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f •'i. Death of Child. Winnie Lee.. the two-year-old child of Mr. and Mrs. I). J. Holt, of King’s; Mountain, N. C., died Wednesday at 4 o’clock, after about a month’s illness, i The remains were brought to Gaffney and buried in Oakland cemetery yes terday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. Holt have the sympathy 1 of all our people In their sore bereave ment. rv**-fr FIERY OLD VESUVIUS. THE RUSSIAN OFFICERS EVENTS if! HOAR'S LIFE Past Perform mces of Great Volcano. Italy’s Habits and Types of Men Com manding Cirar’s Troops. Massachu .etts Senator’s Into Public Life. Entry B fHIKING FEATURES OF ERUPTIONS THE PREVALENCE OF CORRUPTION INSTANCES OF EIS KEEN WIT. Mr. Otto A. Fleissner’s KIDNEYS WERE SOAKED WITH CATARRH Pe=ru=na Promptly Cured Him. FOR RENT. FOR RENT—Office now occupied by J. c. Qttg. Apply to J. S. Littlejohn- FOR RENT—The John White house. Apply to W. ii- Smith 12-16-tf. FOR RENT—Store room on Robin son street. Webster & Jefferies. 12-6-to. FOR RENT-—Five-room . cottage. Centrally located. Mrs. A. V. Mont gomery. 12-16 tf- FOR RENT—House next to Smith Cook’s residence. Wood & Carpenter. 11-15-tf. •TO RENT—The store occupied by the Gaffney Drug Co. Apply to J. E. Greene. 9-30-tf. SUITES OF ROOMS to let in the Star Theatre. A. N. Wood. 3-22-tf WANTED. WANTED—To pay cash for a few hundred second-hand beer bottles. J. L. Alexander. 1-3-tf. WANTED—Everybody to see 1 us be fore buying their Furniture, Stoves, Crockery, Glassware, &c. The Acme Furniture (Jo. 12-9-tf. WANTED—Hides of every descrip tion; chickens, eggs and butter. Z. A. Robertson. FOR SALE. FOR SALE—Some fine Cockerels and Pullets, Buff Plymouth Rocks, Wyandottes, Black Spanish, White and Brown Leghorns. J. J. Gaffney. 1-3-tf. _ FOR SALE—Fine Berkshire, Poland China and Jersey pigs. J. C. Lip- scomb. Dec. 30-tf FOR SALE—The Johnson-Tillotson house (1), and the Patrick place, with two acre grove near Gaffney Mfg. Company. Apply to J. C. Otts. 11-18-tf. lini! l llu- Wltoli- Top of VemuTiuB OH —Ifcat «if the KJecfed c r .• Tcfit ne.trUterod IjTM I’.—’Votirteri'ijl Power Be- FOR SALE—Several nice residence lots, convenient to the schools and town. Mrs. A. V. Montgomery. U-8-tf. FOR SALE—“Bay State” organ, at your own price. Apply to R. G. By- ars. 901 Peachtree St. H)-2&*f FOR SALE—I offer for sale two of the most desirable residence lots in Gaffney. Apply to Z. A. Robertson. 9-9-tf. \ NOTICE. Books of subscription to the capi tal stock of Bank of Blacksburg will be open in the office of Bank of Blacks burg, Blacksburg, S. C., to receive sub scriptions, at 10 o’clock A. M., Jan uary 7th, 1905. * NOTICE. NOTICE — Beginning Wednesday, January 4th, we will gin only on Wed nesday and Thursday of each week. Victor Cotton Oil C. 1-3-tf. MONEY TO LOAN. I am prepared to negotiate loans on improved farms for a term of years in amounts of $1,000 and upward, at 7 per cent, and from $300 to $1,000 at 8 per cent. Apply to J. C. JEFFERIES, Gaffney, S. C. DR. B. L. ALLEN, Physician and Surgeon. Offices in the Star Theatre building. Or. D. P. THOMSON, Dentist. Over Cherokee Drug Co. Phone 6f> J. F. GARRETT, Dentist. Office Over The Battery. 'Phone 8a DR. W. K. GUNTER, 1J IS re T I « T OfLce in Star Theatre Building. Phone No. 20. Crown and bridge work a specialty. ■Viixiam sk Ham.. Jk. jameb A. Wiu.ir- HALL & WILLIS, ATTORNEYS AT LAW. STAK TileATHE BI,DU. OAtTV-NiCV, ». o. Notary Public in oillce. Prompt attention irlven to all business. C. Eskridge B 4 U Have your Itlacksir IthliiK Dune. All Smithing,'Iron and Wood Work done in first-class^style and at reasonable rates. (Fortenberrys' old stand.) WANTED! All youi clothes that need brlirbtcnlntr up. briiifr them to us. We will make them look fresh and new. All work done by expert tailors. See us and Join our prt ssbur ulub. ROBIKSOR 4 JONES, Tailors. Over W. D. Telegraph Office. Phone No. 43. , i • mu eruption of Mount Vesu vius i in hue with tl.< past history of Hie voici’.n >, which, ever since Pompeii was ovi .'.n-own, in A. I>. 7b, has been averaging* viniy thirty years between violent eruptions, says the New York Tribune. There have been sixty tre mendous convulsions In this volcano since the year 7!). Although the likeli hood that Vesuvius may at any time treat the surrounding country as it did Pompeii lias been perfectly well known for centuries, the fascination of the great volcano lias lulled tens of thou sands of Italian country people Into living along the base and up the sides of the mountain and has tempted as many thousands more of tourists to make the ascent to the summit. T'ntil a few years ago this perilous climb had to be accomplished on muleback and with experienced local guides. To day a railway runs nearly up to the top, and pedestrians can walk from the last station out on the great lava field and get close enough to the seat of op erations to suit all but the most hardy of them. When this remarkable volcano is grumbling or after there has been one of the periodic outbursts of dust and cinders persons are not allowed to go up the mountain. A long railway journey takes the climber out from Naples to the Pompeii station, where the tourist has to make a choice from a hundred yelling guides and cabmen and is carried through the lively vil lage of modern Pompeii to the entrance to the ruins of ancient Pompeii. At the end of the railroad begins the foot ascent of the volcano. Fields of crumbling black lava stretch far up to the top. twisted and furrowed as It cooled after pounhg out from the fissures above. If the walking is hard, the air is worse. A wind may any time bring down the volcano’s side a blast of nauseous vapor. Toiling to the top, the climber finally gets where he can gaze into the crater. Often this is quiet and nothing but a yawning hole. As often It is a seething caldron of fire and boiling masses of rock. Flames shoot up from the edges; im mense columns of steam rise -with a hiss; the ground below trembles, reels and seems about to totter into the abyss; the roaring from the interior of the mountain deafens; sulphurous smoke blinds and stifies. At night the experience is more awful than in the day. One cannot see his neighbor on the expedition. His voice is lost in the horrible belching and roaring from the bowels of the earth. A misstep or a momentary loss of the guide, and It is an easy thing to roll into the fiery pit. The record of death by suffoca tion and accident on Vesuvius is a large one. When tiie first writers began to men tion Vesuvius they spoke of the lava character of the soil around the vol cano and to the “many signs that It had been burned in ancient times.” But there is no recorded disturbance of the crater earlier than Christian times, in A. I). 75) came the historic bursting of the mountain and the overwhelming of Herculaneum and Pompeii. Vesuvius rested for 124 years, until in the year 203 occurred the second recorded eruption. Another came In the year 472 and was so tremendous that ashes were carried over the whole of Europe and even to Asia and Africa. The fourth eruption came In 1036. In 1631 an eruption was accompanied by tremendous streams of lava and tor rents of boiling water. In 1770 modern scientific men for the first time studied the phenomenon. In the convulsion of 1794 the town of Torre del Greco was destroyed. In this eruption a great hole opened In the side of the volcano near the base, which filled up with molten lava. One stream of the lava from this explosion was estimated as containing more than 46,000,000 cubic feet. In 1822 the whole top of Vesuvius was blown off, and a chasm about three miles in circumference and probably more than 2,000 feet deep was formed. In 1850, 1855 and 1858 streams of lava poured out of the volcano, and In April, 1872, came another impressive convul sion. In 1882, in 1886 and in 1891 came more eruptions. In 1897 came the erup tion a photograph of which was taken by Brogi of Florence. Huge stones were thrown up to tremendous heights at that time, and clouds of steam, smoke and ashes escaped from the cra ter for days. An interesting feature about these eruptions is the heat of the ejected lava. One stream, being tested, gave a reading of 1,228 degrees F. Another stream fused silver, the melting point of which is 1.870 degrees. On a third test the lava melted copper, thus show ing a heat of not less than 2,204 de grees. The power behind the explosions Is also wonderful. Professor Matteucd of the University of Naples was peer ing over* the edge of the crater one ; day when he saw a block of rock of unusual size thrown Into the air. Ills watch was In his hand at the time, and he timed the flight of the rock above the volcano. The rock took seventeen seconds to complete its flight. Being ; measured where It fell, It was com- puted to weigh about thirty tons, and the professor estimated that the power required to eject it so high Into thcwslf ; wi s equal to 607,995 horsepower. Count von Dlnder-ICrlesrlstein Says It I* So Deeply Itooteil Tl«tt ttie O?- fleerx Have Oricnnized u KcKnlar Syntem of Hokbinv the Govern ment. “Ah, les voyoux! Ah, les salgots! Ah. les Sachalins!” With tlie.se words M. Giffard, corre spondent for Le Matin and known as a sworn Rusophile, burst into the dining room of the “Solotoj Jakar” at Harbin, says Ernest Count von Blndcr-Kriegl- stein in the New York American. At first I thought that he hud had a falling out with one of the proprietors, who are all ticket of leave men from Sakhalin. But, nol He who was used to see a Taras Pulba in every Russian officer had during the last hours en tirely changed ids opinion and could not find words hard enough to use about ids former friends. He swore that every bit of friendship for Russia had disappeared from his heart and that he would return to Paris the first chance he had, a resolution which he really carried out shortly afterward. When I asked him what had made him so Indignant he replied: “You know how sad I felt yesterday at the news of the blowing up of the battleship Petropavlovsk and the death of Makaroff and Vereschagin and the absence of any news concerning Grand Duke Cyril. Last night when I went to Navaja Kolchida, that disgraceful cafe chantant In which no decent man ought to put his feet, to have my dispatches censored by an officer of the general staff, who is never to be found any where else, I hear from one of the pri vate cabinets the most infernal noise; mirrors were broken and painted wom en scream and carry on in the most disorderly manner, and when I ask a well known officer, who wus so intoxi cated that lie could not stand on his feet, where I could find Colonel Petroff he asked to be excused, that he had no time to answer me, us he was dining with Grand I Hike Boris, the brother of Grand Duke Cyril, who, we feared, had been killed. And just now I met a number of officers in full dress uni form, and when I asked one of them If today was an orthodox holiday he re plied with a laugh which made the blood boll In my veins: ‘Oh, no. We only celebrate the death of this Maka roff!’ “Imagine a Russian officer speaking In this manner of his comrade who had died the death of a hero! I will not re main here one day longer among these scoundrels, who know neither honor nor patriotism.” And Girard was partly right, though It would not do to Judge all Russian of ficers from these few officers whose morals had been corrupted by the pres ence among them of an imperial de generate. In the first place, one must remember that Russian officers should not be gauged by the standard of other European officers, because Russia, in spite of a thin varnish of western civ ilization. is really an Asiatic more than a European empire. The Asiatic corruption which exists among all Russian officials Is also prev alent among army officers, and it so deeply rooted that they have organized n regular and by no means secret sys tem of robbing the government. I have heard two cavalry officers who met for the first time openly ask one another how much they made on their regiments. A colonel of cavalry, a count and bearer of one of Russia’s noblest names, complained that he, who In time of peace was used to making 23 kopeks a day, had received orders to give up half of what was saved on the regular expenses of the regiment to the division commander. Among the officers all races, types and ages are found. In the same regi ment one may find orthodox Russians who hate the sight of a European as fanatically as a Mussulman hates a giaour, German speaking and German thinking officers from the Baltic prov inces and others from Kurland and Lapland, who despise the Russians as they despise their form of govern ment. Fins and Foies are about the only men one does not see as officers, except occasionally as surgeons. But in the army there are thousands of Tartars, Turkmenes, Tckerkesses, Kal mucks and Bashkirs, who, as Moham medans, hate their Christian fellow officers with a hatred which never dies, and one wonders how the Russian gov ernment dares trust these men, who in their hearts have never recognized the authority of the czar. It would be too much to say that the Russian army is always on the verge of a revolution, but one shudders to notice how the orthodox officer de spises his Mohammedan or Protestant comrades and in every possible way tries to prevent their promotion. Promotion In the army goes on the whole only by promotion, and this Is the reason why one often sees colonels of thirty and second lieutenants of forty-five, who will remain lieutenants until old age forces them to retire, though In military experience and knowledge they are In every way su perior to those whose orders they must obey. Rut among the officers of frontier regiments which have never been gar risoned In the largo cities one finds hundreds of young officers, splendid young men. often descendants of noble but poor families, who know nothing higher than to keep their esoutchcc unstained, who ’would sacrifice then last drop of blood for the czar and for Russia. How It Flaxhcd Out Durlnrc the Smoot Invextlff*tlon—Uix .Jealous ChorlsUijik of the Sennte’x I'repojfa- tivex—An Aniuxlne Incident of Hia Home Life. The entrance into public life of the late Senator George Frisbie Hoar at the age of twenty-five was of an un usual character in Itself and could not have been paralleled in many states of the Union, says the New York Post. It is, wortli repeating In the words of his autobiography: “I happened one night in the autumn of 1850 to be at a great mass meeting in the city hall at Worcester, which Charles Allen was expected to address. It was the year of the compromise measures, including the fugitive slave law, and of Daniel Webster’s 7th of March speech. Judge Allen, as he was somewhat apt to do, came in late. A vast audience had gathered and were waiting. Nobody seemed ready to speak. Somebody started the cry, ‘Hoar! Hoar!’ My father and brother were known as leaders In the Free Soil party, and that, I suppose made some body call on me. I got up In my place In the middle of the hall In great con fusion. There were shouts of ‘Plat form, platform!’ I made my way to the platform, hoping only to make my excuses and get off without being de tected, but the people were disposed to be good natured and liked what I said. Dr. Stone, the famous steno graphic reporter, was present and took it down. It was printed In the Free Soil papers, and from that time I was In considerable demand as a public speaker. The coalition between the Free Soilers and Democrats carried the state of Massachusetts that year and elected Sumner senator and Boutwell governor. The next year Worcester failed to elect her representatives to the legislature, which were voted for all on one ticket and required a ma jority, and there was to be a second election on the fourth Monday of No vember. There was a delegate con vention to nominate representatives, of which I was a member. When the vote was announced, to my surprise and consternation, I was one of the persons nominated. Nobody had said a word to me about It beforehand. That was Friday night. I told the convention I could not accept such a nomination without my father's ap proval. I was then twenty-five years old. It was proposed that the conven tion adjourn until the next evening aud that meantime I should go down to Concord and see if I could get my father’s leave. Accordingly the con vention adjourned to see if the infant candidate could get permission to ac cept.” Cherishing jealously the prerogatives of the senate. Mr. Hoar was scrupulous to the last degree In conforming to the letter of its rules. The story Is told of an Inexperienced newspaper corre spondent who approached the venera ble senator as he was leaving an execu tive session with the request for a "running account” of what was going on Inside. “Young man," said the sena tor Impressively, “if I treated you as you deserve I should take you across my knee and cane you.” In all the weeks of the session which proved to he his last nothing showed so well the undiminished powers of Mr. Hoar’s intellect as bis part in the Smoot investigation during the Mor mon hearing In the senate. As one of the leading Unitarians of the country and several times president of the American Unitarian association It was perhaps natural that he took an espe cial Interest in the doctrinal phases of the Inquiry into Mormonism. Some of the most brilliant bits of questioning of the hearings In fact were his exam inations of President Smith and Apos tle Lyman of the Mormon church. He committed President Smith first to the proposition that the Woodruff mani festo originated in a divine revelation and then pinned him to the uncomfort able admission that In refusing to give up polygamy he himself and many of his people were directly violating not a mere man made regulation, but a law of God. Even neater was the trap which he laid for Lyman, the apostle next in succession to the headship of the Mormon church. Senator Hoar pur sued a long series of doctrinal ques tions until he caught the apostle In a confused answer which he had to cor rect. Then, promptly taking a new turn, he asked, “Are you answering these questions under Inspiration?” “I am answering them as the Lord directs me,” answered Lyman. "Did he direct you to give that an swer you had to take back just now?” asked Senator Hoar, and In the gale of laughter which followed the Mormon witness had nothing to say. ft' \ W"' Hr. Otto A. Fleissner Haiti ter Grand Hotel, Seattle, WaxhinKton. Mr. Otto A. Fleissner, American Epicurean, late Chef to Col. W. J. Coady, (Buffalo Bill), now chef at the Rainier Grand Hotel Seattle, Wash., writes: “I suffered with kidney and bladder trouble until life did not seem worth living. I had tried many medicines, but did not get any re lief until I took Peruna. It was really wonderful how much bettar I was after I had used this medicine only a Week. I did not expect that it would help me permanently, but as long as it was doing me good I con tinued to use it. At the end of six months I found to my relief that it had rid my system of all poisons, and that I was cured to stay cured. You certainly have a splendid medicine and I gladly endorse it”—Otto A. Fleissner. Catarrh of the Kidneys a Common i Disease—Kidney Trouble Often Fails to Be Regarded as Catarrh by Physicians. Catarrh of the kidneys is very com mon indeed. It is a pity that this fact is not better known to the physicians as as well as to the people. People have kidney disease. They take some diuretic, hoping to get better. They never once think of catarrh. Kid ney disease and catarrh are seldom as sociated in the minds of the people, and, alas, they are not very often associated in the minds of the physicians. Too few physicians recognize catarrh PE-RU-IMA CURES CATARRH OF THE KIDNEYS. of the kidneys. They doctor for some thing else. They try this remedy and that remedy. The trouble may be ca tarrh Ml the time. A few bottles of Pe runa would cure them. Pe-ru-na Removes the Cause of the Kidney Trouble. Peruna strikes at the very centre of the difficulty by eradicating the catarrh from the kidneys. Catarrh is the cause of kidney difficulty. Remove the cause and you remove the effect. With un erring accuracy Peruna goes right to the spot. The kidneys are soon doing their work with perfect regularity. Thousands of Testimonials. Thousands of testimonials from peo ple who have had kidney disease which had gone beyond the control of the phy sician are received by Dr. Hartman every year, giving Peruna the whole praise for marvelous cures. Address Dr. Hartman, President of The Hartman Sanitarium, Columbus, Ohio. All correspondence held strictly con fidential. ' Ask Your Druggist for a Free Peruna Almanac for 1905. PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS. Of the manner in which Mr. Hoar’s humor flashed out, even at home, (his little story is told, says the New York Tribune: On one occasion when be was talking with some distinguished states man the servant came into the room and announced that M/s. Hoar desired to see him. “All right, all right,” answered the senator briskly, rattling the bunch of keys always In his band, whether ct home or on the floor of the senate. “You tell Mrs. Hoar that I’ll step right up, and I’m not n mite afraid; not a mite.” and with that he left his visitor. For recreation whist was his favorite game. Over the whist table he was In sistent and merciless. Miss Kathleen Boyce, of Gastonia, N. C., is visiting Misses Lula and Free man Garrett. Mr. and Mrs. Hart Westmoreland, of Kings Creek, spent Monday night with Mrs. Marlah White, a sister of Mr. Westmoreland. Wm. Caldwell, of Kings Creek, was in the city Tuesday to meet the board of spuervisors of registration. John Love, of Kings Creek, was in the city Tuesday. Edgar Poag, a real-estate agent of Rock Hill, was in the city Tuesday to attend the sale of lands near Kings Creek. A. W. Love, of Kings Creek, was in the city Tuesday on business. D. R. Bird, of Blacksburg, was in the city Tuesday. Wm. Parker, of Kings Mountain, was in the city Tuesday. E. R. Sapoch, of Blacksburg, was in the city Tuesday. J. E. Sapoch, a merchant of the Mt. Paran section, was in the city Tues day. N. W. Hardin, Esq., of Blacksburg, was in the city Tuesday. W. A. Whisonant, of Blacksburg, was in the city Tuesday to attend the land sales. Mrs. R. W. Dempsy, of Blacksburg, spent Tuesday In the city shopping. Baxter Wells. Neddie Martin, Anson Thompson and Fred Thompson, of Mt. Paran, were in the city Tuesday. Mrs. J. A. Darwin and daughter, Miss I.alage, of Athens. Ga.. who have been visiting Rev. Milton Webb, of Shelby, the father of Mrs. T. Davenport, spent Monday night and Tuesday in the city with Mr. and Mrs. T. Davenport, on their return home. They were accom- pained by Miss Fay Webb, of Shelby, who was returning to the Lucy Cobb College, at Athens, to spend her last term in college. Miss Webb Is a daughter of Judge J. L. Webb, of Shel by. and a neice of Mrs. Davenport. Thos. ties* r, who is railroading in West Vinr da, arrived in the city Mon day night, and moved his family to his homf' place in the country Tues day. He returned to his work in West Virginia the latter part of the week. Wm. W b y. of Blacksburg, was in the city Tuesday. J. M. Allison and his son, Hogue, of Blacksburg, were In the city Tuesday. E. P. Hollis, of Greenville, spent several days in the city this week with relatives. S. L. Settlemyer spent Wednesday in Spartanburg on business. J. C. Ratliff went to Union Wednes day to visit his branch store. J. Q. Little went to Spartanburg Wednesday on business. Miss Julia Montgomery has returned to her home in Marietta, Ga., from a visit to her sister. Mrs. Will Wilkins, of the city. Mrs. A. N. Wood Is visiting her mother, Mrs. Stobo Farrow, in Colum bia. Roy Webster, a son of Hon. J. E. Webster, returned to Wofford College Tuesday morning to re-enter the Jun ior class. G. W. Speer, referee, and James Lit tlejohn, trustee. In the bankrupt case of Morris Switzer, and J. C. Otts, at torney for the creditors, went to Green ville Wednesday, and to Laurens Thursday, to take testimony In the case. They returned Thursday night. Mrs. Elizabeth Parker is visiting her daughter, Mrs. James Wallace, at Tirzah. Mrs. Janette L. Jenkins, of Coolee- mee, N. C., is visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Lord. H. D. Wheat, president of the Gaff ney Manufacturing Co., went to New York Monday on business. R. D. Hicks and family, of Cowpens, were in the city Wednesday shopping. Dr. J. T. Darwin spent Tuesday in Rock Hill. J. C. Arnold, of Harris Springs, was in the city Tuesday. W. H. Arnold, of Woodruff, spent Tuesday in the city. Miss Maggie Hayden, of Blacksburg, accompanied by her sister, Mrs. Don Lumpkin, was in the city Wednesday shopping. Clarence Gaffney is in Spartanburg on business. Reduced Rates to Columbia, S. C., and Return Via Southern Railway. On account of Centennial Celebration South Carolina College. Columbia, S. C., January 8th-10th, 1905, Southern Railway announces the very low rate of one fare plus 25 cents for the round trip (minimum rate 50 cents). Tickets to be sold January 7th. 8th and 9th, with final return limit Janu ary 11th, 1905. For information as to schedules, etc., communicate with any agent of the Southern Railway or address R. W. Hunt. D. P. A., Charleston, S. C. Four Per Cent. Dividend. At a recent meeting of the directors of the Merchants and Planters Bank a dividend of 4 per cent, was declared. —You will save money by buying next winter’s underwear at Carroll, Carpenter & Byers Cost Sale, BE SURE! If you want something good to eat go to Alexander’s. Best Flour Best Com Meal | Best Sugar Best Coffee Hog Lard, Rice and Hominy, Canned Corn and Peaches, Tobacco and Cigars, Soap, Soda, Starch and Blueing and every thing needed in the home in our line at the lowest possible prices. Drink “Egg-Nog,” and oe good. Get it anywhere. J. L. Alexander.