Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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# THE LEDGER Tuesday and Friday, Ed. H. DeCamp, Editor and Publisher. Hereafter no adver isernei t« win be accepted at this office after 9.30 o clock on Mondays and Thursd*vt Watch vour label an.i the date And renew before 'Ms too late If there l>e an error, linn't Ket 'me Report tc 'I s —we'll nnke yon *1 ni Rene mher. 'tls our aim to plea>»** Bui error* are like oeskv flea* The\ will cr«*ep In in *Plte of fate Therefore, watch /our laltel and th» dare. —Ortelnal A PUZZLE TO US. A roCP tit issue of the Florence Dally Times < ontained the following local item: “A. I! Jordan, on behalf of himse’f •and a lumber of other citizens of Dillon. 1 as gone to New York to net ;i doz ti white girls to go into domes tic serv ice in Dillon. The servant problem there has been very acute. as it ha ;; been everywhere else and the "O' i reop’e of Dillon do not be- lieve in enduring ills that might he cured s i they have now determined to use w hit ■ 'ahor. The result of the experltm mt will be watched with the greatc t interest, by the people all through this suction. The trouble with t’o nee"!" of the South in the | matter .1' white help has beep that we d : d tot know how to treat white servant ami it was uncomfortable for the oarty hiritiff is we'l as for the party tiireii. The whit > peonle are learni’' " something more about how to tre'it servants now, but it will be a loo ,r ti ’e before thinRs domestic can sottio flown in their old way. “White servants want more money, hut *' v do better work and more of it. but ''e have never had a ‘servant class’ among the white people in this part o r *’’e country and it is some- thimr st”ih'ing us as a misfit. The peo ple of the South are Democrats in prinerde and in nraclice f'onditions will nduist tlu mselves in a few years, after tri''ls and trihnlations. hut they will ro - ”e out al' right.” This is a pretty howdy do. Our Yankee cousins send down here and get our ni '-ers for servants and we go no ft'ere md get their Swedes and Dutch and Italians. It's a puzzle to know which is getting the worst of the bargain. We shall watch this ox- peri "lent of Brother .Iordan with in terest By the way, Jordan is editor of the Dillon Herald. We wonder how in the li ne blazes he can afford to hire a servant of any kind. It’s more than any of the balance of us poor pencil pushers can do. Maybe he has a side line. NOTES AND COMMENTS. The bill collector, or cash solicitor, was very much in evidence yester day. * * * Yesterday was a raw day for the various millinery openings of Gaff ney's numerous millinery empori ums. * * • Senator Tillman has been called home on account of the illness of Mi.;. Tillman. Mrs. Tillman has been quite unwep for several days, but everyone in South Carolina hopes that her ill ness is not serious. * • * The Ledger would be pleased to haw its friends take the trouble to ’phone or send in local items. Its im- possib e to know everything going on in a community like this and unless you tell us what you know we can’t print as good local paper as we would like. Let us have the news. « • • Last Thursday a severe storm visit ed the Gulf States, doing particular!v heavy damage at Mobile, Ala., and Pensacola Fla. The storv of wreck and ruin Is awful: After all this seems to he the favored section. Prov idence deals kindly with us and we should in return deal kindly with Providence. • * • Eugene Bagwell, a North Carolinian, attempted suicide in New York He was arrested It developed that he had two wives and was courting two other women, both of whom were ex pecting to marrv him. Bagwell is the son of a Methodist preacher who went wrong himself. It’s another ease of like father, like son. • * • Last Friday we commended Perry Little’s communication, which we said could he found in another column. The “make-up,” that is the bright young man who puts the type togeth er In the form, finding that ho had not enough room to get In everything that had been set up, left out, togeth er with a lot of other matter, Perry’s article We print It today. It has lost none of its truthfulness by reason of having been held over. • • * The Rock Hill Record gives the fol lowing wholesome advice to the boys, to which we cheerfully subscribe: Start right, hoys. To be anybody, to accomplish anything for yourself or the community, you cannot he idle. Don’t drink—liquor destroys the mind and body. Don’t swear— gentlemen uo not. It is low and vul gar Don’t read trashy literature. It leads to the devil. Don’t hang around saloons. Good men are not made that way. Whenever you see a man lying around a saloon the devil Is or him and will get him sooner r - ter. * * • ’ r i> Ledger would respectfully sug- t o the Southern Railway com *'nt .It could add very much to ” e attractiveness of Gaffney If It .. . ., > to it that the hitching of ton « on its nronerty was discontinu- •’•’d th« vacant lots beautified by 1 "- in grass and the planting of ’o\vn~y tt is thought that such c' ! n would entail hardship on those " lm hitch their twins on this proper 'v T’-ere need be no uneasiness on 'I’ls c core. Our friends from the country may depend upon it that the uerchants wip provide ample hitch- 1 M' r nuarters for them elsewhere and ■ hich will doubtless prove much 'lore satisfactory to them. * * * I osi we neglect it too long we want to say that the election of “My Dear Xpne’t.” of Clarendon county to the Senate, is most gratifying to all who have fn lowed the fortunes of Brother \pnelt. He is a newspaper man. and a good one, too. At the inception of Hie Reform movement he was a wheel horse. II - and Boss Ben pulled to- :eiher. But Appelt had a head of his own and one day when the Ikksk at tempted to lash him into line he balk ed. The boss then told the peonle of Clar ndon that they must retire Ap- oelt in order that he might be endors ed. This the people did. But Appelt lived among them. He did more for. them in a year than Tillman had done in twelve, and being good sensible neople, they decided to show their ap preciation of Appelt’s services so they returned him to the senate. We wish him good fortune and We know the people of Clarendon will never have cans', to regret their later action for Appelt is a man who does things. * * * If Billy llearst is as black as he is painted he should he in the peniten tiary instead of the governor's clmir; if he is as foolish as his enemies would have one believe he ought to !•“ in the asylum. The truth of the matter is that Hearst possesses re markable executive ability. It isn’t his money alone that has made his pap rs .a success. He has the judg ment to select men of brain to'do the work. His manupulation of the Demo cratic convention at Buffalo showed he knows how to handle men. We lo not admirer him, hut some how or other we have always had sympathy for the under dog, and as almost the entire leadership of the Democratic party and aM the Republicans and a majority of the Independents are against him we almost feel like we would he pleased to see him win out, just, in order that he might sh 'w the politicians of New York that they don’t know it. .all. An Explanation, Editor ledger:—I would thank you very much for a small space in your highly appreciated Ledger, that I take every week. What I wish to say is to the good readers of this good pa llet-. Some one has represented a horse thief to be a holiness preacher. I wish to say to you that this is a big mistake. He is no more of a ho liness preacher than he is a Metho dist or Baptist. He is nothing more titan a thief and has no credentials of any hind to show that he is a preacher. 1 don’t think any Chris tian ought to try to reproach the cause of holiness by anv such dirty, low- down trash as Davis. I say this with the greatest boldness, that the holi ness preachers that I have got to see >nd talk with are straight out and out f~- the clean life and not for anything that is dirty and low down, and I think that, any man that will do any thing to try to blot the cause of God’s «'ork Is doing a verv had thing for himself I thank you. Mr. DeCamp, for lilac >ng this before the good people of Cherokee and other counties In which are vour readers, and 1 trust and pray to the great Supreme God t.iat no one will ever he guilty of trying to put something in this paper that will have a tendency to trv to down holiness for the Bible says. “Without holiness no man shall see God.”—Heb. 1.1:11: Thes. 4:3. If I a n not right you can reply to this, and if I a.n right vm> can do so Respectfully yours. W. J. M. Manners Now and Lonq Aqo. “Did you see that young fellow blow that smoke in the young lady’s face?’ .’sked an old-timer as a party of ladt and lasses passed. “Well, that couldn’t have happened when I was a boy. It wis a par, thing to see a man smoke in t u* pres ence of a lady much less blow s poke i- her face. But tirnos and customs have changed. I stand here every do.v and watch young fe. ovvs. who pass for well-bred, cultured and refined roll cigarettes, I ght them and s noko tlv-m In the very faces of the voun ' women. “Why, watch thit fellow as he swaggers and swings and puffs! He should be whipped Ike a school boy I never saw such impu lence. What , “« the world are we coming to? Two more decades and we w i, have no manners, it is not unusual to see a woman standing in a crowded street car while men occupy seats. That could not have been twenty years ago. “I mav be an old fogy, but I like to s«»» a man with good manners. If I go to New York I can’t hold to my seat in a ear if a woman comes in. I like the old way.” No better friend than the man him self.—From the German. f.-.E “PAN TOTERS.” e l arqelv Responsible for the Criminal Negro. Editor ledger:—I am forced to ask nace In your paper to say a few ■rds in behalf of the hotter class of •olored people. It is almost impossible to pick up a newspaper nowadays but what you ' ill find at a glance leading headlines, "Raper or attempted rape; lynched, >r will be if caught.” There never w a5 an existing evil vithout a remedy. First I shall at tempt to give you the cause, the thing which leads up to these dirty crimes, t has been well said: “An idle •rain is the devil’s workshop,” which is true, and the same can be said of 'eet and hands. Who committs and attempts to com mit these he lish crimes upon ladies we so often read about? Are they committed by the better class of colored people’’ No. Are these crimes committed by the industrious n gro? No. By the intell ;ent negro? No. Well, who commits them? I’ll toll you who they are. they are men "ho never work, can always he found on the hack streets or in some alley in most any town of any size, espec ial’y where there are barrooms, doing nothing in the world to make an hon est living. What else hut crime could we expect from such low. useless, de graded negroes? Those same negro men are being fed daily from the hands of some negro cook who is not getting more than $1.25 per week for her work, if that much. Such negroes will enter barrooms, mount whislvey or cider kegs and then argue script ure the livelong day, while the poor cooks are saving up their day’s meals breakfast, dinner and supper—for them which they themselves ought to have. Most of the white people, es- peohlly i n the large cities, are aware of this fact, .and they wil] not really give their cooks the wages they justly deserve. That being true, it is rea sonable to suppose a cook who carries a tip bucket or a pan cannot demand as much wages from hep employer as one who does not. These negro men always make it convenient to meet the cooks at the hack gates or in some alley op lane. The cooks have all packed in a half bushel pan, more or loss, all I bids of food, from wafles to stew beef and ice cream, covered up in the snmo pan. These idle negro men tire already full of chean. mean whiskey, eider or beer, and in the face of all this they go to work and eat the entire contents of the half bushel bucket o r pap that night and the next morning, and in many cases abuse the cooks because they failed to bring along some cigars or tobacco in her bosom. Drinking whiskey, beer, cider and using cocaine, and eating tiie.diff erent kinds of food all mixed uy in one pan will not only make men of this kind assault women, but kill them afterwards if necessary. The barroom keepers, too, are large ly responsible for the conduct of those kind of negroes. You cannot, force, beg, or persuade an honest and industrious negro to do, or even attempt to do, a thing of that kind. Allow me to suggest in an humble way a remedy which will. I be* lieve. change the state of affairs; something like this: cut out this tin bucket business, then these trifling negro men who are generally the cause of this existing trouble, will be compelled to earn a livng lawfully. \\’e have a vagrancy law and it should he enforced. The white men of this country made that law, and th<‘,v are the ones and only ones who cap en force it. The better class of negroes are not in any way responsible for the con dition of the lower element, and should not by any means he regarded as such. Such diabolical attempts at criminal assaults will exist as long as they are permitted to violate that most sacred law which speaks so for- ciably against men doing nothing for a support. What the better class of colored people want Is a line drawn between them and the above mentioned, es pecially when vengence by lynching Is resorted to. I write this .artlc’e in the fear of God and for the welfare of us all. Let’s have peace. Be: ry C. Little. Gcffn-'V, S. C. Pondfield Paraqraphs. Pondfleld, Sept. 29.—The surveying corps of the S. and W. Railway was making a survey t:ir >ugh this section last week. We don’t think the com pany would have "uv troub’e in secur ing a right of way t trough h tc. Our rteoj le would donate the rlghtofway to get t’-o r d Tlte cotto*: ri-'-i ! n this section is very short n f ct eot'< n is the -oor s: f 't a i < eu since 1831. ’ We "nn’t pro' ar y realize over sixty per "ent of a of rotten thin y-tar. We have nothing but the July crop, and not a very large one of tht£. Lev. A. D Davidson, of Gaffney, has, zo we underst nd resigned his pas- t/'r’te of Mt. Ararat church. Wil some one please inform ns of what nas become of those eight or - inw hund-ed Prohibitionists of two ■ ea-s ago? We are getting a little uneasy about them, as but few showed Feu selves at the recent primary ect’on Surely, gentlemen, you are * ha ring on us. Now, to our mind, here 're 325 actual prohibitionists i "’"erokee county and no more. It •Kr'ert v absurd to say that a sln- •e ' -oMbitlonist would either drink o u>r hi rself or vote for the sale of Iquor. It looks to a man up a tree "le South Carolina. Judging from the e m t of Lie recent election, had al most made a step sixteen years back wards. 1 want to remind the reform ors of South Carolina that, unless they wake up to a sense of their duty dur ing the next two years they are <io.w in a fair way to loose all that they have gained for the last sixteen years Watch! H. P. Gumtree. She (romam'oally)—“The Robin- -ons have a skeleton in their family.” He (absently mlndedly)—“Yes, I know. I saw him bathing this morn Ing.” Ten Year* Hence. (Greenville News.) A prominent man who is In the clt- on a visit makes the prediction that there will he a tro ly connecting Greenville and Spartanburg In less than ten-years. The News has al ready predicted that such a line will he in operation in not much more than half that time. In ten years we ex pect to see this whole Piedmont coun try a network* of electric railway. Interurban trolly traffic in South Carolina is not a thing of the future. It is a development of the present time. In this immediate vicinity fo* example, a trolly line Is now being constructed between Anderson and Belton, and it will be extended on to Greenville within two years. Other movements, less definite, however, are under consideration and some of them will he bound to go through. With an electric road from Ander son to Greenville as an assured fact, it will not he a hard matter to get capital interested in a line from Greenville to Spartanburg. There is already in an easterly direction, ex tending some miles into the country and touching several large mill com munities. The next step will be to extend a line <m to Gaffnev. where there is on foot already a movement to build an electric line for that im mediate community. With a continuous electric lino from Anderson to Gaffney, via Green ville and Spartanburg, it. will be an easy matter to travel across the en tire upper section of the State by trolley, and the advantages that would he derived from such develop ment in interurban traffic facilities would he innumerable and invalu able to the people of this thickly po- 1 pulated part of South Carolina. There lias been talk for some time of building a trolly line from Char lotte to Gastonia, a distance of 22 j miles, paralleling the main line of the Southern between Charlotte and the South Carolina line. With that line completed and cars running from Anderson to Gaffney, there would ho no trouble in the least to connect Gaffney and Gastonia, a dis- ance of •’fit or more miles. These things are not only possible but they are also a certainty in the next ten years, in our judgment. A Warninq. (Harper’s Weekly.) A young man in New York, who is mbitious to attain fame at. the bar. /as conversing with a friend touch ig the probabilities of success, when ho latter was moved to take a pessi- listic view of the situation. “Don’t you,” he answered, ‘ever’ de- pair of gaining a good practice at the iw?” “I do not,” was the confident re- ponse of the youthful disciple of tlaekstone. "At least you will admit,” went on he other, “that the profession is al eady over crowded.” "Perhaps it is,” laughingly respond d fh<“ youth. "All the same, I ropose to graduate in law, and those /ho ar»- already in the profession will j avo to take their chance.” FURNITURE AND STOVES * Biggest car of Furniture that ever come to Gaffney just arrived, atid we have some values that can’t be heat. : ; ; : Our car of Stoves came in last week. They are the celebrated Leader line that we have been selling tor years \V F e have them from $10.00 t«» $40.00 so \ou can’t fail to be pleased. We don’t w mt you to take our word for it, but come and see for your self : : ; - Shuford & LeMaster, Furniture, Stoves and Undertaking. W. C. CARPENTER Millinery Opening Thursday and Friday, Octi-5 Everybody cordially invited to attend. Miss Mae Harmon, of Baltimore, has charge of the Millinery Department this season. W. C. CARPENTER &9HUK3fe The Mutual Benefit Life Ins. Co. For 61 Years This company has stood for all that is best in American Life Insurance. It has proved that it is possible to up hold what is right and oppose what Is wrong and succeed in building up and maintaining a great business. The recent investigations show these facts. The large annual dividends, low pre mium rates and liberal policy forme make the contracts of The Mutual Benefit the most desirable to be had. We sell you more insurance for less money than any other Life Insurance Company doing a legitimate business. In justice to yourself and family see a representative of this company before you buy Life Insurance. To convince you fully of these facts we ask for an interview with Jones J. Darby, GAFFNEY, S. C e SOUTHEASTERN LIFE INSURANCE CO., Of Spartanburg, S. C. You Should Take a Policy With This Company Because— PIRST: It is the first and only old-line Lite Insurance Company in South Carolina. Second: It is officered and controlled by home people, and keeps money in the State. Third: Its Policies are simple contracts, free from speculation as to results, each item and figure being guaranteed. Fourth: Its premium rates are lower than most old companies, and yet it furnisher just as much, just as good and just as safe insurance. Fifth: Its Elective Investment Policy combines Investment, Insurance, Endowment and Annual Income, and is proving a winner. ELLIOTT ESTES, President. DIRECTORS. GILES L. WILSON, Secretary. A. II. Twichbix, President and Treasurer Clifton Mfg. Co. and I). E. Con verse Co. Jno. B. Cleveland, President C. & W. C. Railroad and Whitney Mfg. Co. Jno, A. Law. President and Treasurer Saxon Mills and President Central National Bank. L. E. Car RIGAN, President People’s Bank of Darlington. W. S. Montgomery, President and Treasurer Spartan Mills. Stobo J. Simpson, Attorney-at-Law. AUG. W. Smith, President Wooilruff Cotton Mills and Bank of Woodruff. A. L. White, President Merchants and Farmers Bank. Elliott Estes, President. Medical Directors—Geo. R. Dean, M. D., Geo. W. Heinitsh, M. D. Reliable, Energetic Man Wanted ae Agent in GaHney. ELLIOTT ESTES, Jr., General Agent, Spartanburg, S. C. NOTICE To Farmers We are prepared to store and insure your Cotton and to advance money on same. Call on us. A. N. Wood &D.W. Hicks Sept. 25-mi. Are You Needing a Well ? If you are thinking of drilling a well on *our premises, consult Lee Bros., Gaffney or Spartanburg, S. C , as to the merits of a drilled well. We are now drilling a well for the Victor Cotton Oil Co , in this city, and will be pleased to furnish any information desired on the subject of wells. • . . . OK. J. JTUIVTEK, 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 — ■ 1 1 - — tt. A. Clark, Cancer of noite Kook Hill, 8. C. J. J. Neely, Cancer of neck. Tlrzah, 8. C Mrs. J. D.Williams, Cancerof face Tlrsah,8. C. Mrs. 8. R. Nelson. Cancer of nose.ogdon, 8. C. Miss Ida Van T tsselj. Cancer of breast Guth ries vl lie, 8.0 W. A. Mulltnax, Cancerof face King’s Creek, 8. C. W. W. Stroup, Cancerof face....Lowell, N. 0. Mrs. Barbory McCraw, Cancer of forehead Gaffney. 8. 0. 8. B. Hanna, Cancer of neck Gastonia, N. 0. David Hawkins. Cancerof noseGaffney, 8. 0. J. L. Kagan, Cancerof face. .Gastonia, N. C. D. 11. Cobb, cancer of lip Smyrna, 8. C. Mrs. Elizabeth Tracy. Cancer of breast Gaff ney, 8. O, J. K. Qambrlgbt, verocose ulcer of leg, Blacksburg, 8. C. tt. C Green, cancerof face, Moorsboro, N. C. G. Hendricks, dropsy and asthma, Gaff ney, 8. O. Mrs. Minnie Mode, Rheumatism, Gaffney, S.C.s Mrs. Mary White, chronic ulcer of leg, Gaff ney, 8. C. Mrs. N. 8 Adams, cancer of shoulder. Lowell, N. C. Andy H. Blanton, scrofula . .Gaffney, 8. C. O. W. Green, cancer of neck Mooresboro. N.C Z. A. ROBERTSON The Real Estate Man Has desirable property for sale in all parts Lee Bros., of the city. Gaffney or Spartanburg, S.