Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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“ r^rr- j ' "')''''' ■ ■' - r K,. THC LtDQIR. Tueaday and Friday. Id. H. DaCamp, Editor aH FuEHahor. Tke Ledger Is not reaponalMo for he rlews of oorreepondonta. for GaffDej as well, because it means a large and commodious building to be erected, and it means more business for our banks. • • • Hereafter no edvoKloomantB will bo accepted at this offlec after 9.S0 o’clock on Mondays and Thursdays. Watch rour label and the date. And renew before ’tie too late; If there bo an error, don’t *et mad. Report to ns—we’ll make yon el ad. Rem< mber. 'tls oar aim to please, Rot errors are Hhe peehv fleas— They will creep In In spite of fate. Therefore, watcb your label and the date —Original CITY DIRECTORY. Offlelala, J. Q. Little H L. Spears Mayor Pro Tem W. H. Rose City Clerk R. k. Jones Treasnrer A. L. Hallman Health Oflleer T. H. Lockhart Chief Police j. B. Bell City Attorney Board Publlo Works. A. N. Wbod CShslrman J. N. Lipscomb Treasurer W. H. Roes Secretary Board of Trade *7. C. Hamrick Praaldent j. C. Otts Secretary Governor Glenn, of North Carolina, is one of the biggest men in this country. He is to be congratulated on the outcome of the tilt with the railroads. Speaking of the railroads, it seems to us that they make a vital mistake in fighting the laws made by a State, and yet, at the same time, it appears that the commonwealth has as little right to regulate the busi ness of a railroad as it has to regulate the business of an indi vidual. But we suppose it is necessary to bridle them, else they would run away with everything and everybody. It is a matter that deserves serious consideration. • • • NOTES AND COMMENTS. Georgia has passed an abso lute prohibition bill to take effect January 1st, 1908. The Cracker State is a great com monwealth, and this latest move will be 1 watched with interest throughout the entire l nited States. We trust that it will prove a good law ani ultimately be a blessing to mankind. • • • In these days w T heu the ther mometer is dallying around the 100 mark, and a feljow has a pain in the lower regions, there isn’t much incentive to write editorials. But it is our duty to pen these scintillations of thought for the edification of our readers wnether we feel like it or not. but we are obliged to apologize for the quality of the effort, anyway. • • • Governor Ansel, exercising his authority, appointed the Hon. J. C. Shepard on tne State Educational Board. State Su perintendent of Education Mar tin did not approve of the ap pointment—presumably because the governor did not consult him before making the appoint ment—and he scores the gov ernor in a newspaper interview. In our judgment, Mr. Martin has proven himself a burro. • • • There are hundreds of work ing people in Gaffney who could lay aside 25c, 50c or a $1.00 a week in the building and loan associations, and not miss the money. It will take six and a half years for 25c a week to grow .into $100, or the same length of time lor $1.00 a week to grow into $400. There is no better, safer nor easier way to lay up a competence. Young men, if you are wise, you w ; U begin now to invest in Gaffney buildiug and loan stock. # • • The organization of a cotton warehouse company for the pur pose of erecting a warehouse in Gaffney in which the farmer can store his cotton, instead of forc ing him to place it on the mar ket when the price is below what he thinks it should be, is a step in the right direction. It not only means a help to the farmer, but it means something The speeches of Messrs. Hyatt, Smith and Jordan at the court house Wednesday were full of common sense and practical ad vice to the farmers of this coun ty. We aie not attempting to throw r any bouquets, but are decidedly of the opinion that these gentlemen are doing a greater work on behalf of the Southern farmer than any other three men in the world. On the other hand, the farmers are not as quick to follow their ad vice as we would be pleased to see. This is a day of combina tions, and it is but proper that the farmers should combine for their mutual protection. We can see no harm in the Southern merchant and banker co-operat ing with the farmer in this great movement, for it is mani fest that whatever benefits the farmer must also benefit the merchant and banker. Notes From Timber Ridge Timber Ridge, July 30.—IMjr. J. Carter and son, Mr. Albert, of San- tuc, are visiting their relatives, Mr. J. D. Carter and family, of this place. Messrs. W. G. and Frank Web ster, of. Gaffney, spent Friday In our community. Mr. J. L. Walker, our estimable superintendent of education, passed through our section today and gave the scholars of Timber Ridge school a helpful talk. Mrs. H. O. Tate is visiting her sis ter. Mrs. Horace Lipscomb, of the Corinth section. Mr. H. O. Tate and daughters. Misses Olive and Irene, spent last Saturday and Sunday at Trough. Rev. and Mrs. T. B. Owen spent last Saturday night with Mr. E. L. Tate and gave us a pleasant call Sun day morning. We have been having some very hard rains in our section recently. Misses Belle and Kezlah Porter were Gaffney visitors the last of last week. Mr. Brooks Porter and Miss Mary Bramlet made a flying trip to Gaff ney Sunday afternoon. Mr. J. Mabry and Miss Virgie Hughes, of Grindal, spent Saturday night with the family of Mr. J. F. Jamieson. We understanu that Rev. Mr. Fel- m,et will hold a series of meetings at Corinth beginning on Friday before the second Sunday in August. Mr. L. M. Littlejohn, of this place, hag taken his brother. J. S. Little john's place with the Gaines bottling works at Gaffney. Mr. J. S. Carter, who has been spending a few days at Santuc with his parents, has returned to our sec tion. Mrs. I. C. Tate’s condition im proves very slowly. We are glad to report all our other sick better this week-. All our farmers ar e through “lay ing by.” The rain last Friday prevented the exhibition of lecture on the “Life of Christ’’ at Timber Ridge school house. Thisis the second time the rain hag prevented the lecture, and we think they have decided to wait till later on in the season. W. B. Tate is suffering with a sprained foot, the result of baseball playing. Miss Fanny Tate, whom we re ported i n our last letter as being very sick, is, we are glad to say, much better. Blue Eyes. SIX COLLEGE CLUBHOUSE. The Clemson Car. The Clemson College car was in the city yesterday and the Farmers’ Institute consisting of talks on farm ing and education by the Clemson College professors accompanying the car, was held in the court house. A large crowd thronged the car all day gazing on the interesting and in structive curiosities it held. The professors, all of whom made inter esting addresses, are Prof. D. W. Daniel, professor of English; Mr. J. N. Harper, professor of agriculture and Dr. R. M. Brackett, professor of agricultural chemistry. Prof Daniel spoke on common school education and handled hfs subject in a skillful manner showing that he was thorough ly acquainted with it. He gra phically described the result of being ignorant. He also referred to the poor pay of teachers. Prof. Harper stated that the farm ers do not receive the crops that their lands are capable of yielding. He spoke in interesting manner of the cultivation of the soil. He al so urged deep plowing and lots of fertilizing. Dr. Brackett confined himself to a discussion of fertilizers. He ex plained from a chemical standpoint what is necessary for plant life and its cultivation. All the addresses were instructive and the speakers were closely followed by the audi ence. A large amount of good was n« doubt the result of the meeting. A Pretty Fast Clock. He was standing in front of the <-ir oular elevator indicator in one of the office buildings, watch in hand. It was the morning after, and I suppose that he had forgotten to concern himself with the frivolous detail of winding his timepiece the previous evening. His equilibrium was far from stable, and bis eyes, unsteadily following the indicator hand, blinked with efforts at comprehension ns he tried to set his watch. “ ’Dlculous clock (hie)—very 'musing (hie)—very fast pace we live (hie) thesh days (hie)—pretty fast for my ole timer (hie)—’diculous—can’t seem t’ catch it (hie)—whoa!—there you are — gone again (hie). Pshaw!—’diculous clock.” I left him still trying to get his watch into conformity with the speed ing indicator.—Boston Traveler. A One Lagged Pee.-. Lord lavas, who recently established his claim to a seat in the house of lords, has only one leg. says Tit Bits. The other was shattered duri.ig the Boer war and had to be amputated. DenfrieM* ('nnnol Im* Cured by loot) applloitlons. a* they cannot reach the diseased portion of the ear. There K only one way to cure deafness, and that Is by constitutional remedies. Deafness is caused oy Inflamed condition of the mucous Uning of the Eustachian Tube. When this tube gets Inflamed you have a rumbling sound or imperfect hearing, and when It is entirely closed deafness Is the result, and unless the inflammation can he taken out and this tube restored to Its normal condi tion. hearing will be destroyed forever; nine cases out of jii are caused by catarrh, which Is nothing hut an Inflamed condition of thc mucous surfaces. We will give One Hundred Dollars for any Case of Deafness (cased by catarrh) lhatcan- not be cured by Hall's t utarrh Cure. Send forclrculars. free. F. J. OHENEV k < 0.. Toledo. O. Sold by Druggesta. 75c. Unll's Famliv PUN * re hest Birds and Fsathers. Mistress—Mary, have you any rooted objections to using a feather duster? This room looks as if you had. Maid- Yes. mum. I have. I belongs to the Audubon society.—Harper’s Weekly. Joint Building For Organizations of Alumni of New England Institutions. A nine story Imuse in New York for college men. the lower lliird of which will be common to the New York graduates of six New England insti tutions and the other six-ninths . ,»• portioned, a ninth apiece, to the grad uates of each of the institutions, is the latest idea in clubhouses, says the New York Tribune. The originator of the plant, Alislon Sargent, ecretury of the club of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, in East Twenty-eighth street, says it has been received .vith enthusiasm by New York graduates of the six institu tion:' Amherst, Brown, Dartmouth. Massachusetts Institute of Technolo gy, Wesleyan and Williams. The New York men who have attended each of them now have elubs of their own, the a •. ‘.•age memliersuip of which is about 3tMi. That number makes a good sized club, but not large enough to provide the advantages of the houses of the Harvard. Yale and Princeton grad uaies. 1 ive hundred thousand dollars is the amount which it is planned to raise among the members of the six college clubs for the new building. With bou metniiers to a club, this means that the composite New England organiza tion would start out with u member ship of 1.8DO, ami those interested in the plan think that this number could easily be increased to 2,o(i0 or 3,0(H). The additional members would be drawn from graduates of xhu institu tions named who do not at present be long io the clubs hearing the name of thei" alma mater, but would do so if the proper facilities for a clubhouse were offered. Tin* : i c suggested for the house is in or near College row or Clubhouse al ley. as West Forty-fourth street be- tw.**i Fiftli ami Sixth avenues has come to be known. In the nine story building considered there would be roo:,-' enough for billiard and smoking rooms, bowling alleys, squash courts, a large dining room, an assembly room and sleeping apartments. To these all members would have access, while a floor apiece would be reserved for the preservation of the half dozen col lege atmospheres. The maintenance of each of the college floors would be left to Its frequenters, while the gen eral administration of the building would be looked after by a house com mittee made up of representatives of each of the component clubs. If the s heme proves to be a success, it is pos.-’ible that it may be imitated by graduates of colleges with insuffi cient numbers to maintain a clubhouse themselves. There may be a New York Pneitie Coast Colleges elub, a New York State T'niversity elub and n Middle V,’e-tern association. “Everybody Should Know' How a Flea Jumps. It is said that a flea leaps 200 times Its height, and while it usually does land on its feet, it often fails, especial ly when it falls on a jierfectly smooth surface, whore the claws can get only u slight hold. A flea has six legs, whose great length and bulk make them so heavy that they must be a great help in keeping their owner right side up when it makes one of those gigantic jumps, and when it lands up side down or in some other w r ay its sibility to kick Is so great that not more than one wriggle is needed to set things right. A flea's wings are mere scales end of no use. But small and worth less as they are, they tell the entomolo gist something about the proper classi fication of ilio insect. To the flea itself they have no value.—St. Nicholas. Polishing Small Articles. It is said that a high polish may !>e obtained after nickel plating mi small steel articles, such as screws, by turn bllng them with leather and dry rouge The articles are placed in a tumbling barrel with leather scraps. Some dry rouge is put into the barrel along with the screws and leather and the whole tumbled for some time. Thu rnige coats the surface of the leather and causes it to act like a polishing wheel. Canvas scraps may be used in place of leather. says C. G. Hays, a prominent busi ness man of Bluff, Mo., that Buck- len’s Arnica Salve is the quickest and surest healing salve ever applied to a sore, burn or wound, or to a case of piles. I’ve used it and know what I’m talking about.” Guaranteed by Cherokee Drug Co. 25c. UUM AKAbIC. Th# Two Classes, Amberlike an* Bleached, and Their Uses. Gum arable, which forms one of the more important minor exports cT Egypt, is really the sap from a special kind of tree which grows from three to five yards in height, whole forests of which are found in the Kordofan prov ince and also near Gedid, in the White Nile province. The natives are free to collect the gum. Th^ season during which the trees yield their sap runs from December to May. Prior to gath ering the crop the natives prepare the trees by slightly cutting the bark in numerous places. The sap then ox udes, solidifies in the shape of large and small lumps and is afterward gath erod by hand, such gathering lieing done lafore the rainy season com mences. There are two main classes of gum nml»erlike and bleached. In the latter the gum is merely exposed to the strong action of the sun generally in Omdnrman—while in the former in- stanoe it is allowed to retain its nat ural amlier color. The confectionery trade is perhans the principal purchas er of gum arable, though a very large □umber of other Industries- chemical wmrks, printing and dyeing mills, let ter pro* s i rb’te”- and no on are inter ested this p-oduot of Sudan, f’liiea Politeness. Lady (to Irish gardener, who “obliges” by the day)—Well, Dan, and what do I owe you for today? Dan- Sure. ma’am, I’d sooner lie taking the half crown you’d lie offering me than the 2 shillings I'd be asking of you.— Punch. Endorsed by the Country, “The most popular remedy in Otsego county, and the best friend of my family,” writes Wm. M. Dietz, editor and publisher of the Otsego Journal, Gilbertsville, N. Y.. “is Dr. King’s New Discovery. It has proved to be an infallible cure for coughs and colds, making short work of the worst of them. We always keep a bottle in th^. house. I believe it to bo the most valuable prescription known for Lung and Throat dis eases.” Guaranteed to never disap point the taker, by Cherokee Drug Co. price 50c and $1.00. Trial bot tle free. Cash For lOO Coupons From The Cigarette of Quality 2 Coupons in each Package Coupons also Redeemable for Valuable Presents Premium Dept., AMERICAN TOBACCO CO. Jersey City, W. J. St. Louis, Ho. TWO CHEERFUL LIARS. A Queer Cherry Tree and a BdCk Ae tien Cannon Ball. Mr. Finlaysou, town clerk of Stirlkig iu tliv latter part of Tie seventeeaiij century, was noted for the murvi ,'ui; iu conversation. He was on a visit to the Karl of Moateith aim AirUi in castle of Taha, ou the loch of Mon teith, and was about taking leave when iv was i .>!.•• I I,, 'he <wli . . er he had seen the .--uiiing cherry tree. “No,” said Fiulayson. “What sort of a thing is it?” “It is,” replied the earl, “a tree that has grown out of a goose's mouth from a stone the bird had swallowed and which she bears about with her iu voyages round the loch. It is Just at present iu full fruit of the most exqui site flavor. Now. Fiulayson,” he add ed, “can you, with all your powers of memory aud fancy, match the story of the cherry tree?” “Perhaps i can,” said Finlaysou, clearing his throat, adding, “When Oil ver Cromwell was at Aith one of the cannon sent a bail to Stirling and lodged it in the mouth of a trumpet, which one of the troops in the castle was in the act of sounding.” “Was the trumpeter killed?” said the earl. ✓ “No, my lord.” said Fiulayson. “He blew the ball back am! killed the artil leryman who had tired it!”—Pearson's Weekly. The effect of Scott's Emulsion on thin, pale children U magical It makes them plump, rosy, active, happy. It contains Cod Liver Oil, Hypophosphites and Glycerine, to make fat, blood and bone, and so put together that it is easily digested by little folk. ALL DRUGGISTS; SOc. AND Sl.OO, >$**+++**+**++ FIVE WINNERS! | Babcock, t Tyson & Jones, Piedmont, King Bros., High Point, Buggies Call in to see them, examine carefully, see if you don’t find something you like. We make and guarantee our Harness. “The other fellow don’t.’’ Repairing a specialty. SMITH HARDWARE GO. ALEXANDRIAN LIBRARY. Th« Greater* Li' ra y ’’.•;rjui; That the World Hst Lost. Perhaps ’!:.• larg , and mo-. \alu able of Iffor’")' tre - :"• !••* . Id has lost was the Alexandrian library. This collection, the most remarkable of the ancient world, is said to have contained in its most flourishing period 400,000 or, iicco'd'p.'' to i uers, ".00,- OOu niaunscrqus. i,s ro>al founder collected from all nations their choic est compositions. We are told that one of his successors went so far as to re fuse to supply the Athenians with wheat until they had given him the original manuscripts of .Escliylus. Sophocles and Euripides. When Ju lius Caesar laid siege to the city the greater portion of this library was de stroyed by fire. It was later replaced by the collection presented to tjueen Cleopatra by Mark Antony. But it was not destined to endure long. When the Emperor Theodosius the Great in 391 A. D. ordered the destruc tion of all heathen temples within the Roman empire, the Christians, led by the Archbishop Theophilus, did not spare that of Jupiter, in which were kept the literary treasures. From this general destruction about 4,000 manu scripts escaped, only to be burned in 040 by Saracens under the Caliph Omar.—A rgona u t. Subscribe for The Ledger. $1 a year. * «<.*>G»tg ARE YOU QOINQ TO JAflESTOWN ? If so let us help you get r?ady. We have everything needed. A carload of Trunks, Bags, etc., to select from ■ ■ * ‘ » LIMESTONE STREET. GAFFNEY, SOUTH CANOLINA. .