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THE LEDGER. Tuesday and Friday, Ed. H. DeCamp, Editor and Publisher. Tne Ledpflr is not rertpoualble for he vinws of oorrerpondents. Hereafter no adverJsemer.t* will ba accepted at this office after 9.30 o’clock on Monday* and Thursdays. -Fateh your label and the date. \nd renew before ’Us too late; If there be an error, don't ket niad, Report te ua—we’ll make you irlad. Renu mber, ’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. The fellow who shot a hole into the door of Providence church should • • t. a does of hs own medicine if ho can be caught. * * • Two weeks from today Tom Har ris will pay the penalty of his crime on the gallows Sheriff Thomas has had numerous requests from people to be allowed to witness the execu tion. « • • Preston Wood says the fanners around Algood are preparing their land so a s to raise more hog and hominy and will eschew cotton to a certain extent. It would be well if all our farmers would follow this plan. There is no reason why Che rokee’s smoke bouses and corn cribs should remain in the West anv long- *r. • * * Tom Harris’ mother-in-law. Mrs. Childers, and his wife and children viisted him in the county jail >es- terday. The meeting last' d about twenty minutes, during which time Harris displayed the most stolid in difference. and t was eot until they started to go he displayed any emo tion. His little boy said, "Come on, papa ” and Harris broke down and wept audibly. • • • The city fathers raised the license on fire insurance and the Southern Tariff Association comes right along and raises the rates on insurance. As a consequence the people who injure pay a higher rate and the la - surance people get more money out of the insured. It would have been better to raise the people a little more direct than to allow insurance people an additional rake off. m • • The more we see of Tom Harris and the more we talk with him are w- convinced that the man is not of sound mind. We couldn’t say he Is an idiot, but be certainly docs not act like a sane man. Wlhile it is Per fectly proper to P'lt such peo ple out of the way. still w r e do not believe he is responsible for his acts. We realize that it is unpopular to say that he should not hang and we do not. believe it will do him any good, still we believe he is irrespon sible, and. since it is wrong to hang crazy people we belive it will he wrong to hang him. His was an awful crime and the souls of decent people revolted at the horror of it. still if__he_is crazy he should not hang. A commission i n lunacy should be appointed to examine into hts case before he is hung. It would be a stain uiwm the county to nut to death an insane man. no matter how horrible his crime. • • • We confess our thickheadedness in our inability to decipher Mr. Hall’s ■leaning In his answer to an inquiry of a citizen in regard to issuing bonds. Mr. Hall is a capital lawyer, but it appears to us that he could tiav> stated the case more succinct ly. As It now stand it is as "clear a« mud” to us. We know we are at fault because of our inability to un- derstand what h© Is driving at, therefore no blame can be attached PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS. Mr. S. S. Sparkman, of Columbia. | was in the cltv on business Wednes- j day. Mrs. Geo. IMlinUon and little daughter, of Shelby, are visiting Mrs. Hlanton’s father, Mr. A. N .Wood. Squire John Alexander, of Lawn, was in the city yesterday. Capt. films. Petty, editor of the Caro lina Spartan, and one of the best fanners in the State, came down yes terday to look after the interests of l his Cherokee countv farm. ■ Mr. and Mrs. George Garrett By ers returned to the city last week j from a n extended trip north. A Harris, of Algood section. w r as ! among the city visitors Thursday, shaking hands with his friends. .fas. Byars, Jr., of Algood. was in the city yesterday. Preston Wood, of Algood. was in the city yesterday on business. L. U. Campbell returned to thte citv yesterday from a short business trip to Baltimore. Dr. W. C. Hamrick is home after a week’s trip to the north, where he went on business. Hurrah For Mr*. Hen! Thirty thousand crates of eggs, thir ty dozen in a crate, 10,800,000 egg in all. reached Mew York In one day this week from the henneries of the boundless us st, says the New York World. They were all real eggs, fresn eggs, ntrictly fresh eggs, just laid bv the Pens a few minutes before the trains started. When tin* produce men heard the 10,< 00,000 eggs were on the way they put down the price from 2."» I cents to IS cents a dozen. Storage i eggs, of which there are said to be about 0,000,0'0 In the freezers in New York and in Jersey rity, also dropped from L’0 cents to 11 cents a dnzon. The 1 speculators held them a little too long. 1 j thinking the winter would last till the | middle of March. Now they are being dumped out by the million, all labeled “fresh” to distinguish them from the “strictly fresh,” which the hens are nov, laying for Lent. Now that the hens are busy, at least lo.000.000 eggs a day will come to New York. y/’d f/- ^ n wM 3 Msrflr* mA ' I r $ KS r,'# 'tAv'\y*>{pi! ;; fr. from 'ltl| iV'j V Card of Thanks. With sad. yet hearts un ex press! 1)1 y full of gratitude, we desire to thank all our friends and neighbors for I their unbounedd kindness and ex- nressions of sympathy to and for us in our almost unbearable grief in | the death of our dear son and broth- ! er. It seems to us that no expres sion of sympathy nor act of kindness from our neighbors and friends far and near, have been withheld from us. We pray God’s blessings upon them all. Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Harvey and family. Death of Mrs. Champion. Mrs. Stanberry Champion died Wednesday afternoon about .3 o'clock after a protracted illness. Mrs. Champion is survived by a large family, including her husband. She was regarded as a good woman and n- friends are numbered bv the score. The interment will take nlace today at the old family buryingground beyond Broad river. The Case of Tom Harris. (Abbeville Press and Banner. 1 The case of Toni H.r'ris may not he a more plain case of murder than was a recent killing in Gaffney, but the white man had a b Her ehanoe than the negro. The court appointed «' lawyer to df gro and of cours that cape. The lawyer had prepare his case. The Banner thinks that the to he sentenced to the The Decline of Mirth. The explainl.on that laughter Is dls- | appearing on account of the sadness of the modern view of life is discard ed by Signor k. Frauceschini, an Hal iau psychologic. He concludes that mirth, like poetry, depends upon the Imagination a that the development I of the reasoning powers has tended to < banish the distortion that makes things j seem funny. The iqore the imagina tion is brought under the control of logic the less do we laugh. Education Is now scientific and practical, and to more than smile is becoming a char acteristic of a simpler and more nut oral culture, where imagination still holds sway and people have not for gotten how to laugh. Worked Lik e a Charm. Mr. D. N. Walker, editor of that spicy journal, the Enterprise. Louisa, Va.. says: “I ran a nail in my foot last week and at once applied Buck- len’g Arnica Sa’ve. No inflammation followed: the salve simply healed the wound.'’ Heals every sore, burn and skin disease. Guaranteed at Cherokee Drug Co. 25c. They usually wanl something from the pantry You remember the hunger you had —Home cooking counts for much in the child’s health; do not imperil it with a/um food by the use of poor baking powder. Have a delicious, pure, home-made muffin, cake or biscuit ready when they come in. To be sure of the purity, you must use H§¥ALpowd!?r Royal makes a difference in your home—a difference in your health— a difference in your cooking* ROYAL is absolutely Pure. fend the nc- noant no <>s- no tim© to Press and negro ought penitentiary. Richly Deserves Hanqina, (Chester Reporter.) Torn Harris, the confessed mur derer of Mrs. Hortensie Morgan, has been found giiilt> at Gaffney and sentenced to hang. From all ac counts Harris richly deserves hang ing. and it is hoped that no techni cality nor delay will he allowed to corn© between the law and its right ful victim. The true Christian has seven Sun days a week. An ounc© of will is worth a pound of wish. It is a disgrace to be i>oor if it is yourn own fault. Letter to J. I. Sarratt, Gaffney. S. C. Dear Sir: A ten-year-old boy came into a store for a quart of white paint and said: “They are nice letters De- voe writes, a’n’t they. Mr Knight?” In Bridgeton. Maine. “Are they what brought you here ” asked the merchant. "Yes; ma said get a quart of white; and I’ve conje fo- the least gallons paint.” That hoy’ll he a man before his mother. Yours truly 30 F W DEVOE & CO P. S. Wilbins-Watson Hardware Comnany selh our paint. She /-.nswered Back. Men ami wo.-.u-a alike sought seats j in both tli..* Co aes, when a hrukemau I entered the «■. •, and, after answering a score of que-tions ‘ii •.b* aliirinative that the In ad .i.icli was the smoking gar, u fat wnaian, loaded down with bundles, approached him and asked. "Say, mister. Is this the smoking ear?” “Of course it is the smoking car,” said the brakeman. “Does it look like a parlor ear?” The fat woman ptilled her cloak closer around her shoulders before she replied: “It looks like a cattle ear, and it feels like an lee box," she said. “Evi dently you folks think jieople who ride on this line are paying for cold storage and Impudence.” Providence Journal. Most people know that if they have keen sick they need Scott's Emul sion to bring back health and strength. But the strongest point about Scott 9 s ? Emulsion is that you don’t have to be £ sick to get results from it . It keeps up the athlete's strength, puts fat j on thin people, makes a fretful baby happy, « brings color to a pale girl’s cheeks, and pre vents coughs, colds and consumption. ^ Food in concentrated form for sick and jjp well, young and old, rich and poor. ❖ . . • 0 A And it contains no drugs and no alcohol. ^ A fe ALL DRUGGISTS; 5Dc. AND $1.00. ^ Subscribe for Th» Ledger; $1 a year. He Do you think your father will | object to my suit? Slip—1 don’t see why he should: h© himself wears one j almost as had. ‘ 1 r 1 Bill These automobile drivers soem to think the ordinary pedestrians are beneath them. Hob—Well, too often they are! Ho w to Remain Vounq. To continue young in health and strength, do as Mrs. N. F. Rowan, McDonough. Ga.. did. She says: “Three bottles of Electric Bitters cured me of chronic liver and stom ach trouble, complicated with such an unhealthy condition of the blood that mv skin turned as red as flannel. I am now practically 20 years younger than before I took Electric Bitters. I can now do ail my work with ease and assist In my husband’s store." Guaranteed at Cherokee Drug Co. Price 50c. Credit is the grace on the run ways to bankruptcy. A young mau can learn a lot by keening his eyes open and his movtii shut. Hints for March Gardening. A busy month in the garden. Y«u can begin to plant a little of everf- thlng. Plant Peerless. Triumph or R' d Bliss and White Bliss Potatoes. Plant Tomato under glass; sow Caf)- bage. Mustard and Lettuce; plant English Peas, Beets. Radish. Celery, Carrot. Salsify. Parsnips. Onion Sets, Kale and Paesley. Plant early Com . and early ligtening Valentine Beans. Plant Clovers. Grass Seeds etc.; plant your Flower seeds Gaffnev Drag „ Co. —Nothing ante like netic. a Oar bo Ma A. N. WOOD, Prest. Sec’y &. Treas. u W• O. McARithC* IW4 yj I . THE W. C. CARPENTER CO. THE W. C. CARPENTER CO. to him. As we understand pro- '.1 B. B. STEEDLY M. D., Med. Dir. J. C. LIPSCOMB, Director. ^ position it is this; The bonded in debtedness of Guffney is now $55.- 000, or 4:07 per cent of the taxable prop rty. The town and county can issue bond;- to the extent of 15 per cent of the taxable property. This would permit us issuing something more ihan $120,000 worth of bonds. If w > vote the $25,000 asked by the sclmo’ trustees of the Tenth School gin of $95,00 to go on for sewerage District we could still have a mar aud good roads bonds in this school district. I^t us show ou r faith in education by -- ting tho bo"d-- ;> by the school trustees. fettTv dr Ohio, City of Toi.kdo, / Lucas County , Kuank .1. Chknky makes oath thui ho Is or partnor of the Ilrm of P. .1. Chknky & •o., doing business in the City of Toledo, •ounty and State aforesaid, and that said Arm will nay the sum of ONK IMiNPUKI) VOLLARr o ,r oiieh and every ease of Ca YAiutii that cannol ho cured by the use of Ham/b OATAiuin Cuke. FRAN.LOHEIKY. Sworn to before me and subserihod in my p."esenee, t his (It h day of I teormber, A. I). IKKjn |C£7l A. W. (JI.FASON. * ' f Notary Public. Hall’s Catarrh Cure Is taken internally and acts dl-ectly on the blood and mucous sur faces of the system. Scud for testimonials F. J. CHENEY & CO.. Toledo, O. tfold hy DruRglsts. '5c. Hall's Family Pills are the best. Carolina Mutual IT i s'sociation i i f fn<‘ v. C . 5* > SAFE INSURANCE AT ACTUAL COST. Apply at once to or. • ■ f o n representatives or at the Home Office. S Office Over Merchants Si Platters Bank, j Subscribe for The Ledger, Sl.00 a veer The W. C. Carpenter Company New Goods Arriving Daily o Just back from the markets and bought the most complete line of merchandise ever brought to the city. So come in and let us show you them. We are making spec ial prices on White Goods now. r*mamtmm cur the w. c. :::: ::: company. m THE W. C. CARPENTER CO. THE W. C. CARPENTER CO. \ y 1 ‘t-.-r - ■