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/ J Do You Want A Buggy? * TT T — « • * IS-7TS&KZ'C jTUr Ii7> ■ • ’ ffi . ■ ■S^'3 \ \ !MXPy4 : I ' \ / ^V' 1 — :r5L\ If so, call and consult us. We have just received a car load of Anchor Buggies, Phaetons and Surreys—and have them on exhibition on our second floor—and be fore you buy come and let us show you through our stock. Our Buggies have the best body for holding a top of any Buggy on the market, and this is the thing you want when you buy a top Buggy. Yours truly, R. M. Wilkins Hdw. Co., Gaffney, S. C. -53 Merchants and < Planters Bank Capital -—a** !- $75,000.00 Stockholders , Liabilities ;75,000.00 Surplus and Undivided Profits 1 5,000.00 Protection to Depositors - $ 1 65,000.00 Your Patronage Solicited. Fire Insurance and Bonds Written. W< Pay 4 Per Cent. Interest in our Savings Department. A. N. WOOD, Pres. R. R. BROWN, V. Pres. C. M. SMITH, Cashier. Directors. J. Q. Little, W. C. Hamrick, R. A. Jones, W. C. Carpenter, a '' O. E. Wilkins, R. R. Brown, R. M. Wilkins, C. M. Smith. HINDOO CREMATION. I The Funeral Pyre and the Ititen He- fore the llurnintt. Toward the upper end of tie* ghats In the burning ground. There are no Hteps here, but a slope of beateu dirt. Stop half an hour and you may see every step of the cremation rites. Sit ting on stone ramparts above, to the right and left, are friends and relatives Of the dead ones. The figure to the right, huddled up in a bright gm u wrap, is of the lowest caste of Hindoo and keeps the mat shed near by, where the sacred tire for igniting every corpse is for sale. You hear hoarse, loud cries of “Knm! Uuuuiiiu!” and, henoid, a burial procession is coming down the slope. lour men carry the corpse slung between two bamboo poles and cry to the g >d U.im. He is tin* personi fication of tilinl love, and thus it is meet that they should call him V* wit ness. They sv> ing down to the river atal immerse the corpse, it is wrap ped in a white shroud stained with red blotches. Then they lift iln* head slightly out of the water ami remove the shroud from the face, splashing water live times upon the mouth. Others in the meantime are building a wooden pyre, made of fagots sold near by and when finished standing three feet or more above ground. The corpse, its dark color showing through the dripping shroud. Is lin n placed on the wooden altar and covered with fagots. This done, all hut two mount the ramparts and watch tin* tinal ••ere mony. Of the two remaining, one pours oil upon the wood from a small clay dish, while the other goes to the fire house above. He soon returns with a long straw wisp, blazing at one end. He advances to the corpse’s head, touches it with the wisp and then cir cles the pyre five times, touching tin* head each time until the fifth, when he places the blazing wisp beneath the feet, and tin* whole pile bursts Into flame. When all Is consumed the ashes are raked Into the river and float away to bliss eternal.—F. J. O. Alsop In Out ing. THE UNDER MARRIAGE. i 'THE always contains all the latest local and foreign news. Subscribe now S l.OO ei Y f i i'. WeildlnK Castomn and Frolics Thnt 1'revnil In Holland. In Holland two weeks before a mar riago takes place cards are sent out de claring that the banns have been pub lished. This is called an “under mar riage.” The card also announces when the final marriage is to take place. The wedding itself Is a small affair, and the civil marriage Is the only one roe- | ognized by law. A church wedding is usually looked upon as a concession to either fashion or sentimentality and is called a “consecration of the marriage.” The couple enter the church behind the family members, bridesmaids and oth er attendants. They are shown to scats before the whole assembly, and the clergyman comes in with two witness es long after the others have been seat ed. He first makes a prayer, then de livers a sermon on a suitable text, which usually brings the bride to tears. After that the couple are married. Then a hymn is sung and the blessing given. The whole occupies about an hour and a quarter. Before leaving the church a huge Bible is presented to the bride groom. During the two weeks of wait ing between the “under marriage” and the real marriage all the wedding fes tivities take place. The happy couple are literally surfeited with dinners, halls and theater parties, and all man ner of practical jokes are played on the pair. jU the dinner toasts innumerable are given, an 1 at each the whole com pany rises from the table to sound and touch glasses with the bride and groom, who never rise. Among their friends the idea is not to allow the couple a night of sleep, if possible, before the wedding day. A MIGHTY “LAND GRABBER.” £ Chenunceatix Itiitlt at the HidUinic <»i ?>' Diana of Poitiers. Chenoneeaux was one of the cat-lies, , chateaux that represented tin- ne*. s; i It. Jt was buiit on the sift* of tne old j feudal fortress in a sort of fie. k of the ijl sense of opportunity. It was meant t > 1 give room and verge enough to a g. n ! eration bent on having a good time in hall and bower. It was still a fortres> : 1 -., >f a kiiiA, hut this only as an after thought. In the main it was a palace , for sport and festival. It might have | r stood on dry land; It preferred to; > bridge a river. There was no want of * space in other directions, hut this seem ed best as a stroke of constructive im pudence. The nivhiteet at the bidding of Diana of Poitiers jumped the Cher as a schoolboy would have jumped a brook. The huge arches never carried anything of use to mankind at large, j not even a right of way. | ^ At first most of them had no super- r structure, and the bridge might have | m been called “Diana’s folly.” .hit she I knew what she was about. She was a mighty man subduer, with a heart as v cold as the stone of her new dwelling and a face and form kept beautiful for ever by the studious avoidance of ev ery pang—a wonderful creature with al, for she contrived to die in her bod. though she cro. sod the path of Cather ine do’ Medici. She ruled a king by the usual methods and by studious defer ence to him kept him her obedient, hum ble servant to the day of his death. She Inspired one of the greatest sculptors of her time in his creation of a Venus that rivaled the antique. She was one of the mightiest land grabbers of his!ory, adding chateau to chateau with a purpose that never fal tered and by methods of smooth, un emotional persist once that never failed. She started uhh everything against her m that epoch of the worship of youth when sh ■ began her siege of the heart of tin* dauphin of France. She was a widow, aai a widow with a family, yet sin knew no pause in her triumphant ear • r till she had married and dow --red i nil and provided herself v. iih a - e of pnia.-es for her Oo-Garts m. beauties, am ritflil. Go-Carts ceoncl lot just re- They are really the price is FoMiug Hods It will cost you more than $100.00 to IniiM another room to your house , hut one of our Haudsom will save you that ox; ense. Chune to see our Ranges. They make cooking a pleasure during the hot summer davs. really -le i > • i I . ei> . 'ih ges ati enemy or h to tin* pur- •t likely to be * anctity of an unrullled ■ k 'pt her a h • prototype •di-ess Diana • in tin* wise of tempera- ■ J-# ■Zk.mrr^. $ Shuford ®$ LeMaster, Furniture, Stoves and Undertaking (S)0^)CS(ojr^ 7 [gi^'^ BLACKSBURG TAKES THE PEACE OF CACOMEE PRIGS 35 CENTS. AT ALL DRUGGISTS. GAFFNEY DRUG CO., Gaffney, S. C., CHEROKEE DRUG CO., Gaffney, S. C. DRUG CO., Blacksburg, S. C. For sale by m M DON’TS FOR BACHELORS. Don't sew up your pockets while try ing to sew on a hut ton to stay. Buy a thimble that tits. Don't push your needle through witli your teeth. Don’t start a piece of sewing with a thread long enough fo hang yourself. Don’t attempt to push a No. 3 needle through a No. 10 hole. Profanity is had form. Don’t be afraid of a needle. It will not stick you unless you attack the wrong end of It first. Select the proper size button before you sew it on. Don’t cut the button hole larger with a penknife so as to make it fit the button. And don’t—oh, don't—leave the needle in your chair when you are through sewing. You may discover it unexpect edly.—Kansas City Star. Always Within Reach ist he money to your credit in the Gaffney Savings Bank. But remember that it is your reach only that it is within; your written order is neceasary to obtain it. Burglars and thieves have no chance to get it. IMi The Gaffney Savings Bank \\ ouhl w i kc to open an account with yen. One dollar do for a start, your own pride will make ii grow. We pay four per cent, inter est on all deposits. The Gaffney Savings Bank. Office in The National Bank of Gaffney. *'»******.«.« *** A 4k A * * * f A * A- A. * *».3r W # W; Are You Administrator and have the settlement of an estate? If so, request of the -Judge of ‘Probate that your advertisement be placed in :: :: : TIMC LEI>OEK, It has the largest circulation of any paper in the Fifth South Carolina Congressional District. Canny John Sherman. The hue Secretary John Sherman showed his talent for financiering at au early age. lie uuu two of hia brothers had been given a sum of money with which to pay their board while on a shooting trip for a week at the house of a farmer near Lancaster. O.. their home.' The week ended, John ordered the wagon and paid Ids board. But the farmer refused the money, saying that the sons of Judge Sherman would al ways lie welcome guests. When John found that he did not have to pay ids board he sent the wagon back to the barn and stayed another week.—Lip- oincott’s. Rewards For Charcheolng. At Holsworthy, in Devonshire. Eng land, the prettiest girl who attends church gets well rewarded for doing so. About fifty years or so ago it struck the Rev. Thomas Meyriek, who was then vicar of tie parish, that the young ladles there did not attend church so often as they might do. So he left a sum of money, and this, according to the terms of his will, was to be put out at interest. The annual Income from it was to he gi\'en each year to tie* prettiest young woman at Holsworthy who had attended church regularly for that year. Gettlrr; :i Pointer. Bosky—I say. doctor, I want you to look at a horse up here at the stable and tell me honestly Just what you think about him—whether he is sound or unsound. Veterinary—I always tell just what I think. By the way, is it a horse you think of buying or one you have for sale?- Boston Transcript. ■ VI’LJ.V • ■> i Fincken’s New Store Always giving good prices on some thing. Watch his ad. Good Cream Corn, 3 for 25c. j. i . if rivore isiv Two Doors from Post Office. Subscribe for Tbe Ledger, $1.00 a year You Can Always be Dressed as Well as the President if You Wear £ Strouse Bros. High Art Clothing Looks RIGHT When You Buy it, and STAYS Right When You Wear it. Hats If it’s a new Block—if it’s a new shade—we have it. All the latest Spring styles in Straws and Derbys. Neckwear In all the best shapes and handsomest colors. Also long 50-inch Four-m-Hands, Strings and Tecks, ^ every wonted style. TO the >ieed iri Weeix-ing AjDjDax'el. New lot of Ladies’ Oxfords just arrived. See them before you purchase. Few pieces of Jap and China Matting left that we are selling at way down prices. We want your business, THE CO MEA.MY STORE. ^