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’? is 114.4^.4.4.^41.1.41^.41 4i4i|iifv A RAILWAY’S NEW MOVE HUNGRY FOR DOG MEAT. i 4 ABNER DANIEL By .. . WILL N. HAR.BEN Author of •• XOtJUr/tW ❖ Erie Road’s Plan to Promote Its Employees. AN AGE LIMIT AGREED UPON. Copyrifjhl. 1902, by HARPER <& BROS., WKoPublub the Work in Book Form. All Righta Reserved • • ! «$m£« arju^suf O CUAF1ER XI. NE morning early In June, as Alan was passing Pole Ba ker’s cabin on his way to Darley, Pole’s wife came out to the fence and stopped him. She was a slender, ill clad woman, who had once been pretty, and her face still had a sort of wistful attractiveness that was appealing to one who knew what she had been through since her mar riage. “Are you goin’ to town, Mr. Alan?” she asked nervously. “Yes, Mrs. Baker,” Alan answered. “Is there anything I can do for you?” She did not reply at once, but came through tiie little gate, which swung on wooden hinges, and stood looking up at him, a thin, hesitating hand on his bridle rein. “I’m afeerd some’n’s happened to Pole,” she faltered. “He hain’t been home fer two whole days an’ nights. It’s about time fer Mm to spree agin, an’ I’m powerful afeerd he’s in trouble. I 'lowed while you was in town that you mought inquire about ’im an’ let me know when you come back. That’d sorter free my mind a little. I didn’t close my eyes all last night” “I’ll do all I can, Mrs. Baker,” Alan promised. “But you mustn’t worry. Pole can take care of himself, drunk or sober. I’ll be back tonight.” Alan rode on, leaving the pathetic figure at the gate looking after him. “I wonder,” he mused, “what Uncle Ab would say about love that has that sort of reward. Poor woman! Pole was her choice, and she has to make the best of It Perhaps she loves the good that’s In the rascal.” lie found Rayburn Miller at his desk making out some legal document. “Take a seat,” said Miller. “I’ll be through in a minute. What’s the news out your way?” he asked as he finished his work and put down his pen. “Nothing new, I believe,” said Alan. •‘I’ve been away for two davs. Not having anything else to ao, i maue u my business to ride over every foot of my father’s big investment, and, to tell you the truth, I’ve come to you with a huge idea. Don’t laugh. I can’t help it. It popped into my head and sticks, that’s all.” “Good! Let me have it” “Before I tell you what it Is,” said Alan, “I want you to promise not to ridicule me. I’m as green as a gourd in business matters. But the idea has hold of me. and I don’t know that ev^ii your disapproval will moke me let it loose.” % v^fj'j^T’s a good way to put it,” laugh ed Miller. “The idea has hold of you, and you can’t let it loose. It applies more closely to investments than any thing else. Once get into a deal and you are afraid to let it go, like the chap * that held the calf and called for help.” “Well, here it is,” said Alan. “I’ve | made up my mind that a railroad can ; apd shall be built from these two main ' lines to my father’s lumber bonanza.” ! Miller whistled. A broad smile in- | gulfed the pucker of his lips, and then his face dropped into seriousness. A j look almost of pity for his friend’s cre dulity and inexperience came into his ! eyes. f . .“I must say you don’t want a little | thing, my boy,” he said indulgently. "Remember you are talking to a fel low that has rubbed up against the moneyed world considerably for a chap ' raised in the country. The trouble with you, Alan, is that you have got heredity to contend with; you are a chip off the old block in spite of your belonging to a later generation. You have inherited your father’s big ideas. You are a sort of Colonel Sellers, who sees millions in everything you look at.” Alan’s face fell, but there remained in it a tenacious expression that won Miller’s admiration even while he de plored it. There was, too, a ring of confidence in the young farmer’s tone i when he replied: “How much would a railroad through that country, eighteen miles in length, cost?” “Nothing but a survey by an expert could answer that even approximate ly,” said the lawyer, leaning back in his creaking chair. “If you had the right of way, a charter from the state and no big tunnels to make nor long bridges to build, you might, I should say, construct the road alone—without locomotives and rolling stock generally —for a litfe matter of one hundred and fifty thousand. I don’t know; I’m only guessing; but it wouldn’t full under that estimate.” “I didn't think it would," replted Alan, growing more enthusiastic. “Now then, if there was a railroad to my fa ther’s property, how much would his 20,000 acres be worth?” Miller smiled again and l>egan to figure on a scrap of paper with a pen- ] cil. “Oh, as for that,” he said, “it would really be worth—standing uncut, ! unsawed, including a world of tan ! bark—at least $25 an acre—say a clear half million for it all. Oh, I know it looks as plain as your nose on your face; things always do on paper. It looks big and it shines; so does a spi der web in the sunshine to a fly; but you don’t want to be a fly, my boy, and you don’t want any spider webs— on the brain anyway.” Alan stood up and walked to the door and back. Finally he shrugged ms uroaa snouiders. "1 don't care what you say,” he declared, bringing his hand down firmly on Miller’s desk. “It will pay, as sure as I’m alive. There’s no getting around the facts. It will take a quarter of a million invest ment to market a half million dollar bunch of timber, with the land thrown lx I “/’m afeerd some'n’s happened to Pole,' xhc faltered. in and the traffic such a road would secure to help pay expense^. There are men iu the world looking for such opportunities, and I’m going to give somebody a •lianee.” "i hi have not look'd deep enough into it. my 1 oy.” mildly protested Mil ler. "You haven't figured on the enor mous expense of running such a road and the dead loss of the investment after the luni! ■r is moved out. You’d have a railroad property worth a quar ter of a million on your hands. I can’t piake you see my position. I simply say tojou Ujjit^wouldn’t touch a deal like that with‘a ten foot pole.” Alan laughed good naturedly ajjie laid his hand on his friend's shoulder, “f reckon you think Urn off;” he said, “but soouer or later I’m goiug''to put this tiling through. Do you hear me? I’ll put it through if it takes ten years to do it. I want to make the old man feel that he has not made such a fool of himself. I want to get even with the Thompson crowd and Perkins and everybody that is now poking fun at a helpless old man. I shall begin by raising money some way or other to pay taxes and hold on to every inch of the ground.” Miller’s glanee fell before the fierce fin? of Alan’s eyes, and for the first time his tone wavered. “Well,” he said, “you have the stuff in you that big speculators are made of, and I may simply be prejudiced against the scheme on account of your father’s blind plunging and what some men would call overcautiousuess on my part. 1 may be trying to prevent what you really ought to do, but I am advising you as a friend. I only know I would be more cautious. Of course you may try. You’d not lose in doing that; in fact, you’d gain experience. I should say that big dealers in lumber are the men you ought to see first. They know the values of such invest ments, and they are reaching out iu all directions now. They have cleaned up the timber near the railroads.” This story will be continued in next Friday’s issue. lint Life Saved by Chamberlain'M Colit-, Cholera aud Diarrhoea Remedy. L. Byer, a well known cooper of this town, says he believes Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy saved his life lust summer. He hud been sick for a month with what the doctors call bilions dysentery, and could get nothing to do him any good until he tried this remedy. It gave him im mediate relief,” says B. T. Little, merchant, Hancock, Md. For sale by Cherokee Drug Co , Gaffney and L D. Aliison, Cowpens. There is more real joy comes to the heart of the good man who feeds the hungry than comes to the heart of the tyrant who captures a whole na tion for plunder. * Cored Hemorrhage* of the Lung*. “Several years since my lungs were so badly affected that I had many hemorrhages,” writes A. M. Ake, of Wood, Ind. “I took treatment with several physicians without any bene fit. I then started to take Fohy’s Honey and Tar and my lunga are cow as sound as a bullet. I recommend It in advanced atages of lung trouble.” Cherokee Drug Co. Recently Enitjtffeil iicrkn Who at the Age of Thirty-five Have Not Mude Record* In Their Work Are Itc«liir*tcd to ItrMign—Action Tak en to I’rotect Old Men. The Erie railroad lias promulgated an ordor calling for the resignations of all clerks recently engaged who at the age of thirty-five have not advanced, says the New York American. The resignations must be forwarded to the offices of the company within a few days, because the officials feel that there is uo chance for men who at thirty-five have not demonstrated their executive ability. The men who are doomed to leave are those who have entered the com- nany’s employment since May 1, 1001, ind in an apologetic way the officials <ay that there are comparatively few who will be affected. In the future, however, no man who has reached the ige limit will be given employment in the clerkship grade by the big railroad. “Men who have become thirty-live without succeeding at something else have little chance to take up railroad work.” is the explanation of Secretary Granville A. Richardson. President Underwood, however, does not put it in the same way. He says; “The road owes a duty to men in its employ for the major part of their lives. It is constantly making provision for these men. It is an injustice to them to have men Avho have seen their best days in other lines enter our employ. It is to protect our old em ployees that the order is Issvied. It is fair to assume that a man who has worked at some other business for the bettor part of his life is too well grounded to be of special value to a railroad company. The aim is to em ploy young men who wish to make rail roading their business.” “The employment and training of railroad employees is a great problem, which can best be appreciated by those who are frequently the victims of bad judgment In railroad offices. This is what we are trying to remedy,” said Secretary Richardson. “We do not say that a man who has been in the railroad business for some rears is useless at thirty-five if he has not advanced, for he has at least learn- sd the routine. The fact that he is still in the business, however, shows that there lias been some defect in the sys tem that kept him when he was young. He should have been dropped long be fore. “Railroading principles should be taught while the brain is young. The younger the better, and in the future any man who asks us for employment will have to give a very strong explana tion of why lie has failed in other ca pacities if he is anywhere near thirty- five. “Our idea now is to get as many bright young boys as possible to go on the lowest rounds of the ladder to ad vance the others to the vacancies that will be made. By always hfly^ngjpocl material at the bottom it will be possi ble to advance the various grades as the good jobs at the top are opened, in stead of going to other companies to get high salaried men while our own wonder why It happens that way. “First, wc want to protect our old men, and, secondly, make It unneces sary to go to other offices for good em ployees.” In view of this action of the Erie It is interesting to note the men who have accomplished things after the age of thirty-five. Julius Ca-sar was thirty-nine years old before lie received his first impor tant military command. Oliver Cromwell was a very unimpor tant figure until he Avas nearly forty, when he girded on the armor which a few years later began to identify him with England's history. Christopher Columbus was nearly forty when he went to Ferdinand and Isabella with his plan for the discov ery of new continents, and it was not until he was forty-six that he started on his voyage. General Grant was a town character In the west until he was almost forty. George Washington had settled back into the indolent life of a Virginia planter when, at forty-two, he was called upon to undertake the great work which resulted in our freedom. Admiral Farragut was still a navy captain at fifty-four, and it was in the later years of his life that he became a distinguished admiral. At forty Lord Nelson had done little and was involved personally and po litically, yet seven years after he died on the deck of the Victory one of Eng land’s most famous men. William the Conqueror was forty when he was crowned king of Eng land, and he afterward earned his title. Napoleon at forty and in the five subsequent years of bis life was at the height of ids career. Martin Luther was thirty-eight be fore the world began to hear from him in a ►ay that changed religious his tory. Abraham Lincoln was forty-nine when in his discussions in his sena torial campaign the country first heard his antislavery utterances. To Be a Sculptor. Marlette Benedict Thompson, the granddaughter of the first Bishop Pot ter of New York. Is entering the field of sculpture at Florence. She is in the early twenties and as yet has never been in America, having been born In Paris. Filipino* Appeal to Autliorltlen For the “God Given Lux ary.” Broiled dog, fried dog and sundry other forms of dog are considered del icacies by the Igorrotes of the northern province of the Philippines, writes the Washington correspondent of the Chi cago Chronicle. According to advices Just received at Washington Colonel E. C. Carter. Manila commissioner of public health, has received a gentle hint from Pro vincial Governor William G. I’eck, at Baguio, Benguet, not to waste this “God given delicacy.” Ilis appeal is couched In the follow ing terms: “I know that some of the depart ments under your charge are killing dogs and throwing them away to get rid o€ them. Now, my people, you know, consider dog a God given lux ury. “Will it not be possible in one way or another for you to send me 100, 200 or 500 dogs that you want to get rid of to San Fernando, where I will have Igorrotes waiting to bring them over the trail to me here in Baguio? “The feast subsequent to such an event would make gods and men won der. Now, see if we cannot make such an arrangement.” It is understood the request will be cheerfully, complied with by Colonel Carter. Manila is full of stray dogs, and he would give something handsome to get rid of them. The natives and Europeans there don’t seem to consider them gastronomic luxuries. Constipation 'Makes Biliousness ■ and Bad Complexions. fThen where’s your beauty? Keep the system in good condition, fend all the organs healthy, by taking pwsfte itnd Tonic Pellet*, which gently assist Nature in elimi- ■Ring the poison, and at the same tiftie make good tftod. good digestion, good health, and Will keep The Rosea in Year Cheohs. Free Sample and Booklet at all dealfts Complete Treatment . *5 d *y s *5 «**• “For sale by Cherokee Drug Company Brass Rules Brass Leads Brass Leaders Brass Galleys Metal Borders On the MnNNacre In Tnrkey. How long, O slumbering conscience of the world, Wrapt in thy dreams of empire and of gold— How Jong shall this dread tale of blood be told While all the banners of thy wrath are furled? How long to heaven shall the cry be hurled Of slaughtered babes—the firstlings of the fold— With nameless shames and terrors man ifold And smoke of cot and temple upward curled? Has greed of gain and power thus shackled thee. Conscience of mail, vain of thy free control And boastful of the centuries’ star- ward flight? What shall the Judgment of the Lord God be When he shall charge thee with thy brother's soul? Shalt thou be numbered on the left or right? O strange, gray world, O world half soul, half brute. World with the prayer of sainthood on thy tongue. World where tho song of angels has been sung, Yet mute, dumb world, with all the de mons mute! Loud voiced enough thy boastings vain to suit. Loud voiced enough when glory’s chimes are rung. When fame's abroad and victor flags are flung— These are thy blossoms and thy chosen fruit. Yet think'st thou not, gray world, with all thy power, With all thy trumpetlngs of old pre tense That thou to mercy owest a moment’s span? I tell thee that thou yet shalt see the hour— An hour of dread, an hour of recom pense— And that stern hour shall know the rights of man! —John Jerome Rooney In New York Times. Stomach Trouble. “I have been troubled with my stomach for the past four years,” says D. L. Beach, of Clover Nook Farm, Greenfield, Mass. “A f«w <)oS F'illker’t Streot days ago I was induced to buy a box — mi of Chamberlain’s Stomach and Liver Tablets. I have taken part of them and feel a great deal better.” If you have any trouble with your stomach try a box of these Tablets. You are certain to be pleased with the result. Price 25 cents. For sale by Cherokee Drug Co., Gaffney, and L. D. Allison, Cowpens. — Distrust any form of religious emo* tion which seems to make you God’s fivorite, or to matk those who enjoy their particular ecstacy as a “peculiar people.”—Rev. C. F. Dole. A Purgative PleaHure. If you ever took DeWitt’s Little Early Risers for biliousness or con stipation you know what a purgative pleasure is. These famous little pills cleanse the liver and rid the system of all bile without producing un- pleisant effects. They do not gripe, sicken or weaken, but give tone and strength to the tissues and organs involved. W. H. Howell of Houston, Tex., says “No better pill can be used than Little Early Risers tor constipation, sick headache, etc.” Sold by Cherokee Drug Co. Commercial Printing Of every descriptioi executed with neatness and dispatch at 1 he Ledger office, Gaffney, S. C. New Type, New Presses, the finest quality of Ink and Paper, and Compe tent Workmen. Send us your orders. To Printers: We jMaftufacture the very Highest Grade of Leads and Slugs L. S. MetalJFurniture Metal| Leaders Spaces and Quads Metal Quoins ■Send us a memo, of just what you reouire, and let us quote you prices. We are not in any trust or combination, and you will be agreeably surprised at what we can save you over the regular prices. Old column rules refaced and made good as new, at a very small cost. Highest prices paid for old type,pleads, elec tros, brass, etc. PHILADELPHIA PRINTERS SUPPLY CO. IrMiiliiclolpliiii, JRa. If You Want The People To 5ee Your Advertisement, letlit be legal advertising or otherwise, you must necessarily place it. in The Ledger. It is thejonly paper in Cherokee county read by the masses. The man who can send a huge vol ume of smoke from his chimney these days has somewhat of a right to feel a trifle puffed up. A New JerMey Editor’* Testimonial. M. T. Lynch, Editor of the Philips- burg, N. J. Daily Post, writes: “I have used many kinds of medicines for coughs and colds in my family but never anything so good as Foley’s Honey and Tar. I cannot say too much in praise of it.” Cherokee Drug Co. Lots of poor men are the architects of other men’s fortunes. Hancocks’s Liquor Sulphur will give you immediate relief aud per- manetly cure all such diseases as Eczema, Pimples, Tetter, Herpes, Ringworm, Dandruff, Diphtheria, Sore Throat, Cuts Burns, Open Sores, and all blood and skin troubles. Hun dreds of cases of skin diseases have been permanently cured by the uac of Haucock’a Liquid Sulphur after all other remedies failed. For sale by the Cherokee Drug Co. To Printers and Publishers Please note that we are Authorized Agents l^Or Tbe National Gompositype Co., Sole Manufacturers of Tbe Antomatic Type Casting Machine or Sort Caster With this Machine a Printer can make all his own Type from 8 to 26pt., also Borders, Ornaments, Leaders, Spaces and Quads, etc., as perfect in every respect and at the same low prices they now cost the Type Foundry. Write for particulars and Catalogue. The Phitadefnhia Printers’ Supply Co. 908 FILBERT STREET, PHILADELPHIA, PA.