The ledger. [volume] (Gaffney City, S.C.) 1896-1907, January 25, 1907, Image 5
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TRADE MARK
REGISTERED
" Imitation
is the
Sincerest Flattery
The unprecedented popularity of Royster's
FARMERS' BONE fertilizer has induced some of
our competitors to advertise Fish Guano, claiming theirs
to be “just as good/' FARMERS' BONE is the
original Fish Guano, and, to prevent being imposed upon,
buyers should be sure that our trade-mark is on every bag.
This is the only guarantee that you are getting the genuine
Farmers’ Bone
M3d3 with* Fish
srr^s.c. F. S. ROYSTER GUANO GO.
Tarboro. N. C.
Macon,Ca.
Style! Shape! Quaiity!
All Perfect. What More Can Any Man Ask For?
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Fire,
Life,
Accident,
Health Insur-
once
Surety Bonds.'
Jones J. Darby
Dependable
Groceries
Thoaearethe kind I Mil. My
Coffees are giving satisfaction
•ad my sales more than doable
each month. Rave yon tried
them? My Tea is a winner
al *>- : : : : :
I Have Just Reeelved
Heinz’s barrel Pickles, both
Sweet and Sour. Fine Sauer
Kraut. Also have Dill Pickles
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Sun diied Peaches and Apples,
nice lot of Jellies and Preserves.
Evaporated Cream, Eagle Brand
Condenced Milk, Pound Cakes,
etc. Yours to please,
F, Bee Gaffney
PENAL SETTLEMENTS.
Where Prinonem Who Are Deported
l*o For Life.
France, Spain, Portug.il, Russia and
Turkey are today Hie only European
countries which transport their cnuii-
| nals, and there are si^ns that this form
j of punishment will not lie continued
| much longer by civilized nations. Rus
sia has aircady diminished the number
of offenses for which Siberia is the
penalty".
France has two penal set^-meuts,
one the Island of New Caledonia, which
lies nortfieast of Australia, the other in
French Guiana. Caleuouia, or He Non.
has often been d* cribed as a sort of
inferno. At a matter of fact, it is the
best managed convict island in the
world. The climate Is not bad, aud the
convicts can gain by good conduct
pleasures and privileges unheard of in
British prisons.
’ Convicts form the working classes of
the island. They stroll about unshac
kled aud unguarded. They can smoke
cigarettes and buy a little wine. The |
better class act as barbers, waiters, eu- 1
gineers and stokers and can earn about
ttvepenee a day.
The birch and the cat-o’-nine-tails are |
unknown in the island, the punishment t
being the “cacbot,” or black cell. A |
few hours or days in this living tomb j
is usually enough for any of them, |
however refractory. They come out
like lambs. Bad as is the lash, it is j
nothing compared with a sentence of j
li\e years in the “ca< - hot," with only j
me hour of light in c t< h thirty days!
Cayenne is very different. The eli- j
mate is about as bad as bad can be.
The work is principally'masonry and
clearing laud. In case of mutiny hoses
are ready charged with scalding water.
The least infringement of the rigid dis-
o'phne is visited with cruel punish-
laimt. One of the commonest is to ro-
dm-o a man to one meal a day, and
iliet nothing lint 11 road and water,
f loath follows any attack on a warder,
liethv-r injury is indicted or not. The
f i.'d, all except Tiie bread, is wretched
The nio-t horrible of the penal col
i ni- , s in ex -dem e at present are un-
<t M.' i .,jiy those of Fpain at Ceuta and
i'ernaudo Fo The latter place is an
island in ti e bight of Hiafla. Theaver-
-o t mpei itnre .• ii the year round i>
nearly .So degrees, ami the heat is a
damp kind, most tr.ving.to Europeans.
The horrors which t'nban patriots un
derwent in Fernando i’o are not to be
matelied in Siberia itself. Three out ;
of live died before they had been there
two years.
tiddly enough. Portugal manages !
these matters much better than does
Spain. She sends most of her con
victs to Goa, on the coast of India, or
to her East African possessions. Her
system resembles that of New Cale
donia, but is less strict. In fact, Por
tuguese convicts do very little bard la
bor. They are allowed almost com
plete liberty so long as they do not
leave the limits of the settlement to
which they are assigned. At Mozam
bique you may see government oiBcials
playing billiards with convicts of good
birth.
When a Turkish political prisoner Is
senteuced to be deported to Tripoli or
to the Euphrates, his friends bid him
farewell They know that they will
never see him again sllve and in all
probability never hear of him again
unless enormous sums are forthcom
ing to bribe scores of different officials.
In fact, the only difference between a
death sentence in Turkey and one of
transportation Is that the former is
more rapid and merciful. The govern
ment prefers the latter, because It Is
less public. \ w and Jhen, however,
news leaks through—of poor Midbab
Pasha, for instance, it is known that
near Bagdad ids brutal guards beat
out his brains with the butt ends of
their rifles.- London Answers.
HORSES AT $9 A DOZEN.
An Odd but I’aylriK Spccn lnl ion by
an ActrcMM.
Miss Edna Wallace Hopper is a
good judge of horses. How good a
Judge she discovered only by chance.
“It was one of the oddest experiences
In speculation,” says Miss Hopper,
“that ever came to me. It happened
several years ago when I was on my
way to the Pacific coast. It should
be said, too, that it was before the
Boer war had cleaned up the American
ranges of mustangs. Horseflesh in the
northwest was hardly worth keeping
track of. I chanced to stop off at Spo
kane, Wash., and In going about the
city was attracted by a large crowd
before the courthouse. Upon investi
gation I found that an auction by the
sheriff’s office was going on, and a lot
of cayuses—as they call them out there
—was about to be sold. Curious, I
waited to see the fun. The horses in a
co.ral near by looked mighty good to
me, aud I was struck by the evident
lack of desire to bid on them. Final
ly the auctioneer managed to coax a
bid of $50 for the lot. I eould not be
lieve my ears—50 cents apiece for real
live horses! Some whim seized me.
and I called out a raise to $75. fully
expecting, of course, that another buy
er would go higher, but hardly were
the words out of tny mouth when the
auctioneer snapped me rp and knock
ed down the lot to my bid.
“I could not get out of it. and there 1
was with 100 h >rses on my hands :].O iO
miles away from New York. It looked
for a time like the original white ele
men!'
Small Pewm.
One feature which I noticed espe
dally in a recently ofifned church !■
the city was the large number vf
small pews—pews intended for ti*»
persons only—waa the comment of •»
old New York churchgoer the other
Sunday. Now, fifty years ago the m*
jority of the pews held six perso««
comfortably and sometimes more.
There may have been a few of these
two seated pews, but they were a ne
cessity because of the interference mt
a pillar, and there were never more
than six or eight of these small pewe
in an entire church. In the church f
speak of I noticed two rows of them,
extending the entire depth of the audi
torium. I couldn’t help but think «f
the good old times when the entire
family went to church In a body and
filled a long old fashioned pew. And
I got to wondering what the new tw»
seated arrangement stood for. Is It an
outgrowth of apartment living, race
suicide and all the other evils one
hears of, or is It old fashioned now
for children to accompany their par
ents to church?—New York Sun.
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Some timely advice is given by the
Cri de Paris. “Frenchmen,” It ex
horts. “drink only hoiled water.” This
advice is good, but the following is
even better, “Before stepping into a
train make sure that no Russian grand
duke travels in it.” Further, “Before
stopping at a hotel make sure that It.
does riot harbor some Russian grand
duke.” There is today nothing more
dangerous than a hotel In which a
member of the czar’s family has tak
en qv irters. A p atron sits in the read
ing room or in the dining room when,
hang! the shattered window panes fly
about and the ceiling tumbles down?
In justification of this exhortation to
precaution the paper calls attention
to the fact th at the train between Bor
deaux and Cette in which a Russian
gri.i. i du! e was traveling to Biarritz
i off tie- rails, and two passengers
lo tin c* j : y> ; t•* .t s!:iiult.,neousIy a
exal • ’ in the Simplon tunnel
a g;.and duke had passed
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FOR SALE.
On Monday, February 4Ui, 1WT, 1
will offer before the court house door
to the high eat bidder all my real eo-
tate. consisting of one lot of land coo*
talning fifty acres, more or less, with
dwelling and outhouses thereon.
Terms of salo: One-third cash: hat
anoe In one and two years, with Ant
mortgage to secure payment
M. 0. Perry-
Jan. 18, If. ft. 28. 28, Pob. L
DON'T FORGET
l to* an ho eared of Omm. To- l
l mor or Chroole OM Boron Too I
l tboosaod oaaoo treotod. It Is tho I
I so rest care on earth. Delay Is I
I fata! How to bo corodf Just I
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I O. B. GLADDEN Grover. N. C. I
FOR
Jp-to-Date Job Prm -
ing, call at
.EDGER Office.
• Gaffney, S
The GreHt Hotel City.
An expert who has studied the hotel
business in every principal country of
two hemispheres says that New York
cares for three times as many persous
in hotels as does London, six times as
many as does Paris and ten times as
many as does any other city that can
be named. There are 138 large first
class hotels In Manhattan alone—more
than 300 including the smaller ones—
and at the rate of construction at pres
ent the calculation has been made that
within twenty years there will be on
Manhattan Island alone 380 hotels of
400 rooms each or of greater size.
Cradled wherever it may have been,
the boatelry art has surely found Its
home In the American metropolis, and
one needs no further figures than those
just given to furnish explanation of
the amaxlDg evolution of the hotel In
New York city. With a footing popn
latlon each day ranging from 73.000 to
IffcOQOi according to tho railroad pas
aengar accountants, for tho various
aoafifM of the year, there la little wen-
dor tfcat New York tea become the
dtp of earth moot conspicuous tor its
lug them, the cayuses averaged In cost
$1 each to me, so my profit was a clean
$1,400, which was not bad on an in-
S vestment of such a size.”—Bohemian
Magazine.
Trouwerw and Uelitcinn.
Many of the chiefs In the protec-
| torate of Gambia wish to have their
| sons educated in the now Mahomrned-
. an school of that religion, says the
, Tailor and Cutter. But there was a
bar to their full enjoyment of the ed
ucation they were likely to receive.
The pious Mohammedan papas were
afraid that the wearing of modem trou
sers was part of the school curriculum,
and therefore they viewed the school
with peculiar suspicion. The governor
of Gambia now reports that the par
cuts have been assured that their chil
dren will not be converted Into “tron
.sers men,” and the prospects of the
school are now very bright.
It would be Interesting to learn ho^f
this suspicion of the modern nether
covering arose and whether the dry
goods merchants denied the natives
their ordinary material. But it may be
Interesting to recall the fact that the
British government forbade highland
ers to wear the kilt for some years aft
er the battle of Culloden. However,
the government was In a tight corner
during Its continental wars, and It was
glad to raise several regiments of high
landers, who resumed the kilt, and the
trousers wearing edict died a natural
death.
s , : Ai Jtopimk-fiwtai
Ganava nawspapars call fee atten
tion of the federal govern meat to the
following legal clash: When a French
man living in Switzerland becomes s
naturalised Swiss cttlsen, without be
ing entirely free from bis military serv
ice In France or without the authorisa
tion of his government, his children,
according to French law, which does
not recognise the validity of their natu
ralization. remain Frenchmen. By
Swiss law, however, they are Swiss.
Owing to tjjese conditions It has hap
pened that young men, the sons of nat
uralized Frenchmen, serving in the
Swiss army and traveling In France,
were arrested and compelled to comply
with their military duty in France. “It
Is high time.” says a Swiss paper,
“that the federal smthorities apply
iigilu to tin* Fren -b government to
reach an understaud ng on this ques
tion. and also on that of the Frencb-
ine i born In the canton of Geneva.**
:*rof»'(*{<ir For Slilrls.
^ hen .i buys a dress shirt uow-
adays lie can depend on the bosom be
ing fihsolutoL potless, since owing
to a new device t! t has been thought
of the shirt is protected from the toin*
of soiled fingers that so often were
wont to leave their mark on the fair
surface. This new style of protection
. consists of an envelope of transparent
paper that is large enough to hold the
; shirt, keep It absolutely clean and yet
enables one to see the size numbers
through it. Without adding much to
t the cost, the envelope is a great econa-
; my to the dealers and makers, since
; with Us use there is never any cause
for the return of shirts to the factory
that have been soiled In the handling
as there Is In the ease of collan and
cuffs.—New York Prase.
Panama Canal—Erie Canal.
Machinery is digging the PanatoA
Canal a thousand times quicker than
the shovel dug the Erie.
Machinery produces the L. & If.
Paint at 50 times less cost for labor,
than If made by hand.
The L. & M. gives the best Job to
the world, because L. & M. Zinc hard
ens L. & M. White Lead and make*
L. & M. Paint wear like Iron for If
to 15 years.
It only r o quires 4 gallons of thto
celebrated paint and 3 gallons of Ll»-
seed Oil at CO cts per gallon, to patofi
a moderate sized house.
If any defect exists in L. & M,
Paint, will repaint house for nothing.
Sold by Smith Hardware Co.. Gaff
ney.
—“Town Talk” flour Is the brat
fancy patent. Try a sack. Carroll ts
Byers.
Sloeovs
Luvinveivt
For Cough, Cold, Croup,
Sore Throat, Stiff Neck
Rheumatism and
Neuralgia
At «ll Dealers
PHcg 25c 5Go 6 *IOO
Sent- Free
'Stoanfe Book on Horses
Cattle* H09S 6 Poultry
I Address Dr. Ear) S. Sloan
1615 Albany St Boston. Mass.
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Get Goods
Where you get Presents.
Every person that spends one dollar cash or tn >re with me this week wil
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 a!!. I can furnish you with
what you want for Xmas. All kinds of Fruits, To(s an-! Fireworks. Watch
my windows this week and see what I give away Come and see
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