Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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IN HICKORY SECTION. Ll IlSI FAILS, tales Good. Dae druggists. m BE IN THE SWIM Give me your clothes to clean, press or dye and you will always look nice and stylish. Old suits made to look like new. Experienced workmen and prompt ser vice rendered. V. H. ROBINSON, Tailor. ^ji^ver^W^U/Telegraph^OlHce^^^^^^ William S. Hall. Jr. James A. Willis. HALL & WILLIS, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, STAR THEATRE BLDU. . O A fcC Y, ». O. Notary Public In office. Prompt attention driven to all business. / vJ. EMILE HARLEY, Attorney-at- Law, Gaffney, - - S. C. Notary public. All business receives prompt and careful attention. MONEY TO LOAN ON REAL ESTATE Dr. D. P. THOMSON, Dentist. "Office over National Hank. Dr. C. T. LIPSCOMB, I ) IS TV T I V Office in Star Theatre Building. 7 Phone No. 20. J. F. GARRETT, Dentist. Office Over The Battery. ’Phone 82. A Season of Danger You’re wise if you have an Insurance Policy safe and sure. If you have not, you run a good deal of risk. The ex cessive heat and the dangers of travel at this season all make life A Little More Uncertaini Get your Insurance arranged by the Aetna Life Insurance Company, then your work or your vacation will be more care-free. Jones J. ‘ Agt, GAFFNEY, S. C. Ninety Per Cent of all chronic headaches are due to eye strain. Go to Dr. Griffith at the Chero kee Drug Co.’s aud have the defect in vision corrected, and thus be QUICKLY AND PERMANENTLY CURED. Glasses Fitted With;jScientific Accu racy and all the diseases^of the Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat’.treated according to the latest and most approved methods. jT\or-^ Building and Plastering Lime Goal, and Plaster Hair. Plaster Pans Shingles. Portland Cement, Dynamite, Blasting Powder, Fuse and Dynamite Caps, call on _ m *». ■ _ v ■ WWW h CARROLL & CO., Lessees. _ 1 Telephone G0LLE6E0FCHARLESTON CHARLESTON S. G. IlSTH YEAR BEGINS SEPTEMBER 25. Letters, Science, Engineering. One Scholarship to each County of South Car olina. Entrance examinations held at Gaffney byjCounty Superintendent of Ed ucation And Judge of Probate on July 10. Tuition $40. Board and furnished room in Dormitory, $10 per month. All can didates for admission are permitted to compete for Boyce Scholarships, which pay $100 a year. For catalogue, r- Address HARRISON RANDOLPH, President. Stores Kept Open on Fourth and Business was Oulte Lively. c=i Hickory, July 8.—The Fourth of July passed oH quietly in Hickory Grove ; the business men did not close up. There were a good many people in town all day and the trade was quite lively. A party of the young people and some of the old folks went to Piedmont Springs and spent the day. A few of the young men went to the picnic at the King’s Mountain battle ground. There was a wagon load of lager beer on the ground, which was sold like “hot .cakes,” al though it was not kept on ice and was very not. Two young men drove up to a house while up in that vicinity, and three men left the house by the back way and took to their heels in a hurry, thinking that the young men were State cjnstables. Since my last report we have had fine weather with some showers and the crops are growing finely. Corn is putting on a better color than it had and some cotton blooms are re ported in the cotton fields. There is an abundant crop of fruit; ripe apples and peaches have been a luxury for some time. The old relia ble blackberry crop is abundant and is being utilized for triple purposes and in wwie. Miss Virga Roberts and Mr. T. Jefferies McKown were married at Wilson’s chapel last Sabbath by Rev John Wilson, just after the 11 o’clock service. Miss Roberts is the only daughter of Mr. J. J. Roberts, of Hickory, and has been the efficient operator of the central ’phone office here the past twelve months. Mr. McKown is a plucky young farmer of Smith’s ford, Broad river, but since the overflow has held a position with the Magnolia Mines company, near here. We wish the young couple a long and happy life of usefulness and prosperity. Another young lady, Miss Sallie Smith, a daughter of R L. A. Smith, Esq., of Hickory Grove, will take charge of the central ’phone office vacated by Cupid’s arts. Who next. Mr. R. W. Westmoreland went to Columbia last week to take a negro woman to the home for the insane and co see his son. Bruce Westmore land, who has been an inmate of that institution for several years. He says bis son is getting along well, but thinks he has charge of one ward of the institution on a large salary and told his father that hejwould come thjs next Saturday to take hie wife and child down to stay with him. Dr. Miles J. Walker, of Yorkville, spent Monday night at Esq. G. C. Leech’s. He was called to see Dr. C. C. Leech, who is sick, and has been for some time. Dr. W. E Anderson, dentist, of Blacksburg, was in his office here Tuesday, his regular day at this place, weekly. Dr. Anderson has been hold ing an office here for the past five years and has his share of the busi ness in that line. Rev. Van Moss, Baptist minister of Grover, N. C., was at Unity church last Sabbath to meet his regular ap pointment, and preached to a large congregation. There is quite fca relig ious commotion among the members of that church which has been under way for some time, and there seems to be no abatement of the religious feeling that has come upon them. Sunday night, it is said that at least twenty-five women were on the fioor praying at one time, and they go round shaking hands with the people. One reliable gentleman, who was there last Sunday night, told us that he bad visited negro meetings and seen the way they carried on, but he said these people at Unity church beat anything'he ever saw among the negroes. They went to private homes or in the woods to pray and sing with and for their friends. I bdieve, as has been reported, that it began in this way in the woods some months ago, until now they have it in the church ; and one ofgthe|leaders in the work says he expects to move the work to the Hickory Grove Baptist church and will wake uf) the people of this place. More later on this sub ject as the work progresses. Superintendent Lewis, of the Mag nolia Mines company, is receiving his machinery and it is now being put in position at the Magnolia mine, two miles west of here. He and his wife spent Monday night in Blacksburg Mrs. J. Harris Wylie, Mrs Robert Whisonant, Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Cas tles are visitors at Piedmont Springs this week. Bland. PLAN FOR CREATION OF A GENERAL STAFF Movement to Reorganize En tire Naval Administration. TEDDY ORDERS GAG RULE W Early Rlsora The famous little pills* FOLEYSHONET"®TAR far cklldrmai »afm, aura* Mm optatmm I3S: Tan Shoes are all the rage. Why should you not keep up with the style? We have them in Queen Quality and cheaper grades. :: :: IS* R. S. Lipscomb Shoe Co. U The Shoe Store. Roosevelt Fail* to “Make Good” In Post- office Scandal Matter and Orders “Gag Rule” to Ne Enforced—Four States Spec ially Favored with Knral Routes. Washigton, D. 0., July 9.—Un doubtedly one of the democratic leaders and one of the ablest men in i the House of Representatives is the Hon. David A. De Armond, of Mis souri. Judge De Armond has been in Congress since 1890, having been first elected to the Fifty-second Con gress and re-elected to each succeed ing Congress. He is one of the ablest lawyers in the Congress and a mem ber of tbt committee on judiciary. He was the choice of the Missouri del egation for the caucus nomination for Speaker in'the Fifty-eighth Con gress when it convenes, but he re fused to stand for the nomination, and the choice then fell to Hon. Champ Clark. If the democrats had carried the House he undoubtedly would have been a candidate for Speaker, but he did not care to un dertake to narmonize the factions in the party in the House as the floor leader. The judge realizes his short comings as a good mixer with men. He has none of the bon homme, cam araderie characteristics in bis men tal makeup. He is short on cheap talk and long on thinking. He is essentially a thinker and a student, and never loses any time indulging in cloak-room stories. He does not in spire affection, but compels admi ration from his democratic colleagues, and is feared and disliked by the re publicans. He is the greatest verbal eriscerator in the House, and can perform the neatest job of skinning and gutting an opponent of any man in the Congress. He is a human wasp, and his stinger is always ready for business. Judge De Armond is an amiable and kindly gentleman, a ripe scholar, an able lawyer, and splendid legisla tor. His retirement from Congress would be b distinct loss to the demo cratic party and to the nation. * * * It is the general consensus of opinion here that the decision of Federal Judge Lacombe, of New York, in the case against the anthracite coal-carrying roads brought by Mr. William R. Hearst, to the effect that they cannot be compelled by the In terstate Commerce Commission to produce their contracts with the mining companies is unmitigated “stuff.” The commission represents the government, which has a consti tutional right to regulate commerce between the different States. This being admitted, why shouldn’t the commission have the right to demand the production of papers bearing up on the regulation of interstate com merce? Judge Lacombe may be a learned judge, but he does not seem to be equipped with a burdensome quantity of common sense. His rul ing will be appealed to the United States Supreme Court, where it will undoubtedly be swept aside with scant courtesy. >i« * # A movement is now on foot to re organize the entire naval administra tion. Mr. Moody, the secretary of the navy, now has a plan in his hands providing for the creation of a naval general office. If this plan is adopted, the department institutions, such as the war college, or the ( bureau of nav igation, will be merged with the general staff, whose cbitf will exercise the same supervision over the military divisions as the assistant secretary over the bureaus, and in the absence of both secretary and assistant sec retary, the chief of staff will be act ing secretary. The present functions and authority of the secretary will be maintained. This reorganization plan should, and undoubtedly will, be adopted. Ever since the outbreak of the Span- ish-American war it has been appar ent that the bureau of navigation is in need of a thorough overhauling. It has been a hot bed of political in trigue and chicanery. The imper tinent role that some of the officials played in the Sampson-Schley con troversy is well remembered. Any thing that is calculated to remove the navy and army departments be yond the sphere of politics and offen sive intrigue will have the nation’s approval. * * * Notwithstanding the fact that the postoffice department investigation afforded President Roosevelt a fine opportunity to ‘‘make good” in a manner most pleasing to his country men, he has neglected the opportuni ty, has gone to his summer home and left behind him orders that the “gag rule” must be enforced, no news given out and the investigation prac tically abandoned. The disclosures so far made leave no doubt in an in telligent mind that the investigation has only begun—that “worse remains behind ” The greedy fangs of corruption have fastened themselves upon every branoh of the postal service. Mr. Bristow’s report gives fBubstaotial proof of shameless trafficking In offices, grafting in almost svery bureau, of bold and brazen defiance of all civil service rules, and of the damnably pernicious influence of party considerations In the adminis tration of one of the greatest depart ments of the government. One of the results of the investiga tion is the discovery that the four States of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and Iowa have been especially favored in the distribution of rural mail routes. As three of these are pivotal States in national elections, the j^asjon of this favoritism is perfectly obvious. If Mr. Payne is really 11'. be cannot be blamed for it. A ns .onal scandal of this kind is enough v o make any body “sick.” In ite surely moral as pect, it bears a st-.kingly close re semblance to the Panama affair in France, which, in its course, be smirched the reputations of almost every leading politician. The post- office department has become aoso- lately ro‘t* u. Every branch of the service deeds reform and lots of it. It is the president’s duty to leave nothir' ; undone to bring every culprit, to ju‘-uice. The scandal is no longer a m .iter of lurking suspicion. It has u Hanced into the indestructible r- aim of facts. This being the case, iVery political grafter, blood-sucker and briber should be hunted down and held up for public condemnation. The national administration, which happens to be republican, has reach ed the point where retreat is no longer impossible. It must, nolens volens, go ahead, honestly and fearlessly or take the consequences. Does the latest step look as though it were going to do this thingh? Does it look as thoug the people of the country j are going to get the facts of this mat ter when the “gag rule” is applied no the officers of the department and no action taken in the cases of men al- ; ready indicted of heinous offenses? The people will never know the extent of rottenness in the postiffice departmet until there is a change in national administration. A congres sional investigation by a partisan re publican majority will only iinother things. How long will the people stand it? Charles. A. Edwards. Endorse* Col. Strain’s Address. In a private letter go Col. J. L. Strain, of Etta Jane,L#Mr. Isaac i Peeler, of Centre,} Miss., writes as follows: “In The Ledger of 26th inst., I see the conclusion of your address at Jonesville, S. C., on the 8rd of June. Allow me to congratulate you on your able and patriotic address. I endo.se every word of it. And one word more—our Southern women are in reality the highest and noblest type of womanhood in the civilized word; sift their history and thus you will find it so. Your address brought to mind and incident in the history of Gen. Marion of the patriotic and devoted heroines in the cause of American revolution. Please request the editor of The Ledger to publish your entire address. I know there is nothing he can print in the same space that will interest i his many readers more. I am glad to note the improvement of The Led ger; hope it will continue on the same line. I peruse weeKly some five or six weekly and serai-weeklr papers from Carolina to Texas If The Ledger contiues to improve it will be the equal of any of them soon.” Mr. Peeler is an old South Caro linian, a native of Cherok e county and an uncle of Messers I. M. and W. A. Peeler, of this city. The Led ger duly appreciates his warm words of commendation aud promises to keep striving for improvement. Up to Date Puraea. Tiny calfskin “Leo purses” for small change are to be seen In the hands of up to date shoppers now, says the New York Tribune. They look for all the world like antique water jars, about three or four Inches In length and from | one to two inches wide, with a stitched calf “handle” at one side and a little bulge at the bottom. The handle is wound about one finger and the entire purse grasped firmly in the hand. They come in red, green and gray and are sometimes worn inside the waist for carrying Jewels. They are designed primarily, however, for money alone; but, other than their novelty, their special fitness for this purpose Is evi dent only in their unclosing mouths, which make it an easy matter to “get at” change in a hurry and save the fin ger tips of gloves. Jim Damps oa Independence Day, Said“ Force freed us from Eng land’s sway. Now independence let’s declare From indigestion’s tyrant snare. Good friends, shake off this despot grim. ’Twas ‘Force’ that freed yonr * Sunny Jim.’ ” orce The Beady-to-Serve Cereal '%'Yf O always oa duty. A Feed for Fighters. “It may interest you to learn that ‘Force’ Is being served at breakfast several times each week to the members of the Second Reg iment, N. G. P., now on duty at this place. “Habby W. Brown.” W-10 MUS1CTOLURE MOSQUITOES KEENE ON BIG AUTO RACE. New Process Said to Destroy the In sects by Mnsicul Sounds. The Brookline (Mass.) board of health, which Is systematically exter minating mosquitoes by means of kero sene oil, recently received a communi cation catling attention to a new proc ess for lessening the evil by moans of musical sounds, says a Boston special to the New York Times. The matter has been referred to Albert C. Nyhen of the bacteriological laboratory, who has general superintendeney of the work of petrolizing the catch basins and stagnant spots throughout the town. The following statement is made with reference to the new proc ess: “Practical application has been given the new system and it has been dis covered that a certain musical note raised to a groat number of vibrations per second will cause the mosquito to experience sudden and complete pa ralysis, and not only does this intensi fied note arrest the Insect In Uight or hurl It from the celling or wall, hut also because of a strange construction of the mosquito’s auditory system it causes it to plunge undeviatingly to ward the spot whence the music issues. “It has been found that the practical applica-tion has been effected by rais ing to a great number of vibrations per second the particular note to which the mosquito is most sensitively at tuned. This Intensified note was pro duced by sudden electrical impulse up on a misical instrument, whereupon it was noticed that every mosquito in the room plunged headlong to the instru ment, and that when the windows Wore opened the room was soon filled. Again the amplified note was sounded, and instantly in a cloud the mosquitoes, apparently lifeless, were precipitated against the apparatus.” Glad Germany Won and Says Result Insares Another Contest. The New York Herald’s European edition publishes the following from its correspondent at Ballyshannon, Ire land : Foxhall Keene, one of the competi tors in the recent race in Ireland for the International Automobile cup, is enthusiastic in his praise of the race and the manner in whicF it was con ducted. “It is the best kept race that has ever taken plae.e anywhere,” he said to me at the finish. “There was nothing on the road to interfere with us, not even a chicken. I think it is a good thing for the sport of automobil- ing that Germany won, though natural ly I was sorry it was not I who won. With the cup going to Germany, it is certain there will be a contest there next year. Had France won the con test would have been improbable. If England won, it might have been possi ble. but not certain. The race here was good enough for anybody to fide in. “I noticed when traveling in the Paris-Berlin race that the people flock ed on the roads the same as in France, but I believe if Germany bolds the race the kaiser might use soldiers to guard the route and thus afford protection to the automobilists and the spectators. “With regard to the race in Ireland, there was no hitch. I enjoyed the con test and wouldn’t have stopped but for a dangerous axle which provided a risk too great to take.” EDV/ARD TO GO BOATING. WHERE BIG GAME ABOUNDS Statue of a Chlppeway Chief. Chevalier Trentanove, the Italian sculptor whose marble statue of Fa ther Marquette stands In Statuary hall of the national capltol at Washington and a bronze replica of which is erect ed on the lake shore at Marquette, has been given a commission by Peter White of Marquette, Mich., for a bronze statue of Charles Kaw-Baw- Gam, the Cblppeway chief who was living on the site of the city of Mar quette when the first white man ap peared there and who died only a few months ago. The statue will be erected In Presqne Isle park, where Kaw-Baw- Gam lies buried. Section of Montana Scoarged by Sur feit of Bear* and Mountain Lion*. Big game of all kinds is becoming so plentiful in the section of Dillon, Mont., as to be a nuisance, says the Butte Inter Mountain. This applies mainly to bear and mountain lions, whose raids on the ranches near Dillon always re sult in heavy losses in sheep, calves and other domestic animals. During the winter the heavy snow in the mountains drove the animals In closer to civilization. “Black Jack” Smith, whose ranch is on Willow creek, a few miles north, stood the raids of the animals until - patience ceased to be a virtue. Then he buckled on his cartridge belt and started out. He recently returned, bringing with him three grizzly bears and a mountain Hon. He found the brutes feasting on the carcass of n cow they had killed. As Smith entered a deep canyon he was greeted with a series of angry growls, and the three bears made a rush for him, followed a moment later by the mountain lion. Jumping np on a rock, Smith began firing. One of the bears was instantly killed, while the others ran nearly a half mile before dropping. The mountain lion was the only one that showed fight after being wounded, and he was not killed until after seven bullets from a 45 caliber rifle had passed through his body. He measured nearly ten feet from tip to tip. COPPER KING’S PALACE. British Kinir Proposes to Revive the Ancient Glories of the Thame*. The appearance of King Edward on the Thames during last Whitsuntide is taken as an earnest of his intention of spending much of his time on the wa- i ter in the summer during his residence at Windsor, says a London cable dis patch to the Chicago Inter Ocean. The royal barges have been renovated and decorated, and a new launch has been built. A light craft has also been built for the Prince of Wales’ little son. The king, moreover, has allowed it to go forth in other ways that he proposes to revive many of the ancient glories of the Thames. The queen is also having prepara tions made for going afloat In royal state. A series of misfortunes attend ed the state pageants on the Thames arranged in recent years. The king’s barge. Virginia Water, has not been used for more than thirty years. Last year orders were given that it should be decorated and taken to Windsor for the coronation, but when It had been beautified and the royal waterman had practiced the stroke the king’s illness upset the plans, and it was taken back to the boathouse. New Alpine Gardens. A society of naturalists at Lucerne has decided to start on the Rlgl and { Pilatus Alpine gardens In which visit ors may be able to see conveniently about 600 species of plants peculiar to the Swiss mountains. Good Everywhere Used. Bransford’s “Clifton” Is guaranteed by the maker to be the best flour in the market. It Is carefully milled from sound wheat, making bread that | is pare, wholesome and nutritioas— just what the American people need for their daily food. Besides "Clif ton” is sn all-round flour, being as well adapted to making cake and pas try as it is bread and blsouits. W. J. Wilkins & Co. Senator Clark of Montana Will Erect Finest Hoaae In W r a*hlncton. Senator WUliam A. Clark of Mon tana Is preparing to build the finest house In Washington, says the Chicago Inter Ocean. He will not break ground on the site of the old Stewart castle, facing Dupont circle, until the Massa chusetts avenue residence of the Col orado millionaire, Thomas F. Walsh, Is finished. If there are any features of the Walsh house that Senator Clark de sires to incorporate in his dwelling be can easily alter his plans. Competitive designs are being pre pared by two firms of architects, one In London, the other In Paris Senator Clark wishes a mansion In Washington for a brilliant social campaign he Is un derstood to be planning. The plans will probably not be completed for two years. FREAKS OF KANSAS RIVERS. Channel* of Several Streams Have Been Chanced hr the Flood. The recent Kansas flood in the Kaw river changed the channel of the stream very much and formed some new lakes, says a Topeka dispatch to the Kansas City Times. Near St. Ma ry's the river cut across a bend some seven miles around, the new channel being less than a mile and a half In length. The old channel Is now a lake. Near Manhattan the river was shorten ed by two outs. One leaves the old river bed a lake of several miles In length and the other Is not much small er. Both at Lawrence and Topeka new channels were formed, but the waters are to be diverted from these Into the old courses. There Is hardly a ten mile stretch along the Kaw river where cutting has not been done by the swift currents— lopping off a short bend here and open ing a new channel there. It is impossi ble to estimate what the total of this shortening will amount to, but it is no small number of miles. Another result of the flood was the gouging out of in- I numerable holes in the level bottoms far from the channel proper, some of ! them very deep. Experts at Savannah are examining ! the books of Screven and Silverborg. who negotiated f^lse rice receipts with tfie banks. The Rice M1H company , does not know how heavily It Is In volved by the hypotheeation of these • false receipts.