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‘tWr 1 THE LEDOEIt Tuesday and Friday, Ca. h. DeCamp, Editor ard FubUsher. The Ledger Is not responsible Cor he views of correspondents. Hereafter no ndver'.laementa will bo accepted at this office after 9.80 o’clock on Mondays and Thursdays. i Watch yonr label and the date. And renew before ’tls too Into; If there be an error, don't get mad. Report to ns—well make yon glad. Rem< raber. 'tls our aim to pleaao. But errors are like peskv fleas— They will creep la la spite of fat*. Therefore, watch your label and the data. . . —Original. council or any member thereof for piloting of any description, and have only talked to them on the subject whenever they approached us. All the advertising or printing they have given us has come to us absolutely voluntarily on the part of the coun cil. We make this statement simply to show that this paper has never at tempted to Influence the town council in any way in regard to its advertis ing and printing, and not because we think there would be anything wrong in soliciting the business of the coun cil. We appreciate their business just as we appreciate all other legiti mate business. THE DAY OF THE TROLLEY. Hundred Mile Riins Possible; Thou sand Mila Trips Will Soon Be Made. So rapid Is the oxh-nsiou of exisfiug trolley lines and the coustruetion of new linen that statistics of mileage are out of date before they can be com piled and pubiished. says the New York Sun. The du.\ of the trolley, long distance an well as short distance. Is upon us. An article la the Metropolitan Maga- elne for July states that there are al ready 0,000 miles of trolley Hue iu Ohio. An article In Applctous Maga zine for July says that In Indiana “lO.OOft miles of track are now In oper ation. 350 miles are building and will he placed iu operation early this year, another 2,000 miles are projected, ev ery steam railroad oul of Indianapolis has ts-eii paralleled, more than $50,- 000.000 has I »eeii actually invested in these p’opcrties. passengers are car ried at t!^?ir convenience In clean and comfortable cars and for one-half the former fares.” A similar story might ho told of many other sections. The trolley line Is no longer merely an Improvement on the horse ear for use In cities and their Immediate en- vlronmei-t. \ number of hundred mile runs are possible today, and thousand mile trips will soon he made. Experi ence thus far seems to have proved beyond any question lhal trolley lines can carry passengers and parcels at much lower rile- than Is possible for steam railways. It Is true that they do tiot \et run at the speed of expiess trains, but this Is offset by the fact of more frequent communication. In many cases, probably in a majority, the cost of the trip is of greater con- aideratlon to the traveler Minn Is the time required for It. assuming a fair equality of physical comfort. If a steam railroad trip of n humUcd mllns Is made in two hours at a cost of $2 anti the sam • t-ip can be made by trol ley In three and a half hours for $1.50 there will he plenty of passengers for the trolley. The development of this system of transportation makes it even probable that before many years our railways will Is* used mainly for long distance travep^nd heavy or bulky freight, nyiitfr the trolley will be generally used for ell other business. It is not possible to say Just what may happen around New York city, where condi tions are somewhat peculiar. So far ii,o at large is concerned tin*,.* can I <• little doubt that trolley Hues are destined to effect a revolu tion in passenger transportation and also to exen an important Influence In the field of parcel freight- CITY DIRECTORY. Official* « Q utii. MRTW H L Spear* Mayor Pro Tem W H Rom Cltff CtaA a i Health Offlear A. L*. Hallman T. H. Lockhart • I. B. Ben .CKJ Attorney Board Publla Worfca. A. N. Wood J. N. Lipscomb Traasuror W. H. Ross Board of Trade C. Hamrick Ptoridont j. C. Otta Becratary NOTES AND COMMENT!. In commenting o n The ^' edger .® paragraph concerning the i Ro . 88 _ t 1 l“ mine shipping ore to Eng^hd The Greenville News says: This Is very interesting. The Led ger does well to keep the public post ed on an Industry that amounts to something worth telling about. • • • Editor Henry, of the Spartanburg Journal, Is the owner of an automo bile and he is finding fault with the poUce of Spartanburg because they want to enforce the speed law against automobiles and do not enforce it against street cars, bicycles and horse-drawn vehicles. That’s what an editor gets for becoming a plouto- crat. • • • H C. Bailey has assumed entire editorial charge of the Johnston News-Monitor. Ira C. Carson retiring. There is a tinge of bitterness in Mr. Carson's validictory, but Mr. Bailey’s announcement has a sweeter ring, as he says; I will use every effort within “Y power to give the people a tWt-dass newspaper. The paper, as heretofore, shall stand for honesty, truth and for the moral, material and intel lectual upbuilding of this community as well as the State. • • • Mr D. C. Ross, president of the National Bank of Gaffney and the Gaffney Savings Bank, said to The Ledger recently; “We are going to do considerable advertising and we are going to use the newspapers In stead of novelty advertising. We be lieve the results from newspaper ad vertising is better than from calen dars, fans, etc.” This is a very nice tribute to the \alue of newspaper ad and some of ua head for the sea vertislng. and to show that Mr. RoSS We have filled up the big' Saratogas for was in earnest we point with pride] ^'l^Zu*****™*tlTMm with ores- to the quarter page ad. of one of the Hone, and everv one of ’em new! institutions over which he presides in Pa d^LS aSHT ^ this Issue of The Ledger. It may In- ! jv, r t i lc . oa q 0 f the aummar 1* on ua—w* terest some to know that the Gaffney must flit, flit, flit: Saving- Bank, though less than five The dressmaker's working her head off to years old. carries about thirteen K< i!» lhe , nJ i m V wk 011 ®, J 1 For without the glad clothes In mldaea- fhousand accounts, the great majority son there's ne'er an engagement won. of which belong to people Inside We are fussing and fretting and fuming The tradesmen are kept on the go Flitting Time. We ere rushing about now at our house, as busy as busy can be. For some of us head for the mountains. Cherokee county. It pays out annu ally in interest to its depositors more than $5.<)h0. It prides itself on the fact that among Its depositors are men who never knew what a bank ac count wa* during the reign of the dispensary. It !b doing a splendid work in teaching our people how to save their money. • • • The ledger has no quarrel with the Cherokee News but when that paper says, "It will be remembered that on several occasions when the mayor has made a spectacle of himself. The Led ger was mum,” It Is In error. The best evidence of this error Is the flies of The Ledger, which are open to the public For the Information o( the public In g e neral we will state that since Its establishment no representa tive of The Ledger has ever ap proached the town council, either collectively or individually on the subject of advertising. We have never made any overtures to the There's cutting and slashing and nnlppln? and trouble and worn* and woe. Pa says It ain’t worth whaVit's coHtlng; in fact, doesn't like It a bit. But the call of the summer Is on us—we must flit, flit, flit: There's n mountain of hutKage all rejol \ and soon we'll l,e speeding away. It’a something to show those old nelg',- Isirs when your trunks more than fi" up a dmV But the smile hst pa gives Is quite sleklv and 1 think he Just muttered **Hy berk!" When mother said. "Now you be sure, de.'ir to send us each day a larj,'<- check.” He*!! be tolling away It, the city, meetln" bills that will give him a fit. But the call of the summer Is on us - we must flit, flit n:t; —Denver Republican. —When the machinery of the Pure Food laws gets In operation to the refuse pile will go stacks of ground spices and flavoring extracts which are still being used by the unsuspect ing public. —Go to the "Seed Store’’ for your Turnip seed. —Go to the "Seed Slore” for your Turnip seed. SALVATION ASMY COLONY. Free Farming Lands For Deserving Families Frcm Large Cities. Tin* coming f;:ll will witness the in avgurntlon m u new eoloui/.ation plan by llie Salvation Army, gays the Phila delphia Record. Deserving families from ihe large cities will lie directed to carefully selected districts in the northern part of the south, where laud- owners are willing to provide not only land and houses, but also Implements, horses and even seed, and where nd- vanees for necessary gnx'erlos can l>e obtained on the security of the ten ant’s share of the crops. A thousand families are now ready to go from the cities Into the south as fast as the army cau arrange for them. Iu loentlug families In the south two plans will be followed. In every in stance where possible the arrangement will l>e such that at the end of a cer tain number of years the tenant shall have the option of purchasing the land upon which be Is located. Where this Is not possible the newcomer will lo cate on the strictly tenant plan, with out option of future purchase. Even in this ense he has the advantage of be ginning as a farmer, and with what he can gather together as a tenant he will be able to buy some land on his own account. The part of the south In which the new colonization work Is to be carried on will Ik; largely In the Carolina* and Virginia. Those sections are compara tively near to the congested east, and good farm land Is cheaper in the south than in any other part of the country. The arrangement which can be made with landowners, who also furnish houses, implements, horses and seed, is usually that the tenant shall keep one-half of all he produces. An officer of the Salvation Army will meet all (amlliefl upon their arrival In the dlf ferent districts and for a time at least will visit them each week to give ad vice and help them to get started. The slogan of the Salvation Army In ell Its great colonial work is "The landless man for the manless land.” BEAUTY BEST BRAIN FOOD. Why Missouri Superintendent Reaches Out For Pretty Schoolteachers. Seeking ostensibly to lead the youtli of the St. Louis educational institu tions to love their studies more, but in reality* it may he, to make himself popular among the community’s gray beards. Professor J. Will/. Andrae, su perintendent of public schools of St. Louis county, recently revealed a plan to bring to St. Louis a round hundred pretty schoolteachers from other cities, says a St. Louis corresjmndent of the Kansas City Star. He divulged that he had five score applications from young women in Missouri and from Illinois, Iowa and Indiana, each of whom be lieved herself comely enough to meet the requirements of the public school pupils. Superintendent Andrae recently as serted that the average of attractive ness among teacho-s in his Jurisdiction w as not high enough. He believes, he said, children would learn more rapid ly from pretty teachers than from wo men with ‘‘wry faces and bad tem pers.” Applications would be received gladly, he added, and newspapers iu several neighboring states gave publici ty to his annoui'rcment. The even 100 applications flowed Into his Clayton oflice in a steady stream. Half the applicants sent photographs. Many of the others told the superin tendent they cheerfully would travel hither for personal Inspection. All the portraits, said Andrae, were those of women handsome enough to have good chances in a beauty contest. When he shoyved the pictures to the venerable school trustees each of the officials be trayed new interest In his duties. NAVIGATING THE AIR. Why Be- Anthracite Coal's Centenary. • Just a hundred years ago the firs, shipment of anthracite coal ever mud< went from Plymouth, Luzerne county, to Columbia. Lancaster county, 1*8 . and a uumlter of citizens of Plymouth are now arousing enthusiasm for a cei ebratlon of this heroic event, says th*- Pittsburg Dispatch. Abljah Smith shipped the first cargo of the black diamonds in an ark. floating down the Susquehanna river. The discovery by Jesse Fell of Wllkesbarre about six months after this shipment that tV new fuel would burn in his grate wi a Intense beat without an air blast cr.v: ed many orders to come Into Plyraoi; for fuel, and the chief business of the town ever since has !»een the mlni.r: and shipping of coal. HeufneiiH Cannot bo Cnr»<l by loca’ appIlCHtiona, as th*y cannot reach tfu- diseased portion of the ear. There U only one way U> cure deafness, and that Is t>y constitutional remedies. I leaf ness Is caused hy Inflamed condition of the mucous doing of the Kustachlan Tula*. When this fuhe gets Inflamed you have a ruptbllng sound or Imperfect hearing, and when Ills entirely closed deafness Is the result, and unless the Inflammation can lx- taken out and this tube restored to Its normal condi tion. hearing will be destroyed forever; nine cases out of sn are caused by catarrh, which 's nothtuv hut an Inflamed condition of the mucous surfaces. We will give One Hundred Dollars for any case of Deafness (cased hv catarrh) that <m not be cured by Hall’* Catarrh Cure. t*end for clrculars. free. F. J. OHENF.Y A CO., Toledo. O. Sold by Druggest*, 7V\ Hall’s Kamllv Pills are the best. Man Personally Can Navar coma a Flying Machine. “Flight us u personal matter enn never bo attempted by man. for tin* plain reason that ho Is not provided with a flying body,” writes Dr. Andrew M llson. “A near neighbor quadruped of bis, tin* bnt, bus evolved (lying pow- j ers. but it has developed a frame which, like that of the bird, is made for flight as its true means of locomo- | tinn. Its bones an* filled with air. and otherwise It has points which render Its aerial trips, not so extensive ns tho e of the bird, easily performed. In the bird It Is simply the whole arm or for<* limb which is modified in the wing, and It Is the actual movement of this feathered arm which propels Its possessor through the air. But the bat's flight Is of a different kind. It calls to its aid a skin fold which stretches between the four enormously elongated fingers, runs between fore limbs and hind limbs and between hind limbs and tail. In the bat, therefore, we have something of the Iwat’s sail order of things added to the wing as opposed to the movements of the wing pure and simple In the bird. “A flying fish does not fly. It leaps from the sea. spreading Its big breast fins wide, and is carried so far by tlw initial velocity It acquired in Its pre liminary rush through the water. Nor do flying squirrels nr flying lizards fly They possess folds of skin fringing their bodier', which merely act as para chutes, sustaining them In their aerial leaps from bough to bough. Engineers have calculated that a relatively enor mous amount of energy would be re quired to ho exerted by a man to raise him from tho ground into the air under the existing circmnstanoes of his life. This energy It Is impossible to gener ate within his frame, and so the per sonal flight problem must Ik; (Hit out of court altogether. “It may be a very different ruattei when motor power, light and of suffi cient extei l. can lx* provided to assist man In his aerial excursions. The Idea that some personal apparatus, so to speak, might enable man to eopveri himself Into a flier has Its own attrac tion, and possibly the Idea may take practical shape. But the more hopeful solution of human flight is the dirigi ble flying machine, man being merely the passenger in It and not its profi ling genius.”—Chicago News. 50c. IN CASH FOR 100 COUPONS ¥ FROM The Cigarette Of Quality 2 Coupons in Each Package Coupons alao Redeemable for Valuable Presents Premium Department AMERICAN TOBACCO CO. Jenny City, N. J. St. Louis, Mo. Tr.e 2: j-.est K :tc » < U‘ f ' o a p- ’■.•1 o. ‘ i a a i a, l',* a nk u l»o r ore. M'(' .?d i. : none . *1 I i, v S Inches iu head. !i feet shot.hler. ! and • 'dghs <* peril- t in c tie anil fntelllgeu ai d is truly :*. m<. • to the ho;': v ill.; no 1 : i hi vegetables a i.l \ t > illii. (' i '\ < > wild * i t • * he j . doing h ’!e ■ a.; i period as .m■ >/,i •. is 20.1 hands big'.. II fc* 32 Inches len ' :: inches girth. i'■ h ch iiir *1' 3'' in ii < ol':i. er '_' C i > ads. Sh-.* y prop*i;‘ ■>'■>. kv ', g< :> J I '' liltiful cok* Eva Booth’s Policem'n. “You are under arrest! You are dis turbing tho peace!” snarled a police-! man, breaking off her first public j prayer in the streets of London. She ] was still in her early teens, a slight j a slip of a girl wit 1 n<> means of resist ance, and as the bullying officer tight ened his grip on her arm slid was drag-; that god shrinking!" with him. But the action aroused the sympa thies of the rough crowd as a lighted match lire.; a keg of gunpowder. In an Instant the policeman and his pris oner were surrounded, and before the officer could raise his voice he was beaten to the pavement under a shower of fists. It was the girl prisoner who, forget- Markiny Hictoric Spots, fine by om* the historic spots oi Thomasion. Me. arc Lji.ig liiariMS*. says tin* Kennel(Me.i Journal. Next the list will be the site of the oiu mansion Moulpell* r. famed as the home of General Henry Knox. Where palatial structure stood will be placed a huge bowlder, marked pre sumably with a bronze tablet telling to the world where Washington’s war secretary once resided. The bowlder was dislodged from the town farm at St. George . nd weighs twelve tons The task of '-oiiVeylng It to Thomas- ton was begun recently, when twentj horses hauled It to the main road. The memorial will be erected by Henry ^ Turnip [ Seeds S J Turnip ! Seeds ting bis rough grip and the cell to ] Knox chapter. Daughters of the Amer which he would have dragged her, ap- lean Revolution, of Thomaston. and pealed to the throng in his defense, the cost has been estimated as high as When the crowd finally retreated the] $250. policeman was groaning with two! broken legs and a mass of bruises from head to foot. For weeks the little girl in the big army bonnet paid faithful visits to the helpless man In tin* hospital, and when he was released a warmer friend of Eva Booth and her cause could not be found In all England. To tins day she re ceives letters in a rough, sprawling hand, signed simply, “Your policeman.” —World Todav. A Memorable Day. One of the days we remember with pleasure, as well as with profit to our health, Is the one on which we became acquainted with Dr. King's New Life Pills, the painless purifiers that cure headache and biliousness, and keep the bowel* right. 25c at Cherokee Drug Co. Subscribe for The Lsdgsr, 91 a year. 046444£4<O M O»4 N &4 > <O M b : *v > ^4 i C»4 N fr< That hacking cough continues Because your system is exhausted and your powers of resistance weakened. Take Scott's Emulsion* It builds up and strengthens your entire system. It contains Cod Liver Oil and Hypophosphites so prepared that it if easy to take and easy to digest. AlX DRUGGISTS: SOc. AND $1.00 Littleton Female College Splendid location. Health resort. Hot water heat. Electric lights and other modern improvements. 240 boarding pupils last year. High standard of scholarship, culture and social life. Conservatory advantages in Music. Ad vanced courses in Art and Elocution. Business College, Bible and Normal courses. Health record not surpassed. Close personal attention to the health and social development of each pupil. Uniform worn on all pfiblic occasions. CHARGES VERY LOW. 26th Annual Session will begin on Septempor 18th 1907. For Catalogue, Address. REV. J. M. RHODES, President, Littleton,N. C. The kind that grow and make Turnips. Purple Top Ruta Baga White Egg Turnip Early White Fiat Dutch Imperial Golden Ball Yellow Aberdeen Yellow Globe Purple Top White Globe Seven Top Southern Giant Mustard All fresh, new Seed. We guarantee them to be good. : : : j CHEROKEE [drug COMPANY Dill Yo Ever Think a what a bargain you arc getting when you get THE LEDGER one hundred and three (103) times a year for Gee! How QuickC and Neatly We Can Do Job Work Only Sl.00 a Year? The Embroidery Sale! We have deci ^d to continu our sale fer the next ten days. It will be greatly to your inter est to come an<J io jt< through this beautiful line of Embroideries at cost. : : • • • 20 per cent off on low cut Shoes. The kind that's hard to wear out. The Company Store