The ledger. [volume] (Gaffney City, S.C.) 1896-1907, January 17, 1905, Image 2
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THE LEDGER.
Tuesday and Friday,
Ed. H. DeCamp, Editor and Publisher,
A. W. Griffith, Local Editor.
for
at
The Ledger la not responsible
the views of correspondents.
Obiturarles will be published
live cents a line.
Correspondents who do not contri
bute regular news letters must fur
nish their name, not for publication, The man was
but for identification.
All correspondence should be ad-
dessed to Ed. H. DeCamp, Manager.
Sufficient Punishment.
With a solmen mien and an air sedate,
Si. Peter stood guard at the golden
gate,
When up to the top of the golden stair
Applied for admission. They came and
stood
Before St. Peter, so great and good.
In hopes the City of Peace to win.
And asked St. Peter to let them in.
The woman, was tall, and big and
gaunt,
Her corkscrew curls stood up rampant;
short, and thick and
SELFISHNESS.
The following article is from the pen
of A. B. Williams, the gifted editor
of the Richmond News-Leader. We
reproduce it because it pictures so
nicely and so truthfully the one great
defect in human nature—selfishness;
and because it may be the means of
causing some, if not many, to study
themselves more and resolve to re
medy this defect in their own natures
instead of “prescribing" so liberally
for other people;
“It is a familiar, funny and pathet
ic fact of human nature that most of
us find selfishness everywhere in the
world except in ourselves. No one of
us has the right to he satisfied with
himself nor any special right to he
dissatisfied with the world, but we go
on from our first consciousness to the
final fading away of consciousness sat
isfied with ourselves and dissatisfied
with our communities and the world
in general. All of us are victims of
the drug habit. Every day of our
lives we distill somewhere within our
selves narcotics which we proceed to
administer to our own consciences;
and we go on living in a fool’s para
dise, seeing ourselves in all kinds of
beautiful lights and lovely shapes hut
with very clear discernment of the de
formities and faults of other people.
“We begin at school, where the aver
age boy and girl accuses the teacher
of injustice or inefficiency, attributes
the success of school fellows to luck
or favoritism and excuses his own
or her own failures and shortcomings
with an endless variety of plausable
explanations.
“Probably a majority of employes
carrv around with them the general
impression that all employers are op
pressors and human hogs. The young
man beginning business for himself
complains bitterly of the hank presi
dent who holds his credit within cer
tain limitations and who declines to
accept his sanguine estimates of his
own abilities and prospects. Every
community has a certain proportion of
active, energetic and hopeful men con
stantly intent on doing large things
for their town and themselves. These
run headlong against the stolid and
solid citizen, who represents the ac
tual cash to he used, and finding them
selves questioned and taken under
dubious consideration, go abroad in
the thoroughfares and cry out strenu
ously against the selfishness and lack
of public spirit and enterprise of the
moneyed element.
“Yet very likely the employe who re
sents most deeply the economies and
criticisms of his employer is harsh if
not brutal to those over whom ho may
have authority or power. Probably
the business man who complains be
cause his creditors urge for their
money and his banker declines to ex
tend his line of loans, is most particu
larly caref.’l m collecting what is due
to him ;.nd in his own store or factory,
or whatever it may he. consistently de
clines to credit anybody, however sore
the need may be or however earnest
the plea, unless he has a clearly defined
idea that payment will he sure and
prompt. The harshness, coldness and
tin responsive attitudes of others to its
awake our indignation to the flaming
point and to threats of emigration to
some more liberal and appreciative
community, we forgetting that in our
smaller spheres and places we are
more deeply guilty of the same sins.
Every day of the world citizens com
plain against the selfishness and lack
of public spirit and liberality of their
fellows while they themselves are
shaving things to the smallest fraction
of percentage and sending what money
they have to spend away from their
own community for the purpose of
saving a few cents.
It is so in social life, into which we
go with a vague expectation of getting
everything while giving nothing. We
undertake to set ourselves up for our
own consideration on a kind of pedes
tal above the ordinary rules of barter.
With a general impression that we
have some peculiar transcendent mer
its which we cannot quite define to
ourselves when we try, we look for
consideration, deference, kindness and
generosity, while neglecting all of
them in our own conduct toward oth
ers. We do it even in our churches
and even in our secret transactions
with the Almighty. We foster within
ourselves the unexpressed and tremen
dously daring notion that He owes us
something and is in fault somehow
when He does not go on indefinitely
showering payment upon us. We crit
icise and carp against the man in the
pulpit just as we did with our teachers
when wc* were at school. We expect
him to take special and tender inter
est in us and our affairs and to achieve
results impossible to any human be
ing, working single-handed, for a mea
gre salary, toward which we contrib
ute little or nothing at all. When we
honor the sanctuary of the Most High
with our presence and drop a small
coin in the plate we have the com
fortable feeling of condescension and
duty nobly done and proceed over our
dinner tables to lament the selfishness
or inertness of the working force of
the oongregatiyn for the advancement
of which we do not pull a pound and
give but a small part of what we use
for our own pleasure.
If we would study ourselves more
and other people less, we would not
onlv he more useful, hut infinitely bet-
ter and happier. At least half the mis
ery we suffer in this world is the re
sult of dissatisfaction for which we
have no just reason, and resentment
because the same measure we give
to others when we have the opportu
nity is meeded to us.
pleasant, and all the
—Ask for “Eg Nog" anywhere in
town Dealers have all got It.
stout,
His stomach was built so it rounded
out,
His face was
while
He wore a kindly and genial smile.
The chons in the distance the echoes
woke,
And the man kept still while the wo
man spoke:
“Oh, thou who guardest the gate,” said
she,
“We two come hither, beseeching thee.
To let us enter the heavenly land,
And play our harps with the angel
band.
Of me. St. Peter, there is no doubt—
There’s nothing in heaven to bar me
out.
I've been to meetings three times a
week.
And almost always I’d rise and speak.
I ve told the sinners about the day
When they’d repent their evil way;
I've told my neighbors, I’ve told them
all,
About Adam and Eve and the primal
fall;
I’ve shown them what they’d have to do
If they’d pass in with the chosen few;
I’vo marked their path of duty clear—
Laid out their plan for their whole
career—
I've talked and talked to ’em loud and
long,
For my lungs are good and my voice
is strong.
So, good St. Peter, you’ll clearly see
The gate of heaven is open to me;
But my old man. I regret to say,
Hasn’t walked in exactly the narrow
way—
He smokes and he swears and grave
faults he’s got,
And 1 don’t know whether he’ll pass or
not.
Ho never would pray with an earnest
vim.
Or go to revival, or join in a fiymn,
So I had to leave him in sorrow there
While I, with the chosen, united in
prayer.
He ate what the gantry chanced to
afford.
While I, in my purity, sang to the
I ,ord;
And if cucumbers were all that he got.
It’s a chance if he merited them or not.
But oh, St. Peter. I love him so!
To the pleasures of heaven please let
him go!
I’ve done enough—a saint I’ve been,
Won’t that atone? Can’t you let him
in?
By my grim gospel I know ’tis so
That the unrepentant must fry below;
But isn’t there some way you can see.
That he may enter, who’s dear to me?
It’s a narrow gospel by which I pray,
But the chosen expect to find some way
Of coaxing, or fooling, or bribing you
So that their relations acn amble
through.
And say, St. Peter, it seems to me
This gate isn’t kept as it ought to he.
You ought to stand by that opening
there,
And never sit down in that easy chair.
And say, St. Peter, my sight is dimmed,
But I don’t like the way your whiskers
aro trimmed;
They’re cut too wide and outward toss
They’d look better narrower, cut
straight across.
So open, Peter, and we’ll pass in!"
St. Peter sat quiet and stroked his staff
But, spite of his office, he had to laugh:
Then said, with a fiery -gleam in his
eye:
"Who’s tending this gateway—you or
I?” ’
And then he arose in his stature tall.
And pressed a button upon the wall,
And said to the imp who answered the
bell,
“Escort this lady down to .... !”
The man stood still as a piece of stone,
Stood sadly, gloomily there alone;
A life-long settled idea he had
That his wife was good and that he
was bad
He thought that if the woman went
down below,
That he would certainly 4iave to go
That if she went to the regions dim.
There wasn’t a ghost of a show for
him.
Slowly he turned, by habit bent,
To follow wherever the woman went.
St. Peter, standing on duty there,
Observed that the top of his head was
bare.
He called the gentleman back and
said;
“Friend, how long have you been
wed?”
“Thirty years," (with a weary sigh).
And then he thoughtfully added,
“Why?"
St. Peter was silent. With head bent
down.
He raised his hand and scratched his
crown;
Then, seeming a different thought to
take,
Slowly, half to himself, he spake;
"Thirty years with that woman there?
No wonder the man hasnt’ any hair;
Swearing Is wicked, smoke’s not good.
Ho smoked and he swore—I should
think he would.
Thirty years with that tongue so
sharp!
Ho! Angel Gabriel! Give him a harp!
A jeweled harp with a golden string.
Good sir, pass in where the angels
sing.
Gabriel, give him a seat alone.
One with a cushion on—up near the
throne
Call up some augels to play thob-
best.
Let him enjoy the music and rest.
See that on finest ambrosia he feeds.
He’s had about all of the hell he
needs;
it isn’t Just hardly the thing to do,
To roast him on earth and in future
too.”
So they gave him a harp with golden
strings.
And a glittering robe with a pair of
wings.
And he said, as he entered the Realm
of Day,
“Well, this heats cucumbers, anyway."
And so the Scriptures had come to
pass:
"The last shall be first and the first
shall he last.”
THE SABBATH.
Dfsecration of It is a Serious Crime
Against God.
The Sabbath is one of God's oldest
and best gifts to man. He calls it
“My holy day.” Gen. 2:", tells us “God
blessed the seventh day and sancti
fied it.” put the seal of holiness on it.
In formulating the commandments
fifteen hundred years later, He wrote
it on a table of stone, “Remember the
Sabbath day to keep it holy.” After
ward a man was stoned to death by
God's command for presuming to dis
regard tins holiness. Christ reaf
firmed this claim In Matthew xii, 1-1",
emphasizing the fact, “The Sabbath
was made for man,"—doubtless man
the immortal soul—and not man the
animal exclusively.
To desecrate the Sabbath is to di
vest it of its holy nature, to degrade
it from a sacred to a common day.
Many formidable agencies are at
work 'o effect this degredation. Then 1
is much opposition to the holy Sab
bath. This arises from three sources:
repugnance to its holy nature, the bar
it raises to business, and its restraints
from worldly pleasure.
Prominent among the agencies are
the railroads, mails, newspapers and
worldly pleasures. Railroads control
an army of managers to watch and
plan the movement of trains, engin
eers, conductors, expressmen, mail bag
gage, ticket agents, firemen, telegraph
operators and others. These must
work on the Sabbath day as on other
days. One and all will plead necessity.
Still greater numbers are tempted to
travel on the Sabbath. It is a day. of
leisure and very convenient for visiting
home and friends, or making a much
desired trip. The young man away
from home can work six full days and
lose no time by running home on Sun
day. The joy at seeing him. coupled
with his plausible necessity, quiets
all scruples, and often converts others
to looser views.
Special inducements are offered for
Sunday travel luring multitudes to
leave home, church, and Bible, and
rush into the whirlpool of worldiness.
Think, too. of the desecrating influ
ences, of the noise and confusion, of
the running train all along the line.
The Sabbath stillness is broken by the
rude screaming of the whistle, and the
voices calling souls to Christ’s feet
are drowned, while the spirit of de
vout worship is disturbed if not dissi
pated.
The mails are a close second in des
ecrating the day. The desire to “go
for the mail,” and to see what the let
ters contain introduce a train of secu
lar thought. The secular paper is es
pecially harmful, as it enters the home
to tempt old and young to its peru
sal. What shall be said of the ‘Sun
day Edition?” Enlarged and made as
attractive as possible, with a pitiable
effort to quiet the conscience with a
little religious news, or an insignifi
cant article on a religious subject, amid
an immense amount of secular matter,
the readers accept it readily. How in
sidiously it steals the thoughts from
holler themes, and poisons the desires
for more of the world and less of God
and the heavenly.
Pleasure seeking, with its manifold
and attractive forms, is a giant in Sab
bath desecration. The plea is a tak
ing one, “the people are busy during
the week and need some diversion.”
The idea may prevail in many minds
that the Sabbath was given for man’s
worldly amusement and recreation.
Visiting, feasting, picnicking, court
ing and other forms of pleasure are
much in use.
How often men labor to make these
all appear as “works of necessity.”
How these contrast with Christ’s
works of necessity as found in Mat-
thew xii. 1-13.
Let ns not be deceived. These and
other influences are steadily under
mining the holiness of the Sabbath.
If you don’t fall in line and keep up
with this rapid whirl you are called
an old fogy, puritan, or behind the
times.
Is our Sabbath in danger? Have we
lost, or are we likely to lose, it as a
holy day? Is it today what God in
tended and revealed it should be?
Where are the old time Christians who
used to do all their work during six
days and with a sweet spirit of rest
fulness enter on the Sabbath feeling
‘This is the day the Lord has given,
He calls the hours His own?”
Man needs the Sabbath as a day of
bodily rest. He needs it more for his
soul. It calls from worldly care, anx
iety and entanglements. It lifts Ihe
creature to communion with the Crea
tor. Can we afford to lose this mighty
bulwark for truth and righteousness?
That would be a calamity!
“In the land of deep despair
No Sabbath’s heavenly voice is
heard.”
It seems there is c :cry reason to call
for an earnest, determined and united
effort on the part of every lover of
man to stem the tremendous current
for desecrating the Sabbath. We need
&
I Underwear
Bijr line sample goods, men’s and women's,
at WHOLESALE COST—too large a stock
ami IT MUST GO. All grades from the
Lest down, Wright’s Health, double fleeced
ail ami wool garments. If you don’t need
any now, it will pay you to buy for next
winter, as such opportunities are not
offered every Jday. : : : :
% Gloves! Gloves!!
A ou want good
Shoes; Shoes to
keep your feet
dry. Come right
to us and you
will find what
you want.
Fourth Shipment Rubbers to Ar
rive This Week.
Lipscomb
Company.
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Ah the clothes are fitted the figure
inclines.
We have finished taking
Stock, and are now ready for
business.
We thank our friends for
the liberal patronage given us
in the past.
We will carry the largest
line Dry Goods this season we
have ever carried.
We sell for Cash and there
fore sell for short profits.
We are now receiving lots’
the Bible Sabbath. Let us be jealous 0 f uew goods suitable for pi’CS-
for its holy hours and contend for it ° . tit.
with all our power, it is God’s gift. 1 cut use, such as dark 1 ercales
Let us keep it until the Giver comes Iudig0 Calico, Ginghams
and we render account of our steward-, , , &
ship. M. R. Kirkpatrick. White Waist Goods, etc.
We find wc are overstockhd
on Embroideries and are mak
ing remarkably low prices to re
duce them. Be sure to see the
extraordinary bargains we are
ottering in this line.
“Shetland Floss all colors.”
Battenberg Patterns, Laces, etc. :
Ask to see our oc Laces.
JiiLt opened a beautiful line
White Waist Goods. Please
ask to see them.
Buy your Gingham dresses
now and make them up while
the weather is cool.
Bargains, Bargains in all
Winter Goods.
J. W. Tolleson
Gaffney, S. C
Notice!
Don’t forget, call on us when you
want something nice in fresh
Meats and Country Produce. Our
meat cutter has fifteen years ex
perience and can cut your meat
to suit you Give us a trial order
and see for yourself. Our prices:
All Steak straight loc 11). Pork
toe, I2^cand 15c, fat oil.
Yours for business,
Thank you,
Dempsey & Hawkins,
Opposite Star Theatre.
WANTED!
All yom clothes Hint need briirhtenlnK up,
brlnu them to us. We will make them look
fresh and now.
All work done by expert tailors.
See us and Join our pressing club.
ROBMSOH & JOKES, Tailors.
Over W. D. Telegraph Office.
Phone No. «.
L'irg.* line of m< n’s Working Gloves thrown
on the market ;it wholesale cost. This is a
sample line, and includes all kinds from
lf> < cuts to +2.00. Drop in and inspect
thus • good*, and von will certainly find it
to y<mr interest to buy. :
| J. R. TOLLESON & GO.
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A Steady
Growth
Business invest
ments often afford
opportunities for rap
idly increasing your
wealth. But they in
volve a large
... Element of Risk ...
Not so with your money if deposited in the Gaffney
Savings Bank. It is absolutely removed from all the
uncertainties of other investments. It draws interest
at the rate of 4 per cent, from the day you deposit,
increases in amount without any effort on your part
and is always safe and at hand.
The Gaffney Savings Bank.
Ofiice in the National Bank of Gaffhey.
Bank Closes 3 P. M. Every Day Except Saturday, 5 P. M.
SPECIALS!
I will offer, until closed out my entire line of Ladies’ and
Misses’ Jackets and Ladies’ Coat Suits at greatly reduced
prices. Don’t fail to see them if you are looking for bargains.
Ladies’ Under Skirts from $1.00 to $5.00,
All styles in Rubbers for Men, Ladies and Misses.
A few Men’s Youths’ and Boys’ Overcoats left which will
be closed out at bargain prices.
I can fit all sizes in Clothing, both in quality and price.
Men’s all Wool Sweaters $1.00.
Blankets GO cents per pair up.
Quilts from $1.00 to $2.00 each.
Shoes to lit everybody from the wee tot to a 13 size for Men.
Corload Barbed Wire and Nails at away down price.
See me for anything usually kept in a first-class general store
and I will do your pocket book good. Thanking all my friends
and customers for the very liberal patronage bestowed upon me
and wishing all a happy and prosperous New Year.
I am yours for more business,
Hie National Bank of Gaffney, S. C.
State, County and City Depository*
Capital ; $50,000.00
Surplus and Undivided Profits 33,000.00
Stockholders' Liability 50,000.00
Protection to Depositors $133,000.00
Everything of a banking nature entrusted to our care receives our very
best attention. We would be glad to have your business.
D. C. ROSS, Prest. MAYNARD SMYTH, Cashier.
I. G. WARDLAW, Vice-Prest. CHAS. W. HAMES, Ass’t. Cashier
Bank Closes Every Day at 3 P. M. Except Saturday, 5 P. M.
Rural Mail Boxes.
Go to R. M. Wilkins Hardware Co. for your
Engine and Steam Fittings; Gandy, Rubber
and Leather Belting, Caue Mills and Evapora
tors; Wagons and Ruggies; Barb Wire, Wire
and Cut Nails. Don’t fail to see us before you
buy your hardware—We want your business.
R. M. Wilkins Hardware Co.