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r / \ 4 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 live cents a line. be published at Correspondents w'ho do not contri bute regular news letters must fur nish their name, not for publication, but for identification.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. We invariably discontinue sending T he Ledger when a subscription runs out, for we have no way of knowing that a person wants it except by re ceiving his or her renewal. We ur gently solicit a prompt renewal, on the ground that the paper is worth the money. We are trying month by month to make it better and bet ter. REPUBLICANISM IN THIS STATE. Nothing is farther from the mind of the average man than the thought that there is the remotest possibility that South Carolina will ever be class ed in the Republican column, yet con ditions in the Palmetto State are rap idly adjusting themselves for a great Republican uprising. It is true today that the Republican party scarcely has an organization worthy of the name in that State, but behind the scene are thousands of the best men in the State who are wishing for the the success of the Republican party and ■would gladly enlist under its banner •were it not for the political intoler ance of the people. This day is not far distant when the element will be come sufficiently strong to beard the lion in its den and to espouse those principles of government which have made this nation what it is today. The farmers, the manufacturers, and the business men of the State are rapidly learning that the triumph of Republicanism either locally or na tionally means progress, mentally and financially. The people are sick and tired of Tillmanism and all it im plies. They know that within present party lines and with a legalized pri- marv, as it now exists, there is little hope of their ever being able to throw off the yoke of political slaverv. Ere long they will pass the point of en durance and will rally under the ban ner of Republicanism and thrust the Democratic party from power. The best men of the State will be found leading the movement. They have eeen the folly of a one-party affair and know that the best government is found where there are two strong po litical parties. We are not a prophet nor the son of a prophet, but we are convinced that the present generation will see South Carolina safely within the Re publican column.—Shelby Aurora. All of which goes to prove that the Aurora man was either drinking or dreaming. We may tire of Tillman ism. but never of Democracy. Put that in your pipe and smoke it, Bud. tain the idea that the latter was just recovering from a drunk and that he drew his pistol and threatened to kill either her or himself, or both, and that a scuffle ensued, during which the weapon was discharged and he was Killed. But it is one of the mysteries that will probably never be solved. * * * We wish we could'impress upon our people the importance of good roads. If we had it within our power we would so imbue our people with this idea that they would not rest a moment until every particle of energy in the entire county was concentrated upon the work of road building. We know of nothing that would tend more to the development of the county. Ask those of our citizens who are so for tunate as to have the use of a few miles of good roads and see what they think about it. It is false economy to force our people to drive and haul over unimproved roads. Men wake up to the importance of this matter. Let us commence the agitation of good roads and keep it up until the country is traversed from one end to the other by improved roads. We ought to have at least two hundred miles of improved roads in this county. This amount of good roads would put every man in the county within three miles of a macadam road. We have voted ourselves a new county. We leave it to you to say whether it was a step in the right direction or not. We have voted out the dispensary. We al so leave that to you as to whether or not it was the proper thing to do. We could vote ourselves back into the old counties if we were not satisfied. We can vote back the dispensary if it does not prove to be what we hope and de sire it to be. But there is one thing certain and sure, and that is, if'we ever build good roads we will never want to tear them up and give way to the old roads again. We believe in progress. We believe in going ahead and improving things, in going for ward, in building up. Our people are progressive. True, we have much to learn, but we are learning fast, and the sooner we learn the Importance of good roads the better it will be for us. NOTES AND COMMENTS. We sincerely trust that the officers of the law will be successful in arrest ing the murderers of the negro named Murril. whose body was thrown into the Enoree river, and it makes no dif ference whether his slayers be white or colored, we hope they will be con victed and made to pay the full penal ty of the crime. We have made a fairly good start in the hanging business but we must keep it up if we would rid ourselves of the criminal element. * * * The time for the opening of the sec ond series of stock of the Cherokee Building and Loan is not so far off— July 1st. we believe—and it would be well for you to begin to consider the matter of taking a little stock therein. Building and loan associations, prop erly conducted, are the best town builders in existence. They are good investments for both borrowers and investors. A little later on we shall try to give you some facts in regard to them that will interest you if you are interested • in saving a part of your earnings. The Truth of History. (Abbeville Medium.) President Roosevelt in some of his speeches on his recent trip repeated the statement that the soldiers of the North and South in the war between the States were equally patriotic, each side fighting for a cause it believed to be right. The statement has not been challenged by the newspapers but al lowed to pass without contradiction. President Roosevelt is not the only public man who has used such ex pressions. Gen. John B. Gordon in his lifetime spoke on the same line and college boys are accustomed to say the same thing. Recreant teach ers do not call them down when they make such misrepresentations. A few facts should put an end to such a mistake and no one who knows about the soldiers of the great war ever agrees to .vuCu proposition. . *i>.’ men of the South fought for their homes against invading armies. Not a man beyond the Potomac would ever have been killed or wounded if he had stayed at home. The South had no thought of going beyond the Potomac. It cannot be said truthfully that it is the same thing to defend your own home as to invade the home of another. Col. William Fox, of New York, in his book on “Regimental Losses in the Civil War” gives some interesting figures. He says there were* 500,000 foreigners in the Northern army. Of these 175,000 were natives of Ger many; 150,000 of Ireland; 50,000 of England; 50,000 of British America, and 75,000 natives of other countries. What patriotic spirit could have in duced these 500.000 foreigners to cross the ocean and join the stronger side in their war of subjugation? That half million men could only be looked upon as mercenaries. Such statements should be disputed at once and the errors pointed out. Pensions are now being paid by the Cnlted States in Europe. Asia and Africa, which confirms what is said by Col. W. F. Fox, who was an officer in the T T . S. army and certainly would not make a statement to reflect on his own side. * * • Dr. Millard, a gay and festive gent who hails from the West, stopped in Orangeburg, this State, and in an in credibly short time won the heart and hand of Miss Sallie Kenyon. It soon developed that the Doctor had two liv ing wives, but that he had been legally separated from both, and although he was arrested and placed in jail, the authorities finally reached the conclus ion that they had no right to hold him on the charge of bigamy. He has been released and had arranged to appear on the lecture platform at Orangeburg last night. Some people have a super abundance of gall, and the Doctor can safely be numbered among that tribe. • • • Miss Nan Patterson has been re leased on her own recognizance, which means that she will never again be tried for the killing of Caesar Young. We remember that several years ago a lady by the name of Hughes—Mrs Mattie Hughes, we believe—killed her lord and master with a pistol. She was arrested, tried and a mistrial re sulted. She was afterwards released on bond and finally escaped altogeth er. We don’t know that any effort was ever made to arrest her. If a woman cannot Jie convicted In South Carolina for killing her old, decrepit husband when a motive is shown, why should we expect a woman to be convicted in New York of killing her lover when no motive Is shown? We don’t be lieve Nan killed Caesar. We enter- To Broad River Churches. To the churches of the Broad River Association: As It lacks only three months un til the meeting of our association, I wish to urge upon you the importance of looking after the foreign mission offering. We do not wish to fall be hind what we did last year, but to go beyond it. There has been an increase in ’the offerings of all the State and we must see to It that our association keeps pace with the onward move ment. You remember that we pay Brother Crocker’s salary, and we wish to keep the work clearly in sight, hope each pastor and church will look after the matter at once. Yours, A. M. Simms. Our Own Hezekiah. (Kings Mountain Herald.) The "merry-go-round” which has been an active contingent in our town for the past two weeks, pulled up Mon day for Gaffney. While here it is be lieved that the machine took in at least $400, and perhaps the amount was even greater than this. They are a quiet and gentlemanly set of men with the plant and if a town is to have one of these maheines it can have no better than this one. In fact It is the best all-round one we have ever had with us. Our experience is that the riding is very exciting and those who begin it are most likely the ones to keep it up. Soda Crackers are becoming more and more the food / !» Of the People It remains lor the national biscuit company to bake more and more Unoed-a Biscuit For the People % l Who desire more and more Soda Crackers of known purity, cleanliness and unchanging quality. Uneeda Biscuit have long been recognized By the People As the best of all Soda Crackers, combining as they do, a union of all that is nutritive and healthful at the lowest possible cost—5^. Don't forgot Graham Crackers Batter Thin Biscuit Social Tea Biscuit lemon Snaps NATIONAL BISCUIT COMPANY Liquor in Cherokee? Wilkinsville, May S), 1905. Mr. Editor:—Were it not that your Hickory correspondent is laboring un der a grave misapprehension, 1 would not deign to notice his communica tion which appears in your issue of today. What he says in regard to the whis key business 1 am not prepared to de ny; neither am 1 disposed to admit it further than to say that there is, per haps, more or less liquor being brought into this county by or for Cherokee county people. ( If he thinks I have any way further than any other pri vate citizen to stop this he Is mis taken. I am not responsible for it in the least. The county has its officials to look after its interests, and fortunately I am not one of those. How often, in what quantities or under what circumstances this liquor comes into Cherokee county I can’t say, and any effort I might make to find out would be considered a gra- tuitious and unwarranted proceeding on my part, no doubt. When or where I speak, or have spoken, of our "law- abiding, sober people” l invariably al lude to that class alone and not to the ofther class, which doesn’t, come up to the standard of good citizenshp in ev ery particular. So far as protecting my boys,against the evils of strong drink, I feel per fectly safe on that score; and I thank God that they have been brought up to be sober men. and to look upon liquor as a deadly poison—one that kills the sold as well as the body. I don’t claim for them that they are any better than other people’s boys who have been brought up under the same influence, for when the fireside does Its full duty all the demons in Hades can’t change the result. I am yours sincerely, J. L. Strain. Two Vei diets (Forest Blade.) She was a woman, v orn ami ihin. Whom the world condemned for a single sin; They cast her out of the King -, high way And passed her by as they went to pray. He was a man, and more to blame. But the world spared him a bi^eaih of shame: ' Beneath his feet he saw her lie. But raised his head and passed her by. They were the people who •yerit to pray. At the temple of God on a holy day. They scorned the woman, forgave the man; It were ever thus since the world began. Time passed on and the woman died— On the cross of shame she was cru cified; But the world was stern and would not yield, And they buried her in the Potter’s field. The man died, too. and they buried! him In a casket of cloth with a silver rim,! And said, as they turned from his : grave away, "We have buried an honest man today." Two mortals knocked at heaven’s gate. Stood face to face to inquire their fate. He carried a passport with earthly signs, But she a pardon from love divine. mA/Tzm Don’t: F' o r <r o t U I am selling Flour so cheap you woud think I am about to give it t i : - away. I J. K. K I IM C K E INI Second Door From Postoffice. i o- xszzas&k Are You Administrator and havelthe settlement of an estate? If so., request of the Judge of probate that your advertisement be placed in :: :: : South Carolina Immigration Work. (Charlotte Chronicle.) The South Carolina commissioner of agriculture is doing a fine work for that State in his scheme for the col onization of English and Dutch labor. If he keeps up his lick, South Caro lina’s waste lands will soon be thickly populated with a thrifty and indus trious class of people. A Play at Limestone. On Friday night, next, in the audi torium at Limestone a play entitled "Little Lord Fauntleroy,” will he pre sented under the auspices of the Griffith Society of the College. An admission fee of 30c will be charged for adults, and 15c for children. The young ladies should have a full house on this occasion, as the program is a good one. For Griffith Society. Thursday afternoon the merry-go- round will run for the benefit of the Griffith Society of Limestone Col lege, to which a per cent, of the pro ceeds will go. The machine will be In charge of Mr. Maynard Smyth, or Mr. A. C. Pridmore, for the occasion. Then Comes the Deluge. (Columbia State.) Cherokee’s success in regulating the liquor question seems to have encour aged other counties to make trial of a “no dispensary” plan. The test will he made with the voters in Pickens on Friday, and the general belief is that the dispensary will be voted out of that county. And after Pickens— Subscribe for Tho Ledger, $1.00 a year. Oh, ye who judge ’twixt virtue and vice. Which, think you, entered to Para dise? Not he whom the world said would win, For a woman alone was ushered In. Mayor’s Court. There were five cases In the may or’s court yesterday morning. Two plain drunks netted the town five dollars, and two cases of disorderly conduct the same amount. Cliff Dowdle was tried for selling liquor, convicted and fined twenty-five dollars or thirty days on the gang. He paid the money. Winthrop College Scholarship and Entrance Examination. The examination for the award of vacant scholarships in Winthrop Col lege and for the admission of new stu dents will he held at the County Court House on Friday, July 7th, at 9 A. M. Applicants must not be less than fif teen years of age. When scholarships are vacated after July 7, they will be awarded to those making the highest average at this examination provided they meet the conditions governing the award. Applicants for scholarships should write to President Johnson be fore the examination for scholarship application blanks. Scholarships are worth $100 and free tuition. The next session will open September 29, 1905. For'further information and catalogue address Pre*. D. B. Johnson, Rock Hill, S. C. 5-16-2mopd. It has the largest circulation of any paper in the Fifth South Carolina Congressional District, for Hie Ledger, $1,00 a veer If you want all the news of Cherokee county Subscribe for The Ledger $1.00 Per Year.