Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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i The Southeastern Life Insurance Company. SPARTANBURG, S. C. OFFICERS. Ei.mott Estes, President. A. H. Twitchrm., ist Vice President. Gir.ES L. WrLSON, Secy, and Tres. John R. Ci.KVKLAND, and Vice P sident. George R. Dean, M. I)., and George VV. Heinitsch, M. D., Medical Directors. DIRECTORS. A. H. Twichku., President and Treasurer Clifton Mfg. Co. and D. E. Converse Co. Jno. B. Ci.KVEI.and, President C. & W. C. Railroad and Whitney Mfg. Co. Jno, A. Law, President and Treasurer Saxon Mills and President Central Nations Bank, L. E. Carrigan, President People’s Bank of Darlington. W. S. Montgomery, President and Treasurer Spartan Mills. Stobo J. Simpson, Attorney-at-Law. AuG. W. Smith, President Woodruff Cotton Mills and Bank of Woodrun. A. L. White, President Merchants and Farmers Bank. EU.IOTT Estes, President Southeastern Life Insurance Co. . .. , A corporation chartered by the State of South Carolina, founded and contro by South Carolina men, and writing strictly non-speculative, straight Li e n- surance of the safest kind only. A South Carolina home company for the protection of South Carolina homes. (AGENT WANTED FOR CHAROKEE COUNTY. ELLIOTT ESTES, Jr. General Agent, Spartanburg, S. C. Mar. Kith, 1907 Don’t Forget That I keep all kinds of Picture Mouldings and make any size Frames. When you want Wall Paper, call and see mine. I paint houses, signs and buggies, repair furniture an upholster. R, Gaines Phone No. 261. 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 . WL A N EC © S ttf ,Th4|psnly Semi-Weekly Newspaper in South Carolina At SI .00 READ THE LEDGER. FOR ALL THE LATEST COUNTY, STATE AND FOREIGN NEWS THE LEDGER. Is The Best Advertising Medium In Upper South Carolina It enjoys the LARGEST CIRCULATION in the Fifth Congressional District of South Carolina and has A LARGER CIRCULATION In Cherokee County Than Any Other Paper Its subscription list is a bona fide one, each subscriber being paitf iirmivanCe.'' ’Tire cir- — julation is in no sense padded and names are lifted from the list whenever time paid for expires, thus saving 'the annoyance incident to dunning the people for back subscription. In other words, it reaches the people who have money to buy what they want. The Wise Advertiser Will Take The Hint! WORLD'SGREATESTDAM Ponderous Structure Is Named After President Roosevelt. WILL CHECK A TURBULENT RIVER l«rfreat Irriiratluu I'roject In tb<* United Stnl.-M Deaerlbed hy n Recla mation Service StatiMtlclan—Cbnrm and Myntery of the Revlon In Which the Work 1* Being tarried On—Careful t'onntruet Inn. “No national work under the recla mation act has attracted more general interest and none has been more wide ly advertised than the Balt river proj ect In Arizona,” said C. J. Blanchard, statistician of the reclamation service, who recently returned from an extend ed trip through the west, says a Wash ington correspondent of the New York Tribune. “Aside from its engineering features, several of which are stupendous and spectacular,” he continued, “the charm and mystery of the region In which the work Is going on appeal strongly to all who have studied the history of this country. The Salt river valley has been Inhabited at different times by three races, each making use of irrigation in agricultural operations. Of the first, whose ruined canals and structures are found In many places, but little is known. The wind swept drift of cen turies has choked these channels, and their dwellings are crumbling into dust with the weight of ages. The modem ditch making machinery, In laying out new systems, uncovered many of these old ditches, some Qt which were cut 4rom the solid rock long ago. “The drive from the town of Mesa, a fertile oasis in the semltropical desert, to Roosevelt is one not to be forgotten. From a region of almost tropical luxu riance you have merely to cross a ca nal to enter upon a wide expanse of desolation wherein the giant cactus Is a prominent feature of the landscape. For twenty miles the government road stretches out across this desert plain to the foot of the Superstition mountains, u most peculiar and freaky formation, regarded with superstitious awe by the Maricopa Indians. Entering the moun tain area the road winds by easy grades up the range, affording views of wonderful beauty. •‘Transcontinental travelers cannot afford to miss this trip, for the ride over the lioosevelt road is now regard ed as one of the most striking scenic Journeys in this country. The night in Fish Creek canyon, where a hospitable host and hostess make the traveler welcome, is a delightful memory. The road has afforded opportunity to in spect a profound canyon which here tofore was not accessible. It is a min iature Grand Canyon of the Colorado. “The climb along the dizzy ridges until the government camp above Roosevelt Is reached would be little less than terrifying but for the broad and comfortable roadway which Uncle Sam has carved from the solid rock. The view from the mountains above tne dam site is inspiring. Below you the river, like a silver thread, rushes through a dark and narrow canyon. To the east lies a broad flat, across which Tonto creek and Salt river have cut their channels. On the other side of the canyon the contractors’ camp covers a broad area, looking far be low In the canyon through a confusion of cables and wires, an army of men are at work thirty feet below the river bed laying great rocks two and three tons in weight In layers of cement up on the bed rock of the stream. These men look but little larger than toys, but the fruit of their toll Is visible In the beautiful curve of stone now rising slowly but surely from the bottom of the river. “On the hill to the right the govern ment cement mill gives noisy evidence that Uncle Sam as n manufacturer is undismayed at the prophecy of experts who knew he couldn’t make good ce ment. Night and day his plant goes on, grinding out the best cement ever made, and the skips are carrying It out on cables and dropping it down to the works In the canyon. If your nerves are steady and your legs are strong you must not fail to go down the lad der to the power house, which the en gineers have cut out of the solid walls of the canyon. Its walls, roof and floor are solid rock. The power canal, sev enteen miles long, curries the water to the top of the hill and then tbrough a tunnel drops It sheer 220 feet upon the great turbines. Here electricity is generated for all purposes. It furnishes the contractor his power, It runs the rock crusher and the pumps, it lights the camps, the city of Roosevelt and il luminates the canyon throughout the night. It Is a most inspiring scene to stand on the top of the cliff at night and by the myriads of electric globes watch the tollers fur below laying the huge blocks of sandstone. “The world's greatest dam Is build ing, a ponderous structure 2D4 feet bJgtLRJHl 800 feet long on the top. Ev ery rocl^ In It Is Inspected, and every rock Is also washed thoroughly before being put In place. Watchful inspect ors hover about the work, noting every movement. The Roosevelt dam is going to check a mad and turbulent river. It Is going to make the largest artificial lake In the world. It is also being built to endure forever, for not stronger are the everlasting bills than will be this massive masonry structure. Down in the Salt river valley the city of Phe- nlx Is taking on metropolitan airs. Its citizens are fully realizing that Uncle Sam’s great work Is going to make a metropolis tbert, a modern city, sur rounded by the richest and most pros perous afrlcattiiral community in the worid.” KANSAS CORN-CONGRESS. I B 0 0 |y| | N WHALE TRADE It will Be Ilelri In Manhattan la January. Kansas has the corn fever. Every body In Kansas Is a corn booster. The State Agricultural college is playing corn us a top liner in Its curriculum. The Kansas Corn Breeders’ association Is thoroughly organized and has the earmarks of something that has come to stay. In fact, all agricultural Kan sas has joined in a systematic cam paign to make Kansas the greatest com producing state of the Union, says the Kansas City Star. The third annual meeting of the Kansas Corn Breeders’ association will be held at Manhattan, Kan., beginning Jan. 1 and continuing two or three days. Notable speakers learned in the tech nique of corn breeding will address the assembly, several of them being ex pected from distant states. A large ar ray of com will be on exhibition, and experts will pass judgment on the vari ous displays. Prizes will be awarded for excellence of exhibits, and the competition Is open to any farmer in the state. The merchants of various Kansas cities have shown great liber ality In prizes, the aggregate now be ing something near $. r >00, and the list is still growing. Expert judges will make the decisions. An interesting feature of the Man hattan corn congress will be the pres ence of boys along with the older heads—boys ranging In age all the way from twelve to eighteen years. Kansas Is long on farmers’ institutes, and a year or so ago It was arranged at the suggestion of the State Agricul tural college authorities to have a boys’ corn contest in each county. There are 106 counties In Kansas, and the con test found enthusiastic joiners in eighty counties, the aggregate number of Juvenile contestants being approxi mately 6,000. It was a part of the pro gramme for the various county insti tutes to give to each contestant a quart of shelled corn to be used as seed. Then It devolved upon the boy to plant the corn and cultivate It ac cording to his own ideas, and since the corn harvest the contestants have sub mitted to their respective Institutes samples of their pioductSj It having been stipulated in the beginning that each display should consist of ten aver age ears. Prizes have been awarded in each of these counties, and now In ad dition to the local prizes the winners In the county contests are eligible to compete In the “big show” which is to be held at Manhattan. The boys will have their inning on Dec. 31, preliminary to the opening of the adult com show. Plan to Revive the Industry on the Pacific Coast. A Merry Christmas — and — LATEST METHODS ARE TO BE USED THREE-YEAR-OLD SMOKER. Two l‘a<'ku«;ea of Tobacco a Week and Crlca For Hla Pipe. Oflicers of the Lowell (Mass.) Hu mane society found a three-year-old child the other day who Is a confirmed smoker and has used daily a corncob pipe since he was eighteen months old, says a Lowell special to the New York Times. The child is Andre, the son of Albert Beaulieu. When the officers took his pipe away he screamed with anger and aroused the neighborhood. Mrs. Beaulieu, who Is eighteen years old, said she didn’t know tobacco would hurt the child. Bhe promised to try to cure Andre of the tobacco habit, and It was decided to allow him to remain at home. Mrs. Beaulieu says Andre smpkes nearly two packages of tobacco each week. % Pretty Ulorea, but You Frees*. Man’s Ingenuity Is l>eing exerted con stantly to create something new to catch the eye of woman, and one nov elty on the market is making women of limited means envious of their more fortunate sisters who may Indulge In such things without straining of purse strings, says the New York Press. As If It were not a great enough expense to keep a supply of plain long gloves on hand, the newest hand coverings are peek-a-boo gloves. They are glace kid of the regulation elbow length, with the backs of the arms and hands embroidered with eyelet embroidery. The pink skin showing through the little holes Is charming to view, but, alas, the women who wear the gloves must pay the rather steep price of be ing even more cold and uncomfortable than with ordinary long gloves. ParllonM of Levin t Ini ii That Were j One* Cast Away Will He I’tili/.ed For Many Producta, and MothlnK la to i He W'nated—Chain of Stntlona Pro posed—Yeaaela to Ue Kqnlpped With the W'hnlinK Gun. In order to revive the whaling in dustry on the Facitic coast and to ap ply to It modern methods a company has been formed in Beattie, Wash., says a special dispatch to the Chicago Record Herald. Unlike former whal ing methods, the company plans to utilize every portion of the great crea tures, taking all varieties of them. The old time whalers hunted the right or sperm whale alone. The eachelots and bowhead whales were the most prof itable and were sought for their bone and oil. The methods of the old time whal ers have been improved upon. In the days when the greasy canvas of the “blubber hunters,” sailing from New Bedford, which was the mecea of all whalers, whitened every sea, the Indus try was In Its infancy. Fully two- thirds of the revenue producing part of the whale was thrown away. In their little boats, with the hurpooner at the bow, the whalers would approach one of the giants and after a struggle sub due it or be subdued and lost. Then the whale was towed alongside the ship, where It was cut up. The blub ber was hauled on board and In great Iron pots set In a brick foundation on the deck was tried out, and the bone tvas stowed away below. The oil of the head was balled out In buckets, and after the whale was thor oughly separated from those two prod ucts the remainder was thrown away, and the search for more was begun. In the days when whales were plentiful this method was appropriate. That was the time when 500 vessels made New Bedford their headquarters and when the total oil catch of that port was 200,(tOO barrels annually. Now it has dwindled to less than 10,000 bar rels annually, aud where ouce from 50 to 3<i0 or -Kmi ships were seen In the harbor the sight of 5 is unusual. The Seattle Company intends to make eight different products from the whales. Oil, bona, fertilizer, skele ton bomx glue, leather, whale meat and stearin or tallow are to be had. The company intends tq (;stablisli stations between Cape Flattery and the Alaska peninsula und to operate steam whaling vessels equipped with the Sven Foyuu whale gun. They are to be modeled after the one of the Pacific steam whaling station at Sea- chart, on the Vancouver Island coast, which uses the steamer Orion, which came into prominence at the time of the Valencia wreck. All kinds of whales are cap 1 rind towed to the Station, where < r:-y of- them U worked up Into a marketable product. Most of the whale oil Is now shipped to the Glasgow (Scotland) refineries. Hawaii gets most of the guano or fer tilizer, and most of the bone is shipped to New Bedford. Chicago takes the tallow or stearin. In this way the products are scattered broadcast The aim of the new company Is to cen tralize the various products in Seattle, having different factories and plants for the refining or manufacture of all the finished products of the mammals. Their plan Is to operate whaling ves sels equipped with the whaling gun. Whalers differ regarding this gun. It shoots a large harpoon with a bomb which explodes after two seconds and is presumed to cause death almost in stantly. The harpoon holds the whale while it Is towed to the side of the ship, and air Is pumped Into Its intes tines to keep it afloat while being tak en to the station, where the process of cutting up the carcass is carried on. Many whalers prefer the old style method of the hand harpoon, although the bomb Is alleged by many to be bet ter and mofe efficient. Happy New Year. J thank you one and all for the kindness you have shown me in buying your candy and fruit from me. I will continue my busi ness at the same old stand. Call and see me any time. I will be glad to see you. S. R. Suber. Phone 107 The Candy Man. Fire, Life, Accident, Health Insur ance Surety Bonds. J. Darby MOI I ICTFR’Q Rocky Mountain Too Nuggefs A Busy Mediclm (or Busy People. Brings Golden Health and Renewed Vigor. A specific for ConntipaMoQ. Indigestion, Lire* end Kidney troubles. Pimples, Eczema, Impure Blood, Bad Breath. Kluxeish Bowels. Headache and Backache. Its Rocky Mountain Tea in tab let form. 35 cents a box. Genuine made by Hollistkb Dkco Company. Madison, Wis. GOLDEN NUGGETS FOR SALLOW PEOPLE NOTICE. Clients, and parties having busl ness with me will please call and arrange things during December aa I wB] not leave Columbia during the sitting of the Senate to attend to professional business. J. C. OTTS. Atty. Book* of the Week. Robinson Caruso. By Hannah Gra ham. (New York, £2 net.)—London Judy. “You’ll Have to Pay Yobr Fare.” As Washingtonward one by one. The members took their way To answer when the roll begun And thus secure their pay. The stern, sad look upon each face— Ah. It was not carved there By problems of the state but this: "You'll have to pay your fare!” By B. and O., by P. R. R.. From north and east and west, In plain day coach or parlor car. The same dark cloud oppressed. The sams deep wrinkles marked each brow. As If the hand of care Had touched them. But 'twaa only, "Now, You'll have to pay your fare!” From Oregon and Idaho. From Texas and from Maine, To reach the capita), you know. Each took his destined train. But sweet dreams of the past no more Rose brightly in the air— No pass, no privilege, last the roar Of "Let me have your fare!" Across the prairies and the hills Despondently they rode. To vote upon and offer bills And bear the nation's load. But not this weight and not this woe Turned gray each statesman’s hair: ’Twas this, that now. where’er they go. They’ll have to pay their fare! —Baltimore Bun. A Motor Boat Conqaest. The Florida Evergladea, with their snakes, their heat and difficulty of passage, have long been a bugbear to exploring travelers. But the motor boat has conquered their difficulties. A. W. Dimock writes in Harper's Mag azine for January of his wonderful trip through the Everglades. Each man carried a blanket, mosquito bar and rubber sheet, and they took enough ba con, corn meal and coffee for a week's rations. They passed through miles of water lilies, and snakes met them at every turn. They caught plenty of fish, shot birds for food and passed al ligators, turtles and many water fowl. (The author denies the dangers and trials of the Everglades aud says with a motor boat the trip Is a “picnic.” New Orleana to Have a Cellnr. “A new hotel is being built In New Orleans, aud It Is going to have a cel lar,” says the Washington Post,* “that ought to l»e worthy of note,” said Martin Behrman, mayor of New Or leans. “During the last few years,” contin ued Mr. Behrman. "the sewerage sys tem of New Orleans has been revolu tionized. The waste water and refuse matter are no longer washed away Id surface sewers or gulleys. New, well regulated sewers, planted under the ground, have taken the place of the old style sewers. ’ /hich made our city no torious. By oar new drainage system It Is possible now to build cellars under houses. A few years ago a native of New Orleans did not know whst a cel lar was.” Advertising if called by some an art. If it be an art it is the art of telling a story simply and convincingly. Nobody knows more about the strong qualities of an establishment than the proprietor who oversees it. Other things being equal, nobody should be able to write more convinc ingly of the articles he of fers for sale. In • store where the employer sells goods side by side with his clerks it is nre that the employer will not be the best salesmen. The reason issimple. He knows the goods from A to Z. He probably has pur chased them. He knows his aims. His arguments cany weight because they are convincing. The same arguments pre sented in the same way, with the same enthusiastic spirit, the same knowledge of detail, would attract new customers if presented through the advertising col umns of this paper. If yoa have not triad it, why not begin? If yoa have tried it and ua not aado- lod, tat aa know aboat Ik I