Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Watch This Column. GafTnov is growing rapidly and lots of property is changing hands pre paratory to her future upbuilding. Have some hue offerings. Three lota cheap. >275—easy terms’ Twenty acres, a store room, five- room cottage. Fine land and a good place to Jo buslnes, seven miles from town, >750. One house in fine condition, >700 oash, >1,300 in one and two years at * per cent. Several fine pieces of property to be put on block in July Twenty-seven acres of fine land in town for a song. If you would like to have a fine in vestment in a plantation come and see me, 500 acres, some good timber and in good shape. Must be sold even if it does not bring but >3,000. 260 acres of pretty land at >10 per acre, lies fine. Town lots of all shapes and de scriptions. Over 200. Houses galore, and 20,000 acres of land. If you have property to dispose of bring it to me, I am in touch with all the buyers. Twenty-nine on string 1 for lots this fall, fifty-six for plants- j tions. thirty-four for houses. >0,000 worth of property sold in April. This month will catch me with that much sold. It cost you nothing to list your property, all your trouble saved and after sale is made you are at no expense in the trans-i fer. Buy the house you live in for the rent you are paying. Representative of Sun Fire Insur-I ranee Co., The American Surety Co., The Standard Trust Co., who lend money at 6 per cent to buy and build homes with ten and half years to pay it back if you want. The GibDg Brick store room, 5- room house, and vacant lot 80x200 in west end, >1,800. R. Latta Parish. 1765 COLLEGE OF CHARLESTON 1906 Charleston, S. C. Entranre examinations will be h«0d in the! County Courthouse en I'ridav. July titli, at 9 a. m. One Free Tuition Scholarship to each county in South Carolina, awarded by the County Superintendent of Education and I Probate Judye. Board and furnished room in dormitory. $11 a month. All candidates for i admission are permitted to compete for va cant Boyce Scholarships which pay a year. For catalogue and information address Hahkison Randolph, President. May IMm-pd. NOTICE TO SCHOOL TEACHERS. The trustees of the Gaffney Graded i Schools will receive applications for' the position of principal, first grade teacher and one other teacher June! 4th. Address applications to M. A. SARRTT, Secty. Bd. Trustees. May 29th, June 1st. A CRITICAL PERIOD INTELLIGENT WOMEN PREPARE Dangers and Pain of This Critical Period ▲voided by the Use of Lydia E. Pink, ham’s Vegetable Compound. DON’T FORGET I you can be cured of Cancr, Tu- I I mor or Chronic Old Sores. Ten I I thousand cases treated. It Is the I I surest cure on earth. Delay Is I I fatal. How to be cured? Just I I write I I D. B. GLADDEN, Grover, N. C. I How many wo men realize that the most critical period in a wo man’s existence is the change of life, and that the anxiety felt by women as this time draws near is not without reason ? If her system is in a deranged condi tion, or she is predisposed to apoplexy or congestion of any organ, it is at this time likely to become active and, with a host of nervous irritations, make life a burden. At this time, also, cancersand tumors are more liable to begin their destruc tive work. Such warning symptoms a« a sense of suffocation, hot flashes, diz ziness, headache, dread of impending evil, sounds in the ears, timidity, pal pitation of the heart, sparks before the eyes, irregularities, constipation, varia ble appetite, weakness and inquietude are promptly heeded by intelligent women who are approaching the period of life when woman’s great change may be expected. YVe believe Lydia E. Pinkham’s Veg etable Compound is the World's great est remedy for women at this trying period. Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Com pound invigorates and strengthens the female organism, and builds up the weakened nervous system as no other medicine can. Mrs. A. E. G. Hyland, of Chester- town, Md., in a letter to Mrs. Pink- ham, says: Dear Mrs. Pinkham:— “ I had been suffering with a displacement for years and was passing through the change of life. I hail a gixxi deal of soreness, di zy spells, headaches, and was very nervous. I wrote you for advice and commenced treat ment with Lydia E Pinkhams Vegetable Compound as you directed, and I am happy to say that all those distressing symptoms left me, and I have passed safely through the change of life a well woman.” For special advice regarding this im portant period women are invited to write to Mrs. Pinkham, Lynn, Mass She is daughter-in-laav of Lydia E. Pinkham and for twenty-five years has been advising sick women free of charge. Her advice is free and always helpful to ailing women. * Um I IQTPQ'Q Rocky Mountain Too Nuggets A Busy Medicine far Busy People. Brings Golden Health and Renewed Vigor. A specific for Constipation. Indigestion, Livei and Kidney troubles. Pimples, Eczema, Impure Blood. Bad Breath, Sluggish Bowels. Headache and Backache. Ita Rocky Mountain Tea in tab let form, 35 cents a box. Genuine made by Hollisteb Dkcg Compant, Madison, Wis. GOLDEN NUGGETS FOR SALI0W PEOPLE We do not do all kinds of prlntlr.g-- we do the GOOD kind. niK National Bank of Gaffney Oaffnev, 5^. O. Mas a Larger Surplus and Profits than All Other Banks in Cherokee County Combined Capital $50,000 Surplus and Undivided Profits 41,000 CHEROKEE COUNTY’S FAMOUS WILD MAN. IF YOU WANT The Best Made Buggy for the money, v uy the Anchor Buggy. We sell them. Just received car barb wire and nails. Will give good prices. : : : : : : R. M. Wilkins Hardware Co. Cherokee county, South Carolina, possesses a character that is entitled tx> rank high with all that is queer, an tique and out of the ordinary and the every day things of life. Rejoicing in a name that he hears no one but him self utter. John Starnes, abouti sixty or seventy years of age. commonlv designated as “YVilfi John, the wild man of Cherokee” by the many cu riosity seekers who frequently throng the dense woods around his home in search of a glimps R of this strange hermit, sometimes called a living dead man, lives a solitary life. The subject of this sketch is sup posed to have lived the life of a solitary hermit and become known as a “wild man” since his youth, prob ably taking up his abode in the dense patch of briars, sticks and trees when he was about twenty years of age. Why he forsook the companion ship of human beings and the congen ial surroundings of a good home for the desolate environment of a dense neck in the woods has never been de termined. To see him at all is a dif ficult matter and to secure anything from him on this subject Is an impos sibility. A pint or quart of com or rye left where he can get it is appreciat ed. though It is a prize thought too warmly of for him to waste it by drinking enough at a time to become Intoxicated. On the other hand, a lit tle at a time increases the pleasurea by Its length being materially length ened. The reason assigned for this act ion on his part that Is most generally given credence is that he was disap pointed in a love affair when a young man and as a result became mentally imbalanced and took up his abode as above stated. He has refused a good home time and time again. He was even taken to a relative’s home on one occasion when he was frozen nearly to death as the result of extreme cold and exposure, but immediately upon recovering he hied himself back to his partly underground home and hastily crawling in and barricadin'' himself against all comers, very much like a frightened animal at last driven to bav after a hard fight. Numerous attempts have been made to secure a good picture of this wild freak, but onlv one lias been successful in get ting two good photos, one of which accompanies this article. The wild e r eature is a great hunter and fisher man, killing much game and bringing many fish from their watery abodes near his hovel. In appearance he is tall, with pierc ing eves in which can be seen a world of cunning, which, fostered by the unwelcome attention h« receives find is wont to dodge, apparently grow wilder still. i Planet, Jr., Cultivators. I Numbers MRS. VIRGINIA D. YOUNG. If you are a conservative business man, farmer, mechanic, mill man or day laborer you desire to place your money in’the saf est possible place, and the safest place is where the facilities for handling]Jyour money are the greatest. |MoneyOdeposit- ed with us is as safe as it is possible) for human ingenuity to devise. We want more business, we want^your busines. 'I'I l ie National Bank of Gaffney Oaffney, G. A Pen-Pticure of the Home Life of This Great Woman. (Oliver F. Grunby, in Barnwell Sen tinel.) In a New York editor’s office one day. the sanctum of a great newspa ner that wields influence, a woman who was doing her little best in the world of letters wag introduced to Mr. Wm. Lloyd Garrison, son of that Boston man who did things. “You came from South Carolina?” he inquired with a polite interest. “Oh, yes! That Is Mrs. Young’s State,” said he. “You know Mrs.) Young?” Mr. Garrison along with Mr. Curtis, Hlgginson and other worthy advocates of suffrage for woman, know Mrs. Young, hence it happens that in circles of advanced views Mrs. Young and South Carolina are brack- e* • together, one and indissoluble. The woman’s right movement, ’Us said, does poorlv in South Carolina, but Mrs. Young is upholding the ban ner and getting in an entering wedge wheresoever she can. Those who have seen her at home feel that she is cre atine the best possible sentiment) in ! favor of her cult by reason of the : dainty home atmosphere she main tains. and her genuine devotion to her husband’s comfort and interest. A most definite characteristic of this woman pioneer is that she elevates the commonplace duties of life Into pleasures and contrives that every thing shall be sweet and clean and purely wholesome within her gates. Woman acquainted with our languor ous climate that invites to a hammock and -A book oftener than to active em ployment will aporeciate > fhe imre* mitting personal supervision required to keep things fresh and attractive in a housecr.ld. "I always strain the milk myself, as soon as It comes In.” she explains, excusing herself for this purpose. And next morning if you are up early enough you will find her working the pats of butter and planning for its accommodation in the milk safe. Ev ery particular about this milk safe is a poem In puritv. The shelves spread with white-surfaced papers, easily removed and replaced, the tins •'listening in the morning sunshine. The cartoonists who depict the wo man's rights advocates in the comic t>ai>ers as grotesque figures, garbed in strange attire, swaggering forth with hatchets or banners to break down es tablished customs, ought to see Mrs. Youn® working her butter, or beating up biscuit, feeding her chickens or gathering eggs, culling roses or set ting forth her dainty breakfast) table. Then they might g^t some fresh ideas on female suffrage. She would be ' sure to talk while they were there, and whatever she talks about she en ters into wlifi her whole heart. She believes in herself and that 1h why you believe in her after you me^t her. You may not subscribe to her doctrine altogether but upon hearing her discourse you are more apt to see the reasonableness of ar'uimenU) as she puts them. A short-haired freak tampering with ! theoiies far beyond her and from whoso presence the orderly and beau- | ty-lovlng flee from boredom personi fied, this is the accepted Idea of the 1 woman suffragist—that is, the old con servative South. But Mrs. Young re futes this both in appearance and in manner of daily living. While she talks you listen and are glad to listen, which is more than can be .said of a goodiv number of the talkers of the earth. She will relate how successfully the women are moving things politically out in Idaho and Colorado and other parts. She will tell of the young wo man legislator she knows, who “thinks no bills” for public improvement the while she nurses her baby and what this, that or the other celebrity she knows is doing from pulpit, press or platform. There is a joke in staid old Boston that the folks there stay under dormant somewhat like a whale, and have to come “up” every now and then in New York to breathe freely. Just so women abiding in the tranquil, long established lines of thought get a whiff of conventions here, there and you, of trips to Washington on public mission, of press club confabulations and such. She will give a vivid word, •ficture of Roosevelt's cordial bearing towards her when in Charleston, and tell what other public men say and do as to women’s affairs. Mrs. Young edits and prints a week ly newspaper In her own house and writes essays and articles for the va rious woman’s rights organs. She has written three books, all printed in Boston and all bringing out clearly her views as to woman’s conventional status In society. There is a strong vein of religion in her books. And a plea for the beauty of wholesomeness as portrayed in the love of whatsoever 1; good, pure and true in human life. A woman of small stature and pro- portions, she is evidence that spirit) and not matter count most in affairs. Hep first public work began with the starting of a Sunday school at the lo cal count-rv church when Fairfax was on 1 ’' a handful of houses. Later she embarked in the work Miss Willard loved and distinguished. Gradually Mrs Young w'as led into larger views of woman’s sphere, and the leaders of the suffrage cause gladly welcomed her influence and her articles. Now In her suiinv secluded Carolina home she follows zealously the same line of thought and practice that Mrs. Cady Stanton exampled In her New York apartment, the narrow rooms of which so often held groups of de lightful, intellectual women, glad to hold converse with the high-minded dame and her interesting crlcle of in timates. A chief characteristic of Mrs. Young and all suffragists is that they exam ine critically all accepted rules for women’s doings before they subscribe thereto. “Why should a wife have to lie younger than her husband? I’m not sure that the most good results there from.” oiip of Mrs. Young’s books he- men is made to 8 a y- As all the world knows, for a body to so question Is flouting the verv marrow of accepted theory. It means that in the event of the hiisljand’H failing, or being weak, the mate could all the better supplant him in heading the household. It more than Intimates tliat mere man does not hold the whole earth in the centre of his grasp. It means—but I will leave everybody to figure out for him or herself what it means, or what it leads to. i i K i JL Farmers, you need them. Try one and you ^ won’t be without them. With this plow you ^ 7L can cultivate your cotton from the time it W i * v 5 Gaffney Hardware Co. J F~OR BY Adjustment of Losses. We, the following policy holders in the Farmers’ State Mutual Hail Insurance Comt pany of South Carolina, do hereby certify tha- J. R. Lindsay, Adjuster for said Company, has this day adjusted the amount of damage on our strawberry and dewberry crops, payable under policies we hold in said Company. The hail storm occurred May 3, 1906, and we desire to thank the Company for the prompt and satisfactory adjustment this day made. 1 J. B. Graham, Loris, Horry County, S. C., A. B. Graham, May 8th, 1906. W. H. Graham, Fred Graham, E. K. Skipper, Howard, Horry County, S. C., B. Hinson, May 9th, 1906. W. J. Smith, H. T. Simmns, E. K. Skipper allowed $150.00 H. T. Simmons allowed 35.00 A. B. Graham allowed 125.00 W. H. Graham allowed 125.00 J. B. Graham allowed 125.00 Fred Graham allowed 125.00 W. J. Smith allowed 1,300 00 3. H. Hinson 100.00 Be sure and get a policy from JONES J. DARBY, Agent. DR. J. HTJIVTER Of Rock Hill, South Carolina Makes a specialty of Cancers, Tumors, Chronic Ulcers, Scrofula and Rheumatism, Diseases of Liver, Kidneys, Dyspepsia and Indigestion and Diseases of the Genito urinary Organs. Treats without the Knife, loss of blood and little pain to patient. Terms of treatment satisfactory. Twenty-five years, of practical experience. ■ "= Reference To A Few Cases Treated — — - B. A. Clark, Cancer of aose .Rock Hill, S. C. J, J. Neely, Cancer of neck Tirzah, 8. C Mrs.J- D.Willlams, Cancer of face Tirzah,8. C. Mrs. 8. U. Nelson. Cancer of nose.Ogdon, 8.C. Miss Ida VanTtssell. Cancer of breast Guth- rlesville, H. C W. A. Mulllnax, Cancer of face King’s Creek, S. O. W. W. Stroup, Cancer of face.... Lowell, N. O. Mrs Barbory McCra*. Cancer of forehead Gaffney. 8. C. 8. B. Hanna, Cancer of neck Gastonia, N. C. David Hawkins. Cancer of nose Gaffney, 8. C. J. L. Kagan. Cancer of face. .Gastonia. N. C. Mrs. Elizabeth Tracy, Cancer of breast Gaff ney, 8. C. The Gaffney Cify Land and Improvement Co. .Jffers for sale Building Lots In this flourishing town. Gaffney; also Farms near by and in reach «f the 8cbools of Limestone Springs and of this place, la lots of M to 100 acres n liberal time rates; also AgrlculturarLands to rent for Farm purposes For full partlcu'ars apply vo J. V. SAR&ATT, Agent. N. b.—All persons are forbidden to enter on. walk or ride through or over the lands of tbs company,cuttlns and removlns timber or fishing bunting, unler penalty of law. ■ ' 1 i .i — Subscribe for The ledger, Sl.00 e veer