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i yisw / / THK GAFFNEY LEDGER. Tuvttfiy and Friday. Ed. H. DaCamp, Editor and Fubl labor NOTES AND COMMENTS. It look* as If Mr. Parker’o last •tatement puts Senator Bleaae, of Nswbony, In a if lie found that he could not represent Mr. Lana- han, why did he accept the fee of $200? s • • Since the general assembly hat yoted to pay the members thereof two hundred dollar* per session, we predict that the session will not be •o long In the future, and the State will really save money by this law. SOS When the general assembly reoon- ▼enes on March the 4th to elect a United States senator to fill out the unexplred terms of Senator Latimer, the most graceful thing tfcey could do would be to e^ect some member of the *old guard.” General M. C. Butler and Judge Joshua H. Hudson have both been conspicuous for services to the State of South Carolina, and to elect either of them to the United States senate for the unexplred term would reflec* honor upon the State and would be appreciated by either of these gallant old Romans. • • • The Columbia State In H&Saturday Issue said: "Mioses Gooddln, color ed, was sentenced to two years In the court of general sessions yesterday." Now If the State has given a correct account of what happened to Moses Goodwin, the court has flagrantly vio lated the constitutional rights of the defendant when It says, "That no de fendant shall be subjected to cruel or unusual punishment” For a defend ant to be sentenced to two years In the court of general sessions is cer tainly unusual punishment, but It may not be apparent to those unac quainted with the court of general sessions that the punishment Is cruel. A service of two years In the peni tentiary Is a mere bagatelle—not to be compared with a like service in the court of general sessions, where the pleadings and trials of every grade of criminal Is ever before the mind of condemned man, weighing him down with a sense of desolation. If the State’s account Is correct a great wrong has bees perpetrated. • • • There appeared In our lest Issue a short ^rtlcle taking issue ,/Alth our friends of the postofflce force tor put ting off on unsophisticated purchas ers stamps which had been on hand from three to six months. Now any one knows that old stamps are just as good as new ones. A stamp which has been In the postofflce a year will carry a letter just as far and Just as quickly as one that has been there a lay or a week. Our intention In itlng the article was simply to lave a little fun out of the postofflce wee. We have received so many iqulrles, however, that we deem it liecessary to come forward with this itement. In the future If we write ay more articles of this character, will put at the bottom J. O. K. B. capital letters In order that peo ple may know that we are jesting and aot In earnest. Mr. Folger has Just aformed us that he has received a [right fresh consignment of stanfps, and that now he Is in a position to furnish fresh goods to all who may prefer them*. after an extended visit to friends and relatives in Lynchburg. Va, Legtnr ton, Spencer and Salisbury, N. 0. Capt. Homer Jones, one of the most popular conductors on the Southern, Is In attendance upon ♦hu term of court Detective LaFar, of .the Southern, Is In attendance upon this term of court Misses Bthelyne Wilkins and Ma mie Gaston left Gaffney last night for Baltimore and other eastern cities. Mrs. R. l. McGee and son and Mrs. Emma Johnston, of Greenville, are visiting relatives In the city. department, PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS. J A B. Austell, of Blacksburg, was to iey on business Saturday. I. A. Durham, of the Antioch sec- i, was in town Saturday. ^R. S. Spencer, of Lawn, one of ckee's sterling farmers, was here irday. ink McLuney, a successful young from the eastern side of the r. was In town Saturday, and Mrs. R. B. Lavell. of At- |re In the city visiting the fam- iaster Folger. le Rhelnhart, one of fs charming belles, was to 17. Hopkins, who was well iey as stenographer .Contracting Co., who same company to Bsturday and Sun- r, a student of at home for a Ledger staff, a visit to Wynn es strictly was to iburg, r, was Sunday School convention. The following Is the programme of the Sunday School convention of the Broad River Association to be held with the State Line church March 28-29, 1908: Saturday 10:30 a. m. Song and praise service. 11. Reports from school and en rollment of delegates. 11:30. Organization. 12. Report on home Mrs. Mary Clary. Dinner. 1:15. "The home and the Sunday school,” Rev. T. H. Harrison and Ed Clary. Report on primary work, Mrs. Bes sie Shuford. Report on Phllathan work. Miss Marie Turner. "The teacher’s help and preparar tlon,” T. W. Kirby, T. G. Chalk and Rev. J. D. Bailey. Miscellaneous business and question box. Sabbath. 10 a. m. Song and devotional ex ercise. 10:30. Study of the lesson for April 5-12. "The Good Shepherd,” Jno. 10 IxlS. Report on Baraca Work, Miss Ray Macomson. "The Sunday school as a soul-saving agency,” K. D. Edwards and Rev. J. W. Guy. "The Suflday school a training agency for young Christians,” Rev. G. p. Hamrick and Rev. W. T. Thomp son. Annual offering for the work. Dinner. “The Sunday school and missions,” R. O. Sams and Rev. B. L. Hobe. Report of committees. Music during the meeting to be fur nished by the State Line, Paran, Ararat and Providence singers. A. M. Simms, W. T. Thompson, For the Committee. Spool Making Timber. Small things are not be overlooked in considering the problems of the future timber supply. The match maker Is having as much trouble to getting the grade of wood necessary for his business as the dealer in tele graph poles. One of the Industries which deals with small things, yet, which Is one of the utmost Importance to the country's commosce, Is the manufact ure and exportflf spool wood. This business Is peculiar to the New Eng land States, and Is centered to Maine. Spool factories of this State are now turning out eight hundred million spools annually, with a market value of nearly $1,000,000. The best quality of timber is used for the manufacture of spools. White birch, which Is used almost exclusive ly for this Industry, reaches the fact- ory In the form of bars from 1-2 to 2-9-16 Inches square and from 21-2 to 4 feet long. These bars must be ab solutely clear. The birch Is cut to winter and sawed to small portable mills which operate near some rail road line, about 21-8 cords being re quired for 1,000 feet of bars. After sewing, the bars are pile'll criss-cross, in order to facilitate thorough season ing, and protected from the weather, are allowed to season until June. The spool bar mills In Maine turn out about fifteen million feet of bars during the year and approximately the same amount of material Is manu factured Into spools to the State. The machines for making spools are complicated and require skilled men for their operation. Hie spools drop from the lathe at the rate of one per second and must be perfect ly uniform and true. The finished spools are marketed to this country largely to Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York and New Jersey, while the spool bars are largely exported to Greenock and Glasgow, Scotland, and to Hull and Fleetwood, England. Shipments to these points are made mostly from Bangor, as much as eight' million feet having been sent from that port In a season. TldERS OF INDIA. These That Kill Men Are ae Scarce ae Human Murderers. la a recent lecture at the Society of Arts, in I-ondon. Reginald Gilbert, F. Z. S., proposed tbat In future the gov ernment rewards in India should be paid for killing man eating tigers only and not for killing tigers. J. D. Rees in a letter to the London Times says: "I have twice brought this matter be fore the house of commons, asking tbat Inquiry should be made Into the indis criminate offer of rewards by the gov ernment of India and by local govern ments in India. Tigers may be rough ly divided into three classes, the deer stalker, the cattle lifter and the man eater, the latter being no more com mon among tigers than murderers among men. and all of them in tbelr degree keep down the head of deer and droves of wild pigs, which destroy the crops of the cultivators. They operate only on the margin of cultivation, for tigers, though the fact Is not generally known, do not walk about the streets In India seeking whom they may de vour, as lions actually do In parts of Africa. The only tiger I ever knew that acted in this manner was discover ed after his death to have been suffer ing from some abnormal pressure of the brain, so that he was not account able for his actions. “It may be taken as an Invariable rule that tigers live Just where cultiva tion presses up to the forest edge, where they are the best friends of the cultivators, whose crops are devastated wholesale in such situations. There is no difficulty whatever in confining the reward to man eaters, as the tiger is a personage everywhere well known not only to the monkeys and the birds, who announce his movements from the tops of the trees, but to the villagers them selves, who can discriminate perfectly well and can Inform any sportsman who wants to know which animals are their rare enemies among the many who are their frequent friends. "Tigers are not vegetarians; neither are we, and if we are monogamous so are they, unlike the Kulln Brahmans of Bengal, and when more than two tigers are seen together the sportsman may conclude that be is Intruding upon a family party. The deerstalker is a gentleman sportsman whose life is spent in well doing, for he kills the deer that eat the crops, that feed the cultivator, who pays the land tax, which keeps up the Indian empire. Cattle lifters no doubt have much of the poacher in their composition, but they generally only prey upon the fee bler or less valuable members of n herd, and the villagers are willing that they should take toll in recognition of the good they do in destroying the crop destroyers. A herd together can re pulse a tiger, and only stragglers, calves or weaklings fall victims. “Man eaters are responsible for quite a small number of the deaths from wild animals in India, and, as the truth should be told regardless of the feel ings of party politicians, they are gen erally females. This is confirmed by Mr. Sydekhar in hkf recent work, though 1 would join issue with him when be lays it down tbat tigers can not climb. I know for a fact that they possess this accomplishment. But the point Is that they should not bs exter minated wholesale.” SIMPLE WASH CURES ECZMA- Itching, Burning skin Disease Routed Without Use of injurious Drugs. Great Inventors often have been praised for surrendfrtog the secrets of their discoveries. Practically the same thine happened In the medical world In tne case of Dr. Decatur D. Dennis, the eminent sbin specialist of Chicago. Dr. Dennis, In his own office prac tice, discovered that phre yj^getable 'oil of wtotergreen, properly mixed with other simple remedies was practically a sure specific for Eczema, I psoriasis, barber’s Itch, salt rheum and other Itching skin diseases. But the oil of wtotergreen alone was found Ineffective. It required other mild Ingredients such as glycerine and thymol compounded with the wtotergreen to produce the real ; eczema cure. This compounded D. D. D. Prescrip tion positively takes away the Itch at once—the instant It Is applied to the skin. This vegetable liquid does away with deleterious drugs so long used to an attempt to doctor the blood, whereas modern science has deter mined that eczema Is first and all the time a akin disease. If you want to know more about the merits of D. D. D. Prescription, call at our store. We vouch for this re medy. Gaffney Drug Co., Gaffney, 1. C. Circus of Ants. iau Is bringing to America a trained ants. The Insects [lersaults, make pyramids, and fence. A Queer Mlxup. The Neue FreJe Presse (Vienna) cor respondent at Innsbruck writes: “A crime with a funny end was perpetrat ed near this place a few days ago. A postal officer who was out shooting at Zirl lost a case containing two valu able guns. He suspected a young cut- Iw’s assistant who acted as a driver. The man’s home to Mtttenwald, across the Bavarian line, was searched, the guns v. ere found there, and the man was arrested, tried and found guilty. After all this the Austrian official asked to have his gnns returned, but was told tbat this could not be done. The thief bad smuggled them across the line, and, having been taken, they became the property of the govern ment. The postal officer Is suing for the return of bis property, but has been told tbat even If he should re cover them he would have to pay a high tax to the Austrian customs au thorities to get them across the bor der. Both ways he loses, and the poor Instruinentenmachergehilfe — the man who appropriated them—Is In jail.” Icicles Instead of Music. A St Petersburg letter In the Oester- relchlsche Wochenschrlft contains this story: "We were to have ‘Nero’ at the Ocbtaer theater, and the house was well filled by people who waited to hear the opera. The curtain time had long passed when the audience began to manifest its displeasure at the delay by making much noise of all kinds. At last the curtain went^up. and the manager came forward and said that the stage was so cold that the singers were afraid to appear. ’There would be.’ he said, ‘only Icicles Instead of music.’ Then he pointed to the back of the stage, where there was the best evidence of the north pole temperature in the form of real ice and snow. The audience sympathized with the frost bitten manager and his frozen com pany, but not to the extent of allowing them to keep the ticket money with which to buy warmth and comfort. Under threats to make it warm for the cold company their money was re funded.” S0AG ON ROADS. Us* Old Imtsrial and Spread It In Layers, e^ays Highway Expert. After a banquet which followed the first annual sucker of the North Tona- wanda (N. Y.) board of trade Dr. D. Ward King of Maitland, Mo., delivered an interesting address on Niagara county roads, say$ the Buffalo Ex press. ^ “While the idea prevails In the cities of New York state,” said Mr. King, "that mud roads are mostly all in the west, it Is well to mention the fact that New York state has 73,000 miles of roads, 5,000 miles of vthlch are im proved. The mud road has been n problem ever since transportation be gan. It is generally admitted by road builders in this state (New York) and the United States that with the split log drag system the difficulty is re moved.” Dr. King criticised the officials for making good roads and then giving the roads but little attentiou. He said that roads should be Improved and kept constantly in repair. He advised the North Touawanda officials to get a crusher and use it In slagging streets in the city. He recommended the use of old slag only as the new slag from the iron furnace Is too soft The slag must be put on in layers, and each layer must be rolled Instead of putting the slag on from a foot to two feet deep and then rolling it. The present system, be asserted, makes a short life road. All slag should be screened, he said, and all coarse slag should go as the bottom layer. Retain Competent Road Officiale. It Is asserted that one of the princi pal causes for the poor construction of roads is that the tenure of office of highway commissioners Is uncertain and that In most cases the office goes to the candidate who can secure the most votes. Politics, as we have often said, should In nowise be a factor when It comes to building roads or paving streets, says the Good Roads Maga zine. Improved road building is a new art, and a competent road builder, like a poet. Is born, not made, and when bis worth has been proved be should be kept In the office as long as he is efficient and keeps up with the march of progress In his line of work. So long as the office of highway commis sioner is elective the voters of a town ship should see that the best man is put in the office and then re-elected. Much has lately been sakl in regard to making the office of highway commis sioner appointive and strictly under civil service rules. Much can be said In favor of this plan, but until laws are changed competent officials should be retained. ij 4! Reward For Macadam Road. Marquette county, Mich., will re ceive $3,815 from the state as a re ward fqr the construction of a mac adam road this year between Negaw- nee and Marquette. A California County's Good Work. Los Angeles county, OaL, it Is report- ad, appropriated for road Improve- ments last year the sum of $871,898.88, thus leading all tbs otbsr coroties of ti» stets. Protecting the Vicuna. Stops are being taken In Pern to pre vent the valuable Vienna from being exterminated. This mountain animal Is hunted for Its wool and tor the Mass, s rag made from one being worth $16 to $50. In consequence of being so persistently bunted the ani mals migrate to the higher altitudes, where many of them perish because vssMatlon is so scaree.. . SOME STATE! REGARDING NEW THEORY Followers of Cooper anq His Novel Qfve Reason for Their Belief in Him. )ld newspapers at hhundred. A Short Nam*. It is generally admitted that yon can’t beat the Dutch for lengthy names, but when it comes to brevity New York takes the palm. A grocer on- lower Fulton street Brooklyn, rigns hlmwlf laconically “A1 Re.” That Is as brief a signature as one could find In a good day’s travel —New York Sun. STATEMENT OF CONDITION —of— Tbe National ~ ' ' Gaffney GAFFNEY, t. C. at the oloce of businees Pcb. 14, HOG RESOURCES. Loan* and Discount* .|I5Z,910 57 Overdrafts, secured and unsecured 4,898 M U. 8. Bonds to secure circulation.. 12,500 00 Bonds, securities, etc 11,324 50 Banking House, Furniture and Fixtures 26,332 88 Other real estate 7,325 0$ Due from National Banka (not reserve agents) 7,047 23 Due from State Banks and Bankers 347 28 Du* from approved re serve agents 6,418 62 Checks and other cash items 1.029 41 Exchanges for Clearing House 910 00 Notes of other National Banks 8,800 00 Fractional paper currency nickels and cents 882 42 Specie 15.924 25 Legal-tender notes 10,000 00 52,169 45 Beaempilon fund with U. S. Treasurer (5 per cent of circulation 625 00 Total.. (268,170 85 LIABILITIES. Capital Stock paid in $ 50,000 00 Surplus Fund 10,000 00 Undivided Profits, less expenses and taxes paid 36,302 38 National Bank notes outstanding.. 12,500 00 Due to other National Banks 264 11 Due to State Banks and Bankers 3,840 K Due to Trust Companies and Savings Banks, 9,988 60 Dividends Unpaid 10 00 Individual deposits sub ject to check 138,184 60 Time certificates oi de posit 6,942 01 Cashier’s checks out standing 188 80 150,888 47 Total 1388,170 « Stela <X Booth Carolina. County of Cherokee. 1. Maynard Smyth. Cashier of the above named bank, do solemnly swear that the above statement is true, to tbe best of ay knowledge and belief.! Maynard Smtth, Cashier. Subscribed and sworn to before me this the 84th day of Febrnarr, 1904. J. O. Jarre a ibs, (L. S.| Notary Public. Oorbbot—Attest: . „ R. M. Wilkins, B. L. Hamss, iSF T-’J „ i*i*l D. O. Ross, n.^mm Directors. With a theory that human health ii lerondent on the stomach and with m dicine which he says proves th! theory, L. T. Cooper, a comparative! young man, has built up an immen following during tho past year. Cooper has visited most of the lea ing cit ies of the country, and in eac city has aroused a storm of dlscussic about his' beliefs and his medicine. Wherever he has gone, people ha ) called upon him by tens of thousant , and his, preparation has sold in lr- mense quantities. The sale of this medicine has no r spread over the entire country, and t growing enormously each day. In vie r of this, the following statements from two of tile great number of followed which he now has, are of general in terest Mrs. Agnes Viggenhouser, of 942 St Louis Avenue, Chicago, has the follow ing to say on the subject of the Cooper preparations: "For more than ten years I was broken down in health. I could not sleep and I was very ner' vous. Gradually I began to lose my memory, until I could not remember things from one day to another. I had severe pains and cramps in my body, and'I would at times see dark spots before my eyes. I was unable to do any work whatever, as my strength was failing. I had no appetite, nor could I take any medicine. "I had about given np hope of ever being well again when. I read of Mr, clair per s remedies. I decided to gtv* ttiem a trial, and I began to feel better atl°nce. After taking the medicine tor t^o weeks I can say that I am a new wa m an. I can eat with enjoyment, tha pajns in my body have left me, and! vrul stronse r than I have been toft y“rs. p ' r cannot say enough for Mr. Coc.per’B remedies. They are wondeS » for they have done everything ed for them in my case.” other statement. by Mr W to art, 109 W. Madison St, ChlcagOL i follows: “i have had stomacS j :° r years » and anyone who is - this way knows what an awful ,^ng it causes. Many S time! have felt that I would give most any Irice to be cured. It was by •» that I heard of thf* m.ft l remedies. I my mind to buy a treatment! I used it for about two weekft i impossible to tell how much has done me. I feel altogethlf I have more life and < ye had for years. This inly does stimulate n the whole system. Til and weak condition of thG; has entirely passed away, II again.” ill Cooper’s celebrated medl4 ich have made this wonderfslj n all parts of the souetrJV affn^y Drug Co, ' clde: Coo made] of h and good differ than iclne stren L feellni stoma feel wi We cines record CAROLINl MUTUAL BENEFIT ASSN. .] ■ I Dear Sir:- j GaFPNEY, S. C.. February 15. 1908. ,, ° ur ff F*Jze offer ° f January was sLch a success tb^ we have (ledd d another offer that will make tt worth while for any one t, spend son if not n ] his time in working for n- tne next few fciontks. * On the 15th of Match, April and Jjay respectively, we will ive t o the person bringing in the greatest number of men bers during the Receding month | 5 o.S> • to the one bringing in the next greatest m mber, #25.00; adj to th( f t ” addition to this, on June 15th, we will g ive to the person * riti the ’ r f ate3t Q “ ber during the whole four months, #200 00. In order thit eve p one mav well compensated for his time, even should he not receive a frze, we will allow a com mission of $1.00 for every member accepted by the Ass )ciation mberi t divisions counting as two members. This commission v jji be pa j d at , . each month’s contest. i ^ • C OTe * No one is excluded from this offer and the only conditii I. Policies MUST BE PAID FOR!IN CASH WHE. APPLICANT IS HANDED IN TO THE HOME OFF! returned to any person rejected by the Association. II. Commissions must not be given 1 0 applicant. If it is giving his commissions off, he or she will be debarred fi III. The applicant MUST sign a cer ificate signifying shall be credited, which certificate shal be delivered to tl forwarded to the Home Office with appnfei8;wrirr'T??ffir will not be accepted. You have nothing to lose—you have much to gain—so insurance can be found, besides keeping the money for If there is anything you do not understand, come to we will take pleasure in explaining^same. We will appointl medicaTexaminers to reach of every one entering the contest, but it is requested! that all who can come to the Home office for examination, ] ’ Do not delay one moment for every minute counts. Winnfers of prizes and num bers will be published only at the close of each month’s^ontest but during the last month of the final contest numbers will be publish'd in each issue of The Ledger and Cherokee News. With best wishes for your success, we remain, v Very truly yours, CMBA—MF CAROLINA MUTUAL BENEFIT ASSOCIATION. is are these: THE NAME OF THE The money will be proved that any person. 1 competition, whom his membership medical examiner to be filed at any other time [ today. No safer or safer circulating at home, us or write at once 1 Watches! 1 A 20 year gold filled case with 11 jeweled movement for $7.50; « only a few left—a sure bargain. We will make you some special # prices on Watches, Diamonds, Jewelry, Silverware, China end Cut Glass. Now is thj time to get some good values] Let us have your watches am fix them right. Every wee* we find some watch that has befn FIXED AT, yet NOT FIXED. We guarantee our work and stand by our guarantee. Give us a call. Garni Jewelry Co. \J. K. GUNTER JEN TIST Jtar Theatre Building. L’honb No. 20. Halt! Just stop and think one moment about yonr 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 irill make a good impression when ever seen bring your job printing of every des cription to u». We guarantee satisfac tion and can do work in a “hurry. 1 > 1 ff The Letger, Gaffney, S. C. * tfV’Mail orders receive prompt attention. W '■ ■ m FOR ALL COUNTY NBWt» |» m fortant HAPPENINGi in TNflK •TATE AND EVENTS OP INTER EST IN FOREIGN LAND*, TAKE ANO READ THE LEDGEIL hi