The ledger. [volume] (Gaffney City, S.C.) 1896-1907, October 14, 1904, Image 2
If You Don’t
Believe Us
WHEN WE TELL
YOU THAT
PORTER’S
ANTISEPTIC
HEALING
Will cure a wound, such
as burns, boils, bruises,
cuts, old sores, mange on
dogs, collar galls, scratches,
etc., and that you can ap
ply it to your baby’s burned
or cut hand just as safely
as to your horse’s sore
back, ask Mr George Black-
well what he thinks about
it. He is a Gaffney man
and will tell
straight of it.
you the
FOR SALK BY
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J. n Taylor, a prominent merchant
I of Chriesman, Tex., says: “I could
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I I lost all strength and ran down in
I weight. All that money could do was
j done, but all hope of recovery vanlsh-
j ed. Hearing of some wonderful cures
j effected by use of Kodol Dyspepsia
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i bottles, I am fully restored to my
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dol Dyspepsia Cure digests what you
eat and cures. Sold by Cherokee
Drug Co., Gaffney; L. D. Allison, Cow-
pens.
One get-up-and-git man is better
than a dozen of the wait-for-some-
thing-to-turn-up brand.
Acid Iron Mineral cures all diseases
involving inflammation, by purifying
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and watch its magic healing. It acts
in exactly the same way on all inter
nal inflammation such as Dyspepsia,
Indigestion, Rheumatism, Kidney Dis
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It has no equal for diseases peculiar
to women. Tones up the entire sys
tem.
Trade A-I-M- mark on every bottle.
Sold by Druggists.
Acid Iron Mineral Co.,
Columbia, S. C.
Some men would have no excuse for
living if their wives didn’t take in
boarders.
Prescription Druggists
Look for the Horseshoe Sign.
The Builders Supply Co.
Successors to L. Baker.
Spent More Than $1000.
W. W. Baker, of Plainview, Neb.,
writes: “My wife suffered from lung
trouble for fifteen years. She tried
a number of doctors and spent over
$1000 without relief. She became
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recommended Foley’s Honey and Tar
and thanks to this great remedy it
saved her life. She enjoys better
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years.” Refuse substitute. Cherokee
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J. F. GARRETT,
Dentist.
Office Over The Battery.
’Phone 82
DR. W. K. GUNTER,
DENTIST
Office in Star Theatre Building.
Phone No. 20.
Crown and bridge work a specialty.
THE DISPENSARY QUESTION.
Mr. Hickson Writes Again Upon this
Vital Problem.
Some of the undecided ones in the
disgrace his country with any such
laws as those?
Is there a man in all the land so
Idg a fool as to say that the argu
ment, that because we can’t or don't
enforce the law prohibiting the sale
present issue of "dispensary” or “no G f liquor—confessedly an evil, We i
Dr. D. P. THOMSON,
♦
Dentist.
Over Cherokee Drug Co. Phone 55.
William S. Hall. J k.
jamgs A. Willis
On the Wall
Will furnish you Building Material of
the best that the markets afford ami at
the lowest living prices. No. 1 heart pine
Shingles and Laths, and Devo’s cele-!
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i everywhere recog-
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we’ll make you hap
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Prices are reason
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wall.”
HALL & WILLIS,
ATTOKNKYS AT LAW.
STAK THEATKK BLDQ.
O». O.
Notary Public In office. Prompt attention ] yourself,
flven to all business.
dispensary,” want to know if we vote
the dispensary out, what we will then
have. The answer to that of course,
is, we will have prohibition. That is
it will then he aganst the law for any
one to make or sell any
alcoholic or malt liquors in Cherokee
county. It will also be against the
law to sell these patent medicines
that contain from 5 per cent, to 05
per cent, of alcohal. But who will
enforce the law and how will they do
it? The same people will enforce
that, law r who enforce all the other
laws and in the same way. Some
body will swear out the warrants; the
sheriff and his deputies will serve
them, the trial justice and grand
juriors will investigate, the solicitor
will prosecute and the courts will try
the cases. In addition to all this, we
are promised great things from Co
lumbia. That great monster of an
enemy to whiskey, that moral institu
tion, known as the State Dispensary,
with all its constabulary and other
forces, are so jealous for their help
less ward, prohibition, that they have
come to our help in advance and have
provided at least their fee of half
mill tax for defending and prosecut
ing, etc., and so on all cases arising
under this law. But we do not ex
pect any help from Columbia. They
are those of whom I told before, and
now tell you, that they are the ene
mies of prohibition. The enforce
ment of this and all other laws must
depend upon the good people of the
county and State. Will the good peo
ple take proper interest in it and see
that it is enforced? Why, no, neigh
bor A. will not do his duty in this
matter as neighbo • B. thinks he
ought, and neighbor B. will spend all
his time abusing the jurors and
judges, and “cussing” the lawyers,
the times and people generally for
not executing the laws, and take a
hand in violating them himself, when
ever it suits his convenince to do so.
Neighor C. will take a spurt now and
then and swear out a warrant and
then drop the case. Many of the
other neighbors will fold their arms
and sit down to watch like gaping
fools lo see that wonderful thing law
get up and roar and devour every
evil thing in the land. No, judging
by the w r ay we are at present exe
cuting all the other laws we have we
shall not execute this one very well.
If then, it is not going to he enforced
any better than the law against mur
der and adultery and gambling and
stealing and defrauding are in Chero
kee county why let the dyspensary
remain. It’s doing very well. They
don’t let many people sell it but.
themselves and they are doing a
thriving business and giving us some
of the profits to help run the county,
and above all they are helping to
educate the poor children of the
county. Now that’s plausible. That’s
putting it very nearly as well as
“Uncle Ben” himself could have put
it. We’ll see about the profits and
schools later on, but just now we
want to have a talk with you on a
little higher plane. I started out
with you with the understanding that
you were a good man, and opposed to
drunkenness and all the evils that
follow in its train. Look again at
Is that right? Are you op
posed to drunkenness and all its evil
! consequences? “Yes,” you say. But
Mr. Strain Replies.
Mr. Editor:—I am compelled to
break my promise to discontinue this
controversy with Mr. Poole, at least
once, in order to show the spirit and
purpose with which he has been con
ducting his part of it.
He refers to the Owens’ ford mat
ter in such a way as to make your
readers believe that I was there run
ning a negro meeting “on the sly.”
This is evidently his purpose. The
fact is I went there with Solicitor
McGee Flemming, and at his request,
to get some affidavits for the defense
in a case in which a white man and
a democrat had been prosecuted be
fore me as trial justice for a serious
crime. I didn’t believe he was guilty
of violating the spirit of the law, and
1 was satisfied it would cost him a
good deal of money had it been per
mitted to go to court.
Mr. Poole was put down as a star
witness for the prosecution of the
man whom no doubt he had done as
much to work the ruin of as any other
living man. The result was the case
was thrown out of court and I heard
nothing more of it.
My friend boasts of his noble an-
i >'tiU 1 am afraid if we vote in prohibition | ces ^D'. nnd i am glad he has it. I have
1 we will have blind tgers ail over the "hate\er, with high sounding 1
country, and every merchant in Gaff- 'l? 0 ! 1 T w J nc 1 to honor and
ney will go to selling liquor. If we <,0( I I have none to disgrace.
I were to get that state of affairs we; proposes to furnish a list of
! vould not get any more liquor into Cher- Jl' v laults to those who care for them.
I okee county, nor make any more peo-1 Uns bo is welcome to do. I only ask |
pie drunk nor make them drunk on me a chance to acknowl-
raeaner liqur than is the case at pres- <>< is true and deny what is
will ourselves sell liquor, for a profit
leads logically to the same cause in;
the case of all laws we can’t or don’t!
enforce. Let some one show to the |
readers of this paper that the cases |
are not analagous.
But I will not agree that we can j
not enforce a prohibition law in this |
country. Not perfectly, I grant. We
can never stop murder in our country
until we get murder out of the heart
of every person in it. But we can
restrain many would-be murderers,
and get rid of a few and thus greatly
aid in making life safe even among
bad people. And so we can enforce
prohibition to the extent of greatly
reducing the evils of intemperance.
The most potent reason for prohibi
tion is that it is the only means by
which conscientious people, who re
gard w r hiskey an evil, can deliver
their souls from being partakers of ail
the crimes to which whiskey leads.
The thing that horrorfies me at the
thought of a Christian man voting
for the dispensary is, that he thereby
involves himself in every crime that
results from the sale and use of
liqour. If men sell liquor in spite of us
we are not responsible for that, hut
if we give our consent we are equally
guilty with those who do it, and if
we accept a consideration for our con
sent, we show that our motive is
base, and our hearts lower in the
moral scale than the criminal him
self. It’s meaner in me to hire my
self to murder another man’s wife
than it would be in him to murder
her himself, and I believe her ghost
would haunt me more mercilessly
than it would him. I believe that
when at last we shall see character
weighed in the well balanced scales
of God at the judgment, we shall find
the meanest and the lowest man of
all is the one who, Judas like, con
sents to crime for pay. Oh, my fel
low citizens, if you allow this money
consideration to influence your vote
on this issue, you debauch yourself.
You crawl down from the high pe
destal of honest manhood into the
hole of some meaner thing.
F. C. Hickson.
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Wrecks of all kinds repaired quick
Old vehicles made as good as new
Rubber tops put on your buggies
Know that your cash has its equivalent
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Tell me your wants; I will meet them.
Ash, hickory, oak and poplar for your job
Little breaks trouble make; I mend them
Kindly I’ll meet you, genteel I’ll treat
you.
W. T. THOMPSON.
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June H. Carr
Dr. S. H. Griffith,
PHYS1CAN - 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. d*
I^Office in Cherokee Drug Co.. B’ldg.
NOTICE
I have moved my stock of goods
into the Byars building next door
to Carroll, Carpenter & Byers,
and will continue to handle Gro
ceries, Shoes, Hats, Notions,
Crockery, Glassware, Light
Hardware, and almost anything
you need. I will open up a Meat
Market in rear of my store on
Oct. ist. Your patronage solic-
cited. Yours to please.
I. M. PEELER.
Phone 176.
Residence, 171.
625 Limestone Street.
FOR
Building and Plastering Lime,
Coal, and Plaster Hair,
Plaster Paris,
Shingles,
Portland Cement,
Dynamite,
Blasting Powder, Fuse
and Dynamite Caps, call on
LIMESTONE SPRINGS LIME WORKS.
CARROLL A CO., Lessees.
Telephone 67.
Wedding Presents.
The “marrying season" is on now,
and of course that means “present
time.” I have just [received a hand
some lot of
Rich Cut Glass
any piece of which would delight the
heart of a “blushing bride.” Come
and inspect my hue of Wedding
Presents.
Thos. H. Westrope.
Full Line of Jewelry.
Repairing|of all Kinds.
ent. Any man, woman or child that
wants liquor and can get hold of fif
teen cents can get it today. Whis
key is running a flush stream down
every road in the county today. If
you are opposed to drunkenness and
crime, how can you be in favor of the
dispensary which is a very volcanoe
belching forth evil and nothing but
evil? But you say, “If we have
blind tiger liquor w'e have the evil
and no compensation for it, if we
have dispensary we have evil it is
true, but we get pay for it. Also you
are willing to give your consent to
evil if you are paid for it. For a con
sideration you agree to legalize
crime. You a good man, perhaps a
church member, selling your consent
to evil. Your position now is that
an evil which you can’t prevent you
will license, or under the dispensary
system you will commit it yourself
and make profit out of it. If you do
that with one evil you must be con
sistent and do so with other evils. I
suppose that it will be admitted on
every hand that the law against adul
tery is no better enforced than the
poorest prohibition law we ever had.
I hear people on every side saying we
can’t make any law against this evil
effective. Very well, suppose we es
tablish a house of ill fame here in
Gaffney and one at Blacksburg and
run them for profit in the name of the
State, suppose we put a man or wo
man of good moral character (the
idea) in charge of them and allow
him or her to corrupt our youth and
charge those very same corrupted
duties, for their own shame to the
extent of ten thousand dollars a year.
Will you stand to your agreement
there, my friend? The law against
murder is not any better enforced
than was prohibition ever in Gaffney,
(and I never knew it. more poorly en
forced anywhere than here, along
about 1888 and 1889). Suppose we
say instead of spending several thous
and dollars on every murder, we will
make a thousand out of every murder
committed in this county hereafter,
and proceed to make a law that any
one who pays buys his gun and amu-
nation from the State may kill, don’t
say we will certainly hang every one
who doesn’t turn this profit Into the
State and county treasurery. Those
two laws would certainly be steps
towards chastity and the Protection
of human life, wouldn’t they? Turn
ing the State Into a criminal and call
ing that a step towards the preven-
ton of crime. Is there a man in all
the world so low as that he would
consent to debase, and debauch and
false.
My friend expresses great respect for
my family. This looks very nice on
paper indeed. But if the manner in
which he so often passes my house,
particularly on his return from Gaff
ney, is an evidence of his respect they
don’t care how soon he discontinues
his compliments.
Positively I shall settle or try to
settle no other question of this issue
in this or any other newspaper.
Respectfully',
James L. Strain.
All kinds of Job Work done at The Ledger
office neatlv and at
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Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy.
No one who is acquainted with its
good qualities can be surprised at the
great popularity of Chamberlain’s
Cough Remedy. It not only cures
colds and grip effectually and per
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from resulting in pneumonia. It is
also a certain cure for croup. Whoop
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this remedy is given. It contains no
opium or other harmful substances
and may be given as confidently to
a baby as to an adult. It is also
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facts are taken into consideration it
is not surprising that people in foreign
lands, as well as at home, esteem this
remedy very highly and very few are
willing to take any other after having
once used it. For sale by Cherokee
Drug Co., Gaffney; L. D. Allison, Cow-
pens.
A girl always tells a young man
that she can cook—and she always
tells other girls that she can’t.
THE CHRISTIAN churches at
Constantinople, Turkey and Yokoho-
ma, Japan, have long used the Long
man & Martinez Paints for painting
their churches.
Liberal contributions of L. & M.
Paint will be given for such purpose
wherever a church is located.
F. M. Scofield, Harris Springs, S.
C., writes, “I painted our old home
stead with L. & M. twenty-six years
ago. Not painted since; looks better
than houses painted In the last four
years.”
W. B. Barr, Charleston, W. Va.,
writes: “Painted Frankenburg
Block with L. & M. Shows better
than any buildings here have ever
done; stands out as though var
nished, and actual cost of paint was
less than $1.20 per gallon. Wears
like gold."
These celebrated paints are sold
by Smith Hardware Co., Gaffney;
Blacksburg Drug Co., Blacksburg.
IT IS OUR AIM
To handle all business intrusted to us to the en
tire satisfaction of our patrons. Call on us when
you wish to deposit or borrow^money.
The National Bank nf Gaffney, S. C.
OPEN TILL 5 P. M. EVERY DAY
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This splendid property is only 13^ miles
from the railroad and is convenient to church
and schools. It is comprised of 200 acres,
lying on small streams and soil is light mulatto
to dark loam. Most of the land is in timber,
principally pine, for which there is a good
market. Only about 50 acres under plow,
three tenant houses and ® O EZ r \
good barn. PRICE vD ^ 9 O \J \J
Sauthern Field Real Estate Exchange,
Spartanburg, S. G.
J. H. Carlisle, Jr. Secy, and Treas.
8-30-3mo
RUBBER STAMPS
Are my long suit. I make any kind except the bad ones. I furnish a Name
Stamp and an Indelible Pad for Marking Linen for 40 CENTS.
I have some other good things.
J. WIl_»OIV OIBBCJS,
Typewriters, Office SuppV
1334 MAIN STREET,
ppfies, Etc.
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