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* THE LEDGER. Tuesday and Friday, ‘d. H. DeCamp, Editor and Publisher, J. Brian Bell, News Editor. AN INDIRECT TAX. Some one introduced a Mil in the House at the last session of the legis lature which proposes to levy a tax of 2 per cent, upon premiums of in surance companies doing business in towns with fire departments having an apparatus worth $1,000, etc., and the amount derived from such tax shall be used as a fund for the relief of any members of the fire depart ment of such cities or towns who may be injured or disabled, and for the relief of, or payment of gratuities to widows or those dependent uoon any mfi nber of such fire department who may be killed, for t<he payment of necessary funeral ex pens as of any member of such fire departmnt, or for the purchase of accident insur ance upon the members of such fire department, and for superanuated and disabled firemen, etc. The insurance companies claim this bill should be signed by the governor. If is likely tl^at in several of the citie/s and towns affected by if; tfne companies will feel bound to raise tlhe rates so as to realize the taxes, as the present rates are as low' as thev can afford to maintain exis ting taxation, and any increase in taxation would mean 1 necessarily an increase in rates. Thus the burden of maintaining this inforced and supposed charity would fall indirectly and entirely up on merchants, manufacturers and others, the nature of whose business compefls them to seek tin* protection of insurance. It will thus be seen that the ob ject of the author of the bill will be defeated, and that, after all, the poli cy holders will be made to bear a burden that was intended to be im posed upon ther insurance companies. For this reason it is to be hoped that the governor will vote the bill, be cause taxes and insurance rates in South Carolina are just about as high as the most of us want th^m to be. tage of a good name than that of an .dent of cotton. That is the end to evil one' ' which our agricultural efforts should a . . be directed most earnestly just now. As we have said on many occasions, It seems that the poor old Confed- when the Southffrn planter is abso- erate veterans have received no ofl-j finely independent of his cotton crop cial invitation from any city in the cotton^will be king In fact as well as State to hold their annua^ reunion. !in name - Its a shame. These self-sacrificing j heroes of a “Lost Cause” should not be neglected in such a manner. We should not tire of these old veterans A Sad Guess. (Denver Post.) “Yes,” said the barber, as he combed the man’s hair, “I can usually tell . ., . , , „ about what a man’s business is by no- but should esteem it a pleasure and a j t j cin g ^j 3 head. The bumps tell me. duty to entertain them once a year. | It . s a sort 0 f phrenolos'v. I guess. Oh, They are not to be with us a great'l ain’t claiming to be a phrenologist, while longer and its the duty of the present generation to see that „heir last days are made their best days. Let Charleston, Columbia, Greenville, Spartanburg or some of the more pre tentious cities get busy and do what but still, I guess I am a kind of one. A man bet me the price of a haircut, shave and shampoo the other day that 1 couldn’t tell his business in three guesses. I guessed “cattleman’ the first time. He said that was wrong, so I said ‘sheep-raiser.’ That time I , , , . hit it. That bet cost him 90 cents, can he done to repair this apparent, ttr p r ^ guessing my business,” sug but, we are quite sure, unintentional fr e3 ted the man in the chair. slight. • • NOTES AND COMMENTS. We haven’t said anything about it so far. therefore, it may appelar stale to some of our readers but Miss Alice Roosevelt, the eldest daughter of the president, was married last Saturday a week ago to Congressman Nicholas Longworth. * * * Johann Hock was hanged in Chica go last week. This is the gentleman who married thirteen women and who was convicted of poisoning one in order that he might get her money. The circumstancial evidence was that he had poisined others, but one con- vicition was enough. « A good friend sends us a private letter in which he takes occasion to say: "And you help lighten the load.” Ah. we wonder if he ever thinks about how his kind words help to lighten the load? Kind words do more to help lighten the load than anything else. They cost nothing, therefore, scatter them broad cast. 9mm The Manning Times heads an edi torial "Tillman wants justice and he should get it.” Tins is rather sug gestive. coming from “My Dear Ap- pelt,” but we have no hesitency in saying that should the senator get justice on the dispansary subject it will be necessary for him to visit a warmer clime than this will be even next summer when he proposes to take the stump for the dispensary. * * • iOur good brother of the> Ledger says, “let Mr. Hardin frame a bill, that will meet all the requirements.” refering to our public roads. Now it is up to all tax payers to vote, as it were, Miair ideas on the roal ques tion and not Mr. Hardin’s alone. Doubtless Mr. Hardin could easily draft a bill , which would meet with universal approbation and so could others, but that will not bh consi ler- ed an answer yet, to Mr. Hardin’s let ter of last week. We certainly agree with him in saying that under the prsemt conditions and with same laws under which we work, that addition al taxation would not be a satisfac tory solution of this problem. When a farmer goes to the county seat to pay his taxes and sees the enormous expenditure of money lying idle trapped up in the cumbersome steel and iron in the form of road machin ery and which has been rusting un used for twelve months or more, with this staring him in the face, would he ever be willing to pay any more tax, to fatten the pockets of mjichine corporations and satisfy the whims and extravagances of a few officials? Oh, no: he would say at once, let’s see them use what they have, and after we see some benefit, then we will talk about an increase in our road tax.—Blacksburg Chronicle. The Ledger is not going to lock horns with The Chronicle or anyone else on the question of road building. We are agreed on the machinery question. What we want is to devise some means to keep that machinery at work. Our preselnt income for road purposes is insufficient to keep the machinery at work and we be lieve the merchants an/d property owners of Gaffney are willing to tax themselves for the purpose of help ing build good roads for tha farmers, believeing that by so doing they will reap an indirect benefit. Brother Pfeifer is too well informed not to know that good roads are a benefit to a town as well as the neople of the country. The barber looked in the other’s face, then he felt the bumps on his customer’s head. “Well.” he t said, “you’re a preacher, I’d say. “Wonderful!” came from the custo mer. The barber smiled. “I knew I could guess it ” he said. When the customer left the shop a few minutes later he was touched on the arm by a man who has been in the next chair. “Pardon me.” said the other, “but how do you account for that barber’s guess?” “Oh, it was just a guess, and a bad one at that.’ said the man accosted. “Bad one?” “Yes, I’m a Cheyenne saloonkeep er.” The other showed surprise. “But,” he said, “you said ‘Wonderful’ when ha called you a preacher. “Well, *it is wonderful what a chump a man can be when he tries.” How She Would Save Juliet. (Boston Herald.) Mrs. Drinkwater, wife of the gen ial colonel, spent some weeks last summer in nothern Maine at the comfortable farmhouse of an honest widow, Mrs. Brand, who adds to her income by keeping summer board ers. Recently Mrs. Brand made her first visit to Boston, an while there met Mrs. Drinkw'ater, who took her to see Julia Marlowe in “Romeo and Juliet.” Mrs. Brand had never be fore been to a theatre. “Cairin meet- in’ ” had been#her wi.dest dissipa tion. Mrs. Drinkwater’s interest was equally divided betwen her com^n- ion and the stage. When they left the theatre Mrs. Brand was silent. Her usual volubility had 'mite de serted her. Mrs. Drinkwater respect ed her silence and said nothing un til they were well*on their homeward way. At last she ventured to ask: “How did you like it, Mrs. Brand?” Mrs. Brand turned towards her, and the tears started to her eves, as she said: “Oh, Mrs. Drinkwater, I couldn’t help thinking how differ ent that play might have ended if the nuss had be^n a different kind of woman and had pointed Juliet to Jesus.” ANOTHER CORN METHOD. The Plain of Cultivation Pursued by a Camden Farmer. (B. M. Hudson in Columbia State.) 1 have been requested by farmers from different parts of the State to give my method of working corn in detail, and take this method of reply ing to all. I would consider it a great plqasure to be of some benefit to mv fellow farmers, and don’t know of a subject that would be of more inter est to the public, There is no ques tion but that the South would have millions now that she does not pos- sa-is, if every farmer would make his own corn, of the South’s corn to run the South. First, break your land with a two- horse plow. As this is impossible for one-horse farmers, we will suppose the land to be thus prepared: Run off your rows five feet; bed out six furrows to the row, with a six-inch turn-plow. After the 20th of March, if the ground is dry enough, if not, as soon as possible, run a five or six- inch shovel plow in water furrow; run your planter or drop by hand, two feet in the drill. You will get a bet ter stand of corn planted shallow, not over one inch deep for March planting. Cover with a 16-incn board, or run board behind planter to make a widet space for the first plowing. While corn is little, or as soon as you finish planting cotton, which is about the 2dth of April, run two furrows with a turn-lplow, throwing the dirt from the corn. Let stand a week and run two more furrows, letting the dirt roll to the corn from the bar side, which will throw up a high mid dle, and leave com low in water fur row. My method is not to injure or turn corn yellow, ti> “dwarf” stalk, but keep it from gnfwing by keeping dirt from it. About the loth of May side up Columbus Policeman Being Tried For Killing Kirksey. Columbus, Ga., Feb. 14.—A. J. Buch anan, until recently a patrolman on the Columbus police force, has been placed on trial in Muscogee superior court, charged with murder, and all day long the legal battle which is to determine whether he shall live or die has been waging. A few weeks ago Buchanan shot to death Morgan Kirksey, claiming that the latter had been trying to ruin hb home. Kirksey had been boarding at his residence on North Highlands, and Buchanan ordered him to leave the residence and never return. He returned there two or three days later, and Buchanan, who was at home at the time, shot him to death. In the trial Buchanan was represent ed by Attorney T. T. Miller, while Attorney A. A. Carson has been as sisting Solicitor Gilbert in the prose cution. The state contended that the killing of Kirksey was not warranted by the circumstances. The police force of the city raised a fund and helped defray the expenses rf the trial. The evidence is all in In the Buchan an case, and it will go to the jury. a five-inch shovel-plow in ton of the bed. which will clean the row. Let it stand about two weeks, or till the 1st of June, and put in all fertilizer to be used, except about 200 poudns cotton seed meal or 100 pounds soda. Sow fertilizer in side furrows, both sides if you use) over 200 pounds per acre, and throw two furrows to the row, one on each side with a turn-plow. Let stand a week and plow out mid dles two more furrows, which will al most dirt corn again. Now comes the time when you want it to grow, and it will, just as soon as you work the dirt to it. This leaves the land almost level, with a little sink at the corn. Now you should work every week, or 10 days at the least. Next chop holes Sportsmen's Show Opens. New York, Feb. 21.—The motor- boat and sportsmen’s show in Madison Square Garden opened Tuesday night and will continue for fifteen days. State Attorney General Mayer made the opening address. A huge indoor lake, whose outer watercourse meas ures ten laps to the mile, will be run. Casting contests, a feature last year, will not be held during the pres ent show. Hungary’s Chess Champion Arrives. New York, Feb. 21.—Hungary’s chess champion, Mr. Geza Maroczy, has arrived here on the steamer Amer- ca from Hamburg. He seeks a chess match for the world’s champion ship, but is not prepared to discuss details until he hss had a personal interview with Dr. Lasker, the world’s champion, who though out west at the present time, is now a resident of this city. Handcuffed Pair Parade Streets. Chattanooga, Tenn., Feb. 14.—A shackled pair, one of them A. W. Mar tin, of Spring Place, Ga., and the other W. H. Barnes, the former’s prisoner by mutual consent, walked through the streets of the city folowed by curious crowds. They were fastened to each other by a section of trace chain and r .r name,. In addition, wore a pair of Printers Strike on Tom Watson. New York, Feb. 14.—Tom Watson’s Magazine for February was issued on Tuesday, about a month behind time. The delay was caused by the print ers’ strike. Watson had the worlt done by a firm whose men went out with others to enforce the new scale. The price of the magazine has been raised from 10 to 15 cents. handcuffs. Martin had gone to Mount Pleasant, 111., after Barnes whom he accused of stealing a horse and buggy. He had no warrant and no indictment had been found, but the wanted man agreed to come back. The odd pair took a street car to Rossvllle, on the Georgia line. Driver Dropped Dead. Macon, Ga., Feb. 14.—Henry Single- ton, a driver for Superintendent John Callaway, of the street force, dropped dead as he was on his way to work. He fell and expired before assistance could be rendered. An inquest held by Coroner Young revealed that the rupture of a blood vessel caused his death. Each One Was Fined. Richmond, Ind., Feb. 14.—Edgar M. Porter, of Liberty, Ind., accompanied by Mrs. Edna Smith, came he v e from Cincinnati and was arrested and jailed. In police court it was shown that ■both are married, Porter having do- Tobacco Growers Confer. Clarksville, Tenn., Feb. 14.—Several members of the Dark Tobacco Grow ers’ association have left here for Lynchburg, Va., where they will con fer with tobacco planters from various parts of Virginia with a view to amal gamating the Tennessee, Viirginia and Kentucky assoclationa. serted his wife and children. Mrs between every stalk of corn, Smith formerly resided here, but re drop peas; side both sides with 12 inch sweep, just as flat and shallow as j>ossIble. This will meet dirt in mddle of the row and kill all gras«. Let It stand a week longer and run a 4-Inch shovel plow in the center of every middle. Sow your other meal or soda. I wyuld not advise using any othef fertilizer, as it is not quick enough; and not over 200 pounds of cently has been living in Cincinnati. Porter was fined $10 and sent to jail for three months. Mrs. Smith was fined the seme sum and sent to jail for two months. Will Oppose Congressman Wiley. Montgomery, Ala., Feb. 21.—Thomas J. Hall, of this city, a member of the legislature, has announced his candi dacy for congress against Congress man A. A. Wiley. Mr. Lever’s Dairy Bill. (Charleston News and Courier.) We called attention a few days since to the efforts Representatives Lever and Ellerbe were making to further the agricultural interests of South Carolina by having establish ed in this State model farms where diversification in crops 'would be practiced and taught. We said then, and repeat now, that our Congress men could not be better employed than in such endeavors. It is gratl fying, therefore, to commend a bill which was introduced in the House on January 20 by Representative Le ver, and referred to the committee on agriculture. The bill is entitled “a bill to further promote the dairy industry of the United States,” and its text is as follows: “Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Uni ted States of America in Congress assembled. That the sum of twenty thousand dollars, or so much as may be necessary, be, and the same is hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appro priated. to enable the Secretary of Agriculture to further dairy industry of the United States and that the Secretary of Agricul ture be authorized to extend this sum. through the dairy division of the department of agriculture, in po- Father’s Forgotten Classics. (Answers.) John was home from college for the Christmas holidays, and one of tlie things that struck the impres sionable youn" man was that Dora Mason, the daughter of a near neigh bor. had during Iris absence changed from a tomboyish schoolgirl into a very beautiful young woman. His father has also noticed it. “Have ye noticed how old Joe Ma son’s daughter’s s^ot up, John?” he asked his son. “Seems to me she’s getting quite a handsome critter!” “Father,” said John enthusiastic ally, “she is as beautiful as Hebe!” “She’s a jolly sight purtier than he be!” objected the old man. “Where’s your eyes, boy? Joe’s got a face like an old barn door! It’s her mother she gets her looks from!” A Happy Thought. (Harper’s Weekly.) There is a very pretty girl in Syra cuse who, with the best of moHves and most kind intent, is generally, as she herself expresses it, “in a mess. 1 To a chum she recently said: “I seem to have offended Mr. De Lancey, and I can’t imagine how. I promote the! -p n t him a little token on his birth day. and he acknowledged it in the collest manner” “What did you ,send?” the friend inquired. “Well,” she explained, “I wanted Acts Queerly. New Albany Ind.. ^eb. 14.—George meaTor 100 pounds 'of" soda ^rthe| bright, who claims Cincinnati as his crop will not take up more than that 1 home, is in iai' here on a charge of much in four or five wee/ks. This last insanity. The man, who was aqting application is make to the corn. not| in a strange manner, was taken into the stalk. Drop your peas every two f custodv bv the police, and will be feet in this furrow, and cover by run-* belf1 Hntn bfs r „ e oar , bfl , nvpstif?ated . ning two furrows, one on each side . , „ , . of the centre furrow. This ends the! ]' is Sieved * ^ l’” escaped from an plowing and corn will stay greefi to insane asylum. He can give little the bottom till the fodder ripens. It information ennoerning htmself. Mr. Hoch’s Petition Denied. Springfield, 111., Feb. 21.—Gov. Den- een, acting on the recommendation of the state board of pardons, has denied Johann Hoch’s petition for commuta tion of sentence to imprisonment DR. J. F. DEN Moved to new street. .Fro ’Phone in Office a ARRETT, iST. ' over Frederick Battery. Residence. of The Wright armnars *o bo about ?>S years of age. Ho is tall and slender and is a*t'rod in t*'o garb of a laboring man. is impossible for corn that has a quick growth in May, to stay ereen the last of Junet and in July, and if it “fires” in June it is impossible to make a good crop. « I give this method for the small as Information ..oucht of Secretary, well as the large planter, poor as well Washington. Hob. 11.—The house has as rich planter; and let al) use fertili-' adopted a resolution Inquiring of tbn zers as they see fit. This plan Is best 1 secretary of the fea^ury when the if vou hope to make only 10 or government executed a deed for the ol ro?/ 161 ? Iro, ^ lan<1 Wit S ; custom house pronertv in New York little fertilizer; it is better on good, A , land, with $10 or $12 per acre, if you’ to the Nat!o n al rit >’ ba » k : where the wish to make 75 or a 100 bushels per 1 deed is and in whose custody it hr acre. In fact, it is absolutely sure,i been sir^e its execution and why it let it rain etvery few days or not rain! has never been recorded. in a month. | I have tried to make this as plain as possible so that all can know my way of working corn the gx-eatest blessing to Southern farmers. Oamden. S. C„ Feb. 20, 1900. UmbreMa Point Stuck In Eye. Augusta. Ga., Feb. 14.—Everett Bar rett, a 15-vear-old bov, has been brought here from Langley to be treat ed for rather a peculiar accident. He and Little Hazel Dalzell were playing when the latter stuck the end of an what a bargain yo 1 1 are getting when you get THE LEDGER ’ / one hundred ahd three (103) times a Vear for V Only $1.00 a Year? Congressman Lever has introduced a bill in the House of Representatives of the United States “to promote the dairy industry of the United States.” i plan is to have the! Depantment of Upon its face i - looks like an effort! Agriculture station one of Us dairy operation with individual dairymen! i-, give something that would have and State experiment stations inj mo connection with his lovely such States as in his discretion are ve*. V ou know, and by what was most in need of such txelp.” i an in«uiration 1 thought of a In advocacy of this measure Re pro rhvming dictionary.” sentative Lever has said: “The| L«** J stice be Done. (Ghcmlott,, observer.) ... .Experts in each of the Southern Georg© Hastv. who. on December to add anotuei teat to the i > c ‘St a t e3 ( j u tiy () f t i,i s expert will i", last shot and fatally Injured two treasury in order that the pap suck-i j,* to furnish individual dairymen -r-pinbe'O of ?, theatrical company in urs may gat some of the cream that j with expert information as to the bo o • e bote! of whfch he was one of the flows from the national storehouse of' methods of dairying. He will teach r -oprietor ,, °t Gaffney. S. C.. will be .r.,.,- tiv 11 if the farmer how to select his herd rheetf or trial Monday next. It is cm ency Well, if the South can get |wjth a view to K( , ttiuK t he best re-Vid that the ’dec of the defendant hold of the teat it is all right and' wej su jj g; be w iu s how him how to buiU j ] be self-defense, and indeed this will welcome tho new law. for the silos and barns, and hd wi'l t -ach would seem to be the only course good Lord knows we give more to him the best methods of crop rota- . t . him. It is to be honed that the government and receive | t lo n m ordw to get. the most forage tor his cattle. from it man any other part of the' j t j 3 understood that the expert country. In another column we give will also hold farmers’ institutes the bill with comments from the from time to time to encourage the Charleston News and Courier. j industry, and '«> spread as widely ; as possible the information at hi dis- he laws of South Carolina will be ' oro justly administered in th s case ban they have in similar ones in ©cent years. 1 Yes, You Can (By C. McFarland. Marion, O.) ” ’ ' j posal. Mr. Lever says his measure ‘toi d your cotton! Hold your cotton! John A. McCall, the insurance has bfvn endorsed by “nearly everv Future’s outlook’s bright and fair SM-ark died th<A othdr dav leaving a leading dairymen in the South,” and You must deal with m-m of business, , a ^ f he feels convinced that if his meas- Who vour profits more than share cloud upon his name. John B. Stet- m . e pa8s ^ tho HongK . and thf . Senate. When they can. .son. Philadelphia hat king, died this section of the/ country will de- the sun athwart the heavens about the same time. He had also rive much benefit from it j How its light gleams everywhere; acquired his millions but he had ac- This ls an °l jinl<m which wei-v, that light be faithful working quire,1 it honestly. Thus two men h f art51 >’, oonfU! ' lT Ff > r ^ profits you should share. abiC mat so-*** sv^ti*.auc e.torc Anri you can. who have figured in the affairs of the ' c . 1 •' U'r !?>v. Many you have been swindled, world go out—one branded as a industry in this and otner Southern' Do not stop to count them now. shark the other as an honest man— Statete. Dairy products may become But this time hold to your cotton. but the world didn’t stop a moment- a aourc . e of wea,t * l \S° uth Molina. Up to-Date has told you how. „ . a . . ... rhere is no sufficeut reason why s 0 you can. on account of the departure of either.| jVerT cotton plantation should not When a buyer talks about it. Did you ever stop to think of what have an intelligently conducted dairy bud bis offer makes you swear, little concern you are in this world?, attachment. Even should the ultnt- Tell him 15 cents buys ,your cotton. A Truthful Editor, (From the Gaylord, Kans., Sentinel.) This is the first instance in sevex^al, umbrella In the former’s right eve. '•ears of newspaper work chat the ... writer has dared to tell the truth about! J he sI * ht Y” 1 be »°*t and the a wedding for fear of getting licked.! face 8omew hat scarred. and does so now with a keen relish. | The groom is an editor, and Is not a Purchase Interest in Belle Meade, popular and accomplished leader of Nashville Tenn Feb 14-r-J T Har- society; in fact, he doesn’t know- as iah p res i dont F’sh. J. T. Welling much about it as a rabbit. His hair , , . r,- ,, n # ,„f is red and the freckles on his face jn t d J ' M D ‘ f ' ld nson. all of the nii- crowd each other for room. In the | ,U) * S Central railroad, and J. M. Over- dusk it is hard to distinguish him Ion. of this city, have purchased a one- from a telephone pole. He has never; third interest !n Belle Meade, the fa considered that the future looked very ; noua bome nf blooded horses. ne» b- igbt or promising It has always ; Nashvl]le The , ce 1(1 was $f(2 . kept him too busy paying his board i bills to have any dreams about further g-eMness. He is just a common sort if fellow and claims distinction only A New Process, i that he is a Kansan from the sole of Jeffersonville. Ind.. Feb. 14.—W. E. | his feet to the top of his head. The Williams, of r<M ca g 0) y V ho purchased j bride is the youngest daughter of Mr. lant of tho standai . d cenwnt and Mrs. N. J. \\ nite and was born ‘ . . . . " ! <> nd raised in the Solomon Valiev. af Charlestown. Ind., says that he Judging from the lob she has taken intends to enlarge the establismen 1 ‘on her hands she is a voting lady of and fl.OOd.ObO will be expended in more than ordinary nerve. ! this direction. He says he has a new ! prdfcess. Patriotic Ben. (Columbia State.) The patriotic Ben Tillman promises “hot talk” next summer. Does it ever occur to him that the people have had enough “hot talk” to last them for a generation and that, they merit more consideration from a man for whom they have done so much. No business can] possibly be successful that iA not adver tised. This is a sweegfin^ statement, but it is true. Thetc are some merchants in ihis pjmmunity apparently whose exj contradicts the rnce staten ent. Not only you but any obiter man or woman? But how much more proflt- er not desire to -i<> more than pro duce enough butter and milk for! horn© consumption, the dairy would' For 15 cents is only fair- I know you can. Charged with Embezzlement. Chattanooga. ’’Vnn . Feb. 14.—Post- offipp ^ -'i c 'v’l’ln*n-. charge of this divls’^n, has received word of the i rest ot Wi'lit.ni I ; ■ a clerk at Station C, Memphis post- office. The charge is embezzlintg money order funds. Longworth Bill Favorably Reported. Washirfeton, Feb. 14.—Representa tive Longworth’s bill appropriating $5,000,000 for the purchase of Ameri- tan legations and embassies in for Mgn countries Jtas been favorably re ported. Lowtner Re Elected Speaker. London, Fob. 14.—James William men were returned to jail and so Lowther has been unanimously re far as known no further effort will . t , All Talk. (Clumbia State.) Tillman came, talked, but didn’t tell. Joseph Schultz and A. J. Beckwith, alias A. J. Kavanaugh, two of the pickpockets arrested at the fair grounds In Columbia on Wednesday of fair week, were convicted Wed nesday and sentenced to ten years’ penal servitude. The jury reached a verdict In about 15 minutes. The aid. ir is to leaver the blessed heri- contribute to rendering him indopen- Cubtcrlbe for The Ledger; $1 a year. bo mad# to delay the execution of thel; sentence The contradiction, however, is only apparent. If they have attained anF degree pf sucress they have a/avertsed. They have let peoplafcnow what hey had to sell, whaithey were Mere for and what they proposed to do. Just in proportion to th# thorough ness wth which they have done this and met the Conditions of theiycompetitors Jney have suc ceeded. they have tied the newspa- frs they have worked with the Aest tools so fa^ as getting publ icity is concen ed. If they have , worked withoi t the newspapers they have bee have not atte elected speaker of the house of com mons. handicapped and ned the highest possible meas ire of success. A fertile seed plai ted in fertile ground, carefully raiered, will thrive and bear fruit A properly organized business, in any inhabited pit e, well advertised wi l succeed. Thellaw of growth is as certain one case as the oth and inexoi*bi« in (N f * V Did You Everilhink t \ i