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THE LEDGER: GAFFNEY, S. C., FEBRUARY 11, 1897. Thf: JUtci>gici*. $1.00 per Year. rUBLlSIIEU EVKHV THURSDAY BY ED. H. DcCAMP, Editor. i'he Ledger is not responsible for • th* views of correspondents. Correspondents who do not contri- oate regular news letters must fur- ■Muh their name, not for publication, out for identification. Write short letters and to the point to insure publication ; also endeavor to get them to the ofice by Tuesday. Ml correspondence should bo ad- iressed to Ed. M. DeCamp, Manager. Obituaries will be published at five cents a line. Cards of thanks will be published at one cent a word. Reading notices will be published at ten cents a line each insertion. Single copies of the paper are five cents each. DOING GOOD. There is nothing that pleases the average man more than to know that others appreciate his efforts to do good. A journalist who does his duty is no exception to the rule. You may take the hardest-hearted cuss alive and nine cases out of ten he A-ill yield to kind words and kind treatment. The Ledger of January 14th seems to have had a good effect on at least one of our renders. Dr. Talmage’s sermons are always good, but the one published in that issue has made a new man of him. The Ledger trusts that the impression made will be lasting; that his appeals toothers will be heeded and that be at last will receive the reward of the just. We cheerfully give space for his letter: Maud, S. C., Feb. lft'7. Mr. Editor. I hope you will allow mo space to express my tlianks to you for printirif? l»r. Talmatre’s sermon in Tmt Leimieuof Jan. 14. 1807. In.reading this sermon. 1 resolved to quit drinkinx. I subscribed for your paper and have only received the third copy so far. yet 1 feci like ithas repaid me fora loin? subscription. I can never thank God enough for sending the sermon. Hr. Tal mage for preaching it and you fbr printing it for me and all others that will accept it. 1 wish 1 hat all Leihiek readers and dram drinkers would read the sermon printed in The 1,edoeh of the 11 of Jan., 1W>7, and consider the evils of dram drinking. You may be leading some po >r soul to destruction by drinking your dram. You don't know whom you are leading, and therefore you ought to lead a good life and carry souls to heaven and not drink your drum and lead them down to hell, for your quitting may turn some poor soul from dark despair. Barents, don’t drink before your children and t rain them to drunkenness, /or drinking is a hor rible habit. and if you practice it before your children, you may expect them to drink and come up witli drunkards. Parents, quit drinking; brothers, quit drinking; friends, quit drinking, and be sober, honorable and just and lead souls to Christ. Your friend. C. P. THE OLD AND THE NEW. Churlorton ofliciala arc exercised just now about the use or disuse of the‘‘rod” in the public schools of the city. The News and Courier per tinently remarks that the settling of this question properly belongs to the parents of the scholars. The principal factor in determining how a disobedient, unruly or indo lent scholar should be dealt with is neither school, trustee nor school superintendent nor parent, but the teacher of the scholar. In the teach er's hands the scholar should he placed for direction, for advancement, for government. Limit him in this direction by tilling him that the rod in the school room is forbidden and you undermine his authority while in the same ratio the indolent and hard-to-be-managed scholar is encour aged to continue his wicked ways. Truly does the pendulum swing from one extremity of the arc to the other even in the period of an ordinary life. A half century ago the ferula of the school master was watched more closely than the school master him self. It was an impelling as well as a compelling factor. Weak memories were strengthened by its use, earnest study was stimulated and many an unruly boy was brought within the “traces" of good discipline. Grad ually a change has been wrought un til the new, which has supplanted the old, would leave remaining no vestige of the correcting rod. If banished, the re< oil will surely come in time and the rod will again find its place as a means of discipline. MERIT WILL WIN. Under the new arrangements The Ledger aspires to ho Letter than It ever has bein. We intend to work with that end in view. We want the patronage of every business man in Gaffney and we want the pn>r7hnge of every household in Cherokee county. We will strive to merit this patronage, and we believe we will get it. If wo get it we will give you the best paper in the stale. If we don’t get it the paper will Ue the very best paper it can be made with the patron age wo get. We don’t iutend to beg anyone to patronize us. We don’t want your patronage unless we merit it. This is plain talk but in this day and time it is not worth while to quib ble over matters. We are not work ing for fun or glory or our health, but to make money. We propose to do that honestly and when wc get to the point where we can’t give a man a paper worth a dollar u year wo want him "to stop taking it. We would re gard it just as dishonest in us to fur nish a 50c paper and charge a dollar for it as wo would for a follow to fur nish us with-a 50c load of wood and charge us a dollar for it. The ground work of the paper is “Honesty”— honesty in business methods, honesty in purpose. If you don’t take it, now is the time to subscribe; if you don’t advertis, now is the time to begin. NATIVE WINES. Mr. Thomas, of Richland, has an eye ever open to the public good. Perhaps the best bill introduced by any member of the legislature to abate the “carrying of concealed weapons” evil was that presented by Mr. Thomas. And now he comes again to the front and proposes that native wines be received by the dis pensaries and sold on private account, the dispensary to receive a certain per cent of the profit. This we con ceive not only to be fair but emi nently wise. Native wines are the least harmful of all wines. Over every section of our state the vine grows with vigor and gives the luscious grape with un stinted hand. Our people have al most been afraid to press the juice from the grape or dye their hands with the blackberry that grows in pre fusion in gullies, hedges or roadside. If this bill, without material change becomes a law, it will go far towards popularizing the dispensary. Then, if it is true that the liquors now sold in our dispensaries are “high proof,” it would be in the cause of humanity to place beside them the mild wine in its native purity. keep your credit up. This applies to every vocation in life. One of our exchanges remarks that it “has no ammunition to waste on patent outside and pot-metal inside papers,” or words to that effect. May the good Lord have mercy of his little egotistical soul! We are compelled to add, however, that such sentiments come with mighty poor grace from a paper that has printed whole pages of plate matter and bragged upon it as a streak of enterprise and which publishes more or less of it every issue. For several days past a stranger, representing a concern in Atlanta which promises unheard of dividends and no risks, has been in the city trying to secure a license to solicit business. We don’t know that his business is not all right but on the evidence before us we commend the action of Mayor Wood in refusing to grant him a license to do business. Such investments are generally pay ing investments for the promoters only. ________ The Ledger has a larger circula tion than ever before in its history and it continues to grow. We are proud of the paper; we are proud of the town ; we are proud of the county; we are proud of the state and nation, but we are prouder of our noble, straightforward, honest men and women than anything else. There is an enterprise on foot for Gaffney which, if it matures, will add greatly to her business and w ! U be a money earner for its projectors. The conditions are such that we cannot say more just now but watch for fu ture development. Lit* le kindnesses are never for gotten and often make the dearest of friends. Endeavor to be polite, even to the most bumble, and you will never have cause to regret it. “IT DO PAY.” As an advertising medium no paper in South Carolina excellsTiiK Ledger. Its rates are low, when services ren dered are considered. Its readers patronize its advertisers and reap the benifits of the low prices offered by them. A patron of our advertising columns writes us as follows; ‘T)kak pin:—Please Dike out my advertis- ment. Since 1 advertised, parties are writ ing me by nearly every mail. With best wishes for you and yoqr paper, I am Very truly yours, etc." This is but one of the numerous testimonials we have had as to the merits of The Ledger as an advertis ing medium. We know that ads. in this paper have sold patent medicines in other places, and we are convinced that well-written ads. attract public ity and publicity is what a business man needs. “It do pay to advertise.” The collapse of the Building and Loan Associations of Tennessee has fallen pretty heavily on some of our citizens while some say they are “even with the game.” PRESS OPINION. The Views of Our Exchanges on Live Topics of the Day. The public and politicians are be having so well thatrcnlly there is nothing to find fault with.—-Charles ton Sun. Time and time again we have no ticed persons get on the train, rush into a scat and proceed to hoist a window, even in the coldest kind of weather, to have a parting word with some relative or dear friend on the platform of the station. We can and do understand the ties that bind, and how tempting it is to hare a final farewell but people should think and not maKe a whole car of people un comfortable to gratify a fancy. You can just as well say good-bye before you get on the train as afterward and then a final farewell wave of the hand is just as effective and much prefer able to have a lot of people scowl and look unpleasant at you for your folly, even if they are strangers. Tell your friends good bye before you get on a train, especially in the winter season. A friend of The Ledger told a rep resentative of this paper the oilier day in a joking manner that now since Gaffney had got to be a county seat she would get into an old rut and stay there and dry'up. He was try ing to tease us, it is true, but there is danger in his jest becoming a truth unless wc continue to seize every golden opportunity offered us. Let the watchword be upward and on ward with an eye single to making Gaffney and Cherokee county the gar den spot of the world. In dealing with each other always have the fact in view that it pays to be honest. Never tell a man any thing that you do not know to ho true or that you cannot substantiate. Don’t make promises you can’t carry out. It makes people who accommo date you lose confidence in you, and once you shake the confidence of your creditor you begin to lose your credit. Oftentimes u man’s credit is his capi tal in trade and its a good idea to Like the heathen Chinese, for ways that are dark and tricks that are vain, the modern politician is peeulair.— Bamberg Herald. * * * Whilst investigating the matter of the Port Royal Railroad the State bond deal might also be included in Gw resolution. Turn on the calcium light, Legislators!—Newberry Ob server. * * * In the last twenty years thejSouth- eru States have expended $8,000,000 for negro schools, and nearly every dollar of this vast amount was paid by the white people.—Manning Times. * * * The present good humor of the masses of the people indicate that the day of the demagogue is drawing to a close in South Carolina. O, blessed day. draw nigh, quickly, now ! —Johnston Weekly Monitor. * * * Edgefield County has produced a freak in the shape of a man with a tail. He is being exhibited in Colum bia. We hope he will receive better usage than did Tillman and his coat tail.—Aiken Journal and Review. * * * Orangeburg county is said to be about $17,000 in debt and the Moun taineer says that in Greenville a debt nearly twice as large has accumu lated within the past two years, and this too with paragons of “reform” in control of affairs.—Rock Hill Her ald. The General Assembly will be “darned if it does and be darned if it does not;” if it hastens business it will be criticised for ill considered legislation, and if it takes time to thoroughly investigate all matters brought before it it will be condemned for holding a Jong session. The sa f e.st plan is for it to disregard critics and attend to business as it deems best.—Columbia Register. -• - - — Catarrh Cannot be Cured with LOCAL APPLICATIONS, as they cannot reach the seat of - the di sease. Catarrh ik a blood or consD- tutional disease, and in order to cure it you must take internal remedies. Hall’s Catarrh Cure is taken inter nally, and acts directly on the blood and mucous surfaces. Hall’sCatarrh Cure is not a quack medecine. It was prescribed by one of the best physicians in this country for years, and is a regular prescription. It is composed of the best tonics known, combined with the best blood purifi ers, act ing directly on the mucous surfaces. The perfect combination of tiie two ingredients is what produces such wonderful results in curing Catarrh. Scud for testimonials, free. Good North Carolina Money. [Charlotte Olxterver.] The Knoxville, Tcnn., Sentinel, re ferring to the recent failure of the Southern Building and Loan Asso ciation of that place, denies indig nantly a report that its president had once received a salary of $22,000 a year, corrects its own statement that he at one time received $10,000, and says that he never received more than $4,200. That is a very com-; fortable figure itself. Indeed, it seems rather large on this side of the mountains, where, as a rule, the pres idents of building and loan associa tions receive no salaries at all, the secretaries and treasurers being the only salaried officers. By the way, a good part of this $4,200, paid the president of this Knoxville concern for his services in running it into the ground, was good North Carolina money. —• * Will Move South. [Southern and Western Textile Excelsior.] The Arlington Mills Mfg. Co., at Wilmington, Del., are now looking southward, atid will probably move their entire mill equipment to Pa ducah, Ky. They are a big concern, being capitalized at half a million dollars, and operate 15,(XX) spindles and 600 looms on ginghams. Wm. II. Badwin, Jr., is president and Wm. S. Woodside, Sec. and Treas. The mill is now standing, because of the high cost of fuel, labor and. the city tuxes. A reorgonization is now un der consideration, and negotiations now going on with Paducah people who are willing to take stock in the plant, and the present owners half. If the transaction is accomplished the mill will be moved to Paducah. Free Pills. Send your address to H. E. Bucklen & Co,, Chicago, and get a fret sample box of Dr. Kings New Life Pills. A trial will convince you of their mer its. These pills are easy in action and are particularly effective in the cure of Constipation and Sick Head ache. For Malaria and Liver troubles they have been proved invaluable. They are guaranteed to be perfectly free from every deleterious substance and to be purely vegetable. They do not weaken by their action, hut by giving tone to stomach ami bowels greatly invigorate the system. Reg ular size 25c pur box. Sold by Dul’re Drug Co. Highest of all in Leavening Power.— Latest U. S. Gov’t Report DR. J. F. GARRETT, Dentist, Gaffney, - - S. C. Office ovor J. R. Tolleson’s new store In office from 1st to 24th of each month; i Am Still flaking Cabinets at $3.00 perdoz. They arc worth more but it gives you a chance to save some money while I am making tiiem at tiiut. Hurry up! Don’t get left! W. C. GALLAGHER. O L. SrHUMPKttT. Titos. H. Buti.ku. Sol. 7th Judicial Circuit. U. S. Com. Wm. McGowan. AB&©!&JT1H1Y MJBE A Cotton Mill Railroad. Southern and Western Textile Excelsior. It is said that there is little reason to doubt that the branch of the Ohio River and Charleston railroad from Blacksburg, S. C., to Gaffney will be completed in the present year, and that there is a strong probability that the road will bo extended to Spartan burg by the way of Clifton. It is said that both the Clifton Mfg. Co., and prominent business men of Spar tanburg hare made propositions to make liberal cash subscriptions in case the road is extended to those points. It is also believed that if the above railroad is built to Spartan burg it will go on to Piedmont, Pelzer and Greenville, and thus obtain the cream of the large business origina ting with the great cotton manufac turing districts of Spartanburg and Greenville counties. Why will you buy hltU r, imuftcatlng tonics whuii Grove a Tasteless Chill Tonic Is as pleas ant as Lemon Syrup? Your druggist is au thorized to refund the money in ever j case where it fails to cure. A. N. WOOD, BANKER, does a general Banking and Exchange business. Well secured with Burglar- Proof safe and Automatic Time Lock. Safety Deposit Boxes at moderate rent. Bujsand sells Stocks and Bonds. Buys County and School Claims. Your business solicited. LIVERY STABLES. My Livery Stables are equipped with the latest and best in carriages buggies, harness and horses. They are stylish and well appearing. Horses fed and groomed by the day, week or month. I have a first-class hearse, which can be had at reasonable price for either city or country. Give mo a call when in need o unythihg in my line. M. G. MONTGOMERY.! J FOR SCHUMPEST,«BOTLEP. * & < McGOWAB, ATTOKN iC VH-AT-Iv A-W. Union and Gaffney, 5. C. Office d:iys sit usifTnoy. Friday and Satur day of each week. Very careful and prompt sittention given to all business entrusted to us. PC!" Practice in all the courts. A. L. HAMMETT, MERCHANDISE BROKER, GAFFNEY, S. C. Correspondence Solicited. Office Over A. f. Settlemyer. J. E. WEBSTER, A-ttorney- A.t> Gaffney City, S. C. Practices in all the courts. Collec tions a soecialtv. I Mean to Lead. I Mean to Sell and I Mean to Please You. Look at my price-list: 3 Cans Tomatoes 25c, 3 “ Corn 25c, 3 “ Pie Peaches... .25c, Heavy Syrup Peaches. 10c, Chalmer’s Gelatine per package 10c, 20 lbs of Granulated Sugar for $1.00, 25 lbs Brown Sugar.. 1.00. 5 to 8 lbs Coffee... .1.00. Other Groceries at propor tionately low prices. Bo sure and order your Cot ton Seed Hulls and Meal before night. T. Davenport. Up-to-Date Job Print ing, call at the LEDGER Office. Gaffney, S. C. For Sale I" splendid Mules. 1 Family Horse. 10 Shares Lockhart < Jot ton Mill Stock. 10 Shares Tucapuu Cotton Mill Stock. .’I Shares Richland Cotton Mill Stock. 2 Shares Victor Cotton Mill Stock. SO Shares Limestone Springs Lime Co. stock. The Dr. Holmes 8 room house with finegar- den. stables and out buildings attached. 5 room cottage on Limestone St. J room collage on Gaines St. with splendid garden. 2 vacant lots on Gaines St. 4 vacant lots on Factory Hill. 1 splendid farm containing 104 acres 2!4 miles from Gaffney. I 80-acre farm one mile from G'tITney. 1 house and acres located at Limestone Springs. F ARMS TO RRNT.—Several splendid farms to rent. Apply to F. G. Stacy. Insurance I I represent none hu» the best of Fire, Life and Accident Insurance Companies. Am prepared to furqlsh Cyclone and Tornado Insurance at moderate cost. Your patronage will be duly appreciated. F. O. STACY. Shingles! - Shingles! DRESSED LUMBER ! Sash, Doors, Blinds, Brackets, Mouldings, and All Kinds of Building Materials, For Sale at Lowest Cash Prices. No charge will be made‘for infor mation as to amonnt required for building. Call on L. BAKER. South Carolina ConvictFactory. A correspondent at Sintuc, S. C,, of the Union (S. C.) New Era, says: Many of us are with tie New Era in believing that it wil be a wrong step to build a cotton ftetory in the penitentiary. That is agovernment institution, and I don’t believe cot ton factories ought to be there. Be sides, convicts are put here at hard labor, and that will not be. It will he that much emplojment taken away from honest operaives, a large aumber of whom are fimales. Far better would it bo to putthe convicts on the roads of the stite, building them up with a modente taxation. Our roads need help bady, they are so far gone.” MyONDERFUL arc the cures by ® ■ Hood’s Sarsaparilla,and yet they are simple and natural. Hood’s Sarst • parilla makes PURE BLOOD* EU6LEBERG RICE 1ULLER. The only rmchine that in one operation, will CLEAN, HULL and POLISH Hough Rice—putting it in merchantible condi tion, ready f»r table use. SIMPLE AND EASY TO MAN ACE. Write for pries and terms ALSO Corn Mills, Saw Mills, Planing Maclines and all kinds of wood-working machinery. TALBOTT and LDDELL En gines and Boierson hand at FACTOR" PRICES. V. C. BADHAM, GENERAL AGE/T, COLUMBIA, - - S. C. Webster** ’International ionary The One Great Standari Authority, So write* Mon. D. J. Urewe, J uMU-e U. 6. 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