Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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/ 1 I [Beat Con*i In time. RE All [ISI FAIIJ. np. Taatee Good. Ue l, 5a BE IN THE SWIM Give mo 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. W. H. ROBINSON, Tailor. Over \V. U. Telegraph Office. Williams. Hall. Jr. jambs A. Willis. HALL & WILLIS, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, STAR THEATRE BLDG. OA. LCY, ». O. Notary Public in office. Prompt attention Htven to all business. SHORT LOCAL ITEMS. J. EMILE HARLEY, Attorney-at- Law, Gaffney, - - S. C. Notary public. All business receives prompt and careful attention. MONEY TO LOAN ON HEAL ESTATE Dr. D. P. THOMSON, Dentist. "Office over National Bank. Dr. C. T. LIPSCOMB, OEP* TEST Office in Star Theatre Building. Phone No. 20. The Rev. R. G. McLees will be in Gaffney the latter part of September to conduct a week’s meeting in the Presbyterian church. Rev. L. C. Ezell, of Woodruff, filled bis regular appointment at Limestone Baptist church Sunday morning, and at Cowpens Sunday evening. Rev. D. O. Powers, of Spartanburg county, will preach in the Wesleyan ball tomorrow (Wednesday) night, and probably every night till Sun day. Dr. Bailey, of Greenville, occupied the pulpit of the First Baptist church Sunday morning. Dr. Bailey is one of the foremost ministers of the State and his sermon Sunday morning was in keeping with bis high Cbristain character and earnestness. Parker & Tolleson have entered into a new line. They have taken the agency for the Spartanburg Steam Bread Bakery and are now selling the bread at their restaurant. About the last of the week they will have out a new bread wagon which will make a house to house canvass of the city daily. Dr. B. L. Allen, who has been practicing in Gaffney several months, has located io the Star Theatre building. Ue has an elegant suit of offices next to Dr. Steedly. Dr. Al len is a most genial young gentleman and it will be gratifying to bis friends to learn he is meeting with success in bis new home. THE PEOPLE PAY something rotten, or something loose does not turn up in the District of Columbia building. Them seems to rnD PI CACIIDC TDIPQ be a lust of loot, a riot of rapacity run I LLnOUnilL inilO and a fiduciary fandango in the capi tal of the nation. Long lease of power hath made the republicans money Officials Ride Without Ex- mad, aad they are simply taking , what they want and asking no odds, pense to Inem. When the people tire jf it, they know how they can stop it. It is uo to TEDDY’S PRIVATE YACHT tbem * ¥ * PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS. People Yon Know And People Yon Don’t Knov The President has suddenly jammed into the labor unioos of the couotry, and somebody is going to come out second best in a fight that will be on in furious fashion pretty soon. It seems that a man named Miller, an assistant foreman in the bookbinding department of the Government Print ing Office, was expelled from his union for good and sufficient cause. As the unions have been entrenched good deal of hilarity here among demo- } D the Government Printing Office in crats and some uneasy wonderment recent times, they have insisted that Employees of tbe Government are Riding About for Pleasure on Government Ves sels and the “Dear People” Foot tbe Bills. The President and the Unions. (Correspondence of The Ledger.) Washington, D. 0., July 25.—The diplomatic mix-up of the republican administration on the Russian and Manchurian question is causing a ASSERTIONS REFUTED 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 ~ Uncertain. Get your Insurance arranged by the Aetna Life Insurance Company, then your work or your vacation will he more care-free. Jones J. Darby, Agt. GAFFNEY, S. C. KxceptlonH Taken to “Bland’s” Report of Kellgious Meetings. ■§ Hickory Grove, 8. C., July 20th. Gaffney Ledger :—Please allow me space iu your paper to correct some false statements that appeared under the head o( “Hickory Items,” with reference to the religious ser vices at Unity Baptist church, pub lished in your issue of July 10th. The article referred to was written by your Hickory Grove correspondent, and the object of the writer is clearly simply trying to play some among republicans as to the final out come. It is known here that the re markable statement lately given out by Assistant Secretary of State Loomis, during the absence of Secre- j tary Hay, to the effect that the Kish- eneff affair and the Manchurian ques- ; tion concerning tbe open door policy were intertwined and interdependent and must, therefore, be considered to gether. was inspired by no less a per-, sonage than Presioent Roosevelt him- 1 self.' When Secretary Hay hurried to Oyster Bay and informed the Presi dent that he had “p'ayed the dickens” in giving Loomis any such instruc tions, the President quickly “side stepped” and left poor Loomis with the bag to hold. The veriest tyro in diplomacy would have known that the two questions had uo more to do . with each other than the Alaskan | boundary dispute has to do with the Breathitt county feuds, and Assistant Secretary Loomis probably knew it ! when he was promulgating tbe re- 1 markable statement that went out to tbe country, but he was obeying the instructions of his chief who was only members of the union in good standing shall he employed there, and the consequence was that Miller was dismissed from his position. He immediately began a fight. He ap pealed to the Civil Service Commission and to the President. He has been sustained by both. The President practically says to the labor unions that they may expel any man they please, but they must work under him whether he is in g ;od standing in the union or not. Tbe man has been reinstated, and now it is up to tbe unions. It is their move Charles A Edwards. RICH HINDOO’S MISSION. Ninety Per Cent of all chronic headaches are due to eye strain. Go to Dr. Griffith at the Chero kee Drug Co.’s and have the defect in vision corrected, and thus be QUICKLY AND PERMANENTLY CURED. Glasses Fitted With Scientific Accu racy and all the diseases of the Eye, to hold up to ridicule these services, and got his The article, like the name subscribed traces, to it, is fictitious. Fiction, however, has a basis of fact, aud this comma- nication is not without such a basis. It is true that we have had a gracious revival of religion at our church, and our people are deeply concerned about their spiritual welfare, which fact is referred to by your correspondent as a “religious commotion.” Your correspondent says, “Sunday night it is said at least twenty-five women were to the floor praying at one time”. I don’t know what he means by “on the ficor.’ Certainly, if they were in church, they were on the floor. We wish it were true that twenty-five Twom-.n w re praying at one time, but such is not the fact. There are two or three “women” that led in prayer, but one at a time. There is enough iu this one sentence politics ’gee” leg over the “haw’ * * * A good many people who cannot be accused of boodling, nevertheless are sticking their hands down in the pock ets of the people just at this time. Nearly every man who is high enough up on the pay rolls of the Govern ment seems to be seized with an in sane desire to go out on a junketing trip this summer at the expense of the people The Secretary of the Navy, not long ago, took out a big bunch of Congressmen and took a | whiz around the West Indies on a government vessel and the people paid the bill. The President’s family then took his “private yacht,” which is a government vessel, and proceeded to their summer home at Oyster Bay. Tbe vessel is always ready for use for pleasure parties for the Roosevelt Pecultnrly Garbed Foreinner !■ Studying: Methods of Agriculture. For a few days past there has been seen about Washington a strange look ing figure In a flowing yellow robe and wearing a white turban, says the New York Times. The man’s swarthy face and peculiar waddling manner of loco motion, added to the striking garb, have attracted much attention to him. It is learned that he is a Hindoo of much wealth who Is traveling privately over the world to study different sys tems of agriculture, with the purpose of teaching his countrymen how’ to raise enough to feed themselves and avoid the awful famines which period ically decimate the population. His name is Aagarika Dharmapala, and lie is a priest of Cej^on. He re cently called on Secretary Wilson at the department of agriculture and had a long interview on American methods of farming. The Hindoo said he had been advised to visit Tuskegee, and he was convinced that his people needed a school like it to teach them how to farm. Aagarika said that India and Ceylon had been buying American windmills, pumps, carpenters’ tools and dairy ap pliances, but the people knew little of modern ways of farming. Secretary Wilson told him much of how farming w’as carried on In the west, where Irri gation is depended on for success, and his visitor went away pleased with what he had learned. to show the character ofthe writer. Note the following: “On the floor” (redundancy of expression); “twenty- five women” (exaggeration of fact); “it is said” (shifting the responsi bility). “One reliable gentleman, who was Ear, Nose and Throat treated according there | tt8t s uac iay night, told us that a junket with the ostensible to the latest and most approved methods. pTor Bulldlux and Plastering Llrce Coal, aud Plaster Hair. Plaster Pans Shingles. Portland Cetuent, Dynamite, Blasting Powder. F'use and Dynamite Caps, call on Liiestose Springs Lime Worts CARROLL & CO., Lessees. Teleobonf* of inspecting the different tions along the coast of the I sell and hang paper, paint carriages, wagons and buggies; also do house painting any where in the city or country. I use paint that has an iron-clad guarantee* Let me estimate your work. Prices as low as the lowest for FIRST -CLASS work. Yours for business, I), jyi. GA.IIVE1S Next to Pearl Steam Laundry. he had visited negro meetings and seen the way they carried on, but he said that these people at Unity church beat anything be ever saw among the negroes.” He must, needs ; line two predicates, “told us” and “said”, to securely fasten this fiction on to our “one reliable gentleman.” We are truly glad there was only one of that kind of responsibility. As we do not make a practice of atteudiug negro meetings, we don’t know and don’t care whether we “beat” them or not. We must take the word of “Bland” and his “one reliable gentle man”. We are not ashamed of what we are doing; but, on the contrary, we are proud of the great spiritual awaken ing among our people, and we rejoice that God has so blessed us in the outpouring of His Spirit. Your correspondent had an abun dance of factijfor writing an interest ing article for publication, for our meetings are certainly extraordinary io this day of formal church services; deep blue sea where he can smell tbe children, going to boat races or taking Miss Alice to the city when she feels that she needs a paper of pins. Not long ago tbe members of Congress who were on the Naval Affairs Com- j mittee in the last House, took a Government vessel and started out on purpose fortifica- country, and the naval needs of the couotry. What right these members have to make the people pay for any such trip is more than any man can tell. There is no official naval committee in existence, so far as the House of Representatives is concerned. How do these men know they will be placed on the Committee on Naval Affairs ! when the next House is organized? They do not know it, and yet they are squandering the people’s money for the ostensible purpose of posting themselves on the needs of the people | in the way of naval expenditures. Tbe chances are they will see more “high balls” than they will cannoc balls, and more “kings” and “queens” than they will naval necessities. Post master General Payne, who has been made “sick,” presumably by smell ing tbe stench in his department, is the latest to take a Government ves sel. and with his family get out on tbe TELEGRAPHIC BRCVtTIEft. A hot poliiical fight is on in Arso* ta, Ga.. for counoilmen, the Issue b* ing drawn between the Catholic aad A. I’. A. elements. A Virginia man threatened to courl the first woman he found picking her ries on his land. The next day he found 13, and all claim to have been first on the ground. In a joint debate at Compton, Ark., Governor Davis and Supreme Court Judge Wood had a very heated discus- sion and but for the Intervention o bystanders would havs come to blow*. As a result of the charges mads against troops at tlfe Alabama encamp ment. company A of the Third regl ment is to be mustered out of service. Military men have some feeling against Montgomery because of the in cident. John M. Mashen, a high official In the postal department, is accused of selling offices to the highest bidders. President Roosevelt will probably net forward the Hebrew petition to Russia in view of the latter’s attttuda but he has gone aside from tbe facts for the ostensible purpose of holding ua up to ridicule. If “Bland” would attend our services himself, be might become a more truthful, if less sen sational, contributor of news. Respectfully, T. J. M. Bolin. Sound kidneys are safeguards of life. Make the kidneys healthy with Foley’s Kidney Cure. Cherokee Drug Co. Tan Shoes are all the rage. Why should you not keep up with the style? We have them in Queen Quality and cheaper grades. :: The R. S. Lipscomb Shoe Co. Hm Shoe Store. r2H perfume of the brice instead of official corruption. Aud the people pay the bill. Well, why shouldn’t They are responsible for the millions accumulated in tbe Treasury. They voted a tariff tax on themselves that would pile up a surplus of cash in the Treasury, and this is the only way to get it back into the channels of trade, unless they take a notion to quit tax ing themselves for the benefit of trusts, tariff barons and junketers. Until they do they may expect that a republioan administration, guiltless of sympathy with the peuple, will continue to have a good time with their money and "blow it in” like a drunken sailor. * * * Aside from tbe boodling and rotten ness that is coming out of the depart ments in this city, tbe government of the District of Columbia is being shown up just now, and it is about the most ramshackle and flimsy affair, to be called tbe government of a great city, that any man ever beard of. A young clerk, whose salary was $1,400 a year, was allowed to steal about $75,000 in tbe past live years for tbe reason that his books were never checked. His employers saw this young man plunging at the races, buying an interest in all torts of busi nesses, riding around in a “red devil” automobile, aud playing tbe “high roller” generally, and yet they never checked bis books. There is hardly a day goea by that something orooked, The Aasorunce of Science. [Mothers may readily ascertain If their babies are too fat by comparing their measurements with the tables of statistics ’Ll 9 giving the proper weight for Infants of J nil mom and sizes.—Medical all ages and sizes.—Medical Expert.] Bhe looked into her baby’s eyes And marveled how they looked at her. And then she gazed with some surprise At the wes child’s diameter. She took the tapeline thoughtfully And measured him, then donned her hat And hastened to a grave M. D. To ask him, “Is my child too fatt” She said: “He’s eighteen Inches tall. Ten Inches thick and fourteen wlte Ob, doctor, will that do at all Or has he nature's laws defledf Of course he's big and pudgy, too. But still he's dear, Indeed, to Please tell me what we ought to i If we should love the overplus! 1 ii. isr* J. F. Monaghan, of Providence, R. L, arrived in the city Saturday to inapect tbe bleachery of tbe Gaffney Manufacturing Go. Mr. Monaghan will remain in tbe city three or four days. ’’Black” Scruggs, of Ezell, was among tbe comers to Cherokee’s cap ital Saturday John R. Martin, of Cherokee Falls, called oa us Friday and had his name placed on our mailing list. Joe Scruggs and son, Guy, of State Line, were in the Saturday crowd in the city. Mr. and Mrs. T. B. Butler and son are visiting Mr. Butler’s parents in Union county. W. Scott Byers, of this city, who is working on a railroad grading con tract at Collettsville, N. C., spent a few days in the city last week with his family. M. M» Tate, of Webster, was among the good Cherokeeans who visited Gaffney Saturday. R. H. Taylor, of Thickety, came in Friday and renewed his allegiance to The Ledger. J. N, Cudd, of Spartanburg, was in the city Saturday. J. R. Pennington, of Cherokee Falls, an erstwhile friend of The Led ger, called on us Friday and sub scribed again. Walter Crocker, of Shelby, N. C., a representative of tbe Cleveland Star, was in the city Saturday. Mr. W. S. Hall and family are visiting in Chester county. Orlando Long, representing tbe S. P. Richards Co., of Atlanta, spent Saturday in the city with relatives and trieuds. Mr. Long is a son of Mr. D O. Long (now deceased), who was for many years a merchat at this place. Dr. C. T. Lipscomb returned Fri day from White Stone Lithia Springs, where be had been for several days attending a meeting of the State Deo- tal Association. Charlie reports a very pleasant trip. E.L. Johnson,of the Durham Marble Works, Durham, N. C., was here Sat urday erecting a monument over the grave of Mr. W. B. Bridges’ child in Oakland cemetery. Mrs. Will Hasty and son, who have been visiting friends at Greensboro and elsewhere in North Carolina, will return home today. J. C. Ratliff, the genial proprietor of The Battery, is now in the north ern markets scooping up a lot of bar gains for bis Cherokee patrons. Watch for them. J. C. Otts, Esq., resumed home Saturday from Woodruff, where he bad been attending the Spartanburg district conference. W. B. Bridges, of the Louise Mills, Charlotte, N. C., was here Saturday aud Sunday visiting his father, Mr. W. M. Bridges. Cscar Wood came up from his farm Saturday and remained over Sunday wity relatives. Austin Turner and son, Cleophas, were visitors at Tbe Ledger office Sat urday. Dever Little and Joe Csboroe have gone to Brevard, N. C., on a pleasure trip. Miss Ideile Brown, of Spartanburg, who has been visiting relatives in tbe city, returned to her home Saturday. Miss Emma Sharkey, a popular young lady of Charlotte, N. C., is tbe guest of tbe Misses Hopper, on Lo gan street. Revs. J. M. Steadman and J. B. Wilson attended the Spartanburg district conference in Woodruff last week, returning to the city Saturday afternoon. Joe Esoes, of Etta Jane, spent Tuesday night in the city with frieods. S. R. Humphries, of Byarsville, N. C., was in tbe city Friday. Miss Kate Hamilton, who has been spending some time with her uncle, Mr. J. G. Tolleson, of Spartanburg, returned to the city the last of tbe week. John R. Martin and John Penning- ton, of Cherokee Fails, were in the city Friday. They called on The Ledger and renewed. Mrs. E. M. Hawkins, of Greenville, is in tbe city on a visit to her son, Mr. J. P. Hawkins, on north Lime stone street. Mrs. Cliff Lee. of Blacksburg, spent Friday in tbe city with Mrs. McClure. Mr. R. H. Mitchell, one of the best citizens of tbe Kings Creek set tlement, accompauied by his daugh ter, Miss Bessie, spent Friday in the city. They were interested visi tors at The Ledger office while here. Mr. A. L. Hill, a very popular young man of Tryon, N. C., spent Sunday in tbe city. Dr. Bailey, of Greenville was tbe guest of Prof. R. 0. Sams, while in the city. Postmaster Folger returned yester day from a visit of several days to relatives at Easley. An Overland Trip. Yesterday morning a party of G ff- neyites left in wagons for an ovi 1 land trip to the mountains of Wf-t^rn North Carolina. They started out with “rations” enough to last u til they could reach Asheville. Tney have no particular point in view Out will in all probability take in M"ch- eil Peak, Ball Mountain. Gra dfa- ther’s Mountain and Blowing Ro- k Those who were booked for th< trip were: M. L Ross, Munroe l.-m- mons, Emile Harley, Bub Service, L. A. Little, Berry Hamlin, .1 >tin Pennington, J. 8 Northey, D xter Hildreth and Vanderbilt Kendrii k It is a safe thing to predict a jolly good time, for Doc Ross is the C ape- rone, while Lee Little will in all probability be chief cook. They will all forage, and we hope that n< one will catch them during their out ng. Flock of Sheep Shot by Vandals. Sampson City, Fla., July 22.—On Friday night rapid firing was heard Id the direction of the lake, and on in vestigation next morning, it waa found that a flock of 100 head of sheep had been shot into and 70 or 80 head had been killed or crippled. The sheep belonged to different parties near here and it la net known who did the shoot Ing or for what purpose. The most brilliant gem that was ever taken from the earth would not amount to much if there were no peo- ply to appreciate its beauty and to vie with each other for its possession. The most spacious store, the most carefully selected stock of goods, the clever est corps of clerks will not avail unless people know about them. Knowledge of such things is spread in various ways. A passerby may drop in and be impressed. He may tell his neighbor, and he in turn may tell somebody else. That is one way, and there are some merchants who today think it is good enough. Modern develop ment, however, has sup plied in newspapers the best means. They go into ev ery home in the land, how ever humble, however mag nificent. Through them all of the information can be supplied, not to one, but to thousands. Are you using this paper to the best advantage? Tbe doctor hummed and hawed awhile* Consulted his statistic book, Then crowded back a fleeting smile And turned to her with sagest look. H X find,” be said, “that your ehOffa weight— 18 by 10 by 14? Yes?- Well, the statistics plainly state It hinges on his heaviness.” The mother heaved a sigh of Joy And said: "How splendid science to That it can show me that my boy Has naught which really is not hist But, doctor, what If I mistake? What If-’twas here she sighed sgstto" “What if an error I should make. And he should be 14 by 10?” "Be calm,” the wise old doctor said. "It matters not if hs be wide Or thick or If from feet to hea£ He's smaller than from side to alda* 18 by 10 by 14-4t Depends alone oa what he weighs.” The mother's ftaoe with peace waa 1M| Now, nappy, with lug babe she playa, Sumer Thoughts, Vacation Helps aud Hints. Bath Sponges, Toilet Soaps, Dainty Perfumes, Flesh Brushes, Exquisite Stationery. S.B. Crawley & Co, 813 Limestone St. Drugs, Perfumes and Stationery. Prescriptions properly filled and promptly delivered. Frightened Bablee. Sunday afternoon Mr. A. B. Gaines’ pony was bitched up to tbe buggy and driven to tbe front gate and left there untied William and Robert Gaines, aged about five and two, climbed into tbe buggy and tbe youngest one got tbe whip and com menced whipping tbe pony. Tbe pony started offdowa Victoria avenue in a lope. The children became frightened and began to scream. A couple of colored men succeeded in stopping tbe animal near tbe graded school building. The stoppage was so sudden that the little fellow fell off tbe aeat and tumbled to the ground. He waa picked up unhurt. Tbe pony was not running away, bat only an- •werlng tbe eummon of the whip to go on. United States District Court WESTERN DISTRICT OF SOUTH CAROLINA. In Bankruptcy. Iu the matter of | Bankrupt’gpetition J ' M RfmkruDt. J On this 20th day of July, 1903, on read ing the foregoing petition, it is:— Ordered by the court, that hearing be had upon the same on the 10th day of August before said court, at Charleston, in said district, at 10 o’clock in the fore noon; and that notice thereof be publish ed in The Ledger, a newspaper printed in said district, and that all known cred itors and other persons in interest may appear at the said time and place and snow cause, if any they have. wh»’ the ( irayer of the said jietition should not h: granted. CAnd it is further ordered by the c.,urt that the clerk shall send by mail 1-> all known creditors copies of said pi” ’ion. and this order, addressed to them .it. i r place of residence as stated. Witness the Honorable W. H B - ley, Judge of said court, and tin d the’-eof, at Charleston, in said on the 20th day of July, A. D. 190 Richard W. Huts 7-28-iawk 2t. C ik.