Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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THE LEDGER. Tuesday and Friday. Ed. H. DeCamp, Editor ard Fubllaher. The Le-ipor Ib not responsible for he viewn of correspondent*. Hereafter no ■'dver l»em*r.ta will be accepted at this office after 9.30 o'clock eh Mondays and Thurtday*. * Watch your iaoel and the date. And rer.ra- before 'tie too late; If th^re be an error, don’t Ket tnao Report t<? ns—we’ll make you *1nd. Rem ibe . 'tls out aim to pie to. It it errors are like peskv fleas— Thev will 'reer- In tn spit* of fate Tiierelor*’ watch f ,our label and the date. -Orlrlnal tion could be secured in the county. The nails and hard ware could be made from the iron to be found in the county. The furniture could be made from native wood. The tables could be covered with uemask table cloth made m <iattney and all the eatables, including the Hour, the hams, tin beef, the mutton, the grits, the hominy, the chickens, the fish, the vege tables, the sorghum and the su- U ir c ould be secured, m the con iines of the county Kven fii n plate- could be m-le from kao. line to be .\ jn:c the SERVANTS IN NEW YORK. How the Millionaire Familiet Get Their •‘Help.’’ | d\ hero do Iho Astors. Vnndorldlt!* and oIIht inultis c.ot thedr c'rvuul V" . ,|i..*sl.on .hill agitates mauy a .. ... - . t men ns, and next In ten-st t !. "Ucnv do then k i > ’ ?■’ Th 'rot thorn In ;i variot.r of ways. A tow wealthy families n* Mill to iptelli ’.tMiee oltlcos t! at are ri: ) not n ■. h '!! •'•.■ iuti'lllp'. tly than Ih mat make their money from vlctii • ot moo.'rate inooii'to-. ’l i. . . :is ;i i Si. >.i- i ...iii.i. . that mi r losses < , jo we. . <o-tl,V do !:iu ' iind Mt For lOO Coupons ’ e.ik mc.'s tlr * n’< c . .ni 11 •» n*| j.o 'i' |>| f ! the cii From ■ ' r fc* iVuind in the 1 county, knives and forks could and .voids n Mt in* r<> M.o CITY DIRFCTORY. Officlali. Little ' •• M *? or Spears Mayor Pro Tem Rom CSty Clarfc Treasurer iTaliman Health Officer Wk’nart Police Reli City Attorney Board Public Work«- . Wood Chairman Lipscomb . • • • Treasurer [. Roes Secretary Board of Trade . Hamrick President Otts Secretary NOTES AND COMMENTS. Put ,uwr shuuiihr tu '-be wheel itu< 1 pu^b <»Tilu‘-y. You c.iu do ,1 *i- i" joiiiiiie ti" Board of ' nolo. be mnue from our iron and plat i u irom our silver mine am! ail • w o c< uld bo mao .’om the Boss tin rnino ore. liavc a \\ onib rl'n' c uinty, ami varici in mi ic ral- as w« as agriculture, ai.d but few ol! our pt oplt reaiizi our possibili ties. )l>borli*s i oj In the i ted by sen tiiin e "■ *:!' Ic socle‘v f' " ’•‘ly oa up * a no.'her f S’** n!.- • ts. find i is no me r>(on itii" i : iu o laatron to steal e.-;.<>ri:illj i,, .n.. Je man or l iri ! f ••or dearest I'rler.d. Of eo’ir.io : .-■'o't of U.mi: cm l e doiio )>y :i soe M » :» ■Turnip ; Seeds in I Turnip «• ne Cigar of Qualify 2 Coupons in each PaeRc - f: .-m We! v ht> ■ * to rich wirli hv is danger of d** I.’lilH >f a rdain -MQWM F'm’.EY ALDhiCH. going The count) ct ni'ri"i r >ncr c a’T to c-tablish a ferry at Ninety Nine Islands. ( oir ty Supervisor Inp-comb i- having the ch im-gang in -ved today lo begin \vo;k oa its ferry and the road. We doit our cap u> Mr. Lipscomb and his board. • » • Charleston is dri v i n g the money sharks out of business. We admit its very convenient to visit “Your Lucie'’ when fi nances get low, but Charleston is doing a noble work in driving these merciless, blood-sucking vampires from her midst. • • • The Boss tin mine shipped another car of tin ore to Eng land Saturday. And yet there are some people who ask if the tin mine is still in operation. Well we should say so ! This last car load was worth about $ 1^,000 and we are reliably in formed that it cost less than one fourth that amount to get it out. • • • The tilth series of the Chero kee Building and Loan Associa tion opens the first of August Parties desiring to borrow money or save a portion of their wages would do well to consult President Charles A. .Jefferies, Secretary W. W. Gaffney, or any member of the board of di rectors concerning this very simple but beneficial plan of starting on the road to wealth. It will not cost you a cent to in vest i gate. • • • Some wild dreamer sent out a story the other day to flu* effect that Senator Tillman hau challenged Senator Dolliver to fight a duel because the latter attacked some of the utterances of the former on the race ques tion. Anyone who ever had a grain of common sense and who enjoyed the slightest acquaint ance with Mr. Tillman would never have been guilty of pur- petratiug such a joke, much less give credence to the story. Mr. Tillman is no wild man from Barneo. He likes a great deal of being dangerous, except when it comes to a tongue lash ing. He knows how to apply that to perfection. • • • The wonderful resources of this county are known to a very few people. We could build a house of granite or marble quarried in this county. All the wood used in the construc- His Pt.'fcct Ligh!' Tc :ch and the Art In bhe G. vo Poems. H i no' iM-' ' i fiMt while thr* nauu* ol Til' 1 " '-' ” ' .vlific!) u'ds iu liie popular ’ . ’ the lljr'i’ nun i • v tsi* -a t<>ui'li 1 ,ut few In <> ir time lia\. I) ui able to iMpia! in iielicui'v . n ! : ttviiciivem' ~ iue ortMier part oi IP's verso r£...|T ■ Iio.ii the serivyus i>* ,1.0 !rajric. T'm* s:ii» > i in a nnijoiity ... c es are not ui<> • \ in. ii the casual •"'a r mit.'ht .p 'oni the author of i a: of his well known songs :nv1 . ;ii SOtll'S. Al.irkTi’s liirht toneh seems to iis mo ' nearly p ‘rl'cet where the subject is ; mrently r personal, as in tin* e < • 'passable lyric. “Forever and a Day ■’ I little know or care If ihi' blackbird on the bo'ifrh Is Idling all the air With 1 > t ift . . . < < ■ do n iw, For she has gone away, And v ;• n sd.e wont sho took The snrlngtimo In hor look. The poachhlow on her cheek, The laughter from the brook. The blue from out the May, And what she calls a week Is :'<**' 'ver and a day! It’s little that I mind How the blossoms, pink or white. At every touch of wind Fall a-trembling with delight. For in the leafy lane. Beneath tho garden houghs. And through the silent house One thing alone 1 seek. T’ntll she come again The May Is not the May, And what she calls a week Is forever and a day! Such a lyric as this would scorn to bo as suro of kcoping Its plaoo in Fiir- 'lish literature as any poem of its class that the centuries have sanctioned. The art in-bis grave poems is really in keeping with that of his lighter *•••(*. Ib’t the reader is sure that tin* ■.'.refill worLmam hip is nut the re ".it of mere artifice; that it comes from a sense of beauty and the poet’s pure de sire for perfection. There is no filing for the sak ; of filing, but a conscien tious seeking for the right phrase. He confessed once to a search of days for what he thought the absolutely right adjective to describe the cry of the >ea gull, bitting at ln«t upon the word “petulant,” and this persistency was eh:.rad ‘ristie. Oft; u he struck the note of hieh pa triotism, and many are his poems that deal with the mysteries of life and death. He wrote fit and beautiful threnodies, and in his verse one come.'. the ch-tf in ' an home, jj Othevv sti'l new servants in e !c:-itim.i’o y. Mrs. Nemo wants a mail and Pdack's maid has a ci i. '.a v ho * 'll till the bill. Nov and then Mm Bhn-k’s maid will roe- ! ouui: ui •'!) i: ideslrable person f -r ; enmluvmcni y Mrs. Nemo, but gen- | i\ >!u* I'eais to do so lest she lose i her uun pim c. Most of tile rich ; t their >.*-. vai by advertising for them. As a nilc. they do so under cover, to avoid being inundated with appHea- ti .us. lire.- applicant mu t siio' • a hi h < lass rc unmendaiion from I’m last employer and submit to much ■ l,i. .ioning. Tim most In.lependcM c 1 * ; icut under cross ex- • ui ' >u ' ::i a prospective employ er liki !\ to |... two or throe time’s as i.i.ich a, tin' average wages. Almost always iv ...’m..- women are carel’n! "bout having tin* references of would lx* members of their households looked up before giving employment. Most hou>t kcci»* .s know that women who aren’t Dob seldom take that precau tion. New York Press. Coupons also Redeemable for / Valuable Presents Premium Dept., AMERICAN TOBACCO CO. Jersey City, N. J. St. Loais, Mo, ?f you want to know about Ii« - I in 3 . .'';if?g on Ministers. “1 counted seven girls taking down my *•( '•'!'<■!> i'i shorthand Sunday morn ing" sain a suburban minister. “I am getting tired of this business of turn ing church into school. It is a desecra tion of the Sabbat!) and of the sanctu ary. and U gets worse year by year. “When the thing lirst began, I admit that I was llattered. I thought the sol itary shorthand writer iu my front pew was a reporter. I took unusual pains that morning, and I searched all the newspapers the next day—in vain, of course. The shorthand writer was merely a student of stenography, using me to practice on. ‘‘Students of stenography should practice on actors aud on lecturers. But, no, that would cost money. Noth ing suits them but ministers, and every Sunday all over our land young men and women, with their pads and foun tain pens, go to church solely to im prove their shorthand.”—New York Press. Loan Assdciation J. F. Gar tt K. M. Wilkins. A. N. Wo*d. T. B. Butler, Chas. Ba.iur, Ask such men as E. R. Cash, T. Robbs, Ed I! Dt—tnnp, !>. . er ..itt. , W H. K. Osborne, A iiin rsou, R. C. C. G. Parish, T. E. Moore, L. D R'ppy, J. N. Lipscomb, W. \\ . Gatl'ne/, tj arl aud. Who are shareholders and some are serving as officers . without a cent of salary to help you and their community. Do V/e Want Immortality? Where among the educated and the refined, much less among the masses, do we find any ardent desire for a fu ture life’.' It b not a subject of draw- !ng room conversation, aud the man whose habit It Is to buttonhole his ac-, quaintances and Inquire earnestly aft er their sou’s Is shunned like the An cient Mariner. Among the clergy It is not thought polite to refer to so deli cate a topb' oroept officially from the pulpit. Most ominous of all, declares I>r. William Osier in his hook on “Sci ences ami Immortality.” as Indicating the utter absence of Interest on the part of the public is the silence of the constantly upon startling hints ami ; press. In the columns of which are sugge.itions concerning nature, human fate and the spirit world, as In ‘‘IScp- {•ontre." “Identity,” “1 Vex Me Not With Brooding on the Years.” “A Mood” and “Apparitions.” poems which have a new poignancy ii* lln* light of his departure. , APPARITIONS. At noon of night and at the i::gh:'» pale end Such things have chanced to rrc As one. by day, world scarcely tell a fri nd For fe* ir of mockery. Shadows, you nay. ir.irngi-s of the brain! I know not. faith, not !. Is it more strange the dead should walk again Than that the quick s!i<> u die? Ahlrkh ought to h.uv" lived hmger and continued to * "it • f >;• i iany years to come, for !:•* v.- • : !n little danger of f i , ! ,r *g lit taste -I'ld r'-rld s-if cri'b'i ni Put. :'’■*'*)• ii!!. his life l a'l a remarka-I h'.* c plctum His l.oylsh attain-| ; *: .f f:i!. ;* made hita not less hut J more « i”i l‘ul in liis art fioia the begin- ! ning. There p fi> . aIcmi hr* i ” ’ not 1 olil high »’ c at) lard of ar! .1 n ’t l'*ss f-r b'fsolf tlati for : ;! :■ . With in •re,: ’ug yearn his I ; m a ' o”-emre nv i—, jnp 1 iii t ii)mg i in .t oo <!e<*j>er. Neii er in his m*);ial j :'<»'■ 'vritlng uo*' i-i Ms ver '• was f”!’y relh*' te I the wit which mule p'r-.id hit. ••ourst* with hi) i a rare priv!l *g For tirlvatc- conve"s ifion v as i e.- nl die treas ure of his whir Ic'd ivui never lall- ing humor. Double s :i*a*.iy of his valies will lie Jolted dona by friends and preserved by his biographer, but the manner of his appealing persitluge and illuminating witticisms can never l*e reproduced. Nor can be told yet the story of his chief happiness—of that life of Insep arable affection which heljied to make his career one of the moat fortunate in the annals of literature.—Century. manifest daily the works of the flesh. WHEN IN A HURRY SEND TO THR LEDGER FOR YOUR JOB PRINT- INQ. Companies'Represented at Jones J. Darby Agenci THE MUTUAL BENEFIT LIFE IN SURANCE CO. The leading annual dividend com pany of the world. ACCIDENT DEPARTMENT, [AETNA LIFE INSURANCE CO. The largest Company in the[world writing Accident and Health lo anee. THE ROYAL FIRE INSURANCE CO. THE N. B. A M. INSURANCE CO. UNION ASSURANCE CO. THE SPRINGFIELD FIRE AND MA RINE INSURANCE CO. Yonr Insurance would be wiaely placed in any of the above named Companies. THE W. S. F. AND GUARANTY CO. The most progressive Surety Com pany in the world. Careful attention to all business. Qlalma paid without cash discount upon ad justment of claims. OMoa In Star Thaatra BulkNng. R. M. WILKINS, President. R. S. LIPSCOMB, Sec. and Treas. nr kind th it grow Turnips. JtliCl IllilivC Purple Top Ruta Baga White Lgg Turnip Early White Fiat Dutcli Imperial Golden Ball Yellow Aberdeen Yellow Globe Purple Top Whit: (i ,obe Seven Top Southern Giant .Mustard All fresh, new Seed. We guarantee them to be good. ; : : i CHEROKEE- j jj ORUG COMPANY j ■i BBS H MHi BR BSSi OH M HONEST INSURANCE Plain, sure protection to the family at premium rates fixed on the basis of the actuaries’tables of life expectation, and therefore, abseiutely 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, no schemes for j rofii no opening for peculation, no element of scandal, but strict and straight Life .’usurauc. of the O ld that ukes care of a man’s family by providing an imniclia.e cash estate on his death, the time of ail times .when they will need it most keenlv. x x >• x It is every m in’s sacred duty to carry life insurance for the benefit of those de pendant upon him, and aii men know this. But no South Carolinau need go out of his own State to get it. x The Southea' tern 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 directed by men whose homes and interests are in this State. It is an old line. 1-gal reserve. Straight Life Company of tae soundest kind, and sh mid have the support of the people of the State. Southeastern Life Insurance ELLIOTT; ESTES, Jr. General Agent, Spartanburg, S. C. Mar. Ituh )!« S If anybody has a message for ] the people cf this community * he cannot deliver it to them so * effectually, so cheaply, so quick- ♦ | ly in any other way as through ♦ f the columns of this paper. f 4 It is the business cc this pa- 4 4 per to carry messages of one 4 , > lend anc. another into homes. ^ ( , The t. ’S-2ge wn! be delivered, x (( too, under favorable conditions, T ( for few petions take up their J * local paper except in a pleasant T ‘ and receptive frame of mind. The sign upon the fence board T may be good, but it can be seen only by traveler who go that particular road. The message in the locoi paper carries itself to thdhsac ds, no matter by which ♦ road they travel. 4 Select vour space sad pot ^ your message where it will do ^ the most good. ^ We, pe:i.kpji, can kelp yon if yon wLi but mb m SUMMER NECESSITIES Everything Needed For Summer You WiU Find Here. Mosquito Netting Mosquito Netting, all colors. Fans Fans of all kinds at bargain prices from 5 cents up to $1.50. * Parasols Parasols in white and colors to match your suit at prices to surprise you. Sheer White Coeds Our stock of White Goods is always complete and you can get just what is needed for this warm weather from us. Dimities All patterns for 10c, i2#c, 15c, aoc, 25c, 30c and 40c. French Lawns Extra values for 15c, 20c, 25c, 30c 40c, and 50c. Persians Lawns Special values for 15c, 20c, 25c, 30c and 35c. India Linens Best values for 10c, I2j£c, 15c, 20c, 25c, 30c aud 35* ' Gauze Hosiery Special valnea for 25c and 50c. Gauze Vests Extra values for 10c, 15c and 25c. Muslin Underwear For women. Good goods at old prices. Oxfords and Ties for Men and Women. Delayed shipments Just arrived. Best styles and best goods for the money to be had. CARROLL & BYERS. fyA t yj +1* • ■ t,