Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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f I in aj ^jPue: >okk P0BLI8HKD TUESDAY AND FRIDAY. BY Ed. H. DeCamp. fUK Ledger is not responsible for tb* 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 Correspondents who do not contri bute regular news letters must fur nish their name, not for publication, but for identification.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 published at five cents a line. Reading notices will be published at ten cents a line each insertion. All correspondence should be ad dressed to Ed. H. DeCamp, Manager. NOTES AND COMMENTS. For President—Arthur P. Gorman, of Maryland; for Vice President— Chas. B. Aycoca, of North Carolina. How is that for high? ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ Counsel for Jim Tillman have moved for a change of venue. He ought to get it by the rope route to that country which s so indescribably warm that most people refer to it with bated breath. ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ My! My! My! How criminals do squirm and what lame excuses they put up when they find out they haven’t as good a defense as they thought they had. But '‘no thief e’er felt the halter draw with good opinion of the law.” The season of the sweet girl gradu ate is drawing to a close and perhaps the frows of the chief executives of the two Carolmas are glad of it. There is something else for J). Clint and Charles B. to be doing besides running over the country making goo-goo eyes at seminary young ladies, They are having a parrot and monkey time over in Kentucky. An honest judge is trying, at the risk of his life, to place the responsibility of a feudal murder, and if he escapes with his life for his pains it will be a wonder. Kentucky comes as mar being a barbarous State as any in this country. Close on t ■ - t-. of the Pacoiet valley flood comes the news of a simi lar calamity in Oregon, only it was far more disastrous. It is feared the victims of this flood will number five hundred. Surely the elements are no respecter of persons or localities, but it does appear that they are ex traordinarily revengeful this year. ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ The people are clamoring for a Fourth of July celebration, and while it is rather late to start out for a big one, The Ledger believes that it is not too late to get up one along the lines suggested by interviews in our local columns. Our people can well afford to give one day in the year to the commemoration of the most im portant event in our nation’s history. ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ Mr. Wm. J. Bryan has named Judge Walter Clark, of North Carolina, us possible Presidential timber, and this has caused a good many papers and people to ask : ‘ ‘Who is Judge Clark?” A few North Carolinians and the Lord only know. Even people who live right next door, so to speak, don’t know him. It strikes us that it would be quite the proper thing for Mr. Bryan to let the next national Democratic convention choose the candidates they wish to put out. produced by any newspaper. They are somewhat late but still ahead of all others. ♦ ♦ Brother J. C. Garlington, so long | identified with the Spartanburg Herald, has stepped out of the field of daily journalism into the broader one of weekly journalism. Brother Zach McGhee, of The Educational, takes the reins in The Herald office, while Brother Charles Petty steps down and out from the Carolina Spar- ! tan to give way to Brother Garling- ton. To Brother McGhee we extend our heartfelt symnathies (we really thought he had better judgment); we congratulate Mr. Garlington on his ascendency to journalism in its truest and best sphere; but we must say that for downright good hard sense Brother Petty removes the dilapi dated linen from the shrubbery. Without fear of successful contradic. tion we do not hesitate to say that the editor of a newspaper in this sec tion of the country receives less com pensation and more condemnation for his labors than any other profession. Why, if it were not for the fact that we love it so we would close up shop tomorrow, because we know we could make more money pulling the bell cord over a “tassel-tail” and not have half the investment of either capital or energy. But with all the draw backs of journalism we wouldn’t choose to swap places with the pre decessor of Karageorgevitch. The large number of murders and homicides daily chronicled in the press is apt to make one enquire whether or not the world is getting better or worse,Jand many people do not hesitate to say worse. We do not believe such to be the case. W'th the aid of the telephone and the tele graph such items are sent to toe press all over the country while they are fresh, whereas before the advent of these rapid methods of news trans mission it took weeks a id (sometimes months for the news of a tragedy to travel from one Htato to a lotner, and, as a consequence of this slow method of travel, an item of this kind was ooULted as stale news before it could reach many papers. P-hen,again, the population is rapidly increasing and while the number of such tragedies seems unusually large wejdo not be lieve that statistics will show an in creased per ceutage of crim i in pro portion to the increaso of population. Be that as it may, whether crime is increasing or decreasing, there is en tirely too much murdering going on in this country. And the horror of it all is that the perpetrators get of! with little or no punishment at all. So long as judges lack the backbone to hold the scale of justice evenly and jurors can be swayed by political power to do the bidding of unscrupu lous bosses, and lawyers will stifle their honest convictions for fame and fortune, just so long will degenerate bullies with respectable connection and money be allowed a change of venue and to put off their trials from court to court and thus let justice be defeated by the dying out of public opinion. What we need (just now is men of courage and backbone who have the manhood to say, ‘‘It makes no difference who you are or how much wealth you may possess, or have at your command, if you com mit a crime you must suffer the con sequences.” When our country reaches that stage, and not until then, will it be safe for a man who might have incurred the enmity of a degenerate, to walk upon the street or public highway WHEN STARCH WAS NEW. No one has a higher regard for the abilities of others than this writer, but to see the manner in which some people coddle and praise others whom they think will favor them because of their flattery is disgusting in the extreme. Always give credit where merit deserves it but don't, for the sake of yourself and others, flutter and fawn on people simply to get their good will and support. True manhood is a badge of independence, and no one who possesses Independ ence will debase his manhood to such an extent that be will flatter others to gain their suppe rt. ♦ We are a little late in presenting scenes of the flood disaster, but really the fault does not lay with us. Artist Carr made the photographs Sunday after the flood and developed them Monday. They were mailed to the engraver at once, but on account of the disarrangement of the mail inci dent to the flood, they miscar ried and did not reach their destina tion until last Saturday. On account of this delay the engraver wrote for instructions. We determined to print them, even If they were late, so we present ou" readers with the only accurate pictures of the flood yet It r*ed to Be Made In Color* So aa to Tint the Fabric. “A package of starch?” asked the In telligent and learned grocer, and as he wrapped the package up be talked. “Staieh originated,” he said, “In Flanders. It was introduced into Eng land, with the big ruff, in the time of Queen Elizabeth. It was like opr starch of today, except that it was made In colors—red, yellow, green, blue. The effect of this was to tint delicately the white linen to which the starch might be applied. “Before Queen Elizab -th’s time ruf fles and ruffs were made of tine hol- land, which requlrcKi no stiffening. Then the ruffs of cambric came, and these must of necessity be starched.” The grocer, consulting his memoran dum hook, resumed: “It is recorded that ‘when the queen had ruffs made of lawn and cambric for her own princely wearing there was none In England could tell how to starch them; hut the queen made spe cial means for some women that could starch, and Mrs. Gullham, wife of the royal coachman, was the first starch- er.’ “In 1504 a Flanders woman, Frau Van der Plasse, came to London and established there a school for the teaching of starching. The school suc ceeded. The Flanders frau got rich. She charged £5 a lesson and an extra 20 shillings for a recipe for the making of starch out of wheat flour, bran and roots. “Yellow was the most fashionable color in starch among the nobility. The Puritans used blue starch, though at first they had been against the stuff al together, dubbing it ‘a certaine kinde of liquide matter which they call starch, wherein the devil hath willed them to wash and dive their ruffes, which, when they be dry, will then stand stiffe and inflexible about their necks.’ “Starch is made from wheat, corn and potatoes, and starving men have often subsisted on it, finding it nour ishing, though not tasty.”—Loudon Graphic. DRESDEN CHINA. WOMEN AND SOCIETY. First Offered For Sale at the Fair of Leliislo In 17gl. Dresden china began its reign at the fair of Leipsic, 1721, where it was of- ferv-d for public sale for the first time, it has had three periods—King's, Mar- coline and modern—and for all around use it continues to he the most popular ware of this day. The factory -marks traced on the bot tom of each piece vary according to the period—the oldest (King's) being the monogram A. It. and the wand of JEs- culapius. The familiar crossed swords, with the dot or circle between the han dles, were first used in 1721, and the star took the place of the dot in the M a recline period. The modern mark is the simple crossed swords, sometimes accompanied by letters and numbers. Although the methods of work are still jealously guarded in all factories, the essentials are au open secret, and the following rough outline may satis fy the lazily curious: The ingredients of porcelain are kaolin feldspar, sand and selenite. These are ground tine and mixed in limewater. The paste is then molded into forms and fired in an oven of moderate heat. When taken out, it is in an opaque state and is then dipped in the glaze, which is feldspar ground line, with a little alkali. It is now sub jected to a firing of great heat, which results in the beautiful polished sur face so familiar the world over. This second firing is attended with risk, for if the piece is allowed to re main beyond the exact proper moment the whole melts together and is ruined. (All Communications to this column should be addressed to P. O. Box 1104.1 Most attractive for wear on warm summer days are the black, and white mauve and white and gray and white lawns, and also the black and white swiss muslins. The prettiest way to fashion these gowns is to have the skirts gored and trimmed in ruffles or flounces of va rious widths. The bodices of these gowns are made over linuings of ba tiste or lawn, and only boned when necessary. Most women at fifty, or over, re quire some tr.mining in the hacks of their dresses. Crushed girdles of some soft goods, preferably silk, cut ou the bias, may be arranged very be comingly to the figure. L'ney should be quite uarroftr, ending in a point in front and gradually widening in tne back, where they are held op by means of whalebone, a “V” shape opening occurring in the middle of the back of the girdle, so that the base of the girdle only meets; from this point two small jabot postiline ends fall over the skirts. Mrs. Fletcher Smith and little son have gone on a visit to Jonesville. Mrs. George Brown and children have gone to Kings Mountain to visit relatives. Miss Bird Crawley is visiting Mi«s Merdrue Frances at Blacksrock. Miss Ogborn, after a delightful risit to her friend, Miss Myrtle Gaff ney, ha« returned to her home in Monroe, N. C. Misses Helene and Nellie Brohawn and Messrs. Vernon and Floyd Baker drove over to Clifton Friday to view the ruins. Miss Meng, who has been visiting Miss Nell Wood, has returned to her home in Union. How a CilaNH Eye Aet*. A glass eye has never so free a range of movement as the real one, and when the owner turns his eyes strongly In any direction the glass eye lags behind the other, so producing a squint Then the pupil of the glass eye is of course of a fixed size, while the natural pupil dilutes and contracts not only with varying amounts of light, hut with varying emotions. Then again the white of the eye varies in tint greatly from day to day, being slightly blood shot during headaches and yellow dur ing bilious attacks. The differences in color between the two eyes caused by these changes are even more easily no ticed than the differences In the pupils. Death of Mr. Philip Kay. Mr. Phillip Ruy, one of Cherokee’s old Jcitizens, died at.his home near State Line Tuesday and was buried at State Line {church Wednesday af ternoon Rev. C. M. Teale conducted the funeral services. Mr. Ray had passed threescore,years and had lived all his life in the Spartanburg portion of this county. ,He was a farmer and for many good traits of character was loved by all his neighbors. He leaves a wife and seven children, who have the sympathy of their many friends in their sad bereuvrnent. Tin Ore. Seekers for tin ore are In Gherokee now. They have specimens from Da kota, can tell you how it looks in Cornwell,Englan.i,and can almost see It in Cherokee air. Oapt. S 8 Ross bus it in pa>ing quantities ami is working it. It vuil probably he found in other places in the county and owners of it will do to keep Control of it How’* This? We offer One Hundred Dollars Jlewurd for iny cane of Catarrh that cannot bo cured by Hall’s Catarrh Cure. F..). CHENEY & CO.. Toledo. O. We, the undertdjrned, have known F. J. Cheney for tho last 15 years, and believe him perfectly honorable In all bualnss transac tions and tinanclally able to carry out any obligations made by their Arm. West AThuax, WholesaleJDrugglsts, Toledo, O. Wai-dihg. Finn an & Makvin, Whole sale Druggists. Toledo, O. Hall’sCatarrh Cure la taken Internally acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. Testimonials sent free. Price 75c. per bottle. Sold by all Drug gists. Hall’s Faintly Pills are the best. The Camel’* Hite. The camel alone of all ruminants has incisor teeth in the upper jaw, which, with the peculiar structure of his other teeth, make his bite, the animal’s first and main defense, most formidable. The skeleton of the camel is full of proofs of design. Notice, for example, the arched backbone, constructed in such a way us to sustain the greatest weight in proportion to the span of the supports. A strong camel can hear a thousand pounds weight, although the usual load in Yemen is not more than .600 pounds. How a Hoy Explained a Parable. There is no saying how the average small hoy sometimes regards religious truth. A London paper records that the son of a well known bishop being asked to explain the meaning of the parable of the grain of mustard seed replied, “It means that a little religion goes a long way, and those who have the least of it here will be highest In the kingdom of heaven.”—Leslie's Weekly. Hot Dangeron*. “I hear you want to sell your dog, Pat. They tell me he has a pedigree.” "Shure, an’ 01 nlver noticed it, sor. Anyhow, he’s nothin’ but a puppy yit, an’ Oi’m thlnkln’ as how he’ll he afther outgrowln’ It, sor.”—Glasgow Times. There Is no man easier to decelir* than be who has hopes, for he aids In his own deceit.-Bossuet. The Mieses Johnson, of Lancaster, are visiting Miss Eunice Johnson, on Fredrick street. » ♦ ♦ ♦ The Junior Leaguers of the Metho dist church will serve cream and cake on the court house square this (Fri day) afternoon, beginning at half past five o'clock. Itasehall Thi* Afternoon. Gaffney and King’s Mountain will cross bats this afternoon at Jefferies’ baseball park. This will be the first match game of the season on the lo cal diamond and the firot game since the reorganization of the team. The boys have been practicing diligently and are in good shape to put up a stiff game. All bail lovers in Gaffney should go out and eccourage the home team. The King’s Mountain boys are by no means novices and it will take capital work for the Indians to scalp them. Go nut and enjoy the game. The grounds have been clear ed off and everything is in good shape for the occasion. Admissitn 25c This goes to defray the expenses of the visiting team. 'Where Barley la Cultivated. Barley extends over a wider climatic range than any of the other grains and is successfully cultivated over a great er breadth of the globe than any other cereal. It flourishes under the heat and drought of the borders of the torrid zone and grows sturdily and maturely on the northern verge of the temperate zone, ripening and thriving under vari ous adverse circumstances which wheat is wholly unable to resist. Barley is found in the Faroe islands, near Cape North, the extreme point of Norway: near Archangel, on the White sea, and in central Siberia between 58 and 59 degrees north latitude. In genial cli mates, such as those of Egypt, Barbary and the south of Spain, two crops of barley may he reaped In the same year, one in spring from seed sowed the pre vious autumn and one in autumn from a spring sowing. IfYouitrttthn lluuHekeeper You will appreciate our suggestion that you use Bransford’s ’‘Clifton’’ Hour It. mukes the best bread, cuke and pastry for home people as well as visitors. Don’t let your prejudice in favor of another brand prevent your trving it. W. J. Wilkins & Co. SUNDAY SELLING. A Men limit Speak* A)jHln*t TrafTickliiK '»■ ilie Salibntli. Editor Ledger: — I would nko to maae UKe statement, please, to the mini* era of Gaffney : D oi i you think it a shame for a busineaa nuusa to open or eel I goods of any aiud on tht ' Lora’s day? I am sure it looks like * man.of energy could make enough salts six days in the week and not have io break God’s holy day to rank.- a living If I were in your place, gentlemen, I would sure “rip them up the back” about such woi'K, and 1 don’t think any gentle man would mind setting down for a few m ments and letting you quote some roripture along this line And if a man with great influence. Iik.* some I know of in G*ffnev, would talk to those men a little wmie I am bound to believe that it would have a gooa effect on the mtjorry, and in rest would get ashamed of the pov erty thoy were showing in themseivrs and quit selling goods on Sunday, I am sure, from experience, that a man will prosper more to not break the holy day which God commanded us to keep in remembrance of Him I don’t see how a man can ask God to bless him and do this way. I would say to the merchants of Gaff ney: If you will take stock and See what you are worth in goods and cash and sell all you can, tb-m tor a year not open your business uuuse at all on Sunday to sell anything, unless “the ox gets in the ditch” (I guess we all heard the preuener explain this enough to know what it means) Then the next year open every dav and sell 'regardless of the Sabbath, and if you don’t accumulate more the year you kept the Sabbath than you did when you sold good* co that day, 1 will pay the differ*-! ce in whet you ios' by nor opening oil the Sab | bath day. This inc'ndes r’l o* tfu** of work that goes on dor g the year I trust that no go >d L i .’. r render will take exception i ibis letter, rot I wish to o e-- ail inv fe ,, ow , m' >r ' nv’k a money and do Veil m 1ms w.iria nnu go to t> better world wnen their time is up here Deio*. If i;m*s do not get better here in Gaffney I am afraiu some of us will not have much m .r> time to stay here. God is going to send a great disaster upon us if Wl keep on breaking His laws. Any man with half e*-nse knows that when he goes out to do a job of work on Sunday he is doing wrong in the sight of God, unless it is absolutely necessary to do the work, then God will justifyjhim in doingjso; otherwise He will damn each one of us for such deeds unless we go to Him and make an humble confession for the wrong and promise to stop it with the help of God-and mean what we say. Brethren and friends. I am not able to explain the Holy Bible; if I were I would go to some of you and try to do so. I will just refer you to your minister if you ask me anything about the question, and I think he will tell you not to work on Sunday ifyou can help it. If he doesn’t, he needs something himself that he hasn’t got. I will say this much for myself: I am out and out for Jesus if I know myself, and will thank any man or woman to correct me when 1 do wrong and I will quit it and pray God to forgive me for it, as I have done, and He has forgiven me. Hal lelujah to His name! \v. J M. MOB VIOLENCE. An Incident Nhowlni; that 'nnoeent M**n Sometime* Suffer. [People's Record. 1 Lerov Gibbons may.tnank h s lu ky star* tnai ho is alive today H 1 * -x- porience sh >*> the outrage and d uj- ger uf iiiob rule, and the little ^na .ca an im oc -nt man b .8 with circumsi in ti il evid-nc*? agiii st him at a lynch er*’ court The ca--e in question is re- p .rtedj r m Jefferton county, Ga., end •f. has attention. Gibbons is a nepro. lie was under financial obligations to Dupree Holmes and a wrek ago Holmes scarted to tbe former’* house to make a collection, lie was on horseback. He did not return luat night and when the animal galloped back after dark without waddl- or bridle lout play was suspected. I be negro was arrested He professed innocence of{any wrong doing. Not being able to learn anything Iron nim, fiiends of the white mao ap plied the lash to the wife uf Gibbons in the brutal hope that she would make a confession And she got busy with her tongue just as soon as tbe pain became unbearable. To save herself from punishment tbe wife -wore that the husband had ki led Holmes with a hoe. Thi i appeared to be evidence enough for the mob. The nearo, however, was not lynched, but he came near taking the short end of the rope. On Sunday Holmes returned. {It seems tnatjbis horse got away from him, and that be went on to 0 a {saw mill ten miles distant where he expected to be able to hire some hands that h*- needed. He was taken ill there and, iaetead of send- ingjword home as to his| whereabouts, had remained at the saw mill camp uxtil he recovered. He had not heard anything auouc the excit-ment that his disappearance had caused Any ordinary mob would lave swung tbe{ negro to'the most con venient tree, an i it. was rower fully explained jus< Low he was able to es cape bod ly harm after tne confes sion ol bis wife. A terrible" wrung would have need cnn>r med tia l he been ^ lynched. C ol, - .her u ads will always allow the Uw to T>k- its cour-e, which is just, and proper. The incident should b-Ju warning to every lawless elerm nt t ha* seeks to be judge and jurv {an! * xecutiouer. The negro hi-s been given his freedom, his wife’s lacerated body has been dressed but we would like to know what sore of an explanation she will make in order to regain the tender regards of her husband. GrasHy I’oikI MImmIoii Rally, There will be au all day meeting at Grassy Pond Baptist church next Sunday and all friends of the cause are cordially invited to attend. Tho hospitality of this section of our county is famous, and all who attend may expect a most nearly w. 'come. The singing class will furnish u usio and Revs. 0. F. Felmet and Arch 0. Gree will spe’ak. I-ROGK’AMME : 11 :00 a m., Service of Song—the choir. 11:30 a. m.. Mission Sermon—Rev. F. G. Felmet. 12:30 p m., Recess and Dinner. , 1:30 p. m.. Service of Song—the choir 2:00 p m , Mission Address—R-v. Arch. C. Orer. All are cordially invited. It’s not the shirt waist, but the snape of it. that mflk Q s a fool of a man Jim Dumps found Mrs. Dumps distressed f About an unexpected guest. 11 There’s nothing in the house to eat 1 ” “ There’s something better far than meat.” The guest endorsed Jim’s view with vim When helped to 41 Force” by 44 Sunny Jim.” The Ready-to-Serve Cereal ready for any emergency. Farmers exra Eating “ For©*/’ “Thanks for ‘Force.’ I eat it three times a day. Folks call me ‘Sunny Jim.* Took some to the country with me on a 2 visit and the farmers out there are eating 4 Force ’ now. “Will Rurf.” W—7 Mother’s Ear 4 WORD im moTHmit’B m*m; whmh MummiNQ ab in rant, and im rum MONTHB THAT COM* BARONm THAT TIMM. SCOTT’S EMULSION muNBUmm thb hatha HTBrnmarH aho BOUBIMHMKBT HO HHCAHHANY NOB THB HMALTH ON BOTH MOTHMB ABO CHILD. Send for free sample. SCOTT & BOWNE, ChemieU, 409-4 ij Pearl Street, New Yo»k. 50c. and 51.00 ( all druggist*. i Dr. Woolley’s PAINLESS AND Whiskey Cure SENT FRITZ to «i. uaers of mo: pulr** opium, laudauu-u, elixir of opl orn, co caine or wnlrkc'-.a large book of jv r- tleulan on borne o sanatorintD tr.-M- sient. IddroKi, b. M. WOOLLEY CO., 104N. PrycrUtrc-t, Atlanta, Geor;la Commercial Printing Of every description executed with neatness and dispatch at The Ledger office, Gaffney, 8. C. New Type, New a Presses, the finest quality of Ink and Paper, and Compe tent Workmen. 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