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vT P The Gaffney S A NEWtPAFCII IN ALL THAT THB WORD IMRUBA AND OBVOTSD TO THE BEET INTEREST OF THE PEOPLE OF CHEROKEE COUNT/. ESTABLISHED FEB. IS. 1894. GAFFNEY, S. 6., FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1908. $1.50 A YEAR. TEMPERANCE WORK IN SOUTH ENCOURAGING REPORTS FROM THE FIRING LINE. A Large Majority of House Members ;is to come into line at the next ses sion of the legislature. Many good i suggestions have been made by several of the brethren in regard to | the work in this State, and we are sorry that we have not been able as yet to »arry them out. We hope soon jto place in railroad waiting rooms in ; South Carolina, a large chart gjring ; facts on prohibition throughout the j country. But just now the law en* . forcement department of the work ,18 claiming' our attention. If out standing subscriptions now due are paid we shall be able to make this work count for good throughout the DEATH IN GAFFNEY. Long and for State-wide Prohibition—' State at once. Let every Christian Dispensary Dying Hard. w soldier stand by his gun and never | stances Ernest Robbins Succumbs to a Illness. The hearts of all Gaffney people were inexpressibly saddened by the news of the death of Mr. Ernest Rob bins, which occurred about half-past seven o’clock Wednesday morning at his home in this city. Mr. Robbins had been in ill health for over two years, and though it was known that his end was only a matter of time, and the intelligence, therefore, was no surprise, to those acquainted with the young man’s condition, yet the nature of his death and the circum- TROOPS IN THE CIVIL WAR ■titor The Ledger.—Please allow me through your columns to make gome report on the temperance work in South Carolina. For six mouths we kave been on the firing line, anil In that time, we have seen things new and old. and have learned as we never knew before what it means to contend for civic righteousness. As we look back over the field we are constrained to say ‘‘Thank God, some thing has been achieved in our be loved State.” Any one who will take the pains to look over the personnel of onr State senate will note quite a change in that body. Several gentle men of the old senate who stood for the dispensary system, did not make the race for re-election, and gentle ' men of different views on the liquor question, will take their places in the new bodv. In other counties where former dispensary senators stood for re-election, they were defeated by gentlemen of prohibition proclivities. In fact we lost only two prohibition senators in the whole State. It is enconraging also, to note. a large majority of the men in the house of representatives stand for State-wide prohibition. But the liquor question in South Carolina is not settled yet. The old dispensary faction is dying hard. At the next session of the legislature, all sorts of moves will be made doubtless to thwart the prohibitionists in their plans. Some of the gentlemen elect ed by the State senate, and also to the house, are in favor of State-wide prohibition, while others favor refer ring the matter to the people as was done in North Carolina last spring. As we see the matter from our view point, the latter is a better plan for more reasons than one. If we can have a State election, with all per sonal features eliminated, and let the sovereign voters of the State cast their ballots for, or against the dis- , pensary system, our victory will be ► so signal that It will make an im pression upon the entire country. Moreover, If such an election Is plan ned, the people in every county in the State, will be educated in the cause of temperance through the meetings which would be held, and thereby create a sentiment, which wonkl go far toward enforcing the law after It Is passed. We have had some Indication of what can be done, and how the people feel, by the vic tories won In Laurens, Union, Claren don and Chester In the past few days. A few speakers went in to each of these counties and held public mass meetings in the interest of temper ance, a few days previous to the election, and while these counties may have gone prohibition anyway, it to safe to say that a three to one vote would not have been polled. We have now twenty-two counties With seven hundred thousand popu lation In South Carolina, where no liquor Is sold legally. Twenty coun ties yet hold on to the dispensary system, but some of them only have one dispensary. Hence, it is plain that the legalized sale of liquor in South Carolina is being greatly cur tailed. We have arranged for Dr. P. A. Baker, the national superintendent of the Anti-Saloon League, to be with us at Laurens, S. C., and speak on Sunday before the South Carolina Annual Conference the 29th inst. We sincerely hope that the people in the surrounding country will make an effort to hear this noted temperance advocate at that time. Dr. Baker will also speak in the First Baptist church, Spartanburg. S. C., Wednes day night, December the 2nd. Our plans have been perfected for a great State convention, to be held in the hall of the house of representatives, Columbia, S. C., Thursday, Decem ber the 3rd. We hope that every member of the State executive com mittee of the Anti-Saloon League of South Carolina, and every other of ficer of the organization, will be able to meet us in the senate chamber at .Columbia Thursday afternoon at 3 '^o’clock, December the 3rd. Every minister of the gospel in this State, every State senator, every legislature- man, and other gentlemen, will be I especially invited to attend this meet ing. Please, brethren make your ar rangements now, and be sdre to go. We have written Dr. Anderson, our national legislative superintendent, . and hope to secure his services for 4d the State Baptist Convention, to be held in Union. December 8th-13th. Many things are transpiring through out the whole country to encourage us, and to urge us on to victory. More than nine thousand barrooms have been closed in the United States since January first. Accord ing to the report of the commissioner of Internal revenue there has been a decrease, because of the great prohi- bition wave this year of $16,178,094.74. We have now nine whole States In the prohibition columns. Only five States in the Union are reearded as purely liquor States, while many others, because of their local option laws, are sweeping everything before them. From Maine to California, and from North Dakota to Southern Tex as, the same erv “The rum saloon must bo” is heard. At. the present rate Tennessee. Kentucky, Indiana, Ohio, and Illinois in the near future, will tween Into the prohibition column. We confidently expect Tex- surrounding it, cease fighting till our State is rid of [ event particularly sad and touching | the curse and the law enforced, i Jno. L. Harley, I i Farley gathered a tine lot of historical matter that was never published that we know of. At a meeting of the United Confed erate Veterans, held in Columbia in November, 1895, the legislature was i asked to appropriate a sum of money sufficient to publish the company rolls FATAL DELAY IN SECURING COM- 1 0,1 adjutant generals FATAL DELAY IN SECURING COM office The resolution p rov jded that »PLEJE ROLLS. ! a nunil)er these company rolls be I printed and distributed among the survivors so that they could he count- led when necessary—giving particulars Valuable Information Lost Through | as ( 0 tj m e, place and manner of each soldier’s death tif dead) and any other particulars concerning him. SSOO, we understand, was appropriat- Death of Survivors—News Notes IRBY SENTENCED. Negro made the i from L ower Cherokee. State Supt. BLACKSBURG NEWS. i Death is sad in any guise, and no I matter at what time of life It comes to humankind,—and truly, “Nothing dies but something mourns”—sad, because it means, to us, a final sep aration from loved ones—a final | severing of ties that Lave bound New*y Note* and Personals from loving hearts together—the final end- iron City Across the Broad. < ing of life’s pathway, and the break- . „ mg asunder for all eternity of all Blacksburg, Nov. 12. Miss Willie earthly associations! When the old Sherer came home from Winthrop College on Thursday morning on ac count of the typhoid fever epidemic there. Misses Marie Goforth, Mabel Ram- seur and Ethel Shealy went over to Gaffney Thursday afternoon, shop ping. Mrs. T. S. R. Ward and daughter, Miss Inez, went over to Spartanburg and infirm who have lived out their al lotted years of three score and ten— who have struggled along with the burdens of life till they have grown tired and weary, and are ready to meet the final summons to enter in to' the rest and joys prepared for them—when the Grim Reaper cuts down such as are ready for the har vest, though the end is sad In a way, ed but the rolls were never dlstribut- ! Wilkinsville, Nov. 10.—To l)j\ H. ,ed that we know of. or at least your ! B. Fiefield we are indebted for papers correspondent never got any of them I published in his home, the Pine Tree ,haT h t < L a t n, J , , ,ed for * -At that time many men were still p**®*®* living who could have helped to lo- 1 Supervisor Felix Lipscomb came cate any man in his comnany or tell 1 down yesterday to meet Supervisor what became of him. Take for instance such a man as Bryant Fowler (who perhaps didn’t the position with a view of locating « l“"<‘r hi a book): he could la hrirtire swm-oss Rrnari river This ha ' e c,v<>n , fr °m splendid memory. But with them gone this in- Boyd, of York county, today at Howell’s ferry to make a survey of Tuesday, shopping and returned ' f jj e blow is not so heavy as jvhen the 1 home Wednesday. | young life-plants are pnftaed from Mr. W. W. Shealy. of Spartanburg, j the garden just as they are begin- , spent Sunday here with his faintly, i n j n g to grow and blossom and send Mrs. Wm Finley and little son, 'V.!f or th their fragrance to sweeten and | P., of Rock Hill, spent Saturday and brighten the hearts and lives of those Sunday her8 with b©r 8i8t©r, Mrs* around thoin* W. W. Duncan. Such was the life—such was the Mrs Mary Freeman leaves t<Kla> death _ of Eniest Ro b b ins. for Liber on, G*., a/ter a atay her® He wag • tVenty-one years of o several weeks with her daughter, ! bright ta , ented w , th a sunny Mrs. W. disposition, and a heart full of a life ^!LiVtf”"i^n r ^i^bnrh! that K ,owed with radiant hopes and Atlanta, returning here in the spring. brlght prospects. He attended school hijf ’th f at Wofford College, in Spartanburg, tFi ™ Ur ‘ d H*r, h ’ the 8 f ! and had - 1ust completed his first year oi. t” m v ,here l n the summer of 1906, when he d ‘ w‘-/uf h iat’ w 0 ni»h> t ha V ri l ^ii^h 1 was 8t ricken with the malady that C., spent Wednesday night here wi fl na i]y snuffed out his young life, his sister. Miss Nan ^ite. ^ About two year8 a g 0 , think T ng a Mr. J- M. Peoples, of Charlotte, N. change of scene and climate might business^C? 1 ) 0 ^ ^ e< * neS( * aj n * gtK on be beneficial to his health, he, in a bridge across Broad river. This ! matter has been on hand some t ime [and we hope the authorities will soon ! decide the matter and give us the bridge. Mr. James T. Moorehead has the finest specimens of home raised ap ples we have seen. They are superior to the Northern apple in size, color, Up,’ „!!!?.!'■ and ta.Ue and Mr. Moorehead in j raising them has shown some of the ! wonderful resources of Cherokee 'county. He is one of the most suc cessful farmers we have. Mr. W. R. Walker will start with a drove of beef cattle to market to- . day. He has invited the fox hunters ‘ 1 1)< ’ S f ‘ 1 ’ 1 - v - to come and help him to drive them , ol ‘ 1 • R- Books, ot Columbia, is across the river. Some of them d ?‘"* a f. eat t1 work S ett U J>* agree to do so, we understand. ™ st °7 of 1<’r s Cavalry.” and he Mrs. Ann Eliza Camp, with her son. done s( ? at a ^ roaf ^advantage Gaston, and daughter. Mary, of State m ,,is w ( nrk w ’" 1 and | Line, accompanied by Mrs. Virgie ’ s ' ' a< ' s / > t ’ i ' n nf " 'c questioned, j Littlejohn, of Gaffney, came down to He wm I' 0 *’ howy er be able to give Salem last Saturday to visit and place 1 ® 8 , r < . 0 t mp , , £ ,e a ro ' 1 of ' h< i roc 11 aK I flowers on the grave of their mother.: n, V?‘ otherw i a f d one. — - ~ < ue propose In the near future to give our Ledger readers a lecture, the formation is forever lost sight of. The State of South Carolina furnish ed in round numbers, (from first to last t 68,000 men and their names could have been placed on record with absolute correctness. Now that The voting population of this State at the breaking out of the war was 55,000. Thus it will he seen that no State in the Confederacy furnished a greater per ceiif of its men than did South Carolina, and it’s a great pity that their names could not be handed Mrs. Rice Whitesides returned Wednesday afternoon from Hickory Grove where she spent several days with relatives. Mr. B. P. Hambright, of Grover, company with his brother Clint, went to Texas and spent three or four months in the open air of the south western plains; but the change did not result in any apparent benefit, and he returned to his home here, W : 9.- vl8ltor 1,1 our lown We<| - j where he remained In gradually de-' Yii- a ' w t* hoori w a i c,,n,n S health, till the end came Wed- n ^ n v W fn he prnv wt nesda y- Ernest was conscious al- nesday in Hickory Grove on busi- most up tQ the very j agt ftnd hlg j. fe Mr w™ Mr,pm ' went out “ as poacefuUy, as ^ r ; Wm. McGill, of King a Creek.; swee ti y as the shadows of darkness spent Thursday here on business Mr. Paul Roberts, of Rock Hill, spent Monday night here with his brother, Mr. R. M. Roberts. Miss Jean VVhisnant is home for a few days from Winthrop College on account of the fever epidemic there. Mrs. W. W. Duncan and children, flee away from the morning sun beams. He had long since become resigned to his fate, awaiting the final summons which he knew must soon come with the patience and re signation of the Christian young man he was, and the grief of his family is softened by the assurance that he d S[*u nI Si 1 ! 8 now tree from suffering in a better and Monday in Rock Hill with her mother, Mrs. E. R, Turner. Mrs. and Mrs. W. A. Blalock spent Thursday in Gaffney with relatives. Mrs. Mary Earl is spending a few days at Crockers, N. C., with her brother, Mr. Will Little and family. Mr. Ralph Little, of near Grover, N. C., spent Sunday nere with his aunt, Mrs. Mary Earl. Mrs. Little, who has been quite 111 is improving. land than this; and they derive much comfort from bis assertion to a boy friend and schoolmate a short while since, that he was not as all afraid to go—that he realized his condition, and would meet the struggle with the hope and faith that had so long sustained him, or words to that effect. The funeral services were held at Mrs. George Jefferies returned to and cemetery at 2 o clock yester- her home in Gaffney Tuesday after : M y a a ,„ er ® oon ; conducted by Dr. A. spending several weeks here with Iyv ° , , th ® First Baptist her aunt, Mrs. W. A. Blalock. S’ aKa,s ‘ ed by Rev. Mr. Harper, Mrs.| W. O. Metis, of the Buffalo S lir S e Stre f t Methodist ctinn. Hnpnt Tiig>s<inv hom with . urf; n, and the remains were con signed to their last resting place in in the presence of one of the largest Mrs. Jane C. Lynn, who is buried there. They brought some beautiful flowers with them. We have a spell of “Indian sum mer” which the farmers hope will continue till they finish gathering their crops and get their wheat and oats sown. subject of which will be: “What it takes to constitute a really pretty, lovely woman.” t ? shall he agreeably disappointed mehody doesn’t get very mad at : what we may say. But, “Sissle,” if a Mr."H.“Terry Estes and Mrs. Frank s J of happens to hit you and Watson are speaking of visiting j 0,1 ,. ou of ^ Paris. Texas, some time before long. ^ « dlto li r . and tpl1 ^hat '>ou think of him. He can t help section, spent Tuesday here Mrs. M. A. Metis. Mr. and Mrs. Collet Roberts at- .. —°— tended court in Gaffney the first of ^if r 8 « en f here , on a simIlar fbe week. I The floral tributes were Mr. J. B. Blalock spent two days n ia ” y 11 a,,d „ beau ^ fu, • L 11 ® “ ou nd being , in Gaffney this week attending court. covered wit b these sweet ! Miss Mabel Gaffney, ot near Gro-! embleras of purest love and affection, ver, N. C., visited her sister, Mrs. ' The pall bearers were: Dr. W. K. John H. Kinard, on Church street, for Gimter, Lowery Walker, Louis Wood, several days this week. i r ‘ f, on Gaffney, Clyde Peeler and Shel- Mrs. M. A. Metis is spending a few ,on R r y°r- 1 days in the Buffalo section with her The Ledger join with a host of son, Mr. W. O. Metis, and bis family, friends in tendering its warmest svm- Mr. Esker Roberts, of Patterson pathy to the sorely stricken family Springs, spent a few hours here Tues- day with his nephew, Mr. R. M. Rob- Mr. Jerry Bryant Hurt |eru>. on Shelby .tree!. _ Mr. Jerry Bryinfs many friends In 1 Gaffney and throughout Cherokee NEAR DEATH'S DOOR. county will regret to learn that he “1 was near to !? 8 P ainfull y hurt last Thursday, death’s door. The en ?K ed ,n constructing a doctor said he , dKe ov< * r Enoree river in Spartan- had done all he ,ur 5 count y; and had the misfortune could; that my 1° a x.. pie , c ^ of t,mbe >* strike him, stomach was old h ? ^ above the elbow and worn out. I w d 8ever ® ,y . h™ 1 ? 1 ®* bis shoulder, took Mi-o-natab- mJ 11 8 d 2 ng very we,, ‘ ln ' lets, and have 2f* d ' ^ as ab, f ? 8lt U P yester- been eating * * and Jt is expected that he will be hearty ever since,! ° U on s t ree ts in a few days, and I am able * to work like a Southern Conductor Dead. . u ^‘ ger ’ 1 w l! h \ a S 1 0, 1 u ! nbi %. Nov. 10.—Capt William could go and thank you myself. I Sprinkle, for nearfv half a cenTury send you my picture, and you can use in the service of the Southern, most my word and my picture, and I thank of the time running on the line be- you again.”—Mrs. Nelson Lucier, 112 tween here and Charlotte, is dead at I Fisk St., Athol, Mass. bis home, in Charlotte, in his 77th Ml-o-na cures dyspepsia. If any year. He was on duty until a day or of the readers of The Ledger are suf- so before bis death. He helped in the fering from stomach trouble of any construction of the Charlotte Colum- kind, The Gaffney Drug Co. will sell bia line, driving a cart as a boy in you a box of Mi-o-na for 50 cents with the building of the road an absolute guarantee of relief, or money back. In many cases one box 8even Yeapt f p will effect a permanent cure; In . . OOT ‘ chronic conditions more is necessary. tVlQ I £ avp , bad 8pven y® ar ® of proof, But one thing is certain: one box of I?! II 'hS: "* 8 . N . e T D i 8C0ver y tbp Mi-o-na will make you feel so much j P e to ,ake for coughs and better and brighter, so much more ? nd fo r e very diseased condi- energetic, that you will not give it up !!? n ,. or t ! broat ’ phpBt or lungs.” says till cured. w ,Y Henry, of Panama. Mo. . The | world has had thlrty-eigU years of Mr. Goodlie—My boy, you’d never P. ro £ f *5®* ^ Kind’s New Discovery hear me use language like that! The I, 8 ,?® r® L, reinedy u° r co ’ , * h8 and Kid—I bet you don’! Why, it took pr ’ ppe ‘ aflthma . hay fever, Mrs. Watson was born and reared there and Terry has a brother—Geo. Estes—living at Brookston. Sam J. Strain sent some beeves to the G.' Tney market yesterday. Mr. J. N. Strain and two of his children are right sick. Mr. and Mrs. S. J. Strain visited Mrs. Strain’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ben McCulloch, last Saturday. Mr. Hamp Bratton is hauling cot ton seed from the York side to the oil mill at Wilkinsville. He - usually makes two loads a day. Hamp is a “hustler.” If the signs of the times are not deceptive, a good deal of “blind tiger" work is going on about here that ought to be stopped. These “festi- buls” are not without their meanings. A little viligance on the part of the citizens and officials is all that is necessary to “nip the thing in the bud.” The nearer Christmas the worse it will be, no doubt. The man who will protect a blind tiger is no better than the tiger. Mrs. Ethel Blackwell spent yester- day and last night with us. The newspaper men seem to be at a loss to know where President Roose velt got the phrase—“worn to a fraz- 1 zle.” It’s not original with the presi dent except that he has added the “zle.” Mr. Jeff Hughes, Is, no doubt, the originator of the phrase and this is the way it came about: Early In the seventies Mr. Hughes, with tys family, went to Texas. * short while before that Henry Fernandez went. : She is an excellent lady He courted and married a highly res-! “Bill” Webster is a cousin of pected lady there and all went well until a “Ransy Sniffles” managed tc get up some trouble between Henry and his wife’s people which resulted what we say. We will be very glad, however, to know thaT your husband (if you have one, or a prospective one) doesn’t have the same opinion of a really pretty, lovely woman that we have. We will not fall out with him for you either) because we can’t endorse your (or his) opinion. It will be a source of satisfaction for us to know he is resigned to his fate, awful as it may be. “When ignorance Is bliss— Sweet is punishment.” We acknowledge a kind invitation to attend, the singing convention at Mt. Ararat on the 15th inst., and hope nothing will prevent our doing so. However, we thank our friends for the invitation all the same. We have a “crow to pick” with Mr. Dave Grist, editor of the Yorkville Enquirer, for placing us in the list of septuagenarian. We lack nearly three years of being that old, brother. But if Mrs. J. L. S. don’t get mad about it we won’t. We notice in The Enquirer that Mrs. Mary Webster, of Cowpens, is visiting her sister, Mrs. Janie A. Parish, of Yorkville. Mrs. Webster is a daughter of the late J. Ed. Jef freys, of Yorkville, and a member of one of York county’s best families. She and her husband, Major William Webster, have entertained us royally at their splendid home at Cowpens. Major Chess” Rapist of Spartanburg Gets Thirty Years. Spartanburg, Nov. 11.—John Irby, colored, was convicted at the special term of court here today, special Judge O. L. Schumpert, presiding, on the charge of attempting to ravish Miss Lillie Dempsey on the morning of October 10, and was sentenced to serve thitry years at hard label*. There was no demonstration when the verdict was rendered.* The court room was crowded this morning when court convened and hundreds of people stood in the lob bies on the outside. Military guards were on duty in the court room and around the jail. When Irby was brought in be was accompanied by a full company of soldiers who brought him in a trot. The minute the bar was entered the soldiers formed in a circle about the prisoner. Judge Was Surprised. Judge Schumpert was taken by sur prise by the appearance of the mili tary company. He said that such precautions were not necessary, and with a voice full of feeling he appeal ed to the good sense of the .assem bled crowd and their patriotism, to conduct themselves as law-abiding citizens at all times and especially In the presence of the court. He dis missed the troops stating their pre sence was not required to maintain order or protect the prisoner, though if any of the soldiers desired to re main in the court room as citizens they might feel free to do so. His expressions were given thunderous applause, and it was some time be fore order was restored. Miss Dempsey’s Testimony. Miss Dempsey came into the court room leaning on the arm of her fath er. With her were her mother, broth ers and sister* She was exceedingly nale and seemed much agitated at first. She was the first witness, and she told in detail the story of the as sault. Her testimony only went up to the point where she lost conscious ness in the woods as the result of the choking. What transpired after that she said she knew nothing of. Miss Dempsey was very positive in her identification of Irby. She said she had seen him almost every day for two weeks priof to the assault. Drs. H. R. Black and J. L. Jefferies testified as to the condition of Miss Dempsey, stating she had been chok ed almost unto death, that the skin about her neck was broken and bruised, her eyes blood-shot, and that she was bleeding from the mouth. She was in most fearful condition. Irby Enters Denial. Irby was placed on the stand and he denied the charge stating that he was on his way to Saxon mill to get his money and had just stepped into the woods for a second when Mr. Por ter appeared with a gun and took charge of him. The case was submitted to the jury without argument and after being out three minutes a verdict of guiltv was returned. The prisoner was represented by Gapt. W. M. McGowan by appoint ment of the court. The attorney ask ed to be excused stating be had such strong feelings in the case that he could not do the prisoner justice, but he finally consented to appear for the negro. Irby was taken to Columbia tonight by Deputy Sheriff Becknell to enter upon his long service. Bentley-Parris. 1 Mr. Andrew Bentley and Miss Ed- ! na Parris, both of this city, were quietly married Tuesday night at the residence of Mr. Calvin Nance. R. ' F. Spencer, N. P., performed the cere mony. THE CAUSE OF COLDS. and “Hamp” McKinney, late of York county. His mother was a sister to their father. “Chess” and “Hamp” McKinney were, during the war, mem in Henry’s leaving his family to avoid j hers of the Jasper Light Infantry, trouble with the old man, his father-15th S. C. regiment. “Hamp,” poor in-law. and his brother-in-law, who, fellow, was killed at Walnut Grove were dangerous men when they were j church near Gaines’ Mill in June, started—they would kill if necessary 11864. “Chess” survived the war and to carry out their plans. Henry Fer- died several years ago at home, nandez was of the same stripe too.; Major Webster was a member of But, like all other true, brave men, 1 Hampton’s cavalry. J. L. S. he loved his wife and children and ! couldn’t afford such trouble as their j - meeting might cause. So he left 1 Wa8 She t0 B,ame - home to avoid a difficulty with them. This delightful pastoral society Jeff was there sometime before he d rama which enlists the interest pf me five years to learn all dem words. —Sketch. —A beautifiy doll to bo given owny by Gaffney Jewelry Co. bronchitis, hemorrhage of the lungs, and the early stages of consumption. Its timely use always prevents the development of pneumonia. Sold under guarantee at Cherokee Drug Co. and Henry met. Henry told him of his trouble—what brought It about, etc. But sometime before their meet ing Henry met t£e fellow who had been so officious in destroying his do mestic happiness . He (Henry) cut a brush and Jeff said, “Wore him literally to a ‘frazz.’” We haven’t time and space now to tell about the wnole affair and of its tragic ending hut will do so shortly, it’s an inter esting story and will no doubt enter tain our readers if we can get it in readable shape. But from the fore going it is evident that the phrase is of Texas origin and the president got It there. We would be glad to know what has become of the work of getting up a history of the South Carolina troops during the Civil war. Col. Thomas, we believe, was the last one who had charge of thg work and if be ever completed It we have not seen the result of his labors. The State spent a good sum of money to have the work carried out, and time and again the Confederate veterans have passed re solutions and adopted measures look ing to that end. About fifteen years aeo (o* pet-bans earlier) General J. B. Kershaw was annointed to do the work. He died shortly afterwards and Col. Hugh Fairely succeeded him. He worked St it for some time and died before fnl*hlig H. Then we think Col. Thomas took up the work. CoL Hugh its auditors from beginning to end, to a fascinating story skillfully portray ed and embellished with bright comedy, is one that cannot fail to be enjoyed. The story is that of an art ist’s daughter, Diana Balfour, who lives in rustic simpilicty with a maid en aunt. She receives a proposal of marriage from her guardian, Bruno Severn, and not realizing what matri mony really means, accepts, and the ceremony is performed at once. Diana is taken to live with her hus band and his sister, who treat her most inhumanly, the companionship of her child is even denied her, and she finally curses them and runs away, believing that they have killed her babe. Years after, she hears of Bruno Severn’s death.4 She meets Lord Kurston and eventually weds him. After nine years of matrimon ial bliss, Bruno Severn, who was not really dead, turns up and accuses her of being his faithless wife. She de nies the accusation until it is proven conclusively. This does not alter Lord Kurston’s love for her, and all is well that ends well. Comedy Is supplied by Elam Washington Pan cake, Martha Ann Hopton and Peti- pan. The above will be seen at Star Theatre next Monday night. Curtain rises at 8:15 sharp. —One box nf Grin Tablets will cure that cold or money refunded. Gaffney Drug Co. | Good advice Regarding The Preven tion of Coughs and Colds. If people would only property forti fy and strengthen their system, about 98 per cent of coughs, colds and pneumonia might be avoided. These troubles are simply the result of weakness, which produces a catarrh al condition of the mucous mem- , brane, which is as an internal skin of the body. When this skin is weak- i ened. It becomes infected with germs which are carried through the sys- I tem by the blood. These parasites attack and- break these delicate tis sues and sc* up a soreness which pro duces what is in reality an external scrofula. The only thing Gat wili cure coughs and colds and prevent pnou r.innia is a medication which is ab sorbed and carried bv the bl-iod so that the diseased membrane is dis infected. cleaned, soothed and healed. We have a remedy which we hon estly believe infallable and unsurpas sable for the prevention and cure of coughs, colds and all catarrhal con ditions. 4t is the prescription of a famous phvsician, who has an en viable reputation of 30 years of cures gained through the use of this medi cine. We promise to either effect a cure in every case or make no charge for the medicine. We urge every body in Gaffney who has need of such a medicine to try Rexall Muctf Tone. It stands to reason that we not afford to make such stat< and give our own personal guafan- tee to this remedy if we were not ab solutely positive that we could sub stantiate our claim in every nartlcu lar, and we see no reason whv any one should hesitate to accent our of fer and try it. We have two «i»es of Rexall Mucu-Tone. Prices 50c and $1.00. Sometimes a 50c bottle Is suf ficient for a cure. As a reneral thing, the most chronic rn«e is cored with an average of three large bottles. Re member, the medicine will cost you nothing if vou are not satiated in every particular. The Gaffney Drug Co., Gaffney, 8. C. 4 m i , 'JL'. MjtA