The ledger. [volume] (Gaffney City, S.C.) 1896-1907, August 09, 1907, Image 8
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THE CIGARETTE.
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Cherokee B. i L.'
Fifth Series Opens August 1st
Stock Being Taken- .." For Loans Filed.
One man is now living in his own house who joined in Jan
uary; made application for loan; paid his dues—75 cents—
which was really due February 2. He made this payment
as a matter of good faith. He is in his own happy home
today—February 10. He is saving house rent today. His
property—not the landlord’s property—is growing in value
every day. Name furnished upon application : :
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Read Out Booklet And Pass It Along, It Means
A GREATER GAFFNEY.
M S. W. Gaffney, Sec’y & Treas. C. A. Jefferies, Prest.
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REAL ESTATE FOR SALE
At a Bargain
One lot 80x120, west side Oakland Avenue.
Foui’ lots 80x200 and one 140x80 west side of Victoria
Avenue.
House and iot on west side Limestone St. Lot 80x200,
with eigho-room housed electric lights and water works,
and all modern conveniences.
One house and lot fronting on Frederick street, lot
136x152 with four room cottage and city water. Price
very cheap.
One house and lot fronting on Robinson street, lot
116x152 with four room cottage and city water. Price
very cheap.
This property must be sold at once. Call and see us if
you are interested.
ITOK REXTVT
Four rooms for rent in Cherokee Drug Co.’s building.
See us for REAL ESTATE, whether a buyer or seller.
Before placing your Fire Insurance phone No. 170.
Office In National Bank Building
Be IM To Yoursilf
If you were to die today is your family well
provided for? Would the mortgage be paid
without inconvenience to your loved ones? The
prudent man insures his property against Fire
that may never come. [Are there not more
reasons why you should|insure against Death
which is sure to come?" Good and economical
management added; to careful medical selec
tion gives safe Insurance at a low-cost.
Carolina Mutual Benefit Assn.
GAFFNEY, S. C.
Its Abuse a Most Popuisr pas
time.
(Columbia State, June S. 1907.)
It hag long be* a popular pas
time to indulge in heaping all man
ner of abuse on the cigarette. It has
been attacked in bo many different
ways and at so many different times
by so many different people one
would naturally think that all ave
nues of attack had certainly been
discovered and used and the list of
appropriate invectives exhausted.
But not so. Just as one is about to
reach such a conclusion up jumps
some cerebral featherweight with a
fresh supply of choice slanders with
which he lays himself out to edify
the public. He Is perhaps as well
informed on his subject as a por-
noise. but that la » very small j
unimportant item. It is not at all
necessary that his ideas (hr what
passes for such in lieu of the genuine
article) should appeal to reason or
common sense. Indeed, It would
sometimes seem that their very re-
motnesg from these attributes en
hances their popularity, eapocially
with that large class of Individuals
who habitually do their own think
ing by proxy on all matters concern
ing the public weal or woe. He haa
only to vilify the cigarette in an en
tertaining and perhaps sensational
manner to be assured In advance, by
all precedent, of an appreciative and
sympathetic audience. Never since
Sir Walter lighted his first pipe has
an equal quantity of paper hnd to
bacco in any other form received as
much condemnation as the poor lit
tle defenseless cigarette. It serves
as a hind of wastebasket for an
overplus of “spleen” from whatever
source or variey. Any one can
‘cuss” the cigarette with certainty
of receiving public commendation and
with the comforting assurance of
not being "cussed back at." But the
cigarette’s enemies are by no means
limited to the ignorant and thought
less. In the ranks are to be fouiid
men of acknowledged ability, and
even authority on some subjects,
but who show the most lamentable
Ignorance on this. These men are
doubtless actuated by the best of
motives, but hftving made no per
sonal investigation of the matter,
they have taken their opinions at
second hand, and In their zeal for
good works have simply allowed
themselves to be drawn in and car
ried along by the wave of popular
enthusiasm.
Legislative bodies, both State and
municipal, have occasionally taken a
hand in the fray and passed all sorts
of laws calculated to work the ruin
of the cigarette. The heaviest bat
teries of medical science have turned
loose on it one broadside after
another, but when the smoke has
arisen from the supposed wreck it
is seen to bob up serenely again.
Uncle Sam’s most skillful chemists
have time and again pulled down its
delicate structure and examined, in
minutest detail, its contents for
arsenic and opium supposed to be
lurking therein, but with all the aid
of the science of chemistry at their
command they have been compelled
to admit that there is “nothing in
it”
Our newspapers, in obedience to
the command of a morbid public ap
petite for sensation, nave printed
most awful stories of certain indi
viduals who have turned black, green
or brown, or all these shades suc
cessively and died in horrible con
vulsions, all as a result of smoking
cigarettes. Indeed if a person hap
pens at any time to have been a
victim of this habit and V ever dies
thereafter (which sometimes occurs)
the cause of his demise is evident
and his name is at once added to
that list of unfortunate imbeciles
who preferred death to life without
c.garettes. (“Post hoc—propter hoc.”)
Thus the howl of public condem
nation resound^ and reverberates
throughout the country, and those
who howl the longest and loudest
and mournfulest are usually
those who, like “Brer Rabbit,” have
simply heard a “mighty cuis noise
back dere in <le woods” and there
their information begins and ends.
Throughout the waging of this un
equal combat there is never a voice
raised in behalf of the cigarette
smoker—never a line in the public
press, suggesting the possibility of
his dying from any other cause than
as a just retribution for his own
diabolical folly. His neighbor with
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| Beat O.dvii Syrup, i'luies uuo*. Cac
In time. Sold by druKtrUU.
PMSUMP.TIO
the ciga r is a gentleman, for aught
we hear to the contrary. How dif
ferent is his position! Standing on
the verge of social ostracism he is
viewed with an eye of pitying con
tempt. as a species of mental and
moral degenerate. He is even brand
ed as a “fiend.” as If he were a spe-
rial emissary of the devil, sent to
earth with his noxious fumes, to be
a stench in the nostrils of decent
humanity.
I would not be understood, how
ever, as advocating the smoking of
cigarettes. Far from it. That such
a habit Is necessarily inherently bad
there can scarcely be a doubt. Nico
tine Aelng a deadly poison can not
but have an injurious effect on the
delicate nervous mechanism of the
human body, in addition to the local
Irritation it produces on the mucus
membrane with which the smoke
comes in contact said injury be^g
in direct proportion to the concen
tration of the poison, and the com
parative rapidity of Its absorption
and elimination.
'Furthermore, it. is equally certain
that the effect is enhanced' by the
youth of the subject, stunting men
tal and physical growth and develop
ment. My plea is simply for a
“square deal” for ttye cigarette; for
a rational common sense view r of
the matter, as warranted by facts,
established by competent and unbias
ed investigators., My protest is
against this wild, unreasonable, but
popular notion that the cigarette
contains some specific deadly poison
that is not found in tobacco in any
other form. I submit that, compar
ed with the cigar, the injury pro
duced is merely one of degree—five
or six average cigarettes equaling in
effect one average cigar. If then it
be “fiendish” to smoke a cigarette
it must be extremely “devilish” to
smoke a cigar—neither of which I
am prepared to admit, however.
That cheap cigarettes contain arse
nic or opium or both, has been shown
time and 1 again to be without the
slightest foundation in fact. The
presence of the former could serve
no imaginable purpose, and certain
ly the well known physiological ef
fects of this drug are not observed
in the cigarette “fiends,” while
opium is far too costly a drug lobe
made use of in such manner. Fur
thermore. if we believe such stories
to be true we must also believe the
manufacturers of cigarettes to be
unprincipled scoundrels, utterly
devoid of the least spark of con
science or humanity.
I speak not only from observation,
but from a more or less continuous
personal experience in the use of
both cigars and cigarettes for a
period of 20 years. That I have
been injured thereby to some extent,
both mentally and physically, is
probable. That I have not at any
time assumed all the different colors
of the rainbow, and died in horrible
convulsions, I believe I can prove to
the entire daitlsfaction of all un
biased, fair-minded people.
S. H. Griffith, M. D.
Gaffney. S. C-, June 3, 1907.
Do you like it? Then why
be contented with it? Have
to be? Oh, no! Just put on
Ayer’s Hair Vigor and have
long, thick hair; soft, even
hair. But first of ail, stop
your hair from coming out.
Save what you have. Ayer’s
Hair Vigor will not disappoint
you. It feeds the hair-bulbs;
makes weak hair strong.
Th4 best kind of a testimonial —
“Soid for over sixty years.’*
ibrJ.C. Ayer Co., Lowell, Meae.
Also menulAotnrere of
yers
SARSAPARILLA.
PILLS.
CHERRY PECTORAL.
AN EMPTY P0CKETB00K
May mean the most abject poverty if it stands aloue, but if
backed up by a check book, it means thrifty management and,
perhaps, wealth. The man who carries*
little o no money—who deposits his* en
tire earnings in bank and pays his bil’a
by checking against his account—ha^
adopted the safest and surest business
methods to secure his money, to save and
to get ahead in the world.
Open an account with us today. We will welcome your ac-.
count, be it large or small, guard your deposits and lend you oi^
assistance on the road to prosperity. Put your surplus into a
time certificate of deposit. It will pay you 4^ interest.
MERCHANTS»“PLANTERS BANK
GAFFNEY.- S.C.
—Wanted 100 reliable men that
can appreciate a good razor to call
at our place and get a Carbo-Mag-
netic Razor and shave with It lor
one month. At expiration of the
month return the razor and tell us
what you think of the Carbo-Magnetic.
No money, no obligation. Gaffney
Drug Co.
5-2t
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W. C. Carpenter Co.
We will continue the low prices
on all Clothing, Hats and Oxfords
for the next ten days. : : : : :
$10.00, $12.50, $14.00 and
$ 15.00 Suits, two and three
piece Suits at
$5.48.
Just Wright Oxfords for Men,
the $4.00 kind for
$3.48.
John B. Stetson Hats at
$2.98.
Now is the time to buy your outfit
for the vacation days; thellow pri
ces will help pay your expenses.
W. C. Carpenter Co.
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Would
YOU like for your Stationery to be neatly
printed and promptly delivered? If so, will
you let ns prove to you that our work will
THE LEDGER. Gaffney, S. C.
Please?
HOW
HAVE GROWN i
All good business men take a pride in the healthy growth of the business they conduct. We are no exception to the rule. Simply to illustrate,
and not to boast, we give the following figures to show the steady growth of the Gaffney Savings Bank. The business was commenced on February
3rd, 1903, and the figures below illustrate more eloquently than words the growth of the business;
X>eF*0»IT».
July 1st, 1903,
July 1st, 1904,
July 1st, 1905,
July 1st, 1906
$17,833.56
$39,335.55
$59,227.21
$96,974.42
July 1st, 1907, $125,823.90
These figures show that the people
people are learning the lesson of saving <k
We want more business; we want your business, n you haven't a oanK account, start one jnuw, with us, ana tnus nAva iuuiv oAvirmo
EARN YOU SOMETHING. We are now paying over $5,000.00 annually in interest to our depositors, and you should be receiving your share of this
interest money.
MAYNARD SMYTH, Cashier. GAFFNEY SAVING BANK
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