Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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rofu- Hbout I hp fr*^( zW tint. On n'iiK PUBLISH I m r for tun** fur frit-nils liiii!/ cotnw together and rtj ilren to com« troopii'K ol sity, aid tHiider fi.r hI! sordid (•»ips thrust a-'ui*'—h hii; Sfp&rbfeci to ic»*; for chil- hnck to the hearts of the lit tie for tht triad*- to l« «p with wild *le- | Htock The Ledoeb ie nor renpons’M* tb« views of correspondents- Cards of thanks wi)' he published •t one cent a word. Reading notices will oe published at ♦■on jents a line each insertion. Write short letters and to the point to insure publication; also endcH v or Co get them to the office by Mobday mingle in a spitit of good fellowship, hotm ones to 1 light ; for the poor and the suffering to he cheered and strengthened by "ubstantial assurances that they are not forgotten; for all to meet and and Thursday mornimrs. Obituaries will be pubinlised at five cents a line. Correspondents who do not contri bute regular news letters most fur nish their name, not for publication, but for identification. All correspondence should be ad dressed to Ed. H. DeCamp, Manag- r. Tbis paper is only sent to persons of sympathy, and of unselfish love. The Ledgf r has no words at its command today to express Its appre ciation o f the steady and generous support which its friends and patrons have given it through the year that is now closit g. For the liberal ad vertising patronage it has received, it is profundly grateful; and it will not , , , soon forget the kind words of appro- iben paid for, so do not asK us to bution and encouragement which it credit you. The price is too low to has received from many of its read- tllow US to do a credit business. er9 - 119 g ratef ul acknowledgements - —— are also due in overwhelming meas- the closing YEAR. i ure to the faithful baud of composi- Again we are reminded that we are j t, ora w ho have stood by the cases and being borne forward on the restless j worked the presses by day and by tide of time. Like travelers on a I night and who have shrunk from no ' hardship and flinched from no duty ! in ord< r that the constantly increas- ’ ing demands made upon the paper ' and the * ffiee might be met promptly ' and satisfactorily. All praise and all ! honor to ui flinching devotion to duty wherever il may be found, for it is lids that ennobles and dignifies hu man life and makes man worthy of " Ana now 8 to' all who have helped | in « 8 and b y cu,tivatin g and PIlCourtt P swift journey across a continent, we measure distances travel*.d onl> by the stations at which we have stop ped. The run from the last station was made with such unvarying speed, that we heeded not the fields and forests, the mountains and 'plains that whirled in a giddy waltz but for a moment and vanished from sight. Our faces were square to the front, and the train that bore us. though swift as the winds, seemed to drug tmd encouraged us in the past—to all like a laggard in the wake of our who have spoken a kind word in our thoughts. It was not until the s*a- I behalf or even bestowed upon us a Satur.iay rimming it etnou at I- <ie gret s above zero. Font! for stuck nr d fuel for fires disappeared with won derful rapidity. It is to bo hoped that the spell was abnormal and is not to he taken as u sample of tin of wea'ber slur* d up for winter. A long severe winter on the heels of the short crops would double the calamity. From many parts of the State we hear continued reports of the deplor able condition of tenants and small farmers. The cotton they have made has all gone for fertilizers and rations and there are not provisions enough to carry them through the winter. The citizens of Fairfield county held a mass meeting last week with a view to issuing $75 000 worth of county bonds for the double purpose of im proving the roads and giving the peo ple employment during the winter. At that meeting it was declared that the county was in worse condition than it was after Sherman had swept it with fire and sword in 1805. No doubt other counties are in as bad shape as Fairfield To add to the complications of the situation there are ui mi.-*akable signs of an ap proaching financial stringency in the money centers The outlook is dis couraging, b^.t the country has pulled through far worse times than can now possibly occur. The people can do much themselves o relieve the situa tion by mutual forbearance, by strict honesty and fairness in all their deal- On Jellies preserve:* nn<l pick lea, spread a thlu c.niUur of PURE REFINED PARAFFINE Will keep them absolutely moisture and add proof. Pure Kelt tied Purufllne Is also iiM-fiil In a dor.en other ways about the bouse. Full directions In each pack. Wold everywhere. STANDARD OIL CO. UJIJIlip* -iARDSON. is again open to the buv ; n t p : and is teeming with all the good thin >s that r i necessary for the proper enjoyment o‘ the Holidays. Fancy Confictioni! e all new and fresh, and selected with .the vie Sheriffs Sale. St\te or South C'ahoi.ina, County <*r Chekokkk. f tion had bt en sounded arid we had heard the tirul puntings of the huge engine brought to a stand, that, we looked out and thought of the many long miles that had been left behind by our flving train. So, we pause todsy on life’s swift journey and look back uoon another -year that has flown. It came tinged with the golden hues of hope and spanned with the rainbow of promise ; it has gone like some half conscious vision that hung around our pillows by night, lured our waking slumbers, and ere we could grasp in sharp out line its checkered scene of joy and •orrow, floated away with the shadows that flee before the rising dawn. We speak of the vision as a whole. There were prominent feat ures of it that are not to be forgotten. They stand out in memory from the vague background of shadows, and they live in thought and feeling as fresh and real as when first our eyes beheld them. There were scenes in the passing year that opened in the radiance of morning and closed in the gloom of night; there were trials that taxed -the strength of our being, sorrows that shrouded the soul in darkness, disappointments that pressed like -lead upon the heart. But thank God! the year was not altogether cheerless and rayless and hopeless. It had its days crowned with glorious sunshine and its nights bedecked with diadems of glittering stars. It had its weeks set to the music of love, and its months “taught much which the days never knew.” It had its hopes that were not disappointed, its plans that were not frustrated, its love that was not blighted, its joys that were neither corrupted by selfishness nor tainted by malice. Through all the intricate, varied drama we have come to the closing scene—come, we trust, chastened and bumbled by whatever of disappoint ment and sorrow it brought us, and buoyed and strengthened by the hopes it has inspired and the pleas ures it has left us. The year is bequeathing us a legacy of hope and love which shall be ours forever; while the sorrows that darkened onr hoims and brooded like deep shadows over our lives are all left behind, never again to over whelm the heart with the thick dark ness of despair nor to hang the cur tains of night over every window of i the soul. For already the shadows are tinged with tumt gleams of light ; for already the loving ones that left ua are beginning to look upon us with the still beauty of their spirit eyes, and we feel their voiceless woo- ings to higher thoughts and holler feelings—to contentment, peace, hope and faith that looks to a happy re union beyond the realms of time. Then crown the dying year with laurel, and b^, and myrtle; cover hit bier with tA rarest flowers from the heart’s ^(-Ajhousee; sound his praise* witu tbeTiVnbrel, the psaltery, and the harp; anA r*jdce and be glad that he has vacant nor his c forlorn, and hope!* It la a time for tl kind thought—to all our readers and j friends, we send cordial greetings j with the fondest hopes ttiat they may have a merry Christmas, a happy new year, and many a coming year crowded with happy, prosperous, glorious life. ing a spirit if brotherhood and broth erly kindness. It is a tim*- for credi tors to be as generous as their eir- cumstances w ill permit, and for debt ors to be fiiir, open, honest, and ! manly. No man, however humble and obscure he may be can afford to sacrifice his integrity for ten porary advantage THE GOOD HOAGS CONVENTION. The Good Hoads Convention re cently held in Greenville under the auspicies of the Southern Railroad, was well attende ', and no doubt it set in motiou influences which will eventually culminate in wide-spread blessing to the State at large. The severe cold weather and the attend ant hard freeze interfered to some extent with practical work, but there were many fine speeches made and much useful knowledge disseminated. A State organization was effected, and we may consider that a general move ment for good roads has actually be- gun. This movement will gather mo mentum from year to year, because every year the necessity for improved highways becomes more apparent and imperative. To give the State a complete system of roads is a hercu lean task, equal in magnitude to that of the isthmian canal. It will involve the expenditure of untold millions, but when completed will bring back untold billions in return. It will make the waste places of the country blossom as the rose, and in crease the value of wide tracts of laud five hundred per cent. The work will come slowly, for from its very nature it can come in no other way. But it will come. When a whole people move as one man, hardly any material accom plishment is impossible. NOTES ANG COMMENTS. flv who c»n command has ie irned much. his heart left his throne dren wretched, heart to expand The dismissal of the slanderous Maclay from the Naval service and the sharp rebuke administered to the great god of war and tormentor of helpless prisoners, Gen. Miles, by President Roosevelt, evince the fact that we have a president who has the courage to do his duty. These two little side swipes given these bloated upstarts were richly deserved and will do more towards elevating there- : spect of the people for the president | than many official acts of far greater ; importance. ♦ ♦ It is authoritatively announced with an air of triumph, that the as sessed value of property in the State returned for taxation has increased by about twelve millions of dollars since the last returns. Yet we hear not a word about reducing the rate of assessment. It matters very little to the average taxpayer how much the material wealth of the State is increased or how much money is poured annually into the State treasury. The rate will still be kept about as high as the people will bear. ♦ « ♦ ♦ The cold spell which closed with Sunday night was unprecedented for December both in duration and severitv. For a solid week every thing that contained moisture was frozen hard, and there was hardly an hour during which the thermometer Barnum’s Monkeys “All well—all happy—lots of fun”. That is the regular report from the monkey cage of Barnum’s Circus ever since the keepers began dosing the monkeys with Scott’s Emul- sion. Consumption was carry ing off two thirds of them ever)’ year and the circus had to buy new ones. One day a keeper accident ally broke a bottle of Scott’s Emulsion near the monkey cage and the monkeys eagerly : p;ip ‘ lapped it up from the floor. This suggested the idea that it might do them good. Since then the monkeys have received regular doses and the keepers report very few deaths from consumption. Of course it’s cheaper to buy Scott’s Emul sion than new monkeys—and that suits^the circus men. Consumption in monkeys and in man is the same disease. If you have it or are threaten ed with it can you take the hint? Tliis picture represents the T ratle Mark of Scott's Emulsion and is on the w rapper of every bottle. Send for free sample* SCOTT & liOWN’j;, 409 I’earl St.. New Vork. 50c ami £1. all druggists. Sheriff's Office. Gaffney. S. <’. Powers, Little & Co., vs. I*. 1>. Giistop. By virtue of the above stall'd executb n* to me directed and lodged in my office. I lia ve levied upon and will sell at public auction, to tin' highest bidder, in front of the * ourt House door at Gaffney, in Cherokee County, , State of South Carolina, onl he first Mmidny in January next, being tin’ I'nh d !\ > ' snid mom h. within the legal hours of sale, n l| im- , right, title, ami intcust • ‘ the ••••.id j I >. I). Gaston, in the foliovii g *1* sc ils ii | lauds and estate to wit: No. I. One piece or parcel of laud hou slid by lands ot Kd. Maitiu .W'tlker Moss esi.iio ■ of Alexander. A Hie Osliorne. lie. \\ m. \ > under on the Factory Kond. coniuining one hundred and sixty-two (Iu!’) acres, more or less. No. 2. One lot bounded by Cherokee street, Shelby street. Lbi.e and Urnherford streets, containing two ami onelr.lf (i'.dacris. and situated in the town of Blacksburg. No. J. Otic lot bounded by finds of W. Hardin, Qulna Hoad and lands of 'V 'A .Gaff ney, containing three (■() aen s. No. 4. One lot containing at on, one (!) s re. with three cottages on same, bounded by Ciaybourne street. Chester sii e!, dm s o! .1. I>. Gault and Hr. I. G. Black, situsUi< in Blacksburg. No. 5. One brick store, two storb-s high in Biacktburg fronting on Shelby street, ad joining building of K. It. Brown ami Hr. .1 G. Blitek. lot on which same is located, being alxiut twenty-live by eighty lei t, su'd sub- I jeet to mortgage of W. \V. Lewis. F.x'r. No. ti. One piece or parcel of land on Broad | Itlver. part of David Gaston, dec'd, t state ] bounded by lands of Mary Gaston, li. L. Spears and others, containing fifty (j*j) acres more or less. No. 7. One lot in Blacksburg con taini ng four cottages thereon and bounded by Carolina Street, So. Railway, J. .1. Wbisonaul and Chester street, sold subject to mortgage of Mrs. N. K. Crawford, containing one (1) acre more or less. No. 8. On*- piece or parcel of land situated on Broad River and Buffalo*'reek containing four hundred and seven (407) acres more or less, bounded West by Broad Riv> r. North by I lands of J. \Y. Rhyne. Durham. \V. D. Camp, j Mariah Voting and others. East by lands of I Joe and Kci Mini/ and other-, South by lands of J. F. Whisonant. Ed and J. S Mint/ and [ others, which tract is sub-divided H to six j parcels as shown on plat made'by Ira Hardin: i Lot No. 1 containing thirt y-eight acres; Lot . No. 2containing foity acres: Lot No. J con i tainingelgh'y-elght acres; Lot No. 4 con taining one hundred and seventy acres: Lot No. 5 containing fifty-three acres; Lot No. ti containing twenty acres, and on which was the former residenceof J. B. Mintz,deceased. For full description reference is had to said plat which is on file in my office. Levied on and to be sold as the property of the de fendant, D. D. Gaston, at the suit of Powers, Little A Company, plaintiff, against D. D. Gaston, defendant. Purchaser to pay for all rs. Terms: Cash. W. W. Thomas. Sheriff of Cherokee County. Dec. 16th, 1901. Cigars, Etc., e vi<tN-'of ap- pealing to your fondness for the yood- things of life. Let me serve you. L M. TURNER. Next to J. W. Tolleson’s. Mil S’iAY.leh®' Clerk’s Sale. laii'.fi JHICHESTER’S ENGLISH 7CTY80YAL PILLS -rW r.1.6 Statk of South Carolina, < County of Chf.kokek. ( W. \V. Lewis Surviving Exor., vs. D. D. Gas ton et al. In obedience to an order made herein for foreclosure, dated June 20th, 1901, 1 will sell atGaffney, S. C., to the highest bidder before the Court House door, during the legal hours fur sale, on Salesday January 6th, the following described lands, to-wit: (1) . All that lot of land on Shelby street in the town of Blacksburg, S. G., on which Is located a two-story brick house, the same iH'ing Ixiunded by Shelby street and the sture houses and lots of I). L. Brown & Co., and J. G. Black, and lietter described In deed from G. M. Moore to D. D. Gaston In Deed book "C J" pages £15 t> R. M. C. office for York county. (2) . All that tract of 157 acres of land for merly in York but now in Cherokee conveyed to D. D. Gaston by deed of Ira Hardin and Wm. Henderson as Executors of John If. Mint/, recorded in office R. M. C. York coun ty in Ifixik M-llt pages 4*4-5. bounded by I binds of Mariah. Young, f. C. Webber and I oth* r-, on Bowens River. Terms of sale, one-third cash and the bal- , mice on a credit of one and two years with ! interest from day of -al*- secured by a bund of t lie purchaser and a mortgage of the prem ises sold. Purchaser to have leave to o.iy all cash and to pay for all papers. r> vi-nue i stamps ami recording.and must comply with cash portion of bbl within one hour after sale or a resale will tie mude on the same day at the risk of the defaulting purchaser. J Eli. Jkkfkiiiis, Clerk Court of Common Pleas. 1 me. hi .2J :in. Everybody, who has tried one, will tell you that LssScr Slcvss and Rsnps t is lie test You can proiit by others’ experience. We sell and guar antee them. And it will pay you to call and see mir complete line of FURNITURE « * * t which consists of too many articles to mention, all of which we will sell you at live-aurl-let-livo prices. vB SHUFORD & LEMASTER." Store Phone 53. Residence Phones 94 and 95, SARRATT In order to close out mv entire stock of WAGONS I will offer them away below regu lar prices for the next Thirty Days. Nice line Top and Open Buggies which I am now offering very cheap. See them before buying as I can save you money. If in need of Bagging and Ties see me. I will make it to your interest to do so. Disc Harrows and Boy Dixie Plows cheap. Winter White Seed Oats. Shoes for everybody at prices in keeping with the times. Ladies Coats, Jackets and Cloaks and Misses Jackets to go at Slaughter Prices. Up-to-date line of Trunks, Valises and Trav eling Bags which were not bought to keep— and that means that they must be sold at some price. Dry Goods, Notions, Hats, Clothing, and in fact everything in my varied line to go at greatly reduced prices. Now is your time to buy if you want to savi money. Yours for business, CONSULT ’**♦' Always rt'iiuhle. ask nruirirlst for '"KIIEMTKK* EVGI.IMII in K.-«l and < **l iml.illii Ixjxes, scalisi willi Pint, ribbon. (r.w. no »Hi or. (tofua.-dmiK^roia. siiImG. *r»l >»n« nml tinitntiona. Itu\ ot vour l>nno<ist, . '♦-iid l«-. in stiunps for PnrtU-tilar*. Tostl- •w.-imu ami lor l.n.liro." in trttrr, •rmro Hall. 10.000 IVsiunonlHl*. bold by *• IHsimtists. Improved Through Service To and Via RICHMOND, VA. Your own interest and see me be fore you insure, I WRITE - i -■ jp.. Fire, Life, Accident. Hea’th, Plate Giass end Liability Insurance. Rates and other information are cheerfully given. JONES J. DARBY. Office in Tolleson Building. CHICHESTER CHEMICAL CO. MntlUon Nqnur'S PHI LA. xteallun thU paper PA. Trespass Notice. All person* are hereby forbidden to tres pass on my lands for any purpose whatever under penalty of the law. Chah. McHkaykk. Dec. 17, 24,31, Jan. 7-pd. SOUTHERN RAILWAY Complete Dining Car Service. For Details see Agent SOUTHERN RAILWAY. N. Wood President- K. R. Brown. Vloe-Prealdenfe. JVloi'eliiinIs-* «mcl liters lianlc OF GAFFNEY. S. O. * CAPITAL, ^O.OOO. State and County Depository. Does a general Ranking-and Exc hange business, Is w II fitted up with Fire Proof Vault i Burglar Proof Safe, with Automatic Tim. ( oek. We solicit tnc business of oeoole of occupations. , C- M. Cashlar and