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THE LEDGER. Tuesday and Friday. Ed. H. DeCamp, Editor and Publisher, A. W. Griffith, Local Editor. The Ledger la not responsible for the views of correspondents. Obituranes will be published at five cents a line. Correspondents who do not contri bute regular news letters must fur nish tbelr name, not for publication, but for identification. All correspondence should be ad- dessed to Ed. H. DeCamp, Manager. IRREGULAR TRAINS. What's getting the matter with the Southern that it can’t run its trains on schedule time, or, at least, nearer on time? Every passenger train on the road is from one to three and four hours- late nearly every day. and even No. 11, the local train from Charlotte, has begun to form the hab it of coming in “behind time." If the trains can’t be run according to schedule, why can’t they be reported correctly on the bulletin board at the depot? As it is. when one is marked on the board to be due- at a certain time, waiting passengers never know whether they can depend upon it at that time or not (generally non. Out siders, of course, do not know the cause of this seeming aversion of the railroad people to inform patrons of their road correctly, or as nearly so as possible, in regard to the lateness of their trains, and just when they may be expected; but it seems to these outsiders that there should be no excus for it. Of course, in cases of wrecks, washouts, or other acci dents .it is understood that no one can say to a certainty just when a certain train will get through: but otherwise it does look like the ac commodation of passengers should have more consideration from the railroad people. REAL MOVING PICTURES. All NOTES AND COMMENTS. Sorts, Grave and Gay, Live Ones to be Seen every Day. (Spartanburg Herald.) “One with eyes to see may catch a view of moving pictures at the South ern station at 10 to 11 a. m.. and 3 to 4 I J . m. They are the real thing and in great variety. From the careless, lazy lounger that goes there because he nas no other place to go. to the active, nervous man who frets because a train is late, there is every sort of person to be seen. Not many of them are on dress parade. They are not posing for the photographer. The self conscious girl, who supposes that she is observed by all. is quite inter esting. She is accustomed to travel ing and she asserts herself and is dis posed to let others know that she is around. She is a little loud; but makes things lively. Then there is the fussy old fellow, trying to boss wife and daughters and get them well un der way. He generally hinders more than he helps. The little miss on her first trip is fidgety and fresh and she is always attractive to the lovers of children. Quietly on a seat sits the mother or grandmother, with her face wrinkled with care and sorrow. Not far off is a young woman whose eyes show that thev are not strangers to tears, for trouble has come to her young life in some way. Standing alone is a portly man, who has the appearance of having no ambition above the gratification of his animal appetites and lower desires. There is not a spark of the nobility of thought, aspiration or character about him. He has the appearance of being a well- groomed hog. Then the newly married pair is on hand, the bride resplendent with smiles and the groom looking as though he was the most fortunate man in the world. Every bridal cou ple in their radiant joy is a poem and a prophecy. The man who does not enter somewhat into their joys and get under the influence of the halo of love that surrounds them, is "fit, for treason, stratagems and spoils.” "Such are some of the moving pict ures to be seen these days about the Southern station.” To the above might be added an other picture that is not so "moving.” and that is the hog who occunies a whole seat (and two if he can get them!) on a railroad car, ~eitht. stretched out on it feigning sleep, or the portion he can’t spread over with ins greedy, selfish self taken up by his baggage, while others, some of whom, perhaps, are ladies, who have paid for seats stand up in the aisle and grow tired waiting for an opportunity to pounce upon a seat. There is no place like a railroad oar for the nat ural hoggishness of mankind to as sert itself. Senator Tillman didn’t sav any thing new in his Greenville speech. He still clings to the infamous dispen sary and so sure as the heavens stand and he persists in clinging to it, so sure will it prove a mill stone about his neck to drag him down to the pool of political despair. # * * The general comment Tuesday was on the order maintained. There was not a single man on the grounds who had the appearance of being intoxi cated. there was any whiskey on the grounds. There may have been, but It was kept very secluded. As com pared with former occasions of this character there was considerable dif ference. • • • Why keep money around the house? Everybody should run a bank ac- count and keep all bis money in the bank and check it out as be needs it. from You will save money by this method. (2) Verv often you are tempted to buy I “ ,t ‘ “ asis of phosphate bnk:ng pow- • . " ,, , , i (,ers anJ the process is fully described something you really do not need, am , j ]1 t j )e | )atents issued to a large manu- do buy it because''you have the money! facitirer of a phosphate powder. The at hand, whereas if you had that mon-| I'. S. Patent Office Report gives a full and exact description, but the follow ing extract is enough: Worth Remembering. There are three entirely different kinds of ingredients used in making the three different varieties of baking powders on the market, viz: — In truth we do not know that 1 1) Mineral-Acid or Alum, (2) Bone- Ac d or Phosphate, and (3) Cream of Tartar made from grapes. It is im portant, from the standpoint of health, to know something about these ingre dients. and which kind is used in your baking powder. (1) Mineral-Acid, or Alum, is made from a kind of clay. This is mixed with diluted oil of vitrol and from this solution a product is obtained which is alum. Alum i,s cheap: costs about two cents a pound, and baking powder made with ibis Mineral Acid sells ~i to 25c. a pound. Bone-Acid, or Phosphate, is ey : n the bank you would deny your self rather than check it out. Open a bank account. We do not advise this to help our banking friends, but to help yen. The banks and bankers are able in take care of themselves, but some of us are not, an.l we had better let the bank take care of what little we lo get, hold of. After all it’s not' so much what one makes as what one saves. Young man. save some of your wages. Learn the habit early in life and there will be no ne cessity for the poor house staring you in the face when you get old. Gratitude of an Old Soldier. Editor. Ledger.—I can’t reconcile " Burned bones, after being ground, are put into freshly diluted oil of vitrol and with continual stirring and in the following proportion,” etc. From this Bone-Acid phosphate bak ing powders are made; such powders sell from 20 to :jb cents a pound. (3) Cream of Tartar exists in all ripe grapes, and Hows with the juice from the press in the manufacture of wine. After the wine is drawn off the tartar is scraped from the casks, boiled <vith water, and crystals of rraem of Tartar, white and verv pure, -eparate and are collected. It differs in no respect from the form in which it originally existed in the grape, (’ream of Tartar, white and very pure, expensive, is the only ingredient that should be used in a baking powder to RAIN AND FIRE. myself uni! 1 heartily thank the good I »1.»"»> the soda, as its wholesome- people oM la ffm> for the splendid din- ness is beyond question (’ream of : in. i- Tartar haL'im»* i»n\vm»rc at aWnnt Tartar baking powders sell at about 40 to 50 cents a pound. Such are the facts, and every one, careful of the health of the family, -liould remembtr this rule: — Baking powders selling from 10 to 25 cents ner they gave the old soldiers ol the “lost cause" on the 4th of July. I had begun to think that we were like good old David, "forgotten in our old age," but was agreeably surprised, j We were certainly royally entertain- . . .. ed for Ahich accept my sincere i a Pound are made of Mineral-Acids; thanks and 1 think if 1 were to sound I those selling from 20 to .]<» cents of the hearts of all the comrades present, Bone-Acid : and those from 40 to 50 I would find a like response. 1 cents of Cream of Tartar made from Bless those sweet maidens who vied ] grapes, with each other in caring for out- wants; royal blood courses through their veins and the next generation Lightning Strikes Two Houses and One is Burned. A heavy rain Storm passed over Gaffney Wednesday afternoon. Dur ing the storm lightning struck a small house in the western part of the city, belonging to Cleve Phillips, and set tire to it. Owing to the distance of the house from hydrants the fire com panies could not reach it with water, and it was entirely consumed. The rain was falling in torrents at the time, and hardly had the people who turned out when the alarm was sounded, returned to shelter when the fire whistle began to emit its ter rible, unearthly shrieks again. This time lightning had struck the resi dence of Mr. Harry Gooding, near the courthouse, on Limestone street, went down through the roof and set a bed on fire. The bolt seemed to have di vided when it struck, as a part of it lor another holt) went through the wall into the sitting room, knocked a picture off the mantel, and burned the strings off a banjo which was hanging near the picture, passing out a window which was up. Fortunately, there was no one in the house at the time, as Mrs. Good ing had come up street only a short while before the rain, and Mr. Good ing was in his office at the courthouse, just across the street. Had anyone been in the room where the bolt pass ed through, he or she, no doubt would have been struck by it. The people responded promptly to the call, and kept the fire from the burning bed from spreading to the house. The damage was slight, though the escape was a narrow one. for both house and inmates. I DEFY YOU TO FORGET. You have struggled to forget me—I defy you to forget— You have often wished as I have, that we two had never met; You have bowed at other shrines, nay more, have worn a face as bright: But a time will come for memory, in the visions of the night. You have heard a voice that once you said was music in your ears. And - a face rose up to haunt you, through the mist of by-gone years; Till the stings of conscience goaded you to remorse, perhaps regret, And you struggled to forget me—I defy you to forget! II. You have strove to cast behind yon every memorj of the past, But the thoughts we wish to perish are forever those that last; You have struggled to forget me, but it baffled al' the powers. For the hardest ghosts to quiet are the ghosts of by-gone hours. Often when you least expected it in your hours of mirth and glee. Like a shadow o’er your spirit, there would come a thought of me; Some one’s look or tone reminded you of a day whose sun is set; And you struggled to forget me—I defy you to forget ! III. Other lips with smiles have greeted you—happiness, God grant, was thine: On your life has fallen no shadow, such as you have cast on mine: Another’s heart learned to trust you, and in your faith and truth con fide. And you stood before the altar with another by your side, But howovr much you loved him. with the vows upon your tongue, There would come a thought across you of the heart which you had wrung. Of the life which you had blighted, sad. darl; eyes, with tear drops wet, And you struggled to forget me—I defy you to forget! fV. Flowers may bloom beside your path way. life may wear its sunniest hue. But though fortune smiles upon you, you will find my words are true. You have ceased. 1 know, to love me, but as long ns life shall last You will oftentimes be haunted by the thoughts of what is past. Fare you well; may God forgive you for the wrong which yau have wrought. For the bitter, bitter lesson which your faithlessness has taught; Though our paths henceforth lie parted, and until life's sun is set. You may struggle to forget me—I defy you to forget! Food to work on is food to live on. A man works to live. He must live to work. , He does both better on Uneeda Biscuit, the soda cracker that contains in the most properly bal anced proportions a greater amount of nutriment than any food made from flour. Uneeda Biscuit National biscuit compamT Don't forgot Graham Crackers Batter Thin Biscuit Social Tea Biscuit Lemon Snaps FARMERS’ INSTITUTE CAR. Will be at Disposal of Clemson Col lege for Tour of State. Clemson College, July 3.—Dr. P. H. Mell has returned from Washington, where he went to confer with the au thorities of the Southern railway in reference* to securing a farmers’ insti tute car. The authorities readily com plied wilh Dr. Mell’s request. This car will be at the disposal of the col lege and will be hauled all over South Carolina. It will be fully equipped with apparatus and exhibits from ev ery department of the college. It will be arranged so ihat stereoptican views can be given in the car during the day and outside at night. The car will be in charge of members, of the Clemson faculty, who will give in struction and explanations. This is regarded here as a great move for ward for South Carolina, and Dr. Mell is being congratulated on his success. A Card of Thanks. Mr. Editor:—Kindly allow me the privilege of using the columns of vour paper in which to express my I sincere thanks to my friends who re ponded so nobly to my call for help >n Wednesday afternoon. 1 realize tie* feeling of brotherly love that nromnted th** braving of the torrents ■>:' r tin then I'alling. and I assurp them [ to yon as p curious ter. hng- can but be noble men and women, the offspring of these choice spirits. And we would not fail to mention our clerk, sheriff and one of the news men of our country who. with others : served with as much grace and tact as if they were brought up in a first- class hotel. God bless the old sol diers. They are passing out rapidly one by one. and the places that knew them will know, them no more. May they Ik wise and make that necessary preparation so when they pass over the river they may rest in the shade of the trees that line the hanks of the beautiful stream that flows from the throne of God. Yours truly, G. W. Bonner. Sufficient Cause. (From the Philadelphia Press.» “Sububs house was all lighted up last night,” said the first suburbanite. “Yes." replied the other, "they were celebrating a silver jubilee.” “Nonsense! they havn’t. been mar ried twenty-five years.’’ “No, but they hav’e had one cook for twenty-five days.” If a man has but one shirt he never owes a big wash bill. Some men are born great and come little of their own accord. he- How'oThU? , We offer One Hundred Dollars Howard for anv case of <'at:irrb that cannot he cured by H" * 1 ’’* ' j U rHENEY k OO.. Toledo, o. We, the undersigned, have known F. J. f'henev for tic* last t.V years, and’believe him nerfectiv honorable In all husinss transac tions and financially able to carry out any obligations made by their firm. , , WrsT .vTin'AX, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, O. Wai.tmno. Kinnak it Marvin. Whole sale Druggists. Toledo, O. Hall's* atairh Cure Is taken Internally acting directly upon the hlcxid and mucous surfaces of the system. Testimonials sent free. Price 7.V |* r bottle. Sold by all Drug- ^Hail’s Family Fills are the best. SUPPORT SCOTTS EMULSION serves as a bridge to carry the weakened and starved system along until it can find firm support in ordinary food. Send for free sample. SCOTT & BOWNF., Chemists, 409-41} Pearl Street, New York, foe. and /i <>o; all druggists. that I now realize 'tis good to dwell among friends. Harry Gooding. | Gaffney, July 5, 1905. 1 Does This Apply to You? Are yon tired all over ? All run down ? j How many thousands of people are in this condition! Not sick enough to go t<\ bed, and so they just drag around as long as they are able to be on their feet. There’s nothing particular the matter with them. Nevertheless they have no appetite. They grow paler and thinner every day. The whole system is in very bad condition. It is while in such a state that people catch the most dreadful diseases, because they are not strong enough to resist the germs. If you have the “checkered ” feeling described above, the different medicine, “Checkers,” will make you new all over. Sold by all dealers at $1.00 per bottle, or write us for free sample to-day, sure. Checkers Medicine Co., Winston-Salem, N. C. As Fast as Two Men. The judge, lawyers and everybody else were badgering an Irishman about the speed of a cart. “Was it going fast?” queried the judge. * Yis, it were,” answered the wit ness. “How fast?” “Party fasht.” “Wa it going as fast as a man can run?” “Aw, yis,” said the Irishman, glad that a basis for an analogy was thus supplied him. “As fasht as two min kin run.” /'Didn’t I hear my wife rej the human mince pie T si person. “Yes," answerejJ^ffr. Sirius “Is that a cpifipliment V” “Not exafffly. SUb means never agree wiG^k^’body.” ing S/ar. 'atiptft—Ilseem to bfiflittle better, (r, but iVuW i&fnol breath. Doctor—JustHi^Pb patience* airland we ll stop that altogether.’ She Makes a Mistake. The following is told of a couple who attended the Wyoming State fair and stopped at one of the best .hotels in Salem. About 2 A. M. the hus band was seized with severe stomach cramps and was almost frantic. His wife was very much frightened, but she knew something must be done quickly so without putting on any clothes she started down stairs on the jump with naught on but her “nighty." Running Into the dining room she saw the mustard cruet on the table. Emptying the contents into her handkerchief she started up stairs on the run and entered the first door she came to. Here she saw a man lying on the bed, who in the dim darkness she mistook for her hus band .and gently tucking up his linge rie slapped the poultice on his abdo men. The man let. out a howl and sitting up in bed shouted: “Woman, what In the h—1 are you doing?" There was a shriek, a patter of feet, on the hall floor and frightened half to death the poor wife found her room and suffering husband. She told him her troubles, and it tickled him so that his cramps took a change of venue. Ubiquitous. (From the Courier Journal.) From the Courier Journal., i In a busy town (like yours, perhaps) I owe one man a bill. There are half a million other chaps And one of him, but still He seems to spread o’er every street. For as about I go I never, never fail to meet The fellow that I woe. 1 have relations in this place, And as I wander out I sometimes meet one face to face, Say once a week, about. Once in a while I stop to greet A friend or two 1 know But. sakes alive. I always meet The fellow that I owe! One of the Earmarks. (From tho Detroit Tribune.) “Those people who moved into the adjoining house yesterday must be, awfully rich.” said Mrs. Frban. "Why do you think so. dear?” que ried her husband. “Because,” she replied, “they own a lawn mower.” FOR BALE. FOR RENT—Five room cottage near graded school building, on Jeff ries street; and after 17th Inst., my residence. Apply to Mrs. L. M. Cook or Tom Lockhart. 7-7-3t FOR SALE—Two good milk cows. Prices reasonable. Apply to J. R. Lit tlejohn. Asbury, S. C. 7-7-3t-pd. FOR SALE—Do you want a nice milk cow? See Wm. Jefferies. 7-4-2t. FOR SALE—White Peas. Apply to Merchants Grocery Co., Gaffney, S. C. • June 2-tf. FOR RENT. FOR RENT—Storeroom In W. Sam Lipscomb building. Apply to B. F. Lipscomb. 3-3-tl. SUITES OF ROOMS to let in the "4tar Theatre. A. N. Wood. 3-22-tf FOUND. FOUND—A boy’s coat. Owner may have same by describing it and pay ing for this ad. at Ledger office. NOTICE. NOTICE—Bull for service, 50 cents. Sam Q. Sarratt. 6-6-tf. Some people's goodness is founded upon lack of opportunity. Subscribe for The Ledger, $1.00 a year. MONEY TO LOAN. I am prepared to negotiata loans on improved farme for a term of years In amounts of $1,000 and upward, at 7 per cent, and from $300 to $1,000 at 8 per cent Apply to J. C. JEFFERIES, Qaffnoy, 8. C. Cotton Has gone up the past few days. It may go down. If you sell now you get a fair price. Gray and Brown are the lead* ing colors. I have them. Two piece Suit--, very nobby patterns, worth $5.00, $7.50 and $10.00. Going at $3.98. $4.98 and $5.48. I am over stocked and need the money, therefore, it will be to your advantage to see me before you buy. Largest assortment of Men’s Top Shirts ever seen in Gaffney. A special lot of Negligee Shirts at 15c that are really worth 75c and $1.00. Big assortment of all sizes on counter. See my window for the pretti est and nobbiest Pants at very low prices. Men’s half Hose at half price 15 Cents per pair for 25c values. Very large assortment of Men’s Socks, all colors, also at 5c and 10c. I will save you from 50c to $1.00 on on Shoes and Oxfords. See me before you buy ; it will pay you. SET THE HABIT-60 TO % Nelson The Star Clothier.