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SIDE LIGHTS ON QUAY SAGE BAPS VACATIONS THE BURIAL OF HIROSE Pennsylvania Senator’s Method Financier Opposes Them and Tribute Paid by Japan to Her of Outwitting Reporters. Discusses System’s Injustice. Naval Hero. Rev. L. R. Gaines Makes a Statement. Report of L. It. Gaines for union ssion work from August, 1901, to .1 iy, 1901. Money expended by myself to date- .' Fairview mission $11.11 AN INSTANCE OF HIS BRAVERY. SEES NOTHING LEGITIMATE IN IT AN IMPRESSIVE SERVICE HELD. How HIh Prenencr of Mluil St<>i>iM-cJ n I’uiilc In llii' Civil Wur—The h•-fi at or'n .>!> tliii'iil >HinmaUc—An Hx- jierience 'With a Coarh Driver la tli»‘ AilIrnnUuckH. The late Senator Matthew S. Quay s ability to give newspaper men the slip is shown by the following incident, says the Philadelphia Telegraph. Senator Quay reached the Stratford House iu Philadelphia at 7 p. ui. one night. llis arrival quickly became known to the newspaper men, who planned to -bottle” him, to the end that he might not escape them, us he hud frequently done before. A bold dozen reporters stood watch at the Broad street entrance to the hotel, two others from the Press and Times standing guard at the Walnut street exit. All agreed that the senator was bottled sure. An hour passed, and the Press man fumbled in his vest pocket for a cigar, but could linu none, ihe Times man also fumbled with a like result. The night was coid and the vigil tiresome. A smoke, they agreed, would greatly relieve the tediousness of tlie watch- They Unally decided that it would be safe to leave their [>ost long enough to cross Broad street and "light up” at the Bellevue. They hurriedly crossed and n*u. nod, pulling contentedly, to renew the watch. Another hour passed. Then a Pitts burg correspondent walked up to the group of writers at the Broad street entrance. "What are you fellows do ing here?” was Ids greeting. "Waiting for Quay. Got him bottled up.” was the reply. Their confidence, however, gave way to chagrin when told that Quay had left the hoiel by the Walnut street door. The group as one man hastened to the watchers at that point to demand an accounting. The latter s.-offed. “Quay gone; impossible!” But the truth could not be suppressed. The guilty pair owned up to a dereliction of two minutes’ duration. Quay had slipped out in those two minutes. A long and fruitless search for the sena tor then ensued. At 11 p. m. the “old man” returned to the hotel. The re porters were invited to his Doom, when Quay stretched both arms above his head and yawned. “Oh. I’m so tired!” That was the extent of the interview. Then it was that a reporter brietly de scribed tile obelise of the two faithless wateliers, c'o ing by saying; "How w. . oil puni.sb siieh a de linquency. <-<. ii..«<u'V” i here v\a& a mer ry light in Quay’s eyes as he answered: “In the army liny shoot a sentinel who deserts his post.” “A great many persons do not know that Senator Quay won a deserved rep utation lor bravery in the civil war,” I'll 1 iikm Ihe “tiicitlon llahU” Is the OiilKi'oiilh of Ahnorinal or DiMtort* eil iltiNiiifftN Methoil»—If There 1m An> Ohllicatlou, He ( IiiIiiim, It Im on Clerk'll 1'art— llelleieM ChaiiKe of Work ItfNt Kecuiierallou. During the eighty-eight years of my career I have not once taken a vaca tion, says itusseil Sage in the Inde pendent. A young man said to me the other day, "Mr. Sage, would you not have taken a vacation if you had worked for some one else';” I replied that I would not. I have never been an advocate of what some term the "vacation habit.” When I was a boy the practice was not in vogue. As a matter of fact, 1 was j so glad to get a chance to learn busi ness that Tlie idea of asking my em- j ployer to make me a present of two ; w.-eks of the time that belonged to him because be ha I paid for it would have been prepu-u* roils. Besides, I was eager to auvunee iu business and could nut see how I could do this by wasting valuable time. Neither did any of my youthful usso- j elates take vaeations, and I am sure you will agree with me that the fact j did not reiard their progress when 1 say that among them were Tburlow Weed, the king maker; Horace Greeley, | Governor Seward and George Jones, ] the founder of the New York Times. These men were constantly at work, and they were history makers. i think the "vn ation habit” is the , outgrowth of aimormal or distorted business methods. I fail to see any-: KhnMl of flesh Late Commantler In Hi* J n i>iiiii-m<* Xuvy Who Wave IIIn Life For An other ut Tort Arthur Wan Iltirleii With Shinto IliteN—Mlknilo Ordered That All Honor lie I'nld the Dead. From Tokyo, Japan, under a recent ' dale a war corresp indent of the In- ; dlanapoiis News writes; The most impressive thing I have t seen in Japan so far was the ceremony at Aoyama, the funeral, according to Shinto rin s, of that gallant hero of the I war, Commander Hirose of the Japa nese navy. The Japanese are a hero loving race, ! and few nations have had a better op- j portunity for hero worship than that gceon J by the funeral of Hirose, a remarkable man, a fine sailor who ern- : bodied in himself all those qualities I that the Japanese most value. He lost * r) , ta * j his life, as b veil known now, in try ing to save Si gino. Ids warrant officer, I and the story < 'ds exploit is the most memorable tiling In the Fort Arthur engagement. The body of Commander Hirose was buried by the Russians when they found it in the water, and, like noble enemies, they gs ve their antagonist a solemn funeral, vith all the military honors that would have been accorded to an officer of the czar. But that real funeral was dei mil insufficient by Hirose’s friends in Tokyo, his old home, uyd it is even sa d that the mikado himself gave instructions that all hon or should be paid to the dead man. And so with fitting pomp and won drous ceremony tin v incased all that was reeoverd of Hir se’s body—a mere t. Rrhofioth . . . 3n eo t Oak (1 row, 11 months .. . - . - 1 1 uedinc; horse 3 years .. 210.00 <-m* horse . . . . (10.00 < ne buggy .. .. 20 00 id-pairs on Total Received for 3 U Fairview .. . years: u Haines' school house .. 18.50 U Rehoboth . . . 19.01 U Oak Grove . . 4.2 i ‘•'roin home mi mon board Total $ 18.75 Bxpemled for 3 years $:;7ii.72 Received for 3 years 48.75 This Bank Pays Four Per Cent. 0 On Ail Deposits. Gaffney Savings Bank, Capiigl Stock Paid In Total out of my own pocket .. $327.97 Progress of the work for three years, not what I have done hut what has been done through me: Begun work in Stumptown August 1901; Cnion Mission chapel built in 1901 at a cost of ? .. .. $700.0u 3 years school in mission .. . 900.00 Rehoboth church built in 1901 700.0o Thirty Thousand Dollars," $2,300.00 Organized 1 mission points. Members sent to different churches, 107. Average attendance of Sunday schools: Fairview, on; Rehoboth. 57; Oak Grove, 30; Stony Napp. 25. L. R. Gain -, Servant. D C. Ross, Brest. J. Q. Litti.k, J. A. Carrolo, B. L. Games, J. <V. Waroi. vw. Vice -F Directors. J. N. Lipscomb, R. M. UTi.kixs. \V. C. Carpenter, D. C. Ross. Maynard Smyth, Cashier. U'lLMAM JEEFKRIES, J. G. Wardlaw, O. E. Wilkins, A good many people fail to appre ciate salvation because it is free. One cook often spoils the broth as completely as too many. Many a woman’s ill health is due to her imagination. m m -M. * M m. A .A a m *> A A A A A j* A A A V| V •>! & * ihdig ngnimate Let us assume l!'-> eierk make in it. that an employer and ;.a agreement to ex- j —in a [dain wooden box, and this Inis been left out there in Aovnmn under tin* cypress and cherry trees, the grave fittingly facing the * r-j *• - -1 change jnsi remuneration tor reasona- rifle range and Aoyan barracks bie services, and each one keeps his part of the agreement Are they not then quits'; If there is any obligation, ! I think it is on the part of the clerk, who avails of the credit, skill and or- | ganization of the employer to learn a i business and advance himself along a ^ [iath which has already been prepared for him. What right has he, then, to i demand or expect pay for two weeks’ j time for which he renders no equiva- J lent, not considering the serious in- | convenience to which he often puts his employer'; Suppose we were to reverse the con- j ventional order of things and instead | of tin* clerk demanding two weeks’ pay .ratis the e!.ip;oy'*r V.iould demand i*vo we. ks' work without pay as a con dition of retaining the clerk in his em ploy. What a tremendous howl would go up: It may be urged that tlie clerk by his vacation gains in health and vigor and is thus enabled to render better service to his employer. If this claim said Hr. Edward Bedloe at the Wal- 1 ' vm ‘ Bute, lie would be justified in ask- dorf-Astoria hotel to the New York ln « 11 vacation. In fact, he would corres|ioudeiit of the Fhiladelphia Fub lie Ledger. "It was in the charge up on Marye’s heights, w here Quay was a volunteer aid dc-eamp. When an ef fort was made to rally the breaking line he noticed a backward movement among the men. it. boys,* he cried, ‘what are you dodging for’; If I can sit on my horse and the bullets go over my head, they certainly can't hit you!’ His pres ence of mind stopped the panic.” Quay was once riding from Cleveland to Toledo on a train to the rear of which were hitched two immigrant ears, says the New York Ftess. At 9 o'clock in the evening a man entered the Fullnian car where the senator sat and said: “Ladies and gentlemen, a child lias just been born in one of the immigrant cars, it's a boy, and. though we are in Ghio, I am a Fennsylvanian. As Sena- for Quay is on tin* train, it is proposed to name the baby Quay Cobeleski and that we all chip in and raise a purse for him.” They chipped. Quay contributed $5. saying la* was proud of the honor. The man passed on Into the next car with $35. An hour later it was leanud t! it no child had been born on tlie train and that the fellow had raised $80 and dropped off at a way station. Mr. Quay and a shrewd Adirondack native on<e figured in the following In- cldent, says the Fhiladelphia Fubllc Ledger. When the senator went to the Adirondacks some time ago to prepare for the return home of his family, he rode up the mountain in a coach that was distressingly tardy and which was following after another that, if pos sible, was even slower. He chafed for a time at the pace and then hit upon a plan he thought would serve to speed both teams. He leaned over to the driver and offered a dollar if the latter would get ahead of the team In front. The driver smilingly agreed and then raised his voice to say: “Hoy, I say, Bill! Hill! of the road, will yer? There’s a guy hers says he’ll give me a dollar if I pass ye.” Pi not have to do so. as ids employer would for Ids own gain and of Ids own accord send him away thus to recu- pernte. But is it not absurd to suppose that a man who can work for eleven and a half months cannot as well work the whole year’/ Is it not equally absurd to suppose that a man can in two weeks recuperate from the wear and tear of a year’s work, if there be such wear and tear? On the contrary, 1 have too often observed that jiicii will while on their vacations make inroads upon their vitality and purses that can not be repaired in tlie following eleven months ami two weeks. Then, again, the loss of time, the dis organization of business, that result from tlie absence of a valuable mar. from ids desk are difficult to repair. A man sometimes must spend weeks catching up with work that lias ac cumulated while he was away for a fortnight. If a man will only take an interest in his work, love it, he will not need any thing else to recuperate him, and me’: who learn to love their work invurinblj succeed. A mini should work “easy,” lie e -o non:Lai of bis time, conserve his forces and not worry. It’s worry and not work that makes the hair gray. The doctors may recommend a change of air for a man w hen he’s sick, but why be sick? Sickness is an irrepa ruble loss of time. If 1 bad a thousand tongues I’d preach "Save time” with them all. It’s infinitely more valuable than money. We read of Gladstone, who got all the recuperation he needed by simply changing Ids work. He didn't quit work and go Idling about. Time was the most precious tiling In the world for blm, and by availing of every iidn- utc of It be practically did the work of an army of men. Homnii AIiiIiiiIm’I In Ja|>nii’« ScIiooIm. Aii Important step in the progress of Japan is apparently about to be taken Turn yer rig to the side * n t * ,< * compulsory teaching of tlie Uo- ('omniander Hirose, with the mother, man alphabet as well as a Romanized In tlie moniing a sob am service con ducted t y or • Tamura, a Shinto priest, was heli’ at the Marlin* club in Tsukiji, and tin*;!, after a procession had es corted ti c coffin to the graveside at Aoyama. an tiler service was held at T ’ ' Vi T i :b acid Mat sura read a let- u*r of me from Admiral Togo, which was l mowed by brief sp<*eclics on the value of a hero to the nation by Vice Admiral Arimu nml Viscount Kano. The streets in Japan are always crewded, but I never saw any street in Tokyo so jammed with humanity as was the road to the cemetery. The throng was thirhest on tlie slope which leads from ’ ■. machl to Akasaka, past the palace <n prince Kitasliarawa. Here 5 the procession had to pass through a lane of people twenty feed deep on either side, mostly townsfolk in haorl and hakama, but with a good sprin kling of Europeans about also. When <lu* procession left the club the gun carriage on which the coffin rest ed was escorted by about 200 marines with reversed arms and the members of the club. As It passed various streets, evidently by prearrangement, numerous representatives of various so cieties Joined in until there was, when the diplomatic and official carriages Joined in, a procession nearly a mile long. Somewhere along the route, too, a company of bluejackets joined the cortege, but just when* I did not see, as 1 rode ahead and waited at the cem etery for tin* procession to come. It came in absolute silence up the long slope, and as it came the throng fill silent. It seemed a bit curious to see no herds uncovered as the coffin passed, until one remembered that this form of salutation lias not yet taken hold in Japan. There was manifested plenty of curiosity, and all the tomb stones in ti e cemetery- and the Japa nese are very fund of queerly shaped tombstones were covered with people clambering up to yet a better look. The deiec crowd about the grave side parted as 4<;b bluejackets, sturdy fellows and visibly affected, shoul dered their way through. They lin k up positions beside the grave and waited in silence. Then came carriages, with elaborate liveries, of the higher of ficials, civil, military and naval, and the diplomats, and these passed on. Then there cnine iu sight an aged Shinto priest, dressed all in white and wearing old fashioned red lacquered shoes. Above Ids head a tall blue- i jacket carried an immense silken Hag. on which, in Chinese characters, was written the name and rank of the d<*- ceased officer. Then came a company of marines carrying red and wirtte ban ners and “banzai” Hags, and young sakakl, the sacred Shinto tree, covered witli the w hite paper go-bei. Two naval officers came next, carry ing decorations, and behind them the gun carriage rolled along, draped In black velvet and drawn by bluejackets. Last thing of all—and that caused an Intake of the breath, so solemn and touching was it—came a group in white; the sister and young niece of Remember The Discount Sale is Still On 33 per cent, off on two-piece Suits. 20 per cent, off on Boys’ Clothing. Mother’s jFriend Shirt Waists for Boys. The 50 cents and 75 cents kind for 25 cents. Come and get them before the sizes are all gone Any and everything in Men’s wear. + + + ♦ « "y. »% V » « s i .\ y A prominent Southern lady, 1 Mrs. Blanchard, of Nashville, Tenn., tells how she was cured of backache, dizziness, painful and irregular periods by the use of Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound. “Dear Mrs. Pinkham :—Gratitude compels me to acknowledge the great merit of your Vegetable Compound. I have Buffered for four years with ir regular and painful menstruation^ also dizziness, pains in the back and lower limbs, and fitful sleep. I dreaded the time to come which would only mean suffering to me. “ Better health is all I w’nnted, and cure if possible. Lydia E. Pink- liam’s Vegetable Compound brought me health and happiness in a few short months. I Teel like another person now. My aches and pains have left me. Life seems new and sweet to me, and everything seems pleasant and easy. “ Six bottles brought me health, and was worth more than months under the doctor’s care, which really did not benefit me at all. I am satisfied tlie re is no medicine so good for sick women as your Vegetable Compound, and I advocate it to my lady friends in need of medical help.” — Mrs. B. A. Blan chard, 422 Broad St., Nashville, Tenn. — 06000 forfeit if original of about proving genuineness cannot be produced. FOR ALL COUNTY NEWS, IM Wilkins-Bristow Clothing Co. I I vwvawvvvvirvirvwvvvawvvwwwarwvwwwwaw’ai 't w * w~ m' w "m v v k A* % A Big Saving. We are now m our new '-taiiii* and have greatly reduced our portant happenings in the expenses, conM*i]iH'iitlv u <* are in a po-ition to sell lion-es, mules, buggies, harness and wagons nun li cheaper than ever before. state and events of interest IN foreign lands, take and READ THE LEDGER. BrlllNb I>okn For Far Raatern Wur. Major Richardson, the well known dog owner ut Carnoustie, In Forfar shire, has been invited by the Russhiu government to “let loose the dogs of war” In the most litimaiie sense, says Japanese alphabet In the government primary schools, says the Washington Times. This work has been done to some extent already In the universi ties, but If this proposal of the educa tion department be adapted the Ito- muuization of tlie Japanese language is not far distant, for the next generation of Japanese of all classes will be fa- old and bent, of Buglno, the man for whom the hero had given Lis life. Country Life. Major Richardson has miliar with the Latin alphabet. It Is made a specialty of training his dogs difficult to realize all that this will for ambulance work and the like, and niean to the nation. It will simplify the Russian government lias applied political and commercial relations and to their trainer to know how many 1 will render western thought and litem- dogs he can supply for Immediate serv- ture accessible to the bulk of the puo Ice In the far east j l^ e * Sonar Dedicated to Khiinum L’nlveralty Mrs. Blanche Lyons of Lawrence Kan., lias written the words and mu sic for a new song, “A Romance of the Kuw,” which she has dedicated to the University of Kansas, says the Kansas City Times. Mrs. Lyons hug won sev- enil state prizes as a vocalist. A Salmon Test. An attempt is being made to natural ize the Danube salmon in the Thames. This llsli does not require to migrate to the sea. If anybody has a message for the people of this community T he cannot deliver it to them so effectually, so cheaply, so quick ly in any other way as through the columns of this paper. It is the business of this pa- « per to carry messages of one 4 kind and another into homes. 4 The message will be delivered, too, under favorable conditions, for few persons take up their local paper except in a pleasant and receptive frame of mind. The sign upon the fence board may be good, but it can be seen 4 only by travelers who go that 4 particular road. The message * in the local paper carries itself f to thousands, no matter by which 4 road they travel. ^ Select your space and put 4 your message where it will do 4 the most good. 1 w«, The Gaffney Live Stock Co. WESTERN & ATLANTIC RY. -AND- Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis Railway -T( >- , perhaps, can help if you will but aik aa. 1 St. Louis and all points West and Northwest. Three solid trains daily with Tullnian Palace Sleep ing Cars, Atlanta to St. Louis, without change. Only through car service, Atlanta to Chicago, with out change. Close connections made at Atlanta with the Sea board Air Line Railway, Central of Georgia Rail way and the Southern Railway trains. For map folders or oilier information write to Thos. R. Jones, T. P. A., No. 1 North Pryor St., Atlanta, Ga. H. F. Smith, Traffic Mgr., Chas. E. Harman, Gen. P. Agt.