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> ,edger Readers hould Patronize Le d ge rAdve rt Isers nr\ * ^'■'*** •K'.-V y IT .-J © To Reach Consumers in this Section Adver tise in The Ledger. A Newspaper in al! that the Word Implies OTu^Devoted to the Best Interests of the People it Subserves. YOL. Ill, NO. 33. GAFFNEY CITY, S. C.. THURSDAY, 1890. $1.00 A YEA It. THROUGH THE CASCADES. AMONG THE HILLS OF THE SHATTAMOOK VALLEY. An Interesting Letter In Which the Writer Paints a Glowing Pic ture of the Far West. Grand Scenery. (Conc ipomh ncc of The Ledger.) Woonnntv, Ohegon. Sept. 5.— You, Oh jfoutlo readers who have crouched at your mothers’ knees and listened to the "ghost and goblin” stories issuing forth from the untir ing mouths of your neighboring grandmothers, like tobacco smoko from the pipes of the ancient Burgo masters, will never excuse me for leaving you hero for a while in the heart of the Indian Reservation, for a more favorable spot for the origin of such traditions and legendary super stitions than this! unfavored and secluded lap-of-land can not be found in America’s remotest bounds. Tak ing it for granted, moreover, that you have enough of that sort of thing, I will endeavor to conduct you farther through the hills of the Shattamook to the valley of the Wallas. From the East I went directly through to Portland, but came back to Walla Walla where I spent some time. The name Walla Walla gets its origin from the immense quantity of alkali dust in the summer, and the quantity of mud in the winter. Should you visit the valley in the summer or winter you will get so dusty or muddy as the case may be that you might as well have wallowed in each, and after each there will be necessitated a wash, hence the name —Walla Walla Wash. In the sum mer there lies in the roads a "lob lolly” of alkali dust so deep and thin that the wagons glide along through it up to the hubs as if it were water. Mud takes its place in the winter. So dense is this dust, that the bale ful clouds arising from the feet of the rancher’s horses prevents him from seeing his front span. There is so Inuch alkali in the atmosphere that it at once takes effect upon the skin of a new-comer and the epidermis of the skin peels oil like the peeling of a baked ootatoe. The alkali in the dust is very destructive to one’s shoes. Superstition and ignorance is so prevalent among the majority of ranchers in this "sleepy hollow” on the outskirts of the U. S. that the hired men never get a glimpse inside the rancher’s "shack,” and when out of a job, he "takes up his bed and walks.” Whenever you see a laborer on the streets looking for work, he always has a knot of blankets on his back like that on the back of a camel and on the ranch he sleeps in his own blankets in the rancher’s barn. Far ho it from my casting any undue re flections, hut it is a fact that the majority of them are so green that if they had the money, a "fakir” would get rich in a short while, for they will "bite” at all such fakes as starched paper hankerchiefs, brass jewelry, and colfi e-stained medicines; but "where ignorance is bliss, 'Ms folly to be wise.” The majority of these men are Catholics, have no opinion of their own, and they de pend wholly on the Priest to guide them through the perils of the wilder ness "on llowery beds of ease.” This is a great fruit and wheat growing country, however, and the nature of the soil is so peculiar that it won’t receive nutriment from fertilizers, won t hear tilling only once every two years—leaving the lands turned and covered every year with a "summer follow.” The principal crop of these parts being that of wheat, it was my pleas ure, therefore to visit several "har vesting-crews.” The wheat hero is cut by machines called "headers.” which cuts the wheat jusblow enough to save the heads—thus leaving a very high stubble. The "header” is similar to our reaper, though it cuts through about twenty feet wide and is always pushed ahead of the horses instead of being pulled after them. The machinery of the "header” is so arranged that it curries the heads of the wheat up through a spout or chute where it pours over into a "header-wagon” the bed of which is twice tiie dimensions of a common wagon and slopes from a height of say twelve feet on the left side down to that of about four feet on the "header-side.” Hinull machines thresh from eighteen hundred to twenty-five hundred bushels of wheat per day. In some cases the machines #1b4 "lieaderH” are combined. These are so fashioned that the heads from the "fifty foot header” go directly into the machine and it threshes the (lie wheat, piles the straw and sacks the grain, piling it olT into a wagon by the wagon load, and, at the sumo time registers the amount of Wheat the “whole cheese” passes along j^ugh the field. These large ma- Lhresh twice us much grain its the slutionary ones, but p s a span of aoventy-two 11 men ruling to pull the "whole cheese.” Along with these "threshing crews” is a "kitchen-on- wheels,” from which the cook serves meals right in the fields. Allow me to say, by way of paren theses that wheat threshing is yet in full blast and “hop-picking” in the "hop-yards” is just coming in. The "hop-picKing season,” which lasts from four to :*ix weeks in the "hop districts is cailed the jollifica tion season” by the people on the slope since the families camp out on the “hop-yards” and the youngsters who have reached the "lemonade- stage” in life, have a good old time. As I have several invitations by the "hop-pickors” to visit the "hop- yards.” will tell you about hop-pick ing” later. Before taking our departure from Walia Walla. Wash., I will mention briefly a hunt in Northern Was., in which I participated. The general game captured on such expeditious are bear, dear, elk, badgers, wolves (coyotes), prairie-chickens, sage-hens, China pheasants, grouse and wild pigeons. Home of the huntsmen, who knew belter than myself how to pilot themselves along the bear and "deer-trails” made from the peaks to the foot-hills, had some daring adven tures in capturing a "big black she,” a doc and little fawn ; hut the only adventure 1 had with a wild animal was with that of a wolf (coyote) which, having been fired at by my comrade, scampered across my wake at a distance nearly two hundred yards away. Thought 1 to myself, "shore thing, you arc* my meat!” Seeing that he was not coining to wards me, 1 raised up with a steady nerve and with my 1(> Winchester, •‘cut him down” in ids loins the bul let taking effect in the small of his back. I yelled out a shriek, "I’ve got’em !” which the huntsmen said reverberated down the canyons two miles away. In approaching I found that he was upon his fore feet trying to drag himself away—upon which I plugged him again. lie laid down, but thinking that he might bo "’pos- somin’,” my next impression was to "give it to him again,” but he kept on laying there. The huntsmen said I made so much noise that they thought 1 had run on an old "grisly with cubs.” I insisted on skinning him in order to take the skin Houth, but the hunters prevailed on my waiting for a bear. As we were now going through a series of hedges, one of them insisted on my taking his shot gun—a $K)U.50 gun—saying "you might get a crack at some grouse.” After some hesitation I did so, however, thinking that he was trying to work mo into a "soft snap.” As wo passed through a hedge of tall sage brush near the stubble, I was frightened almost to the point of running, at the thunder, whirl whizz and llutters of a flock of prairie-chickens which Hew in every direction. The other men downed several, but I hadn’t found out ex actly yet what was the matter. By the lime 1 had regained my equili brium I was just beginning to want to kick myself, when one as large as a turkey sailed directly over my head. My first impression was to shoot straight up, but making a quick whirl and leveling on him, slung shot at him when he was about one hundred yards away. For tunately this "settled his hash” and he took a tumble one hundred and fifty yards from where I stood. I dropped the •gun and bounded over the sage brush towards my prey with unusual elasticity, like u "fico” in high-rye and after a race with him for about fifty yards, 1 succeeded in mashing the lifeoutof him by falling Hat upon him. Later on in the day with other small birds, I succeeded in bagging a China pheasant and a wild pigeon. The hunters laughed at my earnestness, complimented my shot, saying, "that is pretty good for an Easterner.” SuHleo it to say I picked hones and sopped gravy sev eral times next day. Only a few hours run from the valley of "Hie Wallas brings us to the sandy hanks of the Columbia river the Mississippi of the North west—the hunks of which wo follow for over two hundred miles. Hand breaks and sheds are scattered in gay profusion on account of tho numer- osity of sand-storms down the Col umbia. From tho Columbia through tho Cascade Mountains can ho seen some of America’s grandest natural scenery and her most stupendous water falls. The immense rock walls towering almost to tho heavens through the Cascades were very strik ingly similar to the unbroken walls of columnar trap-rock of the Palisades on tho Hudson. What a change do we undergo as wo ri.- from tho low easy shores of tin* sand hills to the promontories and to the frowning clilTs. Gothic arches, brawling can yons, plunging cataracts and yawn ing chasms, even up to tho majestic peaks of tho snow eapped mountain —piercing with their rugged crests the bending view of the horizon; while all around could bo seen a great ‘polar world of snow mountains and glaciers. Interrupted only by tho screaming cur-whistle, the guttural twang of tho steam boat, tho rest loss murmuring mountain torrents and stupendous water fulls, pouring them selves from tho gulches from sovorul thousand feet above our heads, high in the heavens, down io our level and dashing into a spray that gradually arose like a transparent fog showing all the kaleidoscopic colors of the rninbrow. Among the noted water fall is tho "Bridal Veil,” which pours itself down seemingly from (iod’s right hand. It would take a poet who rides a swifter Pagasus than I to paint in Illusive colors tho soft ened features of tho scenery. Tho Hood of sensation which swept over mo filled my soul with such strange emotions that I beheld with delight the approach of the blazing sun like that of a warm friend, especially at such’an icyjlomperature. Hu rely hero where the rocky precipices of these high and exalted mountains tower almost to tho clouds, was piuutcd.tho foundation of our continent. These mountains, for sure ought to be "the pride of our tribe.” Amidst varying and changing scenes do we glide through tho Cascades on to 1‘ort- land, the metropolis of tho Pacific Northwest. The air was fresh and invigorating and the voyagers wore all full of glee on me morning when wo went on board the steamer at Portland for a voyage down the Columbia to As toria and the sea coast. Tho condi tions from the outset were favorable for beautiful sight-seeing, but Edwin and I only gave tho most prominent features our attention, since we were engaged for the most part in inter changing honest vows of constant affection with "two little girls in blue” on deck—all of which was done in perfect simplicity and honesty af heart and infinite loving kindness. Promontories and heights broke away and more modest landscapes appeared in the stead; yet the attrac tion for tho forenon was centered on the three pillars of snow which stood out beforejus injbold relief. These pil lars of snow are known as Mt. Adams, Mt. Ht. Hellens and Mt. Hood. How seemingly near, and yet how far! Not until recently has any one been able to scale the heights of Mt. Hood, on account of the intensity and depth of the snow, but now by means of a ladder the most daring can climb to her utmost peak and gaze down per haps one hundred feel through the immense crack in the snow. The nearer we come to the Pacific Ocean, the grander tho scenery be comes. -Sometime we pass huge mountains of stratified rock wholly destitute of soil. Some of these are very similar to the Giant’s Causeway in Ireland since the rocks are about one foot square and vary in length from five to twelve feet and are packed back in the mountain by na ture, side by side and one upon another as thick ns sardines in a box. At other places still the insur mountable walls and "sky-scraping” mountains on each side come so close together that they force the river in a narrow channel between them— from which points wo seem to be shut oflj from the outside world. On account of space, I will only have the opportunity of referring to a very few points of interest. Wood Humes and log slides will, no doubt, be interesting to some. The flume is a continuous trough, fashioned like unto a chicken trough with the edges of two flunks nailed together at right angles, though the former is on a larger scale extending from the water’s edge to some fine lumber or wood section, back in the mountains, sometimes forty miles away. A mountain steam is turned into tho upper end of this Illume forty miles distant in the mountain. By placing the lumber, split wood Ac. in the upper end ;,they‘make their way at a rapid rate down tho flume as she bends in graceful windings around the peaks, through the can yons, over the chasms and plunging cataracts to her destination at the river’s side. Uoxv interesting it is to stand upon an eminence to a con venient distance and watch the lum ber and wood as they pass at break break-neck speed around the curves, down the mountain side—the fall being sometimes at an angle of 45 degrees and then slowing up as the angle decreases! Home times passengers who wish to see the sights and he "in the swim” frighten tho jack-rabbits, coyotes, bears and forest squirrels to round-eyed wonder, by making a rapid transit down tiie flume in a boat made for the purpose. Tho log slides are somewhat similar constructed, t hough they have a concave bed made of railroad iron so constructed in order to hold the log in place, and also these >r slides” arc as straight as an arrow and tho incline is very steep. Tho angle of the slope is rarely less than 45 degrees and when a log does comedown tho "slide,” it comes like lightning. Tho log leaves a trail of dust behind it and when it strikes the water it knocks up a st ream of water at least one hundred feet high and flies off in a rainbow colored spray—thus presenting a very beau tiful effect. Tho Columbia Is noted for her sal mon fisheries, and is said to flow more water than the Mississippi. There are more salmon caught and canned on the Columbia than any other river in the world. Before we arrive ut Astoria, tho Columbia varies from ten to fifteen miles in width and it requires a fair day to sue from bank to bank. At various Intervals along the banks wo noticed occasional "fishing smack” and"whiskey scow.” The "whiskey scow” is u small hut or "shack” built afloat on tho water and can he flouted along the bunks as desired by means of a tug or row- boar. Tho meagre apartments of the "scow” are inhabited by a family or parts of different families who are out for fishing and fun, and that they have. Tho inhahilantsof the "scow” are an "eat, drink and be merry” kind of people and have the reputa tion of being toughs. On account of the largo number of fishermen, saUors and summer peo ple in Astoria, she is one of t he "fast est” litlle towns on the slope. No one can realize the truth of this statement till they once take a sum mer trip to Astoria. From here, we took a Hying trip to tho ocean and tiie sound country where we saw many points of interest, but to ex patiate on some would make tny dis course too lengthy. Going on board the steamer at As toria, we had a pleasant little voyage, though somewhat rough to Vancou ver, British Columbia via the Tuhoosh Light House and Victoria. Crossing over "the Bar” we get our first, yet delightful, glimpse of the great Pacific ocean which, at this season of the year, is visited by innumerable hosts of bathers and campers as well as squadrons of ducks and regiments of loons, pelicans and sea-gulls. The bathing resorts wore similar in form and name to those of New England and wore so fashioned. The surf was fine, the breakers bent high, the billows rolled and our steamer "rocked in the cradle of the deep,” hut it was of no uncommon agitation. We were net very far from shore, hut it was all "water and sky” with Ed win as he "baited fish” from the upper deck on account of our epi demic which ho caught as he said "from the billows that billowed.” Plying tiie boisterous waves of the Strait of Juan do Fuea, past Tuhoosh L. II., and Victoria, we glide out of the U. S. in to Britisli Columbia on the borders of the Dominion of Canada. This country around Vancouver, B. C., and north is kept up, for tho most part, by her great mineral re sources, lumber industries, furs and fisheries. Vancouver, B. C., though outside of the United States, is a more progressive town than her sis ters, Seattle and Tacoma, Washing ton, but Vancouver has the advan tage of being a seaport town where Seattle and Tacoma are inland. She, however, is behind Puget Sound on fish stories. There is now a great sensation in Puget Sound over the capture of a sea monster by some seamen, which is said to be half man and half porpoise. It is stated that the caplurers arc going to present tho monster to the British museum. From the port of Vancouver there leaves daily steamers for Alaska through tho straits of Georgia and Clarence, and also through the strait of Jean de Fuea to China and Japan, Australia and tho Sandwich Islands. My friend and myself, accompanied by two clever bloomer-girls who were well acquainted with tiie piked roads, took in the city of Vancouver and the surrounding country on wheels, and we visited several places of inter est, among which was the barracks and immense reservoir. It was our intention to go direct from bore to San Francisco, Cal., but us Edwin had enough of sea and bad cold from tho sudden change of the weather, we soon decided to return to Portland and take a coast route through the famous Willamette Valley. S. L. Settlkmyek. Clifton Mill Nnmber Three. The Clifton (S. C.) Mill No. 3 have 122 revolving flat cards, of which about two-thirds are now running, HO speeders and 25 slubbers, two- thirds going; 144 spinning frames two-thirds going; and 41 electric stop motion drawing trunes; 1O0 looms, nearly half in operation. There is a good dam and water power, and they arc putting in a supplementary 800 h. p. engine. The mill is as yet just half its intended size. Tho Clifton Mf. Co. have ordered another pair of turbine wheels, tho other recent order having been for a 2300 b. p. outfit, which was recently installed. —.Southern and Western Textile Ex celsior. — -• — Albert Lynch’s American Girl. Albert Lynch, tho famous French artist, is said to have given us a new and distinctive type of "American girl” in a picture completed after his return from a recent extended visit to this country. His characteriza tion of young American womanhood is exceedingly interesting and at tractive—the conception of a critical student, and the creation of a skilled painter. Mr. Lynch was commis sioned by The Ladies’ Homo Journal to portray tho "American girl” as he saw her, and his picture will be re produced in tho October number of that magazine. . *- - - — Ayer’s Sarsaparilla Is not a secret preparation. Any physician may have tho formula on application. The secret of its success as a medicine lies In its extraordinary power to cleanse the blood of Impurities and cures the most deep-seated cases of blood disease. IT CREATED QUITE A STIR.' SEC. CARLISLE’S LETTER CON CERNING THE TREASURY. A Piece of “Pernicious Political Ac tivity Which Silver Men Think Should Be Suppressed. Political Pointers. (Correspondence of The Ledger.) Washington, I).C..Sept. 1.8,1890.— Secretary Carlisle’s letter in which he said: "It is the duty of the Sec retary of the Treasury, and of all other public officials, to execute in good faith tho policy declared by Congress, and whenever he shall be satisfied that Hie silver dollar cannot bo kept equal in purchasing power with the gold dollar, when such ex change is demanded, it will ho his duty to adopt that course,” has created much more of a stir among the silver men than did the returns from the Maine election. The re publican victory in Maine was ex pected, although few thought the majority would be so great as it was, hut Secretary Carlisle’s announce ment was a bombshell entirely un expected. Under date of July 1, 1899. an official Treasury circular was issued in which tho following sen ten 20 appeared : "Silver certifi cates are receipts for standard silver dollars deposited, and are redeem able in such dollars onlv.” This new announcement that silver cer tificates would bo redeemed in gold, if gold was demanded, is regarded by silver men as a reversal of the policy which has heretofore been followed by tho Treasury department, and tney are denouncing it in unmeasured terms. Senator Faulkner, chairman of the Democratic Congressional com mittee, voiced the sentiment of tho silver men when he denounced this new move as "a policy which invites depreciation in our currency and will ut once encourage the gold specula tors and money lenders of tho coun try to additional raids upon our gold reserve, with a view of forcing the government to continue issuing in terest-bearing bonds to carry out tho policy suggested by the letter of tho Secretary of the Treasury.” The silver men all say that Mr. Carlisle’s letter will make additional votes for Bryan and silver, and some republi cans do not hesitate to admit that Mr. Carlisle made a bad break in writing such language in tho midst of a heated campaign, and that it may make lots of trouble for the gold men. Representative Cobb, of Mo., who says ho hasn’t told anybody whether he is for Bryan or the Indianapolis ticket, says he is satisfied that Bryan will carry Missouri. Of tho general result Mr. Cobb says: "I think that in the Presidential contest it is as yet anybody’s race. There is no vast significance about that Maine election, McKinley, of course, will get the eastern and middle states; Bryan will get nearly everything, if not all, in the west and south, and there is the middle west to fight over. The third ticket will draw from both sides, and it is a question of which it will hurt the most—a question that one man knows as much about us another.” The silver men are asking if Secre tary Carlisle’s speaking in New York for Palmer and Buckner, as it is an nounced that he will do next week, and later in Kentucky, will not be as much a case of "pernicious political activity” as that of any of the few government officials who are making Bryan speeches and who are reported to be marked for early dismissal from office, and nobody is answering the question. If it be improper fur offi cials to speak for one ticket it should be equally improper for them to speak for the other. Probably 75 per cent., cr more of the voters of this country, regardless of party, be lieve in the right of every man, whether he happens to be in office or not, to speak and work for tho can didate of his choice. The Bryan managers, democrats, populists, and silver populists, and silver republicans—.perhaps Senator Teller and Dubois may now bo con sidered ex-republicans—held a num ber of secret conferences in Washing ton this week. It is reported that they decided to give up the campaign in the eastern states to the state or ganizations and to concentrate their efforts in tho doubtful states of the middle west. In seeming confirma tion of the report, Senator Teller stated before he left Washington for Kentucky, where ho will take the stump, that he had recalled his ac ceptance of invitations to speak in Now York. But all of Mr. Bryan’s eastern engagements are to be kept. Notwithstanding the denial of every body concerned, It Is believe that the Vice Presidential question was also considered at theso conferences, and that the chances favor the retirement of both Bewail and Watson and tho naming of an entirely new man—a populist. From statements made lu Washing- 1 tVi-ffAk/'.d.ghtjn Kentucky is likely to soon grow v??5 i to tinue that way until the end oFiiie campaign. In addition to Secretary Carlisle taking the stump there for the gold democratic ticket, it is said that President Cleveland is going to throw all tho influence tii.it. ilic ad ministration ran command into 11 io - state for the purpose or defeat ing tho Bryan electors. ‘1 he Bryan managers are preparing to do their share of the lighting for the state, and will put their best man, headed by Bryan himself, on Hu* slump there. Botli sides admit that the state has yet to be won by cither, and that the chances are that tiie margin will be close when tho votes are counted. Botli sides eontinuc to claim Illinois, Indiana. Kansas, Iowa and Ne braska. — — — r*- • Eyesight. Eyesight is precious to most of people, but when the eyes begin to fail many persons, who aro intelli gent in all other directions, will ex hibit gross ignorance in their efforts to correct tho defects in their vision. Optics is an exact science, and when its principles arc applied in deter mining Hie nature of defects in tho organ of vision and correcting theso defects by means of glasses, know ledge, skill and cure are requisite. Knowledge ami not haphazard guess work should ever guiie in the selec tion of glasses. Our business is not merely selling glasses. They are simply an adjunct to our profession. Wo enn’t get along without them, hut our real work is testing the eye. That’s our profes sion—our specialty. Any one with a glib tongue can sell glasses, but any one can’t measure the sight. The mysteiy that surrounds Hie applica tion of optics to the measurement of the human eye renders it impossi ble for fakirs, quacks and pretenders to fatten on the spectacle trade. We will have none of their methods in ours. Our business must and shall bo done on the square. Wo test the eyes carefully, thoroughly, scientifi cally. When the defects of vision have thus been determined we cun tell our patrons the cost of the glasses needed, and it then rests en tirely with them to buy or not. Wo make no charge for examination, and our prices aro as low as is consistent with the host service and perfect glasses. The best glass obtainable is always the cheapest when results are considered. Tiie first investment may be a trifle more than Hie cost of cheap service and faulty glasses, but in tho end you save money and what is of more value than money—your sight. Whrte for our circular which will tell you how we work. We will have a representative, a specialist in adjusting glasses, in every considerable town in North Carolina, Houth Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee and Alabama three times eacli year. Our Mr. W. M. Hunt will be in Gaffney, at the hotel, on Friday and Saturday, October 2 and 51, theso days only. Soliciting your work, wo are very truly yours, The Southkkn Oitk ai.Co., Refracting Opticians. Charlotte, N. C. — —• Swiss Bell Ringers. Lookout Burk last evening pre sented a picturesque scene. The at traction there was tho Swiss Bell Ringers and large cro.vds congregated on the grounds and in tho pavilion to listen to the sweet chimes, as they floated fur out into the "still night.” There were between four and five hundred persons present and half a dozen street cars to accommodato them. A number of pretty selections were given by the bell ringers and a little girl about five years of ago delighted the audience with a number of songs which siie rendered in a sweet and childlike manner.—Asheville Daily Gazette. This Company will appear here Saturday night, September 2fith at the Gaffney Male and Female Semi nary. • Presidential Electors. tho following aro tho Presidential electors for this state, selected by tho state Executive committee, when it met at Columbia to tabulate the vote of tho recent primary : First—Charles T. Pritchard, of IJluffton. Second—R. B. Watson, of Suluda. Third—Cole L. Blouse, of New berry. Fourth—John G. McMahan, of Richland. Fifth—W. I). Trantham, of Ker shaw. Sixth—Jus. Stackhouse, of Marion. Seventh—T. W. Stanlund, of Sum merville. M. K. Cooper and T. Larry Gantt were made electors at large. Bucklen’s Arnica Salve. The Best Salve in tho world for Cuts, Bruises, Sores, Ulcer, Halt Rheum, Fever Sores, Tetter, Chapped Hands, Chilblains, Corns, and all Skin Eruptions, and positively cures Piles, or no pay required. It is guar anteed to give perfect satisfaction or money refunded. Price 25 cents per box. For sale by Tho DuPre Drug Co.