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.v' THE GAFFNEY LEDGER. Tuesday and Friday. Ed. h. oaCamp. Editor and Publlahor CITY DIRECTORY. Officials. W. H- Ross Mayor W. O. Johnson .. .. Mayor Pro Tem Geo. B. Hood City Clerk T. H- Littlejohn Treasurer T. H- Lockhart Chief Police A. L. Hallman Health Officer Butler & Osborne .. .. City Attys. Board of public works. A. N. Wood Chairman J. N. Lipscomb Treasurer B. G. Clary Secretary Board of Trade. W. C. Hamrick President J. C. Otts.. Secretary MARKET REPORT. LOCAL COTTON MARKET. Middling —'• 10.40 UeD> 35c to 40c fry? ...20c to 30c Docks. 20c Cars i7Hc Butter 15c Sweet Potatoes, bushel. $1,50 Irlsb Potatoes, bushel $1.40 Turuips,bushel 1 00 Corn, bushel 95c Meal, bushel 95c Oats, feed, bushel 80c Oats, seed, bushel 85c to $1.00 Peas, clay, bushel $2.25 Peas, white, bushel $3.00 Onions, bushel $1.40 Strawberries, quart. 10c permitted to caat votes for his choice \ as follows: A two months subscription en titles the subscriber to 25 rotes; a four months subscription to 50 rote-; a 8 ix months subscription to 73 rotes; nn eight months subscription to 100 votes, and a yearly subscription to 150 rotes. Now if you appreciate the service your R. F. D. carrier is gir* ing you, clip out the coupon and be gin voting. Vote early and often and gire your carrier a nice, new up-to-date de livery wagon. In case of a tie the parties tieing will each receive a wagon. The contest begins with this issue. Mail all votes to The Ledger, Gaffney, S. C. rlble consequences of the views of the president are most vividly set forth in the marriage of his daughter to a negro, her dementia and the death of her father, if Mr. Durham’s purpose was to show this danger, he has succeeded most admirably, and the book should be read by every mature mind in the country. The work is strong, very strong, and will live long after the gifted author has passed away. WHO 13 HE? What we want to know is: Who is the most popular R. F. D. carrier in Cherofcee county?. The Ledger is go ing to give everybody a chance to vote on the subject, and to the one who is voted the most popular we are going to present a handsome, up- to-date R. F. D. mail wagon. To the one receiving the second largest vote we will give a solid gold watch and to the carrier receiving the third largest vote we will give a carrier’s uniform. The conditions of the contest are sin|ple. Cut out the coupons printed in each issue of The Ledger and mail or send them to this office. At the expiration of the time set for the closing of the contest the votes will be counted and the awards made to the carriers receiving the largest number of votes. In addition to the above, every per son subscribing or renewing will be THE CALL OF THE SOUTH. In “The Call of the South,” Robert Lee Durham has written the most unique book of the decade. To the thinking people of this county it pre sents a theme of the most absorbing interest, because they are aware that the awful picture which he has paint ed is as true as heaven. The people of the North, on the other "hand, who agree with the views as enunciated by President Phillips, will say that It is as false as hell. Some years ago when the president of the United States entertained a negro at lunch eon we shuddered at the thought that some likely young negro would be liable to propose marriage to his daughter. Doubtless the same thought entered the mind of the brilliant young author, and inspired the writ ing of the publication under discus sion. We wish that every man and woman in the North who believe in social equality would read the book, and realize as we do the awful conse quences of the amalgamation of the white and negro races. The word awful is the only word which fitly characterizes the consequences of this amalgamation. The gifted young author fully sets forth these dangers in the speech of Senator Rutledge before the senate of the United States, and no intelli gent man can read the speech with out being convinced by its forcible reasoning and sound logic. The ter- 8HOP TALK. When the subscription price of The Ledger was advanced from $1.00 to $150 on January 1st we promised that an effort would be made to improve The Ledger proportionately. We are confident no other county paper gives its readers so much for the money as does The Ledger already, but we are not content and are going to give them still more. With this issue we print the first installment of that facinating serial, “The Man of the Hour.” This is divided into eighteen chapters, four of which are printed in this Is sue. The remaining installments will be printed in our Friday’s Issue until the story is complete. It will take about seven weeks to complete it. For the sum of 25 cents you will be able to read this absorbing story, together with all the local, county and State news. Just think of it! Were you to go to a bookstore to buy “The Man of the Hour’’ it would cost you $1.50, and you would only get the story. In this way we give you the story and all the local features of The Ledger for 25 cents. One word more about the price of The Ledger. Wlhen we began print ing The Ledger as a semi-weebly at $1.00 a year we were buying white paper at $1.90; today white paper is selling above $3.00. In addition to the increased cost of paper we are paying twice as much for labor now as we did then, w r hile rent is almost three times as much. Cotton was then selling at 7c, now it is bringing 11 l-2c; cord wood was then selling at $1.50 while today it sells at $3.00. Everything has advanced in price and it is utterly impossible for a man to !print a paper as cheap today as he did six or eight years ago. With us it means one of three things, viz: We must either have $1.30 for the paper, print the paper once a week, or sue- perd publication entirely. The latter we have no idea of doing. We have given the people of Cherokee the best service of which we are capable at a minimum price. We have conscien tiously striven to give them the worth of their money at all times. We have given them a paper that has arrested the attention and commanded the res pect of the people the State and we have done it at a minimum of cost to its subscribers. We can say with frankness that The Ledger, as a news paper, has never made money. We have always striven to spend all the income of the paper in making it better. We do not say the printing office has never made money, but that the paper has never made any. The printing office has done fairly well in; a financial way and we boast that we have a job printing business that reaches from Buffalo, N. Y., to Mexico City, Mexico. Besides, we have another publication—Grit and Steel— which circulates into every English speaking country on the globe. It is only because the job printing depart ment has made the publisher a living that he has been able to continue to the State. Keep feeding them boys, there is nothisg that helps on fa town more than good hotels. • • • It was our Mr. Bell’s pleasure to visit the Grand Lodge of the Knights of Pythias which was in session at Aiken last week. We believe that j this body of men is the most repre sentative body that ever assembles in the state of South Carolina. The i body in its deliberations is governed ^ by strict Parliamentary rules, the re ports of the various committees are logical and comprehensive, the various officers thoroughly understand their duties, and the deliberations are indi- ; cative of the highest order of intelli- 1 gence. The good people of Aiken possess in an eminent degree the art | of entertaining strangers within her gates. Nothing was too good for the visitors, and the session there will | long be remembered by all those who were so fortunate as to be able to at tend. Very Frtient. A doctor, now eminent, was at one time serving as iiuerne in one of the Philadelphia ho.spiials as well as hold ing his own wliu a coterie of rather gay friends. On a certain morning the physician awoke t»> find that he had sadly overslept. Sleepily donning his attire, he hastened t > the hospital and soon a stalwart y< ung Irishman clalm- Queer, but True. “For this here splurge.’’ said th* ca terer. “do the guests know one another well or are tli^r jest pnssln’ acquaint ances?'' “Oh, they are intimate friends. Ufa- long friends.” “Then,” said the caterer, “I’ll add 20 per cent to that estimate if you don’t mind.” “But I do mind. Why’’— “Twenty i»er cent more for lifeloni friends." the ^tderer Insisted. “I’d be out of pocket otherwise. A bunch of friends at a splurge always eat a fifth more than a bunch of passln’ acquaint ances or strangers. Didn’t you never notice that?" he concluded as he recti fied the bill. “You might have noticed it from your own experience. Among u strangers you're ill at ease, nervous; ” that takes your appetite away. But with friends you’re quite at borne, and you eat like a horse.”—New Orleans Times-Democrat. Moving Pictures. Moving picture cameras are remark able pieces of mechanism. The films are only three-quarters of an Inch wide. These are in rolls, some limes 800 feet long When taking pictures the camera man reels off these rolls Just as rapidly as th^y are unreeled when thrown upon the canvas for the spec tator, at a rate of ten or twelve films a second. Moving pictures are simply a number of views thrown upon a white sheet one after another so rapid ly that the eye cannot detect the inter vals. publish The Ledger. The Ledger , , .... his attention, must be self-sustaining and at $l.o0 .^- ell hlun wbat seem8 t o be a year for a twice a week paper at your trouble this morning?” inquired the present prices of printing ma- doctor, con ealing a yawn and tak ing the patient by the band to examine terial it will hardly be more than self ^ j m ] se supporting. | “Faith, sor, it's nil in l ie breathin’, We mention these facts so that the! ** octor ' * f :jn 1 li;e ' j1 ' at ^ , , 1 alL " people may know the truth. We do » Tlle yJli0 is UC i^ al> p at , but let not wish to appea r as if we had; me examine t!;e lung action a mo ment,” replied the doctor, kneeling be side the cot an 1 laying his head on the Irishman’s chest. “.Now let me hear arbitarily raised the price simply to j extort money from the people, but we want them to know that It costs more to print a paper now than it did several years ago. NOTES AND COMMENTS. Read the first Installment of “The Man of the Hour” in this issue of The you talk," ho continued, closing his eyes and listening attentively for Bounds of pulmonary congestion. A moment of silence. "What wHl I be sayin’, doctor?" fin lly asxed the patient. “Oh, say anything. Count. Count one, two, three and up, that way,’’ murmured the physician drowsily. “Wan, two, three, fure, five, six.” When the young doctor, with a start, opened his eyes, Pat was continuing weakly, “Tin hundred an’ sixty-nine, ,^in hundred an’ sivinty, tin hundred an’ sivinty-wan.”—Success. Ledger. You will find it interesting and well worth while. It will take about five or six weeks to finish it. • • • _ t . .. i Twenty-five cents will pay for a We heard a traveling man say re- * v ^ T ^ 6 J two months subscription to The Led- cently that the hotels in Gaffney i g er Subscribe now and get the re- would compare favorably with any in mainder of “The Man of the Hour. An Author Who Hated Water. Mme. d’Arblay, better known a Miss Fanny Burney, who took such an' important place in the literature of the elghteeuth century, had an extraordi nary and most undesirable peculiarity. She bad the greatest aversion to wash ing and water. Sir Henry Holland was the physician who attended the gifted authoress during the last year of tier life, and she confided to him that she had not washed for fifteen years. Origin of Yankee Pronunciation. It was these historic Suffolk families who in the seventeenth century took over with them to America the pecul iar Suffolk pronunciation out of which has developed the modern seminasal Yankee twang.—London Spectator. FOR Up-to-Date Job Print ing, call at. the*' LEDGER Office. Gaffney, S. O. WHO HE? T AND HOW HAS HE MADE HIMSELF SO POPULAR? These two.questions are to be answered by the people of Cherokee County. What we want to know is: Who is the most popular R. F. D. carrier in Cherokee County? We have a clever set of boys serving our rural route friends and there is a question as to who is the most popular. The Ledger is going to give everybody a chance to vote on the i subject, and to the one who is voted the most popular we are going to present a handsome, up-to-date R. F. D. mail wagon, made by Burns Bros. To the one receiving the second largest vote we will give a solid gold watch and to the carrier receiving the third largest vote we will give a carrier’s uniform. ;p iif The Conditions of the Contest are Simple Cut out the coupons printed in each issue c* fhe Le^gar an<j mail them to this office. At the expiration of the time set for the closing of the contest the votes wiJ! be counted and the awards made to the carriers receiving the largest number of votes. In addition to the above, every person subscribing or renewing will be permitted to cast votesj|for his choice as follows: ITZM TS3 A two months subscription entitles the subscriber to 25 votes; a three months subscription to 40 votes; a four months subscription to 50 votes; a six months subscription to 75 votes; an eight months sub scription to IOC votes, and a yearly subscription to 150 votes. Now if you appreciate the service your R. F. D. carrier is giving you, clip out the coupon and begin voting. , Vote early and often and give you carrier a nice, new up-to-date de livery wagon. In case of a tie the parties tieing will each receive a wagon. This contest will close September 1st. ^ ♦ J COUPON Jmn* 2nd, 1902. I vote for as the most popular R. F. D. Carrier in Cherokee County. THIS BALLOT MOT GOOD AFTER JUNE 9TH * \4> reserve the riir it. m ue MiU jo-it-^i Mail all Votes to The Ledger Gaffney, S. C. ?'■ f f f 4? j / 4^ * ^ f ^/ * v* ; * ^ t t J* ) . • ^ > k > > * t k* ■ >* > / >