The ledger. [volume] (Gaffney City, S.C.) 1896-1907, October 16, 1906, Image 2

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-r THE LEDGER. Tuesday and Friday, Ed. H. DeCamp, Editor and Publisher. Hereafter no advertisements will be accepted at this office after 9.30 o'clock on Mondays and Thursdays. Watch your label and the date. And renew before ’Us too late; If there be an error, don’t get mad. Report tc us—we’ll make you glad. Renumber, 'tls our aim to please. But errors are like peskv fleas— Thev will creep In In spite of fate. Therefore, watch your label and the date. —Original. NOTES AND COMMENTS. John Shari) Williams, of Mississ ippi. delivered a Jeffersonian Demo cratic speech at Statesville. N. C.. on Saturday. It was a great day for the 1 -laterrifled of Iredell county. * * • Charlotte has placed a tax of $1,000 on cider. If we could put a tax on people for inviting their friends to take a drink with them and collect it. it would add to the success of pro hibition. * * * ' An expert has been employed to take chtrge of the rectifying plant of the State dispensary, thus opening up another avenue of graft. My. my, how easily the people of South Caro lina win let some people pull the woo] over" their eyes. • • • The Southern Railway continues to have its trouble. There was a wreck- near Winnsboro Sunday morning in which thre • were killed and several itrured. and one thousand machinists are on strike. Ail together the lot of the railroad magnate cannot b.e a hap py one. * * * Earle H. Smith, the trusted cashier of the Carolina office of the Life in surance Company of Virginia has dis appeared. .and his accounts are $500 short. Smith was a sweet voiced singer, a society favorite and a man about town. He was from Spartan burg and tile gavities of the Capital City were too much for him. * * * Tile doctors advise that the chop ping of a little stove wood before breakfast is a good aid to digestion.— Newberry Herald and News. The doctors advise it. do they? Well, whv don’t the doctors take their own medicine? We’ll bet if the doc tors ever gave you any .such advice that the advice was totally disregard ed. We say this after an acquaint ance of twelve years, durin" which time, we can truthfully say. and call V’on Rut McGhee to prove it. that you have never done a lick- of work. * * ♦ Senator Tillman, it is said, made $25.iW0 out of his lecture business dur ing the past summer Some of his critics have never made that much during their whole lives—Anderson Mail. That’s so! And Brother Carpenter is perhaps one of them. But that doosn'* sav that his critics were not rigiu and that he was not wrong. He is also said to have made $25,000 out of another side line, but it is no honor to him even if he has. and if he has not it's no honor to him that people should think he has PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS. * • * A local dealer yesterday informed a Ledger representative that during last year he shipped $20,000 -worth of hogs and cattle from Tennessee to South Carolina, “and” he added, “there is no reason why this money should not be kept at home, and it could he kept here if our farmers would only adopt cattle raising." We agree with this statement. It does look like the farmers of South Caro lina could make money raising cattle, if the farmers of Tennessee ca,n make it. Our farmers talk about not being able to raise cattle because we have not the grass and yet at the same time they complain of not being able to keep their crops clean because of the grass The truth of the matter is that they have never attempted to raise grass for cattle grazing. It does look to us .as if it would be an easy matter to raise grass where It grows so luxurently notwithstanding the ef forts to keep it down. • • • Someone dynamited Harrell college, a negro institute at Seneca, last Fri day night. A press dispatch says: Rev. J. F. Williams, colored presid ed over the college and it was sup ported by Northern white people. He went to Seneca from Abbeville sever al years ago. and It is said has made himself very objectionable to the white people since his arrival. He has preached incendiary doctrines, it is alleged, and has advised the ne groes not to work for the white Peo ple. On account of all this a letter of warning was sent him several weeks ago advising him to leave Se neca. but it seems he paid no atten tion to It. We submit, however, that this w-as the wrong method to adopt. If Wil liams was objectionable and taught Incendiary doctrines he could have beep dealth with by law If the-e fs no law to cover the case then he was not guilt / of anything for which to be punished, and there was no excuse In destroying the property simply to vent an illfeeling toward him. It la such things as these that are continu ally bringing ug before the public In an unfavorable light Mrs. R. H. Sams and family, of Al lendale. who have been summering in Gaffney, left yesterday for their low country home. Miss Juliet Henry, of Greenville, who has been visiting Miss Mignon Walker, left yesterdav for home. Mrs Harry P. Shaw, of Charlotte, who has been visiting her parents. Capt. and Mrs. S. S. Ross, of this city, left Saturday for the Queen City. N. H. Littlejohn went to Cow pens yesterday. Rev. C. F. Felmet, of Converse, was in the city yesterday. Ed. H. Gaines, of Schnapps fame, returned Sunday night from Atlanta, where he was in attendance upon the American Bottlers’ Association con vention. W. Henry Ross went to Spartanburg Saturday to see the circus. Misses Jenelle Thompson. Nell De- Camp and Willie DeCamp were de lighted spectators at the circus at Spartanburg Saturday. The “old man” went along to take ca”" of tjiem. Prof. Harry Knox, of Greer, spent Sunday in the city with his family. Mrs. John A Monroe, nee Georgia popper, who has been visiting rela tives in Gaffney for several weeks, returned to her homo in Augusta. Ga., Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. Smith Gossett were visitors to Spartanburg Saturday .1. El). Jefferies went to Spartanburg Saturday to see the animals. Paul V. Gaffney and sons went to Spartanburg Saturday to see the cir cus. Floyd Spake was among th« Gaff- neyites in Spartanburg Saturday. Will Turner was .a Spartanburg vis itor Saturday. Happy Cal Parish went to Spartan burg on business last Saturday. Rex Bostick, of Asheville. N. C.. was i" the city Sunday, the guest of Kyle Davenport. Tom L. Brown left yesterday for GreenvilP to attend the Cnited States court. He is a '''ror at this term. Mrs Tom L. Brown .and children left, yesterday for Laurens, where they go to visit friends and relatives. Mrs. J. L. Webb and Mrs. H. B. Otiinn. of Shelby. N. C., are visiting their sister. Mrs. T. Davenport, in this city. Miss Beulah Herndon has returned to her home at Grover after spending several days at Mr. G. P. Hamrick’s. Mr Charlie Austell spent Sunday at Earl N. C. Miss Bertha Austell visited rela tives at Earls. N C.. Sunday. Mr. R. M. Rogers, of Spartanburg, spent Sunday ni' T iit with his father. Mr. J. T. Rogers. Dr Joe Littlejohn was in Spartan burg Sunday. Mr. Roy Osborne spent Sunday in Spartanburg. Miss Aurelia Lodge returned from Snartanburg Sunday, where she had been spending a few days. Mrs. Joe Littlejohn returned from a visit to Jonesville Sunday. Mrs. Felix Lipscomb and children have returned front a visit to relatives in Spartanburg. Mr. Eli Roberts, of Shelby. ^ visit ing his daughter. Mrs. F. N. Wood. Mrs. Will Spearman and children spent a few days in Spartanburg last week. Mr. E. L. Tate, from Corinth, was i- town Saturday. Mr. K. L. McCullough, of Mercer, was in the city Saturday. Mr. Ran Spencer, of Corinth, spent Sunday in the city. Mr. Lucius Randall spent Saturday in Blacksburg. Rev. J. D. Bailey and wife, of Cow- pens, spent the day with W. D. Kirby last week. Mrs. L. N. Zimmerman, of Fair For est, spent a couple of davs with W. I). Kirby last week. W. D. Kirby made a business trip to Columbia last week. Mr. and Mrs. M. B. Sams, of Jones ville. spent Sunday in the city with Mrs. Sam s father, Mr. Moses Wood. Miss Rosa Little returned Friday from Greenwood, where she has been visiting for some time. M. L. Ross was an attendant upon the circus at Spartanburg Friday. G. D. Parris, an attache of The Led ger office, went to Ruthefordton. N. C., Saturday. Harvey Thackston. of The Ledger, is visiting relatives in Spartanburg. O. E. Wilkins, of Yorkville. was in the city Sunday. Mrs. M. G. Goudelock and Miss Es ther Goudelock went to Greemville yesterdav to attend the fair. Vernon Phillips, of Charlotte, was in the city Sunday. Rev. A. D. Davidson, of Beaver Dam. was in the city yesterday. Lee Little, of Possum Trot planta tion. was in the city yesterdav in his usual gloomy demeanor. He ventur ed the assertion that this was fine weather for cotton picking. ’Squire John Alexander, of Lawn, was in the city yesterday on business. This is Al| Dutch to Us. (Edgefield Chronicle.) The Columbia State, last week hinted that J. Rutledge McGhee and Elbert H. Aull had been holding a caucus at Newberry. We are confi dent that this caucus means mischief to the pure English breed. When that fiery young scion of Scotch-Irish blood and that portly Burhomast^r of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha put their heads to gether. there is danger brewing to something. And we shrewing sus pect that Edttar DeCamp i> in tae “band”—Eduar DeCamp descen led in a straight line from Marti—in his bath tub—bleeding Yes. it Is a rac* issue these mischievous Gaelic. G..1 lit- and Teutonis men are getting u»>. The pure English bre-d is to be driv en out. We tremble, and wish we were named Mike McKillicuddv or Hans Butzhardt, alls Buzzard. Or it is perhaps a political move? .The pa pers. to be sure, have published that Eduar DeCamp and Rutledge McGhee are not shouting for Bryan, but what of that? Who knows but that in the next Issue of their “damned papers” they may come out for government ownership of railroads? And that Burgomaster of Saxe-Coburg Gotha, he is a deep old sujet. If that New berry caucus means a race Issue, we know of none of us who are safe ex cept Johnnie Pat Meehan and Olaf Haakon Christensen. !—!—!—!—1—!—1—!—!—I—!«—! ! HEARST, 1 ! the "Mystery of Congress.” ! !—!—!—1—!—!—!—!—!—!—I— 1 Writing In Collier’s for October 13. on “Hearst and Hearatlsm,” Frederick Palmer says: Shiak we judge Hearst the office holder? For four years he has been in congress. No member has been less often in his seat. In extenuation his official staff point contemptuously to th.. low intellectual standards of the lower house. They say that as a reg ular attendant at the working sessions he would have descended to mere cler ical routine for which, with his varied interests and his vast plans for the ’Miblic good, he had neither the time nor the patience. But that excuse puts Hearst in the position of igno ranee of legislative methods at the time he sought an election to the house of representatives or of want ing to he a member for the sake of self-advertisement. His fellow Democrats in Washing ton sa/ that the members expected the older ones to take his orders. In the leadership of the Democratic minority was John Sharp Williams, the object of many slurs from the Hearst editors. But " nr .ainst him even yellow propriety could bring none of the accusations which have been leveled against Sen ator Bailey. Williams is an old-fash ioned Southern planter. Money to him means food and shelter; and his ideas are wealth. His record on corporate nuestions is as clean as a hound’s tooth. He is a debater and a parlia mentary leader who lias worked his way up to his present position through long service. Although elected as a Democrat, Hearst showed no particular inclina tion to work with the Democrats. An other excuse of his apologists for his inactivity was that he was helpless because he was not a member of any important committees. The only com mittee he asked for was that of labor, and out of this membership through his newspapers he has made much journalistic and political capital. When he did no active work in his first term it was scarcely to be ex pected that he would be promoted to the most important committee olaces in his second term when the most bril liant and indefatigable members of the minority, especially, do not re ceive important places until their third or fourth terms. His most notable appearance as a speaker in the house was in defense of his newspaper in a heated personal eo’loquv with Sullivan, of Massachu setts. who. in the words of Hearst, emitted chewed wind.” It is clear enough to anv tyro that lack of expe rience and lack- of knowledge of laws and how laws are made would have made him unable to cope as a floor leader with the Republican leaders. Wisely he has kept out of debate. He has beep the “mystery” of the house, who regarded his fellow members from the viewpoint of contemptuous superiority. Profuse in First Person Pronouns. Speaking of Hearst as an orator. Mr. Palmer says: With practice on the platform he has steadily improved. When he first appeared before an audience at Coop er Union, the man who was a mono maniac on the subject of printed self advertisement was nervous to the noint of trembling. Only with diffl- eultv did he repeat the few memor ized lines which he had to speak. His voice is high and not pleasant, but he hr- trained it to carry far. It is Hearst’s voice and it is characteristic. Hf' always begins a speech with “My friends.” His instinct is to start everv sentence with an “I.” In his Syracuse speech, opening his cam paign, he used “I” almost as frequent ly as prepositions. His political ad visers evidently warned him that few er personal pronouns were advisable if he wished to convince the public that his one man movement was a movement of the people. Of late it Is “We” who are. and not “I” who am to deliver the people from their wrong at the hands of the bosses and trusts But the “I" is the inborn and domi nant quality of Hearst. If you have anv doubt of this it will soon be dis pelled by association with the men around him. Their attitude is not that of the average man of politics to ward his leader: it* is not that of the men who were around Lincoln yester day or around Roosevelt or Folk or Taft today, which has the quality of fellowship, spontaneous admiration, and /rlendsbio. It is not that >f the men around big. bluff “Jim" Hill Like Rockefeller, the first of the business trust makt-rs. Hearst, the first of the trust makers of publicity, has no inti mates. Many men ar? employed by him. No man is his friend. Does Not Want to be Governor. Only Want* to be Inaugurated. Hearst siys that he does not want to be governor, continues Mr. Pal mer. . But Hearst has printed a great deal of complaint in his newspapers, and he thought that he would like to “make good." In this connection a man who knows him well sayg that he would enjoy the glorv of being elected President and the inagural show, but would prefer to deput the drudgery of regular hours and serv- In to a hired man. You feel his lack of definite ideas as to his policy and the means he would use to gain his end, his love of effects and his gift short appealing sentences, which are natural to a mind trained to head lines. You realize how in one of his ’spasms of energy he could take off that long frock coat and go into the composing room and tear the paper to pieces—at midnight, especially at midiflght. when he Is preparing a sur prise for the public in the morning— or how. listening In semi-nervous lan iruor. he could decide a dozen ques tions as a proprietor, in half an hour The. Un moral Hearat. Mr. Palmer says that when Hearst wants a thing he wants it hard. When he wanted the war with Spain he did not hesitate to use anv sensation to inflame public opinion. When he want ed to go to congress his editor step ped aside. When he wanted to be the Democratic candidate for governor he was as ready to betray his Independ ence I^oagtie and Its ticket as he was to deal with Murphy. vVith him It is a case <A<’aeBar can do no wrong. When he nus an object this headstrong ma*i proceeds ruth lessly regardless of means to an'end. Of restraint he has no sense, nor of the ordinary obligations of the Indi vidual to society. He is primitive, it is not Immoral—he Is un-mora! In the same way Brisbane is not in sincere. He is un sincere, in Bris bane’s mind there are no steady watch-fires, anyway, when rockets are so easy to send up and th«y break into such wonderful stars, and you mav vary the sensations if you please by having Roman candles and pin- wheels. and finally you may havg Wil liam Randolph Hearst in a set piece off with a fizz of surprise. Had the men sworn to public ser vice. had the men honored with office and set to keep watch fires of the dem ocracy burning, not forgotten their duty, had there been no Platts or De- pew's or Murphys, only the weak and the fickle would have ever turned to a skyrocket for guidance. Chopping Wood and Slinging Ink. (Columbia State.) There are some people that, aro al ways criticizing other folks. The Pee Dee Advocate laughs at the Gaffney Ledger because it. had the same para graph in its editorial columns that appeared in the Darlington News of i the same date. Well, what of it? Had | ir t the editor of The Ledger explained that, on account of a shortage of la bor. he bad been compelled to chop the family wood supply? Does the captious Advocate wish to have the j unfortunate editor to swing the axe and sling the ink at the same time? W do Justice to the Advocate to say that possibly it overlooked the ac count of the wood-chopping incident. If so we trust that it is now ready to admit that the editor of Tim ledger was. under the circumstanc iusti- fied in using the tailor-ma' 1 nara- naph that, also appeared in the News. An editor can’t fill both the kitchen stove and the heads of his readers at the same time—and it is certain that the former was the most important task, an act of se'f-preservatton as ft were. A Case of Mistaken Identity. (Bamberg Herald.) A young man of some note in the journalistic and literary world was at a crowded evening party, standing in an upstairs corridor. To him a lady in a magnificent dr ss and sparkling with jewels came with great eager ness. Though she was unknown to him. he modestly supposed shp had recognized him by the light of Genius shining on his Hyperion brow, or that she knew him by reputation. He was therefore prepared to receive her with smiies. “Are you the waiter?” she demand ed. “No!" he retorted with looks of thunder, "are you the chambermaid?” And he hurried downstairs. Cotton in the South is what wheat is in the Northwest. For economic purposes however, cotton has more uses and brings more money to the purse of producer and manufacturer than anv other single crop in this country. It is the largest item in the list of exports, and accordingly adds more to our balance of trade than any thing else we sell abroad. TAX NOTICE. The books for the collection of State and county tax will close De cember 31st. Ip January the penalty is 1 per cent; in February the penalty iy 2 per cent; In March the penalty is 7 per cent to loth of March, which is the last day taxes can be paid without execution. Tax payers owning prop erty, or paying tax for others, will ask for tax receipts in each township in which property is owned*. Letters in reference to taxes must reach me not later than December 28. I can then furnish information in time to save January penalty. Poll tax is payable by every male citizen from 21 to 60 years. Confed erate veterans excepted; they ston paying at 50 rs. Road tay is payable by ever.v male citizen from 21 to 50. except students while attending college, school trus tees. school teachers and ministers In charge of congregations. The following is the levy: For State 5 mills. For Const. School tax .. .. 3 mills. For Ordinary countv 3 mills. For County Road tax 1 mill. For Permanent Road tax ... 1 mill. For New Bridge Vt m W- For Sinking Fund Drayton- vilie & Gowdeysville Town ships Vfc mill. For Sinking Fund White Plains. Morgan and Lime stone Townships 1 mill. For Sinking Fund Cherokee Township 2 mills For Interest on Bonds Chero kee Township i mills. For Interest on Bonds Dray- tonville and Gowdeysvilfle Townships 2 mills. For Interest on Bonds White Plains. Morgan and Lime stone Townships Vt mill. The following is the special school tax; No. 9 4 mills. No .10 2% mills. No. 14 2 mills. No. 22 4 mills. No. 23 2 mills. No. 25 2% mills. No. 26 2 mills. •No. 27 V4 mill. W. H. Gooding. County Treasurer. FINAL DISCHARGE. Notice Is hereby given that I will apply to Hon. J. E. Webster. Probate Judge for Cherokee county. 8. C.. on Wednesday. Nov. 7th next, at 10 o’clock A. M.. for final settlement and discharge as guardian of the estate of Marv Bertha Marsh, minor, but now of age. Mrs Mollie E. Hawkins, Guardian for Mary Bertha Marsh, minor. Pub. In Gaffney Ledger Oct. 16. 23 & 30, Nov. 6. 1906. NELSON The Star Clothier. ’ "■ -■■■■■ — .1.1 M P PREPARE FOR COLD WEATHER ! Men’s Suits and Overcoats I am showing two exceptional values in each—no better values ever offered at Jio.oo and Long Coats are one third less in price than is being asked for same garments at other stores. Very special in new Tan Persian Lamb Coats at $14.00. $7.98. Boy’s Suits and Overcoats. Suits [or little fellows, three to eight years from 98c to $3.48 Suits for boys nine to sixteen years, 51.24 to $4.50. Over coats for boys, six to seventeen years old, 5 I 2 5 to $5.00. Men’s and Boy’s Shoes. This is a very good time to buy Shoes. In the primary markets Shoes are advancing in price, and it is only a question of time when I will he forced to advance prices, too. Men’s SI .15 to S4.00. Boy’s SI .24 to S2.00. Big line of Cuff Buttons and Scarf Pins just received. They are the latest; see them. Ladies’ Long Coats. Ladies buying Coats here tell me that my 54.0&, 57.50 and fio.oo Men’s and Boys’ Underwear. I am showing exceptional values in Men’s fleeced Shirts and Draw ers at 50c, 69c and fl.oo, and Boys’ heavy fleeced at 25c. Extra values in Men’s all wool Shirts and * Drawers at $1.50. Wright’s Health Underwear $1.00. Men’s “Nokota’’ Hats. Excellent line of Men’s Hats, 75c to 52.50. Men’s Derbies in four shapes. One look at these Hats is enough for 3011 to want one. Extra values in Men’s Derby Hats at “Nokota” S2.50 Hats. $1,50. Men’s wide Four-in-Hand Ties at 40c. Men’s Hose, 50c values, pat ented stripes, at 25c. OPPOSITE POST OFFICE. Shoes! Shoes! Shoes! For Men, Worfien and Children. You will soon need winter Shoes. We have them and can fit up your whole family. The quality is good and prices as low as the lowest. Buy them from us and we will save you money. Best patent Flour $2.25 per 100 pounds. J. R. Tolleson & Company, East Frederick Street. IVocir* The Oil IVTill. Three nice farms, close in. Two lots, 75x150, for the two, I225. One lot, 66x200, Granard St„ $iooo. One brick store kith six rooms up stairs, Granard St. 54000. Many other desirable lots to be had. MIC ! And learn how th purchase a home with your rent money. wmlite: Fire, Health and Accident Insurance. Real Estate and Insurance Office in National Bank Building. J. M. HTJTNTICR., 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 — -■ - K. A. Clark, Cancer of nose . .Rock Hill, S. C. J. J. Neely. Cancer of neck. Tlrzah, 8. C Mrs. J. D. Williams, Cancer of face Tlrzah,8. C. Mrs. S. R. Nelson. Cancer of no«e.UKdon, S.C. Miss Ida Van Ttssell, Cancer of breast Guth- rlesvllle, 8.0 W. A. Mulllnax, Cancer of face King’s Creek, 9 C W. W. Stroup, Cancei/of face— Lowell, N. 0. Mrs. Barbory McCraw. Cancer of forehead Gaffney, 8. C. 8. H. Hanna, Cancer of neck Gastonia, N. 0. David Hawkins, Cancer of nose Gaffney, 8. O. J. L. Kagan, Cancer of face. .Gastonia, N. 0. D. H. Cobb, cancer of lip Smyrna. 8. 0. Mrs. Elizabeth Tracy, Cancer of breast Gaff ney, 8. C. J. K. Bam bright, verocose ulcer of leg, Blacksburg. 8. 0. R C. Green, cancer of face. Moors boro. N. C. G. W. Hendricks, dropsy and astbma. Gaff ney, 8. O, Mrs. Minnie Mode, Rheumatism, Gaffney, 8.C- Mrs. Mary White, chronic ulcer of leg. Gaff ney, 8. C. Mrs N. 8. Adams, cancer of shoulder. Lowell, Andy H. Blanton, scrofula ...Gaffney, 8. C. O. W. Green, cancer of neck, Mooresboro, N.O