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LIST OF PETIT JURORS. THE LEDGER. Tuesday and Friday, Ed. H. DeCamp, Editor and Publisher, A. W. Griffith, Local Editor. I you whether you agree with us in mat- ' ) ' ,r estimation of the character of .era of public interest or not. , ' her 1 s - b ® ll «y‘ n * that : , ^ Could we but draw bac 1 . the curtain i l o those of our friends who have That surrounds each other’s lives— | paid aj the rate of $1.50 a year we See the naked heart and spirit, will sav that we will adcance their Know what spur the action gives;! subscriptions in proportion, so they ! 0ften we would fiml il be,ter > The Ledger is not responsible for the views of correspondents. Obituraries will be published at live 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 Correspondents who do not contri bute regular news letters must fur nish their name, not for publication, but for identification.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. may not pay more than any one else does for the paper. Purer, than we judge we should;- We would love .each other better If we only understood.” GOOD AND BAD IN US. In the so-called courts of justice of our sunny and enlightened land, every man is presumed innocent of the crime charged against him until his guilt is established; but in our busi ness relations with the world of com merce, we are disposed to regard every man with suspicion until he has proven himself worthy of our confi dence. The following from the editorial columns of the Atlanta Journal on the subject will not be amiss; and we re produce it with the hope that some of our readers may find in it food for re flection and consideration, and that it may be the cause of reducing the tendency of one class to look dis paragingly upon the other and to “keep a man down” when he has once fallen; Recently a quaint old epigram has been revived and given wide circu lation: "There is so much bad in the best of us and so much good in the worst of us that it behooves each one of us to have charity for the rest of us.” In confirmation of this homely truth comes the assertioon of Judge Cowing, of the New York court of general ses sions, that, in his twenty-seven years’ experience on the bench, sitting at the edge of the never-ceasing stream of crime and vice and evil, he has “found in every man more to praise than to condemn.” Not less than 35,000 men and wo men have passed before Judge Cow'- ing in the tw r enty-seven years, to plead, to stand trial, to receive sentence, and the crimes of which they have been accused included every act counted as a crime in the penal code. Certainly, Judge Cowing has reason to be a pessimist, if anyone has. Yet he has no patience with people who are all the time talking about the to tal depravity of certain classes. He BACK TO A DOLLAR. It has ever been the policy of The Ledger to render the maximum of service at the minimum price. For twelve years we have endeavored to consistently follow this plan. Realiz ing that the newspaper was hardly making expenses we last year deter mined upon a plan whereby we might increase the revenue of the paper. We concluded to advance the rate of subscription and the advertising rates. It was our purpose to test the pulse of the people—both advertiser and reader—and put the additional cost of getting out the paper on the element that it properly belonged to. Both have responded liberally and we found that the revenue from the in creased advertising rates is sufficient to meet the demands. It was therefore plain to us that if we were not bent on makink money out of the paper we should do one of two things, either put the price of the paper back to $1 or de crease the advertising rates. We made careful inquirey as to our ad vertising rates and found that we were not charging an excessive price. The best test for this was our foreign advertisers. They are men of great experience in the advertising field and know what advertising space is worth. Rather than remove their ad vertising from The Ledger each and every one of them—without an ex ception—acceded to the increased rate. Now’ we want to give these ad vertisers the benefit of the best cir culation possible. They are entitled io it because they are paying for it. We have therefore, decided to put the price of The Ledger back to $1.00 a year. We now have a circulation of from 1,400 to 1,500. We not only de sire to maintain that circulation but we desire to increase it by 25 per cent. We shall not be content until every household in Cherokee is visit ed by The Ledger. We are here, not for the purpose of becoming wealthy through the publication of this paper, but for the purpose of doing all the good that we possibly can do. We want to help the people if w’e are ca pable of doing so and we assure each and every one that we have no other purpose in view. We would rather reach two thousand subscribers twice a week at $1.00 each than to reach fifteen hundred at $1.50 each, for while we would get the greater amount of money at the $1.50 rate we would not be able to reach so many people. Another thing that has prompted us to resume the old price is the con- ! p i er tinned low price of cotton. The ma-1 What a pleasant old world this jority of the people we want to reach ! would be to live in if every man and have little money to spend, and it is ! woman looked upon the “rest of us” essential that they get what they do buy at the very best price possible. declares it is not in accordiance with the truth. There is plenty of good in the worst men and women that come before him. To lie, to deceive, to cheat is not the rule. On the contrary, people generally tell the truth and deal hon estly. An overwhelming majority of us do so and each of us does so in an overwhelming majority of instances. It is in the nature of man to tell the truth, to deal honestly and to do what he deems to be right, just as it is his nature to have physical health. Crime is to the moral relm what dis ease is to the body. We get a better understanding of life by seeing good and evil in the right perspective. It is more pleas ant and profitable, more strengthening and elevating, to think good than to think ill. He has the truest view of life and leads the happiest and most useful one who can be generous in his estimate of other, broad-minded, large-spirited and kind, thinking well of everybody, meanly of nobody and overlooking the little faults, believe that there are other qualities in the man that over whelm the deficiency. It Col. Jas. L. Orr died at Greenville Junday night. Col. Orr vas one of the : leading cotton manufacturers of the south. He was indeed a captain of; industry. Big of frame, big of mind, j big of heart—he was a big man. And ! yet he was not so big as to escape the ire of a puny politician, who in his frenzy in a speech exclaimed; “Who j is James L. Orr!” The memory and! works of James L. Orr will live after | the ashes of this demagogue are scat tered to the four winds. • * • Several weeks ago, while the legis lature was in session, we took occas ion to note the absence of Senator Butler from the senate when a vote on the Brice bill was being taken, but it will be remembered that we j stated he probably was away on busi ness. This surmise was correct. It may be a little late in the day to say what we are about to say, but in jus tice to ourself we will explain that we have been absent for a week—hence the delay—but our attention has been directed to the fact th^t when the Toole bill (a bill similar to the Brice bill and introduced in the houqe by Mr. Toole) came up in the senate, Mr. Butler voted for it. We make this statement in justice to Senator But ler, as some may infer from our for mer reference to the matter that Mr. Butler was opposed to the Brice bill. Baldwin Works Threatened. The great Baldwin Piano works in Cincinnati, Ohio, were seriously threatened by fire last week. The building caught several times, but owing to the efforts of the employees of the company who fought the flames until the fire companies arrived upon the scene, the damage was compara tively small. The chief loss was the loss of time of the one thousand em ployees, who were forced to stop work during the progress of the fire. Arrested for Selling Liquor. John Lee Harris, who lives in the upper edge of the county, was arrest ed Saturday by U. S. Deputy Marshal A. L. Hallman aJid taken before U. S. Commissiner J. B. Bell on a charge of selling liquor. He gave bond for a preliminary hearing before the com missioner today (Tuesday). Look Out, Farmers! Mr. Ed. Smith, president of the Southern Cotton Growers Association, will speak in Gaffney soon. Look out for notice of same. W. Sam Lipscomb. Writ of venire facias for thirty-six petit Jurors for March term of court, 1905: J. W. Sparks, Littlejohns. W. I. Vaughn, Sarratts. Wofford Price, Ezells. J. E. Sarratt, Gaffney. L R. Ross, Gaffney. E. P. Macomson, Mercer. N. Guyton, Kings Creek. J. A. McGill. Kings Creek. C. A. S. Campbell, Turners Eb. Whelchel, Allens. J. A. Harris, Macedonia. G. D. Hambright, Antioch. Oscar B. Cooper, Ezells. J. F. Jamison, Timber Ridge. W. W. Gaffney, Gaffney. R. E. Sarratt, Macedonia. W. W. Whelchell, Lawn. J. C. Camp, Grassy Pond. J. G. Garner, Stor Farm. J. F. Parker, Allens. W. T. Mabry, Littlejohn. J. H. Godfrey, Maud. J. V. Price, Macedonia. James R. Huggins, Mercer. Andy Wilson, Blacksburg. J. G. Holt, Buffalo. Will Collins, Antioch. J. W. Goforth, Sarratts. G. N. Roark, Blacksburg. D. H. Sprinkles, Ezells. A. J. Blalock, Blacksburg. Banks Patrick, Gaffney. V. Webber, Wllkinsville. J. D. Kell, Blacksburg. Wm. Gardner, Sr., Macedonia. W. A. Donalds, White Plains. h f •VI no ffl B 1 ft B ft I frcm The Fectory To The Bank. / un i .-hould be set aside for age- : : The Gaffney Saving Bank should receive part contents of the earner’s envelope each pay day. No mat- tei what the income may be, a certain amount can emergencies or use in old of the wage O I m i? LIST OF PETIT JURORS. Writ of voire facias for thirty-six petit jorors for second week of March ter of court, 1905: C. C. Webber, Buffalo. B. G. L. Pettit, Ravenna. B. R. Metcalf, Lawn. Z. R. Phillips, Star Farm. M. W. Goforth, Thickety. L. Allen Turner, Macedonia. j J. P. Shuford, Gaffney. J. D. Bearden, Gaffney. E. C. Kennett, Gaffney. Boyce V. Whisonant, Wilkinsvllle. R. F. Garrison, Thickety. I R. G. Byars, Gaffney. J. H. Palmer, Thickety. A. D. Hammett, Maud. J. A. McKown, Mercer. T. E. Wright, Wilkinsville. W. L. Self, Gaffney. T. J. Sanders, Sarratts. W. E. Poole, Star Farm. A. Bettis. Blacksburg. J. H. Williams, White Plains. Price Martin, Blacksburg. P. G. Dickson, Antioch. Cameron Littlejohn, Ravenna. D. A. Gold, Blacksburg. M. E. Gettys, Grassy Pond. James E. Spencer, Littlejohn. Noah Wisher, King’s Creek. H. S. Mullins, Thickety. S. L. Stroup, Mercer. j R. H. Taylor, White Plains. R. B. Lemaster, Wilkinsville. J. W. ByaJ-s, Macedonia. W. H. Perry, Gaffney. J. A. Whisonant, Antioch. S. J. Whelchel, Draytonville. THE GAFFNEY SAVINGS BANK Will accept amounts from $1.00 and upwards and pavs FOUR PER CENT. INTEREST on all deposits. The Gaffney Savings Bank. Office in The National Bank of Gaffney. i c :! ♦ ♦ ♦ 4- ♦ ♦ 4 4- + + THE GAFFNEY HARDWARE CO, WILL OPEN THIS WEEK In the building on Limestone Street, lately occupied by W. V. Humphries. : : : EVERYTHING if you would force a woman to ac knowledge the corn step on her toes. NOTICE OF ELECTION. State of South Carolina, County of Cherokee. It appearing to the satisfaction of the County Board of Education, that more than one-third of the voters re-; Get Your 1 Are You Administrator Garden Ready siding within the proposed School s best to talk like an optimist, j who return real or personal laugh like an optimist and move about like an optimist, conscious of the fact that in so doing you will radiate cheer and sunshine ami make yourself and everybody about you better and hap- We have on our list nearly all the well-to-do people of the county. There are a great many people who are, un fortunately, not so well to do, who need the assistance this paper can give them. We therefore think it a bad I with the optimistic eye of Judge Cow ing. or echoed in their hearts the sentiments expressed in the above lines. We are all too prone to magni fy our own virtues and condemn the faults of others, and to look with a pessimistic eye upon humankind in general—our own sweet selves ex cepted! We verily believe that there is not policy to put the price of the paper j a man in all the world so bad, so vile, where it makes it a burden on them j so utterly depraved, but that there is to subscribe for it i some good in him—some tenderness ! in his heart, some bright spot in his In discussing this matter with a ; soul which will stand out and illumine business man who has always been a I the dark side of his nature when oc friend of the paper he said: “As an ! casion demands We are otten 80 j “Yes;” those voting against such ad i miffed up and blinded by cur own 1 c I would rather you send se ]f.j m p ortanpe we cannot, or your paper to 2,000 people at $1.00 a j will not. see the good in others; and year than to 1,000 at $2.00 a year. 1 ! often, too, this vain, selfish, sordid, which makes the ignanimous to our selves and so ungenerous toward the “worst of us” is a prime factor in causing the darker side of the lives of many to predominate and prevent the good from asserting itself. Josh Billings in his quaint and ludicious way expressed a strong char We do not say it boastingly, but it j act< ‘ ristJc of human nature in a man- property for taxation, have petitioned this Board asking that an election lie ^ ordered to determine whether or not an additional levy of four (4) mills; ^ be voted for the purpose of supple- menting the regular constitutional ^ and other school tax of School Dis- tricts Nos. 19 and 22; which districts shall have the boundaries as set off by survey of G. B. Fowler in 1905. It is, therefore, ordered by the ^ County Board of Education for said ^ county and State; That such an elec- tion l>e held at Mabry’s mill and | ^ Hughes’s store, in said districts, on j ^ Wednesday, March 1st, 1905, at which ! election only such electors as re turn real or personal property for taxation, and exhibit their tax re ceipts and registration certificates, shall he allowed to vote, as provided in Vol. 1, Section 1208 of the Civil Code of South Carolina. Those voting for such additional school tax will use a printed or writ ten ballot on which is the word Select for your garden a rich soil, and break from 15 to 18 , inches deep. Fertilize highly ^ A'M *S W J and see that you plant nothing ^5 M M M but the very best seed—seed of 1^2 a pure strain. See that your hot beds are in condition and sow iu some early Cabbage, Lettuce, Beet and Raddish. Our seeds have just arrived, and we guarantee them to be sound, new seed, being of last year’s crop. We carry over no seed from one year to another. Why take chances when you can get your seed from us and run no risk, and at same time get them at about one-half what you pay lor commission seed? We also carry commission seed. t.~A • * * and have the settlement of an estate? If so, request of the Judge of Probate that your advertisement be placed in :: :: : It has the largest circulation of any paper in the Fifth South Carolina Congressional District | IVI ilssI: l io Sold ^ There is no doubt about us going out of business, and we want to dispose of the stock as soon as possible. You can save big money by taking advantage of this opportunity. Good No. 7 Oook Stoves as iow as $6.20; a better one, with oven anc{ bicki could afford to pay you more for my ! ins „ spil 11 ' “best of us” so advertisement because it would reach more people.” The consideration of doing the maximum amount of good is the one domineering characteristic of this newspaper. ditional school tax will use a printel or written ballot on which is the word “No.” For the purpose of conducting said election the School Trustees for School Districts Nos. 19 and 22 are appointed managers. By authority of the County Board of Education for Cherokee county, South Carolina, February 4th, 1905. J. L. Walker, Chrm. County Board Education. •* «■« - eou,<,|;r 1 ’ m ^' w “ne n sr. , hr th ,Mn discontinue the publication Lodger withtmt affecting our finances. The auxiliary business has grown to such an extent that we are no longer dependent upon this newspaper for a iivelihood, but to do this would he showing ingratitude and would be do ing an injustice to those who have by their moral and financial support helped us to make the paper what it is today. We have an ambition to make the reputation of printing the of “three of The nien on a ladder, the middle one is a- ready to kiss the foot of the one above him as he is to kick the head of the one below him.” And so it is: We are too much possessed of the disposition to Climb to success over the failures and mis fortune's of others—tm) preoccupied by our own desires and aspir ations to think e>f lending a helping hand or speaking a word of cheer to some less fortune brother who Is “plodding his weary way” and stag gering along under the heavy burdens * - - * I of life. Our efforts, our alms our desires best newspaper in South Carolina for , ;ire .,11 dj r f> c ttMl toward the worship tit_ * 1 of mammon—toward fawning over and praising and courting the favor of those upon whom Dame Fortune has bestowed her sweetest smiles and her choicest blessings, at the same lime pushing hack the “other fellows” who are striving to follow us. “Live and let live" should be our motto; and as the epigram puts it, “there is so much bad- In the best of us,” we should be more charitable In the money. We invite every man and woman in Cheiokee county to join us in our efforts to make this news paper a household necessity. Wo want the patronage of all, and we snail endeavor to give you more than the worth of your money. We shall also endeavor to merit the confidence and esteem of each and every one of LIST OF GRAND JURORS. Writ of venire facias for twelve grand jurors for March term of court, 1905: G. W. Humphries, Macedonia. C. N. Teal, Ezells. O. S. Kendrick, Gaffney. J. C. Pettit, Gaffney T. L. Robbs, Wilkinsville. J. N. Caldwell, Kings Creek. M. H. Bell, Antioch. C. F. Inman, Sarratts. W. S. Alexander, Macedonia. Ed. Turner, Blacksburg. E. F. Lipscomb, Gaffney J. T. Martin, Blacksburg. — — v,. rvany _ * o - ™ jerse>, Wakefield, Early Win- they are gone. It will pay you to anticipate your needs and buy E«X1lu' t D«4 Dr “ mh “ d ‘” d |l i “ ow - Everything cash. ' ipur tl]DM|T[jDC QQ We especially recommend the ^ nUlfll. 1 UllMJ I UHl UUl above four varieties as sure headers and early—provided ^ •- ———~ you get a pure strain of seed. Plant our Early Red Turnip Beet and our Cabbage Lettuce. Plant our Extra Early Sear- let Radish among your beets as a catch crop. They come and are gone before they get in the way of the beet. Sow ih a good crop of our Extra Early Wood’s Pedigree Garden Peas, valuable on ac count of its earliness and pro ductiveness, and the beautiful green color of its pods and peas, as well as their delicious flavor. Of all the varieties of garden peas, this is the one to plant. A succession of crops can be hail by sowing every two weeks. All the other varieties otf hand. Don't Play Blind Man's Buff " When Buying Life Insurance. -■ ■" A search with open eyes will satisfy you that the policies of the Mutual Benefit Life Insurance Company contain special and peculiar advantages not combined in the policies of other companies. If read in the light of the company’s Sixtieth Year’s of History the value of the comprehensive and certain protection they afford will he especially appreciated. The company’s mutuality is real; its se curity is great; its economy and earning power unsurpassed. It is the leadiug annual dividend company. ■ ■ ■ ■ — For Rates And Sample Policies See ■— JONES J. DARBY, Agent. WANTED! All youi clothes t hiit ucecf brightening up, bring them to us. We will make them look fresh and new. All work done by expert tailors. Hee usland Join-our pressing club.l W. H. ROBUSOR, Tailor. Over W. D. Telegraph Office. Phone No. 48. Drug Co, Prascription Druggists. Opposite Hotels. always contains all the latest local and foreign news. Subscribe now £51.00 ql Y e e x ir.