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a SHOUT NEWS ITEMS OF LOCAL INTEREST, AN ABLE AND INTERESTING ADDRESS. (Continued from I’age One.) FURLONG’S CHARITIES. FATHER VAUGHAN'S DREAM. Storiwa of the Late War Veteran and Prelate Tells of Ticket to Heaven Globe Trotter. If there is one tiling more than an Without the presiding elder, unifying, other for which the late General directing, inspiring, the work of the Charles K. Furlong of New York, war EVENTS IN GAFFNEY AND CHER* preachers in charge would bo far less veteran, sage, philosopher, philanthn- OKEE. Recent Happening* the City, and Other ered by the Local News Editor. effective than it is. Every great p| s< trotter and elmrter member ‘ movement has found here its great-, o1 - t | 1( . i.-jfd) \venue liotel’s “Amen est strength. If. now, this be true— <•orn,.,." v ill he missed, it is for his and it is so proved hy the histoij oi ( .j inr j^| es SiiVS tin* New York American, in and Around the church-that the presiding elder f(>rlllIH / was ample. It seemed to . , r , h ls " *r? 1 ‘“•'•in"* »»MW. »J«I sr Events Gath- m ;i v not be his value and use to in< ^ * * church? If he can mould policy and 1 on those who really needed succor. It habit so he may mould and develop was his custom to take a walk each . spiritualitv and power. day to the Mattery find back. Before We confidently expect Col. A. N. .pj )pro % ‘, as a time when the presid-1 leaving Hie Fifth Avenue hotel he Wood to have a new suppl <»l ^ w ag a great evangelistic would get a ten or live dollar hill after conference a journs. j agency. All up and down great dla- c |ianged at tlie casliier’s desk into ones. Two of the delegates while pass- tricts went men of flaming zeal, and Q n t |, e W ay down or up town he kept Ing the house of .'fir. H. M. Johnson at their toucli preachers and poop •' p| S eVPS 0 p en f,,r cases of distress, and remarked, that it wag the first time alike were roused to new ardor in the )lollar pni found its way into the , they had ever seen a glass floor in Masters cause. Methods ha\e cha ^ of n)an ft wretchwl man or W o- lay awake in Dublin on a recent night _ ed. but the same agency that fias 1 wrought so well of recent years in upon being the financial and educational affairs It "as ins delight to gatiiei about That Wai Not Transferable. Speaking the other evening before a large and fashionable audience at the Mansion House, Dublin, Ireland, Fa ther Vaughan, the British prelate and brother of the late cardinal, who has been preaching on the “sins of society" In London, said: “Going the round of, the dubs lu London was the story that a certain noted gambler died and found himself hy some good luck In heaven. Being out of place there, he asked leave to go down to hls own quarters, and there he gambled away hls return ticket, the lady cheat who won It get ting thereby to heaven.” Father Vaughan said that he, too, , had had a dieam about the subject, savs the Westminster Gazette. As he One of the delegates shown a clearing house certificate, ()f ,h e church may, under God, he the him a number of boys and girls and don gaminer rcrcrrei! to pin remarked, “No wonder Gaffney, is a moans of a great spiritual awakening, take them for a trolley ride, treat them tro m so.iun oi a pah inn dry town, if that is the kind of money The presiding elder may or may not to ice cream, cake and flowers and you have." he the great preacher at great camp, then see that every one of them got meetings—he must be the general, di- sn f e t 0 |,j s or i u . r home. More than The “Old Man” was so disappoint- n . ( . til ^ (lu . forces at his command h ; ims sent a group of tired New ed because his delegates did uu - an( j inspiring them to the victory fori come Monday that he got sick. '1 hey ( j ie came in later, however, and the “Old Man” is sicker than before. Mr. C. W. Hunt, of Charlotte, is York schoolteachers to Europe, pay- The *u.»t confronting the presid- •"'If, "T ,IS< '' JT'’ ,* "T"”? in., eldership is twniold. The one of ihe police iorce nnd lire department comes from the iiresiding elder him- owes ills Job to the general. He never . Sl .|f n,. m a v fail to see and use his asked for an appointment on po.itical in Gaffney to report the contiTence opportunity he may become puffed grounds, but purely for merit, proceedings for the Charlotte ^ ^ wil , i Sf ,if imnortance: he may ad- "Wlien you are in a strange eoun- iin try,” said General Cliarles Furlong in wisely; he may lose sight of the high q l( , Fifth Avenue hotel one night, “any- The conference is composed of a e« spiritual ends in mere materia! tiling like a reminder of home comes once in proceedings for the Charlotte News^ . seif.jmportance; lie may a Charleston Evening ^. Columbia n >. nister affairs art)i trarily and u Record, and the Anderson Daily Mail. - - - . . . fine body of men. and their delihera- progress and success; ne may lan to verv neiu . the heart. I remember oi tions are characterized by an impress- give to the brethren with whom—not nd , a fpw dayg at Weymouth, Ivc dignity Wiilcli tends to convince over ' , * e if' 1 ’. “f ihc ..intli of England, and. walking one that the body is here for busi- sympathy that they need. Lviy ot . , tb<MV one afternoon 1 flee, it is well known, has such a pos- Tne espuiu.iue int ie out .uieruouu, sihility of improper and inadequate ran into a party of Salvation Army Two very dignified looking inem- administration. The man and not the people witli the regulation bund, drum, bers of the reception committee are office is at fault in such a case. trumpet and tambourines. They were W. S- Hall. Esq., and Col. T. B. But- The other danger comes from the playing ’Marching Through Georgia.’ ler. They are both walking around preachers and laymen. They may an( j j t was tin* finest music I had lis- firmed cheat. She dashed with the re- : with an appearance of importance suffer personal and local prejudice to f ene ,j to f or several months. I gave j lease ticket from the gambling saloon, ! that is calculated to impress people blind them to the real use and effect- ] oa( j or (W() sovereigns, about $1<'. making for tin* iron gates. There she who do not know them. iveness of the office and the officer. and b(i j ook( . ( j at me as |f i le thought 1 was met hy Satan, who, after congrat- , he fancied he saw in one of the outer j courts of heaven the well known Lou don ga mlder referred to pacing to and none such came. At last, being able to stand cverv one of them gut the lonely situation no longer, he went to St. Peter at the golden gate, and, confessing that it was hy cheating that he had passed through, lie begged for a pass-out ticket to see how his old friends were (hung down below. There | he found an enormous crowd of well known betting men and women in a low and suffocating room, all being! forced to play bridge with no stakes 11 and in dead silence. For some time he watched at the various tallies the faces of the players, lu which rage, despair and hatred were depicted In every fea ture. At length the passion to play awoke ' once more In him. He drew forth hls return ticket to heaven, he played, and he lost. The return ticket was secur ed by a noted and fashionable society woman who was known to be a con- D. C Ross, Brest, J. A. Carrou., V.-l'rest. M aynarii Smyth, Cashier TI1IC National Bank of Gaffney Gaffney, S. C. Capital Stock, ... $ 50,000.00 Surplus and Undivided Profits, 45,000.00 Stockholders 1 Liability, - 50,000.00 Protection to Depositors, - - $145,000.00 The State of South Carolina, the County of Cherokee and the Town of Caffney deposit with us. WE WANT YOUR BUSINESS. J. A. Carroll, C. W. Whisonant, H. >t. McAden, DIRECTORS. T. M. Littlejohn, Dr. Chas. A. JefTerie' B. L. Haines, R. M. Wilkins, J. D. Jones, H. D. Wheat. D. C. Ross, Maynard Smyth. . There may lie lack of personal jeal- They say that Mr. L. G. Potter nH jj„usy there may lie official friction; the train Monday afternoon and tried thpn ; m ., v . j, e i aok ], ea rty eo-oper- to take a traveling man to his house . d j on am j sympathy. Some dislike being presided over in even the mild est way; few like to be reminded of duties neglected or opportunities mis- sheer delight.'' by force, insisting that lie was one of the delegates assigned to him. It transpires that the fnan was a whis key drummer. used. But, between brethren, alike Committeeman Hall, seeing Cousin »Mnisters of the Grace of Christ and Bob Wilkins alight from a train Mon- Preachers of His gospel of love, there day, rigged out like Solomon In all ^ no P laC( ; b en ; ian ;‘ m ,ll f. hls glory, took him for a delegate ™ P^on»l dislike that would and insisted on taking him to his dock the wheels of progress an 1 r ,, . _ . * bring discredit on the church. So, too, house. Cousin Bob was forced a t; . m , follow( , r of th(l LO rd Jesus Pleasure boats were dancing up and specify in cider to g t awa.. Christ will not assume airs and pre- down on the waves, their boatmen One of the delegates, and he was rogatlves that do not belong to his waiting for business. About the mid- not a layman either asked to have a cigar, said no. he te r its affairs in any hut the spirit American flag at the stern. The gen had just smoked one. and if it got of humble, brotherly love. The ma- ern i signaled this, and when it had noised abroad that lie was an invet- chinery of the presiding eldership drawn up alongside the pier he step- erate smoker that the boys would in- has been tested and tried for a con sist upon forcing cigars upon him. fury and has been found adequate for the growing needs of tin* expanding Wie do sincerely hope that Hamp church. Its chief danger now is in Pridmore will let the weather alone the personal relationships that are while conference is In session. Right involved. was crazy He said it was more money ulating tier on her luck, pointed to the than they took In in a week. I told words “Not transferable.” She scream- thom to go right ahead with that same ed and tore to shreds the ticket, when tunc for about ton minutes longer, nnd the devil led her hack to the tables to I took a camp stool and listened in resume her everlasting play. “See,” he exclaimed, “these letters of lire, General Furlong was a great globe [‘All hope abandon ye who enter here.’” trotter. He traveled everywhere, but i always was glad to get hack home. JQHN L'S DEFENSE OF JOHN D. He tola another story of au experl- j ence in England. He was at n water ing place where some seventy or eighty S-A-V-E Part of what you make and deposit it with the Gaffney Savings Bank Where it will make you FOTR percent, interest. Make your money make you something, don’t run the risk of losing it by keeping it at home. Start an account with us at once. ONE DOLLAR is sufficient to begin with. We pay foir per cent, interest on ALL deposits compounded FOUR times a year. Fighter Says Oil Man’s Money Should Not Bi ing Him Criticism. John L. Sullivan arrived at Pittsburg the other day and in the afternoon _ „ . . hunted up his friend, John Newell, when being office, and will certainly not adminis- die of the line was a craft with an Newpli [f brother-in-law 0 f the late 1 V _ 4-S-k 1 ♦ r- r, , ft ft »-\ .ft ft-ft • • a • F ♦ l > <*ft .»»-*!»»%♦ ft f ... Xl . . ». ft ft Va m A A ftam-v r E 1ft .-V ft a i Dan o'Day and. like the latter, has made a lew millions out of oil, says a , , Pittsburg sperlul dispatch to the New ped in and said lie wanted to be rowed. - Yo| . k Tjm ^ It was (iul uatliral tha , “For how long?’ queried the boat ^ couversa , iun sllould dr i ft t0 the man- Standard investigation and tainted “Oh. as lung as you like," was the answer, and the passenger climbed in 4 jj The Gaffney Savings Bank ^ Office in National Bank of Gaffney 8 D. C. Ross, Prest. J. A. Carrou., V.-Prest. Maynard Smyth, Cashier. ms* money. “These pcuple who are makin’ all here we wish to say to the delegates. There Is no need here for words of to the stern of the boat nnd sat under thls ai „, lir tailltpd luonev K [ ve u , e one and all. that Hamp )s all right, exhortation. Surely the earnest pray- the folds of Old Glory for the best part ; craiuI ‘ s .. (U . ( . i . uvd t i u , lonne r cham pion. “In : iy mind, there ain’t no such thing as tainted money. I've handled a good deal of it in my day, except on the subject of the weather; e r of every one Is that the Spirit of of the afternoon. When the trip wu cra,u P 1 '- u “ if he mentions weather leave him at Jesus may r^st on all alike; that duty over i, e landed over a generous fee once. a s he is liable to become vlo- may he lovingly done; and that we nnd asked tllt . boatman how he hap- lent. may move onward, heart to heart, at p(med to flv t | ie8tars and slri p es . i The W. G. Carpenter Co. _ w ^ , ...... the impulse of the great Captain of alter Humphries disguised him- our g a i va tion. who is also the “Head self Monday night and went to a num- over a |] { b j nKg f 0 ^he church,” “the her of places in town and caused no Rame yesterday, and today, and for- Mttle embarrassment and confusion in ,, ver >• the various households which he vis- Rev. Marion Dargan, the popular “1 fought with Phil Sheridan in the Shenandoah,” replied the veteran proudly. “I’ncle Sam sends me $12 every month, and I make the rest of my living in this country.” General Furlong refused to tell how Ited by announcing that he was a del- ^ ^ egate who had been assigned to them and efficient presiding elder of the much was added to the boatman’s foe but had gotten ln Spartanburg district, entertained the when he learned that it was a Union schedule time. Among those whom ministers of hls district last evening veteran who had been rowing him he fooled were Billie Doggett, Tom at Bram iett’s cafe. The time was ™teran lia 'l »><*» aim - Brown. W. A. Turner and Mrs. Vol- p as g P d in pleasant informal Inter- ncy Sarratt’s family. It was a great coursei a n d after supper reports of "stunt” that you “pulled off Walter. jjj 6 charges were made, showing the 7— affairs of the church in splendid con- PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS. dltion. As a fitting climax of the ev ening’s pleasant association, the min- ANCIENT PAINT SECRET. Indian Mound Explorer Discover* Pig ment Said to Be Indestructible. The long sought secret of the compo und it all looks alike to me. I could never tell the dlfl'ereine. “Nobod\ ever made 11 squeal on takiu’ my money because it was taint ed. ami 1 think the coin handed out by John D. is just as good us that banded out by John L. and would buy us many meal tickets for the mission aries as though It never knew the scent of kerosene. “Julin D. lias got some of these tight- 1 wads beat to a frazzle, and it Isn’t fair to keep him on the pan ail the time.” HOUSE FIXTURES OF GOLD. Allen B. Crosby, of York county. j R ters 0 f the district presented Rev. . , .., . . . was In the city yesterday. , Mr Dargan with a gold watch fob B,11on of Indestructible paint used by ! J. G. Hames was in Gaffney yester- an( j a handsome umbrella. The fob tbe Egyptians and North American In Novel Feature of Palatial Residence day. was presented by Rev. J. T. Fowler dluus is believed to have l>een dlscov- ! Being Built For Millionaire. Chief of Police Duncan, of Blacks- and tbe um b r ella by Rev. D. E. Ca- ered hy the finding of a heretofore uu p. Myers, a Goldfield millionaire, burg, was here yesterday. mak. These were simple little tok- known mineral substance In the Kern i 8 having a palatial home built on the Newton G. Littlejohn was a visitor ens of the hlgh esteem m which Rev. river oil field by F. IT. Austin, who (ir *at Clearing Sale of Millinery and Trim med Hat'. All Trimmed Hats, Baby Caps and Children Tams at ONE-HALF price. A rare opportunity for you to -ave monev on your Hat for the winter sea-on. ; : in the city yesterday. Bishop Hen rv Clay Morrison. Bishop Morrison was horn in Mont gomery county. Tennessee, May 30th. 1842. He was a son of Robert Ray and Mary Ann Duvall Morrison. TIis boyhood days were spent on a farm in big native county. He was edu cated at home by specially employed teachers, and Mr. Dargan Is held by the ministers has been pu -uing scientific Investiga of his district An Interesting Career. Dr. Max Simon N'ordan. who recently tesigi.i d his office as seeomi president of lhe /.iolii-t eonmvss a t The Hague, Is one of the greatest of living Jews. bluff opposite Blxby park at Long Beach. Cal., and will have all the hard- tlon for two years, says a dispatch ware used on the doors and windows from Baker-field, Cal., to the New quadruple plated with gold from his own mine.' says a Long Beach corre- He It s had a most iniore :ing career received the degree of nnd lias shorn* its author, doctor, phi- D. D. from the Alabama Agricultural losophor, ( and Mechanical College in 1882. He ( ,f i; :l |,|,j taught school in early life, and was Rudapest married in ISC,3 to Mrs. M. E. Ray, and has two living children. He was licensed to preach in 18<;3. He has been n member of the Louisville and North Georgia conferences. He was a delegate five times to the General Conference. His appointments have been as follows: 1805-06, Millers- town Circuit; 1800-07. Bardstown Sta tion, 1807-08. Elizabethtown Station: 1809-70, Middleton. Ky.; 1872-73-74-75; Shelby Street, Louisville. Ky., 1870- 77-78-79; Broadway. I^ouisvllie, 1880- 81-82183; Chestnut Street. Louisville, 1883-84-85; Russelville, Ky.. 1880-87- 88-89: First Church, Atlanta, Ga., 1890 to 1898. missionary secretary. -sayist nnd critic. The son Sudteld, he was horn at in 1S49 and changed his name to Nordati at an early age. After studying t*p gi . at advantage at the Budapest university he took Ids M. D. degree in Fari , where he is non set tled. and rapidly etime to the front as a writer - extraordinary merit. Among his iiumeivus works probably the one whi. h caused the greatest sen- s’.ition was "D generation.” In spite of Ids fifty eight years in*. Nordau is still a prodigious worker, most of his writing being done between the hours of Sfito p id. ami midnight. He is a man of cry simple tastes, who neithc" smokes nor drink*-, and his favorite York Sun. Austin found this substance, which he named “diatlne,” while digging in ancient Indian mounds. He sent sam pies to tlie I 'idled States government geologists for examination and lias re celvod their report, which coincides with his own. A string of heads of this material and one of asphaltum were found around the neck of an Indian skeleton. These beads stood the test of chioro form itfid the heat of a redhot stove without Injury. spondent of the San Francisco Chron icle. He estimates that the novelty will cost him Sn.OOt* There L only one other house in southern California equipped with gold door knob', hinges and latches, and that is the Durand residence in Pasa dena. Myer intends making his house the most beautiful in Long Beach. The grounds an* to be laid out in a unique maimer, the bluff terraced and a re taining wall built, the total cost reach Ing $1."(),( hx* The W. G. Carpenter Co. Brewing of the Matrimonial Fever. The matrimonial fever must indeed Mile a Minute Motor Boat, be brewing in Bock Hill, N. Y. We ^ new form of motor boat has re heard a conversation between a young eently been launched at a French ship- lady and a gentleman the other morn yard whi< h. if expectations are real- ing in which It was stated that twelve Jzod, will rush through the water at a marriages would occur during the win- speed of sixty-two miles an hour, says He was elected bishop in 1898. He recreations are fencing and swimming was an invalid for a number of years —Travel. In early life and was reported dead at one time, and his obituary was pub- Dogs and Colors. lished. His health at this time is The question, Can a dog distinguisn excellent and hls present residence colors? was the subject of an article is 1445 Henry Orleans. La. Clay Avenue, New STRAYED--A ^mall bay mare, with white feet and white blaze face; had on tan bridle and saddle when last seen. Reward if returned to Tames Miller. Wed.-Fri. A violent earthquake was recorded on the seismographs at Washington. Albany and elsewhere but It was probably* a submarine disturbance. ter months, says the Rock Hill Her ald. We asked a lady who is well posted on such subjects what she thought was the cause of so many weddings in one winter. She t»aid. "The beautiful moonlight nights we have had this summer.” She ought to know, for site is married. This will l»e a tnetnor::Mr* winter to nil if the ex pected happens. Twenty-four happy hearts tied Into one dozen within tint 1 months will be something unusual fot Rock Hill. The ladles lu tin* city \u* know will be glad to hear of this news, for during the cold wintry days It P. A B- Wlldener is said to have parted company with Thomas F. Ryan as the result of the Intor- borough-Metropolltan scandal. Subscribe for The Ledger; 1$ a year. in a recent Issue of the Zentralblatt fur Physiologic. A series of experi ments demonstrated the fact that tings could, through training, learn to dls tingtiish 1 olors The 'vritcr says: “We trained dogs to fetch nnd carry an ob ject nf a certain colur and then placed one like it In every detail in a group " ,l1 k've them p.enty of news to con of similarly formed objects, but dlf- verse with lln ir neighbors about feriug in color from white to black. In , imi-.t instances the dog picked the right Railroad to Train Telegraphers Free, colur. We found, however, that the Anxious u\»r the small supply *if darker shades puzzled them, and they telegraph operators, tip- Er e railroad made many mistakes We are con lias dci-iiicd,' says the t'olumbiis Ids vlnecd that dogs can distinguish col- patch, to cstabllKh a sctool for tclegra- nrs, but not till of them, and their pliers in Kenton, O., where young men sense in that direct ion is limited to and women will be gtveu free tuition what we know as light shades.” and positions. the Duluth New s Tribum*. The secret pf this is what is known as a •typbonoid" propeller and which is set at the bow instead of the stern. It operates by suction instead of pushing tin* water bark ward and lias six blades on an axis, terminating in a cylin drical tube. The motive power is sup plied by two four-cylinder V type mo tors of sixty horsepower each, and double igni on by magneto and nc- euniulntors L provided. Wrinkle In Fishing. When t'barles Beck of Worcester, Mass., offered to wager a supper with friends at Lake Oiilnsigamond that lie could take a dip in tin* lake with a fish lim* between his teeth and catch a fish they laughed at him, says a Worcester (Mass • special to tin* New York Heraid Beck swam out into the lake from the elubhoiise. A few min utes later h* ivturtied, the line still be tween Ids toe'li and on the hook at the other end was a pickerel. •DON’T FAIL To VMT No. 812 Limestone St. \nd get prices 0 n FUBNITURE. STAVES and RANGES. G nods delivered anywhere in the stale it' the amount purchased will justify it. : : : : Shuford & LeMaster. V S. R. SOBER MANUFACTURER j FINE CONFECTIONERY WHOLESALE AND RETAIL ~ - CALIFORNIA, FLORIDA AND TROPICAL FRUITS. GAFFNEY. SO. CAR. imF