Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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-I v- ■ - • mw*nr ~ -7 m 1 I^or From my prize-winners, R. I. Reds, Rose ami Single Comb, Ejrgs 15 for ^1.50; White 1’lymouth Rocks, U. R. Fishei’s strain of prize-win ners, eggs $1.50 for 15; ISa.red Ply mouth Rocks, Hawkins'strain, eggs ^1.00 for 15. All my stock is fine se lected and show birds My Rhode Island Reds are the best that I could buy in Massachusetts and Rhode Is land. Send us your orders and we will give you good fresh eggs. Cherokee Poultry Yards E. R. CASH, Prop. GAFFNEY, - - - S. C. GOV. HEYWARD’S JOKE. FOILING A HIGHWAYMAN. 'ONE OF OUR BOYS." 1 FOR Building and Plastering Lime, Coal, and Plaster Hair, Plaster Paris. Shingles, Portland Cement, Dynamite, Blasting Powder, Fuse, and Dynamite Caps, call on LiMTO! 1 IK . I it: ¥MT CARROlL & CO., Lessees. Telephone 57. The Builders Supply Co. Successors to L. Baker. 1 ! Will furnish you Building Material of the best that the markets afford and at the lowest living prices. No. 1 heart pine j Shingles and Laths, and Devo’s cele brated Paints—guaranteed to go further j and last longer than any other in the market. When in need of anything in the building line, call and see us; we’ll tieat you courteously' and ma*e your es timates for nothing. I i £i 1c o r, MANAGER. Dr. S. jj. Griffith, PHYSICAN - SURGEON - OCULIST. Former pupil of the celebra ted Oculist, Dr. Julian J. Chisolm, ot Baltimore. Has also taken special post-grad uate course in the Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat Hospital of Baltimore. Glasses Fitted Accurately and Scientifically. ** «£* l^'OfKce in Cherokee Drug Co., B’ldj, CABBAGE PLANTS FROM THE BEST TESTED SEEDS. Now 'ready for shipment. Large strong, h'- .lthy. These plants wen grown in the open air and will stand severe freez.e without injury. Early Jersey, Wakefield, Large Type or Charleston \V. kefield, which are the best known varieties of early cabbage. Also Henderson's Succession, the best large, late and sure header. Au gusta Early Trucker, also a fine type of late variety. Neatly packed in > light baskets, $1.50 per thousand; for 5,000 or over, £1.25 per thousand, F. O. B. ’express office. Special prices made on large lots. CHAS. M. GIBSON, Dec-i6-4mo Youngs Island, S. C. West End" ' I have purchased the stock of Staple and Fancy Groceries, Confection eries, Cigars, Tobacco, Dry Goods and Notions formerly belonging to J. A. Graves, in “West End.” I g bought the goods at iV Uijr Iitecluction From first prices, and will »ell just as I bought—Low Down. Call and in spect my stock and you will find I can save you money. B. F. Gibbs, Graves' Old Stand—West End. NOTICE OF ELECTION. An election is hereby ordered to be jeld on Thursday, March 23, 1905, in {Yard No. 2 for the purpose of electing in alderman to fill the nnexplred term >f M. L. Ross, resigned. Polls will be operfed from 8 o’clock i. M., till 1 P. M. at the usual vot- ng precinct J. T. Humphries, W. A. Peeler and Fred Gaffney are appoint- ad manager^ of said election. R. M. Gaffney, Mayor. W. H. Ross, Clerk. Saffney, 8. C., March 8, 1905. Tells of a Plantation Darkey Who Sus tains the Osier Theory. Got. Heyward Is equipped with good anecdotes and stories and while in conversation In the lobby of the W al dorf told one In connection with the recent theory of Dr. William Osier, of Baltimore, that a man’s real efficiency is past after he reaches the age of 40 years. Mr. L. Coppock Speers, of Ne at berry, who 4s a member of the staff of the New York Times, pub lished the story the following morn ing. The Times’ version is as fol- lows: Gov. Duncan C. Heyward, of South Carolina, who happens to be about 40 years of age, and ex-Gov. Joseph F. .Johnson, of Alabama, who is almost CO, wore discussing Dr. Osier’s theory of the usefulness of man In the W'al- dorf Atsoria yesterday afternoon. Af ter Gov. Johnson finished telling bow young he felt Gov. Heyward told a <torv concerning an age theory simi lar to that held by Dr. Osier, the originator of which is an old negro named King, who lives on the govern or’s plantation in lower South Caroli- fla. “This old darkey,” said Gov. Hey ward. “is a wonder in his way, and never loses a chance to express his opinion, no matter who the man is to whom he happens to be talking. Not very long ago Bishop Capers was a guest of mine, and during his stay he of course met King. One morning the bishop said something about the age at which a man generally begins to fail. Before any one else could reply the old darkey butted in. “ It’s dis way, bishop,’ he said, 'un til you gits to he 50 you is on de up grade. After dat you is on de level, and after dat you starts down bill.’ “Bishop Capers, who is many years past 50, was anxious to find out wheth er he was still on the level, and asked the negro at what age a man generally started down grade. " ‘Dat depends entirely,’ replied the old negro, ‘on de rate of speed dat you goes on de way up.’ ” Dixie. (Charlotte Chronicle.) In discussing and indorsing the movement to erect a monument to the memorv*of Daniel Decatur Emmett, the author of “Dixie,” The Indianapo lis News takes occasion to pay elo quent tribute to the simple, soul-stir ring song which in one of the greatest wars the world has ever known, was the anthem which in spite of conquest, and the flight of years, grows more popular with the American people as time goes on. The News says: “No othoi; song has ever touched the hearts of all of the people of this land as ‘Dixie’ touches them. During the war ‘John Brown’s Body’ swept the heart strings of the Northland, and their brave ‘Boys in Blue.’ But the war has passed and the song is passing is already much of a memory. But ‘Dixie’ is more vibrant with life today than it was when It cheered the lean and hungry legions that were battling for the ‘lost cause.’ It has not only survived the war, hut since then it has conquered the conquerors and echoes in the hearts of those that loved the gray. There was a local Illustration in a recent concert here by the Scot tish Highland Band. When It played the ‘Star Spangled Banner’ there was an ovation. But when it played ‘Dixie’ there was a furor. Where there had been cheers and applause there were yells and smiles and pounding of ta bles. “It is a curious thing. Manifestly it | is not in the recollection of the quality ! that endeared ‘Dixie’ to tho Southern Confederacy, for it is loved in peace as much as it was in war, if not more so. and by those that won as by those who llost. It has the ma-gie of the Mar- i sei’laise in it. But it is without Its clalrion call that excites the red blood of stri.'o. It is gay, sweet, serene. In defatigable. It calls like the shrill of the haepipe with the music of the gol den horn. It soothes and strengthens while it rouses, giving a body of mem ory to the spirit of exaltation. It may | not he erreat music but It has the quali- ! ty of all that counts in this world- survival—and it Is one of those bal lads of a nation that the very wise man reckoned as more powerful than laws.” Commenting upon this. The New Or leans States says: “Yes, ‘Dixie’ is a song that was not horn to die. It will live as long as the Anglo-Saxon raee exists In America. It has inspired the Southern soldier ! n the fury of battle and cheered and renewed the courage of his people In those dark years of oppression, humiliation and bitter poverty which were endured with such magnificent fortitude and heroism as the world had never seen.” And. by the way. where did The States get, the verses with which it closed its article? They follow: “Don’t you know it. Dear old ‘Dixie!’ T/Ot the graUSI old cadence swell, And there’s rot a Southerner living but would scalo the walls of hell! And would wake the deeps infernal with tho ringing Rebel yell! “Dear old “Dixie!’ Play it softly; play it softly and way down low, And there’s something in Its sweet ness wakes the scenes of long ago, And old comrades march beside us In the ways we used to know.” “Dear old ‘Dixie.’ Mare it proudly and you’ll hear the Southron’s cheers. Dear old ‘Dixie,’ play It softly o’er the • green mounds of the years. Till the hearts are filled with rapture and the eyes are bright with tears ” Th«‘ Proper Thltipr ♦«* Do When Intro- iltipoil to a IIolilnp. A man who carries his money ami his watch in his left hand will never lose a penny nor a timepiece in a hold up. The precaution, which is a per feet one, is so simple that few people have thought of it. Yet It has the sanction of the police, and Its efficacy hhs boon proved in more than one In stance. As soon as the citizen is confronted by the holdup man be will, if be has Ms money and bis watch in bis band, throw them on the nearest lawn or Into the ditch. No highway robber has time enough to stop to look for eithea There is no sense in carrying valuable in the right baud, because the first move of evory accomplished holdup man is to grab his victim by the right arm. This movement is made to pre vent the victim from reaching for » revolver. The man who tries to draw a re volver while n holdup man is in fron* of Mm takes his life in his hands. If a citizen carries a revolver at all he should carry It in his right hand while In n dangerous street. Ills money and bis watch should always be in his left. Then after he has thrown them away ami the robber has departed discom fited the victim can take his time about finding his property. This simple plan discounts all the re volvers. sword canes, slungsbots and brass knuckles ever invented and has the added beauty' that it can be em ployed by a woman as well as by a man. To throw the purse or the watch away takes but a fraction of a second, and that isn’t long.—Chicago Tribune. An liintnnpe of tho Mnimnnlinlly of Ooni-rnl Robert K, Lee. General Robert E. Lee was sitting on the veranda of his Lexington home one afternoon engaged in conversation with pome friends when a man, ill clothed and covered with dust, appeared at the gate and timidly beckoned to the gen eral. Apologizing to bis friends. Lee rose at once and went to the gate. Very soon his purse appeared, and he was seen to give the man some money. llis friends, knowing the extent of his charity in any case of suffering, real or apparent, looked on with some impatience, for they knew how slender his means were then and how many calls of the same kind came to him. “General, who was that?” one of them ventured when he had returned to his place. “One of our boys in trouble,” was the half smiling answer, for the gen eral knew the remonstrance which bis frEnd was longing to make. “What*regiiiH‘nt and company did he belong to?” persisted the friend, anx ious, if possible, to unearth the sus- ! pectcd fraud. “Oh. he—he fought on the other side,” was General Lee's calm answer. Youth's Companion. Stilt Wnlkem of Franoe. In the south of France stilts are a necessity to the people, who are mostly shepherds. They must walk on stilts in order to oversee their vast flocks of sheep as well as to pass through the bogs. Those shepherds—men. women and children—walk continuously on stilts from six to eight feet high. These stilts arc merely fastened to the feet. Sometimes the stilts have uprights reaching as far as the knees and bound firmly to the legs. Generally these shepherds and shep herdesses carry long poles, which they can use either as balancing poles or as supports—very long canes, as it were— reaching to the ground. They become so expert in stilt walking that it Is no unusual sight to sec a shepherdess striding along on stilts that raise lief six feet above the ground, with her balancing pole strapped to her back and her hands busily knitting socks for husband, son or brother. The complete unconcern with which these country folk make their way along on stilts is astonishing. One might almost say that the children have e“lts given to them instead of cradles.—Washington Star. Siair Ci tin bins:. Under no circumstance but that of actual illness or extreme debility should stair limbing bceotae a mattei of dread. In every otiier case it shoulc be attend; d by a pleasant feeling of exhilaration. Tlie “panting collapse’’ which many women experience at the top of a flight of stairs is due to the assumption of an incorrect position of the body dur- ; ing the ascent and the employment of wrong muscles foi the work. “The spine should lie kept straight as in cor rect standing and breathing poise, and movement should come from the knees and not from the waist and hips. Lift the Un.-es well, hold the chest erect and breathe deeply as you pass from stair to stair.” The observance of these rules ought to make the exercise one of real benefit instead of a drudge—for it will be one or the other, since stair climbing is a daily necessity to every woman who has household duties. Then she need never complain that she has no time for physical culture. Shoe Safety in WalkoverSl * KCfeS'CMO Shoe saftty means a lot of things that want when you spend your shoe money. It means being sure of. good quali ty, good fit, good style, good value for the price. It means satisfaction ’to you in every respect. You are sure of this w hen you .get a shoe with the name “Walkover” on it. FOR SALE BY J. R. Tolleson & Comp'y. 1 Gaffney, - South Carolina. THE TAILOR MADE Hard Welted Sole. Exten sion edge. Ideal Patent Kid. SEE THAT THIS siui/i/f/y TPAdiy^C^ARK IS BRANDED ON EVERY SHOE. When You Buy Shoes You want the very best you can get for the money. We have no old stock to otfer you and we do not hesitate to say wo will give you more rea value for the price than any firm in town. If you need shoes come to us. We have the sizes*to fit any foot. If you do not need them now, come in and see what we have any way. Always glad to show von. Mnnlcal Tones. A stringed instrument suspended In a favorable position near a pianoforte will sound when tones corresponding to the open strings are produced on the pianoforte. The volume of the answer ing tone will depend upon, the atmos pheric conditions, the quality and color of the persuading tone and the sensi tiveness of the responding material. There is a familiar anecdote told of a famous tenor who by singing the tone that was consonant with that of a wineglass could make the glass shiver so violently that it would fall to pieces. It is because of this tonal sympathy that the caiije of a harsh, rattling tone that may suddenly appear In n pianoforte is detected with difficulty Though it may appear to he in the in strument. it is often far away and may come from a loose globe or pendant on a chandelier, ixven a key in a door has been known to be the guilty cause. Tin* Ants nnd the Elephant. Eyewitnesses of the marches which | ants make aver that when they come to an obstacle they go through it or over ; it or take it with them. They march j as straight as a Roman road. Human occupants tly when an ant army takes its way through a house occurring on its line of march. The legions pass on 1 and destroy nothing but such as will j S 'i've as food, but after they have gone not a beetle, a scorpion, a rat or a ; mouse or an insect or a reptile of any size, shape or name remains. All have j been eaten by the army. It is on rec ord that one of these moving eompa- | nies was obstructed in Its passage by an elephant. It took the army eight hours to pass that spot, and then there j remained nothing but the picked bones of the elephant. Lipscomb Shoe Company. Gaffney, S. C. Tin* Cry For Help. From the cradle to the grave the cry of mankind is for “help.” We are all in search of a physician, some one who will help us. some one who will in spire us—give ns a remedy, point us the way. Not the poor and the sick alone, but the rich and the strong, are crying out for help. Sometimes It Is the doctor we want; sometimes it Is the banker; sometimes it is the clergy man. And yit the doctor, the banker ; and the clergyman are human, and they are crying for help along with tho rest of us. Those whom we think the strongest are weak, and those whom we tbinlfthe weakest are strong We cannot stand alone. We all need help. We must help one another until the end.—Schoolmaster. Early Cotuhlnea ami Corners. “Engrossing” \das an offense punish able in England by tine and imprison ment, and the laws against it struck at those—called “engrossers”—who plan- Ufd to gain control over necessities, such as grain or food stuffs in consid erable quantities, either by purchase 01 otherwise, with the intention of raising prices. The statute book holds quite a series of enactments designed to prevent any thing in the nature of what we know us a “corner” or “combine.” “Regrat ing” was a criminal offense, and so was ‘forestalling.” The former consisted ijf buying and selling the same day in the same market or near it, and the latter implied tho purchase of merchan- diso on the way to market or before the hour at which the market com menced, will) tho intention of selling at a profit, while it was also “forestall ing” to circulate rumors calculated tr raise the prices of commodities. Though tlx'so laws have fallen Into desuetude, they were in force in our grandfathers’ time. At I’roston. for In stance. there were prosecutions almost up to the accession of Queen Victoria. Paint Brushes, We have added to our stock a complete lire of Household Paints, Carriage Paints, Wagon Paints, Colors in Oil, Varnish, Varnish Wood Stains, Varnish Broshes, Etc. 9 Give us a call when in need of arything ia this line. The Gaffney Drug Company Prescription Druggists. Opposite Hotels. Subscribe for The Ledger, only $1.00 1 year.. Tin* PbyBli'inn. A popular impression prevails that the physician, by reason of the privi leges conferred upon him by the state, is, in the absence of an adequate rea son for not so doing, required to re spond to all calls to render professiona 1 services. This is clearly erroneous, ex cept where the physician has already undertaken the treatment of the cast or except where be is an officer of tin j government charged with specific du tics which he thereby violates. Southern people cherish sentiments like these. The verses above quoted aro worthy of being pasted in the scrap book alongside Father Ryan’s poems. And aye! it is true that “Dixie” will never die. A man’s soul Increases in size, or diminishes, according to his love for humanity. The man who is satisfied to live for self alone, has no soul symptoms visible to the human eye. You cannot blame a bag of wind for ateering clear of pointed facts. Habit may he one of our best allies as well as one of our worst enemies. Pecullai^plea of Worm*. Many creatures supposed to have some of their "senses missing” are not so Insensitive ns people often think. Worms have neither eyes nor ears and yet are sensitive to light and music (vide Darwin’s “Earthworms”). A bluebottle, in spite of not having a nose, finds out a piece of bad meat easily enough. In short many of the lower animals contrive to see, bear, taste or smell sufficiently for their pur pose, and often in a high degree, with out being able to point to any special organs of these senses in their bodies, and to suppose they are devoid of a sense because we are unable to die cover It is frequently to confess oui ignorance. PolNouoas Itahy Snakes. The young of the poisonous species of serpents, deserted from the very first ; by the parent snakes, are as dangerous as if full grown from the moment they , enter the world. The proprietor of a Philadelphia museum learned this to his cost. In a big glass case partitioned through the middle by a wire screen ; there lived side by side an eleven foot anaconda (of the constrictor family* nnd a colony of cotton mouth moc- ! casins. It was impossible for the moc casins to glide through the narrov^ meshes of the screed or even to veu ture an occasional “strike" at thetr large and peaceful neighbor. But dur ing the night a brood of young cotton mouths unexpectedly appeared—babies, not five Inches long. They squirmed ' through the meshes of the partition and before they had been two hours iu this world were gliding Joyfully over the lifeless body of the huge constrictor, which lay poisoned by the youngsters fangs. Might Have Been Worse. Church—I had to walk the floor all night with the baby. Can you think of anything worse than that? Gotham —Y'cs; you might have married out in Greenland, where the nights are alx months long.—Yonkers Statesman. The Best Man at His Weddln*. Haskins—By the way, who was the best man at your wedding? Wlllowby— Tbe parson seemed to be feeling the best. You see. It was ail profit for him and no risk wbatever—Boston Tran script The United States Fidelity and Guarant^Company, Of Baltimore, XI<1. ISSUE THE FOLLOWING SURETY BONDS: Fidelity Individual Firms, Cor]x>ratio!i.s, Judicial, Financial, Guarantee Internal Revenue and Customs. Bank and Trust Co. Employes, Insurance Agents, Rail Road, Express and Steamship Employes, Fraternal Orders, Business Houses, Government Officials, State, County and Munipcial Offi cials. Also issue Burglary Insurance on Residence, Mercantile, Bank and Messengers,Hold Robbery. The Company’s Premium receipts exceeded any other Company in America last year over £700,000.00. For rates and other information, see 1 JONES J.' DARBY, Agent*. Are You Administrator and have the settlement’of an^estate? If so, request of the Judge of Probate that your advertisement be'placed in :: :: : It h$sthe largest circulation of any paper in the Fifth South Carolina Congressional District.