Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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\ This i^ici>oisk. BY En. H. DkCamp. PUBLISHED TUESDAY AND FRIDAY NCKAI’M OK II IsTOKY NO. 'i. After the overthrow of the carpet bag government of South Carolina in 187<i, by far the greater number of those who had been conspicuous figures throughout the era of "good stealing,” disappeared as suddenly as they had ten years before emerged into view. Moses, the first scalawag Governor, and the worst of them all, ended his life as a common tramp in a distant State. The list of his vices comprised all that belong to the lowest stage of moral degradation. It was said of him by his political friends that he was the greatest spendthrift on earth. His profligacy was bounded only by the means within his reach of satiating his low born and vitiated appetite and pas sions. He paraded his criminal amours on the streets of Columbia and used his bigh office solely for what he could get out of it for him self and for his companions in debauchery. He would not have been trusted with a country post- ofTice, he was unfit to umpire a game of baseball; ho was incapable of governing a herd of donkeys. Yet such a man under the protection and through the instrumentality of the republican party of the United States was exalted to the governorship as the exponent and representative of the virtue, intelligence, and pa triotism of a proud and heroic State. Scott the carpet bagger, who suc ceeded him, was an unscrupulous political adventurer with more brains and a little more regard for decency, but in moral principle, not above Moses. He filled the State with an armed constabulary force, established armories and magazines at the court houses and harried and goaded the people with all the tyranny of a military despot. It was under lus administration that what was called "the Laurens War” broke out in which several of his constables were killed, their armory captured and broken up and the whole force driven pell mell to headquarters at Colum bia. Scott, we believe, died a few years ago in a northern State in utter obscurity. Chamberlain,who succeed him, was also a carpet bagger, but a man of respectable intellectual attainments and of unobjectionable moral char acter. He was capable under ordi nary circumstances of giving the State an acceptable administration, but he was a republican, and republi canism at the South then meant, as it now means, though with modified intensity, the domination of igno rance and moral depravity over in telligence, honor, patriotism, and all the virtues that hold society to gether and dignify and elevate man kind. No man could long steer the ship of state safely through the troubled waters, with only such a chart for his guidance. It was under his administration that the Ellenton riot occurred which at one time threatened to plunge the whole state into interne cine war. General M. C. Buter was accused of inciting, or at least of en couraging that riot, and the governor would have gladly had him arrested and subjected to a mock traial, had not such a step been too hazardous. Butler publicly heaped his scorn and indignation on the State government and openly defied the governor and all his power. It would have re quired at that time the whole United States army to hurt a hair of Butler’s head. Chamberlain, after having been driven from the gubernatorial chair by the revolution of ’70, left the state and has since resided, wo think, in New York. He is a lawyer of con siderable reputation, and his opin ions and questions of law and of politics have weight with ail who know him personally or by reputa tion. He is the only one of the carpet bag governors, and, so far as we can now recall, of all the promi nent carpet baggers and scalawags of that time, who has retained the re spect and, to some extent the con fidence, of intelligent and self-re specting people. He has paid fre quent visits to South Carolina since the days of his political exaltation, and while his vis ts excited no en thusiasm, he was treated with re spect and consideration. He has been accorded full credit for the few efforts that he made during his governorship to restrain the abuses and excesses of the party in power. NEWSJ’APKltDOM. The Atlanta Daily News is the name of an afternoon paper recently started in Atlanta. It is a ten-page, seven-column paper, and leaps to the front at one bound dressed in all the paraphernalia of a great daily. It Is said that the great newspaper operator Hearst, is behind it with his millions of money and that this fact Insures its success. Be this as it may, it enters the field with an air of self confidence that indicates a full treasury. We note also that our honored contemporary and neighbor, the Char. lotte Observer, is now appearing seven times a week instead of six, as hereto fore. \Y T e have noticed heretofore that the Observer was restless |over the off day, as shown by the frequenl extras it would issue on Monday, when the news had come piling in thick and fust on Sunday uight. The Observer knows what it is about and will hold its place in the front rank of southern journalism. NOTES AND COMMENTS. A RALLY REUNION AT SECOND BAPTIST An Inovation in Church Ser vices in Gaffney. PASTOR FORD’S SERMON. "Chairman Jones of the National Democratic Committee, says that Senator Tillman is winning golden opinions out west, whereupon the Greenville News remarks, that he had better bo winning votes for Bryan. We say so, too. So far as we have observed, Senator Tillman is devot ing a good deal of time to defending things that need no defence, such as the South Carolina election laws at d other things that have no place in the national campaign. Just now nobody here cares what the people out west think of South Carolina, her dispensary, her election laws, her five colleges, nor of Ben Tillman thrown in. The big coal strike it seems is over, and the strikers are the victors. The operators conceded everything de manded, and there was no longer left any ground for the strikers to stand on. If this is the truth of the matter, it is most remarkable. The operators were abundantly able to hold out indefinitely; the strikers could not have held out much longer without suffering for food. Their resources were nearly exhausted, and another week or two would have brought the sharp pangs of hunger, if not starvation, to many of tMr families. Nor is it to be supposed that the operators cared cither for the strain put upon the coal market, for the profits of the railroads or for the prospective suffering of the poor during the coming winter, for want of fuel. Trusts and corporations are not given to much indulgence in sen timent. Mark Hanna or some of his henchmen have been talking to the operators. That is the only hypothe sis on which this strange conduct can be explained. "Doth Job serve God for naught?” The national and state elections are just two weeks off, and our peo ple seem to he regarding them with utter indifference. As to our st.ue and county elections, we have cou e to regard them as virtually settled by the primary, and whatever surplus enthusiasm our people had was ex pended on that. As to the election of president there are two reasons for indifference. One is that our Stale has become so fixed in politics that there is no doubt as to how its elec toral vote will be cast; and the other is that a great many of our people who are rapidly becoming wealthy, are beginning to lean to wards republicanism and had about as soon have McKinley for president as Bryan. Owing to peculiar condi tions they must cling to State de mocracy; but for those conditions they would be out-and-ou' republi cans. This assertion may not be prudent, but it is true. ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ This week the Spartanburg Carni val is in progress and no doubt great crowds will be attracted to that growing and enterprising city. Among the many attractions offered is a lecture next Thursday evening on the character of Gen. Kobert K. Lee, by President Andrews, late of Brown University. All Confederate veterans are cordially invited to bear the lecture and will be furnished free tickets. The lecture will be delivered in the auditorium of Converse Col lege under the auspices of the Wof ford College Lyceum. We acknowl edge with pleasure the reception of a special invitation from the Lyceum Committee and return our thanks for the same. We have no desire, however, to hear President Andrews nor any other life-long enemy to the principles for which Gen. Lee and his followers fought and suffered, lecture now upon his character. We feel that that character Is too sacred to the great Southern heart to be lightly discussed with profane lips. Gen. Lee’s enemies paid him long ago the highest unwilling tributes of praise ever paid to any man on this conti nent, and his character now needs no vindication at their hands. These are our sentiments, and we have no apologies to offer for giving them ex pression. KiHmark'H Iron Nerve Was the result of his splendid health. Indomitable will and tre mendous energy are not found where Stomach, Liver, Kidneys and Bow els are out of order. If you want these qualities and the success they bring use Dr. King’s New Life Pills, They develop every power of brain and body. Only 20 cents at Chero kee Drug Co. Pittsburg capitalists have bought 2500 acres of coal lands at Houston- vllle, Penn., on the Panhandle Hoad, for $200,000. Now 1* tho SrMon when the hiiiuII boy fills himself wit h green fmit, which invaria bly leads to eiumps, iliurrhu a or dysentery. If parents are prudent,they will have a ls>t- tle of Pain-Killeb, ready for such summer emergencies. Avoid substitutes, there is but one Pttiu-JLUlcr, Perry Davis’. Price 20c. and 60c. Was the Treat of the Service, Which Was Compose)! of Short Aihtresses anti Reports by the Heads of the Different Depart ment*. All In a Trosperous Condition. The Sunday evening service at the Second Baptist church was an inno vation in church services in Gaffney. It was what Pastor Ford was pleased to term "A Rally Reunion,” and it consisted of short addresses and re ports by those who have the various departments in charge. Superinten dent Charles Davis, of the Sunday school reported that there was an a,- erage attendance on the Sunday school of 175 members. Mr. Charles Maigatter reported that there was an average attendance upon the weekly prayer-meetings of sixty-five. Presi dent Walter Stegall, of the Young People’s Union, reported tbet the union had about one hundred mem bers on the roll and that the union was in a most prosperous condition. Chairman of the Official Board E. R. Cash reported that there had been collections and expenditures since Mr. Ford had been in charge of the church, about six weeks, to the amount of nearly $300. An interest ing incident of the occasion was the duet singing of Misses Fannie Simp son and Alma Samples. These young ladies possess sweet voices and their singing created a great deal of favor able comment. The treat of the service was Pas tor Ford’s sermon. He was in an unusual happy mood and chose as his text Philippians 3:13-14: •‘But this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reach ing forth unto those things which are before, I press forward to the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.” Mr. Ford spoke in part as follows: These words were written more than 1800 years ago by Paul to the church at Philippi. Christianity was still young, in all the fre^'mess of its first youth. It had come suddenly into the world. The world seemed growing old; the old religions had lost whatever power they once possessed; the o 1 phi'oso- phers were worn out; the energies of political life had b m weakened or suppressed by the a 1 tervading des potism of Rome. A rice, unclean ness and cruelty were rampant in the earth. There was little faith in God, in goodness and in immortality. "What is truth?” was the despairing question of the age. The gospel flashed upon this scene of moral con- fus on like, what in truth it is, a rev elation from heaven. It brought be fore the eyes of men a life, a person. The world saw for the first time a perfect life; not a mere ideal, but a real life, lived among men, a life that stands alone, separate from all other lives; unique in Us solitary majesty, in its unearthly loveliness, in its ab solute purity, in its entire unselfish ness. The world saw for the first time the beauty of complete self sac rifice. And this life was not merely a thing past and gone. It was still living, it is still living in the church today. The life of Christ lived in his saints. They felt it, "Not I but Christ liveth in me.” They could tell others the blessed realities of their own spiritual experience. They had nothing to gain in the world. Paul especially had renounced a career most tempting to wordly am bition, for a life of unceasing labor, a life of hardships, persecution, dan gers, and evidently destined to end in a violent death. The constraining love of Christ urged him to spend and be spent in his master’s wo ‘k. And amid all its difficulties, anxieties and dangers ho found a deep and living joy, jny amottg tears; "sorrowing,” ho said of himself, "yet always re joicing ” No wonder that those early years were years of fruitfulness. Earnest, truthful natures soon ranged them selves with this religion of love and joy. A chord was struck that vi brated in Hti true hearts. All who waited for salvation, who were long ing after God, were gathered round the cross. This people had much over which to rejoice, and to which they could point with just pride. And Paul more, for he said of him self,''! am a Hebrew of the Hebrews,” "as touching the law, a Pharisee.” which merit perfect obedience to the law. And yet he said, forgetting all this, "I press forward for grander achievements, higher attainments in divine life.” Our conversation is to be of the future, for said he, "our conversation is in heaven.” YVe are strangers and pilgrims on the earth. There is a beautiful legend of a company of beings from the celestial world who, in disguise, visited a great city one night on some errand of mercy. YVhen their work was finish ed they hastily departed, but in some way one of their number, a fair young spirit, was left behind, lost in a strange town. YVhen the people be gan to move in the streets in the morning they found a sweet hoy sit ting on the steps of the temple. They spoke to him but be could not under stand nor answer them. He replied to their inquiries by streaming eyes and looks of fear and alarm. Pres ently a slave bearing a harp came among the crowd. The child saw the harp and eagerly reached out his hand to take it. Flinging his arms about it he affectionately embraced it. Then he began to touch the strings and wonderful music, pure, clear, melodious, like liquid pearls, foil upon the morning air. This was the language the celestial stranger knew. We are like lost children in the world if wo do not know our own high er and truer nature. YVe cannot live simply on earthly lines, we are beings of celestial birth, strayed from our real homo and environments. Everything about ua is strange. We do not belong here, heaven is our home. Of course wo are thankful for our comfortable surroundings, and the progress we have made in these things—this neat house of worship, our Sunday school, prayer-moeting, young people’s union and our present membership. But rather do we re joice that our names are wiitteu in the lamb’s book of life. Christ taught his disciples to rejoice over this more than the fact that devils were subject to them. Here within these sacred walls many have sought Christ, and we be lieve have found Him ; of these some have gone to the bettr .• world, others in the course of human event?, are worshipping elsewhere. But even these are not lost to us. The other day a lady, doing now a noble work as a teacher, said that only that morning she had come acroL a book which was given to her on the day of her graduation from college. She h .d not seen the book for in> re than ten years. As she turned its pag r almost every paragraph was marked. As she went on she remembered how carefully in other days she had read this almost forgotten book, taking its very words into her life, t id now she was astonished to find how it had influenced her. All the best things in her life and character, she said, had been inspired by that book. The book h J its mission to her at a par ticular time in her life, and it had wrought its minist-y well and then had been laid aside. The same is true of many of life’s friendships. They have their days and pass out of our lives, but what they have wrought in us we shall keep forever. Its ac tive ministry may have ceased, and yet its works in us have been most en riching; its ties Jmay still bo intact, and it should be sacredly cherished among God’s best gifts to us. The past we give to God, with sor row for its short comings, with grati tude for whatever of good there was in it. “Mon-like is it to fall into sin, Fiend-like is itto dwell therei i, t'hrist-llke is It for sin to grieve. Hod-like is it all sin to leave." As to the future, it depends entirely on tbc use wo make of the present Hying opportunities. "This life is what we make it, This world is as we take it." YVe are not to wait for some great opportunity for service to come to us, but use the lever at our hand, there where God hath placed us, he will find how to make us of service if we but do our best. "Just where thou a. t lift ur> thy voice. And sinjr Hie son^ that st .’s tny heart, iteach fui tli thy stroax am 1 eager hand To lift to save just where ttiou art. Just where thou standest light thy lamp, 'Tis dark t > oiliers as to thee; Their wavs are he-'xod oy unseen thorns, Their burdens iret as tn ; ae fret thee. Out yonder in-tae broad, full glare Of many lamps ih aeown might pale; And tli v sweet song amid the roar CH many vo ces s "wly fall. While tnese «Jiy kindred wandered on ii nchce 'ed uu. g.iujd to the end Near to thy hand thy mis lion Fes, Whe.ever sad hearts need a friend.” To do our best in life, it is impor tant that we should seize every op- portnnity for labor or service, for personal enjoyment or for bestowing sympathy day by day as it comes to us. These opportunities if lost, are lost forever. "On the wild Mse tree Many buds there he. Yet each sunny hour Hath but one perfect flower. Thou who wouldest ho wise Open wide thino eyes, lu each sunny hour Pluck the one perfect flower." Each of us has a work to do and how much depends upon our being faithful, eternity alone will reveal. YVe ought to recognize too that all work is honorable as well as impor tant. The laborer is a high priest unto God in whatever sphere he may work. No one is condemned to drudgery. lie who does his work grandly and does it with his soul as well as with his hands is making the world better by living in it. It is nobler to lay bricks by the plumb line than to rule a kingdom badly. The distinction between one man and another is not to bo found in so cial position or the environments of wealth and power, but in the quali ties of the heart. There is a princi pal involved in the spinning of every thread spun in yonder mill. To feel that the work you are now doing is God's work, and must be done with fervor and fidelity, is to stand facing the throne of the eternal and to wear the robe of authority. The story of the violin maker, Stradivarious, is very suggestive, "lie said that if his hand slackened in its work of making violins he would rob God and leave a blank instead of good violins. He said that even God could not make Antonios violins without Antonio.” This is true of every one of us in our particular oc cupation. God depends upon our faithfulness. Even he cannot do our work well without us. If our hand slacks at any point, and we fall short of our best we are robbing God. This is true when applied to any life or work. One is engaged in a factory, one in a machine shop, one in an office, one in a store, one on a farm, one is at school. One man is a physician, another is a lawyer, an other is a minister, another is an ed itor. YVhatever our work is we can not be faithful to God unless we do it as well as we can. To slur it is to do God’s work badly. To neglect it is to rob God. “Teach me lu all UiIik.h thou to ace, Amt what 1 do lu Hoytulug To do it as lor thee. Notii ng so small can be, hut shows When acted for thy sake HrcHtuuss and worth from thee." Fa’tbfulness in little things may set in motion agencies for good, which may become immense, like the pebble cast into the lake starts a ripple which will reach the other shore, though distant it may be, so these agencies will run through the unfolding years of time and strike on the shores of eternity. Many of us have heard the story of a child finding a little leak in the dike that shuts off the seu from Holland, and stopping it with his him 1 until help came, staying there ail night holding back the flood. YVe understand how important it was that that boy should be faithful, since he was the only one God had that night to hold the sea back. Do you know that any com mon day your life may be all that stands between some great Hood of moral ruin, and broad, fair fields of beauty? '>o you know that yohf failure to be faithful in your lowly place may not let in a sea of disaster which shall sweep away human hopes and joys? YVo never know when we hold great interests In our keeping, nor what depends upon our being faithful. YVe road of moments in the lives of other people where far- reaching issues hung upon a decision, or a word, or a single act. But we forget that issues just as important may depend upon what we do or say any moment of any day. In the path of duty we may expect to find discouragements, and even open op position. It was so with our Ixirds he was adjudged guilty and nailed to the cruel cross. Persecutions are but the promised heritage of the Chris tian, but these should strengthen our faith, remembering that our trust in God is the soul’s sure anchor a< 1st life’s storms and disappoin. ments Thuuvli time may dig the frravc of creeds, And dogmas wit her in the sod, My soul will keep the thought it needs, its swerveless faith In Hod. .'So matter how the world began. Nor where the march of science goes. My trust In something more than man Shull help me hear life's woes. Let progress take the props awav, And moldering superstitions fall, Still Hod retains his regal sway The maker of all. Why cavil over that o- this? Une thought is vast enough for me, The great Creator was and is, And evermore swill he. We are to do with our might what our hands find to do. These fleeting moments are precious, so much so that some one has said, that "only one is given at a time and that one taken before another is given.” The night is coming when no man can work. We are standing upon the threshold of Christian possibilities, the door of which will open only to the pressure of an earnest, loving hand. We are on the bottom round of the ladder whose toomost one is with God and the angels, and until that is reached there is work for us to do. "Then onward brother, onward! Our high task will not be o’er Till the heavens are rolled together And the eartli shall be no more." Mr. Ford announced at the conclu sion of his sermon that the church would have five dozen new chairs by Sunday week to accommodate the congregation. He has met with an unusually warm reception in Gaffney and his congregations have grown until it has been a difficult matter to seat the people. It is believed that the additional chairs will relieve the difficulty for a while at least. PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS. People Yon Know and People Yon Don’t Know. W. Sam Lipscomb, of Asbury, was in the city Saturday. Mr. Lipscomb was all smiles, having just sold forty bales of cotton, making over one hun dred bales that he had sold this sea son at a price that averaged above ten cents. Mr. Lipscomb has about fifty more bales to sell. He is one of the most progressive citizens of Cherokee county. J. J. Biggerstaff, of Greenville, spent several days in the city the past week in the interest of the Pied mont Iron Works, of which he is manager. Wade Elmore, one of Cherokee’s good fellows and prosperous planters, was in the city Saturday. H. Fay Gaffney returned to the city last week from an extensive trip in the interest of the Mutual Reserve Fund Life Association. He leaves this week for Rock Hill and other points. J. W. Isler, who has been working fo the Crowder Mountain Mills, at King’s Mountain, last week moved to Gaffney and will make this his future home. Mr. Isler is a welcome addi tion to Gaffney and we hope he will fiiid his move both pleasant and prof itable. J. C. Phillips, one of The Ledger’s good friends at State Line, was in the city yesterday. Rev. L. C. Ezell, of Woodruff, was here Saturday. Mrs. C. E. Gilbert and her son, Mar ion, of Washington, D. C., are in the ci*y the guests of Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Smith on Victoria avenue. Mrs. Gil bert once lived at this place for sev eral years, and was a great worker in the temperance cause among the young folks. S. M. Scoggins, one of our city friends, called in to see us Saturday. E. R. Williams, of Athens, Ga,, spent Sunday in the city, the guest of Mrs. Agnes Wood and family. L. A. Jones returned from Spartan burg yesterday where he had been to see his son, Clarence, who is sick. Superintendent YV. B. Ryder, of the Southern railway, was in the city Saturday. Shell Sparks is located temporarily at Blacksburg. The good people of our sister city had belter keep an eye on Shell or he might take a no tion to make Blacksburg his perma nent home, and if he did they might just as well make up their minds for trouble. Mr. T. R. Cox, of the Victor Cot ton Seed Oil Mill, went over to Spar tanburg yesterday on business. He will return today. Munro Lemmons went to Spartan burg Friday to eee the circus. J. W. Smith, one of our most pro gressive citizens, came in Saturday and had his paper run up to 1902. Dr. Sarratt, of Sarratt’s, was with his relatives here Saturday and Sun day. J. M. Wise, a prominent citizen of Chester, was in the city Saturday. Rev. W. S. B. Ford left yesterday for Waterloo, in Laurens county, where he will assist in a series of revival meetings. From there he will probably go to Columbia for a few days. Walter Gaffney, of the Southern railroad, spent Sunday in the city with his fparente, Capt. and Mrs. R. M. Gaffney, on Grenard street. WL A. Anderson, a prominent merohant of Woodruff, spent Satur day and Sunday with the family of his uncle, Prof. H. P. Griffith, at Limestone. Mr. Anderson has a daughter in Limestone College, and he came over to visit her. W. H. McGuire, a large mail con tractor of Dsnvillt.Va.. was here yes terday looking after his contracts in this section of the country. Dr. J. H. Downey is visiting the family of Prof. Griffith at Limestone. D. Cardwell, of Columbia, one of the high officials of the Southern railway, way in the city Saturday. W. F. McGuire, of the South Caro lina and Georgia Extension railroad, spent a few hours here Saturday. W. H. Eckford, a prominent citizen of Atlanta, Ga., was here Sunday. W. W. Stover, of Spartanburg, was among the visitors in the city i riday. Col. T. B. Butler spent Friday in Spartanburg on professional business. J. E. Crocker has returned from Ezells where he spent several days on bu8in n F8. W. W. Hoard, of the city, was a welcome visitor in our office Satur day. St. John Butler spent Friday in the Spartan City on business and pleasure combined. Miss Ella Kirby vjb.ted friends in Etta Jane last week. J. J. Brady, a popular young man of Aiken, is visiting the family of Mr. S. L. Hopper on Logan street. M. YV. Goforth, of Thickety, was in the city Saturday and renewed his subscription to The Ledger. Postmaster Folger spent Sunday in Easley with Mrs. Folger, who has been visiting relatives at that place for a week or two. J. Q. Little, and son, Stanyarne, spent Saturday in Spartanburg. J. B. Bell, Esq., was in Spartan burg Friday on legal business. Judge J. E. Webster left last night for Little Rock, and other points in Arkansas on business con nected with some estate interests there. He expects to be gone a week or ten days. Luther Mullinax, of Trov, spent Sunday and yesterday in tne city. He once lived at this place a’ld has many friends here who will always give him a a cordial welcome. Earnest Humphries "took in” the circus in Spartanburg Friday. H. E. Tindall made us a pleasant call Saturday and renewed his sup port of The Ledger. J. H. Garrett, a prominent citizen of King’s Mountain, N. C., spent Sunday here with his brother, Dr. J. F. Garrett. Miss Ada Wood spent Sunday with relatives at Pacolet. J. N. Long, of King’s Mountain, N. C., was in the city Saturday. Albert Lipscomb went to Spartan burg yesterday to witness the foot ball game between the Wofford Col lege and Clemscn teams. Mrs. Griffin and daughter, Miss Annie, of Rome, Ga., are visiting the family of Prof. R. 0. Sams on Victoria avenue. Special Term of Court. Governor McSweeny has ordered a special term of court to be held at this place, beginning Monday Nov. 5tb. There were a large number of civil cases left over from the recent regular term here, on account of the lack of time in which to dispose of them; and it was for that reason that the members of the Cherokee bar petitioned the governor for an extra session. Judge Hudson, of Lancaster, will preside. At the Second MethodUt. The meeting at the Second Metho dist church Sunday night was the be ginning of a series of meetings which will continue throughout the week. Mr. Creech, the pastor, is getting to be quite a noted revivalist; he is an earnest and indefatigable worker and his efforts deserve to be crowned with success. Oalnes-Smlth. On Monday, Oct. 15th, Mr. Lewis R. Gaines, of this city, and Mrs. B. Smith, of Mt. Zion, were united in marriage at Sharon, N. C., by Rev. L. Smith. Mr. Gaines is a well known painter here and has many friends who will rejoice in his good fortune. Local Cottou Heport. The following are the prices paid for cotton in Gaffney today: Good Middling 9:25 Middling 9:06^ COCAINE*™ WHISKY H*biU Onr«d at m» Haitator* lum, la SO <Uy«. lianrlr#^* of roferOBOOT. 26 jr-nr* p ^ Book OB Homo Traatmout Mnt KKI'.K. A<ldrm« B. M. WOOLLEY. M. D.. Atlanta. Ca. Don't Get Thin Get fat; get nice and plump ; there is safety in plumpness. Summer has tried your food-works; winter is coming to try your breath-mill. Fall is the time to brace yourself. But weather is tricky; look out! Look out for colds espec ially. Scott’s Emulsion of Cod Liver Oil is the subtlest of helps. It is food, the easiest food in the world; it is more than food, it helps you digest your food, and get more nutri ment from it. Don’t get thin, there is safety in plumpness. Man woman and child. If you have not tried it, send for free sample Its agreeable taste will surprise vou SCOTT & UOWN E, Chemists, ♦°9 Pearl Street, New York. 30c. and $1.00; nil druggist. Kodol Dyspepsia Cure Digests what you eat. It artificially digests the food and aids Nature in strengthening and recon structing the exhausted digestive or gans. It Is the latest discovered dlgest- ant and tonic. No other preparation can approach It in efficiency. It in stantly relieves and permanently cures Dvspepsla, Indigestion, Heartburn, Flatulence, Sour Stomach, Nausea, Sick Headache,Gastralgla,Cramps and all other rest ’sof imperfect digestion. Price Me and 1 lArge nUe contain* »H tip®* •mull sue. Book all about dyspopnla malUxl f Prepared by C- C. l>eWITT A CO- Chicago Notice of Election For State and County Offices and for Amendments to State Constitution. State or South Cahoi.ina, i county or Chekokek. f Notice Is hereby given that an election will be hold at the several prt-<-iri<.-ls established by law in Cherokee County, on Tuesday, Nov. dth. I'.WU, for the following offices, lo- wlt: Hovernor, Lieutenaut-Uovernnr, Secre tary of State, Attorney-Heneral, ('omutroller y Heneral. Adjutant and Inspector Ut.-ncral. State Treasurer, State Su|»crintciidcnt of Education, one Railroad Commissioner, ono Circuit Solicitor, two Representatives In tho Heneral Assembly, Supervisor, County Su perintendent of Education and Solicitor. Pursuant to the Constitution of South Car olina, and the tertnsof Joint Resolutions No. 340 and 341, approved Feb. l»th. A I). I'.ioo, [Acts of South Carolina, up. 570 and 5711, an election will also lx- held at tin.- same time and place for aniendinents to the Constitu tion of Soutli Carolina, as follows: Amend Section 7, of Article VIII of tho Constitution of South Carolina, as follows: Add at the end thereof tho following words: “Provided. That the limitation imposed by this Section and by Section 5. Article IV, of this Constitution shall not apply to U>nded indebtedness incurred by the cities of Co lumbia, Rock Hill. Charleston and Florence, where the proceeds of said bonds are applied solely for the purchase, establishment, main tenance or increase of water works plant, sewerage system, gas and electric light plants, where the entire revenue arising from tiie operation of such plants or systems shall be devoted solely and exclusively to the maintenance and operation of the same, and where tiie question of incurring such in debtedness is submitted to t lie freeholders and qualified voters of such municipality, as provided lu the Constitution, upon the ques tion of oilier Ixinded indebtedness.” Amend tho Couslitution of Soutli < 'arolina by adding thereto the following to b ■ known as “Article I of Amendments to the Constitu tion:” "Tiie Heneral Assembly shall provide by law for the condemnation, through proper official channels, of all lands necessary for the proper drainage of the swamp and low lands of this State: and shall also provide for the equitable assessment of all lands so drained, for tiie purpose of paying the ex pense of such condemnation and dratna e." The said Amendments shall be submitted in such manner that the electors qualified to vote for Mem tiers of the House of Represen tatives shall vote for or against each of sueli amend ments separately. Amendments should be on separate tickets. Hallots in favor of the adoption of an amend ment should contain the amendment voted upon in full, followed by the word "Yes;" ballots opposed to the adoption of an amend ment should contain the amendment voted upon, followed by the word "No.” Dolls at each voting place will be opened at 7 o’clock a. m., and closed at 4 o’clock p. m. The following named persons have been appointed Managers of Election for State and County offices and for amendments to State Constitution, to-wit: Ravenna J. W. Brown, T. E. Burgess and B. (j. Ij. Del tit. Blacksburg—J. N. DhlUips. E. K. Belue and Govan Cline. Allens—Horace Lipscomb, Brooks Carter and James Alien. Butfalo A. 11. Moore, Claude Webber and I). 11. Wylie. Antioch—Felix Dover, Robert Dickson and J. 51. Ureen. King’s Creek -Wm. Caldwell, T. D. Whlso- uantuiidJ.E. Dlaxieo. Cherokee—C. M. Byars, J. W. Algood and R. E. Bachelor. Wilkinsville—W. A. George,Albert McKown and M. C. Reynolds. Sarratts—if E. Jefferies, J. T. Moorebead and Jack Kendrick. Littlejohns J. H. Hames, Jr., J. W. Sparks and J. D. Jefferies, Jr. Timber Ridge M. M. Tate, S. R. Thackstou and Ed Pettit. Draytonville—John Barnhill, John E. Raines and J. Wc Wilson. Champion, Jonas Vassey Harris, J. Gardner and A. Ezells—W. II. and Swan Baris. Macedonia—A. S. Smith. Thickety—Jno. M. Daniel, Jesse Bluson and S. E. Case. White 1’lains—U. W. Lee, It. H. Taylor and John Reynolds. Turner’s—D. F. L. Turner, Scott Hill and George Turner. Wood’s—W. O. S.Wood, A. C. Robbs and L. E. Wood. Grassy Bond-J. J. Magness, E. A. Ellis and 1*. W. Humphries. Maud—R. E. Linder. M. T. Phillips and C. W. Moore. Gaffney—J, B. Bell, N. II. Littlejohn and S. L. Morgan. On day of Election the Managers must or ganize by the elect ion of a Chairman and a Clerk. The Constitutional oath must bo taken by each Manager before lie can act. and also by tho Clerk. The Chairman elected is empowered to administer oaths. The Managers have the power to fill a va cancy, and if none of the Managers attend, tiie citizens can appoint from among Hie qualified voters the Managers, who, after be ing sworn, can conduct tiie election. At the close of the election, the Managers and Clerk must proceed publicly to open the ballot boxes and count the ballots therein, and continue without adjournment until tiie same is completed, and make a statement of the result for each office and sign the same. Within three days thereafter, the Chair man of the Board, or some one designated by the Board, must deliver to the Commission ers of Election tiie poll lists, the boxes con taining the ballots and written statements of tiie result of tiie election. The first, named Manager at each precinct must call upon the Board of Commissioners at tiie court house at Gaffney on Saturday, November 3d. limn, to receive ballot loxes, iioll lists and Instructions, and to be quali fied. W. D. Gaston, E. L. Tate, R. I*. Scuuuos. Commissioners of State Election. Notice of Election For Presidential Electors and Representatives in the 57th Congress of the United States. .State ok South Carolina, i County of Cherokee, f Notice is hereby given that an election will be held at tiie several precincts established by law in Cherokee County, on Tuesday, No- veraber U, 11*00, for nine Bresldential Electors, and for a Representative in the Fifty-Sev enth Congress of the l.'nitud States, Fifth Congressional District. Foils at each voting precinct wi'l be opened at 7 o’clock A. M. ana closed at 4 o’clock I*. M. Tiie following named_ persons have been appointed Managers of Election Ka K. E. L. Gofortii Jefferies and Carlton and lavenna--.!. II. Lipscomb, and M. W. Littlejohn. Allens—E. J. Clary, W. A. R. 8. Porter. Buffalo-R. E. Porter, Cabc Louis Hopper. Antioch J. B. Hambriglit, U. M. Roark and Oscar Dover. Blacksburg W. A. Halier, George Martin and Price Martin. 8. Bird, Alex McGill and Roberts. Kush Torrence J. Estes, R. E. Kerr and Kings Creek—J. John Starns. Cherokee—J. If. ami Farmer Moore. Wilklnsvllle T. J. R. Hughes. Sarratts S. L. Walker, Wade Bridmore and R. W. Davis. Littlejohns -J. A. Hames, Chas. Littlejohn and J. Frank Beam. Timber Ridge C. A. Spencer, Junius Sparks and H. O. Tate. Draytonville J. W. Alexander, It. 8. Spen cer and Alex Northcy. Ezells H. /.. Hicks, Jno. Collins and J. A. Scruggs. Macedonia Kliphus Richards, J. A. Harris and William Young. Thickety I. M. Smith, M. W. Gofortii and David Vassey. Wldte Biulns M. C. Lipscomb, < H. Rey nolds and A. A. Crocker. Turners W. N. Turner. It. A. Hawkins aud J. <Fainter. Woods -J. T. Harris, E. 11. itobbs and New ton Bridges. Grassy Bond—X. Blanton, F. Sarratt and G. W. Bonner. Maud Jno. T. Ituppe, A. C. Price and Bob bin Me»'raw. Gaffney W. H. Ross. Sumter Littlejohn aud Kd. 11 Decamp. The ballot Ixixes in the precincts must bo so located as to l>e in view of persons outside tiie polling place during the time of the elec tion. A spacious enclosure separate ami distinct from that used by the Managers of the State Election, must Ur railed off or otherwise pro- vldisJ, at each precinct, under direction of Hie undersigned. But one voter must l>c allowed to enter any voting place at a time, and no one except the Managers must be allowed to speak to the voter while in the voting place casting ids vote. For further Instruction see notice of Com missioners of Stale Election. The tint named Manager at each urednet named above must call ujmhi the Board of Coinuilssioncis for tiie Federal Election at Gaffney, at Court House, on Saturday, No vember 3. Iliun. to receive ballot boxes, poll lists and Instructions, end to U> quail tied I, . D. Bonner, J. D. IjUdHKS. John E. Mostkllkh, CoidiiiUn oners of Federal Election. Gaffuey, S. C.« Oct. 15, HAV.