The ledger. [volume] (Gaffney City, S.C.) 1896-1907, June 04, 1907, Image 2
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THE LEDQEft
Tuesday and Friday*
Ed. H. DeCamp, Editor and Publlahsr.
The Ledger Is not responsible (or
the Tlews of correspondents.
Hereafter no advertisements will be
accepted at this office after 9.30 o’clock
an Mondays and Thursdays.
Watch yonr label and the date.
And renew before ’tie too late;
If there be an error, don’t get mad.
Report to ns—we’ll make yon glad.
Remember, ’Us oar aim to please.
Bat errors are like peak* fleas—
They will creep in in spite of fate.
Therefore, watch your label and the
date.
—Original.
no commercial value and regarded by
many as an annoyance, a source of
revenue. "With the cotton, the cot
ton seed and the cotton stalk all of
commercial value the Southern cot
ton growers will cerainly be In
clover.
PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS.
CITY DIRECTORY.
Officials.
J. Q. Little Mayor
H. L. Spears .... •• Mayor Pro Tern
W. H. Ross City Clerb
R. A. Jones Treasurer
A. L. Hallman Health Officer
T. H. Lockhart Chief Police
J. B. Bell City Attorney
Board Public Works.
A. N. Wood Chairman
J. N. Lipscomb Treasurer
Y,. H. Ross Secretary
Board of Trade
W. C. Hamrick President
J. C. Otts Secretary
Miss Cleo Little left yesterday for
Appleton, where she goes to visit
Mis s Bertha Walker who has been
here during the commencement at
Limestone.
Miss Daisy Harmon, who has been
spending some time with her sister,
Mrs. J. M. Kirby, of Pacolet, has re
turned to her home in the city.
Mrs. T. B. Moseley and children,
of Raleigh, N. C., are visiting her
parents, Dr. and Mrs. A. M. Simms.
State Comptroller Jones was in the
city yesterday in the interest of a
new State fire insurance company
which he is organizing.
Mrs. I. Copeland, of Knoxville,
Tenn., arrived in the city Sunday
afternoon with three of her children
and will spend several days with her
brother, Mr. J. M. Nelson and family
of this city.
Thank You, Brethren. _ _
We extend sympathy to Ed. De-
Camp, of the Gaffney Ledger, in his
loss by fire, but w$ feel sure he will
not miss an Issue of his paper. It
takes more than a fire to put a news
paper out of business.—Bamberg
Herald.
WILL WE DO OUR SHARE?
The offer of the Messrs. Mont
gomery of Spartanburg to give $20,-
000 to Limestone College, provided
the citizens of Gaffney will give
$10,000 is an opportunity for the
people of Gaffney to help this time-
honored and historical institution.
Now the question is. can Gaffney af
ford to let this opportunity pass?
Let it he understood at the outset
that these gentlemen will not do
nate this sum unlesg Gaffney does
her share.
Limestone has not one dollar of
endowment, and if this $30,000 should
be secured it would mean that the
Institution would be placed upon a
secure footing, and having this feel
ing those who are at th e head of the
Institution would be relieved of much
of the anxiety which they now feel
as to its future.
One of our enterprising and public
spirited citizens has offered to sub
scribe $3,000 of this amount: this
leaves only $7,000 to be raised by
the other citizens of Gaffney. Let
a meeting be called some time In the
near future and let’s raise this money.
Limestone College is one of the
most valuable assets which Gaffney
has, and we Just cannot afford to
ignore this most liberal and philan
thropic offer.
We extend our sympathy to The
Ledger, of Gaffney, in th e visitation
by fire which recently came upon
that enterprising paper. We also ex
tend congratulations to Editor De-
Camp on his manifestation of pluck
and energy. Not an issue of the pa
per was omitted.—Union Times.
ATOP OF OUR CONTINENT.
Th«
With its accustomed enterprise
the Gaffney Ledger issued a daily
during the progress of Limestone
College commencement. While not
taking the liberty of advising De-
Camp, we would not be greatly sur
prised to see The Lelger issued daily
as a regular thing before many more
moons.—Souther n Publisher.
We sympathize with th e Gaffney
Ledger in the loss it sustained by
fir e Saturday. None but those who
have gone through with the same
experience can fully appreciate the
situation. But with the undaunted
courage that has always characterized
the life of Editor DeCamp, The Led
ger will be published as usual.—
^exington Dispatch.
Long on Good Looks.
(Charlotte Observer.)
A SERIOUS PAPER SITUATION.
In discussing the paper situation
the Charlotte Observer says in its
inimitable and characteristic style:
For the reason that whatever vital
ly affects the newspapers affects the
public also, it is of inerest to the
reader to know that serious prob
lems confront the publishers of the
country—one relating to the cost of
white paper, the other to its scarcity.
Ninety-eight per cent, of th e newspa
per of the country is the product of
or is controlled by the paper trust,
which is advancing steadily. Practi
cally all of this paper is made of
wood pulp, in the manufacture of
which last year, according to a re-
•^port of the Census Bureau, 3,646,693
cords of pulp wood were consumed.
The advancing price of paper is said
The Gaffney, s. C.. Ledger presents
three pages of Limestone College
graduates. Seldom have we seen
pages more attractive. Even sup
posing that the photographer in the
case showed much knowledge of his
courtly business, Limestone College
girls must be long on good looks.
Cat Didn't Com e Back.
When the cat died the whole fam
ily went Into mourning, figuratively
if not literally. No common, back
door cat this, but one that must be
buried with all honor. The question
was. How and where?
Some one proposed cremation, but
this was rejected on the ground that
it sounded too much like lynching,
says the New York Sun. It was fin
ally proposed that the father, who
had to cross a ferry every day to his
plaee of business, should drop it
overboard, and, as a burial at sea
rather appealed to the sentimental
attitude of the family, his idea was
received favorably.
The following morning the remains
of the cat were made into a pack
age and securely tied. It was a
lovely day, and the ferryboat was
crowded with passengers, and what
had seemed so simple at home as
sumed unexpected difficulties In the
fact of a curious crowd ready to
imagine anything, and to put the
worst construction on an apparently
mysterious action.
Finally it occurred to the father
that the best time would he the eve
ning. and he could slip he cat over-
i board without attracting notice in
Outlook From the Pinnacl* of
Mount McKinley.
Dr. Frederick Cook, who recently suc
ceeded in making the ascent of Mount
McKinley—a feat which had baffled all
other attempts—tells of his wonderful
climb. Here is his picture of the top
of the mountain—the highest point on
•ur continent—20,391 feet above the
sea:
“We stood up under a black sky so
low that we felt us if we could nearly
touch it. We had reached the top.
What a task! Without the aid of
guides we had at last reached our goal.
Almost unconsciously our hands were
locked, with a look of satisfaction at
each other. Not a word nor a yell was
uttered. We had not the breath to
spare. It was Sept. 10, 1900, 10 o'clock
in the morning, the temperature 10 de
grees, the altitude 20,391 feet. Then
followed a long gaze over the cold wide
world spread out at our feet.
“To the south the eye ran over the
steaming volcanoes. Redout and Illia-
mina, down Cook Inlet to the point of
Kenai peninsula and the Pacific, 2(50
miles away. Narrow, winding, pearly
ribbons marked the courses of the Kos-
kokwim, Yukon, Tanana and Susetna
rivers.
“Out of the Pacific rose a line of
clouds drifting over the Chugach moun
tains, to deposit their snows in the
glaciers of the Alaskan range. A simi
lar train of^clouds came out of the
Bering sea ami sw r ept the western side
of the range. These clouds blotted out
most of the mountains near the main
range.
“This lower world of lesser moun
tains did not impress us so much as the
little sky world about us. Here under
our feet was the top of the continent,
the north pole of our ambitions, proba-
bly the coldest spot on earth, and we
were the most miserable of men at a
time when we should have been elated.
“Nevertheless I shall always remcm-
bor with a mental focus 8hari>ened by
time the warm friendship of my com
panion, Edward Barrille, the curious
low, dark sky. the dazzling brightness
of the sky scra|»ed granite blocks, the
neutral gray blue of space, the frosty
dark blue of the shadows and, above
all, the final pictures which I took of
Barrille with the flag lashed to his
ax as an arctic air froze the impres
sion into a relief which no words can
tell.
“A record of our conquest was left,
with a small flag, In a metallic tube In
protected nook a short distance be
low the summit. A round of angles
was taken with the prismatic compass.
The barometers and thermometers
were read and hasty notes jotted down
I n our notebook. The descent was less
difficult, but It took ns four days to
tumble down to our base camp.”—Har
per’s.
No Birds In Their Hats.
Delaware clubwomen have gone on
record as opposed to wearing the
feathers of birds In their hats, says a
Wilmington correspondent of the
hilndelpbia Press. Resolutions wore
passed at a meeting held in WUmlng
ton recently In which the women
pledged themselves to wear no head-
gear made up of feathers. The dele
gates returned to their homes recently
after being In attendance at the state
convention In Wilmington.
NEW ARMY MAP OF CUBA.
Oral
Government Now Prepared to
With Guerrilla Tactics.
Enriched by constant practice In
every department of military expe
rience, save the supreme test of battle,
the army of Cuban pacification, after
a bloodless campaign of six months,
may fairly take rank as the crack
corps of the forces of the United
States, says a Havana dispatch to the
New York Times. Without having
been called upon to fire a shot, it has
to Its credit a list of achievements of
which officers and men are both proud.
Among its moral triumphs have been
the maintenance of a standard of dis
cipline and sanitation and the preser
vation of perfect self control while in
contact with an unsympathetic popula
tion.
Its greatest material achievement is
a chart of the island of Cuba, which
officers declare to be the most minutely
perfect military map In existence.
With the completion of this great work
the possibility of successfully carrying
on guerrilla tactics such as formerly en
abled the Cubans to prolonp^idcflnlte-
ly their revolutions may be said to
have vanished. Should United States
troops ever be called upon to take the
field in Cuba they will begin the cam
paign with the advantage of perfect
familiarity with the topography of the
whole island.
The army of Cuban pacification,
which originally numbered 6,500 men
of ail arms, without including marines,
has now dwindled by the natural
process of discharges on expiration of
enlistments to about 5,300 men. There
are also under General Barry’s com
mand about 1,000 marines. Nearly
2,000 troops are quartered in Camp Co
lumbia, the garrison of Havana, and
the remainder are scattered over the
Island in. thirty posts.
At Camp Columbia the men are en
couraged to follow the custom of the '
country of taking a siesta. Bathing ■
quarters have been established at Ma-
rianao beach, and swimming lias lieeu
made compulsory. The sick list aver- I
ages only 2 per cent, and the hospitals 1
are absolutely empty.
N CASH
FOR 100 COUPONS FROM
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THE CIGARETTE O? QUALITY
So'ipaiis !ii Eaei; Pae^e!
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Coupon.* also Redeemable fbr Valuable Presents
P ran i it m Di part in cut
AMERICAN TOBACCO CO.
UilBZY CITY.J. ST. LOUIS, MO.
by the trust to he because of a grow
Ing scarcity of wood pulp timber and lh ;' dusk Through “the "day 'it occu-
/ltiri£k<-. xxrn1/»V» olm/~vc4- . _
pied a corner of his office, and he
to tariff duties which almost forbid
its importation from Canada. How
ever this may be, the first facts are
as stated—paper is high and getting
higher and so scarce that publishers
need frequently to borrow from each
other, sometimes shipments from one
to another having to be made by ex
press. Another element of embar
rassment is the .inefficient railroad
service which often hangs up indefi-
was glad when the time came for
the return trip.
He waited till the boat was well
out in the stream and then glancing
around furtively laid his hand on the
packagp. Suddenly it struck him
that what would seem strange in
broad daylight would seem doubly
so at night!
With a smothered groan he re-
nitely sbipments from the miiis whlch ^^ , t seat beside him.
m ^ Ther * was n ° l*lp it. he would
It would be uncandid not to say have t0 lt h £ me ain!
1 h \, papers , ^selves are In As he took hls goat ln thft traip
part to blame for the situation. If ^- na j wa8 ^ CO nvey him the rest of
the city papers w'ere to cut off 50 per ], e wa y i, e pi ace d the cat on the
cent of the rubbish they put forth o® she if abo ve his head, and for the first
Sundays, stuff that nobody reads and tlme that d ay forgot all about It.
ereas< ?" Hurrying to get off the car when he
unnecessary, and if all papers would reached his destination, he was hail
cut off ail except legitimate circula- Pd by some one behind him who
tion. not sending their issues to non- thrust into his hand the ill-fated
payers or half-payers or forcing them packa ^ e
upon people who do n ot want them when' he reached the house he
havin S 8ub - threw It down in a chair in the hall
scribed for three montns can never and went Into gupper ln the ml d_
K e t loose-the volume of Production dl e of it the maid came in and asked
would be lower by a great deal, and how she ghould cook thfi meat ho ha
one. at least, of the troubles remov-1 brought with him'’
ed-one. perhaps both; for while the he exclaimed. “That isn
demand for paper would be less, ,the r^.g ..
price answering the law of supply, But at thiB moment the ma!d p ro
and demand would be lower. | duced the package and showed him
It may Interest the Observer and a choice piece of meat! History does
other users of print paper to know not Ba . v what the man said who got
that the invention of Messrs. Daniels tlie cat *
aad Kuhne, of this city, will likely , ^ wbo K
revolutionize the manufacture of f rom da y to dav sufferin'? fro-'
print paper. Thoy have comlructed sical weakness when Holllste r '»
a machine to separate the bark from Moantain Tea would mak»
the wood pulp of the cotton stalk. 35 Tea or Tab!et8 GaffnaT
The wood pulp will make a good Drug Co.
quality of newspaper. It will open
up a new source of revenue for the Inc, , ,,de 8l * ran * of Ar *° ^ \ 8al
up W O U I mon , n your next grocery list.
Southern fRriner 3.8 it will mEke the win keep for twenty yeurs.
stalk, which has heretofore been of June 4-7.
STAMPEDE FOR CANADA.
A F«w Honest Men Left.
‘There are still a few honest men
eft in the world,” said J. j. Hill, the
financier, at a banquet, according to
the Minneapolis Journal. “It Is well
to be cautious, but we should not sus-
!i>ect everybody. If we are too sus
pect everybody. If we are too sus
picious we make ourselves absurd.
“I worked in St. Paul In my youth
and they still tell there about an old
farmer and his wife wlio started for
St. Paul on a vist.
“Before the couple set off they
were cautioned frequently by their
friends to beware of the St. Paul
sharpers. They replied that they
would beep their eyes open. And
they started on their journey with a
nervous determination to look out
for sharpers and confidence men.
“Well, on tfip way the old farmer
got off at. a junction to buy some
lunch and the train went off without
him. It was a terrible mishap. The
last he saw of his wife she was crain-
inc out of the ca*’ window, shouting
something reproachful at him which
hp couldn’t h p ar on account of the
noise of the train.
*' T t p *> »■>'•'»»n r» v r't* ^ c* ^ r*o»ar*o
along a few minutes later. The old
farme r hoarded the express and beat
s wife to St. Paul by nearly an
hour.
“He was waiting for her at the
tfit'on when she arrived. Ho ran up
♦o h 0 " and seized her valise.
“‘Well. Jane,’ he said. T'm glad to
e 0 y-, a r «!n. I thought we was sep
arated for good.'
"But the old jady jerked the valise
from him indignantly.
“No. ye don't, Mr. Sharper,’ she
cried ‘I left my husband at the
‘unction. Don't be cornin’ any of
v- confidence tricks on me or I’ll
cr't a. policeman.’”
Amazing Migration of Educated and
Trrined American Farmers.
It is said that more than 100.000 |
Americans will settle iu Canada this |
year and that next year the northward
exodus from Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas.
Illinois, Michigan, Minnesota, the Da
kotas, Ohio and even states as far
east as Massachusetts may reach the
Impressive proportions of 200,000 per
sons. Do you realize the tremendous
meaning of this movement? It can
almost be expressed in dollars, says
James Creelmnn in Pearson's Maga
zine.
These are not ignorant and penni
less louts, stumbling confusedly into
strange conditions. They are for the
most part men with bank accounts,
who ride In parlor cars—educated,
trained American farmers, the kind of
men who won the west from savagery
and made the rose blossom on the
prairie—small capitalists and proprie
tors who understand how to live and
thrive In the mighty wheat plains of
western Canada.
The Canadian government privately
caused an analysis of last year’s Amer
ican Invasion to be made, and the re
sult was astonishing. By counting up
the declared value of money and ef
fects carried Into Canada by American,
settlers In 1906 from four states—
Michigan, Montana, Illinois and Mas
sachusetts—it was found that the av
erage wealth brought across the border
from these states was $>i09 for each
settler. This average for the four
states amounted to a total of $6,376,-
420.
As the numlier of Americans wbo
crossed the frontier during the year
was 61,282, the whole value of the pos
sessions they took with them was ap
proximately $49,586,138.
Not only did last year's American
settlers In Canada transfer $49,586,138
In money and other movable property
Into Canadian territory, but, the eco
nomic value of an immigrant be'.ng
not less than $1,000, it is plain to be
seen that the United States lost and
Canada gained at least $100,000,000 in
last year's amazing migration.
A Wail From a Duke.
[Visitors to the Duke of the Ahrussf*
flagship at the Jamestown exposition col
lected everything not tied down for souve
nirs.—News Item.]
I Ilka da You-ntto Stata.
Da people day always so friend’;
Dey come, qulta lot, on boarda my yacht,
A pleasama veeslt to spend.
But when dey have gone I look rounda.
An' my heart he go down with a thud.
An’ I say to da crew, "Tell me, where Is
dn screw.
And where, oh, where Is da rud'?"
Da people I flnda so winning,
Dey have da graclo charm.
But why should one slide down da star-
boarda side
With my binnacle under hls arm?
An' why should da beautiful lady.
Who wear such a stylish array
Dat she mova my heart, when at last
she depart,
Taka botha my anchor away?
I seeka to bldda da welcome
To da gaya American throng.
But da keelson dey rip from da floor of
my ship.
An’ dey take da port engine along.
Da compass, da windlass, where are
dey?
Where are da sail .lOlsting gear?
All gone like da rest of my prop’, with
my guest.
For to make da little souv’neer!
I lova da You-nlto Stata.
I bow to da freedom's brave lan’,
My hearta ees stirred by da bold eagle
bird.
An' I lova da star spangled ban’.
I hopa I glva da country
No reason to taka offense.
But on my next trip I shall hava my
ship
Surround' with da barb wire fencel
-■James J. Montague In New York Amer
ican.
A Cordial Invitation
is extended
ALL SOUTHERNERS
to visit
HARMFUL STOMACH DOSING.
The best physicians believe that
■•-.o l r, s medicine one. swallows the
better.
Do not trv to cure catarrh of the
''end by dosing the stomach: this is
neither oommon-w'nae nor scientific.
Breathe Hyomei. and its medication
will eo right to the spot where the
catarrhal germs are Present and free
the svstem from all catarrhal poisons.
The Gaffney Drug Co. have seen so
many cures of catarrh made bv Hyo-
^»i. snm.'» of them chronic and com-
.•inte-i cases, that they give an ab
solute guarantee of cure or monev
wn be refunded with everv outfit they
c e!I. The complete Hyomei outfit
costs but $1 60.
Arco TVd garr.on is Just tb** thing
for unex'.ected company. Th°ro is
nothing better to serve from the can.
At a*l grocers.
London Clubmen aa Guidee.
The old fashioned type of cicerone, or
professional guide, whose parrotlike
descrip’ions of people and places have
provoked so much dissatisfaction among
tourists of all countries from time Im
memorial, is likely to give place, any
how so far as London is concerned, to
a widely different type. Captain An-
seil of the American guide bureau has
promoted a scheme to meet the needs
primarily of American visitors by
means of which they will obtain a real
Idea of English life, says a London
cable dispatch to the New York Bun.
All the guides will be gentlemen, hold
ers of army commissions or university
degrees, who will take the visitor to
their clubs, allow him to use their au
tomobiles and generally take him ev
erywhere.
The JELL-0 Booth
at the
Jamestown Exposition
Located in Food Products Building at en
trance to Horticultural Court.
We have provided a spacious Rest Room
especially for your convenience, where you
may meet friends, write letters, read your
favorite magazine, etc., etc.
Our demonatrators will be glad to serve
J on with JELL-O, the dainty dessert, and
ce Cream made from Jell-O ICE CREAM
Powder, free, and explain how easily they
can be prepared for the table.
Ths Gentses Part Food Co., Ls Roy, N. Y.
FOURTEEN
Of the thirty-one persons killed in the
wreck of the Mystic Shriners’ special
train at Honda, Cal., on Saturday, May
nth, were insured against accidents in
the Aetna Life Insurance Company, of
Hartford, Conn. This involves a loss of
$110,500, which is the largest loss ever
incured by a company under accident
policies in any one disaster. The total
amount which the Aetna Life had at risk
on the lives of passengers on this train
was at least $154,err, :: t of those insured
with the Company other thi_ Lie four
teen killed qnly one is reported severely
injured. The amounts payable for deaths
in this wreck are all double the amounts
insured, and in four cases they are triple
the amounts insured through the fact that
the beneficiaries were killed in the same
disaster. This emphasizes most strongly
the enlarged 4cope of accident insurance
protection as furnished by the Aetna Life.
The fact that nearly one-half of all who
were killed carried their accident insur
ance in the Aetna Life is striking evi
dence of the confidence reposed in the
Company by the insuring public, and
that confidence is wisely so placed. It is
only a large companv like the Aetna Life
that can withstand such a calamity as
this. If all of the persons killed and in
jured in this wreck had been insured in
Aetna Life, the resultant claims would
be paid immediately on receipt of proof
of death and without iu the slightest de
gree impairing the strength of the Com
pany. The Aetna Life furnishes absolute
protection to those insured in it. Call on
Jones J. Darby, - Dist. Agt.
For Aetna Accident and Health Policies.
Star Theatre Building.
FOR BALB.
FOR BALE—For the next thirty
davs I offer mr house and lot on
Limestone street where I now reside.
Anply to Dr. C. M. Littlejohn.
June 14 1m pd.
FOR SALE—A second-hand Mists
A Weiss kerosene engines. 2 horse
power, cheap. Apply this office.
FOR R1MT.
FOR RENT—I wish to sell stock
of merchandise and rent store and
dwelling. Good chance. Apply to
L. R. Gaines. June 4-7 pd.
TO RENT—Offloe rooms over Ths
Ledger. Apply to Bd. H. DeCamp.
Nov. 2-tf.
Golf Chsllongo For Roekofollor.
The Edgehronk Golf club, composed
of Cleveland bankers who have sum
mer homes at Chagrin Falls, recently
Issued a challenge through its presi
dent, 8. Crafts, for a match game of
golf with John D. Rockefeller and his
physician. Dr. H. F. Blggar, Sr., says
a Cleveland dispatch to the New York
Sun. L. B. Walters of the Union
National bank said the other night:
“The whole thing stafCM as a Joke
when some members opined that
Rockefeller foozles tho ball oftener
than he hits It and that Dr. Blggar in
driving fussed over hls tee and often
sehlaffed and got sand in his eyes.
The discussion finally led to the chal
lenge.”
Fire insurance!
We reyrft*>ont some c' the largest and
mobtsuhstant’.a! companies and would
like to write your busim*. 5-14-tf.
Smith A Lipssomb, Agents
DR. W. K. GUNTER,
U E I* X I e TP
Office in Star Theatre Building.
Phone No. 20.
Crown and bridge work a specialty.
DR. J. F. GARRETT,
DCNTIGT.
Moved to now offic* over Frodortok
StrooL Front of tho Gattory.
’Rhone la Office and Rooldoeoo.
FOR
Up-to-Date Job Print
ing, call at the
LEDGER Office.
Gaffney, S. C.
-F" O R
Two 5 room cottages. One 7-room residence. Two city farms. Seven
beautifully located lots that are not five minutes walk from depot. Farms
and lots everywhere
FOR RENT—One 10-rootn dwelling with water, baths and electric lights.
Brick store room with rooms overhead.
If you are contemplating building a new house, call at my office and see
many new plans.
SAM L. FORT, Real Estate and Fire Insuranoe
OFFICE OVIR NATIONAL BANK
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