The ledger. [volume] (Gaffney City, S.C.) 1896-1907, January 01, 1907, Image 3
A HAPPY NEW YEAR
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Happy aud Prosperous Now Year, and we sincerely
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past, and if fair treatment and full value for your
money count for anything, we will expect a large
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market that spot cash will buy., Then we sell it close,
therefore, giving our customers full value for their
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Fourth Quarterly Interest
Ending
January 1st, 1907
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BRINGING UP GIRLS.
Freer Lives Led by English Young
Women Have Banished Hy«tBrl».
(New York Sun.)
Here is a tribute the wisdom of
the modern ideas on the upbringing
of girls. It is the professional opin
ion of an English physician, writing
in The Medical Brief on the subject
of hysteria.
Hysteria is the generic name ap
plied to some of the most baffling, as
well as most interesting cases, with
which physicians have to deal; cases
which produce what might ho called
phenomena of the nervous system,
morbid and abnormal nianifestaUons
which have been and are being stud
ied by medical men everywhere.
A nation whose women are inclined
to develop hysteria is be pitied.
One whose women are conspicuously
free from the tendency is to be imitat
ed. The physician referred to above
after noting the fact that hysterian is
less common in England now than it
was a generation ago declares that
much stress must be laid on the de
fective education and upbringing of
English girls 25 or 30 years ago.
They wore allowed but little free
dom of thought or action and were
kept closely tied to their mother’s
apron strings. The mother was a
well meaning person, but she bad but
little initiative and was hidebound by
convention.
She was orthodox but her ortho
doxy was that of her mother, sup
plemented by the teaching of the vil
lage parson. This degeneracy reached
its highest i>oint in the cathedral
towns of Great Britin.
iA quarter of a century has marked
a great change in this respect and
has been concurrent with an increas
ed robustness of health of our girls.
They are stronger now physically,
mentally and morally.
The advent of bicycling and motor
ing and especially of greater facili
ties for traveling in foreign countries
has had much to do with this, < hlefly
by permitting a more vigoepub and
intimate social intercourse between
young men and women.
The girl of today dictates the po
licy of her mother and with a health
ier outdoor existence there are fewer
of the factors which tend to make for
hysteria and its attendant evils. It
is comparatively rare nowadays to
meet with a neurotic English girl,
and the most typical and exaggerat
ed form of the disease must be sought
among the Latin races.
Then H© Woke Up.
(Chicago News.)
“I never was much give to flirta
tion,” said the travelling man, "but
I had a narrow escape last summer
from falling from grace.
"1 was riding from Hannibal, Mo.,
to Springfield, 111., on a Wabash train.
I sat next to the window on the right
side of the car, no one sharing my
seat. Across the aisle from me sat
two women. The one next to the
window was a good looking person,
with a blue silk gown and a oleasant
facial expression. Once as she look
ed at me I detected a distinctly
friendly twinkle in her eyos. I was
astonished. But not fatally. A
man’s egotism will never let him feel
wholly surprised when a woman
shows signs of being pleased with
him.
“I thought at last I have found
someone who detects a good thing at
first sight without the necessity of
any of the preliminary stages of ac
quaintance. The next tinve I looked
her way—which wasn t long—there
was a friendly twinkle in my own
eyes, in response to which a sugges
tion of a smile visited the corners of
the woman’s well-shaped mouth.
"I sat up, fixed my coat collar so
it set just right, adjusted my four-in-
hand and tried to look unconcerned.
Within five minutes that strange pei^
s^-i and I were smiling at each oth-
er like old acquaintances.
“About this time a tall lanky per
son walked Into the car, spoke a
word to the woman accompanying
the one of friendly provlivities, and
ttHfi sat down beside me. We drift
ed into conversation with the free
masonry of Involuntary seatmates.
f ‘Soon he said: Tm the sheriff of
this county. I’ve got a couple of
crazy women takln’ ’em to the ’sy-
lum. You wouldn’t even know they
was crazy, neither. That woman
over there with the blue dress is one
of ’em.’
“Well, I’ve known some keen hu
miliations in my life, but that was a
trifle the keenest.
Growth of Bank Deposit*.
(Americap Banker.)
It has been estimated, from reports
received by the Comptroller at Wash
ington, that over $12,196,029,486 is on
deposit with banks throughout the
United States. This makes an aver
age of about $110 for every man, wo
man and child, a sum which adiounts
to about seven times the sum of our
national indebtedness. It has been
nearly trebled in the past ten years,
the amount on deposit in 1896 being
$4,945,124,423.
The Southren and Western States
show the greatest percentage of In
crease, while the Eastern States aver
age the greatest actual wealth.
These figures comprise only the to
tals from the States. The islands
add very materially to the sum with
a total of deposits in State, private
and national banks of ^Ifi,738,180. In
1900, which was the first report re
ceived from their banks by Washing
ton, the Indivldua deposits totalled
only $3,069,174. In the following four
years they increased to $19,287 669,
and although they fell off during
1905 to the extent of about $2,000,000,
they have reoovere '’ that lose and
more in this year’s showing. Un
doubted!” the invasion of American
capital is responsible to a great meas
ure for the amazing rise in the de
posit figures hut this argues advance
f the people, and must be of great
advantage to all lines of industry
aside from banking itself.
Counting our Island, therefore, our
individual deposits amount to the
amazing sum of $12,215,767,666. The
average amount of currency per cap
ita amounts to $33.08. Had we a
proper scientific currency and a se
cure form of bank government be
hind this vast credit system the out
look would be immeasurable. Credit
Is an excellent thing, but It must be
securely foundeu to endure.
Satisfied Them All.
(Youth’s Companion.)
Aunt Panthea Brooks lived in a Ut-
the New Hampshire village very
many years without quarreling with
anyone, and was so thoroughly liked
by everyone for miles round that her
popularity excited the Interest of a
summer visitor.
“Aunt Panthea,” he asked, “how is
It that you keep on such good terms
with everyone, while they are all
quarreling among themselves?"
, "Well," said* Aunt Panthea. "being
as you aren’t to stay here long I’ll
tell you. When I go down the street
I meet Jason Purdy and he says
‘Why Panthea, how well you look!"
“ ‘I’m glad you think so. Jason,’ 1
say. smiling at him.
“Next minute up come Ezry Drik
cut
“ ‘Well, now, Panthea,’ he says,
'how porely you are looking this
year.’
“ ‘My land, Exry,’ I *ay, ‘how quick
you are to notice those things 1’
“So It is with everything. Those
who like to think one thing, I let
’em think iL and those who like to
think the other, I let ’em think it”
Who can deny that Aunt Panthea
had discovered a comfortable phi
losophy of life?
Publish the Prices.
(From the Beaufort Gazette.)
The board of directors of the State
dispensary has just published what
purports to be a list of purchases at
its last meeting. It would be Interest
ing to know whether this Is a true re
port or whether It Is as deceptive as
those sent out last spring. At that
time the actual purchase was very
much larger than the figures given
ouL
The question of what price is being
paid for the liquor and supplies Is
even more Important than the quan
tity bought. Nothing is said in the re
port before us about the prices paid
thirty of the thirty-five varieties list
ed. Why not? Much of the liquor
purchased by the last board was of
popular brands at preposterously high
prices. But the public did not know
It until after the Investigating commit
tee had dug out the facts. For In
stance, “Old Joe,” that was being sold
to barkeepers In Atlanta for $28 per
case by the single case, was being
bought by the State board by the car
load for $36 per case. If the taxpay
ers had known these facts It could not
have continued. It is probable that If
the board had known that the terms
of all contracts would be published. It
would not have dared to have paid
the outrageous prices it did.
Publicity is a safeguard that the
people should Insist upon.
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How She Accept* a Compliment.
(Philadelphia Press.)
It is the way a woman takes a com
pliment that stamps her place In so
ciety.
A blush denotes the debutante.
A giggle, the silly unsophisticated.
A brusque protest, the sensible but
unpolished.
But the quiet, unelated smile, with
g quieter “Thank you,” If reply be
necessary, unmistakably denotes the
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