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* ft l THE LEDGER. Tuesday and Friday, Ed. H. DeCamp, Editor and Publisher, A. W. Griffith, Local Editor. The Ledger is not responsible for the views of correspondents. Obituraries will be published at five cents a line. Correspondents who do not contri bute regular news letters must fur nish their name, not for publication, but for identification. All correspondence should be ad- dessed to Ed. H. DeCamp. Manager. NOTES AND COMMENTS. The cotton growers’ convention will meet in New Orleans next week. It will no doubt be more largely attend ed than any event of the kind yet held in the South. ■ • • Ex-Mayor McCue, of Charlottesville, Va., who was convicted of murdering his wife and sentenced to be hanged, has been respited by Governor Mon tague till February 10th, in order to give time for the supreme court to consider an amended application for a writ of error and supersedeas. • * * Spartanburg is making extensive preparations for her next annual May Festival at Converse College. The local musicians, under Mr. Manches ter, the director of music at Converse, have begun rehearsing for the event, which already gives promise of being the greatest one ever held in Spartan burg. * * * In writing of his system, which is now known throughout the State as the “Aldrich System,” Col. Aldrich, of Barnwell, says: “If your farmers would adopt it they would all become independent and prosperous. The farmer who makes all that he consumes is in better shape with 6c cotton than he who buys on credit to operate his farm and sells his cotton at 10c per pound. The first named can carry on his business prob ably with Cc cotton while the last named is forced to suspend.” • • « The second inauguration of Govern or D. C. Heyward will take place on Wednesday, the 25th inst. The inau gural cermonies will be held, as usual, on the steps of the capitol, and the Governor will make an address. Gover nor Heyward announces it as his in tention to withdraw from public life at the expiration of his second term. He has made an excellent official, and is held in high regard by the people of the State, who would like to honor him with any other office he might de sire. • • • What could those cotton burners have hoped to gain by their foolish, crazy act? Suppose a sufficient num ber of such lunatics could combine and succeed in having the price of cotton go to forty cents, what would it profit them when they no longer had any of the staple for sale? No one would believe for a moment that they were prompted by such an unselfish motive as the desire to have their neighbors, who had held their cotton, profit by the advance in price. Human nature is not (|uite so generous, these days. * * * A magistrate at Duncans recently cent a negro woman to the chaingang for thiity days for cruelty to animals. The woman hired a turnout from a liveryman at Duncans and drove and beat the horse unmercifully. She was promptly indicted for the offense, haul ed up before the magistrate, and as promptly convicted. This was a com mendable act in the Duncans magis trate; and if more of the officers of the law would be so prompt to ad minister punishment for such offen ses, it would tend to put a stop to so much inhuman treatment of dumb animals. No ordinary penalty is suffi cient for such a crime. SHORT LOCAL ITEMS. W. H. Ross has moved the remnant of the I). R. Bird stock Into E. B. Ham lin’s store. Mrs. C. H. Robbins’ mother, who has been very ill, we are glad to say is now convalescing. R. L. Hoover and family, from near this city, have gone to Gate City. Fla., where they will nmke their future home. H. P. Goforth has opened a stock of groceries at Blacksburg in the Iron City hotel block. L. T. Ligon is man ager of it. Mrs. Carrie A. Petty has moved from Shelby, where she has resided for a number of years, to her farm near this city. Mrs. Rosannah Hamrick and her brother, Joe Lee, and family, now oc cupy the Dr. Nesbitt new cottage on Cherokee avenue. .1. S. Littlejohn spent Thursday in Greenville and Friday in Laurens, as trustee of the bankrupt stock of Mor ris Switzer at those places. C. H. Hall has given up the position as manager of the Fair store and ac cepted a traveling position with a dry goods house of Philadelphia. .1. W. Rhyne and J. M. Philips are preparing the old dispensary store room, where they expect to open a stock of general merchandise. Messrs. Will N. Austell and G. W. Bonner accompanied Mr. W. R. Lip scomb to his place in Polk county, N. C., Tuesday for a big “’possum hunt.” J. B. Boyd, former superintendent of the Gaffney cotton mill, and who is now superintendent of the Caroleen Mills, near Henrietta, moved his fam ily to that place Tuesday. L. D. Rippy has charge of the Fair until Mr. D. J. Holt, the proprietor, arrives with his family from Kings Mountain, which will be about Feb ruary 1st. Z. A. Robertson, who was operated on by Drs. Steedly and Crawley last week for appendicitis, is getting on nicely and his friends hope to see him out again soon. Services conducted by the pastor, Rev. W. R. Potter, at the Presby terian church next Sabbath at 11 a. m. and 4 p. m. Strangers and visitors cordially welcomed. There will be preaching at Buford Street Methodist church Sunday at 11 a. m. and 7:30 p. m.. Subject in the morning “Church Music.” The members are always glad to have strangers worship with them. R. M. Munro has resigned his posi tion as salesman with the Company store. Mr. Munro has been with the Company store about seven years. He expects to remain in Gaffney and after a rest will enter other business. At a meeting held at Macedonia on the second Sunday, the following per sons were appointed to solicit funds at that church for the Cherokee Or phanage: Mr. A. H. Smith, W. L. Young. Miss Callie Clary and Miss Sal lie Byars. Rev. B. W. N. Simms, of Waynes- ville, N. C., will preach at the Lime stone Baptist church on the fourth Sunday in this month, in the morning, and at the First Baptist church at night. Rev. Simms is a brother of Dr. A. M. Simms, of this city, and a pro minent and talented divine. PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS. .Miss Mayme Smith, of Spartanburg, is visiting relatives and friends in the city. Mr. E. R. Johnson, of Grover, was in the city Wednesday on business. Herbert and Marmaduke Amos, two young men of Spartanburg, have re turned home after a few days’ visit wit!) their uncle, T. R. Wilkins. W. F. Shepherd, of Blacksburg, is visiting his sister, Mrs. Lorena Sar- ratt, of Limestone Springs. J. P. White, of Yorkville, was in the city Tuesday. Dr. J. T. Darwin went to Blacks burg Tuesday. J. E. Colton, of Union, spent Monday night in the city. W. E. Smith, of Cherokee Falls, was in the city Tuesday. J. F. Bell, of Blacksburg, was in the city Tuesday. A. C. Izard, of Rock Hill, the solicit ing representative of the Southern railway, spent Tuesday night in the city. J. Fulton Moore, of Blacksburg, was in the city Tuesday on business. T. J. Estes, H. T. Estes, John Estes and his son Joe, of the Etta Jane sec tion. were in the city Tuesday to ac company Goo. V. Estes and his little daughter, Mary B., this far, w T ho left Tuesday night to return to their home in Broekston, Texas, after spending about a month with relatives. Davis McCulloch, of Bonham. Texas, who has been here on a month’s visit among relatives and friends, returned home Tuesday. Mrs. John W .Bridges and children, of Spartanburg, are visiting Mrs. Bridges’ mother, Mrs. R. M. Jolly. J. W. Rhyne, of Blacksburg, was in the city Wednesday on business. P. S. Webber, an enterprising citizen of WilkinsviTTe, was in the city Wed nesday. Mrs. Allen Jefferies, of Gowdeys- ville, was in the city Wednesday shop ping. Mrs. C. H. Hall is visiting relatives in Greenville. Capt. Chas. Petty, of Spartanburg, spent Wednesday in the city. Joseph Humphries, of Wilkinsville, was in the city Wednesday. Miss Lula Borders, of Kings Creek, has entered Limestone College. Lee Patrick and James Peeler, two industrious farmers of Wilkinsville, spent yesterday in the city. Charles Jefferies spent Wednesday in Greenville. Miss Ellen McKown, of Blacksburg, was shopping in the city yesterday afternoon. J. F. Patrick and brother, of Mercer, were in the city yesterday. Stewart Parker, who is a son of Mrs. Lizzie Parker, returned home Wednesday after spending nearly a year at Beulah, Miss. His wife will return as soon as her contract expires as assistant in the postofflee at Beu lah. This will be about the middle of April. S. W. Foster, of Union, spent Thurs day night in the city. A Startling Telegram. In his rapid and incessant travels about the country, Mr. Edward Baxter Perry often meets with the most an noying vicissitudes and complications j in regard to his pianos, although he has sometimes had as many as eleven on the road at once. The grand which he expects to ti.se on a given night Is , frequently stuck in a snow-drift fifty [ miles down the road, or sidetracked | in a freight car and not heard of for , a week, or dumped in a depot because too large to go in the express car. | while Mr. Perry speeds on his way in i the happy delusion that his instru ment is aboard.* More seldom his pi-i ano is smashed in a railroad accident, I or dropped by movers and discolated | internally, or starts on an independent! I tour of its own in an opposite direc tion. One of his grands last season j was separated from its legs for a pe-1 riod of several weeks, the box con taining the body of the instrument hav ing rightly gone to Atlanta, and the box of legs having taken the wrong train. A fortnight later Mrs. Perry received the following telegram in Boston: “Mr. Perry’s legs have just arrived. Body went last week to Cin cinnati. Where shall we send the legs?” Mr. Perry’s family were so alarmed by this message and outsid ers so amused when the facts w'ere known, that the incident got into all the Boston papers, which had a great deal of sport over this unfortunate di vision of the pianist. Mr. Perry is to play at Limestone College on Friday night, February 3rd, and it is to be hoped both he and the piano will ar rive entire. The young man who works with one eye on the clock is apt to have plenty of time to look for another job later. Editors’ Bank Acounts. The showing of our bank is very gratifying and speaks well for its man agement.—Batesburg Advocate. Blessed few editors have any bank, and alnnit the same can be said of their bank accounts. It would he gratifying to us if we had a bank, whether it madde any showing at all or not. We would attend to its man agement.—Chester Lantern. If they have an “account” the bal ance is generally on the “other” side, if the bank officials indulge them to the extent of allowing them to "over draw.” It’s terribly tantalizing the way a girl holds her lips in a kissing posi tion when a lot of people are in a room. Stamp Your Mail. (Exchange.) Patrons on rural routes should re member their carrier is their fellow man, neighbor and friend. It is all he can do to cover his route in the speci fied time, and we often wonder that he does as well as he does, consider ing the condition the roads have been in for the last few weeks. If all *he patrons on routes would stamp their mail, it would help the carrier con siderably. He is often compelled to remove his gloves and scratch around in the bottom of the box for pennies, when it would he just as cheap and much more convenient if the mail was stamped, besides the carrier could serve his patrons more promptly if ne did not have to waste his time feeling in the boxes for pennies. Every pa tron should stamp his mail, especially in cold weather, and it would be much better if he would stamp it all the year. First Baptist Church Notes. Last Sabbath morning. Mrs. Scheru- bel sang “Lead, Kindly Light” and ad- ded to the helpfulness of the worship. At night Miss Evelyn Sarratt sang and contributed to the delight of the evening service. There was a fine congregation at each service. The church will put in some new song books for use in the Sabbath school, the prayer meeting and the night service. Next Sabbath Dr. Simms will fill his pulpit at 11 a. m. and at the close of the service, church business will be attended to. At night Rev. B. W. Simms, of Waynesville, N. C., will preach. He is the pastor’s brother and the con- | gregation and friends are invited to !hear him. Falling Off in Kings Mountain. (Kings Mountain Herald.) Since the closing of the dispensary M, Blacksbur and the barrooms going out of business at Charlotte, there has been quite a falling off of whiskey drinking in our town and we have no doubt but that the other towns close by are having this same happy state of affairs to rejoice over. iHYED PIT LIFE’ -That’s what a prominent 1 ruggist said of Scott’s . nulsion a short time • >. As a rule we don’t or refer to testimonials . addressing the public, .at the above remark and i m i 1 a r expressions are nade so often in connec- ion with Scott’s Emulsion hat they are worthy of >ccasional note. F rom infancy to old age Scott’s Emulsion offers a reliable neans of remedying im proper and weak develop ment, restoring lost flesh and vitality, and repairing !waste. The action ol ! Scott’s Emulsion is nc | more of a secret than the composition of the Emul sion itself. What it doee | t does through nourish- nent—the kind of nourish- nent that cannot be ob- | tamed in ordinary food. ; No system is too weak or delicate to retain Scott’s Emulsion and gather good from it. We will send you a sample free. Wants Only $100,000. Henry J. Hancock, an attorney, has entered suit against the Philadelphia North American to recover $100,000 damages from a publication on June 7. 1904, in connection with the affairs of the Philadelphia Cemetery com pany. of which Mr. Hancock was sec retary and treasurer. He maintains that in the newspaper article he was accused of having failed to account for $75,000 received by the company from th r - city as a jury of view award. He -aid that the article conveyed the Im pression that he was guilty of embez zlement and that he had tied from the city to avoid prosecution. —Ask for “Eg Nog” anywhere in town. Dealers have all got it. What it “Eg Nog?” Try it. New Woman's Magazine. It is reported that a new monthly i magazine will be launched in Chicago within the next sixty days. The sec retary of State has issed a license to the Woman’s Journal, a Chicago cor poration with a capital of $25,000. The Incorporators are Thomas Rhodus, Birch F. Rodus and Minnie C. Scully. Wood’s Seeds. Wood’s Selected Seed Potatoes are specially grown for seed pur poses, and are very much superior to ordinary potatoes. Wecarrythe largett stock in the South, and can supply large buyers to the very best advantage, both as re gards quality and price. Wood’s Twenty-fifty Anni versary Seed Book, which is mailed free on request, tells all about the best new and standard varieties of Potatoes, as well as about all Garden and Farm Seeds. Write for Seed Book and special price list of farm seeds. T.W.Wood&Sons, Seedsmen, RICHMOND, • VIRGINIA. 'WOOD'S SEEDS /V-warded GRAND PRIZE - ST. LOUIS, 1904. GOLD MEDAL - PARIS, 1900. B« cure that this picture in the form of a label U on the wrapper of every bottle of Emulaion you buy. SCOTT & B0WNE Chemists 409 Pearl St., N. Y. 50c. and SL all drufttts. Drafnt-HM Cannot be Cured by loca’appllvittloni*, II* tln-y cannot tfic dlneaM-d portion of tli« ear. Tliort- It only om-way to curt- deafness, and that N by constitutional remedle*. Deafnean Is caused by Inflamed condition of the mucous lining of the Eustachian Tube. When thl-e tulM- get.-. Inflamed yon have a rumbling sound or itniierfect hearing, and when HU entirely closed deafnevs U the result, and unless the Inllarnriiatlon can M- taken out and thU tuU* restored to ItH normal condl- tloti, hearing will bo destroyed forever: nine caaeiout of *n are caused by catarrh, which Is nothint! hut an Inflamed condition of the mucous surfaces. We will give One Hundred Hollars for any case of Heafness (cased hy catarrhMliatcan- not lie cured hy Hall’s Catarrh Cure. Hend for circulars, free. „ P, J. CIIENFY a CO., Toledo. O Hold hy Hruggests, 75e. Hall'sYamlfv Fills are the best. e> T & Everything ^ Christmas, Apples,. Oranges, Banauas, Can dies, Raisins, Nuts, and every thing necessary for the Christ mas festivities — ^ All Fresh and Nice. My stock is complete, and was selected especially for the holi days. Call in and see what I have. E. B. Hamlin. That last year you used Ferry’s Seed in your garden and you were exceedingly successful. We are sole agents for,the*e Seeds S. B. Crawley & Co. 813 Limestone Street. Drugs, Perfumes, Stationery Headquarters for all that is Beit in the’Drug line. C. Eskridge B 4 U Have your HlacksnrIthloK tl<>u«. AlLSmithing, Iron and Wood Work done ^rst-class style and at reasonable rates. (Fortenberry*’ old itand.) We are offering some startling prices in Embroideries for Friday and Sat urday. ; . Lot No. 1. 1 Oc Embroideries, slightly soiled, in 5 and 6 yard lengths,for 5c per yard. : : : : Lot No.2. 20c and 25c Embroideries, slightly soiled, in 5 and 6 yard lengths, for 18c per yard. : ; Lot No. 3. 30c, 35c, 40c and 50c Embroideries, slightly soiled, in 5 and 6 yard lengths, for 25c per yard. Also lots of other Embroideries at bargain prices. Be sure to come to see them before buying, : : II). J. Wilkins & Co. To The Babies Big Babies, Little Babies, Fat Babies, Lean Babies, smile sweetly at your Mamas and tell them you need a pair of Those Pretty Little Shoes at J. R. Tolleson & Company’s. Yes, we have them in any styles and sizes-just the thing for those tiny feet, from 25c up. Visit our store and let us serve you. : : : : J. R. Tolleson & Co. An Invitation. The head of every family in the coun ty is cordially invited to come to our store and give us his name and post- office address and get a free sample of TUTT’S HEDACHE POWDERS. These powders are guaranteed to cure headache and neuralgia. They contain no opiates and are perfectly harmless. Your name and address will be put on our mailing list and you will get free samples, circulars, pictures, &c., from the different medicine manufac turers all through the year. The Gaffney forug Co. Prescription Druggists. Opposite Hotels. for The Ledger, SI.50 a yea