i-’ LATEST COTTON MILL NEWS. ITEMS OF INTEREST TO TEX- TILE WORKERS North and South Carolina Mills, Their ’.irprovements and Their Ad vancements—Opera tive Personals. [Si.uthern and Western Textile Kxeelslor.] .1. K. hints has changed from the mill at W. Durham, N.C., to Rocking ham, N. O. The .Mariposa. X. C., cotton mills have placed an order for their addi tional spinning and twisting. W. X. Lindsay changes from Jhe 'Walhalla, ti. C., Cotton .Mills to the Abbeville, S. C., Cotton Mills. The Wayna Cotton Mills, of Golds boro, X. C., have placed an order for additional spoolers for their mill. L. If. Anderson has lett Rurling- ton, X. G\. to take u position with Ossipee Mills, Elon College, X. C. F. J. Anderson has left the employ of the Princeton Mig. Co., Athens, Ua., logo with the Anderson, S. C., Alotton Mills. Ed. S. Richards resigned his posi tion as shipper for the 1’urk Woolen Mills, Rossville, (Ja., for the purpose of atltMiding college. D. R. Rodman, recently suptrinten- dant of Walhalla, S. C,, Cotton Mills, has been employed as superintendant of (iainsville, Ga., Cotton Mills, a.id is charge there. Will iain Jenkins, formerly of ' Spartan Mills, Spartanburg, S. C., succeeded Samuel Ramsbotham as overseer of spinning at Xewberry, S. C., Cotton Mills. F. W. Goodham has changed from the Richland Colton Mills Columbia, 8. C., to Spartan Mill Xo. 2, Spartan burg, S. C., as section hand in card and picker rooms. Fifteen employes of the Clifton, S. C., Cotton Mills Xo. I volunteered for the war, only about half of whom were ucceojed as filling the reijuire- mentstogo to the front. Brickmakiug for the Fountain Inn, S. C.. cotton mills has been in pro gress for several weeks. Rrickmak- ing for the Gaffney, S. C., carpet mill has likewise commenced. As the carding and spinning could not keep up with the weaving in 8partan Mill Xo. 2, Spartanburg, 8. 0.. the company is installing some new cards and spinning frames there. “Dee” Sadler, of Charlotte, who has been assistant bookkeeper at the Mtn. Island, X. C., Cotton Mills, left a week ago for Raleigh to join the <2 C. G. military company for the war. G. R. Spencer, chief engineer and M. M. of the McColl, S. C., Mfg. Co., took a trip tlis week, including Gas tonia, X. 0., and Charlotte, staying over at the latter place for the Inde pendence Celebration. The Wilmington, X. C., cotton mills are making extensive improve ments. Seventy new looms are ar riving and being set up. They are also modernizing their steam plant and compounding their engines. The annual meeting of the stock holders of the Tucipau Mills, Well- ford, S. 0., was held on May 10th in Spartanburg, S. C. The old board of directors and officers were re-elected. **'The reports show the mill to be in a flourishing condition. , The McColl, S. C., Manufacturing Co., purchased their entire 5,000 apindle equipment for their new mill from the Howard it Bollough Ameri can Machine Co. They expect to be manufacturing hosiery yarns by Au gust with the machinery. The Standard Cotton Mills, Rock Hill, S. C., are under a mortgage in debtedness of $00,000, while the capital stock of the company was $100,0l('!i< i (!i i:il r.*xvi* Hut Modern Ituildini;.* Add Enormously to Tlu-ir Work. Mr. J.icob A. Riis, author of “How tho Other Half Lives” and otherstiKlif? - of tenement house life, contribntos to The Century in the « lies of “Heroes of Peace" an article on “Hern s Who Fight Fire.” Mr. Riis says ot the fire man: His life Is ton f ill of real peril fnr him to expose it n klc. sly—thal is to say, needlessly. From the time when be leaves bis quarters in answer to an alarm until ho returns he takes a ri-:: that may at any moment s-et him far. to face with death in its most cruel form. Ho needs nothing so much as a clear bead, and nothing ..is prized so highly, nothing puts him so surely iu the lino of promotion, for as he udv in rank and responsibility the lives of others as well as his own come to de pend on his judgment. * r ho act of con spicuous during which the world ap plauds is oftenest to the fireman a mat ter of simple duty that had to he done in that way because thero war o oth r. Xor is it always or «veu usi ally the hardest duty, us be sees it. It cu e asy to him because he is an athlete aim c to do such things and because, once for all, it is easier to risk one’s life iu the open, iu the sight of i lie’s fellows, than to face death alone, caught liki a rat in a trap. That is the real peril wh -h be knows too well, but of that the i .blic hears only when be has fought his last fight and lost. How literally our ev< ryday security —of which we think, if wo think of it at all, as a mere matter of course—is built upon the supreme sacrifice of th se devoted men we realize at long inter vals, when a disaster occurs such as tho one in which Chief Bresuun and Fore man Rooney lest tin ir lives. They wt e crushed to death under tho great wat r tank iu a Twenty-fourth street factory that was on fire. Its supports hud been burned away. An examination that was then made of the water tanks in tho city discovered K,000 that were either whol ly unsupported, except by the reef beams or propped on timbers, and therefore a direct menace, not only to the firemen when they were called there, but daily to those living under th -in. It is net plea-ant to add that the department’s just demand for a law that should compel landlords either to build tanks on the wall or on iron sup ports has not been heeded yot; but that is unhappily an old story. Seventeen years ago tho collapse of a Broadway building during a fire con vinced tho community that stone pillars were unsafe as supports. The fire was in the basement, aud the firemen had turned the hose on. When the water struck tho hot granite columns, they cracked and fell, and the building fell with them. There were upon the roof at the time a dozen men of the crew of Truck Company No 1, chopping holes for smoke vents. The majority clung to the parapet aud hung there till rescued. Two went down into tho furnace from which the flames shot up 20 feet when tho roof broke. One, Fireman Thomas J. Dougherty, was a wearer of the Ben nett medal too. His foreman answers on parade day, when his name is called, that he “died on the field of duty.” These at all events did not die iu vain. Stone columns are not now used in sup ports for buildings in New York. So one might goon quoting the perils of the firemeu as so many steps forward for the better protection of tho rest of us. It was the burning of the St. George flats aud more recently of thu Manhat tan hank, in which a dozen men were disabled, that stamped the average fire proof construction as faulty and largely delusive. One might even go further aud say that the fireman's risk increases in the ratio of our [.rogri ss or conven ience. Tho water tanks came with tho very high buildings, which iu them selves offer problems to the fire fighters that have not yet been solved. The very air shafts that were hailed as the first advance iu tenement house building added enormously to tho fire man’s work and risk as well as to tho risk id every one dwelling under their roofs by acting as so many huge chim neys that carried tho fire to the open windows opening upon them iu every story. More than half of all the fires in New York occur iu tenement houses. When the tenement house commission of 1894 sat iu this city, considering means of making tenements safer and better, it received the most practical help and advice from the firemen, especially from Chief Bresuan, whose death occurred only a few days after he had testified as a witness, Tho recommendations upon which he insisted are now part of the general tenement houso law. 8. M. Geary, I’ierson, Mich., writes: — “Dewitt's Witch Hazel Salve is curing more piles here to-day than all other remedies combined. It cures eczema and all other skin diseases. Cherokee Drug Company, Gaffney.Macon Thornton’s 1'harmacy, Blacksburg. The average man never fully rea lizes at midnight how very sleepy he is going to be at seven o’clock the next morning. On Minute is not long, yet relief is obtained in half that time by the use of One Minute Cough Cure. It prevents consumption and quickly cures cold, croup, bronchitis, pneu monia, la grippe and all throat and lung troubles. Cherokee Drug Com pany, Gaffney, Macon Thornton's riiarmacy Blacksburg. ••Yourn Troly.** The habits of people in signing let ters arn receiving some attention, and interesting conclnsfonH aro drawn from a study of tho different ways writers subscribe themselves. The curt “Yours” and "Yours truly” ;.ro found not cnly in business letters, but In personal notes as well, for there me plenty of corre spondents who don’t believe iu gush and who think that “ Yours truly” or “sincerely” means ubout all they wish to convey. Opposi d to tin so sensible and essentially practical persons is that class of writers made up usually of young and enthusiastic individuals, as a rule of the gentle sex, who throw words about as carelessly on paper as they do in oi uversatiou. The use of tbo word “love” by such people is a dis tressing rign of emotional weakness, of carelessness or of insincerity aud possi bly arises from the same impulse that prompts women to kiss each other indis criminately. One Boston girl has taken her own stand in tho matter, and at the risk cf being considered “cold” and “thorough ly Boston” she sticks to it. In her childhood she was taught to sign “af fectionately yonrs” to her faraway greatauuts aud second cousins, some of whom she had never seen, but all of whom she tried to like, because of tbo claims of kindred, and tho word “affec tionately” came to mean to her nothing at all except poiito and necessary fic tion. So she signs “affectionately” to people she is supposed to bo convention ally fond of, and when she says any thing mere she means it. She thorough ly approves of “cordially yours, ” and this, by the way, is seen more and more frequently now iu notes between ac quaintances who aro on distinctly friendly or cordial terms. Alter all, “your friend,” when it can bo used truthfully, is a simple and satisfactory way of ending friendly letters. Some people have tho habit of not prefacing their names with any set form of words at the* end of letters. They stop when they get through and write their signa tures without any frills.—Boston Jour nal. The Spanish I.anguace. Habla V. Espanol? Perhaps not. It is a very pretty tongue, however. Thero is Latin iu it of course. Then there are Punic, Gothic and Arabic. In thc*se ele ments reside its construction and its his tory. Spain means “hidden. ” A loug time ago the Carthaginians discovered the country. When the Romans discov ered it, too, they threw a toga over it. Tho Visigoths stuck their gutturals there. The Moors brought their filigrees and arabesques. Latin was beaten in with tho hilt of tho sword. Gothic with a trowel and Arabic with a scimiter. From those three assaults tho Spanish of today is the result.—Edgar Saltus iu Collier’s Weekly. A Card. * BLArKSBrno, May 23rd, 1898. Editor Gaiknkv Ledger: Dear Sir:—In your last issue I find tho following item : Mr. Hardin is Called On. Bl.ACKBBrRO. May IT. The tiix-puyers of (’hei-okce county and the friends m V u. Hurdln iinnoum e him :is a fandidutc for I ho Sonutf- nod ask that he publicly express his tvlllliiirnvss to become a candidate. Tax I’avku. Now, some of the tax payers and voters of Cherokee county, in whose behalf your correspondent bus under taken to speak, would like to know the name of the author of said “an nouncement,” ami 1 may add that the inquiry is not made becau-e many are INCLINED to believe that the author of said unnouncemei t is the brother-in-law of the can didate he undertook to announce in behalf of the said tax pay ers and voters of this county, nor, because of the fact that many are in clined to believe that the author of said announcement has no property in his name, and 1ms never been known to pay any tax whatsoever except the $2.00 commutation street tax, and that only lately said corres pondent having been heretofore con nected with the administration of the town and therefore exempt from said tax, nor because many are MORE Til AX INCLINED to believe, that, the author of said "announce ment” (?) if not a republican, has strong republican proclivities. Surely Mr. Editor, one who is such an ardent admirer,nay idolater,of our ‘ DI ST IN G UISH E D A N D INTEL- LECTFAL” fellow citizen,Noah Web ster Hardin should not be ashamed to make his name public in announcing his idol as a candidate for State Sena tor. It seems to me that if I should rec ognize such sterling qualities in a man. as your correspondent thinks Mr. Hardin possesses, 1 would net ! e ashamed to sign my name to the an nouncement of his candidacy— though a brother-in-law, and espec ially when I presume to speak for the tax payers and voters of Cherokee county—UNLESS—I did not believe that the gentleman possessed tiiose qualities, and I was simply acting as his willing tool, or because 1 had some sinister motive. Edward A. Trescot. ••before Baby is born." 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Lv. 7 4ii BLACKSBURG Ar. 1. 10 S (JO EARLS Lv. 5 50 *» H III PATTERSON SPRINGS ** 5 45 • • !l 20 SHELBY 44 5 :so 44 » 45 LATH MORE 44 4 20 4* S* 55 M (.ORES BORO 4* 4 ID 4* III or. HENRIETTA 44 3 M •• 10 25 FOREST CITY • 4 3 35 44 111 511 UUTHERFORIlTON 4* 3 U£> 44 11 n5 MILWOOH 44 2 45 •4 H 25 GOLDEN VALLEY. • 4 2 SO 44 11 S5 THERMAL CITY • 4 2 15 4* 12 no GLENWOOD 44 1 .VI • 4 P. 12 20 M. MARION 44 P. 1 30 M. GArrstv Hkanch. HOHTH boovd. »orrn Borao. P. M. L »*■ Ar. 7 50 HLACKSBIKG Lv. ’’ 7 35 CHEROKEE FALLS • 4 Lv. 7 15 GAFFNEY Ar. P. M. p. a. 5 on 6 15 5 :t6 M. Tralnn north of Camden run dully eauAoit Sunday. Train*! between Charlekton and Ktiiguvllle run dally. For iiiformatlou aa to rate*. Clyde Line Halllnir. etc., call on local contracting and traveling agent* of both road*, oi L. A. EM ERWIN. T. M., K. E.ttBAY. S. C. A a. K. R.. Truffle Manager. CharleUon. S. 0. S. B. LUMPKIN. Ucn’l. Pan*. Agent. Blackahurg. S. C.