The ledger. [volume] (Gaffney City, S.C.) 1896-1907, May 08, 1903, Image 4
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PDBLI8HKD TUESDAY AND KKIDAY.
BY
Ed. H. DkCamp.
EMPIRE APPLE STATE.
Missouri Now Has First Place
In the List.
NOTES AND COMMENTS.
Some men who meet their bills
never think of paying them.
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A breech of kindness on one side
□ever justifies a breech of ;trust on
the other.
You may talk about commercialism
all you please, but the factj remains
that in this democratic country of
ours it is the commercialist that does
something.
Charlotte Democrats should not be
so sensitive about independentism.
Wasn’t it in Mecklenburg where the
first declaration of independence was
made in this country?
We haven’t any admiration or re
spect for the anonymous writer. He
is generally a coward who seeks to
vent his spleen on some one, and is
not worthy of the admiration or res
pect of anyone.
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It is not always the man who
makes the loudest professions of
Christianity that is the most pious.
We have heard of Sunday school
teachers who did not live up to their
professions when away from home.
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When a man gets to the point
where he realizes that he knows
nothing, he gets to the point where
he can begin to learn something, and
the more he learns the more he be
comes astonished at the ignorance
there is in this world.
Giffney was well represented in the
City of the Spartans Wednesday. It
was amusing to hear a Gaffney man
and a Spartan discuss the rapid
advancement of their respective
towns. Spartanburg is doing fairly
well for a town over one hundred
years of age, but Gaffney, not over
thirty, is going it by leaps and bounds
and is setting the old town a rapid
pace.
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They had a municipal election over
in Chirlotte Monday. The contest
ing candidates were Mayor Peter
Marshall Brown and Thos. 8 Frank
lin, who had served the city as aider-
man. Both flue gentlemen, but Tom
my was incumbered.with the “mor
ally stunted anddownward tendency ”
although he does not belong to that
crowd, and it proved his Waterloo.
They had a hot time in the old town,
but no casualties resulted.
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It is evident that the Gaffney
Manufacturing Company is largely
predominated by vegetarians, for
among its attachees you will find
Wheat, Corn and Turnipseed which
with an abundance of Rainwater, will
thrive, and after the Cutting will
make fine Grubb that can be prepared
in tempting style by the Jewel of a
Steward who has a supply of Wood
with which to Cook it; but the Price
will cut no figure with the Limestone
Mill folks for they have Cash.
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The Democratic press of the
country is getting right. It is crying
for four more years of Grover. Whlie
the principles for which the Hon.
Peter Sterling stands are correct, and
the press is correct in advocating
them, it is morally certain that that
gentleman neither seeks nor desires
the Democratic nomination. Give
us Gorman and Aycock on the ticket,
with a platform of* M r. Sterling’s prin
ciples. and if we uon’t wollop Teddy
and his crew we’ll worry them so
they’ll not desire to tackle the job
again soon.
We are not running this county,
neither are we attempting to dictate
how it should be run, but our excel
lent board of county commissioners
will make a serious mistake if they
do not keep the good roads machinery
in active operation. It is the heighth
of folly to put large sums of money
In machinery to stand idle. The
rusting of machinery will do much
more damage than to keep it bright
by constant use; besides the interest
on the investment is lost. By all
means, gentlemen, do not retard your
step forward by allowing the ma
chinery to stand idle.
BIOH YIELD PREDICTED FOR 1903.
The Orchard* Hid Fair to Product-
Double the Value of the Whcut
Crop—Five Tree* to Every Inhabit
ant of the State—Only One-tenth of
Available Land Yet Planted.
Westward the course of the apple
empire takes its way. Missouri now’
leads where a few days ago the scep
ter was hold by New York, says a Co
lumbia (Mo.) dispatch to the Kansas
City Star. The apple crop of Missouri
for 11KM will be, at ordinary prices,
$20,000,000. The wheat crop sells in
average years at $12,000,000. If the
apple crop yields what is now es
timated by N. F. Murry of Holt coun
ty and other officers of the Missouri
State Horticultural society, it will al
most double the wheat crop in value.
There' are 20.000,000 apple trees in the
state, and $1 a tree is the estimated
yield.
Missouri three years ago ranked flfth
in apple orchards among the states.
Twenty million apple trees, five trees
for every man, woman and child in the
state, are now growing in Missouri.
3,000,000 more than in any other state
and twice as mauy as ten years ago.
L. A. Goodman, secretary of the Mis
souri State Horticultural society, says
that despite the great acreage only
one-tenth of Missouri's available or
chard lands have yet been planted.
Apple growing, according to Mr. Good
man, is the most profitable class of
horticultural pursuit in Missouri. J.C.
Whitten, professor of horticulture in
the State university, indorses Mr.
Goodman’s views.
"In an ordinary year,” continued Mr.
Goodman, "the orehardist will not lose
1 per cent of his apple crop. The ama
teur is too apt to dig and plant without
care, exposing the roots of the tree to
the air before planting. The roots
should be kept in the ground. This is
true of every variety of tree and is as
necessary as that fish be kept in water
if they are to remain alive. I would
give this as the secret of success in the
cultivation of trees: Handle carefully
before planting. Do not expose to the
air, and plant in good soil. If these
rules are followed, the trees will grow.”
The king of Missouri apples is the
Bon Davis. It is firm, of good shape
and holds its color well. A carload of
Ben Davis apples shipped from Mis
souri to Berlin sold there at $0 a bush
el. A Missourian found Ben Davis ap
ples labeled "Missouri” at a fruit ven
dor's stand on I nter den Linden in
Berlin. They sold at 10 cents each and
had kept llieir accustomed rich red col
or and sawdust (lavor. Other apples
suitable for the Missouri climate are
Gano, Jonathan, Winesap. Mammoth
Black Twig, York Imperial, Clayton,
Ingram and Ram’s Golden.
The profits of apple culture in Mis
souri would have been larger except
for the ravages of the woolly aphis or
the apple root plant louse. Karly in
April this insect goes upon his destruc
tive expeditions. In other states this
plant louse attacks the limbs of apple
trees, but in Missouri it bores into tin-
roots. Its antics are so different among
Missouri orchards from that of which
it Is guilty in New York that scientists
for a long time thought it was a differ
ent species of insect pest. J. M. Stead
man. professor of entomology in the
Missouri State university, however, dis-
co\ eml that the insect was not two.
but one, leading a kind of Dr. Jekyl
and Mr. Hyde existence.
The Missouri river is the dividing
line for the enemies of apple orchards.
In northern counties little damage is
occasioned by the insects. In the land
of the big red apple, however, the
woolly aphis and his kinsmen wrought
large destruction until I’rofessor Stead
man found that tobacco dust killed the
insect and fertilized the soil. The dis
covery was worth millions of dollars
to Missouri orchardists and will be
worth more. Ninety-five per cent of the
root rot in apple trees is occasioned by
the twig insect.
More and more orchards are planted
each year. When the unoccupied hind
available for apple orchards in Missou
ri is planted, there will be 200,000,000
apple trees in the state. At a dollar a
tree the annual yield would be $200,-
000.000 or an amount almost fabulous
as compared with the scattering and
uncertain thousands yielded by the ap
ple trees in Missouri a few years ago.
The Missouri apple will soon have a
place with the Missouri mule and the
Missouri lien.
CROP BULLETIN.
WEAK IN THE ALPHABET.
How’s ThUr
We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward for
iny ease of Catarrh that cannot be cured by
Hall’s Catarrh Cure.
K .1. CHENEY A CO.. Toledo. O.
We, the undersigned, have known F. J.
Cheney for thn last l."> years, and,believe him
perfectly honorable In all huslnss transac
tions and financially able to carry out any
obligations made by their firm.
West ATkuax, Wholesale{l)rugglsts, Tolede,
O. Wai.djno, Kinnan A Makvin, Whole
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Hall’sCatarrh Cure is taken Internally
acting directly upon the blood and mucous
surfaces of the system. Testimonials sent
free. Price 75c. per bottle. Sold by all Drug-
Hail’s Family Pills are the best.
iteport of condition of Different Crops
Throughout the Mtato.
Columbia, 8. C., May 5.—The
mean temperature for the week
ending 8 a. m., Monday, May 4th,
was about 05 degrees, which is 3
degrees below normal. There were
a few warm days during the middle
of the week, but the first and last
days were unseasonably cool, and un
favorable for the germination of
planted seeds and the growth of
young crops. The ground remains
cold, and owing to the lack of rain,
has become hard and crusty, this
being especially true of bottom lands
and clayey uplands Frost occurred
on the 28th at a few northern points,
but did no perceptible damage.
There was a quiet general rain on
April 26bb, accompanied by hail in
the northern counties, falling to a
depth of six inches at Hickory. This
rainfall was beneficial, but was fol
lowed by drying winds, and the need
of rain is again noted over a large
portion of the State, more especially
in the truck raising districts. Show
ers occurred over the central and
eastern counties on May 3rd, the ef
fects of which will be noted in next
week’s correspondence.
The dry weather enabled farmwork
to make rapid progress, and planting
of the staple crops is nearly finished,
except that some upland and almost
all bottom land corn remains to be
planted over the western tier of
counties, and bottom lands in the
central counties, though some have
already been planted in the latter.
Early corn is coming up generally,
and much has received its first work
ing, but stands average only fair, and
are poor in localities, owning to the
ravages of birds and worm*-, and to
imperfect germination. Replanting
is being done extensively. The
weather has been too cool for favor
able growth.
Cotton planting is nearly finished,
-nd will be entire.}’ finished the
coming week if the weather remains
favorable, but owing to the pre
vailing coolness, germination is slow,
and some seeds failed to germinate )
at all. Many such fields are being !
replanted. Some fields have fair
stands and are being cultivated, but
the plants look sickly.
Tobacco is almost all transplanted,
but is making no perceptible growth.
Rice Is in the same condition, with
growth at a standstill. The George
town districts are being sown at this
time.
In a few localities oats are prom
ising, and, while still poor, show
some improvement, but correspond
ents .repert the, oat crop generally
unpromising with probably half an
average yield. They are heading low.
Wheat is also poor, owning to rust
and the Hessian fly. Fruit continues
promising, although pear trees are
beginning to blight, in various locali
ties, and peaches to drop in Charles
ton county. In the same county a
green louse is damaging white oota-
toes.
Rain and warm weather would be
of great benefit to all crops.
The town of West Point, Va., was
almost entirely wiped out by fire last
Friday. The loss is about $450,(XXL
J. C. MjReynolds, of Tennessee,
has been appointed assistant attor
ney general of the United States.
letter to K. M. Gaffney,
Dear Sir:—You own several houses.
Your reason for painting Davoe lead
and zinc should be several times as
strong as the man who owns but one.
Lead and oil was good enough paint
till the merits of zinc were found out.
It was profitable to paint had and oil
—it was then—but not now.
The addition of zinc to lead makes
Devoe lead and zinc last twice as long
and cost no more; costs less—a trifle
less, not much. Lead and oil is
mixed i)y hand; Devon lead ann zinc
by machinery. Might as well make
one’s shirts by hand a^ mix paints
Say it costs $100 a house o psint lead
and oil; and it lasts three \ears
Say it costs the same for Devoe ;
which lasts six years—it will last ten
years, in favorable conditiors, unless
you want to repaint to change the
color.
The costs; lead and oil a bo or $30
a year; Devoe $15—probably less.
Yours Tru ! v,
F. W. Devoe <fc Go
Sumo I.ottor* Tlml Mon Can Never
Learn to Make.
"Why is it that with some men some
letters of the alphabet are harder to
make than others and, in fact, that
there are some letters that some men
never learned how to make?” asked a
young man who takes considerable In
ti-rest in the matter of handwriting in
the New Orleans Times-Democrat, “it
is a rather singular fact that nearly
every man outside of the experts is
weak on one or more of the letters in
the English alphabet. Sometimes the
letter involved is a capital letter; some
times it is of the smaller kind; some
times it is one letter and sometimes
another. In any event, you will find
few men who are exempt from the fail
ing referred to.
“I know of one man who in spite of
the fact that he does a great deal of
writing has never learned how to make
a capital P. He simply makes a stag
ger at it, and, as a rule, the result of
his efforts wil. look more like a small
p than like the capital P. I know an
other man who can’t make a small f
to save ids life. He can never get the
lower part of the letter below the line.
He makes it look like a clubfooted b
instead of an f. There are others who,
when they try to make the small b,
give it the long shank, and it looks
more like the letter f. It is rather sin
gular that those traits should hang on
to a man’s writing for a lifetime, but
they do it just the same, and if you
make a few inquiries among your
friends and acquaintances you will find
that but few of them are exempt from
this fault.
“It is very much like the habit of
spelling certain words incorrectly.
Many men who are rated as first class
spellers pass through life without ever
in a single instance spelling certain
words correctly, it is due to habit
largely. If you should ask them how
to spell the word, they would tell you.
but, when they go to write it, that is
quite different, and they wiM get it
wrong every time. So they know, too,
how certain letters should be made, but
they simply can’t put them down on
paper. It is a curious but common
fault.”
He Succeeded.
A man arrested for murder bribed an
Irishman on the jury with £200 to
hang out for a verdict of manslaugh
ter. The jury were out a long time
and finally came In with n verdict of
manslaughter. The man rushed up to
the Irish juror and said: *Tm obliged
to you, my friend. Did you have a
hard tinu-V"
"Yes." said the Irishman: "an awful
time. The other eleven wanted to ac
quit yer.”—London Answers.
THE OLD RELIABLE
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The Last Diieliuu; < icrjsymen.
"When did clergymen cense to tight
duels?” is a startling inquiry in Notes
and Queries. It will be news to many
of us that they were ever fond of that
exhilarating pastime. But, as a mat
ter of fact, the Rev. Mr. Allan fought
a duel with Lloyd Delany, Esq., and
killed him in Hyde park in 1782. He
was convicted of manslaughter and
fined 1 shilling plus six mouths in New
gate.
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POWDER
Absolutely Pure
THERE IS NO SUBSTITUTE
Hill Usual Preference.
“What kind of meat have you this
morning, Larry?” asked the board of
trade operator.
“Well, sir,” said the butcher, “I’ve
got some fine bear steak and some beef
that’s just bully”—
“H’mph! Give me some lamb!”—
Chicago Tribune.
Qnlte Another Th 1 nK.
“He was unable to meet his bills, I
understand?”
“Well, that’s where you’re wrong.
He couldn’t dodge them.”—Chicago
Post.
Off for Oklahoma.
Mrs. Senora Gray, accompanied by
her son G. R Gray b-ft for Fergu
son Oklahoma territory. Tuesday
morning. Mrs. Gray goes toJvisit her
son, Mr. C. W. Gray, who is in the
railway service at that place. Mr. C.
R Gray has resigned his position as
ticket ngenf a* this place, which po
sition he has filled with credit to him
self and sa'isfaetlon to the company.
For Cherokee county news take The
Ledger.
Woman—the crown of creation.
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A IflNturic I!iiiIdiitk to Come Down.
Unless some efforts are speedily
made by historical societies to preserve
the building which served for seven
years as the capltol of the Northwest
Territory it wil! be destroyed in a few
weeks, says the New York Commercial
Advertiser. It is a frame house, two
stories high, with two rooms on each
floor, in Vincennes, Ind. It was built
in 180f», and. like most buildings erect
ed in the west at that time, it is held
together by wooden pegs instead of by
nails. William Henry Harrison read
ids first message ns governor of the ter-
ritory within its walls. In August,
1810, Tecumseh and seventy-five of his
braves came to the building every day
for ten days, seeking a place in the
council. It censed to be the home of
the government on March 13, 1813,
when the capltol was moved to Cory-
don.
A Popular Apple.
A Russian apple, the “yellow trans
parent,” promises to supersede the
“early harvest,” wuicb has so long
been popular in the middle west.
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To children Scott’s Emul
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for thin and sickly boys Scott’s
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the most delicate stomach, and acts thoroughly upon the
bowels, liver and kidneys without the slightest unpleasant
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THE CAROLINAS AND GEORGIA.
of all chronic headaches are due to eye
strain. Go to Dr. Griffith at the Chero
kee Drug Co’s and have the defect in
vision corrected, and thus be
QUICKLY AND
PERMANENTLY CURED.
Glasses Fitted With Scientific Accu
racy and all the diseases of the Kye,
| Ear, Nose and Throat treated according
to the latest and most approved methods.
‘For sale by Cherokee Drug Company.
National Bank of Gaffney,
Capital Stock, - - $50,000.00
Surplus and Profits, - 25,000.00
Stockholders Liability, 50,000.00
Total, - $125,000.00
Deposits ITeliy. 1903, $20Q,603.73,
We solicit the business and good will of everybody in Cherokee
county. ;
F. G. STACY, President, D. C. ROSS, Cashier,
J. G. WARDLAW, V.-Prest., MAYNARD SMYTH. A. C.
“Money Saved is Money Made”
I can save you money on anything in the various lines I
handle. You'should see my “Superb” line of Clothing two and
three piece suits. Pretty line of Straw and Fur Hats just
received for Men, Youths and Children. I am still headquar
ters for all kinds of Footwear—see me when in need of Shoes
of any kind. I have just opened up a beautiful lot of Negligee
Shirts from 50c to $1. Nice assortment of Lawns, Organdies,
Piques, Madras Cloths, Batiste, etc. My stock of Heavy anc\j^
Fancy Groceries is selected with great care and I can save you
money in this line. I carry a big line of Tobacco from 26c lb.
up.
Tennessee Sorghum.
I have it in 5 and 10 ^gallon kegs and in half brls. and brls.
at prices that move it out. I handle everything for the farm
or farmer, such as Plows, Plow Stocks, Hames, Traces, Collars,
Bridles, Wagon and Buggy Harness, Etc. While it is too wet to
plow come and let me get up that bill of farming tools and also
load your wagon with some of my brands of Fertilizer which yop
must have. I handle only the best grades and guarantee prices.
See me before buying.
Respectfully,