The ledger. [volume] (Gaffney City, S.C.) 1896-1907, February 14, 1908, Image 4
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THE QAFFNEY LEDGER,
Tuesday a«d Friday.
Kd. H. D«Camp, Editor and Publisher
Th« Ledger is not responsible for
the views of correspondents.
Watch your label and the date,
And renew before ’tie too late;
It there be an error, don’t get mad,
Report to us—we’ll make you glad.
Remember, ’tls our aim to please,
But errors are like pesky fleas
They will creep in in spite of fate,
Therefore, watch your label and the
date. —Original.
CITY DIRECTORY.
Officialc.
J. Q. Little Mayor
H. L. Spears Major Pro Tern
W. H. Ross City Clerk
R. A. Jones.. Treasurer
A. L. Hallman Health Officer
T. H. Lockhart Chief Police
j. £>. uell City Attorney
Board Public works.
A. N. Wood.. .. •• .. ..Chairman
J. N. Lipscomb Treasurer
w. H. Ross Secretary
Board of Trade.
W. C. Hamrick President
J. C. Otts ..Secretary
fact that they are sometimes unfairly
dishonest. It may be trne that many
lawyers are willing to resort to any ex
pedient, however questionable In or
der to acquit a client. It is an unfor
tunate fact that there are lawyers
who hold themselves bound by no
wished the ground hog had staid in
his hole Instead of coming out and
going; bacb to cause all the bad weath
er that we have been having lately.
We took occasion to Inform the lady
we averaged about four homicides
per year, or about thirty-eight or
forty since the county was formed In
1897. We believe Cherokee county
and the city of Gaffney to be as free
from vice as any county and town in
the State.
• • •
Mr. Bryson, a prominent Republi
can politician of Ohio, who is familiar
with conditions in that State, says
that the cause was nearer home, that
consideration of conscience or morals we placed the responsibility upon our
representing either side of a. c^ 8 ®- local weather prophet, Mr. W. Hamp
But after all, none of these things
count for a great deal as against a 1 rmmore.
jury of high class, honorable gentle- • • •
men, whose purpose is single only to
the object of doing that which Is The Ledger prides Itself upon Its, ^ ^ ,
right. corps ot correspondents. We do nol » Tajt Is nom.nated for preslden
with twelve jurrraeh hentonlyon hosltat(i (0 tiat tl] are ab(m , by the Republicans, Mr. Bryan will
trying to do that which is right, there , . . carry Ohio. If Mr. Bryson is correct,
ear he no miscarriage of justice. But f he average correspondents of the should know what he Is talk-
wherethe jurymen are corrupt-where; country,newspaper. “J. L. S.” is the a,m ’’ “ wnal he 18 ta,R
♦hey are influenced by any considera-‘ nean our correspondents, having i’" K about ’ the Democrats havea S° 0fl
♦ion other than a determination to do . , . T , n/>Q chan ce to be successful in the next
right, they are likely to do incalcula-: been wlth The I ^ ed « er a,nce the flrst - — — — —
number came from the press. He is
presidential election, for that Taft
LAWYERS ARE NOT ALL ALIKE.
The following excellent article on
the supremacy of the law was clip
ped from the editorial columns of our
esteemed contemporary, the York-
vllle Enquirer, a paper for whose
views we have great respect, but we
think the Enquirer’s statement “that
many lawyers are willing to resort to
almost any expedient to acquit their
client,” is rather too broad. That
this is the case with some lawyers
we will not deny, but the number of
those who do this is the exception
and not the rule. The article says
further that ‘‘it is an unfortunate fact
that there are lawyers who hold them
selves bound by no consideration of
conscience, or morals in representing
either side of a case.” Now this is
doutbless true. There are some law
yers who will take any case or any
side of a case regardless of the right,
just so they get a fee. But take the ar
ticle as a whole. In the flrst part where
the term “many lawyers” is used and
the Enquirer is hardly just to a profes
sion which can boast of as many
honorable men as any other, not ex
cepting the high calling of that of
minister of the gospel of Jesus
Christ.
We know some lawyers who persis
tently xefi>se to take cases where they
know or believe the defendant is guil
ty. and who have refused to repre
sent clients in civil cases after one
of the parties thereto had disclosed
his whole case disqualifying himself
from representing the other party to
the action. Now this is palled Quixo-
‘ ti 0 by some members of the profes-
j sion, but the large majority of them
say it is right, but unfortunately the
whole profession is made to suffer in
reputation because of the practices
those who are known as systers.
We quote from the Enquirer:
That the law is not observed in
iouth Carolina as it should be is a
act that is generally recognized and
ieplored by a large proportion of the
ntelligent citizenship of the State;
)ut the reason for this condition of
iffairs is a proposition upon which
:hese same people find It more or l© 88
lifficult to agree. -
Discussing the situation with this
writer one day an able and broad
ninded circuit judge expressed a view
ibout like this: “There is no use to
try to deny that there Is not as much
respect for law In South Carolina as
there should be. If asked to mention
the counties in which jurors stick
most conscientiously to the law and
evidence In rendering verdicts, I
would place the big county of Spar
tanburg at the head of the list and the
smaller county of Horry next. I could
mention several counties in which It
is very difficult to get an honest ver
dict against combinations of family
Influences. The juries are not gener
ally deceived by the pleas of the law
yers or the testimony; but they are
Influenced by family and factional
prejudices, sometimes coming flown
from the days of the Whigs and
Tories, before the Revolution.
We have not seen proper to mo
tion anv name in connection with this
observation for the reason that it was
not understood that the view quoted
was being expressed for publication,
hut knowledge of the condition men
tioned Is one of much value to those
who would aim to secure reform along
the lines suggested.
No reasonably Intelligent man can
•very well afford to deny that the sur
est guarantee of public peace, pros
perity and happiness lies in the strict
est and most impartial enforcement
of all laws, and If there Is a keynote
to strict and impartial enforcement of
laws, that keynote lies In the honest
conscientious discharge of duty by
4 ".rieB.
may be true that judges some-
make mistakes. It may he a
it is a gratifying fact that the aver-j particularly valuable as a correspond- ''' II bt tbe e of tbo
age York county juryman is all that| ent> COV ering fully all the local hap- ,icans is a foregone conclusion. We
♦ip should he. He seeks to discharge i , , „ . , say this because Taft is the choice of
the obligation he incurs with his oath, i ,e oings in his community, and he has prpsklpnt Roosevelt and the
and does not allow himself to be n- written some exceptionally good *
fluenced by considerations of preju-, things. His advice to girls in this usually ger s wnat he uants. it
dice or friendship. That I s Ih® ru ' e >! issue of the paper is excellent, and ls . 0< | ua J rei am 13 ^ r ’ B r >an
and there ^ reason to hope that som 6 - we egpeclallv commend that part of will be the nominee of the Democrats,
day the verdict of a jury in this conn ,. He is the only logical candidate, and
ty Will be .^ a ®^|y t acc 0 e | P t ® d eh a t 8 C _ 0 n D d OUr y0ung y no one else will be seriously consider-
elusive establishment of right ana readers. ,
kjatice | ed, and with Mr. Taft opposing him
! and Ohio in the Democratic column, j
NOTES AND COMMENTS. Unless there is a killing in this it really looks as if we have a cahnce
! county between this and the conven- to win, at least we will throw up our
The Argus, of Louisville, Ky., says; ing of our next terms of court which; hats and claim that we will w in any-
that President Poteat, of Furman will sit on the 24th of this month, way.
University, has been called to the pas-1 there will not have been a homicide • * •
torate of one of the largest churches! in our county in almost two years. some years ago before we aspired
of that city. It is hoped that South i Comparing our early record with this, to the dignity of a metropolitan city,
Carolina may not lose so good a man. we are to be congratulated upon our there was a certain negro boy who
* * * marked Improvement. If our figures made himself obnoxious to certain
A lady told us Wednesday that she are correct up to two years ago wh i te boys of the town These boys
decided that the proper thing to do
was to chastise the impudent negro,
and one of the boys who Is now one
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Confidence
when eating, that your food is of
highest wholesomeness—that it has
nothing in it that can injure or
distress you — makes the repast
doubly comfortable and satisfactory.
This supreme confidence you
have when the food is raised with
B»&iE'idiKBg RowcIi
IP««K*e
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The only baking powder made
with Royal Grape Cream of Tartar
There can be no comforting confi
dence when eating alum baking pow
der food. Chemists say that more or
less of the alum powder in unchanged
alum or alum salts remains in the food.
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Don't neglect your cough.
Statistics show that in New York City
alone over 200 people die every week from
consumption.
And most of these consumptives might
be living now if they had not neglected the
warning cough. *f*
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You know how quickly Scott's ^
Emulsion enables you to throw off a ^
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cough or cold. ^ ^
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ALL DRUGGISTS; 50c. AND $1.00, ^
j of our prominent business men, was
« selected to involve the negro in a fight
and if he should not prove competent
i to the include, or adequate to the ca-
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pability, the others were to sail In
! and help. The fight started according
V to schedule and the negro proceeded
^ to lay It on to the white hoy at a
^i lively rate, and he noticing that the
A hoys were not coming to the rescue,
«• ; according to programme, said: “You
jv S ee how things are going, don’t you
V boys?” Several of our citizens who
I were boys at tho time, remember the
j occurrence vividly and the story
A never fails to elicit a hearty laugh
ji when told.
Nashville and other points. They will
be gone about ten days.
Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Wood, of
Virginia, are in the city for a weeks
visiting relatives.
Albert Alexander visited relatives
at Shelby and Fallston, N. 0., last
week.
Mrs. A. P. Austell, of Shelby, N. C.,
is visiting her daughter, Mrs. T. C.
Petty, on corner of Johnson and Race
street!.
Our Local Weather Prophet.
Mr. W. H- Prldmore’s latest weath
er forecast was given out yesterday
morning and is as follows: “On Fel^
ruary 20th certain stars will be clus
tered around the moon, and on that
date the weather will b.e either very
wet or very dry, being hot or very
cold.” With as much territory as he
has covered in tho above progrostlcar
tlon it would look as if he might
come reasonably near hitting the nail
on the head this time.
PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS.
Mr. J. L. Llghtsey, a former resi
dent of Gaffney, was here the flrst
of the week shaking hands with his
many friends.
A. Gregg Susong, who has been in
Tennessee buying mules, returned to
the city Tuesday.
Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Carroll left
Wednesday morning fox Chicago,
Thought He Had a Ne w Disease.
Yesterday morning The Ledger
’phoned the Merchants Grovery Com
pany of which the genial Tom L.
Brown is a member, to know how Mr.
Brown passed the night. Arthur
Pridmore, who answered the ’phone,
ii-formed us that Tom was consider
ably better. Upon being asked if he
was convalscent, Arthur answered
that he hoped not, that if he had that
he was satisfied It would kill him.
Tom should fall afoul of Arthur and
be at him as soon as he gets up.
Suffering and Dollars saved.
E. S. Loper, of Marilla, N. Y., says:
“I am a carpenter and have had many
severe cuts healed by Bucklen’a Ar
nica Salve. It is by far the best heal
ing salve I have ever found.' Heals
burns, sores, ulcers, fever sores, ec
zema and piles. 25c at Cherokee
Drug Co.
—One 50c bottle Nature’s Cough
Remedy will put an end to that cough;
no cure, no pay. Gaffney Drug Co.
2 a w tf.
GREAT ANNUAL SAL
WHITE!
of
Beginning Monday Morning, February
17th and Continuing Until the 22nd
We will put on sale th« best and largest selection of Undermuslins ever shown
by us. Also Muslins. Embroidery, Lace, Waistings, Ginghams, Wash Silks, etc.
In fact, everything white in the house.
100 pairs Lac<- Curtains slightly imperfect, at less than half price.
40-inch Sea Island, worth 1 Oc, to go in White Sale at just half price, 5c.
1 Oc yard for Lawnsdale Cambric; 10c yard for Fruit of the Loom
Bleaching, ten yards to a customer.
It
mes
Ilt-itfiw-Hh Cannot hn Ciirt t*
See our white Waists at $1.00 worth much more. At $12.50, worth
$15.00. Newest things out.
6 3-4c yard for Lancaster and Amoskeog staple Ginghams, worth I Oc,
bv .utza’ apDlicnttons. w they caniiot rvach ; I
*h<. t"st nt»t'<l port Ion <>!’ the «ur. Tht -f K
only one way to deafnetia. and tustl if. i
by < <institutional reiuetlles. Ih afness Is •
•autovi by Inllaniwl fondltlon of tho mnootis
titlin 'of tlie Kustneblan Tubo. When tills
June "fts In flu aieil you have a lurnhllmr !
sound or Imperfect hearing, aurl when It Is L
cnlir. lv Host il deafness Is the result and i
unions’the inflammation eati he taken oul 1
and this tube ft stored to Us normal eon 11-,
tior bearin'.: will be destroyed forever: nine
Cant s out of mi ^reeansed by catarrh, which I
is nothing Lit an Inflamed condition of the,
■tucoua surface*. , ,
We will give One Hundred Dollars for any i,
•ase of Deafness (cased iiy catarrh) that can- I
not t>e cored hy Hall's Catarrh Cure, ricud 1!
i.„ To , ri „. o.
Sold biDruirgests, 75c.
Hall's Fho,Mv PUN for c u n»tipation.
Bargains in all White Goods February 17th to 22nd
CARROLL
RS