Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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ri r . i ^ DO YOU GET UP WITH A LAME BACK ? Kidney Trouble Makes You Miserable. Almost everybody who reads the news papers is sure to know of the wonderful cures made by Dr. Kilmer’s Swamp-Root, the great kidney, liver and bladder remedy. It is the great medi cal triumph of the nine teenth century; dis- ji covered after years of scientific research by ^^p^Dr. Kilmer, the emi nent kidney and blad der specialist, and is wonderfully successful in promptly curing lame back, kidney, bladder, uric acid trou bles and Bright’s Disease, which is the worst form of kidney trouble. Dr. Kilmer’s Swamp-Root is not rec ommended for everything but if you have kid ney, liver or bladder trouble it will be found just the remedy you need. It has been tested in so many ways, in hospital work, in private practice, among the helpless too poor to pur chase relief and has proved so successful in every case that a special arrangement has been made by which all readers of this paper who have not already tried it, may have a sample bottle sent free by mail, also a book telling more about Swamp-Root and how to find out if you have kidney or bladder trouble. When writing mention reading this generous offer in this paper and send your address to Dr. K^mer&Cc. 3ing- larritoo, N. Y. The regula’ fifty cent and dci'ar sues are sold cy Home ot Swainr-. jyOt. 1 .rooc druggists. Notice of Final Settlement. By permission of Hon. J. E. Webster, Probate Judge for Cherokee county, S. C., we will on Tuesday, May 24th, next, at 10 o’clock a. rn., make our final return as executors of the estate of Jesse C. Nance, deceased, and apply for letters dismissory. All persons holding claims against said estate are hereby notified to f iresent them, properly attested, on or be- ore that date, or they will be forever barred. April 27th, 1904. J. W. Nance, Lkmi’ki, Nance. Executors Estate Jesse C. Nance, de ceased, j Published in Gaffney Ledger April 27th*May6th, 13th and 20th, 1904. PARTINGWITHSOLDIERS “LW Early Risers The famous little plllss 4 r HEALTH I “I don’t think we could keep house without Thedford’s Black- Draught. VVe have used it in the family forever two years with tbs best of results. I have not had a doctor in the house for that length of time. It is a doctor in itself and always ready to make a person well and happy.”—JAMES HALL, Jack sonville, 111. Because this great medicine relieves stomach pains, frees the constipated bowels and invigor ates the torpid liver and weak ened kidneys Ho Doctor is necessary in the home where Ihedford's Black-Draught is kept. Families living in the country, miles from any physi cian, have been kept in health for years with this medicine as their only doctor. Thedford’s Black-Draught cures bilious ness. dyspepsia, colds, chills and fever, had blood, headaches, diarrhoea, constipation, colic ami almost every other ailment because the stomach, bowels liver and kidneys so nearly con trol the health. THEDFORD’S BLAdt- draucht NEARLY EVERY FARMER NEEDS A • PORTABLE ENGINE THE AJAX i .-i the one to use. “The Machinery People” will lie glad to send catalogue and numc | ' lee on Hliplieation. V. H. GIbBES (a CO.. # COLUMBIA. S. C. Engines, Hollers, Saw Mills, Cotton Gin ning Machinery, Etc. The Bihbes Portable Shinuie Machine Good Time. Japanese Farewell to Troops Ofl For the Front. A MOST IMPRESSIVE “SENDOFF." The t imes’are good and the best peopl have the best' TIMEPIECE. Westrope Keeps ^AU the best makes of Watches. Call on him when you want a good watch, or when your old one needs repairing. Thos. H. Westrope. Nice line of Jewelry alwayi on hand. Tin* Deiiionntratiun AViim Voluntarily IManueil to (beer the Men — FIhkm anil Ln 11 tern* Were Waved 011 All SideM — How One Soldier I'arted From Him Wife and Little Onen. “The Japanese women never weep.” So concluded the writer of a Japanese love story. If that writer could have seen a parting that I witnessed the other day, he would not thus have committed himself, says the corre- ! spondent of the London St. James Gazette, writing from Kobe, Japan. The man was not a "little Jap.” He 1 was not a tall man, either. Uf medium height, with a big chest and square shoulders, and a countenance which, if not altogether handsome, was unmis takably honest, he was a typical sol dier and a man. There were others similarly uniformed on the platform, find a small crowd wearing the tradi tional kimono and clogs watched them with admiration as they strapped up their accouterments or squatted on their knapsacks and talked and puffed their cigarettes. That might be their last sodau on that station, for they were off to face the Russians in Korea. Through the gate came a woman. The otticial there did not insist on the platform ticket, which is essential on all Japanese railway stations for the privilege of “seeing off;” he stood aside and allowed her to pass. She was distinctly pretty, and with the pleas antest urigato in acknowledgment of the privilege accorded her by the of ficial, passed on to the platform. I noticed that her lips were reddened and her face was slightly powdered, and the tiny baby she was carrying on her back was dressed in his pictur esque holiday garb. The little girl who clung to the woman’s kimono was also attired in a new dress of the brightest colors, her straightly cut hair with the little shaven circlet on the crown bearing evidences of special at tention for a special occasion, and her chubby little face delicately “Im proved” by a cosmetic touch. The woman’s smile of thanks quick ly gave place to a look of concern, but her countenance brightened again as she espied the group of soldiers, and the one for whom she was looking pressed through the little throng and advanced toward her. Again she smiled and courtesied as her husband greeted her in that severely polite and formal way which is the maimer of Japanese husbands at all times. With but a word to the woman, he playfully snap ped bis fingers for the edification of bis son and heir, am rhen the little girl left her mother am took her father’s outstretched hand in both hers and looked up at him .aqulringly. They sauntered to the quiet end of the plat form, the mother folding her hands at her back for the support of the infant, a sure sign of fatigue, and I could see by the manner of the little girl as she sidled up to her father, almost over balancing herself on her tiny clogs, that he had cracked a joke for her es pecial benefit. For awhile 1 forgot that little family as I noticed the railway ollicials busily displaying from the waiting rooms and booking otliees the hino-iuaru, the un pretentious but effective Japanese Hag, which has so frequently been entwined with the union jack of late, while many people were arriving, all paying for a platform ticket and all hearing a hino- maru of some description. They brought red and white lanterns, too, and 1 now understood why it was that the tea houses In the vicinity of the station, the "station hotels,” were fes tooned with lanterns bearing the famil iar emblem of the rising sun. These, I afterward learned, were left burning all night while the troop trains were passing through “to light the soldiers on their way.” There was yet half an hour before the train was due, hut the clatter of clogs on the paved platform increased, and all was already hustle and excite ment. Young girls in bright kimono and gay obi, with flowers or ribbons in their coiffured hair, brought quaint little baskets, and a couple of smiling coolies curried bundles of long bam boos. A full hour had elapsed; the train was more than thirty minutes late, and evening was falling. The approach of the train was heralded by an unmusic al screech, evidently turned on for the occasion by the patriotic engine driver, and it was greeted with a vociferous banzai!—which sounds very like "hur ray” when shouted by a crowd—and as it steamed slowly in a hundred heads were thrust from the windows and a hundred tiny flags fluttered and rus tled In response to the banzai and wav ing of the crowd. Banzai! Banzai! Ban-Banzui! The little group of soldiers on the platform were Jocularly hustled into a compartment reserved for them, nil being presented by people in the crowd with flags, amid the heartiest snyo- naras. it was then that I noticed the mother and the children. There were no embraces with their goodbye, no kisses, no cambric handkerchiefs. The father merely patted the boy’s bead and stroked the little girl’s cheek, and bowed profusely to his wife with many “last words.” The demonstration of the people seemed to please the woman not a little, and It certainly delighted the children. She was smil ing, and I wondered did she realize that perhaps her gallant spouse might never return. The girls on the platform had opened their baskets and were taking from them packets of cigarettes which they attached to the bamboos held by the coolies and thus conveyed them over the heads of tin* people into the crowd ed compartments. The cigarettes were called “Happy.” this definition being printed on the packages in English be neath a picture of Britannia hand in hand with Yamnto liime. the goddess- princess of Japan, thus symbolizing the Anglo-Japanese alliance. The lit tle girl—O liana San her mother call ed her—was sent to secure a packet of cigarettes for her father and quick ly returned, delighted, with two pack ets, which she handed to him through the carriage window. This was the most impressive send- off 1 had ever witnessed. The undoubt ed sincerity of the crowd, many of the young men in which would eventually have themselves to go to the front, was very noticeable. There was noth ing of the hilarious after dinner "for lie's a jolly good fellow” element about this Japanese farewell. TLe demon stration was voluntarily planned to cheer the soldiers, and it did much to prove to them—if, indeed, such proof were necessary—that the heart of the nation would be with them wherever they might be sent in their country’s cause. The train with its precious burden lumbered onward, the waving of flags and lanterns, the sayonaras. the ban- zais, being responded to as lustily ns at first. The after half of the train con sisted of horse boxes and vans, be neath the dark covers of which could be seen the wheels of the gun car riages. It was gone. Then in a flash the horrors of war pierced my mind. These somber cars as they left the station in the semidarkness seemed to cruelly shut off the brave laughter and shouting as the sound gradually died away. There was an indescribable si lence in the ebbing crowd, and my spirits sank as 1 noticed that sweet young mother and the two bairns, blissfully ignorant of her cares. The baby was dangling a miniature red lantern on a small bamboo, which somebody bad given him. The wom an’s face was momentarily screened by her long sleeve and then by a glimpse from the weird lantern light her powdered face told its own story. It was as if the bloom bad been rude ly erased from the fruit—she was cry ing. She drew O Haim San to her, and as they shuffled homeward in the darkness I thought of that sentence, “The Japanese women never wept." Maybe they seldom allow their tears to be observed; but, believe me, there are many soft brown eyes moistened in “happy Japan” today. A Tent. The telephone bell in an uptown resi dence rang a few evenings ago. and a young woman who was expecting a call rushed to answer it. being sure that one of her admirers had called her up. “Is this ?” demanded a voice, re peating the number of the phone in question. “Yes,” replied the girl. “Well,” continued the voice, “we are testing the wire. Will you please draw a long breath and say very plainly, ’I will be good?’ ” She obeyed. “I will be good,” she said. “A little slower and a little more dis tinctly now, {> lease.” “I—will—be—good,” said the young woman, trying her best. “No. That's not right at all,” cor rected the voice. “We must fix that wire, I guess. Now make one extra ef fort and say it again.” The girl caught her breath. “I will be good!” she shouted. “Y'ou will, will you?” laughed the voice. "Well, I’m glad to hear you say so. You were decidedly unpleasant the last time I called.” And Just then the man at the other end of the wire “rang off.” Now the young woman is trying to discover just which of her admirers played such a detestable joke on her.— Philadelphia Press. HAIRDRESSING FEES FOR WAR Wo 1111-11 to ForeKo Elabo rate CollYureN to Help Tlietr Land. Iii time of war there is always a large number of women who are con sumed with a desire to serve their country and greatly galled by their limited opportunities for doing so. Jap anese women are much more restricted In this respect than the women of west ern countries, says Home Notes. They cannot even nurse the wounded on the field. Yet they have found a way of rendering a substantial service to their country. They are combining to do without the services of hairdressers as long as the war lasts and will give the money so saved to the government for use in carrying on the war. In America this would be no great sacrifice, nor would the financial pro ceeds be of much consequence, but in Japan hairdressing is a fine art, and the “artist in bah*” visits customers at regular intervals and arranges their dark and glossy tresses in a becoming manner. The arrangement shows their condition, for young girls, marriagea ble maidens, wives and widows all have their special style of coiffure. The cost of the process is about 15 cents, and, though it Is performed only once a week, the number of women who propose to forego hairdressing for pa triotic reasons is so large that it is hoped their self sacrifice may produce $5,000,000 monthly to be spent on the war. An AppendixlesN Club. The Appendixless club is to be the name of a unique social organization projected by Hamlet A. Bye of Sioux City, la., says the Cincinnati Commer cial Tribune. Mr. Bye called a meet ing of all who have lost their verml- fonns and purposes a permanent or ganization. It will be something like a G. A. B. Mr. Bye says, “We can talk of our wounds and our battles within the prison walls of the hospi tals.” Algerian Vlllnire Women Doctor*. The French government in Algeria proposes to establish a woman doctor in every village where the native popu lation is large enough, the native wom en being prevented by their social cus toms from consulting men physicians, in Algiers n dispensary has already been opened for women. Occasionally men die of thirst, but often they drink themselves to death. One knows the face of a man, but not his interior. He who hath eaten salt drinketh water. Foley’s Honey and Tar is peculiarly adapted for asthma, bronchitis anil hoarseness. The Karopatkln Plan. Undaunted by the yellow tide. The Japs crossed o’er the Yalu wide And then and there the fOe defied. Bold Kuropatkin shook itls head When he was told his men had fled. “We’ll lure ’em on,” he, smiling, said. The Japs advanced on every hand, They overran the mighty land, And Russia fulled to make them stand. Bold Kuropatkin watched the foe. He watched his legions turn an-' go. “We'll lure ’em on,” he chuckled low. Then Moscow's ramparts loomed In sight. And still the Russians held their flight, And still the Japs marched day and night Bold Kuropatkin winked his eye; He saw his famous Cossacks fly. “We’ll lure ’em on,” was still his cry. St. Petersburg came next In view. And round its walls the Japples drew A living cordon, strong and true. Bold Kuropatkin didn’t stay, But Morthward still he held his way. “W* 11 lurs ’em on," was all hs'd say. -Clsveland Plain Dealer. A fine bird makes her feathers finer. If anybody has a message for the people of this community he cannot deliver it to them so effectually, so cheaply, so quick ly in any other way as through the columns of this paper. It is the business of this pa per to carry messages of one kind and another into homes. The message will be delivered, too, under favorable conditions, for few persons take up their local paper except in a pleasant and receptive frame of mind. The sign upon the fence board may be good, but it can be seen only by travelers who go that particular road. The message in the local paper carries itself to thousands, no matter by which road they travel. Select your space and put your message where it will do the most good. 4 1 We, perhape, can help o fw if yoa will trat aak at ^T'i -ZH First sign of RHEUMATISM, Dangerous to let It run. Easy to cure now. A slnglo bottle of 't J M Will prob»My do the work. Bad cue* require mote. RHEUMACtDI cure, by erttin* tid of the cause, *o that no trace of the diaeaie lingerl in the system. It purifies the blood, relieves the inflammation of the kid neys. the chronic constipation and the catarrh that follows such a condi tion of the aystem. Though Mrs. Mary E. Welborn, of High Point. N. C., 1s 80 years old and had suffered from rheumatism for 20 years, she was completely cured by RHFUMACIDE. and declares she feeii “yeara younger” and ia anxious for “ail who are auffering from any of the forms of this dread disease'’ to try BHEUMACIDE and be cured. REV. J. R. WHEELER, a noted Methodist minister, of Retsterstown, Md . writes enthusiastically of RHEUMACIDE, which cured him. He it 75 years old and haa been in the ministry 50 years. SAMPLE BOTTLE FREE FROM BOBBITT CHEMICAL CO., PROPRIETORS. BALTIMORE, MO. “GETS AT THE JOINTS FROM THE INSIDE.*' Whooping Cough. “In the spring of 1901 my children had whooping cough,” says Mrs. D. VV. Capps, of Capps, Ala. “I used Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy with the most satisfactory results. I think this is the best remedy I have ever seen for whooping cough.” This rem edy keeps the cough loose, lessens the severity and frequency of the cough ing spells and counteracts any ten dency toward pneumonia. For sale by Cherokee Drug Co., Gaffney; L. D. Allison, Cowpens. Ladies and Children who can not stand the shocking strain of laxative syrups and cathartic pills are especially fond of Little Early Risers. All persons who find it ne cessary to take a liver medicine should try these easy pills, and com pare the agreeably pleasant and strengehening effect with the nau seating and weakening conditions following the use of other remedies. Little Early Risers cure biliousness, constipation, sick headache, jaundice, malaria and liver troubles. Sold by Cherokee Drug Co. One can paint the fur of a tiger but not his joints. Church Notes. The finest city and village Church es are painted with the Longman & Martinez Paints, and we want every Church to accept our donation when ever they paint. 8 & C make 14, therefore when you want fourteen gallons of paint buy only eight of L. & M. and mix six gallons of pure Linseed Oil with it, making actual cost of paint about $1.20 per galon. Don’t pay $1.50 a gallon for Lin seed Oil (worth GO cents) which you do when you buy other paints in a can with a paint label on It. Many houses are well painted with four gallons of L. & M. and three gal lons of Linseed Oil mixed therewith. Wears and covers like gold. These Celebrated Paints are sold by Smith Hardware Co., Gaffney; Blacksburg Drug Co., Blacksburg. Having JnstiReceived the Largest and Best “ * ~ and Carriages from $8.00 to $20.00 ever brought to town, we spec ially invite all prospective buyers to call and see them, as we are sure we can please and save you some money. Spring Matting has just come in. It’s what you’ve been looking for. Fresh and new, and the kind that wears (longest. We also have some special HALL CARPET to retail at factory prices. Come and see us for anything you need in our line. Shuford & LeMaster, Furniture, Stoves and Undertaking. 812 Limestone Street. RUBBER STAMPS Are my long suit. I make any kind except the bad ones. I furnish a Name Stamp and an Indelible Pad for Marking Linen for 4-0 CENTS. I have some other good things. J. WILrSOIV Typewriters, Office Supplies, Etc. 1334 MAIN STREET. COLUMBIA, S. C. Traveling is Dangerous. Constant motion jars the kidneys! which are kept in place in the body by delicate attachments. This is the reason that travelers, trainmen, street car men, teamsters and all who drive very much, suffer from kidney dis ease in some form. Foley’s Kidney Cure strengthens the kidneys and cures all forms of kidney and bladder disease. Geo. E. Hausen, locomotive engineer, Lima. O., writes, "Constant vibration of the engine caused me a groat deal of trouble with my kidneys, and I got no relief until I used Foley’s Kidney Cure.’ For All The News of Cherokee county read the only up-to-date paper published in the county. The Ledger has the largest paid - in - advance subscrip tion of any semi-weekly newspaper in the State. Only $1.00 a year, strictly in advance. :: :: :: THE L m -I f Tan As fine Poultry as can be found In any poultry yard. Come and see our different strains, and give us your order for eyirs now. Prlcea for eggs as follows: White Plymouth Kooks. 11.50 for la Barred P. Koeks,75c for 15. Cornish Indian Game, fl.50 for 15, Koseeomb K. I. Reds, $1.00 for 15. Singlecomh K. I. Reds, $1.00 for U. iloudans, fl.no for R White Wyandottes. $1 00 for 13 S. C. Itrown Leirhorns, 75e for 15. H. C. White Leghorns, 75o for 15. Manimouth Pekin Punk. 7.V for 13. Am Ijooklngorders for future de livery, Send In your ordet. nos* or come and see the fowls. You wdl always find Mrs. ('ash at I orne to wait on you. E. R. CASH.