Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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j THE LEDGER. Tuesday and Friday, Ed. H. DeCamp, Editor and Publisher. Th*' Ledger is not responsible tor the tIows of correspondents. Hereafter no adveKlsementa will be aecepted at this office after 9.30 o’clock on Mondays and Thursdays. Watch your label and the date. Aad renew before ’tie too late; K there be an error, don't get mad. Report to us—we’ll make you glad. Renumber, ’tls our atm to please. But errors are like peskv fleas— They will creep Id In spite of fate. Therefore, watch your label and the date. —Original. NOTES AND COMMENTS. The fourth series of the Cherokee Building and Loan Association open ed Saturday. If you haven’t subscrib ed to the stock already do so this week and thus help toward building up Gaffney. * * * .May we be permitted to suggest to the town council that it would not be a bad idea to pass a resolution of thunks to S- nator Latlmore for the bill he has introduced to erect a government building at Gaffney? Surely we should at least show our appreciation of his efforts in our be half. • • • There is one thing that is to be ad mired in Senator Otts and that is his tendency to give publicity to his acts. So far as we know he has not intro- duoed a single bill that is of vital in terest to the people of Cherokee or Gaffney that he has not invited and sought the advice of his constituency. He does not seem to be concealing anything. • • • In estimating the amount of the school taxes that will he paid by the mills, railroads, banks, etc . in case the bond issued is voted, we included the amount that would be paid by the Merchants and Planters bank, hut the compositor inadvertently omit ted their name, and we are confident no institution would pay that tax more freely than the M. and P. hank. • • • When we observe a man like Van nie Hughey, whose limbs are almost tied in a knot by reason of some misfortune, working cheerfully every day, making a living and laying by a competence, we feel like lifting our hat and making obeisance to him. but when we see a big, strapping healthy fellow begging alms we feel like lift ing our boot toward the caudal ex tremity. In this day its disguesting to see people begging, and every one of them should be put on the chain gang. • • • Mr. V. B. Cheshire, who bought Mr. C. C. Langston’s interest in the An derson Intelligencer some months ago. has purchased the Interest of Mr .7. F. Cliiikscales, thereby becoming sole owner Mr. Chesire announces that The Intelligencer will remain a semi- weeklv for the present but that it is likelv that before tho close of lOhT it. will become a daily. The Intelligencer is a splendid paper and whether it remain a semi weekly or become a dailv The Ledger wishes for It a con tinuance of the success it has -’f-hived in the past. • • • Several of our neighbors are talk ing baseball. The Ledger is a devotee of the game and we wish Gaffney would limber up and get into one of these leagues that is being talked about. An enthusiastic baseball crank writes as follows; I am enclosing a clipping from The Slat > which you may or may not have seen. Can't you make an effort to have Gaffnev butt into something like that I see by another paper that the Stat » League is to enlarge to an eight team circuit and desires to hear from cities wishing membership had good material last year and with a little coin could get an A1 team. It does s^em that with leagues siir compelled to admit that his recent speech in the Senate, as published in last Friday’s ledger makes mighty interesting reading. In it he recited some interesting South Carolina his tory. By the way. since we com© to think of it The Ledger is the only paper in South Carolina, so far as we are aware, which has done Sena tor Tillman the justice to give this speech in full. Senator Tillman says many things which, in our humble judgment, h© should not say, but when h© says a good thing we want to give him credit for it. W\? wish he were* lees inclined to say harsh things, but we suppose it would be difficult for him to change his nature. He is our senator and will be for six years longer should he live that long, and we sincerely trust he will, and longer, too. and we think the best thing to do is not to turn Tillmanite, but. to try to get Tillman to be Con servative. W© can't do that by con- tinuallv finding fault with everything lie does regardless of the fact wheth er it be meritorious or not. PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS. Mrs. Rhoda L. Foster, of Anderson, is in the city,, the guest of her daughter. Mrs. John G. Bramlett, on Johnson street. Senator Otts and Representative Clary spent Sunday at home with their families. Both returned to Co lumbia today. T. K. Vassey. of Cowpens. w r as in the city Saturday. F. A Noblett, of Greer, was in the city Saturday. Jno. R. Pennington, of Cherokee Falls, was in the city Saturday. R. Vaughn, of Wllklnsville, was in the city Saturday. Tabe Ellis, of R. F. D. 2. was in town on business Saturday. C. D. Barnhill, of R. F. D. fi. spent Saturday in the city. J. H. Rnppe, of Maud, was in the citv yesterday. M. W. Littlejohn, of Ravenna, w r as in the city yesterday on business. Gad Wright, from the lower section of the county, was in the city yester day. C’apt. G. Wash McKown was among the visitors to the city yesterday. Squire John Alexander, of l^awm. was in the city yesterday. E. P. Macomson. of Mercer, was in tin? city yesterday. J. B. Brown, of Goucher, was in the cite a short while yesterday. W. H. Wright, of R. F D. 4, was in the city yesterday. Mrs. C. H. Foster, nee Agnes Lit tlejohn. of Sumter, is in tho city visiting her parents, I>r and Mrs. C. M Littlejohn, on Limestone street. Wm. Caldwell, of King’s Creek, was in tow r n yesterday on business. G. W. I^emaster. of Wilkinii\<lle, was among the city visitors yester day. , A|| the Leg’s Fault. (New York Tribune.) Some thougtless persons do not realize what It means to be a cripple. "Pat” Lahey, a one legged citizen from Sands street, came into the Adams street police court and ex plained some of his inconveniences. He was after a warrant. “What’s the trouble?’’ asked Clerb Eilperln. "Trouble,” returned “Pat.” “Why there’s been nothing but trouble in my house since I saved up and got me a wooden leg.” “Who’s responsible?’ Inquired the clerk. “Mly wife, Frances,” said “Pat.” “You see, it’s this way. Whenever I take off my wooden leg, if she hap pens to be ‘sore’ on me, she sneaks it away and hides it. It got so 1 could n’t attend to business* often. For the last three weeks I have had to sleep with the leg on to keep her from stealing it and I can’t get a decent night’s rest. She says that if she ever gets hold of my leg again she’ll knock me oyer the head with it, and I guess she’s capable of it. I want her arrested and made to understand that, she’s to let mo take my leg off when I want to and enjoy the com forts of home.” Jacob Riis and the Pretty Girl. (Tho Caledonian.) Jacob Riis. whose heart covers all suffering humanity, recently engaged a pretty, soft-haired girl to work his typewriter. While her face was pret ty he also saw- that it w'as pale, and his heart went out to her as a suf fering being. After watching the girl for half an hour one day he asked her in a tone full of sympathy. “Don’t you get awfully tired, some times. from that incessant click, click of the machine?” “Yes, sir,” replied the glrh “I do. it wears on the nerve dreadfully.” “I thought so,” said Mr. Riis. warm ing up. now’ that he had found a suf fering soul. "Don’t typewriters ever graduate from their work*?” “They do.’’ replied the girl, as a happy light, broke over her face. “And then what, do they turn their hands to?” asked flhe warm hearted reformer. “Well.” .said the girls, as the pretti FOR SALE. ! which makes her a first class roadr ster. For terms see Ed Stacy. Feb. 5, It. FOR SALE OR RENT—Om> lot and store house on Victoria avenue. Ap ply to Mrs. J. F. Garrett. Jan. 2 , 5 tf. FOR SALE—Good family Apply to Dr. J. F. Garrett. home. tf. FOR SALE—A lot of cheap mules for cash or on time. Apply to J. L Sarratt Jan. 16, tf. Advertising. (Merchants Journal.) Ordering advertising space is not ^OR SALE—One handsome sorrel a question of how little a merchant 1 standard bred Kentucky mare, six needs to spend to obtain i i re rep- | years old. Has the quality and speed resentation in the advertisi g col umns, but of bow prosper^ o and important he wishes to appear be fore his trade. The punjose of ad vertislng is to advertise, and the best advertising of all is the well- displayed appaeranee of prosnerity and importance. Whatever may be the amount of the firm’s advertiseing j appropriation, it should be spent so | as to create an impression of success and self confidence. The people at large estimate a business house, first of all. by the seriousness with which it regards itself, and unless a firm at taches importance to its own station in the mercantile community, it need not expect others to do so. The old saying that “nothing succeeds like success,” is as true today as ever, but it mav be added as a corollary that in the absence of actual success, and during the struggle to achieve it, nothing succeeds like the appear ance of success. In the presence of success, nothing is more effective than advertising to make the success known. No justification can be found for failing to keep one’s business achievements constantly before the buying public, or for placing one’s outward manifestations of internal progress in tho foreground. No ex planation of such a policy is possible, except a false idea of economy. FOR SALE—Two hundred ud twenty-two acres of good farming land near Blacksburg; twenty-two acres of which Is good bottom land; two comfortable dwellings; also out houses; land well timbered. Apply to t&d. H. DeOamp. Gaffney. S. 0. FOR SALE—2 secondhand Metta & W Iss kerosene engines, 2 horse power, cheap. Apply this office. FOR SALE—Old newspapers at this office, 10c a hundred. FOR SALE—Firstclasg babbit met al. Apply at Ledger office. Not What H e Expected. Former Governor Hoard, of Wis consin. when addressing a rural au- FOR RENT. FOR RENT—A good farm. Apply to J. I. Sarratt. Jan. 11 tf. FOR RENT—Eight room house; good orchard; good garden; barn. dience. was wont to make the state i Apply to J. C. Lipscomb, ment that he spent his boyhood on a j Jan. 18 tf. farm, and that in consequence he had " always remained a farmer. RENT—Office rooms over The During election time, relates the I ^PPlv to Eld. H. DeCamp. New York Herald, the former gover-1 Nov. 2-tf. nor was participating in a political, FOR RENT—My store house and meeting at a smal! country town Af black8mlt h 8h0D a nd tools W. T. ter he had been presented to the > j j u chairman to deliver the main address, j J__ he at once strove to create an atmos- [ phere of sympathy between the an-j WANTED. dience and hlmse.lf. — — ^— “Gentlemen.’’ he said, “I come from WANTED—Position as superinten- way hack there. 1 was born and i ‘lent of construction of buildings. T. J. bred between the corn rows. Now. I Alexander. what am I?" A lone, rasping voice from the rear _ Jan. 29tb tf. est pink blushes suffued her cheeks, “they generally marry their employ-' (> ^ ^ hall ffave the answei. ers >• * “Th<m ye’re, a punkin!’’ Then Mr. Riis turned hurriedly to his work. In WANTED—At once, two painters, i L. R. Gaines. Jan. 29, Feb. 1-6, pd. ... . D ... WANTED—Half dozen copies of Mixed Relations. j-pjjg i^dge,. 0 f December 21st, Send a certain western town there | ^ t j,j g 0 flj ce i lives a couple, both of whom, before | ! their marriage, had Been widowed Didn't Think Any More of Him For it. An English excursionist who was up near Balmoral on a certain occas ion. went into a cottage to get a drink of w’ater. "So the queen is a neighbor of yours?” he said to the housewife, while she was serving him. “Yes.” “And she is quite neighborly’ isn’t she. and comes to visit you in your cottage?” “She’s well enough.” “Tjook here, ma’am, you don’t seem satisfied with her majesty. May I ask you why?” “Weel, I’ll t«!l 7e if v« wish. The fact is we don’t leik the gangln's on at the castle. We don’t leik tho way they k<‘ep or don’t keep the Sawbath —goin' out. in boats on the Sawbath day.” The excursionist tried to appease her and said: "Oh, well, after all ma'am, you know there is a precedent for that. You remember our fjord, too. went out on the Sabbath—" She interupted him: “Oh. ave! I ken it w’ee! eneuch. You canna tel! me aught aboot hem (that I dinna ken aready. An’ I can tell ve this: We don’t think any more o’ hem for it. either.” A Dangerous Cargo. There was great excitement one day some years ago at a small Rus sian port on the Baltic. The captain of a newlv arrived foreign vessel was arrested for the alleged crime of hav ing attempted to bring a large num ber of dynamite bombs into the country of the czar. They brought the unhappy man before the judge, who Happened to he one of the few Gaffney (intelligent men in the town. “Where are the bombs,’’ sal i th^ judge. • "On board the ship." said the po'lce. rounded by leagues, touching us on I "There is a small cargo of them.” al] sides, we could g^t into touch j “Go and fetch one,” said the judge, with some. ,Why don’t you proceed | “it is dangerous to touch it." said on the q. t. to sound the people in re-1 the police gard to this. j “I cannot convict,” said the judge, * ♦ * ’'unless 1 have the material evidence. i Brin" me a bomb.” i With njueh trepidation and many . precautions they at. last brought one •lav the full text, of the hill which on a cushion of cotton wool. Tta takes the operation of the Gaffney : bulge laughed a mos' unjudicial electric light plant and water works out of the hands of the board of al- An Unexpected Ret°rt. (Lippincott’s Magazine.) , ghe had ]pft wjth fo „ r rh | 1c i rPn A country newspaper man. who is t 0 face the battle of life, while he very 'ond of honey, visited a neigh-! three to take rare of. boring citv recently, and at one of the j Today they have ten children run- hotels he was served with some de- I ning around the house, and the moth- licious honey. He enjoyed it so much e r has a hard time to keep peace in i that he told his wife all about It when , the family. Usually the trouble is be lie returned home. On his next trip! tween the children of the former mar- to the city she accompanied him. riages .but the other day. relates Har- They visited the same hotel, and i per’- Weekly, things were somewhat when the noon meal w’as being serv- different, and the woman knew not ed he said to his wife that lu> hoped what to do in the case, so she rushed they had some more of that honey. | out of the house and shouted to her It did not appear, however, and the j husband: newspaper man. therefore, beckoned j “Oh. John, come in quick! Your to a waiter and said: “Say, Sambo, I children and my children are whip where is my hbney?” He w r as almost paralyzed when that worthy grinned and replied: “She doan work here no more. boss. She done got a job at the silk mill.” The wife received a handsome new dress before they re turned home, after making a solemn promise not to tell the story. ping our children.” Fire Insurance! W»> repr<w‘nt somu of the largest and most substantial companies and would like to write your busines. 5-14-tf. Smith & Lipscomb, Agent£ I I i a I Btoause of bs imi>ortancp • to th< people of Gaffney we are printing to Where Charity Begins. The public spirited lady met a lit tle boy on the street. Something about his appearance halted her. She started at him in her near-sighted way. The lady: Little boy, haven’t you any home? The little^ " Oh, yes’m; I’ve got a home. “And loving parents?” “Yee’m.” “I’m afraid >ou do not know what love really is Do your parents look after your nu.ial welfare? ‘•Yes’m “Are they bringing you up to be a good and helpful citizen?” “Yes’m ” “Will you ask your mother to come and h*-ar me talk on ’When Does a Mother’s Duty to Her Child Begin?’ next. Saturday afternoon, at. 3 o’clock, at Lyceum hall?” (Explosively): “What’s the matter with you. ma? Don’t you know me? I’m your little hoy!” Significant Hint. A promin'nt southern physician, upon reaching his office one morning, found an old negro who had been a servant in his tamily standing in the waiting room, relates the Woman’s Home Companion. The old negro, af- ! r mentioning several painful syrjip- toms, related his usual hardluck story and begged the doctor to pre scribe. The physician Ailed a small bottle anil said: “Take » teas|>oonful of hi - Mose, after each meal, and come >’(k in a dny or two if you do not fee! hr t lor." “Mirsc John. I can’t tak • dat modi- ine. ’ answered Mose. You will i ave to take it if you vnnt tt) get well.” "Hov.’m l gwine take it? Whar’m i gwine got de meals?” Garden Hint* For February. | Crow Put soil in good condition by break ing eight or ten Inches deep. Sow in hot beds, early Cabbage. Beets, Let tuce. Radish, Egg Plant. Tomatoes and Pepper. From middle to last of month sow in open ground, early 1 Peas. Kale. Beet. Spinoch, Carrot, j Raddish and Paisly. Set out Onion Sets. Early planting of Potatoes can ! he made. Some gardeners wonder! why their neighbor has nicer vege- j tables than they can raise. Often the trouble is in the seed. They spare, no expense nor pains in fertilizing and cultivating, but overlook the all important matter of the quality of their seed. We guarantee our seed | to be sound and of pure selected | strain. New seed just arrived. GAFFNEY DRUG CO DR. W. K. GUNTER, L> E T 1ST Office in Star Theatre Building. . Phone No. 20. and bridge work a specialty I I DR. J. F. GARRETT, DENTIST. Moved to now oMc* over Frederick Street. Front of the Battery. ’Phone in Office and Reeldenoe. WILLIAM 8. HALL, JR, Attorney at Law, Office over The Battery. Gaffney, 8. C. Prompt attention gtve»- to ell bnatner dermen and places it into the hands of a co niniifs on to be elected bv the people. This hill will, in al] prob ability, become a law r today. In the event it. becomes a law all we have to say is that the people should he careful about the board of control it elects No man should b eput on this board who is interested in any land company or any considerable amount of real estate Vhich he would he In he said, so it was. a civoiinut.’ Card of Thanks. We heartily thank our friends for |t!'. kind attention £ive» our I unhand | and father in hts severe iHuess and j 'l-'ath. We ever pray God’s richest blessings uiwan them, and if at any 1 Mme w mav lend them a helping hand we will gladly rc-pond:-:. Mrs. W. J. Crock<•" and family. —Best thing on earth for cold and Tin. Naturc’c Cotftth F.emody and dined to improve at. the expense of ( f ' r T Tablets. If a f>0c bottle of Na- tho tax payers in order to reap the benefit therefrom. The men selected should bo good, prudent business men who own very little, if any n-al estate outside of. their homos. » • • It matters not how much we may differ with Senator Tillman we are ture’s Couqh Remedy and a 2.1c box of Grip Tablets don't knock that cold wo wi'i refund that TSc as cheerfully as wc took It. Gaffney Drug Co. One* 25 cents box of Grip Tablets ''in ond that cold in the head. No cure, no pay, Gaffney Drug Co. Subscribe for Th« Ledger: $1 a year. An Educated Negro. negro v. is discovered carrying a ■r largo number of books, which ‘UMvi forth*the inquiry: “Going to school?” “Vast ear.” Do 'you study ail rhqso books?” “Yo, sar; d’Vs my bruddor’s. I’se I ignorant kind er nigger ’side him. ’ -s. Yer jest oughter see da.t nlg- ’ ■ rin’. ' le ha* gone an’d ph r rl e’enn through addition, partition, iMraetion. distraction, ah mtiitation. i dleatdon. creation, amputation and d up tat ion.” —Trv n bortln of “Natures Cough ' and a box of “Grip Tablets” r that rough md cold If they don’t ■e the GafTpev Drug Tn will re ’tri.t vonr money Is that fair’’ ’nwt nothing tf they don’t rure --One 50c bottle Nature’s Cough ' > «medy will put an end to that '"i'»h- no cure, no pay. Gaffney Drug Co. Advertising it called by some an art. If it be an art it is the art of telling a story simply and convincingly. Nobody knows more about the strong qualities of an establishment than the proprietor who oversees it. Other things being equal, nobody should be ab’e to write more convinc ingly of the articlea he of fers for sale. In a store where the employer sells (oods side by side witk his clerks It Is rare that the employer will not be tke best salesman. The reason issimple. He knows the goods from A to Z. He probably has pur chased them. He knows his aims. His arguments cany weight because they are convu.cing. The same arguments pre sented in the same way, with the same enthusiastic spirit, the same knowledge of detail, would attract new customers if presented through the advertis.ug col umns of this paper. 1/ you have not triad it, why not bcs'in? It you have tried it and ir* not sate ftwi, let us know shoot U. Fire, Life, Accident, Health Insur- You paid good money for it. It is your own per sonal property. You did not pay anyone to tell you where to take it. Take it anywhere you choose. If you bring it to us, we guarantee it » will be “put up” exactly | as the physician desires. CHEROKEE ! DREG COMPANY. FRKSH HUYLER’S always on hand. *111 .J The Rhode island Reds Solve the difficult problem of combining in one and the same bird, utility witS the fancy qualities. I have had the Reds eight years, and have tried all other kinds and find the Reds the best all-purpose fowl of all others. I have spent hundreds . of dollars to find out which was the best and to get the finest in the country, and the Reds fill the bill, and I have as fine stock as carl ire found in the United States; not only the Reds, also Buckeye Reds, M. B. Turkeys and Toulouse Geese. To all who can do so, come and see my birds. CHEROKEE POULTRY YARDS, E. R, CASH, Prop. Feb5-12 1!» 26-Tues 1 t J i ( 4 ( ance Surety Bonds. Jones J. Darby Ramsey & foyle Painters, Paper Hangers and Decorators Gaffney, S. C. $ We have just received the largest and most complete line of samples of Wall paper. Sin-O-Wall andSaritas ever shown in Gaffney. We also paint. Esti mates and references cheerfully fur- Eeb 5.imo. nished. RAMSEY & COYLE Tennessee Lump Coal $6.50 per ton Delivered. $3.25 per 1-2 ton Delivered. $1.65 per 1-4 ton Delivered. No less than 500 lbs. Delivered. Victor Cotton Ofl Co’my. Feb. i-im.