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THE LARGEST CIRCULATION of Any Newspaper in the Fifth Congressional District, of S. C. EVERY ONE PAID IN ADVANCE The Ledger. SEMI WEEKLY—PUBLISHED TUESDAY AND FBIDAY 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 jnterests of the People of Cherokee County. ESTABLISHED FEB. 16, 1894. THHOUGHOUT THE PALMETTO STATE ITEMS OF INTEREST OF PASSING EVElPTS IN SOUTH CAROLINA. Happenings All Over the State Taken from Our Exchanges and Tersely Told to Ledger Readers. The new oyster canning plant at Port Royal has begun operation. A number of hands are already employed and the force will be considerably increased on November ist. The latest improved machinery for the manufacture of barrels, crates, etc., for the use of truck farmers in Buford is be ing placed in position in .the large lum ber yaid of Messrs. N. Christensen & Sons. A vast quantity of crates, etc., are required to ship truck to northern mar kets and the outlook is that the new en terprise will be extensively patronized by the farmers of this county. Two white men, giving their names as J. C. Smith and Joe Allen, were arrested at Abbeville Thursday night for passing counterfeit money. The money was sil ver dollars and except for light weight ■was a clear imitation of the genuine. Several of the dollars were found in their possession after the arrest. They were arraigned today before ^Commissioner H. T. Wardlaw and sent up to the United States court. A fine proposition was made to Police man Duncan of Columbia by John Hobbs, an ex-convict, on Thursday. “Keep quiet during fair week about a blind tiger I know of on Gervais street, and there will be something in it for you,” said Hobbs, in effect. The officer, al- thouglfustunned by this offer, was able to take John down, and while he was in the Jpolice station a razor was seen pro truding from his vest pocket. One of the worst offenses in the eyes of Recorder Stanley^of Columbians cruel ty to animals. John McMillan, colored, was driving one of Alderman Strick land’s drays on Thursday and the mule balked. After protestations were seen to have no effect McMillan used his whip and so feebly Chat blood was drawn from the oeast’s -sides. The recorder gave him $20 or 30'days on the gang. He will probably serve the sentence. Thursday night about midnight two barns or outhouses with sheds of Mr. Abner B. Covar, a well-to-do fanner liv ing in the southern suburbs of Edgefield, were destroyed by file. Mr. Covar’s losses were very heavy and he had not one cent of insurance on scribing. He tost.the buildings, one mule, two horses, four bales of cotton, a wagon loaded with cot ton seed, two buggies, one mower, and all his grasses and psovender. Mr. Covar, who is a very calm and clear headed mau, is strongly aad decidedly of the opinion that this fire was the work of an incendiary. Deputy Sherriff Gail lard, of Sumter arrested Mrs. Fannie S. Baskins Satur day on a warrant sworn out by Q. W. Holloway, representing the comptroller general. A bond oi$i,ooo .was given by W. B. Boyle and I. C. Strauss for her appearance at preliminary hearing held yesterday’. The (acaest created some what of a sensation. Mrs. Baskins and T. S. Joyeare pushing investigation by comptroller. She wishes vindication of the suspicion. The solicitor will proba bly represeat the State. Mrs. Baskins is a lady of some wealth and will fight a lively legal battle. Her lawyers are the most distinguished members of the bar in that section The (case is being watched with great interest. The lady has many friends there and iu Lee county. Hoyt Hayes will not be hanged. Gov. I Heyward has commuted his sentence to life imprisonment ia the State peniten, tiary. This action was based principally on the decision of an expert examiner of questioned handwriting. Hayes had been convicted of having killed his wife, and the evidence was purely circumstan tial, with nothing to show motive, and for that reason it appeared to the gover nor that there might be cause for doubt; the ^ptement of the exjiert increases that feeling of doubt to such an extent that I Gov. Heyward is unwilling to see the I man suffer the death penalty. On the other hand he does not grant an uncon ditional pardon for the reason that there are so many circumstances unfavorable to the accused that a commutation of entence seems to him to be the only al ternative. GAFFNEY, S. C., FRIDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1904. $1.00 A YEAR. DEATH OF C. M. AMOS. Rev. J. W. Kilgo will hold the fourth quarterly conference of Buford Street StatioJSaturday evening at 7:30, at the parsonage, and will preach in Buford Street church Sunday morning at 11 o’clock, \ A I’roiri|ii«Mit Citizen of Spartanbun Gone. War Wound Caused Death. The following notice of Mr Amos’s death was taken from the Spartanburg Journal of Friday: “After years of suffering borne with fortitude and resignation, C. M. Amos, one of the oldest citizens of Spartanburg, passed peacefully away at bis home, 599 South Church street, this morning at 4:30 o’clock. “The death of Mr. Amos was not un- expected and anxious relatives had been watching at his bedside for days before the end came. “Mr Amos was a gallant Confederate soldier, entering the service of the South land at the first call to arms and being with Lee at the surrender at Appomat tox. “He fought during the four long years of the conflict and was several times wounded. It is thought that his death today was due to a wound leceived in the breast during the war between the States. “Mr. Amos had been a resident of Spartanburg for the greater part of his life, and for twenty years was superin tendent of streets here. Main street, which many years ago was a crooked village street, was laid off and straight ened to its present condition by Mr. Amos, who also aided in laying off many other sections of the city. “The deceased leaves a wife and four children, two boys and two girls, to mourne his loss; also a mother, brother and three sisters, Mrs. Jane Budgers, Mrs. Mary K. Cothran and Mrs. Lula Crawley. “Mr. Amos was married in February, 1876, just after the war, at the age of 23 years, to Miss Emilissa McCraw. “The deceased was a man who was faithful to his friends and his church, the First Baptist, of which he had long been a member, and his death will be deeply deplored by his church and the city as well. “The funeral exercises will take place from the residence on South Church street at 10 o’clock tomorrow morning, conducted by Rev. L. M. Roper, pastor of the deceased, the interment to be in Oak wood eemete r y.” Mr. Amos was the lather of Mrs. R. C. Sarratt, of this city, who was with him when he breathed Lis last. We extend our deepest sympathy to the bereaved family. -Inntly Esteemed. The Lyman H. Howe Moving Picture Company has earned the esteem of an appreciative public and a critical presa wherever they have appeared. This ex hibition has been engaged to appear ia the Star Theatre aider the auspices of the Limestone Guards next Tuesday. It is safe to presume they will arouse the interest and oocnmand the patronage of our people as they have done through out the country. Mr. Howe offers a sterling entertainment, honorably pre sented sad (honestly advertised, and al ways aims to exceed the expectations of the most exacting. While producing subjects of the latest conception and most exclusive character, the most re cent and absorbing events of an internat ional interest are cfered. The program conscientiously avoids any suggestion that might offend the most scrupulous. Wide experience, expert operators and improved mechanism have enabled the management to delight thousands with wholesome enjoyment and with an en tertainment unrivalled in perfection of detail. Letter to R. M. Gaffney. Gaffney, S. C. Dear Sir:—A great many people will see your house in the course of the next ten years. We want it to show what Devoe lead-and-zinc will do. We should like you to paint it, and then not paint it again for ten years—unless it needs re painting. We’d like such a sample as that in every town in the country—with a notice about|it in the local paper: “Mr. ’s house was painted ten years ago with Devoe lead-and-zinc, and has never been repainted. The color is not so bright as it was; but the paint is as pefrect a coat as ever, to keep out water.” A good lead-and-oil job is expected to last three years; it is a good one that lasts three; it generally does not. Devoe lea.l-and-zinc lasts twice as long, if not:— “If you have any fault to find with this paint, either now in putting it on, or hereafter in the wear, tell your dealer about it. “We authorize him to do what is right at our expense.” We want your house as a sample, and you as a witness. Yours truly, F W Devos & Co 74 P. 8:—Builders Supply Co. sell our paint. A NEWSY LETTER FROM WILKINSVILLE. MOVEMENTS OF THE PEOPLE OF LOWER CHEROKEE. Where the feathers of vanity fly there is always a good mark for the gun, hut never enough bird to pay for the shot. Subscribe for The Ldgjr $1 a year. Personal Paragraph* Concerning Pop ular People and Short Hems of General IntereaL Wilkinsville, Oct. 14.—The people of this county are confronting one of the most important, farreaching and perplex ing questions that has been before them in a long time, if ever before. Soon they will be called upon^to decide for or against the dispensary. It will be well for them to consider the matter carefully in all its bearings before casting their votes, if they would have the best results. That the dispensary is the outcome of a compromise between prohibition on one hand and the barroom on the other, is true. Good and evil can’t exist in the same place at the same time. They may alternate. Prohibition votes cast by blind tiger patrons arc a rnllity in quit ting the drink demon. The man who casts his vote for prehibition simply be cause it is a popular measure, and has the air of respectability, and then patronize or encourages the illicit sale of whiskey has a very poor conception of good citi zenship. He is a fraud and a failure as a governmental economist; yet many fairly good men do that very thing. Running with the hare and chasing with the hounds must stop if this liquor question is ever settled fairly. The opponents of the Tillman goveru- meut and the dispensary law are not half so much to blame for the prostitution of the dispensary as the so-called friends of Tillman. They (or at least many of them) shouted and worked for Tillman, and endorsed his every word and act in cluding the substitution of the dispen sary for prohibition, and yet they never ceased to patronize and authorize and en courage “blind tigerism.” If every man who voted for B. R. Tillman had come up to the support of the dispensary law and helped carry out its requirements, quite a different state of affairs and feel ings would exist today in South Carolina, in that its success or failure would have been settled one way on the other in the mind of every intelligent, thinking man and woman. We are speaking of the dispensary law as enacted and not as car ried out. If whiskey is to be sold in the State at all, let it be under dispen sary regulation rigidly enforced, and let every man who ia worthy of the name, see to it that for every violation the of fender suffers the full penalty. What we need mpst in South Carolina today is not mere preaching and teaching in regard to the abominable evil of strong drink; but more manhood to see that the evil is put down by legitimate agencies. Some people say we can’t have pro hibition. That ia true unleas they aie willing and not afraid to enforce the law. We heard a man say he would be afraid to report or appear as a witness against a “blind tiger” for fear his property would be burnt up. Such declarations as these is, all the lawless want to hear. They laugh at such .femininity on the part of the so-called manhood of our State. We pity the man who is so constituted that he is afraid to exersise his duty as a citizen to execute the law. Twelve years ago South Carolina was put down for prohibition by several thousand majority. Whether or not that sentiment has changed materially is not for us to say. But one thing we can say and that is if the twelve^ hundred so-called drunkards in Cherokee county are determined to see that the sale of spirituous liquors is put down in this county and will give their help and influence in that diiection we will have no liquor sold in our midst. That is certain. These cool morings make fires and thick clothing comfortable. The Wilkinsville oil mill ginnery is suffering for want of water. It can’t make full time. The flat at Howell’s ferry cannot ru.i from about 12 m. until perhaps that hour at night—just as the water from the cot ton mills above comes down. In another week, with good weather and no hindrence, most of the farmers will have finished picking cotton. That the crop will be short is moie and more I apparent each day. Our people are making up their mo lasses now. A first rate quality was made by Mr. 8am Lee this week. For the last few days buyers at Hick ory Grove have been paying more for cottou than auy of the iieighlioriug mar kets. How this is we can’t see. But we confess there are plenty of things we don’t know. The next public convenience our peo- pi'.- work for is a bridge across Broad river just above the present site of Howell’s ferry. This could be built by the two counties of York and Cherokee without any very great expense to either. At Hamilton shoals the river is only 28S feet across, with a fine rock bottom and a high bluff on the York side. The ad vantages derived from a bridge at this place will he equal to the counties of York and Cherokee. The condition of the river is such that for a good part of the year the sand obstructs the stream so that the flat can’t run, and thus the travelling public are put to great incon venience in crossing the river. The free ferry at Howell’s, during the last three years has brought a great deal more into Cherokee county than it took out of it. This we have spoken of here tofore. We trust that this intervation will put the matter before our people so as to elicit the views of others upon the subject of a bridge at or near Howell’s ferry. What say you, brethren of the quill? J. L. S. How Tom Lost His Liquor. Not long ago I found myself in town near the great State institution—the dis pensary. The sight aroused the desire for liquor. My hands flew to my pock ets, where I found I had only 30 cents. 1 was hungry. I must have my dinner. I could spend a quarter for a square meal and have 5 cents to get little Willie some candy. I tried to pass on, but I saw Bill Smith, Sig Jones and many others come out putting bottles of the chemically pure in their breast pocket. Then I in my terrible thirst reasoned thus: Ten cents will buy me a good lunch, take the other 20 cents and get me a half pipt and feel rich a little while. My weakness conquers. In I go, buy the cursed stuff, and walk out, placing it in my pocket ^o gulp down behind the first corner. Just as I turn down the street I hear a famil iar, but now plaintiff, voice, a few yards behind me, “O, Cousin Tom! Cousin Tom !” I look back; an old grey beard ed man (a leader in Blank church) comes hurriedly up and with hands on his stom ach he exclaims: “Cousin Tom, your Encle Ned is most dead, most dead; such a griping and gnawing in my stomach. I think a dram would help me.” What can I do but hand the old man my un opened bottle. He seizes it and hurries behind the first corner and I follow. With knife n&de ready on the way, he cuts the stopper, and I hear my coveted liquor gurgling down his throat. He lifts the bottle from his mouth; then an other swig, and he hands it to me with about two spoonfuls left. I indignantly exclaim, “Take more, Unde Ned. I think it will help you.” He takes me at my word and gulps down the last drop, leaving me a poorer but a soberer and wiser max. Mr. Editor, this is a true story, and whenever I think or hear of the dispen sary I think of the old man that drank all my Kquor, and I can see his agonizing look and hear the plaintive wail: “Cousin Tom, your Uncle Ned is most dead.” I am ready to vote “no dispensary,” and when Uncle Ned gets sick he must stay at home and send for the doctor. Yours truly, Tom Blacksmith. , Withdraws from Contest. Trough, S, C., Oct. 17. Mr. Editor:—This is to notify you that I will withdraw from the corn contest. The best part of my acre failed by be coming too wet in June. I thank you very much for the pioposition you gave to the farmers of Cherokee county this year. I think that I will make corn enough on three acres to do my family of four and a large horse. I am sure that I would not have done so had you not made the offer. I have something new under the sun in Cherokee county—a bird’s nest built on a cotton stalk. The stalk has sixty-six good bolls on it. I will make a bale on that acre. Yours truly, W. G. Patterson. NEWS FROM RE- YOND IRE RROAD. RECENT HAPPENINGS IN THRIV ING BLACKSBURG. First Baptist Chorch Notes. The Sunday School will meet at 10 o’clock sharp. There will be no preaching in the morning, as Dr. Simms will lie away. At night Rev. Mr. Potter will fill the pulpit for Dr. Simms. The Baptists hope that a full house may greet Mr. Potter as he conies to preach for them. Names of Visitors Who Have Been “Going and Coming” for the Past Week. Blacksbug, October 17.—Mrs. A. M. Bridges and Mrs. Jno. Blalock went over to Gaffney Friday shopping. Mrs. A. E. Woody, of Spartanburg Junction, is here visiting relatives and friends. She will goto Patterson Springs also. Mr. C. A. Stewart came up from Rock Hill yesterday on account of the illness of his little child. Misses Gay Crow and Clay, of Marion, N. C., are in town visiting friends. Miss May Shiver will leave today for Marion, where she will spend a few days. Mrs. Sarah Fitzgibbon, who has been visiting her sisters, Mrs. Shiver and Mrs. Holmes here for some time, left Friday morning for Hornsboro, N. C. Mr Tom Clarkson, of Gaffney, spent Sunday here with his parents, Rev. and Mrs. N. B. Clarkson. Mr. Bob Davis returned here Saturday after a stay of several weeks at Clare mont with his uncle. Miss Mamie Wilburn, of Limestone College, Gaffney, spent Sunday in town with Mrs. George Eaves. Mrs. Hollis left yesterday for her home at Cross Keys, after spending a week with her sister, Mrs. C. S. Whisnant. Mr. Cris Phillips, of Gaffney, was in town a few hours yesterday. On Wednesday evening from 6 to 3 o’clock the Ladies Missionary Society of the Presbyterian church here tendered the delegates a reception at the home of M. J. W. Rhyne. All of the ladies’ so cieties of the town were invited and there was a large attendance. The musical programme was well arranged and beau tifully executed. Mrs. Gaden and Mrs. King performed on the piano, and Mrs. W. E. Anderson sang. After the music, refreshments of a dainty sort were served in the dining room. Mrs. Metts, Misses Rhyne, Sherer and Guyton served the guests very gracefully. Among the many charming guests was Mrs. Lacy Little, a missionary from China. Mrs. Little gave some very interesting facts concerning our Celestial neighbors and their needs. It is inspiring to hear of the noble lives of our Christian missionaries and to be able to give them our financial and sympathetic support. Only two men were present, the Rev. Mr. Potter and the Rev. Mr. Williams. These two val iant brethren tried to represent their sex with dignity and decorum. Mr. Wil liams having arrived Hte, could do but little, but Mr. Potter was among the first to arrive and by his graceful beuing and courteous manners made the ladies wish that more of the brethren had been in vited. Thus ended a meeting of which Blacksburg is justly proud. We sin cerely hope that these dear delegates will come back soon again to hearten us ou the great subject of missions. INGERSOLL ON ALCOHOL. An Kloqiit-nt ArralKiiioent of the Great Curas of Humanity, White Plains, Oct. 17. Mr. Editor:—I enclose you an article clipped from the South Carolina Baptist last year on the liquor question which I hope you will publish iu view of the election on the dispensary. Cherokee News please copy. W. J. Garner. PHYSICIAN’S GOOD LUCK Dr. The Lord would be pleased if a lot of people would take the padlocks off their purses and put them on their lips Saves Two From Death. “Our little (lauirhter had an almost fatal ultae’: of whopping cough md bronchitis,” writes Mrs. W. K. Havi- land, of Armonk, N. Y,, “but, whoa all other remedies failed, wo saved her life wth Dr. King’s New Discovery. Our niece, who had Consumption In an advanced stage, also used this wonderful medicine and today ahe Is perfectly well." Desperate throat and lung diseases yield to Dr. King’s New Discovery as to no other medicines on earth. Infallible for Coughs and Colds. 50c and $1.00 bottles guar anteed by Cherokee Drug Co. Trial bottles free. Subscribe for The Ledger $1 a year. i Subscribe for Thu Ledger $1 a year. “One of the most beautiful orators that ever lived was Col. Robert J. Ingersoil. Many deplored his power because it was exerted in what the Christian world re garded as a wrong cause, the questioning of Biblical interpretation. Yet he deliv ered some offh e most truly religious ora- tious iu the English language. In the speech printed below he recognized the existence of the soul, of the devil, of God and of heaven. He was defending a man who had sold alcoholic beverages, and in addressing the jury he spoke as follows: T am aware there is a prejudice against any man engaged in the manufacture of alcohol. I believe from the time it issues form the coiled and poisoned worm in the distillery,until it empties into a hell of death, dishonor and crime, that it is de moralizing to everybody that touches it, from the source to where it ends. I do not belive that anybody can contemplate the subject without being prejudiced against the crime. All we have, to do is to think of the wrecks on either side, of the stream of death, of the suicides, of the poverty, of the destruction, of the little children tugging at the breasts of weak and despairing wives, asking fo? bread, of men of genius it has wrecked, the men struggling with imaginary ser pents produced by this hellish thing, and when you think of the jails, of the aim- houses, of asylums, of the prisoners and the scaffolds on either hand, I do not wonder that every thoughtful man is prejudiced against the vile stuff called alcohol. Intemperance cuts day youth in its vigor, manhood in its strength and age in its weakness. ‘It breaks the father’s heart, bereaves the doting mother, extinguishes natural affection, erases conjugal love, blots out attachment and blights parental hope and brings premature age in sorrow to the grave. It produces weakness, not strength, sickness, not health, death, not life. It makes wives widows, children orphans, fathers fiends, and all pauf£t$. It feeds rheumatism, nurses gout, wel comes epidemic, invites cholera, imports pestilence and embraces consumption. It covers the land with misery, idleness and crime. It engenders controversies „ foster quarrels and cherishes riots. It . crowds your penitentiaries and furnishes vii tims to the scaffold. It is the blood of the gambler, the element of the bvr— glar, the prop of the highwaymen and the midnight incendiary. It countenar.- ces the liar, • respects the thief, eeteeus. the blasphemer. It violates obligation reverences fraud, honors infamy. It de fames benevolence, hates love, scorns virtue and innocence. It invites the father to butcher his helpless offspring and the children to grind the parricu al axe. It burns up man, consumes women, detests life, curses God and despises heaven.. It suborns witnesses, nurses perfidy, defiles the jury box and stains the judicial ermine. It bribes voters, disqualifies votes, corrupts elections, pol lutes our institutions 'and endangers the government. It degrades the citizen, debases the legislator, dishonors the statesman and disarms the patriot. It brings shame, not honor; misery, not happiness; and with the ^malevolence of a fiend calmly surveys its frightful deso lation, and satisfied with the Jhavoc, it poisons felicity, kills peace, ruins mor als, wipes out national honor, then curses ruin. It does that and more—it murders the soul. It is the sum of all villainies, the father of all crimes, the mother of all abomina tions, the devil’s best friend and God’s worst enemy. Hart’s Fortunate (Experience of Hpf cial Interest to Many In Gaffney. The happiest man in New England today and one who is receiving congrat ulations from his friends, is Dr. Philip Z. Hart, of Laconia, N. H. Probably no physician is better known iu all parts of the United States »han Dr. Hart, as he has been a great traveler and L t the world a^d laighi at*’ito knows the best people wherever he has been. For years he has suffered with catarrh in its worst form. Although he resorted to the latest scientific treatment, and consulted many of his brother physicians. Dr. Hart final ly said, “I might just as well have thrown my money in the river for I grew worse and worse. It is really due to my wife's good judgement that I tried Hyo- inei.” The Doctor, in his emphatic way added “Thank God that I did, for Hyo- mei cured me completely. My wife and I will swear that Hyoniei cured jne of the worst case of catarrh that Jever existed. I used to cough constantly at night, and had a dropping in the throat, which kept [me awake a great deal. I raised thick pvlegm and was in a horrible con dition. However, I am entirely cured, solely through the use of Hyomei.” Gaffney Drug Co. are the local agents sor Hyomei, the famous treatment which cures catarrh without stomach dosing. A complete outfit costs but fi.oo, extra bottles, 50c. They sell it under guar antee to refund the maney if it does not give quick relief. Ask them to show you the strong guarantee under which it is sold. Unclaimed Letters. List of unclaimed letters in Gaffney postoffice for week ending October 17th, 1904: Lee Barber, Simpson Blanton, Joe Ed wards, Charlie Fox, C. A. Cries, Wade Henderson, Gaims Hail, Monroe Mc Craw, Sam Shifty, E. H. Spainhour, Jes sie Brown, Paul Smith (2), Johu Terter, David Williams, Miss Daisy Bradford, Miss John Graniliug, Miss Violet Linsey, Miss Mary Mishel (2), Miss Mary Mc Donald, Miss Nealy Sides, Miss Nan vie Spicy, Miss Susan Wood. Call for advertised letters. A. R. y. Folger, P. M. Broke Into His House. S. Lo Quinn, of Cavendish, Vt., was robbed of his customary health by In vasion of Chronic Constipation. When Dr. King’s New Life Pills broke Into his house, his trouble was arrested and now he’s entirely cured. They're guranteed to cure. 25c at Cherokee Drug Co. i I Subscribe for The Ledger $1 a year. PMP