The ledger. [volume] (Gaffney City, S.C.) 1896-1907, May 26, 1903, Image 3
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Everything to eaL.
That’s what I deal In exclusively. I look
after my business .watch the markets closely,
1 and as a consequence I can always furnish
my patrons with the best and freshest, of
Meats, Groceries and Country Produce. West
ern Steaks - choice cuts. la cents a pound.
Phone St. VV. J. MANESS.
BE IN THE SWIM
Give me your clothes to clean, press or
dye and you will always look nice and
stylish. Old suits made to look like new.
Experienced workmen and prompt ser
vice rendered.
W. H. ROBINSON, Tailor.
Over W. C. Telegraph Ollice.
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Williams. Hall..Ik.
James A. Willis.
HALL & WILLIS.
ATTORNEYS AT LAW.
STAK THBATKE BLDG.
C;.
Notary Public in offlee. Prompt attention
given to till business.
J. EMILE HARLEY,
Attorney-at- Law,
Gaffney, - - S. C.
Notary public. All business receives prompt
and careful attention.
MONEY TO LOAN ONOtEAL ESTATE
Dr. D. P. THOMSON,
Dentist.
"OfL'*e over National Hank.
J. C. OTTS,
Att )Rnky and Counselor.
OfMce upstairs, between R. A. Jones and
O&venpo.'t.
OfUce and Residence .Phono.
Dr. C. T. LIPSCOMB,
1.) K T I S T
Office in Star Theatre Building.
Phone No. 20.
J. F. GARRETT,
Dentist.
Office Over JThe Battery.
’Phone 82.
Ninety Per Cent
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 Eye,
Ear, Nose and Throat treated according
to the latest and most approved methods.
Building and Plastering Limp!
Coal, and Plaster Hair.
Plaster Pans
Shingles,
Portland Cement,
Dynamite,
Blasting Powder, Fuse
and Dynamite Caps, call on
Limestone Springs Lime Worts
CARROLL & CO., Lessees.
Telephone
CLAIMS PAID
AINA
— By
Life-Insurance
Company
For Accidents and Sickness through
this agency since January:
W. D. Kirby, $ 32.14
W. R. Pearson, 7.50
W. H. Harrison, Jr., 127.14
A. L. Peeler, 25.00
A. W. Clary, 12.86
H. L. Spears, 70.00
H. A. Littlejohn, 75-oo
Wm. T. Gaston, 27.86
L. Baker, 32.14
Why not Insure YOUR time against acci
dent and sickness. For rates and other
formation call on or address
JONES J. DARBY. District Agt.
HOW HUSBANDS SHOP.
A Dionne That It Wna Certain Wonld
Not I'lenae the Lady.
The pleasures of shopping are as rig
orously denied to “mere man” as are
the advantages of whistling to fair wo
man. The decree, being nature’s own.
Is universal, and the attempts’made to
contravene it are few and unsuccess
ful. An exception, more apparent than
real, was made a few days ago by an
uxorious Berlin husband intent on pre
senting ids better half with a new
blouse. lit 1 hurriedly entered one of
the first shops in the eapitnl and con
fided his intention to the graceful young
lady assistant. ”1 want a blouse —a
good one. You understand. It must lie
silk—tlie best silk.''
“May I ask what color you prefer?”
inquired the superior young saleswom
an, with a smile.
“Oh. I'm not particular about the col
or, but 1 may say that it may cost from
30 to 40 marks.”
“And the cut?”
“The cut? Well, I really don’t much
care. After all, it comes to the same
thing.”
“May I ask about the lady for whom
it is destined?”
“Why, site is my wife, of course!
Whom else did you”—
“I beg your pardon. What I meant
was what is her size, at least approxi
mately?”
“It doesn’t matter in the least. Please
show me some blouses, one blouse, any
blouse, and let me go, for I am in a
hurry to catch a train.”
“With pleasure, sir, but if you can
not give me an idea of the color, cut or
size or anything else to guide me how
can I hope to suit you?”
“Give me any blouse you like so long
as the price is between 30 and 40 marks.
It doesn't matter a straw what cut or
color or size 1 choose, for in any case
it’s certain to be changed. I told you
it is for a lady!”—London Telegraph.
Cost Sate
Having bought out
the Poag Mule Co.,
we offer the entire
line of Buggies and
Harness at and be
low, [cost. These
buggies are new
and up-to-date and
if you are in the
market to buy
now is the time.
Gaffney Live Stack
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OUR -s* •j*
PRESCRIPTION
DEPARTMENT
is presided over by
an expert Ph. G. No
tiresome waits, pre
scriptions filled ac
curately and with
despatch, forward
ed to your resi
dence in haste by
special messenger.
Try us once and you
will be as the ma
jority—a customer.
S, B. Crawley & Co.
813 Limestone Street
Drugs, Perfumes and Stationery.
Prescription Accuracy
our Specialty.
.OUR LINE OF.
Sandals, Oxfords
and Slippers
b the most complete yet shown. Ah sizes, from the Infant's soft
sole to the largest size for Ladies.
'Em R. S. Lipscomb Shoe Co.
Next door to Cherokee Drug Co.
THEKAISERSTROUBLES
Rising Opposition to His For
eign and Domestic Policy.
GERMAN GOODS ARE B0Y00TTED.
Merchanta Said to lie Loalntc Trade
In All Directlonn—DisaMroa* He-
Nnltn of (he Einperor'a South Amer
ican Experiments—He Wants to Be
Known ns Europe's Leadingr “Cap
tain of Industry.”
A new reactionary party is steadily
asserting itself in German domestic
and foreign politics whose cardinal
principles are those of the great Chan
cellor Bismarck, says the Berlin corre
spondent of the New York Post. The
division between the Von Bulow min
istry, as the mouthpiece of Kaiser Wil
helm, and the leading Conservative
party men grows from day to day. The
Prussian squirearchy is taking a vig
orous and outspoken attitude against
the foreign policy of the kaiser.
The fact is growing daily more ap
parent that this policy is bringing Ger
many into sore straits both commer
cially and politically. From day to
day the voices of those who champion
a return to Bismarck’s "home concen
tration” policy become louder. In the
reichstag and in the columns of repre
sentative party papers fears are openly
expressed that Germany may run into
disastrous war and is sacrificing trade
prestige, for Germany has encountered
rebuffs on all sides of late. When
Chancellor Von Bulow arose in the
reichstag to “sweep away the miscon-
ceptions of Germany’s foreign policy,"
his address was mainly instructive be
cause of what it left unsaid, for Von
Bulow lias not earned the title of “hap
py phrasemaker” in vain. He has a
valuable knack of passing over a knot
ty problem with a jest.
But the conservative political and
business world of Germany is not on
the side of the throne in its foreign pol
icy. Kaiser Wilhelm wants to be
known in history not only as Europe’s
greatest, war lord, but as its leading
"captain of industry.” But after the
recent Venezuela campaign the trade
balances between Germany and South
America make melancholy reading. It
is plain that Germany failed miserably
in getting a more secure footing in
South America or in creating respect
for its commercial interests there. It
aroused a prejudice against the Ger
man trader all over South America
which is vividly reflected in the latest
trade reports with Brazil, Venezuela,
Colombia, Peru and other republics.
The Hamburg South American Steam
ship company at its last annual meet
ing was unable to declare a dividend,
and other steamship lines trading with
Soutli America presented more or less
pessimistic reports.
Although Kaiser Wilhelm tried to
rectify the mistakes of the German offi
cial policy toward the Boers, his an
tagonism to England has resulted in
the systematic boycotting of German
merchants and goods in South Africa.
German iron and steel and mechanical
products were highly favored in the
Transvaal states during Kruger's re
gime. With the British lion on guard,
the Prussian eagle is kept at a dis
tance. The same is true of German
trade in China and especially at Hong
kong, where German merchants and
shippers complain of the combination
of English tradesmen, who have houses
of long standing, against German
goods. In the Balkan states there is
growing prejudice against German cap
ital and goods owing to the obvious
friendship between the German mon
arch and the sultan of Turkey. But
Germany is making good use of that
friendship to tighten its grip on the
Bagdad railway and other valuable
concessions.
On all sides there are evidences that
Germany’s forward foreign policy is
interfering with trade. In South Amer
ica the tide has turned against Ger
man and in favor of American trade,
according toi the consular reports re
ceived in Berlin from the special agents
sent by Germany to the various lead
ing ports of South America. In Eng
land the label “Made In Germany” acts
as a boycott. The government tariff
policy is destroying the trade witli
Russia, Austria-Hungary and Italy,
for Russia and Austria, although be
longing to antagonistic political alli
ances, are making common cause
against Germany to compel the latter
to modify her duties on their imports.
Nor is it difficult to perceive that
France is gradually but surely making
herself popular once again in Italy.
Another profound source of irritation
is the so called slavish and humiliating
policy of the kaiser toward the United
States. While he is offering a statue
of Frederick the Great, granting audi
ences to American citizens, promising
handsome contributions to the St. Louis
fair or inviting the American naval
squadron to visit Kiel, the foreign of
fice bolds an entirely different attitude.
“We don’t want statues of Frederick
the Great,” said a prominent American
business man here the other day. “We
want Germany to admit our bogs and
our California fruits.”
UKiQliE NAVai TEST.
Mimic Attack to Be Made on
European Port.
WILL BLOCKADE LISBON, PORTUGAL
Vnitpil Stntpn ».'nvy to (/Ire All the
Powers. n»itl Especlall)' the Kaiser,
Proof of Its Kllleiency—Kenr Ad
miral Barker to Command the
Squadron.
The plans for sending the powerful
battleship squadron into Europe; n wa
ters next May contemplate a moie im
pressive object lesson on the growing
strength of the United States navy
than has been supposed, says a Wash
ington special to the New York World.
Behind the shield of a practice cruise
with the most friendly intentions it is
proposed to demonstrate the ability of
this government to carry a war to the
doors of any country in Europe. To
prove this the port of Lisbon, Portugal,
is to be “blockaded” at the end of the
long trip across the ocean.
Portugal was selected for this unique
test because the improbability of the
United States over becoming involved
in war with that country is well recog
nized. Representations will be made
that will prevent any Portuguese suspi
cion of an ulterior motive. Rear Ad
miral Barker, who will command the
fleet, will entertain the nobility and na
val officers of Portugal in lavish style
on ins flagship, and visitors will be wel
comed on all of the ships.
The fleet will bo grouped off Lisbon
long enough to prove that United States
warships can cross the ocean and take
sufficient coal along to assume offensive
operations on an extensive scale. Eu
rope has considered, this impossible.
Tito fleet will consist of the Kearsarge,
Admiral Barker’s flagship: the Illinois,
the Indiana, the Maine, the Iowa, the
Massachusetts, possibly the second
class battleship Texas, the cruisers San
Francisco and Albany and colliers and
supply ships. In the lee of the’Azores
the fighting ships will be coaled and
provisioned so they will reach Portu
gal in readiness for action. The fleet
will proceed its though war were actu
ally on. The cruisers will scout in ad-
■ vance. and the supply ships will be pro
tected by the battleships.
While the operations are intended as
an object lesson to all of Europe, it is
known that the navy department is
especially anxious to let the kaiser see
just what our ships can do. When
Prince Henry was in Washington last
year, he asked Chief Constructor
Bowles as to the relative efficiency of
German and American warships.
“We build our ships to carry coal as
well as to fight,” replied Bowles. “They
can cross the ocean, and some of them
can return without recoaling. Your
ships cannot do that.”
The ktiiser has regarded this as mere
ly a boast. He is to be shown that it
is more than that.
Naval attaches of European coun
tries are displaying great interest in
the transatlantic maneuvers, and many
of them have asked to be allowed to
accompany the fleet. Their requests
probably will be granted, as the uavy
department wants to make its ease
complete.
The department is constantly work
ing to increase the coal capacity of the
warships and extend their steaming
radius. The Texas can steam only
2,000 miles without recoaling. The
Kearsarge can steam more than 6,000
miles without recoaling, which is half
as far again as the Iowa, Indiana and
Massachusetts, while the latest addi
tion, the Maine, carries 2,000 tons of
coal, as compared with the 1,645 tons
of the Kearsarge.
The Up to Date Indian.
According to the Bliss (I. T.) Breeze,
because of the thieving propensities of
the palefaces, the Indians have aban
doned their old time burial customs of
putting valuables belonging to the de
ceased Into the grave with the corpse.
Now they pnt the money in a bank and
bury a certificate of deposit, which the
departed one may cash In the happy
hunting grounds.
A Novel Vehicle For n Millionaire.
Mounted with silver fittings an Irish
jaunting car is being made in Dublin
for a Boston millionaire.
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FIRST NEW FILIPINO COIN.
It In a 1'eNo and War Made In the
I'hllndeliihia Mint.
Colonel Edwards, chief of the insular
division of the war department, has
Just procured from the Philadelphia
mint the first of the new silver money
to be used in the Philippines in the
shape of a “peso,” says a Washington
dispatch to the Philadelphia Press.
The new coin is simple and chaste in
design. On its face is an emblematic
female figure representing a Filipino
working out the destinies of her home
on an anvil. Behind her is the smok
ing cone of a volcano, and around the
picture are the words “One Peso. Pili
pinas.” On the reverse of the coin is
a slightly modified representation of
the United States coat of arms, with
the words “United States of America.”
Colonel Edwards hopes to supply the
Islands with the mAv currency by the
beginning of the fiscal year.
A Seasonable Lay.
Sing a song of other days,
Of other thoughts than ours.
Of melting snows and leaf strewn ways
And newly budding flowers;
Of that clear note at evening when
The robin sways and swings
In yonder maple tree again
And sings and sings and sings.
Sing a song of milder air.
Of gentle, kindly rain;
Of benediction everywhere^
On river, sky and plain;
Of geese honk honking overhead.
As. far against the sky.
Through brilliant noon or sunset Nd
In ragged ranks they fly.
Sing a song of carpets green.
Spread over every hill,
Of new sprung ferns that droop and lean
Along the singing rill;
Of squirrels trooping through the trees,
Replenishing their store;
Of clouds of gnats and droning bees
Aroused and forth once more.
And sing a song of youthful eyes
To drink In this delight
And hearts not all too worldly wise.
To read the spring aright.
For we are busy with affairs,
For life’s a weighty thing
And leaves no time among Its cares
To hear the songs of spring.
-Janies Montague In New York Evening
Journal.
D mr Munr
innLi Ik.
TO HEAR.
Remarkable Powers of a New
Electrical Invention.
DEVICE THAT MAGNIFIES SOUND.
The “Aconstlcoe* Consists of »
Transmitter, an Ear Pieee and a
Buttery, All Ocenpyinff Little
Sitnce—Alllicted Children in Ec
stasy Over Revelation of Sonnd to
Them.
A new electrical device by which the
deaf are made to hear and the dumb
to speak, called the "acousticou," was
first made known to the public the oth
er day iu New York after a demonstra
tion in the laboratory of its inventor,
Miller Reese Hutchison, says the New
York World.
The most hopeless persons in the
New York Institution For the Deaf
and Dumb, some who had never heard
a sound iu all their lives, put the little
instrument to their ears and listened
to Sousa’s marches, and one of them, a
boy horn deal', danced to a twostep,
the first music he had ever heard.
Lips that had never spoken coherent
words were made to speak so that ev
ery syllable could be understood. A
girl who lost her hearing ten years
ago laughed and clapped her hands
with joy when she listened to sounds
almost forgotten.
Women who had been invited to the
laboratory to watch the experiment
wept at the pathetic display of joy on
the faces of the unfortunates. When it
was over, Professor Van Tassel of the
deaf and dumb institution praised the
invention.
“Every deaf person can be made to
hear, and mutes can be taught to
speak with the aid of the instrument,”
said the professor. “Heretofore the
great difficulty in teaching mutes to
speak lias been .hat they could not
hear their own voices and did not
know how to form words. With the
acousticou they can hear and so can
learn to speak.
“We an* going to try the instrument
in the institution. It will l»e like learn
ing a new language to those who have
never spoken. They will have to learn
the mcaniiig of each sound. I think
that So per cent of the deaf mutes
should be able to hear with the instru
ment so tnat they could understand.
It is a small device and can he carried
around easily.”
It was proved at Mr. Hutchison’s
demonstration that persons who never
had spoken could speak. Orris Benson,
a hoy deaf, dumb and blind, who could
not hear one sound with all the devices
in use, heard words spoken in a low
tone when he had the acousticou to his
ear. Mr. Hutchison pronounced the
word “papa” in an ordinarily low tone.
The boy became instantly excited, and,
turning to where be knew Professor
Van Tassel, was standing, he said in
rapid sign language that he had heard
something, but did not know what it
was. The word was repeated by Mr.
Hutchison. The boy, growing more
and more excited, tried to repeat the
word, and his untrained voice shrilled
out the two syllables “pah-pah.”
Another pupil from the institution, a
girl who was born blind, deaf and
dumb, shrieked and laughed with de
light when she beard her own voice.
She repeated the words “mamma” and
“papa” after Mr. Hutchison.
The acousticou consists of a trans
mitter, an car piece and a small electric
battery, all connected with wires. Ev
ery part of the instrument is carried
in the pockets, out of sight, with the
exception of the ear piece, which is
small and easily hidden in the palm of
the hand. The transmitter is a rubber
disk about three Inches in diameter, in
the hollowed reverse side of which are
imprisoned certain gases, hermetically
sealed. The composition of these gases
is a secret of the inventor.
The instrument magnifies sound. A
whisper spoken across a room is caught
up and transformed into a shout by the
time it reaches the ear piece. This high
ly intensified sound so stimulates the
auditory nerve that hearing results, no
matter how deaf a person may be. The
volume of sound does not make any
difference, it is the penetrating qual
ity of the electric sound wave that
stimulates the nerve to action.
To illustrate how the invention mag
nified aud transmitted sound a mega
phone attached to a phonograph and
connected with the battery and trans
mitter was put out of a window a
block away from Herald square, in
New York. As the notes of the torea
dor’s song from “Carmen” floated out
on the air people a block away on
Broadway stopped and turned to try
and catch the point whence the music
emanated, and men in the elevated
railroad trains rnshed to the platforms,
bewildered at the volume of sound and
the Inability to trace it to its source.
Electric Shock* For Deaf ’Walter*.
There is a club in the Latin quarter
of Paris composed entirely of deaf
mutes, says the New York World. Not
only aro the members of the club un
able to speak or bear, but everybody
about the place Is in like condition. In
stead of summoning servants with a
bell the members call them by an elec
tric contrivance which gives them a
slight shock. Among the members is
a veteran of the Indian war in Amer
ica, whose tongue was cut out by sav
ages and whose deafness resulted from
wounds Inflicted abont tbe head during
an encounter with redskins.
ll*r«onl’a Latest Scheme.
Signor Marconi, the inventor of wire-
leas telegraphy, is said to have discov
ered a method by which oxygen may
be extracted from air at a Tory alight
expense.
SOME QUAINT ENGLISH.
l*oi-tu;!;ii<*Hf Idea of the Lamtaage la
11 Kooh of “I.enrnitiK-”
A book an amusing as it is rare is in
the library of a Wlssahickon student.
The work is called "0 Nova Guia da
Conversacao.” it is supposed to in
struct the Portuguese in English con
versation. and the following, a dia
logue headed “For to Ride a Horse," is
the kind of English conversation it sup
plies:
“Here is a horse who have a bad
looks. Give mi another; I will not that.
He not sail know to march, he is pursy,
he is foundered. Don't you are ashamed
to give me a jade as like? He is und-
sboed, lie is with nails up; it want to
lend to the farrier.”
An anecdote in the book is:
“A day came a man to consult this
philosopher for to know at o’clock it
was one to eat ‘if thou art rich, told
him eat when you shall wish; if you
are poor, when you may do.’ ”
in tlie preface the most elegant par
agraph is the following:
“We expect then, who the little book
(for tlie care what we wrote him, and
for her typographical correction) that
may he worth the acceptation of the
studious persons, and especially of the
youth, at which we dedicate him par
ticularly.”
The authors of this strange volume
are Jose da Fonseca and Pedro Caro-
lino. it would he interesting to know
where Pedro and Jose “learned” Eng
lish.—Philadelphia Record.
SatlNfiiMl Hi* Cnrloaitr.
The curiosity of the natives of wild
countries as to everything belonging to
the traveler often leads to amusing sit
uations. Mr. J. W. Wells tells in “Three
Thousand Miles Through Brazil” of his
visit to one settlement where the only
shopkeeper of tlie place proved very
inquisitive. He was a frequent visitor
and would carefully examine the few
belongings of the traveler. His curios
ity was finally punished iu a very fun
ny manner.
On one of his visits, writes Mr. Wells,
he found my bottle of spirits of ammo
nia on Hie table, and, seeing it was
something he had not hitherto inspect
ed, ho naturally laid hold of it aud
asked of me, "What is this?”
“Only a medicine," I replied, aud
with a perhaps unworthy satisfaction
1 watched him hold it up to the light,
look at it all round and finally remove
the glass stopper and then take a good
sniff.
I had to rush forward to save my
precious ammonia, as he staggered aud
gasped for breath and ejaculated, “I
am dying!" By dint of much slapping
of ins back and dousing of cold water
he quickly recovered, hut nevermore
did lie touch any of my things.
After Dinner Oratory.
The fake humorous speaker has an
easier career than even the fake elo
quent speaker. Yet at any given din
ner the orator who passes out mere elo
cution to his hearers has a success al
most as instant and splendid as his
clowning brother, it is amazing what
tilings people will applaud when they
have tlie courage of each other’s inepti
tude. They will listen after dinner to
anything but reason. They prefer also
the old speaker to new ones; they like
the familiar taps of humor, of elo
quence. if they have tasted the brew
before, they know what they are going
to get. The note of their mood is toler
ance, but tolerance of the accustomed,
the expected; not tolerance of the
novel, tlie surprising. They wish to be
at rest, and what taxes their minds mo
lests their intellectual repose. They do
not wish to climb any great heights to
reach the level of the orator.—W. D.
Howells in Harper’s.
A Queer Relic.
In University college, London, is a
singular object that is preserved care
fully in a remote gallery inside a glass
case, which again is contained in a
huge wooden cupboard, the doors of
which are locked aud the keys in safe
custody. The relic which is thus so
zealously guarded is described in some
notes on tlie history of the college as
the “skeleton” of Jeremy Bentham,
“clad iu the garments in which he
lived,” while his head only is stated to
have been “mummified.” It has always
been understood that Bentbam’s body
was embalmed, and in that case it can
not be his mere skeleton which is re
posing tiiere under lock aud key.
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4 k the people of this community
he cannot deliver it to them so
f effectually, so cheaply, so quick
ly in any other way as through
the columns of this paper.
It is the business of this pa
per to carry messages of one
kind and another into homes.
< k The message will be delivered,
too, under favorable conditions,
^ ^ for few persons take up their
local paper except in a pleasant
* and receptive frame of mind.
The sign upon the fence board
f may be good, but it can be seen
only by travelers who go that
particular road. The message
in the local paper carries itself
to thousand 10 matter by which
road they travel.
Select your space and put
^ your message where it will do
the most good.
We, perhape, can help
joa it job will but ask oa.
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