Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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r The Ledfer is not reeponslble for be views of correspondents. Hereafter no advertisements will be accepted at this office after® JO o’clock an Mondays and Thursdays. ^Vstch your label snd the date. And renew before 'Ms too late; If there be an error, don’t set mad, Report to us—we’ll make you srlad. Remi mber, 'tls our aim to please. But errors are like pesk* fleas— Thev will creep In In spite of fate. Therefore, watch 70ur label and the date. —Original. A. N. J. N. W. H CITY DIRECTORY. Officials. Little Mayor Spears Mayor Pro Tem Ross City Clerfe Jones Treasurer Hallman Health Officer Lockhart Chief Police Bell .. City Attorney Board Public Works. Wood Chairman Lipscomb Treasurer . Ross Secretary Board of Trade Hamrick President Otts Secretary base ball team 4n the Held represent- tng Gaffney. Nothing advertises a citv like a bane tn.ll team. Interest in the Kamo and material for a wood amateur team can be found In Gaff- nev If onlv stops are taken toward the perfection of some organization to take the matter in hand. Teams can be brought here at a nominal cost as scores of splendid teams are already in the field within a few miles of Gaffney and delisating thousands of their townsmen by their exploits with the ‘‘willow’' and “horse hide.” Nothing is better for the town spirit of a citizen than to go out and whoop It up for bis town team. Wthen he returns to his busi ness he will be better equipped bv the short time off to cope with busi ness problems, and he will be a bet ter citizen bv having the sparks of town spirit aroused within him. Manv promising players are found here and once driven to action no town of its size can boast of more loyal rooters. Something should be done and this at once. Why not ar range and discuss the matter? NOTES AND COMMENTS. SOMETHING IN IT. W* take the following from the Columbia Record of last Friday: “There is nothing in it.” said Mr. A. J. Bethea, private secretary to Governor Ansel, when asked bv a Re cord man today as to the correctness of a press report implying that the governor had been unduly dilatory in acting upon a petition for the pardon of an innocent negro who is doing time on the Cherokee countv chain- gang. The report, as sent out from Gaff- nev and printed in morning papers today, is as follows: Gaffney. May 9.—There is rather a striking ease of the miscar riage of instice in Cherokee coun tv at this time. It seems that one Arthur Chambers, colored, was charged before Magistrate Ruppe, with cursing on the public highway, and also another charge involved in the same transaction. The uegno was convicted aud sentenced to thirty days on the chaingang on each of the charges. After the trial another negro told that the wrong negro had been convicted: that he was the guilty negro at thf time: whereupon the magistrate tried the other negro and convicted him. Dur- ir' r all this time the innocent negro was serving time on the gang. T. B. Butler. Esq., informed your correspondent that he wrote the gov ernor. giving a history of the case, together with the affidavit of the wit ness on whose testimony the guilty negro was convicted. This was on the 22nd of April. The governor re plied that he required the affidavit of th • prosecutor, setting forth th j facts. This affidavit was forwarded to the governor on the 24th of Anril and stated the prosecutor was mis taken and that Chambers was not guilty, but no action has vet been taken in the premises. In the meantime an innocent man is suffering the penalty for a crime which he did not commit. The negro has been pardoned. The papers wer-* issued by the governor Immefliatelv iron receipt of the full affidavits requested, and were mailed at once to the proper Che robe e au thorities. There was no delay in the executive offices. Simply to keep the records straight we will sav that Mr. Butler wrote the governor on the 22nd of April, as the following replv to that letter will Show: Columbia. April 2”, 1907. Thus. B. Butler. Esq.. Gaffnev. S. C. 'Dear Sir:—Governor Ansel today received vour letter together with a petition for pardon of Chambers. Replying. I beg to advise vou that Governor Ansel directs me to say that it will be necessary for him to have the affidavit of J. T. Ruppe be fore he can take an/ action in this cr e. Very truly yours. A. J. Bethea. Private Secretary. On receipt of the above letter Mr. Butler secured the affidavit from Mlagistrate Ruppe on the 24th and mailed it to the governor, as the following acknowledgment show’s: Columbia. April 25, 1907. Thos. B. Butler. Esq.. Gaffney. S. C. Dear Sir.—Your letter containing affidavit of J. T. Ruppe. in the Chamb ers matter, has been received. Replying I beg to advise vou that Governed Ansel will take up this pe tition as soon as he returns from Jamestown. Very' truly yours, A. J. Bethea. Private Secretary. When the affidavit arrived in Co lumbia Governor Ansel was at James town. but he returned on April 27th and the pardon was issued oo May 10th. The publication of this miscar riage of iustlce appeared in The Led ger of Miay 10th and In several other papers previous to that date, all of ■which goes to show that Mr. Bethea, the governor’s secretary, was In error if he is correctly quoted by The Co lumbia Record in the opening sen tence of The Record’s article. Four weeks more and the South. Carolina pencil pushers will be gathering by the sad sea waves. • • • The fifth anniversary edition of the Seneca Farm and Factory was altogether creditable. The PbilliDB boys and Mr. MicAVhirter hav^ just cause to feel chestv over their achieve ment. • • • This is the last wek of the city graded school term. Teachers and pupils have won the well-done of parents and guardians. We wish for them a vacation full of joy and pleasure. • • • A sorrowing feature of the old soldier’s reunion at Columbia last week was the reports sent out of the inebriety of som^ of the old soldiers. But. of course, all the old soldiers must, not be condemned for the short comings of a few. But there d* no discounting the fact that it does re flect on all for even a few over- ”'ach themselves. ’ SUITS! - SUITS! /■i K ■/ ,s. mm. 4r>: : mm : «M f £ l .* *>' ll i ! 1:1 ; vi Mi Ederheimer, Stein Sc Co. MAKERS When we quote prices on our Spring Suits and say “Excel lent Spring Suit, hand somely made and beautifully trimmed, correctly cut, etc., at $10.00, $12.50, $15.00, $20.00, $25.00 or $35,” we are only singing the same song that every other Clothing House sings. It’s a song that is being sung . these days by Clothiers all over the country. r ! ? iiM : ’ Ml djr-'Xi 111 Si <■> Ederheimer, Stein &• Cc M AXIRS, THE PHONOGRAPH. 8om« of tho Odd Ways In Which tho Instrument Is Used. A man went into a music store last week with a phonograph record which he asked the clerk to place iu a ma chine and reproduce the record upon it. When the machine was started the sound of a baby’s words and laughter came from the horn. “Hello, papa. ’Ere’s a tis fum mo en little Bob. I wuslit ood turn home.” For a full minute the baby’s voice talked. Then came a few words iu a woman's voice. The man dabl>ed at his eyes with his handkerchief and said: “That’s my wife and baby talking.” He was a traveling salesman. His home was iu New York. “1 wouldn't have missed that for a twenty dollar bill,” he said to the clerk. *T’ve been away from home six weeks now, and every Saturday evening I have received a record from home. I’ll tel! you there's nothing so good as the sound of their voices. It treats a letter :i<X) city blocks. And that’s go ing some too.” “How did he work that scheme?” the clerk was asked. “Easily. In his home in New York is a talking machine. His wife simply puts a blank record into it, and she and the baby taik into it. Then she mails it to him, and he has simply to put the record Into another inachin" to have it reproduced.” Tiie clerk said that It was becoming qu’to a fad for parents to have their babies talk into a phonograph record Then the record was carefully put away to l>e kept until the infant grew up. “There’ll be lots of fun with those records," the clerk said. “Imagine an old man listening to the prattle of his own baby voice.” A little more than a year ago the wife of an organist in Kansas rity while visiting In Minneapolis s.iag “My Rosary" f<*r a talking machine record. Not long afterward she died. The pho nographic record was sent to her hus band here. Occasionally he listens t> the sacred song as sung by her, and it is a great comfort to him. rhouographs are put to many queer uses. They are sometimes used at fu nerals to reproduce sacred sot. Where persons are too ix>or to pay the expense of regular singers It Is often found satisfactory’. Sermons are re produced by It. It was used in deli> er- ing Hearst s|teeehes during the last c nmpaign in New York. “About the most novel use I ever heard for a talking machine,” a dealer said, “is a plan to use it as a burglar alarm. A man came in here some time ago and said he wanted a cheap ma chine to put in the basement of ids home. Tin going to attach « string to It,’ be said, ‘so that when any one opens the basement door It will start the machine. I’ll have it yelling “Thief!” “Murder!” “Police!” That’ll what I want It for.’ ’’—Kansas City Star. There’s no copyright on it-any clothier can sing it. It’s no trouble to quote prices and, unless you see the garments at the price, the price cuts no figure. What you get for your money is what tells the tale. We be lieve our Suits at the prices quoted are better than others at a like price and we ask you to examine them. If they are not better, don’t buy them - don’t think of buying them. Put us to the test. TRUNKS, SUIT CASES, BAGS, ETC. There are plenty of good, high-priced Trunks and there are, unfortunately, plenty of the low-priced kind that are always likely to spill your lingerie on the station plaiform. We’ve Good Trunks at Moderate Prices. Our Trunks are strongly made and we’ll not sell a trunk that we cannot trust. DRESS TRUNKS, STEAMER TRUNKS, METAL AND CANVASS COVERED TRUNKS. If you desire a Suit Case or a Bag, we can fill your wants at a reasonable price. Our stock is large and we are showing everything in Hand Luggage that has merit. CARROLL & BYERS TEDDY BEAR NOVELTY. The roar of the tied is ofteu heard on the sea of matrimony. Many a man’s nose painfully shows the way his money goes. One Now With Electric Eyes Lighted Up by Squeezing Bruin’s Paw. The newest thing !:i Teddy bears D one that has for eyes tiny incandes cent electric lights. Not lighted up. these look hue ordinary eyes, but squeeze one of lla- bear’s paws and in stantly they glow with light, says the Washington 1*! >t. Instead of the orjinury stuffing 1!r> electric Teddy bear has inside of it a little storage battery with wires run niug to the little lamps that serve as the bear’s eyes and also one of the bear’s paws, within vhic'.i is conlaine ! the switch by which the current is turned on. The eyes glow only while the pressure on the paw is continued, shutting < !T automatically when the pressure is released, an! as it *!s not suppose 1 that anybody would want to sit and squeeze the bear’s paw con tinuously it is calculated that the bat tery will furnish current enough for some hundreds of flashes and that it will last for from two to four months. Tho electric Teddy bears, which are made in various sizes and also in va rious colors, as cinnamon, jadar and black, are supplied with eyes white and red and gree i. and by buying ex tra eyes one can have a bear with eyes of one color In the morning, an other color In the afternoon and still another color at night, for the tiny lamps that form the electric bear* eyes screw Into sockets, like any other Incandescent lamp, and you can un screw the white eyes and screw in red ones If yon want to. And when the storage buttery Is exhausted It can be taken out and a fresh one put In Its An Early Riser. Lord Alverstoue, the lord chief Jus tice of England, who has a salary of $40,<>0d a year, when at the bar used invariably to get up between 5 and 6 in the morning except when he had been late in parliament, tin one oc casion he wanted to taik over a cer tain point in a brief with one of his juniors. He asked the young man to call in the morning. “At what time, Sir Richard?” asked the young bar rister. “At half past «i at my house,” was the reply. The young man arrived on the stroke of the moment. In or der to do it, however, be sat up all night. —Water Coolers, Freezers and Re- frioerators cheap at Shuford 4. Le- M aster’s. —Soke Lygia Perfect© 6c cigar. F. B. Gaffney. —FOR Iron Beds, guaranteed Bpringe anld Mattreeees see Shuford 4 LeMaater. —My stock of furniture and house hold goods is new and vou can buy what you need now and pay m« in November. BRIDGE TO LET. HONEST INSURANCE Plain, sure protection to the family at^premmm rates fixed on|the basis of the actuaries’tables of life expectation, and therefore, absolutely fair is the only kind of life insurance written by The Southeastern Life Insurance Company of Spartanburg, S. C* No “deferred” dividends, no “participating” policies, ne schemes for profit, no opeaing for speculation, no element of scandal, but strict and straight Life Insurance of the kind that takes care of a man’s family by providing an immediate cash esute on his death, the time of all times when they will need it most keenly. >; It is every man’s sacred duty to carry life insurance for the benefit of those de pendant upon him, and all men know this. Hut no South Carolinan need go out of his own State to get it. x >; ... The Southeastern Life Insurance Company is a home institution, chartered by the State of South Carolina and subject to the South Carolina laws governing Life Insurance. It is directedfby men who * homes and interests are in this State. It is an old line, legal reserve. Straight Life Company of tae soundest kind, and should have the support of the people of the State. x Life Insurance Compy, I will be at Ben Bonner’s place Fri day. May 17. to let bridge to be, built across Goucher creek to lowest bid- der with righto to reject any and all ELLIOTT ESTES, “Jl\ General Agent, E. Felix Lipscomb, Supervisor. Mar. Ititti, 1908 Spartanburg* S. C. Talk is cheap—except when a man’s wife begins to explain -why she needs the money. ATTENTION LIGHT AND WATER PATRONS! Beginning Ju ic 1st, 1907, all accounts and due® will be pay able at the oflfic of the Superin tendent on the 1st and 2nd of the month, unless Sunday inter venes, then on the 3rd, after which date all in arrears will be cut out without notice. BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS, By A. N. Wood, Cbm. J. N. Lipscomb, W. H. Robs. always contains all the latest local and foreign news. Subscribe now $1.00 et Y e £* r~.