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THE LARGEST •virculation of Any Newspaper in the Fifth Congressional District of S. C. The ledger SEMI-WEEKLY—PUBLISHED TUESDAY AND FRIDAY. Wfc GUARANTEE he Reliability of Every Aiv.*;.- - tiser Who Uses the Co!, umns of This Paper. ^ Newspaper in all that the Word Implies and Devoted to the Best Interests of the People of Cherokee County. t ESTABLISHED FEB. 16, 1894 GAFFNEY. S. C., FBI DAY, MARCH 13. 1903. $1.00 A YEAR. ( 4 THR0liG g 0UT THE PALMETTO STATE, i items of Interest of Passing Events. of the city building inspector shows that for contracts completed, under wav aud for permits issued for the past six months the amount of build ing going on in Spartauburgjapproxi- j mates about $170,000 in round num- | bers. The major portion is for resi- I deuces, one of these costing $8,000 several $0 000, and the avenge price i $8 000, ALL OVER THE STATE. tivviit* Miat Have Taken I’laoe from One End of the State to the Other Called from j Exchange* for Quick Heading by Score* of IJu*y People. Work has begun on the new Jerome Hotel in Columbia. The hotel will cost between $40 000 and $50,000, and will probably b- opened to the public by Oct 2st. Tuesday afternoon the railroad com mission received a telegram from the milt rep r fcsentativ s asking that the proposed nearing in Columbia for a reduction be postponed for t*o weeks, which was agreed to. Tde president has sent to the sen ate the following South Carolina post master nominations : J. P. Murphy, Bamberg; W. L. Harris, Charleston; Geo H. McKee, Darlington; William H Brunson, Edgefield. The United States Court refused to i reverse the decision of the Supreme Court of South Carolina in the case of the State vs. John Brownfield the negro barber, who murdered Mr. Scurry, in 189U, at Georgetown. What might be termed a riot oc curred about five miles below Johnson Sunday at Mount Pleasant church, colored. The reports are somewhat conflicting, but from what can be as certained it seems that one Ham mund, who had been turned out of the church, appeared on the scene. While his wife was displaying some of her oratory in behalf of her hus band several shots were fired. Jonah Hammond was shot down in the church. Several others were wounded, including one of his eons. The first fatality in connection with the erection of the skyscraper in Co lumbia occurred Wednesday morning, when William Dixon, a colored labor er, was instantly killed by an eleva tor. Dixon had just leaned over the elevator shaft to speak to some one in the cellar when the elevator came down on him, killing him instantly. As soon as the accident was discov ered the engineer raised the elevator and the body was taken out. The head and face we.e< horribly muti lated, but there were no other inju ries. READ IT THROUGH. The taxpayers of Aiken county ap preciate Comptroller Jones’ good judgment in t ndering the chief clerk ship in his office to County Auditor Dave H. Wise of Aiken, but they ap preciate more the fact that Auditor Wise declined it. The secretary of state Wednesday issued charters to the following con cerns: The Church of Christ, Char leston; the town of Fort Madison, Anderson county; and to the Brushy Creek Ginnery company of Anderson county, capital stock $2,000. W. L Croft, a white man about 55 years old. who resided in Fairfax, was shot from ambush about, a mile from his home at a late hour Monday oignt aud instantly killed. Circumstances piiut very strongly to Frank Strong, a young negro, as the assassin. A denloruble affair occurred in the cotton mill at Enoree Tuesday. Juo. Byars stabbed his brother-in-law, Herbert Glenn, in tde shoulder. The blade of the knife was broken in the bone and so far the doctors have been unable to get it out. It is feared that it will prove fatal. The internal improvements at the State capitol are gratifying to all who want to see the offices of the State’s officials neatly furnishec. The office of the comptroller general is about the only one which needs a general renovation. The office of the secre tary of state has been refurnished in very good taste. Chief Constable Bateman Wednes day afternoon found an elegant as sortment; of booze in a negro house near the river at Columbia. The house was unoccupied, but; in it were found 15 kegs of whiskey containing five gallons each, one box containing 20 quart bottles, and five barrels con taining 900 half pints. Cadet Paul J. Steel, of Chester, died at Clemson College Sunday of pneu monia. He had been sick for several weeks and little hope of his recovery had bean entertained for more than a week. The young man’s father and mother were with him, and he had every possible attention from Dr. Redfearo and the nurses at the col lege hospital. The cottoo mills of the Piedmont section of the state will file a petition with the railroad commission asking for a further reduction in the rate to cotton mills in the state. The peti tion has been printed in pamphlet form and covers forty-eight pages. It asks for a rate of freight for all cotton mills not exceeding 21 cents from any part of the state. Three or four men representing Flint & Co., who have the contract for the construction work of the Watts mills, have arrived in Eaurens aud will have the supervision of the work which they propose to begin at once. The side track from the Charles ton and Western Carolina has been completed and soon the laying down of the building materials will be in full blast. The State Pharmaceutical board will meet at Orangeburg on next Wednes day for two days’ session for the ex amination of all applicants for license A number of applicants are expected to appear before the board. The Pharmaceutal Association has been making things warm for the unit- censed compounders of drugs all over the Stats and there is now greater regard for the law than ever before. The building spirit does not abate in tbs city of Spartanburg on account of continued bad weather. The books ’TwoulU Spoil This Story to Tell it in the Headline*. To use an eighteenth century phrate, this is an “o’er true tale.” Having happened in a small Virginia town in the winter of 1902, it is a story very much of the present. Up to a shore time ago Mrs. John E. Harmon, of Melfa Station, Va., had no personal knowledge of the rare curative properties of Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy. “Last January,” she says, “my baby took a dreadful cold and at one time I feared she would have pneumonia, butone of my neigh bors told me how this remedy had cured her little boy and I began giving it to my baby at once and it soon cured her. I heartily thank the manu facturers of Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy for placing so ureat a cure within my reach. I cannot r< eoin- mend it too highly or say too much in its favor. I hope all who read tnis will try and be convinced as I was.” For sale by Cherokee Drug Co., Gaff ney ; L. I). Allison, Cowpens. It is much credit to the woman that there is little sayings against the husband, but sauce for the g-iose is sauce for the gander. Cure* Cancer and lllood Pol*on. If you have blood poison producing eruptions, pimples, ulcers, swollen glands, bumps and risings, burning, itching skin, copper-colored spots or rash on the kin, mucuous patches in the mouth or throat, falling hair, bone pains, old rheumatism or foul catarrh, take Botanic Blood Balm (B. B. B ). It kills the poison in the blond; soon all sores, eruptions heal, hard svell- ings subside, aches and pains stop and a perfect cure is made of the worst cases of Blood Poison. For cancer, tumors, swellings, eat ing sores, ugly ulcers, persistent pim ples of all kinds, take B. B. B. It de stroys the cancer poison in the blood heals cancers of all kinds, cures the worst humors or suppurating swell iogs. Thousands cured by B. B. B. after all else fails. B. B. B. composed of pure botanic ingredients. Improves the digestion, makes the blood pure and rich, stops the awful itching and all sharp shooting pains. Thoroughly tested for thirty years. Druggists, $1 per large bottle, with complete direc tions for home cure. Sample free and prepaid by writing Blood Balm Co.,of Atlanta, Ga. Describe trouble and free medical advice also sent in sealed letter. He that speaks ill of a woman should remember the breast he was nursed at. Wanted. We would like to a*k, through the columns of your paper if there is any person who has used Green’s A 1 gust Flower for the cure of Indigestion Dyspepsia, and Liver Trouble thui has not been cured—and we also meat their results such as sour stomach fermentation of food, habitual cos tiveness, nervous dyspepsia, head aches, despondent feelings, sleepless ness—in fact, any trouble connected with the stomach or liver? ThU medicine has been sold for many years in all civilized countries, and we wish to correspond with you and send you one of our books free of cost. If you never tried August Flower, try a 25 cent bottle first. We have never known of its failing. If so, something more serious is the matter with you. Tbe 25 cent size has just been introduced this year. Regular size 75 cents. At all drug gist. G. G. Greek, Woodbury, N. J. THE FIDDLER'S PAID AH' THE DANCE IS ON Flaw Picker Begins a New Series of Pickings THE UP-TO-DATE RELIGIN The .Man Who Ha* a Year’s Supply of it|On Hand 'Won't Do to Tru*t a* Far a* You Can Throw a Cow by the Tall—Flaw Will Dig Up aud Dish Out the Old-Timey. (Correspondence of The Ledger.) Coalin’ Ground, Mar. 12.—“In the beginnin’ God created the heaven an’ the earth,”—Gen. 1:1. Now, my friends an’ fe'low citi zens, you meby mougbt have read the above or seen it in print some wheres else, but at any rates you see it now. Hit’s tbe startin’ -pint in the Book an’ hit’s the place where ole Flaw starts this time, an’ you’ll see re marks remarked permiscuously all along down the line in The Ledger once a veek ontelj we finally at last wind up at. the windin’ up place where hit winds up with the word “Amen”—way dowu at the tail end of Revelations As I have often opened forth my mouth an’ spoke great gobs of truth to you before, you cun put this in your pipe an’ smoke it also: That hit’s a poor circus without a clown, but for a long time there’s been an other ole adage vhat’s been foremost in my estimationment: First uay the fiddler, then dance. I bleeve everybody knows what I’m tryin’ to drive at, viz, namely: that hereto fore I’ve been a actin’ clown an’ playin’ of the fiddle a long time an’ ef the good Mister Editor ever sail thanky sir, or set. ’em up to “blue steel” or “80,” I raley have forgot it. Henceforwards from now on you can laugh or dance to the tune of ole Flaw’s fiddlin’ ef you want to an’ not feel like you’re imposin’ on gopd nature, for the dough is coinin’ the fiddler’s way an’ he’s a.goin’ to play. What he’ll play—you wait an’ see. The Parson of the Cual'n’ Ground has danced to his tune, so’s deacons, wifehcaters, hypocrits, drunkards, Iswyers, tramblers, churchmembers— all have danced to ole Flaw’s tunes in jig time. Now tnere’s just one thing I ask of vou an’ it won’t cost you a brownie: If you’re not a subscriber an’ go to subscribe to get Flaw Picker’s pieces just tell the man you subscribe to that you are takin’ the paper on Flaw’s account. That’s all you have to do, an’ whin twenty-five giod friends an’ fellow citizens tells that to a Ledger man hit will insure a Flaw Picker piece once a week for a whole year. I make 'above n quest so that if it don’t pay the editor to pay the fiddler he can stop it, an, there’ll be no hence I’m a goin’ to start at Genesis an’ dig up an’dish out things that the preachers of this day an’ generation fear to handle. If you want any thing pTylish an’ up-to-date in the line of religion most any preacher has a full supply on his little short cour ter in his church Hit’s the up- to-date style, an’ fashionable, an’ costs you more money than the ole shopworn, oletimey religion, but it’s the style an’ seems to suit everybody of today, consequentially there’s more money in it for the preachers. Hit costs c«sh an’ a whole passel of it an’ there’s no way fgettin’ around payin’ it. They dish it out on tbe instalment plan an’ ef you let one instalment pass without spankin’ down the dough papers of compel- ment are drawn against you to com pel you to pay or git out of the church an’ make room for some that will pay. That’s the uo-to-date kind—spot cash or no religion—an’ a man what’s got a year’s supply of it on hand won't do to tru-tt as far as you can throw a cow by the tail. Honestly, ef one of these up-to- date preachers would git a supply of the ole-timey kind on hai.d he’d be closed out in short order, an’ even the female woman sext would make ugly faces at him on every corner. Hit’s got to be the case now that when a fellow wants the genuine article what will lust him a whet he’s got to begin at Genesis an’ dig it up for bisself. Bro Bachelor most irigenerally wears jeans britches an’ chaws hone- made tobacker. I raley do bleeve he loves the ole-timey, genuine ar ticles in religion too, an’ I’m goin’ to ask him to help me dig. I’d ask Mrs. R. Ann to lend us a helpin’ hand an’ jine us loathe dig, but, you know, the female woman sext, as a general thing, has a hankerin’ afttr the stylish, up-to date article and I’m afraid we’d git a pintlblank snub. This is just sorter a kind of intro duction to my intentions. Tbe fid dler’s paid an’ the realthlng’ll begin next week. Let’s -ee who’ll dance in the first set, for when tbe bo is drawd someone most ingenerally dances to the tune’of Flaw Picker. THROUGHOUT THE TAB HEEl STATE, From the Mountains to The Sea. NORTH CAROLINA NEWS. lutere*tlug Item* Concerning Our Neigh bor* Heyoml the Line Which Mny Frovt Entertaining Heading for Hundred* of Ledger Header*. The consolidation of the Young Men's Christian Association of North and South Carolina will doubtless be effected at the state convention now in session in Winston-Salem, N. C. The general assemhl y of North Caro lina appropriated $10,TKT0 for a State exhibit at the Louisiana I’uri-ht^e exposition at St. Louis. It is thought that private subscriptions will in crease the amount to $20,000 The petrified body of a man was found on Mill river, not very far from Asheville, about two weeks ago. Several people claim it. but it, seems that it is not settled just who is the real owner. A number of big offers have been made for the body. Govenor Aycock Tuesday author ized a change of court by which Judge Brown will hold Perquimao’s court, beginning March 23, and Chowan, beginning March 30th. while Judge Justice will hold Wake court, beginning March 23rd, in order to try the Haywood murder case. Ed. Hughes, of LaGrange, was shot and fatally wounded at Kinston last Monday by Jessie L Kennedy, of Falling Creek. The trouble was the outcome of a fight at LaGrange last fall between sons of the two men in which young Kennedy was knocked down by young Hughes with a bil liard cue. Tiie number of acts and resolutions ratified at this session o' the legisla ture was 1230 against 1207 two years ago. The cost of enrolling bills this year was $2,590, which is $1,575 less than two years ago. Enrolling Clerk Noryeli and his assistants, Mr. Hipos and Mr Kwann, are receiving congrat ulations on this excellent showing. The Ozark mill of Gastonia has or dered and is preparing to put in 1,000 more spindles aud four new speeders. The mill was built in 1899 with room for 10,000 spindles, but they were not all put in at once. Last spring over a thousand spindles were order ed. This spring over a thousand more will be put in. This w il fill the mill. They are using the VVhit- en Machinery. The Seaboard Air Line has given bond in the sum of $10,000 as a guar antee that Durham will never have to pay any of the costs or damages in Peabody street suit. The United States Fidelity and Guarantee Com pany is surety. Bond has been for warded. to a teiegram announces. The matter has been the talk of the town since it was learned that the bond was but $300. Nancy Black, a well-known and re spectable colored woman of Spencer, was run over Tuesday morning by a box-car attached to a shifting engine and instantly killed. She undertook to crawl under the car in an effort to reach the opposite side of tbe track, where she was going to her work, ard as she stooped and was in tbe act of crossing the engine pushr-d back and cut her head in two. A great deal of interest has been felt in the appropriation to tbe Nor mal and Industrial College for Wo men. As the bills passed, the col lege gets $40,OK) annually, as a reg ular continuing appropriation; $3.- 000 annually as soon as the Peabody fund is withdrawn, which will proba bly be within a year; then there is a special appropriation of $7,000 for this year for a cold storage plant and completing and extending the dormi tories. State Treasurer B. R Lacy gives notice in the advertising columns of The News that $100,000 of registered bonds of the State of North Carolina have been issued in the hope that the people will take them up and that the issue will be a popular loan. These bonds are of $50 denominations and are exempt from all taxation in cluding the income tax. Those are put in reach of the people and it is hoped that the people will subscribe for same. An important law that was passed by tbe recent legislature gives min ors and married women the right to own stock in a building and loan as sociation, in their own name. Here tofore. these were required to Le rep resented by a guardian or trustee. The bill creating this law was intro duced io the Senste by Mr. H. N. Pharr, the Senator from Mecklenburg. It is a good law and is thoroughly appreciated by boys, girls and mar ried women who wish to save their earnings. Caleb Russel,colored, of Reidsviile, has bi-en lodged in the county jail. He is charged with ci ueealing a baby in one of Mr. E. M. R-id’s barns near race track at that place several days ago. Alice McAlpin, the woman who gave birth to the child, is also con fined in che jail. Rnssell hails from Caswell county, and it is said t h at while he resided in Yar ceyviile he operated a secret emergency hospital for the care of similar cases. Some time ago he was discovered at this rascality by a white woman from Reidsviile being caught in his charge tor confine ment. Irving A Lynch, front brak<-man on freight train No. 84 was instantly killed by No. 32, the fast mail at Pel ham Thursday morning. 'Che freight train took the siding at 5 o’clock to let the pa-Js-nger train pass but Lynch was sen' forward >othe switch to throw the switch out in order that the freight train could pass out after passeng- r train had passed it is presumed lie f-il asle p, us his re mains w t re foU'd terribly mangled after the pass ojer train had parsed Lynch vvas ah ut twenty-five years old, and leav-* a wife and two email children. His remains were carried to Danville, where they were prepared for burial. He had been in the em ployment of the Southern railway only a little more than one month. yVorkini; Overtime. Eight hour laws are ignored by those tireless, little workers—Dr. King’s New Life 1'iily. Millions are always at work, night and day, curing Indigestion Bilioubuess, Constipa tion, Sick Headache and all Stomach, Liver and Bowel trouble-. Easy, pleasant safe, sure. Only 25c at Cherokee Drug Co. It is easy to tell how much many young married people need. But to tell how much they want would tax the multiplication table. A Kt-imtrkahlc Clifle. One of the most remarkable cases of a cold, deep-seated on the lungs, causing pneumonia, is that of Mrs. Gertrude E. Fenner, Marion, Ind., who was entirely cured by the use or One Minute Cough Cure. She says: “The coughing am’ -• •Ve.ii.g *0 weak ened me that I rij-i .iw i, v< igiit from 148 to 92 pounds. 1 tried a num ber of remedies to no avail until I used One Minute Cough Cure. Four bot tles of this wonderful remedy cured me entirely of the cough, strengthen ed my lungs and rstored me to ray normal weight, health and strength ” Cherokee Drug Co. When a man has not a good reason for doing a thing, he has one good reason for letting it alone.—Sir Wal ter Scott The Stomach i* the Man. A weak stomach weakens the man, becHUsn it cannot transform the food he eats into nourishment. Health and strength cannot be restored to any sick man or weak woman without first restoring health and strength to the stomach. A weak stomach can not digest enough food to feed the tissues and revive the tired and run down limbs and organs of the body Kodol Dyspepsia Cure cleanses, puri fies, sweetens and strengthens the glands and membranes of tbe stomach, and cures indigestion, dyspeysia and all stomach troubles. Cherokee Drug Co. Some reserve is a debt to prudence, as freedom and simplicity of conver sation is a debt to good nature. The many friends of John Blount will be pleased to learn that he has entirely recovered from his attack of rheumatism. Chamberlain’s Bain Balm cured him after the best doctors in the town (Monon, Ina.,) had failed to give relief. The prompt relief from pain which this liniment affords is alone worth many times its cost. For sale by Cherokee Drug Co., Gaffney; L D. Allison, Cowpens. Some men are of such gentle blood that they refuse to tackle hard work. A Llhenil OITer. The undersigned will give a free sample of Chamberlain’s Stomach and Liver Tablets to any one wanting a re liable remedy for disorders of the stomach biliousness or constipation. This is a new remedy and a good one. Cherokee Drug Co., Gaffney ; L D. Allison, Cowoens. No matter what nest the old hen sets on so she hatches. Cut this out and Lukejt to Cherokee Drug Co., Gaffney; L D. Allison, Cowpens, and get a free sample of Chamberlain’s Stomach and Liver Tablets, the best physic. They cleanse and invigorate the stomach, improve the appetite and regulate the bowels. Regular size 25c. perb)x. He that respects bis wifi will find that she respects him Foley’s Kidney Cure makes the kid neys and bladder right. Contains nothing injurious. Cherokee Drug Go. NEWS OF THE WEEK IK LOWER CHEROKEE From Our Correspondent a Etta Jane. PERSONALS AND LOCALS. IntcreHtlng I’anigraph* aud Ht-ccut Hap- penlng* in Lower Section of the County Gathered Up by Our Kegular Correspon dent for Heuelit of Ledger Header*. (Correspondence of The Ledger.) Etta Jane, March 10—We are having an abundance of wet, dis agreeable weather and people just can’t do out-door work with any sat isfaction. The rain of last Saturday raised the river and there was no ferrying yesterday. Today it can be crossed. It’s not often wo have the pleasure of publishing accounts 0* battles from the pens of the men who fight them. This work is mostly done by some one else—perhaps those born after the conflict is over. We have in our possession an account of the battle of Shiloh written by one of the partici pants which will not only prove very interesting, but will locate honors where they properly belong. What makes it the more enjoyable is because it was written by one who was born and reared in what is now Cherokee coun ty. The matter was not written for ti e press, but merely to correct some parts of history that misrepresent the facts. In due time we will give them. Several of our York county neigh bors have the mumps. Mr. John Dowdle, of Hopewell, who has been sick for a long time, is still living, though he is very bad off. Sam Strain went to Gaffney today- on business. Mr. and Mrs. H. B. McDaniel, ol Hickory Grove, and their children, have been visiting relatives on this side since Saturday last. We think that the public libraries in our county ought to be objects of special ii f !■ - 'n all our people, and all 1 <\ -■ of them, can do something for them if they will. Look up such cf your old books as you can spare and turn them over for the use of others who will no doubt appreciate them. Some one or more might have Simms’, Ramsy’s, Gibbs’, Mills’ and a dozen more of these good old histories that will be interesting to the present genera Jon, though they have long been out of print. We understand that the supreme court of North Carolina has decided that all applicants for license to prac tice law must be “able to write legi bly and spell reasonably well.” This will be all right with the legal fra ternity, especially as to orthography, but we expect a general protest from the bar against the ‘able to write legibly” part of the decision. The Cherokee News came in accord ing to schedule last Saturday and hereafter we expect this section will have another correspondent. We have been told by holding the breath one usually gets rest from pain. It may be so; we never tried it; but there is one thing sure, that holding the breath sometimes gives other people much needed rest. One of our ueigiibors, Mr. R. J. Kirby, is speaking of having the ferry limits of Howell’s ferry raided to eight feet of high water in order to enable certain Cherokeeans to ship their sons-in-law at almost any time. j. L. s. Lard ExpeiiMlve aiui Injurlou*. Lard is not only expensive but in jurious to the health when used iu liberal quantities. To make the so- called cheap patent Hours white enough, the life is all ground o.^t of the flour; then it is necessary to load it up with lard in order to make it work. This accounts largely for your hu»vy biscuits and rolls and y >u bad di£i tion. It takes less th ..n om- half the la. 4 to work ‘'Cliftu.i” th> t it does ch» 'n patents, so thi.- you not only save m-'re than the difference,in price but get > more hcalthi’ni and nutritious food pn-one*-. II alth and economy dictate the use ol “Clf'ton.” An extreme rigor is sure to arm everything against it —Burke. I’ueuiuoiilH Follow* it Colil but never follows tbe use of Foley’s Honey and Tar. It stops the cough, heals and strengtnens the lungs aid affords perfect security from an at tack of pneumonia. Refuse substi tutes. Cherokee Drug Co. A title of nobility guarantees neither morality nor brains. Rheumatism is caused by an excess of uric and lactic acids in the blood. Rbeumacide, the great blood purifier, lexatlve and tonlo, cures tne disease by driving tbe acids out of the blood At Druggists.