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i A4L SHORT LOCAL ITEMS. ougn In time. Collegians to Spend Vacations on Krnsas Wheat Farms. 'be in the swim Give me your clothes to cleiin. press or dye ami you will always look nice ;ind stylish. 01(1 suits made to look like new. Experienced workmen and prompt ser vice rendered. W. H. ROBINSON, Tailor. ^ Over W. U. Telegraph Ottiee. Williams. Hall. JR. James A. Willis. HALL & WILLIS, ATTORNEYS AT LAW. STAR THEATRE BLOG. A l-e I- r fC Y, ». c;. Notary Fuhlte In office. Prompt attention /gl^ento all business. J. EMILE HARLEY, Attorney-at- Law, Gaffney, - - S. C. Notary public. All business receives prompt and careful attention. MONEY TO LOAN ON REAL ESTATE LARGEST NUMBER FROM PRINCETON We had a light sprinkle of rain Sunday afternoon. We are having ideal weather, but a little too dry for crops. Miss Maud Thompson has been re elected teacher of the White Plains school. | New crop Means grass hay, well cured, brings forty cents per hundred Men From Cornell, on the wagon. The builders are making rapid nro- gress on the Maria Louisa Infirmary at Limestone College. County cantaloupes were on the Tuxedos, dancing pumps and dress market last week and they began to shirts laid aside for coarse suits of come in again Monday morning. store clothes, overalls, rough dark „ . , . j i blouses or jumpers and wide rimmfcd There was a good sized, orderly crowd in the city Saturday and bus STUDENT HARVESTERS. WHEN ^ POPE D,E8 I NOVEL ST'.GE EFFECTS The sou.h Carolina college. Harvard and Other SentK of I.earuinR to Earn f2.50 Per Day by the Sweat of Their Drowa—Thomiand« of Hand* Needed to Gather the Crop. good sized, orderly ^ g ^ raw hats, forty students of Prince- Dr. D. P. THOMSON, Dentist. "Office over National Bank. Dr. C. T. LIPSCOMB, n i c r i s r Office in Star Theatre Building. Phone No. 20. J. F. GARRETT, Dentist. iness met report a good business. The Limestone Light Infantry will meet again Thursday night at 8 o’clock in the hall over W. J. Maness’ store. Rev W. T Thompson left the city Saturday to fill his appointment on Sunday at Bethesda, in Spartanburg county. Two unfortunates, a white man and a negro man, were carried.to the State hospital for the insane Satur day by Sheriff Thomas. Mr. Christopher Thompson and Miss L. J. Walker were married Sun- •day at the home of the bride in this city, by Magistrate C.T. Bridges. Only three cases were tried by the mayor yesterday. They were trivial affiirs and were quickly disposed of without much benefit to the cicy or inconvenience to the accused ton, Harvard and Cornell recently “shipped” from New York for the southwestern wheat belt, says the New York Times. There, with the motley gangs of laborers, they will work in the fields from sunup till dark, gar nering the bumper crop. Then at night they will turn in at the roughly Improvised camps In the farmyards or sleep out in the open. This for their health and $2.50 a day and board, which they have been guaranteed. The students who will turn farm hands during their vacations, accord ing to Superintendent Bealin of the state free employment bureau, with whom they were “booked,” are a husky looking lot of fellows, nearly all of them of the “football type”—large, rawboned, broad shouldered. Some of them have never done any hard work, but they have physiques, Mr. Bealin Bays, that ought to stand alim it any amount of strain, and seem to have not only determination to work hard, Formalltlen Attrndlnir Verification and Proclamation of Bln Death. On the official notification by a pope’s medical attendants that his holiness is in a critical condition the sacrament is exposed in all the churches in Home, says the New York Herald. At St. Peter’s it is exposed on the high altar, Covered with a cloth of white lawn, which is only removed on the death of the pope. Meanwhile summons s are sent by telegraph to the foreign or ab sent cardinals, and those In Lome are. called to the Vatican. On the death occurring the first step to be taker, is the official vilification that the vicar of Christ is no more. This act, which is performed with a certain prescribed ceremony, devolves upon the cardinal camerlingo (cham berlain), to whom on the demise of the holy father the supreme authority for the time being is committed. Attired in full canonicals, his emi nence, attended by the cardinals, prel ates and laymen of high rank at the papal court, proceeds to the chamber of death. Knocking at the door with a wand of silver, the cardinal camer lingo enters the room and, advancing to the couch on which lies the dead figure of the pope, touches the breast and forehead and then, sinking on his knees, proclaims in a loud voice, “Dom inos papa, nostor mortuus est.” The fisherman’s ring and the other papal seals are then handed to the cardinal camerlingo, together with a document formally attesting the death of the pope. As soon as this ceremony is accom plished the body is embalmed and at tired in the pontifical vestments as a preliminary to the public exposition of the remains in St. Peter’s. The body. New Scheme For the Metro politan Opera House. TWO FLOORS BUILT IN SECTIONS. All IviudM of Soenen In New Yorlt’n Temple of Music May lie Repre sented by Mean* of the Second Floor, Supported on Disappearinsr Carriaarea, Which Move on Perpen dicular Truck*. ExtensU-e alterations now being made to the Metropolitan Opera House stage in New York at a cost of $135,- 000 will when finished make it one of the most complete in the world and will add immeasurably ta the artistic side of the opera season, says the New The South Carolina College is round- tog out the first century of its existt nee and will celebrate Its centennial In Jan uary, 1906. . The College was cha? tered in 1801 and opened for active work in Jaauary, 1805. It owes its existence to a patriotic purpose, the education of all the youth of the State at a common center, “In order to promote the In struction, the good order and the har mony of the whole community,” and it was built from a portion of the pro ceeds of a reimbursement made by the United States to South Carolina for ex penses incurred In the Revolution. Dur ing the century that Is closing the Col lege has contributed largely to the statesmanship, the patriotism, the learning and the high moral standards that have prevailed in South Carolina and her sister States. The roll of Col lege Alumni contains the names of men who have become noted In all the pur suits of life, both in peace and war. The exigencies of the struggle between, the States cldsed the college in 18«3, and the buildings were used as hospi tals for sick and wounded Confederate*. But as soon as peace was restored the institution was reopened by the “Orr ^ork Herald. Operas such as ‘The government” and enjoyed several^year* Flying Dutchman,” “Lohengrin” and of success unto it was overturned dur- The Cherokee Drug company have concluded to add the third story «o their magnificent new home.t hey are Office Over The Battery. erecting on the northwest corner of Limestone and Frederiik streets. ’Phone 82. A Season of Danger but unconcealed enthusiasm over the i which is committed to the charge of prospect of three months in the bar- the papal chamberlains, is first of all vest field. taken to the Sistine chapel and thence Since the appeal for men came to Mr. by a covered way to the great ba- , Bealin ‘from the Kansas farmers, silica, where it 4ics in state fot three 1 through the state labor bureau at To- days in the chapel of the holy sacra- Notwithstanding the bad wheat peka, he has received hundreds of let- nient, reposing on a richly draped 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 year, some of our suburban farmers tors from men, young and old, asking made pretty good crops. Mr. James what work was offered, how long it T. Turner made 180 bushels, Mr. Wm. would last, what wages would be paid A. Turner eighty bushels and Sheriff and what railroad fare could be se- Tbomas seventy-one bushels. The excursion train from Spartan burg to Charlotte, N. C., Saturday made the trip. A good many got on at Gaffney and report that all went „ 1 u .1 on quietly until the return trip, when Get your Insurance arranget n ie gome 0 j ^ usual excursion rowdyism was indulged in by some of the excur sionists, and one man got bis hand severely cut by breaking out a win dow with it. A Little More Uncertaini Aetna Life Insurance Company, then your w ork or your vacation will be more care-free. J..... J. Darliy, Agt, GAFFNEY, S. C. cured. With the first day’s batch came several letters written on excellent lin en stationery that here the monograms and names of really “swell” seaside hotels. The writers said they were college students who wanted to work during vacation and modestly said that they were ahlebodied, possessed of some strength and were willing to work 1 hard. Superintendent Bealin’s answers that the farmers in Kansas would pay The U. 8. Circuit Court of Appeals $2.50 a day and board, that the season Ninety Per Cent 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] With Scientific Accu racy and all the diseasesj£of the Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat ^treated according to the latest and most approved methods. has banded down a decision in the ease of A. H. Pollock vs. Jones, etc. Pollock’s mortgage was declared to be invalid as a lien against the bank rupt estate, thereby sustaining the decisions of Referee G. W. Speer and District Judge W. H. Bravley. Hill Montague and N. W. Hardin repre sented Pollock; Hall & Willis the trustee in bankruptcy. Judge Simon- ton wrote the opinion of the court. “Enraged courts,” KeMult, of L.a\v’H Delay. ICharlotte Observer.] at the tardiness of the William Thacker, a white would continue for 100 days from July 1 and that transportation could be had for $20.05, round trip, brought a num ber of responses. Several young men wdio xvere living near New York went personally to the free employment bu reau office in that city and waited their turn in the long line of poor men and women who were seeking a place to earn a living. Princeton has sent the largest gang of “hands.” Twenty-five students from the New Jersey college have signed. They have by common consent placed themselves under the leadership of W. couch. Four members of the noble guard watch over the remains day and night with drawn swords. The body is so exposed that the faithful in filing past can kiss the feet of the dead pontiff. Meanwhile every church in Rome is draped in mourning, and masses for the repose of the soul of the departed, to gether with the especial prayer for the guidance of the church and of the new pope, are said constantly. During this time the arrangements for the holding of the conclave are be ing perfected. The ten sacred congre gations meet on the third day from the pope’s death in the hall of consistory and there appoint three members of their body and a cardinal bishop, a cardinal priest and a cardinal deacon to form, with the cardinal camerlingo, the temporary state executive. On the first meeting of the cardinals the cardinal camerlingo reads the papal bull touching on the election of a pope and then, in the presence of all, breaks the fisherman’s ring and signets of the dead pontiff. SCOUT IN A SUNDAY SCHOOL , t , J. Simpson and C. R. Prentiss of the mao convicted of murder two years >clagg ((f m Smtlller sangs are niade ago, has been lynched in Kentucky ITV>r Building and Plastering bln.e Goal, and Plaster Hair. * Plaster Paris Shingles. Portland Cement, Dynamite, Blasting Powder. Fuse I f and Dynamite Cays, call on Limestone Springs Lime Worts CARROLL & CO., Lessees. Teleuhone After two trials he got a life sentence, but, the dispatches say, “Thacker appealed to the court of appeals and was awaiting another trial.” He “had some money and was able to command the support of some influ ential men and it was feared he would escape punishment altogether.” There is another lesson. Where money may pay for blood; where the services of “influential men” may be hired to frustrate the law; where ac cessories after the act are to be had for a price, then comes the mob and anarchy. * up of Cornell and Harvard students, while there have been three or four from La Salle Institute of Technology of Troy, N. Y. Among recent additions Colonel Jack Crawford Now Teaehe* a Cla** of YouiiKNter*. It is not often that an old frontier scout becomes transformed into a Sun day school teacher, but Colonel Jack Crawfortl, erstwhile companion of Buf falo Bill. “Wild Bill” HIckok and oth- to the list were three medical students < er of the plainsmen, teaches a class of who live in Brooklyn. youngster* in a Grant's Pass (Ore.) “Last year,” said one of the studeuts, Sunday school, says a correspondent of COLLEGE OF CHARLESTON CHARLESTON S. C.! IlSXH YEAR BEGINS SEPTEMBER 25. FOR Up-to-Date Job Print ing, call at the LEDGER Office. Gaffney, S. C. a stocky, sunburned young man who wore a light suit, low shoes, heliotrope socks and a panama hat with a colored band, “I dallied away my entire vaca tion. I had a lot of sport in the same old way, but it certainly did get tire some. I want diversion. 1 have never traveled much in the west, and I’d like to learn about the country and the peo ple. A hundred days of hard work wouldn’t hurt any man, would it?” The students are not the only per sons going from New York to help har vest the Kansas crop of wheat. A large number of men of all sorts and condi tions, from the unemployed mechanic to the Bowery loafer, apply at the em ployment bureau’s office for informa tion as to what the job is. The super intendent is circumspect in choosing the men to send west. The man who does not strike Mr. Bealin as a sober. Final Discbarge. - w ., Notice is hereby given that I will ap- “ ot the moMy t0 SS°" 5" d ami discharge a. guardian of the ^ the Chicago Inter Ocean. Furthermore, as a Sabbath school lecturer he has achieved a fame which has reached as far as Portland. Old Colonel Jack is a man of impres sive bearing. With his long, flowing white locks and his goatee—a typical frontiersman’s goatee it is, too—he pre sents a picturesque appearance as he stands before a class of children and lectures them on the deeds of the prophets. Once upon a time the old man was known as the church building scout. He broke many trails through the mountains of Montana and Colorado and at one time was one of the most feared pony express riders in the west. During his more active days he was mixed up in many an affray. He saw some of the most notorious bad men bite the dust, and he was with "WI14 well Intentioned man gets turned Bill” Hickok in some of the fiercest down. Most of the applicants, how ever, Mr. Bealin says, are fine appear ing workingmen, above the average. • Many of them cannot go because, Tuition #40. Board and furnished room estate of Rloisc Bro Russell j Bro m Dormitory $10 per month. All can- j h R R John R Rr J own aml didates for admission are permitted to J Mar £ uerite Rro £ linors compete for Boyce Scholarships, which « Mrs. Lizzie W. Brown, pay $100 a year. For catalogue, *** Guardian. Address HARRISON RANDOLPH, j Published in Gaffney Ledger June 30th, President, j July 7th, 14th, 21st, 1903. Tan Shoes are all the rage. Why should you not keep up with the style? We have them in Queen Quality and cheaper grades. :: :: lb, R. S. Lipscomb Shoe Co. IS* Shoe Store. pay the rare. They had expected that transportation would be furnished free of charge. Such a practice, Mr. Bealin says, would be dangerous, as many men would get tickets to Topeka and then leave the train this side of there, and the farmer would not be benefited by his outlay. Other still less scrupulous men might drop off at Jersey City and sell their tickets. The demand is so urgent in Kansas that no chances can be taken. Thou sands of men are needed there to har vest the crop, and there is a possibility that much grain will be wasted or de stroyed because of the Inability to gar ner it before damaging weather seta In. The statement of needs sent to Mr. Bealin shows that In Russell county, Kan., 2,500 m£n must be had within a few days, 1,500 in Pawnee county, 1,500 in Reno county. In other coun ties the situation Is similar. * fights that famous character had in the Dakota Bad Lands. Crawford is now a settled and stern business man. owns thousands of acres of Oregon land and is rated wealthy. Yet he has not forgotten his cunning with a gun and can draw bead on a bull’s eye at as great a distance as he could in the seventies. Geological Survey’* New Division. The geological survey has lately or ganized a new division to be known as the division of hydrology. N. H. Dar- ton will be in charge of the operations conducted by this division in the west, the chief center of the work of this new arm of the survey’s service. Of late years the selection and determina tion of localities suitable for the sink- “The Ring” cycle, which require elab orate scenery, will now be presented with artistic completeness. “Parsifal,” too, which will be seen for the first time in the United States next season, will be given by Mr. Con- ried on a magnificent scale. The entire storm scene on (lie ocean in “Th» Fly ing Dutchman," which has had to he omitted at the Metropolitan, will be beautifully shown from the new stage. The old stage floor lias been torn out, and in its place there will be two floors, either of which may be used, according to scenic effect to be produced One is made in two huge sections which sep arate in the center and by a system of counterbalance weights may be pushed into the wings and out of the way. Below this will be another floor, built in sections. 8 by 4 feet, supported on carriages which move on perpen dicular tracks. The space under the stage has been excavated to a depth equal to the height of the stage itself. Entire scenes can thus be built under the stage on these disappearing car riages and then raised noiselessly into place. To operate these stage sections counterbalance weights are again used. Ride scenes will stand on carriages below the stage and will be simply rolled into place through grooves cut in tlie floor at the proper angles. Drop scenes, which now require a compli cated rigging loft and a regiment of men to handle them, will be raised and lowered bv a system of counterbal anced weifcats, and one man can easily operate them. To represent a moving scene, or, more properly, the changing landscape a rid er might see as he passed along, per pendicular rollers two feet in diameter will revolve in the wings, and from them will be unrolled strips of scenery. From the one nearest the audience will be unwound a transparent net on which will l>e painted large foreground ob jects, such as trees, rocks and bushes. Tins strip will move rapidly. Then will come a strip containing middle dis tance objects, moving more slowly, and so on until the last sot of rollers Is reached, bearing the background of sky and mountains, or whatever it may be, and moving very slowly or not at all. Thus Siegfried’s trip down the Rhine will be very clearly shown. Heretofore this scene had to be omitted, the or chestra merely playing the music. An entire new electrical equipment is being installed, and the best lighting effects will be obtained. They will be controlled by a man at a $20,000 switchboard beside the prompter’s desk on the front part of the stage. Hither to the lighting effects were controlled from the wings, and it was necessary to signal from the prompter’s box. Another improvement will be the en largement of the orchestra pit by al- ! most half to accommodate 120 men in-’ stead of sixty-five or seventy, as at present. To do this a few feet have been taken from the front part of the stage. Now a Mlcy Fad, Have you seen a woman on a street ear or train take two white mice out of an air filled reticule, caress them fond ly and then kiss them? It’s, a fact. Saw one of them on a Pennsylvania train the other day, says a writer In the New York Press. Her husband was with her, but the Wee small pets occu pied all her attention. The reticule bad little air openings in the sides, with a rubber tube attachment through which occasionally fresh air was blown, for the day was sultry and wee mouslc might suffocate. “Hubby” was util ized to blow in the air. Ye gods! He looked as such a husband might be considered to be—henpecked and' thor- oughly subdued. Occasionally the wo man would open the reticule, when the little white mice would clamber out over the top. Is this to be a new fad? What next? tog the Radical regime. Since 1880, how- erer. the college has been continuously open, and has educated hundreds at young men and a number of young women, who for some years have been permitted to partake of its advantages. Originally the College was known as a literary institution, although from early times its faculty contained scien tists of great ability, but of late years its courses have broadened out so as to embrace also technical scientific in struction, instruction in law and -a course in practical methods for teach ers. President Benjamin Sloan, the head of the Department of Physics and En gineering, is a graduate of West Point, and was a distinguished officer of ord nance during the war between the ’States. His graduates in engineering are now occupying most responsible positions in different parts of the United States. Professor Joseph Daniel Pope, . dean of the Law Department, has had 1 wide experience in government in the legislative halls of the State and in the Secession Convention, and re recognized a« high authority in law and in equity jurisprudence. Some of the other mem bers of the faculty have had dis tinguished careers in this College, while others have brought to it the best method* of colleges and universities elsewhere. The most recent and most important addition that has been made to the usefulness of the College is the estab lishment of scholarships to be given to one man-teacher in each county who has taught at least one year. This is intended to offer the advantages of pro fessional training to one who has al ready gathered practical experience in direct contact with pupils in the school room and realizes the difficulties that must be surmounted. Professor Ward- ; law, who is at the head of the depart ment in pedagogy, is eminent in hto 1 profession both as a student and as » 'practical teacher and school superin- itendent. The College is situated at the capital of the State and affords to the student opportunity for studying the workings of the government in a direct way. It Is accessible from all parts of th£ State and is in a healthful locality. The re- lligious advantages are exceptional be cause each of the principal denomina tions has a prosperous congregation in Columbia. Expenses are moderate. There is a suite of three rooms for each, pair of students, warm in winter and 1 well ventilated in summer. A large campus, a fine gymnasium and an ex cellent athletic field afford ample op portunity for exercise. The College is increasing in useful ness and in prosperity with the in creased prosperity of the State, and the prospects are that with the new century this institution will surpass the ad*’ mirabie record it has already made. LOANED ON COUNTHY OK CITY REA I. KSTATE AT 6 PER CENT." <i. W. SPEKK, Attorney at Law. Scientific Prescription Compounding A New Era HE science of pharmacy has advanced more rapidly in the last decade than in the previous half century. The science of medicine has progressed with equal rapidity. , Public welfare demands that these two sciences always keep abreast; they are dependent one upon the other to a degree that the public does not fully recognize. New remedies are constantly com ing in use, old remedies are being perfected, advanced methods are Being adopted. All these changes mean more problems for the phar macist. More knowledge arid skill are con stantly being required. The drug gist who is not progressive cannot possibly give the kind of service that public interest demands. Let us have your prescriptions. (To be continued.) W4«blnff Bee*, Boaton'a New Fad. Boston’s latest fad is the “washing bee,” says the Pittsburg Dispatch. This unique form of entertainment is ar ranged by people In the neighborhood gathering their washes in a big laun dry and washing, drying and ironing the clothing themselves Instead of de- CHEROKEE DRUG CO. Limestone and Frederick Sts. Ing of artesian wells and of detennin-; pemUng upon servants or the uncertain Ing from surface Indications whether “ wa gh lady.” Several such parties Glaa* Sand In Kansas, An immense deposit of glass land has been found. in Wilson county, Kan., which is said to be equal to any Imported. In the same region are found large quantities of salt cake and lime, the other principal Ingredients of glass, and It is predicted that Kansas wtfl soon come to the front In the glass Industry. or not water exists below the surface, and, If so, at what depths, have become so vast as to require the time and en ergies of more than one member of the survey, and for this reason the new division will have this phase of work as its special object have been organized lately for char itable purposes Instead of the usual “sewing bee” or “baked bean supper.” Wofford College SPARTANBURG. S. C. Henry N. Snyder, Litt. I)., M.A., Pres. Four full College courses. Favorable surrdlinriings. Gymnasium. Athletic Grounds. Lecture Course. Library Fa cilities. Next session begins Sept. 23, 1903. For catalogue apply to J. A. Gamewkix. Secretary. •harpsbootlnv st Porpoises. t Gunners In the French navy are hav- I lug this summer some excellent prac- - tlce with their sepondary batteries and Bookofeiier’s Fortua#. machine guns. The waters off Brittany The Journal of the Knights of Labor an( j Normandy are overrun with por- estiruates John D. Rockefeller's pres- p 0 |* 09 , which are doing great Injury to ent fortune st $800,000,000, bringing th e figbing industry. Complaints were him th# snug little income of $48,000,- made to the government and as a result 1 o, . . i- /-> r 1 000 a ysar. At the rate of increase of t he commander of the fleet at Brest H on 7o ^n(?ilTdual1iDHirnt La ^nr a^d tbs last four yaars, It Is estimated that waH instructed to let his men practice tu j t j on f or year ‘ * no A ij information It will amount to $8,276J)00,000,000 In on the “sea pigs.” The number killed given by A. M. DuPrk, has not yst been reported. 7.31 1 mo Head Master. Wofford College Fitting School SPARTANBURG, S. C.