Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Tub: x^e:i>ob:i*. PUBLISHED TUESDAY AND FRIDAY. BY Ed. H. DeCamp. amongourselves. FIELD3 FOR OUR TRADE FASHIONS AT NEWPORT. And Governor Heyward has par doned Squire Bailee !—Gastonia Ga zette. The Ledger is not responsible for the views of correspondents- Correspondents who do not contri bute regular news letters must fur nish their name, not for publication, but for identification.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 osnts a line. Reading notices will be published at ten cents a line each insertion. All correspondence should be ad dressed to Ed. H. DeCamp, Manager. NOTES AND COMMENTS. There are some people who are so lazy they have to be worked like a wheelbarrow—pushed. ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ A Cherokee county boy caught his best girl climbing an apple tree the other day. It improved her complex ion so much that he hardly knew her. ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ Anybody that has an idea that its a soft snap to run a newspaper such weather as this and hunt up news when there is nothing to write about should undeceive themselves by un dertaking the job for a while. ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ The Ledger sincerely appreciates the favors shown by its patrons and seeks the co-operation of its friends towards making it South Carolina s leading semi-weekly newspaper. I his can only be done by sending us the news, and we ask you to help us to that extent. ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ An even half dozen people walked into The Ledger oflice yesterday and subscribed for the paper. Each and every one of them paid for tbe paper in advance, for we take them no other way. This does pretty well for mid-summer, and shows that we do not have to resort to giving the paper away in order to get people to read it. ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ We like for people to read Tbe Led ger, but we don’t like for people to borrow it from their neighbors. It shows either stinginess, poverty or downright cussedness. Take a paper of your own, pay for it like a man, whether you like the editor or not, and be happy in tbe feeling of inde pendence that accompanies man liness. ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ A man who will gamble away or drink up money he justly owes some body else is no better than a thief an^ ought to be regarded as such. We wculd vote for the enactment of a law making it a felony for any man to gamble or buy liquor while he owes money. If enforced, such a law would be the greatest temperance measure that could possibly be passed. A great, big, strong, bronzed-faced son of toil came inti our office the other day and sat down to chat a while. We talked of the crops, the weather, the south, the west, and other things. During the conversa tion he was cheery and light-hearted. Without knowing the history of his family troubles we asked in a friend ly sort of way: “Jim, how is your family?” At once his countenance assumed a sad, far-away expression,! as be replied: “Very well, I thank you.” And then, thinking to bring to his memory a gladsome thought of the little ones at home, we asked : “How many children have you now, Jim?” The sad look on his face as sumed a deeper gloom, the tear-drops filled the corners of his great soulful as he said : “We’ve only got two,eyes, now. You know we had seven, but me and wife had bad luck with ’em. We lost two within a very short while and then in a few months we lost three more. It was hard on us, but I s’pose it were for the best.” We ex pressed as best we could our sorrow for him, for deep down in our heart we did feel for him, and then we changed the subject as adroitly as possible ; and although he remained for sometime with us he never re gained that sunny demeanor, and we felt that we had been unkind to broach the subject. We did not mean to bring sadness to his heart, but we could not help but admire the gentle manner in which he talked of bis departed loved ones and the rev erence he displayed for them in those great soulful eyes. Booker Washington was hissed by a negro audience in Boston because he advocated respect for law and de cency. Another link forged in the chain of coming strife.—Pickens Sen- tinal-Journal. Senator Tillman finds a pleasant field in Wisconsin to discuss the n i- gro problem and is giving them his usual “hot stuff ” Eight thousand paid their half-dollar a few evenings ago to hear him. Well could Tillman exclaim : “What fools these mortals be!”—Dorchester Democrat, ' Editor Garlington, of tbe Carolina Spartan, in a recent issue, “begs pardon” of the weekly press for think ing that editing a weekly paper was a cinch. He says the daily grind was easier. Its a different kind of work, but its harder for one man to get out a good weekly newspaper than it is for the same man with help to get out a daily.—Greenwood Index. Tbe Chicago papers insist that Tillman has been eating ’em up alive on the negro question and then they call upon the managers of the joint ! debate to send a bigger boy to mill than Burton. The matter is that Tillman has the facts, the figures and the real sentiment to start with and thus armed he can cope with the best of them.—Carolina Spartan. Senator Tillman has reached a posi tion where he can heln South Caro lina, if he will direct his efforts in a proper direction. He can go among the home-seekers and turn the tide of immigration in this direction. We need a good class of immigrants to develope our lands and if we can get them here it will add a great force to the solving of our labor problem.— Manning Times. Several newspapers in the state are criticising Senator Tillman be cause of what he said in the debate with Senator Burton, of Kansas on the negro question. Senator Till man was very mild in his talk but what he said was true. As he was invited to make the speech, there >8 no good reason why he should be criticized for telling the truth.— Columbia Record. Siberia Likes American Ma chinery, Says Agent Greener. RUSSIAN GOVERNMENT LENDS AID I>eath)of an Infant. The infant bod of Mr. and Mrs. S L. Painter died Saturday afternoon at the home of hia parents on Earl street, Greenville, at 2 o’clock. The body of tbe child 4vas brought to Gaffney Sunday morning on passen ger train No. 36. Gaffney ie tbe former home of Mr. and Mre. Painter. “The fact that there are men in that county,” says the Columbia State, in speaking of the recent trial of Jett and White in Breathitt coun ty, “who will go oa the stand when by doing so they are certain their lives are imperilled, is much in Ken tucky’s favor. How many are there in that clasp who would so act in South Carolina?” Tht State shouldn’t ask such pertinent questions. It might make some patriot blush.—Dil lon Herald. MONSTER FREIGHT DEPOT. Cincinnati to Have the Lureent of ItN Kind In the World. Ground was broken recently in Cin cinnati for what trill be the largest building in the world devoted to the uses of a freight depot or warehouse, says the Cincinnati Times-Star. The new structure will be erected by the Baltimore and Ohio Southwestern rail road on the north side of Second street, extending from the Chesapeake and Ohio bridge to Mill street, a distance of about three ordinary blocks, die full length of the building being 1,227 feet, with a width atjhe first tloor of fifty- six feet and forty-eight feet above that story. The building will be as nearly fireproof as it is possible to make it, with speed elevators to carry the heav iest kind of freight to u»y of the five floors. Brick and steel will be used in the constrnction. Besides this immense depot and warehouse the Baltimore and Ohio Southwestern is erecting on an adjoining lot a combined round and pow r er house, 130 feet in length and three stories high. The first floor of this building will be occupied as a roundhouse, with six stalls, boiler and engine room, for furnishing beat, pow er and light to tbe big warehouse and passenger coaches and for the store keeper's headquarters. On the seeond floor the sujierintendent of the dining car service will have his rooms, in cluding refrigerators and storerooms. The Pullman company also will have a yard oflice on this floor, as will also the ear repairers. The third floor will include twenty rest rooms, where belat ed trainmen may find lodging. There will be reading rooms, shower and tub baths and other modern conveniences In connection with these rest rooms. The entire cost of the new buildings will be about $650,000. Tbe ground upon which they are being erected cost nearly $200,000. Yellow KlaAK Tests For (Ian Sights. The United States army is going to make experiments with yellow tinted glass in gun sights and field glasses, based upon the favorable comment which has greeted tlie Innovation In armies iu Europe, says a Fort Riley (Kan.) dispatch to the Kansas City Star. The ordnance department has lK‘en the first to take the matter up and is already fitting range finders with tills colored glass. The signal corps has already announced Its inten tion of experimenting w’ith field glasses. Experiments iu the Russian army have shown that batteries using the yellow tinted glass have made about one-third more hits in practice than those using sights without the , yellow glasses. It Is said in favor of this color that It gives a softer light to the eyes, especially In a brilliant sunlight, and even in cloudy weather or twilight the object fired at can be seen plainly without straining the eyes. Asulutn In the Dtutributlon of Ameri can Agricultural Appliances—Fea sible Commercial Relations With India—Cuba Making an Effort to Restock Island With Cattle—Oor Floor In China. There is such a demand in Siberia for agricultural machinery and appliances of American manrfacture that the min ister of agriculture in that country has decided to lend government aid to its distribution. Commercial Agent Green er at Vladivostok informs the state de partment at Washington that a special fund has been set aside to establish at Habarofsk a government warehouse for the benefit of importing jobbers, says J. D. Whelpley in the New York Com mercial Advertiser. The pre-Amur man agement of imperial properties will have charge and will operate to a large extent in American goods. The Siberian officials state that they are greatly in need of information from competent sources regarding the pur chase and Importation of such goods from the United States, and they ask for the address of firms dealing in ag ricultural machinery, price lists and catalogues, lists of steamships plying between the United Suites and Vladi vostok aud the best terms upon which goods will ha sold. Mr. Greener also finds considerable complaint to the effect that, in quoting prices American firms do not state their bottom figures. What is needed is the lowest quotation for goods, details as to payments in cash or on time, the latter being preferred, and several copies of a brief catalogue in the Rus sian language. Consul General Patterson, at Calcut ta. is confident that a large increase in the American trade would follow the establishment of a rapid and reliable freight line of steamers between New York and Calcutta. He says that the only way goods can he shipped at pres ent from New York to Calcutta is via Glasgow, Liverpool, London or Naples, and there is long delay in making these shipments. Out of the $230,000,000 wortli of goods imported annually by India the United States only had about 1.5 per cent of the trade, while Eng land had about 07 per cent and Ger many, France and Belgium, in the or der named, the larger part of the re mainder. About 50 per cent of the imports are cotton goods, and the next largest are Iron and steel manufactures, and the Vmerlcan consul sees no reason why the United States should not compote in these lines. He says that if a direct line of steamers was established be tween New York and Calcutta, sailing not less than once every month, the passage not to he more than forty days, the importers could then rely upon re ceiving their goods at specified times. Consul Patterson also recommends the putting of active, capable men into the field to exploit the markets of the country. There are no restrictions on trade in India, the only obstacle being the lack of rapid transit and more de termined effort to secure business. In line with the suggestion made by Consul Patterson the bureau of statis tics at Washington has been looking up the figures on the trade between India and the United States. India ranks sixth among the exporting and tenth among the Importing countries. Last year her exports amounted to over $400,000,000 and her imports to $204,- 000,000. Thirty-six per cent of these imports were cottons. Next on the list were iron and steel products. The bu reau estimates that 50 per cent of In dia's imports are of a class of goods which might bo called indigenous to the United States and that fully three- fourths of the entire list is made np of articles successfully produced by and exported from the United States. Not withstanding this fact, our exports to India amount to less than 2 por cent of the imports of that country. The popularity of American flour in China is attracting attention on both sides of the globe. The British consul general at Canton In a report sent from China to London and published in that city states that the demand for flour among emigrants returned from the United States is so great that the quantity of flour imported in 11*02 ex ceeded that of 11*01 by 1*5,831.228 pounds and was also some 78,400,000 pounds In excess of the average for the past five years. Stated in dollars, we are now selling to the Chinese $4,- 607,000 worth of flour annually. Afternoon and Evening Dreiotes: Yatchlng Gown*: Clothed or Unclothed: Answer*. Afternoon gowns at Saratoga and Newport are quite as dressy as those seen in the evening, the chief differ ence being that in case of the latter, nock and arms may be wholly bare (save long gloves) while in the for mer, a covering which exhibits rather than conceals, may fall in with the order of the day. Chiflon is in ex treme tavor for both day and even ing, the more so, because lending itself readily to combinations of any character or for any age, while in its own lovely simplicity it may form ideal gowns in white or colors for young girls. Such was one chosen at Newport by a brunette guest of the Vanderbilt family, on the occa sion of a lawn party, the yoke, collar and cuffs of white lace, the gown in pink, laid in accordion plaits through out and the hat of white lace with a garland of pink ruses. At a dance in tbe evening, the same young lady wore a dress of tine white net fin ished with lace. Her friend, Miss Vanderbilt, appeared in a gown of j mousseline in exquisite floral pattern during the afternoon and for evening, a blue chiffon trimmed with lace, white roses. At Newport aud other seaside resorts, YATCHING GOWNS become of much importance and the handsomest are in fine cloth, serge or mohair, white or in some one of those pastel shades that are now so fashiobable and a beautiful gown worn by a member of the Astor fami ly, was in pastel blue cloth made with box plaited skirts showing a baud of white silk on the lower edge: and an Eton jacket of tbe material finished in white silk to match. Lin en in homespun, striped or solid colors, is seen occasionally even at Newport, and is frequently noticea ble elsewhere, such outfits being of course quite appropriate for traveling and outing in general. What shall be said of CLOTHING OR RATHER UNCLOTHING of neck and feet, bare arms or those nearly so thrown in? Shoes are of course low iu order to exhibit open work or embroidered hoisesy aud the demand for white shoes is immense. Favorite styles have three un usually large eyelet holes on either side and this to aicomodate an un usually wide ribbon tied iu a lagre bow. Slippers for evening, some times have straps extending almost down to the toe, the two upper ones buttoning over. Heels on dress shoes are painfully high, exceeding all for mer limitations ana contrasting sharply with those worn for out-dcor sports, this however being in keeping with the two extremies which women affect; the one a bold im itation of the masculine, the other invested with every conceivable femi nine adornment. But here is a girl who. while fashionable, gives serious thought to health. “Ella” You do well to heed the warning words of your physician re garding unsafe perfumes, the more so, as individuality in that line still continues fashionable. Every well informed woman will of course have her summer’s supply of Murray & Lanman’s Florida water and apart from its delightfully refreshing quali ties after traveling, excursions or I out-door games, no one need appre hend any result other than beneficial from its use. “Mrs. N.” Many of the prettiest hats seen at summer resorts are in fine embroidered white muslin fin ished with lace, and as your complex ion is fair, you can safely wear what would be trying for any one at all sallow. “Inexperience.” A linen dress in homespun pattern and made with a long coat, would be an ideal choice for a journey not too long. These homespun linens are dark and do not show soil like the natural colored or those in solid shades. “Gun Metal.” A checked silk in gun metal shades, is thoroughly up to date and blue pipings would suit your complexion. Your hat might appropriately be in rough blue straw finished with blue silk and daisies, the last named giving a lighting ef fect to the sombre gown. Lucy Carter. The Cuban republic is making an ef fort to encourage the restocking of the Island with cattle, especially those of a good breed. The duty has been changed so that breeding sheep and cows come in free of cost, and the duty has been reduced on blooded stock. The government has also ex empted barbed wire and staples used In building fences from the payment of the tariff duties, hoping thereby to encourage the inclosure of large pas tures. Livid* on Peannta. Four students of Norwich university, three of whom are working their way through college, during the last three months of the college year saved an even $30 each by deserting the frater nity “hash house” and- living on pea nuts, says the New Haven Chronicle. Every one of the quartet la' In better health tfign when he started In on tbe strange diet. The Facolet Mill Flood. (Rock Hill Herald, Aur. 8th.1 A report comes from Joneaville, in Union county, that wreckers are still finding cotton along the Pacolet river, which was left there by the flood of June 6. No doubt a great many bales aud many thousand dallars’ worth of household furniture and clothing were scattered along the river, much of which will never be discovered. There is said to have been little sympathy expressed by the people for the mill corporations in their great loss. It is a fact that some people seem to be glad of the dssaster, ex pressions like these have been heard; “Tbe Lord knows howto divide the property and help the poor.” One man was heard to say: ‘ Pity but the river had not been twice as high and swept everything away. There seems to be some superstition about the floods. It has been said, too, that there was not enough rain fall to raise the river so high, but that “it was the work of God in the way of a judgement.” Then tbe bursting of tbe reservoir at Pacolet Mill Nos. 1 and 2 caused considerable excitement and super stition, as tbe reservoir was well np on the high hill and away from the high water, and it never gave way until the day after the floods, which was rather a strange incident. FOR COLORED PEOPLE. CommaulcatlonH and Loral Item* That Ap peal to Their Intereetn. Prof. C. H. Jones, a worthy colored man of Union, is in Gafioey this wetk in the interest of the Clinton Insti tute,located at Kock Hill. Prof. Jones is the principal of the colored school at Union and he bears the recommen dation and endorsement of the very best white citizens of that place. Clinton Institute is designed to be a mmaiure Tuskagee Institute, but in stead of apptaimg to the philan- throphy of Che people of the North it i is the object of the promotors to ap peal to the generosity of the white people among whom the negro lives, 1 as they believe tbe whites of tbe South are better acquainted with tbe needs , of the colored race that the people of the North. Clinton Intitule is lo cated south of Kock Hill, 8. C., iu a section of the State densely populated with colored people. Its object is to give the colored youtn such moral, intellectual, and industrial training as will make them peaceful, intelli gent, self supporting citizens. It has a graded department, iu which are taught the ordinary and higner Eng iish branches. It has a normal De partment, in which are taught some of the sciences and the practical teacher’s course. It has an indus trial department in which it is de signed to introduce all the industrial arts that are of practical benefit to colored people. Picnic on liroad River. Mr. Editor:—The colored farmers hold a picnic in the upper part of Cherokee county every year. We al ways have had what we thought a good time but this year the picnic excelled all the others of the past four years. As we were through lay- ing-by our crops we thought it a good idea to get our people together and have a good time. A mass meeting was called at Concord church to make arrangements. Seven dollars was raised to by beef and mutton. The picnic was held on the place of Mr.' Peter Morgan (white), on th? 7th aud about three hundred of the colored people of Cherokee ui.d Cleveland counties were present. W. D. Long, chairman, made an address of wel come. The topic of the day was, “The Negro’s Progress,” and a num ber of good speeches were made on the subject. Kev. B. F. Bridges said among other things: "We can be a people if we will be. 8ome of our people go from place to place too much, looking for a good place. Look at the young white man. After ho has educated himself he looks up a job of some kind and goes to work. Stop renting land for only twelve months at the time and stay in one place longer. Quit moving about so much and try to accumulate some thing for of yourself.” Speeches were made by P. Sarratt, W. R. Sarratt and G. X. Gaston, each of whom made very nice speech es. At 1:30 o’clock dinner was served, after which speaking was resumed. Rev. J. R. Ross advised that the colored people subject themselves to the laws of the country; that this is a white man’s country, b-.t it is also the home of the negro. M. Bridges, of North Carolina, said: “We must trust each other more; we are not getting justice along some lines that God himself in tended for us; and hold up the flag of righteousness.” Prof. D. S. Collier, of Gaffney, said : “The white people are not opposed to us on account of our color, but on account of our character. Our colored women stand on tbe streets a little too much; and our preachers must stop drinking whiskey. If I had 10,- 000 tongues and each tongue 10,000 voices I would give them to the edu cation of the negro.” We ail had a good time, the only disturbance being that some one fired a pistol, but when Chief Sarratt went to see who it was he took to the river and that was the last of him. Music was furnished by a brass band from Skull Creek. s. J l. Whig Hill HappeuiuKH. Whig Hill, Aug 4.—The colored people of Mulberry Chapel had a fine time last Saturday. They had what was called an ice cream party and raised about $20. Hamlet Goudtlock.of Gaffney, was at Webster last week visiting his relatives and friends. Ella Littlejohn is on the sick list this week. Eliza. Alma and Mattie, all three daughters of Emanuel Littlejohn, of Whig Hill, are teaching school in different parts of Cherokee county. Emanuel Littlejohn is a good man and a farmer from bis heart, and he also believes in giving his children an 1 education, both of the hand and tbe brain. There was a large gathering at I Knuckles Chapel Baptist church Sun-1 day to here the funeral services of Eliza Carrias, by Rev. H. K. Oats. A. B. G. Th«- I'eacock on a Rainy Day* The peacock, glittering with Jewel like eyes, has a voice by no m—ns suit ed to its beauty. Its cry Is hanh and j disagreeable. When the rain falls, it ■its on some high perch uttering Its I doleful sounds, with Its beautiful tail feathers drawn into the smallest possl hie space. Like a vain creature as it Is, It never spreads Its fan unless tbe sun shines. For Sale. I? - ''AiIv-ti Isemen;* uuder tills liurtd will oe lusfcitbd for one cent a worn eacii 1 User- Hot.. -No ad Inserted for Ibsa than ten cents POR SALE—Legal Cap Rond I'sper wltli t- numbered lines. At The Ledger Office. P ill SALE—Old newspapers at 10c a bun dred. Apply at this office. T^OR SALE—All kinds of legal blanks; such as used by Magistrates and court offi cials; deeds, mortgages, etc., as cheap as the cheapest. Apply at this office. poll SALE type remelted into bars; the very lies 1 babbitt metal made. Apply at The Ledger office. Babbitt metal, made from ol<^ For Rent. F oil RENT OR SALE-Room next to Car roll. Carpenter &, Byeis’. Apply to Ed l or Harry Byars. 8-11-tf Wanted. % W ANTED—Highest ^cash price paid for green salted hides. B. G. Clary, s-ll-tf W ANTED—Everybody to know that I am still selling beef. B. G. Clary. 8-11-tf W ANTED—To make straight loans on city real estate. No commissions. Several thousand dollars to loan. Apr2!l-tf Several J. O. Jefferies. Found. F OUND—Bundle of clothing. Owner can get same by describing property and pay- *— ‘ Apply to Mt ing for this ad. depot deek Good at M'S-lt Moved. M V customers will hereafter lind me at my old <>.> Robinson street. S. \V. old stand Talley. 8-4-lt pd. Notice. W E do the best of commercial printing at prices commensurate with first-class work. If you haven’t time to call telephone or write us and we will do the rest. Address The Ledger, Box J. Gaffney. S. G. TTGE 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, Gaffney. S. C. Money Loaned. L OANS on improved farms for a term of years at seven per cent. Interest. No commissions. For information apply to J. 0. Jefferies. Attorney at Law. ll-£Myr Summons lor Debt, To Sam Frazier: Complaint having Jbeeli made unto me by 1*. R.jBird that you are indebted to him in the sume of twentv-eight dollars ami seventy-nine cents (£28.79)Jon account for goods, wares and merchandise sold and delivered you at your special instance ami request at Blacksburg, S. C., from January 1st to May 1st 1903, which amount you contracted and agreed to pay, but now refuse payment. Tin's is, therefore, to require you to ap- * pear before me. in my oflice in Blacks burg, S. C., within 20 days from the service of this summons, to answer to the said Complaint, or judgement will be given against you by default. Dated Blacksburg, S. C., Aug. 6th, A. D. 1903. B. J. Gold, (L. S.) Magistrate. WARNING! i. TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN: Information having been received that Cotton, Cloth and Lumber, property of the undersigned, is being removed from the Pacolet River and adjoining lauds by unauthorized persons—reference being again made to our Circular of June 26th, 1903.—Notice is hereby that all persons removing Cotton, Cloth or Lumber, ex cept by authority from us, or from R. G. Hitt N: Bro., will lie prosecuted by us to the fullest extent of the law, and we futher offer a liberal Reward, with proof to convict, for the names of any and all unauthorized persons who may be guilty of removing any of this property from the river or lands adjoining. PACOLKT MFG. CO., CLIFTON MFG. GO. Spartanburg. S. C. August 6th, 1903. 8-11-14-18 and 21. A Wat !S»tMa«. Mamma—What in the world are 700 two quarrel lug about? Little Dick—Nothing. “Nothing, eh?” "Yea’m. Dot left her box of candy here, an’ when she oame back there was Bathing In tt N The Woman Of Taste Is very particular about the STYLE, QUALITY and FIT of her Footwear. That’s the reason she buys Queen Quality $3.00 Shoes at* : Tbe R. S. Lipscomb v Shoe Co.