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-V i * V. — [\ S' mmmmmmtm •MORE EGGS; Did you ever think what & J a profit you could make if | your liens would only lay I K as well when eggs are high ^ as when they are selling at f> g the lowest prices^ Start ■ giving your hens [Poultry Powders‘ I * I No more, sick poultry, but plenty of iggs! Eggs! Eggs! You will find it one of | the best investments you ! ever made, for it will sup* j ply your hens with just I‘what is needed to make them lay. It will keep them laying at the time you want them to lay, and your flock will be the envy of your neighbors. It’s Here! That delicious Quaker Puffer Rice that you have been calling for so much since our first lot went so quickly. We hardly expect- . ed it to go so fast, although we knew it was a good thing. But we’ve got you now—just came in last Saturday— and enough for every one of yju. r r Cherokee^ k Company! Agency for 100,000 TO 200,000 FEET LUMBER TO CUT AND FOR SALE close to Thickety mountain. For terms &c apply to W. M. WEBSTER, Cowpens, 8. C. Feb. 9-lmo-pd. MONEY TO LOAN On farming lands. Long time, no commission charged. Borrower pays actual cost of perfecting loan. For further Information address JOHN B. PALMER & SON., Box 282, Columbia, S. C. May 30 pd. Quaker PUFFED RICE for dyspeptics, for the sick, for the ■ children, for mother, for father >wt breakfast, dinner, or supper. We have also a fresh shipment of the old reliable Quaker Rolled Oats. THE “B, B," STORE Phone 123 * We’d like for you to come and see for ycurself, but if you can’t come, ’phone us. GEORGE HASTY l & FOR SALE. FOR SALE—One fine bay mare, good condition. Well suited for farm or family use. Apply to Limestone Mills. 12-8-tf WANTED. WANTED—1,00 • cc: word; wtll pay highest market price. Gaffe* Manufacturing Co. 8-25-tl Wanted—Chickens, egi;s, green salted hides. Highest cash price paid. C. C. Kirby. ~ 1-19-tf. LOST. LOST—A pair of nose glasses. Finder will leave same with J. C. Lipscomb and get reward^ GUILTY OF MURDER (Continued from pafle 4.) dant fired. With Will and Arthur Hasty U> aid he illustrated to tne jury th§ direction of the bullet. He used a string from the mouth of the pistol to show the direction. He argued that bulW had an upward range, substantiating the defendant’s statement that he was on his knee. Defendant could not have faced that woman in the dining room had he an noyed her so. Mr. Osborne argued that Mr. Parrott did not hear shots, but according to his view heard the screaming because the latter was in the dining room and shooting was in hall. « He then made an appeal to local prejudice by declaring that the .testi mony of Southern women should be taken before that of Northern vromen are more interested because they seek vengence.. He declared that Miss Sheridan’s testimony could not be belived. for there w r ere half a dozen contradictions and because she said Bennett was shot through the> heart and had run several steps. This he declared to he preposterous. Mr. Osborne spoke tw T o hours and 25 minutes and gave Solicitor Sease and thef other at&rneys something to think about. The jury was sent to a wing of the hotel where the members were kept apart from outsiders until yesterday. They were allowed to get fresh air under care of baliffs. Attention Court Attendants! I invite all who attend court to call and take their meals with me at the W. Sam Lipscomb building. First- class service; reasonable rates. W. H. SPEARMAN. Feb 16-lm-pd. MONEY TO LEND. To memebers of The Farmer’s Mutual Insurance Association, in; sums of $100 to $300, on first mort gage improved real estate. J. Eb. Jefferies, Sec. and Treas. Feb. 27 tf. 2,000 TO 3,000 CORDS WOOD FOR SALE on the stump, seven or weight miles from Gaffney. Apply to W. M. WEBSTER, Cowpens, 8. C. Feb. 9-lmo-pd. MONEY TO LOAN. I am prepared to negotiate loan# on improved farms fpr a term of year* in amount* of $1,000 and upward, at 7 per cent, and from $300 to $1,000 at 9 per cent Apply to J. C. JEFFERIES, ^ Gaffney, 8. C. ^ Big Cut to Close Out! 1 lot Children’s 15 cents Hoods cut to 11c each 1 lot Children’s fine Wool 20 cents Hoods cut to.. 13c each 1 lot Ladies’ fine Wool 15 cents Fascinators cut to. 11c each , • \ 1 lot Ladies’ fine Wool 20 cents Fascinators cut to. 13c each 1 lot Ladies’ fine Wool 35 cents Fascinators cut to.22c each 1 lot Ladies’ fine Wool 45 cents Fascinators cut to.34c each 1 lot Ladies’ fine Wool $2.00 Sweaters cut to.. . .$1.48 each % 1 lot 10 cents Outing cut to 7|c yard Come quickly, J. R. Meson & Co. T). For Victor Records, Needles and Talking Ma chines, call and see me. I am the regular agent for them in the town and county, I can supply you ^ "m* ■*•▼*••• v****" with just what you need and also fine Clocks and the In st Sewing Machines you ever saw. /.*. Limestone Street. V. J. Haness’s Big Store. The court that is trying the now celebrated Hasty murder case was continued yesterdav. The testimony and arguments have been completed and the case was given to the jury; about 6:30 o’clock yesterday. The crowd at first in attendance did not seem that it would reach tha liiflit attained on the previous days. How ever, when argument commenced the number grew and when court opened it was fully as large as heretofore. J. C. Jeffries, Esq., opened argument for the prosecution. He commenced by reading a brief on the law of self-i defense. He then told the jury that he realized that their task was an unpleasant one, but that he felt sure that they would nerform it. neverthe less and regardless. He stated that the State would bind the prisoner (George Hasty) in the blackest dra peries of guilt and would tear the white robe of innocence from around him. This white robe which the de-j fense. he says, would have him sur-' rounded by. He stated that the press could not he blamed for spreading, the news from one end of this Uniteu States to the other. He said further j that every effort had been made to| draw the'attention from the case in hand to another object or diversion i viz: from Hasty, the prisoner, to the newspapers. Referring to Mr. Os-: borne’s attacking the -' omen, he said that the women were not on trial here, but George Hasty. He referred to women as all good. He praised Misses Bishop and Sheridan, and said that counsel on the other side want ed and would ask for a mistrial; that counsel had admonished jurors to stick to any opinion they might have expressed in order to have a mistrial. Mr. Jefferies said that they wanted a mistrial because the two young la dies could not possibly cbme back. He cautioned jury against it. He fur ther said that counsel for the defense had said in effect t > the jury. “If you can’t give us a mistrial, don’t con vict us of anything more than man slaughter.” He scoffed at this, quot ing a brief from law on the subject, touching particularly on malice in connection with this case. Ho stated that it was impossible for George Hasty to have shot from his knees, as alleged by counsel; that he would have had to shoot from up and not down. At one time during his speech when Mr. Jefferies dwelt on Miss Sheridan kneeling by side of her dy ing or dead lover, (Milan Bennett) and offering a prayer. When counsel raached this point, little Miss Sheri dan. who has borne up wonderfully well during the trial, which can noi be but proving a terrible ordeal for her, thought she has seldom given way, Miss Sheridan was seen to sob convulsively at the terrible memory which creep over her at the word picture being painted. Referring to th testimony of Miss 'Sheridan, coun sel referred to questions counsel said in his most blandet manner” and that then they turned testimony and turn ed it in an effort to find something to contradict her with and then “Come down, ma’am” of the bland Col. Johnstone. Then he referred to the testimony of Will Hasty when he said that he was forced to em- "’oy both a table and a chair before he could get over the transom. He asked the jury to look at the differ ence in size between Will Hasty and George Hasty, then, too, he called their attention to the fact that Will didn’t want to get into the transom, but was experimenting, while George’s motive was a fiendish one. Mr. Jef feries stated that George wanted to apoligize to Mr. Bennett. He made the moment a dramatic one when he held up the beautiful wenpon. the cause of the tragedy, and of the trial now in progress, which is of pearl and gold, that this pistol was the weapon used by Hasty, the murderer, in apologies. Mr. Jefferies’ speech consumed one hour and ten minutes. Senator T. B. Butler next spoke for the defense. He referred to this: case as being the longest, with the exception of one, that has occupied the attention of a court in Cherokee countv. and that was a civil one; about a dispute on a road auestlon. Ho spoke of Sunday as a good dayj intervening as it did. in this case a day for rest and thought on testimony in the c^se. He defended his witness- ( e«, and spoke of this as a very impor tant trial. He stated that the de fense wanted an impartial trial, no more, no less, and that he belived that they were going to get it. He asked that they be not overawed by public^ clamor or opinion, but that then- read their verdict through the clear glass of human nature and not through the blacenned glass of preju dice. He said the State paints George Hasty as a red handed fiend. incaf- nate and murderer. He described Hasty as a gentleman, and disputed that he was a fiend or red handed fiend. He blamed the State for deny ing that Davison had a knife. "Gib son. he said, told the truth when he said this and he denied that he is a liar or pejrurer. He dwelt on the fact that 1 Gibson saw a white handleo knife and that Davison’s was such a knife. He brought up the fact that Smith Raines had not stole meai from Carroll. He said that Davison could have had knife and that L. M. j Cook not have seen it. He said that Davison not only could have dropoeu it into his hip pocket before he un buttoned his jacket', when testimony says he had none. That Estes, (their star witness) is a tnitnful| one, and spoke of the reputation ol' his family for truthfulness. That while he would not assail a State witness that he would belive Rufe Estes before he would others, and that | the State would have George Hasty! drunk when counsel denies his client being intoxicated. Referring to the testimony of James Swafford., he read questions asked him. He call ed this a corobaration rather than a conuadictiop saying the same of B. D. Hallman, who had had conversa tion with Arthur Hasty. He referred to this. too. as a confirmation. Mr. "Butler claimed that as he said, the oft repeated queries “Where, oh. where, are the powder burns” is easily explained as tber:* should be powder burnes. He thinks that they may be op the clothes of Davison in New York or that the powder may have been too expensive and would not burn. He alluded to the fact that Hasty had a right to have a oistol on his own premises, and ridiculed the statement that taxes were heavy. | as being a small matter, the life of a human being was at stake: that the witnesses for the State can be easily brought hack and that it will not be difficult as counsel represented. He said that newspaper comments were the expressions of only one individual while a jury was twelve, and said that he had a right to his opinion as well as newspapers. He said that no one heard the screams of Misn; Sheridan when she called Milan Ben nett, and that Capt. Bell had noj right to refer to the number of home- cides in Cherokee county if the jury turned them loose. In clo-ing he said that he felt confident that they would do their duty. He spoke one hour and thirty j minutes. J. C. Otts spoke next. He said the | yerdict of this juA would answer the question as to whether or not human life is safe in South Carolina. He stated that Hasty took too long,; entirely, to get that lunch leaving his companions in the darkey’s room.! He denied that he went for a lunch at all. referring to his mission inj search of the alleged lunch as a “hel-| lish purpose,” and that the true facts in the case were that Baker and Cur ry were waiting for reports and not for a lunch. He also said that Baker gave the weapon used to Hasty, that night because they knew that he had, gone up against the wrong one. and was afraid. He spoke of the knife i secreted in Hasty’s stocking as a “deadly knife.” and one that would have been used had occassion offered, to stab the officer and escape. He stated that Bennett was asked into the hall for the purpose of assasana- tion. because he felt alfraid of eye witneses if he shot in the dinins’- room. Mr. Otts’ speech covered j much ground, but it is impossible to give a detail account. The principal) point of interest in his speech was that the brother for defense. Col., Johnstone, made an effort to call him down. Then he asked the couH to rr.l! him down, if he strayed from testimony, but stated that if Col. ; Johnstone attempted to call him down he would remain perfectly indiffer ent. Counsel retorted that he would call him down whenever he felt like It. Both gen '.e:nen looked angry and de fiant The judge closed the incident. Mr. Otts created some excitement by saying that he '’id not believe testi mony of Mill and George Hasty; that if he did he would have all them in dicted for mmder. Col. Johnstone next spoke. His speech was more common place than was expected. The oply time interest was aroused was when he quoted from Scott’s “Lay of the Last Min strel.” when referring to Mr Otts. he quoted in part “I-ord Augus thou hast lied.” Solicitor Sease followed him in a bri’liant speech. The snesiches of Col. Johnstone and Mr. Sease were 1 both splendid efforts but were not secured in detail by the reporter. »>: On The Lookout For new business. We always are, and want yours; no matter how small or how large. 1 We Loan Money on Cotton And on other approved securities. If in need of funds call on us. . *. 4 per cent/paid on Savings Deposits. Interest Compounded'4 times a year. Funds may be with drawn at any time. . \ 1 Merchants & Planters Bank CAPITAL, SURPLUS AND PROFITS OVER 590,000.00. C, M. Smith, Prest. A. N. Wood, V-Prest. R. S. Lipscomb, Cashier. A. Louis Wood, Asst. Cashier a K4 To Our Friends! It is with great pleasure as well as pride that we announce the opening of The Hurphries Shoe Co. After carefully looking over the situation, we be came convinced that there is enough business for a first-class Shoe store in Gaffney, and with this in view we have bought The R. S. Lipscomb Shoe Co., and we can be found at their old stand. That we may make room for Spring Goods we will sell these Shoes at a gaeatly reduced price. We also have a lot of Shirts, Hats, Ties, etc., which we will sell almost at your own price, as We will not continue this feature of the business. We expect to carry the most distinctive line of foot wear in Gaffney and have bought large shipments of Spring Styles and will soon be in position for you to make this one of the best exclusive shoe stores in the State. If fair treatment, high quality of goods and right prices will win the confidence of the Gaffney people, we expect part of your shoe trade. Trusting that we may be honored by a trial from you, we are yours respectfully, I Humphries Shoe Store, Exclusive Shoe Dealers. Gaffney, South Carolina. Letter to J. F. Garrett Gaffney. S. C. Dear Sir: If you mint two houses alike with two different' paints, ana one takes twice as much paint as the other, you know which paint to buv after that—so far as go-far—don’t you? One of these paints is Devoe; the other is any average paint. The worst are worse than that; the better are not much better; no other paint than Devoe is anywhere near Devoe In go- far. Devoe is go further; the rest are go-short go-middling and go-three-quar ters. Yours truly F W Devoe & Co 20 P. S.—R. M. Wilkins A Co. sell our panit. NEW ARRIVALS ‘ In Men's and Boys' Spring Clothing and Furnishings. You are cordially invited to call and see them. —Nowhere will yon find such real hn ■ rr ->in- as at Nelson’s. SECURE FOR M t-fS miS WMtlf All IUI FAILS., V oiyth Byrnp. Tutu* Oood. r J»e r » Hum. Bold br dratMp.t* JK NSUM PTiO FOR SALE—Two coda fountains, ice cream packer, refrigerator, pea nut ronster, two show casus, two 00v differs, mirror, cijalr. gasolene v '»aMng stoves and other articles. ,T ’''Vter & Jefferies. Mar 6 tf. RENT—Two store rooms on Yuson street. Webstt A Jefferies. *'"-cb 6 tf. ->