Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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V % j THK OAFFNIY LBDOCIt, TuMday and Friday. Id. H. DaCampi idltar and Fubllahar The Ledger la not reaponalble for tbe views of correspondents. Dfetcfc your label and the date, And renew before ’tls too late; If there be an error, don’t get mad. Report to tie—we’ll make you glad. Remember, ’tls our aim to pleaee, Bet errors are like pesky fleas— They will creep In in spite of fate, Therefore, watch your label and tbe 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 farmer In the county who Is situated so that he can do so will eater this competition, end In closing tills ar ticle we wish to say that the man who l.s always Imputing Improper motives to otrers Is in nine cases out of ten either a fool or knave, and is Is fre quently the case that he Is a mixture of both. PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS- Charley Martin, of Spartanburg, spent Saturday and Sunday at his old home In Orover, and yesterday in Gaffney. He will return to Spartan burg today. Fulton Sapoch and Grady Bettes, of Grover, were In the city yesterday. A. J. MlcCraw, Esq., of Grassy Pond, was In the city yesterday. Goodman (Tillman) Pridmore spent yesterday In the city. Hon. J. E. Clary was In the city yesterday. Charlie Baber, of Blacksburg, was In the city yesterday on business. John Allieon, of Grassy Pond, was in the city yesterday. W. Judson Sarratt, of Union, was in the city yesterday shaking hands with hL many friends. A. S. Hopper called on The Ledger yesterday. Ralph Carson, Esq., of Spartanburg, was In the city yesterday. mpupumpmamnaw borhood today. Wo welcome him back and trust that ‘little BUI” wtU pick up hia pen and five ua a good letter soon. Mre. Martha Macomoon la rising her brother, Mr. B. P. Miaoomaon, of Mercer, and other relatlvea. The many friends of Rev. A. D. Da vidson will regret to leam that he la lying very low with pneumonia. Mr. Davfpson was pastor at ML Ararat church for several yean and while serving that church the people learn ed to love him. We wish him a speedy recovery. Mr. George Pennington, of Laur ens, who has been visiting relatives bere for several days, returned home last Saturday. Last Sunday was the coldest day that we have had this winter The themometor was two degrees below freezing point and it remained at that point throughout the day. Mr. Jpe Raines’ children have been very sick, hut we are glad to report them Improving. Mr. Z. A. Robertson, of Gaffney, was a visitor In this neighborhood last week. “Zeb” is a good clever fellow and we trust that we will see big name announced for some of the offices In this year’s campaign. School Boy. Prompt Settlement. The Carolina Mutual Insurance Company of Gaffney paid to Mrs. Mattie L. Gibson the full amount of insurance carried in said company by her husband, Mr. R. F. Gibson, Ho,™ Am™. Blacksburg, „as .I'S ?. NOTES AND COMMENTS. It is unfortunate that so much bit terness .and rancor should be In dulged in at the hearing of the dis pensary scandal before Judge Pritch ard in Asheville. South Carolina has had so much unpleasant notorety already on account of the rascality vennected with the dispensary, that the once proud State has become a by -word away from home. It will iafce a century to'recover "from the dleg race caused by this incubus. here yesterday, John B. Brown, of Ravenna, was here yesterday. B. O. Turner was in the city yes terday. unusually prompt settlement, and Is a splendid advertisement for this com pany. DRYING THIN GLASSES. R. M. Roark spent Gaffney. yesterday In A Dealer Tells Why the Maid Breaks Them So Often. “Our maid certainly worked destruc tion on those sherry glasses, those del icate littie glasses,” said the customer to the dealer. “There were six. and she broke three inside of three months.” “Oil. yon got off easy, judging from G. W. LeMaster, of Wllblnsvllle, was here yesterday. Mayor Little went to Union yester day where he has a case In court. W. S. Price, of the Ezell section, | was in the city Saturday. . _ _ ’ . .. j the stories that come to us,” replied ; A. R. Johnson, from across the- . Broad. wa s a business visitor to the - . „ . . eitir Qntnrdnv Well. I see how it is,’ responded j ' 1 tlie customer. “I tried wiping a few Speaker Cannon, of the National wa^'n^the'dty 0 SatS?d?y tlef sect,0n ’ 1 « f Uieso glasses mysdf the other night, House of Representatives, has given T T HarrlR / of the MacedonIf , sec . •ut the statement that he will no tlon was here gatnrday . longer oppose the bill for the preser- „ . „ a „ F Senator Otts spent Saturday and Sunday at home. Dr. W. K. Gunter returned to the city Thursday after an absence of • • • ration of the forests. This means that the measure will become a law, as hut for the opposition of the speal> and the lirst thing I know I wiped tin* side right out of one. As the maids say. ‘Why, they break right in the towel!’” * “Now. if you would wait until they were nearly dry.” remarked ttie dealer, “you'd never break any at all. Take e-r the hill would have been enacted I several days. at the last session of Congress. We Rov . iL D Raney pald The Ledger eannot understand why a man of Speaker Cannon’s intelligence would oppose a measure which would he of *nch universal benefit. Any man who an appreciated call yesterday. Dr. Wm. Anderson, of-Blacksburg, was a visitor to the city yesterday. this cordial glass with the very thin stem. You naturally seize it by the foot and turn it while you wipe tin* bowl with the other hand. While the glass l.s wot the dish towel, gripped between two lingers, holds the bowl like a vise, and you just naturally twist the stem in two. But if you let the glass get nearly dry the towel slips, and the danger is over.” E. Hardin, of the Buffalo section, deliberately blocks legislation which was in the city yesterday. would he of such manifest benefllt to Magistrate Wbisonent was a husi- tbe whole country is not fit to bo! ness visitor to the city yesterday. President of the United States. * • • , to the city yesterday. Henry M. Flagler has practically Tlon. Howard B. Carlisle, State | clean. Of course you ought to have succeeded in doing what the paper | senator of Spartanburg county, was towels that you use only for glass all over the country said he would |^ n H 16 c Hj’ yesterday on business. ware. Towels that have been used on ■ever do, namely, building his sea- J. N. Cudd, of Sparanburg. was In dishes are likely to have grease on “Doesn’t that make streaked glass- E. R. Sapoch was a business visitor cs y' “No. not if the water and towels are polng railway across the Florida Keys Gaffney on business yesterday, to within six hours of Havanna. Mrs. Boyd Hames left yetsterday Kiight’s Key, the present end of the af, P:’noon for a visit to her sister, railway, Is within one hundred and ^ Pr,tch ard Shaw, In Char- tfteen miles of Cuba’s capital. Tt Is ’ Mr. Flagler’s purpose to have a ferry, Draytonville Dot». service installed within the next year Draytonville, Feb. 3.—The death that will carry the cars themselves, i !inRnl has visited our county and .. ,, ,/ .., j . , i taken away one of our best citizens, Oms- making it possible for the travel-j-\fRobert Gibson, of Limestone er to board a train In New York and go , Mills. Mr. Gibson was taken sick a to Havana without changing cars.! week aRo with that dreadful disease. r.neumonia. He was called away changing Truly Mr. Flagler has accomplished wonder In building a railroad across ♦he very bed of the ocean. • • • After deliberating for nearly twenty- •ve hours thcF'jury acquitted Harry Rendall Thaw of the charge of mur der, on the around that he was Irres- pcnsible wh« ho murdered Stanforrd "White. This verdict was no surprise to the country at large, and means the testimony which was adduced at the trial by the defense was eminent- from, this earth last Thursday morn ing and was burled at Oakland on the following day. He leaves a large family and many relatives and friends to mourn his death. Mr. Gibson said he wag ready to go to the other shore to rest under the shade of the trees with others whom had gone before him. His bereaved family has our deepest sympathy. Friend after friend departs, Who hag not lost a friend? There Is no union here of hearts That finds not here an end. Were this frail world our final rest, Living or dying none were blest. them, and grease is llu* great enem. of brilliancy in glas:.\. “Then can soap be i iho wa ter?” “Oh. yes. We use pure white soap with ours. The main point is to have the water hot enough. That helps with the drying, too, because when you take a glass out of very hot water and set It aside to drain It will dry Itself be fore you cau take a towel to it. Tis sue paper is good ns a polisher because usually it lias never touched grease Alcohol lias a reputation as a polisher, but its function is rather to clean. Cut up potatoes are good to shine up the. insides of pitchers and carafes.”—New York Post. ly proper. Thaw may have been Jealous of White, but If so he was In-. There is a world above, ttanely Jealous, and the Jury did the 1 Where parting ig unknown: proHw thing when they acquitted him. A Tr^ed for th? eon* If this trial had been held in South Carolina Instead of New York Mr. Jerome’s brutal treatment of Thaw’s wife would have been quite a factor In arriving at the acquittal of the de fendant. • • • We heard one of our good progrea- Formed for the good alone; And faith beholds the dying here Transplanted to that glarlous sphere. Messrs. W. L. Owenaby and Azer Parker, who have been visiting rel atives at Laurens, returned home last Thursday, accompanied by their un cle, Mr. George Pennington. Messrs. E. B. Spencer, O. H. and Modern Oiled Roads. It somewhat appears that our whole country Is soou to be made available through roads constructed by what some one has dubbed the petrolythlc process, says tbe Los Angeles Times, lu riding over a country road a few days ago a chauffeur was beard to re mark, “1 have driven over all kinds of roads, but that sausage machine roller beats down the best surface I ever traveled over.” Judging by the mileage now under construction by tbN process, it would appear that the gen era I public heartily Indorses the opin ion of the driver quoted. Cost of Good Roads. The commissioners of Chester couu ty. Pa., recently received bills from the Pennsylvania state highway de partment for improvements made on okee county, was simply an ad vertising scheme on tbe part of the bank to “catch” the farmers and get Last Friday the white flakes of snow began to fall and the people HEROIC LIFE SAVERS. Hard Life of the turfmen Who Patrol the Atlantic Coaet All through the night the surfraen are patrolling the lieacb at Monomoy. us they do from Quo.ldy Head to Ca|>e Florida, meeting lu the little shanty on a sand dune called Halfway House to tell one another the news of the hour and to exchange the numbered brass tags by which tbe captains may know that the watch has gone faith fully. to the end of bis poet. For ten months in the year tbe vigilance la not relaxed. During June and July the crews are rewarded for their year’s labor by the gift of a generous vaca tion—without pay. They may fish or farm or do what they will for a living. The captains then alt, each one alone, in the life saving stations, and if any ship is foolish enough to get wrecked at this time, when, according to the rules of Uncle Sam, there should be ucilher storm uor wreck, the nearest captnin picks up a scratch crew of fishermen and other longshore folk aud docs the best he can to save lives. Storms and wrecks do occur now and then in these periods, but they really should not. and therefore congress in its wisdom refuses to keep the life savers on duty. From the wisdom of congress there is no appeal. Truly there must lie all the fascina tion of a game in this serene and skill ful contest with raging death. It can not he the bait of wages that attracts these heroes to the service. The cap tains receive $800 a year and the surf- men $r>0 a month. During the two months of unpaid vacation they get $” apiece for each occasion of service. No, there is no money lure in this game. The service requires men of perfect health and strength. When ever the surgeon discovers surfman or captain to have fallen below perfect condition he Is incontinently put out, no matter how many years he may have spent In life saving. And there is no pension. Mr. Kimball, the superin tendent of the department, lias tried again and again to persuade congress to grant pensions to these men, hut congress in its wisdom has always said no. And from the wisdom of con gress there is no appeal.—W. O. Ingtis in Harper’s Magazine. THE MONEY QUESTION. An Inquisitive Youngster and an In genious Father. “Papa,” began Gunston Junior, “when the government of the United States began to coin gold and silver money It was necessary to buy the gold and silver, wasn’t it?” “Yes. my son,” replied Gunston sen lor rather cautiously. “Of course, papa.” resumed the youngster, “you’ll lie able to tell me where the government got the money to buy the gold and silver.” “Why—er—of course,” stammered Gunston senior ns he put down the pa per and gazed thoughtfully at the hoy “Now, let me understand you. The government wanted to coin money, and in order to do so It was necessary to purchase gold and silver. You want to know where the government got the money to buy the gold and silverV” “That’s right,” chuckled Gunston junior gleefully, and u great joy filled his being ns he thought of his all Im portant sire struggling with the simple question. “Why, sonny, the government slniplv issued dollar bills and bought gold and silver with them. Anything else?” “Yes,” said Gunston junior. “Where did the government get money to buy paper for the dollar bills?”—Harper’s Weekly. THE HORSE WON. FOR SALK. FOR SALE—6 shar* CS<F0>m BUfr A L. stock, i oil storo ssA 1 Sauijo with 24 brackets. J. 8. RoMaaoR. Feb. 44Sfi. FOR SALE—Jersey mllb L. Littlejohn. Jan. 28, 81, Feb. 4 pd. FOR SALE—One Studebaker ton and harness. A. N. Rtooi. FOR tALE—One hone, one aurie and one one-horse wssoe. PNC. R. O. Sams. Deg. u It FOR SALE—Old newspapers at this office. 10c a hundred. FOR SALE—Fifat-class babbit met 1 al. Apply at Ledger Office. FOR RENT. TO RENT—Office rooms Ledger. Apply to Bd. H. Nor. 2, tf. _ . _ . _ J. W. Whelchel went to Cherokee , wlt 5 , slve (nit) citizens Intimate the other Falla last Thursdav night to attend > cert!UU ro!ltls 111 various town d». Hint tb, offer of tbe Merchant. W O W. rnecting. bot they were «' !'» '“"r 3 :' V “!. . . , . disappointed. Thev thought that the town, $lo.008.31; bchuylkill, $28,80.1; and Planters Bank to give a prize of , meetings ^ere held every Thursday Valley, $11,000.33; Avondale borough, lift™ dollars for the largest yield of night—the usual time—-hut the time $7,f>00.04. These amounts cover the up-lrind corn on an acre In Cher- of meeting had been changed to the contract price, the extras, the inapec- first and fourth Thursday nights of tlon, the engineering' and surveying, each month. etc 8 t u te pays two-thirds of the Loti and His Mummies. L’lerre Loti, the French novelist, has obtained a new acquisition to his weird and wonderful collection of Egyptian mummies. It is that of a young prin cess with gilded face, almost as ex pressive under its mask as it must have been in life. This mummy, which is one of the best in the collection, ac centuates in his study “the smell that creeps from a winding sheet when a mummy is half unrolled.” Loti's griev ance is that Ids servants will not move or touch his mummies under any eir- eu instances. “Only think.” lie says, "not one of my servauis would touch this beauti ful young woman. They are so super stitious about the dead I had to carry her upstairs myself. And. would you believe me, as I reached the landing it suddenly (lashed through my mind that l was carrying a corpse. I seemed to feel the < hill of the dead breast pene trate my own.” Noticeable among the other embalm ed bodies of dead and gone Egyptians In Loti’s study is that of a little three- year-old girl who stares down with sightless eyes on her present owner as he sits writing his romances and plays in the still watches of the night.—Chi cago News. No “Off the Grass” Signs. In the early days of our park system the various squares about the city and Golden Gate park as well were plentifully decorated with “Keep Off the Grass” signs. It occurred to Frank Pixley one day to ask through these columns what better use could be made of grass than for children to frolic over it. Nobody, not even the park commis sion, could decently answer the ques tion. Then Mr. Pixley demanded that the signs be removed and the children of San Francisco be given leave to play on the grass to their hearts’ con tent. This, mind you, was twenty years ago, and has anybody noticed any lack of grass In Golden Gate park or even In our little parks in conse quence of the change? lu all these years there lias not been a “Keep Off the < Jrass” sign anywhere in San Francisco. Who can estimate the pleasure and the profit that have come not only to the childhood of San Francisco, but to all whose feet love to touch the velvet of growing turf, through tbe common sense and yet audacious energy of a good man over whose bead tbe grass has now long been green?—San Fran cisco Argonaut. WANTED. BRING your chickens, ter, country produce, gnt Clary A Kirby. Highest < paid. Beat the First Locomotive on the B. and O. Road. The first locomotive on the Baltimore and Ohio had sails attached. So did the ears. These sails were hoisted when the wind was In the right direc tion so as to help the locomotive. The rivalry Itetwcen the railroads using locomotives and those using horses was very bitter. In August. 1830, nu actual trial of speed was held between a horse and one of the pioneer locomotives, which did not result in favor of the locomotive. The race was on the Baltimore aud Ohio, the loconio tive being one built by Peter Cooper, who also acted as engineer. The horse, a gallant gray, was in the habit of pulling a car on a track par allel to that used by tbe locomotive At first the gray had the better of the race, but when he was a quarter of a mile ahead Mr. Cooper succeeded in getting up enough steam to pass the horse amid terrific applause. At that moment a band slipped from a pulley, and. “ihotigh Mr. Cooper laeer- ated his hands trying to replace it, tlfe engine stopped and the horse passed it and came in (lie winner.”—Van Nor- den Magazine. They Don’t Like Funerals. “If you want to know just how sensitive some Washington folks are. listen to the reasons some of our ten ants give for canceling their leases,” said a renting agent. “Here are the complaints from five families who want to move because they live on ‘fu neral streets.’ A lot of people, it seems, are sensitive about that. There are certain streets in town—those near churches where many funerals are held aud those leading to the various ceme teries—which are usually traveled by funeral parties. Houses in those streets are becoming a poor investment There is more* moving from those houses than from any others we have anything to do with, and generally the movers give ns the reason for their dis w. satisfaction the fact that the sight of so maty hearses gets on their nerves.” —Washington Star. LOST. LOST—Between McGulnn’s and postofflee, one boneh of keys. Finder will please leave nine at Led* ge r office. Feb.'* It ny. « NOTICE. Beginning next Tuesday, the 14th Inst., we will gin only three days a week. Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. Victor Cotton GO Oo. Jan. 10 tf. Fire Insurance! We reyrt sent sonte o' the. largest and raoslaubM ant'.&l companies and would like to write your bustnes. 5-14-tf. Smith & Lipscomb, Agents. to resume busi- iness in new quarters over Post Office ; in Baker Building, A cordial invi tation is extend ed to everyone to call, regard less of whether work is wanted at present or not. Remember the place, oher Post Office; en trance at street display case. expense, the county pnys one-sixth. their deposits. Well, suppose It Is. thought there would be a very large amI llu? to " nshlp pays oue slxth - an advertising scheme. Isn't It a per- c,T ’ nw W n K on the ground before It . .. _ . , . a i 1 <,to Phed snowing, but alas, the snow Automobit® Roads In Africa, fectly legitimate method of advertls- j n t 0 s i e et, and about dusk Under the direction of the central Ir.g? Suppose that by reason of this j that night the sleet changed to rain automobile department the work of offer a dozen farmers should enter and froze. Saturday morning it look- *0:1. tructlng special highways in the the competition (and the prize la at- P <1 winter had appeared with Its Kongo Free State has been carried ou tractive enough to Induce even a ro ” B L h weather. . 1 i0le than a yeur * sa - vs thl * Good « ... _ Air. J. iv» riiirYPTius* of Gafrney, pass* i> nuis WIiph comni&tfHl larger number to enter) every farmer Pd through this section last week sell- ‘ ^ ro ad 8 W n be UK^ for amom^v who enters the contest will be bene- 'rig feather beds. ' ‘ ™ . ^ -The land upon which he’ Mr. D. R. Parris went to Gaffney bile freight lines The longest and his com Will have Wn im to see his son. Mr. Rotny 'nosviniportan of the highways on his corn will have J >een1 ™* Parris who la lying very low with *blch work ls being pushed most rap- proved by bringing same up to a blffh' pneumonia. Idly Is that connecting the Kongo with slate of cultivation; besides Perry j We had a good prayer-meeting Sat- the Nile at Rejaf, a short distance Hill. L. F. Blanton, and other farm- lurda y night. The hour of meeting south of Gondkoro. Ara In this count? have demonstra^ has been changed from half-past six ■ — - ■ ..... 7 . . - . | . o’clock to seven o’clock. Remember Fred J. Tompson, of Roanoke, baa •d that It pays and pays big to plant j, 0 , Jr and come next Saturday sued Drs. Caneday and Stone for |10,- •nd cultivate corn on the intensive night and hear the good subjects 000 damages, because they adjudfad plan. Deep plowing In the aprlng, talked on by ^he speakers. him tnaane. plenty of fertilizer and Intelligent eul- BI lA, Parker 0,1 tl> ® s,cb T M J,—TTmiwtn » « J ... . “ * _ ’1st at this writing. J. H- Sheppard, of MllmUe, N. J? ttvatlon will do wonders on an acre Mp w. Whelchel, of Cherokee committed suicide because Ida family ef poor land. We hope that every .Falls, will move back to this neigh- wag'too big. fitted. grow* Modern Hindoo Women. Within five short years a great change has come over a section of the native population of Lahore. Children of na tive gentlemen can be seen being tak en out for au airing by ayahs morn ing and evening. Certain bold men have begun to take out their wives lu the evening for a drive in open vehi cles. A week ago we saw tbe daughter of a man of position walking with her father on the railway platform ut La hore. She was dressed In what seem ed like an English gown, had English shoes on and when her husband came up left her father and walked about with him. Her face was quite uncov ered. Lei those who have relatives In Lahore go there and see for them selves the state of things. They will sec wives going out shoulder to shoul der with their husbands In tbe even ings, having said goodby to old restric tions. A man who would dare relmpoae the old manners on his womankind would receive scant courtesy.—Punjab Jour nal. The Saragossans. It is said that the queer, composite race of people that dwell upon the waterlogged bulks of tbe Saragossa sea. In the mid-Atlantic, have a pretty theory about death. They bellev*? that those to whom the messenger comes when the sun Is shining brightly are transported straight away to a heaven of warm fresh water only four feet in depth. In which they may wade aud disport themselves to all eternity. On the other hand, those who receive the call of death in hours of darkness must needs endure a probationary pe riod before they can enter into the future life. The Saragossans are in addition firm believers In premoni tions, omens and foreordinations. JUNE H. CARR, PHOTOGRAPHER. —One 50c bottle Nature’s Cough Remedy will put an end to that cough; no cure, no pay. Gaffney Drag Co. 2 * w tf. TECHNICALLY EDUCATED M K IN IN E E I> t> I The demand is far greater than the supply. Let the Intomatlonal Corros- pondonoa Schools, ol So ronton. Po, pre pare you. Postal will bring Information on 308courses. It’s free. 8-27-ly-np DR. W. K. GUNTER 1> ED r* T I » X Office in Star Theatro Buildim* Phonk No. 20. Crown aaa brides work a nyeelalty. OSTOPATHIC PHYSICIANS. DRS. W< K. AND B. B. HALE* Montgomery-Crawford Bldg* Spartanburg, 8. 0. Osteopathy-Applicable to all curable diseases. Ws give especial attoatlon to diseases of women, nervous disor ders, all spinal affections. Honrs, by appointment Money Saved! When you patronize home industry, how about your Spring and Summer Clothes? We]cut aud make to meas ure, guarantee’s good fit and work manship Quality doesn’t mean high price. Call and see ns before baying your Spring Suit. Cleaning and , pressing neatly done. : : : : : Robertson & Gran fll W. Frederick St. The New Shoe Stc re. I ara receiving New Shoes nearly every week and will give you new, fresh stock at the very lowest prices. Try me and be convinced. Yours to please, I. M. Peeler. Ws do not do all klnda of printing -wo do tho GOOD kind. tuboorlbo fpr Tho Lodgor, |140 O KIPLINQ VB. HARVEY. I am Informed by Toddy Taft that Kipling gets 2ta for ovary word of Ml foolishness; and Hon. 8- B. Crawley A Co. can sell *leven thousand, eleven hundred and eleven words ol Harvey's Demphoollshneas tor Mo. Looks demphoollsh to mo. W. L. HARVBY, TkO Afltfcor. Jon. 17-2mo. )