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THE LEDGER. riiarlow 3. tarter, EDITOR AND MANAGER. SATl'KDAY, MAY 27, Accident to Mrs. lln^ins While coming to town yester1 \I?? \t it.. II.. tiay iur?. .u:ti iuu 11:1gins, thonged mother of Mr. J. M. llngins of ICIgin, met with a painful accident near Mr. Burcell Knight's several miles North of town. One of the wheels of her boggy struck against a tree on the side of ttie narrow country road causing the vehicle to upset and its aged occupant to he thrown out. The physician who was summoned had not returned to town at the time of going to press yesterday afternoon and we have been unable to learn the extent ot her injuries. Mrs. I latins met with a sinii lar accident several years ago havinsjj had h<?th wrists broken at that lime. She is past four score years of age. Closing Lxoivises of the (iiMilrd School, The closing exercises of the Lancaster Graded school will lie held on Friday, May 20, at lb a. tn. in the Court House. The following pupils of the ninth grade will be awarded certificates of graduation: Carrie Howling, Ktta Howling, Clarice Knight. Jessie Porter, Margaret Johnson, Jt.anita Wvlic, Ola Gregory, Lilian Gregory, Sadie Grogor\, Hcssie Jones, Pearl .Miller, bteve Williams, Ouay Hood. Oscar Adams. Hill .Jones, .Jell Walters. Host-graduates Lena A inos and Hlanche Cousar have completed special courses of study. The factory grades also will close on the same day, at 7:L"> p. m. w ith appropriate cxcrcisos and a display of school work. The puolic is cordially invited to attend the exercises of both schools. Sopt. L. T. Labor. Iteius From Kershaw lira The Kershaw Oil Mill finished grinding its supply of seed last Saturday. ? Mr8. (i. W. Peters, of Lancaster, is visiting her daughter, 1 Mrs. .J. H. Hittman at Ilaile(Hold Mine. ? Mrs. ?J. V. Welsh and daughter Miss Metta are visiting Mrs. "Welsh's daughter, Mrs. Ponder in (iutrnoy. Some needed repairs have hocu inudo on the postolliee building and postmaster Cauthen has put in sonic handsome now lock boxes. ?Airs. .J. T. lirasington, of Wadesboro, N. ( ., widow of the late Kcv. .1. 'I', llrasington, who was once pastor of the Kershaw Kaptist cliur jh, is here visiting her daughter, Mrs. S. N. Sowell. ? Misses Mattie audi Ada Clyburn, daughters of Hon. W. C. Clyburn of tlie flaile Gold Mine section, left last Tuesday for a visit to Charlotto, Hickory and Greenville. They will be absent several weeks. ?Col P. 11. Nelson, of Columbia, formcrlv solicitor, now a resident attorney of Columbia, was in town Saturday. Mr. N'el son lias boon ? mployed to assist Solicitor Thurmond and K. I). Blakeney, Ks<p, in tin.' prosecution of ijove and Kelley, charged with killing young (/lark at I)eKalb. ? Mr. Wesley Broom of Ilaile (odd Mine is seriously sick with pneumonia in the Columbia City Hospital. Mr. Broom, who is a Confederate veteran about 7b years of ago, attended the reunion and took si<T while there. His condition was improved yes- I terday. Ilia son Mr. A. S. Broom and other relatives have been over to sec him. City Councilman .1. K. Durham has secured the requisite number of signatures ami forwarded u petition to Prof. Newman of Clomsou College for a Farmers' Institute to be held hero in .1 uly. ?A dilliculty occurred Sunday at liaile Gold Mine in which Mr. Amos L. Couk. who ran a beef market tuKershaw about two years ago, was cut in eleven places by by Mr. Win. Clanton, but fortunately none of the wounds are serious. Three of the cuts were in the body and the others in the head and neck. Dr. L. T. Gregory, the Mine physician, dressed I the wounds and Mr. Cook was able ; to be out \ osterday. I The Evils In The State. I Where Are Wo Drifting?''? , "What Are (iood People j Thinking Of." j ( To the Editor of The Stute. , What D the matter with the I public .sentiment of South Caroli- < nil? < This <juestion may be put in an- I other form. Why is it the pco- < pie of South Carolina do not be- < eomo alarmed at the immoral condition of their State, and by gen>* cral consent rise and shako oil" tho , corrupt measures which are now , leading to so much digradation j and shame? What can the good people of ( the State bo thinking about who have moral convictions and yet j are doing nothing to tiring about O n o ( a concert of action in opposition to the evils which are threatening , e 1 the highest interest of It his com . monwealtb? We have recently read in The Daily State of a fearful tragedy enacted in Conway, the resuit of I : - i which i- oiiu young 111:111 is now sleeping in his grave and another has been commiltod to jail und will l?y and hy ho called to answer at the bar of the court win he stained his hands with his brother's blood. So far as the reason for the crime goes, the public has already been informed. Both young men were drinking, hence the tragedy. They were strangers and had it not boon for liquor the crime would not have occurred. In almost all such cases liquor either directly ro in lirectly plays an active put, and yet drinking liquor as a luxury must be tolerated, and the .State must have a revenue upon which to subsist, and therefore she provides for the sale of it. in order to raise much of her needed revenue, and this is done largely to protect the property of her citizenship from taxation. The idea is, liquor will be sold and drunk anyway and hence it is a line opportunity for the State to provido for her necessities and at the same time protect the property of the people from direct taxation. Thi s condition of things is recognized by the politicians, and they have gone to work and provided for the sale of liquor under the ant hoi it y of the great seal of the St ile, and thereby encourage crime, tor which she is supposed lo exi-u to prevent. At'ier the liquor is sold and the State fulls heir to the profits and the poor unfortnnato citizen goes out an I under the inlluonce of the liquor sold I?y the State commits some awful crime, then the State says to him, you have overstep ped your hounds and must answer at the har of the courts for your deed. We ask. Can tho State by legislative enactment favor the dispensary and then not become ... ..i.i,. / #1.,. :i . .. 11 iu? I t?o I H 111 > I 111U HI, till? UV llfl (111 IKIU evils ?growing out of tlie sale of her liquors! If thin Stato deal wore the result of ignorance then morally she would not be responsible or a party to the crimes growing out of her own constitut* m1 institution, !>ut with her light ind in tbo face of tho motive irotLpting her in tho creution of ho dispensary, she is guilty and jvery class of her citizens and >vcry lino of her business, social. >olitical, financial and religions uust sooner or later suffer because of her attitude to this whole iquor question. Isit not strange, with these facts confronting us, that men will c intend that the lispensary as it now is is tho best solution or tno liquor pronienif Would it not he a thousand jmos hotter for the people of the State who hnye moral convicions to unite and wipe the hands of the State of the whole business? We forget, it seems, that slack notions of sin which lead the State to legislate so as to encourage intemperance will render her pow arless when crimes are committed, and her honor debauched and her best interest bedraggled in the o o lust. An evil made to he respectad by the great seal of the State leads to a spirit of tolerance of whatever grows out of it, howevei diabolical it may he. Respected liquor dealing leads to slack notions of the crime ol drunkenness, and makes us tolerant toward aW the consequences following in its evil train. When wo legislate slackly on this liquor question and simply regulate it to make money out ol it, rather than restrict it, wo p.rt opening tho lloodgato of crime and inviting that condition ol things which will sooner or latei besinearch the escutcheon of oui State. We make law less forceful and its violation loss of t crime. Our slack notions of the evili of tho dispensary law has no doub led to many yiolations of the law against carrying concealed woa pons as well as to the frequent use of the pistol, and when the deed is done public sentiment hat been so debuuehed that you can n'X get a jury to convict for the crime, whatever it may be, hence the frequent killings all over the State. This condition of things tends to destroy confidence in the courts and is silently but surelp feeding a spirit of lawlessness from the highest to tho lowest grades o: society. Again we ask: Where are we drifting? Echo answers, "Where?' W. Smith Martin. ft ? n .? (illusion , d. Ki. Hundreds Of Men Rendered Homeless lly a Cloudburst Thut Came ul ttio Midn ight H our. Enid, Okla., May 24. ? Hun dreds of persons were rendercc homeless and property dumngo t( the extent of ^M00,000 was done in the Enid bottoms alone by < cloudburst that struck west 01 this city at midnight last night The aggregate damage probably will be much higher on account o: losses sustained between Enid ant the seat of the storm. A bank o! water threo feet high aud 200 fee wide, swept through the bottoms at midnight, carrying houses ant everything before it. It came up on Enid without warning, whih most of its inhabitants were asleep Within a few minutes a hundret houses were completely submerg ed. Many persons last everything they possessed. Tlio means foi relieving distress are inadequate The rainfall the past ten days h is i . i- - i ? : ? ?i - i- - ' oeen iin! uoayiusi hi ine msiory u] Oklahomi and indications aretha more will follow. Keports o: losses in the country west of Knit are meagre, but it is believed thai heavy damage was done. l w Grai op nil WednescU i Our deseri MILLINER, Ml turned from the . lected with great ; COMPLETE upMill! ; Ever brought to \ busily engaged, i , tants, in preparii , WEDNESDAY. ? WAdr.Ac/l. The public visit us 011 that tl will find OUR I ' a creation of Art : NESS. The ladi i their headgear in f matchless Bonne Heath Bj Northwesterners Look South. ^ ! Tl,? - t T? II.... I I A 11U U-JUU lOUYCn 111 JL VVU 11(111 dred Farmers Now in Spar ( I tanburg. - Speciul to The State. I Spartanburg, May 24.? Mr. T. j B. Thackaton of the land and ini dustrial department of the Southern railway at Chic igo, is in the city and with him two very i ?t?? 1 igent farmers, who represent 2(>'i 1 additional fnm-r* ithe north- I west, who a o lookitig southward. ? These men desire to secure farms in the south and if conditions are favorable 200 farms of 300 acres f and upward can he sold Monday morning. It is supposed that they ' - will no into stock-raisinir. fruit . I 3 growing and other lines of diver. sified indnstry. They have ample | 1 capital and thev mean business. ( Col T. L Gnnit is showing a , ; portion of Spartanburg county to 1 r them. The most serious drawback ' . thus far is the presence of the ne- ( | i uroes The impression is prevaU F ent abroad that we have race trou*, lilos and conflicts frequently, makFI in* this an undesirable place of 1 j residence If iho representa*ives t j stay here Inn# enough ihey will | J see that this i? not the cnse. <d Millin 'ENINI -- OF -?k nc A ? "P -d ty, April i redly popular ai [SS JULIA SUN Northern marke eare the LAltG to-datc STOCK nery G this market. A lided by an able ig for our forma Don't forget t ay, April ] is CORDIALL Lay. We guara dJ LLINERY E istic BEAUTY ies are cautione nt ii they see Mi ts and Hats. INKING & ? NOTICE. ? When }on want rour well cleaned out, or a well ln?r, and waot hist class work, :nll on me. Ekonaud IIarris. I ! Foley's Honey and Tar is pecu- | iarly adapted for asthma,bronchi- | ,is and hoarseness. T. Eugene lAn.derhurk druggist. ~ n SHERIFF'5 SALE. By vlrlure of n Tux Kxw utiou ?fcr H i st Jo in It (Jrirtili I will sell will)it t: e leuai Imcrs of sa'e on the 1st If ?i ilu.v in June hcxi ? eerlain store ion-. Mini loi in lit town f Osceola, -. <* at I -ei i|> ion of aam can be >e? ii in i ? It rill'" ofllcH Terms of -n'e i*\S'l I'lirciiuser to nay for ape.- JOHN V. HIJNTKK, Max s 1908 H, I?. I'. Bridge Notice. The contract to build a new bridge across Sugar Creek, ut Doliys bridge, will lit? lot to the owchi responsible bidder on Frilay, 20ill May, at?leven o'clock, i. in 'Mans and specilicntions ivill lie made known at the letting. Bond will be required of the successful bidder for faithful performance of the wi.rk The right to eject any or nil bids received. 1 M \ i j .1 1'KKKY, ('?? Sui>. Ltiitciihier Co. T K. Hoyi>, Co. Sup. York Co. BAN NER SA LVE the most hsaling sulvo In ths world. ' ERY -M j I hi mi m HI ?? iVI 111 It Lst, 1903. nd experienced 1PSON, lias rets, where she seEST and most of oods nd she is now corps of assisil opening; next he day, Lst, 1903. i V INVITED to ntee that YOU DEPARTMENT and LOVELId not to select SS SIMPSON'S Mer. Co. Notice?L ancnNtor Griol e <1 School. To all whom it may Concern: Take notice that pursuant to a petition signed by ten voters and freeholders resident in Lancaster acnooi JJistrict, we tbo undersign ed, Trustees of said District, do hereby cull a public meeting to be composed of all those voters who uro resident in and return for taxation in said District real or personal property of the value of not less than one hundred dollars, to assemble in the Court House at Lancaster, S. C., on Friday the 29th day of May 1903, at 4 o'clock, p/tii., for the purpose of electing a chairman and secretary of said meeting, five trustees of said school district, and of determining what special tax, if any, not to exceed five mills, shall be levied, as the majority present whu 11 * I o am oil 1 ? -1 -? ? ..vvmv, uu nil IOIII IIIKI JJPr* sonal property within said School District for the maintenance of the public schools of said District. This May 12th, 1903. B. F. Miller, W. T. Gregory, W..I. Cunningham, .). K. Taylor, C. T Connorc, Trustees of LHiicastrr School District. his signature Is on every box of ths gsaalM Laxative Bromo-Quinine Tawsu h? rorarr*y that rnrrs m In one da}' V