Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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GAFFNEY VICTORIOUS. HIGHWAY BUILDING. Gaffney Ked Hklua Itefeat Kln*« Moun tain Heroes. The game of ball yesterday after noon at Limestone between Kings Mountain and Gaffney resulted in a Waterloo for Leslie McGinnis’ men. The Cherokee Red Skins took out their tomahawks and scalped the Kings’ Mountain Heroes unmercifully and when the game came to an end the Red Skins marched from the bat tlefield with 12 scalps dazzling to their belt. Arthur Hopper was chief scalper, and he was ably assisted by Red Skin Satterfield, who deftly caught every scalp that Chief Hopper yat ked off. The game was fast and furious until the seventh inning. I p to that time the score stood 3 to o in tavor of the Red Skins. Then it was that the Red Skins got out their totn- ahawks in earnest and captured i scalps before tbe Heroes bad time to draw their breath. McGinnis' men played good ball but the Red Skins played better. Ice Cream Richard son was at second and cooled every thing that came his way. Dtrbin Jorn a not only covered short stop but the second and third base and one time behind the bat, cutting off a Hero that had something of a no tion of crossing the home plate. Brossie Byers at first did nobly, and with a little more practice will de velop into a first rate player, while Charlie Humphries covered the third in his usual good style. The outfield was very well taken care of by O P. Richardson, Drayton Clary and Leo Little. The latter is a mere boy about fit 63n, but he is indeed a “crai ker- jaca,” and his playing did much to ward bringing success. 0. P. and Drayton also did good work, the slick work of the latter being exceptionally good. But the best work was that of Hopper and Satterfield. Hopper struck out fourteen men and center- field caught like a veteran. Kings Mountain’s field work was at times brilliant and little better all round than that of Gaffney. They lacked strength at the bat. however, and couldn’t connect with Hoppei’s gig-jags. The Kings’ Mountain boys are a set of gentlemen and Leslie has no cause to feel ashamed of them. 1 hey conducted themselves well both on and off the field and there was no kicking by either side to mar the pleasure of the game. Mr. Ed Byars umpired the game in a most satisfactory manner. The following is the score: MAURICE O. ELDRIDGE ON THE DRAIN AGE OF ROADS. Some I'raotleal Point* For Hoiul- hnilder*—I.imit of Grntle Allowable. How to Drain thr Surface Properly. A llemedy For Freexlng. Straight roads are best, other things being equal, but in hilly countries straightness should always be sacri ficed to reduce grades, says Maurice O. Eldridge, assistant director of public road inquiries. Hilly roads often be come covered with ice or slippery soil, making them very difficult to ascend with loaded vehicles as well ns danger ous to descend. Water rushes down them during rainy weather at such a rate as to wash great gaps along their sides or to carry the surface material away. As the grade increases in steep- nes<s either the load bus to be diminish ed in proportion or additional horse power used. Most roadbuilders p.*<?fcr 3 p er cent grades to those of 4 per cent where they cun be secured w'thout additional poorly drained earth road. expense, but in some places it is neeos- f.ary for various reasons to increase tlu* grades to 5 per cent. With the ex ception of mountainous regions, where steeper grades are often unavoidable, the aim should be. on all public high ways which arc traveled by heavily loaded vehicles, to keep the grade down to 3 or 4 per cent and never let it exceed 5 per cent. If the road must be coast meted out of the materials over which it passes, it is often possi ble to select a route where* the soil Is bettor adapted for the purpose than that found where first located.~ For insianee, soils adjacent to the beds of streams or in morasses and swamps, being elose and pervious, are very diffi cult to surface and subdrain, but routes over such ground can often be avoided by locating the road upon higher ground, where the natural drainage is better. Kings Mt 0 0 2 0 0 1 0 0 0— 3 Gaffney 2 0 0 0 3 0 < 0 x 12 Austbll-GurlHiiU Mr. Wm. N. Austell, of Pacolet, and Miss Ellen Rosa Garland were married at the home of the bride in ] Lexington. N. C., on the 24th inst. ! by Rev. Mr. Owens. Mr. C. H. Aus- j tell of this city, brother of the groom, ] attended the marriage. Mr. and Mrs. Austell came to the , home of the groom’s parents, Hon. and Mrs. Wm G. Austell, in tnis city the same evening and went to the groom’s home at Pacolet next oay. Mr. Austell is of Gaffney, but is now a prosperous business man of Pacolet, and the bride is popular young lady in her home city. We congratulate Mr. Austell and welcome him and his accomplished bride to bis home city where his many friends extend to them best wishes. iloufte Illowii Dowu. Another consideration in choosing the line of travel is that roads on slopes having a southern or western exposure can be much more satisfacto rily and economically maintained than those located on eastern or northern slopes. Water is the most destructive agent to a road, and yet if it few sim ple principles are followed it can be easily dealt with. Earth is more sus ceptible to the action of water and more easily dissolved and moved by it than any other road I’u'.t' ii I. and for this reason too much attention can hardly be given to the drainage of roads. Drainage alone will often change a bad road into a good one, while, on the other hand, the best road may quickly go to ruin for lack of drainage. To drain a road surface properly wa ter should be got rid of before it gains force or headway or has time to dam age the road. It is Just as economical and far more practical for the road- builder to put in four or five twelve inch culverts at such points as may be The severest storm here of this sea son passed over tbe city about H o’clock yesterday evening. A two story bouse was blown down on Peacbtree street, but fortunately tbe inmates went out in time to escape injury. It belonged to Henry Jef feries, colored, and is a total loss. Several other buildings in the city were more or less injured and we fear that we will hear of other damages in the county. Later.—We hear of several stables and other outhouses being blown down in tbe country, but no one hurt eo far as heard from. Some men are known by tbe friends they fail to make. ♦ ■♦♦♦♦♦»»♦ -4 If anybody has a message for the people of this community < * he cannot deliver it to them so * ’ effectually, so cheaply, so quick- <' ly in any other way as through 4 ' the columns of this paper. * > It is the business of this pa- * ► per to carry messages of one < > kind and another into homes. 0 The message will be delivered, <, too, under favorable conditions, 4 ( for few persons take up their ^ ^ local paper except in a pleasant and receptive frame of mind. The sign upon the fence board 4 * may be good, but it can be seen 4 4 only by travelers who go that 4 ’ particular road. The message 4 > in the local paper carries itself < > to thousands, no matter by which < > road they travel. < ► Select your space and put <, your message where it will do 4 , the most good. We, perhapa, can help you if you will but aak ua. ^ • fouiRl necessary in a mile of roadway as it is to carry the water along the higher side of the road a mile or more and he compelled to deliver it in a twenty-four inch culvert. When water is permitted to remain in the founda tion of a road through the winter, it freezes, expands and loosens the soil. One hundred volumes of water make when frozen 10D volumes of ice. When the warm spring weather comes, this ice melts, and as there is no place for the water to go the ruts in the springy soil become deeper and deeper until wagons often sink to their hubs and horses flounder laboriously through the resulting slough. The remedy, there fore. is to get rid of the water in the foundation of the road, and get rid of it before it has time to soften the sub structure or freeze. For this purpose it is advisable to construct horizontal drains under the roadway, which should empty Into the open drains or the natural water courses at frequent intervals. After the drains have been carefully laid, the ditch should be half filled with rough, broken stones or. if no stones are available, with broken brick bats, coarse sand, gravel, cinders or some other imperishable material. A little hay, sod or brush packed around the tile to prevent silt from washing in and clogging the drains will be useful. The ditch can then be tamped full of firm earth. Care should be exercised in keeping the drains open and unob structed at outlets. Underdrains are useless unless outlets are provided, for if the outlet is obstructed the water is kept standing in the drains until it soaks in and softens the foundation. Where the road is built on a steep grade some provision should he made to prevent the washing of the gutters Into deep gullies. Tiffs can 1*0 done by paving the bottoms and sides of the gutters with bricks or field stones. In order to make the flow as small as pos sible In side ditches it Is often advisa ble to construct frequent outlets into the adjacent fields or streams, or, If possible, to lay underground pipes or blind drains with sct*eened openings Into side ditches at frequent intervals. The size of side ditches should depend upon the amount of water they are ex* l>ec(ea to carry. SECONDHAND STORES. Modern Houses Vastly Dtff-reut From the Old Time Jnnkshops. “One of the curious aspects of mod ern business conditions,” said a philo sophic business man, “is the growth of what we call the secondhand busiuess. There are more secondhand houses now than ever before, and I attribute it to the changes iu style which are constantly taking place iu all things which enter into the social life. When one speaks of a secondhand store, there are many persons who will think simply of secondhand furniture, bu reaus, wardrobes, tables, beds and things of that sort. But the business has become so extensive that one may find almost anything in either the use ful or the ornamental line in these places. *T am not speaking of the curio shops either, where you can find any thing from an antiquated penny to the rarest and most elaborate thing in an artistic way, old pictures aud new ones, old hooks, old anything you may call for. I have in mind the regular secondhand houses which do a com plete and up to date secondhand busi ness. Go into one of these places and gee for yourself the changes which have been wrought in the business. “Time was when one of these places was a junkshop merely, a sort of old furniture hospital or almshouse, a place for chairs with broken arms and tables with broken legs and beds with scarred heads and old clocks with broken faces and missing hands and all that sort of thing. But the condi tions are different now. You see, peo ple want to keep up with the proces sion. Styles are always changing. A new kind of furniture comes in. The furniture on hand is good as new, but one must have the new thing, this new, magnificent kind of sideboard or this new colored bedroom suit dl' this latest thing in something else. The old stuff is sold and the new kind bought. “This is one reason, and the main rea son. for the growth of the secondhand business. Of course the change has not affected merely furniture and household goods. It has applied to ail the utilities and all the ornaments, and hence a vast variety of things may be found in the secondhand store.”—New Orleans Times-Democrat. Frank Sloekton nn«l Poetry. Frank Stockton never could write a successful poem. In this connection the novelist frequently told a good sto ry on himself. In his youth in con junction with his brother John he wrote many poems with which lie af flicted the editors of various Canadian periodicals. The effusions always came back. The editor of one maga zine was an (‘special target of the Stocktons, but as none of their poems was ever accepted the brothers came to tile conclusion that tla* editor had no conception of good poetry. To prove their belief they limited up and dispatched to him an ode, little known, by Milton. Within two days they received a cheek and a letter of thanks. "I came to the conclusion that that editor knew poetry when he saw it after all.” Mr. Stockton us d to say. “and gave up trying to w:4te it.”—I’hil- adelplffa Record. On** Woman** Wny of Pnlnttnu. The bright wife of a bright Philadel phia newspaper man has to do some of the housework herself, as her hus band'.; income does not justify the lux ury of employing help. The other day, finding out that the floor needed paint ing, she procured the necessary mate rials and early in the afternoon set to work. When her husband returned in the early evening, he found her In tears in the center of the room. She had paint ed the floor all around herself, and there she was, on a little dry island in the middle, afraid of crossing the wet paint for fear of spoiling nil her work. Her husband, instead of imitating Sir Walter Raleigh, procured a board and released lift* from durance vile. Then he meanly told the story.—Philadel phia Telegraph. A Former Pretllenment. The cook in u southern family was fat, black and sixty and a devoted church woman. A “laboring brother” in the same church, a widower with a dozen children, was so assiduous in his attentions that he could be seen haunt ing the kitchen at nil hours. The mis tress of the house finally said to the cook: "1 do hope you don’t mean to marry that old mail, with all those children.” “No. ma’am,” was the reply. “I done been kotebed in dat predicament once already.” which was the first intima tion that had been given in a long service that she was entitled to wear the weeds of widowhood.—Detroit Free Press. Hairo*M Kirotlam. Victor Hugo had a very exalted opin ion of himself. One of his intimates called on bias once and found him walking In his garden, apparently thinking deeply. The visitor asked the great French i»oet what lie was medi tating upon. “I was wondering,” re plied the poet, “what I should say to the Creator when I meet him. Can you imagine what I would say?” “Yes.” answered the poet's ‘friend. “You would say. ‘My dear confrere.’ ” Her Generosity. Madge—I hear you take your sister to the matinee every week. De Garry—I do. Madge—If you'll take me there ns often as that. I'll promise to be a sis ter to you.—New York Times. It doesn't matter so much how many mistakes Moses made if we only fol low up the advice he left us when he did lilt the nail on the head.—American Tlire*h“rninn. % JOHN GAM EVANS, Spartanburg’s Candidate for United States Senate. Cached by People of All Classes With out Regard to Past Factional Af. filiations the Ex-Governor En ters the Senatorial Rase. (From The Spartanburg Journal.) Spartanburg’s candidate for th« United States senate to succeed John L. McLaurin is ex-Governor John Garj Evans. In a residence of several yean he has established himself in the es teem and good will of the people of this county to such an extent that he is re garded with no less affection and inter- est that would be the case were he a native born Spartan. His popularity extends to all classes. Some of his closest political and personal frienua are to be found among those who were formerly his strongest opponents. To know Governor Evans has been to appreciate his fine qualities, his sterling honesty and his eminent qual. ideations as a statesman and citizen. He carried this county by large major ities for governor and senator, and he will carry it this year by a much larg er majority than ever; indeed, it might almost be said that he will receive the •unanimous democratic vote of the county, so great is the local interest in his candidacy. His personal popular ity extending from Spartanburg County as a basis, is radiated all over the Piedmont section of the state and in every profession, trade and calling Governor Evans is looked upon as a splendid type of a South Carolinian. His Strength Is With All Classes. His friendship and aid have ever been extended to the large agricul tural interests of the state, and our large and growing industrial popula tion has come to regarrj him as a staunch and sincere friend. At the same time Governor Evens has nev-i been regarded as hostile to capital and corporations in any sense, and has many friends and supporters among those who have large invest ments in cotton and oth**r manufactur. ing industries. While there can hard ly he said to be any logic in polities. Governor Evans is nevertheless tha logical candidate to succeed Mcl.aunn, by reason of the vigorous and won derfully prophetic fight he made on the commercial statesman five yea's ago. He then said McLaurin was a republican, and that gentleman has himself since proven the charge be yond a doubt. Governor Evans was not the only prophet in that line, how ever, but he was the only man who made a fight on Mcl.aurtn then who is now a candidate before the people as his successor. He evidently knows a republican when he sees one, and this is some assurance, if any were needed, that his own democracy is straight. Has ijeen Faithful to Every Trust. Governor Evans' equipment and qualifications for the senatorship are undoubted, and his services to the peo ple of the state certainly give him a claim upon their earnest consideration of his candidacy. He has ever been faithful to the trust reposed in him by the democrats of South Carolina, and reAins to the utmost the respect and confidence of those who know him. The very fact that he has held the support of those who were his political associates in times when there were ■harp lines drawn between the faction al affiliations of our people and has since the effacement of those lines drawn to himself the good will aim friendship of those who formerly op posed him. shows him to be a man who is steadfast in character and emi nent in ability. He is strongist where he Is best known, and is hacked by the support of the thickly populated Piedmont counties and he is sure to be a formidable factor in the race. Tillman Hands Off. In view of numerous reports about this man and that man being “Till man's candidate” for the senate, a statement made by Senator Tillman <n Washington recently may prove of in terest to those watthing South Caro lina politics. "There is really no reason why I should mix up in this race,” said Sen ator Tillman, "nor do 1 intend to take the slightest part in it one way or the other. It is true that before Evans entered the race there was but one candidate in the field. Representative Latimer, who had not at one time op posed me. For this reason, thinking to hurt Representative Latimer's chances for election, the report his been circulated that I was backing Latimer. It is untrue to say that I am backing any one of the candidates. Now that Mr. Evans has definitely an nounced his candidacy for the senate, there will be two of my former sup porters in the race. Another reason why I am not called upon to take a hand. "But It should be remembered that none of the candidates in the race are running for the senate against me. They are after the Junior senatorship, and because In the past the other can didates—Mr. Elliott, Mr. Hemphill, Mr. Henderson and Mr. Johnston*—have been political opponents of mine does not seem to me to furnish either an excuse or a reason tor my meddling la the game.” True Mendsbip goes all the way. a < NOTE HEADS, 1000 FOR . . . $1.50 ENVELOPES, U 2000 5000 1000 2000 5000 . $2.50 . $5.00 . $1.75 . $3.00 . $6.25 LETTER HEADS, BILL HEADS, STATEMENTS, AND EVERY KIND OF PRINTING AT LOW PRICES. ORDERS BY MAIL PROMPTLY FILLED. TIE LEDGEB, GAFFNEY, S. C. SOUTHERN RAILWAY THE GREAT HIGHIVAY OF TRADE AMD TRAVEL. Uniting tHe Principal Commercial Centers and HealtR and Pleasure Resorts of tHe SoutH witH tHe & NORTH, EAST and WEST. HigK«Cl»ss Veatibul* Trains. THrougH Sleaping-Care batwaan Naw York and New Orlaane, via Atlanta. Cincinnati and Florida Points via Atlanta and via AsHavilla. Naw York and VTorida, aitbar via Lynchburg, Danvilla and Savannab, or via Richmond, Danvilla and Savannah. 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