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Gaffney, South Carolina. CAWROL<I^ tk 804-6 Limestone Street. CHARLOTTE CUSHMAN. Glimpses Behind the Scene# of Her Private Life. Miss Cushman was flfty-aix yearn old at this time n872», but looked older Her face showed the marks of intelligence more than that of any woman 1 ever met. with the possible exception of Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe, runs an article in the Theatre Magazine. Her hair was iron grey, her features strong, but her chin was protruding in a manner not altogeth er pleasing. There was about her a suggestion of masculinity that served to explain her great success in her earlier life in playing Romeo and oth er male roles opposite to the hero ines of her sister Susan, a beautiful woman, but far inferior to Charlotte as an actress. In conversation she was very interesting, every word be ing though ui and we.ij c nsidered. Reverenct vas a narked c ha.acteris- tic of : aatun-; on< f It sure that she could nevt r trire with sacred subjects. In speaking of her plans for the future she always began, "An’ i; pleases God,” with a quick but reverent gesture of the head that was inipre; sive. When the '’onversation turned at !ast to her nr dess ion she said tl h ’age lile bad always been as separate t oni her perrontl life as one sea fr< m another. She told me that in her fifteen y -ars’ ab- senc'' from the sta <• she had grown young he slept and had re turned to her profession wit.i renew ed zeal. She stated that in great roles she felt the passion she as sumed; that the Anglo-Saxon has too much self-consciousn°s<! to be able to ininrest! an audience otherwise, al though a Frenchman or Italian may nnt on and off a character and act it well, with, perhaps, an entire lack of self-consciousness. Miss Cushman edded that, although the most self- conscious, we are by no means the most conceited race; that the French are that, as the Germans .are the most phlegmatic in nature. She ad- , did that other languages offer great advantages over English by the great er dramatic effect that can be pro- ri.iced by th.» enunciation of a single word. Miss Cushman spoke in high terms of Mr. Jefferson as a man, and as an actor; but of the Booth family, as actors, her criticism was that “they had pampered the popular taste with jellies, instead of feeding it with strong meat.” THE COST OF LIVING. CHEAP EXCURSION RATES via SOUTHERN RAILWAY. Rates open to all. On account of the special occasions mentioned, the Southern Railway will sell round-trip tickets to points named below at greatly reduced rates, aa fallows: T 0 Richmond Va. and return.—Ac count Meeting True Reformers. Tick etq on sale September 2nd to 5th, lim one fare plus 25 cents for round trip ited to return September 13th. Rate, one fare Plus 25 cents for round trip The Southern operates on all through trains pullman drawing room sleepers and Southern Railway dining cars—high back vestibuled coaches. For full informatio consult any Southern Railway ticket agent, or write R. W. HUNT. Division Passenger Agent, Charleston, S. C. G. B. ALLEN, Asst. Gen. Passenger Agent, Atlanta. Ga. Wage Earners Pay Increasing While Salaried Men Are Losing. (Now York Sun.) In the census statistics of persons engaged in gainful occupations no dis tinction Is made between those who work for a daily or weekly wage and those who receive yearly salaries, al though the conditions of these two groups are economically entirely un- ike. The Commissioner of Labor recent ly submitted a report on the represen tative manufacturing industries of the United States, in which it was shown t.iat the condition of the wage earn ers last year was better than ever be fore in the history of the country. Wages were high, employment was unusually steady and dollars brought more than they usually do. While there is no official report to say that the conditions prevailing among wage earners in manufacturing indus- trit s prevailed also among wage earn ers in nearly all other fields of Indus t ry. In some lines there has been an in crease in the daily wage rate; and in others, while there may have been little or no change in wage rates, r! ere has been steadier employ ment and therefore an increase in the ' otal income for the year. It may her* fore he assumed that the eco nomic condition of the wage earners of this country has never been bet ter than, or even quite so good as, during the years 1905 and 1900. The agricultural laborer is a wage earner, but the 0.ooojmiO farmers, planters, dairymen. &c., are neither wage earn ers nor salary earners. Good crops and good prices for crops have given to them an abundant prosperity. The general activity of trade and eotn- icrce and fair profits on transact : : ;s have placed the merchants be- vor.d anv very keen anxiety as to the cost of living. There is. however, a class, large In numbers though difficult, if not. im- posillc. of precise tabulation, to which the general nrosperity. as rep resented l); trade activity, high wag es and high prices has brought loss either than gain. In this group there belong, properly, the clerk, the sales- nt in, the 1 'r kkeeper, the clergyman, teacher, sol -r. policeman, the gov ernrnent en.p oyee and many others whose incomes are in the form of fixed salaries. Most, if not all. of them have be m loosers rather than eain' is In the increased cost of liv ing. As that increase is beyond ques- iion due in large pur to the increase in the wage rate of wage earners, it mav even he said that the salary earner is injured by the general pros perity of the producing and trading classes. The number adv< r cly af fected by the increased cost of living is probably more than two millions. The business men may organize or join a trust, and the wage earners may join a union and so secure for themselves a larger share of the pro duct of our national activities: but the teachers, the preachers and the silaried employees must dance to a tune set for them by others. Each of them must paj’ his or her share of th larger wages of the carpenter and the hod carrier and the larger divl dend of the railway company. They must pay the higher cost of living out of incomes which do not rise with the p’ereaso in the price of commodities. —If you want to be in the style you will have to wear one of our stylish Hats that we are now showina. Company Store. —Go to the Cherokee Cafe for cold drinks and lunches. P. C. Little, Mgr.. 114 Frederick St. Newspaper Man Dies. Asheville, N. C., Sept. 1.—James C. Abernathy, managing editor of the Charlotte Observer, died at St. Jo soph's Hospital, in this city, this morning. The deceased came to Asheville a few days ago in a low state of health. He grew gradually worse, and yesterday afternoon his relatives were summoned. The body loft here this afternoon for Char lotte. Subscribe for The Ledger; $1 a year SOUTHEASTERN LIFE INSURANCE CO., Of Spartanburg, S. C. You Should Take a Policy With This Company Because— First: It is the first and only old-line Life Insurance Company m South Carolina. Second: It is officered and controlled by home people, and keeps money in the State. Third: Its Policies are simple contracts, free from speculation as to results, each item and figure being guaranteed. Fourth: Its premium rates are lower than most old companies, and yet it fund she* just as much, just as good and just as safe insurance. Fifth: Its Elective Investment Policy combines Investment, Insurance, En lowment and Annual Income, and is proving a winner. ELLIOTT ESTES, President. GILES L. WILSON, Secretary. DIRECTORS. A. II. TwiCHKLI., President and Treasurer Clifton Mfg. Co. and D. E. Con verse Co. Jno. B. Cleveland, President C. & W. C. Railroad and Whitney Mfg. Co. Jno. A. Law. President and Treasurer Saxon Mills and President Central National Bank. L. E. Carrioan, President People’s Bank of Darlington. W. S. Montgomery, President and Treasurer Spartan Mills. Stobo J. Simpson, Attorney-at-Law. Aug. VV . Smith, President Woodruff Cotton Mills and Bank of Woodruff. A. L. White, President Merchants and Farmers Bank. Elliott Estes, President. Medical Directors—Geo. R. Dean, M. D., Geo. W. Heinitsh, M. I). Reliable, Energetic Man Wanted as Agent in Gaffney. ELLIOTT ESTES, Jr., General Agent, Spartanburg, S. C. Gen. Kearney Burned it Himself Into a Pine Slab (From the Kansas City Star.) re lie the bones of Sancho Pedro, the only damn Recent Greaser I ever saw. AN EXPENSIVE EPITAPH. A SHOWMAN IN AFRICA. le Killed by Apache Indians, 184C. their line the early men were entiment Gen. S. W. K. t U. S. A. The letters had been burned into he pine slab with the corner of a iranding iron. The dry climate had ept the wood preserved and there was no indication that it had stood or the date below the epitaph. A ew bullets, tributes of cowboys, who toubted that a greaser could be good ven when dead, had splintered the mdes of the slab. It was an unusual epitaph. The fine slab stood in a sand hill far off rom the Pecos river, up near the oothills in New Mexico. The epitaph was unusual because it spoke well of a Mexican half-breed. You might travel for days in New Mexico and Arizona and find neither on wood "or stone or the libs of a white man uoh flattery a s that “a greaser was decent.” Sancho Pedro must have been an unusual half-breed to acquire the friendship of a general. The slab was found half buried in a sand dune by a Mexican grading crew on the Santa Fe railroad when they ran down the Pecos Valley in '90’s. Sancho’s country- disturbed by no niceties of when they ran on to the grave. They split the head piece in to paddles with which to clean their shovels and scrapers. They went down deeper and found the bones of a man arrl high-heeled Spanish hoots. An iron crucifix and chain incrusted with rust was taken from around the neck by an Indian boy, who was car rying water for the men. When he went back to Santa Fe he thowed the crucific to his grandfath er. and old Navajo Indian, who had been with Gen. Stephen W. Kearney. The old man in broken English and between many lapses of silence and miffs from a pipe told of Sancho Pe dro. He was a hostler for Gen. Kear ney, the old man said. He served the general for years and was killed in a skirmish with Apache Indians down in the Pecos Valley near the foothills in 1846. The general ordered him given decent burial and burned the plt-aph with his own hands on a pine slab with an old Spanish branding iron. The railroad desecrated San- cbo’s grave and threw his hones to whiten and waste away on the sands. His story would never have been known except for the crucific the In dian hoy took from his neck and kept. He liked to show it and repeat the storv his grandfather had told him of Sancho Pedro and the epitaph writ ten by Gen. Kearney. A 10.000 H. P. WATER POWER. PACKAGE WORTH $40,000,000. Pittsburg Capitalists Are Developing a Plant on Broad River. (Charlotte Observer.) Mr. C M. Pritchett, resident engi neer at Gaffney, S, C.. for the con struction of a 10.000 horse-power water-power paint on the broad river, was in the city yesterday. The com pany Is known as the Spartanburg Electric Manufacturing and Power Company, and the capital comes from Pittsburg. Mr Jennings, who Is in- t rested in the Toxaway develop ment. is the president of the company •md with him are Messrs. Dravo. Slack Crawford and others Ground was broken about a month and a half ago. A spur is being run to the site of the power from Blacksburg The sour Is about four miles long. The grading of this spur will be complet ed next week and the track will he laid at once. The work of cleaning off the site where the dam will be and excavation for the foundations is now in ^progress. This company has about men employed at pres ent, and this force will be increased to 500 as soon as the hands can be procur d. The Dravo Company, of Pittsburg, is the contractor and Mr. Oscar Shanks the superintendent of the work on the ground. Mr. Shanks and -Mr. Pritchett reside at Gaffney. Those interested hope to have the plant constructed and power ready for sale within the year 1967. The power will be sold to factories within a radius of 30 miles; the bulk of it will nrobably bt> disposed of in Gaff ney and Spartanburg. Mr. J. E. Sirrine if chief engineer of this work, and Mr. Pritchett resi dent engineer, part of his organiza tion. Natives on th e West Coast Entertain ed by Belgian. air. Le Boutillier is a Belgian show man who works the West African cir- ( uit. He got the idea while clerking lor a rubber an palm oil trading com pany. It seemed to him that there would be money in catering to the African craving for amusement. His wages were only 156 francs a month; but lie was sure that his modest savings would finance the undertaking. So lie launched it two years ago and Le Boutillier is the whole enterprise for be has had no temptation to reorga nize on a syndicate basis. He has a tent in which about 150 natives may find seating accommoda lions on the ground. His only white assistant stands at the tent flan and gives admittance to any one who has copper coins or a bit of silver to the value of about six cents. Cowrie shells and native produce are not le gal tender, and the range of Le Bou tillier’s educational and moral show is thus confined to those parts of the coast regions between Dakar and Ini gos. where coins are current The entertainment is entirely pic torial and musical. The mainstay is a large series of stereopticon views thrown on a screen by kerosene il lumination. Some of them are comic pictures of a kind to appeal to the native sense of the ridiculous; but the most are scenes from life in European countries; such as cities and hamlets, shipping in the harbors; the domes tic adimals, farm laborers in the fields, crowds in the streets, etc. Le Boutillier has a simple story to tell about all bis serious pictures. He sits at his steropticon reeling off his pictures and his little talk at the same time, now using one of the two native languages with which he is familiar and again employing in terpreters who have at least a smat tering of French, English or German; for Le Boutillier talks all three Some of t.he inofrmation conveyed through these native mediums is nrobably a wonderful sort, but the showman insists that the pictures and lectures combine edification with en tertainment in a high degree. The stereopticon views are divided into sections by the musical perform ance which is evoked from a number of music boxes especially made for African auditors. Li* Boutillier said he didn’t want any operatic hifalutin and he bad no market for Wagner or Beethoven; but he could mak-e good use of simple melodies with just enough accompaniment to supply har monies that are not a bit intricate. This is the musical pabulum in which he deals and he is helping the tuneful West Africans to add some of the simple peasant music of Europe to tludr repertoir. The large coast settlements have no use for Le Boutillier’s modest ex hibition. for they have plenty of th** same sort, but there is large oppor tunity at the many other centres population to which the showman makes his way, now transporting his traps along the native paths through the forests and then travelling along the coast bv sea. He says the show business is more profitable than clerking, and who will deny that he is widening the native mental horizon by giving the natives glimpses of other lands. John D. Rockefeller was offered by the mayor of Compeigne. France, the same sort of homage he would pay to a visiting monarch. —Eat dinner at the Cherokee Cafe, P. C. Little. Manager. —Cherokee Cafe Dinner House. P. C. Little. Manager, 114 Frederick St. I / FOR ALL COUNTY NEW*. I* FORTANT HAPPENINGS IN THE STATE AND EVENTU OF INTEREST •N FOREIGN LANDS, TAKE AND READ THE LEDGER. Letter to Humphries Shoe Co., Gaffney. S. C. Dear Sirs: How did you get your business? we’ll tell you how we got ours. You sell shoes, wp make • ain'; perhaps we can do a good turn to ourselves, you and we, by swapping experiences. We began <52 years aeo i - a little shop a lew minutes walk from where we are now; a great many things have happened, we don’t r member them all. We made as good paint, as we could and learned to make better. We are thy oldest now: we don’t know whether we had any teacher or not; it’s so long ago: if we had. he’s gone and forgotten. We should have been forgotten, if we hadn’t made "ood paint and friends. You buy your sl oes; you have an advantage in that ; if you make a mis take, you can stop it quick; if you make a hit. you can push it quick. We’ve had to go slow; it’s hard to pick-out one’s own mistakes, and nothing but fun to correct the mis takes of others. You know where to go for leather that keeps its shape, feels good, looks new. and wears a long time. What a comfort it is to be comfortable from making one’s customers comfortable! We also have a unique advantage— unique, you know, means that no- body-else has anything like it. We make a strong paint that takes less gallons, saves half the cost of Paint ing your house, and it’s like that leather of yours for wear. It’s all paint and the strongest of paint. Paint is usually adulterated and weak. We’re very old. but we m ike young paint! one gallon is better than two, if it has the stuff in it. Yours truly 2 F W DEVOE & CO New York P. S.—R. M. Wilkins Hardware Co. sell o.ir paint. It Reposes in a United State# Treas ury Vault. (Washington Post.) Wealth sufficient to reimburse Uncle Sam for the price paid France for thy Panama Canal route and all rights and equipment appartaining thereto now lies in a small, insignifi- cant looking package in one of the reserve vaults of the treasury build ing In this package, covered with coarse white paper and bearing the oval seal of the division of issues, is th« sum of Jld.i >,006. Tlie amount is made up of i,;, )0 $10.000 gold cer tificatcs. The m ntion of in.eoo.oOO is com- prehenssibie to treasury officials only, and to the mind of Lie average read er it brings only a vague wonder. A few of the purchasing powers of this sum will help to clea:- away the mist. Dimensions of Package. Each dimension of the package is about eight inches, and Lie weight is eleven pounds. A cubic inch, in prop er condition, is worth almost $80,000, while a pound of the large bills will bring more than $3,600,000, or u buy a first class battleship. Uncle Sam could, on a national holiday, divide this amount among his many people so that he would still have pin money left after giving each man, woman and child in the country a silver half dollar. To each inhabitant would be furnished a sub stantial dinner, or he might forego the pleasure ot catering to the inner man and enjoy twelve street car rides. If the citizens of Washington should desire to mak-e a concentrated attack on the treasury and should be able to obtain this little package of money, each man, woman and child might receive about $130 for his or her pains, after the division of the spoils. As a result of this, govern- ment work in Washington would probably become clogged on account of the exodus of government clerks to popular summer resorts. Navy officials would rejoice at thf receipt of this package, for which its use they might supplement their fighting force by at least ten first- class battleships. A balance of $10, 006,000 issue of Panama Canal bonds, which will be made next month. The amount would also cover the recent appropriations for pub ic buildings throughout the country. The package contains the first of the department series of gold certi ficates of the $10,000 denomination In only four other instances has such vast wealth been gathered in such a small space under one cover. The issues of the large denomination are exceedingly rare. As the bills are used only in large transactions of banks among themselves, there is very little wear and tear on them in comparison with that on bills of small denominations. There are two varieties of $100,000 bills. The one is engraved only upon one side, and must be signed by the assistant treasurer at the sub-treas ury. where it is issued. The reverse is left blank for indorsements, and the bills are known as “gold to order certificates.” The $10,000 bills of the department issue, howf ver, bear a slight resemb lance to the $20 bills, and may be passed as currency without indorse- ment. On the face of the certificate is a picture of Andrew Jackson, in addition to the inscription: “This Watch This Column. One house In fine condition. $700 cash, $1,260 In one and two years at per cent. Several fine pieces of property to be put on block In July Twenty-seven acres of fine land in town for a song. If you would like to have a fine in vestment in a plantation come and see me, 500 acres, some good timber and in good shape. Must be sold even if it does not bring but $3,000. 250 acres of pretty land at $10 per acre, lies fine. Town lots of all shapes ard de scriptions. Over 200. Houses galore, and 20,000 acres of land. 50 acres of land, lies well, o miles from town, $11.00 per acre. 55 acres, fairly good house, barns, etc., very cheap, 6 miles out 53 acres, orchard, house, etc., lies very well, cheap. 4 room house, good shape, in Gaff ney; price $475. 6 room house, good surroundings, nice yard and conveniences; price $1,250.00, one-third cash. The Gibbs Brick store room, 6- room house, and vacant lot 80x200 In west end, $1,800. Buy the house you live in for the rent you are paying. Representative of Sun Fire Insur* ranee Co., The American Surety Co, The Standard Trust Co., who lasd money at o per cent to buy and build homes with ten and half years to pay It back If you want. R. Lftta Parish. ANNOUNCEMENTS. For House of Representatives. 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. Believing that E. J. Clary would be a suitable man for the lower house, his friends hereby recommend him to the voters of Cherokee coun ty and hereby announce him a can didate for that place, subject to rules of Democratic primary. I am a candidate for re election to the House of Representatives and so licit the support of the Democratic voters of Cherokee county. Wm. Anderson. The friends of W. G. Austell hereby announce him a candidate for the House of Representatives subject to the action of the Democratic primary. For Probate Jt Jge. 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 me in the past, and feeling better qualified by experience in the office to dis charge the duties thereof. I hereby aanounce myself a candidate for re- election to the office of Probaie Judge for Cherokee county, subject, however, to the rules of the Democrat- i primary election. J. E. Webster. For Supervisor. 4 hereby announce myself a candi date tor Countv Supervisor subject to rules of the Democratic primary. E. Felix Lipscomb. The friends of J. V. Whelchel, rec- eertifies that iheru bas been deposit-! ognizlug the valuable services ren- ed in the treasury of the t inted f dered tu 7 him while supervisor of States ten thousand dollars in gold I Cherokee county, hereby announce coin, repayable to ihe bearer on de-J him as a candidate for that office, sub- mand.” The fac similar signatures I j»to the rules of the Democratic of Charles H. Treat, as treasurer, and \V. T. Vernon, as register of the treasury, appear at (he bottom. On the right of the reverse side is the picture of the Am- rican spread- eagle, while at the left is a circular design bearing the figures “$10,(X)0.’’ This side is printed in a yellowish brown tint. primary. For Auditor. Having been assured by many friends and having a clear conscience 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, I subject to the rules of the Democratic CRAZY NEGRO DEFIES OFFICERS, primary election. I feel grateful to 1 my many friends and thanking them Armed With Shot Gun, Fred Holla, for former Support I must kindly SOli- —Fifteen and 20 cents lunches. Meals twenty-five cents at the Chero kee Cafe. P. C. Little, Manager. 114 Frederick St. Bid# Defiance of Law. Wilmington, N. C\. Sept. 1.—Depu ty Sheriffs John \V. Smith and W. H. Cox and Constable W. B. Savage are down on Federal Point, eight miles below Wilmington, attempting to ar rest Fred Holla, an insane negro man, armed with a gun and an axe, who has taken to Hie dense swamps there abouts. swearing violence against any and all who approach. The officers have been on the negro’s tracks all the afternoon and late tonight had effected no capture. Yesterday afternoon an effort was made to capture the negro but he evaded the officers and attempted a criminal assault upon a colored wo man in the community. The white as well as the negro population in the soarsely settb-d country are much alarmed over the negro's being at lareo and are giving the officers ev ery assistance. ELECTION NOTICE. We, the trustees of School District No. 16, give notice that there will be an election to decide the question of voting a special levy of one-half mill for school purposes. Said election i will be held on Monday, the 17th of Meeting of Woodmen of the World. September 1906. The proposed boun- There will be a meeting of the clt their support in the present elec tion, I am, your humble servant, W. D. Camp. G. B. Daniel is hereby announced aa a candidate for Auditor of Cherokee county, subject to the rules of the Democratic primary. For Coron«r. I hereby announce myself a '-andl- date for re-election to the office of Coroner, subject to the action of the Democratic primary. J. 8. Vlnesett. T hereby announce myself a candi date for Coroner, subject to th« rules of the Democratic primary. J. O. Tate. DON’T FORGET I you can he cured of Cancr, Tu- I I mor or Chronic OKI Sores Ten I I thousand r ises treated. It l# the I I surest cure on earth. Delay !•; I I fatal How to be cured? Just I I write * I D. B. GLADDEN, Grover. N. C. I drv has already been determined. A. A. Crocker, M. L. Guthrie. Trustees Dist. No. 16. Sept. 4, s, 14. Woodmen of the World Wednesday night. All soverigns are urged to attend. G. W. Speer, Clerk. 9 4-lt. 4* r 14**.''#3)7 ADVANCE STYLES NOW BEADY IN MEN'S, YOUTH'S AND BOY'S CLOTHS Don’t fail to see our “College Boy’s” Suits. They are the nobbiest Suits for young men on the market. Everything that is new and nobby in Hats for Boys and Young Men. Dress Goods suitable for Suits and load just received. VVY can save you money Skirts. Plaids, Cravenetts, Novelties and on Trunks. Black Goods. — Best French Percales, 10c. Dark colors. 1906-7 patterns in Mattings. 20c joint- less China Matting, HO-pound quality, lined Trunks, Bags and Suit Cases—a car and laid for 16c. YVe try to shew new ctyJe goods Give us the first look ami we wiM san- you money. f j