Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Bargains, Bargains in Crisp, Fresh, New Goods. * — * Silks suitable for Dresses and Waists. Dress Goods for Skirts and Suits. Wash Goods, all prices suitable for every purpose. New Laces and Embroideries. Yankee Notions, Hosiery, Gloves and Handerchiefs. Clothing, Furnishings, Hats and Shoes for every member of the family. All at old prices. Give us a look, we will save your money. ALL THE NEW THINGS IN MILLINERY. - GROCERIES, A COMPLETE STOCK. -v- * CARROLL & BYERS, Gaffney, South Carolina. I O TO IS OIXISJ^FM But that is no reason why you should not get the best ice saving Re frigerator made, and a Freezer that will freeze your cream with the least ice and labor. We have just that kind in all sizes and right prices. Come see them at once, while you can get your size. Shuford & LeMaster Furniture, Stoves, Undertaking HONEST INSURANCE Plain, sure protection to the family at’premium rates fixed on the basis of the actuaries’tables of life expectation, and therefore, absolutely fair is the only kind of life insurance written by The Southeastern Life Insurance Company of Spartanburg, S. C* No “deferred” dividends, no “participating” policies, no schemes for profit, no opening for speculation, no element of scandal, but strict and’straight Life Insurance of the kind that takes care of a man’s family by providing an immediate cash estate on his death, the' time of all times when they will need it most keenly. X x X It is every man’s sacred duty to carry life insurance for the benefit of those de pendant upon him, and all men know this. Kut no South Carolinan need go out of his own State to get it. x x X x The Southeastern Life Insurance Company is a home institution,' chartered by the State of South Carolina ami subject to the South Carolina’ laws governing Life Insurance. It is directed by men wdiose homes and interests are in thtv State. It is an old line, ligal reserve. Straight Life Company of tae soundest kind.Jand should have the support of the people of the State. X X • # Southeastern Life I Compy, feLLIOTT ESTES, Jr. General Agent, Mar 16 th, 1808 Spartanburg, S. C. * - i! '♦1 V $ £ v v v V V v V i' * I Cherokee B. i L. Association Fourth Series Now Open. Stock Being Taken--Applications For Loans Filed. One man is now living in his own house who joined in]Jan- uary; made application for loan; paid his dues—75’ cents— which was really duelFebruary 2. He made“this1 r payment ^ .. j, as'a matter of good faith. He is in his^own happy home _ today -February 10. He is saving house rent, today. His , , a'—-'•■-a* property—not the landlord’s property—is growing in value every day. Name furnished upon application * t Read Our Booklet And Pass It Along, It Means A GREATER GAFFNEY. V. fl. Gooding, Sec’} & Trees. C. A. Jefferies, Prest. j§ DR. J. M. HUNTER The All-Round Specialist ROCK HILL S. C. Makes a specialty of Cancers, Tumors, Chronic Ulsers, Scrof- ula'and Rheumatism, Disefises of Liver and Kidneys, Dyspepsia and Indigestion, Diseases of the Genito-Urinary Organs and Dis eases of the Rectum. Treats without the knife^ loss of blood and little pain to patient. Consultation FREE. - Terms of Treat ment Satisfactory. Feb. w-moc INDIANA WANTS JOAQUIN. Poet of the Sierras to Have a Special Oay at Old Home. Joaquin Miller day In Grant county will bo an event of unusual signifi cance, says a correspondent from Mari on, lud.. In the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Since it was announced a few days ago that the “Poet of the Sierras” intend ed to visit bis boyhood homo, near Ja- lapsa, Grant epunty, local folk have been taking much interest in the mat ter, and plans are on foot for the “home coming.” George H. Lockwood, editor of the Marion Chronicle, wrote to Miller rela tive to bis visit to Indiana and received this reply: “The Heights, Dimond, Cal., Feb. 25. “Dear Sir- I am indeed delighted to have your letter asking for a lino. I hope to see you in early August. There is to be a gathering of the Boones, Wilts, Millers and Ellises, all close kin, at Liberty, lud., Aug. 22, and I have promised to be there. But what I most of all things want to see is the old log home which my revered parents built away back in the forties. ^Viid I want to see the beautiful river. I want to go fishing In it again. “I want to go out to the old Miami village and see Jim Sasequas Shingle- mesla and bis two bright boys. They made me a bow and arrows. The ar rows had keen, bright points, which the}' made out of an old barrel hoop, wilh pap’s file. And they were perfect. As proof of this there is scarce a single buffalo left. “I want to walk down the old dusty corduroy state road. I want to go to Lafontaine bare headed. I want to walk In the dust, with my pants rolled to my kmes, just as of old. We can take some doughnuts in our pockets. Maybe we can steal a few apples from 1 luebeard pirates harbored along the creek. “Anyhow I want to make a day of it. I want to be a boy again back on the old place once more before I die. Come along and bring a lot of boys and girls, and let us all be 'kids’ once more, not caring a bean whether school keeps or not. When we leave the old slate road we strike through tl^e continuous woods for pap’s place. And how dear were those huge trees to us all! But I am afraid they have cut them down. It Is this fear that has kept me all these years from trying to see the sacred old home. But now I will. If you please, persuaded by your kindly letter, look over the ground once more before I die. “Is Uncle Billy Fields there yet? He made the first and only pair of shoes I owned in Indiana. And little Thomas Sutton—did he ever grow up? I want to find him the same neat and modest little boy I used to love us ten derly as If he had been a girl. And then there was—but never mind now. I will ask about them when we go over on ripe creek. “Blouse write me If you will go with me, and also see If we can get some photos of the Indians, the old village, and so on. Maybe some of the Indians have photos of the old chief and his two manly boys. I <1 > hope they are strong and well and dial I may see them when I come in August. With love to you, I am yours, JOAGt;IN MILLER.” Old residents of flic ■ >unty who have seen ibis letter say !• is a picture of the county us It was sisty years ago, but the stately forests are goue, and few descendants of the tribe of Shin- glemesiu remain to greet the poet. Some landmarks rema.u in the old In dian village, but. as Joaquin Miller must suspect, time has wrought many changes in the conummity of his boy- do »d home. However. Grant county folk propose to make the poet enjoy ills vlsb WC N IN REAL ESTATE. One . t Lot Angeles Makes • Great Success as an Agent. A woman real estate agent in Los A.meles recently mane the largest laud sale, so far as price was concerned, •ver made by a woman In that part of 1 ne country. According to the H msekeeper, the deal was for nearly ?250,O00. Tho.wo man agent has been in the business only about two years, but is making a success of it. •£. “1 have many women clissits,” she sai l, "and have no t: able with them. I find that, as a rule, they come right to the point and transact business more quickly than many of Lie men do. “The luck of practical knowledge, the ability to close u deal, is the fault that presents itself most glaringly in wo man. She can demonstrate and con vince, but cannot execute a deed or draw a contract for her own protec tion. But she Is an apt pupil and only needs to he shown a few times, after which she can <io v. Lh- ut a lawyer. "Klie always <,ve;v tlmates details and epends time on tri.’les, allowing the nialu issue to lose force by delay. Wo- a.ea usually eater Into deals with en thusiasm; but. In 1I11 1 words of ‘the street.’ they «!'e ’quitters.’ “They cannot endure weeks and ccnths of Inaction and waiting for the Tight time/ but become discouraged, /he ‘stayers’ reach the goal." FAMOUS EXPRESS RIDER. Nov7 a Judge of the Superior Court Bench In Washington. From express rider in the sagebrush and bunch grass country of northwest ern Oregon to the superior court bench of Walluwalla county. Wash., is the rise of Thomas E. Brentz. He left the east shortly before the outbreak of the civil war. arriving at what is now Canyon City, Ore., in the fall of 18ol. He was the first to discover gold in the district, locating a rich placer claim, which was afterward abandoned because of the lack of wa ter. He established the B < nt: & Nel son express line, carryin r »!:•!•; and parcels between Canyon < tv and The Dalles, 225 miles, and holds the record, having covered the distance in twenty- eight hours. In the first winter the line was In operation many horses wore spirited away by Indians, and later the road agents became troublesome. Once Judge Brentz was caught In a blizzard, and it required more than throe weeks to do the trip. lie encountered snow fields ton foot deep am 1 was forced to walk at the head of his horse nearly all the way. On his arrival at Canyon City there was a demonstration. Bon fires were built, and tho bills echoed with gunshots and powder blasts. Judge Brentz talked of the early days not long ago and tol 1 some of his ex periences. He got 50 cents for carry ing a letter and sold California news papers at 50 cents a copy, express par eeb; netting him from SI to $10, ac cording to weight. lie also carrie 1 gold dust from the mining districts to the depositories. “The express line had been estab lished about a year when the road agents became a menace,” Judge Brentz said, “and many persons were murdered for their money. One of the most notorious bad men was Berry May, an escaped convict from San Quentin, who came to Oregon in 1S02 and for a time kept a band of horses. Being located on the line of ray route, I frequently made changes of horses at his place and thus became casually ac quainted with the not ^ "“tlaw. Later he took to the road. “Once on my way to The Dulles from Canyon City I encountered his band as they were going Into camp for the night, and as my horse was heavily laden and nearly exhausted there was nothing left but to turn In with them. I had my canteens well filled with gold dust, which would have made a profit able haul. “I came upon the party, consisting of Berry May, his wife and Jim Partin, at the foot of Rocky Canyon. Berry asked me if I hadn't better stop with them for the night, and I accepted the invi tation. Taking off my saddle with the gold dust, I threw It carelessly on the grass and thus disarmed the desper ado’s suspicions. “He asked me If I did not carry con siderable gold dust on my trips from the mining regions. I replied, ’Yes, sometimes, but on this trip I am car rying chains for a pack train and am not taking any gold dust.’ Knowing me as he did, he believed I was telling the truth, but I slept with my head on my saddle, with one eye upon the rob bers and my gun ready for action. “I passed a sleepless night, but y horses were rested, and the next mo. 1- Ing I resumed my Journey. I had gone a short distance when I met the sheriff and his posse from Pendleton, who ask ed me if I had seen anything of Berry May and his party. I replied, ‘Yes. I stayed with them last night.’ “The mischief you did!’ came the quick reply. ‘We are after them for murder. They shot and killed a man named Gallagher as he lay sleeping, anil we found the trail where they dragged the laxly and tho place where they washed the bloody blankets under which the man was sleeping.’ “Berry and his party were captured before reaching Canyon City and were confined ia an old shack of a Jail, from which he made his escape and went to Boise, where he was afterward cap tured and brought back to Canyon City and again locked up. The Jail was sur rounded by a self constituted vigilance committee, which took him from the jail and hanged him from the limb of a tree on the hill. Partin was never heard of again.” The Beet for the S>ck. W« wish to Impress upon our friend* and patron* the completeness of oar drug store. The steady and rapid In crease of business In our prescrip tion department tfhow* that our ef forts along this particular line are appreciated. There 1* nothing too good or too expensive to go on our prescription desk. Our policy being not the cheapest but the verv best for the sick. Gaffny Drug Co. The Alaska Packers Association furnish the Government hundreds of thousands of cases of Salmon a rear. Oat of 240,000 cans examined by the Government at Camp Thomas, only four defective cans were found. This firm packs the Argo Red Salmon. April 29 May 8. —Plsnty of Feather Bede. il Ranges J. W. Abbott and SEARCHUGHT SENTINELS. Important Fighting Aids — Shining Marks Not Often Hit. Little has been written of what Is perhaps one of the greatest fighting units In modern warfare, the search light. Hereafter every great power will not only have Its fighting ships well pro tected with the searchlight, but each army corps will have its own detach ment and apparatus for this very nec essary auxiliary. For It has come to be one of the most Important uses of electricity, en abling artillerymen to remove many of the uncertainties from the much dread ed night attack. Shallow waters that are suspected to have been planted with submarine mines are always subject to such at tack by the enemy In small boats. Volunteer landing crews are often sent with orders to destroy all electrical shore connections and thus render the mines useless. Foggy weather Is the most favorable time for this work. The boats are usu ally masked In gunny sacks to avoid all noise. In normal weather scouting of this character is by the use of the light sure to be detected. Then woe unto the small boat crews, for the groat white beam gives only a few seconds of silent grace In which to raise the flag of surrender, then glares on the slaughter by the rapid fires. Important channels or such passage ways of water as ;;re too deep to !** successfully mined usually rely for their protection on several of the lights. As discovered vessels form a very good target, the gunners In the forts gleefully lick their chops, while the enemy, owing to the disappearing gun carriage now- used, has practically nothing on which to concentrate his fire. The operator does not stand near the light, but takes up his position in the fire commander's station, an elevated tower at some distance from It. It Is above sea level and commands the harbor. Here Is located the controller, which by reason of Its electrical connection with the two motors in the base gives full control of the light. By merely shifting the handle the flashing beam travels at will. A dense fog. however, is absolutely Impenetrable, and smoke or slight mist causes the lieam to be followed with difficulty. Then sometimes distinct Images are shown which are caused by Impurities, such as dust, In the air and which to the novice would appear as dark objects on water. However, when weather conditions are unfavorable the enemy Is not apt to move about much. Cloudy weather and rain are rather beneficial than oth erwise, as dust and smoko, which act as a screen to the light, are washed Ant of the air. But the very natural question is. Why doesn’t the enemy throw a few shells and destroy the searchlight? It’s rertainly bright enough, and one would think it would afford an easy mark. It has been found, however, after re peated trials that to determine the ex act location of the lamp Is almost an impossibility. Then, again, the forts have the advantage of a fixed gun and a comparatively large target, whereas the ship has an unsteady gun base and a very small target—In fact, not more than eight feet. An expert marksman, even at half a mile distance, has hard ly one chance out of fifty to hit the projector. ‘‘Very well, then; wait until day light and blaze away at the shelter house In which the lamp is kept,” is said. A very good scheme, very good in deed, only the shelter house under ac tual war conditions Is mostly n blind and contains nothing, for the latest type of searchlight is mounted on a motor car and, like the service ghost, Is never around in the daytime.—Army and Navy Life. There Are many tonics in the land. As by tfie papers you can see; But none of them can equal Hollister’s Rocky Mountain Tea. —Cut this out and take to our store and receive free of charge one of our Pabst Malt Calendars; one of the most beautiful calendars seen this season. Gaffney Drag Co. Bubecrlh* for Th» Ledaor: $1 a year. Comparison New York Standard Policy and The Mutual Benefit Contract. The Mutual Benefit Policy cost much' less and guarantees a great deal more. Its cash value, loan and extention provisions become effective 2nd year instead of the jrd. We will even make a loan to assist in paying the second premium. The New York Standard Policy offers no cash value—only loans. If a man, age 35, should take out, at the same time two 20 jayment life policies for $10,000 each, one in the Mutual Benefit, the other in the New 'York Standard policy form, he would pay a premium for the New York policy which would exceed that of the Mutual Benefit by $21 20 per annum, a difference, which improved at 6 per cent, compound interest, would amount in 20 years to $826.65. Then if he would sur render both policies, The Mutual Benefit would pay him $609.20 more than the New York company, making a total dif ference in guaranteed results of $1,435.85. The above takes no account of divi dends, the amount of which, must depend on future management, interest rates and mortality. Place your insurance with the Mutual Benefit Life Ins. Co., through Jones J. Darby, Agt. Real Estate For Sale BUSINP:S6 property. 1 corner lot 22x200 on Limestone St., center of busine^f part of city. 1 corner lot on East Frederick St., five room cottage, good store room and barns, all under fence, price $1,200. One-half acre land, four room cottage, store room, two barns, orchard, shade trees, almost new. This is offered at a bargain for a few days. Call and see it. FARM PROPERTY. 161 acres one mile from town. This is an ideal country home, $3,500 worth of buildings on it.” 51 acres miles from town. 140 acres, 3^ miles from town at a bar gain, three tenants and store house. 21 acres. 7 miles from town, 6 room dwelling. Good house and fair location, building worth at least $800.00; the whole thing goes at $900.00. RESIDENCE PROPERTY. One corner lot 80x200, Granard St., 8 room dwelling. One corner lot 66x200, Granard St., 7 room cottage. One lot on Limestone St., 4 room- cottage. Close in. One lot on Limestone St., 5 room cot tage. Close in. Corner lot 80x200, Granard St., 6 room dwelling, one 2 room cottage and one I room house. One lot 80x200. new 4 room cottage, barn and well. One block 160x200, onstreet, 6 room cottage, two good barns, fruit trees, shade trees and well, all under good fence, every building almost new, in fact, it is a model little home cheap at $1,700. One corner lot 804x200, on Logan St., 8 room cottage, city water, good barn, etc. One corner lot, Robinson St., 7 room dwelling, in 50 yards of depot; a bargain, for quick sale. Several vacant lots in all parts of the city. Z. A. Robertson. UrtI I ICTPR’Q Rocky Mountain Tea Nuggets A Busy Medicine for Busy People. Brings Golden Health «nd Renewed Vigor. A epeclflc for Constipation. Indigestion, Livee and Kidney troubles. Pimples, Eczema, Impure Blood, Bad Breath. Sluggish Bowels, Headache and Backache. Its Rocky Mountain Tea in tab* let to"m. 35 cents a box. Genuino made by Holubtek Dhvg Com pant. Madison, Wia. GOLDEN NUGGETS FOR SALLOW PE0PLS FOR ALL COUNTY NKWB, IM PORTANT HAPPENINGS IN THB STATE AND EVENT* OP INTERUT IN FOREIGN LANDS, TAKE AND READ THE LEMUR. Ms I I I ^8 OR S JSl Iv E> 9- One entire block on Depot and Logan streets, with two 6-room cottages and a 7-room house on same. See me quick if you want a bargain in the block. This property must be sold. One city farm, containing 13 acres with good house on same. One lot just off Depot street, icoxi2o, very de sirable location. One lot on Fredrick and Logan streets, 180x200, a beauty. One farm 8)4 miles out with bed im provements, containing 200 acres. One farm, containing 140 acres, 4)4 miles out. Sumter Littlejohn house, six rooms, corner Sumter and Johnson streets. FOR RENT--Two|city farms. SAJI L. FORT, Real Estate and Inauranoa. 1