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THE LARGEST s-irculation of Any Newspaper in the Fifth Congressional District of S. C. The Ledger SEMI-WEEKLY-PUBLISHED TUESDAY AND FEIDAY. Wt GUARANTEE The Reliability of Every Adv k r< 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 HAFFNEY, S. C., FRIDAY, FEBRUARY ‘47. 1903. $1.00 A YEAR* THROUGHOUT THE PALMETTO STATE. items of Interest of Passing Events. ALL OVER THE STATE. that Have Taken I’lare from One Unit of the State to the Other Called from Exchanges for tjulck Reading by Scores of Busy People. The dead body of an infant was found on Monday afternoon under a pile of arhes on the outskirts of Pacolet Mills village. The secretary of ‘■tatp has ^ranted a iharler to ihe E.toree Bel! Telephone Co., of Enoree, capital stock $(525, divided into 2,"i shares of $25 each. The Tri-fState Medical Society of Virginia. North Carolina and South Carolina met in its twenty-fifth an nual session in Columbia Wednesday at 10 o’clock. Constable Earle Smith,who was shot at Pacolet Mills, on the night of Jan- uray 14th, while attempting to arrest a notorious negro named Will Davis, is able to be out again. A mad dog bit several persons below Glenn Springs, near the Union Coun ty line a few days ago. After severely biting three children it escaped. It has not been heard of since. Henry C. Easier, of Spartanburg county, was in Spartanburg Tuesday to file his application for a pension as a veteran of the Mexican war. He is 78 years old but hale and hearty. The Lexington and Columbia elec trie road has ten days In which to file a bond of $10 ()00 to gruarantee the road and the free bridge across the Congaree will be in operation in eighteen months. Probate Judge W. E. Hardwick ’ died, Monday morning about 7 :i!0 o’clock at Con vay,Horry county. His illness was long and death was not unexpected. The funeral service and burial took place Tuesday at 10 o’clock. James Rogers, who was shot by William C. King, in Florence coun ty, died Monday. It was thought at one time that he would recover, but death conquered. King is now in jail and is heid for the murder of Samuel and James Rogers. The court of general sessions con vened in Charleston Mondav morning at 10 o’clock Judge R. C. Watts pre siding. The calendar is a heavy one and the new grand jury will find its duties rather onerous until it becomes accustomed to the woik. The first broad gauge train on the Carolina and Northwestern Railroad arrived ioYorkville on Saturday night, and- its arrival was hailed with en thusiastic cheers by a crowd of several hundred people of various ages and of both sexes and colors. . Governor Heyward has been asked by Mr. A M. Manigault of Charleston to defer action on the Kinloch creek aot of the general assembly, which caused such a fight in the senate re cently, until he can be heard in the naatter. The governor, out of court esy to Mr Manigault will defer affix ing his signature to the measure until Mr. Manigault is heard. A considerable portion of the South ern’s track at Crane Creek,a few miles above Columbia, and the long trestle ■’ over the creek, were burned up Mon day night. The fire was caused by a hot box on a freight which was not discovered until a considerable con flagration resulted. The train stepped on the trestle and set fire to it. Three box cars were also destroyed. Sheriff DuP has returned to Charles ton from Columbia where he went to get the extradition papers for Charles D. Smith, the alLg^d bigamist All arrangements were made to have the appeal to the court of general sessions •withdrawn so that the Michigan laberiff could get off with his prisoner Ias soon us possible. Sheriff Dull left (Columbia with Smith for Michigan. Policeman Cookfi’ y,of Spartanburg, |Wednesday found a man lying out on ground in ohe suburbs of the city ig from a bad case of alcohol and was in a precarious ^he name of the unfortun- not be learned by the was in no condition lame. Dr. Wilson id administered The man will v ID )iSOD indlton ite man co jollce. The m to tell even his attended the case the proper remedies, probably recover. A letter has been received ernor Heyward from the Thomas ^ erson association of the United State asking his cooperation and eD(lor « e * merit of a project to erect in the city of Waahington a suitable memorial to Ihe man who wrote the Declaration of lodeDandenoe. The letter calls par ticular attention that there has never been provided ajich a memorial In any city of the United States. The isso- ciation wishes the endorsement of the plan by the governors of all the States. Tuesday afternoon at Inman, a few miles above Spartanburg, Ed. Foster, a white boy 17 years of age, was dan- erously, and perhaps fatally shot by Prof. Reuben Pitts, principal of the Inman school. Prof. Pitts vas whip ping Foster vhen several of the older boys rushed into the room. Fearing hostile rebellion, and to overawe the boys, Pitts claimed, he drew a pistol from his pocket during a tussle with Froster the weapon was discharged, the ball entering the young man’s body. Pit s surrendered and was taken to Spartanburg. Tuesday while engaged in the work of rebuilding the burned trestle at Cane creek near Columbia. John Me- Duncan, one of the negro members of the construction force, met with a bad accident. One of the heavy pieces of timber got away from those who were handling it and fell upon the negro’s right leg, badly crushing it. Dr F. D. Kendall, the -company’s surgeon of Columbia, went to the scene and had the wounded man taken into the city on a stretcher In the course of the evening, it being found necessary, the crushed leg wts amputated just below the knee. A FARCE ENACTED BY THE REPUBLICANS In Matter of Their So-called Anti-Trust Legislation. DELUDING THE PEOPLE. Gov- eff- Tendency of tlie Times. The tendency of medical science h toward preventive measures. The best thought of the world is being given tc the subject. It is easier and better tc prevent than cure. It has been fully demonstrated that pneumonia, one of the most dangerous diseases that medical men have to contend with, can be prevented by the use of Cham berlain’s Cough Remedy. PneumonU always results from a cold or from at attack of influenza (grip), and it has been observed that this remedy coun teracts any tendency of these disease* toward pneumonia. This has been fuliv proven in many thousands o? cases in which this remedy has beet used during the great prevalence of colds and grip in recent years, and can be relied upon with implicit con fidence. Pneumonia often results from a sligh t cold when no danger is apprehended until it is suddenly dis covered that there is fever and diffi culty in breathing and pains in the chest, then it is announced that th* patient has pneumonia. Be on tht safe side and take Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy as soon as the cold is contracted. It always cures. For sale by Cherokee Drug Co., Gaffney S. C., or L. D. Allison, Cowpens. Some gentlemen who went to a he roic citizen at the court house to sug gest to him that he ought to run for an import ant offi :e, had no trouble to discover that he has been running all the time. A Weak Stuinacli causes a weak body and invites dis ease. Kodol Dyspepsia Cure cures and strengthens the stomach, and wards off and overcomes disea :e, J. B. Taylor, a prominent merchant of Chriesman, Tex., says: *‘I could not eat because of.a weak stomach. I lost all strength and run down in weight. All that money could do was done, but all hope of recovery vanished. Hearing of some wonderful cures ef fected by use of Kodol, I concluded to try it. The first bottle benefitted me, and after taking four bottles I am fully restored to my usual strength, weight and health.” Chero kee Drug Co. If General Miles would go to Ger many and show the Kaiser what a big man he thinks he is, maybe the German Emperor wouldn’t be so anx ious for a little “ping-pong” game over here. The Easy Bill. DeWitt’s Ijttle Early Risers do not gripe nor weaken the system. They cure biliousness, jaundice, constipa tion and inactive livers, by arousing the secretions, moving the boweh gently yet effectually, and giving such tone and strength to the glands of the stomach, liver and bowels that the cause of the trouble is' removed en tirely. These famous little pills exert a decided tonic effect upon the organs Involved, and if their use is continued for a few d%>s there will be no return of the trouble. Cherokee Drug Co. Horses in some parts of the west are f d on molasses. This will doubt less improve the quality of European sausage. Haw or Inllaiinai I-uiik*. Yield quickly to the wonderful cur ative and healing qualities of Foley’s Honey and Tar. It prevents pneu monia and consumption from a hard cold settled on the lungs Cherokee Drug Co. Of late there seems to be plenty of bank robberies inside and outside of Lbe banks. D* grippe coughs yield quickly to the wonderful curative qaalitles of Foley’k Honey and Tar. There lb nothing else "just as good.” Chero kee Drug Co. Republican Leaders in Congress are Jubi lant Over Their Scheme and I.aug at the Democrats Whom They are FooliuB—Oth er Matters in the Two Houses. iConespondence ot The Ledger.) Washington, D. C. Feb. 26—The Republican leaders in Congress are just now enjoying the heartiest kind of a laugh at the manner in which they are fooling the Democrats and the remainder of the country anent the socalled anti-trust legislation they are now engaged in shoving through the Congress of the United States. They are entitled to the laugh. Peo ple usually laugh at a farce, and if ever there was a farce enacted on the legislative stage in the history of this country, it is being done now in the capital of the nation. While all this is going on under the lime light of publicity, the only people who see the fun are those behind the scenes, and the dear people on the outside and in front of the stage are made to see an entirely different per formance. The deluded people think they are witnessing a real anti-trust performance. They seem to see the trusts crawling into the outer dark ness and shivering in terror lest Re publican legislation should wipe them from the face of the earth, rob them of their special privileges, and return to the people that of which they have been robbed. This gives the people hone for the future and that the Re publican party at last is trying to keep its ante election promises. It lulls them into restful peace and they close their eyes while the trusts con tinue to pick their pockets. That is the real truth of the situation. The real vampire of the tropics fans his victim to sleep with the cooling swish of his wings and then calmly proceeds to suck his life blood. The human vampire in this country as exempli fied by the trusts feeds its victims on legislative taffy and then robs them in the same old way under the mon opoly breeding privileges vouchsafed them by the tariff ami the failure of the executive department of the gov ernment to execute the criminal clauses of existing law. What are the facts concerning the present situation pertaining to the so-called anti-trust legislation now pending in the Congress? All through the last campaign and at the beginning of this session the President indulged in great vo ciferation and calisthenics anent the trusts and told in brave language what he would do to them when he got a whack at them with his Republican Congress. His subservient and servile press touted him in head lines and praised him as the trust buster par excellence. They shouted in uni son : 1 Lean on Teddy and he will carry you through.” As it grew nearer the time of perforaiance his courage began to ooze out at the ends of his fingers and in his last message he cooed like a sucking dove, and his language on the trust-bursting ques tion was, to quote a representative from New York, '‘seven pounds lighter than a straw hat.” He hud heard from the trusts and be knew his business. Truly "the ox kuowetb his owner and the ass his master’s crib.” It was then that the brave Mr. Lit tlefield, of Maine, began to get busy, and it did look like he had blood in his eye and really meant to do some thing. When the Republican major ity of the House committee on the judiciary got through with his bill, however, they had not only pounded the immortal ichor out of it, but had completely emasculated it. In the meantime, however, the Republican Senate got busy. There is where the real trust attorneys in the national legislature abide, and the trusts know it and know where to go to get the effective work done. (Sena tors not only have a longer lease of official life, but they enn under the Senate rules, do things to legis lation that cannot be done in the House under the whip and spur methods that obtain there. The Senate immediately began to prepare pop-gun anti-trust legisla tion. Firtt came the Nelson amend ment to the Department of Com merce bill providing for publicitv for the trust, then the Elkins bill pro hibiting rebates on freight by railroads on all interstate commerce, then the Hoar bill to expedite and facilitate all cases against trusts la the Uni ted States courts under existing or Sherman acti-truit law. Each and every one of these when boiled down to the last analysis is nothing on earth but bread pill and stuffed club legisla ion, a mush poultice on the commercial carbuncle that is aching the public. They will have no more effect on trust rapacity and trust domination than water on a duck’s back. It is asserted here, and I believe it to be true, that all those measures were seen and approved by nuid at- tourneys of the trusts, if not act ually drawn by them. The Nelson amendment to the Department of Commerce bill was rushed through the Senate, and likewise the Elkins bill on rebates, notwithstanding the fact that the Statehood hill was said to be blocking everything in tha way of legislation. The fact is that the Statehood bil would have effectually blocked anything in the way of real and effective anti-trust legislation.and that was one of the purposes f »r which the Statehood fight was inaugurated. Whec the Republican majority in the Senate, however, saw an opportu nity to play at anti-trnsti legislation and say to the people of the country that thev had kept their promisee on this question, they easily found a way to circumvent the alleged ma chination of Mr. Quay, who, as a stalwart Republican, was only too glad to allow the weak and watery anti-trust legislation the right of way through the Senate. Thus amend ment and hill were rushed to the House, and although the House had just passed the Littlefield bill and \7j■) committed to it, it passed the Department of Commerce bill Nelson amendment, and all for the simple reason that the edict had gone forth from the po vers that be that there must be no more anti-trust legislation enacted at this session, and that the Littlefield hill was objectionable to the administration that had collabor ated with Mr. Littlefield iu the pre paration of his bill. The Elkins measure will go through the House as it, too, is slated for passage, and likewise the Hoar bill, to expedite all trust cases now on the dockets and to be brought hereafter. Chas A. Edwards. Better Tlian Gold. ‘‘I was troubled for several years w'.'.h -iii- nic indigestion and nervous dthilitv,” vriit^s E. J. Green, of Lan- castei, a. IT. * No remedy helped me until 1 began using Electric Bitters, w'.ich did me more good than all the medicines 1 ever used. They have also kept my wife in excellent health for years. She says Electric Bitters are just splendid for female troubles; that they are a grand tonic and in- vigorator for weak, run down women. No other medicine can take its place in our family ” Try them. Only 5Uc Satisfaction guaranteed by Cherokee Drug Co. The fellow who sometimes thinks he is the whole town is more often its petty clown. Lard Expensive and Injurious. Lard is not only expensive but in jurious to the health when used in liberal quantities. To make the so- called cheap patent flours white enough, the life is all ground out of the flour;,then it is necessary to load it up with lard in order to make it work. This accounts largely for your heavy biscuits and rolls and your bad digestion. It takes less than one-half the lard to work ‘‘Clifton” that it does cheap patents, so that you not only save more than the difference in price but get a more healthful and nutritious food product. Health and economy dictate the use of‘‘Clf’ton.” To get them attached to you pet a dog and flatter a woma] with occas ional abuse of each. One Minute Cough Cure gives relief in one minute, because It kills the microbe which tickles the mucous membrane, causing the cough, and at the same time clears the phlegna, draws out the inflammation and heals and soothes the affected parts. One Minute Cough Cure strengthens the lungs, wards off pneumonia and is a harmless and never failing cure in all curable cases of Coughs, Colds and Croup. One Minute Cough Cure is pleasant to take, harmless and good alike for young and old Cherokee Drug Co. Man can never hope to understand woman when he can’t even under stand her clothes. Koley’a Honey and Tar Cures coughs and colds. Cures bronchitis and asthma. Cures croup and whooping cough. Cures hoarsness and bronchial troub les. Cures pneumonia and la grippe. Cherokee Drug Co. It’s a cold day for the plumber when the mercury refuses to take the thir ty-second degree. CoukIi Mettled on Her Euiikh. "My daughter had a terrible cough which settled on her lungs,” says N. Jackson, of Danville, III. ‘‘We tried a great many remedies without relief, until we gave her Foley’s Honey and Tar which cured her.” Refuse substi tutes. Cherokee Drug Co. THROUGHOUT THE TAB HEEL STATE. From the Mountains to The Sea. NORTH CAROLINA NEWS Interesting IteniH Concerning Onr Nelg1>- born Beyond the Line Which May Prov* Entertaining Beading for Hundreds of Ledger Keaden*. Mr. VV. M. Allison, manager of the Henrietta Mills store, who was strick en with nervous prostration a little over a week ago, is slowly impoving. Thomas Pea. a coloradlaborerin the Mecklenburg Flour mills in Charlotte, had liis skull fractured Monday. He was still in an unconscious state Tues day. The Watts anti-liquor bill, pro hibiting the manufacture and sale of whiskey in the country districts ard allowing local option in incorporated towns, passed the State Senate Tues day. It had previously passed the House. Trinity College in Durham Mon day night received hundreds of guests from a:l over the state on the occasion the of formal opening of her new library building. This commodious structure is the gift to the college of Mr. James B. Duke, of New York city. Mr. Boyce, the David°on Medical College student, who had such a severe case of blood poisoning, was brought to Charlotte Tuesday to soend a few days at the Presbyterian Hospital. Afterwards be will go to his home at Blacksburg, S. C. He is getting along splendidly. Application was made recently to the President of the United Slates for pardon for Rev T Bright, who is serving a term in j <il iu Rut herfordton as punishment for 'his connection with the Cherry Tree Company. I’.ie matter was investigated bj the De partment and the application turned down. A sad story cornea from Durham. While a mother lay dyi'a. u iv.hlic charge, her daugtber and only child left her. was married and went away, leaving the parent to die helpless and alone. Such savagery might be expect ed from Fiji Islanders, but in a civil ized country it strikes the average man as almost beyond comprehen sion. Thomas Owenby, who was some time ago arrested in Swain county, for cattle stealing and taken to Mur phy for safe keeping, made his escape from the jail Sunday night, and is still at large. Jailor Reynolds unlock ed Owenby’s cell and went in after a pan. when the prisoner attacked him and after a short scuffle succeeded in making his escape. The Spencer freight yards, which have been much congested for the past few months, have been largely cleared. There is less freight on the yard now than for some time. This is due in part to the increase in the roiling stock, and other increased facilities for handling the traffic that comes to the Southern. The residence of Mr. Caleb Bost, who lives on the road between David son and Caldwell station, was com pletely destroyed by fire about 11 o’clock Monday night. The building caught from the roof, presumably by sparks from the chimney. Mr. Bost had allowed his insurance policy to lapse recently, and so suffered a total loss. Counting Greensboro’s $11,000, which is subscribed upon condition that the cc liege h located in that city, about $40,000 has been sub scribed for the college the Methodist Protestant denomination will pro- hably establish at some point in North Carolina. It was the original purpose of the committee on location to not establish the college until $75,- 000 hud been secured. Suit was brought last week by At torneys S Gallertof Ruthfordton, and Goe. G. Eaves, of Marion, against the Florence Mills of Forest CPy, for the killing of John Bramble. It will be re- memered that ,Mr. Bramble was found dead in the basement of the engine room of the Florence Milft about a year ago, whfre, it is said he was sent to oil the machinery, and was caught in it and killed. News has been received at Halifax of a shooting affair in Weldon Mon day morning. The report is that Mr. Carter Hudson, a white man employed by the Seaboard Air Line, became engaged in a heated controversy with a negro named Banks, when the negro made a break for Mr. Hudson, grabbing him ir the collar. Mr. Hud son drew his pistol and shot the negro four times, each shot taking effect. The negro died instantly. As the first through passenger train on the broadguage crossed Col lege street in Lincolnton Tuesday one of Lincolnton’s promising young men, Mr. John McCoy, attempted co board it, but failed to get on and was thrown under the wheels. His right lee was broken above the knee, the left leg and right arm were almost ground off under the wheels, neces sitating amputation. He was also bruised about the face and head. He died in a short while. Funeral services over the remains of Ludlow Skinner, who met his death at the hands of Earnest Hay wood in Raleigh on Saturday after noon, were held Monday afternuon from Christ Church. Dr. M. M. Mar shall officiating. It was one of the most largely attended funerals ever seen in Raleigh. Not one-third of the crowd could gain entrance to the chur :b, and the streets were throng ed. The fioral offerings were beauti ful and covered the entire altar. The jury in the Bishop case in Charlotte Court returned a verdict of guilty of manslaughter Sunday after being out 89 hour; . Judge Neal iu the superior court Monday morning sentenced Bishop to five years iu the penitentiray at hard labor. There is much suprise in Charlotte at the light sentence. Bishop shot and killed Thomas J. Wilson iu Charlotte iDec. 9, after Wilson, who found him drinking with his daugtter, had ordered him out of the house. News was received in Reidsville of a tragedy in Lynchburg Tuesday night. In a moment of jealous rage Bud Cooper drew a revolver and after shooting bis young wife in the bead sent a bullet crashing through his own brain. Cooper fell from the porch with his brains oozing from a bole that entered near the right eye and passed entirely through his head. Mrs Cooper was shot just behind the right ear, but the ball glanced around the skull and her injury is not necessarily dangerous. Both were residents of Reidsville. Nearly Forfeits His Life. A runaway almost ending fatally, started a horrible ulcer on the leg of J B. Orner, Franklin Grove, 111. For four years it defied all doctors and all remedies. But Bucklen’p Arnica Salve had no trouble to cure him. Equally good for Burns, BniGeg, Skin Erup tions and Piles. 25j at Cherokee Drug Co. When a man goes home and finds his dinner the way he likes it and his wife unusaily tender it is either his mother-in-law coming or the bill for some furs. Danger of Pneumonia A cold at this time iu liable to cause pteumonia which is so often fatal, and even when the patient has recov ered the lungs are weakened, making them peculiarly susceptible to the development of consumption. Foley’s Honey and Tar will stop the cough, heal and strengthen the lungs and prevent pneumonia. Cherokee Drug Co. A woman has such a lively imagi nation that if she marries a had penny she can make herself believe it is a twenty-dollar gold piece in disguise. Maitland, Fla. The Hancock Liquid Sulphur Co., Baltimore, Md. Gentlemen :—I have had eczema over thirty years, have tried many remedies prescribed by various physi cians, but to nothing has the disease yielded so quickly as to Liquid Sul phur I think if used properly it is undoubtedly a specific for eczema. I have prescribed it for others with most satisfactory results. I consider it. the best remedy for cutaneous affections I have ever known, and re gard it as the greatest medical dis covery of the age. Respectfully yours, W. A. Heard, M. D. For s:Ue by the Cherokee Drug Co The man who knows his business pretends to talk in his sleep when his wife is awake, calling nothing but her name. The Value Of Expert Treatment. Everyone who is afflicted with a chronic disease experience great diffi culty in having their case intelli gently treated by the average physi cian. These diseases can only he cured by a specialist who understsnd them thoroughly. Dr. J. Newton Hathaway, of Atlanta Ga., is acknowl- edged the most skillful and successful specialist in the United States. Write him for his expert opinion of your case, for which he makes no charge. No; the man who cuts down revenue is not necessarily a revenue cutter The reason why Hancock’s Liquid Sulphur should be in every house, it is indorsed and prescribed by the leading physicians, for such disease* as Eczema, Pimples, Ringworm, Salt Rheum, Dandruff, Diphtheria, Sore Throat, Cuts, Burns. Open Sores, and all blood and skin troubles. Na home should be without it. For sal by tbs Cherokee Drag Co.