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THE WEEKLY LEDGER': GAFFNEY, S. C., DECEMBER *6, 1895.
MOUND BUILDERS IN MINNESOTA.
Reccut Diitcovi'ricH In Uio Kusin of tho
I'iuht ftlUsisHippi.
An cxccod u^ly valuable article bear
ing upon the prehistoric inhabitant.- of
Minnesota has been prepared by tire
Hon. J. V. Brower, embodying the re-
suits of invert'gations made by Imnreif
ami Bruit .-.or T. if. Lewis about the
head waters of the Mississippi. Mr.
Brower is an adept in exploration and
the be t avuhority on the basm of the
upper lui.o ppi. Ho has found traces
and relics of tho mound builders through
the entire basin of the upper Mississippi,
from Lake Itasca to the falls o! Bo-
keguma. Through this district tho
mounds are discovered everywhere.
They are composed of various materials
and were probably erected for different
purposes, but all bear witness to the ex
istence here in prehistoric times of a
people who have now utterly vanished
from the face of the earth.
This mound building people lived
probably, in Mr. Brower's opinions,
where our people now have their homes
at least 1,200 years ago. They discov
ered and opened the various portages
between tho great lakes in tho Missis
sippi basin. They were of a race su
perb t to any of tho savage tribes that
succeeded them. The host of relics
picked up here and there through the
region, together with the' contents of
mounds that have been explored, gives
us what knowledge wo have of them.
They resided mostly upon lake shores,
in villages and lived upon game and
lish. They used vessels of pottery, stone
implements, tho bow and arrow and
implements of copper. They were of
i'u.l stature, and tho formation of the
skulls that Mr. Brower’s party exhumed
and examined indicates a high degree
of intelligence.
The existence of mounds of smaller
construc tion—i fiigy mounds and sites
for worship or for burial—over a wide
portion of the Mississippi valley sug
gests tho general distribution at some
prehistoric day of this race of people, ot
whose other work we know* so'lntle,
and vhoso origin and fate are wrapped
in common mystery.—fct. Paul Globe.
A Latter Day Philauthrojiist.
Loans without security are a bait
•which usurers often hold out to the un
wary, but a certain Lacour thought it
might l ■ made still more tempting by
advertising that people could pledge
their honor for a substantial monetary
advance. Honor is inexhaustible, espe
cially when it can bo turned into hard
cash, so tho scheme bade fair to succeed.
But on the face of it as a commercial
speculation it was a poor investment
Its philanthropy was its chief rucom
mendation, and therefore its author, a
chemist’s assistant formerly, with two
companions, felt emboldened to imitate
Mme. Eugenio Bullet and sing in the
streets to invite tho charitable public to
contribute to the New Student’s Friend
ly society, as they called their philan
thropic loan office.
The trio selected the Normandy coast
resorts for their tour and duly adver
tised their philanthropic motives in the
local press. But unfortunately M. La
cour preached without practicing. He
had himseJf contracted a number of lit
tle debts on tint strength of his honor,
and his creditors were not quite satisfied
with the value of that security, and
when recently he borrowed from a
friend a bicycle, which he at once
handed over to a cafe keeper who was
dunning him for money, the bicyclist
took an unkind view of tho transaction
and lodged a complaint wit lithe police 1 ,
with the result that the latter day phi-
lanthopist is now in safe custody, modi
tating upon tho worthlessness of honor
in worldly transactions.—London Tele
graph.
Measuring the Heat of the HunO.
All illustration of the marvelous accu
racy characterizing tools or instruments
of measim ment now employed as com
pared with those of former times is
given—namely, that whereas formerly
.0U1 inch marked on a drawing would
have been objected to on tho ground
that if was diflicult or impossible to
w.iii: so closely to measures us that, at
tho ]iri. "lit time .0005 inch is measured
in every line workshop, and dimensions
given in hundredths or even thou
sandths of an inch frequently appear on
drawings without objection on the parr
of tho workmen. The instruments of
measmemeiit are now made with such
a degree of refined accuracy that even
the warmth of tho hand may expand a
rod 12 inches long so that the amount
of expansion can be measured. It has
become important in iinc> measurement
to be careful that tho piece to be mea
sured should have tl^e same tem
perature as that of the instrument by
which the size is determined. By lirst
handling a rod of tue length named and
measuring it, particularly if the rod be
of brass or copper, and then, after al
lowing the rod to cool, handling the
gauge until tho latter expands, it is
found that a discrepancy of from .00?
inch to .01 inch may bo sometimes made
apparent, due entirely to differences of
temperature. —American Machinist.
THI GREATEST SPARKLER.
Tho K.\< 'slor Dlneioml Traveled Under n
Miliiary Escort.
When a.diamond is four<1 weighing
mr voth 'u 100 carats, the news is usu
ally heralded with much ado. It is mit
to he Y.ondered at tl. .cforo if tho fiud-
r 'if the “Excelsior’’ created consid-
i er
excitement. Ir weighed in the
i i 0,1 carats, and was found near
,i. sfontein, in the Grange Free State.
When examined, it was found to bo
a v bite stone of tho first water, but
I i t small flaw in tho center. Tho in-
s) i r ( f the mine, a Swedo named
Jerg* nsou, was the tacky finder. The
t ; victors of the mine, Breitmayer &
I heimer, had tho stone tested tmd
vahvil by experts, who agreed that the
Yah. 1 v as $5,000,000. Two offers of
:’, (, <i0,000 and £4,250,000 respectively
have been refused by the proprietors.
U]n :i its transfer to the coast great pre
cast ions were taken for its protection. A
squadron of cavalry escorted it to tho
railway station. In Capo Town it was
placed aboard the British gunboat Ante-
1 j., . which carried the precious gem to
L ..i n. where it now rests in the fire
and bir. far proof vaults of tho Bank of
Eu eland.
The next largest diamond in the world
is tho « no owned by the rajah of Matau
( n the Hand of Borneo. This one weighs
5(E carats. The handsomest of all the
large diamonds known is, however, the
eno in the French collection of crown
joe i !; k: own as the “Regent,” which
w. 136?., carats. Louis XV paid
3,000.000 francs for it, but now it is
value 1 at 10,000,000 francs or $2,000,-
000.
How much tho “Excelsior” will lose
in cutting can only bo decided by most
eminent experts. Asa rule, the larger
di ;; mis leso fully one-half of their
v.i • ' t in this operation. Naturally the
cut: 1 .which is done with a view to
hir.v'g as few large pieces as possible
ou b ■' f the main gem, must be carried
on v ill the gieatest care. This business
is (•.:■: led on mainly in Amsterdam and
Antwerp. In Amsterdam there are at
1 a. at live large concerns of diamond
eutic.. . with £72 diamond mills or cut
ting wlr el.- and 3,000 hands, besides a
;a ...In v uf less iinporluutconcerns.
—Philadelphia Record.
RUM CAUSES LAWLESSNESS.
N’lm* Murders In u. West Virginia Town
Due to Whisky Drinking.
The lawlessness of the western alco
hol i avus is froquentlv p. r ibed to the
J.) i rmal social conditions of a new
j-c. llenient, and it is interesting to note
the eifeets of open rumshops ou a for
me ; .y law abiding community like the
v ; : ;. e of Dingess, in the mountains of
Y Virginia. Tho county (Mingo) has
ni wed prohibition for years, and given
the circuit court little trouble, but the
completion of tho Norfolk and Western
ru: loud evolved a number of little min-
i: Mwns that defied the laws, - open
ha. being tolerated “for the encourage-
meni of industry,” and a few other
tilings, to judge from tho folloiviug re
port :
“Winfield, W. Va., April 20, 1895.—
Th -re may 1 e worse places in the United
Muirs than Dingess, in Mingo county,
hut they are not known here. Ever
inrr the Dingess tavern keepers have
begun to sell whisky openly crimes
!>;.y< increased till now life in the little
mining town has become almost unbear
able. On pay day hundreds of meu get
drunk, and for hours tho streets are
filled with drunken, fighting meu, Yvho
frequently lire their revolvers in all
directions. On tho north side of the
hill above town is a graveyard in which
nine meu recently killed in this reck
less manner lie dead. A half score
more are buried elsewhere, and the
number of wounded must aggregate
100.” Tho press correspondent mildly
adds that tho place ought to be incor
porated with a view of mitigating that
remarkable state of affairs.
Society I'rowim on Drankards.
Intemperance is no longer looked up-
on as a pardonable weakness, but as a
grave fault and a disgrace. It has ceased
to be permissible, as it once was, for
public men to bo seen in a drunken
condition. Society does not extend its
former indulgence to persons Yvho fail
to control their appetite for strong
drink Tho practice of “fanning the
flame of friendship with the wing of
conviviality” is by no means so preva
lent, as it u.-ed to be, for tho simple rea
son that it has become disreputable.—
St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
I'owcr of the Liquor Habit.
Francis Murphy, the great temper
ance lecturer, told me two years ago
that after 22 years of absolute sobriety
it still required all his will power to
enable him to refrain from the use of
liqunr when became in contact with it.
The great JohuB. Gough to his dying
day would never allow himself to be
alone in a room with a bottle of whisky.
—Dr. J. E. Blaine.
Yankee Mode Alaakan Curloi.
Ex-State Senator E. C. Voorheis of
Sutter Creek returned, with his family,
from a usit to Alaska yesterday ou tho
City of Bin bio.
“There is one thing from which tho
ordinary tourist cannot bo weaned,"
said he. “He will buy curios wherever
ho goes. That is the way in Alaska. Wo
hear a good deal about the fine curving
done by the native Alaskan. Now, the
fact is, the Alaskan knows miglity little
about curving. Tho crack carver of Sit
ka came down to Snii Francisco, I was
told, to .earn the art of curving, and
now ho turns out barrels of ingenious
contrivances supposed by his customers
to be indigenous to the soil of Alaska
only. Un a boat which went to Jimoau
a short time before we arrived, there
were actually 6,000 pounds of Alaskan
curios, manufactured by Americans at
Brockton,Mass. ’ ’—Sun Francisco Chron
icle.
Liquor Consumed In Paris.
1
Baris is mainly a wine drinking
town, but, like Marseilles and Lyons,
does in t consume so much as many of
the smaller towns, though, when ex-
| aminud ip detail, the provision seems
to be on a sufficiently generous scale.
In Baris the animal rate per head is 840
pint,- of wine, 16 of cider, 21 of beer,
and rather over 12 pints per head ot
spirits.
c T Blrton is manager of
-i iti hotel at Denison, Texas.
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i “i traveling men say is one of
■st hotels in that section. In
i i": 1 of (Miumberlaln’s Colic,
i i 'iinl Diarrlnea Remedy Major
' “I have used it myself
i i' ti v family for several years,
i i' iileii-Hire in saying that I
•' ler it an inralliMo cure for
,i " i ml dysentery. I always
r • oii'ii i it and have frequently
lo.inisti ivil it to my guests In the
; ,'it< 1. and in every ease It has proven
it elf worthy of unqualified endorse*
I ment. For sale by W. B. DuPre.JSS
A NEW ART PROCESS.
The Monotype Craze In ParU Is Bee'bin*
Over Here. Y
An effective departure in art is tho
new monotype that is beginuiug to find
its way to America from Paris, where
it has enjoyed for some months a vio
lent popularity. The process was discov
ered by Hubert Herkimer. The artistic
folk of Paris were quick to see its pos
sibilities, and the fame thereof flew
like wildfire through the inflammable
painters’ quarters. Monotype parties
have been one of the latest fads of these
appreciative people. Artists infected
with the craze and their curious friends
gather in some accessible studio in ar
dent groups to turn oat these pictures.
The excitement lies in the fact that no
one can foresee quite how they will turn
out; the pleasure, not in the novelty,
though that, of course, contributes to
it, but mostly in the potent truth that
in no other way can the same effects of
light and shade be obtained.
To produce the monotype the artist
paints his study upon a zinc plate,
which is put through a press. As the
name implies, only one impression is
produced. Those that are done in one
color are the most snccessful as yet,
though some of the tivo color attempts
are very charming. The subtlety of cer
tain delicate effects, as, for instance,
sunlight ou water, is rendered by this
new’ phase of art in a truly marvelous
maimer. Although tho cordiality of
Paris may not be expected, perhaps, in
America for the monotype, there can bo
no doubt that they will be warmly re
ceived here when they are once at homo
in our art exhibits, and when, too, the
public has learned to understand them
sufficiently to appreciate the fact that
a favorite study, produced iu this ivay,
will not bo found duplicated in a neigh
bor’s drawing room. This is now the
fear of the careless art patron who seems
to have some hazy idea of etchings in
his mind.
Tho practical wife of an artist who
has lately returned from Paris with the
monotype fever raging in his blood com
plains ruefully, “Why, my husband
took the clotheswringer away from tho
maids for a press to produce those pic
tures!” She smiled with a woman’s su
periority as she added: “He said they
could have it back again 1 It would take
at least three hours to remove that oily
paint with turpentine every time they
used it.” With a sigh, “I have bought
a new* wringer. ” So there is a sordid
side even to such gems of art as this
wife displays with a pride that must,
soften if it doesn’t efface the domestic
incom’enience.
The aesthetic side is Venetian scenes
in browm, an old stone bridge in gray,
mountain peaks and a seascape in blue
and a cluster of picturesque willows iu
green. Who could mind the loss of one
wringer after feasting the eyes on such
exquisite shading, particularly if it isn’t
her wringer?—New’ York Times.
The Miseries of Doing; Nothing.
Idleness plays many parts. There are
the constitutionally indolent — those
who, like Dr. Johnson, are never phys
ically ready to get up in the morning,
but who, like him, are possessed of a
conscience which compels them now and
again to face the reflection of what they
have, compared with what they might
have, done, and to stand aghast at the
comparison.
There are those whom circumstances
have made idle—riches, absence of mo
tives for exertion; ill health, real or
fancied; indulgent friends, and much
more often by self indulgence. That
idleness is one of the seven deadly sins
gives them no sort of concern; it is of
the essence of their complaint to have
no feeling of their own infirmity. They
are asleep. They cannot tell their
dreams, for they do not even know that
they are dreaming.
Giving up, nerveless relaxation, has
become a habit, and to them—as to the
immortal Mr. Toots, though from a dif
ferent motive—nothing is of any conse
quence. But whereas it was his ow’n
convenience, bis own feelings, his owm
comfort that never were of consequence
to the unselfish Toots, it is precisely
your convenience, your feelings, your
comfort, thac are to tho idle man of no
consequence. Floating idly about ou
“the great Pacific ocean of indolence,”
be makes first one compromise, then an
other, with self respect, until lie ends
by sacrificing the esteem of his fellow
meu ou the private altar of his own
slotb. His affairs get first muddled,
then embarrassed, then decaying, tben
desperate, and he feebly flatters him
self with an idea of repose, now that all
it gone. —Chambers’ Journal.
A Gigantic Map.
The great ordnance survey map of
England, containing over 108,000 sheets
and costing during the last 20 years
about $9,000,000 a year, is nearly com
pleted. The scales vary from 10 to 5
feet to the mile for the towns, through
25 inches, 6 inches, 1 inch, one-quarter
of an inch and one-tenth of an inch to
the mile. The details are so minute that
“the 25 and 6 inch maps show every
hedge, fence, ditch, wall, building and
even every isolated tree in tho country.
The 25 inch map shows in color the ma
terial of which every part of u building
is constructed. Tho plans show not only
the exact shape of every building, but
every porch, area, doorstep, lamppost,
railway and fire plug. ’’
An Electric Tricycle.
Several unsuccessful attempts have
been mode to construct an electric bicy
cle, and now a Connecticut inventor bus
turned ont on electric tricycle. No tests
are reported, but it looks os if people
could ride on it. The electric motor is
carried in a box over the driver, to
which it is connected by a sprocket
chain. The storage battery is placed be
tween the two rear wheels.
DOOR DIGESTION
■ nervousness, chronic dyspepsia and
great mlscrv. The best remedy is I
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l''roni now till 1st of January I will sell
you Shoes. Hats. Dry Goods and No
tions at
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Iri'jC Jeans for 10c. l.V Jeans for 12(4e.
90c Jeans tor iii-',e. 25e Jean* for90e, OOc
Jeans for 25c. XXo Jeans for 27'/se. . . . ■
S|.-Ml lints for Si.25. sKl.25 Huts for $.100.
>1.00 Hals for 7.V and so on down. . . .!
Ready Hade
Pants. Shifts. Shoes and Hoots in pro
portion to alHive
Hest all wool Flannel 15 to 22'■■ cents. .
Give me u fall before huyiiiK
Yours respectfully,
I. M. PEELER.
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JANUARY 6th, 1896.
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will buy more
Groceries
at Wolister’s titan at any other
store in town. My stock of
Fine Candies is up-to-date.
Yours for business.
W. M. Webster, Jr.
July 19, 1895.
A Wise Investment.
A policy of insurance in such com
panies as tiie .Etna, Home. Hartford,
American Fire and JVnm-.i Ivania to
protect your home and nusii.from
loss and damage by fire is a wise in
vestment.
I shall be glad to furnish such pro- !
lection at any time. Cull before in
suring.
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Special ¥ ' 1
On Stoves, Heaters, Ranges, Grates, Etc., and hate
now on exhibition the largest and most varied line
ever carried by any house in the State, ranging over
some twenty-five different prices, and we will be glad
to have yon see them before you buy.
WE ARE jnst in receipt of letters from several foundries ad
vancing prices considerably, so we think you would do
well to buy before our preseni stock is exhausted.
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