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/ $ THE LARGEST Circulation of Any Newspaper in the Fifth Congressional District of S C. The Ledger SEMI-WEEKLY-PUBLISHED TUESDAY AND FRIDAY. Wt GUARANTEE The Reliability of Every Adver tiser Who Uses the Col umns of This Paper. A Newspaper in all that the Word Implies and Devoted to the Best Interests of the People of Cherokee County. ♦ESTABLISHED FEB. 16, 1894. GAFFNEY. S. C., FRIDAY, AUGUST 1903 f 1.00 A YEAB. THROUGHOUT THE PALMETTO STHTE. items of Interest of Passing Events. ALL OVER THE STATE. fcventri tlmt Have Taken Place from One End of the State to the Other Called from Exchangeh for (Juick Heading by Score, of Buity People. It ia reported that the desperado, Jeffcoat, was seen in Columbia Sun day. Twenty-five bales of new cotton was sold in Orangeburg one day last week. The Berkeley Insurance company, of Holly Hill, wants a charter. It will start with $400 capital. Rev. Metz Joyner, a ten-year-old preacher, is conducting a series of meetings in the First Baptist church at McCormick. The club rolls of Charleston are padded to such an extent that it is said that there are at least 2,000 names on the rolls which should uot be there. A mule belonging to Rev. W. R. Wallace, a colored preacher, was killed near Orangeburg last week. The negro who was driving the mule narrowly escaped. Two painters who were at work on the Charleston orphan house fell from a swinging ladder a distance of 50 feet to the ground and sustained broken limbs and other injuries. The Brogon mill of Anderson was chartered Tuesday. The capital stock is half a million dollars. J. A. Brock is president, R. E. Ligon is vice president and treasurer, and C. J. Brock secretary. A stock ' company is now being formed for the purpose of purchasing and developing Chick Springs, near Greenville, and making it a health resort. The capital stock of the company will be $100,000. A committee from the board of trustees of Columbia Female College will visit Sumter, Aiken, Greenwood and Laurens this week to consider the propositions submitted by these places for the location of the college in one of those towns. The secretary of state has been asked to issue a commission for the Miller Lumber company, which pro poses to be capitalized at $150,000 as a starter and to operate in Barnwell and Bamberg counties. The corpora tors are Adam Miller and R. C. Gour- ley, both of Big Run, Penn. The people of Waverly Monday made formal application to the secre tary of state for permission to have that community take steps to be in corporated into a municipality. There has been talk of this for some time, but until recently no steps had been taken to bold an election. At the Marion county campaign meeting held at Dillon Friday, County Trasurer Blue was charged with issu ing fraudulent tax receipts to voters which caused the defeat of the new Pee Dee county. Mr. Blue acknowl edged the issue of the receipts but placed the responsibility on other public officials. James Bell, colored, a driver for Wm. Johnson & Co., while fishing off Johnson’s coal wharf in Beaufort Tuesday morning, caught one of the largest rays ever landed in those parts. It was a monster, measuring three feet across and six feet from its nose to the tip of its tail and weighed 63 pounds. The strength of three men was required to land the monster ray. Saturday afternoon while engaged in coupling cars at Converse, Flagman A. L. Carson, of the Southern rail way, bad the misfortune to allow his right arm to get caught between the two cars just as the coupling was in process. His arm was crushed badly at the elbow, and the man's suffering was something frightful, until he was brought to Spartanburg, where physi- •fans treated him. Later iu the afternoon the right arm was ampu tated. Governor McSweeny Monday issued requisition papers on the governor of Pennsylvania for the return to South Carolina of George McFadden, col ored, who is wanted for crime com mitted in this State and is now in ar rest in Philadelphia. Gov. Wm. A. Stone has wired Gov. McSweeney that the negro will be held pending the arrival of the papers from South Carolina. And therein is where Gov. Stone differs from Gov. Crane of Mas sachusetts, who is holding a criminal from this State who is in arrest there. Early Friday night the frame bouse aod contents of Mr. Wm. Miller, on Ladies’ Island, was destroyed by fire of supposed incendiary origin. Three hundred dollars in cash and a dog were also consumed. Mr. Miller had a lot of terrapins under the dwelling, and he believes they were stolen be fore the torch was applied to the house. About half an hour before the fire he had left home to attend to some duties near the river. When be observed the Harney he hastened to the scene, but arrived too late to save a vestige of his property. There was no insurance. Particulars of the shooting scrape at Laurens between Mr. Geo. Ander son, a young farmer, and three ne groes, Wash McDowell and two sons, Friday afternoon, are to this effect: that Anderson was shot three times, twice with a parlor rifle and once by a shot gun. The latter wound is most serious, some shot having punc tured the lungs. His condition is extremely critical. Wash McDowell was killed by a terrible shotgun wound in the abdomen and one of his boys badly wounded, presumably by this same gun. It seems that Mr. Anderson, accompanied by a negro driver, was collecting toll wheat and stopped at McDowell’s fir that pur pose. A dispute arose about the amount and a fight ensued during which Anderson received his wounds and in turn Wash and the boys were shot by Mr. Anderson. Anderson was armed with a muzzle loading shot gun and having emptied his weapon turned to leave. When off some dis tance the third and most dangerous wound was fired from ambush, pre sumably by the unwounded McDow ell boy. The negroes were well sup plied with arms. Two rifles, two shotguns and a pistol were found in the house after the row. There has been no excitement. Mr. Anderson is a farmer and the only son of Mr. L. C. Anderson. He resides with his father. The difficulty was a mile and a half from the Anderson’s. -%U Were .Saved. “For years I suffered such untold misery from Bronchitis.” writes J. H. Johnson, of Broughton, Ga., “that often I was unable to work. Then, when everything else failed, I was wholly cured by Dr. King’s New Discovery for Consumption. My wife suffered intensely from Asthma, till it cured her. and all our experience goes to show it is the best Croup medicine in the world.” A trial will convince you it’s unrivaled for Throat and Lung diseases. Guaranteed bot tles 50c and $1.00. Trial bottles free at Cherokee Drug Co. Job evidently bad no desire for fickle fame. He was in a position to win out as a manufacturer of pro fane history—but he didn’t. A Cure for Cholera Infantum. “Last May,” says Mrs. Cnrtis Ba ker, of Bookwalter, Ohio, “an infant child of our neighbor’s was suffering from cholera infantum. The doctor had given up all hopes of recovery. I took a bottle of Cham her! sin’s Colic, cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy to the house, telling them I felt eure it would do good if used w curding to directions. In two days time the child had fully recovered, and is now (nearly a year since) a vigorous, healthy girl. I have reccommended this Remedy frequently and have never known it to fail in any single instance.” For salo by Cherokee Drug Co. Science says kissing causes disease. It has beeu known to cause palpita tion of the heart. A Gentle Hint. In our style of climate, with its sudden changes of temperature—rain, wind and sunshine often intermingled in a single day—it is no wonder that our children, friends and relatives are so frequently taken from us by neg lected colds, half the deaths resulting directly from this cause. A bottle of Boschee’s German Syrup kept about your home for immediate use will pre vent serious sickness, a large doctor’s bill, and perhaps death, by the use of three or four doses. For curing Con sumption, Hemorrhages, Pneumonia, Severe Coughs, Croup, or any disease of the Throat or Lungs, its success is simply wonderful, as your druggist will tell you. Get a sample bottle free from Cherokee Drug Co. Regu lar size, 75 cts. Get Green’s Special Almanac. One never knows that any other creature than man wears a wig until he gets married. HU Sight Threatened. “While picnicking last month my 11-year-old boy was poisoned by some weed or plant,” says W. H. Dibble, of Sioux City, la. “He rubbed the poison off his hands into his eyes and for awhile we were afraid he would lose bis sight. Finally a neighbor recommended DeWitt’e Witch Hazel Salve. The first application helped him and in a few days he was as well as ever.” For skin diseases, cuts, burns, scalds, wounds, insect bites, DeWitt’s Witch Hazel Salve is sure cure. Relieves piles at once. Be ware of counterfeits. Cherokee Drag Co. HAPPENINGS OF LOWER CHEROKEE What the People of the Etta Jane Section are Doing SCHOOL APPLICATIONS TeHchera Applying for Schools In Chero kee—Having Trouble with a llored Well. Air. Lem Mulllnaux Gets His Hand Hurt by the Explosion of a Cartridge. (Correspondence of The Ledger.) Etta Jane, Aug. 20.—Mrs. J. N. Strain is on the sick list today. Mr. Jefferson Blackwell is atteD' ding the Thomson mills. He grinds on Tuesday's and Saturday’s. A lady friend writing from Fair field county—one who reads The Led ger regularly—says it is one of the best papers in the land, and she is very good authority too. Several applications are coming in for schools in Cherokee county during the coming season and we hope our trustees and employees will get the very best to be had, irrespective of whose kin folks they are. What we want for the children of this county is the very best teachers the means at hands will secure. Our likes or dislikes of people don’t make them better or wor?e teachers. One of the safest and best things for trustees and employees to do in getting a teacher is to get only those who are recommended by some well known educator in addition to the requirements of the State to authorize them to teach. The main part of a teacher holding a diploma or t^chei’i* certificate of a certain grade, is not an infallible proof of his or her competency to teach, not at ail it isn’t. No greater mistake was ever made than t) come to such a conclusion. In ye olden times when Judge Townsend, Rev. A. A James and other distinguished educators man aged the et ucational affairs of Union county, there wasn’t half the hum- buggery in the schools we find at the present day. Then men felt their personal responsibility for the com petency of the teachers they gave the people and they made but few mistakes that we can recall. The weather is intensely hot during most of the day time and part of the night. Crops are needing rain very bad. In many places it is doubtful whether rains' would do any good now to some crops. Farmers have a fine time for pul ling and curing fodder. Messrs. I. K. Allison and H. B. McDaniel, of Hickory Grove, are having considerable trouble with their tubular well. It is nearly one hundred feet deep and from some defect quantities of muddy water ha- tmin time to time been coming la which was, suaii pumped (.ff leaving clear water for quite awhile. And then, the muddy water would begin again. Last week it began to give fourth muddy water in an inexhaus tible supply. They applied an en gine and the more they pumped the worse it got until Mr. Mayer Leich with his machinery took out the casing and is now trying to remedy this trouble. Of the many wells bored by Fowler Bros. & Watson in this section, this is the only one we know of that has not given entire satisfaction. We think the trouble is caused by a defect iu the casing which caused a leak Misses Echel and Jessie Strain and Mattie Estes returned from Clifton last Monday much pleased with what they seen and the many kindnesses shown them by their friends, during their absence. They gave The Led ger a call and speak in highest terms of its nicely equipped office. Mr J M. Roberts, the efficient and gentlemanly mail carrier on the Hickory Grove route, has swapped horses. He says he has got one a lady can drive with perfect safety. Perhaps his next move will be to get a lady driver. Jess Wood, colored, is an expert cyclist. He takes Ed. Edwards, also colored, on his back and spins bis wheel along the road at a break-neck speed. We wouldn’t be surprised if Coroner Vinesett don’t receive a message to come down and hold a double Inquest soon if they don’t be a little more cautious bow they ride their bicycle. Mr. Sam Strain received a kind invitation to take the string band down to play at the picnic at Arme nia in Chester county, next Saturday 23d Inst. They have Qabout con cluded to go. We hope they will have a pleasant time. Besides the picnic there will be speaking by some of the Chester county candi dates and no doubt Cupid will put in an appearance too. In Speaking of that neighborhood (Armenia) we can say for it what can’t be eald of any other eection in the United States that we know of, that is: Its leading people are largely made up of two of the most illustrious family names on this con tinent—Lee ana Grant—who have lived there iu perfect| peace for time almost immemorial. In fact, they have married and intermarried until a vast progeny of the best people of the country has descended from one or both of these illustrious names. We hear of a few chills along the creeks. Mr. Lem Mullinax had the mis fortune to get his hand badly torn up a short time ago by a cartridge or shell he picked up and was examin ing. He is carrying his hand with a bandage about it. Mr. and Mrs. T. J. Estes are visit ing friends and relatives at Cross Keys, Union county, this week. The boys still keep up their debate at the school house every two weeks. Some times they have large audiences and make interesting speeches. That’s the way to improve the mind. It keeps one reading and studying to keep up with the subjects. We are told homely girls believe the man who says that pretty girlb make poor wives. It seems that the newspapers can’t get over the Hemphill-Latimer and kindred incidents which have taken place at Gaffney during the campaign. If Ben or Jim Tillman had (in the presence of as large an audience) taken Gad’s name in vain as Mr. Hemphill is alleged to have done even under the very same circum stances. what would the papers have said about it? If we condemn blasphemy in one man then we ought to condemn it in all alike. The irreverent use of God’s name is unjustifiable in any one, at any time and place and we are sorry to see it treated so lightly, especially by our leading and most influential men. N^ human l-nn<TUP Van, hv t-ek""''? God’s name iu vain make this sinful practice respectable or raise it above the grade of general blasphemy. Cursing (like drinking or any other vice) is only a habit, and the most unexcusable of them all. All the other vices go to satisfy some fleshly lust, but as for swearing we can’t see where its utility begins or its debasing tendencies end, except in the wreck of morals. As to whether Mr. Hemphill did or did not use the language attributed to him there is a misunderstanding. We did net hear it. If he used it he betrayed a weakness no one suspec ted him of having and it’s going to be bard to convince many that he did. Of one thing we are quite sure aud that is that no one knows better than Hon. J. J. Hemphill himself what such language would cost him in his election and be wasn’t raised to take God’s name in vain. But sometimes children don’t live as they are raised. j l. s. HhaUent All Kecordn. Twice in hospital, F. A. Gulledge, Verbena, Ala., paid a vast »um to doctors to cure a severe case of piles, causing 24 tumors When nil fmlrd Buckien’s Arnica halve aoon cured bim. Subdues Inflammation, con quers Aches, kills Pains. Best salve iu the world. 25c at Cherokee Drug Co. Brains behind the article advertised and brains behind the advertised methods are the winning combina tion. Cure* Eczema, Itching Hnmora, Pimpled aud Carbuncles.—Coeta Nothing to Try. B. B B. (Botanic Blood Balm) is now recognized as a certain and sure cure for eczema, itching skin, hum ors, scabs, scales, watery blisters, pimples, aching bonesor joints, boils, carbuncles, prickling pain in the skin, old, eating sores, ulcers, etc. Botanic Blood Balm taken internally cures the worst and most deep-seated cases by enriching, purifying and vitalizing the blood, thereby giving a heajtby blood supply to the skin. Botanic Blood Balm is the only care, to stay cured, for these awful, annoy ing skin troubles. Heals every sord and gives the rich glow of health to the skin. Builds up the broken down body and makes the blood red and nourishing. Especially advised for chronic, old cases that doctors, pat ent medicines and hot springs fail to cure. Druggists, $1. To prove B. B. B. cures, sample sent free and pre paid by writing Blood Balm Co., At lanta, Ga. Describe trouble and free medical advice sent in sealed letter. A successful business man is one who induces other people to buy what be doseu’t want. It NmU* m Tonic. There are times when your liver needs a tonic. Don’t givo purgatives that gripe and weaken. DeWitt’s Little Early Risers expel all poison from the system and act as a tonic to the liver. W. Scott, 531 Highland ave., Milton, Pa., says: “I have car ried DeWitt’s Little Early Risers with me for several years and would not be witbont them.” Small and easy to take. Purely vegetable. They □ever gripe or dletreee. Cherokee Drug Co. THRUUGHUUT THE TIB HEEL STATE. From the Mountains to The Sea. NORTH CAROLINA NEWS. Interentlng Hermit Concerning Our Neigh- born Beyond the Line Which May Prove Entertaining Heading for Hundred* of Ledger Header*. The North Carolina Confederate Veterans held their reunion at Greens boro this week. The attendance was large. The store beloning to J. M. Hunt, who resides in Golden Valley, was destroyed by fire Monday morning. The loss is about $500, without any insurance. Andrew Threatt, a negro who lived near Monroe, was struck by the south-bound passenger train Monday morning near Potter, and received an injury from which he will die. Victor Barnes, accused of criminal ly assaulting little Bessie Walden, of Sumner township, had his trial be fore ’Squires Glenn and Pritchett at Greensboro Monday, and was sent on to the grand jury without bail. Jack Sheban, who lives on Buck creek, iu McDowell county, was shot in the bowels Sunday by Tom White- sides. It is expected that Shehan will die. The shooting was brought on by an old feud. Both men are white. Sneak thieves are putting in some work in Raleigh just now. Articles have been stolen recently from the "f a i.tiiiiber oi f'ces and in two or three ms:ances trousers have been fished through the windows at night aud the poc-k'-ts nfl d. The Charlotte Refi nerv Company was incorporated Monday with an authorized capital of $150,000. The incorporators are C. S. Johnson, J Edgar Gross, W. E. Holt and J. 8. Spencer. The object is to manu facture the product from cotton seed. In a fire which broke out at Wins ton-Salem Tuesdav night property value at $60,000 was destroyed. A large building containing the furni ture stock of Hunley, Hill <fc Stock ton, and the harness stock of Hine & Shipley were burned. Insurance $30.- 000. Ex-Governor Jarvis was very pain fully injured in a runaway accident near Asheville Sunday afternoon Governor Jarvis had attended the Confederate reunion on Swannanoa and was returning to Asheville about dark in company w.th J. M. Gudger, when the accident occurred. A requisition was received Monday from the Governor of South Carolina for Hughrai King alias Sandie King, who is ui.dvr arrc--t iu Wilmington and is wanted in Darlington, S. C., for assault upon a girl with criminal in tent. The requisition was promptly honored and sent to Wilmington. Ike Godwin, alias Benton, accused of stealing fruit and watermelons, was caught Wednesday night by Mr. Frank Wisbart and lodged in jail at Lumberton. Bloodhounds were pat on the track after sunset and soon succeeded in locating the fugitive. He confessed to having murdered a man and woman in Cumberland county. The Southern Railway has prac tically decided to bnild a line from Busbneli, N. C., to Maryville, Tenn. When this is completed the Rabun Gap survey will be used, according to present intentions, in entering Geor gia and South Carolina. This will give the Southern better facilities to handle coal into these coal consuming States and save it thousands of dollars in handling the same. Chief Engi neer Webb is authority for the plans given out. Lester Miller, Will Simpson and Will Hilton, colored, were arrested Tuesday and taken to the Charlotte jail by “Lawyer” Bill Roberts, of Crab Orchard township. The negroes are charged with being implicated in the burning of the house of Mr. W. M. Dulin, and with the murder and robbery of Duiin a few weeks ago in Crab Orchard township. The prison ers were taken before ‘Squire D. G. Maxwell, who committed them to jail without bail. A shooting affray, in which Zeb Fraizier very painfully shot John Williamson in the leg with a shot gun, occured near Mr. Levi Lackey’s store, in the northern part of Stokes, a tew days ago. Williams, it seems, bad been deputized to arrest Frazier for some trivial offence and was in the act of doing so when Frazier shot bim. Frazier skipped to Virginia and has not been captured. Wil liamson, tbs wounded man, is getting along fairly well. * A pitiable sight in Raleigh Sunday evening was a negro 70 years old, brought from Little River township and lodged in jail for stealing two watermelons. The old fellow seemed heart-broken. He said he had netfer been under arrest before and that he told the owner of the melons that he had taken them from the tobacco field and wanted to pay for them. A county offical remarked that the mel ons could not have been worth more than ten cents and the case would certainly cost the taxpayers 1 $40 or more. Roadmaster Fred Stevers, of Stev- ers, Va., was shot and killed and Jim Mitchell, a negro porter, was dan gerously wounded in a fight with dis orderly negroes on a northbound Sea board Air Line train near Middleburg Tuesday afternoon. The negroes had taken seats in the coach reserved for whites. Conductor Clements ordered them to the coach for negroes. The negroes protested but obeyed the or der. When in the “Jim Crow” coach one of the negroes, named Joe Cole, struck at the conductor. Road- master Stevers came to the conduc tor’s rescue. The negro pulled a pis- tbl aud Stevers clasped him around the body, but the negro twisted bis arm around, and getting his pistol against Stever’s head, shot him, Stov ers falling dead on the coach floor. Mitchell, the porter, rushed towards Cole as he pointed the pistol at Con ductor Clements and was shot in the abdomen. Passengers captured three of the participants and two jumped from the train, escaping to the woods. Look Pleasant, Please. Photographer C. C Harlan, of Eaton, 0., can do so now, though for years he couldn’t, because he suffered untold agony from the worst form of indigestion. All physicians and medicines failed to help him till he tried Electric Bitters, which worked such wonders for him that be declares they are a godsend to sufferers from dyspepsia and stomach troubles. Unrivaled for diseases of the Stom ach, Liver and Kidneys, they bnild up and give new life to whole system. Try them. Only 50c. Guaranteed by Cherokee Drug Co. I 1 , is a probably called the “al mighty dollar” because it prevents some girls from breaking into the spinster class. A Physician Healed. Dr. Geo. Ewing, a practicing phy sician of Smith’s Grove, Ky., for over thirty years, writes his personal ex perience with Foley’s Kidney Cure: “For years I had been greatly both ered with kidney and bladder trouble and enlarged prostrate gland. I used everything known to the profession without relief,..until I commenced to use Foley’s Kidney Cure. After tak ing three bottles I was entirely re lieved and cured. I prescribe it now daily in my practice and heartily re commend its use to all physicians for such troubles. I have prescribed it in hundreds of cases with perfect suc cess.” For sale by Cherokee Drug Co. Wise is the man who can give a wo man abvice without incurring her en mity. Food Adulteration. “In a pure food case that was taken up from Philadelphia to the supreme court of Pennsylvania,” says Public Policy, “the plea was made that the law is not violated unless the quanity of foreign sub stance in a food staple is sufficient to injure health. The supreme court decision is that any poisonous ingre dient, whether in quanity to injure health or not, is a violation of the statute. The cry goes up that this will affect twenty per cent, of the stock of the average dealer. If one- fifth of the merchandise sold for food contains poisonous ingredients, there is a startling necessity for active measures. The stupid plea that the poison is not enongh in any one arti cle to hurt the consumer indicates that the vendors never give enough thought to any aspect of the question but the pursuit of the nimble dime and nickel to learn the effect of the cumulative poisoning. Certainly when we hear from the trade itself that the practice of mixing poison in food has attaioed a twenty per cent, preva lence, it is time for strenious sup pression, aimed with the most vigor at the manafacturers of sneb art! cles.” In view of the above, had yon not better buy “Clifton” floor, a flour gnaranteed pure by the Anti-Adul teration League. Bransford Mills, Owensboro, Ky. Most ^omen are afraid of a loose dog or a tight man. A Necessary Precaution. Don't neglect a cold. It is worse than unpleasant. It is dangerous. By using One Minute Cough Cure you can cure It at once. Allays iu- flamatiou, clears the bead, soothes and strengthens the mucous mem brane. Cares coughs, croup, throat aod lung troubles. Absolutely safe. Acts immediately. Children like It. Cherokee Drug Co. / i Mix