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The: T-vh:i>oe:i*. PDBLI8HKD TUESDAY AND FRIDAY. BY Ed. H. DeCamp. should we develop a remarkable gift some newspaper with capital would have us before you could snap your finger. No, there is nothing ex- Peter’s Kingdom Com- traordioarily brilliaat about Tbe Lad- ; ^ ^ Square Miles ger, and it does not lay claim to brilliancy, but for downright news- FACTS ABOUT SERVIA. charlotte_cushman. MAP OF GROWING GRAIN tbe views of correspondents Oorrespondents who do not contri bute regular news letters must fur nish their name, not for publication, but for identification. Write short letters and to the point it in readable shape, it ranks at the topmost round of county journalism ! Only About a Third In Tilled—Main and is worth two times over the price charged for it. It gives a third more for the money than any other Bitter Ending of the One Love Affair of the Famous Actress. Charlotte Cushman, the actress, was in love but once in her life. She met in Cincinnati, where she was playing, an actor named Clark, with whom she fell i l T -rmmT p nr mTTp T . njjj m-rTT reT.T> iu love - Through her efforts Clark was The Ledger is not responsible for gathering and the ability to present LII ILL Ux inij LAhD UUL1IVATED advanced to leading m;4i in the com pany, and the course of true love ran smoothly. One night the actress met a strange woman behind the scenes between the acts. 'The woman came up to her and ad dressed her thus: “You are Charlotte Cushman, the great actress. Haven’t you got enough men to admire you without coming be tween man and wife and robbing me of my husband?" “Y’our husband!” cried Miss Cush man, getting excited. “Y'es, and you have taken or you are trying to take him from me,” contin ued the ragged woman, looking Miss Cushman full in the face. “Who is your husband?” “Conrad Clark,” replied the woman, Novel Feature of the St. Louis World’s Fair. SEVEEAL ACEES TO BE PLANTED. 4 to insure publication; also endeavor new per in g out k Carolina, and it to get them to the office by on ay , ^ we jj thought of by its contem- Obituaries will be published at five poranes that its ideas and style have cents a line. been copied at home acd abroad. Reading notices will be published , we are no t brilliant, but we are at ten cents a line each insertion. hustlers, and that counts for lack of All correspondence should bead- . ah vjuncopu _ brilliancy. Now is the time to sub dressed to Ed. H. DeCamp, Manager. NOTES AND COMMENTS. scribe—only $1 a year. CONTRACT AWARDED MUIr Mr. Avery’s comment on Bishop Smith in last Sunday’s Charlotte Ob server is anything else but idle. For the Reconstructlou of Cliftou Nor. 1 amt 2. [Columbia State.] Spartanburg, June 20—The con tract for tearing down and removing The brilliant editor of the Columbia the debris at Clifton mills Nos. 1 and State is afflicted with an impediment 2, and for the erection of two large of speech, but the most critical can- factories at these two places has been not detect it in his writing. ^ to the big contracting firm of Thompson & Co., of Birmingham, Ala. The governor of Pennsylvania calls ! ^ his bui ]t the Olympia mill in Columbia and the Buffalo mill near a distinguished cartoonist a hired Ifc . g 8tated tbttt the rebui | d . outcast.” But the cartoonist has ing of the tw0 ciifton mills will cost about made an outcast of the gov- something like $180,000. Thompson ernor ifc Co. will have a large wrecking and ^ clearing force at work on tho scenes . -4. i : n next week. The rebuilding of these An agitation has been started in n e plants means that the 43,024 spindles favor of changing the name of the and 1 440 loomS) tb e sum total of Protestant Episcopal church, and the these two factories’ equipment, which “AmericanjChurch” is being suggest- was silenced by the recent flood, will ed as a suitable one. in the Dear ta 1 tur t e a * ai ° be ^ ^ ^ ^ a merry sound of industry along the banks of the treacherous Pacolet. Crop* Are Wheal. Maise, Meadow Graan and I’lnma—The Pier In Ihe Chief Sonree of Commercial Wealth. One Principal Railway. The kingdom of Servla, the scene of the recent tragic assassination of its king, queen and some ministers of state, is situated in the interior of the Balkan peninsula, south of the Save and the Danube, being bounded by Rou- mania and Bulgaria on the east and Bosnia on the west, says the Philadel phia Public Ledger. Including the por tions added by the Berlin treaty of 1878, it comprises 18,030 square miles. The kingdom has a population of “the father of this child,” pointing to a 2,500,000, of which 09,000 reside in Bel- | ba jf starved, thin little child In her grade, the capital, which is situated anus. Booker T. Washington says lynch- ings are the cause of sending a great many of the negroes of the south to the larger cities. He claims they are sssnred of police protection there, NEGRO MURDERER CAUGHT on the Danube river. The state re ligion is Greek Orthodox. According to the official census reports, there were in Servla in 1895 2,281,018 Greek Orthodox communicants, 10,411 Roman Catholics, 1,002 Protestants, 5,102 Jews and 14,414 Mohammedans. In 1874 only 4 per cent of the popula tion could read and write; in 1884, 10 per cent; in 1890, 14 per cent. The per centage of illiteracy is being reduced rapidly, for elementary education is now compulsory. For governmental purposes the coun try Is divided into seventeen depart ments or provinces. The constitution vo* -d by the national assembly, or skupshtlna, In 1889 continued in force until 1894, when it was repealed by King Alexander and an older com titu- tion adopted in 1809 was revived. In April, 1901, the crown granted the people a new constitution, which was, however, revoked by Alexander in the coup of a few weeks ago. “No country Is more deserving of jelng called a democracy than Servla,” said De Lavelye after returning from a tour of the Balkan states. The Turk ish beys having been driven away in Miss Cushman started as if she bad been shot. She went through her part that night as usual—acted It splendidly—brought down the' house; then, after the per formance, she sent for Clark to come to her dressing room. Clark knocked and then opened the door. She brought for ward to him his wife and baby, who had been waiting in the dressing room to receive him. Such a reception! Charlotte Cushman never looked or acted so grandly on the stage in all her life as she did that night In her dressing room. She waved Clark away with a greater majesty than ever as Queen Catherine she waved away Cardinal WoLsoy, and then going to her hotel probably she had a good crying spell. But she never loved again. SAYINGS OF THE WISE. Deputy Sheri IT 11. S. I.lpBcomh Captun d Will Surratt Near Fort Mill. Will Sarratt. a negro, was arrest d whereas they arc not in the smaller yesterday morning by Deputy She iff places- B. 8. Lipscomb, of Cherokee coun y, , _ ^ ^ ** . . . ! S- D., at Wiley's Dam, near P irt the wars of independence, the Servian Gaffney s Pourth|of July celebration jyj.jj peasants found themselves absolute will go by default this year. However g drratt ig charged wifh the mur- owners of the lands they occupied much we might wish to provide a day der of Rich Ha | e at Blacksburg ou i wl tbout any one above them. Each of amusement for our people, tbe con- the 8th of last March, and since the faniily owns the ground it tills and sensus of opinion seems to be that it killing Sanatt has been a fugitive 1 t r U ■ or,d ehaf neo. froai justice. The murder was the is too late to begin a P outcome of a quarrel over a game of pie are too busy for a day of frivolity. card3t ♦ ♦♦♦ Sheriff Lipscomb arrived in the Wage earners of Chicago have over c jty yesterday afternoon with his $100,000,000 '4 up for a rainy prisoner. day. And S’ili ■ Iub'iring men are An Ideal Country Home, howling about hard times and oppres-; Mayor John Q. Little and Con- sion, and are striking upon every t rue tor Curry spent Sunday with Mr. vest they all join in a friendly least flimsy pretext obtainable. Some peo- j 0 hn Bently at his home near Asbury. with the most primitive tools draws from it a livelihood. In the country there are few day laborers, for no Servian cares to be another man's serv ant. Even the cooks and table wait ers come, as a rule, from Hungary or Croatia. When a farmer Is not able to attend to his own crops he turns to his neighbors, who gives him a help ing band, and at the close of the har- ple never know when they are well off. Dr. Nicholas Sen, one of the five lightful features. Mayor Little says American delegates to the Interna- tb at Mr. Bentley is a model farmer tional Medical Congress at Madrid, and fruit-grower and that his home says that war in the near future will >8 an ideal country home. He has , , . ... . . .. on - of the finest gardens in Cherokee lose a large share of its horrors by the county which i8 B tended 8olely by hi8 universal adoption of an antiseptic The holdings vary In size from ten to thirty acres. In 1897 the number They were treated to an excellent din- 0 f proprietors was 293,421. The chief ner in which splendid home-raised crops are wheat, maize, meadow grass country ham and chickens were de- f<> r forage, and plums, the latter ex ported largely In the form of marma lade, which enjoys a high reputation. Only about a third of (the country is The eyes of other people are the eyes that ruin us.—Franklin. If you would know and not be known, live hi a city.—Colton. The way of the world is to make laws, but follow customs.—Montaigne. We carry happiness into our condi tion, but cannot hope to find it there.— Holmes. Prosperity is no just scale. Adver sity is the only balance to weigh friends.—Plutarch. Children are unconscious philoso phers. They refuse to pull to pieces their enjoyments to see what they arc made of.—Henry Ward Beecher. Energy will do anything that can be done in this world, and no talents, no circumstances, no opportunities, will make a two legged animal a man with out it—Goethe. Great, ever fruitful, profitable for re proof, for encouragement, for building up in manful purposes and works, are the words of those that iu their day were men.—Carlyle. dressing for gunshot wounds. The new method of treating wounds pro vides for an immediate application of an antiseptic which prevents infec tion, and is a boon to humanity. It should be adopted by the police and fire departments of cities and by the country home armies of the world. Since its use in tbe Spauisb-Americau war and in tbe Philippines this device has been greatly simplified and by its use on the battlefield wonderful results in preventing mortality tre obtained. mother-in-law, who prides herself on her fine productions. With fine crops, a large garden full of all kinds of vegetables, orchards of magnificent fruit and a larder full of delicious homo-raised ham, Hour and other farm productions, it is no won der that Mr. Bentley has a model cultivated, much of what remains being under wood. The pig has been to Servla, like the herring to Holland, the chief source of her commercial wealth. Innumer able herds of these animals, almost wild, fatten In the glades of the vast oak forests of the central part of the country. Before the day of American bacon they used to be driven in great herds to the Danube, to be exported to Austria and Hungary. Still, In 1900 there were nearly 1,000,000 hogs In Serviu, and a considerable number are sent away each year for foreign -eon- Mr, Sterrltt’M InveHtlKHtioiiH. Mr. D. B. Sterritt, of the U. S. Geological Survey, who has been here sumption, though the trade Is of less for a weekjmaking a survey of the tin Importance than formerly Some dis- , ... , 4.u i j o tricts are famous, too, for their horses, deposit found on the land of Capt. 8, . . ’ F . oxen and sheep. S. Ross, left yesterday for Washing- There are almost no manufactories too. Mr. Sterritt was very much in Servla except Hour mills and brew- A peculiar, and to some people em barrassing, state of affairs has de veloped from our occupation of the Philippines. Quite a number of army officers and a larger number of en listed men contracted Fillipino mar riages with some of tbe young and pretty native women, never thinking that they would be held valid in tbe mother country. But the powers that be bold otherwise, and tbe officers and men will be compelled to receive and support their native spouses, whether they like it or not. The department is right. The matrimonial bond is too sacred to be handled in such a man ner by an American soldier or citizen, and especially in our dealings with people for whom we should set an example in morality. These gay Lotharios have made their own beds, now let them lie on them, whether they be of feathers or stones. ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ Notwithstanding the fact that The Ledger is the best semi-weekly news paper in South Carolina for tbe mon ey,$1 a year, we overheard a gentleman remark tbe other day that he did not see anything extraordinarily brilliant in It. Now that was a Gaffney man who has stock in this paper. We wonder if it ever occurred to this * gentleman that if there was anything extraordinarily brilliant about the editor of this paper if he could be held in Gaffney or any other town of tbe same size. We wonder if he don’t know that there is always a de mand for genius and brilliancy far in excess of the supply, and that pleased at this result of his investi gation and pronounces the one of an excellent grade. His report will be turned over to tbe Department ai Washington after which it will be published. Mr. Sterritt’s survey ox- eries. Various kinds of lignite and coni are mined in tolerably large quan tities, and other minerals are found, though nowhere abundantly. The Im port trade in 1901 was valued at 44,- 035,428 dinars, or about $55,000,000, PeditfreeM of Arabian IIorMCN. The Arabs have no written pedi grees. It is all an affair of memory and of notoriety In the tribe. Certain alleged pedigrees of Arabian horsi-s, couched In romantic language and rep resented as carried in a small hag and hung by a cord around the animal’s neck, have been published, hut these are forgeries got up probably by horse dealers, Egyptian, Syrian or Persian. The breeding of every horse is a mat ter of common knowledge, and It would be impossible for his owner to fabricate pedigree so as to deceive the natives, even if he were so inclined. The Bedouins, it seems necessary to admit, are in general great liars, and they will lie (to a stranger) about the age, the qualities or the ownership of a horse, but they will not lie about his pedigree, even when they can do so with impunity. To be truthful on this subject is almost a matter of religion, certainly a point of honor in the des ert—Atlantic. tended from Gaffney to King’s Moun- and the export trade at about $80,- tain and ten miles beyond. He was assisted in his work by Caot. Ross. .The Merry-Go-Kound. The merry-go-round is in the city, is prominently located and the young men in charge are quiet, orderly look ing fellows bent on business. It be gan business early Saturday afternoon and coQtiuued till about 11 o’clock, and from reports we get, and the noise it and the crowd about it kept up we imagine it bad a bonanza. From all accounts tho negroes furnished the rides and enjoyed It hugely. Merrv-go-rounds are all right in their places, but their place is not in tbe central part of anv city. MIrm Porter Gone Home. Miss Lela Porter, a daughter of our worthy fellow citizen, Mr. R. E. 000,000. Servla has cue principal railway line, 230 miles in length, and several branch lines. Of highways there are 3,495 miles. The navigation on the Danube, mostly in the hands of for eign steamship companies, is of com mercial importance to the kingdom. The country has 12(5 post offices and 2,350 miles of telegraph lines. The full war strength of Servla, counting in the militia. Is probably about 300,000 men. Anluialn That Delljrht to Play. In animals tho faculty of amusement awakes very early. Our four footed friends seem to he aware of this and make it a part of their parental duties to amuse their young. A ferret will play with her kittens, a cat with hers, a dog with her puppies. A mare will play with her foal, though the writer has never seen a cow try to amuse her calf nor any birds their young. If their mothers do not amuse them, the young ones invent games of their own.—Lou don Tit-Bits. LlNrhtntnK Decoratea a Boy. Destructive thunderstorms have re cently occurred at lloosick Falls, N. Y. Lightning has done no little damage, and its pranks have caused much com ment, says the New Y'ork Press. One Ijolt struck a small district school at Lake Lauderdale, tore up part of the flooring and stunned the teacher and | The Coldnean of Space. Away out in space is a cold so intense that we fairly fail to grasp Its mean ing. Perhaps 300 or 400 degrees below the freezing point of water, some phi losophers think, are the dark recesses beyond our atmosphere. And night and day, summer and winter, this insati ate space is robbing us of our heat and fighting with demoniac power to re duce our globe to its own bitter chill. Monnter Exhibit Showlntr Chief Crop* Grown In Every Part of the United States and Method of Hals- Inn Them—Boundary Clues Be tween Stntes Marked by Cinder Pnths Which Will Be Used ns Promenades. Growing on six acres of a gentle southern slope of Tesson hill, at the Louisiana Purchase exposition, St. Louis, is the largest geographically cor rect map ever constructed, says the Chicago Inter Ocean. This map if 480 feet long from east to west and extends from north to south 240 feet. The map is the main feature of the large opeu air exhibit by the bureau of plant Industry of the depart ment of agriculture and is personally superintended by I) A. Brodie, late su perintendent of the western Washing ton experiment station, under the di rection of Professor W. J. Spillman, agrostologist of the United States de partment of agriculture. The several acres were fenced off early in April, and the entire tract was richly fertilized. The ground was plowed and harrowed, the soil pulver ized and the entire tract sowed to cowpeas. This crop not only enriches the soil, but prevents the growth of weeds and will render subsequent plowing unnecessary. As the crops to be grown will he required to he planted at intervals up to a short time before the opening of the exposition further plowing would prove impracticable. When an exhibit is ready to be in stalled the gardeners simply pvill up the cowpeas covering the space requir ed. The ground is found to be in recep tive condition and requires but little work upon It. The monster map is, of course, the main feature of this comprehensive ex hibit, and the crop grown on this small farm will cost the government consid erably more than $1,000 per acre. A belt of blue grass lawn twenty feet wide establishes the boundary and coast lines of this gigantic map. The boundary lines between states are marked by cinder paths three feet wide. The territory comprising the fourteen states and territories of the Louisiana purchase is marked by a white gravel walk. The states them selves are to be planted in growing crops of the principal agricultural products of the state. The cinder and gravel walks serve as promenades and are of sufficient width to permit the free passage of visitors. Thus a labyrinth of passage ways is created, and the visitor may wend his way through the maze and see by actual demonstration Just what crops are grown In every part of the United Stntes and how they are raised. The cereals will be the features of the great northwest, while down in Florida will be seen growing the pineapple and orange and other semltropical fruits and crops. Tobacco will be a prominent feature of Kentucky’s allot ment, while sugar enno and cotton will be fsumd growing in the plots of ground representing other southern states. Not only will the products of each state be shown on this map by grow ing crops, hut the section of the state on which each commodity is most grown will he shown. In the great northwestern state of Washington the map at St. Louis shows that wheat, coni, potatoes, hay and the wild grasses that thrive in the semiarid districts are more largely grown in the eastern portion, while in the west hay, clover, vetches, timothy, orchard hay and grasses, hops, strnwlwirriog, rasp berries and blackberries are more grown. Thus on the small plot of ground that represents one great state will be found a score of different crops grow ing. There will be no actual dividing line between the growing crops, though In the cases of the various grasses, wheat, barley and buckwheat the line Is as distinctly drawn by a wave of color as Is the line that divides the muddy waters of the Mississippi from those of the comparatively clear Ohio tt the junction of the two rivers at Cairo, 111 To Reform the English Gypar. Gypsy Reuben Smith, a prominent member of his race in England, has set for himself the task of reforming the gypsies of that country. He has pur chased a tract of land and has made the attempt to colonize thereon the members of several tribes. He believes that with proper training and educa tion the gypsy can be weaned from his roving habits and be made a useful member of a community. We believe thoroughly in advertising. To prove it we are going to use this space for our own pur poses. We have advertis ing space to sell, and we know it will pay a good return upon the price we charge for it if it is prop erly used. Our paper goes into the best homes in this community. It has been going week after week and year after year until each issue is welcomed as an old friend of the family. The news it brings is news of neighbors, of per sonal affairs in which all have more or less of a com mon interest. If one of our readers called upon you, a merchant, you would do the best you could to con vince him that what you had for sale was the best he could buy. You would show him the new things you had got in recently. You would tell him why he should have them and why they were better than he coul d procure elsewhere. You probably would make a sale. Your effort, however, would be con- fined to one person. You could tell the same story just as effectively to every reader of this paper in each issue. You do not believe it would have the same ef fect? If you told the story in the same way it would. We are ready to do our part to prove it. Do you care to try it? 4 Wanted. ^^Advertisements under this he:id will oe Inserted for one cent a word each inser tion. No ad Inserted for less than ten cents ANTED>—Scrap Iron, brass, etc. K. T. Wilkins & Go. ti-2-tf w W ANTED—To make straight loans on city real estate. No commissions. Several thousand dollars to loan. Apr‘2i)-tf J. 0. Jefferies. For Sale. pern vn SALE—Two Jersey milk cows with young calyes. J. 11. Bentley, Asbury, S.C. <i-2o-lt-pd. F OB SA LE—One mare five yearsold. J El> Jefferies. F OB SALE House and lot near Second Bap tist Church. Butler & Osborne. 5-2D-tf Money Loaned. L OANS on Improved farms for a term of years at seven per cent. Interest. No com missions. For Information apply to J. C. Jefferies. Attorney at Law. 11-iMyr IwOJYTMED ON COUNTKY Oil CITY RKAL ESTATE AT 0 PEK G. W. Sl'EEK, Attorney at Law. »°NEY CENT. ■ IX I ,1A UL- LOANS NEGOTIATED FOB BORROWERS ON REAL ESTATE BUTLER & OSBORNE ATTORNEYS WANTED: To buy your milk, fat or poor cattle Will sell milk cows on installment or for cash, whichever you desire. Will ex change milk cattle for beef or yearlings. 4-7-imo W. D. KIRBY & CO. For Rent. polt KENT-Nice six room cottage close to J - business part of town—Well and Artesian i water—Possession July 1st. R. S. Lipscomb. (!-!»-12-1(5-1#. TITANTED—One thousand dollars in Cou- pons. I pay 75c cash for a dollar or liOc In trade, W. J. Maness. ti-19-lt Porter, of Cherokee township, who gix of her pupils. A boy named Ackley Better Lett Unsaid, has for the past season been with was hurled from his seat unconscious. Mrs. Homer—You can’t go home Carroll, Carpenter & Byars in the Another hoy named Randall was draw- while It Is raining so. Stay and have millinery department, went home ,n « a P lunt 0,1 the blackboard at the 1 dinner with us. Thursday to spend the summer llme of thfi < rnsh - He complained of months. Miss Lela is an accom- an odd sensation in his side, and upon plished young woman, dilllgent In the examination It was found tbe picture discharge of her duties with decision on the blackboard had been reproduced on his side. Doctors say the shock drew the blood to the surface of his body and made the reproduction possi ble. of character and a modest ladylike deportment in all the walks of life which make her a true woman. gammer Weather. Summer is here, and you will want to use more or less cold bread. So be sure to order Bransford’s “Clifton” flour. It makes a light, white loaf that retains the moisture longer than any soft winter wheat flour. We guarautee it. W. J. Wilkins & Co. World’* Highest Canal Lock. The lock to be placed In the Danube- Oder canal will be 131 feet high and the highest In the world. The Aus trian minister of commerce has offered prizes of 100,000, 75,000 and 00,000 crowns for the best plans for it Mr. Witless—Ob, no, thank you. It Isn’t as bad as all that—Chicago News. Gossip. “Isn’t that merely idle gossip?” “Gossip, my dear,” answered Miss Cayenne, “la never Idle. It la the most Industrious thing on earth.”—Waablng- ton Star. Walt Till Yoa’re Cooler. If you get mad at a mau, make up your mind what you’re going to say, and then don’t say It—Baltimore Newa. Time For the Sommer Girl. Pack away In camphor bags Or within the cedar chest ▲11 the gladsome winter ragsi Give the furs their summer rest Get the airy shirt waist out And the parasol unfurl; June is here, and It’s about Time for you, sweet summer girt Skirts of linen and pique Daintily again you’ll swing; Tweeds and velvets put away; Serge is now the proper thing. Tou anticipate, no doubt, Something of a giddy whirl; June is here, and it’s about Time for you, sweet summer gill. Don ths perforated boss And ths little low cut shoes; Lay in powder for your nose; Borne cucumber lotion choose. Practice smile and pretty pout; Rearrange the cunning curl. /Une is here, and it’s about Tims for you, sweet summer girl. —Chicago Newa FOR Up-to-Date Job Print ing, call at the LEDGER Office. Gaffney, S. C. New Painters. Wo are not exactly new painters, having been In the business for several years, but we are a new Arm In the painting business. Experience has taught us that the laborer does the work while the contractor gets the credit and the money. We want the credit and the money for the work, so have formed a co-partnersnlp to do a general painting business. We solicit the work of the people of Gaffney and surrounding country, prom ising first-class work at the lowest living prices, guaranteeing satisfaction. Carriage painting a specialty. Call on or write us and we will give you prices that will make It Interesting. CAINES & RAMSEY, Shop next deor to Steam Lanndry, GAFFNEY, 8. C.