Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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riiE: x^ki>oe:i^. PriBLISHBD TUESDAY AND FRIDAY. RY Ed. H. DkCamp. The 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 Correspondents who do not contri bute regular news letters must fur nish their name, not for publication, but for identification.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. Beading notices will be published at ten cents a line each insertion. All correspondence should be ad dressed to Ed. H. DeCamp. Manager. AMONG OURSELVES. The young college fellow out in Missouri who whipped eight soldiers in uniform as fast as they came on him ha* doubtless been in training for the U. 8. Senate.—Dillon Herald. Mr. Bryan might as well give it up. Senator Tillman declares that the Nebraska statesman is out of date now, and the senator was one of Mr. Bryan’s foremost and most steadfast political friends—Greenwood News and Views. CRIME OF MURDER It is said that government experts are coming south to destroy the germs of laziness. Doubtless this is a scheme to divert public attention from the postoffice scandals, and the rottenness around the department.— i pravity of Extractn of » Sermon by Key. W <*. N«yUIe at Salem. ^Correspondence of The Ledger.) Etta Jane, July 22.—We beg to reproduce a few thoughts advanced by Rev. W. G. Neville in his sermon on Sunday, 12th insi., on the "Crime of Murder.” We would gladly give the sermon in full if it were at all practicable. Just now our people ought to think over this matter seriously in the light in which he puts it. Among other things he said: "The funda mental cause of murder is the de- nt the human heart. The A FOOLHARDY PRACTICE. For some years there has been a ten dency on the part of people giving or participating in public performances to run hazardous risks in order to win the applause of the populace, and the risks are many and varied. It appears that the spectacle of a man "looping the loop” on a bicycle is no longer sufficiently thrilling to suit the crowd, and some new sensa- Durham Sun. Senator Dennis, of Berkely county, had better be preparing for battle. Some of the county papers have al- i . . , . . * * j ; of murder and iniquity^ it is not the ready started an agitation for a strin- .u . j ^ j /a i , ,i ,.k,J cause that demands our attention gent dog law, and the senator, as the "yaller” heart is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked. While the depravity of the human heart is the fountain-head of this deadly stream successful champion of the dog, had better watch out.—Columbia Record. The good roads movement is ing enthusiasm every day. The peo ple feel that something must be done at once. All over the country the questioniis*beiog discussed privately and there is every hope that some practical plans will soon be adopted follow.— just now; for this cause has been in existence ever since the first murder was commicted, and it will continue ' | to exist as long as there is a human ; gain- heart that remains in a state of total tion involving peril to human life is i aQ( j ^at good results will demanded. To supply this deficiency Honea Path Chronicle, a young man in Indianapolis the \y e w }8h to congratulate the Spar- other day tried to make the circuit tanburg Herald for the way the Char- ol the loop on a pair of roller skates.! lotte News has been handled in regard In order to bring his center of gravi ty close to the point of contact he had construcetdd a pair of saates weighing^LOO pounds. But even with this aid the chances were infinitely against him, for by placin a the great est weight at the base of the tall column presented by his frame he lessened his opportunity for balan cing. So when he was making a trip he lost his poise when at the highest point of the loop and fell to the ground, his skull being crushed. He died shortly afterward. There are many varieties of prefoimance now on which should be pronounced illegal: and prohibited. They add nothing to the public knowledge, and the en tertainment they afford is nerve-rack ing and productive of an abnormal taste for horrors. to the summer school question. We! expected something of the kind when the News made the mistake as to comparative illiteracy of the two States, and played with "Tbank God for lina.”—Rock Hill Journal The Atlanta Journal says that "William Jennings Bryan explained to the country in his speech at Chica go why he was defeated in 1896 and 1900 for the presidency. To sum up his explanation in a few words he blames it on Grover Cleveland.” Which is quite an important admis sion. It must necessarily be a pretty big man who can thus defeat the will this life-rieking of the people.—UharlotteObserver. View, all of Another Advocate. Mr Editor:—Some days ago I noticed a communication in your pa per signed "Citizen,” advocating a county fair. In my opinion such an enterprise would mean much for Gaffney, and Cherokee county. So iar as my observation goes our county is paying very little attention to rais- JudgiDg from Thursday’s aud Fri- i >«* f^prored breeds of Btock. aud a day’s papers these certainly must be dog days with the reportorial staff of the Charlotte Observer. NOTES AND COMMENTS. county fair would be the very thing depravity. The sentimentalism of the age is one cause. Many people think it barbarous to punish the most notorious scoundrel who com mits an atrocious crime—except it be in the mildest manner. This idea ‘ has so taken hold of people in some quarters that they have practically annihilated in their wicked and dis- | torted imagination the reality of sin and the law of retributive justice. This new and dangerous theology has gone into some churches and even in- i to some pulpits. Thev magnify the love of God until they completely the ihari"see I de8tr °y UiB sovereign justice. As South Caro- lon g a9 *0° ten oeocy continues in this direction,you may expect an increase of crime, not only of murder but of every other species of crime. If the sin of the murder is to be arrested in its hellward march, there must be a return in our believing and in our practicing to the doctrines taught by Christ and Paul and Augustine and Knox and Spurgeon. "You teach men that God is all love and only love, and that the doc- i trine of future punishment is a freak of the bewildered imagination, then you open up the flood gates of in-' iquity. and our country will be swept by a deluge of moral destruction.! Men may think tbit they are, in this way, destroying a hell in the future world; but they are, in reality, lay-, ing the foundation for a hell in this world, as well as the world to come, i "Lack of home training is another cause of the increase of crime. When ever anything in the home is not exercised by the parents and is ignor- ed by the children, it takes no broad DOUBLE TRACKS. Tendency of American Kallroartlnjc Which Is Doubling Safety. LE.'fehange.] The first train dispatcher who seat orders by by telegraph when employ ed on a Vermont line recently made a trip on one of the leading Southern railrc ade and was asked to tell whac he thought was the greatest advance in American railroading—the modern locomotives, the improved cars, the signal systems, the heavier rails, the new roadbeds, the automatic brake? or the new methods of switching. Allowing all ihe importance of all these, he declared the chief improve ments in the safety, celerity and profit in American railroading to be the present system of double tracking which is being steadily extended to all main lines of the country. At the beginning of 1908 there were 162,000 miles of main or single track on the railroads of the United States and 12,000 miles of second track. Ten years before that there were 156,000 miles of main or single and 8,000 miles of double track. In the 10 years intervening the amount of double track increased fifty per cent., while the amaunt of single track increased less than twenty-five. At the present ratio of growth, in a few years the chief rail- | road systems will have their main ; lines all double tracked, as the branch, subsidiary and feeding lines : which constitute a very large part i of every railroad system do not re- ‘ quire double track service. On a single track line having a large business, the running of trains on schedule time is practically im possible and the danger of accidents by collision or derailment is WHAT A LIE! For Sale. How it Ml.interpreted an Od»> Fel low Slgc* The story told of an excursionist from the rural districts* that visited a city and while gazing in rapt admira tion upon the tall buildings caste across one that was about fifty feet, or four stories, high. It so happened that a lodge of'Gdd Fellows had their hall in the fourth story and a algo with the familiar "I. O. 9. F.” was hanging out. The rube looked up and seeing the sign said to a compan ion : "That’s a puny big buildin’, but I swar that fellow lied when be said it were a hundred feet high.” All the buildings from which hang Ii ID. O. F. signs may not be one hun dred feet high, but ?t is a fact that nearly all Odd Fellows are 100 per cent, to the good. They may be "odd,” but as a ruji they are among the chosen of God’s creation. Gaffney is more than likely to have an Odd Fellow’s lodge in a short while. On Saturday, August 1st, Messrs. J. R. Peden and J J. Mc- Swaio will visit G&ffoey and make addresses to those interested in ii* r ~Advertisements under this nena will oe Inserted for owe cent a word each inser tion. No ad inserted for less than ten cents p'OR SALE—Old newspapers at 10c a hun- -A- dr*» 1 * * - • - ~ dred. Apidy aiMhis ofttee. ’p'OU SALE—All Kinds of lesral blanks; such i •*- as used by Magistrates and court offl- ciais; deeds, mortgages, etr„ as ebeap as the cheapest. Apply at thiaofBee. LpOR SALE- Rabbiivrnetiil, made from old i J’YP* remelted into bars; the very liest babbitt metal made. Apply at The Ledger •ftiee. AN EXCELLENT btaiily horse formate. **A.N. Wood. 7-13-tf Wanted. VI/ ANTED—To make straight loans on city real estate. No commissions. Several thousand dollars to loan. Apr23-tf sslons. Several J. O. Jefferies. Found. LTOUND Bundle of clutiTing. Owner can get same by describing propert y and pay ing for this ad. Apply to -Meek Good at depot. 7-28-lt Notice. work. As a result of their visit it is expected that a flourishieg lodge will be instituted. TJTT*! do the best of commercial printing at prices commensurate with first-class the work. If you haven’t time to call telephone ; greater. A single breakdown paral yzes the whole line and the mainte- | nance of sidings is a continual item of cost requiring great care in opera- ; tion. For all three reasons double track ing has come to be considered as es sential to up-to-date railroad service. There were even, at the last computa tion, 1,200 miles of third track on American railroads and 900 miles of fourth track. The remainder of the mileage is made up of sidings and yard track. The Mistakes We Make. [Anderson MaU.l We-think sometimes that nobody reads-the paper. That is when every- i thing is going smoothly—when no- I body has anything to kick about. But if a mistake creeps into the paper, or we say something that dees not please j some of the people, then we are oou- much j vinced that everybody reads the pa- or wr’jte us and we will do the rest. Address The Ledger, Box J. Gaffney, 8.0. V17E print anything from a. visiting card to a newspaper or a book, and our prices are as- low as the lowest. Write, telephone or call on us. The Ledger, (infftaey, S. C. Money Loaned. I CANS on improved farms for a term of years at seven per cent, interest. No commissions. For information apply to J. O. Jefferies, Attorney at Law. 11-22-lyr per. ON COUNTRY OR CSTY REAL ESTATE AT 6 PER G. W. SPEER, Attorney at Law. “NEV CENT. ■ u ft- I ut ur Mother ana Son. On the Boston express the day I witnessed a scene which I wish 1 could describe as it impressed me. Ttie making of a newspaper, and es- peciaiiy a daily paper, is a strenuous business. The "man who writes the pieces” must do his worn in a hurry always, and he seldom if ever has time to verify the information chat be re ceives. The wonder is that editors do not make more mistakes than they do. It is not once in a thousand times that an editor fails to print a piece of news just as be receives it. Only J editors know how prone people are, in telling of an occurrence of any other details and embellish ments that have no foundation in fact. But we started out to moralizing Compounding The Physician. It was the "four o’clock express,” about the mistakes that we make, and an elderly woman, evidently a Did you ever stop to think that the . . . , . ... mistakes of an editor are worse than lore.gner, stepped on the tram, w.th: theml8take90[0ther peop , e? I( a that peculiar, square-rigged, canvass- preacher misquotes a passage of scrip- covered, broad valise so much used in ture, or gives a wrong reference, not Europe. Directly behiud her was a I 006 person in a million ever notices it. sturdy young man, who carried the to stimulate cur farmers to improve intelligence to explain the cause of so remainder of her luggage on bis shoul their stock, and to plant improved mtHjh crime in our country. The seeds, ect. I was glad to see, Mr.' home is the fountain head of society Editor, that you noticed "Citizen’s” and the stream can’t rise above its article in your editorial columns, and source. I hope you will keep the matter be- “in rfiany cases the child is permit- When Illinois and Delaware citi zens lynch negro crimi.jals by burn ing at the stake and banging, it may, ... . ^ , ... be possible chat the South is right in ter.alizes from the effort to get this Insisting that the North permit it to "" work out its own solution of the race problem. The North would seem to ,, .... have a "problem” of its own to look heard in regard to this movement, after.—Hillsdale (Mich.) StaDdard . Let us hear something from some _ ^ ^ ^ the people who own lands that would Just at the present time the North beavailableforthi9 p Urpn9e . lt i9 is firmly of the opinion that silence is not too late to start the matter on a fore your readers until something ma matter on foo I hope that some of our business men will come out and lei themselves of | small scale this fail. Let us hear from you, business men. Progress. Gaffney, S. C., July 25th, 1903. A Correction. Editor Ledger :—Correspondence from this place in Friday's Ledger states that the trouble growing out of the magistrate’s election last sum mer had gotten into the church and that "the matter may result in the disruption of the church—all parties concerned being prominent mem* I bers.” Now it is true that there is some i feeling which has grown out of the The trouble in Evansville, Ind., in | “ a § i8trate ’ 8 election, and that ... , .. . . » . . . Bridges and Gold, the opposing can- » b ’ ch “ mob attempted to take » didatee, are members of the Baptist negro prisoner from a militia com- church, but the matter has not been pany, and were soundly trounced for ! brought into the church and will not a virtue to be cultivated when people are living in houses of glass. ♦ ■♦ ♦ ♦ The Ledger received more new sub scribers during this month than during anyJuly in its history,and each of them was paid for in advance. We take them no other way. All of which goes to show ,that its popular ity is not waning, and this is due to the fact that we give more for the money than any other newspaper The subscription is but $1 a year. Now is the time to subscribe. ted to do as he pleases iu the home. Some parents think it is cruel to chastise their children, and here comes the deleterious effects of that insidious and sickly sentimentalism of the age. The parent professes to love the child while he ought to know that true love will force him to rect it. "The slayer should be brought to a speedy trial. The longer he can have his case put off or continued in the courts the stronger are the prob abilities that he will be cleared of the crime. How many guilty men have , gone free, because their cases have been postponed from time to time till | the people have practically lost all ! interest in them. "In a neighboring State a man had the advantage of five trials for the murder of a man. It took five years to finallya djudicate the matter. At the first trial he was sentenced to death; at the second to life imprison ment; at the third to fifty years im prisonment ; at the fourth to ten years imprisonment, and at tbe fifth he was cleared altogether. "The influence of money in our courts is not the worst corruption as some one has said. The greatest der. He, too, was evidently a for eigner, whose dress and appearance indicated that he was thoroughly ac climated, and was now a prosperous adopted American citizen. With a peculiar motion, the little shrank from taking a seat iu the If a politician, in tbe heat of a debate, makes a wrong assertion, he will, if called to task, deny that be ever said it, and nearly every time bis followers will ba^k him up in bis denial. If a physician makes a mistake in bis pre scription the grave will bide his mis- woman ' take, and the druggist will never tell on him lor fear the mistake will be OUR physician, when aided by Die competent phanna- cist, now employs remedies of greater patency and more certain value than were available a few years ago. He prescribes drugs the strength and virture of which should be accurately detennined. When illness comes, he takes into consideration your symptoms, age, temperament and general physical condition, and then decides just what quantities of remedies of cer tain activity are needed to make you well. He writes a prescription for them. His years of experience are embod ied in this prescription, and everv _ remedy in it must he of right*' strength and be rightly compound ed, or all his efforts may be in vain. We want your difficult prescip- tious. (To-be continued, i coach among finely dressed people, j saddled on himself. But let tbe edi- Although I did not understand the tor mttl S e a mi8take > even to 80 conversation, I heard her inquiry as J a as Pricing a man’s initials to whether they were to go "first- wrong, and the whole world comes class.” The son—-for I had gotten down upon him like a ton of brick. u o r . that far’in conclusions—went toward Lut the editor spends very little the center of the car to select a good time in worrying about the mistakes seat, while the mother had seated that makes. He consoles himself herself in one near :he door. His with the determination that he will bright face beamed as ht ushered try to avoid them in the future; and, CHEROKEE DRUG CO. Prescription Druggists. Limestone and Frederick Sts. that little, stooped mother to the seat as tenderly as if she were his bride. What happiness was reflected in those faces! They were seated in front of me, with their luggage carefully stowed away overhead and under neath. Her hands were brown aud rough; her little bonnet was very simple; her gray hair was smoothed down in front, and was twisted into a picturesque Norwegian knot bo- then^ he knows hat the world owes him an everlasting debt of gratitude for making mistakes sometimes. If an editor should print all things just as he sees them and as be knows them the world would denounce him much more severely than it does for the very few mistakes that he does make. The editor learns and profits by his own mistakes, and others can profit hind; her features were irregular, her by them also. A man will find when face wrinkled, her nose large and g 0 ® 8 along steadily and makes no sharp, aud she had no upper teeth— mistakes that the people Will pay and yet, I pledge you, I never saw a v ® r y little attention to him. But just more beautiful face when, after the 1®^ him get out of that straight and son p was settled, this little woman narrow path-—let him make ever so their trouble, only emphasizes the necessity of having the military force of tbe State at ail time in condition to meet any emergency that may arise. Captain Blum, tbe comman der of the local company, seems to have been entirely equal to the emer-; gency, and as a result a dozen of tbe mob are under tbe ground and fifteen or twenty are nursing their wounds. ; ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ Steamship companies have numer ous agents scattered over Europe whose business it is to drum up im migrants to this country. be, unless the whole thing assumes a evil is io the frtCt that law y er8 g ener very different shape from what it is ^ now. Hence, there is no danger of the church being disrupted by it. This correction is made by request of the church. J. D Bailey, Pastor. Blacksburg, July 27. Da vIh-Hamrick. [Shelby Aurora, July 24th.] On Wednesday evening at 3 o’clock at the residence of the bride’s father, D. J. Hamrick, of Boiling Springs, Mr. J. C. Davis, one of Mooresboro's most successful merchants, and Mist Every vil- i Bertha Hamrick, a young lady pos- . ... . . . , , j . sessing many charms and graces, lage In these oODntrlee >e visited by were ' nlted the holy bo ",, 8 0 j roving agents who not qnly solicit emi were united ; wedlock. Rev. A. C. Irving performed the ; ceremony in a very graceful aud im- pressive manner. Tbe parlmr was beautifully decorated with ferns and may be put to them for the purpose evergreens. After the marriage Mr. of ascertaining whether they belong and Mrs. Davis left for the home of to the desirable class of immigrants. These agents do not represent tbe ally have adopted the theory that they are bound to do all they '*an to i gain the cause of their clients irre spective of justice. Tne most dis tinguished criminal lawyers have gained their distinction by defeating the law aud preventing the execution of justice upon men whom they know ; to be criminals. "The way to stop murder is to en force the law against the crime. The guilty man should be punished As long as the murderer stands a good chance to be acquitted there will still be an increase iu this crime. But, if the murderer kn >ws that murder is the sure way to tbe gallows, he will think a long time before he will com mit the crime.” turned and stroked the hair of her son as onlv a mother can, regardless of the curious eyes in the coach; and then, unable longer to repress the joy of a mother’s heart, she kissed him. Such tenderness in those eyes, glis tening witii tears—she was with her boy again! The heads came just above the top of tbe seat, close they were together, as talked and talked over the small a mistake—and those who see it will make it their business to talk about it and to tell everybody else about it. This may seem unreal, but it is true, as will be testified to by anyon^ who has been so. unfortunate as to make mistakes. Tbe thing to do, la cases of that and bow i kind, is to follow the, example of the they ; editor. Spend just as little time as past, possible in worrying about the mis- BUILDERS’ SUPPLIES LUMBER, SHINGLES, LATHS,. DOORS, SASH, BUNDS, FLOORING, SIDING, GEIUN6, MOULDING. ALSO A FINE LINE OF Paints and Oils 50c: to $1.30 per gak GOTO L. BAKER. What memories of the old home . tak ® 8 of th ® P a8ti * Ther editor always awre awakened in the heart of the | Ba8 a Dew paper to get out and he young man while the mother recount- tries to have no mistakes in that. You ed, as only a mother can, those things have a new day, or a new year ahead which he was most anxious to know ! y°h—try to have no mistakes in it. about. When he brought her a drink,, when he pulled the shade, every act j. L. s. gration to tbe United States, but who also instruct and coach persons bow to answer tbe various questions which Mr. B. G. Davis, of New steamship companies directly, but act for some general agent, this agent of course being simply a middle man. groom’s father, where an elegant sup per was served A Really Remarkable Gentleman. [Spartanburg Herald.] The Charlotte Observer observes that a dodger foretelling tbe coming of the petrified man to Charlotte says: "This man was found March House, the 3, 1903, while digging a ditch in Hen- DlMolntlon. Last Friday’s Ledger contained a notice of the dissolution of tbe firm of Lipscomb <& Richardson, tbe well- known and popular confectioners, Mr. Lipscomb bsving withdrawn from the firm. Mr. I. W. Richardson will continue tbe business at the old stand and we bespeak for him the continued patronage of tbe public. A Sunday Marriage, At the Cherokee Avenue Baptist church Sunday morning, just before services began, Mr. Walker James and Miss Sarah St. John were united in marriage by Magistrate C. T. Bridges. It was a Gretna Green affair, but the ceremoney was performed with out interruption, and tbe happy young lovers went on their way re joicing. The Ledger extends con gratulations. derson county, 23 miles from Ashe ville, adjoining Vanderbilt’s estate.” Upon this Tbe Observer comments as follows: "Tbe idea of a petrified gentleman digging a ditch and being taken in the act? Nothing more extraordinary than this is to be found in all history.” Surely The Observer does not know wbat a really remarkable man this ! "petrified gentleman” is. He was once found while plowing under tbe banks of tbe Congaree river in Lex ington county, this State. A grateful dog is better than an un grateful man.—Saadi. was devotion. If I could only impress upon sons and daughters the price less heritage they have in their mother! There never can be bat one mother,—and every little act of de votion and love will some day be a treasured memory.—From "Iiet’s Talk It Over,” by Joe Mitchell Chap pie, in August National Magazine. An Invitutlon. The Ledger extends a cordial invi tation to everybody to visit its office. The best time to come ie Thursday afternoou when you will very likely have the privilege of seeing in op eration tbe cutest little engine and one of tbe finest book and newspaper presaes in the South. This sounds like bragging, but it is not. Too many people have never seen a print ing office and have not the faintest idea of the extent of tbe work re quired for the paper to pay its semi weekly visits. Come iu and see us print. We discontinue each subscription prompt ly at its expiration. So watch your label and the date and renew before ’tls too late. CUfton to Increase Capital. [Spartanburg Herald, July 25th.] The Clifton Manufacturing Com pany today made application to the secretary of State for an increase in capital from $1,000,000 to $1,750 000 and paid the charter fee of $427 50. Although it is understood that they will raise the same point as that raised by the Facolet company, that they are liable for only abont half as much under tbe fee law. Tbe Paco- let people appealed to tbe supreme court from the ruling of Judge Town send on the matte. Since tbe orgacizatiou of the Clif ton Manufacturing Company up to the flood of June 6th, the mills paid au average dividend on the invested capital of 9 85 percent. Their sur plus was $2,000,000, while their property was valued at over $3,000,- 000. The surplus of the company was iu mills, instead of lying deposit ed in banks. The Cliftou company io the near future will have mill No. 3 agaiu iu operation with 50,000 spin- dies. Are color-blind people pardonab . for being a little off color. For [hose who Liave decided to have their pictures taken here. Our photographs are produced by the most improved methods, give satisfaction in every instance Stereoscopic Views of Clifton and local scenes of interest foi sale. We carry a complete line of films and other supplies for amateurs. t Juno H. Carr, 625 Limestone St. ’Phone 176. Residence 171. FOR Up-to-Date Job Print ing, call at the LEDGER Office. Gaffney, S. C.