise, i , gv . . - L . , And in my Saviour's Image rise. grade of the Graded Hehool, who, The singing convention, we under- st * ,nu * a l' e d by their energetic and in- stand, will meet at Draytonville te lbg eDt teacher, Miss Currie Hams, church next .Sabbath day. have, by individual efforts, raised This is a very important week with UQOne y enough to purchase a magnili- farmers Crops that are not worked cen * ; collection of superior books, out within the next few days can't be * bJob tb r d ,y bave presented to the depended on to do much. library. The young people are urged The public don’t seem to fully to‘ne* 16 use of these volumes, understand that the firrvman at ^ be more advanced readers will da- Howell’s ferry has only certain hours P lea9ure and profit from a n e r- p ' Weekly. He wore a new suit on the Habbath daj to run the flat. PJL' »1 of the recent purchases made 0 f clothes, a new lady's gold watch and that is for tne convenience of/r 6 book committee, which em- and gold ring, those known to be going to and fronvaT ' e8 . religion, history, biography church at regular hours. Feople q/J d science. Let our citizens gener- other business, and at other hoursAp -By patronize the public library; it Jfir,' will surprise many to know the range Yfu of reading to be found among Its nearly one thousand vclumes. The Whf librarian is always pleased to receive ilssion- v'aitors f rom 5 to 7 ^o’clock every ' afternoon. Ole Flaw In “Loder Ctmlin* Ground" Loin;* for lloifce. « (Correspondence of The Ledger.) Atlanta, Ga. , June 30:—I suppose, Mr. Editor, that we maby thought as well to call this here the Lower Coalin’ Ground since hit’s the fur- therest down south that ole Flaw has < ever bin, an’ the furtherest away from home, too. ef you’ll bleeve my perargument. Hie* sa felonious won derment how ole Flaw’s muddled mind can span a distance of two hun dred an’ twelve long ole miles, back to his humble little cottage on a western slope of a suburban vicinity of ole Gaffney, back to the onliest spot iu this whole creation which you un derstand he is perfectly willin’ an’ satisfied to make his home an’ spend the remainin’ rest of his days O, ef I whs only t a-, now to g t a good, c ol drink of water ! I tell you what’s an unqualified fact, I don’t like to drink water nowhere what ytu have to devil up with iee—homade ice at that—to make it drinkable. When I left home, I thought that I’d go through the swamp country an’ see the longleaf pines which you un derstand I’ve alius hearn so much talk of, an’ see great big patches of watermelons on th i sides of the road, but my, my, rhar weren’t no Georgy watermelons, thar weren’t no swamps, an’ thar weren’t no longleaf pines; thar weren’t no corn an,’ by gatlins, thar weren’t no cotton to speik of. You couldn’t hardly see a man a plowin’ for the big fog of dust which was a fo'lerin’ him. When I left Gaff ney one store was a sellin’ of “Georgy” watermelons; when I got here to Georgy a hundred or more fel lers was a sellin of “Floridy” water men as. I raley do bleeve ef I’d went to Fioridy thej would a bin sellin’ of watermelons from ‘ Cu’uy,” or some other seaport town. I know one thing what raley do seem certain to me, I’d as live try to fiod watermelons on the plantations in New York now ftp to try to find ' r v planta tion I saw in G I’hillips, or tne Parson, or moot any ct us good farmers in the Coalin’ Ground will have ripe watermelons before they do along the line I traveled in JGeorgy- I found it powerful hilly an’ moun- tainy along the line almost all the way, with but little of it cleared, an ! a big portion of vhafc^ was cleared was set out in small fruit trees—thous ands upon thousands of 'em. Of course, there was more property destroyed by the Pacolet flood, but I’ll take the flood by two in the game to that destructive cyclone what passed through Gainesville. Its dis- astc-rmcnt can be plainly seen from the cars. My, my! I’ve been knowed to swim fairly well in cases of emer gency, you understand, but never in my born days has anyone hearn tell of me a flyin;’ that time aint come yit.an’ I don’t expect it ever will ontei the good Lord gives me wings over the river. I would stand one cnance in a hundred a swimmin’ out of a flood, but deliver me from a keepin’ of com pany with flyin’ debris, timbers, shin gles, etc., hundreds of ftet in the air whilst, you understand, we have to obey the laws of gravitationroent. There was more lives lost at Gaines ville than by the Pacolet Hood, an’ I wouldn’t give one poor sinner’s life for a hundred cotton mills. Cotton mills can be rebuilt by man, but you never hearn tell of a human bein’ a bein’ rebuilt by them. As I was a goin’ on down to tell you, Gainesville is swept clean to the ground—big trees, hou u es air all—as wide as the path of the cyclone, an’ people are a Ilyin’ in little army tents as thick as they can stick One ole gentleman told me that iitrle boys an’ gals jist barely higtP enough to reach the spindles was se« d to blow out of the another track, the wheels completely disemboweling but not otherwise mu tilating him. There were no papers on his person to indicate where his people live. He had $35 in his pocket aud receipts for collections for Col- Information was received in Char lotte at 4 o’clock Wednesday after noon. that an unknown negro man had committed a criminal assault on Mrs. Lizzie Wentz, an aged white woman who lives in the western part of Union county. After the assault, child labor an’ I’ll stick by my convictions ef every body else bleevi s different. (to be continued). No IMty Nbowc. “For yeari fate was after me con tinuously,” writes F. A. Gulledge, Verbena, Ala “1 had a terrible case of Piles causing 24 tumors. When all failed Bucklen’s Arnica Halve cured me. Equally good tor Burns and all achts and pains. Only 25c at Cherokee Drug Co. Whistling girls are not much worse than crowing men. Good (everywhere Used. Branslord’s ‘Clifton” is guaranteed next time. W. J. Wilkins & Co year. Home think that the fault la Working Night And Day. The busiest and mightiest little thing that ever was made is Dr. King's New Life Pilla. These pills change weakness Into strength, li*t- lessness Into energy, brain fag Into mental power. They’re wonderful In building up the health. Only 25o per box. Hold by Cherokee Drug Co. Your neighbor’s upright piano may prove a downright nuisance. tli. u.sroflemld.m.ud.fl money »nd b , the Aker to be«h. b«M flour In received 80 cents, which wa» ull the i . t. * # , thf market. It is carefully milled received 80 cents, which was all the poor woman had. He then escaped. There is no clue as to the identity of the negro, but a large party is search ing the country for him. Mrs. Wentz is in a critical condition. The brute choked her aud her throat is badly swollen. One eye Is almost put out aud she Is otherwise Injured. Who It IU? Who Is It that makes the Fewer- gallons; wears-longer paint? is from sound wheat, making bread that is pure, wholesome and nutritious— just what the American people need for their daily food. Besides “Clif ton” is an all-round^ Hour, being as well adapted to making cake and pas try as It Is bread and biscuits. W. J. Wilkins & Co. Wu dlHContlnue each Kuh*crlptlon prompt ly at Its expiration. Ho watch your label and *he date and renew before ‘tl* too late. I