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r V.' WHO IS SHE? Solid Gold Watch WALTHAM MOVEMENT ABSOLUTELY FREE To the. Prettiest and Most Popu- larSLady in Cherokee County,'-' Married or Single. Kvcry one of C’oupm No. 1 out from The Lodirer :ind sent in to tills office entitles you to :t vote for the Indy of your choice. It matters not how many you can (tot just so they are cut fiom this paper as they appear between nowand New Years l»uy, I'.'U). COUPON NO. 1 THE LKDGEIf. Gaffney. S. O. Gknti.kmkn: 1 vote for M I*. O. I believe she is the prettiest and most popular lady in Cherokee County. Signed P. O. .. No votes will be accepted after the last day of this year. All votes must reach this office on or before the last day of December, lMl. The lady receiving the largest num ber of votes cast will receive the watch. It will he ready for delivery to her at The Ledger office January 1st. 1H03. Should there be a tie In the vote between two or more the tie shall be settled between the winners themselves. The names of the ladies and the number of votes they receive will be printed in The Ledger every week. The watch is a good one. solid gold, and can be seen at Tlios. II. Wesirope's jewelry store. Mr. Westrope guarantees the watch to be solid gold and the works to be of the best. How to Get Coupons. There are many ways of getting coupons. you are a subscriber you will get Coupon No. 1 every week up to issue of December IJOth, unless your subscription expires and your paper is stopped. If you can get p ipers from your friends containing coupon No. 1, that will be all riglit, you will be allowed to Ull it out and eacli one will count a vote when sent into this office. Papers will be on sale at this office all the tlm'\ as manv as you want at r» cuts per copy, 50 cents per dozen, or l-i.iTO porone hundred. If you subscribe f-r Hie Ledger or renew your subscription to the amount of ifeeuts you will be entitled to 5 votes; .>o cents, 10 votes; 7>cents, 15 votes; $1.00, 20 votes. Every 5 cents paid on subscription to The Ledger entitles you to a vote. It matters not how much you pay on your subscrip tfon. You can pay as much or little as you like at a time and as often as you like, hut in case of subscriptions you must always use coupon No. 2 below: COUPON NO. 2 THE LEDGER, Gaffney, S. C. Gentlemen: Enclosed find $ • for months subscription to THE LEDGER and. votes in the voting contest for the prettiest and most popular lady in Cherokee County. I cast my Signed. I*. O. There will be no resi rictions to the voting other than laid down here. You may subscribe for The Ledger for a friend and vote for the lady of y<)iir choice. You may induce a friend to subscribe and vote for the lady of Ids choice. V#. The contest will be conducted with the st rict st regard for fail ness and Impartiality. Those living out of town (or in (own. ell her, for tb it matter) need not send In ihe.lr coupons No. 1 each week unless they like. ’I hey can wait a ft w Weeks and get a butch of them and send all at once, A strict and accurate account will be kept of ail the vot es, and each coupon will be filed for reference should any dispute arise. After the contest is over the winner and tin-two next closest toiler will he requested to furnish The Ledger a photograph to publish the following week after the winner is announced. . Remember, no entries will be mi.de without, coupons properly signed and sent in. Address all letters to THE LEDGER, Gaffney. S. C. Coffin Lid Al Hoodoo Pfrtmmy Case Said to Ha-Ve Caused J^timer- ous Misfortunes. Jl Once CovJered an Egyptian driest css Who Has Heen "Dead O'Oer Throe thousand years. Few tales of occult fiction have heen more extraordinary than the weird story of a mummy case at the British museum and its supposed death deal ing powers, which lias just been told by B. Fletcher Robinson in a London r 'wnMiij \ visit to the house one day. On cross ing the threshold her manner became greatly perturbed, and she told her hostess that there was some strange, malignant influence in the house ami requested permission to examine the various rooms. When she discovered the cofiin lid she declared it to he a lip»fit dangerous possession and be sought its owner to send it away forth with. This the* lady laughingly refus ed to do, attributing Mine. Blavatsky s fears to foolish superstition. Shortly after this, however, site sent the case to a studio to be photographed, and, as already told, the photographer discovered that his camera had repro duced the features of an apparently living woman. Shortly afterward he died suddenly and mysteriously. Soon after this happened Mr. D. turned up In London and meeting the lady who owned the cofiin lid learned of the mis fortunes that had befallen her family since it came into her possession. He urged her to get rid of it at once, and convinced at last that the thing was a terrible “hoodoo” she agreed. A car rier was fernnd to transport it to the British museum. He died within a week, and the man who assisted in re moving it to the museum buildings met with a serious accident. Now, apparently, the misfortunes which have heretofore attended the possession of the mummy case have ceased. The learned gentlemen who preside over the room in which it rests have not boon troubled by its presence. A ‘BALD EACLE f S DEADLY COMB A 7\ Sleeps r. f --.I : y...' • ■ ’. ‘-v • V V •••. * The man whose money is in the bank. He doesn’t lie awake nights thinking about the thieves who might break in and steal it. Be sides, he knows that his money working for him all the ime, sleeping or waking. GAFFNEY SAVINGS BANK Will take care of your money and start it work ing for you. Deposits from $1.00 and up re ceived, and FOUR PER CENT. INTEREST PAID ON ALL DEPOSITS at The Gaffney Savings Bank. Office in the National Bank of Gaffney. O usri t. J 1 1 ^ T *, NrT . i-yr « I r^a • Ifil i : A. Sk .M-Jk, ^ A f> M- M A -4» ^ -M -A—A- M-J 44 A A 4» j The Gaffney City Land and Improvement Do, Offers for sale UulhilnK Lot» In thl» llonrlHhlrijf town, Gaffney; a I ho Parma ne by and li) reach of the ScBooIh of Limestone rturtnizH and of tills place. In lots of i* to 100 acres on liberal time rates; also Agricultural Lamia to rent for Farm purpose* For full particulars apply to J. V. SARRATT, Agent. N. B.—All persons are forbidden to enter on. walk or rlrtc I hrouuh or ov> r t lie lauds nf im. ompuuy, cutting and removing timber or llshlng, hunting, under penalty of law. HE OFFERED To HEDI, HIM A BEAUTIFUL MUMMY CASE. newspaper. The narrative’s truth, how ever, is vouebed for by the writer, who is au intimate friend of Sir A. Conan Doyle. The cover of a mummy case is now reposing in a corner of the first Egyp tian room of the museum which once lay above the embalmed renjains of a priestess of tbe college of Amen Ru, and who lived in the mighty city of Thohcs some 1,(500 years before Christ. The work is still in a beautiful state of preservation, and the painting on it depicts a woman of singularly baleful expression whose dark eyes stare into vacancy as though seeking there some clew to the riddle of the universe, while her hands are peacefully crossed upon her breast. .V London photographer attempted to obtain a picture of the strange face shown on the coffin lid. , To the man's amazement, when a print ] was taken from tin* negative it reveal-1 ed not a dead face, hut apparently a living one, with wide open eyes and the baleful expression of the painted effigy heightened to one of intense ma lignancy. Robinson declares that lie lias care fully investigated the evidence of the afflictions which have befallen those who had the misfortune to incur the enmity of this Egyptian priestess, who died .‘5.500 years ago, and t i.vs lie lias obtained abundant proof of the truth of the statements made to him. It was in the middle of the sixties that a party of five friends chartered a dahabeah for a voyage up the Nile and tarried at Luxor to explore the ruins of Thebes and the famed temple of Amen Ra. which, even in its decay and desolation, is still probably the most sublime monument of antiquity extant. One evening an Arab, who said lie had heen sent by Mustapha Aga. call ed upon a member of the then happy little party—Mr. 1). he is culled to con ceal ids identity and offered to sell him a beautiful mummy case which he declared lie had Just found. It was the priestess' mummy case which lias now found * final resting place in the Britisli museum. By what sacrilegious means the Arab obtained possession of it. or what became of the mummy, is not known. Mr. 1). bought it. But us ull Hie members of tin* party were keen Egyptologists it had been de rided that the ownership of their re* spective finds should lie determined by lot, and thus it came about that the case fell into Mr. W.'s hands. It was on the return Journey that the series of misfortunes so strangely associated with it began. While one of Mr. D.’s servants was handling a gun ii exploded in some unaccountable i manner, the < barge lodging in the man’s arm, winch had to be amputat ed. A second servant died in poverty I within the year, and a third was shot. When Cairo was reached Mr. W. dis covered that Im hud lost the larger por tion of ids fortune. Entertaining no suspicion that the mummy case was in any way connected with his finan cial troubles, »r the mishaps that had attended the party since it was ac quired, he gave it to a married sister living near London. Hoon afterward he died. But from the day that the effigy of tin* dead priestess entered Its new abode 111 luck dogged the family. It chum-ed that Mine. ItlcvaHky, the l IgU pr.o itcss ( f ti e theosoplih ts,.paid Fierce Fight Delbueen "Big "Bird and a Monster Sturgeon In the West. We had been camped for a few days at a point on tbe upper reaches of the Pic river, says a writer in the Gate way, waiting for a few of the party who were running a side line. A source of amusement was watching the de scent of a large baldheaded eagle in the eddy back of the point. He would strike the water with great force, coming down from an im mense height. At times he would dive under the surface to reappear a moment or two later, generally with a fish clutched in his claws, when he would fly, freighted with his fish, to a very high mountain, on the overhang ing crest of which the nest with his mate and young was quite visible to us with our field glass. I had noticed his success and jour neys to the nest for two mornings. On the third morning a shadow coining across the sun’s rays caused me to look up, and there was the great bird at his usual hunt to supply the young eagles with breakfast. With his keen eye piercing the river depths lie poised over a particular spot for a few mo ments and then shot down with the velocity of a cannon ball. The waters parted, and the eagle was lost to view. I watched and waited to see him emerge with his prey, but mo ments lengthened Into minutes and A*"-- % rs. f - V / - / / / •' / / $ (A z / / ’ § if/ Z V ^ •*'. **Va v. jp; ••• » »• .S, To be a successful wife, to retain the love and admiration of her husband should be a womans constant study. Mrs. Brown and Mrs. Potts tell their stories for the benefit of all wives and mothers. ‘‘ Dear Mrs. Pixkham : —Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegretable Com pound will make every mother well, strong, healthy and happy. 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Then fur down, fully a quarter of a mile off, I saw the great bird struggling either to carry off a heavy burden or to fn*e himself from one. The waters were lashed into foam, and the bird again disappeared, and all was still. Tills lushing of the water and dis appearing were repeated again and again, eacli time farther down stream. A bend In the river prevented my seeing the final result, (’ailing one of our four men from the tent, we embarked in u canoe and started down the river to view l he strange proceed ing closer. When we hud doubled the point below, 1 saw lodged against the bench in a small bay something that did not look natural to the place. We puddled down and found It was my eagle fast fixed to a sturgeon fully six feet long. Both were motionless. The king of fish and the king of birds had met death W E feel very grateful to the citizens of Cherokee County for favoring us with their trade during the years 1902, 1903 and 1904; also we have every reason to believe that they are all well pleased with the Pianos, Organs and Sewing Machines that they bought from us, as they are beginning now to see that quality figurer. more than a lew dollars in the purchase of an article that is to be used for a long period oi time, if not for a lifetime. To those who have not yet bought Pianos, Organs and Sewing Machines from us, we invite you to come and see our goods and gel our prices, which will tje very low during the next 30 days. We are are at ail times able and willing to make every promise true and every guarantee good. So come and see our many different styles of Organs and New Home Sewing Machines at our store on Limestone St. Abbott Bros. IVo7 190 This splendid property is only 1 >6 miles from the railroad and is convenient to church and schools. It is comprised of 200 acres, lyincr on small streams and soil is light mulatto to dark loam. Most of the land is in timber, principally pine, for which there is a good market. Only about 50 acres under plow, three tenant houses and O good barn. PRICE vfr 9 O vJ vJ' Southern Field Real Estate Exchange, «i ii I >urj£, O. J. H. Carlisle, Jr. Sec\. and Treas. 8-30-3mo *. --XU.,