Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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THE LEDGER, Published Tuesday and Friday by Ed H. DeCamp. it appear that Judge Parker put the Democratic party in the hole by his If ' “Are Ws' Going Mad? 1 Mr. Editor:—The above prolporition telegram and that there is no chance appeared in The Ledger sontae time i ' grievens sins, but'strong drinfk is the great overshadow eg sin we have to deal w:th. It is this that has cause! „ . i _ j ^ j , most of the deplorable murders in tor the Democracy this year. The: aj^o and was commented upon un such cjjeroj^e^ county. tl is this that Spartanburg Journal announces that it a way that should have causem seasi- causes many otherwise good men* to is going to vote the Democratic ticket, hie people to think and act, hurt where violate their marriage vows made in The Ledger is not responsible for i )U t ^ jg not going to "chase rainbows , are the fruits? ' the P rr “ S(tlce of their friends and be- tho views of correspondents. Correspondents who do not contri- ; Tr . „ I '~(5} bute regular news letters must fur nish their name, not for publication.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 and Thursday mornings, but for identification. Obituraries will be published at live 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. . . ~ ^ ~ ^ \ , fore their God, and assume relations nor predict that the Democrats will Jnl. a short time since our j town w {iij others that should banish them carry Vermont or Pennsylvania." No- elected a mayor on a moral issu ?, with from a Christian community. body desires or expects the Journal to the hopes of a change. Thej were make a fool of itself by doing either sick and tired of a drunken nn >b mo- of these things, hut it is to he expected nopolizing the streets, back lo ;s ami that it will cease its pro-Republican alleys every time a. erow f d ha] >pened not He and steal If pressed. He may utterances and do -what it Democracy if it expects to Democracy’s back-yard. can play for in this that causes men t<> take the name of the Lord in vain, ft in this thas will cause men to lie and steal, for there is no habitual drunkard who will * * * NATIONAL TICKET. For President, ALTON B. PARKER, of New York. For Vice President, HENRY G. DAVIS, of West Virginia. NOTES AND COMMENTS. Gaffney needs a club and a chamber of commerce or board of trade. Who will take the initiative in this work? * * * We would suggest that it might add to the grandeur of Gaffney to have paved sidewalks. Kings Mountain and other towns have taken up this work, so why can’t we? * * * Some one has ^aid that The Ledger was not a Democratic paper. We guess The little barkers who were so en thusiastically advocating Hearstsome time ago, cannot appreciate the high purpose displayed by Judge Parker in his telegram to the St. Louis conven tion. The more honor to Judge Par ker.—Columbia State. “The little barkers!" That’s aw- fu.l And it’s just such conceit as is thus displayed that tends to make “the little barkers” dislike ‘‘the big bark ers.” It doesn’t hit us for the reason that W’e never advocated Hearst—in fact were dead agin him—hut we think it would lie more dignified should The State he magnanimous enough to give ‘‘the little barkers” credit for at least being sincere and aHw them to differ from it without being slurred at. • • • To the astute man of business it may look silly for mature men and wo men to patronize a baseball game, but to save our life we can’t help being silly. We would rather see a game to be in town. Has our mayor ’foet ex- : call it a IKRe lie, hut Go<i says all pectations? Has a change lor the^, liars shall have their portirjn in the better been made? A casual ol (server, lake that burns.. The very essence of would say no. On Saturday th e IGth. strong drink ?.s lying and the town was alive with men under The keepers of any of the the influence of liquor. The was told by a lady that, quite a in this condition took up qi larters And the purchaser will ie. writer ! Durants that are established: in towns crowd ! for the sale of liquor will lie about it. right in front of her residence . She don’t said a policeman passed by, b ut she trial, supposed he must have thougl it they were only exercising their c immon privileges. I heard a promine.fet man say, who had just dodged a n\an so drunk that he could hardly wall*, that that was the fourth man in liktl con dition he had given the sidewaVk to within the last fifty or sixty yrards. And the rear of the old Gaffney iLive Stock building was a veritable Told dead hoise in the river full of catfiNph. Friends, people of Gaffney and Cluvr- okee county, we are not deceiving an body but ourselves. Our preacher! may preach missions for their far o heathens until their time is up; our choirs may sing until they turn gray, and our congregations may sing, believe it bring nun If you uw> in a CONSUMED BY A FIRE THAI WATER WILL NOT QUENC] Eceema drivej Its victim almost to the verge of distraction by its intolerable itching, stinging and burning. It seems to set the skin on fire, and the tormented sufferer rubs and scratches till the flesh is raw and the skin is torn and bleeds. Nothing applied externally does much good, for the disease is internal; the blood is aflame with acid poisons, that are forcing their way through the glands and pores of the skin, causing it to reddadl and swell and break out in splotches, pustules and pimples, frond which a clear, yellow, watery matter exudes, hardens and dries, az>4 then peels off in scales or fine particles like bran. Eczema kindle* 0 fire that water will not quench, and that lotions, salves, powders an<U »oap cannot smother. As warm weather comes on and the system id reacting and the blood making extra efforts to throw off the accunW lated poisons, Eczema at* tacks with redoubled vio- EOZiiMA kept speeading. lance, and the sufferer is al- . sl * X«ars ago my wife had a breaking-on* bell amis to save the yellow races, but what will it profit us if we give the black race amongst us the bottle, when of ball than any other sport. Then, i God’s word says plainly, woe unto him I \ regard them as noble, high-toned “We’ll Work Till Jesus-Comes;” yet i your?y» men, God’s word tells us plainly that He wnY ^ake will not he mocked. We may belong town. ' l to the church, we may give liberally to its support, and we may give thous- Now I am about through for this time. I may have something to say in reference to some other things that are going on taut should *iuse* to be meted out the pnnishmeni:' the guilty f _ _ _ parties deserve I do hojp that our most dixtrarted hv fear- ^T.^ 8 *** humpg appeared, but »oo mayor and policemen will wake up and r.,!;, l- , , ^ . T . I’w ?{!i y „? c * b V came ’ an< i wh ®^ the, 5 put out of business every one of these * tchln g and burning. It places of sin an t 'rice that are Saying k the most uncomfortable eieep. At times a yellow water raa froia the the foundation for the rain of our ‘ * *•«••• •- young men. We- don’t need them. They are wrong. Why are they al lowed to exist? You may say that it takes all these tilings to -mild ap a town. God’s Word says woe- unto k thuim that build a town in this way. hope our poli< emen are all right. and aggravating of all skin humpe, and it kept getting worse and worse, Ou* amotions and a terror in ,a “* l3r * >h Y ,ioia,i P ron °unced it Ec«ema, and preJ eruptions ana a terror in Bcribed ointmenta and powders; but it kept! Warm weather. spreading, breaking out on her body and armsi Local remedies give tern- Ws! It wbSV^d'.fil porary ease, but as Eczema •fter taking several bottles was cured, and id is not due to outside causes, W * U to * da i “ d hM bMa for y ear, ‘ but to a disordered condi! 0 *™ r - w -«- w - A- HOOtrra. I hut f do hope that they the system and an over-acid and impure blood, the treatmenfl up arji give us- a clean must be constitutional, or internal. Purify the blood and the skid , : ... - disease will disappear. No better blood remedy can be found thad purest of nitetives and Timet ■ wfll be 11 builds up the sour and acid blood, rids it of all impuritied so received, ^and cause our people to an d poison, stimulates the sluggish or^ stop and thin^c. f gans, and invigorates and tones up tf ‘ Vel again, why should people forever look upon the serious side of life? Do you suppose God would have endowed mankind with power to create health ful and harmless amusement of any kind if He did not expect man ot en joy it. We believe in getting as much sunshine out of life as possible, hut there is no need of going to the ex treme and overdoing the thing. Re- some people will change their opinion member that while you are expected now that Senator Tillman has come enjoy voursolf vou are also ox- over on our platform, and we are lying p ec ted to do something that will eon- that. does it. “Woe unto him that giveth his neighbor drink, that put- teth the bottle to him and maketh him drunk.” This black race is sup posed to drink about, one-half the liquor sold in Gaffney, and they are ,ruiy yours. A Cltl/ren, Mr. Editor that the law in of die great mo the medium through which about one- sary) requires entire system; and as all skin eruptio; like Eczema are only symptoms or signs bad blood, they naturally disappear wheal that vital fluid is again restored to health Enquiry. nr understanding is egard to tne running S. S. S. is guaranteed strictly vego^ *1 institution (dispen- table. It is not only a blood purifier, but a splendid tonic and appetizev,i ain rules and legis- taking it an ideal spring medicine. Treat Eczema through the bloody half of ihc other half goes through to lairons are to be caAcjed out.- We have or y ou never get permanently rid of it. Write for our book on thfl White people. Some of them on the been told that the law* iti'v^f^rence to Skin and its Diseases, which is mailed free Medical advice furnished! iem- nurchasers lias neen and is now — * * 1 * a. a _ “ ■ ce: in the same political bed. Hi * * On Wednesday, August 3rd, Govern or Charles B. Aycock will speak at Shelby. The Ledger has a most kind ly feeling for the Tar Heel executive. He is a brilliant orator and a genu ine statesman. Being so near it •would not lie amiss for Cherokeeans to go over. He is a great Democrat and what he says is worth listening to. * » * Spartanburg lias a jolly good lot of newspaper folks. The Ledger man went over there Tuesday and Wednes day to see Spartanburg’s , baseball team give the ball tossers from North Carolina a drubbing, and we acknowledge our appreciation of courtesies shown us by the facile Fike, the likable Lide, and the happy and handsome Henry. May they all live long and prosper. • • • We invite the attention of our readers to the communication of “A Citizen” in another column. The drunkenness in our midst is apall- ing, and the worst feature of it is that the people who indulge too freely are those who can least afford it. As a prohibitive measure the dispensary system is a failure and the quicker our people recognize this fact the bet ter it will he for us all. • * • Our good friend Zack McGhee has landed on the Louisville Courier Jour nal, and some South Carolina editors are amazed, just as if Zack McGhee wasn’t as good a newspaper man as can be stirred up in this country. The Spartanburg Herald will go a long way before it gets hold of his equal, and in the transfer Kentucky is the gainer at the expense of South Caro lina, for we can ill afford to part with men like Zach McGhee. In fact, we cannot spare them, as we need them ourselves. * * • Ledger readers will find the bio graphical sketch of Alton Brooks Par ker and Henry Gassaway Davis, the Democratic candidates for president and vice-president, very interesting reading. The more we read of Judge Parker the more convinced we be come of his fitness for the exalted po sition for which he has been named. It’s a question of men more than any thing else, and we believe the Ameri can people are more inclined to the conservative than to the spectacular. Roosevelt, the rough rider, is no com parison to Parker, the peace pre server. * * * Lieut. Hartwell M. Ayer, who is also editor of the Florence Daily Times, takes a fall out of The Columbia State and the city of Columbia for lack of enthusiasm on the part of the citizens because of the encampment of the sol diers in that city. 'Tis too bad that the gallant and good looking lieuten ant and his boys should have been treated so coolly by the citizens of the Congaree city, and we suspect that the Anderson Mail will now throw a fit in its efforts to prove that the soldiers never desired to associate with the lads and lassies of the Capi tal City. • • a The Republicans are trying to make tribute to the happiness and enjoy ment of others. • * * Another murderer has been acquit ted in this State because his victim “glared” at him. This “hands in the pocket” and “glaring” defense is be coming quite popular. My! my! what a state of affairs to be termed civili zation! Some of these days a right eous people will rise up in their wrath and put at least a comma, or a semi colon. if they do not, indeed, put a full stop to these outrages. We need to hang a few white scoundrels in this State and we will never be what we invincible | should be so long as we give so much license to thieves, thugs and murder ers. A man who kills another is no less a murderer because his skin hap pens to be white. In truth, he is more of a murderer because his environ ment has been such that he should have learned better if he did not. Down with the outlaws! Or rather, up with them—to the gallows. surface good missionary church mem- bers giving an inferior black race a nickle to violate God’s laws that he may become fitted for murder, rape, or any other evil that his inclination, stimulated by liquor, may prompt him. "Be not deceived; neirher fornicators, nor idolaters nor adulterers, nor thieves, nor covoters, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor < xtortionists, shall inherit the Kingdom of God.” “Whose end is destruction, whose god is in their belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things.”— Phil. 3, 19. "Then when lust hath con ceived it bringetli forth sin, and sin when it is finished bringeth forth death.”—James 1, 13. My friends, it doesn’t matter what we have or have not got, we have got: to meet the issue sooner or later, for we may he sure that our sins will find us out. Whatsoever we sow we have got to reap. The reaping may come in this world, or if we are given over to a hardness of heart and a re probacy of mind that we will lit* per mitted to sow here and reap hereafter, j But the reaping will come, and what will the harvest be for those lathers who are putting the bottle to their own children’s mouths? Every father and every man who does not do every thing in his power to save his children and foUowmen from the curse is guilty. “Ye are either for me or against me,” saith the Lord. I snow that we have many other purchasers has been and is now lated with has been and is now-^jo- without coat to von impunity. If eonvenieV- COM to you. we would be glad to have you publish the law governing this feature of the business, with any information that would be helpfv.l to a laveiabiding peo- pte. Inquirer. THE SWIFT SPECIFIC CO., ATLANTA, GAA For ft*—< dvorHsements under this ne-ir. wTW. e Inserted Jur one cent a worn each :nspf- Hot.. No ad inserted for less t iian ten cents p*OH FlFN’T—Four-room house, near enough in I'm factory operatives. C >1. Smith. 4-19-tf. Turnip F ull KENT—Nice O-ro m cottage, with ail improvements, on Grenard. Street. Ap ply to J. 0. Jefferies. 4-1-tf S FITES of looms tolet in the,Star Theatre A, N. Wood. J-if-tf Dr. S. H. Griffith, - SURGEON - OCULIST. of the cel( fbra- Chisolm|ot l ^^ )r ‘ J u ^ an J- also taken speciaPjK^' ** as uate course in the Ey«v Nose and Throat Hospital^ Baltimore. Jtl- FOR SALE. FOR SALE—Eight-horse portable steam engine; 50-saw r Pratt gin and condenser; one press. Apply to T. D. Littlejohn, Asubry, S. C. 7-12-tf. Glasses Fitted Accurately and Scientifically. ^ ‘Office in Cherokee Drug Co.. B’ldg. Queer Advertisements. The following copies of queer ad vertisements have been collected and printed by club w’omen: “Bulldog for sale; will eat anything; very fond of children.” “Widow in comfortable circum stances wishes to marry two sons.” “Annual sale now' on; don’t go elsew’here to be cheated; come in here.” “Wanted—A boy to be partly out side and partly behind the counter.” “An airy bedroom fora gentleman twenty-two feet long and eleven feet wide.” “A lady wants to sell her piano, as she is going abroad in a strong iron frame.” “Wanted—By a respectable girl, her passage to New York; willing to take “An airy bedroom for a gentleman care of children and a good sailor.” “Lost—Near Highgate archway, an umbrella belonging to a gentleman with a bent rib and a bone handle.” “Mr. Brown, furrier, begs to an nounce that he will make up gowms, capes, etc., for ladies out of their own skin.” We like best to call SCOH’S EMULSION a food because it stands so em phatically for perfect nutrition. And yet in the matter of restor ing appetite, of giving new strength to the tissues, especially to the nerves, its action is that of a medicine. Send for free sample. SCOTT & BOWNE, Chemist*. 409-415 Pearl Street, New York. 50c. and$i.oo; all druggists. Red or Purple Top Flat, Early White Flat Dutch, Early Red or Pur ple Top Globe, Southern Sev en Top, Purple Top Yel- low Aberdeen, Ruta* baga, Etc,, Etc., at the same place, No. 3?! Rutledge St. 1 am ready to do, your work Q. K. New build-, ing, 2,400 feel-j^ Cherokee Drug Co*, Prescription Druggists. Cor. Limestone a jd Frederick Sts. and one hiefer. Richardson, FOR SALE—One second-hand Mc Cormack mower and rake, also ball bearing Disc Harrow; two milk cow's a . • o f anri nno htefpr Apply to W. H. floor s P a ce; general repair, from forge te. 7-13-tf. j last coat of paint. Wagons, buggies. carts, &c; any part repaired or nnw. p? put in. Tire setting a specialty Good stalls and water for, v<?,ar I am here to serve you. Wanted. FOR RENT—The Spencer house on Frederick street. A. N. Wood. 7: 22-tt .rt stock. WANTED—Everybody in need of Furniture, Stoves, Crockery and Glass ware to see us before buying. A lot of new Mattings to arrive this week. You will find it to your interest to look after your needs in this line, as prices have already advanced and will go still higher on account of the war ; in the East. See us before making your purchases. The Acme Furniture Co. 7: 23-26-29 W. T. FOR 1 WANTED—Two or three copies of The Ledger of July 1st, 1904 Bring or send to this office. Money Loaned. What the Tin People Have Done. [Kings Mountain Herald.] Our readers will he interested in learning that the John E. Jones prop erty has been taken up and paid for by Messrs. Holland and Seaman, to whom the option of the company of Gaffney, S. C., was transferred. The : purchase price of the mineral inter ests was $8,000, which amount was paid over for Mr. Jones at the bank here last Monday evening. This is the second piece of property taken up so far as our information goes. Ephriam Jackson, who lived near Crocker, had a small tract which he would not bond and the original com pany paid him $800 for it. which was a long price. It would seem that Messrs. Holland and Seaman are wil ling to risk some money on the out look. Few are able to say |how' soon other property may be paid for or abandoned. Let us wait and watch the progress. Wood’s Seeds. Crimson Clover Sown at the last working of the Corn or Cotton Crop, can be plowed under the follow ing April or May in time to plant corn or other crops the same season. Crimson Clover prevents winter leaching of the soil, is equal in fer tilizing value to a good application of stable manure and will wonder fully increase the yield and qual ity of corn or other crops wnich follow it. It also makes splendid winter and spring grazing, fine early green feed, or a good hay crop. Even if the crop is cut oil’, the action of the roots and stubble improve the land to a marked de gree. Write for price and special clr-; cular telling about seeding etc., T.W.Wood&Sons, Seedsmen, RICHMOND, • VIRGINIA. Wood’s Descriptive Fall Catalog, ready about August 1st. tells ail about Farm and Vegetable Seeds for Fall plant ing. Mailed free on request. EXECUTOR’S NOTICE. All persons having claims against the estate of F. G. Stacy, deceased, will present the same to the under signed executors properly proven. All persons indebted to said estate will make payment to the undersigned I OANS on improved farms for a term of pYomitru-K at National Rank of Gaff- ^ year* at seven pev cent, interest. No executors at national uanK Ol uan commissions. For Information apply to.I. 0 ney, Gaffney, S. C. Jefferies, Attorney at Law. J. A. Carroll, jli^’ ■*!"> ■■ - •m J. G. Wardlaw, D. C. Ross, Ex. Estate of F. G. Stacy, deceased. 7-8-tf J. F. GARRETT, Dentist. Office Over The Battery. Deafness t'annot be Cured by loea’ applications, as tbey cannot reach the diseased portion of the ear. There is only one way to cure deafness, and that is by constitutional remedies. Deafness is caused by inflamed condition of the mucous Mnlng of the Eustachian Tube. When this tube gets Inflamed you have a rumbling sound or Imperfect liearing. and when it is entirely closed deafness is the result, and unless the inflammation can be taken out and this tube restored to Its normal condi tion. hearing will be destroyed forever; nine cases out of ^n are caused by catarrh, which is nothing but an inflamed condition of the mucous surfaces. We will give One Hundred Dollars for any case of Deafness (cased by catarrh) that can not be cured Ity Hall’s Catarrh Cure. Hend for circulars, free. F. J. CHENEY & CO.. Toledo, O Sold by Druggests, 75c. Hall’s Family Pills are the best. FOR Building and Plastering Lima, Coal, and Plaster Hair, Plaster Parts, Shingles, Portland Cement. Dynamite, Blasting Powder, Fuse and Dynamite Caps, call on LIMESTONE SPRINGS LIME VORKS. CARROLL A CO., Lessees. Telephone 57. Summer Helps Around the home, Preserving Powder, Spices, everything that you may hap pen to need, we sell it and at the usual Crawley Comp’y prices. S. B. Crawley & Co 813 Limf.stonk St. Drugs, Perfume* and Stationer) Prescriptions Properly Pilled and Promptly Delivered ’Phone 82 Dr. D. P. THOMSON, Dentist. "Oftiee over Cherokee Drug Co. Up-to-Date Job Print ing, call at the LEDGER Office* Gaffney, S. C. vili.1 am s. Hall. J a. j ames a. Willis. HALL & WILLIS, ATTORNEYS AT LAW. HTAH TI1EATKE BLOG. o a t 4 " tf n wv, m. o. Notary Public In office. Prompt attention (tven to all business. DR. W. K. GUNTER, L> K N X I® X Office in Star Theatre Building. Phone No. 20. Crown and Bridge Work a specialty. 1', ‘V - L ' rV''* ^ ? For Photo Frames, Passe-Partout Bind- - A. A i i ing, Passe-Partout work, Photo Albums, Gun Metal Photo Holders, (for indi vidual photograph). Wire Picture Racks. Films and the best in all photographic work. C. Eskridge B 4 U Have your lllarksiulthluK Dane. All Smithing, Iron and Wood Work done in first-class style and at reasonable rates. (Fortenberry’» Old Stand). \ J . June H. Carr, Phone 176.’: Residence, 171. 625 Limestone Street _