The ledger. [volume] (Gaffney City, S.C.) 1896-1907, July 27, 1906, Image 9
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FEATS OF THE BEAVER.
MRS. LOUIS LACOMB.
SUFFERED FOR URTUS.
Operation Advocated—Saved
By Pe-ru-na,
Mrs. Louis Lacomb, Hayward, Wis.,
writes:
“I have followed your treatment as
Closely as 1 could and am now entirety |
well.
••We had two doctors and one said j
that I would have to have an operation
performed before / could regain my
health.
"We then decided to write you as to
toy condition, as I had been suffering
nearly a year with severe pains and
headaches at times so that 1 could
scarcely stand up.
••Now I feel so well after a short
treatment with your remedy, and am
bo grateful that I do not know how to
express my thanks.
"I thank yongmany times for the kind
advice I have had from you.”
Write to Dr. S. B. Hartman, President
of the Hartman Hamtarium, Columbus
Ohio, for free medical advice.
We
are
after
you!
Everybody
Remarkable Ability to Cut Timber—
Busiest on Moonlight Niohts.
(Outdoor Life.)
It is wonderful what large nieces
of wood a beaver will move. I have
freqm itly seen cuttings of cotton
wood large enough for fence posts
that had been moved over level
ground and through underbrush to
water several hundred feet away.
If timber is cut on a bank where a
down grade can he had all the way to
the stream much larger nieces will be
mov d. Heavers are very skillful
wood choppers and seldom fail to fell
a tree in the right direction; that is.
with the butts all pointing towards
the train of the stream, and never
filing the ton of one tree into the.
ton of another.
Smooth trails are always made
from the scene of the onerations on
Ian i to the water and all of the ma
terial is carired over them. If the
cutting happens to be on a side hill
above the stream a slide not unlike
that sometimes used by lumbermen
wih be made.
Ti'e cutting of the large growth
stuff is malnlv done in the fall and
winter: willows, small poplars and
cottonwoods being used in the spring
and summer. After getting down the
Irap-cst trees the branches are all
cut off and made into lengths suit
able for transporting and taken to the
water, after which the trunk Is cut
up and as much of it removed as pos
sible.
The bark of these pieces, which
with the twigs, form the principal
iieni of food, is all gnawed off in the
water or at the houses. The barked
sticks are then used in repairing or
strengthening the dams or stacked on
ton of the house.
Beavers generally work- moonlight
iVhts only, and scarcely ever In the
.vtime, though they may sometimes
b- seen making repairs on a dara
when it needs immediate attention.
Contrary to the general opinion the
beaver does not always build a house
for himself, being very content with
a burrow in the bank of the stream.
As is the case with the house the en
trance to a burrow is under water,
though there is sometimes an open
ing from the surface through which
brush and sticks are carried for
their food supply.
These bun - vs are sometimes very
commodious and offer comfortable
quarters for a large colony. They
seem to be go :erally dug from the
tanks of the streams which are too
swift, to make the building of dams
easy and which Las a deep channel.
A lone beaver who has been driven
out by bis fellows for some ( uise or
other is very likely to make such a
home in the bank of .a stream.
When a colony of beavers is har-
hassed bv its enemies or when inter
nal dissensions arise oft a patt or
whole of the colony will establish a
new home some distance away. They
loose io time in choosing a weak
portion of the river, where the banks
are well wooded and fall at once to
work.
Where the river is rapid one of the
slow reaches between the rapids is
chosen for a dam. The wood is cut
above the dam site, sometimes
at quite a distance, and transported
to the water, where it can be easilv
moved down stream.
The stick's are placed more or less
parallel to each othe<- so as to make
a compact structure, and the continu
ous pile thus resulting extends direct
ly across the stream.
Mud is continually used to fill the
interstices as the dam grows in
height. At some distance up stream
the bouse is now built, also of sticks
and mud. and as secluded and Inac
cessible a place as possible.
I- the days of our great-grand-fa
thers the beaver was a resident of
many streams and sma” lakes all the
wav from Maine to Oregon. He is
now numbered among our rare ani
mals. and a few '’ears ago seemet
doomed to total extinction.
Recently some of the northwest
States have given him a certain
amount of protection, and in favorable
localities of this region he is now in
creasing quite —' , 'idly in numbers.
THE
Company
Water a Scarce Drink.
(New York Press.)
“If New York people are ijot all in
ebriates or dyspeptics it must be be
cause they know something I don’t.’
exclaimed the Western man, as his
eyes roved rather wildly over the pas
toral scenery of upper Broadway.
"What’s that?’’
“That’s where to get a drink- ol’
water—just plain, clear, cool, pure
water—no soft drinks nor hard drinks
nor fizzing stuff, but just the kind of
water I could drink out of a mountain
brook out in the West.
“There’s no place in this town
where a man can get a good drink of
water, even if he offers to buy it. At
the soda fountains the clerks look
disgusted and supercilious and reluc
tant if you call for plain water, and
as a matter of fact, they haven’
any They have to hunt around un
der the counter or out in a hack room
or down in the cellar, and finally they
bring up a bottle of stale stuff that
w" wouldn’t us'' to bathe in out
West, and grudgingly fill a slim lit
tie elp^s that holds about a thimble
ful. They hive a thousand or more
mix d drinks that I wouldn’t touch for
money, but they aren’t willing to give
me water In exchange for my gold.
’’Even the horses fare better in hot
weather than human beings do if they
happen to g >t thirsty when they are
on the streets in New York.
Subscribe for The Ledger; $1 a year,
EXPENSIVE WEAPONS OF WAR.
INDUSTRIES GROW IN S. C.
What |t Costs to Shoot a Twelve-inch
Gu n That Soon Wears Out.
(Washington Times.)
"When a big gun is made ft be
comes a perpetual charge on the ex
pense recount of the go - r mment,”
remarked the inspector of na al ordi
nance. “Ft costs a lot to ike it.
too. to try ii when it is mounted and
s extreme limit of life is IbO shots.
The larg’est guns we make now are
2-inch. They are from fortj to fifty
feet long and the weight of the gun
will cause it to drop and in a few
years render it useless. It has to be
sent back to the ordnance yard at in
tervals to have its ridings ’turned
T».
“Even the toughest steel wiih the
ighest elastic limit and greatest ten-
sll strength will bend under Its own
weight. If you support a bar of steel
even a few inches long at both ends
for a long time It will curve down in
the center to a degree that can in
deed be detected without the aid of
mendnrecise instruments, but it will
take a permanent set, and a gun does
the same thing in a greater measure.
“When we trv a gun at the Indian
Head proving ground near Annapolis,
Md., the armor maker furnishes the
plate, the gunmakers the gun. the
shell makers the projectile and the
government the powder. The total
co t of a shot is approximate!'’ $1,000,
and we usually fire three shots at dif
ferent distances.
The shell is case-hardened at its
point and now carried a ch-arge of
oleaginous graphite in its nose, which
breaks at the moment of impact and
oils the hole In the armor. The pat
ent, on this graphite schema cost the
government $50,000. The shell simply
bores its way through the ' j vnio r and
Its progress is aided materially by the
iraphite. The navy extracts armor
that can’t be pierced and shells that
will go through anything so we have
ibout arrived at the paradox of an
rresistible force meeting a impene
trable body.
“As a result the few makers of this
high quality of steel are now -able to
furnish from the - plants constructed
under the fostering ca*- 0 of the gov
ernment a much higher grade of steel
to the trade than ever before. The
tensile strength and the elastic limit
of steel have been raised in the gen
eral market from 50,000 pounds a
square inch to 275,000 for one and
rom 45,000 to 185,000 pounds a
smiare Inch for the other within a
few vears, and this is an indirect re
sult of the government’s exactions.
“It’s seldom a gun is fired after it
is mounted. Gun pointers are used
for drill and once or twice a year the
min is used for actual target prac
tice and fired once or possiblv twice.
But it is too expensive r machine to
use for practice when there ar' exact
ways of testing the range and accu-
acy UT triangulation and the known
qualities of the powder and other
factors that apply to it and which are
preserved from its first test.’’
And I Am Lonely.
(George Eliott, the “Spanish Gypsy.”)
The world is great; the birds all fly
from me.
The stars are golden fruit upon a tree
All out of reach; my little sister went,
And 1 am lonely.
The world is great; I tried to mount
the hill
\l>ove the pines, where the light lies
so still.
Hut it rose higher; little Lisa went,
And I am so lonely.
The world is great; the wind comes
rushing by,
l wonder where it comes from; sea
birds cry
And hurt my heart; my little sister
went.
And I am so lonely.
The world is great; the people laugh
and talk.
And make loud holiday; how fast they
walk!
I’m lame, they push me; little Lisa
went,
And I am lonely.
Lumber Manufacturinq Next in Im
portance to Cotton.
(Columbia State.)
The largest inanuiacturmg iudustry
in Soutii Carolina, next to cotton, is
the making of lumber, according to a
bulletin just received from the bureau
of manufactures. The manufacture of
cotton is by tar the most important
manufacturing industry in the State,
being iu 1900 (i2.3 per cent and in
1905 72.0 per cent of the whole. Lum
ber ranks next. Concerning lumber
in South Carolina, the bulletin says:
In 1905, as iu 1900, this iudustry
ranked second among the selected in
dustries. The number of establish
ments reported for 1905 was 27 less
than in 1900, but the capital increased
$3,707,741, or 108.6 per cent, and the
value of products, $1,849,089, or 37.4
pe- cent, while the average number
of wage-earners increased 3,034, or
45.8 per cent, and the wages paid,
$1,221,615, or 90 per cent. This In
crease, however, does not fairly show
the gain in the industry, because a
change in the method of securing the
reports in 1905 had the effect of eliml-
nati’g certain duplications that ap
peared in the totals for 1900. Had
this change not been made the gain
in the value of the products would
have been $3,501,432 instead of $1,-
849,089 and the per cent 70.8 instead
of 37.4 as determined from the totals
in table 2.
A fairer view of the industry, it is
believed, may be obtained by a com
parison of the output of sawed lumber
at two censues.
Yellow pine, which formed about
90 per cent of all sawed lumber at
both censuses, inci eased 106,652 feet
board measure, or 43.6 per cent in
value between 1900 and 1905.
By far yellow pine was the wood
most used; its total value in 1905 was
$5,205,477. The next is quantity
used is cypress, its value being $500,*
023.
Closelv allied with the lumber and
timber industry are the independent
plaining mills since 1900. The capital
increased $535,058, or 129.8 per cent,
and the value of products $162,253, or
45.5 per cent; while the average num
ber of wage-earners increased 479, or
96.8 per cent, and wages. $145,782. or
99.5 per cent.
The manufactures of South Caro
lina in importance rank as follows:
1. cotton; 2. lumber and timber pro
ducts; 3. oil, cotton seed and cake:
4, fertilizer; 5. lumber, plaining mill
products; 6, cars and general shop
construction and repairs by steam
railroad companies. The significant
point in connection with this is that
the manufacture of fertilizer has
dropped from the position of third to
that of fourth since 1900. third place
being taken bv cotton seed oil. etc.
The value of the output of fertilizers
has. in fact, decreased since 1900. be
ing in 1905 over a million dollars less
than It was in 1900.
Concerning cotton seed products
the bulletin says:
The value of the manufactures of
the cottonseed oil mills was of suffi
cient importance to cause the industry
to be ranked third in 1905 as com
pared with fourth in 1900. This in
dustry was reported by fifty more es
tttblishments in 1905 than in 1900. and
showed increases of $3,217,306, or
164.2 per cent., in average number of
wage earners; and $2,359,393, or 76
per cent, in value of products. Of the
549,480 tons of cotton seed grown in
the State in 1904, 213,103 tons, or 38.9
per cent, were used in the oil mills:
while of the crop of 1899, amounting
to 418,553 tons. 156,642 tons, or 37.4
Per cent, were so consumed.
A Budget of Suggestion*.
(National Magazine.)
1. When mixing mustard, always 1
milk instead of water, and the
mustard will not dry up so quickly.
Rub magnesia on soiled spots
and dainty light colored goods. Put
plenty on both sides, and when want-
for use again brush well and the
spots will be gone.
3. Alcohol will remove varnish
om fabrics.
I. To beat eggs quickly add a pinch
’ salt.
5. Prevent brass articles from tar
nishing by applying a thin varnish of
im shellac and alcohol.
6. If soda is used in dishwater, no
soan is needed. '
N. B. Truth. St. Paul, June 31, ’08.—
ve lived so long. I remember well
when the Mississippi was a brook,
taking Hollister’s Rocky Moutain Tea.
cents. Gaffney Drug Co.
The County Candidate.
(Exchange.)
When the sap begins to rise and the
geese begin to mate,
We hear the gentle cackle of the
county candidate.
Oh, he’s a Jolly fellow of vain con
ceits.
He finds a bosom friend in every man
he meets.
He asks about your family, horses
and your hogs.
And shows a friendly interest in the
children and the dogs;
Oh. he’s a jolly gentleman, as game
some as a lamb.
As blithesome as a meadow lark and
happy as a clam.
His prospects are the brightest and
his chances are sure.
He spends his money freely and helps
the needy poor;
He goes to church on Sunday and his
pious traits appear.
But when it’s necesstrv he’ll then set
up the beer.
Oh. he’s a bony ant. sanguine duck,
the jocund candidate,
H" starts out early in the morning
and stays out late at night:
Mis patient wife unlocks the door aud
says with a look of pain:
"You n edn’t lie to me, sir. your leg’s
been pulled again.”
ft is foolish for a rrau to kick him
self when he is down.
Even the most thirsty criminal isn’t
anxious to line up before the bar of
justice.
A flattered woman is always indul
gent.—Chenier.
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ANNOUNCEMENTS.
Announcements placed in this col
umn until the primary election for
15.00. All cards must be accompanied
b-7 the cash to insure proper etten-
lon.
I announce myself a candidate tor
the office of Probate Judge of Chero
kee county, subject to the rules of the
Democratic primary.
Will D. Thomas.
For Coroner.
Dr. M. W. Smith, who so faithfully
served his country during the Con
federate war, and who has- never be
fore appealed to the county for a pub
lic office, is hereby announced a can
didate for Coroner by his many
friends, subject to the results of the
Democratic Primarv
I hereby announcp myself a candi
date for re-election to the office of
Coroner, subject to the action of the
Democratic primary.
J. 8. Vtnesett.
For the Senate.
Believing that Cherokee county and
South Carolina need the services of
C. Otts. Esq., in the State Senate,
we present his name to the voters of
Cherokee county, subject to the Dem
►cratlc primary election.
Tax Payers.
I hereby announce hyself as a can-
dldatp for the office of State senator
for Cherokee county, subject to the
rules of the Democratic primary.
W. 8. Hall. Jr,
For House of Representatives.
The friends of W. G. Austell hereby
announce him a candidate for the
House of Representatives subject to
the action of the Democratic primary.
I hereby announce myself a candi
date for the House of Representativ -
subject to the rules of the Democratic
primary.
• K. O. Huskey.
I hereby announce myself a candi
date for Coroner, subject to the rules
of the Democratic primary.
_ J.J>. Tate.
I hereby announce myself a candi
date for Coroner, subject to the re
sults of the Democratic primary.
___ _ Allison.
For Supervisor.
3 hereby announce myself a candi
date for County Supervisor subject to
rules of the Democratic primary.
E. Felix Lipscomb.
The friends of J. V. Whelchel, rec
ognizing the valuable services ren
dered b” him while supervisor of
Cherokee county, hereby announce
him as a candidate for that office, sub-
j*to the rules of the Democratic
primary.
I am a candidate for re-election to
the office of County Supervisor, sub
ject to the rules of the Democratic
primary.
_ Wm. Phillips.
For Auditor.
I hereby announce myself as a can-
dida'.e for Auditor of Cherokee county,
and will abide by the result of the
Democratic primary.
D. Both Hughes.
I G. B. Daniel is hereby announced as
a candidate for Auditor of Cherokee
county, subject to the rules of the
Democratic primary.
At the urgent solicitation of many
friends I announce myself as a candi
date for the lower house of the Legis
lature, subject to the rules and regu
lations of the Democratic primary.
W. F. McArthur.
Being urged by my friends. I have
decided to enter the race for the
House of Representatives and hereby
announce myself a candidate, promis
ing to abide bv the results of the De
mocratic primary election.
Chas. A. S. Campbell.
I hereby announce myself a candi
date for a member of the House of
Representatives from Cherokee coun
ty. and bind myself to be governed
by the rules and results of the Demo
cratic primary election.
, John V. Price.
' hereby announce myself a candi
date for the Legislature, subject to
th rules of the Democratic primary.
N. W. Hardin.
Believing that E. J. Clary would
he a suitable man for the lower
house, his friends hereby recommend
him to the voters of Cherokee coun
ty and hereb-y announce him a can
didate for that place, subject to rules
of Democratic primary.
I hereby announce myself as a can
didate for the House of Representa
tives for Cherokee county, subject to
the rules of the Democratic primary
elect.on.
J. E. Gault.
For Clerk.
I hereb-y announce myself a candi
date for Clerk of Court of Cherokei
county, subject to the results of the
Democratic primary.
M. A. (Non) Sarratt.
I am a candidate for Clerk of
Court of Cherokee county, subject to
the Democratic nrimary.
Z. A. Robertson.
Having been assured by many
friends and having a clear conscienoe
of having fully performed the duties
of Auditor of your county, I respect
fully announce myself as a candidate
for re-election to the office of Auditor,
subject to the rules of the Democratic
primary election. I feel grateful to
my many friends and thanking them
for former support I must kindly soli
cit their support In the present elec
tion, I am, your bumble servant,
W. D. Camp.
I hereby announce myself a candi
date for Auditor, subject to results
of Democratic primary.
George D. Scruggs.
For Sheriff.
Profoundly grateful to the people of
Cheroke* county for the honors they
have already conferred on me, I an
nounce myself a candidate for re-elec
tion to the office of Sheriff of Cherokee
county and 1 promise to be govern
ed bv the result of the Democratic
primary election.
W. W. Thomas.
Standing on my official record as an
officer of the past and being assured
by many friends of my satisfactory
services. I hereby announce myself
as a candidate for Sheriff of Cherokee
county, subject to results of Demorcaf
ic primary.
A. L. Hallman.
With the consciousness of having
nerformed the duties of the office of
Clerk of Court in a faithful, efficient
and economical manner, for the best
interests of the countv and to tho sat
isfaction of the public, and on the rec
ord I have made as to merit and fit
ness. I solicit the support of all the
voter- of the county, for re-electlou in
the ensuing Democratic primary
Respectfully.
J. Eb. Jefferies.
I announce myself a candidate for
Clerk of Court for Cherokee county,
subject to the action of the Democrat
Ic primary.
J. O. Hollis.
For Probate Jl Joe.
I am a candidate for Probate Judge
of Cherokee county, subject to the
rules of the Democratic primary.
G. W. Speer,
Thanking the voters of the county
for their confidence reposed in m© in
the past, and feeling better qualified
by experience in the office to dis
charge the duties thereof. I hereby
announce myself a candidate for re-
election to the office of Probate
Judge for Cherokee county, subject,
however, to the rules of the Democrat-
i primary election.
J. E. Webster.
I hereby announce myself a candi
date for Sheriff of Cherokee county,
subject to the rules of Democratic
primary.
R. J. Foster.
Having been solicited by people
from all sections of the county to
bvicome a candidate for Sheriff, I
have decided to do so. and herewith
announce myself a candidate for
that office subject to the rules of the
Democratic party.
A. J. McCraw.
I am a candidate for Sheriff of
Cherokee county, subject to the rules
of the Democratic primary.
R. O. Ballenger.
For Treasurer.
I announce myaelf a candidate for
re-election to the office of Treasurer
of Cherokee county, subject to the
Democratic primary. I take this oc
casion to thank my friends for their
unwavering loyalty, and point to my
record la office to merit their continu
ed support.
W. Harrv Gooding.
I am a candidate for Treasurer of
Cflerokee county, subject to the Dem-
acratic primary.
Will W. Gaffney.
For Superintendent of Education.
I hereby announce myself a candi
date for re-election to the office of
Superintendent of Education, and take
this opportunity to thank the people
most kindly for the honors already
conferred. I will abide bv the rules
of the Democratic orimary.
J. L. Walker.
I her d)-/ formally announce myself
a candidate for Superintendent of Ed
ucation of Cherokee County, subject
to the result of the 1> mocritlc pri
mary.
Virgil McCraw.
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