Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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. ■ * ..! '■ j > ' ' • • • P?»w THE LEDQElt Tuesday and Friday, Ed. M. DsCamp. Editor ard Publlahsr. Tfcs Lsdysr Is not rosponalhlo for ±% Ttews of correspondent*. Hsrsaftsr no edv^^monto will *• aoeepted at thin ofHcs after 9.80 o eloek aa Monday* and Thureday*. Watch yonr label and the dot*. And renow before *tls too let*; If there be an error, don't set mad. Report to no-well make yon «lad. ftom> mber. tla onr aim to please. But errors are like pesky dean— Th*y will creep la In »l»lt* of Into. Therefore, watch yonr label aad the dmt * —Original. CITY DIRECTORY. Officiate. j Q Little ?' ^ ” . Health OSeer A. L. Hanman poiu* T. H. lioekhart iJE^tSnS j. H Bel! W Attonl * 1 Board Public Work*. A. N . J. N Lipscomb W. H. Roes secretary Board of Trade C. Hamrick SSrtSy J. a Otta Becrotary MAJ. HEMPHILL FOR SENATOR. ^9) e reproduce the following from the Buffalo. N. Y.. Evening News: Three men are recognized leaders beyond others In the press of the South. They are Hentr Watterso of the Louisville oourler-Journa Clark Howell of the Atlanta and James C. Hamphlll of the Char lesion News and Courier. Col. terson has never held J^Uttcaj-offl but has rather declined all propo?* tlons Involving public station. Mr. Howell has been long among the leading politicians and statesmen of Georgia both as editor ofthenews paper first made famous hv the un rivaled brilliancy of J; he la ^ e and as member of the L«gis teSrf and presiding oncer In tarn In “i br.ncl.es nf tbnt boiT, and nine as Lieutenant Governor. Major Hemphill has Joltowrf onm this time the example of Col- Wetter eon in abstaining from public offloe, but his friends have talxn the busi ness in their own hands and making great progress ‘ n a campaign in his behalf for the seat in the United States Senate now held by Senator Latimer, whose term ex pi with the present Congress In Of bis eminent fitness for that great office there ** no room for doubt His work for twenty years as th® directing mind and chief editola writer of the News and Courier has been of so admirable a character in Slth Of View, soundness of ar^i- ment from his premises, and energy of statement, as to have made hjm the most influential man in bis Stote for the welfare of South Caro ^ a - Major Hemphll has nature s gift of a superb personal presence and tha^ rare finish of manner which bas been characteristic for generations of the finest type of the Southern | £®nt e- man. He has added to the collegiate training of his youth th© further ad vantages of continual contact witn public men and close acquaintance with public affairs. He has acquired the wisdom of years while his eyeis not dimmed nor his natural )force abated. He will not resort to the pitchfork as a weapon of offense against the President to the lasting Injury of the State and her loss of Influence which really belongs to her though represented by a Senator op posed in politics to the national Ex- ocutive. Most of the public business is done with small regard for political points. Reasonable men in the Senate can do well for their States though not of the majority on party questions. If Major Hemphill Is elected he will fill the position so ably and yet with such unbanity of temper and manner as to repeat the proud days of the Palmetto State and regain for It that degree of respect and power which the old comimonwealth has justly en joyed for generations. It le Indeed pleasant to have our Yankee cousins express such kindly feeling for our Dixie brethren, but there Isn’t a word spoken amiss— nor one that 1* not deserved. DUTY OF NEWSPAPERS. A man engages in the newspaper business to make a living just like any one else in any other business. It is not the duty of a newspaper man to ferret out any mean or contempti ble act any more than It Is the duty of a citizen. The citizens of a com munity are responsible for the im morality ol a town, for dishonest elections for the breaking of the law —not the newspaper. How many business men are there in a town who will condemn a wrongdoer when they know it will injure them? And yet that’s what some people expect pa per to do. The trouble is the so-called honorable people 'of a community haven’t the moral courage to stand up for the right. A majority of them, If they indorse an article condemn ing the wickedness of some scion, will come around to the editor In private and tell him he has done right . yet when it comes to tailing It on the streets and elsewhere their nerve falls them, and the editor is left to fight the battle alone. It Is the Individual and not the newspa per that hasn’t th e moral courage. Newspapers reflect the wishes of the people and are the result of existing conditions, which must be changed, If at all. by individual effort—Ex. Yes, that Is a first r ate idea; but in the language of Davl© Crockett “be sure you are right then go ahead." NOTES AND COMMENTS. Juding from the editorial columns of some of the papers whose editors are at Morehead, this week, we would think it would be a good thing if the editors in question could get more va cations than they do.—Charlotte Chronicle. This is very unkind, Mr Harris, very unkind. • • • Senator Tillman says that South Carolina people are going to have prohibition because they are disgust ed with the county dispensary law. The Senator is of the opinion that the stealing has been too much scattered under the new law—Bam berg Herald. Perhaps the stealing is scattered too much to suit the Senator. • • • Greer wants the new county and wants It badly, but there is not a man in town worthy of the name, who would compromise with wrong or sac rifice principle to win votes. The threat has been often m£.de by certain ones that they’d vote against the new county if the people of Greer didn’t do this or that. W e think we understand the sentiment of the citi zens of Greer, and we think we voice that sentiment when we say there is something the people of Greer value above success In anything, even in the new county movement. To he in the right, to do the right is better than victory a hundred times. An honorable defeat Is better a thous and times than a tarnished victory. Greer wants you to vote for the new county because Its your duty, your privilege. Greer will never slacken hep municipal laws nor countenance wrongdoing in friend © r foe to win one vote for the new county. The above is from the Greer Ob server and is spoken like a man. We cannot refrain from adding that If the people of the proposed new coun ty are wise to their our good they will unhesitatingly vote for the new county. Experience teaches us that smaller couties are beneficial to the people. W e are also advised that this county now has enough money to pay the railroad bonded indebted ness anq our taxes from this date on will be lighter than heretofore, not withstanding that they are now as low as any of the old counties from which we were cut off. • • • iSome people have an idea when they pay a dollar a year for a paper they own the whole proposition, in cluding the editor, and can run both to suit themselves, declares Bob White of the Mexico Ledger, rather pugnaciously. Along this line an exchange editorially and pointedly says; “Occasionally there is a fel low comes In and pays np a year or two of arrears and then with a pity ing look at the editor as if he felt sorry that he was going to lose his subscription says: T guess you might as well 8 top my paper; I would like to help you, but I am getting more papers than I can read.’ ’’ Bless your life, sonny, the editor never loses a subscriber. He wants all the subscribers he can get—the more the better—but he wants those who ap preciate his paper and consider that they are getting value received for their money. We do not want your subscription as a matter of charity. If you don’t want a paper say so; It’s a business proposition with the editor. We can pull the bell cord over the mule to perfection and if we can’t run a paper that Is worth the price we’ll quit Don’t subscribe for our paper as a matter of charity. It costs you a dollar a year and you could not print one for $500. Some editors run their newspapers on broad and liberal Mnes, having an eye single to the welfare of the com munity while others seem to use their papers as a vehicle to vent their spite and feelings against Individuals, al most every paper. 1 8 however worth more than the price asked. A Center Shot. (The People’s Paper.) If Senator Tillman has ever done anything that v 3uld benefit the peo ple of South Carolina, has advocated a measure that was for their good either morally or socially, or has ever done anything but misrepresent his section in order that he might fill his pockets with gold, we have been unable to discover It. He has brains and brass, but In our humble judgment he lacks those magnificent qualities that go to make up the true man.—Gaffney (S. C.) Ledger. Bro. DeCamp never came nearer to telling the God’s truth in his life than he did when he penned the above lines is the verdict of thous ands of people in the south. SEA SUPERSTITIONS. Nearly All Those of Old Times Are Now Disregarded. Ouly about one sui»erMtitioii of the sea still remains, and that is losiug ground. Yachtsmen and fishermen still whistle for tin- wind, but the gaso line “kicker" is making even that a lost art. Of the other nautical super stitions few remain. No sailor will refuse to ship those days because there is a Finn on board. Finns used to have bad reputations as wizards in the old days. If any wind was waul ed, all a Finn had to do. it was Iteliev- ed. was to drive his knife Into the foremast, and the wind was forth coming, to last as long as the knife was In place. A corpse is still rather an undesir able thing to have on !>onrd, but no sailor these days objects to having n cat on board. In fact, as Captain Kol lo Southworth, the water front expert, would testify, every vessel which comes to grief around this port lias at least one eat on board. No one wor ries now when anybody sneezes on the port side of a boat, although there are a few old skippers left who would make it unhealthy for a sailorman who passed to windward of them on the quarterdeck. “Crossing the line” is unobserved by anybody save landlubbers making their first trip on a passenger vessel, and no one has to pay his scot now to the crew’ the first time he goes aloft or similar tribute to the engine room gang. The Flying Dutchman has not been sighted for many years and. with Hen ry Hudson’s pinnace, has probably long ago made the Port of Missing Ships. So has the swimmer who used to paddle off the English channel with his head under his arm. foretelling disaster. The stormy petrel has lost caste as a weather prophet, and half the sallormen of today could not quote half a dozen weather proverbs. Equally lost are some of the old cus toms. In the days of the windjam mers. which used to round Cape Horn, no Dutchman or “square head" dared help himself ont of the mess ki f until the Van hoes and Englishmen had served themselves. When, too, the cry of “all hands’* sent everybody tum bling out on deck, a Dutchman wm put in front or the line, It being the custom for the third mate to knock down the first man for not being out sooner. The i t man ont was also al ways a Dr.tehnmn, as he had to sta - d punishment for being In that place. - New York Tribune RELIC SAFE OF CHICAGO. Memorials of Her Prominent Men Ready For Next Centennial. A i enormous vault with double Iron d< j, s. containing hundreds of photo- gi i dis and biographies of prominent men and women of Chicago and Illi- nois. with pictures and relies of Chi- erg >, collected as an exhibit for the sec aid centennial celebration of the re public's founding, has been discovered in ihe city hall, says a Chicago dis patch. The vault has been there so lo i,r that nearly every one had forgot- too it. It has not been opened in twenty-three years, and no one knows the combination of Its locka. According to the memory of old citi zens, It was intended that the vault should have been opened in 1901 and every twenty-five years thereafter un til the nation became 200 years old. The vault was not opened because no body happened to think about it. On the door is the following inscrip tion: “In memoriam, 1876. Mosher'* Memorial safety vaults, containing pho tographs of prominent men and wom en, with memoirs and statistics; deeded to the city of Chicago as an offering for the second centennial in 1976.” Charles D. Mosher was a photogra- plier who conceived the Idea of col lecting photographs of everything and everybody of prominence and putting all In a vault. He worked at the task between 1876 and 1884. when the col lection was completed and stored aw’uy. He Is dead, but Commissioner of Public Works Hanberg has been making inquiries for his relatives in the hope they can give an accurate history of the vault and the conditions upon which the city accepted the col lection. PLAN TO ENDOW BRIDES. Women's Union League to Encourage Marriage to Union Men. Matrimony has l»eeu raised to the high dignity of a profession—and a paying one at that—by women who should be in a position to know where of they speak—trades union women, says a Chicago dispatch. The Women’s National Trades T’nion league, which held its first interstate conference in Hull House at Chicago the other day. took action which, members of the league say, will he followed by the voting of a matrimonial endowment fund. After this fund has been set aside matrimony among the members of the various trades unions made up of women will be encouraged substan tially by paying from $100 to $500 to the woman who leaves the union to take up the duties of a wife. “Only one restriction should be made,” suggested Mrs. Samuel J. Sul livan of Indianapolis. “The man who gets a girl with an endowment must be a thorough union man. Unless there is a union label on him he will not be eligible to become the husband of on.- of our number.” There were many other suggestions as to ways of putting the endowment plan Into practice. It was suggested that there might also is* a premium on every child born of union parents. Push Buttons rs Wscfding Gifts. Until the bridal g ! *ts <>f Marian Fish •.ve’’e •ven tV‘ a.-e-flon *!int there i ■ I 1 > -.;»vv I;in v eliding pres ell .v. ■ .( r H have met scorn. The ingenuity of man in that line seemed to have !»eeu exhausted, says a corre spondent of the New York Press. Not so. In the pile of stuff bestowed upon Stiiyvcsant Fish’s daughter was a gift of a kind surely never seen l>e.'ore at a wedi’ing. It consb ’ert of a set of push buttons, enough for every room In her larce hoqse. Of course these push but tons were not ordinary bone ones. The bases were small, square thing* of dull lieateu gold, and the push buttons thoir elv. ere jade of various slia : . from the palest, which were ah 'o-' • bite with a greenish tinge, lo a dc.p rich green. The ones with pale buttons are to be u>ed in tin* bed room’. and In other rooms where the decorations are delicate. The others will l»e placed in rooms of darker tones. A couple of days ago a Boston, bride received a set of puslnhiuttons which were enameled In colors to har monize with tha rooms of her new home. So this fashion probably will not be a subject for comment by next year now that the Hnb has followed Gotham’s lead. Next season a set of door keys of gold bearing Jewels may be considered a necessary part of a bride’s outfit for housekeeping. Moroeca’* Sultan a Prisoner. TVm . ..! of Mororeo (m n prisoner In his own ’ i'”' . i , ' > never g >es out. he i •vor rid s tlw sheets; lie dare not lend hi- own tne p- ; in fact, he Is a figurehead •• h'-m the people still recoc nlze as suban. In l whom ’hey would renll,' <’ *i>o.-o were It possible to bring In the pretender. As a ruler he only exerci.uM Ids authority o er the coast, the large cities and the plains from whence his f >p; are drawn. Over the rest of (he country he Is simply the chief, the representative of Islam In the west. He cannot exact tribute or taxes, and only in case of a holy war can he call for the troops. The army which he has drawn about him and which Is his only visible claim to power Is a bizarre amalgamation of recruits front the four corners of his kingdom, armed Indiscriminately with every model of rifle, from the old blun derbuss to the modern Mauser. To picture accurately a company of these soldiers with their weird uniforms would require a skilled brush. Red predominates in everything—In the great saddles formed of an infinite number of folded blankets, in the baggy zouave trousers, in the fezes and in the bolsters for their rifles.— Harold F. Sheets in Outing Magazine. Man That Made New York Laugh. It is a well known saying in New York that the police department will “break’’ any man who undertakes to be its head. From having been the target of the most rancorous criticism, the police commissioner is generally dropped from office Into deeper obscur ity than that from which he rose. The place is shunned by clever politicians as a sort of graveyard of opportunity. There are two exceptions to this rule. One has become president of the United States, and the other—Mr. Dev- ery. The latter was charged with all kinds of malfeasance. He was even removed from office, but was rein stated by the courts. Yet there was a coarse vein of humor iu the man that went far toward redeeming his short comings. He amused the city, and she liked him for it. 8he can always for give one who makes her laugh. Think of a man, while courts are busy ana lyzing one phase of his character, ris ing np as a cmdidate for mayor and storming a state political convention at Saratoga with an irrepressible brass band playing “Mister Dooley!”—Broad way Magazine. Witchcraft. One of the cemeteries near Naples has been the scene of a crime that shows a curious recrudescence of me diaeval superstition. A little girl was burled there in July, 1905, and twelve months later It was arranged to trans fer the remains to a niche in the little mortuary chapel. At the exhumation suspicion was aroused by the extraor dinarily light weight of the coffin, which on being opened was found to contain only the child’s skull wrapped In straw. Professors Antonelli and Fl- miani. who examined the head, de clared that it had lieen ruthlessly torn from the trunk soon after death. The police Investigations have resulted in the discovery that the girl’s body was disinterred and the bones pulverized to serve for the rites of necromancy and witchcraft, which are still so much in vogue among superstitions peasantry of that region. Photographers Do Not Need Sun. The development of tin* electric light has been the means of placing the pho tographic people in a position of inde pendence as far as the sun is con cerned. There are several electric printing machines in use at the pres ent time for the making of prints, but they are ponderous pieces of mecha nism and therefore expensive. The newest thing of this kind is simple enough. It is a light wooden frame work mounted ou a substantial tripotl, on which it revolves. There are ac commodations for holding ten 8 by 10 Inch printing frames, which Is the size in most general demand, and the faces of these are directed toward an elec tric light of special construction which hangs from the celling in the midst of this nest of frames. This apparatus makes the prints aa fast as one person can load and unload the holders. The simplicity of the device makes It quite Inexpensive. It Is largely used for blue print work, although it is available for other kinds of photographic printing.— Exchange. Subscribe for The L*do*r. $1 a —The Qaffuey Drug Go’s, ground Spices and Flavoring Bxtraote coat no more than those you are now using, so what’s the good of taking any risk? FOR SALE. FOR SALE—A food second hand square piano; low price. Apply to J. M. Nelson. , 7-Mf FOR RALE—Old newspapers at this offlea 10c a hundred. FOR SALE—Flrat-class babbit nat al Apply at Ledger office. FOR RENT. FOR RENT—A aeven-room cob tage; electric light* and dty water. Apply to J. D. Goudelock. July 5 tt FOR RENT—Store room now oc cupied by Gaffney Jewelry Company. Possession Sept 1. 8. M. Littlejohn. July 5-6t pd. FOR RENT—Store room now oe- cupled by T. B. Gaffney. Poeaseloa Sept 1st 1907. Store room now occupied by Boyd Surratt as barber shop, rnaansalna Sept 1st, 1907. Office room fronting on Limestone street Possession now. A. N. Wood. TO RENT—Office rooms orar The Ledger. Apply to Bd. H. DeCamp. Not. 9-tf. Fire Insurance! We represent some o' the largest and must substant’al companies and would like to write your businet. S-14-tf Smith A Lipscomb, Agents DR. J. C. THOMSON DENTIST. Office over Merchants Grocery Company, Gaffney, 8. C. Office hour* 8:30 to 12:89, 1:39 to 5. Phone 4d. In Blacksburg on Tueednyu. 1 mo. pd. 1 Advertising is called by some an art. I£ 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 able to write more convinc ingly of the articles he of fers for sal*. fo a atom when die employer mUs good* rid* by aid* with Us curbs h is ism that the ccaployw will aot be the The reason is simple. 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 convincing. 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 advertising col umns of this paper. If yoa have not foad it, why aot begin? If vow have tried it aad an aslaafo M, let as I r\ « HOW HAVE GROWN 1 of the business: are no exception to the rule. ‘ the Gaffney Savings Bank, eloquently than words the growth t July 1st, 1903, July 1st, 1904, . - . . . July 1st, 1905, . . . July 1st, 1906 - July 1st, 1907, S17,833.56 • $39,335.55 $59,227.21 - - $96,974.42 $125,823.90 These figures show that the people have confidence in this Bank: they show that they are satisfied with the investment; they show that more people are learning the lesson of saving day by day; they show that this institution is as solid as human ingenuity can make it. We want more business; we want your business. If you haven't a bank account, start one NOW, WITH US, and thus HAVE YOUR SAVINGS EARN YOU SOMETHING. We are now paying over $5,000.00 annually in interest to our depositors, and you should be receiving your share of this interest money. D. C. ROSS, Pres. J. A. CARROLL, V- Pres. MAYNARD SMYTH, Cashier. GAFFNEY SAVINGS BANK