Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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niES JL<fCl>C9rE:K. PDBLI9HKD TOKSDAY AKI) FRIDAY. BY Ed. H. DkCamp. 8KTTL.IN<1 IN TIIK SOUTH. There have been many enquirers of our State officials in the last few years as to lands and surrounding conditions in South Carolina, by peo ple who are interested in settling col onies in our State and others who were looking out for profitable in- Testnoents in lands in the South. And we think that a large tract of land has been bought in the lower part of this State with a view of set tling it with a colony of Candians. Mr. Matheson, a successful business man of Marlboro county, has made some valuable suggestions as to how to induce worthy white people to set tle in South Carolina, and mentions Scotch farmers as being a most de sirable class to secure. We are glad to know of both of these moves and heartily approve them, and every other measure that has been and may be inaugurated to induce worthy white people to come and live with us and be of us. Our idea of the classes spoken of is, they will be home builders and home owners, the people who make and sustain the counties in which they live, and we trust no effort will be relaxed that will influence worthy white people to settle in our State, for we have room for them and need them to help build up our waste places. But in doing this, we should remember a most worthy class of white people who are now with us. We mean the white tenant farmers. They are with us now and are one of our main stays, but being tenants, with generally short leases, they cannot afford to go to great expense in improving the lands they work, and hence many good farms soon go to waste. These white tenant farm ers if working land of their own, oould afford to go to the recessary expense to improve them, and would do it. Now, while we would not dis courage any movement to induce other white people to come among and be of us, we trust that some one with more influence than we have, will start a movement that will offer our homes to white farmers, such induce ments as will enable them to buy lands of their own, and thus increase their interest in the improvement of the lands and the general upbuilaing of the country. If every white tenant farmer in Cherokee county, who knows how to farm, owned a small farm of bis own, it makes no difference how poor it might be at the start, he could make a living and in a few years he would have it blooming like a rose and be making paying crops on it. Let our large land owners with large uncultivated tracts think of this. Let some of them begin the experiment of selling off small tracts to thrifty whitejtenants on easy terms of price and payment. By doing this we would fasten our native white peo ple to their native soil, increrse their interest in the country they love so well and make of them land owners, who, in a few years will want more land, and be able to pay the increas ed price for it, that their presence as landowners had made. NOTES AND COMMENTS. Cotton squeezed up to 9 87$ in (iaffney yesterday. We will see by our nexj issue how the Gaffney prict s compare with the prices at adjacent towns and mills. ♦ ' It is the part of patriotism and loyal citizenship to patronize home farmers, home merchants, home banks, home builders and mechanics, home schools and colleges and home newspapers. The Southern Railway continues to have collisions and all kinds of acci dents. Is there no remedy for its al most wholesale slaughter of people, to say nothing of its destruction of its own property? ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ Wm. Jennings Bryan is making a strenuous effort to set us $50,030 that was left to him and members of bis family, by a will which he wrote for millionaire Bennette, of New Haven, Connecticut. But in his efforts he in not insisting that the money be paid in silver. PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS. People Yon Know iturt People Yon Don’t Know Zeb McCraw. of Union, spent sev era! days the first of the week with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. R. E. Me Craw, on corner of Montgomery and Petty streets. Magistrate A. J. McCraw came to the tity Wednesday on business. John E. Mosteller, of Grassy Pond, came to the city Wednesday. J. J. Darby, Hon. T. B. Butler and T. B. Clarkson went to Columtia Tuesday. Rev. A. D. Davidson paid The Led ger a visit Wednesday and renewed. John F. Jamison, of Webster, was in the city Wedneiday. Uncle Tom Spencer spent some time in the city Wednesday. Stanford Jolly, a prominent farmer of Cleveland county, N. C., was a Ledger visitor Wednesday. Mrs. Emily Montgomery, of Paco- let, is in the city visiting her sister, Mrs. A. M. Gilmer, on Granard street. “Jack’' Kendrick, a successful young farmer of lower Cherokee, was in the city yesterday. Amos Austell, a prominent citizen of Cleveland county. N. C., visited The Ledger yesterday. M. 0. Lipscomb, of White Plains, was in the city Tuesday. Summie Alexander, of Love Springs, came to the city Tuesday. Owing to the serious illness of Mrs. Livingston, of Seneca, invitations to her home were recalled. The many friends of Mr and Mrs. George Turnipseed in Gaffney will regret to learn that Mr. Turnipseed, having accepted a position in Colum bia. they will leave Gaffney and move to that city soon. William Watkins, a prominent citizen of Ezell, was a Ledger visitor Tuesday. X. Blanton spent sometime in the city Tuesday. J. A. Scruggs, of Ezell, was in the city Tuesday. Sheriff Thomas went to Charlotte, .V. C. yesterday on business. A. W. Doggett went to Charlotte, N. C. yesterday to take in the fair. Mr. and Mrs. Hensdale Robbins, of Trough, were shopping in the city yesterday. E'bert Henderson, of Maud, honor ed The Ledger with a call yesterday. He added a name to The Ledger list. Oliver Hames, a prominent citizen of State Line, spent some time in the city yesterday. T. L. Bryant, of Trough, was a business visitor in the city yester day. J. M. Richards, of Macedonia, paid The Ledger a business visit Wednes day. James Gibbons, of Mt. Paran, was an appreciated Ledger visitor Wed- ne‘day. He has accepted a position at the Dixie. W. S. Hall, Esq., J. C. Jefferies Esq ,and J. B Bell went to Colum bia Wednesday. Alfred Harris, a prominent Chero kee planter, was in the city Wednes day. J. M. Smith, of Thickety, had cat tle in the city Wednesday. Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Strain and Miss Mattie Estes and Miss Jessie Strain were shopping in the city VVednes- day. Local Cotton Market. The following prieffs prevail on the Gaffney market today: Good middling 9.87$ Middling 9.75 Stomach Trouble CauiteH Heart Tronble. Heart trouble is almost always caused by stomach trouble. The stomach fails to digest all the food, and the residue ferments, forming ex cess of gas, distends thej|walls of ihe stomach, causing a pressure on the nerves and arteries that lead to the heart. This causes the heart to pal pitate or skip a beat occasionally, or both, which is usua’ly very alarming, causing grave apprehensions. Ry* dales Stomach Tablets will prevent this trouble. They digest the food and prevent gass from forming in the stomach. If there is no gas in your stomach your heart will not trouble you —Gaffney Drug Co. Woman is the most perfect when the most womanlv.—Gladstone. Wreck on the Southern. A wreck occurred on the Southern Wednesday morning, about 8 30 at Bessemer City, about twenty-five miles east of this place, when a double- header freight, No. 74, ran into an open switch. Four persons were killed and several injured. The dead are: Engineer T. J. Pettuf, of Green ville; J. R. Higgins, colored, fireman John Thompson, colored, fireman; and a white man who was beating a ride, named McCombs. Engineer C. E. Tate, of Green ville, who had charge of the second engine that was pulling the train, was badly braised, and brakeman P. 8 Pfaff slightly injured. Both en gines and ten cars were derailed. Traffic from the East was blocked until early in the night, when the de layed trains containing the northern mails began to pass Gaffney. Every thing seemed to be righted by morn ing as traffic was resumed in both di rections. SCROFULA rapidly over Her body, clu * " Death of a Child. We regret to learn of the death of a small child of Mr. and Mrs. Peter Morgan, who live out on Broad river. This sad death was caused by the child falling in the fire a few days ago and being so badly burned that its suffering was relieved by death yesterday morning. We extend our sympathy to the breaved parents. SHYLOCH Shylock was the man who wanted a pound of human flesh. There are many Shylocks now, the convales cent, the consumptive, the sickly child, the pale young woman, all want human flesh and they can get it—take Scott’s Emulsion. Scott’s Emulsion is flesh and blood, bone and muscle. It feeds the nerves, strengthens the digestive organs and they feed the whole body. For nearly thirty years Scott’s Emulsion has been the great giver of human flesh. We will send you a couple of ounces free. SCOTT & BOWNE. Chemists. 409-415 Pearl Street, New York. 50c. and $1.00; all druggists. A DISEASE 3. WE INHERIT. Scrofula manifests itself in many ways. Swvlling of the glands of the neck and throat, Catarrh, weak eyes, white swelling, offensive sores and ab scesses, skin eruptions, lossof strength and weakness in muscles aud joints. It is a miserable disease and traceable in almost every instar.ee to some family blood taint. Scrofula is bred in the Scrofula appeared on the head of my bone, is transmitted Uttl. rrantfchlld when onlr iS month. from parent to child, the seeds are planted in infancy and unless the blood is purged and pu rified and every atom of the taint removed Scrof ula is sure to develop at some period in your life. No remedy equals S. S. S. as a cure for Scrofula. Itcleanses and 1 uilds up the blood, makes it rich and pure, and under the tonic effects of this great Blood Remedy, the general health improves, the digestive organs are strengthened, and there is a gradual but sure return to health. The deposit of tubercular matter in the joints and glands is carried off as soon as the blood is restored to a normal condition, and the sores, erup tions, and oth^r symptoms (f Scrofula disappear. S. S. S. is guaranteed purely vegetable and harmless; an ideal blood purifier and tonic that removes all blood taint and builds up weak constitu tions. Our physicians will advise without charge, all who write us about their case. Book mailed free. THE SWIFT XPFGWC COr, ATLAKTA, CAm old, and appear . The disease next attacked the eves and we feared she would lose her eiRht. Em inent physicians were consulted, but could do nothing to relieve the little in nocent. It was then that we decided to try S. S. S. That medicine at once made a speedy and complete cure. She is now a yountr lady, and has never had a sign of the disease to return. MRS. RUTH EERKEY, 150 South 5th Street. Ealina, Kan. Building and Plastering Lime Ooal, and Plaster Hair. Plaster Paris Shingles, Portland Oement, Dynamite, Blasting Powder, Fuse and Dynamite Caps, call on \ Limestone Springs Lime Works CARROLL & CO., Lessees. nlephone How’s This? We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward for ny case of Catarrh that cannot be cured by Hall’s Catarrh Cure. F. J. CHENEY & CO.. Toledo, O. We, the undersigned, have known F. J. Cheney for the last 15 years, and believe him perfectly honorable in all businss transac tions and financially able to carry out any obligations made by their firm. West & Thcax, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, O. Waldinq, Kink am & Marvin, Whole sale Druggists, Toledo, O. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken Internally acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. Testimonials sent free. Price 75c. per bottle. Sold by all Drug gists. Hall's Family Pills are the best. A Cough Is Duly A .Symptom. * A cough is not a disease, but a symptom of disease. A caugh always indicates that either the throat or lungs are affected. When the mucous lining of the throat or lungs becomes inflamed the irritation causes cough ing. Don’t neglect a cough. It may be a symptom of serious throat or lung disease. Rydales Elixir kills the germs that cause the trouble, soothes the irritated mucous mem brane, gently stimulates the nerves that control the respiratory organs and thus help nature to speedily re store normal conditions and healthy action.—Gaffney Drug Co. TRY SOME OF 00R Fine double-ground, celebra ted Sausage, ground by engine power. None better. I sell it for 10c. The up-to-date market, L. W. Attention, Shoe 'W'earersr! We are after Yotir Business You take no chances in buying your Shoes of us. We buy from reliable houses only and give you Shoes that Wear. Our line of Children’s, Ladies’ and Men’s Shoes .can’t be beat. No trouble to get a fit in our large stock, and to get something at the same time that has durability and style as well. Try a pair of Security School Shoes, the best Shoe in town for the price. Our Boys’ “Country Club” has style and durability and reasonable price. Our Woman’s ! every-day Shoes at $1.00, $1.15, $1.25, $1.50, and $1.75 are the best that can be gotten up for the prices. Men’s Shoes. Our Men’s Shoes for every-day wear at $1.00, $1.25, $1.50, $1.75, $2.00 and $2.25 will bear comparison with any that can be given at the figures. A complete line of Ladies’ aud Men’s fine goods at the popular prices made by reliable Manufacturers and guaranteed. Dress Goods and Furnishings. Give us a patient and impartial look in Dress Goods, Notions, Hosiery, Gloves, Underwear, &c., and we can convince you that we give you the best values sold on this market for the prices. Millinery Goods. Our Millinery Department is conspicuous for the good things in it—new and up-to-date. We shop the markets for the new and up-to-date goods iu this line. Just as well wear your old hat as 1 to take “any old thing.” We invite inspection iu all our lines. W. J. Wilkins & Co. GAFFNEY. S. C, THE DIXIE Determination Sale Shakespeare has no heroines.—Rusk in. heroes, only For a pleaHunt physic take Cham berlain’s Stomach and Liver Tablets. Easy to take leasant in effect. For sale by Cherokee Drug Co.; L. D Allison, Cowpt r.s 3r. C. T. LIPSCOMB, L> I5P* T 1ST Office in Star Theatre Building. Phone No. 20. J. F. GARRETT, Dentist. Office Over The Battery. ’Phone 82. You have seen people advertising “Fire!” “War!” "Riots!”—to attract attention to their advertisements. We don’t do that; OUR. PRICES bring their, to us. And when they come they see more than we can tell them. Our sale commences Thursday, October 29th, and continues to Saturday night, October 31st. A Dollar Saved is a Dollar Made We are going to give more genuine bargains these days than you ever heard tell of. This is our last advertisement' in reference to this sale, and we ask you again to attend to it. Don’t miss it and then say, “Why, oh why, didn’t I attend to it!” It will then be too late to come to it. We will give free of charge a pair of Shoes to the first customer that trades $5.00 worth with us. Don’t miss it—the last opportunity you will have to clothe yourself cheaply. Don’t forget the dates—October 29th, 30th and 31st. Trusting we will see you at this sale, Yours truly, The Dixie Clothing The Dixie delis it for Less. and Shoe Store Morris Switzer, Prop. Are almost as essen tial in this country as meat and bread, and we have an exception ally strong line now on hand. We have the Back Coats with strap in back that is a very popular coat with swell dressers, also, a splendid line from $5.00 to $12.50 that will appeal to you individually. We are also making a great many Coats and Suits to order that has proven a very popular way. If you will see our line, we believe we will sell you; no matter where you have looked, you can always get the right goods here. Avery Bros., Up-to-date Fundsbert.