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THE LARGEST CIRCULATION of Any Newspaper^ in the Fifth Congressional District, of S. C. EVERY ONE PAID IN ADVANCE ■O—O —I The Ledger SEMI-WEFKLT-PUBLISHED TUESDAY AND FRIDAY. WE GUARANTEE RELIABILITY of Every Advertiser Who Uses the Columns of This Paper. BEST ADVERTISING MEDIUM. A Newspaper In All that the Word Implies and Devoted to the Best Interests of the People of Cherokee County. ESTABLISHED FEB. 16, 1894. TMSHOUT THE PiLMETTO STATE GAFFNEY, S. C. t FRIDAY. SEPTEMBER 30, 1904. 91.00 A YEAR. ITEMS OF INTEREST OF PASSING EVENTS IN SOUTH CAROLINA. ECHOES OF THE DISASTER. The Bodies af the Ill-Fated Hill Fami ly Buried. As we stated in oifV last issue, the body of Mr. Lee Hill was buried in Oakland cemetery last Monday and the bodies of the remaining dead of the Hill family were expected to arrive in Gaffney Monday night. Some time before No. 40 was due, a large crowd had collected at the de pot, as had been the case on several MR. STRAIN’S LAST REPLY TO MR. POOLE PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS. Happenings All Over the State Taken from Our Exchanges and Tersely Told to Ledger Readers. Ben Bennett was to have been brought back to Columbia late Wed nesday night, it is thought, and So licitor Davis is expected there in a day or so to counsel with Governor Heyward in regard Hampton county on wife murder. nrevious occasions bound trains would the bodies of these pie were expected. CONTROVERSEY ENDED ON HIS SIDE. A MINISTER'S VIEWS ON PROHIBITION, to his trial the charge Columbia will have a boat, on the river again soon. At an enthusiastic meeting of merchants in that city Tuesday more than $8,000 was sub scribed in a little while and there aie many yet to lie seen. The meeting was largely attended, however, and the discussion showed that back of it they meant business. There was not much talk and what was said was to the point. Deputies Cl nton an l S went over from D'lrlington Ida Tuesday and seen ed of Sam Mark* wanted in on the charge of rnirdcr. • .rboroir ’ to Col ' he »)er on j Darlington 1 T.ie negro struck Mr. Hillary Langstoe. of Tin-' monsville, in the head with a rock, from the result of which the injured man died. Sheriff Scarborough avoid ed possible trouble by' taking the man to Columbia and putting him in the penitentiary. The Darlington Guards had been ordered out to protect the prisoner while in Darlington. It has been stated that there was no danger of lynching at any time. Gov. Hey ward turned the prisoner over to the deputies on the order of Sheriff Scar borough and Solicitor Johnson. The two deputies who went for Marks had no written order and Gov. Hey ward declined to release the prisoner until he had the proper vouchers. Late Saturday afternoon Wiley J. Baldwin was found in Crooked creek In Marlboro county, in a semi-con scious condition, and the circumstan ces indicate that he had attempted to drown himself. He loft ins store sev eral hours before and a note left on his desk, addressed to his wife, said that ids body would lie found in the creek. He was found by a negro, who oMled for help and Baldwin was pull- out of the water. He had been caught by some projecting roots of a stump and his head was held above the surface, although the water was about ten feet deep at that point. He seemed crazy and frantic when taken out, and was taken to jail for safety. He was placed in confinement, but the mayor, acting upon the advice of a physician, released him Wednesday. He talks rationally, but says he has no recollection of the events of Sat urday afternoon. Gov. Heyward Tuesday forwarded the requisition papers asking for the return to this State of the person of James Brown, charged with an at tempt to burn the tobacco barn of the Dixie warehouse in Florence. The crime was committed on the <iih of August and the negro made his es cape to New York via Georgetown and a steamer. But upon arrival at New York he was arrested, his desti nation having been discovered. It is due to the efforts of Mayor W. H. Malloy, of Florence, that the fugitive was arrested. Gov. Heyward has written the governor of New York to the effect that the right man is in custody and asks for him to lie de livered to the officer from this State. There is a lot of red tape to he com plied with before a requisition can be granted, no matter how righteous the claim for immediate delivery. The governors of several States met last year and formed a regular code of procedure in accordance with the recognized ethics in such matters. The chamber of commerce is to in vite the Citadal cadets to Columbia for their encampment next spring. It is arranged to ask them there for several days and the city is to pro vide for their entertainment. Jim Peterson, colored, was shot and killed by Fred Herbert Saturday afternoon on J. R. Irwin’s place near Chappells, Newberry county. It seems that they had had some trouble be fore Saturday and when they met the quarrel was renewed/ during which Herbert told Peterson “to go on, he would see him later.” Peterson re plied. “See me now.” Then Herbert stepped back and shot him with a shot gun. Peterson turned, walked off and fell dead. Herbert left at once and has not been captured. Frank Breeden, one of Marlboro’s most prominent citizens, died at his home in Bennettsville Monday morn ing. of Bright’s disease, at the age of 50. He was county commissioner for eight years and lias been a member of the town council of Bennettsville for several years. He was a steward in the Methodist church and for 20 years a member of the finance board of the South Carolina conference. when the north arrive, on which unfortunate peo- This time the anxious were not disappointed, the cases containing the dead were seen in the baggage cars as it passed the crossing and all went to where it stopped to rentier such assistance as they could. The train men, however, handled the coffins and when they were put out of the car, it was found only four had arrived and that one was still behind. These four were taken in charge by Undertakers Shu- ford & LeMaster and cared for by them and friends of the dead till morning. The bodies that arrived were those of Mr. Scott Hill, Miss Sarah Hill, Mrs. Laura Hill and Ruth, the little daughter of Mrs. Laura Hill. Tuesday at 11 o’clock their bodies, followed ii' a long train of friends and rel- tives, were taken to Oakland ceme- ry and amid the sorrow-stricken -ngregation. were quitely laid in i.*ir graves to await the resurrection. A burial service was held at the ;: aves by Dr. A. M. Simms, pastor of the Frist Baptist church. After the burial of these four the people all repaired to their homes, and then again assembled at the de pot to receive the body of Rochelle Rogers Hill, the thirteen-months-old son of Mrs. Laur* Hill. It came and was taken directly to the cemetery and placed beside the others who had been killed in the same railroad wreck, in which it had lost its own little life. The enormity of the tragedy that swept all these good people from life to eternity need not he commented on. It is simply appalling, and will be remembered as one without a paralled in the South. \Ve are glad to state that the latest information from Knoxville says that two remaining Hill children are on the road to recovery; that they are tenderly cared for in a hospital in Knoxville, and now that the dead are all buried, the remaining relatives of these little ones will hasten to their sides and assist in nursing them back to health. In their efforts may they lie aided by the One who is merciful and has promised to >e a father to the orphans. _ Dr. Tracy Gore. Dr. N. \V. Tracy, the temperance lecturer, wound up his series of fif teen lectures on Monday evening, tore down his tent at once and had everything on his car in time to be hitched on to an early train for Greenville Tuesday morning, which, we learn, is his next stopping place. Dr. Tracy is good in his line. His lectures are chaste and to the point, and if all who hear him will take his advice, they would be much better people and the country would he rid of many of the drunkards and the community relieved of the annoy ance they cause. Fearful Odds Against Him. Bedridden, alone and destitute. Such, in brief, was the condition of an old soldier by name of J. J. Hav ens, Versailles, O. For years he was troubled with Kidney disease and neither doctors nor medicines gave him relief. At length he tried Electric Bitters. It put him on his feet in short order and now he testifies. “I’m on the road to complete recovery.” Best on earth for Liver and Kidney After Apologizing to Ledger Readers and Making Some Further Explana tions, Mr. Strain Drops the Matter from the Press. Mr. Editor:—For the intelligence of your readers, I have too much re spect, to trouble you with another rejoinder, without first asking their pardon. In order to quiet the nervous sen sibility of my friend, Mr. Poole, it’s necessary to administer a dose of brain tonic, which I regret to say I haven’t got to spare; and if I had, it wouldn’t suit his mental constitu tion. I have already given him credit for his ignorance of the plot he was used as a tool to carry out, and this ought to suffice. Yet he tacitly insists that l open his mental eyes to behold the cause, of which he was the uncon scious champion. People You Know and People You Don’t Know. T. J. Hames, a prominent citizen of Asbury, came to the city yesterday on business. Edward Lipscomb, of Goucher, was HE a prominent visitor in the city Tues-! day. i Lewis Scruggs, a worthy Cherokee! farmer of Algood, came to the city yesterday and called to see The Led ger. Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Carpenter dined with their friends, Mr. and Mrs. Miles Gettys, near Grassy Pond, one day the first of the week , ! To the Editors of The Ledger and Hat ry V ilkins, who has received News:—I address you thus because the scholarship of this county, in the w hat 1 sav is for you both and desir State Military Academy at Charles- ADVOCATES REMOVAL THE DISPENSARY. Rev. F. C. Hickson Expresses Sentiments and Calls Upon People to Vote Out Whiskey. To the Editors of The Ledger OF His the tomor- citi- cit v j ton, will leave for Charleston ! row to begin his course, j Lem M. Cobb, of Maud, spent some time in the city yesterday. John H. Wilkins, a prominent zen of Sarratts, came to the yesterday on business. I. Q. Anthony, of Columbia, a Cherokee boy, who is making his mark in railroad circles, is in the city visiting relatives. J. H. Bridges came to the city Wednesday and called on The Ledger an renewed. G. W. Lemaster. of Wilkinsville. was a Ledger visitor yesterday. Austin Turner, formerly of Chero- The first eighteen lines of ids last i k ee - l )l, t now of Lockhart, was an ap- pronunciamento is an abortive effort to show the falsity of my position, and 1 will leave them to the reader to draw his own inference. He can’t reconcile the fact that it was possible for me not to fully un derstand that he was a full fledged candidate until Monday before the election on Tuesday. If nature hasn’t given him brain power, I can’t. In regard to my distributing circulars at the precinct telling what good I had done it. 1 beg to say that he or his friends forced me to do that in order to refute a charge that I and my constable were using the money we collected as fines, etc., instead of paying it into the county treasury. Does my friend dispute this or ask for names? While he was in my distributing his tickets, I was at Gaff ney having those circulars printed. The copy was written that Monday morning and printed the same day and all after I was fully assured that I was to be vigorously opposed at the polls next day—Tuesday, August oOth. Had it not been for this charge those circulars would never have ap peared. I would certainly have left the public to find out for in their own way. predated Ledger visitor Wednesday. Solomon Stroup, a worthy Chero- keean of Mercer, favored The Ledger with a visit yesterday. Goodman Pridmore, a prosperous Grassy Pond farmer, was in the city Wednesday. C. J. Wall spent Tuesday in Spar tanburg. County Commissioner W. C. S. Wood, of Woods, was in the city Wednesday. He came in to see The Ledger and renewed. James Service, of Mercer, a young farmer who farms, made a business trip to the city Wednesday. J. V. Blanton, of R. F. D. No. 4, favored The Ledger with a call Tues day and subscribed. Worth Little went to Columbia neighborhood * uesday on business. is tor you ed to be published in both jiapers. On behalf of myself and all good people of Cherokee county I desire to thank you and to congratulate ourselves that we have two county papers which are always on the side of morality and good government. The fight you are both making against whiskey and all its evil results to our people is greatly to your credit, and a thing for which this county ought to he proud. Every Christian in this county ( ght to take and pay for both your papers. If you keep up the course you have so far pursued we could not put that much money to a better purpose for the further ance of the cause of right. The fact is, one of the best signs of the times haven’t known them, but they are among us and have never bowed the knee to Baal. They are men of con viction and moral stamina. Get them thoroughly aroused, they are a power in the land. They do not decide mor ale issues by reference to the court of profit and loss. With them it doesn’t make a bit of difference as to what it pays or what it costs, they want to know simply what is right, and the right they will do though the heavens fall. I salute you, noble band, who have bided your day and had, who have bided your day and waited patiently on the Lord. Come out from your hidings now, show your colors and quit yourselves like men. This is the day of the Lord; blow the trumpet in the land and call all the friends of God and right to the battle. 3. There are those who are on the fence. Fortunately for our cause, the fence riders this time fire good and many of them brave people. Per haps I ought not to have called them fence riders; they are not that in any had sense, they are simply un decided. To this class I want to address what I have to say. In future issues I shall attempt to aid them in decid ing what they ought to do at this juncture. F. C. Hickson. BLACKSBURG BUDGET. C. E. Huggins, a sterling citizen and working farmer of Lawn, was in the city Tuesday. He called on The Ledger and subscribed. If. Rivers Thomas, of Charleston, was in the city Tuesday evening and Wednesday morning, the guest of his relatives. Sheriff and Mrs. W. W. Thomas. J. J. Jenkins, from the lower part themselvesi o1 ’*“■ couut y. was in the city yester day selling cotton. In regard to the Moses and Cham berlain matter out of which my friend wishes to make something. 1 will beg to say that I held the office of trial J. Q. Little spent Tuesday in Spar tanburg. I. R. Stacy, a hustling Thickety farmer, called to see The Ledger justice under each of their adminis- and renewed, nations and that I tried to do my! Harry Schirmer, of Charleston, a duty as fearlessly, faithfully and con- ,)0 I )n ' ar traveling salesman, was in scientiously as 1 have done under the|tl' e c '^ Tuesday among the many several democratic administrations I have had the honor to serve, and, further, that in each case of appoint-; U) t* 10 city Tuesday on business, ment, I had the endorsement of the i . Scruggs, of Cleveland county, very best men and democrats in *’'• ^ paid The Ledger an appreciated Union the f friends of his boy days in Gaffney. M. W. Littlejohn, of Ravenna, came troubles and all forms of Stomach and Bowel Complaints. Only 50c. Guar anteed by Cherokee Drug Co. To The Public. I go with the tide as it rises and falls. As cattle are cheaper now, it enables me to sell for less; and I shall try to save the people money. Cotton is a good fair price, and every body can eat meats at 10 cents. I will sell all steaks and roast for 10 cents per pound, good and better. Good fresh mixed sausage, double ground, daily, 10 cents per pound. I do my grinding by machinery and it don’t cost much to operate it. My moats are handled altogether by long-ex perienced men. I am no three-months man. I have been here seven years, and am here to stay. I am with you, with the hot and the cold weather, with the high priced cattle and the double expense in summer of ice. etc., and top cattle; so you can get something good to eat 313 days in a •year, and you all know it. So re member us. Goods delivered prompt ly on short notice. Mr Hawkins will serve you with pleasure, as he knows his business. Of course it is money we want, and to turn it fast. Fish! fisn!. every Friday and Sat urday, straight from the water. Plen ty for all: will treat you right and give you Ifi ounces to the pound. Please weigh what you get and see If our scales are correct. Come, or call, to the same old place and get your meats and fish, and your gro ceries, country produce, fresh canned goods fruits, etc., all at one place, place. V- Bucklen’s Arnica Salve. Has world wide fame for marvelous cures. It surpasses any other salve, lotion, ointment or balm for Cuts, Corns, Burns, Boils, Sores, Felons, Ulcers, Tetter, Salt Rheum, Fever Sores, Chapped Hands, Skin Erup tions; Infallible for Piles. Cure guar anteed. Only 25c at Cherokee Drug Co., Druggists. Yours Phone No. for 00. business, L. \V\ McGuinn. Handsome purchaser in New styles now pent or & Byers. Special prices ery on opening penter & Byers. Souvenir free to every our corset department, ready. Carroll, Car on Gloves and Hosl- days. Carroll, Car- county. My friend, I suppose, knows this as well as I do, and he might oppease the appetite of your readers by telling them whose appli cation for appointment to the office of trial justice in 1888 or ’89 was so peremptorily turned down by the Union delegation of which Senator William Monroe was the head, and I was appointed upon a petition got ten tip and signed (as I understand) by some of his nearest ami best neighbors—a matter I was as ignor ant of as an unborn babe. I had no dream of what was going on until my friend, Mr. Jonathan Buice, came to the school house where I was teach ing and told me I had been appointed trial justice. Under the circumstances I had some hesitation in accepting the of fice. until a prominent man in Gaff ney and also one in Union told me it was my duty to do so, and I did so. Since then I have been elected every time I was before the people for th *t oftiee until now. What my life and habits, or what his life and habits have been in the past is not so much a matter with the people as what they are now. If 1 had been turned down for having failed to do my duty, I would not have a word to say. But as long as the lathers and mothers of this country appeal to me to save their hoys from the evil and shame spread abroad in the land they can rest as sured that their entreaties will not be in vain as long as the strong arm of the law can reach them. Let it offend or please whom it may. For entirely prudential reasons I withhold for the present, the names I promised to give if called upon. To abuse, expose or humiliate a young man is no way to reform him, and I don’t propose to do anything else. Now 1 propose to drop this matter irom the press and apologize to your readers for anything said that does not come within the scope of strictest propriety. For all his animodversious,hints, cen sures and charges I have a feeling of forgiveness prompted only by the pity 1 have for the writer. If the public will settle, the con troversy by the Irishman’s rule it will not be mistaken. "Pat,” said a judge who was trying a case between two foreigners, neither of whom he could understand “can you tell me what these men say?” “No, yer honor,” said Pat, “but Oi can tell yer which one o’ them is in the wrong.” “Well,” said the judge, "that’s all I want to know.” “The one who gets mad first.” said Pat.” Yours sincerely, * James L. Strain. Wilkinsville, S. C., Sept. 23, 1904. visit Tuesday. Mr. J. M. Gillespe, a prominent citizen of Rutherford county, N. C., attended the funeral of the Hill fami ly last Tuesday. Mr. W. Taylor HilL of Caroleen. N. C.. came to the city to attend the funeral of the Hill family. He is a cousin of the late Mr. Scott Hill. C. A. Spencer, a prominent citizen and successful farmer of the Corinth section, was in the city Tuesday. Some Errors of Types. [Catholic Telegraph.] A popular and prominent man in England was once called upon to ad- is that our secular newspapers are becoming our great preachers of : ighteousness. 1 for one, Messrs. Editors, welcome you into this sphere and extend to you the right hand of | fellowship, and bid you God-speed. In this connection I desire to speak also a word of praise for Mr. J. V. L. McCraw, who has the honor of inaug urating this present movement for ; prohibition in Cherokee. When he and I v re on different sides of question I gave him credit for being honest. Now, that we are agreed, I am even more convinced that he is honest. Some one said to me the oth er day that McCraw had some sinister motive in this fight because he used to advocate the dispensary. I said, “You do him a great injustice. Mc Craw, like many other peonle, one thought honestly that the dispensary was the best solution of the whiskey problem, but since seeing it work h<* is convinced that it is a delusion and a snare.” ami he has the courage to say so. I praise him for it. And now. Messrs. Editors, with your permission I want sjtv through you both, something ^•"'’i'dtion. So far as I can get r’ e people of Cherokee are divided on this sub ject about thus: 1. There are those who are heart ily in favor of the dispensary, and will vote that way. These are divided into several classes. (1) There are those who are making money out of it, or whose kinsfolk or friends are making money out of it. (2) There are those who are seeking the politi cal advantage that the dispensary, as a political machine, confers on its friends. Both of these classes are hopeless cases so far as argument is concerned, and in what I shall say I shall have no reference to them whatever, except as our enemies whom we have got to meet and. de feat. not by argument but by a ma jority vote. (3) There are those | who for factional political prejudice ! have always favored the dispensary l because it was a Tillman measure. : They just swallowed it because “Un de Ben” told them to do it, and tho’ it may gnaw and nauseate them they will grip and hold it till “Uncle Ben” i says cast it up. These are people who were born to be somebody’s ! slaves, and the harder the master the better they obey him. When Mr. Alexander popped the whip a few People Going and Coming Beyond the Broad. Blacksburg, Sept. 29.—Mrs. W. A. Blalock went to Forest City Tuesday to spend a few days with Mrs. Lee Smith, formerly of this place. Mr. Rufus Gladden, of Grover, is visiting Mr. M. F. Duncan, here. Dolf Little returned to Greenville Tuesday where he will take up his studies at Furman. Mrs. D. Parker and daughter, Miss this | Victoria, of Shelby, N. C., spent Mon day night with Mrs. J. B. Blalock. ’ Mr. Paul Carroll, of Shelby, N. C.,. spent a few days in town this week. Prof. W. C. Arieal of Rock Hill, spent Monday night with Burnett Black, in this place. Dr. Darwin and wife spent Wednes day in town. Mr. F. Hammond Hardin, of Atlan ta. is visiting his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Ira Hardin. Mrs. Will Finley and sister. Miss Nancy Finley, of Marion, N. C., are visiting relatives in town. Mrs. L. Sage Hardin, of Atlanta, is spending a few weeks with Mr. and Mrs. Ira ! T " ’lu '"bile her hus band. Dr. L. St'"- |r ’■Jin, is in Chi cago and Foe' • ':ina., pursuing some advanced studies in surgery. Dr. Hardin is well and favorably known among the medical profession of Atlanta, being associate professor of abdominal surgery in the Atlanta College of Physicians and Surgeons, and is considered one of the rising surgeons of the city. Mr. and Mrs. G. O. Anderson re turned this morning from Sharon they have been visiting rel- where atives. Mrs. ton, is Shiver town. Mrs. M. L. McKey Veturned to her home in Atlanta after a few weeks visit to her sister, Mrs. M. E. Shiver. S. S. Fitzgibbon, of Charles- visiting her sisters,-Mrs. M. E. and Mrs. A. R. Holmes, in •GEE WHIZ” dress an assemblage, which greeted | weeks ago, they pricked their ears ann him enthusiastically and with cheers. I tightened their traces. But that is a mighty small class in Cherokee conn ! The newspaper which reported the, meeting said innocently: “The vast concourse rent the air with their snouts.” A MS. read as follows: “All these facts are really worth noting.” The printer, however, inserted an ‘“h” in to the last word and it was thus set up: “All these facts are really worth nothing.” A provincial paper, in reporting tho speech of a celebrated politician, in tended to add as a comment, “and the masses believed him,” instead of which, by a typographical error, the addition read, “and them asses be lieved him.” An enthusiastic ty today. If Ben Tillman were to run for office today he would get a large majority in Cherokee county. But when it comes to moral issues our people will take the liberty of keep ing their own judgments. Only a ing their own consciences and hack ing their own judgements. Only a very few will take sides against tho churches and preachers and the Bib’e just because Mr. Tillman says so, and just in this connection I desire to sav that any man who attempts to rekin dle the factional spirit which was a few years ago the source of so much bitterness and evil to our people, do- Matches and Rats Cause Fire in Ma- ness' Market. Yesterday morning at 2’o’clock as Officers Loyd An-tell and Cap Lem mons were on their rounds, they dis covered an incipient fire burning in W. J. Maness’ store on Limestone street. They at once notified tho power hone which soundpd the alarm, aji<l then pulled out a nearby hose reel and attached the hose to a hydrant, broke a glass out of the front door and soon had a stream on the burning goods which soon put tho fire out. By this time the r e was a general turn out. but only to see the good and prompt work of the faithful officers. The store was then broken into and every care taken to see that tho fire was out. The fire originated among a lot of matches that were arranged on the shelves and is thought to have been caused by rats. Mr. Maness had no insurance, but his loss will not ex ceed $100. editor wrote, “The i serves Dp- strongest condemnation battle is now opened.” But alas; the!of every man among us. Those old compositor spelled battle with an “o,” i issues are dead and no longer divide they had sus- and his readers said pected it all along. A New York editor wrote an obitu ary on a man of some prominence and among other things he said: “He began life as a legal practitioner, but was diverted from it by love of bit ters.” Rev. Dr. Todd was given some re lics to present to a museum. In his speech he alluded to the “lives of tho saints.” When his remarks were published they came out “lies of the saints,” and this so enraged the giver of the relics that he demanded their return. An instance of faithful effort to “follow copy” occurred in a New York newspaper office. The reporter, who wrote a very had vertical hand, put it down that zizzag flashes of lightning played among the ,clouds, and in the proof it came out that “319,009 flashes” played among the clouds. A lecturer before a temperance so ciety told his audience, in describing his journeys, that he had merely “a taste of Naples and Rome.” He was horrified the next day, in reading a report of his lecture, to see that he had merely had “a taste of apples and rum.” jour people. Some of them have tri- i umplied and everybody has agreed to jlet them triumph. Some of them have j failed and everybody is willing to let them stay failed. The dispensary never was one of those issues for ! which the farmers of this state con tended. In 1892, when the farmers’ movement was at its zenith, the far- Cotton Receipts. The receipts of cotton have been good in Gaffney every day this week, the total number of bales received being about 500 tip to the mid dle of yesterday afternoon. Of this number the Gaffney Manufacturing Company has bought something over 200, the baliance being bought by the merchants. The prices paid were around 10:59 the first of the week, gradually de clining every day till Wednesday when it went down to ton cents and mers of this state, not the townspeo- was sold at that^price yesterday. Ten pie, voted for prohibition. Through cents is the price below which buyers the influence of Mr. Tillman the fa-m- ors' legislature accepted the dispen sary as a compromise and a tempo rary measure. They have sustained will find the farmers are not inclined to sell. American cotton is selling in England at from eleven to thirteen cents. This fact alone is sufficient to li in the elections so far. partly he 1 inform farmers what their cotton is cause it had been opposed by the anti- worth and make them contend for ts Tilimanites and partly because they value. thought it had not had a fair trial. 1 2. There are on the other side those who are opposed to the dis pensary. 1. There are some who oppose it, and who always have op posed it just because Tillman was In favor of It. Like the class of slaves referred to above, these are very few now. 2. There are those who have always and What Is Life? In the last analysis nobody knows, but we do know that it Is under strict law. Abuse that law even slightly, pain results. Irregular living means derangement of the organs, resulting in Constipation. Headache or Liver trouble. Dr. King’s New Life Pills everywhere been opposed ; quickly re adjusts this. It’s gentle. to liquor in any shape or form—the old prohibition standbys. There are a good many of these scattered here and there in the land. The wicked Jezebels and desparing Elijahs yet thorough. Drug Co. Only 25c at Cherokee Special prices on Silks days. Carroll, Carpenter on opening & Byers.-