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4 / T THE LEDGER. Tuesday and Friday. Ed. H. DeCan.p, Editor and Publisher, A. W. Griffith, Local Editor. The Ledger Is not responsible for the vlewn of correspondents. Obliuranes will be published at live cents a line. Correspondents who do not contrl* bute regular news letters must fur nish their name, not for publication, but for identification. All correspondence should be ad- dessed to Bd. H. DeCamp, Manager. We invariably discontinue sending r he Ledger when a subscription runs ;ut, for we have no way of knowing that .i 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 mtnth to make It better and bet ter. NOTES AND COMMENTS. Are you making preparations to send that child under your care to school? If you are not you are vio lating one obligation that has been placed upon you. • • • Let others come along with their letters in regard to good roads and the voting out of the dispensary. Let us become educated by exchanging views with each other. » » * The fact that the Hadley syndicate announce that they will take a million bales of the new cotton crop should be gratifying news to the Southern cotton grower. All the cotton planter has to do is to raise his own supplies and keep a stiff upper lip as to his cotton and he can get his own price for the same. * • • ‘‘Rambler” talks about good roads in another column. “Rambler” is a farmer—one of the best in Cherokee. He is very conservative in his views, and the only fault we have with his letter is that he has not written enough. We all need education on the subject of good roads. We disagree with “Rambler” as to the amount ot good roads we should build. We ought to build thirty miles a year in stead of three miles. In other respects he is eminently correct. ✓ * • • I Last Friday we invited expressions from our subscribers as to the result of voting out the dispensary. The first response to that invitation is in another column. It is f"om the pen of a pure Christian gentleman, a mail who loves his fellowman and who fears and serves God. We want others to respond. We want those who believe the dispensary a good thing to respond to this invitation. We want to present both sides of the question. Come along with your letters, either for or against. • • • In last Friday’s issue we attempted to make clear that this county is a gainer financially by voting out the dispensary. In giving the figures ot the M. A: P. Rank we stated them in such manner as to be misleading unless one read carefully the entire article. In the table it appeared thqt the individual deposits were only $2,278.19, while it was meant tljat that was the increase over last year’s sav ings account. The actual deposits subject to check were $146,788.26, We make this statement fearing that some might think the M. & P* Bans only had $2,278.f9 subject to check. * and was paying interest on the other deposits. • • • We like to hear stories like the fol lowing, which was told to us only yes terday. A good old mother in Israel who had labored faithfully to rea; properly a large family succeeded in getting them up in the w’orld to some extent. She Is now living in Cherokee. Last year one of her boys went off to college. At the close of the session he came home “all diked out” with good clothes and a pair of spiked-toed pat ent leather shoes on his feet. This riled the good old woman and she nev er let that boy rest until he discarded those fashionable shoes. The young man had no job but his mother kv'i after him to go to work and never rested until he did get a job. She reasoned with him that unless lie worked the other boys would have t'> keep him up. It is such a mother as this that makes men of her boys, and the country would be better off if it possessed more like her. • • • ^ A subscriber to The Ledgel who lives in Vermont has sent us a copy of the Rutland, Vt., Herald, from which we clip the following, which that paper copied from the Randolph Herald: “The colored man hasn’t an easy row to hoe, even up here in ‘qigger- loving Vermont.’ He does not pass 418 the white man does, on his merits, but something is always deducted on ac count of his race. One would think that in the department of sports, at least, where manliness and fairness and consideration prevail, if they do anywhere, it would be lacking. There is a player named Mathews on ojie of the Northern league ball teams. He is conceded to be among the best indi vidual all-round players in the league. He seldom makes an error, is a power at the bat and runs bases with ra^e judgment and success. Personally, he is every inch and every moment a gen tleman, both on and off the field. No mucky work ever comes from Math ews. His demeanor is quiet, in fact reserved. Intellectually, he is the peer of any of the players or patrons of the sport, a graduate of Harvard, who has worked his way through that great in stitution by his own efforts. Yet it js not to be denied that a strong preju dice exists against this proficient young gentleman player because of his color and race—a prejudice enter tained not only by the single white player from Alabama, who won’t enter a game in which he plays, but by oth er members of the several teams. It is noticeable that he is shunned by many of them. He started in to play the shortstop, but after being spiked several times at second base by run ners, at his own request, it is said, he Was transferred to the outfield, in or der to afford him more security from the dirty tactics of opposing players who would not treat a white man thqj way. It’s a shame that unreasoning prejudice will go so far and crop out in such a despicable way.” All of which goes to show' that the negro’s best friends are in the South. Of course he cannot play ball with us. He doesn’t want to, because he has enough of his fellow's to play with: but the hypocritical Vermonter does not love the negro as well as we of the South do. MINISTER’S VIEWS. Two Facts to Remember. (Greenville News.) Many citizens of Greenville have hesitated about voting for prohibition through fear of the heavy expense which that measure means. Of course those who are actuated by financial reasons alone look more to the dollar than to the welfare of the communitv. We trust that the number is small. Nine months ago the county of Cher okee got rid of the dispensary. The Ledger says that in the town of Gaff- nev the bank deposits on July 31, 1904 were $285,096.19. The deposits in the same banks on July 31, 1905 were $359,565.89, or an increase of $74,469.70. That is a mighty good showing. And is it not reasonable to suppose that persons who had formerly been squan dering their savings for liquor are now- placing them in the banks for future protection and use? After w'e have prohibition in Greenville, some of the money whic 1 ' has found its way into the dispensaries will turn toward the banks. There is one other point. The cham pions of the dispensary, in attempting to say that when the establishments are closed every drug store will be converted into a saloon, are assailing the character of some excellent busj- ness men. We do not believe it. If it should be proved, however, that such dealers are flagrantly violating the law', the punishment will be swift and certain. But we don’t believe that a single drug store in Greenville will operate a blind tiger as a side line. Some persons of little character or standing may endeavor to enrich them selves by selling liquor, but the men who will go to the polls and vote out the outrageous law, agreeing at the same time to bear extra expense, wij' serve on juries i ntime, and they will cut down that expense by extracting dollars from the liquor crooks. Green ville will lose nothing by driving put the dispensaries, whereas there is much to be gained. That bank state ment from Gaffney is a good argument for prohibition. war Make Yo0 NEW All Over Get It from yonr druggist, or write for free sample bottle. Don’t delay. Checkers Medicine Co.Wlnston-Salen?, N. C- What Cherokee Hat Gained by Voting Out Diapensary. Ed. Lodger:—In response to your question on the result of voting out the dispensaries from our county. If I was'not the first In the press I was first to suggest to Dr. Mason W. Smith and Colonel David Anderson Thomas that we make the test of petition, which rapidly fused through the above named the minds of our citizens. The editors of both The Ledger and The News responded with a will and open ed the columns of their papers for expression, both for and against the move. So much for that. You ask for expression whether the effect has brought loss or gain. Temperance was the question at issue—would we pro hibit the sale of intoxicating liquors? It was not a political question. It was a question of saving our citizens, our institutions, our peace and happiness our liberty, of restoring confidence, protecting our homes, and writing afresh the God-given motto: "Right eousness exalteth a nation, but sin is a reproach to any people.”—Prov. 14- 34. First, the loss. We have lost the habit of stealing from our creditors, our families, our churches, our insti tutions and our poor the money that justly belonged to them that was spent for drink, because it was handy and because it tempted us. We have lost a rude, rough drunken throng from our streets. We have lost a throng of drunken, disorderly men and boys from the mayor’s court. We have lost the fiendish yellers and drunk- en blackguards from our highways. We have lost a filthy, noverty-pinched. ragged class that once thronged our streets. Second, the gain—confidence, character, respect, in that we are im itated by other counties now. It is a fact that our people have gained a large amount of personal respect. We are happy and prosperous. Men who were constantly drunk and disorderly, are now sober men. Money is more economically handled; men are more social; anti we have never had so many signs of business advancements before. Farmers are seeking profitable informatiom—-the improvements in dress and neatness in conveyances, and church attend ance, in newspaper subscriptions and buying books and religious periodicals. Men meet now and discuss matters of inmortance for advancement like broth ers in a friendly way. Sober men think soberly and act soberly. Vagran cy is decreasing. Our people are busier and. best of all, the Sabbath is becoming more really a rest day, is observed more and more, and personal resnonsibility is aroused. 1 am my brother’s keeper. I will no longer be a part of a machine that, makes drunkards and widows and orphans and demons and devils. We stand for prohibition, pure and simple; for moral and religious purity: for the relief of the unfortunate, the protect ion of the widow, the education of the orphan. The public sale of liquor as a beverage I believe to be the greatest impediment in the way of human progress. T. LifNl I IQTFQ'Q Rocky Mountain Tea Nuggels # A Busy Medicine for Busy People. Brings Golden Health and Renewed Vigor. A specific for Constipation. Indigestion, Liver nnd Kidney troubles. Pimples, Eczema, Impure niood. Bad Breath. Sluggish Bowels, Headache and Backache. Its Kocky Mountain Tea In tab let form. 3o cents a box. Genuine made by Hollisteh Drug Com pant. Madison, Wis. GOLDEN NUGGETS FOR SALLOW PEOPLE FOR Building and Plastering Lime, Coal, and Plaster Hair, Plaster Paris, Shingles, Portland Cement, Dynamite, Blasting Powder, Pane, and Dynamite Capa, call on LIESTONE SPRINGS LIME WORKS. CARROLL A CO., Laaseea. Telephone 87. For Sale. One 160 acre farm, 6 splendid land. 4 vacant lots, as pret ty building lots as you will find in Gaff ney, for $250 and $300 each. 2 vacant lots three blocks from Lime- stone street, for $100 ejfch. 3 nice houses and lots close in. r 1 hou-e and lot $325. (hints \\‘e will be glad to !-liow you any time. No obligation to buy. Roberison & Gullick. £ •rjear; Your Hi If'. I 'At.;. Corns Hurt? Come to our store for a bottle of Nyal’s Corn Cure* it’s a liquid prepa ration that we guarantee to remove corns, either soft or hard, without pain or danger. It costs only 15 cents and gives $15.00 worth of relief. Gaffney Company Prescription Druggists. Opposite Botli Hotels. ProtectYourself Or. S. H. Griffith, F HYSICAN - SURGEON - OCULIST. Former pupil of the celebra ted Oculist, Dr. Julian J. Chisolm, ot Baltimore. Has also taken special post-grad- uhIc course m the Eye, Bar, Nose and Throat Hospital of Baltimore. » Glasses Fitted Accurately and Scientifically. J* J* jt V& Office in Cherokee Drug Co., B’ldg. • • • Against loss by accident, sick ness, fire, storms, ‘and leave your family comfortably “fixed” when you die, by investing in an INSURANCE POLICY. I represent the best companies. • a • D. C. ROSS. The Bnilders Supply Co. Succesaora to L. Baker. Will furnish your Building Material .if the best that the markets afford and at the lowest living prices. No. 1 heart pine Shingles and Laths, Guar anteed Pure White Lead and Zinc, and Pure Linseed Oil. Nothing better to paint your house with and costs less than mixed paints. When In need of anything in the building line, call and see us; we’ll treat you cour teously and make yonr estimates for nothing. L. J3 a k: e 1% MANAGER. One Car Eaclt of Buggies anil Wagons We have just unloaded another car of Anchor Buggies and we ask you not to overlook the many good points the Anchor Buggy possesses overothers. We also have a car of Piedmont Wagons. You know them; they have been sold here more than 20 years. R. M. WILKINS HARDWARE CO. J i This space belongs to CAROLL A BYERS, The up-to-date merchants. riie C?hicago T^rpe'wrlter, is a candidate for your of fice. Fleet it!! AnHonest Machine at an Honest Price, (Rend this from “The Mouse- ho Boston. July ) “We have been using “THE CHICAGO" Typewriter and certainly find many tine points in this machine which are far in advance of the old styles. It has every aevun- tage of the old typ-wrlters and several essential points which cannot be found In any other.” VISIBLE Gold Medal Paris Kxposi- :: tion. $65.00 Saved in Price!!! Whew!! For information and to see the ma- CHAS. L. WALKER, National Bank of Gaffney, Gaffney. S. C. CHAS. H. CARLISLE, Agt., SPARTANBURG, - - S. 0. chine call on Aug. 22 3 mo. 5.10 AND 25 CENTS STORE Will open next door to J. I. Sarratt’s Saturday, September 9th, at 9 o’clock. Your presence on opening day is requested, and to emphasize this invitation we will give all visitors a chance to buy for 10c a framed picture that cannot ordinarily be bought for less than 25c. It is really wonderful what a few pennies will buy in our store, ; : : South adt t*5/’ rp.* V v.rr,