Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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J* CATARRH A UNIVERSAL DISEASE Catarrh usually begins with a cold in the head, but doea not stop there. Tin- mucous membranes all become inflamed and secrete a filthy, unhealthy matter which is absorbed by the blood and dis tributed to all parts of the body. The patient is then continually hawking and spitting, the nose is stopped up, the ears hare a ringing or buzring noise, the throat becomes sore, and as the un healthy matter more thoroughly satu rates the blood a general feeling of des pondency takes possession of theeystem. I had Catarrh for about fifteen years, and no man could have been worse. I tried everything: I could hear of, but no good resulted. I then began 8. 8. S., and could see a little improvement from the first bottle, and after taking it a short while was cured. This was six years ago, and 1 am as well today as any man. I thi.ik Catarrh is a blood dis ease, and know there is nothing on earth better for the blood than 8. 8. 8. he- toody thinks moro of S. S. 8. than I do. Lapeer, Mich. M. MATSON. Local applications cannot cure Catarrh, because they do not reach the seat of the trouble. They allay the inflammation and temporarily relieve the disease, but as soon as they are left off the trouble re turns. The only way to cure Catarrh is to treat it through the blood. S. S. S. soon clears the blood of all Catarrhal matter and purges it of all irritat'.ug poisons, ch cks further progress of the trouble ami com pletely cures the disease, t. ?. kec t h,e bhocximpei d u c e Catarrh. Nothing equals this great vegetable remedy in the cure of this disease. Write for our book and any medical advice you wish \\ c niu^e no charge for either. THE SWIFT SPECIFIC CO., Atlanta, Ga. IN THE FEVER BELT. Graphic Pen Pictures of Yellow Jack’s Territory. EXACTING QUARANTINE SYSTEM. PURELY VEGETABLE. f / 1 Correct Dress The “Modern Method'’ system of high-grade tailoring introduced by L. E. Hays & Co., of Cincinnati, O., satisfies good dressers everywhere. All Garments Made Strictly to Your Measure at moderate prices. 500 styles of foreign and domestic fabrics from which to choose. Represented by W. C. CARPENTER, Gaffney, S. C. The Builders Supply Go. Succeaaon to L. Baker, Will furnish your Building Material of 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 your estimates for nothing. X-/. Baker*, MANAGER. Dill You Ever Think what a bargain you are getting when you get THE LEDGER one hundred and three (103) times a year for Only Sl.00 a Year? Overworked KIDNEYS Mnrray'm Hnchn, (Jin and .luulp«r is prescribed and endorsed by emi nent physicians. It cures when all else fails. Prevents Kidney Disease, Dropsy, Bright's Disease,"etc. At all drug stores. SM.OO Wottle. or direct from The Murray Drug Co,,Columbia, S. Kodol Dyspepsia Cura Digests what you eat* FOirfSHONEY^TAR At One Point n Shipment of Carbolic Acid From New Orlean* "Warn Re turned, With ThnnUe—How a Drum mer From Fever Strielcen CHy Paid Deurl >' For h Joke. “A northerner can no mortu under stand the southern feelln; against yel low fever than he can comprehend the real southern Idea of the negro,” de clared a prominent Alabamian the oth er morning to a New Tt^rk Tribune special correspondent who had Just ar rived at Mobile, Ala., from New York ou his way to New Orleans. This statement was a prelude to a comprehensive defense of the quaran tines—shotgun and otherwise-estab lished by Alabama, Mississippi and outlying parishes of Louisiana against New Orleans, a quaiantiue so exact ing that at one point a shipment of c rbolic acid from the fever stricken city was returned with thanks. “We've had our doses of yellow jack, continued the southerner. ‘‘We've seen half the population of many a prosper ous place stricken down. Our ceme teries are full of gravestones made necessary by this yellow death—all this before the doctors worked out the mos quito theory. We know that under present methods of treatment the dis ease is not as deadly as it was, but we are taking no chances. Afraid of it? Certainly we are afraid of It, and not ashamed of being afraid, either.” Two cities of the south join in laugh ing at the fright and quarantine—New Orleans, where the epidemic stalled, and Atlanta, which insists on keeping Us gates open to all who care to come. New Orleans would be In a bad way if it were not for the liberal spirit of Atlanta. It would be impossible to get to any points in the north without put ting In fr an six to ten days in a hot detention camp In Mississippi or Ala bama if it was not possible to run tightly doscl cars through these states into Georgia. Itunning the shotgun gant'at in the through cars is bad enough in the semitropical weather which prevails, but the detention camps, according to all accounts, are infinitely worse. In traveling south the tlrst Indica lions one has that yellow fever is rag lug on the gulf is at Mount Arie, a summer j,e.sor^n Georgia, two hours’ run north of Atlanta. Here some 2o0 well known citizens of New Orient) 1 are waiting for frost or the govern ment surgeons to free their home city of fever. In and around Atlanta one finds between 4,000 and 5,(XX) refugees. The big hotels are filled to the roofs, and many have found boarding places in private families. Atlanta has never suffered a yellow fever epidemic. The health authorities of the city say that it would be Im possible for the disease to spread there and that any cases which might come from New Orleans—the trip takes but fourteen hours—could he handled with out danger to the rest of the popula tion. There have been several rumors that fever cases existed there. One persistent one of a few days ago placed the number of cases at twelve, and for a time even one of the doctors credited It. It proved to be false, and the Trib une correspondent In visiting Atlanta recently was assured that there was uot a case In the city. “We do not fear yellow fever In At lanta," said Mayor James G. Wood ward, “and we have no Idea of quaran tining New Orleans or any other city. If Infected persons come here and the fever develops we are prepared to give them the best possible treatment in a hospital that Is ready for use. There is not the slightest chance that the dis ease will spread.” Dr. (’. P. Wertenbaker, surgeon of the United States health and murine hos pital service, confirmed Mayor Wood ward’s statement that there was no fever In Atlanta. He was sent to that city from Havana to issue health cer- tlfl-ates, which are necessary to all who wish to travel In the south. After asking many questions and examining witnesses or documentary evidence Dr. Wertenbaker Issues a certificate that “the bearer has produced satisfactory evidence that ho has uot been In any territory Infected by yellow fever with in the last ten days.” As a means of identification the ap plicant presses his thumb on an Ink ing pad and then makes an impression on the certificate. Woo Is the portion of the man who uses his neighbor’s cer tificate and cannot show the proper thumb mark. Two well known Geor gians, one the brotlitr, the other the law partner, of members of the state legislature, started to Savannah the other day on passes which the poli ticians had secured from the railway company. They neglected to take out thumb mark certificates, and a Savan nah health officer put them off at Bur roughs, Ga., a station a few tulles away from Savannah. This made the mayor of Burroughs angry and fright ened his constituents. "Are we going to lie the dumping placo for yellow fe ver suspects?” they asked. The an swer was n shotgun quarantine against the world, Savannah included, and to day Burroughs Is a town which all who like may leave, but none may enter. Even those who are bound to New Or leans have to get certificates from Dr. Wertenbaker or be hauled off at the first detention camp. The correspond ent had to get one In spite of the fact that he was from New York and had never been In a yellow fever belt In his life. The applicant who followed him at die marine hospital office was a New Orleans business man. He came to Atlanta In fourteen hours to transact some business, which took him half a day. He wished to return to New Or leans, Its stegomyla and Its arsenic tablets. He was forced to stay In At lanta seven days until he could qualify for a certificate. All tickets out of Atlanta are mark ed on the back, "Subject to quarantine regulations,” and the train Is not half an hour out of the new Unlou station before a big man in a slouch hat, grim and determined looking, enters the car. From the lapel of his coat dangles a dirty yellow ribbon ou which Is print ed, “Alabama health officer.” Ills hand Is bandaged from a wound which, ho explains, he received In a scrap with a ”d stuck up Georgian who ’lowed he wouldn’t answer no questions.” "Where is the Georgian?” asked the correspondent. “We all is just detaining him down ‘he line a bit, and he sure Is nursing something worse than yeller fever." lie asked his questions, about n doz en of them, regarding the passenger's movements for the last ten days. He then reminded you that It was $500 fine and a year in prison If you lied to him and swore you on an invisible stack of Bibles. A drummer who came up from Now Orleans a few days iig » tried to heat his way Into an Alabama territory In which he had customers. "You been In the fever district in ten days?” drawled the health officer. "No. sir,” answered the drummer. "Let's see your order book," was the next denmud. lliis would have been a “giveaway." ; but the drummer’s wit came to the ros- I cue. ' "I sell steam engines,” ho said, "and | don't carry an order hook.” "You swear you ain’t been In Louisi ana in ten days?” demanded the official. “Never been there In my life,” an swered the drummer. The health officer passed ou. but be fore be was out of the car the drum mer. who was greatly tickled over bis feat of swearing, called to a friend: "Tbis quarantine Is a cinch. I was ! In New Orleans three days ago.” The health officer left the car, but returned by the front platform. With him was another rawboued Alabam ian. “So you all was In Orleans three days ago?" The drummer turned pale, but man aged to falter: “Oh, that was Just a Jolly! 1 was joking the boys.” “You'll find yeller fever a mighty poor thing to Joke about,” said the of ficer, and. turning to his companion, he added, “Bill, you get out your gun, and If this here feller moves you jus’ shoot him.” Bill pulled a 44 with as much ease ns one would take out a handkerchief. The drummer Kept' his seat. In three or four minutes a file of four of the shotgun guards marched In and car ried the drummer out. He was to be kept lu the local detention camp ten days under guard, and then probably the local Judge would fine him $100 for lying to a health officer. Only one train runs to New Orleans these days. It stops at ft point a little below Mobile, where the passengers are turned out of their Pullmans and put luto what the railway men call the •’skeeter” train because It runs back and forth over the four and one-half hour stretch between New Orleans and Mobile bay. For Sale JHiacre farm. $30.00per acre. 07 acre farm In Yorkvlllc$37.50 per acre. 823 acre farm $13.00 per acre \ 117 acre farm.$37.50 per acre ! 3 miles from AlKiut 2,000 cord of line tlmbr ( Uaffncy. 60 acre farm, $32.00 per acre ) 83 acre farm |I4 00 per acre > 6 miles from ) Gaffney. lit) acre farm, new 7 room house, \ 1*4 2 story, ham. poultry yard. etc. price f miles $4 000, 118 acre farm 00 acres In fine f from timber. $41.00 per acre’ ) Gaf'y 17*( acres $100.00 per acre. I2k acres Improved good house etc.. $1,200.00 in Gaffney. 25 acre farm 4‘/4 miles from Henrietta and Cliffslde, 22 aeresof it in tember. $10.50 per acre. HOUSES and LOTH. 8 room house and 6 acres in Blacksburg ii:«ic.oo. 3 room bouse nice lot $700.00. A 10 per cent, investment. ! 4 acres 3 blocks from depot $1,300.00. i I^)t 80x200, west end. $150.00. Lot 2(4 acres 4 mom house$1050 00. Lot 135 feet by 200, 3 blocks from depot, $725.00 Lot 2i»ix2nn. 4 hlocks frr m depot, $700 00. Fine 6 room house, newly finished near graded school. ,t line Houses and lots near depot. Prices reasonable. R. L. Parish. AAAAAAAAA AAA AAA AAA AAD ADA DAD DAD ADD A ADA AAA HADDAD DAD DAb DAD DAD ADD DAD J D. C. ROSS. President. J. A. CARROLL, Vice-Prest. MAYNARD SMYMH, Cashier. CHAS. W. HAMES, Asst. Cash. The National Bank of Gaffney | Graffne^ <3. 3 State, City and County Depository. ^ We shall endeavor to make it both agreeable and 3 profitable for you to do businessjwith us. 12 Dr. S. H. Griffith, PHYSICAN - SURGEON - OCULIST. Former pupil of the celebra ted Oculist, Dr. Julian J. Chisolm, ot Baltimore. Has also taken special post-grad uate course in the Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat Hospital of Baltimore Glasses Fitted Accurately and Scientifically. J* J* Office in Cherokee Drug Co., B’ldg. William Jefferies, R. M. Wilkins, Henry M. McAden, DIRECTORS: J. A. Carroll, B. L. Hamks, Maynard smyth, D. C. Ross. T. M. Littlejohn, W. C. Carpenter, C. W. Whisonant. liUiUiiiiiUUiiiiiUUiUiUlUSiUilUUiUiUiUiUiUiUiUiUl The Cherokee Cafe FOR Building and Plastering Lime, Coal, and Plaster Hair, Plaster Paris, Shingles, Portland Cement, Dynamite, Blasting Powder, Fuse, and Dynamite Caps, call on HflESTONE SPRINGS LIME WORKS. CARROlL & CO., Lessees. Telephone 67. 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. Subscribe for The! nlpr, Sl.OOayear EFFECT OF A PROPHECY. Fainlllt-n Leave Marlon, Ind., Be en u m e n Woman Predicted Dlaanter. HuudredH of families are leaving Marlon, Ind., on account of a predic tion by Mrs. Viola Pownell that the city Is soon to be visited by a disaster, the full extent of which she does uot know or exactly In what form It is to come, says the St. Louis Globe-Demo crat. Some time ago, however, she prophesied that all evil places would bo uprooted and that much of the worst element of the city would be scattered. Since that time forty of the 108 saloons and all Uie pool rooms have been closed and all gamblers have been run out of the place. The fulfillment of this prediction has been so remark able that there Is implicit reliance in what she says, and many are fleeing from the wrath to come. “I do uot know In what form this Judgment will come, nor at exactly what time,” she said recently, "but I have seen the signs In the heavens lu the form of stars that shone like elec tric lights, and the day of the visitation Is not far off. People should prepare themselves now.” Never Heard of Howella. An amusing little incident was re cently related to William Deau How ells, says Harper’s Literary Gossip. It seems that a render of many novels from the west went Into a New York bookstore and asked a bright looking clerk for Howells’ last book. “Y’es, we have It,” replied the clerk and handed the customer a book by II. G. Wells. •’No,” said the westerner, "not Wells— Howells—W. D. Howells.” The clerk looked nonplused and going to the back of the store conferred with an other Intelligent looking spectacled clerk. Both were apparently at a loss, and the second young man came for ward and said, "Will you please tell me If he has ever written any other books?” "About sixty,” retorted the westerner, and, with a sad smile for the passing of the bookshop, ho depart ed to seek "Miss Bella's Inspiration” In the better Informed department store. If You Have Something to Sell Make it Known Through The Ledger If You Want Something Put Your “Wani" Ad. in The Ledger If You WantNicely Printed Stationery Let The Ledger Do Your Work If You Want the Latest Local and Foreign News _ Subscribe For The Ledger The Ledger always gives you the worth of your money in every instance. Chamberlain’^ Cough Remedy Aids Nature. Medicines that aid nature are al ways most effectual. Chamberlain’s Cough Romedv acts on this plan. It allays the cough, relieves the lungs, aids expectoration, opens the secre tions, and aids nature In restoring the svstem to a healthy condition. Sold by Cherokee Drug Co. I To Cure a Cold in One Day I Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets, £ 1 Seven MDBon boxes sold fat post 12 months. This Signature, Cures Grip In Two Days. on every box. 25c. Subscribe for The Ledger, 11.00 a year. Cures Biliousness, Sick Headache, Sour Stom ach, Torpid Liver and Chronic Pleasant GRIND Cleanses the system thoroughly and clears sallow complexions of ic Constipation. I p! m pl es an£ ^ blotches. sant to taKe 14X311YC 01111 UjiVy It is guaranteed For Sale by Cherokee Drug Co. For Salt by Chorokeo Drug Co. For Salo by Cherokoo Drug Co.