Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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T .-,T'"7T' T \i ! '.R TEN BILLION NEWSPAPERS. A KING HARNESSED A HORSE Ready'.l SPRING STYLES IN .HIGH ART CLOTHING m W is -i ■U AN AUTHORITATIVE DISPLAY FOR MEN. 'EVER before in the history of^this store have we shown such a large stock of High Art Clothing. For months we have been prt aring for this Opening Display and we have spai I no pains to make it an occasion worthy of the attention of every up-to-date dresser in this community. We show the product of America's largest organiza tion-clothing for men and young men modeled up on exclusive and advanced designs, and distinctly'expressive of the cleverest fashion ideals of .the moment. The Fabrics are assuredly striking and attractive, with every trait of refinement. The prices, as always, are decidedly lower than equal style, quality, fit and workman ship can be sold for elsewhere. OOPTflieHT wot.av •TROU8E A BROS, m \ I Company Store. GAFFNEY, S. C. / / ✓ / / l A / v' / t S’ ( • ♦ •• s t ■ ,*;• / ■ t s * ■ s k •' a’ / vV* k ■ s / ■j. / ■ a- 1 './. <. ./.• # • y.< / v- / vv*k s't s t sk- S't st s*■ s t ■ st• s?t- s t-s a FARMERS’ UNION NEWS ONE YEAR Formers’ Union Fertilizer Bulletin AND THE GAFFNEY LEDGER ONE YEAR ALL FOR $2.00 We are glad to announce that we have just made arrangements with the Farmers’ Union News, published at Union City, Ga., the National and Georgia headquarters of the Farmers’ Union, whereby we are enabled to make the above offer. HERE IS WHAT YOU GET: 52 copies of the FARMERS’ UNION NEWS, Edited by Hon. R. F. Duckworth, Georgia State President of the Farmers’ Union. In this publication you will find all official news of the Farmers’ >Union ; you will find strong and able editorials on current events ; you will also find au Agricultural and a Home-Talks Department. r . • A copy of the Fertilizer Bulletin, issued by the Farmers’ Union of Georgia. This tells you how to mix your fertilizers, also the anal ysis to use on.different soils, for the raising of different crops, as well as a great deal of other information. This bullecin alone, if carefully tlradied, is well worth the full amount of this offer. And you get THE GAFFNEY LEDGER twice a week, one full year, giving all the local and county news. : : : : 0 The recent post office ruling compels us to collect for subscriptions or discontinue the paper. We are willing to meet our subscribers more than half way, and we have there fore arranged for you the above extraordinary offer. This offer applies to both old and new subscriptions. Greater value for the money was never offered by a semi-weekly paper of this State. Now let’s all get together and send in our subscriptions and re newals at once, and you will never regret the investment. : : : : : ADDRESS THE GAFFNEY LEDGER GAFFNEY, S. C. That Was the Estimated Circulation For the Year 1907. Fac^ relating to newspapers and newspaper growth are presented In Appleton’s Magazine in an article on “The Newspaper as It Is,” written by General Charles II. Taylor of the Bos ton Globe. “Statistics of American newspapers, giving the number in each state,” says General Taylor, “were first compiled In 1810, when there was a total of 306 papers of all kinds in the country. Of these only 25 were dailies. 30 were serniweeklies, 15 triweeklies and 290 were weeklies. Of the 25 dailies six were published In New York, only one of which, the Evening Post survives under its original title. The latest available figures show that there were in the United States in 1907 a total of 21,535 newspapers, reviews and such, of which 2,415 were dailies, 16,288 weeklies, 2,655 monthlies and 177 quar terlies.” Other striking figures are those of total newspaper circulation. In 1900 this was 8,168,148,749. These figures showed an increase over 1890 of 74.5 per cent, while the increase between 1880 and 1890 was 126.4 per cent. Bas ing his conclusions upon these figures, General Taylor estimates that the to tal circulation of the newspapers of the country in 1907 was not less than 10,000,000,000 copies, while he places the income from sales and advertising at $200,000,000. Of the advance of the newspaper as a news conveying agent, General Tay lor says that there never was a time when a newspaper reader got so much for his money as now, and he illus trates the point by recalling that in 1851, w’hen America won the cup that has since become so famous, the New York and Boston papers printed only from 250 to 300 words about the event, and this a fortnight after it occurred, while at the present time the papers in these cities devote two or three pages to a cup race. Similarly in 1861 one telegraph op erator sent out all the press matter from the convention that nominated Lincoln, while at the present time a single company will have over 100 op erators employed at a national con vention. “Our papers are what the people make them,” gays General Taylor,- speaking of the quality of the matter presented. “The public decides what it wishes to read. The editors and publishers, trained in their business, gather their raw material and work it into the finished product—news—to meet the demand. Controllers of news papers are often criticised for what they print. “Journalists have a much heavier re sponsibility than any other business man. The idle, the self seeking, the untruthful, the vicious, beguile them at every hand to use the powerful en gine of the press to carry them a little way along their chosen road. The ed itor must watch ceaselessly for these unwelcome passengers and eject them on sight. He appreciates the respon sibility of his trust. He reaches his ideal ns nearly as he can and does far more for the morals of the community than he is usually given credit for.” The Gyroscope Principle. A practical application of this tend ency of rotating bodies to preserve the direction of their axes has been made in Germany to the compasses used on shipboard. The needle of the ordinary mariners’ compass is very sensitive. This has been necessary hitherto in or der that it should maintain its direction toward the north during the motion of the ship as it moves aWit in different directions. It has been found, however, that the rolling and vibration of a ship Interfered with the needle. If the waves were rolling high, the needle was apt to become unreliable because of its great sensitiveness to shocks. However, if when the needle was known to be in an undisturbed condi tion it is connected properly with a gy roscopic wheel kept continually in mo tion this wheel would hold the needle to its true positiou. The usual shocks on shipboard would have practically no effect. Experiments have been made abroad in this connection, especially with the Anschutz compass. The re sults of these experiments have been very favorable.—J. F. Springer in St Nicholas. The Mince Pie Peril. The lawyer for the defense: “I ask the sympathy of the court for my most unfortunate client When he commit ted this homicide he was the victim of circumstances over which Jie had no possible control. For six years he ate his meals at a boarding boose where the only dessert was mince pie. I am backed by humanity when I ask this man’s acquittal on the ground of pleo- manla I”—Cleveland Plain Dealer. Meanwhile Its Owner Sat by, Watching the Monarch Work. Much traveled people will testify that the most stupid people In the whole world are found in Mecklenburg, Germany. Natives of that district aro said to be even more dense than the inhabitants of the county of Wiltshire, England, and that is saying a good deal. The Inhabitants of both of these places will admit the impeachment, but they do not call it stupidity. They have another name for it. They have exalted it into a virtue and call it imperturbability.” In the United States if a country yokel didn’t know the way to a town fifteen miles away he would be aceoiiuted a fool. • But In Mecklenburg .the peasant one meets on the highways doesn’t know, has never been there and never wants to go. That is imperturbability. It is a mistake, however, to think that the country dullard never “scores,” as the king of Wurttemberg has discovered. Recently that royal individual went to shoot with the Grand Duke Adolphus of Mecklenburg. Accompanied by the grand duke’s eld est son, they drove in a luxurious me- tor car to the famous deer park at Neustrelitz. On the way they came upon a country tilt cart drawn at a snail’s pace along the narrow road by a white horse. P>rched on the seat were a peasant :.nd his good wife. The chauffeur blew his born, and much to the royal party’s surprise the horse began to prance briskly. As the peasant made no attempt to pull the horse and cart out of the road the chauffeur repeated the “honk, honk.” The horse reared and jumped about; but, strange to say, the peasant and his wife sat stolidly on the seat without any signs of excitement Fi nally the horse flopped over on its side and lay quite still. Immediately out Jumped the king, the grand duke and the son of the grand duke and came running up to the fallen horse. The grand duke made a dive at the horse’s head, his son grabbed the bridle, and the king nar rowly escaped serious injury in unfas tening the traces while the horse’s hind legs were working like flails. All this while the peasant and his good wife sat calmly on their seat and watched the royal trio perspire at their self im posed task. Finally after a great deal of pulling and coaxing the white horse scrambled to its feet and patiently sub mitted to being reharnessed by the three pairs of hands which probably never before bad done such humble work. When everything was in order again, the grand duke handed the peas ant a piece of money. “There, there, my good man,” he said. “It’s all right this time anyhow. Now you can tell your cronies that the grand duke and his son picked up your horse and the king of Wurttemberg helped them.”—Kansas City Star. Talking With the Dead. The idea of the possibility of spirit communication is of itself in nowise opposed to reasonable belief, but Is a matter to be decided by rigid exami nation alone. And yet in every age belief has swayed from pole to pole, according to the prevalent habit of thought Three hundred years ago this belief was solemnly upheld by the chief justice of England at a time when denial was considered evidence of demoniac possession. .Fifty years ago, when Darwin and Huxley imagin ed that they had pushed back the bor ders of the unknowable to the farthest point attainable, the still, small voice of Wallace appeared, crying in a wil derness of scoffs and jeers. Today, even within the last five years, the pendulum has swung distinctly back toward the original point again. And all the while science maintains her un alterable laws, and It is tbe minds of the scientists which alone are vacillat ing.—Charles Johnston in Harper’s. Muaic-mada Fat. They were talking about the mar velous soprano. “But how fat she is! What a pity that she is so fat!” “Dear madam.” said tbe music mas ter, “good singing makes everybody fat From Caruso down, all those singers whose method is correct take on fat amazingly. “But It is healthy, fat In fact, It is so solid that it might almost be called muscle. To sing properly, ns Caruso sings. Is, you see, one of tbe finest and wholesomest exercises that have ever been devised. This exercise deepens and widens the chest, enlarges the neck, arms, legs and, to a certain extent, the abdomen—In a word, it envelops the singer in a healthy, elastic, well aerat ed tissue that for want of a better word, we call fat “It isn’t fat, really, though it looks like It It is something finer, higher, nobler than fat”—New Orleans Times- Democrat. Illiteracy In France. Tbe world is so accustomed to re gard France as being in the vanguard of culture that it comes as a shock to learn that there is a higher percentage of Illiteracy there than In several other countries of Europe. This is tbe more striking because France has had com pulsory education for about a quarter of a century. Tbe most recently pub lished statistics show that of 24,000 con scripts summoned in tbe Seine contin gent in October, the section which in cludes Paris, 07 could neither read nor write, 92 could read only and 337 con Id scarcely be said to know how to read and write. At the present time the percentage of Illiterates in France Is forty per 1,000 men and sixty per 1,000 women. In this respect France compares unfavorably with Germany, which has only four illiterates per 1,000 of tbe population, and with Sweden, Denmark and Holland,, where the illit erates number from eight to forty-five per 1,000.—London Chronicle. Waking Up the Dead Sea. ‘If electric light and trolley cars, American labor saving machines and French luxuries excite no comment In Damascus,” says Dr. Paul Hiller In a Berlin paper, “why should there not be life on tbe shores of the Dead sea? That there will be I have no donbt Formerly tbe experts who came to this part of tbe Holy Land were men learned In the Bible and sacred his tory. To them an old Inscription or ax ancient manuscript was a great fte covery. They still go to tbe Holj Land, these students and dreamers, but another class of experts are also there now. They are looking for min eral deposits on the banks of the Deed sea. They are searching for material things. The Indications are that they will find enough to bring about a change, and the Dead sea district may possibly soon become very mnen alive.” 1 No More Dust While You Sweep A dry cleaner that will clean and re new a carpet without removing it from the floor. : : : Dustdown Is made in three grades: for mill, store and home The kind used on mill and store floors will not do on your home carpet. : : Dustdown In household size at 25c a package can be had only at Cherokee Drug Comp’y It will do what is claimed for it. Prize Winners. In The Carolina Mutual Contest. First prize: J. 0. Sparks, $50.00, No. written, 26. Second prize: J. R. Tolle- son, $25.00, No. written, 12. Third prize: J. G. Wright and Mrs. Lula Hand, $10.00, No. written, 1 each. CarolinaMutualBenefitAssociation Halt! Just stop and think one moment about your 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 will make a good impression where- ever seen bring your job printing of every des cription to us. We guarantee satisfac tion and can do work in a “hurry.’ 99 Ihe Ledger, Gaffney, S. C. Mail orders receive prompt attention.