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things at bottom prices. Why pay more for your Hat somewhere else when you can get just as good here for less money, and better for
Our stock of Ladies’ and Children’s Slippers has been right up to date in every respect. The ladies have shown their appreciation of this by
giving us a liberal show at their business.
TO THE MEN AND BOYS
We are prepared to serve you with the best line of Shirts, Ties, Collars, Handkerchiefs, etc. The best 50c and $1.00 Shirts offered by anyone. At
25c and 1 39c we can show you some hummers. Our of Boys’ and Men’s Shoes are the best that can be offered for the price. Hamilton-
Brown Douglass and other good makes. We like to give you values. We have recently put in a line of fine Clothing bought at under prices. In
this line we are prepared to give low prices and good values. Men’s Suits from $5.00 to $12.50: and Boys’ Youths^ Suits from $1.25 to $7.50.
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Seorice Hitler I.lkened IIImMelf to *
Wornout Watcii.
“Frankliu’s epitaph, where he cot i-
yuied himself to an old book, is know n
to all of us,” said an antiquary, ‘‘lie e
la a copy of a less famous epitaph, tl e
epitaph of a watchmaker, Ueorae Hi -
ter, who compared himself to a watch
that had run down."
The man took out his notebook.
“George Hitter,” he said, “lived in
New Hampshire in the town of New
port. He died in 1N22.”
Then he read:
“ ‘Here lies, in horizontal position,
the outside case of tl^nrge Hitter,
whose abiding place in tnat line was
an honor to his profession. Integrity
was his mainspring and prudence the
regulator of all the actions of his life.
Humane, generous and liberal, his
hand never stopped till he had relieved
distress. He never went wrong except
when set a-going by people who tj'd
not know his key. Even then he was
easily set right again. He had the art
of dispensing of his time so well that
his hours glided by in one continual
round of pleasure and delight till an
unlucky minute put an end to his exist
ence. He departed this life Sept. 11,
1822. His case rests and molders and
decays beneath the sod, but his good
works will never die.’ ’’—Philadelphia
Bulletin.
SUNDAY MARKETS.
They Wvre Held In Knffland Even
Before the Contiuoal.
According to the Domesday book, a
Sunday market was held at St. Her
mans, Cornwall, even before the con
quest, though It was soon rendered of
little value owing to the establishing
of another on an adjacent piece of
ground by the Conqueror’s half broth
er.
From the conquest right on to the
time of Henry VII. and lu a few cases
longer these Sunday market* were
common. We find records of them at
Bradford, Worcester, Battle, Launce
ston and parts of Durham, Lancashire
and Lincolnshire.
Launceston in 1206 gave King John
6 marks for a license to change the day
to Thursday. Battle did pretty much
the same thing. Despite an act of par
Uament in 1440 abolishing them some
disregarded the act and continued Sun
day fairs until 1800.
In Wigton, Cumberland, the butchers
on Sunday did a roaring trade close to
the church doors. It was no uncommon
thing for worshipers to bring their
joints to church with them and bang
them over the pew fronts. The priest,
unable to stop the custom, posted to
London and got the market day
changed to Tuesday.—London Mail.
Silence Is Golden.
Mike—Phwat is a good openin’ fer a
young man? Pat—His mouth when he
tapes It shut—Puck.
Big Store on the Corner.
Gaffney, S. C,
THE CAMEL IN ARABIA.
MAGIC IN TIBET.
II lu Xeoeseary to the Prosperity of
the Country.
It would be hard foi a person living
lu any other city in the world to con
ceive just what an indispensable ani
mal tlie camel is to the prosperity and
welfare of Aden and the adjacent part
of Arabia. Even in the ordinary work
done by a horse lu any other place or
country the camel is always used here
— in fact, except for drawing a car
riage, it completely takes the place of
the horse. The camel is used for haul
ing produce in carts, for carrying
freight and other articles and for draw
ing the sprinkling and water carts. It
makes a comfortable riding anirr-l.
and at a feast its flesh, of all meats,
is considered the best. Hut it is as a
means of transportation and as a beast
of burden in passing to and from the
interior of Arabia to Aden that it be
comes indispensable, and it is alto
gether probable that without it Aden
would have never become the great dis
tributing point it now is. Articles
shipped from here to points across the
gulf of Aden are also transported by
camels Into the interior of the African
continent.
The amount of the burden varies ac
cording to the distance to be carried
and to the size of the animal. In car
rying goods to and from the wharfs to
the different warehouses a few miles
a camel will carry a load of from <»fMj
to tkiO pounds, but for a long journey
from one-third to one-half of this
amount is considered a camel load.—
United States Consular Report.
Vcnta of thv Wonder XVorkera of the
hand of Myatery.
India and neighboring countries arc
the home of mystery and the black
arts. Even in the centers of civiliza
tion there are fortune tellers and won
der workers to whom supernatural
powers are attributed by those who
scorn superstitious belief. Says a writ
er: “Til>etan peddlers have affirmed
over and over again that, living in the
mountains near the city of Lassa, there
are men possessing extraordinary pow
ers, distinct from ami far higher than
the ordinary lamas.
“These men cure the sick by giving
them rice to eat which they crush out
of the paddy with their hands. They
perforin many other remarkable feats.
We are told that a young Bengali in
18S2 testified before a number of re
spectable witnesses that while travel
ing in Tibet, in the neighborhood of
the lake of Manasarawara, he met one
of these men accompanied by a num
ber of clielas, or pupils. The master
saluted him and, finding that he had
nothing to eat, gave him some ground
grain and tea.
“As the Bengali had no means of oh
tainlng fire the master called for some
fuel and kindled it by simply blowing
on it with his mouth. He also cured
a shepherd who was brought to him
suffering from rheumatic fever, then
and there, by giving him a few grains
of rice crushed out of the paddy which
he had In his hand.”
Carefully Guarded Tea.
The tea used lu the Chinese royal
household is treated with the utmost
care. It Is raised in a garden surround
ed by a wall, so that neither man nor,
beast can get anywhere near the
plants. At the time of the harvest
those collecting these leaves must ab
stain from eating fish that their breatli
may not spoil the aroma of the tea,
they must bathe three times a day and
in addition must wear gloves while
picking the tea for the Chinese court.
A Safe Gaean.
“A very healthy place, Is it?” said the
woman avIio was house hunting. “Have
you any idea what the death rate is
here?”
After careful reflection, says Punch,
the caretaker replied, “Well, mum. I
can’t 'zactly say, but It’s about oue
apiece all around.”
Dodfflnir the Dlgglaff.
“Plenty of gold in the land,’’ Says a
philosopher, “but when it comes to
digging for it many of us are content
to Jog along with poverty.”—Atlanta
Constitution.
Prayers For Two.
“If your husband were to die would
you pray for him?”
“Of course, but at the same time I’d
pray for another.”—Town and Country.
How Sponger Are Prepared.
Sponges are prepared for export In
the following manner: After being
bought in the local market they are
carted to the shipping yard of the pur
chaser, where they are cut and trimmed
Into proper shapes and sizes. They are
then washed and thoroughly dried, be
ing generally spread in the sun lor that
purpose upon canvas or old sails. Next
they are assorted according to varie
ties and then packed by means of hand
presses Into hales weighing from 20 to
Utf) pounds. Sometimes the sponges
are bleaehed by being passed through
a solu'ion of white lime and water so
weak m not to injure the fiber of the
sponge.
It. (<it . Thun Il<* Thought.
A < .i wiio had received the
(.ling over the land of
a f ii" close mice or twice
to tie : n! tin* ground adjacent
to ... i (lie day, the Country
Co-. ■», he met the farmer.
"Y . . i pretty good |uck,” said
Uie fa..
•‘\v’eli, no.” said the young man hesi
tatingly. “1 haven’t had any luck at
all.”
“Yes, you have,” repeated the farmer.
“This m »rni vig you Just missed my best
Shorthorn.”
Aye, people are generally calm at the
misfortunes of others.—Goldsmith.
ENGLISH FACTORY LAWS.
IlrouKlit About by Pitiable Contll-
t lull a l-i Com ti Faetorleu.
The first English factory laws were
made in 1802 and were enacted mainly
because of the pitiable condition of the
young pauper children, employed in the
Lancashire cotton factories.
An outbreak of fever in the Rad-
eliffe Cotton works, 1784, was traced
by Manchester doctors to overcrowded
and insanitary factories and the long
hours of the workers. The magistrates
made an attempt to lessen the evils,
but in spite of their success in slightly
reducing the hours of labor things
grew worse and other epidemics oc
curred.
The Manchester board of health took
the matter up in 1796 and urged the
necessity of legislation to deal effec
tively with it. Public interest was
aroused, and further revelations of the
flagrant ill treatment of apprentices so
deeply stirred public feeling that in
1S02 Sir Robert Peel brought in a bill
known as the “health and morals of
apprentices act,” which was passed
without difficulty and placed on the
statute book.
E You Will Miss Mndi I
If you fail to see our line of Buggies and
Harness. We are under the market
enough to make it to your interest to
visit our place. . *. .
$15.00 Harness, at $12.50
$12.50 Harness, at $11.00
$10.00 Harness, at $ 8.50
Harness made, guaranteed and repaired
byan expert.
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Cheerful Philosophy.
When 1 could not obtain large pleas
ures I put together as many small ones
as possible. Small pleasures, depend
upon it, lie about as thick as daisies
in summer and for that very reason
are neglected, trodden under foot, in
stead of being worn in our buttonholes.
We cannot afford to buy roses at
Christmas or camellias at any time,
and so we couple buttercups with vul
garity, and tilings that grow In tli<“
iiedge side we let wither where they
grow for no other reason than that the
king’s highway is not a royal garden.—
Woman’s Life.
|Smith Hardware Co.j
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I Extend a Cordial Invitation
To The Ladies of Gaffney and Cherokee County
He Wan Safe.
A teacher in one of the public schools
asked a little Irish boy why he had
been absent a day, to which the youth
replied:
“My mother had the mumps, and 1
had to go and get the doctor.”
“But don’t you know that the mumps
Is catching, Johnny?”
“Yes, but this is my stepmother, and
she never gives me anything.”—New
York Times.
QiiHlifled.
He—Here is an account of a minis
ter’s wife who took bis place in the
pulpit when he was ill. She—Had she
had any previous experience? He—
Why, I suppose she had frequently
preached at him when he was well.—
New York Press.
Good SaarKeatloa.
“I proposed to Miss Tailun, and now
Miss Pert, whose good opinion I covet,
says I am a fool.”
“Well, propose to Miss Pert, and she
will think you have lucid moments.”—
Houston Post.
Subscribe for The Ledger, 91.00 a year.
To call and examine my line of Dress and Waist Goods. I have
a beautiful line of Scotch mixtures, Shark Skin Brilliantines, Etc.,
at 40 to 75 cents per yard.
lilai k iiroad cloth, fine quality, at $1.25 per yard.
Waist Goods in latest styles at 10c yard and up.
Big lot A. V. C. Ginghams, Percales, Common Cloth, Lons
dale Sheeting, Etc., to be sold cheap.
Jii't received 50 dozen Malaga Hats for Men, Youths and
Children at 10c and up.
See ur. for anything in Clothing from the wee tot’s Suit to the
most expensive tailor-made Suits for Men.
My Prices Are Right Too 8^
I still handle everything needed on the farm.. If in need of
fanning implements this is the place to get them.
I handle Hay, Corn, Oats, Flour, Meat, in fact everything in
supplies.
Bliss’ Triumph Potatoes for planting.
All grades Fertilizers for all crops. See me for anything in my
various lines.
Respectfully,
J. I. SA.
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Good, Honest Solid Leather Shoes
Are What we claim to sell and it is money saved when you buy this kind. They cost you
just a little more and are a great deal better. We have the greatest line of Men’s Ox
fords ever shown; Tans, Vici, Patents, such makes as Edwin Clapp’s, Crossett and All
Americas. A look will be appreciated. ::::::::
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