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\ \ / i SWIFT S + t* '■ ■■>+&> COMPANY, CHICAGO. / — This welll known firm of slaughterers and packers now have their products on sale here. HAMS, LARD, DRY SALT MEATS, FAT BACKS, SAUSAGE, ETC. A carload of their meats to be in this week. CARROLL WHOLESALE DISTRIBUTING AGENTS, BYERS, GAFFNEY, SOUTH CAROLINA, THE WAR J Between Japan and Russia is over, hut YOUR daily struggles continue. Provide for a rainy day by starting a bank account NOW. We Pay Four Per Cent. Interest Compounded quarterly, in our SAVINGS DEPARTMENT. Capital,surplus and profits $90,1)00.00. Merchants & Planters Bank. A. N. Wood, President, R. R. Brown, Vice-Prest. C. M. Smith, Cashier. Fire Insurance and Bonds Written. WORDS ALL RIGHT ACTIONS BETTER. DEEDS COUNT FOR MUCH MORE THAN TALK. Before Making More Federal Laws it is Thought That Roosevelt Should Enforce Ones Already in Effect. Washington, D. C., Sept. 6.—Presi- I MM, hr New Goods Arriving Daily Our buyers now in the markets, sending us bargains by the car loads. Don’tfail to get your share. CARROLL & BYERS. FARMERS MUTUAL INSURANCE ASSUCIATIUN, OF CHEROKEE COUNTY, 5. C. This’Association was organized March 22nd, 1898. with only 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 whichjwere 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 ist, 1905 127,154 00 Total Insurance in^force August ist, 1905 $317,934 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 1,166 74 Amount cash on hand August ASt, 1905 820 47 Total $4,353 46 This Company is purely assessment, therefore purely co-operative and mutual, and insures against loss of property by fire, lightning, cyclones, tornadoes or wind storms. It gives protection at actual cost, It complies strictly with its contracts. 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 VTie Pliiogitro TT^rpe’writer, ^30, is a candidate for your of fice. Elect it!! AnHonest Machine at an Honest Price, (Read this from “The House hold.” Boston, July 1900:—) “We hare been using “THE CHICAGO" Typewriter nnd certainly find many fine points In this machine which are far In advance of the old styles. It has every at van tage of the old typewriters and several essential points which cannot be found in any other.” VISIBLE WRITIN6 Gold Medal Paris Exposi- :: tion. CHAS. H. CARLISLE, Agb, $65.00 Saved in Price 11! Whew 11 SPAUTANBlIRG. - - 8.0. For Information and to see the ma chine call on - CHAS. L. WALKER, National Bank .of Gaffney, Gaffney, S. C. Aug. 22 2 mo. Subscribe for The Ledger, 11.00 a year dent Roosevelt’s belief In the efficacy of law to ameliorate all sorts of con ditions under which the people suffer has just had another exemplification. I refer to his recent announcement after conferring with officials of the Prudential Life and Mutual Life In surance companies, that he proposes to place the supervision of tht life insurance business in the hands of the bureau of corporations of the de partment of commerce and labor, by a new law. Great Scott! Are there not enough laws on the statute books now that the chief executive doesn’t take the trouble to enforce? I am not alone in thinking that before Mr. Roosevelt asks for any more authority he better enforce a few of the laws now on the statute books. Words are mighty good things as evidence of intent, but a little action wouldn’t be amiss. Words need to be backed up by deeds before they are effective. Just now we are having evidence of the utter lack of effectiveness of Fed era! control of quarantine. In many States that control has been such an utter failure that the States have tak en the supervision of such matters in their own hands, and trust to State health officers rather than United States. Farmers know very well that Federal supervision of the cattle bus iness has failed almost completely to stamp out those diseases that laws were passed to prevent. State offi cials have stepped in and made State laws effective. No better evidence of the utter uselessness of Federal law couhV be cited than the accident to the stearp- boat “General Slocum,” when hun dreds were killed in New York har bor because of the neglect or worse of the inspectors who passed life pre servers that were life destroyers in stead of preservers. No one has ev er been sufficiently punished for the criminal negligence that resulted in all those deaths. It’s one of the most shameful scandals in the history of this country. Federal supervision did not supervise at all in that case, and the evidence that graft took its place was overwhelming. Federally supervised banks gire failing eivery month—almost every week, yet you can count on your fing ers and toes all the officers and di rectors of these institutions, who robbed depositors, who are doing time in State prisons, where the whole bunch of them, without ex-' ception, rightfully belong. When State bank officials do the wrong thing and fleece depositors and stock- bolders some Democratic official like District Attorney Jerome, of New York, gets after them and sends a bunch of them to Sing Sing. Politi cal pull don’t save thtm, but political pull seems to have been effective in i he case of the Federal bank officers. It strikes me that before Teddy asks :’or any more laws to control insur ance companies or railroads or cor porations, it would be a mighty good thing for him to see that the existing statutes, which are ample to punish every offender against any of our aws, art enforced. Deeds count for much more than talk, no matter how goody-goody or moral that talk may be. How does t hit you? • • • It is rather amusing to watch the Republican booms and boomlets for the next Republican presidential ri'm- ination. Nearly every one of the leading Republicans In the country has up his lightning rod and is out doing the Ajax act. The most actfve of all of them seems to be the elon gated vice-president, Mr. Fairbanks He has been noted hitherto for his frozen front and altogether frapped manner, but he has thawed out won derfully this summer and has been cultivating the genial handshake al over the country. He thinks he has a chance, but there is a man named Beveridge in Indiana who has anoth er thought, and the chances are that Fairbanks will not be able to land solid delegation from his own Stat£ President Roosevelt has been accuset of fostering the booms of several members of his cabinet, but the truth is that probably he has done nothing of the kind. If he has then he has changed his mind oftener than a wo man concerning the proper map to become his residuary legatee. It was first thought he favored Shaw, of the treasury, then Taft, and now it ^eems to be Root that is the favorite of the strenuous Teddy. The chances are that he has about as much as he can attend to at the present with the peace business on his hands, without bothering about presidential booms About the only real and genuine boom for the Republican nomination that has shown any signs of panning out pay dirt is that of Senator Joseph Foraker, of Ohio. It seems that the Herrick-Dick-Cox combination was compelled to call for Foraker to come fight over there this fall for the gov- over there this fall for the gov ernorshlp, after having snubbed him at the recent State convention. Sen ator Foraker knows a hawk from a bandsaw, and saw the chance to make a deal with this combination that would insure him the solid Ohio del egation in the next Republican con vention and he has won out. He has agreed to go into the State and stump it from one end to the other and, as it is about the only thing that could save the Republican ticket there this fall, he was in position to make any kind of terms he wanted and the gen ial and brainy senator is not over looking any such bets as that. If you think so you do not know the man. He has the strongest following of any man in his State because he has always been loyal to his friends. He knows his power and is going to use it for all it is worth. With the combination against him they might have kept him out of the solid State delegation, but when they have to get down on their linker bones and beg him to save their bacon he has got them where the wool is tight. So far as I am concerned, of course, I have no particular choice in presi dential nominees of the Republican brand, but to tell the truth I would rather see any other man than For aker nominated. Why? Simply be cause he would be the hardest man for us to beat. He has got more brains, more statesmanship than all the others now prominently mention ed as possibilities and comes nearer being presidential size than any of them. This is the simple truth and if he should receive the Republican nomination we would discover it to our sorrow. We have troubles enough of our own without bothering about Republican chances, but it is inter esting to look at things as they de velop in the camp of the political enemy here the same as it is in our own. I will have more to say of Foraker and the others in the future. The people have the right to know them as well as I, and I can only tell them the truth as I see it at short range. Chas. A. Edwards. More Than Three Car Loads of I Furniture and Stoves Received recently, and we are better equipped than ever to supply you the right goods at right prices. We handle the best Furniture and Stoves to be had and sell at bottom prices, for cash or installments. We can give you a bar gain in some handsome Folding Beds which we must sell at once to make room for another big shipment of Iron Beds and Reed Rockers. Wants E. H. Aull for Governor. (Laurensville Herald.) While on this subject we want to say that we would be glad to see Elbert H. Aull, our State president, in the race for governor. His views suit us, and he'd make a good one— Bamberg Herald. If it could be left to the membershin of the South Carolina State Press Association. Col. Aull would be unan imously elected to any office within the gift of the people to which he might aspire. But we believe he will be satisfied this time to be the next Secretary of State. Shuford & LeMaster. • • • ^ • • • • :-v: ~ — — —-J - *.*.*_• * • aTaT* mTA v The FOR Building and Plastering Lima, Coal, and Plaster Hair, Plaster Paris, Shingles, Portland Cement, Dynamite, Blasting Powder, Fuse, and Dynamite Capa, call on LIMESTONE SPRINGS LIME YORKS. CARROLL A CO, Telephone 57. Amount Crows quickly after the first[de- posit. Before the account was opened money was spent without thought. Now it is senjl to the The Gaffney Savings Bank where it draws interest at the rate of Four Per Cent- Money deposited here cannot be taken by thieves or de stroyed by fire. Our modern vaults will resist both. **z*t*- Zj&r The Gaffney Savings Bank Pays Four Per Cent. Interest on all Deposits. Office in The National Bank of Gaffney. a M-M m a m-A-A. A. + A + a a a + m. m. + a.a.a + mJ One Gar Each of Buggies and Waguns Advertising i* called by some an art. If it be an art it is the art of telling a story simply and •convincingly. Nobody knows more about the strong qualities of an establishment than the proprietor who oversees it. Other things being equal,' nobody should be ab.’.e to write more convinc ingly of the articles be of fers for sale. In a (ton where the employer eclla goods side by side with his clerks it is rare that tba employes will not bs the best salesman. The reason issimple. He knows the goods from A to Z. He probably has pur chased them. He knows his aims. His arguments carry weight because they are convincing. The same arguments pre sented in the same way, with the same enthusiastic spirit, the same knowledge of detail, would attract new customers if presented through the advertising col umns of this paper. If yon have not triad it, why not begin? If von have tried it and an Ml nSa- iaA, lal m know aboat tt. We have just unloaded another car of Anchor Buggies and we ask you not to overlook the many good points the Anchor Buggy possesses over others. 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. The Cherokee Cafe Is the new place opened up at 110 Fred erick St., where you cau be served with Meals, Lunches, Soda Water, Ice Oenm, Etc., both day and night to white and colored alike. In the rear of Merchant and Planters Bank. : : : 1 Little & Doughtery, Prop's. ~**i-»**4. .J«r* *’J