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Ww * THE QAFFNEY LEDGER. Tuesday and Friday. Ed. H. DeCamp, Editor and Publiahar The Ledger is not responsible for toe views of correspondents. Watch your label and the date, And renew before 'tla too late; If, there be an error, don’t get mad, Report to os—we’ll make you glad. Remember, ’tie our aim to please, But errors are like pesky fleas— auditorium has been less than half filled. Some two months ago a con cert wag given which we feel safe to say could not be surpassed by any similar institution in this country. The program was varied, consisting of choruses sung by a collection of fifty well trained voices, violin music, compositions for two pianos, and songs and vocal duets. At this con cert was algo presented for the first time in public a composition by the director at Limestone, yet scarcely a score of people attended, outside the students, yet this concert compelled They will creep in in spite of fate, Therefore, watch your label and the! mention from one of the leading mus- date. —Original. CITY DIRECTORY. Officials. J. Q. Little Mayor H. L. Spears Mayor Pro Tern W. H. Ross City Clerk R. A. Jones Treasurer A. L. Hallman Health Officer T. H. Lockhart Chief Police J. B. Bell City Attorney Board Public works. A. N. Wood.. Chairman J. N. Lipscomb Treasurer W. H. Ross Secretary Board of Trade. W. C. Hamrick President J. C. Otts Secretary MUSIC IN GAFFNEY Has Gaffney a musical atmosphere? And, before we can answer this ques- Mm let us see just what is understood wfeen we use the generic title of “ah- ' uaosphere.” The word has beed) 4 abused and juggled around until it is regarded by many as a jest, but tbo fact remains that everybody with •susical affiliations has a very fair idea of exactly what is meant when •ae speaks of the “musical atmos phere" to be found in this or that •i*y, town, institution or home. There it little fear in our mind that when we say New York has more musical atmosphere than Gaffney, that any in telligent person will think that we are voierring to the number of concerts ang recitals given in that city as com pared with our own town. Also, the same reader will not miscontrue our remark into a slur upon Gaffney, for we know that in Limestone College we have a band of very devoted mu- eie-lovers who have studied and are teaching practically the whole range •f musical literature from the early ftreeb up to the present time. But tbi« in itself does not mean a musical atmosphere. In New York, whatever is considered worthy the dignity of public performance comes close to being of the best, or at least of high puality. In Gaffney, our band of earnest music-lovers referred to are leal periodicals of the country, un solicited except for the casual mail ing of a program to that magazine, which considered such a perform ance to be of too much importance to be overlooked. Soon Gaffney will have the oppor tunity to hear one of America’s lead ing exponents of musical art and pianistic ability, Mr. Edward Baxter Perry, and added to this privelege of his appearance here is to raise funds for the new pipe organ which Gaff ney and the college hag long needed, and which will probably make possi ble the holding of a spring music fes tival. Here indeed is a musical affair to which our people should lend their support. To hear one of our foremost pianists lecture and play, and to be aiding a splendid cause at the same time. Could there be greater incen tlve to give our attendance, our inter- *, our enthusiasm? Upon each one of us depends the reputation of music in Gaffney. It is a matter worth every earnest thinker's consideration. Gaffney, wake up! NOTES AND COMMENTS. endeavoring to set the highest possi ble standard—to give Gaffney people ike opportunity of hearing only what is best as compared with the music m New York and the cities of great est population, but this can be ac- ♦emplished in but one way and this ••e way is only by having the sin* •ere, earnest and constant support of all the intellectual inhabitants of Gaffney. In the faculty of Limestone Col lege are several musicians of unsur passed training and of no small ex perience. They are earnest workers who know only too well of the work required to attain a degree of of pro- •«iency which shall place them oe- w*»d the mediocre. To be sure, they ••ssess far less fame than that of Many virtuosi well known and Amer- *an Concert goers and music- lovers, bat their training and close applica tion coupled with their respect and devotion t© their art/ places in one’s midst a group of artists who are artists for art's sake,and who offer Gaffney an unusual musical up- lilting and who form the nucleus of a musical atmosphere. We under stand that this year will witness the graduation of four young South Car- •Una women from the music depart ment of the college. Students whose dnture career has been entrusted to these instructors implicitly by parents wbo knew whereof they acted in placing their daughters in Limestone. Bees this then not signify the exis tence of at least a small musical at- mpsphere in our town To send out lour well equipped young musicians into the musical world.—is this not In itself the evidence of serious mus ical work in our midst? Yet much of this work is done amidst great discouragements and severe taxing of patience. At many •f the concerts given when these students or the faculty interprets toe works of the greatest masters fbe world has known, the college Let every citizen of the town pull off his coat and give the new city council his loyal support when the council is inducted into office. No man is a good citizen who does not support the government of his city. • • • Now Senator Tillman wants the people of Washington to establish dis pensaries in the capital city. We thought there was enough graft al ready in Washington without giving them an additional machine for that purpose. • • • If the people who have been arrest ed in connection with the dispensary scandal are guilty, they are doubtless wish ing that they never had heard of the infernal system. As we stated last week, but for the dispensary these men might have remained hon ored citizens. • • • Although cotton is worth twelve cents on the Gaffney market, veiy lit tie of the staple is being offered for sale. It looks as if the farmers are determined to hold on to their cotton until it brings what they consider it is worth. Of course our sympathy is all with the farmer in this fight and we sincerely hope that he will win. because if he does it wil' mean that he can dictate the price himself, and not be forced to take the price that Wall street may put upon his product. • • • Judging from the complaints that are coming in from all sections of the county as to the condition of the pub lie roads, Cherokee county is about ready to vote bonds for the purpose of building good roads. The super visor with his few convicts is doing all he can to relieve the situation but what he can accomplish, compared with the needs of the situation is not a drop in the bucket. Road building is one of the biggest propositions with which we have to deal. A mi lion dollars looks like a big thing, but when it comes to building roads a million is "small jjotatoes and few in a hill." Grow Alfalfa and Get Rich. (Columbia State.) Mr. C. L. Newman, of Clemson College, has prepared a very exhaust ive report on the subject of Alfalfa or Lucerne, in which he sets forth clearly the great value of this crop, and describes in detail the methods which must be adopted for its suc cessful cultivation. The first re quisite for the profitable growing of the crop is the selection of a suit able soil. The plant thrives best in deep soils, well drained, that contain an abundance of lime, and before it can be cultivated with advantage the ground must be thoroughly prepar ed. Failures to grow Alfalfa in South Carolina, Mr. Newman says, is due more to Insufficient preparation of the soil than to all other causes com- )ined. The seed should be sown in the late summer or early fall, and ,f the plant be well inoculated wdth nitrogen gathering micro-organisms very little else will be necessary to obtain paying crops from the culti vation of the plant. Full directions, however, are given by Mr. Newman, as to the preparation of the soil, the manuring of the fields, the inocula tion of the plant, the treatment that it must receive in the first and sec ond years—it is said that the Alfalfa will be well established after the second year—and the cutting and curing of the hay. The principal use of Alfalfa, as probably everybody knows, is for hay, although it may be utilized with ad vantage as a pasturing plant, for soiling, for ensilage or for soil im provement. Only a limited quantity of Alfalfa hay has been placed on the South Carolina markets, but the prices have ranged above $20 a ton, and have gone as high as $25. As compared with other hays it is equal to the best. Under favorable condi tions the yield of Alfalfa is heavy, in some cases exceeding six tons the acre in one season. In 1904 the Coast I .and Experiment Sation at Charles ton reported six cuttings from seed planted three years previously. These six cuttings gave 60,341 pounds of green Alfalfa the. acre, which cured amounted to 81-5 tons of hay. “In the Southern part of the State" says Mr. Newman, “there are thous ands of acres of land differing in no essential particular from that on which this Alfalfa was grown. If the above results can be duplicated, and there appears to be no reason wh.. they should not be, there is no reason why they should not be, there is no crop that may be more profitably grown on the soil adjacent to Char leston and such soils throughout the lower coastal plain. At $20 per ton for the hay the income from the planting made in 1901 would be $130 per acre for one year; and, $30 would quite cover the cost of production and harvesting.” In the light of all the facts that have been presented by the agricul tural authorities, there does not ap pear to be any reason why Alfalfa should not be made one of the most profitable crops grown in South Caro lina. Enormous quantities of hay of inferior quality are brought into this State every year, and the money which is expended for this hay to the advantage of producers in other parts of the country might be kept at home to the profit of both farmer and mid dle man. A Surprising Mistake. (Tit-Bits.) A short time ago some members of the education committee visited a council school in a privinclal towm. It was “examination day," and the chairman of the committee, a large and pompous old gentleman, was pre sent. A reading class was called, and a bright little fellow rose, and in a mo notone drawled through a paragraph about a messacre in the time of Nero “Ah! um!” interrupted the chair man. “Will you please let that little boy read that verse againT’ The paragraph was given again pre cisely as before. "Ah! um!’’ exclaimed the wise man, smiling like a pleased chim panzee; “why do you pronounce that word ‘massa-ker’?’’ The youngster hung his head and made no reply. “It should be pronounced ‘massa- cree,’ ” continued the chairman be nignly. There was a painful silence for a moment; then the teache r meekly said: “Excuse me. Mr. Jones, but the fault is mine, i think, if that word is mispronounced. I have told the class to pronounce it ‘massaker.’ ” “I believe that Webster, who com piled the great diet! mary. favors that pronunciation." “Impossible, sir!” “Well, that Is a matter easily set tled. Here is a copy of Wtebster’s unabridged. Suppose we refer to it.” The education committee chairman seized the dictionary and hurriedly turned to the word. For a moment hig face was a study. Then he re moved his glasses, wiped them on a red silk handkerchief and, replaced them, said most solemnly; “I am perfectly astounded, sir, that Mr. Webster should have made such a mistake as that.” His parable. (Bystander.) An old darky, anxious to be a minis- Monthly Recognition. (Judge.) Mrs. Stiles van Brocklin, whose time was divided among her twelve women’s clubs and away from her children, took an off-day at Christ mas to visit a toy shop in the interest of her six offspring. Ix>aded down with her gaudy purchases, she had reached her front yard, where the children were making a snow-man, when an elegant equipage jingled up the curb and stopped. “Oh, Mrs van Brocklin!" cried a lady from the coach, “come with me to the Social Problem meeting.” Exclaiming that she had forgotten all about this meeting, the mother quickly approached the oldest of the children about the snow-man and pressed the toy packages in his arms. “Take these insides and distribute them among your brothers and sis ters,” she said, and the next moment she was whisked away in the friend’s coach. That night, when she returned home, she was struck by the surly and tear-stained faces of her children. “Put the dears right to bed,” she ordered the nurse, taking in the situa tion with the quickness and accuracy of the average club woman. “I can see they’re tired out and sleep after so much excitement with their new toys.” “It ain’t that, ma’am." returned the nurse. “You “I didn’t bring them just what each wanted, perhaps? Well, it’s hard to please s© many.” “It ain't that, either, mum; but you gave all the tovs to the hoy next door!” FOR SALE. FIELD PEAS at $2 23 per bushel as long as they last. Fred F. Pooser, Orangeburg, S. C. Jan. 15-3t-np. FOR SALE—One Studebaker phae ton and harness. A. N. Wtood. FOR SALE—One hone, one mule -GET- A Present. (Cleveland Plain Dealer.) In one of the small villages south of Cleveland is an old man who has all the David Harum gifts when it comes to trading, except that he runs to cows instead of to horses. Not long ago he had a cow that looked like a first-rate sort of an ani mal. and it was except for the fact that it didn’t give any milk. With that exception the cow wag all right The owner desired to sell the cow. One day a possible buyer said that he would come over and look at it. For the sake of putting the cow in a more favorable light the owner went out rnd bought a young calf which ue turned into the stall with it. He was getting along nicely with the possible buyer when a meddlesome neighbor across the way dropped in. “John.” says he, “that calf don’t belong to this cow. does it?" The owner wa s f urious at the thought of having his game spoiled. “Of course it belongs to her!" he burst forth, hotly, “i brought it in and gave :t to he r myself not an hour ago!" ter, went to be ordained, questioned thus; “Can you write?” “No, sah!” “Read?” “No, sah!” “How do you know about the Bi- k-i ble?" r “Ma niece reads it to me!” “Know about the Ten Command ments?” “No, sah!” “The Twenty-third Psalm?” “Nebber heard of him. sah!” “Know the Beatitudes?” “No, sah!” “Well, what part of the Bible do you like best?” “Par’bles, sah!” “Can you give us one?" “Deed, yes, sah.” “Let us have it, then.” “Once ’w'en the Queen of Sheba was gwine down to Jerusalem she fell among thieves. First they pass ed by on de oddah side, den dey come ovah an’ dey say unto her, ‘Fro down Jezebel!’ but she wouldn’t fro her down; and again dey say unto her ‘Fro down Jezebel!’ but she wouldn’t fro her down; and again dey say unto her for de fird and last time, for I ain t gwine to ax yo’ no mor’, ‘Fro down Jezebel!’ and dey fro’d her down for seventy times and seven, till de remains were ‘leven baskets: and I say unto you,’ whose wife was she at de resurrection?” He was! and one one-horse wagon. Prof. R. O. Sams. Dec. 31 tf. FOR SALE—Old newspapers this office. 10c a hundred. at FOR SALE—First-class babbit met Apply at Ledger Office. FOR RENT. TO RENT—Office rooms over The Ledger. Apply to Ed. H. DeCamp. Nov. 2, tf. Presence 0 f Mind. (San Francisco Chronicle.) When Eugene Cowles was a boy in Chicago he used to act in amateur theatricals, and he tells a good story of one of his young friends who ap peared with him. ‘His name was Littlehale,” says Cowles, “and in one of our shows he had to plunge into a river, pursued bv a wild beast. The river was invisible to the audience end we fixed it so that Littlehale should leap, disappear and strike a mattress In the wings, while a stage band should drop a big rock in a tub so ag to make a splash. The leap worked magnificently in rehearsal, but the night of the performance the stage hand forgot the mattress and the situation. “Heaven.” he shouted from below the stage, ‘the water's frozen!’ ” Breaking the News. ('apt. Pritchard of the Mauretania was talking about sailors, says an ex change. “Wte are a bluff lot." he said. “Did you ever hear about the sarn»r and the parrot? “Well, once ii|»oti a time an old la dy was returning from abroad with a parrot of which she was very fond. She entrusted the bird, with ad monitions. to a sailor for the voyage. '•SeH^ekners o r something killed the piivott the third day out. The sailor, knowing bow upset the old la dy would he, could not bring himself to tell he r the sad tidings, but asked ;t companion, famous for his skill In such matters, to break the bad news to her very, very gently. The man assented. “And approaching the old lady with a tragical face, the famous newsbreak- er touched his cap and said; “ T'm afraid that ’ere bird o’ youm j ain't going to live long, ma’am.’ “‘Oh, dear!’ exclaimed the old lady In alarm. ‘Why?’ “ ‘Cause he’s dead/ was the re ply ’ ” Willie wa s No Rose. (Baltimore Sun.) A teacher recently transferred to a public school in • Blast Baltimore tells the following incident which oc curred soon after she took charge: There was a boy pupil about 6 years old to whom water had appar ently not been applied for many days. His face and hands were begrimed and hig clothing had evidently not been changed for some weeks. In fact, the lack of cleanliness In the child caused the teacher to fear for its own health and that of its asso ciates. One afternoon in dismissing the school she called the child to her and said: * “Willie, when you go home please a»k your mother to give you a thorough bath and to put some clean clothes on you. Say to her that in your present condition you smell too bad to attend school.” Willie was promptly on hand the next morning, but his condition had not been in the least altered. Going up to the teacher he handed her a note signed by the mother, which read: “To the Teacher—Willie ain’t no rose. We didn’t send him to school to be smelt, we sent him to be learn ed." A Magnanimous Judge. (Youth’s Companion.) A notorious mountain moonshiner, familiarly known as Wild Bill, was recently tried before a federal court in Georgia, and was adjudged guilty. Before pronouncing sentence the judge lectured the prisoner on nls long criminal record, and at last, in forming him that the court entertain ing no feeling of anger toward him, but felt only unmlxed pity, sentenced him to spend six years in the federal prison at Atlanta. BUI stolidly shifted the quid of to bacco in his month and turned to leave the court room with the mar shal. Once outside, the only thing he said was this: “Well, i suah am glad he wa’n’t mad at me!” WANTED. WANTED—Those who wish to set tle • their accounts with me, call at Clary & Kirby's. J. B. Pettit. Jan. 20-24 pd. BRING your chickens, eggs, tet ter, country produce, green hides to Clary ft Kirby. Highest cash prices paid. NOTICE. Beginning next Tuesday, the 14th Inst, we will gin only three days s week. Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. Victor Cotton Oil Co. Jan. 10 tf. Fire Insurance! We reurehent stotuc o' the largest an<J luosthutistiinl'al •-ompanies and would like to write your busine*. 5-14-tf. Smith & Lips Tomb, Agent). KIPLING VS. HARVEY. I am informed by Teddy Taft that Kipling gets 25c for every word of his foolishness; and Hon. S. B. Crawley & Co. can sell eleven thousand, eleven hundred and eleven words of Harvey’s pemphoolishness for 50c. Looks demphoolish to me. W. L. HARVEY, The Author. Jan. 17-2mo. > Wofford’s n j j The Sure Cough Cure. This cough syrup has been sold by us exleu- sively for eight years. Every bottle is guaran teed to benefit or your money will be refund ed. Once you havq used it you will have no other, for it does what is claimed for it. Cherokee Companty No. 222 Gets Frei Guo TECHNICALLY EDUCATED iU K IN NI£1£DI2I> : The deaianti is far /rearer thau the supply Let the Internettenal Corres pondence Schools, of Scranton. Pe., pre- parevou Postal oil I brio/ information on 208i icourts. It’s free. 8-27-ly-op DR. W. K. GUNTEh I t tC Nt T I ts 'r JOhe in Star Theatre Building. Puonk No, 20. Crown mad brtdg* work a specialty. OSTOPATHIC PHYSICIANS. DRS. W- K. AND E. B- HALE. Montgomery-Crawford Bids., Spartanburg, B. C. Osteopathy-Applicable to all curable diseases. We give especial attention to diseases of women, nervous disor ders, all spinal affections. Honrs, by appointment to resuae busi- iness n new quartea over Post iffice in Baker fuildiug. A cor<al invi tation} extend ed to everyone to cal, regard less o whether work ? wanted at p>sent or not. Reien her the pee, over Post dfice; en trance street dispk case. JUNE H. (ARR, PHOTOGRAPlER. The Niw Shoe St>re. I am receiving 5w Shoes nearly every week arwill give you new, fresh stock the very lowest prices. Try | and be convinced. Yours to plej, I. M. P^ler. Pants! Odd Pants! For the next few days we will sell you a pair of well made Pants cheaper than you can buy the cloth. When you come to town cpme in and we will take pleasure in showing you. / Work Pants-V-Sunday Pants You can't help but buy them :at the prices we name. The Compaiy Store 'A