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TPh tc JUKI >0 EK. PUBLISHED TUESDAY AND FRIDAY. BY Ed. II. DeCamp. The Ledger it> not rHspoueible for views of correspondents. Correspondents who do not contri- bate regular news letters must fur nish their name, not for publication, but for identification. Write short letters and to the point ta insure publication; also endeavor ta get them to the office by Monday and Thursday mornings. Obituaries will be pubinlised at five onts a line. Cards of thanks wi)’ be published at one cent a word. fteading notices will De published at ten cents a line each insertion. All correspondence should be ad dressed to Ed. H. DeCamp, Manager. SOME DON’TS. Don’t make it a habit to borrow your neighbor’s paper. The paper is too cheap to do that * * * * Don’t make it a habit to lend your paper. You might want it some time when it’s away from home. # * * * Don’t ask us to credit you. We don’t want to hurt your feelings by refusing. * * * * Don’t be a clam, but take you eoupty paper like a good, industrious citizen and keep posted on the hap penings of your section. NOTES AND COMMENTS. One difference between a gun barrel and a whiskey barrel is that one kills with a bang while the other kills with a bung. ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ A wave of disapproval is sometimes beneficial to a politician, but it takes a long time for him to fully appre ciate the force of it. Sometimes it takes a long while to kill a bad idea. It’s evident that the idea that Jim Tillman would be elected governor has been killed. ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ The county campaign is progress ing smoothly and the best of feeling prevails among the candidates. They all spoke at Mabry’s mill Friday and at Draytonville Saturday afternoon. Y’esterday they took in White Plains and today they are at Macedonia. We are glad to see that the campaign is being conducted on a high piao and trust that it will continue so to the|end.^Meetings are well attended and have all been orderly. ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ While there are doubtless others in Cherokee county who will vote for Jim Tillman we have not talked with but one man on this subject who has told us be intended to support him. Now don’t say we said Jim would get but one vote in Cherokee. We didn’t say it, however much we might wish that to be the case, but we said we bad only bad one man to tell us he • intended to vote for him. We would like for him to get 0 in Cherokee, and more is the pity that he will not. J>m Tillman did not attempt to ex plain rfway the Attaway matter. By not referring to it be stands a self acknowledged defaulter. What be came of the money you collected from Mr. Attaway, Jimmie? It’s none of our business Jimmie, but you are asking the people of South Caro lina to vote for you on your record, and the record is that you collected money from J. C. Attaway, Saluda, S. C., for tobacco bought from a North Carolina firm and that you did not turn it over to said firm. ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ Don’t say we have advise you to vote for any particular man for gov ernor. We have not done so and will not do so unless it should happen that the moral leper gets into the second race. But this is not likely. It looks like the second race will be between Talbert and Heyward All we ask you to do is to honor your-elf and your county and your stale by casting your ballot for a gentleman and not disgrace yourself by voting for a mao who cannot command the respect of bis neighbors at home. ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ The tide is turning and with its out going Jim Tillman, falsifier, gambler, drunkard, blasphemer and defaulter will be swept out into the great obliv ion. The great true heart of a great and noble race of men revolts at the idea of this miserable man’s audacity. How in the name of common sense, with his slimy record, be conld have ever picked up the courage to offer himself for the governorship of South Carolina is beyond comprehension. He la not fit to govern a Utter of pops, much less a prond and noble people. ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ A very intelligent gentleman re marked to ns the other day that all tbla war on Jim Tillman had not, in his opinion, ebangoa a single vote. Some tlmee we think he waa right and then again we do not. He further said that those who will vote for this man would do it at any cist, and we believe he was right, but we do believe that there were many men who had not made up their minds whom to support before his record was exposed that have since made up their minds to support one of the other four can- I didates. ♦ It gives us pleasure to announce ( to the public that our friend “Buster” called to see us yesterday and was | shown our books in regard to charges for campaign work. He was a very agreeable caller and we believe that he left fully satisfied that our refer ence to the matter was absolutely truthful. If there are others who doubt our statement we invite them : to call at this office or make inquiry of Uupt. J. B. Bell, secretary of the County Executive Committee, who 1 will take pleasure in showing his ac counts Our only object in this is to l convince, if possible, any who may thirk that we would pervert the 1 truth in order to make political capi tal out of it. Jim Tillman says he paid $50 that was subscribed through him for the Edgefield Confederate Monumentfund and $25 individual subscription. We doubt it, and would not believe it un less the president of the memorial as sociation should so inform us. It was easy enough for a man like Jim to secure a telegraph blank and fill it out to suit himself. But suppose he did happen to tell the truth in regard to paying $75. He does not say it included Whitney’s $50. If it did in clude the $50 Whitney gave him what became of the money he coilected from the State bouse officials for that fund? He has never accounted for that money so far as we have been able to learn, and we know he col lected some. If the $50 he paid was the money subscribed by State house officials what became of Whitney’s $50. He only attempts to account for $50 outside his personal subscrip tion, while the fact remains that he collected more. What became of the money? Every citizen of South Caro lina has a right to know. Will he ex plain? The Ketiolon at Greenville. The confederate reunion at Green ville last week was one of the most successful that has ever been held in the State. There were over 3,000 veterans present, and the meetings among them of old comrades were mojt enjoyable and in many cases pathetic. Jake Carpenter camp was on hand with a full delegation—twenty-five or thirty members. They had the hand somest banner at the reunion and carried with them Miss Maggie Bryant as sponsor, and Misses Georgia Sapocb, Louise Sarratt and Beulah Goforth as maids of honor, who are four of Cherokee’s fairest daughters of whom the county may well be proud. Jake Carpenter was proud of them in Greenville and is proud of them now, and will ever feel under obligations to them for the great service they rendered the camp. Greenville did berseif grand. Every door was open to the veterans and her people vied with each other in their attention to them. The city was literally draped with confederate and federal flags and windows filled with confederate relics. The whole I time was one joyous round of pleasure which will endear Greenville d her people to the veterans hi d their friends while time lasts l.oi khart l.ucalM. fCorreanondence of The LedKer.i Lockhart, Ana. 11 —Mr. James Keasler and fan iiy, of U«ffn«y, are visiting in the home of his father, Mr L'deon Keash-r A good many bricks ar; belt g mado and burned just now. .Mr Hammun says that this year has been an excellent one to mak) brick anyway. Broad river is somewhat lower every Monday morning. It is sai" to be on accon t of the st .ppage of the Paeolet ri»-r by dams a* I‘r. ou”' Shoals and C i*ton. The «fter**o n is well advanc-o before there o* at > perceptuble change iu the he ght of the water. There are candidates and to soire in Lockhart. Each one appears to know exactly what each particular mill man needs and each one villing to measure oat the Gentleman, come to tbtnk of D the management or employ* ee no not need any of vour mi l panacea Simply let us alone at d we * l ok*” you better. Homo IN RE MR. JEFFERIES. Mr. Ilawklint anil nthein Make Statements In the I’eiislon Controversy. Mr Editor:—Please let me have space to reply to J Eh Jefferies, clerk of court. I want to say in the begin ning that my word has never been as sailed to this extent before to my knowing, but all who are acquainted with Mr. J* Aeries know him to be a man who will do and say almost any thing to carry his point. I feel that I can say with a great many people of this county that he h-is done more than any other man in the county to corrupt the body politic. It is known that he spends money freely in the way of barbecue dinners, wagon loads of watermelons, boiled eggs, and in not a few instances the spot cash is used by him to corrupt the voters. By way of parenthesis I will say to the public that if any man doubts my veracity in anything I will gladly refer him to either of the hanks of Gaffney or any other re sponsible man with whom I have had dealings. Now I will tell the whole of this pension business and I stand ready to prove every word I say. He tays that I signed my mother’s name to his list. I refused to sign it until Mr. Jefferies assured me that he would explain (should anything oc cur to make it necessary) that I signed it on the express condition that he would say that he paid the money back to me. He knows full well that I refused to sign it until he told me he wanted her name on the list for the sole purpose of showing the people that he had paid her money back. Now this is the truth, whatever Mr. Jefferies may say to the contrary. Mr. Jefferies says the amount was only five cents This is absolutely false, and no one knows it better than Mr. Jefferies himself. The amount I paid him was fifteen cents. One year afterwards, when 1 went to collect my mother’s pension money, he wanted to pay it back to me He only paid me ten cents. He said that was ali 1 paid him. so he owes me five cents yet. Now this is the whole truth about the matter. The people can believe me or Mr. Jef feries. I do not know whom they will believe and I cannot help whom they will believe. I can only tell the truth. I will also state that I have no particular candidate that I am working for in the clerk of court race. I only wish for the people to know the truth about Mr. Jefferies charging the old pensioners, since he is making such an effort to deny it and make political capital out of his denial. Respectfully, Raxs A. Hawkins. PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS. LATIMER FOR U. S. SENATE. SHORT LOCAL ITEMS. To whom it may concern: I was a member of the pension board in 1900. Home of the old sol- dies came to me and complained that J. Eb. Jefferies bad charged them a commission for paying their pension. I consulted J. C. Otts as to whether or not Mr. Jefferies had a legal right to do so. Mr. Otts informed me (after refering to the statutes) that he had no right to do so. I then informed those who complained to me that Jefferies bad no right to charge them and they went to Jeffe ries and demanded their monoy. He replied that he had only charged a few and rather than have a fuss about it be would pay them their money and not charge any of the others. I would not have consulted a lawyer but for the fact that some of the old soldier’s complained to me, and this is sufficient evidence to my mind that he did charge some and that it was bis purpose to charge all if it had not been that it created such a furor. I am not a pensioner myself and my interferance in the matter was solely in the interest of the old soldiers. MosEfc Wood. Gaffney S. C., Aug. 9, 1902. To whom this may concern: I was in Col. W. i>. Camp's office Hir* e or four years sgo and heard Eb Jefferies tell Col. Camp that he was going to i h u rge m I of tne peusionerb *«n C"M * i for giving tht-m ! tbelr <• k - < *1 <’utitp pays, “Eb, th .i -.i r st *n ” Eli -d}'*, ‘ I can’t fun! mi - • .< in tor notbi'igand he -.-Ml l f: : 1 •or C'<-rk of York county cha'ge* fl ^ III I can’t aee bow a lliafi Cult ;i. hog enough in hitn to CtlHl'U*.' * h »> r» nr old vt idowa and crip- |il*'d Mi'-il * ! hH« < ffered tneir livea i If r * . H nc then on top of < bar.-’i *' rn i'\ to hire them not til . x <*• . ,V d further more go ; ».r.iu a ’> ■ * poor old ignorant people to Mgu a list and at least baif t m m no* knowing what they were aligning. Now, good peopie, this is me way Eb Jefferies done. H. H. Blackwood. Not Guilt). 'Ts your buslmnd a bibliomaniac?" asked Mrs. Oldcustk* as ube was being permitted to view the treasures in the library of the new neigh I tors “Mercy sakes, no." replied Mr*. Pack- enham. “he never blbble* a hit Oh. of course. 1 don’t say that bejfc ouhln't take a little at his meals If thereat was doin’ it, but that’s as far as he ever goes In them kind of things"—Chicago Record-Hera Id. Protracted Meeting. Rev. 8. A. Nettles will begin g series of services st Asbary Cbapel od Monday night, 18th Inst. Tbs public is cordially Invited. Gaffney, 8. C., August 11, 1902. I, J. M. Thomas, hereby certify that 1 did not sign, and did not au* thorize anyone to sign for me, the ‘•latemtnt published by J. Eb. Jef- f*-riei» in The Ledger of Friday, Aogu-t 1st, 1902, to the effect that he had never charged me for collect ing my pension dues. J. M. Thomas. Death of MIm Alice Clary, MIhs Alice Clary, fourteen-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Clary, died at the home of her parents in tb s city last Wednesday morning. Tbe remains were carried to Corinth Thursday for interment. A bright young light haa been extinguished and darkness and gloom surround tbe family circle. May those wbo mourn find a sweet solace in tbe thought that “the Lord ebas- teneth those whom he loyeth. tV*>|>l<' You Know mid reople You Don't Know Miss Lillian Hester, a most charm ing youug lady from Rutherfordton, N. 0., is visiting 'he Misses Johnson, Comer Race and Petty streets. vliss Claud Allison, a charming you* g laday of the county, honored us with a call yesterday. Richmond Stacy, one of the coun ty’s best teachers and most progres sive faiir.*;rs, was a city visitor Satur day. W, A. Jones, a prominent farmer from Buffalo, paid The Ledger an appreciated visit yesterday. R. G. BlacK, a progressive Grassy Pond farmer, p»id Tbe Ledger an ap nreciated visit Friday. Robt Poole ol Charlotte, N. C., was in the city yesterday the guest of his uncle Mr. J. V. .Sarratt, corner Limestone and Meadow streets. John Bridges, of Corinth, made a hr iness trip to the City Saturday. Alien Jefferies, of Bowlinsviiie, came up to tbe city yesterday on business. T. G McCraw came in to see us iu our new quarters Saturday. G. S. Black, of Pine Grove, one of Cherokee’s sterling citizens and farmers, came in to see us yesterday. Frank Carson, one of tbe popular salesmen in the company store, spent last week with his father's famiiy in Yorkville. W. H. Martin, an enterprising lumberman and farmer of Ezells, came in to see us yesterday. Summy Humphries, of Cleveland county, was an appreciated Ledger visitor Saturday. Mr. Killian, recently of the firm of Tillotson A Killian, was a Ledger visitor yesterday. John Kennedy, a sterling Broad river farmer, was a business visitor in the city Saturday. Charlie Gilmer, who has recently accepted a position at Paeolet Mills, was in the city yesterday visiting his mother on Granard street C. B Slo»n, of Spartanburg, was a Ledger visitor Saturday. He is making extensive arrangements to run an excursion on the IGth inst. from Gastonia to Asheville, N. C. Magistrate George D Scruggs, of Ezells ,honored The Ledger with a call yesterday. Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Doggett, their little daughter and Mrs. W. A. C. Doggett are spending some time iu the mountains of North Carolina. Miss Katie Hamilton is ^pending a few weeks in Marion and other points of interest iu the North Carolina mountains. P. C. Garvin, of Corinth, made a business trip to tbe city Friday. Black Scruggs, of Ezells, was an appreciated Ledger visitor yesterday. Miss Eva Anthony is spending some time in Union with friends. J. E. Atkinson, a good farmer of State Line, was an appreciated Ledger visitor Saturday. Mr. and Mrs J. N. Wilson, of Che rokee Falls, are in the city visiting their son, Mr. W. C. Wilson. J. B. Carter, of Bowlinsviiie, was in the city last Friday, and called to aee us. We are always glad to wel come men lik** Mr. Carter. Geo. G. Pyers has returned to Asheville. J.C. Jefferies spent yesterday in Spartanburg Joe Scruggs, a sterling citizen and farmer of State Line, favored us with a visit Saturday. Jas Love, of the Smith Ford sec tion, was in the city last Friday and paid us a pleasant visit. Mrs. J. M. Nichols, of Spartanburg, is visiting Mrs. A. C. Cree. A. S. Smith, of Algood, a farmer who farms, honored The Ledger with a call Tuesday. Dr. A’ra. Anderson, of Blacksburg, came over to the city yesterday. Col. H. Fay Gaffney has been spending some days in the city with his family on Granard street. R. A. Miller, of Star Farm, called to see us Saturday and subscribed. G. B. Wright, a successful Broad river farmer, was in the city Satur day. Misses Tensy and Ymnie Clary, of Spartanburg, are in the city the guests of their aunt, Mrs. Mary Clary, on Buford street. C. P. Huggins, Esq , .of Lawn, was a business visitor in tbe city yester day Jesse Wright, of Flint Hill, was a businesv visitor in the city Saturday. “UncleJJesse” Nance, oneo r Chero kee’s most sterling citizens, was in the city a short time yesterday morning. M. C. Lipscomb, an extensive farmer of White Plains, and his charming little daughter, Cleo, speut some time in the city Saturday after noon. Marvin R. Briggs, of The Ledger office, spent Sunday in Spartanburg with bis parents. G. B. Daniel came in to see us yes terday. Death of MIm Annie Blanton. Miss Annie Blanton, daughter of Mr. Wm. J. Blanton, died Saturday after a long illness in tbe tbirty-tbird year of her age and was burled at Grassy Pond cemetery Sunday. Miss Blanton bad many good traits of character and will be much missed by her devoted relatives and friends. The bereaved family have tbe sincere sympathy of Tbe Ledger. Conntjr Cmmpnlgn Meetings. Ezell Aug. 15 Maud Aug. 16 Grasey Pond Aug. 18 Blacksburg.... ............. Aug. 19 Antioch Aug. 20 King’s Creek Aug. 21 Gaffney.... ................ Aug. 23 A I’urtlal K«‘cor«l,<>f Whnt He Hhh Aerom- plUlitxt In The Third congressional district, and Andernon county in particular, presents a candidate for the United States senate in the person of Con gressman A. C. Latimer, who has special fitness for the place as shown by his past record. And w hat is that record? A poor hoy left by the fortunes of war without the means of securing an education beyond that afforded by the old field school, he started life with the only legacy left him—that of the plow handles. He has tried the fi**ld and the furrow in all its varying phases, and is and has been a successful farmer. and more thuneughlyt Hnaerst'uds the neadf, and is in more thorough! -nvinpathy with the agricultural population than any other man in the field. And this not in antagonism to the other varied interests of the State, but as lying at the basis of all true prosperity, real izing that these interests are corol laries growing out of the agricultural interests of the State, and that as agriculture is prosperous tbe others wiil necessarialy share in it, and that no country and no other interests can prosper when igricuiture is depress ed. Mr. Latimer has brought to the public service the same zeal and energy, the same honesty and square dealing, the same practical business sense that has guided through life in his private business, and that he bus made a success of it. Look at the record of his ten years in congress in results brought to people of the third district. It is not exaggeration to say that he has secured more in ten years that all the other congressmen who have represented the district since the war, and this is not said to disparage them but as a simple state ment truth. He went into congress a new and untried man, fresh trom the fields, sent there by the farmers, inexperienced in legislation and not skilled in the graces ot oratory, and it was not long until this farmer-rep resentative had something tangible to show. The railroads in the State in tbe hands of receivers in the federal courts had for years failed to pay their taxes due the State, and he at once set in motion the necessary legal machinery to make them pay their taxes just as the farmers have to do. He came to the relief of the State, and and it is within tbe knowl edge of all how the sheriffs of some of the counties were imprisoned for attempting to collect these back taxes. But he was at length success ful and the railroads were made to pay $208,000 into the State treasury. Soon after his entrance into congress he took up the matter of securing the claim of Newberrv college for $15 000 for injury to their building by the occupancy of the federal troops. This bill had been pending for years, and its friends had almost despaired of ever getting it passed, but Latimer succeeded where others bad failed, and tbe college got tbe money. He has been instrumen tal in increasing the number of seed packages from 3 000 to 15,000 iu each district, and thousands of farmers to day testify that the seeds are the best they ever had; and thousands upon thousands of farm bulientins are dis tributed giving tbe results of the work of the department of agricul ture. But passing over some other mat ters the greatest good that he has secured to the poeple of this district is the establishment of the rural free delivery of the mails to the homes of the people. He has never claimed to be the originator of tbe system, but only to be one of the first men to perceive the great benefit there is in it and to give it a practical applica tion, and today mere are 90 routes in operation in his district at a salary of $600 per carrier, bringing $54,000 annually into tbe district and confer ring vastly improved mail facilities upon the people. He has introduced a bill, which is now pending, providing for 1,5000,- 000 acres of the public domain to be set apart for tbe public schools of South Carolina. He has now a corps of surveyors in the State instructed by the agricultural department to make a soil survey of 1000 square miles of territory to ascertain tbe constituent elements of the soil with reference to its adaptability to the production of crops. He has also introduced an amendment to the agricultural bill appropriating $150,- 000 for experiments in road making. These matters are referred to to show the practical lines along which be has been working. These are but a 'portion of the benefits this farmer-representative has secured for bis people, and be comes now asking you to give bim a wider field for the display of bis usefulness. New York city has a school budget of nearly $20,000,000 this year—a larger sum than is expended for pur poses of education by any other city Id tbe world and very much larger than la expended by many countrier. The McKinley postal card has been received by Postmaster Folger Put your name on the Hub roll five days before the ebetionif you want to vote. Rev. Amo* Clary preached in Rutherford Street Baptist church in Greenville Sunday. Rev Arch C Cree is assisting Rev. J. D. Bailey in conducting a pro tracted meeting a* Antioch. '1 he builders are making good progress on tbe Winnie Davis Hall of History and the city hall. 1 El” Parker has moved his bicyc'e shop to the iron building near J W\ Tolleson’s store on Limestone street. A good rain fell Sundae'aftfirnoon between Gaffney and Broad rivtr. Gaffney only had enough to lay the dust. Hall tfe VVillis have moved their law office to the spacious roqpia over The Ledger’s new quarters iu the Star Theatre building. Joe Coyle, one of Cherokee's pro- greKsive farmers, has sold over fifty dollars worth of watermelons from a half acre patch. Joe succeeds with other crops, too. A number of business men of other cities are in Gaffney these days look ing out for houses to open business in this fall. J H Curry has already rented his unfinished store. Mr. and Mrs. E. Thomason carried a little daughter to Atlanta the last of last wetk to he tr*ared. Mr. Thomason has returned and we are glad to learn that the little one is doing very well. Constable Hoag Allison, of Blacks burg. brought a colored gentleman to the city yesterday who, after eonsult- ing a legal tribunal in th*- Iron City, has consented to take a thirty day’s course in Supervisor Wnelenei’o good roads class. Jerry Ross, a colored farmer, showed The Ledger some large and weli matured ears of corn ot this years crop, also a specimen of both his cotton and pea crops winch does him credit At the same time Jerry delivered a disquisition on farming which mould he amusing, if not in structive to a farmers institute. SUCCESS TO ALL. For a change I have some nice fat Mutton and Kansas City Beef, and as time passes cattle gets better and some cheaper, for which I am ab e to sell you meat cheaper. Good stake at 10c, best at 12Hc; stew and boil meats from 7c to sc. roast from «Jc to 10c. As bacon goes up, beef comes down in reach for all. Fresli fish Fridays and Saturdays. Fresh country produce and vegetables fresh every day. Remember we are with you :»i5 days in tbe year. Come and pick for yourself or 'phone No. 00. The up-to-date market open from 5 a. m until 8 p. m. L. W. McGUINN. No business can possibly be successful that is tiot adver tised. * This is a sweeping statement, but it is true. There are some merchants in this community whose experience apparently contradicts the statement. The contradiction, however, is only apparent. If they have attained any degree of success they have advertised. They have let people know what they had to sell, what they were here for and ^ what they proposed to do. Just in proportion to the thorough ness with which they have done this and met the conditions of their competitors they have sue- ^ needed. If they have used the newspa pers they have worked with the best tools so far as getting pub licity is concerned. If they have worked without the newspapers they have been handicapped and have not attained the highest possible measure of success. A fertile seed planted in fertile ground, carefully watered, will thrive and bear fruit A properly organized business, in any inhabited place, well advertised wiil succeed. The law of growth is as certain and inexorable in one case as the othex. dm CMcn-bMa, Diarrhoea, Dysentery, and the Bowel Troufeka ol Children of Any Ago. Aids Digestion, Regulates the Bowels. Strengthens Cost* My S cats at Inggists, “tSSing ow* I Or mail 2* ceata te C. J. MOFFETT. M. D.. »T. LOUIS. MO. AtlaMa. Oa.. Not. 19,190a. Wo have bandied Dr. Moffett’a TEETHINA (Taathiac Powder.) ever aince Iu Bret introdoeUoa to tbe peblie aad trade ae a proprietary medicine, and our trade in it bae aiaadilr - •ow amount to two or three hundred froea per rear, which la a Tory i iacreaaed from year to year aatil oar < arid race of Iu merit and the eati. faction M counteracU the efecU of the aammer'a DOW amount to two or three hundred rival per year, which la a Tory etrewf o la sirln( to tbe mothers of the country, for they ray nothing eo effectually hot a on or orcrootoea ao quickly the troublcc incident to teething. THE LAMAR A RANKIN DRUO OO.. WbalwaH DracgMa. For sale by all druggist.