Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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■ <•.. . ' m ' 1 hv T'hb: x^koob:w. fOBtlftHJKD TUESDAY AND FRIDAY. ■ r '"' - ' by Er>. H* DbOami*. I’he Ledger is aoi responsible for tb« views of correspondents. Correspondents whq donot oontri- *"*'{ bate regular news letters mtist fw bids their name, not for publication, bUtjer identification. short letters and to the point it lure ioatiodj also endeavor the office h* Monday P^bli suiKchSnSay mornings. Obituaries will be published at five c»Bttt a line. •„. • . notices will ne published at ten aents a line each insertion. All coirespoffifonce should be ad dressed to Sd. H. DeCamp, Manager. AP.IITNOT OF THE CHURCH. Some people may think that we are a little too persistent abont the thea trical business and that our views are biased by mercenary motives, and that for this reason we are continu ally harping on the subject. To those who think so we can only an swer that they are probably not ac quainted with the promptings of our heart and have not clostly observed our efforts in the past to do some thing. We submit the following, from the Literary Digest, not as an argument of our own, but simply to show what others think of this same subject: There are many evidences nowadays of a growing sympathy between the theater and the church. We have al ready had occasion to note in our pages the activities of the Rev. Forbes Phil lips, of Oorieston, England, who has organized a dramatic society in bis own parish, and proposes that such societies be established under church auspices throughout the United Kiug- dom. In this country the “Actors’ Church Alliance,” of which Bishop Potter is president and Joseph Jeffer son vice-president, is steadily enlarg ing the sphere of its influence. It now has 2,500 members in 400 cities of the United States, Canada, Hawaii, and the Pbilppines. Its secretary, Rev. Walter E. Bentley, has recently trans formed the basement of his church in New York into a theatrical audi torium, and is planning to have “Everyman,” the fifteenth-century morality play, and other suitable dramas, performed there. Id an in terview with a New York Tribune re porter, he has explained as follows bis views of the relation between the church and the stage: “The church should touch the life of the people at every point. There should be nothing foreign to the cler gyman. When there is, it is because be i n’t wide awake.. The enurch should direct all the amusements of the people, not control them—that is a very different thing. But the church should recognize the universal, natural demand tor amusement, and should supply that demand. . . . The stage is one of the greatest teaching agencies that has ever been given to man; as great as the school, the press, or the ballot-box. The trouble is that the stage isn’t taken seriously as these are. The church doesn’t take it seri ously, the people don’t take it serious ly, and it doesn't take itself seriously. It is regarded as existing merely to cater to the amusements of the peo ple; but even if this be true, the amusements of a people have fully as important an influence in molding their lives as anything else in their environment. There ie no greater channel for the conveyance of moral truths or high ideals to mankind than the stage. But of course it can’t fill that function when it is governed by the little window out in front. If actors could cooperate and manage their own theaters, it might be differ ent. But the trouble is that a man Who is a good actor can rarelv do any thing else. Dramatic sense and buai- oeas sense don’t commonly go togetb- «r. Sir Henry Irving is a wonder, and wonders are rare. The stage itself doesn’t realize its own value or worth ip the world. It is for the ihurcb to vealite the value of this teaching agen- «y end take it ap and make use of '',?■> ■' The Bev. Dr. W. S. Rainsford, of Mbw.?** . ie enoouraging the same epirit%hl» parish, and bis last an nual report bears witness to the fact that the St- George’s Dramatic So la# mat a ioogrfeit-need.” In the Utow York Outlook be number of our East Side ‘ I-—aa a rule the them—are affairs; . . . quite seri- parlsh or- ■, v .a disposition to ids of oboreb and of Stags sWhs# sipresetons of emphatic disapproval. The Philadelphia Church Standard (Prot. Spise.) tbinka “there i been a good deal of well-meant f ailly gush of late on the sup jatjtbs ehurob and the • STH times In the bis- whan the drama and nobis (tioo- - and. even In Itlcsl instruct »Hemsrte bsl- in' the ftiM and the useful be tMjr ware tie (asm on tbs i; apd , thsrs Grsek drama r " 'ur’utai atosor all at ones, fairly wall. Nor have sligbtast tnottnatloo to forget —i .5®Jr y «*▼»'' . , that the unlettered people of the Mid dle Ages wete caught many a Bible story and many a lesson in good living by moralities and miracle plays of Which the Passion Play of Ober-Am mergau is so Interesting a survival Finally, it ought not to be forgotten that the Bible itself contains two booka which, tho’ they are not written In the form either of the classic or of the more modern drama; are certainly of a dramatic character, and one of them may be an ancient specimen of a form of dramatic composition and performance which is still extant in Syria. But to what, after ail, do all these liberal admissions amount? To this only, that the form of a dramatic composition is a matter of literary art. and its performance a matter of esthetic art, while Its intellectual and moral character must be judged by reason and conscience. The form of a play may be faultless from the lit erary point of view and its dramatic exhibition may be esthetically beauti ful, but if It borrows the livery of heaveu to serve the devil of licentious ness, then its library and dramatic excellences make it only so much the more detestable as an agency of evil.” In the opinion of The Church Stand ard, the majority of modern plays are either insipid or else actually vicious. It says: ^ “The plays which are actually brought out on the modern stage have mostly no literary character at all. They are just sheer undiluted non sense, interspersed with songs and dances and an occassional joke which is sometimes, tho’ we should hope sel dom, of an equivocal character. It would be difficult to rouse any very strenuous moral indignation against shows of that kind. Their worst fault is their incredible siil’iiess. Yet we know men, hard-work ng and hard- thinking men, who prefer such shows to others of a more intellectual char acter, probably because they are amusements in the strictest sense of that word, since they serve to draw off the mind from its customary ac tivities and so allure the jaded nerves into a brief period of repose. What has the church to do with such per formances? Nothing more, so far as we can see, than it has to do with the exercises of athletic clubs “But there is another daks, the main attraction of which consists in the direction of the mind of the spec tators into chancels of depravity. On these we can cot, will not, need cot dwell. They are a disgraceful fact in what we are pleased to call our present advanced civilization. They enlighten no man’s mind ; they stimu late no man’s conscience; they rouse, and they are meant to rouse the sen sual passions. Pretending to deal with 'life as life is,’ the warp and woof of them is spun from the vile secretion of a morbid and morbidly infectious imagination. •“ ‘ •’i- :ru', tis pity, and pitv -tis ’tie true, ’ that such performances draw crowds of eager spectators, so that it pays to produce them. That is the great trouble; for the worst vice of the modern stage is its absolute ven ality. The whole thing is governed by the vulgarest law of supply and demand; and nothing in the world is more absolutely venal, nr more ready to be sold to the purposes of vice, than the modern theater. If tbe pub lie wants to gloat over a spectacle of vice, that spectacle will always be forthcoming. There will always be managers willing to prostitute the stage to that foul purpose, and there will always be literary purveyors of tilth to orostitute such talents as they have to tbe production of ‘realistic’ dramas, which in plain words signify dramas, of vice.” The conclusisn reached is that “with the theater, as the theater is, the church has no connection, and can have none.” But church-mem bers can and do sustain a definite re lation to the drama, and by their pa tronage are able to influence the na ture of the plays presented. “If they would have the powerful attractions of the drama ranged on virtue’s side, they can do that most effectually by supporting the innocent and truly in tellectual drama, while refusing to contribute one penny or one moment to the support of the drama of vice.” NOTES AND COMMENTS. We point with pride to the article in another column relative to the finances of Cherjkee county. All honor to the gentlemen—the super visors and boards of county commis sioners who have served the county since its organization—who have made such a showing possible. Every resident of the county has ample grounds to feel justly proud of tbtdr labors. We may be a little late in extend ing congratulations to Editor J. J. Hull, of Rock Hill, upon his election to tbe maj irity of that thriving city, but tbe felicitation is none the leea sincere. Mr. Hull has done much for Rook Hill nniio hinoring him tbe people honor themselves. His admiQlstreUpn will prove as clean as bis career mb newapap-r man, and nothing can be cleaner. ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ Henry Melver, South Carolina’s chief jaetlee, tbe last link that con neoted the present with- tbe time when men Here put in high places Iq South Ottblln* because pf their worth, ie dead. Chief Justloe Molver was a lawyer, * statesmen, a soldier, e jurlet of the highest order end be W*e a gentleman. He was e citissn for the State to be proad of. South Carolina was proud of him and mourns for him. All her people loved him. The present legislature is to se lect—no, that is not the proper word—it is to ratify the selection made bv the people—a senator to succeed Senator John L. McLaurin, and Congrssman A. C. Latimer is to be the mao. Mr. Latimer is not h brilliant man and will never he heara from unless by accident, but between him and John Gary Evans there was nothing else to be done, for Mr. Lati mer has the reputation of being honest. George Johnstone was the best equipped man in the senatorial race. He would have given tone and prestige to the position. ♦ ♦ ♦ Governor McSweeney’s last mes sage to the General Assembly of South Carolina was issued Tuesday It was perhaps the ablest document that has eminated from Mr. Me- Sweeney. In avoirdupois be is a light weight, but in heart and mind he is the heaviest governor since the advent of the reform movement. Governor McSweeney will retire from the governorship admired by more people in the State than any governor of recent years. Not ad mired for his brilliancy but for his fairmindedness and gentleness and business capacity. May he live long and prosper. The law makers ot North Carolina are in the throes of electing a United States Senator to succeed Senator Jeter C. Pritchard. Mr. Pritchard is a Republican, hut in his retirement from the United States Senate North Carolina loses a valuable represen tative and the South a staunch friend. Mr. Pritchard is of the “Li'y White” variety and there is very little of the abnoxious about him. He has added prestige to his State by reason of office his and was in perhaps a position to do the South as much good as any other man in that body. There can be no question but that his^successor will be a good and worthy man—there are no others offering themselves for the place—but it is doubtful if they will be of as much service as Mr. Pritch ard was for some time to come—cer tainly not for several years. Loss of Flesh When you can’t eat break fast, take Scott’s Emulsion. When you can’t eat bread and butter, take Scott’s Emulsion. When you have been living on a milk diet and want something a little more nourishing, take Scott’s Emulsion. To get fat you must eat fat. Scott’s Emulsion is a great fattener, a great strength giver. Those who have lost flesh want to increase all body tissues, not only fat. Scott’s Emubion increases them all, bone, flesh, blood and nerve. For invalids, for con valescents, for consumptives, for weak children, for all who need flesh, Scott’s Emulsion is a rich and com fortable food, and a natural tonic. Scott’s Emulsion for bone, flesh, blood and nerve. We will send you a free sample. Be sure that this picture in the form of a label Ij on the wrapper of ever/ bottle of Emulsion you buy. scon & BOWNE, CHEMISTS, 409P arlSt.N.Y. 50c. Md $11 all druggistJ. Or. Woolley's PAINLESS AND Whlsktr Cura sent it;: ■: i > m. user, ol muriiliiiii' opium, laudanum, elixir of opium, co caine or Whiskey, a large book of par ticulars on borne or •anatorlum treat ment. Address, B. M. WOOLLEY CO., 104 N. Pryor Street, Atlanta, Georgia. PACOLET OFFICER SHOT. Foleys Honey mad Tar forchUdrta,amt9,str'9. No opiates. Dyspepsia MtD what you • Cure While Atteni|itliig to Arrent a Notorious Neijro W r e(lnee<lHy Night. (Spartanburg Herald.] Wednesday night at Pacolet Mills, while attempting to arrest a negro named Will Davis, Policeman Burke SraHh was seriously, if not fatally shot, Mr. Smith went in quest of Davis to a negro house, with a war rant sworn out by Mr Baxter Wood, charging Davis with obtaining goods under false pretenses. Arriving at the house and entering, the officer and the negro held an altercation, which resulted in the policeman drawing his 38 calibre pistol. The negro at once advanced on him and in the clinch, wrenched the wetpon from the po iceman’s hand Will Davis then ran out of the door and fired at Mr. Smith, the ball en tering the right side, inflicting a seri ous wound. Davis made good his escape, carry ing off the policeman's pistol. Davis is said to be a resident of this city. He is a negro of medium statue, ginger cake color and has holes in his ears, having at one time worn ear bobs. Bracelets would come nearer being anpropriute for him now. He is regsrded as a notorious negro, and there are several warrants against him. He is a benjo picker > We believe that our line of syringes is an exceptional one. Quality of goods is the highest, while assortment is unusually large. Many dealers show a tendency to constantly re-order the styles they have handled for years, though improved designs are constantly coming out. Our stock is thoroughly up-to-date and our prices are surely down-to-date. ^ ou might as well have the best for your money, and you make sure of that by picking from our assortment. PISO'S CURE FOR , CURES WHERE ALL ELSE FAILS. | Best CuuKb Syrup, Tastes UuoU. Use In time. Sold by druggists. For Saie Advertisements under this head will je Inserted for one cent a word each Inser tion. No ad Inserted for less than ten cents L OTS for store and residence, Mills <>ap road, Gaffney, next Mr. Black. Write John F. Fowler. Mauldin, S. (’. Jan 9. i:i, Iti. 30.23 'OR SALE—One second hand two-horse wairon. Will sell on time if desired. Jan. 21 J. Eh Jefferies. F OR SALE OR RENT-My dwelling house all well Improved where 1 now live on Frederick Street. Possession given 15th of this month or sooner. R. A. Jones. Jan tf-tf. For Rent. F OR RENT—R. M. Gaffney's old residence F G. Stacy. Jilt. IJ-lawk-tf. UOI SE for rent. Apply to Mrs. R. C. How ard. Jan. m.3t pd. Wanted. W ANTED—Position as bookkeeper or ste nographer by young man. Salary no object. Address Gaffney. S. ('. Jan. 13. Iti. 20, 23-pd. W ANTED—500 bushels peas at once: high est price. J. L. Alexander. Jan. ti Dno. w ANTED—Chickens, eggs anti green hides. B. G. Clary. Aug. 22, tf. W ANTED—To make straight loans on city real estate. No commissions. Several thousand dollars to loan. Apr29-tf J. O. Jefferies. Notice. A FTER January 5th. we will only gin on Tuesdays and Frida Oil Company. Cherokee Drug Co. LIMESTONE AND FREDERICK STREETS. ^ ^ m m, m ta.wi at m .a .m m .j*. a., a m * * Special Sale ~ J will continue to offer Men’s and Youth’s Overcoats and Ladies and Children’s Jackets at flat cost. I have some great bargains in these lines. Men’s fine shoes from $1.00 to $4.00 per pair. Men’s heavy shoes from 65c to $1.60. Ladies’ fine shoes from $1.00 to $3.00. Good line Misses’, Boys’ and Children’s shoes. Men’s, ^ outh’s and Children’s Clothing at very close prices. Trunks from $1.15 to $8.00, Dress Suit Cases, Satchels and Bags of all kinds. Nice line Collar and Cuff Buttons, Baby Pins, Rings, Watch Chains, Charms, &c. See them, before buying. Up-to-date line of Negligee Shirts at prices you can’t du plicate. Men’s Water-proof Coats at $1.00 to $2.00. Um brellas from 40c to $2.50. Shot Guns and Shells to ga- cheap. Call and get my prices—no trouble to show goods. Yours for trade, J. I. SA.KRA.TT. SPECIAL SALE tys. Victor Col to Jan. 2-tfJ To Loan. T O LOAN Money on improved Real Es tate. Butler A O 10-:il-ly . Osborne, Attorneys. Money Loaned. L OANS on Improved tarms for a term of years at seven per cent. Interest. No commissions. For information apply to J. C. Jefferies. Attorney at Law. 11-22-lyr Money to Loan. We have money to loan in any amounts on city and county property and stocks and t>onds. Interest 6 to H per cent, iiccordlng to amounts. Terr.s to suit Itorrower. 11 a i.i, & W11,t.is, Attys., Gaffney. S C., THE GOLD Rainy days of January and February will call for Heavy Shoes. We have them for Men, Women and Children. The R. S. Lipscomb Shoe Co. The Shoe Store. OF CLOTHING. > ; THERE is no reason why you should not keep warim 1 during these cold days, when you can buy Clothing at such prices as we offer: ****** $11.50 Suits for $8.00 * $9.00 Suits for $6.50 7.00 Suits for 5.75 * 5.00 Suits for 3.50 and many other kinds at proportionate prices. BIG LINE FLEECED AND WOOL UNDERWEAR Our Underwear will outwear any bought elsewhere: $1.50 Suits for $1.19 1.00 Suits for 75 -* $1.25 Suits for $1.00 75 Suits for 50 and so on down to undervests alone still cheaper. And we hate many other things in stock at Specially Low Prices. Come in and inspect our goods and compare them with the prides of others. *****$* * j. ivi. in: e: iv @ o in:. i Opposite the Postoffice. One Minute Cough Cure For Cough*, CoMa and Croup. Become \ W ealthy By Spending Less Than They Make. We pay 4 per cent, interest on Time Certificates of Deposit running from three to twelve months. MERCHANTS & PLANTERS BANK, Capital and Profits $58,500. A. N. Wood, President, R. R. Brown, Vice-Prest., C. M. Smith, Cashier. he Gaffnsy City Land and Improvement Company Offers f*r sale Building Lots in this flourishing town, Gaffney Olty j Farm* by and Ri reach of the Schools of Limestone Springs and of thin place, In lotaof ffcMI »0to lOOjacres on liberal time rates; also Agrienltural Landa to rent for Para pur poses. for full particulars apply to J. V. SSA.HtK.ATTr, A.(tent. N. R.—All porions are forbidden to enter on. walk or ride through or over the lands ot thtf company, cuttiik and removing timber. Ashing or hunting, under penalty of law. m’ Frank HammoniI President. W. G. McDavid, Sec'y. and 1 THE CAROLINA LOAN AND TRUST CO., GREENVILLE, 8. C. Capital Stock - - $100,000.00. I Real Estate Loanimade on easy ternis. Will buy you a home with rent money. ( all HALL & WILLIS, Local Attorney a , oah'ftvky, e». f Jt:'