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$ TM£ LARGEST CIRCULATION Of Any Newopaper In the Fifth Congressional District of S. C. EVERY ONE PAID IN ADVANCE. THE SEMI-WEEKLY-PUBLISHED TUESDAY AND FRIDAY. \ \ Wl GUARANTEE THE RELIABILITY Of Evory Advertiser Who Uses the Columns of This Paper. BEST ADVERTISING MEDIUM. A Newspaper in All that the Word Implies and Devoted to the Best Interest of the People of Cherokee County. ESTABLISHED FEB. 16, 1894. GAFFNEY, S. C., TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1905. $1.00 A YEAR. THROUGHOUT THE PALMETTO STATE THE MINING INDUSTRY. ITEMS OF INTEREST OF PASSING EVENTS IN SOUTH CAROLINA. Happenings All Over the State Taken from Our Exchanges and Tersely Told .o Ledger Readers. It was learned Friday mat the un conscious man found near the South ern Railway track a; Calhoun on Sun day morning is J. D. Hawkins, of Brandon Mills, Greenville. The man was still unconscious when heard from Thursday night, but physicians say that he cannot live. An unexpected and fatal tra- ge.ly occurred on the streets of ■Saluda Friday night when State Sen ator E. S. Blease, a member of the firm of Able & Blease, shot Joe Ben Coleman. Five or six shots were fired and Coleman's body showed four wounds. Two of the wounds were very serious and resulted in his death in about nine hours. The State board of canvassers met in Columbia Friday morning and for mally declared the result of the elect ion in Newberry according to the figures as recently published. As the figures show that the disjAensary has been voted on:. Commissioner Tatum will be notified of the action of the board and will send a checking officer to Newberry at once to check over the stock and order the dispensary closed. The Woodruff agricultural fair and stock show will be held •October 11th and 12th. Excepting the State fair grounds in Columbia there is no bet ter fitted ut) grounds for a fair than at 'Woodruff, and these annual gath erings are attended by people from ail over Spartanburg and adjacent coun ties. They have proved successful, and the displays, especially in the stock and agricultural lines, are of the highest order. Arrangements are being made to have some fine races. Quite a romantic marriage took place Thursday afternoon just as the train was coming into Mullins. A Mr. Stone, of Columbia, came racing into town with Miss Best, of Horry county, and asking for some one to perform a marriage ceremnoy, “any body. just, so they would come quick.’’ Finally Hon. Geo. R. Reaves and Mr. G. B. Stackhouse were prevailed up on to see the thing well done, and Mr. Reaves spoke the words which made two hearts happy and tfro lives one. Losing his balance and falling into a tub of water, the little 14-months- old son of Mr. and Mrs. E. W. Can non. of Greenville, was drowned on the front porch of the home in Bran don Mill village at noon Thursday. "When the mother went out of the house to see if the child had waked from the little pallet on which he had been sleeping, he was not there, and In the tub, which had been half filled with water, she saw the clothing and the little body, lying face downward. Frantic efforts were made to save the little one’s life but without success. According to Mr. Boyd Evans a very peculiar case exists in Union county. The dispensers are all keep ing their establishments open but no whiske- is sold because of the fear of indictment for violation of the dis pensary law. The dispensaries are kept open more for a point of law than anything else. It has been sug gested that some of the prohibition ists will at once enjoin the county board of control from paying these dispensers salaries through the coun ty treasurer. If this is done it will result in further complications that will not be settled for some time. .Toe Harris, a two-year negro con vict, escaped from the chaingang camp, located five miles northeast of Laurens, on last Tuesday. The n" gro reported sick and was left in the camp alone, but shackled and chained, and as the guard thought safe to await his return. Harris managed to get himself loose and mounting one of the county’s best mules, un dertook his escape. He was captured on Thursday afternoon seven miles below Laurens by Messrs. Morris and Milam, of Lisbon. When caught he had abandoned the mule and gotten rid of his shackles. He had also got ten hold of some clothes and put them over his stripes. In the mean time he has broken into a negro’s house and stolen a quantity of meat, canned fruit, etc. Declaring that in ejectjng him from a car employes of the Greenville Traction company in Greenville wounded his feelings, sub jected him to humiliation and shook him up more or less, Jesse H. Hen derson. of that city, Thursday filed a suit In the sheriff’s office demand ing 15.000 in damages. It is alleged that Conductor Bellew. who was in charge of the car, laid hands on Hen derson and forced him to leave off in the vicinity of the Markley Hardware and Carriage company’s place on Main street. The complaint alleges that in thus being ejected from the car, Henderson was deprived of his right to ride to the end of the jour ney to which his paid flve-cent fare and transfer entitled him, and tbfct he was more or lesh injured and greatly humiliated at the spectacle made of him before the other paaaeiv ) gers. Mr, L. U. Campbell, of Gaffney, Talka of Mining in General. (Charlotte Observer.) Mr. L. U. Campbell, of Gaffney, S C.. was in Charlotte yesterday. He first developed the business in mona- zite in the Gaffney and South Caro lina district. It has been said that Mr. Campbell has paid more money in a given time in Gaffney for monazite than has been paid in the handling of any other one business. Mr. Campbell now has important in terests in tin mining. An Observer representative asked Mr. Campbell to tell what the present situation is about tin mining in his section. He said: “The tin interest of the Carolinas is a question only of time and de velopment. The Ross mine, of Gaff ney, is the only one of the nugget formation known to the world. While Messrs. Campbell and Owens are de veloping this property with the as sistance and co-operation -of th<* own ers, there are others who seem to be more interested than we are that is, the United States government, rep resented by Mr. Day, of Washington, and other parties interested in Amer ican tin developments and discover ies. We have visitors daily and weekly who are curious to get on to the inside workings simply through curiosity, as those interested sup pose. “Our own Gaffney people are able and willing to prove the mine to be ■ill that has been claimed for it and It is not being offered to the public in stock or otherwise. “We are working night and day. We have three shifts of eight hours each and this work is going on now and will continue to go on. There Is ore enough in sight to astonish the world if we would stop it now. We are working this business for legiti mate results and not to trade In. The best citizens of Gaffney know this and approve our plans. We prefer not to publish anything and yet we have nothing to publish or conceal. “I have a process—In connection with my associates in New York—by whicli ores can be reduced with great economy. I am here to confer with mining engineers in Charlotte about reducing refractory ores in the South. These gentlemen here are the C. C. Morgan Engineering Company, of this city. I go hack to Gaffney to night and will be in New York next week. “Capt. John Wilkes has offered us a place to put our reduction works. That’s all we want except to get ore. The mines in this vicinity can fur nish the ore. We will take the ore and get the best results. We can re duce all ores—gold, tin or copper. We are figuring to go into this reduction works. If we can get ore of a value of three dollars delivered we can get profits for the miner and also for ourselves. ‘We want to deal with people who have mining plants. We handle orig inal ores and tailings as well. We will guarantee to work all ores that come, but we want to know before hand that we are going to have a supply of ore to work. We want sul phide and other refractory ores as well.” “If you can do that,” said Mr. C. C. Morgan, “we can get for you all the ore you want.” “What will your plant cost?" asked Mr. Noble. “That depends on circumstances,'* answered Mr. Campbell: “we pro pose building a plant on Long Island within 00 days and we are open to build another plant at Charlotte that will take 50 tons in a day of 24 hours. Reduction plants run day and. night, you know.” “Do you run on Sunday?” “Not at all,” was the answer. “We can stop Saturday night and start on Monday morning.” The whole story about monazite, tin and gold Is a very Interesting one and Charlotte is the central point. Meeting Closed. The protracted meeting which has been in progress at Providence church, near the city, for a week or more, closed Sunday night. There were twenty-five accessions to the church, twenty-four of whom were baptized yesterday, while there were many confessions of faith and a great deal of religious interest manifested. All the services were well attended, and the meeting has no doubt been of lasting benefit to the entire com munity. The pastor. Rev. F. C. Hickson, was assisted in his good work by Rev. J. E. Smith, of Charlotte, N. C. Died in Blacksburg. Blacksburg, Sept. 9—Friday last Mrs. C. H. Bell, wife of John F. Bell, of this town, died after a lingering ill ness of many months. Mrs. Bell was the only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Rippy, and a lady of lovely charac ter and Christian zeal. She was 37 years old and leaves a husband and seven children, Lloyd, Burwell, Zen, Viola. Cora. Ruth and Pric". She was buried in the Grover cemetery, the Rev. I. T. Newton officiating. A New Enterprise. Messrs. Carroll & Byers are now wholesale distributing agents in Gaff ney for Swift & Company, the great meat men of Chicago, and have just completed a new storeroom, corner Grenard and Robinson streets, in which to handle their products. A solid carload of meats is expected this week, direct from the Chicago factory. Rheumatism, gout, backache, acid poison, are results of kidney trouble. Hollister’s Rocky Mountain Tea goes directly to the seat of the disease and cures when all else falls. 35 cents. Gaffney Drug Co. A NEWSY LETTER FRUM WILMNSVILLE. MOVEMENTS OF THE PEOPLE OP LOWER CHEROKEE. Personal Paragraphs Concerning Pop ular People and Short Items of General Interest Wilkinsvllle, Sept. 9.—-Mr. and Mrg. J. F. Wright are both quite unwell at this time. Sometime last week Mr. V. C. Co mer had a severe stroke of pride and as a remedy for it bought and put on a pair of imitation gold spectacles, which he is still using. Unless the case becomes a chronic one he may lay them aside. We might, however, think so in case of the demise of his better half. Little Otho, son of Mr. and Mrs. H. McDaniel, got one of his fingers bitten by a mule last week to which he was giving a wisp of hay. Mrs. J. H. Fowler is still getting along about as usual. She doesn’t seem to improve much. Cotton picking is going on fairly well and the foddering season will soon be over. In nearly every home we have en tered during the past week where the inmates are readers at all, we find that one or the other, and frequently both, of the Gaffney papers are tak en. That is a good sign. But if the county papers were supported as they ought to be and deserve to be we would have a much better Informed citizenship. Mrs. J. A. Hames, of Gowdeysville, has a lemon bush on which there are growing two verv large lemons. Sam Lee has been working the roads in this section. They are now in fairly good condition. The protracted meeting will begin at Abingdon Creek on the third Sab bath of this month. Rev. Mr. Taylor will assist the pastor, Rev. W. D. Hammett. J. L. S. corn. This is nothing new in the sec tion we have been visiting. Mr. Tom Horn has enough old corn to do him for a long time yet and he is not the only man. He also has some last year’s (1904) wheat to grind. Mr. W. T. Mabry is another one of the farmers of Cherokee who lives and boards at home. His wife has more cabbage .than we have seen in one garden in a long time. We took dinner with Mr. Mabry to day. We would advise those who expect to run for office in Cherokee county next year, or at any time in the future, to make friends with “Billy” Mabry if they expect to be elected. He and his boys are worth considering in a case of this kind. We find our old friend and comrade Mr. Elias (Ball) Horn has moved to Mr. T. D. Littlejohn’s. “Ball” is a per fect encyclopoedia when it comes to war history and the movements of the Army of Northern Virginia. He was in ajl the principal engagements ! r which Kershaw’s Brigade took part (and that was nearly every one). Mr. J. T. Moorehead, who was known in the army as “Big Jim” Moorehead, tells of a forced march in which Longstreet’s corps broke all the records to get to Thoroughfare Gap in time to execute one important stragetic movement. Weary, footsore and broken down the men did all that was possible to keep up. Bur befog overcome they fell by the wayside completely exhausted, and when they reached the Gap Company F had o:*y four men to stack arms, to-wit: Moses Wood, Ball Horn, .Rube Fowler and J. T. Moorehead. When we told Mr. Horn about it | today he remembered it, and said: i “Yes. and I carried some of the othe" men’s baggage who had broken down on the march.” J. L. THROUUHUUT THE TARHEEL STATE A LOVABLE CHARACTER. RECENT EVENTS OF NOTE NORTH CAROLINA. IN Items of Interest Concerning Our Neighbors in the Old North State Culled Expressly for Ledger Readers. Sketch of the Life of Mrs. Sarah E. Moore. v Blacksburg. Sept. 11.—The death of Mrs. Sarah E. Moore, at her home 1 near this place on the 17th of August deserves more than a passing notice, as she was a woman of more than or- | dinary strength of character, and ex- I erted an influence for good in every ' community in which she resided. She was the second daughter of Johnson Goforth, a wealthy and in fluential citizen of this section before the war. and she was born near King's 1 Mountain on the 3rd of June, 1839. In I 1862 she was married to Blanton A special from Newbern says that Moore hut like many other young wo- the army worm appeared in Craven ™ en °‘ the Confederacy, her marrieJ county. North Carolina, ten davs ago , e was ,rie ^ ^ or . iirave young and the pest has already destroyed J J lus ' ,an d gave up his life for his coun try, and died in Virginia very soon after their marriage. One son, Blan ton Moore, who is still living, and named for his father, was the fruit of their union. In 1865, after the close of the war, she wa; again married to Farmer Moore, brother of her deceased hus- Asbury, Sept. 8.—Any one who will travel over the county and meet with the reception from the good people that your correspondent has and not express his appreciation is an ingrate pure and simple. Besides all this he feels a pride in his county that is better imagined than expressed. To go into details and give expression to all we have seen and heard would be to trespass upon the modesty of those whom we have met and by whom we have been so cordially re ceived. Cherokee county has a right to be proud of its people and resources, and we, for one of its citizens, are. For thrift, industry and enterprise( to say nothing of other commendable qual ities) its people are second to none. Its resources are unlimited. Its pure water, fresh air and salubrious cli mate make it one of the healthiest and most desirable places to live in. Its educational facilities are improv ing and will ere long rank with. If not outstrip, many of its older sisters in some respects. The crops are fairly good so far as we have been able to see, though not anything like last year. We have spent the time we have been “circulating” among our people in a very pleasant manner and would he glad to give full expression to the same. Elating country-raised flour, hnm and other table luxuries is some thing the average man doesn’t do every day in the year by a jug full, and it’s appreciated the more on that account. We have taken copious notes of our travels and observations, which we will give in a more intelligent and connected form latqr on if nothing happens. We were glad to meet Mrs. C. M. Browdie (nee Hames), of Atlanta, Ga., who. with her children, are spend ing the summer for their health with her father, Mr. Thom, Hames, of As- bury. Mrs. Browdie is one of Chero kee’s daughters of which the Gate City can well afford to be proud, and she is ever welcome to her old home. Mr. Hames will have a well bored by Messrs. Taylor and Mott, who are now operating a machine in Cherokee county. They are at present making a well at Brown’s store at Ravenna. Since we have been out we have met several of our newspaper friends and correspondents, among them the fair and accomplished “Annie Laurie,” who has partially consented to renew her work; also the Ravenna corres pondents, who have kept our readers posted from that section. Miss Puella Littlejohn, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. N. G. Littlejohn, of As- hury, is with a company of tourists, travelling over the great West and taking in all or many of the import ant places. She has visited Pike’s P^ak and has sent her parents_ pic tures of many of the noted places she and her company have visited, all of which are especially interesting.. Mr. and Mrs. N. G. Littlejohn have a right to be proud, and certainly to be con gratulated, on what they have done for their children in the way of rear ing and educating them. Would that we had others who would take the same interest. Mrs. W. E. M. Kirby, we are sorry to say, is a great sufferer from a sore foot, with which she has been troub led for a long time and on which she has spent a lot of money to little or no advantage. We met Mr. Monroe Mize on our trip. Monroe ia speaking of moving from the Ravenna section this fall. It’s something unusual at this time of year to see a full crib of last year’s A Small Fire. The fire alarm sent forth its ear- i piercing .shrieks Friday afternoon ! about 4 o’clock, and the usual crowd | turned out to locate the fire. The alarm was of short duration, as the fire was extinguished before the, fire company reached the scene, which was Mr. Moses Wood’s residence on Grenard street. The cause of the fire was a lamp having been accidentally knocked over by Miss Louise, Mr. Wood’s daughter, in her dressing room. The lamp broke, or exploded, when it struck the floor, and the flame spread i over the room. Some window curtains, a portion ; of a bureau and a few articles of : clothing were destroyed before the 1 fire was put out, entailing only a small loss. The fire company was prompt to respond to the call, and only a few minutes had elapsed before the hose and reels were out. and on the way: hut, fortunately, the services of the company were not needed. Mr. Wood has lost one house, and a fine one, by fire since he came to Gaffney; and his escape from a simi lar loss Friday seemed almo.st miracu lous. $25,000 worth of cotton in the fields, many fields being completely stripped. The pest is spreading and numbers of farmers will lose almost their .en tire crops. Spraying has been resort ed to. Mr. W. L. Austen, a surburban groc ery man of Charlotte, was tried in the band, and they lived happily togeth- recorder’s court Thursdav morning for er for forty years, rearing a family spiling alleged intoxicant drinks in i of two sons and five daughters. One two instances, and was bound over i daughter, Annie, and both sons. Gil- to the Superior Court under a $lbO lard and DeCoci, died before their bond. The trial was but another step mother and she is survived by her in the crusade against sellers of ei- husband and four daughters. Mrs. der and other intoxicating drinks in i Lizzie Parrott, of Clifton; Mrs. Del- Ciiarlotte, begun with Groceryman | la Roberts, of Cherokee Falls, ^.and John Cross. j Misses Marseline and Millie, who are | still with their father. Southern Railway detectives Bar- T i, e deceased was a lady of lovable ton, Cornelison and Jordan Friday af- character, a devoted wife, a kind temoon, captured l,2b0 pounds of val- niother, a good neighbor, a devout uable brass, which had been stolen Christian, and a consistent member from the Southern Railway Company of the Baptist church. She was sin- on the Asheville branch. The metal; ce and plain spoken in condemning was being shipped from Cleveland wrong doing, yet she was always when the theft was detected. Three ready to sympathize, help and en- negroes were lodged in jail at Salis- courage the wavward and erring, and bury on the charge of committing thf draw rh^ mantle of charity over their theft, though it is believed they had ^ short-comings rather than censure or assistance from prominent men. I condemn them. Concord will soon have sixteen cot-' H f v '' h ,°! e llf « ^ ton mills, acording to William R. i ^ erv '^ , of he , r M £ ster ' aml althm ‘ gh Odell, State senator from Cabarrus her ^ la s and sufferings were many and one of the best known manufact- * s P eclall >' > n l * e lc /f ot J er '°™i urers in the State. There are already on f«. >' et sh f f bo ’^ them all wit.t he fourteen mills he states, and the two I ba , lence and fort, ude of an -umlde I additions are the Brown Manufactur- to 1°'^. of t Cn , nst ’ ™! ] wh ^ | in" company and the Young-Hartsell ^ a . ^ ^ an ' i Manufacturing company. Both will spin yarns. Concord now has a popu- ! lation of at least lOdlO-). The city uas borrowed money and is enlarging the electric light plant. Messrs. E. P. Wharton and Robert C. Hood, representing the Southern Life and Trust Company, of Greens boro. have formed a company in Salis bury to he known as the Guarantee Loan, Realty and Insurance Company, with an authorized capital of $100,- 000 and $20,000 paid in. The new company will absorb the long-estab lished and successful insurance busi- Holiness People in Town. The colored holiness people who have been conducting a meeting at Limestone for nearly a month, held forth up in the city Saturday after noon. Quite a crowd gathered to hear them; while not far away Rev. P. C. Little, colored, was speaking against the doctrine they follow and preach. Rev. Little had a good crowd of hearers, too, and many of them | said his talk was a good one, full of j sound reason and common sense. The meeting at Limestone con I tinues with unabating Interest and re ligious (?) enthusiasm. Geo. Wood ruff, the sanctified porter of the Spartan Inn, in Spartanburg, inspir ed the leaders by his august presence Sunday and appeared qiijte pleased with the performance of the “holy sanctified” ones. He promised to be with them again next Sunday, pro vided they still remained in their present location. enter into another where there is no more suffering and death, she was ready for the summons, and is now at rest “Forever with the Lord; Amen! so let it be! Life from the dead is in that word And immortality.” W. A. ELEVEN CENTS COTTON. Cotton Association Finally Compro mises in Middle Figure. Asheville, Sept. 7.—The Southern Cotton Association has fixed 11 cents ness of McCubbins & Harrison, and as the minimum price at which the these gentlemen will manage the nejv present crop shall be sold locally in enterprise L. E. Davis, R the South. The special committee spent many Unclaimed Letters. List of unclaimed letters in Gaffney no^toffiee for week ending September 9th, 1905; Martin Burris, Jno. T. Benton, Ro- j lin Davis (2). Fourst Crocker. Sam ! Hogor, Charlie Johnson, W. A. Lip scomb, Ed Michem. Doc Melus, Mr. j Ollle, L. H. Sanders Miss Minnie ! Baston, Bettle Durvln Miss Jonlly : Davis, Miss Octavia Gist, Miss A. A. Herln. Miss Fannie Jones, Miss Clara | Magellan, Miss Leila May, Miss Luler | McKery. Miss Sallie Putnam. Miss Emle Sanders, Miss Burnice Willis. Please call for advertised letters. One cent due on each. A. R. N. Folger. Postmaster. R. F. D. Changes. It is probable that some, changes will soon be made in rural route No. 4, which goes out from Gaffney to i Pacolet, by the way of Goucher and Ravenna. A new route will also be established, as soon as the proper ar rangements can be made, from Gaff ney out by Limestone Mills to Chero- I kee Falls, thence up the river to other points. Are you lacking in strength and vigor? Are you weak? Are you in pain? Do you feel all run down? The blessing of health and strength comes to all who use Hollister’s Rocky Moun tain Tea. 35 cents. Gaffney Dryg Co. L. E. Davis, R. H. Hardin and A. C. | hours in attempting to reach an agree- Bryan three of the Wilkes county ment and it was not until 10 o’clock men indicted by the Federal grand tonight that i f finally announced itself jury for defrauding the government, ready to report. The convention no have left for parts unknown. When i sooner received the report than it a deputy marshal went to serve the: adopted it without discussion, warrants Saturday afternoon he could i The work here is not vet over and find no traces of the men, and it is i, will likelv he Saturday before the presumed that they left upon receipt delegates leave for their homes, as a of advice from friends in Greensboro I trip to Waynesville and other points that they were in danger of indict- i s contemplated. ment. Hardin ami Bryan are deputy b j s generally thought here that the revenue collectors. Davis, who form- report of the committee tonight was erly held a position as deputy collec- a compromise. It is well known that tor. is considered the leader of the many of the delegates were for fixing Wilkes county gang. The Salisbury Sun is no more. A petition for a receiver for The Globe Publishing company, by which The Sun was published, together with The Weekly Sun, vfas filed Thursday morning by M. W. L. Geppert, who re- 12 cents as the minimum, while the more conrervsttve element favored 10 cents. Still a large number thought 11 cents the proper figure and that element seems to have pre vailed in the end. The figures mean that cotton is not to be sold with the consent of the association at anything cently assumed an interest in the i lin) j or u cents on any local market, conmany and was elected president | The summary of the cotton ero0 as and manager. The petition states that reported by the statistical committee the company is deeply in debt, that i of the Southern Cotton Growers’ Asso- it has not sufficient assets to carry c }ation. reported today as follows; on business and that the property will p roduction 9,588.133 i )a ie S ; condition he lost unless placed in the proper as compared with last year, 73.3, as hands. 1 he assets of the company I compared with the government’s es- include a linotype and a new $4,000 press. The a-s.us will amount to about $10,000 and the liabilities will aggegrate twice that amount it is thought. The man who stubs his toe twice on the same nail is foolish if he blames the nail. —Ask to see our Negligee Shirts; strong line from 25c to $1.00. J. R. Tolleson & Co. “Get the Habit,” go to NELSON’S. Manuel Miro, from somewhere in Spain, arrived in Charlotte Thursday tnorning without a word of English in his vocabulary, having made the trip from his country to Charlotte alone. He was enroute to Belmont, where he will enter St. Mary’s Col lege, to study for the Roman Catholic priesthood. The boy looked to he about 14 years old, certainly no older, he had a most intelligent expression and seemed amused when questioned. When asked by a reporter: “What part of Spain are you from?” he pull ed out his Pullman ticket. The Pull man conductor turned the boy over to the colored porter at the station, telling him to put Miro on the first train for Belmont with instruction^ to the conductor of that train. One of the largest pilot snakes ever seen in the High Point section was killed Thursday by Mr. O. A. Klrkman at his home near High Point, and the most remarkable thing about the kill ing of the snake was the finding of its feet. Mr. Klrkman had the snake thrown in the fire before it was dead and upon taking it out soon after- terward discovered the snake's feet. The fire had caused the snake to poke its feet out. The feet were located near the tail and were double, two feet being on each side, close togeth er. They were about an inch long and had small fibres running along the bottom. The snake ..was exhibited up town and the oldest citizens never saw anything like It—a snake with feet. timate of 72. The yield is regarded as exceedingly small, as from ten to ten and a half million bales was ex pected. Letter to W J Wilkins Gaffney S C. Dear Sir: Suppose you sold a suit of clothes; and the man eame-baok in six-months and showed it not half worn-out, but rusty, and banged away. You would tell him he ought n't buy such clothes; but lots of good men won’t buy any other; don't know any better; but these are the sort for him: you show him a bang- up suit and allow him a trifle for that mistake—it was a mistake, for you and him too. Next year he knows where to go, gnd his friends know too. Devoe is that last suit in paint. There are shams by the score; De- voe is the true. The shams ar ex pensive: Devoe is the cheap. The shams are absurd. Devoe is sound. Yours truly 119 F \V Devoe & Co P. S.—R. M. Wilkins Hardware Co. sell our paint. Work is a joy when the loved ones share the fruits. A kind word now is better than a floral emblem hereafter. Sincerity is the only foundation up on which to build true success. —Don’t fail to see our new line of fancy tailor-made Vests for men and hoys. 98c to $2.00. J. R. To leson & Co. “Get tha Habit,” go to NELSON’S.