Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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The: L/e:l>oe:h. BY Ed. H. DbCamp. PDBLI8HKD TUESDAY AND FRIDAY SUIISCIUPTION PRICE: Cash .n ativuncc, pt*r year.... !fl 00. On time, per year $1.50. The Ledger is uot responsible for tb? views of correspondents. Oo’respondents who do not contri bute regular news letters must fur nish their name, not for publication, but for identification. Write short letters and to the point to insure publication; also endeavor to get them to the office by Monday and Thursday mornings. Cards of thanks will be published at one cent a word. Heading notices will bo published at ten cents a line each insertion. Obituaries will be published at five cents a line. All correspondence should be ad dressed to Ed. H. DeOamp, Manager. THE NEGRO AT THE NORTH. A leading editorial in one of the prominent Chicago papers was re cently devoted to the discussion of the status of the negro in that city. From a reading of the said editorial we came to the conclusion that the negro stands little chance ot rising financially and socially in the city of Chicago. It was asserted that every avenue to his advancement was closed, and that he was being rapidly eliminated from employments which heretofore he has pursued. The hotels are discharging their colored waiters and employing white ones, mechanics and builders refuse to work in company with negroes, and contractors in all lines are afraid to employ them. We gather further from the article that the negro, socially, is utterly ignored or repudiated. It was stated that he was not compelled to ride in a separate car as he was down south, but it was significantly added that “we generally give him a wide berth,” which means that when a negro in Chicago takes a seat in a street or railroad car, respectable white people move as far away from him as possi ble. The article moreover admitted that the negro was as severely ostra cised as he was in any part of the south, without Jbeing in any measure compensated by the kind feeling usu ally entertained for him in the south. Such a picture is not likely to be very attractive to the thinking por tions of the negro race. Add to this picture, which seems to be candid and honest, the recent causeless butchery of negroes in New York City; the riot incited against them in Ohio; the driving of hundreds of them a year ago out of the State of Indiana by State au thority and that, too, when they had come into the State to fulfill a con tract for honest labor—add these and other cruelties practiced upon the negro in the north and north west, and it will he easily seen that the northern people, as a whole, are more bitterly prejudiced against him than the people of any other country on the globe. As the editor aptly put it, they reject and oppress him without compensating him with the kind feeling which Southern men and women bestow upon him. Yet in the face of such facts as ! these, there is a firm conviction in the minds of the majority of south ern m groes that their true friends are to he found only in the northern states. At best they look with cold suspicion on the white man of the south and regard him as being ever on the alert for an opportunitj to take advantage of them and to op press them. As long as they had unrestricted access to the ballot, they voted solidly against him, and the most depraved political adven turer from the north or the most dis reputable renegade in the south could lead them as a general leads an army or a shepherd leads a flock of sheep. While steadily maintaining such an attitude towards the southern white man, with strange inconsis tency they look to him confidently and persistently for material favors, for substantial help in time of need, for advice and counsel, and all the help in practical and business life that is usually rendered only by one friend to another. There was a time when there was some excuse for the negro’s antip athy and mistrust. When as an incident of the war he was freed from the shackles of slavery, it was not to be expected that in his ignorance and inexperience, he could at once understand the situation or be able to comprehend the motives of the northern people who had been instru mental in giving him his freedom. His idea, naturally, was that the northern people had fought for his freedom and the southern people had fought to keep him in slavery. But he has now had thirtv-five years of association as a free man with the white man of the south; he has had the opportunity to grow in intelli gence and has hud many occuiar dem onstrations of the comparative es teem in which he is held at the north and tho south; and it is high time that he was opening his eyes to the facts of the situation. iiis home is in the south; there is absolutely no opening for him at the north, nor at this time anywhere else on the globe. He must live with the white race of the south and he ought to know by this time the conditions on which he is to live and to set about adapting himself to them in earnest. NOTES AND COMMENTS. The Columbia State doesn’t object to being villified and abused, but it vigorously protests against vulgar and anomalous methods. Lately the Anderson mail slipped up on the word venomous as applied to the State, whereupon the State went for it with nerves unstrung and gloves off. We don’t blame it. Abuse, loses half of its virulence and poig nancy when clothed indecent, correct English. ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ The Spartanburg Dai'y Journal makes it debut this week before the public as a c»Yudidate for patronage. It is a bright, newsy, four-page, seven-column paper published every evening by the Spartanburg Journal Company, with Charles H. Henry as editor and manager. Mr. Henry is a newspaper man of wide and varied experience and is moreover an able and versatile writer. We ex tend a hearty welcome to him and his paper into the field of journalism and predict for them both a career of usefulness and success. There came near being serious trouble in Columbia on Labor Day between a company of negro soldiers and the citizens of the town. The soldiers were marching and counter marching completely blocking up main street, when two young men in a buggy ran into their line and passed on. Some eight or ten of the soldiers broke ranks without orders and pur sued them, vowing vengeance and stoning and insulting inoffensive citiens on the way. The young men fortunately were too fleet for them and the negroes returned disappointed and furious. Governor McSweeney appeared on the scene and restored order,|and ,had the rioters arrested and prosecuted. He has disbaaded the local company of negro militia. ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ We reiterate and endorse all that was said in ou/ local columns last Tuesday concerning Mr. H. D. Wheat and his contemplated move to Char lotte. Mr. Wheat has been a quiet power in the advancement of all the true interests of this town, and Gaffney can ill afford to lose him. The service he has rendered to the town has been so modest and unob trusive as not always to attract the attention of the multitude, but we beg to assure him that the thought ful observant part of the community appreciate, honor, and love him. We never knew how much we needed such men as H. D. Wheat and J. E. Bierck until they came among us, but now they are here, we feel that the town has reserve forces sufficient for any emergency. We sincerely hope that these will both find it to their interest to remain with us and help us bring the town up socially, morally and financially to their own high ideals. ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ The sudden death of Col. John B. Patrick, of Anderson, removes a prominent figure from the educa tional, social, and religious circles of the State. We knew him long and intimately, and we knew him to be a high-toned, broad-minded, true hearted Christian gentlemen, scurn- ing a baseness and boldly standing for the right without regard to favor or blame, to personal gain or loss. The newspapers are full of beautiful tributes to his life and character and we can hardly repress the vain regret that ail these tributes should have been withheld until he had become insensible to praise or blame. For we know of many difficulties of no ordinary kind which he met and overcame in the spirit of true and lofty manhood, and we cannot help but wonder how much more vigorous, efficient, and far-reaching it would have been if some of these generous expressions of appreciation and ad miration had been bestowed upon him while living. But that is the way of the world. We fully ap preciate blessings only by their loss, and we never know the full worth of a truly noble man until we gaze into the wide fathomless void created by his departure. ♦ ♦ The editor of the Spartan is en thusiastic on] the splendor of the heavens at 2 o’clock a. m. We are afraid he will not inspire many with such a love of beauty and grandeur that they will get up at such an hour merely to look at the stars, which they have been accustomed to see ever since childhood. Let us suggest then that while at this season the early moruing heavens may present a more magnificent spectacle, the early evening heavens are probably more interesting, be cause they give us an apportunity of viewing two of the most interesting planets of the whole group-—Jupiter und Saturn. Look just after dark to the South u little below and little west of where the sun is at the noon and you will see colossal Jupiter, the most conspicuous star in that whole region. Look about fifteen degrees, or one hour of time, east of him right in the western edge of the milky way and you will see tho wonderful Saturn. ^View Jupiter with a good spy glass and you will see his moons. Look at Saturn through a telescope of moderate power and you will see his wonderful rings. Watch these two stars with the naked eye with reference to tho fixed stars near them and note what changes occur. The subject is full of interest and profit. KILLED NEAR RICH HILL. Man Attempts to Drive Acroiia Track While Train is ruHNlng. [Spartanburg Herald.] Yesterday afternoon about 2:45 o’ clock, Columbus Moore,colored,while driving a wagon load of brooms from the Piedmont Broom factory, on his way to Pacolet, came to a railway crossing on the S. U. & C. road, just this side of his destination. Suddenly a train came along as the vehicle was halfway over the track. The train was behind time and was running at a brisk rate. The pilot of the engine struck the horse and the vehicle. The driver of the wagon, Columbus Moore, was dislodged, and thrown between the track, being killed and his body was mangled in a horrible manner, the horse suffering a like fate. The vehicle was demolished. The train which killed the man, Moore, is No. 13, of which E. B. Chase is conductor, and Mr. Boyd is the engineer. The inquest will be held this morn ing. Colmbus Moore, the unfortunate driver of the vehicle was known in this city as a hardworking colored man. New Jewelry Store. W. Harry Dodenhoff, brother of our insurance and real estate man, Huger S. Dodenhoff, has purchased : rom R. S. Lipscomb his stock of jew. elry, glassware and silverware, fancy articles etc., and has moved into the storeroom formerly occupied by J. R. Tolleson, next door to A. N. Wood’s bank. Mr. Dodenhoff expects to replenish his stock in a few days with a full line of all the latest novel ties in the jewelry line, and will always keep on band everything usually found in a first-class up-to- date jewelry store. He has a lot of articles ou hand now, which be ex pects to make a run on next week and close out at first cost in order to make room for new goods. He will also employ a first-class silversmith to do all kinds of repairing. Watch for his ad. next week. Mr. Dodenhoff is a new man among us and we wish him success. Cheap Railroad Rates. On account of the annual conven tion of colored Odd Fellows, Louis ville, Ky., October 2nd to 7th, 1900, the Southern Railway will sell round trip tickets from all stations on its lines to Louisville, Ky., and return at the rate of one first class fare for the round trip. Tickets to be sold September 29th. 80th and October 1st, with final return limit October 9th, 1900. Persons located at non coupon stations should notify ticket agent several days in advance of their contemplated departure, so that he may supply himself with proper form of tickets. Persons at non-coupon stations will kindly notify the ticket agent several days in advance of their contemplated departure in order that he may sup ply himself with proper form of tick ets. Will Be Married Oct. 1. Brussels, Sept. 5.—According to tho official announcement just ended, the marriage of Prince Albert and the Duch ess Elizabeth of Bavaria will take place here in the ancient church of St. Gua- dele on Oct 1. Great preparations are being made for the event for the prince, who spent some time in the United States, is the most popular member of the royal family. Killing at a Campmeeting. Greenville, S. C., Sept. 5.—At the St. Juhn negro campmeeting ground, about 4 miles from this city, three ne groes, Robert Foster, Freeman Gam- brell and Frank Miller, became iuvolv d in a difficulty. Foster was shot and in stantly killed by Gambrell. Treasure From the Klondike. San Francisco, Sept. A.—The steamer Umatilla has arrived from the north, bringing abont $1,600,000 in treasure from the Klondike and Douglass island and a few nuggets from Nome. The E assengers from Nome all tell stories of ard luck. _ Negro Excursionist Murdered. Opeuka, Ala., Sept. 6.—A negro ex- enrsion passed through Opelika from Columbus to Birmingham. Between Opelika and Birmingham some of the excursionists became involved in a diffi culty and one was killed and thrown off the train. Season Opens November 10. San Francisco, Sept. 6.—The West ern Tuif association, which owns Tan- foran pork, has re-elected all of its old officers and decided to begin the racing season for 1900-1901 on Nov. 19. Furnace Blown Out. Ashland, Ky., Sept 5.—The Aetna furnace has closed down, throwing 1,500 people oat. It is said the shut down is for repairs only. The Norton Iron and Nailworks has started up again. Her Throat Cut. Mobile, Sept. 5.—Francis Word, a negro woman, had her throat cat by a strange negro, whom she claims she did uot know. The wound will prob ably result fatally. Bttware of Ointments for Catarrh that Contains Mercury. as mercury will surely destroy the sense of smell and completely derange the whole sys tem when entering It through the mucuous surfaces. Such articles should never be used except on prescriptions from reputable ohyslclans, us too damage they will do Is ten fold to the good you cun possibly derive from them. IluM's Catarrh Cure, manufac tured by V. J. Cheney & Co.. Toledo, ()., con tains no mercury. and is taken Internally, acting directly upon the blood and mucuous surfaces of the system, In buying Hall's Catarrh Cure be sure to got the genuine. It Is taken internally, and made In Toledo. O., by F. J. Cheney & Vo. Testimonials free. Hold by Druggists, price 75 cents per bottle. Hall’s Family Pills are the best. LIMESTONE COLLEGE, Limestone College is thoroughly equippe l and offers to young women .advantages unsurpassed, if equaled, by any other college in the South. The Literary and Scientific Course comprises TI^IV while there are Five More for the extra courses of Music, Art, Elocution, Business, Stenography and Typewriting, all furnished with the best modern facilities and presided over by teachers of acknowledged ability. New and superb buildings, steam heat, hot and cold baths, large airy dormitories, new furni ture, new pianos, extensive Chemical and Physical Laboratories, a great Library, lo0 yards of broad piazzas, both pure Limestone and Artesian Water, tho most beautiful ten-acre Campus in the State, with ten acres more of romantic pleasure grounds attached,—these are some of the prominent features and constant attractions of Limestone College. The regular instruction given in the class-rooms is supplemented by lectures delivered by members of the faculty and at stated times by lecturers of IVationa.1 lt.eputa.tion in Science and Literature. The Winnie Davis School of History designed to collect, preserve and disseminate the His torical facts of our country, and to give the present and coming generations clear views of the motives and achievements of our fathers, is a part of the College and is endorsed officially by two State Legislatures, five Governors, many prominent citizens of the South, and by the United Con federate Veterans. Program of It It Aflito.iation. iCorrespondence of The Ledger.) Maktivsvii.i.k Sept .1. — I'tie Sun- ! ^ay School I nion of the northern section of the Broad K.ver Baptist Association will meet with the Ar row wood church on Friday before the fifth Sunday in Sept. 1900 at 11 | o’clock a. in. Introductory sermon by R. J. | Tate or G. M. Teal. Intermission—one hour for dinner. < Irganizat ion—after preliminary | st rviees by moderator. 1st. “What is it to worship God . in spirit and in truth?” Speakers, J. j M. Mullins or W. J. Hudson. 2nd. Do we not as Christians de pend too much upon our pastors and churches for salvation and too little upon Christ? Speakers, J. F. Quinn and R. L. Watkins. Adjourn until tomorrow. SECOND LAV. Meet at 10 o’clock a. m. Devotional exercises by the presi dent. 3rd. It is right to turn a man out of the church for getting drunk. Speakers S. A. Stacy and G. L. Mc- Bee. The next session will open on September 19th. Terms very reasonable. Write for Catalogue and further information to Senior Professor, Captain H. P. Griffith, or to the President, LEE DAVIS LODGE, A. M., Ph. D. MISSIONARY WORK AT A STANDSTILL. Missionaries Killed and Oth ers Have Left China. MR. CROCKER IN JAPAN. REVIVAL MEETING. ReligiouH KnteuHiaNin Is High and Many Join the Cliurcb. Rev. C. F. Felmet, of Converse, is conducting a revival meeting at Dray- tonville church and he says that religious enthusiasm is now running high in the community. The meet ing begun Sunday night Aug. 26th, and will probably continue for DOWN AT ETTA JANE. Condition of Crops and Doinks of I’eople In Lower Cherokee. (Correspondence of The Ledger.) Etta Jane, Sept. 5.—For the many kindnesses shown us by the good people of Cherokee county during the recent campaign, we are greatly in debted, and hope to remember them substantially at some future day. All the Southern liaptlxt MlHaionarie* are Safe hut a Few Hundred Othera Have Not Yet Reached a Place of Safety—A Graph ic Description of Things In the Orient. (Correspondence of The Ledger.) Fukuoka, Japan, Aug. 10.—It has been gratifying to see that The Ledger gives fairly, complete and ac curate news of the condition of things in China. The people of Cherokee county ought to congratu late themselves that they can get sufficient news of all the world at so little cost. Certainly there is now transpiring in the east one of the greatest trage dies in the world’s history. For the first time all the world is concerned in one affair. I think the Chinese strongly counted on the division of the powers and the weakness of Eng land on account of the Boer war. China has made desperate efforts lately to divide the powers, but as all the legations are alike in danger, her efforts have been in vain. We have never bad one single doubt as to the final success of the allies, but it may cost the Chinese millions of lives be fore it is done. Mission work all over China is at a stand still. “Missionaries killed” is an expression frightfully common in late papers. Hundreds of refugees have escaped to tho coast, some of them with nothing but the clothes they wear. Thousands of dollars worth of property has been destroyed —schools, hospitals, churches and mission bouses, all built and main tained in the interest of China. Lt Hung Chang says the mission aries in Pekin “don’t count for any thing,” and speaks of the Boxers killing Christians and even some loyal citizens. Chinese soil is now being bathed in the blood of martyrs. Among the refugee missionaries, the story of the faithfulness of the native Christian was touching. In Shantung the magistrate tried to get a native preacher to recant, but with the fearful punishment he stood firm. Many have risked their lives to save the foreigner. Many a soul from heathen China has gone up be fore the throne of God and stands with those who have gone through tribulations. Many missionaries are going home to England or America to take a rest while they cannot work in China Many have come to Japan and some are in the ports of China. A few hundred have not yet reached places of safety, and it is feared many will never do so. All of our Southern Baptist Missionaries are safe. Miss Lottie Moore, of Lungchow, with Miss Dr. Hoag, of the Methodist mission, are keeping house with us in Japan. We have rented a Japa nese house in Fukuoka by the sea side. We arrived here about a week ago and you can hardly imagine how restful it is—no talk of guns, or mobs, or ruffian soldiers, none of that pe culiar war excitement which keeps one uneasy all the time. How beautifully clean everything is here, and what lovely viewa of sea and mountain. Yesterday afternoon we went down to the beach and Bes sie gathered up the shells along the shore and watched the waves curl and break, advancing and receding, and we got our ahoea wet besides. We are reminded that we are in a heathen land, for last night our land lady came into our front yard and put »ome lighted lamps in front of some little gods she has there. I called the cook and he blew them out. But as you walk the streets you are struck with tho cleanliness of the city; see the soldiers and many of the people wear European clothes. There are no beggars to be seen and there are many signs of prosperity. Bicycles are common. The Japanese treat us in a very friendly manner. I think myself happy to have learned enough cf the language to be able to take accounts with the cook who does the market ing. We are rejoiced in being so hap pily located while we wait for the «vuy to open for us to return to China. W. E. Crocker. General rain has fallen over nearly all India during the past few days, and the prospects of the crops have improved immensely. The famine ureas have generally been beuefitted, another week. Interest in it has increased so that the house has been crowded to its utmost capacity, and on one or two occasions, Mr. Felmet was compelled to move seats out into the grove, so great was the congre gation that the church would not accommodate them. He had forty penitents before the alter last Sun day night and up to Wednesday thirty-seven applicants for member ship had been received. Mr. Felmet says that there is no excitement whatever connected with any of the meetings and that each and every one who joined the church had calmly and deliberately considered the matter and acted solely upon their own careful judgment without being influenced by any religious excitement usually attendant upon revival meetings. Mr. Felmet says that he has been preaching at Draytonville for three years, and that he has never before seen so much enthusiasm as that which is and has been exhibited at these meetings, nor more quite and orderly congregations than those he has preached to every day and every night since the meetings began. He was assisted last week by Rev. 8. C. Zimmerman, a good and earnest minister whose sermons were instru mental in bringing many to the altar and to the church. Mr. Felmet was called home Wed nesday on account of sickness in his family and, consequently the meeting was discontinued until he could get back, which he hoped to do yester day. He is a good man, a faithful worker and couscientions preacher, and it is meet that his work should be blessed and crowned with success as it has been during this senes of meetings at Draytonville. He was one among the very first subscribers to The Ledger and has been taking it since his name was put upon our mailing list. He says that his family feel like they cannot do without it. We wish him a con tinuance of the success with which he is meeting, and trust that his labors in the Master’s vipeyard may ever result in lasting good to the community in which he may be at work. The Draytonville church sent us $5.10 for the India famine sufferers, for which they have our thanks, and we know they will have the thanks and the prayers of poor mortals whose sufferings the money will relieve. Let the good work go on. BLACKSBURG BUDGET. Personal Paragraphs About Our Friends Refund the Rroad. .Correspondence of The Ledger.) Blacksiiuhq, Sept. 0.—Miss Marion Logan, of Yorkville, is visiting her aunt, Mrs. D. E. Ramseur. Miss Annie Dee Freeman, one of our most charming young ladies, left Thursday for an extended visit to Toccoa, Avalon and Elberton. Miss Cally Vincent, of Heath Springs, is visiting her runt, Mrs. J. W. Bowers. Miss Alice Gaston, one of our fair young ladies, left Wednesday for Raleigh where she will attend school. Miss Anna Shute, of Lancaster, iius been on a visit to Mrs. Jane Warren. Misses Belle and Ella Whiteside are visiting their uncle, Dr. J. T. Darwin. Miss Mary Eliza McLeod, aftir spending a week with her brother, Rev. D. M. McLeod, returned to her home in Lynchburg Wednesday. Miss Mary Brandon left Wednesday for Baltimore, where she will remain this season and study music. Mrs. M. J. Bell, of Yorkville, is visiting her daughter, Mrs. R. E. Knox. Mr. William Caldwell, of King’s Creek, was in town Wednesday. £Mrs. Eva Harris, who has been spending some time with her aunt, Mrs. Gaston, left Wedntsday ;or her future home in Spencer. Mrs. J.Q. Little and daughter, of Gaffney, are visiting Mrs. Karls, of this place. Walter Bentley, one of our popu lar business men, returned hume Tuesday from a trip to Asheville. Mrs. Edmund Bridges, who has been in Grover for the past week, returned home Wednesday. Miss Ella Little has gone north to purchase her winter goods. l. b. r. The average wheat crop of this country yields about 500,000,0011 bushels. Crops of the county are generally light—far below an axerage. The northern section of our county, es pecially that along the waters of Buffalo and King's creek, are b -tter than they are elsewhere, taken as a whole. Not only have these sections hud better seasons, but llicir crops have been better worked than most other places we visited. Our friend, Sam Hippy, who was afraid that he would be voted on us the laziest white man in Cherokee county, has the best crop of up'ur d corn we have seen. He is one of the best farmers in the county ana he says as little about it. There are, no doubt, many farms in tiiat. sec tion that will compare favorably with Mr. Rippy’s, hut we did not have the opportunity to examine them. King’s creek never fails to make corn and wheat, too, if any is made in upper South Carolina. In the Maud section we four d some very good crops and they have been well woraed, too, for a season such as this has been. Tiie rest of the county, where we had the opportu nity to examine, we find the drought to have materially effected the crops of both corn and cotton. It is only now and then you cun find a field of corn or cotton that would do to brag on. The seasons seem to have been on the extremes all the year— either too wet or too dry—and under these circumstances it has been im possible for fanners to give their crops the work they would otherwise have done. Our thanks are due Hon. 1). E. Finley, M. C., for a supply of con gressional documents sent us. Mose Edwards, colored, was hanged at Concord. N. C., last Monday and buried at Mt. Zion (colored) church near Hopewell on Tuesday. He had killed a policeman near two years ago. Mr. and Mrs. John II. Fowler are rejoicing over the arrival of a boy baby at their home one day last week. Fodder pulling is going on in dead earnest. The fine weather for saving it is very much appreciated by the farmers. The string band gave us some good music last Saturday evening. They meet at H. B. McDaniels next Sat urday evening. Mr. 8. F. Estes has a first-class tubular well in front of his door with a capacity of 8^ gallons of water to the minute. Cotton is opening and and the pickers are at work. The price cow is some inducement to get it out and in market soon. Rev. J. P. Marion preached at Salem last Sabbath. His text was, “ vVhat must I do to be saved?” Mrs. Marion accompanied him, and they came through the country by private conveyance from Richburg. Mrs. Marion was a Castles and belongs to that sturdy stock of people known as the “Rocky (’reek Irish.” It F hoped that arrangements will soon be made by which they will occupy a parsonage at Hickory Grove. Mrs. Joo Estes is sick. She has chills. j. l. s. Promptitiul - In Huaiiieti*. [Spartanliur^ Herald. I Tuesday morning an order for 40 yards of carpet for the Sunday school of the new Presbyterian church wa- placed by Hill Ji Morgan Co., with the Gaffney carpet mill. The carpet was taken from the loom on Friday, and shipped to this place on Satur i y morning, and by Saturday afternoon the carpet had beti. placed ou the floor in time for use ou Sunday. This was indeed quk-K work and re flects credit upon the huaim as promptness of the mill and the Hill & Morgan Co. For an army of 30,009 men and lO.OOO horses for three months, it is estimated that 11,000 tons of food and forage are necessary. The pineapple crop of Florida will break ad previous records. The value of the crop on the east coast alone will ho in excess of $300,000 Cuts and HrtiUeit <Jui«-kl) Healed. Chamberlain’s Puin Balm applied ; to a cut, bruise, burn, scald or like injury will instantly allay the pain and will heal the parts in kt-s time ' than any other treatment. Fnuss the injury is v* ry severe it will not ! leave a scar. Pain Balm also cures rheumatism, sprains, swelling and lameness. For sale by Cherokee . Drug Company. 4th. It is right to turn a man out of the church who will not help sup port the same? Speakers, J. J. C. Ezell and K. 1). Edwards. Intermission one hour. 5th. Which is the greater hinder- anee to gospel prosperity, the with holding of financial uid when needed or the indiscriminate use of intoxi- etting liquors? Speakers, \V. T. P. Ez *11 and L. B. Davis. fi’.h. What is the prerogative of the church as set forth in Matthew IStii, 15fi to 2»)th? Speakers J. M. Bridges an 1 W. T. Horton. Quest im box. Dismission. Sunday, ir eot at 9:30 a. m. Devoid inal exercises tv moderator. Sunday ‘ School miss-meeting ad- dres-ed by J. M. Bridges . Music by D. P. J. M art i n. bssoy i I>y Mtries 4 Nanni e Stacy and Mira ii:. :ks. Mies'oi iiiry sf-rt; i in by I '. C. Ilick- sou or A I). Dtvi <{.- > r i. 4 * . M. Tk. w. Cii’m. J. F. Q I I.NN, Se c. 'Matters u! r. (Corn spondenei ■ of The Ledger.) Mkkc . Sept. 5.—Sin •e our last letter it !ia« beei n our s ad duty to attend t lie fun't: i! of ou ir i.eighbor, Mr. Wiiii .am I'pc •hurch. 1 he burial services W‘ re cm ■ dueled by Rev. W. T. Tumi jeon. H e spok e beautiful lauguaire to the living. Some of us will nev . r f >rg< r his w< irds. If we could livi seach da y as tli auigh it was our last what a pardise this world would i 3C. Jiu t, uius, man is so prone to sin. Mrs. L V. Gaffney, wl; io lias been visiting relatives in th.is community several days, relurned. home Tuesday accompanied by .Miss Mollie Mont gomery. Miss L'llie Williams, of Gaffney, is " visiting Misses Lara and Josie Davis. The farmers are about through pulling fodder and have just begun to pick cotton. Crops are very short and it will not take them long to gather them. Three of our young ladies left this community last week and went to Cherokee Falls. We regret to see them go. Prat. Over=Work Weakens Your Kidneys ♦ Unhealthy Kidneys Make Impure Blood. Al! the blood in your body passes through your kidneys once every three minutes. The kidneys are your blood purifiers, they fil ter out the waste or impurities in the blood. If they are sick or out of order, they fail to do their work. Pains, achesandrheu- mat:sm come from ex cess of uric acid in the blood, due to neglected kidney trouble. Kidney trouble causes quick or unsteady heart beats, and makes one feei as though they had heart trouble, because the heart is over-working in pumping thick, kidney- poisoned blood through veins and arteries. It used to be considered that only urinary troubles were to be traced to the kidneys, but now modern science proves that nearly all constitutional diseases have their begin ning in kidney trouble. If you are sick you can make no mistake by first doctoring your kidneys. The mild and the ext.aordinary effect cf Dr. Kilmer's Swamp-Root, the great kidney remedy is soon realized. It stands the highest for its v/onderfu! cares of the most distressing cases and is sold on its merits by all druggists in fifty- cent and one-dollar siz es. You may have a Sample bottle by mail Rome of Sw-amp-Root. free, also pamphlet telling you how to find out if you have kidney or bladder trouble. Mention this pan r when writing Dr. Kilmer & Co.. Binghamton. N. Y. A FEEbH STOCK of ;■(><><:* Is what we always strive to 1,11,1. We have nothing'stuli 1 . RECENTLY RECEIVED A in tv 1 a of L « K'delicious Snowflake ickei fhl erlay—and Low* rey’s fanioiis enndh s In one-half, one, aiel two-pound l«>\es. AT OUR STORE The fi< -host line of cake* and confec tioneries in the city, am) ever thing else that is osuully kept in n tirsi-class fancy vroeery store. Youra to please. Peeler & Gaffney. Is it Not Biglit to insure? A rnv r U'u-ki d < i> and < ‘hlr iivo wan i>ut nf<i 1111 !m* jxr ouih) anij : iUD.M'O j• *0|1 ill- made hoiiiuic vs. So nj lay your 1 barn U 1 destroy t 41 |.y a trifling *t al your Wife uti at chiKlrt* »i t h l'o 11 on tin* oh arttj of Ot , H*»'S for >h* it cr am] foi xi. You v tn pn- vent ai »y > 1 ’Ii O' •rut nor** i: In the Cla r il: «*«* To. M uii you *1] I dlhl do tM-causi etitifhs. i- it ison« » *»i UolUtf a iU< - h bu- The r •at‘*s of in ivuranrt* hi itiit | 11 11' 1 rrat. i krpt at tit iiid- fur Hu f i oH to m tM* or tin; .\<*iUn rn st;ttett rluhtr. If your un*w«i is “YiV then *r«U‘K*r A. !>• I>»v1iIm»h. HutTirv, or Mr. Trank Mc- Pr r< Gaffney, b. U.