Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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I i HZ' STOP, WOITAN! AND CONSIDER THE ALL-IMPORTANT FACT That in addressing 1 Mrs. Pinkham you are confiding your private ills to a woman —a woman whose experience with wo men's diseases covers twenty-five years. The present Mrs. Pinkham is the daughter-in-law of Lydia E. Pinkham, and for many years under her direction, and since her decease,her advice has been freely given to sick women. Many women suffer in silence and drift along from bad to worse, knowing full well that they ought to have immediate assistance, but a natural modesty impels them to shrink from exposing them selves to the questions and probable examinations of even their family physician. It is unnecessary. Without money or price you can consult a woman whose knowledge from actual experience is great. Mrs. Pinkham's Standing Invitation: Women suffering from any form of female weak ness are invited to promptly communicate with Mrs. Pinkham at Lynn, Mass. All letters are received, opened, read and answered by women only. A woman can freely talk of her private illness to a woman; thus has been established the eternal confidence between Mrs.Pinkham and the women of America which has never been broken. Out of the vast volume of experience which she has to draw from, it is more than possible that she has gained the very knowledge that will help your case. She asks noth ing in return except your good-will, and her advice has relieved thousands. Surely any woman, rich or poor, is very foolish if she does not take advantage of this gen erous offer of assistance.—Lydia E. Pink* ham Medicine Co., Lynn, Mass. ARMLESS THIEVES. T Following we publish two let ters from n woman who accep ted this invitation. Mote the result: First letter. Dear Mrs. Pinkham:— “ For eight years I have suffered something terrible every month. The pains are excru ciating and I can hardly stand them. My doctor says I have a severe female trouble, and I must go through an gyration if I want to get well. I do not want to submit to it if I can possibly help it. Please tell me what to do. I hope you can relieve me.”—Mrs. Mary Punmick, 5'Jth and E. Capitol Streets, Washington, D. C. Second letter. Dear Mrs. Pinkham;— “ After following carefully your advice, and taking Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound, I am very anxious to send you my testimonial, that others may know their value and what you have done for me. “ As you know, I wrote you that my doctor said 1 must have an ojieration or I could not live. I then wrote you, telling you my ail ments. I followed your advice and am en tirely well. I can walk miles without an ache or a pain, and 1 owe my life to you and to Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. I wish every suffering woman would read this testimonial and realize the value of w rit ing to vou and your remedy. ’— Mrs. Mary Dimmick, .Wth and E. Capitol Streets, Wash ington, D. C. When a medicine has been successful in restoring to health so many women whose testimony is so unquestionable, you cannot well say, without trying it, “ I do not believe it will help me.” If you are ill, don’t hesitate to get a bot- tl$ of Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound at once, and write Mrs Pink ham, Lynn, Mass., for special advice— it ia free and always helpful. Did Yo' Ever Think what a bargain you are getting when you get THE LEDGER one hundred and three (103)' times a year for Only SI 00 a Year? Are You Administrator and have the settlement of an ebtai- so, request of the Judge of Probate i your advertisement be placed in • • • • Remarkable Cripple Criminals Who Cause the Police Trouble. (Ijondon Answers.) One hears of armless artists, of legless men, like the late Mr. Kava- nagh, M. P.. w'ho ride and shoot, and of many blind or otherwise physi cally incapacitated persons who earn their own living. But the cripple criminal is a novel development, and a ven r strange one. Criminals are, of course, frequently mentally deficient, but usually they are in full possession of their bodily faculties. Yet the French press has recently been greatly stirred by the extraordinary career of man whom they term the Cen&tur Highwayman. He is an Arab, and the scene of his exploits has been Algeria. He began his career as bandit chief nearly twenty years ago, being then in full possession of all his limbs. He was caught and impris oned, and while serving his sentence met with an accident which resulted i" both of his legs being amputated. He was pardoned in con-sequence, but 'is soon as he was set free a perfect reign of terror began. Farm houses and villas were robbed and travellers held up in good old-fashioned style on the road. The leader of the ban dits was a man magnificently mount ed. At last a police trap proved suc cessful. He was caught and turned out to be no other than the original convict. His loss of legs did not Interfere in the least with his powers of riding. The manageress of a Stroud green shop, arriving early one Saturday morning, suddenly caught, sight of a man’s boot sticking out from under n. coat hung upon the wall. With great presence of mind she said noth ing. but closed the door and hurried off for a policeman. The unwelcome visitor proved to be a wooden-legged burglar, who had got in by the sky light, and lowered himself by a rope. Unluckily for him, the rope broke, and with his wooden leg he was un able to climb out .again. It was a wooden lee, also, that, oroved the undoing of an Irishman, who appeared at Bournsmouth c’^irged with stealing a dog. He was taking the animal up Alum Chine when the owner came down the path, Tt-» thief turned to escape, took to the beach and sank up to his ampu tated knee in the soft sand. The disadvantages of beimr one- armed seem slight, compared w-ith the loss of a leg. but it is somewhat as tonishing to hear of a one-armed burglar being charged with thirty- nine different offences. Wonder grows «t the news that this burglar is also a woman. This astonishing criminal has earned a large income for fifteen years bv clever thefts all over Aus tria. Her total spoils are estimated to exceed £40,000. In several cases she has stripped houses during the absence of their owners in broad day light, and on one occasion, at. least, had actually got a policeman to guard her spoils till the van drove un. For a person without arms at all to go in for thieving seems absurd on the face of it, yet there Is at least one case on record of such an extra ordinary crime. An armless youth named Ward was recently convicted at Utica. N. Y., of stealing vegetables from a garden. It was shown that he piled them up with his toes. The judge fined him $') whereupon he pull ed a rool of hills from his coat pocket with the toes of his right foot and, selecting one with as much ease as you or I could do with our fingers, and passed it over to the clerk. The storv of a curious tragedy was recently reported from Paris. A man named Louis Bignot had the misfor tune to lose both legs by accident on the eve of his marriage. His fiancee threw him over and married a wine shop keeper in the Rue Menlemon- tant. Every night afterward the legless man wheeled himself to the shoo and sat there silent. One night a man was foolish enough to chaff him about his hopeless attachment. Bignot picked up a syphon and hurled it. with such good aim that he split the skil l of the other. Two bystand; •*rs rushed in and Bignot stabbed them both. A fearful fight ensued be fore file legless desperado was cap lured. THINK TAX BURDENSOME. Grecnvi le Restiaiced from Collect- inq Tax C n Toilet Rooms. Ure nville. Feet. 4. -Judge R. C. Yatts granted 1 so.iinotary injunct- 'en to certain C h-.-o today, re- e tiin'rg i• »- it-, of (Ireenvilie from .tieetht f 11 toilet rooms. The Cleanest Chew Made! >4, If you could s e SCHNA: and sppe^izir. '*■ 4^. Mi,**, cured, v/dlma- whicn it is cover the fea tured tobacco of made, you would dis- sons for the big difference between SCHNAPPS and its imitators. SCHNAPPS is clean! The Reynolds factories are as clean as the cleanest kitchen—the tobacco in manufacture is scarcely touched by human hands—v/ith special machinery to cleanse the leaf and produce clean chewing tobacco. When such scrupulous care is taken with the choicest selections of tobacco from America’s finest chewing to bacco dbtricts, can you wonder that SCHNAPPS is so satisfying, so pure, so appetizing and wholesome—so different from chews that pretend to be as good? Expert tests prove that this superior tobacco requires and takes a smaller amount of sweetening than any other kind—and has a wholesome, stimulating and satisfying effect on chewers. Be sure the letters on the tag and under the tag spell S’C’h*n*a*p'P’S. The Reynolds Company is under the direction of the same men who have managed it since 1875, and who have made the chewing tobacco busi ness a life-study. There are plenty of plugs that look like Schnapps, with out the same satisfying chewing qualities. R. J. REYNOLDS TOBACCO COMPANY Winston-SalMi, N. C. V *»•. \-\fm l-’ •••-, -. A*'* WILL FRAUD BE PRACTICED: The Columbia State Declares Such Is the Report. Columbia. Sept. 5.—The State in its leading editorial in the morning makes this inquiry: “Will money in immense amounts he used to carry the election for the dispensary next Tuesday?” This is followed by other questions demanding to know if whiskey dealers have been called upon to furnish an immense campaign fund. “Such is the report, and such report The State lias just grounds to believe.” The editorial continues that the backing whiskey houses are unscru pulous. as was shown in investiga tion in Spartanburg and that there will he no limit to their rascality if that debauchery promises safety from the penitentiary. The editorial concludes. “According to our information these compound corruptors of South Carolina are cal culating on buying the cotton factory vote, and a letter that we publish today indicates that work to that tmd has already begun in Horse Creek valley. Are dispensary emissaries of low character ‘working’ every other cotton mill section of the State? Has the great moral Institution and its conscienceless benefactors determined that all mill operatives in South Caro lina can he bought for two dollars a head? The/ may buy some of them, they may play upon the prejudices of others, but that mill vote in almost every county has been going against the worst enemy of tne mill people— dispensary—'and we believe a major ity of those voters will resist the cor- runting liquor interests. “Of course Mr. Manning and other reputable candidates on ihe dispen sary question would be kept in the dark about any attempt to steal the State, but if conditions are anything like what they are represented, this is probable. This position is de plorable.” REVENUE FRAUD CASES. Special Term of Federal Court Con venes in Greensboro. Greensboro. N. C., Sept. 4.—A spec ial term of the United States district court for the trial of the famous rev enue fraud cases convened here this morning with Judge James E. Boyd presiding. The case against R. H. Hardin, former deputy collector, was taken tip and will probably consume all of this week. There are thirty or more revenue officers, distillers and gaugers named In the hill of indict ment. Two of the men have already been convicted and the cases were carried to the court of appeals. In dictments were found as a result of investigation made bv two secret ser vice men. It is charged that the rev enue collectors were paid “hush” money by illicit distillers. The of ficers are charged with making false returns, in thai they reported illicit distilleries destroyed when they were 1 ft untouched. T HI K H KI JO KI v’ r'!* i ."(' u na'do on Friday, ' :• • - : * ’ -'u li’'* of the tax * • " ■ e'ore tlv courts, .e s U • 1 Up ritv adopted the tax . :t n w measure for Increasing its 1 vees : it -o p K)D|p o dected on ’he ground that the ordinance, was ■ “i Mun'l ami Hu* matter will be t.;r shed out bef(jj;e the ’i:.""!->• i 1 ! e paid. lull t< r n of court of general ii' v.T‘. r ou vened here this dug. Judge R .U. Walts presiding. As ttsui 1 there Is a heavy docket to !■« d - i.p I and th. entire two weeks ni 1 lip taken up in Up trial of cases. Se- ill of the al eged county graft- 1 •vili l.p called on to face the jury, n l Ui re are also a number of mur der cases. A Hit. Old Man, a Base Hit. (Chester Lantern ) Mr. Ansel didn't get 4(1,000 votes out of 100,000. In other words, 0o,000 and some odd voters did not endorse him and his platform. He ha* a supper-human job almost to -vpreome the brnd the voters l ave on him.—Columbia Record. This seems to he intended to cre- atp the Impression that some other ! candidate received 00,000 votes a -alnst Ansel’s 40,000. Imok at the other side of the picture. Mr. Man ning. the next man, got onlv about 2o,000 votes out of 100,000. In other words, 77.000 voters did not. endorse him and his platform. Now what sort of a Job lias he to overcome the lead the voters have on him? It hostile largest circulation of any pane in the Fifth South Carolina Congressional District. Subscribe for The Ledeer, Sl.OOa veer Shot by Woman. in ton Salem. N. (!.. Sept, d.—Ber- • *1 rd. a young man, was shot • ton-head and ham] this after- mu m by Mrs. Wesley Holton and will i lie. Leonard and his broth- 1 a. 1 cursing Mrs. Holton ami her ba <1 on the street, followed them •• One of Ihe hoys was knocked ' own by Holton as they entered his <loor. Tin brothers then pounced up on the old man. km>cklng him down, ami were heating him when Mrs. Hol ton came to h.ir husband's rescue with a pistol, finny every hill In it Bi-r nle’s brother l ed when be saw what hud happened. Mrs. Holton was not arrested, as the officers hold that she was only protecting her own house hold. Col. J. M. Knight Dies in Asheville. Asheville, N. C„ Sept. 4.—Col. J. M Knight, formerly a newspaper pub lisher of Sumter, S. C., died here this morning after two week’s sickness The deceased came to this city last j January to regain Ms health, and up to a week ago appeared to have ity- I proved greatly. He was thirty nine years of ag". was past grand rhaneel- | lor of the Knights of 1’ythias and a Shriner. He leaves a wife and five : daughters. The bofiv will be shipped to Sumter for burial. No Wonder He Moved. (Exchange.) The following notice was found posted on a deserted homestead In the arid regions of Kansas: "Four miles from a neighbor, sixteen miles from a poatofflee, twenty-five miles from a railroad, fourteen miles from I a school house, forty-one miles to church, 18b miles to timber. GOO miles to a Democrat, half a mile to hull and ' the same distance to a Republican. 1 Gone to South Carolina—God’s coun try—to got a fresh start." —Everybody wears Company Store Hats. Even father wears them now. Farmer Suicides. Troutman, N ('.. Sept. —Mr. Wal ter Cook, a middle-aged farmer who lives in the vicinity of Amiay. com mitted suicide this morning by stab bing himself with a knife. It is said that he had been on a debauch for several days and that he had mis treated his wife and children during this time. it. is impossible to obtain the particulars of the tragedy but there seems to he something of a mystery connected with it and further investigation may reveal something unexpected. The deceased was a man of good family and leaves a wife and several children. Three Negro Convicts Escape. Abbeville, Sept. 3.—About noon to day. near Price's mill, in the Lown- desville section, near the Anderson line. Lie Howard, a colored convict, knocked a guard in the head with a rock, took his gun and escaped. Mar shall Smith, another colored convict, and one unknown, escaped with him. The names of th-> guard and the es caped convicts have not reached town. Supervisor Nickles has gone to the convict camp to investigate the matter. Sheriff Lyon, with his deputies. Charlie Bruce and W. H. Lyon ar- in pursuit of the party. Awoke on Top of Chimney. Laurens. Sept. 3.—Master Teague Haris, the twelve-year-old son of Mr. W. P. Harris, of Youngs township, Unis county, unconsciously accom plished a remarkable feat a few nights ago. The youth is a somambullst and at two o’clock Wednesdav night the entire household of Mr. Harris was aroused bv cries from the chim ney top, twenty feet above his sleep ing apartment, he having climbed up through the Hue of the chimney from an open fireplace In his room while asleep, and a ladder was immediate ly secured and the lad was rescued from his perilous position. New Depot Accepted. Contractor A. C. Jones, of Char lotte. N. C., who built the new depot at this place for the Southern rail way. came here Mondav and met the officials of that, company. The work was inspected and accepted by the railroad company. The keys were turned over to I»cal Agent Rov Os born The new seats and furniture arrived Tuesday and will he put In at once. If only remains for the main track to he changed over to the new depot before It will be opened to th° public, hut it may he possible that the old side track will bo used for the present, and If so the depot will be ~-ened that much earlier. We are all proud of the new depot and anxious to see It put into service. Chamberlain’s Colic, Cholera & Diarrhea Remedy Almost every family has need of a reliable remedy for colic or diarrhea at some time during the year. This remedy is recommended by dealers who have sold it for many years and know its value. It has received thousands of testimonials from grateful people. It has been prescribed by phy sicians with the most satisfactory 1 results. It has often saved life before medicine could have been sent for or a physician summoned. It only costs a quarter. Can you aflord to risk so much for so little? BUY IT NOW. LETTERS OF ADMINISTRATION. State of South Carolina. County of Cherojiee. By J. E. Webster, Esquire, Probate Judge. Whereas. W. M. Roberts has made suit to me to grant him Letters of Administration of the estate and ef fects of Anthony Littlejohn, deceased. These are. therefore, to cite and admonish all and singular the kind red and creditors of the said Anthony Littlejohn, deceased, that they be and appear before me, in the court of probate, to he held at Cherokee court house, Gaffney, S. C., on Saturday, September 15th, next after publica tion thereof, at eleven o’clock In the forenoon, to show cause if anv they have, why the administration should not be granted Given under my hand, this 29th day of August, Anno Domini. 1906. J. E. Webster, Probate Judge. Pub. in Gaffney Ledger Aug. 31 and Sept. 7. 1906. —B e aura to come In and aae our line of the moat atyliah Hate aver ahow n In Gaffney. Company Store. CHEAP EXCURSION RATES via SOUTHERN RAILWAY. Rates open to all. On account of the special occasions mentioned, the Southern RqBway will sell round-trip tickets to points named below at greatly reduced rates, as fellows: T© Richmond Va. and return.—Ac count Meeting True Reformers. Tick ets on sale September 2nd to 5th, 11m- one fare plus 25 cents for round trip. Ited to return September 13th. Rate, one fare Plus 25 cents for round trip. The Southern operates on all through trains pullman drawing room sleepers and Southern Railway dining cars—high back vestibuled coaches. For full informatlo consult any Southern Railway ticket agenL or write R. W. HUNT. Division Passenger Agent. „ Charleston. S. C. G. B. AVLEN, Asst. Gen. Passenger Agent, Atlanta, Ga. FOinranoMY^TAR t9r children 1 Baft, sure, ./• oplatmt BANNER 8A LVK tho moat haalina salvo in the world. MTOHrorer^TAR