Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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" k »?■ fW\ MM TH* LKDOKR. Tuesday and Friday, Kd. H. DeCamp, Editor and PuMlelior. Tbo Led for Is not roaponalMo tor the news of correepondenta. HeroafUr no ndvOKlaomonto will M accepted at this office attar 9.S0 o’clock ok Mondays and Thursday*. Watch your label and the date. And renew before ’tie too late; tf there he an error, don’t «et mad. Report to ue—we’ll make you alad. Rem* mber. 'tie our elm to pleaee. But errors are Mke peeky lleae They will creep in In spite of fate. Therefore, watch your label and the <5 * te —Oriilnal. CITY DIRECTORY. Offfdala. w ? SwBare’ Itoyor Pro Tern H. L. Spears clerk R. A, Jones Offleer T H fSSS . . ". Board Public Wcrka A. N. Wood j N. lipscomb W - B o. W‘ t ^c./hmoh* 'SSw j. C, Otte Chairman Treaenrer Secretary that that town will do its part, not only by cooperating In the construc tion of the road but lu furnishing the business after the Hoe is In oper ation. There Is nothing that will develop a section so rapidly as a net work of interurban electric Unee. Theee roads not only prove feeders for the towns they touch but they double the value of property through which they pass, and benefit all parties and In terest concerned. While the promoters of the G®ff* ney line have had a representative In Spartanburg looking over the situa tion, we do not know that their plans have been presented here, but we feel certain that the business men of this city will be as much interested in this proposition as the people of Gaffney and their enthusiastic co-op eration will be had. The above if from the esteemed Spartanburg Herald, and on behalf of the citizens of Gaffney we thank our neighbor for this kind reference to our little city and can only express the hope that we may continue to merit its favorable estimation. IDOLS FOR INDIA. Are I decidedly beneficial. funding and loan associations are janizations primarily for the ben ® { flt ^f those who have no ca P ital L” with Which to co..tmrta ZZ. ahd which allows them to oh- tain a home at once and pay *>r ttm 6 ame from their sayings. Thdr “ney it compounded In Interest » gularly. and they sbare £ ““ ‘’other nf the association ^ith members whUe^ey «e payl”*^ ""on °an(i loan associations, and building and loan WeB are X ap recmtS hy those wbocould TUU} api jy-ant-iee These asso- “".“'“^e weH managed, are elation*, ■ etrner P '° 81 ’ «nd a het“ way *» layest can not find earnings. a portion of his weenu Try it _ an officeholder. M .i of Saturday The Columbia State oi It W. p. t^amhe^g Sr-d “S “ u?ty Snperin^- SS? Ol ^T^peSnd^t high with toe ac t school* in accordance wun Of Jr 907 Rowen certainly holds offices • Mr. no R am bere county. If he enough to run B “ | ^ coun . •was treasurer and suenn oi '■ uv „ The would he tae “whole push. - Abbeville Medium. That fellow is equal to our own Henry Rose, who is Clerk ot the Board of County Commissioners. Clerk of the Town Council, a mem ber of the Board of Public Worl*. belongs to every secret order in the laud and yet finds enough time to spend with the boys to be classed as a “Rounder.” Oh, you can’t down Gaffney. GOOD AND GREAT MEN. We sent the following communi cation to two Jaily newspapers and they wer e afraid to print it: To the editor: here is a ticket for 1908: „ .... for Senator, J. C. Hemphill, of the News and Courier. Governor, William E. Gonzales, of the Columbia State. Congress, first district, T. R. War ing, of the Charleston Post; second, Males B. McSweeny, of the Hampton Gaurdian; third, Harry L. Watson of •the Greenwood Index; fourth, Col. T B Crews, of the Laurensville Her ald; fifth, W. D. Grist, of the York- ville Inquirer; sixth, A. G. Kollock, of the Darlington News; and seventh, Hubert G. Osteen, of the Sumter Item. Platform; Turn the rascals ouL As for the other offices they are not good enough for editors.—Lau- rens Advertiser. Yes, but you should have found places for Ed. DeCamp, of the Gaff ney Ledger, Moore, of the Honea Pat^ Chronicle, and several other W *gooH tpd great men.” But it will do as a friendly little piece of inno cent railery at ‘‘the boys” of the Fourth Estate. So let It go at that.— Laurensville Herald. Wlben it comes to selecting “good and great” men we’d bet our last dollar that Colonel Crews would not slight us, but what puzzles us to what class he would assign uf. As to George Moore, he’d fit anything, anywhere, any time, in fact he, like the bed bug, without wings of flame, gets there just the same. NOTES AND COMMENTS. The recent illustrated industrial issue of the Greenville, N. C., East ern Reflector reflected credit upon the publishers of that paper. In fact it was a rentable looking glass of the city of Greenville and the coun ty of PitL • • * Let those who are in favor of ac- quittiug a man who kills another be cause he becomes too familiar with , a female by consent of the female t have the legislature to enact a statute to that effect, and then the law will not be outraged when a man is acquitted for committing such a murder. • • • Friends of the dispensary in New berry county circulated a petition asking for an election to establish a county dispensary in that county and could not or did not secure enough signatures to call the elec tion. Good for Newberry! The oM county is standing by her guns in magnificent style. STARTLING BRAIN THEORY. Not Center of Human Intelligence, Says Scientist—Toes Have Thoughts. The scientific world, through Dr. .Joseph Simms of New York city, who arrived recently at Boston from Eu rope, Is to l>c t’cated to another sensa tional theory concerning the seat of thougnt in human beings, says tbe New York American. “We think with our toes and with our lingers just as much as we think with any portion of our brain.” says the scientist, who is about to write a book. He contends that the heart has more to do with the function of think ing than the brain. Dr. Simms points out that the trains of many idiots are large, yet their hearts are very small, whereas the brains of many geniuses have been l*e!ow the normal, while their hearts have beau abnormal. “We think literally all over our bod ies,” says the doctor, who has made a life study of the chemistry of thought. “Thought Is in the soul, which i>ermeatps the entire physical being. The brain is a great beat pro ducer. but it has little to do with the function of thinking. We think with our fingers or with our toes whenever we use them.” Dr. Kimms declares that such world renowned scientists as Sir William Hamilton of Edinburgh university and Professor Von Hartmann of Ber lin agree with him in his theory. LABOR BANK. It* $500,000 Capital Stock to Be Sold to None but Union Men. Promoted by tbe fanners’ union and the lalxir unions of Oklahoma, a co operative bank and trust company of Oklahoma City was chartered at Guth rie, Ok la., recently with a capital stock of iCKiO.QtX) to do a general bunking business, says a Guthrie special to the New York World. “We expect that the institution will be largely patronized by the farmers’ union and the organized labor of the territories,” said Cephas Miller, the treasurer. “Tbe institution will be a union labor bank. No stock will be sold except to members of unions, and special efforts will be made to interest and accommo date union men.” GAFFNEY A GOOD TOWN. Gaffney is a good town. We have noticed that its citizens always show the proper spirit and commendable enterprise, whenever aby proposition la presented which offers possibili ties for tbe developement of Gaffney and the Piedmont section of Caro lina. Night before last the matter of building an elecric line to connect Blacksburg, Gaffney and Spartanburg was presented to the people of Gaff ney, and they went after It In a way that will no doubt Impress the pro moters of the enterprise with the fact Tip of $500 For a Waitress. Crosby Hall, the well known lunch ing place In I^>ndon, England, is short ly to be pulled down, but one at least of its staff does not regret It, says a London special cable to the New York Times. This is a waitress, Miss Sage, who recently received a tip of 1W guineas ($500) from a number of Lou don men whom she has regularly at tended at luncheon and who subscrib ed tbe amount mentioned. Miss Hag* says the present quite took her breath away. It is believed to be a record tip for; London. Illlliont of Fantastic Doitios Used by ths Natives. Few of us realize that into the vast triangle of Hindustan is packed oue- fifth of tbe entire human race—more than 200,000.000 Hindoos, 00,000,000 Mohammedans, 10,000,000 aborigines and well over 35,000,000 other mis cellaneous peoples, making up a popu lation of over 300,000,000, speaking scores of different tongues and divided Into hundreds of separate states. The most important industry of In dia is agriculture, for the people are a race of farmers, and nearly two- thirds of tbe masses cultivate tbe soil, eking out a living so scanty that the slightest failure of the monsoon brings acute distress, if not positive famine. It is perhaps for this reason that In dia is the most god ridden region on earth. Her deities are numbered in millions, for quite apart from the greater gods every little hamlet be tween the tremendous Himalayas Jiud Cape Comorin has its own set of de ities, dreadful and beneficent. From this it will be seen that god making in IinJIa must necessarily be an immense business, and just now' there is much feeling among the na tive artificers over this holy and profit- aide industry being cut into by foreign merchants and traders. Only the oth er day an enormous five tiered jugger naut car of gayly painted wood and steel was made in Calcutta, and of late years Birmingham and Philadel phia have both secured big slices of the traffic in gods. Every village, especially in south In dia. is supposed to Ik? surrounded by evil spirits, always on the watch to inflict disease and misfortunes on the people. At the same time every little hamlet has also Its guardian spirits who ward off the evil ones and protect the villagers from epidemics of chol era. smallpox, cattle disease, famine and all the din* ami manifold ills that Indian flesh Is heir to. The names of these village deities are Indeed legion, and some of them are quite unintelligible to tbe people themselves. On the other hand, many of them have meanings w’bich show clearly their dose connection with country life—thus, the “village god dess,” the “great mother,” the “water goddess,” the “goddess who presides over buttermilk,” the “goddess who sits under a mango tree,” and so on. In the Tamil country Mari-amman, the “goddess of smallpox.” both inflicts and chases away this dread disease. Sometimes there is no imnnanent image or symbol of a village deity, but a special day effigy a couple of feet high is made for each god festival by the village potter. Again, the deity may be represented by a rough stone pillar standing under a tree or in the open field or by the figure of a woman carved in high relief upon a stone slab.—New York Times. MS FROM CORNCOBS. Bhoap Far and Effactiva llluminant Nabraaka Town. A commercial grade of Illuminating gas made from cornstalks, corncobs, hay and other vegetable matter is be ing used in Beatrice, Ind., for fuel ami lights and lias superseded coal gas, says a Beatrice (Neb.) dispatch to the New York Sun The cost of the new gas is $1.10 per 1,000, the lowest price at which gas Is sold In any city in Nebraska. In quality it is ns good as coal or oil gas. John D. Rockefeller is said to be back of the company which is fur nishing the gas, and the franchise for the plant H* in the name of the Rev. Charles Eaton of Cleveland. Rockefel ler’s pastor The company has com pleted a $100,000 plant at Beatrice. It Is the first plant in the world In which gas is produced in this manner. The vegetable matter is placed in large retorts and roasted until the wa ter Is forced out. This water is tpeu turned into steam, and the gases elim inated are very combustible and a per fect substitute for ordinary coal gas. A year ago Mr. Eaton applied for the franchise for establishing a gas plant, and It was voted to him. The plant w’bich has recently been finished is the result. Absolutely nothing Is used in manufacturing the gas except farm refuse. Because of the cheapness of the raw- material tin* gas can be manufactured very cheaply and sold at a much lower j rate than can coal gas. LIGHTING NIAGARA FALLS. He Waved at “Anything,” Editor E. A. Eaton of the Idaho Springs Siftings News is responsible for this story. He says that there is a popular conductor on the Colorado and Southern whose run takes him through Idaho Springs every day and who al ways waves at the townspeople. In order that no one will know who the conductor is. Eli tor ■ Eaton gives his initials only. They are Pat. In the of fice of the Siftiugs-News is a young woman who used to go to the window each day and receive a wave from the conductor. One day she said to the editor: “That conductor is a mighty pleasant man. Fie always waves to me when his train passes.” “Pooh!” replied Eaton. “He’d wave at anything.” “He would not!”' replied the girl hotly. * ‘Til show- you,” said Eaton. There upon he got the office broom and dressed it up to look like a woman. He stood It up in the window, and then they waited for the train. It finally came along, with the conductor on the platform. As it passed the Siftings- News office the conductor smiled and waved at the broom with both hands. The girl hasn't spoken to the editor slueo, except when absolutely neces sary. Denver Post. Mist and Water Will Flash All Colors of the Rainbow at Night. Tbe contract lias been closed for the night Illumination of Niagara falls, J and the proposed plan for lighting the , mighty torrent will in; the greatest ] feat ever conceived in electrical Illumi nation, says the New York World. The falls will )>e illuminated for the first tiufe Aug. 15, and the General Electric oompany has charge of the work. The illuminating scheme calls for nearly fifty large searchlights, sev eral of them the largest of their kind and capable of throwing a beam of light a hundred miles, and tin? new color scintillator, a iate invention. The projectors will i»e located below the falls in two batteries, one at the water’s edge and the other on the high ground of the Gauadian side. Every inch of the two falls will be under light. The new color scintillator is an at tachment fitted to the searchlights by which the beams of light can be made any color at will. Thus the mist and water, bathed in all the colors of the rainbow, will surpass anything in spec tacular effect save the great northern lights. The proportion is to Illuminate Niag ara on a scale in keeping with the sur roundings. It is said by the illuminat ing experts that the rays of colored lights when flashed in the air will be visible at Rochester and Toronto. FIRST VOTE OF FILIPINOS. Gasoline Plow. A gasoline driven plow was put to work In u field near Beloit, Mo., re cently, Hxe first of its kind in that part of tbe state, says the Kansas City Journal. Twelve or fifteen years ago most of them were debating whether It was safe for the women folks to use gasoline cook stoves in summer. >nxaa isn’t necessarily homely i she is unspeakable hand- Plant and Animal Life. Startling is the discovery that a “fun- damental” distinction between animal and vegetable structure does not exist at all. It lias been held by ulf scien lists until recently that each vegetable cell unit is boxed up lu a “case” of cellulose. Animal cells are not so im prisoned, but freely communicate with one another. Now the botanist and the zoologist learn with amazement of the continuity of the protoplasm through the walls of the vegetable cells by means of connecting canals and threads. This may seem no “startling” discovery to those who are unfamiliar with the foundation Ideas of biology. As a matter of fact, says Professor Ray Eankcster, this new development Is not less epoch making than the dis covery of the circulation of the blood. If man has b<*en totally misled regard ing the distinction' to be drawn be tween animal life and vegetable life, if the cell is essentially the same factor in the growth of both, It follows that tbe plant is a form of animal, or rather that the animal is a moving plant.— Current Literature. Curates In England. Complaints are again being raised ai to the scarcity of curates. This is a perennial source of inconvenience to rectors and vicars, who with every year Hud more difficulty In securing assistance In their parochial work. A Devonshire Incumbent has been driven to declare that curates will soon be aa extinct as the dodo. He suggests that in a short time specimens will be stuff ed and exhibited In glass cases, bat there will be no lire ones.—^ondon Brening Standard. No More Sunshades. Tbe latest society fashion is a sort of lorgnette without dUsses, known as the Maisette eye shade, says London P. T. O. The Maisette, which made its first appearance on the lawn at As cot, has sprung widely Into popularity among ladies who are constantly at tending outdoor functions, as It not only shields the eyes from the rays of the sun, but enables women to do away with their parasols. The new eye shade is supported by a long han dle in tbe same manner as tbe lor gnette and comes out horizontally from the forehead for three Inchea, being lined with a delicate shade of green silk underneath. It is finding great fa vor also among the men, aa it can be folded into a convenient size for the vest pocket The shade used by Queen Alexandra is made of pure tortoise shell. Old Kentucky Home Hymn. A new hymn composed by the Rev. W. H. Smith of Lmisvllle, Ky., and atmg to the air of “My Old Kentucky Home,” was given a trial at tbe Wal nut Street Baptist church, Third ave nue and St. Catherine street, in Louis ville, says the New York World. The Idea worked in the words is that the gospel should be carrh?d to every cor ner of the Kentucky home and thence Into all tbe world. Though the song was sung as a solo, tbe congregation joined enthusiastically In tbe chorus. IN CASH —— FOR ■ 100 Coupons FROM The Cigarette ot Quality 2 Coupons in each Package Coupons also Redeemable for Valuable Presents Premium Department AMERICAN TOBACCO CO. Jersey City, N. J. St Louis, Mo. Philippine Assembly Will Consist of Eigl.ty-four Members. On July 30 all males in the Phil ippine Islands not under twenty-three years of age and not citizens or sub jects of any foreign power will be per mitted to vote for members of the Phil ippine assembly and for provincial gov ernors, a third member of the provin cial board, municipal presidents and vice presidents and municipal counsel ors. This, recalls Harper’s Weekly, will be the first step toward Filipino self government. The first assembly will convene early in October of this year. Secretary Taft will be present at this meeting of the assembly. American citizens coming within the requirements will he permitted the right of suffrage, for American citi zens are not couriered “subjects of any foreign power.” The first Philippine assembly will consist of eighty-four members, appor tioned on the basis of one delegate for each 90,CKtO of population. Provision is made to increase this number, but the total number of delegates cannot exceed 100. All acts of the assembly must secure the approval of the Phil ippine commission before they become laws. An Attractive Proposition! Tlie Peoples Building & Loan Association Ciaffncv, $■*. C:. Invites Your Attention To The Subject ol “SAVING MONEY.” Controlled by careful men ami managed at a minimum expense. It will prove a great benefit to any investor. There can be no safer investment for earnings, and no more favorable opportunity offered for home building than through the medium of this Association. It will enlist the wage earner ami business man alike, and serve as a savings institution for the farmer, and a safe and reliable investment for the later It will encourage thrift, and in every way promite prosperity in Cherokee county, R. S. Lipscomb cashier of the Merchante & Planters Bank is Secretary and Treasuier of the Associ ation, and either he or its President R. M. Wilkins, Vice President J. F. Garrett, or H. K. Osborne, its Attorney will give full particulars. HONEST INSURANCE Plain, sure protection to the family at premium rates fixed on the basis of the actuaries’tables of life expectation, and‘therefore, absolutely fair is the only kind of life insurance writter by The Southeastern Life Insurance Company of Spartanburg, S. C 1 No “deferred” dividends, no “participating” policies, no schemes for profit, no opening for speculation, no element of scandal, but strict and straight Life Insurance of the kind that takes care of a man’s family by providing an immediate cash estate on his death, the time of all limes..when they will need it most keenly. :-: :-; :*: It is every man’s sacred duty to carry iifednsurance for the benefit of those <te- pendant upon him, and all men know this. But no South Carolinan need go out of his own State to get it. :-: :-; :-: :-: The Southeastern Life Insurance Company is a home institution, chartered by the State of South Carolina and subject to the South Carolina laws governing Life Insurance. It is directed by men whose homes and interests are in fclms State. It is an old line, Dgal reserve. Straight Life Company of tae soundest kind, and should have the support of the people of the State. :-: Southeastern Life Insurance Company, ELLIOTT ESTES, Jr. General Agent, Mar. mh.'.lW* Spartanburg, S. C. IT O R. .A. L, ID Two 5-room cottages. One 7-room residence. T wo city farms. Seven beautifully located lots that are not five minutes walk from depot. Farms and lots everywhere. FOR RENT—One 10-room dwelling with water, baths ami electric lights. Brick store room with rooms overhead. * If yon are contemplating building a new house, call at my office and see many new plans. SAM*L. FORT, Real Estate and Fire Insuranaa OFFICE OVER NATIONAL BANK 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 eacn pupil, Uniform worn on Ml public occasions. CHARGES VERY LOW. SAtti Annual Baaalan will bafin an Saptampar 1 ith I #07. Far Catalagua, Addraaa. REV. J. M. RHODES, PrMMsnt, Littleton,N. C.