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Lover of Wild Beasts Declares
That They Do Talk.
IGN0BES BUBBOUGHS’ CBITI0ISMS.
Well Known Author Relates Some
New Stories and Saya W’olvea Have
a Moat Perfeeted Form of Conver-
aatlon—Telia Why Partrld»ea Sleep
In Snow and Mlnlta Slide Down
Hill.
Ernest Thompson Seton, whom John
Burroughs, the famous naturalist, re
cently denounced as a sham in the At
lantic Monthly, said the other day, ac
cording to a Milwaukee special dis
pa tcli to the Chicago Inter Ocean, that
the attack of Burroughs was unjust.
“I have not seen the article,” be said,
“and do not want to, and further than
a denial of the accusations Burroughs
makes 1 do not wish to discuss the
question. The attack is very unpleas
ant to me and unfair, and I cannot un
derstand it. Mr. Burroughs and 1 used
to be good friends, and this sudden
change is beyond me. I know nothing
about the particulars of the attack, and
I do not care to investigate them.”
When told that Mr. Burroughs said
that it was untrue and absurd that a
fox sought safety from a pack of
hounds by jumping upon the back of
a sheep and riding several hundred
jrards, Mr. Seton said he had nothing
to say. Mr. Burroughs also said in his
article that it was all bosh to think
that a fox or a skunk reasons pro
foundly or that these animals use mi
raculously analytical strategy or that a
bear philosophizes soulfuliy. He also
says that the animals Seton has known
have been known by no one else and
that Seton has so deftly blended fact
and fiction that only a real woodsman
can separate them and that Seton has
been palming off a lot of ridiculous
statements. Mr. Seton insists, how
ever, that wild animals reason and
talk, saying on this subject:
“It is often asked if wild animals
have any mode of conversation, and I
answer unhesitatingly that they have.
Out on the stretches of prairie In the
heart of the Dakotas I have made ex
tensive studies of the wolf. I say un
hesitatingly that it has u most perfect
ed form of conversation. There is the
rallying cry and the hunting song, the
plaintive yap-yap-yapping of the even
song and the triumphant call of the
view halloo.
“All are distinctly marked, and the
one brings fortli the responsive note of
the other. There is the call of the
mother to her young, the male to the
female and the answers in each case.
There are at least five distinctly sepa
rate notes which 1 have recorded. And
1 have tried them in the zoos of Cin
cinnati and New York, and in each case
the one call brought out its response
as though the heat and bustle of the
city were miles away and in Its place
stretched the reaches of prairie land
with its cover of snow.
"I have conversed with plainsmen 011
the subject. All agree with me. So
common are these events and so mat
ter of place have they become that
their significance has been lost to many
of the men. But when I inquired and
directed their attention to this matter
they agreed with me. Dr. Garner has
noted twenty-six separate noises used
by the chimpanzee In conveying ideas.
He has conveyed those ideas to them
by their use. I have done the same
with the gray wolf of Dakota. If we
can recognize a number of sounds used
in animal land for purposes of conver
sation, it is probable that they have
three or four times as many which our
ears have not the finesse to grasp. Ani
mals can talk. Their language is more
simple and very rudimental. Man is
the only animal that can converse as
we understand the term. But animals
have a means of conveying ideas one to
another by means of sound.
“I am often asked,” continued Mr.
Seton, “why the partridge sleeps bur
ied in the snow in the winter in Mani
toba, why the mink slides down hill in
stead of running down, why a deer
never passes a tamarack tree if he can
help it and why a fox has a big, bushy
tail.
“Up in Manitoba, where I made my
observations, it is extremely cold. The
partridge knows instinctively that if
he attempts to sleep on the branch of a
tree in the awful frost he will be fro
zen before morning, and so he burrows
into a snowdrift and sleeps warm there.
“The mink slides down the hill be
cause he is in a hurry. By turning
himself into a toboggan he gets down
the hill In a second where it would
take three minutes to run down. I
have traced the mink for miles and
invariably noticed that he has slid
down the hills.
“A tamarack Is a danger signal to a
heavy animal because it grows on the
edge of or in the midst of a bog. The
bog is not solid enough to support an
animal as heavy as a deer, and the lat
ter Instinctively knows It
“The fox’s big, bushy tall Is fur
nished him to protect his feet and nose,
the five spots that are not covered
with fur. The further north I go the
bigger is the fox’s busby tail. My
shanty in the northwest was on a
prairie in sight of a winter runway
for foxes, coyotes and occasionally a
gray wolf. Hunting most of the time,
the fox only sleeps by snatches and
takes his naps by daylight on exposed
places to provide against surprise. In
variably he curls up and throws his
four bare feet and the tip of his nose
close together and then puts his great
bushy tail over them to keep off tbs
bitter wind.”
ENGLAND’S MIMIC WAR.
Army Corn* to Ilnttle Over Seven
Tbouaitntl Square Mllea.
The old Roman camps and barrows
on Salisbury plain in England will be
the scene of grand maneuvers in the
autumn, writes the London corre
spondent of the Philadelphia Press.
The First army corps will be pitted
against the Second corps, bringing into
toiimic action about 45,000 men. The
maneuvers will commence toward the
end of August and will last well into
September.
A wider area of ground has been al
lotted by order of council than that
provided for the last great maneuvers
in England in 1898, when the big
transport experiment was carried out
by civilian contractors. The area will
lie from the north of the county of Ox
fordshire to the English channel and
east and w r est into the shires of Dorset,
Somerset, Gloucester and Hants, em
bracing an area of about 7,000 square
miles.
The work will probably form the
most important peace training ever
carried out by the army and will in
clude the use of heavy batteries, fa
mous 4.7 guns, and the Marconi system
of telegraphy.
The generals in command will in
clude many famous Cape leaders,
among them being Sir John French,
Sir George Marshall, Sir Bruce Hamil
ton, Sir Charles Knox, Sir Leslie Bun
dle, Major General Paget, Major Gen
era) Douglas and Major General Plu-
nier. Lord Roberts and Major General
Baden-Rowell will both be present dur
ing the operations.
CZAR GOT HIS LESSON HERE
Colonel Snowden Says He I'ledget!
RtiMHian UaborerM U. S. Comforts.
The announcement that the Russian
czar had granted religious freedom In
his dominions came ns no surprise to
Colonel A. Loudon Snowden, formerly
United States minister to Greece, .who
frequently met the present emperor In
Athens when as czarowitz the Russian
was visiting his relatives, King George
and ids family, says the Philadelphia
Public Ledger and Times.
Colonel Snowden said he was con
vinced from many conversations with
the young man that he was a genuine
reformer at heart.
The czarowitz had heard from his
uncle, the Grand Duke Alexis, concern
ing the homes in which Philadelphia la
boring men live, and once, while he
and Colonel Snowden were lunching
together in Athens, lie ask(Hl the latter
to describe the dwellings to him at
length. This the colonel did, and when
he had finished the prince said: “It is a
blessed country that can give its la
boring classes such comforts as that.
I'll give them to my people if I ever
find it possible.”
Colonel Snowden thinks that the
czar’s move will work for good and
that it will he followed by other re
forms, but that it will probably create
friction.-
UNITED STATES THE MECCA
Yonnic Europeana Are Coming: Here
to Study Science and Art.
“The time is speedily coming when
young Europeans will visit the United
States, just as Americans now visit
Europe, in order to perfect themselves
in all branches of science and art,”
says Professor Herman of Freiburg,
who has just returned from a long tour
in the United States, writes the Berlin
correspondent of the New York World.
“In surgery and medicine America has
made strides which place her far be-
young Europe. In dash, readiness, re
source and manual skill the American
surgeon is unsurpassed.”
What impressed him most was the
brightness, the alertness, of the young
men, their readiness to take the field
for themselves at a comparatively
early age.
“When the young men of Germany
are laboriously working in a university
or a technical college,” he says, “this
youthful American is in business, carv
ing out a fortune and picking up al
most intuitively the technical, special
knowledge which the German can only
acquire after years of study. American
young men have a genius, an insight,
not to he found elsewhere.”
NEW HARVARD DORMITORY.
Lansdon Rail la Intended to Snr-
paaa Any In Cambridge.
Harvard is to have a mammoth new
dormitory, surpassing any in Cam
bridge, Mass., today, says the Phila
delphia Press.
It will contain seventy-eight suits
and will be called Langdon hall, after
President Langdon of Harvard. Built
of brick and limestone, with a central
court, it will be one of the handsomest
buildings in Cambridge.
Fear is felt that the yard rooms,
which have none of the comforts of
the modem dormitories, will go beg
ging, and steps will be taken during
the summer to Improve the campus
rooms.
Spring Fever.
When Dame Nature gets spring fever,
Then Dame Nature gets to work.
And that bird or bud would grieve her
That would e'er its duty shirk.
So she goes abroad and hustles,
Clothes the trees, makes birds to sing;
Aye, she strenuously tussles
With her fever In the spring.
When a woman gets spring fever.
She will take the carpets up.
Hubby dams like any beaver;
On the porch he has to sup.
When the carpets say, “Come, tack ms!”
Then he swears like anything.
For he knows he's reached ths acms
Of her fever In the spring.
When a fellow has spring fever,
Love to nature he will make;
In hie heart he will receive her.
And the woman gets the shake.
With the daffodil and daisy
He'd fain loaf awhile and sing.
For It makes him very lasy.
Does the fever In the spring.
—Pittsburg Dispatch.
Invention Which Keeps All
Kinds of Tabs on Engineers.
SIMPLE AND AUTOMATIC DEVICE.
It Is Attached to Locomotives Just
In Front of the Cab and Over the
Boiler — Constantly Cheeks the
Driver and Keeps a Record of the
Track's Condition.
A company is now being organized
in Milwaukee to finance an invention
which, its Inventor claims, will pre
vent many of the wrecks and acci
dents which now affright a world with
their grewsome record when its use
becomes general, says the Milwaukee
Sentinel. This company will control
in the United States the patent rights
of the “railway chronograph,” as it
has been styled by its inventor, H. G.
Sedgwick, formerly of Beloit, Wis., but
now a resident of New York city.
The machine which is to do this won
derful work is but a small affair, an
iron box about twelve Inches square
and three inches thick. It is devised
to keep a record of the work of the
locomotive to which it is attached and
of its engineer.
The mechanism is such that it re
cords on a tape every blast of the
whistle, together with its exact time
and place; the speed of the triiiu at
every moment of time, the time and
place any accident occurs, the speed
approaching, the arrival, the delay and
the departure from any station, the
number of miles and the amount of
time consumed in switching at any
station, when and where the airbrake
was applied, how long any engineer is
on duty and every trip, just where the
locomotive was at any moment and
what it was doing at the time and how
much steam is wasted through the
“pop” or escape valve.
The device is entirely automatic and
simple to a degree. It is attached to
the engine just in front of the cab and
over the boiler. Various levers project
from the machine, and these are at
tached to the parts of whose action a
record is desired.
Inside the box of the machine is a
seif winding clock, which records its
time upon a tape that winds through
the mechanism by punctured dots one-
tenth of an inch apart. Each dot rep
resents twelve seconds of time. The
tape is about one and a' half inches
wide and is always in motion. It is
ruled off into seven columns, each one
for a particular record, and designated
respectively as the whistle column, the
air column, the bell column, the pop or
escape valve column, the time column,
the one-tenth mile column and the en
gineer's punch column.
A rod from one of the levers is at
tached to the crosshead of the engine,
and every time the locomotive moves
one-tenth of a mile this makes a punc
ture in the one-tenth mile column. By
the distances between these points the
speed of the train can at all times be
determined. Another lever is attached
to the bell, and at every stroke of the
bell it makes a record dot on the tape
in the proper column. The same is done
in the whistle column when the whis
tle is used, in the air column when the
brakes are set and in the pop column
when the escape valve is opened.
The last column is for the engineer’s
record. By means of a lever in his cab
lie makes a punch in this column when
ever desired. He punches in the time
of arrival at a station and his depar
tures, as ordered in his rules. He can
also mark ajuy other occurrence that he
wants to have recorded. For instance,
the inventor declares that on one of the
test trips on the New York Central rail
road a jam nut was dropped from the
engine. The engineer made a record of
it, and when Poughkeepsie was
reached, eighty miles east, the place
where the nut was dropped was com
puted from the tape, and the nut was
found by a section man. The same de
vice serves to keep record of the condi
tion of the track. If the engineer notes
a bad section in the track, he makes n
record of it, and its position is easily
determined on the tape.
From the time and one-tenth mile
columns the place and time of the
marks In the other column can easily
be determined.
The tape is renewed at the end of
every run and is preserved for record.
It acts as a check on the engineer at
all times, thus preventing his doing
things which he might do if he did
not know that the little machine in
front of his cab kept an unerring rec
ord of his every action.
By watching the escape valve it
records the amount of steam wasted
in this manner on each run. On one
run recorded by this machine recently
It was found that in eighty-eight miles
this valve had been opened 794 times,
a waste of almost six tons of coal.
The record of the machine quickly
caused a decrease In this needless
waste of steam and power.
The Fvchal* Fad.
Apparently we are In for a fuchsia
revival, though the flower never was
shelved because It lacked In beauty or
grace, bnt rather because the human
eye craves variety even In flowers and
so was turned to other beauties, says
the Boston Transcript But King Ed
ward and his queen are affecting the
fuchsia now, not only In its natural
freshness, but In trinkets where arti
ficial flowers figure. In personal adorn
ments and In Jewelry it is found very
effective, and It is said that a fuchsia
in brilliants rather ontsblnes most oth
er objects reproduced in the same way
that happen to be In Its company, all
af which may be considered worthy
of note by amateur gardeners and
wearers of precious things.
IMPRESSIONS OF LORENZ.
FamonN Surgeon Faya Striking Trib
ute to American Charity.
“America is a splendid country, and
those who inhabit it are splendid peo
ple,” was the comprehensive way In
which Professor Lorenz closed his ad
dress to a large audience in Vienna on
his impressions of the United States,
says the New York World.
The professor was most enthusiastic
about American charity,saying: “Amer
icans practice charity with the passion
witli which other people practice some
kind of sport. I am convinced that if
I had said that the orthopedic hospi
tals in New York were inadequate the
money for a new one would have been
subscribed the next day. I was much
impressed by the simplicity with which
the president of the I'nited States re
ceived me. “ ‘Are you the famous doc
tor from Vienna?’ he asked. ‘Let me
shake hands with you. Just this morn
ing Mrs. Roosevelt spoke of you.’ Then
he told me the history of his family-
how a younger brother, now dead, was
a doctor, and told about one of his own
boys who is not strong. Then he shook
hands again and went back to the Ven
ezuelan question.
“The novelty of shaking hands with
so many people 1 did not know impress
ed me deeply. Sometimes I would be
on a train, and the engineer and fire
man would leave the engine, come up
and shake hands. Ladies would stop
me in the street and do so.”
Professor Lorenz remarked for the
benefit of the medical students present
that dinner at their club costs less than
it does to get one's boots cleaned in
Chicago. He did not enjoy the delica
cies in America. During the sumptu
ous banquets given him be often pined,
he said, for the boiled beef and kraut
of home. Oysters were about the only
American dish he really cared for.
He thinks it very fine that American
students do not drink or fight, but de
vote themselves to study and sport. He
told the Vienna doctors that in Ameri
ca nurses are treated like ladies.
Dr. Lorenz thinks America’s women
are remarkable for their education,
cleverness and artistic taste, but he
does not think they can cook a dinner,
and lie infers that that may be the rea
son why they are shy when marriage
is concerned.
HELEN KELLER’S PLEA.
FamouM Blind Girl Urgt*M Relief For
Fellow Unfortunate*.
Miss Helen Keller, known through
out the country as the girl born deaf,
dumb and blind, who lias achieved a
brilliant education, was the center of
attraction at a hearing held in the
staleliouse at Boston the other day by
the legislative committee on education,
says the New York Press. The hearing
was for the purpose of determining the
advisability of appointing a commis
sion to investigate the condition of the
adult blind. Miss Keller said in part:
“It is terrible to be blind and be un
educated, but it is worse for the blind
who have finished their education to be
idle. Their very education becomes a
burden because they cannot use it I
remember the distress of many blind
persons I have known who after finish
ing their education could find no means
of supporting themselves because no
one helped them to find positions in
which they could turn what they had
been taught to practical use.
“The greater their ambition to do
useful work the more cruel their disap
pointment. If this commonwealth will
establish a commission to place the
blind in positions of self support, it
will be doing three things—helping the
blind, relieving itself of the burden of
caring for them and setting an exam
ple to other states.”
NOVEL FISH DINNER.
The HoNtena Wore Wonderful Fiali
Scale Gown.
Miss Elizabeth Tyree, leading wom
an of “The Earl of Pawtucket” com
pany, gave her fish dinner the other
night at her apartments in New York.
There were twelve guests.
Everything, from the miniature lake
in the middle of the table to the won
drous fish scale gown worn by the
hostess, suggested the realm of the
mermaids, says the New York World.
The lake was inhabited by scores of
hungry goldfish and by miniature
sharks, whales and lobsters of wood
In the mouths of the latter were pearl
pins, for which the men fished. The
souvenirs for the women were coral
ornaments. The menu was printed on
the mainsails of tiny yachts, which
flew the flag of the New York Yacht
club, in the miniature lake.
The gown worn by Miss Tyree was
of changeable green silk, covered with
thousands of opalescent scales. It Is
said to have cost $300.
Sword* and Plowaharea.
Instead of beating swords Into plow
shares now the Boers of South Africa
have thrown their swords to the scrap
heap and ordered their plows from
American dealers, says the Philadel
phia Record. One dealer in New York
has agreed to ship 17,000, it Is said,
and orders for agricultural implements
of all kinds have been received here.
An Eaater Gift.
A really pretty thing for an Baster
gift is a collection of dried flowers and
grasses with several bright colored but
terflies mounted on white plaster and
framed in black oak. There are clovers
and buttercups, with the grasses at the
lower part of the picture, and above,
with spread wings, are the butterflies.
Value of Bffrptlan Cotton.
Experiments now concluded on the
banks of the Nile show the quality of
the cotton grown there to be the equal
of any In the world. There are availa
ble 15,000,000 acres of irrigated land,
and only hands to work it are lacking.
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