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THE LEDGER, Published Tuesday and Friday by Ed H. DeCamp. . Beginning January 1st the price of The Ledger will be $1.50 a year. Those who desire to do so may take advantage of the $1.00 a year rate by paying $1.00 for another year any time before January 1st. IT'S A MATTER OF MORALS. It’s a great pity that a man with the ability of Senator Tillmai would not turn his talents in a better direc tion than to endeavor to influence the people to debauch themselves. It is also unfortunate—for himself—that he cannot be fair in debate. There was no excuse for him to take a por tion of our article and read and com ment upon it. It would have been nothing but right and proper for him to have read it in its entirety to the audience. There was nothing smart in his effort to misrepresent this news paper. Of course we could not and would not submit to it. We disliked very much to interrupt him and would not have done so had he not attempt ed to leave a wrong impression upon the minds of the people. We submit that the Senator should not whine about the press misquot ing or misrepresenting him when he either deliberately misquotes or mis represents it. It comes with ill grace for a strong man to play the baby act. There is one thing certain and sure, and that is that when he (or any other man) attempts to mis represent this newspaper he may ex pect to be called to account then and there, should the editor be present to defend himself. Wo have no desire ena and he need not expect to come to be, but he is neither bear nor hy ena and he need not expect to ceme into this neck of the woods and ride rough shod over anybody, at least not so long as we have the “parson” on our side. We would not knowingly misrepre sent any phase of the question if we knew that by doing so we could win, and that not to do so meant defeat. Ours is a most righteous cause. We are battling for sobriety, morality, a decrease in crime and a betterment of the condition of humanity. If we were to look at it from a monetary standpoint we might say let it stand hs it is. We shall expect to pay a lit tle additional tax if the dispensary is voted out. It may raise the tax 2 mills. This would mean 1 cent on every $5 worth of property you re turn. It would cost the man who re turns $100 worth of property 20 cents, and the man who returns $1,000 worth of property $2. Say, brother, how much would that cost you? Sup pose it cost you $10 or $20, or even $100? Would you not rather pay it and see your neighbor a sober man, or have your boy grow up a sober man, than to be relieved of that tax and see your neighbor a drunkard, or have your boy grow up a drunkard? But, say, how much is it going to cost you? It will not cost the average man 20 cents a year. It’s only a few —a mighty small few—who will pay $1 as compared with those who will pay 20 cents. Prohibition is the poor man’s friend. The dispensary is the poor man’s foe. We stood and watched those who patronized the dispensary last Saturday afternoon. Generally speaking, they appeared to be very poor people, who could ill afford to spend even the little pittance they did spend for liquor. At least half were negroes. They swarmed about the dispensary like buzzards around a dead carcass. According to the law not over one out of ten would have been able to buy the hellish stuff. But the law was winked at. Men who could not sign their names made a cross mark and got their liquor. The law was instituted as a temper ance measure, but the business of the dispenser is to sell all he can, and he does it. Is that encouraging temperance? If it is, how long will it be before we have absolute prohi bition? It reminds us of the arithmet- cal problem of the frog in the well, which jumped up two feet and fell; back three. After the scholar had 1 ; worked on it until he had covered several pages of paper the teacher asked the boy how he was getting along and he replied: “If you will give me enough time and paper I’ll soon have that .frog in h—.’’ So it Is with the dispensary. If you give us enough of it and time enough, instead | of getting out of the well of intemper ance we’ll some day be in the lower regions. Wo don’t mean to be profane. It’s a serious question. It affects our manhood, our womanhood and our childhood. We want nothing but what will redound to the good of the! people. We have got the dispen- saryites on the run. We believe as firmly as we believe there is a God in heaven that the dispensary is doomed so far as this county is concerned. Hasten the day of freedom from the thraldom of the demon. Up and do ing, men, and let the victory be so sweeping as to forever blot out the accursed system. NOTES AND COMMENTS. Senator Tillman couldn’t recall anything dishonest in the administra tion of the dispensary until the “par son” specified, and then instead of admitting that the “parson” was right, he tried to justify himself by ! ridicule. But it didn't work. * * * Wo have promised Senator Tillman to print his speech in full. This we shall do in our issue of Friday. In this connection we shall also print Mr. Hicksori’s reply. So if you want hot stuff on the “dispensary and no dis pensary” subject don’t miss next Fri day’s Ledger. * * # The laugh is on the dispensaryites. They invited Senator Tillman here to defend their cause. He kinder side stepped the issue, admitted that the dispensary, as now run, was corrupt, and merely suggested how it could be improved. He never once advised the people to vote for it. * * • Friday afternoon in his room at the hotel Senator Tillman said he was go ing to rattle the dry bones from Gaff ney to the Savannah. The truth is that he got rattled himself. His hearers w’ere not in sympathy with him. They listened respectfully and went away almost to a man in the same frame of mind in which they went to the court house. • * • “Parson” Hickson neatly turned on Senator Tillman’s assertion that the advocates of prohibition were hypo crites, when he told the Senator that he was a hypocrite when he profess ed to be honest and advocated those things that were for the good of the people, and every time the good peo ple of the State lined up on a ques tion of morals he aligned himself with the forces Gf evil. • • • It is difficult to keep a working man down. ' With the aid of one of the county’s traction engines, and through the ingenuity of Mr. Jim Coyle we have been enabled to rig up a temporary power until our new en gine is installed. We acknowledge our indebtedness to County Super visor Whelchel for the use of the en gine and to Mayor Gaffney and the city authorities for the privilege of placing it on the street • • • Senator Tillman invited Mr. Hick son to reply, but he acted like a rank dunghill afterward, for every time the “parson’ would stick a gaff into him he’d squawk It was ically funny to see him squirm and hear him “hol ler.” But the Senator had a bad case. He made the best out of it that he could; but it was an awfully poor ef fort for the Senator. It was flat and stale. He injected nothing, new and admitted the evils of the dispensary, and if he ever advised the people to vote for it we never heard him. DR. W. K. GUNTER, IJ E IM T I « T Offico in Star Theatre Building. Phone No. 20. Crown and bridge work a specialty. Dr. D. P. THOMSON, Dentist. Over Cherokee Drug Co. Phone 55. WANTED! All youi clothes that need brig'htenins' up. j bring them to us. We will nuke them look fresh and new. All work done by expert tailors. See ns and join our pressing club. ROBINSOH« MS, Tailors. Over W. D. Telegraph Office. Phone No. 4a. Fresh Meats anil Groceries Don’t forget that I am still in the market business. I have a full line of nice, Fresh Meat and Fresh Gro ceries coming in daily. I sell at a living profit and sell a good article. Some people harp powerfully on l6 ounces. I would like to know what we would give if we did not give 16 ounces? It would he short weight. That’s the reason I can’t cut prices. I might cut weight, too; some peo ple do, and we all know it. Please call ’phone No. 183 when you want Fresh Groceries, Fresh Meats and Fresh Fruits. I am headquarters for the same. W. J. Maness Good Health to the Children Children especially are fond of dainties, and the housekeeper must look carefully to their food. As good cake can be made only with good eggs, so also a cake that is health ful as well as dainty must be raised with a pure and perfect baking powder. Royal Baking Powder is indispensable in the preparation of the highest quality of food. It imparts that peculiar light ness, sweetness and flavor noticed in the finest cake, biscuit, doughnuts, crusts, etc., and what is more important, renders the food wholesome and agreeable to young and old. ROYAL BAKING POWDER CO., NEW YORK. WHO IS SHE? Solid Gold Watch WALTHAM MOVEMENT ABSOLUIELY FREE To the Prettiest and Most Popu lar Lady in Cherokee County, Married or Single. Every one of Conpm No. 1 cut from The Ledger and sent In to this office entity's you to a vote for the lady of your choice. It matters not how many you can get just so they are cut fiom this paper as they appear between now and New Year’s Day, 1905. COUPON No. 1 THE LEDGER. Gaffney, S. O. Gentlemen: I vote for M P. O. I believe she is the prettiest and most popular lady in Cherokee County. Signed P. O. .. We squander too much time search ing the sands that are salted with gold. ..STAR THEATRE. noth SEMI-ANNUAL TOUR THE OFTEN IMITATED BUT NEVER EQUALLED LYMAN H. HOWE WILL PRESENT America’s Greatest Exhibition of It is hard for the defeated candi date to look glad. 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. J* J* J* •Office in Cherokee Drug Co., BTdg. No votes will be accepted after the last day of this year. All votes must reach this office on or before the last day of December, 1904. The lady receiving the largest num ber of votes cast will receive the watch. It will he ready for delivery to her at The Ledger office January 1st, 1905. Should there he a tie in the vote between two or more the tie shall be settled between the winners themselves. The names of the ladies and the number of votes they receive will he printed in The Ledger every week. The watch is a good one. solid gold, and can be seen at Thos. H. Westrope's jewelry store. Mr. Westrope guarantees the watch to he solid gold and the works to hoof the best. How to Get Coupons. There are many ways of getting coupons. you are a subscriber you will get coupon No. 1 every w*ek up to issue of December 30th, unless your subscription expires and your paper is stopped. If you can got papers from your friends containing coupon No. 1. that will be all right, you will bo allowed to fill it out and each one will count a vote when sent Into this office. Papers will he on sale at this office all the time, as many as you want at 5 cents per copy, 50 cents per dozen, or $1.00 per one hundred. If you subscribe for The Ledger or renew your subscription to the amount of 25 cents you will be entitled to 5 votes; 50 cents, 10 votes; 75 cents, 15 votes; $1.00, 20 votes. Every 5 cents paid on subscription to The Leoger entitles you to a vote. It matters not how much you pay on your subscrip tion. You can pay as much or little as you like at a time and as often as you like, but in case of subscriptions you must always use coupon No. 2 below: 130 \ The Great Life Boat Series. The Russo-Jap War Scenes. The St. Louis Exposition. The Thrilling Fire Scenes. The Trip Through Italy. Anu 30 Other Great Scenes. PRICES 25, 35 AND 50. Diagram of reserved seats at Ledger office. We Will Soon show one of the finest lines of CHINA,GLASS and PLUSH NOVEL- T1ES ever shown in Gaffney ; w e are headquarters for all that is best in our line. : : 11 S.B. CRAWLEY &C0. 813 Limestone Street. Drugs, Perfumes, Stationery Prescriptions properly filled and promptly delivered. IVo. 32i Wrecks of all kinds repaired quick Old vehicles made as good as new Rubber tops put on your buggies] Know that your cash lias its equivalent at my shop. 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. COUPON NO. 2 THE LEDGER. Gaffney, S. C. Gentlemen: Enclosed find $ for months subscription to THE LEDGER and votes in the voting contest for the prettiest and most popular lady in Cherokee County. I cast my votes for M P. O Signed. P. O. J. F. GARRETT, Dentist. Office Over The Battery. ’Phone 82 There will be no restrictions to the voting other than laid down here. You may subscribe for The Ledger lor a friend and vote for the lady of your choice. You may induce a friend to subscribe and vote for the lady of his choice. The contest will be conducted with the strictest regard for fairness and Impartiality. Those living out of town (or in town, either, for that matter) need not send In yjeir coupons No. 1 each week unless they like. They can wait a few weeks and get a batch of them and send all at once, A strict and accurate account will be kept of all the votes, and each coupon will be filed for reference should any dispute arise. After the contest is over the winner and the two next closest to her wilt he requested to furnish The Ledger a photograph to publish the following week after the winner is announced. Remember, no entries w;ill be made without coupons properly signed and sent in. Address all letters to THE LEDGER, Gaffney, S. C. OUCH! GREAT (JOSH *,| wiuwavetotake to the RocketOteiEi SHOP NOW 5 6 ♦: X A firoat " * 1,0 Bicycle Ulvfll riders who buy cheap wheels from other people and don’t buy from the RacketG’ycleMan. who can sell them a wheel guaranteed for 12 months for $15 and save them 25 per cent on Bicycles and Bicycle Fixtures of all kinds. Have just got in a lot of Bicycies and Tires, Ce ments. Machine Oil and Needles. I keep all kinds of Bicycle parts and can save you money on all general re pairing. I fix guns, pistols, sewing machines, furniture, etc. Bring me your old wheels and let me swap you new ones for them. 1 have wheels from $5 up to |25. t*ee me before you buv and don’t forget the RACKET CYCLE MAN. G. H. DURHAM, Robinson Street, First door rear A. W. Doggett’s store. Having recently placed an order for a j complete line of pic ture mouldings and fittings, will be ready in a few days to execute orders for frames in all sizes and styles in a most satisfactory manner. Look up the pic tures you have and would like tastefully framed, and bring them in now. June H. Carr, •125 Limestone St. Phone 170. Res. 171. IT IS OUR AIM To handle all business intrusted to us to the en tire satisfaction of our patrons. Call on us when }*ou wish to deposit or borrow^ money. Tlie National Bank of Gaffney, S. C. OPEN TILL 5 P. M. EVERY DAY 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. 1st. Your patronage solic- cited. Yours to please. I. M. PEELER. The Builders Supply Co, Successors to L. Baker. Will furnish you Building Material of the best that the markets afford and at the lowest living prices. No. 1 heart pine Shingles and Laths, and Devo’s cele brated Paints—guaranteed to go further and last longer than any other in the market. When in need of anything in the building line, call and see us; we’ll treat you courteously and mace your es timates for nothing. , I_v. Baker*, Vice-President and Manager. IVo. 196 This splendid property is only 1 >6 miles from the railroad and is convenient to church V 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 good barn. PRICE vD j O \J Southern Field Real Estate Exchange, £}pa.rta.ntmrf»;, *5^. O. v J. H. Carlisle, Jr. Secy, and Treas. 8-30-3mo