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1” 0 /HE LARGEST CIRCULATION of Any Newspaper In the Fifth Congressional District, of 8. C. EVERY ONE PAID IN ADVANCE The Ledger. SEMI-WEEKLY—PUBLISHED TUESDAY AHD9FBIDAY. THE KATIONAL BANK OF 6AFFNEY Gaffney, 8. C., State, County and City Depository, With resources March 31, 1905 of otw $300,000.00, respectfully solicits your banking business. ESTABLISHED FEB. 1$, ISM. A Newspaper In All that the Word Implies and Devoted to the Boot Interests of the People of Cherokee County. GAFFNEY, 8. C., TUESDAY, AUGUST 8, 1905. $14)0 A YEAR. COTTON GROWERS IN SPARTANBURG. LIVELY MEETING HELD THERE SATURDAY. Floors and Galleries Crowded—Presi dent Archer in Charge—Speeches by Prominent Speakers. (J. C. McNeill in Charlotte Observer.) Spartanburg, Aug. 5.—A rosy meet ing it was which they had in Spar tanburg today; a meeting of counter- currents and undertows. They had it in for ex-Senator John L. McLaurin, or rather the president of the countv Cotton Growers’ Association had it in for him. This man, Mr. E. L. Arcner, is tall and extremely thin. His hair is white and his face bearded with white stubble. .There is a great deal of intelligence and stubbornness in his gray eyes. The Herald said this morning that the cotton growers’ meeting would be addressed by the genei^l president, Harvie Jordan, and the State presi dent, E. D. Smith. ‘’Immediately on the conclusion of these speakers.” said The Herald, “President Archer will adjourn the meeting.” This program shut out ex-Senator McLaurin and Hon. F. H. Hyatt, both of whom had been invited speak, and Mr. F. H. Weston, secretary of the State asso ciation. Strangely enough, everybody seems to have read the announcement and scented the brimstone, except the three men just, mentioned. They had no inkling or suspicion of it, so each of them told me afterward. The meeting was called in the opera house at 11 o’clock. President Smith —who says gossi" is a stealthy can didate for governor, with an ultimate eye on Tillman’s seat—Secretary Wes ton, and Mr. Hyatt—who, says gossip, is another wool-shod, gubernatorial dark horse—were on the stage prompt ly. Senator McLaurin did not yet ap pear. As long as a vacant seat re mained on the flood the crowd poured in; then it quickly filled all the gallery space. It was the most largely attend ed meeting for agricultural speeches you ever saw. County President Ar cher was in charge and he paced the stage restlessly until the people were seated. In opening the meeting he explained that Mi Harvie Jordan had missel connection and was lying at Mt. \iry, Ga.; but that he would be on hand by 4ie afternoon and would then regale Tthe meeting. He said, further, that Hyatt, Weston and Smith would speak in the order named, and then a collec tion would be taken. He made no mention of Senator McLaurin, and the people knew then that the scuffle was narrowed down to him. Mr. Hyatt’s Breezy Speech. • Mr. Hyatt, of Columbia, is an old Anson county. N. C., boy, a big busi ness man of his adopted city and an agriculturalist. He was the best dressed man yet in sight and looked better groomed than an ordinary Tar Heel. His 40-minute speech was set almost wholly in illustrations and it pleased the crowd greatly. “There was a baby conceived,” said he, “in September at Shreveport. The following January this baby was horn ed at Now Orleans and was named the Southern Cotton Growers’ Association. I told them I wanted them to give $10,- 000 to buy ‘the first gown for it and help raise it. They gave it; and now that baby has grown so big that she stands up before the world,* holds its clothes in her hand, and says. ‘Pay me what this suit is worth or you shan’t have it.’ ” Before proceeding further, he paused to read the letter inviting him to speak hero and another letter, sent him af terward, which said that the report had got out that he would be a can didate for governor, and if that were true he had best not come. • Hyatt told the joke about the man who had tried to hang himself with a blind bridle and to whom his wife said, after she had cut him down; “Would n’t ic be a prettv come off to see you runnin’ up and down the golden streets with a blind bridle on!” So he would not hang or hamper himself with promises. "I never thought of running for politics.” he said. “But what had that do to with his speaking here? He didn’t propose to be harnessed up with a blind bridle and kicking-strap and driven around by a little two-by-four local political boss. ‘If you gentlemen don’t want to hear me talk.” said he, appealing to the crowd, “because I won’t promise not to run for politics, I will sit down right now. It’s just as you say about It." Voices: “Gwan, gwan!” “Let ’em have it!” "Say all you can!” So he went on and made a most re freshing speech on “Good Roads, Di versification, Immigration and'Cotton.” Discussing immigration, he said that^ the representative elected from • Stanley county, N. C., two years ago (?) was an ignorant man and had nev er been to Raleigh, the capital of the State, before. When some one intro duced a bill pertaining to immigra tion, be said he thought it folly. “Why,” said he, “in Stanley county we have a plenty of boghead and hom iny and cold water, and we raise our own immigrants.” John L. McLaurin Enters. The moment Hyatt turned to take his seat, there rose a little applause about the door and two or three shouts, “McLaurin ! McLaurin!” But ' Archer was out on the stage in a ‘twinkling, speaking in a loud voice about something, and so fostered n spread of the applause. Accompanied by a party of promi- s nent citizens, “Curly headed Johnny*’ came down the aisle, ah, how hand some! He wore a white flannel nan keen double-breasted sack coat with a creamy shimmer to it. His graying hair was as curly as ever , his coun tenance as frank and his eye as alert. It was evident from his air that he thought himself the chief speaker, but he seemed just a fraction puzzled at the abrupt cessation of applause. He took his seat on the stage, folded his arms across his breast, and began studying the crowd. But Mr. Archer took no notice of him whatever. Capt. Petty, the fine old gentleman so long editor of The Carolina Spar tan, introduced Mr. Weston in delight- fut. style. The substance of Mr. Weston’s speech, some half an hour long, was that everybody makes money out of cotton except the man that produces it; that the South has a God-given mo nopoly qn its production; therefore build warehouses and store the staple until it brings the price agreed upon by the growers. They said afterward that there was So significance to it, but it is a fact that every time Mr. Weston referred to politicians and demagogues, as ar raying the farmers against the rest of’ society, he turned and gestured ‘toward the ex-senator. The same thing was true of Mr. Smith’s speech. It was strange doings, that’s all. Mr. McLaurin presently got. out his hand kerchief and began mopping the per spiration. Mr. Smith’s Great Speech. These two speeches, with the ex tras, carried the time up to about twenty minutes past twelve, and there Mr. Smith began. They told me on the street as a sort of winking secret, that McLaurin and Smith are in co hoof. McLaurin for the Senate, Smith for governor. But strange it wms to a plain North State reporter that Mr. Smith should have treated his partner so; he spoke, to guess without having timed him, nearer tw r o than one and a half hours, while McLaurin used his handkerchief and let the look of worry deepen on his splendid face. Mr. Archer told me later that, he had re quested Smith to speak as long as possible, so as to cut. McLaurin out of his crowd. But it was a consummate piece of oratory. No university commencement to which it would not have done honor, and yet it was enough popular to hold that crowd of farmers in a spell. It teemed with the finest humor and was knit together with absolute logic. The language of it .evidently impromptu, was set in long, sonorous sentences of almost classic beauty. There was nothing grandiloquent, nothing “con scions” about it; its highest mark was its abandoned earnestness. Sometimes he stood at tne very edge of the stage, and, stooping forward with hands on knees, looked his audience intimately in the eyes, as if he feared they might escape him. That man can do what he pleases in politics, if he can get to the people. An old grizzled man who sat next to me kept up a sort of gurg ling chuckle of unconscious delight throughout; and from gallery to par- quette not a man seemed to lose a syllable. Take this one sentence as representative; “I thought it strange that there were two contemporaneous meetings, one memoralizing the farmers to reduce their acreage, and the other consider ing means of checking the boll weevil; when the little boll weevil was doing his eternal best at what they were memoralizing the farmers to do.” Or take this one. after a consider- abl« passage on the farmers who be lieve in “Jones’ Private Argument’’: “I had rather he a convict, crushing rock to build your roads and letting everybody fcnow that I was a sneak thief, than to take advantage of a struggle my countrymen are making to knock out one prop from under their support and let them sink back into tl e gloom of defeat.” But it will not do to go into a re port of the speech. Suffice it to say that it was the^ realization of the in credible; a sneech of surpassing elo quence on cotton! "How much more time have I?” he asked, after he had spoken an hour. “Gwan! gwan!” whooped the dinner less farmers. “As much as you want," said Mr. Archer, smiling all over. Senator McLaurin had unbuttoned his coat and was mopping faithfully. A Dramatic Scene. At last, as the hands were pointing toward two. Mr. Sraih gave over and the people boomed out their applause. The secretary of the local organiza tion, Mr. Lipscomb, and the president. Mr. Archer, were very much at cross purposes. In fact, Mr. Archer was so eager to get the floor that, he sprang to his feet once when he thought Smith was finishing, and had to re sume his chair. But when Smith did finish. Archer was on the spot, ap pointing men to take up the collection. Some of the crowd wore leaving. Lip scomb saw it was now or never. He took the stage beside Archer. "Gentlemen,” he shouted, "I have a very important announcement to make, which I was denied the courtesy of being allowed to make by the chair man. As soon as this collection is over, I am going to Introduce the man who has done more for the cotton growers than any other on the Amer ican continent.” • Tliis was greeted with profound si lence. Mr. Smith then went, forward and said that this is a non-political organ ization and that anv man who wants to sp«*ak has got the right to do so. if only he will stick to his text. He. tyay- ed of them a hearing for Senator Mf Laurin, “Whom I know personally and whom I feel kindly toward. Even if at Dillon, under special request, hw did leave the subject in hand, Just as long as there is good work in him I am going to keep the harness on him: but as soon as lie begins to buck I will turn him loose and he can go to thunder.*' "Well, I’m through, gentlemen,” Mr Archer announced. “When I try a mule once and find him a bucker. I’m done!” With that he strode from the stage. There was some cat-calling and jeer ing applause. Wh’Ie Lipscomb was introducing McLaurin great confusion reigned. Crowds were going out and there were, about the entrance, Babel voices. But under this unparreled handicap, McLaurin went out in fine shape. How he kept his countenance he can him self perhaps exnlain. He was looking superb; his voice rang like a bell. He had the great good sense to avoid both politics and cotton (the latter not en tirely) and speak of old war days and things upon which there could be no division of opinion. He held the resi due of the crowd twenty-five minutes! and left off with some little measure of triumph and an ocean of sympathy. All the farmers with whom 1 min gled expressed themselves as indig nant at this treatment of the distin guished man who had been invited there in the following letter; "July 28, 1905. “Hon John L. McLaurin, Bennetts- ville, S. C. “My Dear Sir and Friend: You are cordially invited to be at our cotton county rally at Spartanburg, S. C., August 5th prox., to make us one of your big cotton speeches. Don’t fail to come. Will advertise in papers ac cordingly. “Yours resp’y, “H. S. Lipscomb, “On Committee of Invitation.” I heard opinions to the effect that it was a scheme of Tillman’s and that it would react against him. The State officers of the association were hot in the collar, but Mr. Archer was at the the depot to. see the distinguished guests depart, smiling a large .patri- archial smile of triumph. “I think it mj- duty,” he said, “to hedge off such men from the people.” When I repeated this remark to ex- Senator McLaurin, “Yes,” he said, sar castically, “the people need a guard ian.” A NEWSY LETTER FROM WILMNSVILLE. MOVEMENTS OF THE PEOPLE OF LOWER CHEROKEE. BLACKSBURG BREVITIES. Personals and Locals from the Iron Ctly Across the Broad. Blacksburg, Aug. 7.—Mrs. W. H. Lathan and children, of Camden, are visiting Mrs. M. E. Shiver. Misses Edna Moss and Bertha Aus tell, of Earl, spent. Saturday in this place with Miss Elizabeth Bridges. Mr. P. R. Freeman, who has been working in Macon, Ga., is at home for a few days. Miss Lucy Thomson went to Gaffney Saturday shopping. Mrs. Mike Roberts and little daugh ter, Blanche, are visiting relatives at Patterson Springs. Mrs. George Leech, of Hickory Grove, is visiting Mrs. T. B. White- sides. Mrs. M. F. Nichols and children, who have been visiting in this place, re turned to their home in Earl Sunday. Mrs. J. G. Black spent Saturday and Sunday with her son. Dr. L. R. Black, at Wilkinsville. Miss Lillian Smith made a flying trip to Gaffney Thursday. Miss Violet Crow, of Marion, is vis iting friends in this place. Mrs. Whiteford Duncan is visiting her sister. Mrs. Wm. Finley, in Marion, N. C. Mrs. L. D. Hord, who has been vis iting relatives in this place, returned to h£r home in Lincolnton Saturday. Miss Marie Goforth is visiting friends in Gastonia. N. C. Mrs. John Smith, who has been vis iting relatives in Hickory Grove, re turned home Saturday. Mrs. D. D. Gaston returned hpme Thursday after spending several weeks with her daughter. Mrs. C. M. Easterday, in Baltimore, Md. Rev. J. L. Oats, of Hickory Grove, spent a few hours in town Saturday. Miss Connie Baber, who has been visiting in this place, returned to her home in Gastonia, N. C., Thursday night. FIRST BALE OF NEW CROP. Mr. H. C. Folk®, of Bamberg, Sends in His First Bale. Charleston, Aug. 4.—Mr. H. C. Folk, who is well known as one of the most progressive and enterprising farmers of Bamberg, yesterday afternoon wired to Charleston as follows: “F. W. Wagener & Co., Charleston, S. C.—I am shipping you today by ex press my first i>ale of new cotton. H. C. Folk.” The cotton no doubt reached the city last night and will he taken to the store of Wagener & Co. e*arly this morning for classification, weight nad sale. As is usually the case the bale will no doubt he sold at auction. The shipment this time is nine days earlier than last year and nearly a month ahead of the first hale sent in for 190:5. Mr. Folk sent the first bale to Charleston last year, August 13, and In 1903 it came to Charleston August 31. ELECTROCUTION IN CHESTER. While Discussing Accident John Weir Met Death in Similar Manner. Chester, Aug. 5.—John M. Weir, a fireman on the Southern Railway, was instantly killed by an electric current received from a wire rope, used for lowering, and raising the arc lights, attached to a i>ost at the corner of Valley and Gadsden streets, last night about 9 o’clock. Weir and a number of friendsU»ad been discussing the death of Bradshaw ia Charlotte, and he went out to the i>ost and had a similar experience. The accident oc purred shortly after a big rain, and the post was highly charged with electricity. Weir was about 21 years of ago and unmarried. —I have Just received a lot of latest design picture and room moulding, picture hooks, wire. etc. Come and see them. L. R. Qalnes. Personal Paragraphs Concerning Pop ular People and Short Item* of General Interest W ilkinsville, Aug. 5.—We are sorry to say that the meeting at Salem has i not (so far) been a success in the; matter of attendance, as we had hoped j it would be, though some very power-1 ful and convincing sermons have been j preached by Rev. W. A. Haffner. The! house is usually well filled at the j morning services but the afternoon services are not very well attended. Neither is there that warm spiritual zeal among the membership that gives evidence of the presence of the Holy i Spirit which we like to see on all such occasions. It’s too often the case that we overestimate the good results of revival meetings, especially when we make our calculations before visi ble effects are shown in the walk and conversation of the men and wo- nnen who are affected by it. Too much of the big “I” and little “U” com mands our minds when we speak or write of such things. Rev. W. H. White went home on Wednesday evening and returned Friday morning. His family are not all well. The meet ing will close tomorrow, when we can better estimate the amount and kind of work it has accomplished. Rev. Mr. Haffner left yesterday afternoon. He went to Blackstocks last nignt to be at Hebron today and tomorrow. Mr. Sam Strain has been mfwell for several days. Mr. Sam Lee Is working the public roads between Wilkinsville and How ell's ferry. Most of the early planted corn is poor, but the bottom-land corn—es pecially that planted after the long wet spell—Is fine, and the late upland corn is fairly good. The weather is much more pleasant and fall-like than it was a few days ago when suffocation was felt almost anywhere. Not even the nights were cool enough to permit one to sleen in comfort. Mr. H. B. McDaniel, who lias been sick for two weeks, is getting along slowly. Mrs. J. H. Fowler is still quite feeble. Mr. W. T. Osment and baby, we are glad to learn, are both getting bettpr. There has been but little done to wards sowing turnips yet. Farmers are plowing and laying-by their late corn, which on good land looks very well. Cotton on good land is going to weed verv fast, and may not be taking on fruit accordingly. However, we have no complaint to make against the cot ton prospects in this community. Those who think that. Mr. Poole’s card in Tuesday’s paper is directed at or concerns your correspondent are badly mistaken. We are not the man at all. The time never has been, and we trust never will be, when we will be afraid to say what we think or tell what we know over our genuine signature. We can’t tell who made the charges against him (if ho is the one to whom the writer refers). We never use fictions names to conceal our identity and we don't propose to take up other people’s cudgels. Mr. and Mrs. John A. Haines, of Gowdeysville. attended preaching at Salem yesterday. They were on their return from Hickory Grove, where they had been visiting their sister. Mrs. Moorehead. In company with Rev. W. H. Haffner we spent Thursday night with Messrs, Jack and Jim Smarr and their fami ly, at Hopewell, where we were most kindly treated. The Smarr family is proverbial for its kind hospitality and its home is always open to its friends, where a kind welcome is ever ready. This is a model family, where broth ers and sisters dwell together in unity. Since the death of their mother the hoys have managed the farm and taken care of their sisters like men ought to do. We have always said that a man who is kind and attentive to his sister or mother will take good care of a wife, and we advise the girls to make this inquiry about a young man before they allow them to pay them their respects. Young lady, if your suitor doesn't properly respect and protect his mother, and sister, if he has one, then kick him sky-high, if possible .or he will make you repent the day you made your acquaintance with him. He should he shunned as a moral leper: he is unworthy of the smiles of a good woman. Ami by the wav, it’s a poor rule that don’t work both ways. The young man ought to find out how you treat your father and brothers, if you have them. Mr. and Mrs. LeRoy Sherrer and their son. Walker, who have all been down with typhoid fever, we are glad to say are much better. Mr. Aleck Parker took a load of watermelons to Hickory Grove yester day. Mr. John Childers' child, which .lied at Gaffney one day this week, was burled at Unity church yesterday. We regreuto hear of the death of Rev. W. R. Owings, which took place at Quitman on last Friday. For sev eral years he was pastor at Salem church. Mr. Johnnie Brown, of Armenia, Chester county, and his sister, Mrs. Tinie Simms, came up yesterday on a visit to friends and relatives in tills neighborhood. Mr. ami Mrs. J. Leslie Wright have returned to their home at Patterson Springs, N. C., after u ten days’ visit to this section. ^ The Children’s Day at Wilson’s Chapel will be generally attended to day. The slight showers passing around will induce people to sow turnips early this year. Mr. Babe Smarr has chills. Mr. Lewis Thomson, of Spartanburg, is down renting out his lands on the “Beauty Spot” plantation, in York county. j. l. S. BRUMAL NEGRO SHOOTS WOMAN. Because Rosa Davis Took Out a War rant Against Him. Charleston, Aug. 4.—A shooting, which in ail probability will end fatal ly took place about 9 o’clock yesterday morning about 9 o’clock. Becoming enraged because Rosa Davis had sworn out a warrant for his arrest, j Henry Lucas deliberately fired on the ! woman twice, the two bullet* taking I effect in the woman’s back. Lucas then made his escape, but as he is well known to the officers, it is likely that he will be arrested very soon. The woman was taken to the City Hos- oital and was given the necessary treatment and at a late hour last night she was still living with but small chance of recovery. The coroner was notified of the shooting and hurried to the scene and had the woman removed to the hospital, where he took her ante-mor tem statement. Last Sundav. at a house in Hey ward’s court, according to the wo man’s story, he beat her unmercifully and to escape she jumped out of the second story window. On Monday she swore our a warrant for Lucas for as sault and battery and the warrant was placed in the hands of a constable. Since the trouble with Lucas last Sunday, the woman has been livihg with a friend at No. 21 South street. It is evident t;hat Lucas knew of the warrant and Thursday night he went to the house where the woman was and waited for a chance to shoot her. /Ie lay under the house all night and yesterday morning about 9 o’clock he crept out and seeing the woman at work in the kitchen fired at her through the window. As soon as the report of the shoot ing reached poolice headquarters Ser- gant Hoale’- was dispatched to the scene. He arrested a man named Lewis Clark for carrying a concealed weapon. Clark first said the pistol belonged to Lucas, but later admitted that it was his. He said he was carry- IN SEARCH OF HER CHILD. Mrs. Laura Moseley Demands Her Child. Who is Forcibly Detained. Charlotte, N. C.. Aug. 4.—Mrs. Laura Moseley, of Norfolk, Va., was in the city yesterday on a rather unusual mission. She came for the purpose of recovering possession of an adopted daughter, Katherine Hackett Moseley, who is now and has been for some time, in the possession of Mrs. Jose phine Alexander. Mrs. Moseley came with all the necessary papers. She presented the certificate of adoption, affidavit to the fact that the girl was hers by the due process of the law, and further she had an order com manding that the child be given up. After consulting with ’Squire S. H. Hilton, Mrs. Moseley drove out to the Alexander home on the Lawyer’s road, and took possession of her child. She will probably leave for her home in Norfolk today. The story is an interesting one. A number of years ago a Mrs. Hackett died, leaving two small children, a boy and a girl. The boy’s name was James; the girl was called Katherine. Boih were adopted by Mrs. Moseley anil they were given her name. All went well until some time ago when Kate came to Charlotte to visit her mother. While here Mrs. Alexander, the girl’s aunt by adoption, induced her to visit at her home, and it is al- lodged that she would not allow her to return. Hence Mrs. Moseley came af ter her yesterday. YOUNG MAN KILLED BY OFFICER. Henry Easley, of South Boston, Va., Fatally Shot in Difficulty. Durham. N. C., Aug. 4.—News of a most distressing affair at South Bos ton. Va.. this morning, reached here this afternoon, in which Policeman Joe Carter shot to death a prominent young man, Henry Easley, Jr. The deceased was a son of Henry Easley, Sr., cashier of the Planters & Mer chants Bank, of that town. It is said that this morniiv” about 3 o’clock that a number of young men, among them Henry Easley. Jr., ElijSy White and a Mr. Davis, were out on the streets and were more or less boisterous, and that Policeman Carter went to them and told them the noise must stop. Hot words and finally fighting ensued, in which the policeman was thrown tn^ the ground. In the^ struggle that en . sued one or more shots were fire,} anc i . . , , . , . .- -- V . y° un S Easley was shot just e,oove the ing n to defend himself against Lu-1 i iear t. He lingered until tlijg morning cas. He was not imnlicate,! in thP about 9 0 ' c i 0cU , when he dS Sf soon as he learned of the death of Easley the policeman surrendered to the authorities. The deceased was about 24 years of age. He leaves a father, mother, several sisters and one brother. He was one of the most prominent voting men of the town and his death under such distressing circumstances, has cast a gloom over South Boston. SHOWED LITTLE INTEREST. cas. He was not implicated in the shooting of the woman, but will have to answer to the charge of carrying a concealed weapon. Lucas is a familiar figure in police circles and bears a bad reputation. Last December he shot at Sergant Healy, of the police force, but luckily missed his mark. YOUNG MAN BADLY HURT. John, Nail, of Winston, May Die As a Result of a Belt Breaking. Winston Salem, N. C., Aug. 4—Mr. John Nail, aged about 21 years, who has charge of the re-ordering room at Commutation of Death Sentence Greet ed With Mere Smile. the tobacco factory of Brown & wfl-1 Cote^nf' C '’ A ," S ' 4 —Sheriff liamson. met with an accident this I afte ;„^ n M J 0 d XSdTe morning and it is feared that it will prove fatal. Mr. Nail was standing about ten feet from the re-ordering machine when the leather belt used in operating It broke. A piece of the brass staple, almost one and a half inches long, which held the belt to gether. struck Mr. Nail about the right wrestling contest tonight. Sheriff Cole will leave for Raleigh tomorrow morning, taking with him Charles Stein, the Madison county man who was sentenced to hang September 2d, but whose sentence has been commu tated by Governor Glenn to life im prisonment. Since his trial and con ear with terrible force, knocking him i ~ . --7 down. A physician was summoned at '- 1Ctlon S,ein has been confined in the once and the wounded man was re moved to the hospital, where an opera tion was performed by Drs. Bynum, Dalton and Lockett. They found that the staple broke the skull and carried several pieces of bone into the brain. The physicians removed five or six pieces of hone, but they were unable to find the piece of staple which made a hole In the side of the head about the size of a bullet. It Is feared that it is in the brain. The condition of Mr. Nail, who is unmarried and who is highly esteemed by his employers and, in fact, by all who know him. is de cidedly serious. KILLED BY LIGHTNING. Sam Gray Dead As a Result of An Electric Storm. Charlotte. N. C.. Aug. 4.—Master Sam Gray, the 12-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. James Gray, who live on the Beattie’s Ford road, in Long Creek township, was struck by lightning yes terday afternoon at 2:3.) o’clock and instantly killed. He was returning home from the store of Mr. J. C. Hutchison, a distance of about half a mile, and had gotten about 150 yards from the store when the flash came. The boy was seen to fall by several persons who were standing at the store, and Capt. Neisler. one of the spectators, hurried to the prostrate form, which never moved after the stroke. While.a messenger was hur rying for a physician the body was taken to the home of the boy’s parents. Buncombe county jail for safekeeping. W hen told yesterday that the Govern or had commuted his sentence to life imprisonment he manifested no feel ing whatever and very little interest. He simply smiled, as is his usual cus tom, and accepted the news as a com monplace incident. He has all along maintained that he would never die on the scaffold and even when his case looked hopeless and the loose end of a rope dangled before his eyes he continued to smile; declared that he was horn lucky; that he pinned his faith to a rabbit’s foot and that he had no intention of going at the end of a rope. HAY FEVER FOR 27 YEARS. Well Known New England Woman Cured of Hay Fever—Cure Was Lasting. The thousands of discouraged peo ple who dread the approach of sum mer because they have hay fever and cannot find any relief from it, will read witn interest and gratitude the following statement from Helen S. Williams, of Mansfield, Mass. For 27 years, from the month of August until heavy frost. I have been afflicted with hay fever, growing worse and worse each year, until of late years I was unable to attend to my work during that period. Last summer I fortunately gave Hyomel a trial, and I am happy to say that it entirely cured me. and I have had no occurrence of the disease ——„ . tljx HIS, tilrx/ - *’* The efforts of the physician were fruit- ‘if/: , . I his letter is only one of many that have come to the proprietors of Hyo- mei, and the results following this treatment have been so remarkable less, life having been extinct before ho arrived. State Assn, of Postmaster?. The South Carolina Association of postmasters will meet in Columbia. August 22nd, in !J. S. postofflee build- init. at 12 M. The object of this asso ciation is to aid in the improvement of the postal service of the United States through the mutual Interchange of ideas of members of the association and officials of the postofflee depart ment. - For bargains in all summer Dress Goods go to J. I. Sarratfs. that it is pronosed at thj annual con vention of hay fever suf irers to rec ommend Hyomei. By breathing the germ-killing and healing balsams of Hyomei. anyone ean have at any moment of the day either in their home or office, a ’cli mate like that of the White Moun tains. , The complete outfit cost-; but tl extra bottles 50 cents. Gaffnev Drug Co. agrees to refund the money’to any hay fever sufferer who uses Hyomei without benefit ‘ Baskets, all shapes and sizes, r.c to 25c, at J. I. Sarratfs. “Get the Habit,” go to NELSON’S. > If you want Sho«*s at under nrlceg go to J I. Sarratfs. "Get the Habit,” go to NELSON'S.