Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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-'i-u.- J-.. . • .. The: Jl^E:r>OE:H. PUBLISHED TUESDAY AND FRIDAY. BY Ed. H. DkCamp. The Ledger is not responsible for tbe views of correspondents. Correspondents who do not contri bute regular news letters must fur nish their name, not for publication, but for identification. Write short letters and to the point to insure publication; also endeavor to get them to the office by Monday and Thursday mornings. Obituaries will be pubinlised at five cmts a line. Cards of thanks wil 1 be published at one cent a word. Reading notices will be published at ten oents a line each insertion. A'l correspondence should be ad- d r ep*»ed to Ed. H. DeCamp, Manager. JOHN D., JR., AND JONH D., SR. John D. Rockefeller, Jr., has some thing more to recommend him to the attention of the people than his pro- pects of being the richest young man of the world. He teaches a Bible class in the Fifth Avenue Baptist church in New York and so efficient a teacher is he that he has a class of two hundred you men—more pupils than a great many of our Sunday schools have on their roll. Last Sun day his subject was success, and this is what he said : ‘ Our ideal of success is wrong. Let the proud and haughty stride with superior tread, with laurels of earthly triumphs on their brow They are, in the final analysis, not more successful than the lowly, who patiently bear defeats, but keep on striving. Success is not measured by money. The poor man may be far more a success than the rich man, after all, for he is used to defeat and his character is made all the stronger. “I am not saying that the man who goes forward in the world in what ever walk of life and leads his fellow- men is not entitled to praise for his endeavor, but Christ shows that the higher success on earth is essentially linked with martyrdom, self-sacrifice, altruism. “After all, what does fame, glory and wealth count for in this worid if we have not the realization that we are doing something for our fellow- man. If we cannot be our brother’s keeper we can at least do something to speed him on in the struggle for life, and when we have done this we have achieved a far greater success than when we do something that be nefits only ourselves. “Our golden text today is: ‘It is more blessed to give than to receiv Haven’t we all found it so? I greatest joy comes from what we do for others, not what others do for us.’’ We haven’t the slightest idea but what John D. Jr., is a sincere young gentleman, but we wish he would induce the old man to sit at his feet and learn. If he did it isn’t likely that kerosene oil would be jumping up 20% at a clip. It does look like there is as little excuse for the rise in this commody as there could possi bly be in anything, but then there is quite a difference between the lessons taught by the trust pampered Stand ard Oil Company and John D. Rocke feller, Sr., and those laid down in Holy Writ and expounded by Johnny D. Rockefeller, Jr. the democratic nominee for president In 1904 Better wait awhile and see bow Willie acquits himself in con gress. He has made it lively for the Park Row pencil pushers since his advent into the metropolis, but its easier for a man with money to buy brains than it is to furnish the com modity himself. For newspaper work brains can be purchased, but for speech-making and debating it is necessary to possess them. We like Willie’s newspaper work all right, but we don’t know so much about this presidential proposition. What is going to happen? Two politicians—and thank heaven both of them are democrats—have refused to accept certificates of election to office because they believed their op ponents were elected and the man agers of election could only give them their certificates by throwing out some precincts that went for their opponents. We are proud to say that both these honest men live in states adjacent to South Carolina—we wish they lived in this State. One was Judge Avery, of North Carolina, who refused the certificate of election as one of the senators from the thirty- fourth district; the other was Con. gressman Rhea, of Tennessee. All honor to both Judge Avery and Con gressman Rhea. Surely they must be of that tribe said to be the noblest work of God. Such men honor them selves and their constituents more than if they had received the unani mous vote of every man in their dis trict. But what can be said of the petty thieves who tried to steal the office forthem? Nothing! They de serve the contempt of all honest men. nuTtes and comments. The Auguftta Carnival. Electricity is the salient feature of the beauty of the Robinson Mighty Midway engaged by the Elks of Au gusta, and the effects of the lighting and illumination are indescribably beautiful at night. The front of ail the twenty or more shows are studded with thou-ands of glittering vari-col- ored lights while several hundred great white arc lights make the pleas ure piazza as bright as daylight. The Venetian gondolas are a perfect blaze of colored lights arid the big Ferris wheel revolves majestically decked in the same dazzling show of gay radi ance. The interiors of the shows are also lighted by electricity and the wonderful effect of the “Red Dome,’’ the moving pictures of the eruption j I \ti. t\.ec . I 'he destruction of |’ f- —, M ' q ie, and a hundred and one other pleasing features are all obtained by the aid of the mystic electrical current. From a distance the midway looks a veritable fairy land, which it is, and the scene is one that has never been reproduced. It is wonderful, fascinating, beautiful and that is the secret of the vast crowds it will draw. Merry music is also a feature of the aggregation en gaged and besides several good bands will furnish the music there is a largo military orchestriau on the front of each show which is equipped with the very latest popular music. This is in itself a feature no other midway shows possess and the reason is obvious when it is stated these fine instruments cost from $2,500 to $10,- 000. Visit the Elks carnival at Augusta, week of November 17th to 22nd, and have a solid week of fan and frolic. Two more Christian Science be lievers have passed in their checks and crossed the dark river. “What fools these mortals be.” The flying machine gentry seem to be taking a resting spell just uow. They will come with “the birds that sing in spring, tra-la-la.” ✓ ♦ ♦ ♦ ~ County Supervisor J. V. Whelchel has advertised for bids to paint the court house. Snpervisor Joe and the county commissioners are the proper stuff If they wonld go a little fur ther and put a nice fence around the court house and beautify the plot there would be no objection ou the part ol the tax-payers. Alan Mason, a rich white man of Cambridge, Mass., was arrestea some ten days ago charged with the mur der of two women. A few days later It was found a negro had pawned the watches of the murdered women. The negro was found and arrested, and said he got the watches from a white man and identified Mason as the man. As soon as this evidence was obtained Mason was released, which shows that a negro’s evidence against a white man is not taken for more in Massachusetts than it is in other sections of the country. The negro will now probably be prose cuted for the murder, and bis posses sion of the watohes will probably be considered sufficient evidence to hang him. ♦ ♦ ♦♦ William R. Hearst, proprietor of the New York Journal, wae elected to congress from the eleventh New York district Tuesday a week ago. Now there is some talk of making him Negro to Be Collector of tbe Port. I Washington Sp’c’l to Philedelphia Record.! President Roosevelt said to one of his callers to-day that he proposed to settle the controversy over the col- lectionship of the port of Charleston, S. C., by appointing Dr. William D. Crum, a colored physician, promi nently indentified with Republican politics iu the South. White citizens have filed with the President a protest against Dr. Crum’s selection, without reflecting in any way upon his ability or integritv. The President holds that such resen'- ment is unreasonable, since all of the other Federal appointments he ha- made iu South Carolina have gone to white men. The Republican organization of th" State recommended R. R Tolbert whit'i, who was mixed up in the Gret n- »ood troubles several years ago Question for J. L. 8. to Solve. A is walking from Y to Z at the rate of 4^ miles per hour but o. nr riving at ten milag fr Z h- meets B with whom he rum* nod walks two miles at B’e r>;ro. If no v he has to increase his sp^ed U miles an hour so as to be at Z on rim*, tm* fast, does B walk? and if B arrives at, Y the same time A ge's to Z what distance ie Y and Z span? Will J. L 8 . who is so fond of puzzles and hard questions, five li the answer and we will think be knows something about arithmetic sure enough? Kitty. There Is more Catarrh in this section' f the country than all other diseases put together and until the last few years was supposed to be Incurable. For a great many years doc tors pronounced It a local disease, and pre scribed local remedies, and by constantly failing to cure with local treatment, pro nounced It Incurable. Science has proven catarrh to be a constltuilonal disease, and therefore requires const itutlonnl treatment. Hall’s Catarrh Cure, manu'actured by F. J. Cheney & Co.. Toledo, Ohio, Is the only con stitutional cure on the market. It Is taken internally In dotes from 10 drops to a tea spoonful. It acts directly on the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. They offer one hundred dollars for any case It falls to cure. Send for circulars and testimonials. Address, F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, O. Sold by Druggists. 75c. Hall's Family Pills are the best. TAXES MUST BE PAID. Although Three County Auditors Unite In Asking Extension of Time. [Columbia Cor. News and Courier.! The matter of the extension of tbe time for the payment of taxes has again come up in a somewhat different manner from the ordinary way, but the same conclusion has been deter mined on—there will be no extension so far as the governor and comptroller general are concerned. The governor has received commuoicatioos from three county auditors asking that the time be extended. These come from Greenville, Cherokee and Barnwell. Auditor Hicks, of Barnwell, advan ces as a reason that the act of 1902 provides that 1 per cent penalty should be added on unpaid taxes by January 1; the eatae on those unpaid February Land 5 per cent ou those un paid March LgHe says tbe blanks pre pared for treasurers were printed and distributed before the act went into effect, and that the necessary columns are uot on them to enter such items. He suggests that the time be extend ed to March 1 and then upon all un paid taxes levy the whole percentage, which would be seven. The auditor of Cherokee advances the same objection, saying that it would require three treasurer’s blanks and they haven’t got them. They say they have corresponded with other auditors and they all unite in asking the extension for that reason. Governor McSweeney appreciates the fact that there may be something in this, but he does not believe it is such an obstacle as would warrant an extension. All State officers who have anything to do with tnv finances are unalterably opposed to the oerni- cious practice of extending the time and only will they consent to it when there is grave financial disaster im pending It is considered that no such condition can now be shown, hence the governor and comptroller general will not extend the time. Literary Notes. To do justice to the December num ber, of the Delineator which forb eau- ty and utility touches the highest mark, it would be neccessary to print the entire list of contents. It is sufficient to state that iu it the best modern writers and artists are generously represented. The book comains over 2J10 pag^s, with 34 full-page illustrations, of which 20 are in two or more colors. Tbe magnitude of this December number, for which 728 tons of paper and six tons of ink have been used, may be understood from the fact that 91 presses running 14 hours a day, have been required to print it; the binding alone of the edition of 915,000 copies representing over 20, 000,000 sections w' ich ' .*d to be gatb**red individually by hu.r"n Lands. Can a woman give to another wo man the unswerving loyalty which an ideal friendship shou’d ex^cl? Will a woman be faithful to her friend not merely while she is her friend, but after? If for any reason, jealousy or envy or the poison of sus picion part the two, will each be loy al to the past, keep its secrets and respect its obligations? If ever two men who have once been friends wear out their friendship and perhaps ex change it for open enmity, they still respect the tie that has been broken For the future, they will strike as hard as they are able, but iu doing so they will not violate their old friendship, nor use the opportunities which it gives them for inflicting pain—but is this the case with wo man? Does honor mean the same to a man as to a woman? These are some of the questions which Rafford Fyke asks in the article he contributes to the November Cosmopolitan on “What Women Like in Women.” HOPKINS LYNCH. A boy weighing one pound on earth would weigh twenty-seven and.a half Dounds on the sun. You can make your har ness aa soft aa a glove and aa tough aa wire by using EUREKA Bar- nese Oil. You can lengthen Its life—make It Inst twice as long aa It ordinarily would. Hamas* makea a poor looking har ness like new. Made of pure, heavy bodied oil, ee- peclally prepared to wlth- aiand the weather. Bold everywhere in cane—all alzee. Had* bj STANDARD OIL CO. For Sale. E70R SALE-The place 1 known as the Bap tist School property; two lots 80x200 inter section of Logan and Smith streets; will be sold separately or to gether. Apply to F. G. Stacy or R. O. Sams. A lieautifut Quiet Home Wedding In Our Midst Wednesday Noon. A quiet but pretty marriage took place last Wednesday at 12:30 o’clock at tbe residence of Mr. and Mrs. John Lynch, where beneath a bell of golden chrysanthemums Miss Alma Lynch plighted her troth to Mr. Chas. Walter Hopkios, of Concord, N. C , the Rev. Arch C. Oree perform ing the ceremony. Miss Alma is the second daughter of Mr. John Lynch, of this city, a winsome and talented little woman with a disposition as sunny as a day in June and is the life and sunshine of her home She is the granddaugh ter of Col David Provic'*. of Fairfield county, 8. C., and Dr. John Lynch, of Columbia. She is also a direct de scendant of General John Steel and Elizabeth Steel, of Salisbury, N. O., of Revolutionary fame. The groom is one of Concord’s most popular young business men and is worthy of the fair bride he has won. The bride was attired in a going away gown of castor and brown broad cloth with a silk ruche made from her mother’s wedding dress. She carried carnations. The attendants were Miss Minnie Lvneh with Mr. Tom Hopkins, little Lurlirie Lynch as ring bearer Miss Oilie Scott pre sided at the piano, rendering sweet strains during the ceremony. After a sumptuous dinner at the Commer cial Hotel Mr. and Mrs. Hopkins left on the 2:30 train for poims South. The Ledger joins in wishing the hap py pair a long and prosperous life Salt pork is a famous old- fashioned remedy for con sumption. ‘‘Eat plenty of pork,” was the advice to the consumptive 50 and 100 years ago. Salt pork is good if a man can stomach it. The idea behind it is that fat is the food the consumptive needs most. Scott’sEmulsionisthemod- ern method of feeding fat to the consumptive. Pork is too rough for sensitive stomachs. Scott’s Emulsion is the most refined of fats, especially prepared for easy digestion. Feeding him fat in this way, which is often the only way, is half the battle, but Scott’s Emulsion does more than that. There is some thing about the combination of cod liver oil and hypophos- phites in Scott’s Emulsion that puts new life into the weak parts and has a special action on the diseased lungs. A sample wilt be sent free upon request. Be sure that this picture In the form of a label is on the wrapper of every bottle of Emulsion you buy. SCOTT & BOWNE, CHEMISTS, 409 Pearl St., N. Y. 50c. and $1; all druggists. m 0 Every One Is Interested [ in the pictures made at | this studio. The fidelit y 1 to nature, the pose of the subject and the | high-class finish of our Photographs 1 are very pleasing. We are especially suc cessful with children. The finish of our pho tos Insures permanency They will not fade. W e are showing a handsome line of en larged portraits and frames at moderate prices. JUNE H. CARR. 812 Limestone St. Phone 176. FOR Up-to-Date Job Print ing, call at the LEDGER Office. Gaffney, S. C. Thank Uod for Orphans. We have a thousand things to thank God for. Bat did you ever thank him for the privilege of caring for orphan children? It, is a privilege. Every orphanage is His special care. He is the God of the fatherless. He blesses those who bless His litt'e ones. Let Jew and Gentile, Protestant and Catholic, use Thanksgiving day for the blessed privilege of helping the little ones of the great king. At the Thornwell Orphanage. Clin ton, 8. C.. there are two hundred of these orphans, the little brothers and sisters of all the great company of loving hearts. Their parentage repre sents every denomination of the ohurch; orphans of Masons and Odd Fellows, Knights of honor and Pyth- inns, are in the ranks of the little ones; they come from every Southern State and some Northern ones No agent is in the field begging for their support; the church sets apart no special day for collections. Whoso ever will may help and in any suit able way. Send provisions simply to Thorn- well Orphanage, Clinton, 8. C. Send gifts of money to Rev. Dr. Jacobs, Clinton, 8. C. If you do not help this orphanage, remember there are others. THE OUt REUABLE *AKlH6 POWDER AbsolutefyPure THERE IS NO SUBSTITUTE The “skeeter” has a lengthy bill, the hornet has a sting the old mule has no bill at all, but an awful back ward flying If a man is inclined to be foolish a silk hat won’t suve him A O oy/s* kTyv'-V./i If Do you want the best Black Satin Doutchess skirt ever pro duced for the money, we have it, its name is “Peco.” One Ripple, $1.00, Two Ripple, $1.25, Three Ripple, $1.50. We claim, and believe it so, that it is worth double the money. The material at retail will cost more than we ask for the skirt and it is worth the price we ask to make one. Dress* and 'Walking; «kirt©. Beautiful light and medium Gray Walking Skirts, all wool and nicely trimmed, their real value is $3.50, bought special. We offer them special only, $2.50. Beautiful black, dark gray, medium gray and blue skirts, $5.00, $3.50, $2.50 and $1.50 Di ■ess Skirts less than you can buy the material for, black and colors, OHc, $1.50 and up. Ready JVIade Waists. i Nice Flanneletts in new colorings and late patterns, 50c ; wool Flannel Waists, pink, blue, red and black, $1.00, $1.25 and $2.00. AdL i 11 i n e r* y. This should interest all the ladies and more so, not only on ac- count of our large and well selected stock and high art in trim ming, but because you do not have to pay any fancy prices here, everything sold low, one price, cash price way. Extensive line of fall Dress Goods in many new weaves, many beautiful colorings and large line of Trimmings, Silks and Vel vets, up-to-date in every way. Black Dress Goods, none better sold than we have for the price. Goods that are perfect, black, and stay so, or a new dress if they turn brown. Wash them if you like, the color is the same and stays so, 50c, 75c, $1.00 and up. Cheaper Dress Goods at 15c for a yard-wide wool filling bro cade, up to any price you want. For the best black Cashmere, 36 inches wide, for 25c, you will find it here. Always getting value, always giving value, that is our way and that is our name. f he value STORE Nov. 14th, 1902.