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* t-. THE GAFFNEY LEDGER. Tuesday and Friday. IE H. D»Camp, Editor and FuMlahsr bad to tie the knot and christen the I babiee; the doctors had to usher in {the new generation and usher out the old. Necessarily, in his campaign in Mecklenburg county for good roads, 1 ' Captain Alexander found his mdst of Cole Blease, would be to run back the bands on the dial of sobriety, and band was absent at work.” All of: i which goes to show that the depraved Improvement on Colored School. Rev. R. C. Campbell, principal of MARKET REPORT. ■ -. ardent supporters to be young men, j comml88lone d ambasador of Christ, obedience to law. LOCAL COTTON MARKET. [Preachers and doctors. ■ I tbtak «i Wt ^ p r „„d of the mlntstrr of Mlddlln. , 13 5 :ml5ht W denl0 “ 8 ‘ ralel1 l>e l' I >‘‘ d 3outh carollaa, who are not faltering reasonable douht that bad roads arei when our state i8 ln pom. place In the highest ofllce of the negro stands a small chance of ea- '^ e colored public school of Gaffney. State a man who 1. an unworthy caplng with his life In the North a. ! J" b , <Km f 8 " 1 ,“ w ” rk >lace the close aiaie, a iu»u i H e , of this school last tATay, making some model to the youth of our country. | well as the South. There is but one addition t0 the p r e 8e nt school build- would be recreant to the trust of a remedy North or South and that is | ing, and has succeeded in having a room 20x40 feet built, and It will be nicely seated. The colored trustees of this school property should be unfavorable to matrimony and in crease of population. “Ten millions of dollars annually, as tribute to clay, mud, sand, rocks, notee and comments RHETT EXHONARATED. standing by Rev. The Records Show Him to Be a True \ Campbell in carrying forward this Democrat. work for the benefit of their childr Columbia. Aug. 19.—The letter of ren. Mr. R. G. Rhett, to President Roose- Hens 30c Frys dOctoiiOc Ducks. 20c Eg**. 10c Butter 15c Irish Potatoes, bushel 80c S"&hel h . e ! '•. ::::::YJ* : and hil18 * not t0 mention tired beasts, whiteI1 the corn Meal, bushel 116 Oats. feed, bushel sou | Peas, clay’, bushel.:..... . ... ^ ane drivers. During the last twenty-; is stlll ln the land and everybody submitted , 0 Gen. Wilie Jones, State missionary lines. The cotton fields are beginning to velt in regard to the appointment of A Missionary Talk. fields to yellow and : C rum - referred to in the campaign At eight o’clock on Monday eve- . ^ , as containing expressions sympathetic ning, August 24th, Miss Carrie Mathis, galled shoulders, sore backs, ana pro- the sho it t0 fatten. The watermelon ^ ^ Republioan party has been of Greenville, will talk to ladies along &M 8bel -. .v. five vears tbls bad-road tax has con- ought tobe happy. __________ ; sutned an amount of money equal to j * • ECONOMY OF GOOD ROADS. Dr. George T. Winston, president of Democratic chairman, who has given Miss Mathis is a magnetic speaker a statement that he found no such and impresses all who hear her as the taxable values of the whole State nnited States Judge Jeter C. Pritch- sentiments therein. The private let- one who feels ' vh at she says. United biaies j s . ter books of Mr. Rhett from October. All ladies and girls of the etty are of North Carolina. One-tenth of what ard, an ex-United States Senator, bas ( tQ j anuary 19b g bave been 8U b- cordially invited to hear her. Every the State College of Agriculture and we waste annually on bad roads been importuned to aceapt the Re- mbted to two d istinguished lawyers member of the Ladies’ Missionary would give a seven-month’s term to ... nomination for governor, Q f charleston. Messrs. H. A. M. Smith Society, the Young Ladies’ Mission . .. I PUUIU.AU pl„K or.A? flro niwl'c A.„ every school in North Carolina; ^10.- but dec iines the honor 000,000 thrown away on bad roads. It is the same as if every horse and mule in North Carolina were killed He is a wise and James Simons, who s^ate that Club and the Girl’s Hand are urged to they find therein Ally this one letter he present. from Mr. Rhett to the president and — * * * who agree with Gen. Jones in his BRIEF NEWS NOTES. While candidate Blease has taken 8 t a tement, saying further that on ac man. annually.” lime 0 ff to abuse the ministers, it is count of certain personal references The Texas Railroad Commission North Carolina is larger than South tir „ b i e fact that he has not had to a lady who was affected by the filed suit before the Inter-State Com- Carolina In like proportion we-pay * " fo the slat ements contain Crum appointment. Mr. Rhett is cor-1 merce Commission to prevent in- Gme to deny tne siaiemcu }n ^ refusal t0 publisu the let- crease of freight rates. Mechanical Arts, Raleigh, N. C., Is dis cussing the economy of good roads before the North Carolina Good Roads Convention in 1902, among other I things said: “It has been calculated that the 1 people of North Carolina suffer an- j nually from bad roads to the extent of about $10,000,000. In other words,; they pay, as Professor Holmes so vigorously expresses it, an annual ‘mud tax, sand tax, and hill tax’ | amounting to $10,000,000. It is diffi cult for us to understand how weaie A PREACEHR IN POLITICS. . _ _ paving so large a tax when we see ^ Recently the cry has been made be- graft record has been added to d i da te for the United States senate, 1 Ham S. Benson as commander of ca- P V ’ cause the associations and other re- previous record since he was elected have read carefully a letter to the dets at the Naval Academy. Terrified by <* dream Miss Beulah All Three Are Good. Ed DeCamp, of the Gaffney Ledger, came over Saturday to witness the defeat of his splendid team by the Victor nine. Col. DeCamp was im pressed by the virility and progree- siveness of our town and stated that he considered it one of the very beet of the smaller cities in South Caro lina—not even excepting Gaffney.— Greer Observer. Now that fellow Remsen is a daisy. The very idea of our admitting any town being as good as Gaffrey. Why, bless my soul, son. if we thought there was another town on earth as good as this one we would wish we were double so we could live in both of them.—Gaffney Ledger. The genial colonel had better get busy with the Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde stunt, ringing in a third char acter for another town. His well known fairness will compel him to admit there are two other towns which are at least in the Gaffney class. And they are all in Carolina, at. that—Greer, Gaffney ard Green ville, the three incomparable ‘ : Gee9” of the Piedmont. Come, colonel 'fess up —Greer Ob server. this same tax, therefore, what is true of the Tarheel State applies to the Palmetto. Isn’t it time we were do ing something? ed in the letter of Hon. W. F. Steven-, ter son . The statements follow: i • • • j Columbia. S. C., Aug. 18, 1908. Whv did Newberry elect Blease Mr. James A. Hoyt, * k d well we Columbia S. C. senator? Has been as e . , Dear Sir:—At your request as a re-, Commander Charles A. Gove is ex- don’t know, but all this dispensan p resen t a ti V e of Mr. R. G. Rhett, can-; pected to succeed Commander Wil- Mr. William Hfl Taft took a 40^ mile drive over the mountains from Hot Springs to the “Old White” and at night led the german at the hotel. Ca.-d of Thames. We wish to extend our most sin cere thanks to our friends and the public for their many kindnesses during tho sickness and death of our wife and mother. May the richest blessing of God be theirs. L. W. McGuinn and Children. none of the money going out of our j tnl r * « vonrn aeo Does an* president of the United States, sign- poekets. It is always difficult tor tus gatherings have seen fit to senator four years ago Do ^ a ' . ^ by Mr Rhett, and dated November people to realize that they are paying : take a Btand for and espouse the sa ne man think there is a Rot ^ i9og ^ ^ book G . Connell, in the Memorial Hospital cause of temperance, sobriety, and Borough" that would elect him sen- gubm j tted to me by y OU j n which Mr. Richmond, leaped from a window and decency in government paid by "citizens for the support of| n ° le the meB wl10 are l “ )wllne aod a tax unless It is paid to the tax col lector. The average amount of tax If you will! ator, with his graft record? • • • Rhett protests strongly against the i was killed. She Likes Good Things. Mrs. Chas. E Smith, of West Franklin, Maine, says: “I like good things and have adopted Dr. King’s New Life Pills as our family laxative medicine, because they are good and do their work without making a fuss appointment of Dr. Crum as collector : about It.” These painless purifiers Sev en persons were hurt, one fa- i 3Q] d at Cherokee Drug Co 25c criticising the ministry for going into There are no ifs and ands about it. j of the port of Charleston. I can see , taUy, when a skidding automobUe it a Question of the dispensary be- nothing 1n this le ter wbich W0llld ,n * turned turtle making a sharp turn In w# d0 nal ^ ^ ^ . t<n It is a question o dlcate anything Republican or any Philadelphia. k'«®s of printing politics, they are usually politicians the general government is nearly $10 per capita. The citizens of North Carolina are therefore, paying anna- ally in taxes (o support the Federal I*™ 8ucl1 ca " dl4ate8 Government about $19,000,000. Yet the State of North Carolina, for its 1 F the appointment of a negro to an of- ♦ onmioiiv I express them? Does any man sur-j ao t believe anyone except he be in a own government, collects annually ^ \ , tu an v , , ., . . render the privilege of citizenship < f aV or of the dispensary—ami thanit less than $1 per capita. The tax col- ,cuu , _ . a when he becomes a minister? Are;God not all of them—wm letted for county purposes Is less I” who are hit. or heelers and support- j ng thrust • upon the people or aban tendency towards the Republcan par doned entirely. We have heard of ty on the part of Mr. Rhett. The let- Why should not a minister have j bu t one man in Gaffney who says lie ter appears to me to be simply a dispensary advocate, and we do strong protest by a Democrat against do tho GOOD kind vote for than 60 cant, per capita. Thla total tha >' ”°' rae ” and 80varlg, ‘ ' ,oters! i Blaa8e ' of less than 11.60 per capita for State UoM ,he h| s 1 > and hol! ' offlce ot a and county purposes is usually con sidered a grievous burden, while we, , a i> the $10 per capita to the Federal, sb * p or re H eve f ro “ from the duty Bryan would do well to go down m t 0 g a y that we have examined your • • • minister of the gospel disqualify a Ye lusty-throated Democrats who man from the privileges of citizen- ba ve yelled yourselves hoarse for Mr. flee in South Carolina, Very truly yours, Wilie Jones, Chairman. Charleston. Aug. 17. 1908. Hon. R. G. Rhett, Charleston, S. C. Dear Sir:—At your request we beg pay Government, not only without a mur- , of taking an interest in the State? y our jeans and fish up a dollar for copy letter-books covering the period , . . . ' w Don’t from October, 1902, to January, 1908, mer. but usually without even know-1 Bul sorae ofthese phansees are ^ Democratlc campaign ^ ^ and find therein but one letter afi- Ing that we pay it. The same thing j afraid ,he mini8ters are 8° iD « t0 car ‘ be a tight wad. It will take severa dresged t0 p r e S i de nt Roosevelt. This pay for bad ry tbe cllurc,h * nt0 P°1RI CS - dollars to win the presidential elect- j ett er ( and you assure us this is the They (such politicians) show more Scoffs Emulsion strengthens enfeebled nursing mothers by increasing their flesh and nerve force. It provides baby with the necessary fat and mineral food for healthy growth. ALL DRUGGISTS: SOc. AND $1.00. is i rue of the tax that we roads—‘the mud tax. the sand tax, and the hill tax.’ The tax for the Federal Government is paid, without! » algn than « ^ other Unw our knowing It, on every article that how much thl8 das8 01 crWes pay t0 | 1. used in the kitchen-ironware, tin- 1 ,he 8 "> 1 ‘ ,ort 0 ' tbe pa8tor8 - See how interest in the church during a cam- See ion this year but there is a chance j only letter In that period) is dated provided we loosen up enough. Hand November 21st, 1902, and was written 1 q T at the time of the contemplated ap- your contribution to R. 8. Lipscomb by Qf at the Merchants and Planters Bank. w D Crum ag col i ector at the port • • • i of Charleston, and is written in the strenuous terms of protest than in the church. ^ ^ We are proud of such a ministry. ’ - ", - -rtvommant ! P ubllcan and reproached the president We are glad that Cherokee county 1 lhe Pr ° Pe y ; „ ccause by the ap p ol „t„ent of no We are glad that Cherokee county, Aj ^ matter of ln(0 r ma Uon we will gr0e8 t0 promtaMt olBce he w0 „, d as sue m n a era u ev. r. uy, flta ^ m a ; y]r. Baldwin’s ship stayed render impossible and Ineffective the ware, earthenware; on every article, seldom " ,at lhey 80 t0 churct '' W1,e,, ' The Hying ‘ machine Is certainly “ 08t meet We n.v. that is used in the dining room- we note the8e tw0 fact8 ’ we readlly ! coming along. A dispatch from Wash- ^ the letter carefully and find ln linen, china, silver, cutlery; on all see ,bat tbese crRI® 8 8r ® more nter , j ng ^ on 8 t a t e8 that Mr. Baldwin’s the letter absolutely nothing to the our clothing, from hats to shoes; on ; e8ted in 11( l uor > lnvlce and 8hame j ship hag met wlth aM requirements effect, as stated in the affidavit of Mr. | household furniture, carpets, curtains,: lhan in lbe cburcb - 0 j the War Department and has be- ] doba Grace, that you were a wallpaper; on farm Implements; aad, in short, on manufactured goods of all kinds. In the same way every thing we produce on the farm and carry to town; every trip we make to _ church, to school, to market, to poat-’ cratlc 8!r8tem of government la ' ba “7«nd fourth over a Bve mUe South Carollna." Tour letter lu no so many annd hiiRiness and nrofea- * wa y> shape or form intimates that you office, or to a neighbor’s house; al-! ... . . P ' course, turning in any. direction at; either are or propoge t0 be a Repub . most every act we perform is taxed sl0Da meD ake no parti m P 0l,t,cs - the wI n of the operator and making ii ( . a n, and the piotest to the president; a portion of our $10,000,000 tax to The rlgbt t0 vote carrles with a speed Q f eighteen to twenty miles is couched upon the theory that the j And that’s flying some. ; appoinment of negroes to office in the : South was most unfortunate for them, * * * I inasmuch as it simply tended to in- j Interest Rev. Mr. Harrison, Rev. Mr. Owena, and others. One bane of a Demo cratic system of government Is that house; al- i 30 many good bU8ine8S in the air for over two hours during; work of yourself in advancing the in- which time it made a number of trips, Crests of the Republican party in sand, mud, and hills-our annual an imp08ed dut y whlch 110 good man tribute to bad roads. i can afford t0 8hirk ’ No good man will do it if he will stop and think. an hour. “How careful we are to raise a fine horse, to give him the greatest strength or speed we are capable of i producing by proper breedtng, feed ing. and training; but having produc-1 ed this splendid product, we place him on a wretched road that reduces by at least half the powers that we have so carefully cultivated. Similar ly we construct with great trouble and with great expense a vehicle capable of attaining a maximum speed and carrying a maximum load; , and then, as if to undo all our work, we put it on a road that does not per ' mit it to carry half the load or to at tain half the speed of which it is capable. Not a basket of trough* to market, not a box ens, a pound of meat, 4 bale of cot ton. a barrel of apples, nor a bushel of grain but pays a tax to bad roads, invisible and Imperceptible, but con stant. steady, and in the aggregate destructive of progress and pros perity. “The bad-road tax Is paid The trouble is that too many of us pray and ask God to bless and save race question The South has no monopoly of the crease the friction and lesson the The bad negro is possibility of harmonious existence Yankeeland between themselves and the whites! our county, and deliberatly sit still j bated and d e s I )lsed in " " of the South: upon whose good will | and do nothing ourselves. | just as much or more than he is hated lbe begt possiblities for the future of Too many merchants are afraid of j and despised in Dixieland. A recent t h e negro depended. offending a possible customer; many doctors are afraid of offending too dispatch from Springfield, 111., brings the intelligence that: "Almost with in the shadow of the State capitol Friday night aj 9 o'clock, Dan Hig gins. a negro man, was hanged to a a possible patient; too many lawyers are afraid of driving away a possible client; too many farmers let the other fellow run the State, instead of | lree ’ bod y riddled with bullets, taking an Interest in public affairs. : and b * 8 tb, ' oal cut f rom ear to ear If all our people had simply follow- ( tbe secon d victim by lynching since ed Cole Blease’s record in the last the rei P n of terror started here ear,y session of the Senate, our people ^ riday morning. The first and fourth would bury him next Tuesday with a infantries have been ordered from majority of 90,000. The country owes * hicago. Hundreds of negroes are There are in the letter allusions of a very personal character to individu als (a lady, for instance) whch we think it would be a breach of pro priety on your part in this matter now to publish. Very truly yours, Henry A. M. Smith, James Simons. Drawing to a Close. The Gampaign is drawing to a close. Yesterday the meeting was at Pond- field, in Draytonville township. Last night the seekers of the suffrage of eggs is - nigni me seexers or tne sunrage or of chick 1 mUCh t0 itS C,ergry ' They are aIways fle<>ing thp c ty ’ maiiy leavm S tbe the people spoke at Holt’s store, in the leaders for morality, sobriety and Starred remains of their homes be- tb j 8 c jty. Tonight they will be at decency Anri th« miniator ihau b >»d and members of their families Limestone Mills and tomorrow they to takers hand In^a thne^like thla! when <-.->,0,,™ o- a n ob’ s , Ury in the w„, eloae the e.-npalsn, so lar aa , uKa-okAM. speaking is concerned, at the court the election to the Governor’s chair State of LInc0,n - the ,lberator of the ^ yerdlct Jg ^ _ race. Hundreds of whites in a meet- ; the campa|gn hag been conduf . ted on Is the greatest incentive toward* saving money. When you hnd your money is earning something you feel more like saving. Interest, like a much advertised remedy, ‘‘works while you sleep.” We pay 4% interest on savings accounts from $1.00 up, and compound the interest four times a year. Absolute safety, liberality and courtesy our watch-words. The Gaffney Savings Bank Gaffney, S. C. Office in National Bank of Gaffney. learn that there is at least one (Jrt;a«lcri dls- ease that science has been able to -ure in all every i RsstagesandtbatlsCatarrh. Hall'sCatarrh Cure is the only positive cure now known to minute of every hour of every day in t “ e f?. A ca fraternity. Catarrh be ng a , * constitutional disease, requires a oonstltu- the year. It collects itself. I do not * ~ ~ wonder the doctors and preachers and young men came to the help of Cap- and fhe patient stre'ngth iiy tain Alexander in Mecklenburg conn- patureln doing its work. The proprietors ty. They know the cost of ba<l roads. The young men had to ride around to see the pretty girls: the preachers Sxoo Reward $ioo * ng ° n 8treet8 tkat a R eraoor >. took a high plane, free from personalities The readers of this paper will tie pleased to a s° ,emn vow t0 S ive means and mudslinging. and if necessary their lives in exter- ’ minating the entire black population! of the capitol of Illinois, and by aj and girls thereby dMtroylng the "foundation”©?’the ° r ,he sam ‘ 1 brutality which Mrs. bel Hallam suffered Thursday night at the hands of George Richardson, the negro brute who assaulted her in her home on one of the most promi nent residence streets while her hua- tional treatment. Hall’s Catarrh Cure is .. taken Internally, acting directly upon the visitation upon the women blood and mucous surfaces of the system » .l . . ... , . , thereby destrovlmr the of the same brutality which proprietors ufsvQ so much faith in its curatives iiowors that they offer One Hundred Dollars for any case that It falls to cure. Send for list of testimonials. Addrass, F. J. Chenet A Co.. Toledo. O. Sold by Druggists. 75c. Hall's Family Pills are the best Jell-0 The Ddinr^ Dissert PREPAWED INSTANTLY. Simply add boil ing water, cool and serve. Me. per package at all groom. 7 flavors. Refuse all substitutes. —Special coffee iale, $1.00 6 lhe. milk palle at 89c at F. Bee Gaffney'i. Desirable Property For Sale Four-room cottage with brick store room on lot (80x200) on Cherokee avenue. Valuable lot fronting Limestone St., 40x200. The V. E. Lemmons house rrt West End, Peachtree street 150x250. A nice farm (the J. J. Jamisor. place) six and one-half miles from town. For prices and terms see : : : ; 5Ail L. PORT, Real Estate and Fire Insurance, Pfaoaa 258. Office second floor National Bank Building.