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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. Oblturanes will be published at five cents a line. Correspondents who do not oontri Lute regular news letters must fur nish their name, not for publication, but for identification. All correspondence should be ad dessed to Ed. H. DeCamp, Manaser We invariably discontinue sending '’he Ledger when a subscription runs )ut, 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. POOR COMFORT. The opponents of Mr. McLaurin may be able to extract some comfort from toe snub given that gentleman at Spar tanburg last Saturday by Rev. E. L. Archer, but how about Mr. Archer? We are reliably informed that Mr. Archer is a conscientious man, but very highly prejudiced, and that once hp makes up his mind to do a thing he’ll do it or bust. Such a man, no matter how able, is a dangerous man to be classed as a leader of men. His action last Saturday was unbecoming a gentleman who professes to have within his breast the attributes of a Christian. No matter how prejudiced he may be against Mr. McLaurin, the fact remains that he did not exercise that charity towards him that a fol lower of the meek and lowly Nazarene should exercise toward a fellowman. We do not doubt but that Mr. Archer, if he would be sincere with himself, would admit that he acted in an un charitable manner. Certainly his ac tion was ungentlemanly and unkind. Mr. Archer should be the man to feel hurt over the affair, and not Mr. Mc Laurin. In order that our readers may fully understand the situation we will state that Mr. McLaurin had been invited to address the meeting by Mr. H. S. Lipscomb, the secretary of the asso ciation and one of the committee on invitation. He labored under the im pression that the invitation was gen uine, and we presume it was for the simple reason that Mr. Lipscomb, as a member of the committee, had a per fect right to extend the invitation. If he did not have this right why was he placed on the committee? Aftijr the invitation had been extended, it makes no difference Mow distasteful it may have been to Mr. Archer he should have conducted himself like a gentle man. The odium of the affair will rest upon Mr. Archer, it matters not how he may seek to throw it off. He simp ly lacks those delicate qualities that go to make un a thorough gentleman, and there is nothing else to the mat ter. If he is a man he will apologize for his rude conduct, and if he fail to do this, he stamps himself a coarse creature in the form of a man. NOTES AND CuMMEMTS. The list of managers of election are to be found in another column. Read it. as you may be oner * * * The dispensary investigation carried on in Spartanburg has the appearance of being made in the golden sunlight. • • • Our Spartanburg contemporaries are getting into deep water, and it’s clearly a case of a survival of the best swimmer. * • • Over in York county they are advo cating voting out the dispensary and building a good road from Yorkville to Rock Hill. Both these are worthy causes and both will help the people. We wish you success in both. • * • “1 am opposed to private individu als selling liquor.”—Senator Tillman at Edgefield. The Senator is having so many bricks Rung at him these days on ac count of this sneech that we hate to do it, but will the Senator please tell us what else it is but private indlvidu als selling liquor when beer dispensa ries are let to the highest bidder? • • • The story published the other day about a shark eating a boy at Beau fort. N. C., was a fake. We didn’t know it at the time, but other papers were publishing it so we, too, were a victim. It’s such stories as these, con cocted by unreliable space writers, that cause so many people to say: “Oh, I don’t know: it was published in the papers.” Cut it out, boys; cut it out. it's not good for our reputation. • • • Within a short time two men have been killed by unthinkingly catching hold of the cable that the electric light lamps are swung up by—ono in Char lotte and another elsewhere. This loads us to attempt to warn anyone from catching hold of the electric ca bles in Gaffney. There is no way of knowing what time a cable may be touching a live wire, and should such be the case the result would be fatal. Keep your hand off the electric light cables. • • • The clouds look dark and gloomy for the Spartanburg Journal. We hope there will be a rift and that the sun shine of honesty will shed its rayfover it. and that it may be able to clear it self from suspicion. We like Mr. Hen ry. notwithstanding we have had some friendly tilts with him. and we do not want to see him engulfed in an ocean of suspicion. It were better never to have been born than to have humanity lose confidence in your integrity and honor. Brother Henry should sjiake the corrupting influences of the dis pensary. It is impossible for any man, however pure he may be, can come in contact with the dispensary without a breath of suspicion resting upon him. • • • To paraphraze the Greenville News, we “peeped in on the dispensary In vestigating committee” at Spartan burg Wednesday and would like to dis abuse the mind of any one who may be disposed to think it that there will be any whitewashing done. No two men were ever more in earnest than Messrs. Lyon and Christensen. To those two will belong the credit of bringing out the rottenness of the sys tem. It is plain that they have the sympathy of several others of the com mittee, but it is also plain that there is at least one man on the committee who would like to use the white wash brush. But Lyon and Chris tensen are two big for the states man (?) from Newberry. They are probing this thing to the bottom and they will receive the plaudits of press, pulpit and people. Lyon, with no air of arrogance, looks as brave as his name would imply, while Christensen with his quiet and sedate manner, keeps tab and prompts. They are good to look upon and they will fear lessly do their whole duty. • • • The crying need of the hour is a return to old-time honesty. Give us honest editors, honest lawyers, hon est doctors, honest merchants, honest politicians, honest farmers, honest bankers, honest mechanics and honest workmen in everv line and there will be less cry and hue about corruption. The farmers are more numerous than any other class, and be it said to their credit there is less deception among them than any others. Perhaps this is due to the fact that there is less opportunity for deception, but we are inclined to believe it’s because they are reared in a nurer atmosphere. We abhor corrupt men, and above all the educated men should be the less cor rupt, whereas they seem to be the grandest of rascals when they are ras cals. The lawyer that appropriates to his own use the estate money of or phans is a greater thief than the igno rant black man who steals from the crib: the fake doctor who pilfers the pockets of suffering humanity when he know's he can be of no service to them is a fit subject for the peniten tiary; the merchant who gives short weight is a scoundrel; the politician who betrays his trust deserves the con tempt of all honest people; the banker who extorts and crushes his weaker financial brother is a rogue; and the editor who sells his principles is the meanest and lowest down one of the w hole gang. They all know better, and it’s because their hearts are black that they do no better. May God deliver us from the dishonest horde of corrupt men w'ho, like leeches, are drawing the blood from the veins of the peo ple of the State, individually and col lectively. Still Destroying Trees. (Sanford, N. C., Express.) A man here the other day from the Deep River section of this county said that within a radius of six miles of his home are located twenty sawmills. One man. ex-Sheriff Laster, of Ran dolph county, has a sort of steamboat for hauling lumber from his mills down the river to Carbonton. where it is loaded upon the cars of the Dur ham & Charlotte Railroad and shipped to Greensboro and other points. In that section the sawmill men are Haw ing up not only the short-leaf pine, but the old-field pine as well. Any sort of pine that wilj make a stieieqf lum ber finds ready sale. The timber on some of the land up there sold for more money than the land itself would bring. fit Soda Crackers are becoming more and more the food Of the People It remains for the national biscuit company to bake more and more Uneeda Blseult For the People 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 Butter Thin Biscuit Social Tea Biscuit Lemon Snaps NATIONAL BISCUIT COMPANY THE FARMERS’ INSTITUTE OPENS More Than Five Hundred Farmers at Clemson. Clemson College, Aug. 8.—Over 500 farmers w r ere at the opening meeting of the farmers’ institute and scores more are coming. Dr. F. H. Mell made an appropriate address of welcome and introduced Dr. J. N. Harper, the new head of the agricultural department, who made a tine impression. Senator Tillman read a paper on “Hog Raising.” Much in teresting and amusing discussions fol lowed in which many questions were fired at the senator. He seemed hap py and made answers that brought roars of laughter. Dr. Klein discussed hog cholera. ONE KILLED; A Misforture to Science. (Norfolk Landmark.) The case reminds us of a story told of a certain university professor, in one of whose largest classes w-as a student who did little study, and who generally answered a question with the statement that he “did know, but had forgotten.” One day the profes sor put this query: “Mr. Jones, what is the cause of the aurora borealis?” Mr. Jones, after scratching his head, announced, “I did know, hut I’*e for gotten.” "Gentlemen,” declared the professor, solemnly and mournfully, "you are witnesses of one of the most maddening misfortunes that ever be fell the cause of science. Here is the only man who ever knew the cause of the aurora borealis, and he lias for gotten!” Children’s Day. Children’s Day exercises will be held a‘ Gethsemane church 'on Satur day. the 19th inst., beginning at 10 A. M. There will be an address by Prof. ! W. P. McArthur, of this city, and a basket dinner will lie served on the church grounds. The public is cordially invited. A good repentance needs no encore. Another Don’t. Mr. Editor;—In your paper of the 8th inst I saw an article headed, “Dont’s for Boys and Girls.” I thinl^ it needed one more “don’t.” Giri^| don’t chew your chewing gum in pub lic places; it looks too much like a mulley cow chewing her cud. Now, girls, don’t. Observer. Covetousness kills charity. Three Injured.—Work of Lightning Near Boone, N. C. Green Park. N. C.. Aug. 7.—This ev ening on Rich mountain, near Boone, a young man named Ragan was struck and instantly killed by lightning, and three other men were severely in jured. They had been working on a new pike road and were sheitering from the storm under a large tree. The storm was terrific, many people declaring that it was the most severe they had ever witnessed. The Grafters and Their Graft. (The Toledo Blade.) The grafter is indeed a traitor— and of the meant st kind. He takes advantage of a place, given him by the grace of the people, to roll the people. His philosophy that he is in public . osition to levy toll on pub lic funds It the philosophy of a trai tor. His practice of dividing up or taking money on the side is the prac- *iee of a traitor. And this grafting strikes at the vitals of American prin- ciples. It makes a government of the grafters, by the grafters, and for the grafters. Fruit nml tlir Drinking Habit. Fruit is the newest cure for alcohol ism. "Writing in a popular magazine, Paul Arr says of fruit that it is the one sure cure for the drinking habit. Eating fruit “will cure the worst case of inebriety that ever afllicted a per son,” he says. “No person ever saw a man or woman who liked fruit and who bad an appetite for drink. No person ever saw a man or woman with an appetite fyr drink who liked fruit. The two tastes are at deadly enmity with each other, and there is no room for both of them In the same human constitution. One will certainly de stroy the other.” Subscribe for The Ledger; $1 a year. We like best to call SCOTT’S EMULSION a food because it stands so em phatically for perfect nutrition. And yet in the matter of restor ing appetite, of giving new strength to the tissues, especially to the nerves, its action is that of a medicine. Send for free Mmple. SCOTT & UOWNK, Chemists, 409-415 i'earl Street, New York 50c. and $1.00; all druggists. 4 ♦09-4‘S You cannot measure the holiness of others by your own habits. Him*'M Till*? We offer Due Hundred llollars Reward for any case of Catarrh that cannot !«• cured hv Hall’s Catarrh Cure. , K J. CHENEY A CO.. Toledo, O. We. the undcr.stjrnod, have known F. .1 ch. ney for the last IS years, and believe him perfectly honorable In all huslns* transac tions and financially able to carry out ;nv obligations made hy their lirm. West &TRUAX, Wholes de Pruvytsis Toted' U. WAliUlNO, K1 nnan ,v Makvin. Whole sale Druggists, Toledo, O. HaP’sCa'anh T’uro Is taken Internally acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. Testimonials sent free. Price i5c. per bottle, fold hy all Drug gists. Hall's Family Pills are the best. Chesterfield Naval Stores Burned. Cheraw, Aug. 8.—The plant of *he Chesterfiold Naval Stores company I was destroyed by fire a little after 10) o'clock last night. The exact loss is j hard to arrive at. Owing to the in-i flammable character of the plant i' was not insured. This is the second j time this company has lost its plant i by fire within the past 1", months. No Hope of Verdict in Sanford Case. Rome, Ga., Aug. 8.—The Sanfor 11 jury has notified Judge Wright that t cannot agree on a verdict. Apparently ' there is no hope of anything but a mistrial. Late tonight the court has not announced what course it will take as to keeping the jurors together or discharging them. The Idea Was All Righ'.. (Bamberg Herald.) Never mind. DeCamp. The idea of your building and loan cartoon was all lighf, even if the cut was not so artis tic. Wood's Seeds. Crimson Clover. Our Southern Farmers can save fer tilizer bills and increase their revenues t MILLIONS OF DOLI ARS, 1 by sowing Crimson Clover at the last working of their Corn and Cotton crops. It is the best time to sow and you save an extra prep aration of the land. Crimson Clover makes land rich in humus or vegetable matter and puts it in excellent condition for the crops which follow it. It also makes i fins winfer cover crop, An excellent grazing crop, A good early forage crop, A splendid soil-improving crop. Plowed under early in the spring, it increases the yield of corn, to bacco, cotton or other crops which follow it, to a wonderful extent. Onr Miles of Crimson Clover seed are Increasing enormously every year, and we are to day the largest dealers in this seed In the United States. Write for prices and circulars giving Information about this valuable crop. T.W. Wood&Sons, Seedsmen, RICHMOND, • VIRGINIA. Wood’s Descriptive Fsll Catalogue, Issued in August, tells about all Farm and Carden Seeds for Fall Plant- Ing. Mailed free on request. FARMERS MUTUAL INSURANCE ASSOCIATIUN, OF CHEROKEE COUNTY, S. C. This Association was organized March 22nd-,* 1898, with ouly a few members and a few thousand dollars insurance, which was transferred from the Companies of Union and York Counties, by policy holders living in those sections of Cherokee County which were taken from said old Counties. At the end of the third year the insurance in force aggregated .$190,780 00 Increase from March and, 1901, to August 1st, 1905 J27.154 00 Total Insurance in force August ist, 1905 $3r7T934~00 Total amount of receipts for the whole period $4,353 46 Total amount paid out for losses $2,366 25 Total amount paid out for expenses, etc l,J66 74 Amount cash on hand August ist, 11905 820 47 Total $4,353 46 _ . . , . pi All losses are paid promptly. It’s policies are backed by over $500,000 worth of property. Now is the time to insure. J. EB JEFFERIES, R. M. GAFFNEY, Secty. and Treas. President. r The Mutual Benefit Life Insurance Co. THE LEADING ANNUAL DIVIDEND COMPANY OF AMERICA. JONES J. DARBY, Agent, Gaffney, S. C. HAS NEVER WRITTEN A “TONTINE” POLICY. NO STOCK-HOLDERS PURELY MUTUAL IT SELLS ENDOWMENTS AT LIFE RATES The Cherokee Cafe Is the new place opened up at 110 Fred erick St., where you can be served with Meals, Lunches, Soda Water, Ice Cream, Etc., both day and night to white and colored alike. In the rear of Merchants and Planters Bank. : - : ; Little & Doughtery, Prop’s.