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THE LEDGER. Tuesday ana Friday, Ed. H. DeCamp, Editor and Publisher, A. W. Griffith, Local Editor. The Ledger is not responsible for the views of correspondents. Obiturarle* 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 Correspondents who do not contri bute regular news letters must fur nish their name, not for publication, but for identification.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. We invariably clscontlnue sending v he Ledger when a subscription runs jut, for we have no way of knowing that j person wants it except by re ceiving his or her renewal. We ur-1 gently solicit a prompt renewal, on the g-ound that the paper is worth the money. We are trying month by month to make it better and bet ter. prohibition side because we believe it to be right and to the be&t interest of the rising generation. We have very little hope for those who have contracted the whiskey habit; but if by an act of ours we can prevent a boy from contracting that habit we propose doing so. •| Prohibition may not prohibit, but it decreases the consumption of liquor. This is a truth no one who has had an opportunity to observe will deny; therefore we stand for prohibition. PROHIBITION AND MORALITY. The evil oi prohibition is being ex emplified in Gaffney again, if our good friend of the Gaffney Ledger will ex cuse us for point ng it out. Two drug firms have been fined for sellin Jamai ca ginger and mault as beverages. Jamaica ginger is a very popular bev erage in prohibition communities and we doubt very much if these two drug firms are the only offenders. Every cross roads store in a prohibition com munity sells Jamaica ginger and it plays as much havoc with people’s in sides as one X liquor. Fining will j not stop it. The ugly work that goes on in a prohibition community is enough to make even the imps of 1 darkness weep. Many people hug to themselves the fond fancy that every thing is good and clean and holy be cause they think it ought to be; they have voted that it should be, and they shut their eyes and indulge in their fancies while things go wrong and people suffer. If you would work re form in morals teach boys at home that drunkenness is shameful and that temporance is a virtue, then carry your precepts into practice. Make the loafer and the gambler and the wine bibber feel that he is outside the) party of decent society and you will accomplish what you wish through every square bustled with has room. The above is from our good friend, the incorrigible Florence Times. Brother Ayer is so “sot in his way’’ that it is useless to argue with him on the subject. He believes that a com munity is better off with a State whis ky shop than without it. We believe exactly the reverse. We know the condition of affairs in this county is better than formerly. He does not know it and would not believe it though an angel were to tell him so. He would work reform in morals by teaching boys at home that drunken ness is shameful and allow the State to set up a rum mill to undo that teaching. We prefer to teach them the same thing and to see that the State does not annul that teaching by offering rum to the boys. That is the difference between us. Surely The Times must know that boys and young men patronize the dis pensaries with no sense of shame and with m ich braggadocio because it is legalized by the State; whereas, if it be prohibited by the State they know they are violating the law every time they ini} of a blind tiger: and if that home training has bad its effect they will violate the law with shame, and may eventually repent and refrain from so doing. Both sides of the question have their arguments. We prefer to support the NOTES AND COMMENTS. It took Editor Caldwell, of the Char lotte Observer, a long time to make up his mind to kick the ecclesiastical editor, but when he did conclude to do ,s() he made a thorough job of it. * * * After all there is a prospect of a Fourth of July celebration. We have been asked to call for a meeting at the courthouse tonight to talk the matter over. The time is short but we can celebrate if everybody will make up his or her mind to do so. * * * it's only about three weeks more until the State Press Association meets at White Stone. Gee, what a time we will have with Brothers Parks and Ayer, and Henry and Hemphill, and all that gang who don’t drink liquor but want to keep it handy! • • • We wish every county in the State would vote on the dispensary and set tle it one way or the other. This is an instance in which we weary of well doing because we have so much trou ble in convincing our friends on the other side that they have the wrong end of it. * * * The Spartanburg Journal is against the dispensary, but wants some kind of liquor law to be substituted be cause. forsooth. Spartanburg is such! a large city that prohibition cannot lie enforced. We have all along thought Spartanburg was getting too big for her pajamas. • • • Gaffney experienced an ice famine Wednesday. The local dealers’ supply became exhausted and for a few hours there was not a drop of ice to cool the parched tongue. With no liquor, no water and no ice .and the weather hot as—well, we were in a bad fix, sure ’nough. But the situation was relieved about noon by the arrival of a car of ice. * * * We seldom allude to our local of ficials in an editorial way, because it smacks of pandering if we say any thing kind, and if we say anything un kind we are liable to get licked, or,; worse still, be called a “knocker.” We cannot, however, refrain from ap plauding the action of the school trus tees in selecting Prof. W. C. McArthur as the superintendent of the schools. Prof. McArthur is too well known by readers of The Ledger for us to at tempt to eulogize him. He Is in ev ery way worthy of the trust imposed bn him and we doubt not that his ad ministration will reflect credit upon himself. Hie school and the trustees. • • * Young man just from college, just out of school, we love you. In you the future of our country depends. We want to say to you kindly that you are not doing your full duty unless you do something during your vacation. Get some kind of a job, be it ever so menial—just so it is respectable— and the pay ever so small. No rnan does his whole duty until he produces something. We do not admire a skin flint. but we have no respect whatever for a loafer. There are some mighty fine boys around Gaffney who are go- ing to develop into good men. but un less they learn to work they will not develop into as good men as they should. fi i $10.00 Very Good, So Far as He Goes. (Spartanburg Journal.) The esteemed Gaffney Ledger thinks The Journal is not “red hot” against the dispensary, but is “luke warm.” We are very sorry not to meet The Ledger’s approval. The Journal was “red hot,” to use the Led ger’s language, before and during the session of the legisalture. when there was a chance to get something done, while other newspapers which could have exerted influence remained quiet, “lukewarm,” as The Ledger would probably say. Now thar they think the dispensary unpopular and nearing its end some of these same newspa pers could not be induced to print a word against it. The journal is against the dispensary m every way except as to swapping for prohibition, which cannot be made effective in a city the size of Spartanburg. Give us a chance to choose between the dis pensary and ari\ other form of legal ized liquor sel’ir.g and we will not icave room even for the suspicious Lodger to loubt. where we stand or to think us “lukewarm." ew Proverb He that lives upon hope will fast— But he that lives on Uneeda Biscuit will feast. No Toadies Need Apply. (Sumter Herald.) We print elsewhere a letter from a Spartanburg correspondent of The Gaffney Ledger on liquor government; in the State. It is a significant ex pression and shows whither the minds of the people art tending. The poli tician who is afraid of his shadow and who measures his legs every morning will not be wanted next year. A bold, aggressive leader will be demanded— one who has strong convictions and who is not afraid to express them. Evidently Enforced. (Newberry Observer.> The anti-dispensary law is evidently enforced pretty strictly in Gaffney when druggists, including an aider- man. are hauled up by the police for selling malt, and Jamaica ginger and fined $20 each. Subscribe for The Ledger, $1.00 a year. NATIONAL BISCUIT COMPANY Don’t forgot Graham Crackers Bolter Thin Biscoit Social Tea Biscuit Lemon Snaps £ Wouldn’t it jar .V; \ you to pay $10 v for your Suit, if ^ you knew you 2 could get the same kind from me for $7.00? / Wouldn’t it pay you to know ? Investigate GettheHal)it--Goto Nelson 3 The Star Clothier. Opposite P,0. $ioo Reward, $100. The reader* oil his paper will he pleased to ' leal ii thiit there is at least one dreaded dis-! ease t hat science has been aide to "lire in all its stages and that iM'atarrh. 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SCOTT A BOWNE, Chemists, 409-415 Pearl Street, _ New York, joe. and ji,oo; all druggists. NOTICE Colered Teachers of Cherokee County. Tno summer school for teachers will botjin July Jlst, 190,1, at 9 o’clock A. M., in graded school No. 2, on East Smith St. Each and every teacher is itrfi-d to lie present and to attend this school from beginning to the close. Beard and lodging mav be had near school building at a small cost. All bfoks 1 t ij may be bought at the office J county superintendent. Teachers vi o attend this school will have their teacher’s certificates renewed. Done by order of the county super intendent of education, J. L. Walker. Rev. R. C. Campbell, Instructor. Girls and Boys Wanted To Make Money, fall at the Shoe Store any afternoon between lour and live "‘clock. Any boy can make from $1.00 <o ifii.OW a week. The R. S. Lipscomb Shoe Co. 1785 1905 COLLEGE OF CHARLESTON, Charleston, S. C. Entrance examinations will be held in the County Court House on Friday, July 7, at 9 A. M. One Free Tuition Scholarship to each county of South Carolina awarded by the County Supt. of Education and the Judge of Pro bate. Board and furnished room at Dormitory, $10 a month. All candi dates for admission are permitted to compote for vacant Boyce Scholar ships, which pay $100 a year. For I further information and catalogue, address Harrison Randolph, President 5-26, Imo. CARP NTER-’S Y*dTr Cam it I>isoonixt • » w.>- < WM1 As July 1 st is my Regular stock taking time, and as I want to reduce my stock as much as pos sible by that time, beginning the I5th and continuing until July the 1 st, I am going to offer a discount of 20 per cent on all Men’s, Youth’s, and Boys’ clothing, Men’s and Boys’ straw Hats, Men’s, Ladies’ and Children’s Slippers. Also everything in Wash Goods, Lawns, in fact every thing in Spring and Summer Merchandise. The people of Gaffney and Cherokee county know what this means, and now is your opportunity to take advantage of it. Remember, you get 20 per cent, off at CARPENTERS. GAFFNEY, SOUTH CAROLINA.