Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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' ^ f FIVEGWINNERSH MdBOR SUPPLE MOVE FAD OF PITTSBURG WOMEN. THE “MARSEILLAISE.” Having Thair Vermiform Appondixos Removed Because of Social Vogue. That Pittsburg soriety women have Uncle Sam Starts Biggest Em> developed a morbid fad In having their vermiform appendixes removed and ployment Bureau to Help Out that the amputation has become so Babcock, Tyson & Jones, Piedmont, King Bros., High Point, NO EXCUSE FOR IDLENESS. Bans Call in to see them, examine carefully, see if you don’t find something you like. We make and guarantee our Harness, “I he other fellow don’t.” Repairing a specialty. SMITH HARDWARE GO.f M Terence V. Powderly, Former Head of Knight* of Labor, Has Charge of New Office—Demand For Workers Exceeds Supply—Single Men Pre ferred In Georgia- The greatest employment bureau iu the world is what the new information bureau of the immigration service is suddenly becoming, writes a Washing ton correspondent of the New Vork Globe. Terence V. Powderly, once head of the Knights of Labor, is In charge of the bureau, and after open ing correspondence with the responsi ble oflicers of all the states concerning the actual conditions with reference to ! need for labor and opportunity for em- ; ployment this Is what he says: “No man in this country able and willing to work has any excuse for idleness. There is demand from prac tically every state for labor, both skilled and unskilled. The governors or other officials are calling on us to ; much of a vogue as to have become a 1 requisite to enjoy social equality with the upper set is the startling announce- i ment made the other night after care ful inquiry, says a Pittsburg special to : the New York World. Time hangs too heavily upon the hands of these women. Tiring of the social whirl and the painful monotony |t Wat Written by Reuget de Lisle In One Brief Hour. On April 25, 1792, Kouget de Ltate. the military engineer, who had assum ed the aristocratic prefix to become an officer, was a guest at a banquet given by Baron Dietrich, first mayor of Btrassburg. Patriotic excitement was at its height. “Marchons!” “Aux armes, clto yens!” were phrases on every lip. But as the champagne went round the la dies grew weary and pleaded for an other topic. Patriotic songs? A hymn for the army of the Rhine? Something and lack of novelties in freak enter- better than tin* jingling “Ca Ira!” The talnments and social diversions, mem- j host first suggested a public comi»eti- bers of the gentle sex of the upper clr- tion a ml a prize. Then he turned to cle are now' resorting to the soothing effects of anaesthetics and the sensa tions of the operating table. Against the advice of physicians and with pro fessional assurance that the appendixes | are In good order ami acting intelli gently and with precision, many wom- Rongel de I.isle and asked him to “compose a noble song for the French people.” Kouget de Lisle tried to excuse him self. Again tin- champagne passed round, and just as the party broke up a fellow officer about to quit Strassburg en insist upon having the j)esky things 1 next day begged De Lisle for a copy of removed. his forthcoming song. A prominent Pittsburg surgeon says: 1 “I make the promise on behalf of “I occasionally run across cranks in ! your comrade.” Dietrich replied, operating upon women. It becomes a i Rouget de Lisle reached his lodging mania with them to be operated upon. ' close by, but not to sleep. His violin I have one woman in mind. If I should i lay on the table. Taking it up. he teil you who her husbaud is you would j struck a few chords. Soon a melody- wonder that she did not have better ! seemed to grow under his fingers. No sense. She not only insisted that her | sooner had he put down the notes than vermiform appendix be removed with- he dashed off the words. out cause, hut every other organ she send them men and women who want | ™ uld Possibly spare. She is now In An Attractive Proposition! The Peoples Building & Loan Association !- CSaffney, invites Your Attention To The Subject of “SAVING MONEY. It will fc i There can be no safer investment fer Controlled by careful men and managed at a minimum expense prove a great benefit to any investor x earnings, and no more favorable opportunity offered for home building than £ fe through the medium of this Association. It will enlist the wage earner and 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. HONSST 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 written by The Southeastern Life Insurance Company of Spartanburg, S. C 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 times when they will need it most keenly. >: It is every man’s sacred duty to carry life-insurance for the benefit of those de 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 this State. It is an old line, Lgal 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, Spartanburg, S. C. M ir. It.iL. lUOfc work and giving assurances that the work will be provided. The factories and farms, the mines and mills, all Join iu the chorus of demand, while from everywhere comes the soprano note of insistence that more domestic servants be provided.” Commissioner of Lalior Sargent ? some time ago got iu mind that it would lx* a good tiling to learn the ac- ; tual facts about the reported demand <; for labor. It seemed phenomenal that ? with the unprecedented immigration •• there should be an ever Increasing , demand for workers. Moreover, he wanted to learn everything possible almut the proper distribution of immi- £ ; grants, so that newcomers should lie ; placed where they were wanted and | J would find work and people who hail work to do would find people to do it. Mr. Sargent has found out what he wanted to know. He has learned that workers arc wanted everywhere. No community is willing to lose any of the desirable immigrants. Every com munity seems to want more than it gets. Mr. Powderly was given charge of this inquiry as chief of the iuforma- I tlon work. He sent out circulars to all governors, asking specific questions i about labor conditions, the demand for ' workers, the sort of work to lie done, wages, conditions of employment, etc. Especially he wanted to know about opportunities for getting cheap laud and whether the states offered any sort of Inducements to Immigrants. The replies seem to leave no doubt of the genuineness of the demand for more people-. First i otaes the call for i farm lalsirers. New York tells of the numlier of farms there for sale or rent because of the shortage of jieople to run them. Massachusetts has a like plaint, re enforced by the statistics that • Massachusetts loves. New Hampshire seconds the motion. Especially does New England want domestic servants. Not more than half the states have yet sent In their answers, hut they represent all sections and are in the ; same vein. ‘•Send all kinds of work ingmen.” writes Oregon. “Married or single are all wanted; no difference in the demand.” New York, despite that it shows a Thus having iu a brief hour secured for himself an undying name he threw himself upon his l>ed and slumbered heavily.— Reader Magazine. STAMMERING. New York socking another operation. Her husband’s name would startle you.” AN ALLY TO CUPID. Expressman Makes Specialty of Han dling Baggage For Elopers. A hewhlskered Cupid In the guise of an expressman has opened headquar ters at 4444 Easton avenue, a fashion-1 “it is generally, if not always, caused able section of St. Louis. Over his door by a spasm of the larynx, resulting is the legend: | from -nervous contraction of the or- “Runaway Couples’ Friend.” Charles Cornelius is the Cupid, and he is willing to help all elopers who apply for aid. says a St. Louis dis patch. “It’s a difficult thing to steal away and get married,” he said, “unless the expressman is on to his Job and car ries off the baggage quietly.” He told of an experience In which he was caught. He stumbled on the stairs and woke the family up. “I managed to make away with the trunk all right.” he said, “but after waiting at the Cnlon station for an hour the young man iu the case came to me with a long face and said the game was up. He said the girl had been captured and locked in her room. “I was afraid to take the trunk hack and face tin* father, hut In a few days he came in and said he had reconsid ered. He told me to check the trunk for Denver, along with several others, as the entire family was going to ‘run away’ to set* the daughter get mar ried.” FOR BALK. FOR SALK—A good • square piano; low pries. J. M. Nelson. Apply t» 7-Pdf FOR PALE—Old newspapers at this office, 10c a hundred. FOR BALE—Flrst-clase babbit al. Apply at Ledger office. FOR RENT. FOR RENT—Store room now oc cupied by F. B Gaffney. Poeaeeloa Sept 1st 1007. Store room now (-oca pied by Boyd Sarrmtt as barber shop. Possession Sept 1st 1007. Office room fronting on Limestone street Possession now. A. N. Wood. TO RENT—Office rooms over The Ledger Apply to Ed. H. DeOamp. Not. 2-tf. MIPCELANEOUP. FOR SERVICE—St Lambert Jer sey bull; registered; fee $2. Apply t- B. R. Cash. April 19 1 a. w. tL NOTICE. NOTICE—Hats of all kinds clean ed and blocked. Clothes cleaned and pressed. Satisfaction guaranteed. Office over R. A. Jones’ store. Brown & Riley. it np. Caused More Often by Habit Than by Defective Vocal Organa. “Stammering is often more the re suit of habit than from any defect of the vocal organs,” says an authority. gans, thus refusing to permit a proper flow of the air current producing tone. People rarely or never stammer when singing, for then the attention is di vided between words and music, the nervousness is momentarily forgotten and the passage of the air current through the larynx Is continuous and unobstruct (*d. “Stammering very often is the re suit of imitation, sometimes intention al, sometimes unconscious, and the af fliction is much more general than might be supposed. In one compara tively small section of the city there are thirty-five stammerers, and every one of them is able to demonstrate to his own satisfaction not only that he does not stammer very badly, but that some other person he knows stammers a great deal worse than himself. Every stammerer is intensely sensitive about bis infirmity, rarely forgives and never does forget any allusion to it which In his mind savors of ridicule.”— St. Ix)Uis Globe-Democrat. Fire Insurance! We reuregent some o' tbe largest and most substantial companies and would like to write your buslneg. 5-U-tf. Smith & Lipscomb, Agents DR. C. THOMSON DENTIST. Office over Merchants Grocery Company, Gaffney, 8. C. Office hour* 8:30 to 12:80, 1:30 to 5. Phone 46, la Blacksburg on Tueedayi. 1 mo. pd. DR W. K. GUNTER, L> K I** X I e T Office in Star Theatre Building, Phonk No. 20. Crown aad bridge work a BURNETT G. BLACK, SURQEON-DENTltT. Hickory Qrove, - - - • 8. C. In Sharon on Thurodayg and Fri day*. 7-24-lmo Comedy In a Back Street. SEA GULLS THAT TALK. About 10 o’clock one morning two men met and began threatening and Have Language of Their Own Which calling each oilier names. One finally Men Can Imitate, Says Dr. Wataon. called the other a liar, and tbe two Dr. John B. Watson, professor of men were al>out to grapple when a | psychology In the University of Chlca-, woman opened the door and said. i go, returned recently from a remarks- i “Gentlemen, are you about to fight?” hie trip of research in the Dry Tortu- j “We are!” they answered together, gas Islands, off the coast of lower Flor-! Then have the kindness to wait a ida, says a Chicago dispatch. His work moment,” she continued. “My hus- was carried on at the Andrew Carnegie band has been sick for weeks and is station. m>' v Just able to sit up. He is very Professor Watson declares that the downhearted this morning, and if sea gulls on the islands have a lan- you’ll only wait till I cun draw him guage of their own which can be itui- j up to the window I know he’ll be very tated by a human being and live in , grateful to both of you. ^ I “family groups” In especially built nest! She disappeared into the house, and DR. J. F. GARRETT. DENTIST. Moved te now offie« < Street. Front of Dio —Mery. 'Fhene In Offiee and fine list of larm opportunities for peo- h th t (h „ tLink when ln after ouj look Into each other's face VlUs \t-lwk M •lilt t<k liliv < »t* likolUsk AiikXWTl t ’ J ~ I. pk* who want to buy or leas**, doesn t, ^ ... . , , . . , . e i.i . « quest of food and give unusual evi- want laborers for the cities and does ’ dence of reasoning power. , . *• I , . ,n i He believes the birds have politics in their governmental affairs, but that the factional squabbles which arise ' among leaders are not permitted to in- not need mechanics. Bather the de af Albany sends word that the state has 40.<t<>0 building trades mechanics unemployed and the men smiled, shook hands and de parted together London Telegraph. O It s Ev §*- 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 lo-room 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. I SAM L. FORT, Real Estate 2nd Fire Insurance OFFICE OVER NATIORAL RANK I I I i that then* is no scarcity in any direc tion save on the farms. New York, of course, is extremely handy to the sup ply of labor that comes on the immi grant ships It is getting as many of these as it feels able to assimilate. But the south wants farm and plan tation workers and mechanics for Its short handed mills. The demand is tlie same from all the southern states that have reported. I>ouIsiana sent one of the most insistent demands, in cluding the offer of free homes and fuel to good workers. Wages are from 75 cents to $1.50 for plantation hands, with free homes and commonly with free fuel; mill hands can get from $1.50 to $4 per day, according to skill and the trade. Aliens with small terferqt with the government. Every thing is conducted iu an orderly way. An Up Stroke. Sometimes lightning strikes up in stead of down, if we are to believe a story told many years ago of a party of men standing on the porch of a Older birds educate their young to church far up on the side of a lofty fly and hunt food by a system, he as serts. mountain in Styria. They were look ing down info the valley below, where a great electrical storm was raging. The Automobile Ambition. and, with the sun shining upon them Pittsburg clubwomen are in some at their altitude, were enrapt by the excitement over the discovery that in strange sensation. Suddenly a bolt that city many women are mortgaging came up from the valley and killed sev- thelr homes to buy automobiles, says en of the party.—Circle. the Philadelphia Press. This is done to make an appearance of wealth and | Going and Coming. social position, which to many women “What’s that noise?” asked the vis- seem about all there is of life, even | itor iu the apartment house. if they are mere imitations. Pittsburg 1 “Probably some one in tbe dentist’s Is not the only place where this am bition is conspicuous, and everywhere .. .„ , 1 ** ■ there are people who would rather amounts of money will also find it 1 , * . ., .. . .... . . » . . have an automobile than an unlncum- posslble to secure lauds for homes at hi.if..j n.nTrr Wofford College, Spartanburg, S. C. Henry Nelson Snyder, M. A., Litt D„ LL. D„ President. Ten Departments.—Gymnasium under competent director. Athletic Grounds. Library and Librarian. Science Hall. Fifty-fourth year be gins September 18, 1907. For catalogue address J. A. Gamkweu., Secy. College Fitting School, Spartanburg, S. C. Three New Brick Buildings. Steam Heat and Electric Lights. Indi vidual attention to each student. Next Session begins September 18th, 1907. For catalogue and information address A. M. DuPke, Headmaster. Ana. »-l mo-pd. I tfi S: * >7< *! v ’♦2 v rv •J v v v V i $ $ the lowest prices and on th«lr own terms. Georgia wants all the people she can j get who will work. Single men are preferred there. The cities and the In dustrial centers, especially in the fast developing Iron trade, want more peo ple than are to be had. Farm laborers ' are in like demand. Utah asks for “both single and married men,” and | New Mexico needs labor for railroad and mining. Minnesota promises work for thousands, both on tbe farms and In the cities. There is vigorous intimation that or ganized labor does not like this propa ganda in favor of foreign labor, and threats have been muttered of making It a political Issue in 1908. Tbe labor organization people insist that there are still many unemployed people in tbe United States and that tbe govern ment would better devofie Itself to get ting Idle people Into relations with Jobs rather than to inducing more im migration. Confectionery Expositien. Budapest Is to have this summer an International exposition of bakery, confectionery and like leduetriec. be red home. When tbe clubwomen have reformed this sort of thing out of Pittsburg—for. of course, they nre going to do it—we request that they send on their recipe. Jersey Lightning Bug to tho Rooouo. | Caleb Hatch of Riverside, N. J., was out late recently with his bicycle with no lamp. Caleb himself tells this, j Not caring to risk riding through town ! without u light ou his wheel, be picked up u half pint whisky bottle he found by the wayside and put a dozen or more fireflies in it, says a Riverside special to the New York Times. This be placed in front of his machine. The flashing of the “lightning hugs” as they moved about answered his pur pose and saved him from arrest, the local policemen appearing to be satis fied when Hatch rode by with hie wheel “all lit up.” Fish te Fight Moequiteee. Italy is introducing in its waters an Australian fish that devoon moeqoito •anas. Flab with this appetite exist In America; but, says the St Louie Globe-Democrat, tbe rooms on the floor below getting a tooth out,” said his host. “But it seems to come from the floor above.” “Ah! Then it’s probably the Popleys’ baby getting a tooth in.”—Pbiladelpbia Press. The Tramp’s Excuse. Benevolent Man (who has given a tramp some work) — You’re working slowly, my man. Tramp—Pm trying to spin it out. Who knows when I shall get any more?—Meggendorfer Blatter. The Soft Answer. “Father, do all angels have wings?” “No, my sou. your mother has none.” And then she said sweetly that he might go to the club If he wouldn’t stay late.—Atlanta Conetitution. Modest. “Did he ask her father for her hand In marriage?” “No. He 1 *eded 110, and he didn’t want to ask for too much at once.”— Cleveland Plain Dealer. Death to Fleas! Your dogs suffer. “•ioaiM's Mango Cure" will keep a dog free from fleas. Pile* EOc. &-2-1 taw-1 mo. Caffneg Drug C«., sol* Agents. Halt! He Had Hopes. Toung lady (owner of great estate#)— As far as the eye can reach, all the land belongs to me. Admirer (respect* fully)-! hope you are net ahotaighted. -Stray Stories. Just stop and think one moment about your printed stationery. “A firm or individual's printed stationery is an index to his business judgement.” If you want something that you can be sure will make a good impression where- ever seen bring your job printing of every des cription to us. We guarantee satisfac tion and can do woi*k in a “hurry.” Ihe Ledger, Gtlfecy, S. C. 0B*Mail orders receive prompt attention.