The ledger. [volume] (Gaffney City, S.C.) 1896-1907, December 01, 1907, Image 5
UNEASY INDIA.
TH* Specter of Revolt In the “Pivot of
the British Empire."
India is in Hm> thrums of revolution.
The pres* dispnti lies that have found
their \v:u into Aineriean newspapers
fail to jrive a coinprehensive idea of
the real situation in Hindustan. Lord
Curzon on the eve of his assumption
of the vice royalty declared India to
be “the pivot of the Itritish empire."
‘*lf this empire." he emphatically de
dared, “lost any other parts of its
dominions we could survive, hut if we
lost India the sun of the empire would
set." Today this “pivot of the i’rit
Ish empire" is wahhlinu Britain is
apprehensive lest this "sun of the em
pire" is losing its potency.
Already hloody demonstrations have
taken place in different parts of In
dia The Punjab, at one end of the
country, is rent with riots. The two
Rentals, at the other extremity, are
proclaimed hotbeds of sedition. The
presidencies of I tom hay and Madras
are disaffected.
The unrest in Calcutta, the upris-
burs in Rawalpindi, the riots in Lahore
and the agitation in Bombay and Mad
ras. separated from one another by
hundreds of miles, indicate that cotn-
muiidv of interest is binding the races,
nationalities and castes of Hindust.i!'
together, inspiring them to act In con
cert. A subtle chord of sympathy ap
pears to run through the length .and
breadth <*f the land.
Tin
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now
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- to pulsate at it
s vital
(•(•liters
with
the same heart tin
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Tin
■ native press and
leaders
in India
a tv |
mlling together and pres
tsiti
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hold
front. Hindoos.
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India.
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them more tolerant toward one anoth
er Saint \ihal Sin^ of Baualjtindi
Buniab, India, in Harper’s Weeki;.
7 be Ridale of Life.
< >' er in 1 ranee Professor de Lam* of
the Sorbonne claims to ha\“ eflected
the chemical development of life in the
unfertilized ejms of the sea urchin.
"In about an hour." says the repor'
"s .mentation, which is tie* lirst si^n
of life, bej;,iii. and the eij^s produced
bin ae.
But* did Professor de Lajp* crea'e
life? l>id he produce life that did not
already exist? The e«? was apparent
1\ ready or its fumtiotis. It would
seem to t'ie lay mltn. therefore, that
it was a i\e eirtr >riKht not a scien
tist say ijiite as wisey, "I have plant
ed an acorn and lave produced a
tree."
When inan can tike two or more
elements of his own composition, unite
them and produce Ife. then and then
on’v will he be aide to claim the fune-
tlon that is creativ*
Some time ayo Professor .lacipies I
Loeb of the t'lii’.'t’sit.* of California
proved that it wm- possible to uive to
the cecs of uvhins tin* environ- i
ment nccessar\ b life. But Profess- I
or Loeb did not s< ve the riddle of life
any more than Pufessor de Lajre, and :
the secrets of lif's lie«innin>r remain j
unite as dark as,lie secrets of death. :
New York Arm’ican.
Battle Nams For Humans.
.lad;'** Kencsa< Mountain T.andis is
said to have bee. named in commemo- 1
ration of the biitle in which his father
was wounded, .s that engagement oc
curred in l s 'it ml dudge Bandis was
born in ls*!«' ( , h peculiar name cannot
have been besiwed on the spur of the
moment A si'ilar instance of |>ecul- ;
iar natenial clice in naming a child is
exhibited in tc case of Captain Mai
v ei n I [ill Baram «>f the regular army j
His father mst have had some tea
son akin to tat of the elder Landis,
for. while tit battle was fought in |
IS'L*, captaii Barnum was not born!
until fourtecimonths afterward. Pos-
sibl.v there re military associations
w I ich eivili: s cannot understand that
make c»*rta events of peculiar sig
niticance in n* lives of veterans. This
supposition i strengthened by the fact
that a lev. years ago there lived in
Boston t w< negroes, brothers. sons of]
a veteran vbo bore respectively tin*;
given u.'ine of Army of tin* Potomfic j
ami Sixth orps. -Kansas City .lournal.
m Ancient Tower.
The Mn<.*nt tower of 1'ulluim Parish
•liurcli. h'n ii has occasioned better j
founded jxiety lh:in St. Ptml’s catlie ]
dral. s conspicuous landmark fii- >
miliar t* all river loving Londoners
It con'.: ts a peal of ten hells, which
it ' ro Aped for sweetness of tone.
Witii'i ,lie lower are iminy niomi ;
men! great interest. Sir William
Butt! Ja* royal physician introduced
by S dps pen re in “Henry \ IIL." liadj
an aartomb with his figure in brass,
but li'.'se liave perislied. IIioultIi llie'
sl.il ii in;iins. with (lie graceful Latin
ppifli by b:s protege. Sir .John Cla Ke
N'of. i away i< a life sized statue of
.|o|; \’iscoimt Mordaunt, the distin
gull'd cjivalier and constable of
Wilsor castle. Tlien* Inis lieen ;; 1
ch'cli at I'uUiaiu. of w hieh the hish
op >f London were once sinecure
re*» ,, s. for more than « thou^ iid
V(?" v: . but the present tOWef. which is
to'* repaired, probably nates from the
fefeenth century — Dundee Adver
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A MILLION A YEAR. .
The Man Who Is Paid the Highest
Salary In the World.
He K a short, sturdy man, about lif
ty tw i years of age. rather bald and it*
plainlv undecorative in appearance a-
tlic general manager of ;i great railroad
system. Me commands what is said t"
Ik* tin* highest salary paid any man in
the world.
No. Ik* is not a life insurance presi
dent. A S]11(i.iitmi life insurance pre-i
dent would have to work nearly ten
years for the salary tiiat this man
earns in twelve months. In om* yeai
be receives as nitich as tin* Puited
Slate- government has paid all told to
Messrs. Roosevelt. \i ixinley and
Cleveland for their services as chic:
executives. ? el tois ma : . vv liose \ > a r-
ly pay eipiais that of a sc ce of presi-
dtails, mav walk any day fr mi Ids em
ployers' oliices in the Kmpire buildi c.'
at 71 Broadway to his spacious 'jon
foot yaehl waiting lor I.iin at the Bat
tery and nevi ;• roi olvo a glara-e of ree
'gnilion other than from casual ac-
ipiainiam es. The yacht, inunned by a
crow of thirty, earric- him to Ids coun-
i rv Iiona* at < 1 io;;cc> icr. Mas-;., and oil'
of business hours Ik* may amuse him
self with any one ot h's several speedy
auios. each of a price t<i buv a liome
for the usual wa.gi earner, t )n tin*
door of tin* . Ila e he has left then* is
only t' c name * Mr. Hammond.■’
.iol n La vs II: n a : I js the most
famous mining exp:vt ami tin* higlies;
paid American li\ i. g iie kiiov, ■ all
mining cnunt.iu- so v.-H liiat he can
pick tlie one paving jiiojiosjiion o:ii
a tiiousaud tiiat woiiid look good to th"
aviuwge pel's m. 'I'la* m.m w ith i!i
[iroposition >e!dom has t , imr*>li hi- :
maps before Ik* h: - I is aiewer
Mr. Haniuioud '<> • (be bull' of Id-- i
work 11 iron g! i a < or p - o' i *'- o * ”: -. vi: * i
go to a 11 parls of t !ie wo,, Id to eaudm
paope*',When on* i - repoi : *d on
favoMbiy 1 y siiecc-- gi - ou]i^. end !
idgimr than tin* tii ■:. !i>en tin* «ledsioi* ;
readies the last eoi*:'l. vv Id' h iv Ham- ‘
mond. He goes to the plaee in bis pri
vate ear. if possible, and looks the
properly over, lb* reports in hardly
more than a word. “Yes” or "No." 1
Tlie word of no other man today, not
even of ridisou. can marshal so many
millions to what must essentially lie a
gambling propo-etion. Tins eminence
he has won through a long series of
lips tiiat have been wonderfully aecu-
rate.
The glaring publicity of salary, of
dollars and ccnis. is distastdi)! to him.
But the gauge of dollars and cents i«
only another way of saying that a safe (
prophet in the professions is a rarity
that comes high, and nowhere quite so
high as in the person of .lolm Hays
Hammond. Broad vv a; Magazine.
A French reconnoitering column
was narrowly saved from annihllition
in Morrocco.
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THE MODOCS.
Fifty of the Tribe Are Now Living In
Indian Ttiritory.
riaddl.v suid ing the pipe of |K*ace,
apparently forgelfiil of tin* eventful
'past, about lilly Indians, relatives and
survivors of tin* renowned Modocs.
who took part in tin* inosi Interesting
Indian reliellion in American history,
are living on allotaients near Miami,
I. T. These fifty are perhaps tin* only
survivors or relatives of tin* once puv*
erful tribe
"I he Modocs, it will be remembered
were an Indian tribe of northern Call
fomia and southern < U'cgoii. In ls7'_
they became t.irhwlcnt am) refu-cd u
remain on tiieii- reservations, tbmera'
E. It. S. t'anb.v. a veteran of tin* Mcxl
can ami civ il wars, was sent against
them, hut they, after firing on t! * Lnit
ed State; forces, retreated to the lava,
beds. The advance of the I nited
States troop; was greatly impc ;ed b,.
the peculiar topographv of the cotin
try, and a good many of them were
picked olf by Indian sharpshooters con
cealed behind tin* rocks and crags of
the lava beds. Efforts were then made
to negotiate with them, and a confer
cure was bcld h*>ivveen <huiera 1 Canity
nnd two-peace commissioners on the
one hand and a number of Modocs. in
cluding their chief, Captain Jack, on
the other. While General Canity and
his aids w ere seated on stones around
a small lire two Indians who were* eon-
eealed in the bushes rushed from their
hiding place with gnus and shot to
death tin* general and one of his eom-
ptanioiis. ,\ vigorous campaign was
then begun against tin* treacherous
Indians, and in tin* following summer
General Jefferson c. Davis, who sm-
ceeded General Canity, captured the
Modoc ham! Captain Jack and three
other lenders were tried by a military
eommissioii and hanged, while two
others were imprisoned for life. About
loo who hud not followed Captain Jack
were
permitb*
J
to rerntitu in
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foraia.
The
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whom
the fill
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v either surviv*.
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d(*sc(*;n
dants.
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Indian
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ly ns
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List
Modoc Indian in America. — Kansas
City Star.
Work on a big copper smelter at
Coram, Cal., has been stopped until
the price of copper goes up.
SPLENDOR OF SIENA.
An Italian City That Continues to Be
Old and Restful.
The modern spirit lias spoiled Borne
and is daily destroying there, writes
Arthur Symons in Scribner’s. |t is
more slow ly, hut not less certainly, de
Kirov ing Venice with a literal, onion
Inte l destruction. Florence* has let in
A English, who I ma rd there, and a
n;*w spirit, hot dcstrm live, reverent of
past things, but superficial with new
•ivilization. has mingled the renais
sauce with the commonplace of the
modern world.
But Siena I- e intent t<> remain itself,
neither ymbiiioiis nor dejected. ! ,- v
ing itself with iis old industries itiie
smell of tin* tanneries, as in the da; -
of St. Catherine, never out of its
streets), keeping its beautiful old
things quietly, not trying to make now
things like il; *:u: content with tlie old
limits and with all old tilings as thoj
were
And tin* splendor ami dignity 'if itr
past siil! live nobly in all the walls of
Siena. Its history is written there in
stone and with a lasting beauty on the
walls of all its palaces. Palaces line
the streets. Gothic and renaissance
all flat, severe, built with gray stone
cut into square blocks, with here and
there a reminiscence of the less simple
and a ll.dr i • • . • u, inner of
building vvitli pnrtl.v r; l ,c*" ii blocks.
The palaces jo n walls with priv >
houses and ask for no more space In
these equalizing feet t > which they
add force and Ikm"'; They accommo
date themselves to the street and turn
with it in a kind of democracy of
pride. Towers, structures like prisons,
gloomy remnants, which stand at
street corners or between shop and
shop, come into the pal tern naturally,
without incongruity All Siena is of
one piece, and at night sleeps together
with the same tranquil sleep.
There L in tlie streets ar night a cu
rious sense of quiet, not tlie quiet of
suspense or desolation, but rather of
people who prefer to stay indoors in
their own 1 • oq walls and win
dow s bet ■ .-i a ibe* * a l other people,
in a quiet frie idi.v aloofness. The
streets |o i >t cad to them as they call
to [ eoido in tie - . i«b They are cor
ridor i i w ib. ii -o-g'i. not alleys to
ibige • jn. aad tk • Sienese are not lin-
gerei’s Even bv day few people stand
idle in the streets. The church square
on iis height : s no meeting plaee. Si
ena works quietly by day and at night
deeps quietly.
Confidence was largely restored
in wall Street as a result of action
taken by J. Pierpont Morgan Secre
tary Cortelu and others.
DON’T FAIL T<> VISIT
No. 812 Limestone St.
And gnt prices on I'UUMTrilL, STOVES and
KANDES, (foods delivered anywhere in the state
if the amount purchased will justify it. : : : :
Shuford & LeMaster.
S. R. SOBER
MANUFACTURER
FINE CONFECTIONERY
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL
CALIFORNIA, FLORIDA AND TROPICAL FRUITS.
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Saturday We Shall Inaugurate the Largest Sale
Ever Held in Gaffney.
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Every department in this store will be represented in this wonderful sale. Now Is the
time forfou to save money on all your winter supplies in Clothing, Shoes, Dress Coeds,
Hats, Ldies and Children’s Cloaks and Underwear. The prices will be about one-half
prices. Don’t miss this sale if you want to save money.
Ladies* Cloaks
Ladies’ Cloaks in *ack and grey,
trimmed in Velve were $4.50, Sale
price $2.98
Ladies’ Lon^ Coatsn black, trimmed
in straps and Yivet, were $5.00,
Sale price $3.98
A bitf assortment' colors of Child
ren’s Coats, allies, were $2.50,
Sale price $1.98
A hi# line in Lfies’ Rain Coats at
halfrice.
Dress Goods
Yard-wide all wo Suiting, value 35c
Sale price 22c
51-inch all wool roadcloth in all col
ors, was 85c, 9e price . ... 68c
In this pj;)ivi Hint W3 are shiwing j
all the latest styles and fabrics at
low prices. We camot quote
all of the prices.
Domestics
Yard-wide unbleached Sheeting, value
b l-2c, Sale price 5c
Best quality Hickory Shirting, value
10c, Sale price 7c
Yard-wide Bleaching, good value at
10c, Sale price . .8 3-4c
Dark col ire 1 Dating, solid colors,
valui S 1-3j, Sale price 7c
Ladies* and Children’s
Underwear
Li lies’ h * ivy il azii Vests an 1 Pants,
value Ode, Sale price. ... ...42c
We have a big line in Children’s Un
derwear at a big cut in price.
Ask to see the 12-4 Blankets
at $1.68.
Men’s and Boy’s Clothing
Men’s worsted Suits, value $5.00,
Sale price $3.25
Men’s all wool Suits, value $6,50,
Sale price ... $4.00
Men’s all wool Suits in all of the
newest colors, value $13.50, Sale
price. $9.50
Boy’s fine all wool Suits. $3.00 values,
Sale price $1.98
We cannot quote all the prices on
Clothing. It would take all
the space in the paper
Men’s Underwear
Wright’s Health Underwear every
body knows that it sells for $1.00 a
garment, Sale price 75c
Shoes
Men’s Yici Blucher Shoes, value $1.50,
Sale price $1.19
Ladies’ Vici Blucher or Bal, value
$1.50, Sale price $1.19
If it is Shoes you want we sure can
please you in quality and prices. We
cannot give you all the prices on
Shoes for we have the largest stock
Gaffney.
You have attended sales and sales
in Gaffney, but we promise you in
| this sale real bargains.
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Don’t forjet the date of the sale. It begins Saturday and will continue until the first of the ^
year. We positively will not charge goods at these prices. I
THE W. C. CARPENTER COMPAQ
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