Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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I L‘ THE LEDGER. Tuesday anl Friday, Ed. H. DeCamp, Editor and Publisher. The Ledger fa not responsible for the views of correspondents. PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS. Hereaft«r no advertisements will be accepted at this office after 9.30 o’clock o« Mondays and Thursdays. Watch your label and the data. And renew before ’tie too late; If there be an error, don’t get mad. Report to ns—we’ll make yon glad. Renumber, ’tls our aim to please, . Bat errors are like pesky fleas— They will creep In In spite of fate. Therefore, watch jour label and the data. —Original. NOTES AND COMMENTS. lit. Zion was thrust humedly Into the public gaze even though a riot (?) was necessary to produce this re- • suit. • • « We have seen a statement in the Columbia State from that paper’s cor respondent in Gaffney to the effect that the freight rate is higher to Gaff- neyjrom parts north than to Spartan burg—a distance of twenty-one miles further. This is not right, and the railroad commissioners should be called upon to adjust the matter. * • • Our esteemed contemporary, the Miss Raymond Tolleson, of Spartan burg. who has been the charming guest of frienls in this city, has: re turned to her home. Kyle Davenport has returned from a visit to Shelby, N. C. Watson Bell has returned from a visit to relatives and friends in York county. Misses Jessie Lipscomb and Wilma Gaffney are visiting in Shelby, N. C- C. Miss Agnes Walker has returned from a visit to friends In Yorkville. Miss Augusta Ehoff, of Baltimore, Md.. Is the guest of Mrs. J. C. Lip scomb, on Victoria avenue. Mrs. A. E. Lipscomb and grand daughter. Miss Carrie Stewart, are visiting relatives In Spartanburg. ' A. UrQuhart, of Blacksburg, was in the city Saturday. Clarence P. Sullivan, of Anderson, was in the city Saturday. W. H. Bang of the “It’s all your Fault” Company, was in the city Sat urday in behalf of his attraction, which appears In Gaffney Saturday evening, January 5th. Brossy Byars has accepted a posi tion as salesman with J. G. Bramlett, the enterprising Limestone street gro cer. He entered upon his new duties yesterday. The many friends of Mr. C. G. Par ish will be delighted to learn that he is able to leave his room, after quite a severe attack of sickness. N. C. Cooke, of Kings’ Mountain, was in the city Saturday. Sam M Craig, of Anderson, was In the city Saturday. Edwin Lipscomb and Elford Little ] have returned from a visit to Shelby, I North Carolina. Tank McArthur, a popular young \ Cherokee News keeps talking about railroad man, of Moneta, Virginia, gambling going on in Gaffney and says “that he is being complimented on Ids c rusade against this Immoral practice. If the News has done any thing to suppress the evil except to say that it is going on” (although re peatedly called upon to furnish evi dence). we have not heard of It. If the “News” has any proof we think it should be given to the proper authori ties. and if it has not then stop talking credit for what it has not done in oth er words ‘Put up” “Get up’’ or “Shut up.’’ • • » And now comes our puissant Sen ator, he of the pitchfork and says: that Roosevelt did wrong to discharge the negro troops who participated in the shooting up of Brownsville, with out a most searching Investigation, and that he doubts the president’s au thority to take such matters into his own hands anyway. Any one with a thlnble full of brains who read the president’s article giving his reasons tor discharging the troops can readily see that his investigations were most searching and thorough, and he would hare shown a deplorable lack of exe cutive ability if be had not dismissed them after he obtained the facts In the case. We remember some years age just, after Tillman saddled the dis pensary upon us, that he ordered cer tain mlitla companies tjn go to Darltngr ton to help put down a riot Some of them refused to go and this consist ent statesman at once discharged them. An officer connected with the malitia at that time took the position that Tillman did right in discharging troops who refused to obey the orders of their commander in-chief. Now the president being the commander in chief of the armies of the United States certainly has the right to dis charge soldiers who are guilty of con duct such as the troops at Browns ville, Texas. spent Christmas in the city Miss Winnie Davenport has return-1 ed from a visit to Shelby, North Caro-1 llna. . Mr. and Mrs. L. S. Wood have re turned to Matoaka, W. Virginia, af , ter spending their honey-moon in South Carolina iMiss Minnie Wilkins has returned i from a visit to Shelby. N. C. | Tom Cardwell has returned to his j home in Campobello, after a visit to I friends in Gaffney. Dever Little has returned from a trip to Atlanta, Georgia. Dr. B. L. Allen was a Spartanburg vLsitor Saturday. F. V. Gilmer, formerly of this pity now residing In Greenville, is spend ing a few days in the city. Miss Myrtle Gaffney, is visiting relatives in Monroe, North Carolina. Mrs. Rose Wilson, who has been spending Christmas in the city with her parents Capt. and Mrs. R. M. Gaffney, has returned to her home In Durham, N. C. Frank McArthur, who has been In West Virginia for some time. Is in the city visiting relatives and his nu merous friends. Mr. Jesse Sanders? of R. F? f>. No. 6. was in the city yesterday. Miss Kate Montgomery, of Roebuck, has returned home after a pleasant visit to friends in the city. Miss Olive Hottall, of Spartanburg, was the guest of Miss Juanita Pierson l&st woolc Mr. T. E. ’Elliott of Earle, N. 0., visited his sister, Mrs. W. T. Thomp son on Victoria avenue last week. Mr. Will Spearman returned yester day from a visit to Greensboro. N. C. Will Be Watched With Interest. (Florence Times.) Gaffney is about to give this coun try a new enterprise and one which will be watched with the greatest in terest, that is a factory for making cotton bagging out of the fibre of the stalk. If it proves practical it will be one good thing for this country. One more source of revenue for the cotton planter. The sded have already proved so valuable as both fertilizer and food that the stalk of the plant is now the only part of it which has not a real value to the world of com merce. Cotton Is now the most valu able product of this country and has the least done for it. the most done against the man who raises it. Not an "R” Month. It was a broiling August day. Four tired, sweltering, discouraged fisher men sat at the table of a wayside inn, gating their dinner. The soup was steaming hot and the fried steak siz zled on hot plates, the torrid baked rotatoes burned Incautious fingers, and the fiercely hot coffee scalded reckless tongues. Even the water was rather more than lukewarm, says the Youth’s Companion. “Such a dinner,” growled one of the uncomfortable party, “to set be fore folhs on a hot day!" Presently the maid entered to re move the plates. She asked a ques tion that filled the tired, hot fisher men with Joyful expectations. What she said sounded like this: “Are you ready for your Ice?” Ice! Of course they were ready. They dropped their forks, aban’med their coffee, and leaned back in their chairs to await the coming dessert. They could fairly feel it slipping down their hot throats in cool deli cious spoonfulls. Lemon ice, pineap ple ice. orange ice— The dessert came. It was huge dishes of steaming boiled rice. With one accord the fishermen pushed hack their chairs and fled from that dining room. It was the last str^w. Precocity of the Modern Child. (London Chronicle.) There Is no doubt that the thought ful child of today would have been the much-punished child of the past. the same time the witty child does add to the gayety of life, besides en forcing a higher standard of conver sation among her reproving elders. It was a mistake, for Instance, on the part of the reproving elder to tell one of these wtls of the nursery that if «he was so naughty she would not go to heaven. The little culprit seem ed impressed for a brief moment and Hien she gave a resigned sigh. “Oh, well,” she remarked, *T've been to two theatref and a party and a cir cus. I don't expect to go every where.” Some Queer Schools. (Itoston Transcript.) There arfe some very strange educa tional establishments open at the pre sent day. Miss Alice Boutelie and Mr. Wanamaker opened a school for cash boys in America some little time ago. According to a prospectus isued b' T them, pupils, who must not be un der fourteen years of age, are taught arithmetic In every-day use, book keeping. penmanship and the quick handling and counting of money. Most of the boys who have attended the school are now earning good wages as cashiers in some of the largest stores in New York and Chi cago. It is proposed to open in London a school for nursemaids, where girls over sixteen years of age may be given lessons in the management of infants, preparing of children’s food, plain sewing, laundry work and taught the kinderfifarten system of educa tion. Such an Institution already ex ists In Berlin. It was founded two years ago by a clergyman, and Is In connection with a foundling hospital. The growing girls of this establish ment are taught to become competent housemaids, and positions are found for them in the houses of the best families in Germany. Russia possessts a school for po licemen. where the young men are trained for the force. The school is situated in St. Petersburg, and in a museum connected thereto the pupils make themselves familiar with jim mies, drills, chisels, other tools used by professional thieves. A particular branch of the school is the Russian pass i* * * ort system, which every bud ding policeman has to study in detail. A remarkable educational establish ment is the school for Judges opened recently in Paris. Here make-believe trials are held by the pupils under the supervision of well known attor neys. The whole procedure, from the issuing of the warrant for arrest to the summing up and the Judge’s ver dict, is carried through in a business like manner. At Monte Carlo there is a school for croupiers. It is held during the six summer months in the club room of the Tir aux Pigeons and the Salle d’Sscrlme, In the Casino building Here are buildings similar to those in the Casino gaming room, and each pupil in turn takes the role or croup ier. while others personate players and stake money over a table. At a given instant the croupier must cal culate and pay out the winning stakes. There are usually between fortv and fifty pupils in this school, and a six months’ course is generally sufficient to turn them into finished croupiers. A very odd educational establish ment is the school for grave-diggers in Belgium. It was founded by the directors of the Great Ever© Ceme tery, and all candidates for posts as sextons in Belgium must undergo training in the school and pass an ex amination. , There are several schools of house wifery in England, the principal one of which is connected with the Nation al Training School of Cookery in London. Every branch of household management Is taught at this school; the keeping of accounts, the princi ples of domestic sanitation and a cer tain amount of sick training being in cluded. Could Afford to Go. (New York World.) Various authorities have passed on a letter received at the postofflee de partment a short time ago, and it has finally been sent to the postmaster general. The letter came from a Western postmaster at a small office and read: “In '’ccordanco with the rules of the department I write you to inform you that on next Saturday I will close the postofflee for one day as I am going on a bear hunt. I am not ask ing your permission to close up, and you can discharge me if you want to • But I will advise you now that I am the only damn man in the county who can read and write.” It is not likely that the postmaster will be discharged. STAR THEATRE Sat. Jan. 5th The lauKhitur hit of the year In London and New York; a sensation in Baltimore last week! MR. ERWARD R. SALTER Presents Charles J. Stine and Miss Olive Evans in Edgar Salwys s laughest of all farces, “It’s ill Your Fault”- Identically as seen for one hundred nights at Savoy Theatre, New York. Prices: $1. 75c, 50c, 25c. Seat sale opens at Cherokee Drug Co. on Friday. FOR SALE. FOR SALE—At a bargain, 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. McAuthur. Dec. 11-tf 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 fe, Dec.n-tf J. Eb. Jefferies. FOR RENT—Palmetto Hotel, new ly furnlsbed. electric lights, water works, all modern conveniences. Webster & Jefferies. Nov. 16-tf. FOR SALE—A good secondhand twelve-horse power boiler. Address M. care The Ledger. Nov. 13-tt FOR SALE—Maryland blue stem seed wheat. Gaffnev Hardware Co. Oct. 23-tf . FOR RENT. FOR RENT—5 rooms over store. Apply opposite P. O.. Nelson, the Star clothier. tAccount Ne w Teeth st 120. (From the Laurensvllle Herald.) While other counties are boasting of their hale and hearty octogenarians and nonagenarians and occaslonaly a oentenarion. Laurens county has with in her borders a man who has passed those old aid rare mileposts in life’s Journey. Mr. Ransom Phillips. Hying near Fork Shoals, in the upper part of this county, claims to be one hun dred and twenty years old. He has recently cut a new set of teeth, and smokes and chews tobacco right along Just as though he might be a young turn of sfeventy five. He Is In rood health, walks about easily end Is still able to work. Proud of His Pater. (Youth’s Companion.) Although Mr. Hobbs was taken at his face value by his son and heir, there were times when the youthful William’s admiring tributes embar rassed his parents in the family group. “I had quite an encounter as I came home tonight.” the valorous Mr. Hobbs announced at the tea ta ble. “Two men slightly intoxicated were having a quarrel on the corner and as usual tfeere was no policeman in sight, and they were in a fair way to knock each other’s brains out, when I stepped between and separat ed them.” “Weren’t you afraid, father ” ask ed Mrs. Hobbs, in a quavering voice. “No, indeed, why should I he?” in quired Mr. Hobbs inflating his chest. “I guess there isn’t anybody could knock any brains out of my father!” said Willy proudly. Batting at Shakeapeart. (Brookly Eagle.) Hall Caine says that only seven of Shakespeare’s thirty-seven plays are worth saving. Count Tolstoi goes further, and declares in reading the much-praised dramatist he “invariab ly underwent the same feelings, re pulsion, weariness and bewilder ment” The opinions of the Rev. Eli jah Dowie and of Mrs. Carrie Nation are yet to be secured. Those who have critically compared ed “The Christian” with "The Temp est” are not at a loss to understand why Mr. Caine would see only a phantasy in Prospero, and only an enormity in Caliban. A primrose by the river’s brim, a yellow primrose Is to him, and it is nothing more. Mr. Caine’s genius is practical, rather than poetical. Count Tolstoi, too, has a right to regard his own “Krutzer Sonata” as a protest against much that he finds in “Romeo and Juliet” and in “The Merry Wives of Windsor.” He is strictly consistent in his estimate of Shakespeare. Any other estimate be self stultification. The country horse doctor who see ing “Hamlet” for the first, remarked that he “would have liked it better if it had not been so darned full of quo tations.” was as much entitled to his own opinion as Caine or tne count. As a matter of fact their “grouch” against Shakespeare is alKiut the same as his. The bard of Avon said so many things so well that it is hard of them to say anything new—or any thing old so well as he said it. In searching of originality they graviate to the unnatural where Shakespeare h" 0 - not intruded and the field is free. Despite Caine and Tolstoi the world will go on living and loving and fight ing and dreaming. Till it gets sid of these habits, bad or good, it will be a Shakespeare World, not Caine’s, not Tolstoi’s and not the horse doctor’s. Whether the world would be worth living in after losing those habits Is a matter of hair-line speculations. MONEY TO LOAN in sums of JioO 10/300 to members of The Farmers Mutual Insurance Corn- pay on first mortgage real estate. J. EB JEFFERSES, Secretary and Treasurer. WILLIAM 8. HALL, JR n « Attorney at Law, Office ovst The Battery. Gaffney, 8. C. Prompt attention giren to an business Dr. G. W. B. SMITH, Dentist, Over Merchants Grocery Ce. Porcelain Inlays and Crown Brldga Work. Phone 246. DR. J, P. QARRKTT, DENTIST. MovaB to now office over Frederick Street Front of tho Battery. ’Phene in Office and Residence. FOR RENT—My store house, and blacksmith shop and tools. W. T. Thompson. Jan. 1, tf. TO RENT—Office rooms over The Ledger. Apply to Ed. H. DeCamp. Nov. 2-tf. WANTED. WANTF.D—Customers for Heinz’s n.inee meat and krout. J. G. Bram- let. Nov. 29 tf. WANTED—Boarders, Jan. 1st. over Stevens’ Store, Granard St. Mrs. S. C. Good, Proprietor. Dec. 28-Jan.l.pd. LOST. LOST—On last Friday evening be tween E. H. Gaines’ bottling plant and new passenger depot, a thin brown leather purse containing $10.00 as folows: One $5.00 gold piece and one $5.00 bill. Anyone finding same will be rewarded if they will return It to Rowland Gaines at E. H. Gaines’ bottling plant. 12-31-06. Account books to | suit every demand. | Our stock is complete ■ in every detail. | Ledgers, | Journals, Day Books, . Counter Blotters, | Cash Books, i Index Books, \ Record Books. Call on us for any I book you need. Fire Insurance! _j We represent some of the largest and most substantial companies and would like to write your busines. 5-14-tf. Smith & Lipscomb, Agents MONEY TO LOAN. I am prepared to negotate loans 00 improved farms for a term of years In ar aunts 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. 8. C. Cherokee Drug -v. ‘ ^ 1 THIS SPACE BELONGS TO J. C. LIPSCOMB “We’re goin’ ter have int’restin' services up to the church today,” naid the first farmer during a Kansas drought; “the parson’s goin’ ter pray fur rain.” “So?” gruntf d the other. “Quite a crowd 0’ ye goin’. ain’t thar?” 1 “Yeh. We’ve got a deal of faith in our minister—" “So I ain’t seen none o’ ye car- ryln’ umbrells.” — The La#t Word. “Having the last word,’’ said a nav- I al officer, "reminds me of a story I heard not long ago. A certain man died, and a clergyman was engaged to offer a eulogy. This worthy min ister prepared a sermon of exceeding length and stfength, but Just before he entered the parlor to deliver it he thought that it might be advisable to learn what the dead man’s last words had been. So he turned to one of the weeping younger sons and asked: “ ‘My boy, can you tell me your father’s last words?’ “ ‘He didn’t have none,’ thq boy re plied. ‘Ma was with him to the end.’ ’’ A charge of harboring revolution- ista has been made at Juarez, Mexico, against Mrs. Maria Ponce do Gon zales —Try a bottle of “Naturee Cough Remedy” and a box of “Grip Tablets” for that cough and cold. If they don’t cure the Gaffney Drug Co. will re fund your money. Is that fair? Costs nothing If they don’t cure. Subscribe for Th« Lodger; $1 a year. Who will advertise his interest in the Lipscomb-Goudelock Co. stock of Gen eral Merchandise at astonishingly low F* prices. These goods are to be sold re- f gardless of cost. Watch for the prices , in Friday’s Ledger. ....