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DON’T K. < T'A; TOBACCO SPIT ami S A1 0 KB Your Lifeawayl You can be cuied of any form of tobacco usinf easily, bo made well, strong, magnetic, full of aew life and vigor by taking MO-TO-BAO, that makes weak men stro g. Many gain ten pounds in ten days. Ov^ 100,000 cured. AH druggists. Cure guaranteed. Book let aud advice 1'KKR. Addres,-, STERLINti REMEDY CO., Chicago or New York. -CV* A Full Line Of all the delicacies of The season, for cold Luncheon and moonlight Pic-nics, at Peeler & Lemmond. Prompt Delivery. ’Phone 55. Spectacles and Eyeglasses Scientifically liiWod for the correction of all defects of vision. H. R. GOODELL, Optician, SCAUTANBURG, S. O. ^ No charge for examination. 10-12-01 Yfintlirop College Scholarship and Entrance Examinations. The examinations for the award of vacant scholarships in Wlnlhrop College and for the admission of new students will he held at the County Court House on Friday, .Inly 12th, at 9 a. m. Applicants must not be less than lifteen years of age. When scholarships arc vacated after July 12th they will ho awarded to those making the highest average at this examination. The cost of attendance, Including Ixmrd, urnisbed room, heat, light and washing, Is MkW *. r •idmlV.. For further information and a catalogue address President 1>. B. Johnson, Itock Hill, S. 0. The Cherokee County Mutual Association has issued hoi ween 400 and lion policies to the citizens of the county aggregating $2(0,(Xk). There are yet a few property owners who have not Insured with us whom we think should do so now, or as soon as possible, as a protection to themselves and families, for the unex pected happens to us all sooner or later and happy is he who is prepared to meet this •emergency We can safely say that there is no cheaper or hot ter Investment offered you. Rev. A. Davidson. Gaffney, and Mr. Frank McLuney, Abingdon, are agents, who arc a.u thorized to appraise your property and Issue ua policy on same. T. M. Littlejohn, Pres. I. En Jkffkiuks. Sec. and Treas. For the Building Season. L. BAKER lias just received a large stock of Sash, Doors, Mantelpieces and all kinds of Trimming, Flooring, (-eiling, Siding, Box ing, Molding, Brackets, etc. No. 1 Heart Pine Shingles and a good stock John W. Masury & Sons Guaranteed Paints and Varnish, all at the lowest rea sonable prices. Call and see him when you want anything in his line. No charge for making estimates. DR. J. F. GARRETT, Dentist, Gaffney, - - - S. C. Office over J. R. Tolleson’s new store In office from 1st to 26th of each month: Dr. C. T. LIPSCOMB, Dentist, Office over R. A. |ones ft Co ’• Store. Oan be found at office sdx days In the week G. W. SPEER, A'r'ro I* TV I£ Y-AT-L, A W, GAFFNEY, S. C. Cffllce over J. W. Tollonon’s Store. WALLACE & OTIS, LAWYERS. Ofllcr ub^t^trs. between U. A. Jonea and Davenport. Phone 87. J. E. WEBSTER, A^tloriiey- Office la Court Uouae. (Probate'Judge • office Gaffney City, S. C. Practices in all the courts. Collec tions a specialty C. JEFFERIES «K GAFFNEY, S. C. €:oiii nteit/M Caw. Corporation K*a»l KnUte Law. Money to loan on approved security. JAMES A. WILLIS, ATTORNEY AT LAW, C> A K .H' N LC V, W. CL Notary PuWt: In office. Prompt attentlod given lo al. busl Office over K. A. Joaaw ft Co.'s store. ' - n. H.Duncwu C.P.Handers. W.tf. Mall.Jr Dl'SCAl, SANDERS & HALL, Atforneya-at-Law. ., B. ToMrsn's ft Oo.‘s I toss. Washinoton, July 14.—In this dis course Dr. Taltnagc shows the causes of the great financial disturbances which take place every few years aud arraigns the people who live beyond their means; text, Jeremiah xvli, 11, “As the partridge sitteth on eggs and hatcheth them not, so he that getteth riches and no^ by right shall leave them in the midst of his days and at his end shall he a fool.” Allusion is here made to a well known fact In natural history. If a partridge or a quail or a robin brood the eggs of another species, the young will not stay with the one that happen ed to brood them, hut at the first op portunity will assort with their own species. Those of us who have been brought up in the country have seen the dismay of the farmyard hen, hav ing brooded aquatic fowls, when after awhile they tumble Into their natural element, the water. So my text sug gests that ti man may gather under his wings the property of others, hut It will a f ter awhile escape; It \ ill leave the man in a sorry predicament aud make him feel very silly. What has caused all the black days of financial disasters for the last GO years? Some say It Is the credit sys tem. Something back of that. Some say It Is the spirit of gambling ever and anon becoming epidemic. Some thing hack of that. Some say It Is the sudden shrinkage In the value of secur ities, which even the most honest and intelligent men could not have fore seen. Something hack of that. I will give you the primal cause of all these disturbances. It Is the extravagance of modern society which impels a man to spend more money than he can hon estly make, and be goes into wild spec ulation in order to get the means for Inordinate display, and sometimes the man Is to blame and sometimes his wife and oftener both. Five thousand dollars income, $10,000, $20,000 income. Is not enough for a man to keep up the style of living he proposes, and- therefore he steers his hark toward the maelstrom. Other men have suddenly snatched up $50,000 or $100,000—why not he? The present Income of the man not being large enough, he must move earth and hell to catch up with his neighbors. Others have a country scat —so must he; others have an extrava gant caterer—so must he; others have a palatial residence—so must he. Extravagance. Extnvagauee is the cause of all the defalcations of the last GO years, and if you will go through the history of all the great panics and the great financial disturbances no sooner have you found the story than right hack of it you will find the story of how many horses the man had, how many carriages the man had, how many residences in the coun try the man had, how many banquets the man gave—always, aud not one ex ception for the last 00 years, either di rectly or Indirectly extravagance the cause. Now, for the elegances and the re finements and the decorations of life I cast my vote. While I am consider- ering this subject a basket of flowers is handed In—flowers paradisaical in their beauty—white calla, with a green background of begonia; a cluster of he liotropes nestling In some geraniums; sepal and perianth bearing on them the marks of God’s finger. When 1 see that basket of flowers, they persuade me that God loves beauty and adorn ment aud decoration. God might have made the earth so ns to supply the gross demands of sense, but left It without adorument or attraction, in stead of the variegated colors of the seasons, the earth might have worn an unchanging dull brown. The tree might have put forth Its fruit without the prophecy of leaf or blossom. Niag ara might have come down In gradual descent without thunder and winged spray. Look out of your window any morn ing after there has been a dew and see whether God loves Jewels. I’ut a crys tal of snow under a microscope and see what God thinks of architecture. God commanded the priest of olden time to have his robe adorned with a wreath of gold nod the hem of bis garment to bo embroidered In pomegranates. The earth sleeps, and God blankets It with the brilliants of the night sky. The world wakes, and God wishes It from the burnished laver of the sunrise. So I have not much patience with a man who talks as though decoration and adornment and the elegants of life are a sin when they are divinely rec ommended. But there Is a line to be drawn between adornment and decora tions that we can afford and those we cannot afford, and when a man crosses that line be beewnes culpable. 1 can not tell you wl \t Is extravagant for you- You canr t tell me what Is ex travagant for f What Is right for a queen may be squandering for a duch ess. What may be economical for you, a man with larger income, will be wick ed waste for me, with smaller Income. There Is no It on rule on this subject Ivvery man before God and on his knees must Judge what Is extravagance, and m-hen a mao goes into-expendltures be yond his means he Is extravagant. When a man buys anything he cannot pay for, be is extravagant Mean Class of Thieves. There arc families In all our cities who can hardly pay thely pent and who owe all the merchants In the neighbor hood and yet have an apparel unfit for their circumstances and are all the time sailing so near shore that business misfortune or an attack of sickness prepares them for pauperism. You know very well there are thousands of families In our great cities who stay In hcigbtxKnowl* until they have exhaust ed all their capacity Jo get trusted. TTiey stay In the lieighborboptft until the druggists will let them have no more medicines, and the butchers will sell them no more meat, and the bak ers will sell them no more hfead, aud fjjo grocery men will sell them no more Migai. Ttf*'}} they And the region un healthy. and they fclf/* o carman, whom til*/ *SJ*f *«•****•## new quartern, where the merchants, the druggists, the butchers, the bakers and the grocei’ymen come and give them the best rounds of beef and the best sugars and the best merchandise of all sorts until they find out that the only compensation they are going to get is the acquaintance of the patrons. There are thousands of such thieves in all our big cities. You see, 1 call them by the right name, for if a man buys anything he does not mean to pay for he is a thief. Of course sometimes men are flung of misfortunes, aud they cannot pay. I know men who are just as honest In having failed as other men are honest in succeeding. I suppose there Is hard ly a man who has gone through life hut there have been some times when he has been so hurt of misfortune he could not meet his obligations. But all that I put aside. There are u multi tude of people who buy that which they never intend to pay for, for which there Is no reasonable expectation they will ever be able to pay. Now, If you have become oblivious of honesty and mean to defraud, why not save the merchant as much as you can? Why not go some day to his store and when nobody is looking Just shoulder the ham or the spare rib and in modest si lence steal away? That would be less criminal, because In the other way you take not only the man’s goods, but you take the time of the merchant and the time of his accountant, and you take the time of the messenger who brought you the goods. Now, if you must steal, steal In a way to do as little damage to the trader as possible. John Randolph arose In the American senate when a question of national finance was being discussed, aud, stretching himself to his full height, in a shrill voice he cried out, “Mr. Chair man, I have discovered the philoso pher’s stone, which turns everything into gold—pay as you go." Society lias got to he reconstructed on this subject or the seasous of defalcation will con tinue to repeat themselves. You have no right to ride In a carriage for which you are hopelessly in debt to the wheel wright who furnished the laudau and to the horse dealer who provided the blooded span and to the harness maker who caparisoned the gay steeds and to the liveryman who has provided the stabling aud to the driver who, with rosetted hat, sits on the conch box. Wasted Wealth. Oh, I am so glad it is not the absolute necessities of life which send people out Into dishonesties and fling them into misfortunes. It is almost always the superfluities. God has promised us a house, but not a palace; raiment, but not chinchilla; food, but not canvas- back duck. I am yet to see oue of these great defalcations which Is not connected In some way with extrava gance. Extravagance accounts for the dis turbance of national finances. Aggre gations are made up of units, and when one half of the people of this country owe the other half how can we ex pect financial prosperity? Again and again at the national election we have had a spasm of virtue, and we said, “Out with one administration and In with another, and let us have a mew deni of things, and then we will get over all our perturbation.” I do not care who is president or who Is secre tary of the treasury or how much breadstuffs go out of the country or bow much gold Is imported until we learn to pay our debts and It becomes a general theory In this country that men must buy no more than they can pay for. Until that time comes there will be no permanent prosperity. Look at the pernicious extravagance. Take the one fact that New York every year pays $3,000,000 for theatrical amuse ments. While once in awhile a Henry Irving or an Edwin Booth or a Joseph Jefferson thrills a great audience with tragedy, you know as well as I do that the vast majority of the theaters are as debased as debased they can be, as unclean as unclean they can be and as damnable as damnable they can be. Three million dollars—the vast major ity of those dollars going In the wrong direction. Over a hundred millions paid in this country for cigars and tobacco ft ycarl About $2,000,000,000 paid for strong drink in one year In this country! With such extravagance, pernicious extrava gance, can there be any permanent prosperity? Business men, cool head ed business men. Is such a thing a pos sibility? Thesemxtravagances also ac count, as 1 have already hinted, for the positive crimes, the forger’es. the ab sconding! of the officers of the banks. The store on the business street swamp ed by the residence on the fashionable avenue. The father's, the husband’s craft capsized bg carrying too much do mestic sail That Is wbat springs the leak In the merchant’s money till That Is what cracks the pistols of the sui cides. That Is what tears down the banks. That Is what stops Insurance companies. That Is what halts this na tion again and again In Its triumphal march of prosperity. In the presence of the American people, so far as I can get their attention, I want to arraign this monster corse of extravagance, and 1 want you to pelt It with your scorn and burl at It your anathema. Portanes Wrecked. How many fortunes every year wreck ed on the wardrobe! Things have got to such a pass that when we cry over our sins in church we wipe the tears away with a $150 pocket handkerchief! I show you • domestic tragedy In i acts: Act the first—A home, plain and beautiful. Enter newly married pair. Enter contentment. Enter as much happiness as ever gets In one home. '.Act the second—Enter discontent. LJter desire for larger expenditure. Enter envy. Enter jealousy. Act the third—Enter the queenly dressmakers. Enter the French mil liners, Enter all costly plate and all great extravagances, Act the fourth—Tip top of society. Princes and princesses of upper teudom floating In aud out. Everything on a large and magnificent scale. Enter contempt for other people. Act the fifth and last—Enter the as signee. Enter the sheriff. Enter the creditors. Enter humiliation. Enter Jhp Wplb °f God. Enter the contempt pf society. EhtCF Filin and (tenth. Now drop the curtain, The piny is ended, and the lights are out. I called It a tragedy. That ts a mis nomer. It Is a farce. Extravagance accounts for much of V. N whom you have to help'? Many of them arc the children of parents who had plenty, lived in luxury, had more than they needed, spent nil they had, spent more, too; then died and left their fam ilies in poverty. Some of those who call on you now for aid had an ances try that supped on Burgundy and woodcock. I could name n score of men who have eAery luxury. They smoke the best cigars, and they drink the fin est wines, and they have the grandest surroundings, and when they die their families will go on the cold charity of the world. Now, the death of such a man Is a grand larceny. He swindles the world as he goes into his coffin, and he deserves to have Ids bones sold to the medical museum for anatomical specimens, the proceeds to furnish bread for bis children. I know it cuts close. I did not know but some of you In high dudgeon would get up aud go out. You stand It well. Borne of you make a great swash in life, and after awhile you will die, and ministers will he sent for to come and stand by your coffin and lie about your excellences, but they will not come. If you send for me, I will tell you what my text will be: “He that provideth not for his own, aud especially for those of his own household, is worse than an infidel!” And yet we find Christian men, men of large means, who some times talk eloquently about the Chris tian church and about civilization, ex pending everything on themselves and nothing on the cause of God, and they crack the back of their Palais Royal glove In trying to hide the oue cent they put In the Lord’s treasury. Wbat an apportionment! Twenty thousand dollars for ourselves and one cent for God! Ah, my friends, this extrava gance accounts for a great deal of what the cause of God suffers! Funeral Desecration. And the desecration goes on even to the funeral day. You know very well that there are men who die solvent, but the expenses are so great before they get under ground they are insolvent. There are families that go Into penury in wicked response to the demands of this day. They put In casket and tomb stone that which they ought to put In bread. They wanted bread; you gave them a tombstone. One would think that the last two ob ligations people would be particular about would be to the physician and the undertaker. Because they are the two last obligations, those two profes sions are almost always cheated. They send for the doctor In great haste, and he must come day; and night They send for the undertaker amid the great solemnities, and often these two men are the very last to be met with com pensation. Merchants sell goods, and the goods are not paid for. They take back the goods, lam told. But there is no relief In this case. The man spent all he had in luxuries and extravagauce while he lived, and then he goes out of the world and has left nothing for bis lamily, nothing for the obsequies, and as he goes out of the world he steals the doctor’s pills and the undertaker’s slippers. I was reading in a New York paper an account of the obsequies in a family of very moderate estate, and the aggregate was $3,000. A man In New York of moderate estate dies. He has lived In extreme luxury. He departs this life. The family, desirous of keep ing up the magnificence, orders the fol lowing things. They were produced and never paid for to this day: CMket, covered with Lyoni velvet, illver molding* $850 Heavy plaited handle* 60 Solid silver plate, engraved In Borneo letters 75 Ten linen scarf* 160 Floral decorations • •••••••% •••• 225 Music and quartet choir at the hojee 40 Twenty carriages 140 Then 16 other Important expenditures amounting to 836 Making an aggregate of 11.876 And all that to get one poor mortal to his last home and never paid for! Swindled bis family. Swindled the world. He Is swindling It now. It is one of the great curses of this day, the extravagance,the wicked extravagance, of the country. Must Account to God. And then look bow the cause of God Is Impoverished. Men give so much sometimes for their Indulgences they have nothing for the cause of God and religion. Twenty-two million dollars expended in this country a year for religious purposes; but what are the twenty-two millions expended for re ligion compared with the hundred mil lions expended on cigars and tobacco and then two thousand millions of dol lars spent for rum I So a man who had a fortune of $750,000 or what amount ed to that In London spent It all In In dulgences, chiefly In gluttonies, and sent hither and yon for all the deli cacies and often hnd s meal that would cost $1UU or $200 for himself. Then he was reduced to 1 guinea, with which he bought a rare bird, had it cooked In beat style, ate It, took two boars for digestion, walked out on Westminster bridge and Jumped Into the Thames- on a large scale what men arc doing on a small scale. Oh, my friends, let us take oar stand against the extravagances of society. Do not pay for things which are frivo lous when j*>u may lack the necessi ties. Do not put one month's wages or salary Into a trinket, Just oue trinket. Keep your credit good by seldom ask ing for any. Fay! Do not starve a whole year to afford one Belshazzar’s carnival. Do not buy a coat of many colors and then In six months be out at the elbows. Flourish not, as some peo ple I have known, who took apart ments at a fashionable hotel and hud elegant drawing rooms attached aud then vanished In the night, not even leaving their compliments for tbc land lord. I tell you. my friends, in the day of God's Judgment we shall not only have to give an account for the way we made pur money, but far the way we spent It. We have got to leave all the things that surround us now. Alas, If any of you In the dying hour felt like the dying actress who asked that the casket of Jewels be brought to her ami tlH*n turned them over with her pale hand and said, “Alas, that 1 have to leave you so soon!” Better In that hour have one treasure of heaven than the bridal trousseau of a Marie Antoinette, or to have been seated with Caligula at a banquet which cost Its thousands of dollars, or to have been carried to our lust resting place with sen I! tors and prlppes as pnl|bcqrefs. They that consecrate their wealth, their time, kiielr all, to God shall he held In everlasting remembrance, while 1 have the aulhority of this book for announc ing that the name of the wicked shall PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS. People You Know nuU People You Don’t Know. T. 8. Webber, cf Dellingers, 8. C., was in the city Saturday. Mr. Web ber is the postmaster at Dellingers and we venture the assertion that Uncle Sam has no better or more faithful servant in the rural postal service than your Uncle Truman. G. N. Moore, of Blacksburg, was in the city Saturday. Mr. Moore is a brother to I. W. Moore, better known to Ledger readers as '‘Farmer’s Friend,” and he is just as jolly and a much bigger man. Lee Patrick, of Wilkiusville, was promenading along Gaffney thorough fares Saturday. He looks like he has been busy, if being brownas a berry is any indication of thrift. Gad Wright, than whom there is no better citizen in Cherokee, was in the city Saturday. We are always glad of the opportunity to grasp a “paw” like Gad’s. Mrs. J. N. Cudd and children, who have been spending some time with Mr. and Mr. W. C. Carpenter, on Limestone street, returned to their home in Spartanburg yesterday. Broadus Pryor went to Charlotte Saturday on the excursion. Mrs. J. C. Otts is visiting relatives and friends near Manning. She will be away from home several weeks, during which time she will visit friends in other parts of the State. Mr. Otts is imposing on Happy Cal during the absence of the better part of the household. O. P. Richardson, who has been visiting relatives and friends in At lanta, returned to the city last Thurs day. O. P. reports a “most gorge ous” time. Miss Mittie Hopper and little Helen Gooding returned Friday from a few days visit to Charlotte. Ed H. Gaines and family have gone to edgewood, Va., to spend the sum mer with relatives. C. E. Schofield, of Macon, Ga., is here looking after the electric light plant of the city. R. W. Lee and M. C. Lipscomb, of the White Plains section, were in the city yesterday. Mrs. V. M. Montgomery, of Gaines ville, Ga., came out to attend the burial of Dr. Downey's baby. She returned home Sunday. Mrs. Edgar Harris and daughter, of Toccoa, Ga., are visiting the family of Capt. W. H. Richardson, near Limestone. J. F. Jenkins, a prominent citizen of Grover, N. C., was here Friday. Miss Hardin, of Blacksburg, was among the visitors in the city Friday. J. D. Jefferies, of Asbury, spent Friday in Cherokee’s capital. J. B. Simpson, of the Carpet Mill traveliqg force, is in the city. C. A/Burgess, of Warren, Mass., is here adjusting the engine at the power house. James Munro, Esq., of Union, was a visitor in the city Saturday. E. K. Belue, of Blacksburg, was over Saturday. W. A. Poole, of Pacolet Mills, spent Sunday in the city. Horace Ezell, of Woodruff, returned home with Mrs. Walker yesterday, and is visiting her and bis brother, J. E. Ezell, on Fairview evenue. L. A. Gettys, of Shelby, N. C., was in the city Saturday. Mrs. Willie Wilkins and children returned to the city yesterday after a few days stay at Glenn Springs. Mrs. T. I. Walker and children have returned home from a visit to relatives at Woodruff, Greenville and other points. Another Sonl Cwlled Dome. Mr. Alexander V. Jolly, son of Mr. and Mrs. R M. Jolly, of this city, died at the borne of his parents last night at 11 -20 of typhoid fever. He had been sick about three weeks. Mr. Jolly came home from Atlanta, where he was employed, about three weeks ago, having contracted his ill ness in that city. All that loving hearts and tender hands could do to relieve the sufferer was done, but the ravages of the disease could not be stayed. Mr. Jolly was twenty-three years of sge. He was a quiet and un assuming young man who possessed a remarkable trait of self-reliance. The sympathy of all Cherokee county will go out to the bereaved family in this their sad hour. The interment will take place this afternoon at Grassy Pond burying ground. The service will be conducted by Rev. Arch. C. Cree, of the First Baptist church of this city. A Raging, Roaring Flood Washed down a telegraph line which Cbas. C. Ellis, of Lisbon, la., had to repair. “Standiog waist deep in icy water,” he writes, “gave me a terrible cold and cough. It grew worse daily. Finally the best doctors iu Oakland, Neb., Sioux City and Omaha said I had Cousumption and could not live. Then 1 began using Dr. King’s New Discovery and was wholly cured by six bottles.” Posi tively guaranteed for Coughs, Colds and all Throat and Lung troubles by Cherokee Drug Co. Price 50c and $1 00. A noble nature can alone attract the noble, and alone knows bow to re tain them. A bad complexion generally results from inactive liver and bowels. In all such cases, DeWitt’s Little Early Risers produce gratifying results. Cherokee Drug Co. More than ft million people are treated lo the hospitals of London each year, If you want something specially interesting sbqut Crimson Clover, send for the leaflet just Issued by T. W. Wood A Sons, Richmond, Va. It gives with other Interesting informa tion, letters from successful growers of Crimson Clover, giving best meth ods of preparation and seeding—best uses and value—about sowing In corn or cotton at the last working— great value as s soil improver—also about its use for pasturage, green feed or bay. The leaflets and cata logues Issued by T. W. Wood A Sous are doing splendid work in the prac tical information giving as to the crops to grow and the best ways to glow them. SHORT LOCAL ITEMS. Local llcina Too Short fora lleail Drooped Together. Miss Addie McArthur has recover ed from a slight ailment that for several days gave some uneasiness lo the members of her household and her immediate friends Dr. R. W. Sanders, of Greenville, filled the pulpit of the Chreokee Avenue Baptist church Sunday evening, the pastor being unable to preach. The large audience was fully repaid in Dr Sanders' sermon. M. V. Fitzgerald, who has been engaged as master mechanic by the Limestone Cotton Mills since the establishment of that mill, has re signed to accept a similar position with the Lockhart mill, a position formerly held by him. Gaffney re grets to give up Mr. Fitzgerald, for he is among the best of the many good mill people of this section, but we wish Yrim success and prosperity in his new home. A VETERAN DEAD. Mr. Mike Thutiipitnn KcceivcH liijurleH that Cause His Death. .Correspondence o* The Ledger.) Star Fabm, July 15.—It is with sadness we have to report the death of Mr. Mike Thompson, of Home Postoffice, on the 10th inst., and buried at Corinth church on the 12ih. We did not know of his condition until after death and burial. I learn that a mule ran away with him and he got hurt so as to cause death in two or three days. “Cap,” as we al ways called him, was about seventy years old. He was born, raised and lived near Clifton in Spartanburg county until the war. He was not mar ried and leaves no family except his brothers, with whom he made his home. My acquaintance with “Cap” began in ISfil when we organized Company I, 13th S. C. V. near Clifton and entered the Confederate service, both serving through the war and re turning to our homes July 7th 1805, after being kept prisoners from the evacuation of Richmond until 18th of June. We came from New York by way of Hilton Head and Charleston on a Government transport, walking from Orangeburg to Hope Station on the Greenville railroad. We got to Greenville after dark, walked out on this side of town, and slept in a fence corner. Next moroing we asked for br.akfast at a farm house ou the road and being well fed started afoot to Spartanburg, which we reached next morning about 8 o’clock, when Char lie Thonpsou took us iu hand and gave us breakfast again. We.reached home the same day. Napoleon said Ney was the bravest of the brave. I think I can truthfully say that old Cap Thompson was among the brav est of the brave. He never complained at duty or rations. He was never sick or absent, kind and cheerful, ever ready in battle to follow where any dared to lead. The boys of Com pany I use to say that Cap didn’t know bullets had no eyes. When his time came for a furlough to come home he gave it to his brother William aud remained in camp. He is the first of the four brothers to be called from labor to refresh ment, and may his spirit rest in peace, for as was said of another, he bath done what he could. T. M. Littlejohn. The Mule, Oral mtuiit the wls«‘ man. He also made the fool; He made all the unlmuiM, Except it whs the mule. The mule Is u cross Between the luck and mare; And to accuse God of making him. I say it is nut fair. Ho In looking what to do And picking out my trade. 1 had to take an animal That God had never made. The mule is an animal That God never made. But I am fully satisfied Good men are in the trade. Ho God said unto Himself, ’•White meu I cannot had; Ho 1 will make the negro That he may work the mule." In making this assertion I may break the rule - God never would have made tin* ne gro. Had It not been for the mule. Ho He lout to deviate A little from tl(e rule; He had to make the negro „ That he might work the mule. In thinking this matter over | say without an oath. That I am fully satisfied This country needs them l»oth. There is one thing said of us That I here anu do > deny; —. „.._re’er In selling mules, to lie. That It’s a rule, where’er we go, • m u ] f _ ^ .. The merchant sells a piece of good* And says it wll' not fade; That’s as hig a e as ever I told In any mule trade. Mr. Negro, when you meet the mule. Let it be far ur pear, Hiiy, “(loud morning, my creator, 1 am glad to meet you here." - To preserve picture frames from flies boll three or four young onions in » pint of wftter; then with ft soft brush or blender, go over the frame. Bow Are Year lildeey* t .Dr. Hohh*' Sparura* Pill* cars all kid nr' IPs. Ham- ftlsfree Add Sterling llotuedr C0..CUIC4. -0 tN.f. —II....... —I ft A HUPKKH GKII* CURIE. Johnson’* Tonic is a superb Grip cuKk Drives out every trace of Grin IVpaon from the system. Ikies it uulcl;. NrUlilii an hour It enters the lihstj add liegius to neutralize the I'fftvl* of the poison. 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