The weekly ledger. (Gaffney City, S.C.) 1894-1896, February 11, 1897, Image 4
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■Muh their name, not for publication,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. Snpemc Court
| DHT'Ser.iI a PgsIlI lor Spcclaen Pages, etc. <
Suceasor of the
^^ Ulabrid^c<l. ,,
Standard
of thU. 8. (.ov’t ITInt- I
lug •Alee, Hie U. S. Su- .
preie Court, all the
Mat Supreme ( onus, 1
• mlof nearly all the l
Scbolbooka.
Vartnly
CDniniended <
by 'late Superintend- i
rut> of SrliioU. ami ,
otl.r Educator* almost ,
wluout number.
THE BEST FOR IVERYBODY
■ ICAUS’
i It to eesy to find the wrd wanted,
i It to easy to ascertain tie pronunciation.
, It to easy to traco the (rowth ol a word,
i H to easy to learn w ho a word means.
The RaleigiTNewi J Observer says:
(mr Individual preferene* were formerly fur
mother dictionary, bu la bsteraoqtuln tn nee with
the later cdltlnii of WebmT (the IntcnutHonull
has led us to regard It as tie must valuable, and
Pi eonslib r It at the stamnrd as far it* anyone
dictionary should^ be so n cep ted.
Publishers,
U.8.A.
G.
& C. MERRTAitCO.,
Springfield, Muss.,
RipansTabules.
Ripens Tabales are com
pounded from a prescription
widely used by the best medi
cal authorities and are pre
sented in a form that is be
coming the fashion every
where.
Ripans Tabulcs act gently
but promptly upon the liver,
stomach ana intestines; cure
dyspepsia, habitual constipa
tion, offensive breath and head
ache. One tabule taken at the
first symptom of indigestion,
biliousness, dizziness, distress
after eating, or depression of
spirits, will surely and quickly
remove the whole difficulty.
Price, 50 cents a box.
RipansTabules may be ob
tained of nearest druggist; or
by mail on receipt of price.
Sample vial, 10 cents.
RIPANS CHEMICAL CO. f
lO Spruce Street,
NEW YORK.