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1 < \ THE LARGEST CIRCULATION of Any Newspaper in the Fifth Congressional / District, of S. C. j EVERY ONE PAID IN ADVANCE The Ledger. SEMI-WEPKIY-PUBLISHED TUESDAY AND FRIDAY. WE GUARANTEE RELIABILITY of Every Advertiser Who Uses the Columns of This Paper. BEST ADVERTISING MEDIUM. \ Newspaper in all that the Word Implies and Devoted to the Best Interests of the People of Cherokee County. ESTABLISHED FEB. 16. 1894 WAFFNEY, S. C . Fit T DAY, MAY ‘47. 1904. $1.00 A YEARS A HEART TO HEART TALK. THE GREAT REUNION. guide, the possibilities in store can not be estimated. As in revolution ary times. South Carolina was in the , lead, in the war between the States she was first, so in the prosperity of | the future she will be in the van. | She is a grand commonwealth and bound to prosper, and I, wherever I ' THE PALMETTO STATE AN OLD SOLDIER ADDRESSES OLD SOLDIERS. The Full Text of Capt. Harrison Pat- or will he the nation that makes war “God forbid that I should speak pAI OTDAIRI AT i necessary. lightly or irreverently or ungratefully yUl.1 O I llnlll A I “But one of the clearest lessons of that mercy that has spared the i taught in this slow vindication of lives of so many Confederate soldiers, the South in the judgment of man- It is a subject for the profoundest | kind is that truth is mighty and will gratitude and deepest appreciation | prevail; that wrong will sooner or that ever stirred the depths of human later recoil upon the doer; that might j heart. But there is not a tinge of never yet gained a complete victory irreverence or ingratitude in this HE TELLS LEDGER READERS ALL am, shall watch her upward march ITEMS OF INTEREST OF PASSING over right. Well did the poet say, j spirit that I am trying to illustrate. .-r with the greatest pride as long as I ! I‘Truth crushed to earth will rise “It is usual on such occasions as ABOUT IT. live, and when I come to die I shall! EVENTS IN SOUTH CAROLINA, again. The eternal years of God are this to speak of the trials and suffer i die the more peacefully from the hers!’ Ah! how the truth is rising ; ings, the heroic enduran.ce, the match- ; knowledge that I am a South Caroli-J in these slow-moving years! How less courage and the lofty patriotism Personal Paragraphs Concerning Pop-j nian ” (Loud aplause.) the right, once spurned, rejected, of the Confederate soldier. I want trampled under foot, is lifting its | to depart for a few moments from illo Griffith's Magnificent Speech at j iea( i again and calmly asserting its; the beaten track and throw a light power! Three millions of soldiers 1 on the gentler side of his nature, the Charleston Reunion. trampled over its grave and lofty' His experience was not all of stern The annual oration before the Pyramids of money commemorated i trial, of suffering, of danger and sor- .nth Carolina Division United Con- its l,eath ' but the grave cannot hold i row ' There were man , y P eno(ls ? f , reauers — — “** ““ | heard throughout the immense hall, mm Carolina Division, i mum von the (livine and money has never yet relaxation from the tension of march- count of the Charleston reunion this All through his address was punctu- . i .. was delivered j consecrate d and crystilized a wrong.! es and battles, and during one of week, and we would be glad to give ated with loud and prolonged ap- ular People and Short Items General Interest. Etta Jane, May After General Mickle concluded his 0 address, General Carwile introduced j Courier Master Morris C. Lumpkin of Augusta, Georgia, a boy of fifteen 24.—Doubtless y«*ars, who delivered an address. His will look for an ae- sweet. ringing, clarion voice could be Tuesday, in German Artillery Hall, Behind the glare and glitter of our by Col. H. P. Griffith, of Cherokee, j so-called national prosperity today Col. Griffith was introduce by Gen. there is a dark shadow in the back- Carwite, and spoke as follows; ground; in the track of the grand “ ‘The years teach much which the march of expansion and commercial- days never knew.’ So spake one of ism there are the signs of a gathering the ■closest thinkers of this country storm; amid all the shouts of pro- fifty years ago. My comrades, we gross and conquest the prophetic ear hare come together again, imbued can catch the sound of the moaning with the lessons of the years. The tempest and the rumbling earth- lurid days of our young manhood quake. knew much, but the years of your “1 know not whether the storm prime and of your old age have will burst in its fury, or the earth- known infinitely more. In the dark- quakes leap into terrible fire, but I do ness that was lit only by lurid can- believe, and the future years will vin- non’s glare or piercing rifle’s flash dicate my belief, that if this huge there were momentous secrets hidden, | national structure of Government which the slow years only could re- shall stand and furnish a permanent weal. Out of the fierce storm of pas-; home for freedom on this continent, sion, out of the black clouds of de- | it will he because its foundations are spair, out of the glowing furnace of laid in the principles for which the hate and the wild whirlwind of bat- Southern Confederacy fought and tie, the years have led us slowly fell. Those principles are the only along the highway of life, while the safeguards in this country today skies have smiled alAOve us and the | against tyranical oppression and sunlight of peace and hope has again despotism. shone upon onr pathway, and now! “My comrades the years in all the soft, mellow, peaceful light of their teachings have dealt kindly evening is gathering over earth and \ with you and me. Old age has come sky. ! on us softly and silently, as ever the “The years "have revealed a phono- shadows of evening crept into the menon to the nations of the earth wake of the sunbeams. The snow- not witnessed before since the dawn flakes of winter have fallen on of history—that of a people over-!your heads as gently as the caresses '%|k>wered in battle, branded as rebels,! that a young mother gives to her plundered of the possessions acquired first bora. But the imponderable by honest toil or inherited from a snowflakes, by constant falling on the noble ancestry, taunted with every mass beneath acquire an accumu- opprobrious epithet passion could lated weight that finally starts the coin or hate could invent, harried avalanche down the monntain side, and hounded by the minions of pow- which prostrates the trees and over- er, their cities wrecked, their fair whelms the plains. So, however soft lands swept with fire and sword, have been the touches of time, how- patriotism and honor, integrity and ever light the snowflakes of the win- virtue trampled in the dust, and the ter, the furrows have deepened, the black myrmidons of ignorance rein- ; weight has accumulated, and we forced by hordes of hungry miscre- calmly await the crash of the ava- ants from foreign lands, that gather- lancho that shall hurl us from the ed like flocks of carrion crows scent- mountain peaks of time. Your bovlies ip^f their prey from afar, marched have bent under the accumulated otci all that was dear and sacred weight, hut the fires of youth and and holy to a high carnival in our manhood still glow in your hearts— State Capital, where they feasted hearts that never again shall he and fattened for ten long years on thrilled with the fierce joy of battle, the life blood of a prosterate but y«t i I shouldn’t like to fool with you to- heroic people. day if you had guns in yonr hands, “The years hav« taught how a peo- hut if I could run like I could forty pie thus crushed can rise up out of j years ago, when running appeared the depths of their poverty, humilia- to me to be the best thing to do, 1 tion and an apparent helplessness, shouldn’t he much afraid of you on shake off the horrid nightmare, chase an open field, with no obstruction in Happenings All Over the State Taken from Our Exchanges and Tersely Told to Ledger Readers. W. H. Weldon, a white farmer about 45 years of age, of Providence, Sumter county, committed suicide Tuesday afternoon by shooting him self through the head with a 38-cali bre pistol. He was in had health. great man. Master Morris Lumkin is a brother of Miss Lizzie Lumpkin, whose ad dresses on similar occasions we have heretofore had the pleasure of furn ishing The Ledger readers. There is something about the A negro answering somewhat to tho description of the Bennettsville murderer was arrested at Sumter Tuesday afternoon. When locked up he gave his name as John Williams, of Columbia, and later as Paul Brown, of Kingstree. He was held awaiting these periods the typical Confederate ! its ever y detail had we the snace to Plause. It demonstrated that in that soldier was one of the most happy- impracticable , boy was an especial promise of a go-lucky, devil-may-care sort of fel-> ° hC, • BUl inai 1S impracucanie. lows in the world. He was unique in In company with Commander G. his whole make-up, and there was Wash McKown and Miss Bessie nobody else in the world like him. Moorehead, sponsor for Camp Jeffer- It was astounding how quickly and j i^s U. C. veterans, we arrived in the how perfectly he learned to take care city of Charleston on Tuesday even- of himself, how fastidious he became ins. 17th inst. at 7 o’clock, and went in his domestic tastes and how re- directly to our boarding house on sourceful he was under circumstan- Wragg street, where we were highly ces that appeared to shut him out entertained by our hostess, Mrs. E. from all resonrees. With his bayonet P- Lawton, whose husband, by the for a pick and a tin cup for a shovel j way, is a nephew of General A. R. . he would effectually intrench himself Lawton whose name and command a . f? 1 ' 6 our readers later on and we against the enemy before one hardly ure frequently mentioned in Gen‘1. they will lie appreciated, knew what lie was doing, and when Gordon’s reminiscences of the war. Among the distinguished person- tho enemy opened fire on him ho j Miss Bessie w T as entertained by Mrs. ; ages who were introduced to the con- would lie in his “hole,” as he called Gault, where she was highly pleased ! vention was Major John Jenkins, a on ly a small sum of money from hia it, and laugh at the shrieking of with her company and surroundings, brother of Gen. Micah Jenkins, of person. There have been no arrests, shells and the whistling of bullets j This good lady (Mrs. Gault), through : the Confederate army. Major Jen- above him. | Gen’l. Davis, was kind enough to see kins was presented by Col. O. L. The secretary of State has issued a “In camp, during a period of in that Miss Bessie was provided with ; Schumpert, but he (Major Jenkins) commission to the Coy Johnson corn- activity, his instincts broadened he- a seat in one of the carriage's to take ; was too feeble to speak. He was in- P&ny, a general merchandise concern, yond the domain of self-preservation, | part in the grand parade of veterans, | troduced by Col. John P. Thomas in Hampton county, capitalized at and his thoughts turned to projects ! which was a very imposing spectacle, an admirable speech which was $”>.000. Tw r o increases in capital have family that is far beyond the make further advices from Bennettsville. up of other families in the gift of oratory. We have notes of young Lumpkin’s speech which we will trv M. H. Reeves, a prominent druggist of Williamston, was knocked down and robbed Saturday night while on his way home from his place of busi ness. He was rendered unconscious by the blows. His assailants secured also been granted, one to the Bailey- Lebby company, of Charleston, from that promised convenierces, comforts 1 By actual count there were 1500 vet-j heartly applauded by the immense and luxuries. Ho usually had as his i erans in line of march. They were assemblege in the convention hall, own when he went into winter quar-! escorted by a number of military and ! Gen. T. W. Carwile was requested SJ^.hOO to $00,000, and the other to ters in Virginia a “fly tent” or rub-1 civic organizations, which we might by Major Jenkins to express his the Beaumont cotton mill, of Spar- her cloth, a blanket and a United ! mention as follows: heartfelt thanks for the ovation he tanburg, from $100,000 to $200,000. States overcoat all captured from the Chief of police and his lieutenants; j received at the hands of his com enemy during the previous campaign. He also owned a pocket knife, and had access to a battered pole axe and an army spade. With these impliments he began a campaign offensive and defensive against the rigors of a Vir ginia winter and usually came out Victorious. He dug him out a neat and commodious basement in the ground, smoothed and polished the walls until there was neither wrinkle nor crease to he seen; cut out a hand some fireplace in one end aud shaped it after the most fashionable models; bnilt a wall two or three feet high around the top of the whole perpendi cularly to the walls of the basement with the afore-mentioned pole axe; extending his chimney from the top of the ground with the same ma terial; erected a ridge pole over the centre, stretching his “fly” over all. pinning the edges down securely on the side walls, and closing the gable ends wth whatsoever his g<x»d fortune had thrown in his way or his sharp ened ingenuity could devise. If he bad not been on many long marches since his last battle and thus com pelled to abandon a large part of his the Hocks of vultures and harpies the rear. If you didn’t bring me hack into the darkness, and stand down in the first fire you’d never get (captured stores it was probable he forth in the broad light of heaven, j me. The long march and the running had oilcloth enough to close the gable look the whole world in the face and fight, the nimble skirmish line, the | ends of his habitation, if not there say ; ‘Ous cause was just and right; bivouac in sleet and snow and the were many other things that would onr principles were those which in weary hours on the sentry’s post, are do. all ages have fired the patriot’s heart all among the things that have been. “When this domicile, which com- and nerved the soldier’s arm; we but for you they will he no more. bined the best qualities of both a have baptized them in rivers of pre- “It Is one of the wonders among cave and a house, had been completed clous blood and they are embalmed the revolutions of the years today and the owner was pretty well se- and sanctified forever. We will that so many Confederate soldiers cured against tho assaults of the win- build monuments to our martyred are alive. According to the closest ter weather, then in his leisure he heroes; we will keep the graves of estimate that can be made from the turned his attention to conveniences our fellow comrades bright with the statistics of the camps and an ap- and luxuries. He was minutely ao flowers of spring, and cherish their proximation' of the numbers outside quainted with the topography of the memories as a sacred and holy trust; j of the camps there are yet 100,000 country for miles around, knew ex- we will teach our children and grand- left forty years after the last gun actly where some haystack stood platoon of police; Gen’l. T. W. Car wile and staff, mounted; Col. Schatchte, commanding Third regi- Among other things after much rades and friends. discussion as to the policy or pro- ment of Infantry, and staff; first band i priety of asking the legislature to Arthur Miller, a 17-year-old colored boy, was committed to jail in Char leston Tuesday to await the result of the wound which he inflicted with artillery corps U. S. army; batallion help in the work of erecting a monu- a P* s b>l upon Lillie Washington Mon cadets of S. C. Military Academy; ba- tallion cadets of Porter Military Academy; third regiment drum corps; third regiment South Carolina volun teer troops; Sumter guards; German Fusiliers; Washington Light Infant- ‘ selves. After much debate the fol- ment to the women of the Confeder- ' ia - v ni «ht in that city. He shot the acy it was almost unanimously de- woman in the right breast and the cided as unpatriotic even to ask the wound is of such a character that she legislature to do anything of the likely to die. Her ante-mortem kind, but the veterans d<> it them- statement was taken by Deputy Cor- ry; Irish Volunters; Palmetto Guards; Georgetown Rifle Guards; Calhoun Light Infantry of Florence; German Artillery, Capt. F. W. Wago ner, commanding; German Artillery Cadets; division No. 1, S. C. Naval Re serves; Charleston Light Dragoons, mounted; then a long line of car riages, containing sponsors and va- rions other distinguished personages, among them Gen’l. Wm. E. Mickle, adjutant inspector general United Confederate Veterans, and lastly, the column of Confederate veterans, 1500 strong. The line of march wai, from Cal houn square down King street to Wentworth, then down Wentworth street to Meeting street and down Meeting street to St. Michaels church. On either side of the marching col umns was a wall of living, cheering, joyous crowds extending from the curb stones to the windows and bal conies of the tallest honses—all packed to their utmost capacity. Flags waved and tho immense crowds applauded the marching columns, which responded with a hearty good will. It was rather a long march for the “old hoys.” whose means of loco motion is somewhat impaired, hut they stood it like the young men of forty years ago. It was not our good fortune to lowing resolution was adopted: ■‘Resolved, that a committee of this body (the U. C. veterans) he appoint ed by the commander (Gen. Carwile) at his convenience to formulate plans oner Connelly. The negro claims that the shooting was accidental, but it is said that the sluxjting followed a quarrel. _ _ t Fully one half of the business por- for the collection of funds for the tion of Greenwood was wiped out by erection of a monument to the women dro between three and six o’clock on of South Carolina. Wednesday morning. The fire is sup- Col. H. P. Griffith’s address was P° 8e d to have originated in the kitch- delivered on the first day of the con- en Central Hotel. The flames vention. It was well received and were first seen by an engineer on the highly applauded. c - & w C., who gave the alarm with In company with other Cherokee- ( tbe whistle. Although roused, Mrs. ans, your correspondent asked a Moseley, proprietor of the ho- Charlestonian how he liked Col. Grif- was 80 overcome by fright she fith’s address and the manner in re fused to jump and was overcome by which he delivered it, “Oh, it was dam os, which burned her to death fine,” he said, “He’s a Methodist at Appromattox, of the which the forage wagon had not yet f eacb ( barleston in time for the open- r principles men who wore the grey and upheld found, and from this or from some ! * ,lg * be reunion exercises, and eart of man- the Southern Cross through four army wagon, or from some hay loll i hence C amp Jefferies did not appear children that their fathers and grand- was fired fathers went to war for that were dear to the he kind, and that for these principles years of the most gigantic and des- he procured a soft, dry covering for j ' n oarri I >s which responded they upheld the Southern Cross tractive warfare of modern times. ;his floor and material for a bed i ^ drs (- ro ^ call. But it was ad- through four long years of smoke and “It is really wonderful and looks: that constantly wooed him to ded to the li 8 t at the opening of the flame and blood, and sacrificed all like the approving seal of God. Yet gentle and peaceful slumbers. 8eco ” ( ) <,ay s session, which met at but their sacred honor. they said the South was effeminate,, Then, as he had further leisure.' 10 o’clock a. m. Wednesday and was ‘‘And as the story shall he told enervated by slavery, debilitated by he manufactured arm chairs and , nlK>no<1 P ra yer by Rev. J. May- and retold to the coming generations luxury and lacking in the physical 1 camp stools. fancy buttons for nanl Marshall, chaplain of the United it shall keep alive the flame of pa- vigor and endurance so necessary to bis sweetheart at home, and various i ^ ons ^ Confederate \ eterans. triotism, cherish an admiration for the soldier. ! other articles, all out of huge pop- G ‘‘ n 1 , Carwile then introduced deeds of deathless valor, and cause “Two years ago when we met at l ars or other trees, which he hacked Cen 1. \\ m. E. Mickle of New Orleans, the heart of every man worthy of Greenville, I went to the Auditorium down and hewed into slabs wtih the a ' , j ,ltant and inspector general and his birthright to swell with pride at early and took a seat near the front, indispensable j»olo axe. He fashioned ! chief of the i nited Confederate Vet- the thought that his ancestors were by a grayhaired veteran whom I these chairs according to his own fas-j oraoS- spoke as follows; followers of Lee and Jackson and didn’t know. There were only a few tidious tastes, bored round holes ini r ' *‘'airman, Ladies and Corn- little squads that had gathered here them somehow and furnished them r a,1<>s ' 1 301 a ^ ral<1 General Carwile Hampton.’ “That is the speech that the viving Veterans and the true and daughters of Veterans make to of an acquaintance with each other, j mac sur- and there in the hall, and my com- with legs, arms and backs that looked ! | 8 a 1 drst class fraud. It was dis- sons rade and I, not having the pieasure, like they had been through a planing j!!'* ) un, ‘ erst( H>d before I came to nachine and a turning lathe. But : har . turning lathe. Brit the living world today, and the world sat in silence. But as the hour for j perhaps it was on briar root pipes no longer replies with jeers and the exercises approached other that he oxemplifled the perfections taunts and vituperation, but hears squads began to arrive, and soon °f bis tastes and reached the highest with respectful silence or responds there was a continuous stream of achievements of his art. Many of with slow and enforced approval, veterans flowing into the hall. They these pipes, fashioned and finished The ablest historians of the North poured in. some on crutches, some j with a pocket knife, would have look- ‘ston that I was not to lie called upon for aspeech. I am aware that I am no orator. But my beloved com rades, if I hail been born dumb and isn’t he?” continued the fellow. Why do you ask that, we quired? “Because he is long winded,” said the fellow. As soon as he had passed on one of our forty who had smelled his breath said, “That fellow is a better judge of corn whiskey than he is of the time it takes to deliver a speech on such an occasion.” One lady, a Mrs. Heyward, of Charleston, in speaking of the ail before rescue was possible. Her charred remains were found in tho ruins. The total property loss is es timated by conservative people at not less than $133,000, with not over $75,000 insurance, if so much. Con tracts are being made to rebuild. The First National Bank building was to tally destroyed, but the bank issued hand hills by sunrise the same morn ing announcing that it would he opened for business by the usual dress said to your correspondent, “I hour of nine o’clock. AH the hooks felt like when he began to speak that he was going to make a failure. He seemed to he exhausted and spoke with some difficulty. But before he proceeded far the fire of the sixties and papers of the bank were saevd Quick Arrest. J. A. Gulledge of Verbena, Ala., was twice in the hospital from a severe began to burn in his words and long ease of piles causing 24 tumors. Af- before he finished, he had captured ter doctors and all remedies failed the entire audience who gave vent Bucklen’s Arnica Salve quickly ar- to their feelings in the applause they rested further inflammation and cured gave him. him. It conquers aches and kills pain It’s impossible to crowd all we i at Cherokee Drug Co. have to say about the reunion into one short letter and our readers who expect us to tell it all must wait un til we have the opportunity to do so. Suffice it to say that in every respect, so far as we could see or know, it was a complete success. Everything worked harmoniously. Cherokee The church cannot feed mush. men on CURES CATARRH county was well represented and not '‘Hvomei th* „ a thing occurred to mar the pleasure * the Most Wo " derf ul Cure for Catarrh Ever Discovered,” says of the occasion hut the sad drowning of those unfortunate men who went down into watery graves while en joying the pleasures of the reunion ! occasion. Gaffney Drug Co. Do not try to cure catarrh by tak- now are saying and the ablest profes- limping on wooden pegs, some one- sors of history in the great Northern armed—a motley host, worn and bat- univorsities are teaching that the tie-scarred, and uniformed only with I South was legally and constitution- gray hairs and bald heads. As the ally right in the great straggle, hut procession went on I noticed that as if unwilling to abandon every plea my old comrade became restless and of justification of the course of the fidgety and more and more excited. Federal Government, they wiggle He turned in his seat, looked this way and shuffle and add: ‘But the country and that and by ami by, when the hail outgrown the Constitution; the house was filled, gallery and all, and South had not kept np with the pro there was a great sea of wrinkled gress of the age; she was enervated faces and sleek heads before him. by slavery, a clog and a hindrance to hi' could restrain himself no longer national development, and it was ne- and he sprang from his seat and ex- cessary that there should bo a new j claimed: ‘By George! There’s a order of things; the time was ripe good many of us yet!’ A gleam of and the war had to he.’ O, how hard triumph spread over his furrowed it is to tell an unpalatable truth! brow and the fires of the sixties glow- How persistently the human mind ed for a moment in his faded eyes, will cling to an error that soothes and how the picture reminded me of and avoid a truth that stings. Yes, the true Confederate soldier—The the war had to be. And so long as man whose festive spirit led him g^od and evil, right and wrong are to go in with the chances heavily antagonistic In their natures, so long against him. and, by George ‘to come as the spirit of injustice and oppress- out on top.’ In his youth no doubt Ion, of arrogance and hatred, of greed my old comrade’s heart had often and fanaticism, can find men who leaped with wild triumph over the will resist and die. if need he, rather dangers of battle; now it leaped again than surrender their manhood and all to see so many of his comrades still that they hold dear, just so long will holding the ground after a battle there always he war, and the aggress- with forty years of life. ed well in Von Santen’s bazaar or , . . . , il „ done honor to a showcase on Broad- ,,1, ‘ as,lr ,n meeting South Car way. If he did not smoke himself oIina ,y eteran8 treading South Caroli- some favorite officer would probably he complimented with this exquisit ( Lieut. Gen. C. Irwin Walker, com-i h " g ‘ , nt ° th ® stomach: u cannot manding U. C. Veterans Department in Lm lha t mana cr- The only - Army of Northern Virginia, will de- ?LiL iL V h S . t0 u common dis ' remained dumb until this hour, my liver an address at Limestone College nnnii h De oured through a direct speech would come to me that I j during commencement week—sub- r f * L* that will kill the bacilli might convey to those assembled ' Jcct. “The Memories of the Sixties.” 1 T , a , and I)revont their growth, here the high honor and intense I Everybody should hear him and we . ,s the only known method hope he will be greeted with a crow-,^ a l m 0 e l nt , that accomplishes this, ed house. is th . e sira Plest, most pleasant, and Mrs. J. T. Blgham. of Sharon, is ab80 ' ute ?, ure for catarrh “The days of my childhood were quite sick at the home of her daugh- 1 Vj s \° r ’’‘‘‘n discovered. 1 -- - - thousands of unsolicited testimo- ials have been received from the most prominent men and women in country who have been cured by this remarkable remedy. Ministers, na soil. production of the pocket knife; oth- spent MJ^iPPL of my mature ! ter Mrs^ T. J Estes. nja erwise lu* enjoyed it himself md y *‘ ars In Alabama, while at. present Miss Amanda Bratton is still alive. mf)< seated In hls^arnf chair before a good 1 livo in Lou,s,ana ' th “ Kindest com- At tho election last Saturday the fire in his quarters with plenty of to 1 monWOalth of the South * M - v h ' ,m c «P<‘cial tax of 2M- mills for school [L bacco which the army Ssuallv had at pres< ‘ nt is 1,1 NVw Orleans, which 1 purposes in this district was carried lie Whiffed awav the wtotrv is dGst, ned in the not distant future by 31 to 3. I.f" u n’ y , ’ T” emin, ’ nt P hy8 ‘- with anarentlv nothimr to .li't.irt id tn 1,0 commercial metropolis of I Farmers are chopping out cotton Ilf' 6 given str ong testimonials cept nerhans the dread of i c» i to devotedly ““ached, hut around the , Cotton in many pla— r ’ m catarrh. guanl or niTket dtitv d, ‘ ar old Palmfi “o State most fondly ' stand. So with the < tj. I Clusters my affections, for in its capi- cut worms have plav ’Such was the typical Southern tal ritv . flr t soldier in camp as I knew him in lXf.3. What he was in battle the world has already heard and the : devotedly attached, hut around the | Cotton in many p.ace. nas a poor Th „ COInplpte HyomeI omflt cogtg capi-i cut worms have played hovic with it *i' If ?1 u". consisting of an inhaler, the light. (Ap- Dr. Hood. of Hoodtown. was in t,^ t0 laHt Plause.) South Carolina is a great this neighborhood today on profes- i„ ' L. , 1 h,s ' Vl11 c fff 'ct a cure State. Every stream of its crvstal I sional business. 1 ' ,n 1 ordinary Gase8 ' b »t for chronic and deep-seated cases of catarrh. verv Sick f ' n S er use may he necessary, and very sith. th(M , oxtra bottles, of Hvomei can \y> obtained for 50c. It is not alone the J. L. S. Every stream of its crystal i sional business world will continue' to "hear tor watorK as !t dash(,fi and foams down 1 We regret to know that Mr. to come For tho^h thr^ei of fhe i itH mountain sidGS tdls the story of | O. (Bridge) McCulloch is istorian m- v he d?L'5 tn Ln -J i the salut,rity of its climate and the “/Z "LuW pr"ju,Uce ' "TSh”' !hr,S"t h "IT "T”- moan Pillar, of cloud before t he gaze of over lta sl . a . R|rt a<|(| comp|ete mankind that can never he distorted, discolored nor dissipated. The parti- (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE ) confirmation. Ills that come from Summer's Heat A mother need not fear to greet, When with "TEETHINA” she’s supplied. No ills w-ith baby need abide. best (it might he caller] the only) method of curing catarrh, but it is also the most economical. The Gaffney Drug Co. have so much confidence in the power of Hyomei to cure catarrh, that they will for are and The vast enterprises of the State j nla™^ c in their infancy, and with wise cents at Druggists, or mail 25 cents the money if the purchasers can Jv ,d safe men of ample mean, to i to Dr C. J. Moffett, St. Doul,. Mo. that It did not helo them X