Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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If: ' R‘ If: ' R‘ . . ... - r .. ) I'll 1C JUKI >0131*. PUBLISHED TUESDAY AND FRIDAY. BY Ed. H. DkCaMp. The Ledger is not responsible ^or t'3« views of correspondents. Correspondents who do not cor.tri* bate regular news letter^ must fur nish their name, uot 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 o juts a line. Heading notices will be published ten cents a line each insertion. All correspondence should be ad dressed to Ed. H. DeCamp, Manager. NOTES AND COMMENTS. Men do not fear falsehood, but they shrink from the truth, especially if the truth has a tint of disgrace about it. ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ Last Tuesday night the electric lights were out as a result of the storm. It was then that the people who were about realized the benefits of good lights. We are never lost until we are compelled to grope in dark ness. ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ North Carolina seems likely to got on the national ticket next year Gen. Mat Ransom, the noblest Roman of them all, has been spoken of as a vice presidential candidate. It makes no difference to us whether it be Ransom or Ayccck, just so it is one or the other. ♦ ♦ Have you given the county fair subject any thought? If so let us have your views on the subject. We want an expression of the people, pro and con, on this subject. If the county fair is a good thing for Chero kee we want it. If it is likely to prove a disastrous thing we do cot want it. Let us hear from YOU on the subject. ♦ It’s funny how some people will op pose the dispensary until they want an office and then become its advo cate. We do net believe it is the highest type of statehood for a state to deal in liquor. There are features about th ■ law that ere admirable, but let the responsibility for debauching humanity rest on Hie individual and uot on the entm- people of the State. ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ We are in receipt of .he premium list of the South Carolina State Fair, which takes place at Columbia Oc tober 27th to 30th. The State Fair this year will practically be in new hands and Secretary Love is maicing an earnest effort to make it a most pronounced success. We wish him good luck. If interested, write Secre tary Live at Chester for a premium list. Ledger advertisers wou'd do well to bear in mind that no questionable advertisements are inserted in tbe columns of this paper. We make it a rule to inquire into the reliability of every advertiser who seeks to enter our columns. Only this week we declined a nice contract became we were informed that the advertisers were unreliable. Make it a point to patronize Ledger advertisers and you can always rely upon getting what is advertised. It would not be amiss to mention to your merchant that you noticed his advertisement. It makes him realize the value of bis advertis ing and he will also think more of you, for he will have a greater regard for your intelligence. Patronize Led ger advertisers and let them know it. ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ A South Carolina judge ordered that witnesses appear in his court with their coats on, whereupon the Columbia State suggests that if re ports be true the judge should have ordered gthe witnesses and lawyers and others connected with the courts of this State to appear in their shirt sleeves. It seems that in the recent Tillman hearing at Columbia some of the lawyers for the defense appeared with guns in their pockets. If that be true, and we do not doubt it, the dirty cowards should have their li cense revoked and be forever disbar red from practicing in a court in this State. A nice state of affairs, indeed, we have reached, when men who are sworn to uphold the law violate it themselves in their eagerness to de fend their client! We note that the premium list of the South Carolina State Fair was printed at Elyria, Ohio. Did it ever occur to the association that the Ohio people cannot and will not boost the fair and that there are plenty of printing offices in South Carolina that could have done the work just as well that would have been glad to get that job? One mis take our people make is not patron izing home industry. We want to see our State fair succeed, and we also want to see our State institutions suc ceed. Our State fair cannot be a success without the patronage of our people; our State institutions cannot meet with that measure of success they should meet with unless they are patronized by our own people. Again : It’s a pretty howiy-do to ask the newspapers of South Carolina to boost the fair—that is, give it their endorsement and a lot of free adver tising—for a fifty cent admission, when the managers send to Ohio tor their printing. W’e presume this was thoughtlessness on the part of the management, and that they thought to save a few dollars, but it’s poor economy at best, and they should see to it that it does not occur again. We are perfectly willing to help the fair, but we want the fair to spend its money with the people of South Carolina so far as lies within its power. While we could do the job, wo do not expect it, but we want some other fellow inside our borders to do it if we cannot. Nllt'iire the EditorK. [Savannah News.) The recent session of the South Carolina Tress association adopted eloquent and laudatory resolutions in memory of the late N. G, Gonzales, of the Columbia State. It seems, now, tnat Col. Tillman’s attorneys ought to apply for a writ of injunction to prevent the resolution from being published in the State papers, on the ground that they will prejudice the public mind agninst him. Or, in view of the publication of the resolu tions, they might endeavor to get a change of veaue to Breathitt, Ken tucky. - ■ ■ ■ FOIEYSKIDNIYCURE Makes Kidneys and Bladder Right AMONG OURSELVES. Bryan says Cleveland is a mill stone around the neck of democracy. Bryan is something in the mill-stone line himself.—Eastern Reflector. The head-line expert of the Charles ton Evening Tost says that the whole of Texas seems to be getting on tbe “water wagon,” which is more than can be siid of Charleston —Green ville Mountaineer. The race riot tornado which has been raging in Indiana lately seems to have blown over into her next door neighbor, Illinois, where it is cutting a wide swath , judging from the re ports of the Danville troubles.—Char lotte Chronicle. It is said that the Rockefellers may lose as much as $100,000,000 by the depression in stocks in Wall street. But the price of oilcan be run up a few cents all over the world and the loss would soon be caught back.— Charleston Tost. Gov. Hevard is making a vigorous effort to enforce the dispensary law and is now seizing fixtures and iron safes as well as whiskey and beer. About the only way to accomplish results is to make the blind tiger business unprofitable.—Newberry Herald and News. If all South Carolina sheriffs dis played tbe same desire to “get next” to criminals as does Sheriff Buford of Newberry, lawbreakers wouldn’t be so bold. But some of the officers of the law Jseem to be as anxious to dodge the lawbreakf-r as the criminal is to avoid them.—Columbia State. Senator Tillman has beeu driving some more homely truths home into the hearts of the people of the north west. He has been tolling them just I how much they really think of the negro and it is very significant that' the press dispatches note that he seemed at first unpopular with his eight thousand audience, but that the impression grew before he fin ished that he had the best of the ar gument.—Florence Daily Times. The Rock Hill Journal suggests that the state fair offer a premium for job printing to encourage that business so that the fair association will not have to send off to Ohio to have its premium list printed. Tbe association will ask all the papers of the state to print ."ree columns about the fair, and they will do it gladly, ; yet when it wants its premium list printed it gives the job to a printing house at Elyria, O.—Columbia Rec ord. Policyholders Must Pay. | Exchange.1 Judge Schuler, of Easton, Ta., filed an opinion in his court on June 4th, in a test case brought by th*- assignee of the Iron City Mutual Fire Insur ance Company, of Tittsburg, against Monroe L. Clewell, of Easton, to re cover an amount held to be due the company as the defendant’s portion of the expenses and losses that occur red when he was a policy holder. There are 200 policy holders in North ampton county who are liable for as sessments ranging in amounts from $125 to $100. Although their policies have expired, some of them as long ago as eight years, and notwithstand ing the fact that all of the defendants have receipts in full for claims against them, Judge Schuler says the assessments, issued by the direction of the Dauphin County Court, for ex penses and losses before the defend ants’ policies expired, must be paid. $ioo Reward, $ioo. The readers of this paper will be pleased to learn that there is at least one dreaded dis ease 1 iiat science has been able to ••m e in all i ts stages and that is ('at arrli. Halls Catarrh Cure is the only positive cure now known to the medical fraternity. Catarrh heiiiK a constitutional disease, requires a constitu tional treatment. Hall’s Catarrh Cure is taken internally, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system, thereby destroying'tbe foundation of the 1 disease, and giving the patient strength hy building up the constitution and assisting nature in doing its work. The proprietors have so much faith in its curative powers i that they olfer One Hundred Dollars for any case that if fails to cure. Send for list of test iAc minis. » Address, r. J. Ciikxky & CO., Toledo, O. Sold tiy Druggists. 75c Hall's Family Pills au the best. A PLUCKY WOMAN. Mrs. Sanders Will Carry Out Railroad Con tract of Her Husband. (Spartanburg Journal.) Perhaps the pluckiest woman in all this section is Mrs. Sanders, wife of the railroad contractor, Earl Sanders, who was killed by an explosion while ; excavating for a new railroad near LaFollette, Toon., last week. Mr. Sanders, at the time of his death, was at work upon a railroad contract of: importance, grading and excavating for a new line in East Tennessee When the sad news of nis death reached the home near Cowpens the young wife was almost prostrate, but after the first shuck was over she begun to regain herself and finally her wonderful pluck has manifested iiself in her determination to tto to Tenoessi e and take up her husband’s work just where he left it. Con tractor Sanders, of course, was under contiaot with the railroad authorities lo perform a certain am unt of work, •md his plucky wife will now uuder- .ake to carry out the contract. Mrs. Sanders left yesterday for Tennessee, i The family is well known in the Cowpe iS section where they have lived f quite a while. The pluck I of the voung widow, however, is somethi. remarkable, and with the indomitaole will which she has al ready shown she will surely succeed in her work In time of trial—sessions of court. T Jim Dumps exulted, “We do not, On Summer days so close and hot, Build up a fire and stew and steam! A dish of ‘ Force,’ a bowl of cream, Is just the food to fit our whim, And keeps us cool,” laughed “ Sunny Jim.” The Ready to-Serve Cereal not a blood heater. Ideal Summer Food. “ ‘ Force ’ is an ideal summer food be cause it contains elements for nourishing every org^ji of the body, is easily digested, creates what we know is vigor, and at the same time does not make a river of fire out of the blood. Percy G. Stanton.” W—13 Disease takes no summer vacation. if you need flesh and strength use ScotTs Emulsion summer as in winter. Send for free sample. SCOTT & BOWNE, Chemists, 409-415 Pearl Str et, New York. 50c. ana i.oo; all druggists. Scientific Prescription Compounding The Patient. A T U R A L L Y you choose N your physician with great care, you realize how much depends upon his service, but do not forget that the choice of a druggist may be equally important. The physician prescribes reme dies, the druggist supplies them, unless those supplied have just the virtues the doctor is depending up on, failure may result, and who is to blame? surely not the physician. We feel that we are justified in urging you to bring your prescrip tions to our prescription depart ment, because it provides the ser vice that must be had to properly supplement the efforts of physicians We can afford you absolute secu rity, both as to quality of drugs and accuracy of the compounding. (To he continued.) CHEROKEE DRUG CO. Prescription Druggists. Limestone and Frederick Sts. FOLEYSHONEMAR Cures Colds; Prevents Pneumonia FOLEYSHONEMAR stops tbe cough and Heals lungs Great array of bargains; too many to mention the kinds, but ali through our immense stock you can find them. Make straight for our place and do not allow anyone to stop you until you have land ed at our counters, where you are protected from high prices and where you are dealt with in a straightforward, honest way. Yours truly, W. J. Wilkins & Cc. You Get More for Your Money by rending The Ledger at $1 a year than from any other paper. Midsummer Clearance Sale We have bought more goods than we have room for, and MUST move out some of our present stock, whether we want to or not. In order to make the room we are COMPELLED to have for the NEW GOODS we have made GREAT REDUCTIONS on some things in SUMMER GOODS IN ORDER TO MOVE THEM OUT AT ONCE—in fact, the price is a small consideration, for WE MUST have the space for later purchases. We have LITERALLY SLAUGHTERED PRICES on Summer Clothing and Pants, Straw Hats, Ladies’ and Children’s Slippers, and Wash Fabrics, AND WE FEEL ASSURED OF THE RESULT. Men’s and Boys’ Pants. $4.50 Pants at $3.50 $4.00 Pants at $3.00 3.50 Pants at 2.50 3.00 Pants at 2.25 2.50 Pants at 1.75 2.25 Pants at 1.65 2.00 Pants at 1.50 1.75 Pants at 1.35 1.50 Pants at 1.15 1.25 Pants at 1.00 J .00 Pants at 75 Summer Clothing. $15.00 Suits at $10.00 12.50 Suits at 8.50 10.00 Suits at 7.50 7.50 Suits at 5.50 Low Cut Shoes & Slippers For Ladies and Children. $3.00 kind at $2.25 $2.50 kind at $1.75 2.25 kind at 1S5 2.00 kind at 1.50 1.50 kind at 1.15 1.25 kind at 1.00 1.00 kind at 75 75 kind at 50 50 kind at 4° Men's Straw Hats at and Below Cost* All Wash and Summer Fabrics at and Below Cost* This is a CLEARANCE SALE in the true sense of the term—we must CLEAR OUT the goods in the lines mentioned, and we feel sure that the reductions made will MOVE THEM IN A HURRY. It will pay you to buy now, whether you are in immediate need of the goods or not, as we know the price and quality of the goods as we now offer them cannot be matched here again; nor would we make SUCH A SACRIFICE if we had sufficient room to keep them. Every assertion we make and every sale we make, is backed by our reputation; so when we offer SPECIAL INDUCEMENTS you know we are going to give you REAL LIVE BARGIANS. Remem ber, the above prices prevail now at' THE COMPANY STORE THE COMPANY STORE