The ledger. [volume] (Gaffney City, S.C.) 1896-1907, December 18, 1906, Image 5
‘Cost Sale,’ ‘Cut-price Sale,’
‘Clearance Sale’
While others are claiming to do the above, WE WILL MEET ANY PRICES MADE BY ANY ONE on
any thing we have We have the largest stock in town to select from, all new fresh, goods. Courteous
treatment to all. SAT1SFACITON GUARANTEED. We want your trade after this year and will
guarantee satisfaction on every item bought or your money back. Give us a look and we will save
you money. CARROLL A BYERS.
FOR SALE.
FOR SALE—At ft bantain. harness
factory and tannery conveniently lo
cated. New buildings and up-to-date
machinery. Address Factory care
this paper.
18, 21. 28, 31 pd.
FOR SALE -Green oak wood, for
cash only. Phone 182, or apply to W.
C. McAathur. Dec. 11-tf
SHE ALWAYS CONQUERED.
FOR SALE—All kinds of rough lum
ber. Apply to S. S. or J. G. Phillips,
Gaffney, R. F. D. No. 6. Dec. n-4t-pd
FOR SALE—I will sell the Hugh
Moore place, lying in the fork of Beaver
Dam and Thickety creeks, three miles
from town. Apply at once to
Dec.ii-tf J. Rb. Jefferies.
FOR SALE—Two hundred and
twenty-two acres of good farming
land near Blacksburg; twenty-two
acres of which is good bottom land:
two comfortable dwellings; also out
houses’; land well timbered. Apply
to Ed. H. DeCamp, Gaffney. S. C.
FOR RENT—Palmetto Hotel, new
ly furnished, electric lights, water
works, all modern conveniences.
Webster & Jefferies. Nov. 16-tf.
If you want to buy a good house
convenient to graded school and
Limestone College, address “House”
care Ledger. Sept. 3 tf.
FOR SALE—Second-hand Meltz &
Weiss kerosene engine, 2 horse pow
er cheap. Apply this office.
FOR SALE—A good secondhand
twelve-horse power boiler. Address
M, care The Ledger. Nov. 13-tf.
FOR SALE—Old newspapers at this
office, 10c a hundred.
FOR SALE—Maryland blue stem
seed wheat. Gaffney Hardware Co.
Oct. 23-tf .
FOR SALE—First-class babbit met
al. Apply at Ledger office.
FOR RENT.
FOR RENT—5 rooms over store.
Apply opposite P. O.. Nelson, the
Star clothier.
FOR RENT—A two horse farm
2 1-2 miles from Gaffney; either on
the half or standing rent. Apply J.
W. Smith. 12, 18-21.
TO RENT—Office rooms over The
Ledger. Apply to Ed. H. DeCamp.
Nov. 2-tf.
WANTED.
WANTED—Customers for Heinz’s
mince meat and krout. J. G. Bram-
let. Nov. 29 tf.
LOST.
LOST—Solid silver watch, case No.
5248, F.lgin movement No. 19,600,557,
$2 .50 reward if left with Ledger office or
C. P. Ellis. 41 pd.
FOUND.
FOUND— Wentworth’s Practical
Arithmetic on street front of J. M.
Nelson’s store. Owner can get same
by paying for this ad. It.
Fire Insurance!
We represent some of the lartfest and
most substantial companies and would
like to write your busines. 5-14-tf.
Smith & Lipssomb, Agents
MONEY TO LOAN.
I am prepared to negotate loans on
improved farms for a term of years
in an ounts of $1,000 and upward, at 7
per cent, and from $300 to $1,000 at
8 per cent. Apply to
J. C. JEFFERIES.
Gaffney. S. C.
Susan B. Anthony’s Experience With
School Rebellions.
Susan B. Anthony, the eminent
advocate of woman suffrage, was for
fifteen years a teacher before begin
ning her more public career.
Brought up in a household of
Friends, she united gentleness and
firmness and was an admirable dis
ciplinarian.
Her rule was mild, and she ab
horred the rod. But she learned on
taking the district school at Center
Falls about seventy-five years ago
that her predecessors, all men, had
successively, under active compul
sion, left the schoolhouse in mid
session by way of the window and
that she herself—although in con
sideration of her peace principles
and her sex she was to be permitted
an exit by the door—was already
openly doomed by the young rehele
t<> forcible ejection. That was too
much for her lingering Quakerly
prejudices.
soon as their hulking ring
leader entered upon a preliminary
course of antics the now “school-
ma’am.” in sweet and even tones,
summoned him to her desk. He
came, and in a manner equally
pleasant and unruffled -lie requested
him to remove his jacket.
In sheer astonishment he com
plied, and before he quite knew
what had happened he found him
self receiving from a limber birch
rod skillfully applied the neatest
and eomplotest whipping of his life.
He wont back to bis scat a chasten
ed and crestfallen, youth, with the
swagger quite taken out of him, and
Miss Anthony for the rest of the
term received admirably prompt
obedience from her pupils.
It was the only school rebellion
which she quelled in that way, hut
by no means the only one which she
overcame, for she taught in some
very rough and neglected districts.
But she met oven’ emergency with
spirit, taet and readiness and al
ways conquered.
“One of the reasons for her suc
cess,” said an old school friend,
“was that nobody could ever tell un
til it happened just what Busan
would do or how she would do it.
We only knew there was one thing
she would not do—give in. She had
more courage and persistence than
any woman I ever knew.”—Youth’s
Companion.
What Joaquin Said.
It is related that when Joaquin
Miller was asked to go to the races
he poetically replied: “Piano! Pi
ano!” As no diagram accompanies
the puzzle, u r e are forced to put our
own construction on the poet’s enig
matical remark. It may he that
Joaquin meant to convey the idea
that it was all right to play the
races. On the other hand, he may
have wished to have it inferred that
raves were not his forte—the lyre
being more in hie line of business.
Of course the meaning is there, all
right, only we haven’t the optical
afflatus to spot it. In the dagoese
of the Florentine, piano means
soft, and it is barely possible that
Joaquin merely meant 10 have the
person who extended the invitation
speak softly, lest the female mem-
| bvrs of his household take cogni
zance of his proposed whereabouts.
Perhaps we’d better let it go at
that.—Cleveland Plain Dealer.
A GLIMPSE OF SPAIN.
The Manner of a Wedding Dance In
the Province*.
The wedding dance was being
held in a long, narrow building near
a fountain, and we entered on a
smooth earth floor. Seats were ar
ranged about the sides of the white
washed room, and Hie low rafters
were draped and festooned with fan
cy wall paper with gold scrolls in it.
The music was furnished by a piano
organ at one end of the long room,
turned in rotation by a number of
.-uiali hoys in their clean bine
hlou-es and brown corduroy
breaches, who felt thc : r importune \
and at the other end of the room
a lahle was i-proad with cakes ami
bread and a wine concoction vci'\
.-weet and pleasant, but icducii.c
The women, some bringing their
babies, were a pleasant set. but not
beautiful, although a few, wit it
their large dark eyes, eanie very
re-ir to it. Thev did not wear the
pav cost nine' of niv imagination,
b,;t their dre-.-es showed great care
and eonseieiitiou~ pateliiiur. A v.r
handkerchief was often folded
around tin* neck and across h e
breast, and large earrings and big
breastpins were the \ogiie ev> n
among the voting women. The men
wore broad brimmed black felt hat
and clean blue blouse-. eorl ;r>v
troiiM-rs. either light tan or brown,
and the long red or black sadi bail
called a “faja" wound many time-
about tin* waist, the folds servin
as pockets for cigarettes, tobaec
pouch and the villainous knife tha
evorv one carries.
The dances were “rouruj^” inter
spersed with a square dance, where
four people comprised a set—a sort
of fandango, with lots of stamping
and attempts at lithe, .-erpentine
motions, with the hands raised
above the head. There was a very
old man who danced with great
gusto and amused the crowd of
young people, who encouraged him
with clapping of hands. — Edward
Penfleld in Scribner’s.
Great Boom on In Japan.
In the three largest industrial centers
of Japan—Tokyo, Yokohama and Osa
ka-new industrial companies and fran
chise using corporations having an ag
gregate capitalization of 750,000,000
yen, or approximately $375,000,000,
have been started since the ceasing of
hostilities, writes Henry George In the
New York World. Much of this may—
probably will—prove to he “wildcat”
enterprise and stock jobbing and over-
confldent; inflation and will break like
bubbles, but the fact that bad and good
companies making such a total can be
floated In a country where all produc
tions save rice, silk and tea have been
on a small scale proves the great buoy
ancy of the public mind at this time,
while a general rise in ’ ages proves
the relatively increased opportunities
for employment. Thus a great boom
is now on in Japan. Her rice crop
this year promises to be very large, her
large tea exports are augmenting, w’hile
she cannot meet the demands for her
silks.
Mis Mill} Sonic.
“Come In here, my hoiicy,
An' I'll sing ter you a song.’
An’ den he tell me, "Sing de one
’Bout Chrls’mus cornin' ’long."
'Pears lak’ data ever'thlng dey know—
De chlllun love de Chrla’mus so!
No matter what I tell Um,
Ho say I talkin’ wrong;
He tell me now how come an 'how
I sing de Chrls’mus song?
An' dat's des all dey wants ter know—
De chlllun love de Chrts'mus so!
—Atlanta Constitution.
A Turkey Dinner
makes you forget the cares of work and worry, but it is not
complete without other dainties, such as Fruit Cake, Pound
Cake, Mince Pies, etc., etc., and I have a full supply of such
things as you need. Also seeded Raisins, Citron, Currants,
1 Orange and Lemon Peel to make your own Cakes and Raisins,
Nuts, Candies, Oranges, Lemons, (trapes, Apples, Bananas,
Raisins, Coffees, Sugars of all kinds, Mince Meat, Cakes, Crack-
I
j ers, fresh Oysters, California Fruits, Canned and Evaporated
Olives, Pickles, etc., etc. Try Heinz’s Dill Pickles and Moun-
tain Buckwheat and pure New Orleans Molasses. Come and
| see me
F. Bee Gaffney.
Dr. G. W. B. SMITH,
Dentist,
^ Over Merchants Grocery C«.
Porcelain Inlays and Crown Bridge
Work. Phone 245.
DR. J. F. GARRETT,
DENTIST.
Moved to new office over Frederick
Street, F ront of the Battery.
’Phone In Office and Residence.
WILLIAM S. HALL, JR.,
Attorney at Law,
Office over The Battery.
Gaffney, t. C.
Prompt attention given to all bnelneee
FOR ALL COUNTY NKWS, IM
PORTANT HAPPENINGS IN THE
•TATE AND EVENTS OF INTEREST
IN FOREIGN LANDS, TAKE AND
READ THE LEDGER.
The Scented Court.
“The scented court” was the
name by which the court of Louis
XV. was known throughout Europe,
on account of the rage for perfumes
which then prevailed in France.
The expenditure of Mme. de Pom
padour for this one branch of her
toilet amounted to $100,000 annual
ly. It became the fashion for the
host or hostess of a great entertain
ment to signalize to their guests
what particular perfume was to he
employed for seenting their rooms
on the night for which the invita
tions were issued, and they were ex
pected to use no other, so that the
delicate effect of a unity of odors
might he produced At court a dif
ferent perfume was presented for
each day of the week.
To riekae a Little Girl at Cbrlatmaa.
After seeing tbo delight of one little
girl over the toy clothespins which
were given her for Christmas and the
lasting pleasure which she took In play
ing with them I have made It a point
to remember those simple toys as a
gift for my little girl friends, of whom
I have many, writes a lady corre
spondent. They come In little wood
en barrels.
Stones In Queer Places.
A round stone is found in the
joints of certain kinds of bamboo.
This is called “tabasheer” and is
supposed to he deposited from the
siliceous juices of tne cane. Anoth
er curiosity of this sort is the “co-
coanut stone,” found in the en
dosperm of the cocoanut in Java
and other East Indian islands. It is
a pure carbonate of lime, and the
form of the stone Is sometimes
round, sometimes pear shaped,
while the appearance is that of a
white pearl without much luster.
Some of these stones are as large
as cherries and as hard as feldspar
or opal. They are very rarely found
and are regarded as precious stones
by the orientals and as charms
against disease or-evil spirits by the
natives. Stones of this kind are
also found in the pomegranate and
in other East Indian fruits. Apa
tite has also been discovered in teak
wood.
Insects and Odors.
The ordinary perfumes of every
day life have a distinct use in the
destruction of microbes, and this is
especially the case with some of the
essential oils which are used in
cooking and in medicine. Cinna
mon, which is so universally used
for flavoring, will kill some mi
crobes within a quarter of an hour,
and it has long been reputed as ad
vantageous in the destruction of the
bacillus of typhoid while still out of
the body, j>erhaps a very different
thing from the bacillus when it is
inside our anatomy. Cloves, too,
can destroy some specimens of bac
teria in rather more than half an
hour, and the common wild verbena
has a similar action in about three-
a uarters of .tn hour, while geranium
owers have a similar action, though
it takes rather longer to develop it.
The Lobster an Idiot.
The best naturalists remain tim
orous enough and hesitate to dog
matize. Take the case of the lob
ster. Poke him here, he does this;
poke him there, he does that; poke
a thousand of him in the same wav.
and they do the same things. Shan
we therefore conclude that the lob
ster lacks mentality, that he’s a
mere machine and that he doesn’t
•ven know he’s a lobster? By no
means. All we can affirm with sci
entific justice is that apparently—
and only apparently—he’s an idiot.
The way to know for sure—is to be
a lobster.t—Jiostfia Transcriot.
No Turning Out.
'It was a meeting In a pioneer town
to discuss the bringing in of a rail
road, and after the colonel had spo- J
ben for an hour on the t>eneflts *0 he
derived he asked for others to get up 1
and state their opinions.
ttn answer, Joe Tompkins arose |
and wnated to l.-now how it would be j
if he was walking along the track ;
some day and met a train—would he <
have to get off the track or would the
train back up?
The colonel replied that railroad
trains always had the right of way,
and .foe continued:
“Then I’m agin yer railroads, and
we’ve had ’nuff gab. The only dum-
ed thing I ever turned out for was
an avalanche that s lid a hull moun
tain seven miles down into the val-
ey, and I’ve alius been dawg-gone
sorry I did that!”
The colonel tried to dodge the Is
sue but the meeting brokje up in dis
order and the railroad was never
milt—New York Daily News.
Xmas Goods
Holiday Rates via Southern Railway.
The Southern Railway will esll
excursion tickets between all points
east of the Mississippi and south of
the Ohio and Potomac rivers to and
from St. Louis and intermediate
points. Rate one fare and one-third
plus twenty five cents for ruond trip.
Tickets sold December 20th to 25th,
inclusive, December 30th, 31st, 1906,
and January 1st, 1907, with limit
good to leave destination returning
not later than midnight, January 7th,
1907.
For full information, apply to any
ticket agent of the Southern Railway,
or write
G. B. Allen,
Asst. Gen. P. Agent.
Atlanta. Ga.
R. W. Hunt.
Div P. Agent,
Charleston, S. C.
Before you buy your Xmas goods call and
see the large stock at the new Jewelry store.
All kinds of Jewelry. Special prices on
Watches, fine Silverware, Gold and Silver
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novelties, full China, all kinds. Give us a
call and see our stock. The largest line in
the city to select from. We are first class
Watchmakers and will keep your Watch in
the best fix. Give us a call. : : :
Gaffney Jewelry Co.
Opposite Ledger Office
The New Jewelry Store.
S. Nicholson Kane, former commo
dore of the New York Yacht Club,
died at Hamilton, Va.
—Fine Clothing and Overcoats at
under price at Carroll & Byers.
—Pleasing little gifts for all at Chero
kee Drug Co.
Get Goods
Where you get Presents.
Every person that spends one dollar cash or more with me this week will
get a present free of charge. This is a sure fact. It is no faike like you
have red of or heard before. Come one come all, I can furnish you with
what you want for Xmas. All kinds of Fruits, Toys and Fireworks. Watch
my windows this week and see what I give away. Come and see
W . J . M A N E S S
Until January 1 st, 1907
I Will Offer
•*. 1 otiral Cost
My entire line of Dry Goods, Notions, Clothing, Overcoats, Overalls. Hats, Caps, Shoes,
Overshoes, Tinware, Crockery, etc., etc.
I am going to give the purchasing public the benefit of merchandise bought at closet figures.
No one in town can show a better line of Clothing, Overcoats and Shoes than I offer. They are
going to be sold at ACTUAL COST and you now have the opportunity. There is nothing of the
catch-penny variety in this offer, It is a solid, bona-fide proposition. Come and see the goods
and obtain the prices. If I do not come up to my promise to sell at actual cost, then go else
where and make your purchases. Do not ask for any goods to he charged at these prices.
Ii. A. JONES.
Dec 11-18.