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THE LEDGER, publithed Tuesday and Friday by Ed H. DeCamp. NOTES AND COMMENTS. THE SABBATH. WOMEN AND SOCIETY. The Ledger is not responsible for He views of correspondents. Correspondents who do not contri bute regular news letters must fur nish their name, not for publication. Write short letters and to the point to insure publication; also endeavor to get them to the office by Monday nad Thursday mornings, hut for identification. Obituraries will be published at five cents a line. All correspondence should be ad- dessed to Ed. H. DeCamp, Manager. We invariably discontinue sending The Ledger when a subscription runs out, for we have no way of knowing that a person wants it except by re ceiving his or her renewal. We ur gently solicit a prompt renewal, on the ground that the paper is worth the money. We are trying month by month to make it better and bet ter. We were pained to learn of the death of Mr. J. T. Drew, editor of the County Messenger, published at Hartsville. It was our pleasure to know Mr. D#ew and number him among our friends. We join his be reaved family in their sorrow, and ex tend them our sincere sympathy. One Is a AMONG OURSELVES. Parker is said to be red-headed, and Davis is old enough to be gray-haired. May we not speak of them as the red and gray heirs of the White House?—Spartanburg Herald. At any rate, Mr. Hearst has the satisfacton of knowing that he is a thoroughbred. He spent more than one million dollars in the campaign, but he got his share of advertising, and being game, he is not going to whine and snarl. A good loser is a thing of beauty and a joy forever.— Greenville News. NATIONAL TICKET. For President, ALTON B. PARKER, of New York. For Vice President, HENRY G. DAVIS, of West Virginia. If there was anything stranger than Senator Tillman acting as peace maker at the Democratic convention it is the Charleston Evening Post’s enconium upon him for his course. The Post comes very near “slopping over.” Verily, as the Post exclaims, “the days of miracles are still with us.”—Anderson Daily Mail. Now for the election of Pai*er for two terms and then the election of a Southern man on the Democratic ticket.—Newberry Herald and News. HOME AND PLEASURE SEEKING. It is the season again for summer • excursions and summer vacations, and with the season comes the reign of summer tourists and of all-round pleasure seekers. The people of the seaboard will go in crowds to the mountains and the people of moun tain regions will go in like crowds to the seashore; the trains will be crowded, and the hotels at the water ing places will all be full of people with no particular object in mind ex cept to find a change of some sort and to conform to what has become a fashion. Some few in these crowds have been closely confined and hardly worked for the past ten months, and actually need a period of change, rest and recreation; but the vast majority of them are people of comparative leisure, for whom life is not intense enough to be interesting and enter taining, and they are seeking change of environment in the vain hope of finding something that will satisly their hungry cravings. According to our observation the most miserable people in the world are the habitual, professional ure seekers. They go from place to j place in restless haste or in languid indifference; they lounge on the sof-1 as of the hotel parlors or on tin*: seats in tin* jerks, perhaps reading i in a perfun >ry and absent-min ieu way some sensational novel; they are fastidious and hard to please at their meals; and their whole demeanor betrays a state of restless misery. It has never occurred to them that happiness is born within and works its way outward and that no combina tion of extraneous circumstances can send it into a heart already satiated with ease and incapable of feeling the inspiring thrill of noble aspira tions and of unselfish, heroic effort. The goddess of pleasure is exceed ingly shy and elusive to those who seek her favors. Like many so-called friends in human shape she reveals herself to those who are in a measure independent of her aid and indiffer ent to her smiles. She blesses those who forget her, lavishes her affec tions upon the true, the faithful, and the brave, and often reserves her choicest rewards for the lowly and obscure, for the heroes and heroines of trial and misfortune. We are not condemning summer recreations and pleasures. They are becoming a part of our civilization, and as the strain of modern life be comes more and more intense, per haps they become more andi more necessary. But we do say that if home is not the most pleasant place to the average man and woman of our part of the country, then it ought to be, and the chances are that its in mates will seek pleasure elsewhere in vain. A little care now and then through the busy season bestowed upon comforts for the home; a little of the money spent on summer ex cursions, applied to making it at tractive; a little cultivation of domes tic affection; and a little conscien tious study of the subject of domestic happiness—these will make home happy and restful, and there will be little need to seek a better place for recreation, for such a place can no where be found. South Carolina does not need more judges, but she evidently needs more who are able physically as well as 1 mentally to discharge the duties of the office.—Newberry Observer. Acting on the advice of a noted naval officer at the fight at Santiago, “Don’t cheer, the poor devils are dy ing." we are refrained from jabbering at Bryan for the poor devil is dead. —Easley Progress. Tillman at St. Louis. [Charlotte Chronicle.] Senator Tillman acquitted himself fairly well at the St. Louis conven tion, the only thing occasioning a burst of his usual picturesque lan guage being the receipt of the Par ker telegram. Then he said some things with an embellishment about not going to bo kicked and cuffed about that way and was about to say something more when a New Yorker tapped him on the shoulder and sug gested that he wait until he had read the telegram. To this he acquiesced in good humor. In fact, Mr. Tillman was rather jolly all the time. In his speech he said it is time to bury the hatchet. He said he favored the Chicago and Kansas City platforms hut recognized the fact that the par- pleas- ty could never get enough votes on those platforms to win an election. We believe that in the St. Louis con vention, Mr. Tillman was distinctly an element for good. Lockhart Locals. Mrs. Tom Latham is tick at pres ent. A party of our friends paid a visit to the Masonic I»dge at Union last Friday night. Among them were .las. T. Hodge, overseer cloth room; B. H. Howe, roller cover: Jno. B. Young and J. H. Rogers, loom fixer. They report having a good time. Mr. W. B. Cranford, who has been with us a few days, returned to his home at Greers on the 2nd inst. Mrs. Alice Kitchens has returned from Greers, where she spent a few days with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Cranford. Mr. B. T. Porter has the prize cow of this community. He says she is too good to associate with other cows. Mr. L. P. Radford, who came here a short time ago to run the market, has closed his doors and we expect some one else to open up in a few days. J. B. Hawkins has returned from Gaffney and is back on his job. Miss Minnie Maness has returned and is working in the mill again. Prest. Jno. C. Cary started for St. l,ouis on the 4th inst. We wish him a delightful trip. Ekhart. t.'aiinol !>** Cured by the the diseased portion of the ear. There |s only one w i v to eure deafness, and that Is by eonstll ill,nu ll remedies. Ileufness is caused by Inllitined eoudltlou of the mucous I'nlri* of the Kustachian Tube. When this tulxi acts iiillamed you have a rumbling Hound or l(n perfect hearing, and when Ills untlrely dosed deafness Is the result, and unless the Inflammutiuu ean be taken out ami tills tube restored tolls normal eondl- tlou. bearing will be destroyed forever: nine cases out of ‘n are mused oy catarrh, which Is notblnu'but :• u Inttamed condition of the mucous surfaces. We will give One Hundred hollars for any case of I leaf mss (cased by cut urrlo t hat cau- not lie cured by Hall's catarrh Cure. Send for dreulars. free. I'. J t I1KMEY A t o.. Toledo. O Hold bv hruggest*. 7.V Hall's family PUL are the best. Midway Matters. Midway, July 12.— Upland corn in this section, most of which is laid by, is as fine as we have ever seen it at tills time of the year; but cot ton is not so good. Mr. Lem Blanton has the finest acre of corn that we have seen in several years. He is competing for "that ton of guano,” and our opinion is that if Lem don't get it so: -body will have to make over fifty bushels of corn on Ills acre. Miss Jane Whelchel went to Cor inth last Sunday, to attend tin* chil dren’s day exercises, and returned Monday. G. S. Turner’s baby tiled yesterday and will be buried tomorrow at the Petty graveyard. It was about three months old. and had not been healthy from birth. Jairus. Day of Rest Out of Seven Matter of Necessity. No religious obligation is more fa miliar than the sacred observance of the Sabbath. It is always prominent in enumerations of duties owed by man to God. To a large extent it is a test of the godliness of a person. Religion and morality are equally in volved in many of the command ments of God—such as those forbid ding murder, unchastity, theft and ly ing. Man's innate sense of the right and honorable impels him to conform to such requirements as these. The ungodly man feels the obligation to treat his fellowman with honesty, justice and kindness, to speak the truth and be chaste. Readiness of conformity to these requirements can subsist along with absence of recog nition of obligation to God. But the sacred observance of the Sabbath is not involved in the gener al principles of the right and good governing men in their relations with each other, it is a matter simply between man and God. One can ig nore the sacred obligations of the Sabbath and not be affected thereby in itis own self-respect and in that of others. He can violate this command and yet stand as honorable and vir tuous. Attitude towards the Sabbath is therefore a sharp test of godliness, of recogniion of obligation to God. For this reason the sacred observance of the Sabbath is offensive to the world, excites the antagonism of the natural heart of man. It is a touch stone, showing his real standing towards God. While it is true that the sacred ob servance of the day is, in a peculiar sense, an obligation to God, there is another view of it, which is too much over-looked. It is viewed too exclu sively as affectiing our obligations to the will of God, and. as such crossing our interests at many points. The Savior, in clarifying the atmos phere with which the misinterpreta tions of man had obscured it. declar ed “The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath.” Accord ing to this, the institution is for man's benefit, not for God's sake. It is “the Lord’s day,” and yet more truly t is it man’s day. In the deepest sense it is not true that God gives us six days for our own use and profit, re serving the seventh for himself. All the seven days are for our use and profit, most especially the Sabbath. It is man’s day above all others. The object of this article is to call attention to the fact that the Sab bath, with its sacred appointments is a necessity to man. It is neces sary to his welfare in all spheres of his nature—physical, mental, moral and spiritual. It would be both interesting and profitable to consider man in each of these spheres of his being, and see the necessity of the Sabbath to him in each of them, but tiie limit set to the length of this series of articles will not admit of it. The necessity of the Sabbath as a day of rest is generally recognized. Man is a laboring race. Each one itas, or ought to have, work to do. God said to him, at the beginning ot bis course as a sinner, “In the sweat of thy face shall thou eat bread.” Neither the body nor mind can hear continuous labor. Periodic seasons of rest are required. This need is partially met in God's gracious pro vision of tho night. Eight hours of each twenty-four is required by the average person for sleep. But the nightly supply of rest is not suffi cient. A more protracted period is required. Six consecutive days of labor is as much as man ean bear. He needs to spend the seventh in rest. But for the rest enforced by the Sabbath an almost universal break down would prevail. Physical and mental wrecks would block the pro gress of human affairs. It is not only the actual rest which benefits, hut also tiie anticipation of it, during the days of labor. There are many incidental benefits which are immeasurably great, such as its promotion of refinement and domestic welfare. The simple mat ter of “Sunday clothes” exerts an immense influence in saving the race from brutal coarseness and degrada tion. it affords to families the op portunity for intercourse which is essential to well-being. Viewed as a period of rest from labor the Sabbath is a necessity. It has been aptly called "Heaven’s an tidote for the curse of labor.” This benefit is recognized and predated by many who do not predate its highest necessity [Address communications for this col umn to P. O. Box 304.] Well fitting costumes for the ocean dip have come to be regarded as qiut 1 as essential as are well fitting gowns for the street wear. The woman of today enjoys her salt water bath with a zest that is keener for the consci ousness that her suit was made for her, is becomming and shapely. Flan nel is little used. It is bulky and becomes weighted with water at the first plunge. Nothing is completely satisfactory as mohair or light weight serge, both of which are wiry and shed, in place of retaining the water. Black is the conservative color and always in good taste, hut dark blue, gray anti white are seen, while shep herds checks are much liked fortrim- ing. * * * Mrs. J. M. Steadman and children have returned from a pleasant visit to Batesburg. Mrs. Bryant Lipscomb and son, of Pensacola. Fla., are visiting Mr. and Mrs. John H. Lipscomb. Mr. and Mrs. Ed. Gaines and chil dren left Thursday for a visit to Martinsville. Va. Miss Annie Johnson has gone to Piedmont for a weeks stay. Mrs. Dr. Littlejohn returned this week from a visit to her son. Mr. Howard Littlejohn, at Batesburg. Miss Myrtle Gaffney has returned from a visit to Monroe. Mr. and Mrs. Carr left this week for an extended visit north. Mrs. Elam, of Kings Mountain. N. C.. is the guest of Mrs. R. S. Lip scomb. Misses Louise and Ruth Sarratt re turned this week from a visit to Union. Mrs. H. Kroh and Miss Freeman Garrett spent Wednesday at Pied mont Springs. For Rent. C^Aarerti»<*njfiiti» uniter this head wli; ce iiisi-rti'd f< r un cent u w .ra each .ns- r- ttoi.. .N*-.id inserted f (»r les"* than t.-n cer ts CONTINUE Those who are gaining flesh and strength by regular treat ment witn Scott’s Emulsion should continue the treatment In hot weather; smaller dose a ida little cool milk with It will ci > away with any objection which is attached to fatty pro ducts during the heated season. Si-rul for f-ee SCOTT & HOWN t. Chemists, 409-41$ Pearl Street. New Yorlc. 50c. and #1.00; all druggists. PARKER’S HAIR BALSAM CIeari8#*§ and beautified the hair. Promotei a luxuriant growth. Never Fa*Is to Hestora Ormy Hair to its Ycuthf.il Color. Cures <: * • a. hair falliug. 50c, and >1* if Druggiiti $5,000 ap- a jt- as and Chamberlain’s Colic, Cholera Diarrhoea Remedy. Thin remedy is certain to he need ed in almost every home before the slimmer is over. It can always he depended upon even in the most se vere and dangerous cases. It is es pecially valuable for summer disor ders in children. It Is pleasant to take and never falls to give prompt relief. Why not buy It now? It may save life. For sale by Cherokee Drug Co., Gaffney; L. D. Allison, Cowpens. A married man and Ills money soon changed in the shops. are Baseball in Japan, Is already has just been Introdneed where the supply of fans very large. If Carnegie really wants 10 die poor he should invest itis surplus coin in a get-rich quick scheme. touching man’s moral and sjtiritual interests. it is necessary for these in a pre eminent degree. We could better dispense with a Sabbath for the rest and recuperation of the body and mind than with a Sabbath for the promotion of our moral and spiritual welfare. The approach and dawn of the Sab bath calls upon man to turn his at tention to things that are high—to God and our relations to him, tis requirements of us, and our eternal destinies. Man is summoned by it, to a large degree forced by it, to think of God, to meet together for His worship, and to receive instruc tions front His word. The Sabbath is well called the very citadel of re ligion Without it all interest in re ligions things would be lost. The very knowledge of God would fade from the minds of man. It is absolutely essential to man’s moral and religious welfare. Its ben efits are commensurate with the heights and depths of man’s nature. It follows that those who violate its sacred character, discredit Its obligations are enemies to mankind— to the best interest' of their country, communities and families. All high Interests demand tnat each one keep the Sabbath as God lias appointed It to be kept, to use His Influence for its proper observance, to resist every encroachment upon it as God’s day for man’s special benefit. H. H. Hay. Wood’s Seeds. Crimson Clover Sown at the last working of the Corn or Cotton Crop, can be plowed maler the folb-wi April or May in time to plant corn or other crops the same season. Crimson Clover prevents winti r leaching of the soil, is equal in fer tilizing value to a good 1 ” ation of stable manure and will wonder fully increase the yield and qtisd- ity of corn or other crops which follow it. It also makes splendid winter and spring grazing, fine early green feed, or r good hay crop. Even if the crop is cut off, tiie action of tiie roots and stubble improve the land to a marked de gree. Write for price end epeclel cir»* cular telling about seeding etc. T.W.Wood & Sons, Snedsmen, RICHMOND, • VIRGINIA. Wood’s Descriptive Fall Catalog, ready about August 1st. tells all about Farm and Vegetable Seeds for Fall plant ing. Mailed free on request. ! -1 F oK KENT—Four-room bouse, near enough In for factory operatives. C. M. Smith. t-SMf. F OR RENT Nice '.-room cottage, with ail improvements, on Urenard Street. Ap ply to J. C. Jelfeiles. 4-l-tf S l'ITKs of looms to let ill the.Star Theatre A. N Wood. j-1f F OR BENT— A good 1 w IIi ir-e farm with a neat live-room cottage. Apply at once to J. C. Lipscomb. 2-lti-tf FOR SALE. FOR SALE—Eight-horse portable steam engine; 50-saw Pratt gin and condenser: one press. Apply to T. D. Littlejohn, Asubry, S. C. 7-12-tf. Dr. S. H. Griffith, PHYSICAN - SURGEON - OCULIST. Former pupil of the celebra ted Oculist, Dr. Julian J. Chisolm, ot Baltimore. Has also taken special post-grad uate course in the Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat Hospital of Baltimore. Glasses Fitted Accurately and Scientifically. Jt Jt Jt Office in Cherokee Drug Co.. B’ldg. FOR SALE—One second-hand Mc Cormack mower and rake, also ball bearing Disc Harrow: two milk cows and one hiefer. Apply to W. H. Richardson. 7-lo-tf. Wanted. WANTED—Two or three copies of The Ledger of July 1st, 1904. Bring or send to this office. NOTICE. I will not be in my office from the 19th to the 22nd inst. W. K. Gunter. Money Loaned. L OAN'S on Improved farms 'or a term of years at seven per cent. Interest. Ni .;ommls-,lous. For Information apply to J- C .’etTertes. Attorney nt haw. at tiie same place, No. Rutledge SU I am ready to do your work O. K. New build ing. 2.400 feet floor space; general repair, from forge to last coat of paint. Wagons, buggies, carts, &c; any part repaired or new part put in. Tire setting a specialty. Good stalls and water for your stock. I am here to serve you. W. T. Thompson. FOR When bilious take Chamberlain’s Stomach and Liver Tablets. For sale by Cherokee Drug Co., Gaffney; L. D. Allison, Cowpens. TRESPASS NOTICE. The frequent disregard of the ordi nance forbidding trespassing in the cemetery here has obliged the council to notify each, all and every one that the ordinance will be enforced to the letter in the future; that all parties are forbidden to go upon any lot, to take any flower, plant or other prop erty, or to break, deface or in any way injure the property thereon, and any one found guilty of violating the ordinance will he fined not more than fifty, nor less than five dollars for each and every offense. R. M. Gaffney, Mayor. Up-to-Date Job Print ing, call at the LEDGER Office. Gaffney, S. C. J. F. GARRETT, Dentist. Office Over The Battery CALL HERE ’Phone S2 Fc :..0ld ;-‘j: \ ,'j mi: ■: C' r.v--' Oi‘•.- J ' 1 • liEORGbVA»!;■/>: C2U. t ;<;!i.Ktco.t.Ca. Or. D. P. THOMSON, Dentist. -v Office over Cberokee Dru^ Co. M LIAM S. H Al.l. .1 R. JAM'S A Wll.Llr. HALL & WILLIS, ATTORNEYS AT LAW. STAR IHEATKK BLOG. < v a t- r i-^ rs; be ~v, Notary Public In office. Prompt altentloi •ivefi to all business. DR. W. K. GUNTER, u f; x 'r 1 st x ■fHce in'Star Theatre Building. Phone No. 2<h Crown and Bridge Work a specialty. /u . -• M *. • AV)-' - • rt- t ‘ yp fi a < • -i £ Yv ■ ur Ui* v-/ \ : $ fcsl I- :]/ ; ..V For Photo I-ran Passe-Partout Bi ing. Passe-Part work, Photo Albu Gun Metal PI: Holders, (for ii vidua] photograj Wire Picture Rai Films and the 1 m all photograj work. June H. Carr, Phone 176.’ Residence, 171. 625 Limestone Street C. Eskridge B 4 U Have your I'.laeksniHbliiK I» die. All Smithing, Iron and Wood Work done in first-class style and at reasonable rates. (Fortenberry's Old Standi. By the time a wIho guy Is rich enough to marry, tint fool Iihh child ren hig enough to support him. It’s mighty interesting tho way a girl can look at a man without doing it. CLERK’S SALES. State of South Carolina, County of Cherokee. M. B. Willis, vs. Maud Hayden, et. al. In obedience to a decree herein, for foreclosure, dated June 21st, 1904, I will sell at Gaffney, S. C., before the court house dtxtr, to the highest bid der during the legal hours of sales, salesday, August 1st, 1904, the fol lowing described property, to-wlt: All that certain lot or parcel of land lying and situate in the county of Cherokee, State aforesaid, within tiie town of Blacksburg, beginning on Clairbourne street, corner of Maud Hayden and J.- L. Davis, and running N. 31 W. 140 yards to Pine street; thence with Pine street N. 59 E. 70 yards; thence S. 31 E. 140 yards to Clairbourne street; thence with Clair- hourne street S. 59 W. 70 yards to beginning corner, containing two acres, more or less, and being the lot on which the residence of Maud Hayden is situated. TERMS OF SALE: One-half cash, and balance on credit of one year, se cured by a bond of the purchaser and mortgage of the premises sold, with 8 per cent. Interest. Ptirchaaer to pay for all papers and recording, ami may have privilege of paying all cash. J. Eh Jefferies. CJk. C. C. Pis. Gaffney, S. C., July 9th.’l904. Pub. July 15-22-29. Hall A Willis. Plaintiff’s Attorneys. FOR Building and Plastering Lime, Coal, and Plaster Hair, Plaster ’’aria. Shingles, Portland Cement, Dynamite, Blasting Powder, Fuse and Dynamite Caps, call on LIMESTONE SPRINGS LIME WORKS. CARROLL & CO., Lessees. Telephone 57. South Carolina Military Academy. One vacancy In the State Beneficiary ; Scholarships Is to la: awarded on competi tive examination for < herokee county. Blank forms of application should Is: ap- 1 plied for at once to < ol. S. Gadsden, ('halr- I man Board of Visitors, or the County Super intendent of Educat ion. These applications. FULLY MADE OUT. must bo In tho hands of the Chairman on the 1st day of August, in order to receive attention. O. S. Gadwrlesri, Chairman Board Trustees. July 15,2-’. 2!». Aug. 5. Wofford College Spartanburg, S. C. II KNitv N. Hnyukh, Lltt. !>.. M. A . President Four full College courses. Favorable sur roundings. Cleveland Science Hall. (Jym- naslutn. Athletic grounds, Lecture course. Library Facilities. For catalogue apply to. J. A. tiAMKWKI.I.. Secretary. Wofford College Fitting School, Spartanburg, S* C. Elegant new buildings. Careful attention to Individual students. Hoard and tuition for year |110. All Information given by A M. IM'I'HK, Head Master, July 12-1 tuo. Advertising is called by some an art. If it be an art it is the art of telling a story simply and convincingly. Nobody knows more about the strong qualities of an establishment than the proprietor who oversees it. Other things being equal, nobody should be able to write more convinc ingly of the articles he of fers for sale. In a (tore where the employer aella goods side by side with his clerks it is rare that the employer will not b« the best salesman. The reason is simple. He knows the goods from A to Z. He probably has pur chased them. He knows his aims. His arguments carry weight because they are convincing. The same arguments pre sented in the same way, with the same enthusiastic spirit, the same knowledge of detail, would attract new customers if presented through the advertising col umns of this paper. If yon ha e not triad it, why not begin? If yon have tried it and ara not aali» tied, let ua know about it