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/ THE GAFFNEY LEDGER, Tuesday and Friday. Ed. H. DeCamp, Editor and Publisher 1110 Ledger It aot reeponfble for tbe 'views of Its oorrespoadeats. CITY DIIIICTOIIY. OfRalala. W. h. Rom .. .. Major W. O. Johaaoa .. Major FioTam been closed, then they should hut draw closer one to another in sym pathy and brotherly and sisterly love; make the little ones happy with toys and trinkets and encourage their be lief in the beautiful legend of old merry-faced, white-whiskered Santa Claus and his teams of dashing rein deer; and last, though not least, re member the poor, and unfortunate, the suffering and the sorrowing, and If by word or deed you may relieve their suffering or mitigate their sor row it will bring a joy to your own heart that will never fade and"let into Geo. B. Hood Oty Clerk T. H. Littlsjohe • your own life a ray of heavenly light. If all these things could be done, A Hand In the Dark. T. H- Lockhart Chief Poke* A. L. Hallmaa Health OMeer Butler ft Os bo rue .. .. City Attjfc Beard ef Public werfca. A. n. Wood Chaimaa J. N. Lipeeomb B. G. Clary .. Bears Trade. W. C. Hamrick Prealdeut J. C. Otts Beeretary A CHRISTMAS SENTIMENT. To all of our patrons, great and small, To correspondents, readers, one and all, To the help in the office, front and back, To everyone concerned, both white and black, Who have contributed to The Led ger's success, We wish you joy, peace and happiness. CHRISTMAS GREETINGS. Old Father Time has turned his big year-wheel again and brought us to another mile post on the road that leads to the land of shadows. That road in the past has wound over hills and valleys, sometimes through dark and tangled wildernesses, sometimes through fields of golden grain and luscious fruits, sometimes through gardens of flowers kissed by the morning sun and nourished by the morning dews, lint always the road has led on and on and on with no in dications of terminating this side of the eternal Beyond. But there are resting places along this road where we may pause and renew our wasted strength, gather fresh energies for the yet uncom pleted journey and fresh cheer and strong hopes for the part that re mains. We reach one of these stations to day— a station which has stood through many generations and has always furnished comfort and good cheer to the weary pilgrims of earth. Here let the strains of life relax, let the travel-worn garments be cast, aside, let the heart-burdens be thrown down, let the clouds that have so of ten overshadowed the soul be rolled away, and let the glorious sunshine of peace, good cheer, and good will warm the heart and illuminate mind and soul. Tiie year that is closing has been an eventful one. What year is not? The years are made up of events— events in the life of nations, cities, towns, communities, and individual men and women. Many things have happened which we could wish were otherwise. Many homes have_ been darkened by death; many hearts have been made desolate because loved ones have gone away to return no more, and for those left behind the cypress and the willow will hang over the hearthstone instead of the mistle toe and the holly. Many business ven tures have disappointed expectations, many cherished plans have been thwarted, many high hopes have been crushed. But these things must needs be. They are now among the things that were and let them go. Upon the whole the year has been a prosperous one, ami if it has not been a happy on° to most of us, it is largely a mat ter of our o\.n faul*. Our disappoint ments have been for our own good; our sorrows were p< rhaps designed to softer our hard hearts, reclaim our perverse natures, and make us better men and women. Let us thank God for the way He has led us and open our hearts to all the creatures of His land. Let old friends come to gether and comfort and cheer one another by renewing the pledges of other days; let those widely separat ed by mountains, hills and plains, ex change assurances through mall or express of fond remembrance and constant love; let families gather from far and near at the old home and renew the sweet memories and associations of childhood and youth, and if the hands that guided them through the mazes of early years, are cold and the eyes that watched them with love and pride, have long w r e should begin the year 1909 on a higher plane than ever before, and we should be purer and better and stronger for the untried experiences that await us. The Ledger has nothing but love and good wishes for every home that it has visited during the year now closing. If it could, it would fill every one of them with a joy unspeakable. We have tried to serve our readers faithfully and to the best of our ability and we appreciate deeply the steady support of our patrons and the many expressions of approval and encour agement they have given us. If we are spared to continue our visits to them in the future we shall always feel that they deserve the best that is in us and we shall always strive to admisister to their well-being and happiness. To our co-laborers in the office who have so faithfully and valiantly stood by us find helped to make The Ledger what it is. we tender our sincere ap preciation and heartfelt gratitude, and to one and all we bring affectionate greetings and heartfelt wishes for a merry Christmas and happy lives. [Original.] When my father, who had been a very wealthy man, died Insolvent his children were like persons thrown into deep water without having learned to swim. Had It not been for my mother and sisters I would have got on well enough. I was young and strong and perfectly willing to work. But they must live. Mother was too old to do anything for herself, and, as to my sis ters, it was before the admission to the various fields which are now open to women. I secured an agency for the sale of sewing machines. One day I went home and found the family all being turned out of the little cottage to which we had been reduced for non payment of rent. I had sold that day a machine for which I had collected the money. I paid the rent with it. There are cases where the penalty for dishonesty seems very harsh. That I had appropriated the sewing ma chine funds soon became known to my employers. I was given twenty-four hours to make good the deficiency or submit to arrest. There was no way in the world to save myself. Of a naturally sensitive disposition, to go behind liars was more than I could en dure. I resolved on suicide. I owned a revolver which I had pur chased in the halcyon days. I had a few cents necessary to buy cartridges. Following a plan usual to suicides for the purpose of lessening as much as possible the shock to those who love them, I went to a hotel, registered and asked for a room. The hour was for 6 o’clock in the evening, but it was In December and ns dark as midnight. The clerk assigned me to a room, and I was shown to it by a bell boy. • It was in a wing of the hotel at the end of a dimly lighted hail. My conductor found the door unlocked and opened it. I entered and shut the door behind me. I was in absolute darkness, which was what I preferred—that is, if a man about to die lias any preferences. My knee rubbed against a chair. 1 took hold of it and sat down with my face to its back, and dropped my head on my hands. My mind of course was on my misfortunes. Had I not been suffering from a partial temporary in sanity I might have seen the folly of my course. It would have been better for me to disappear. Then I might still be of use to my mother and sis ters. This did not occur to me. My mind had become saturated with one subject—arrest, handcuffs, prison bars I am a believer in the power of purely temporary physical conditions to force one into crime, and such condition i suffered from. Presently I straightened up, put my hand to a hip pocket and took out my revolver. There was no necessity for a light. I could do what I iutended through tiie sense of touch. Indeed. I did not care, as some suicides have done, to shoot myself standing before a mirror. 1 dreaded to see the hor rible expression that was on my face. I slowly raised the revolver, my finger on the trigger, intending to place the muzzle against iny temple. Just as I felt the cold steel a hand grasped my wrist. Doubtless nothing could have oc curred better calculated to bring me to my s *uses. The spell in which my mind had boon caught was suddenly broken. Surprise was the first sensa tion, curiosity the second. Neither had anything to do with the monomania that had possessed me. I had sud denly been transferred into a free thinking man. I noticed first that the hand about m; wrist was small and soft. It must be a woman's. But what was a wot an doing in that room, and how did she know that I had raised a pistol to my head? She might j have hoard me come in and sit down, ; but it would have required light to de- 1 test, noiseless motion. Not for a mo aunt did I fancy that some one from the dead he J cmne to save me. The | Lr.nd was warm, human, and I felt We have admired Meredith Nlchol-! human currents passing from Its son’s writings, and the books which owner to me. \, hat lias required •. he has written heretofore have had ''h°e i'ar. 't. 1 -h to tel! (In>h** 'he merit of being well written and * V^vr ' " ' 1 ..'V 1 , , . . !• ’’W ho are you: I ussed. ery interesting, although some of wboni i;ji] U;ls .-.othtless son. them have been extravagant, but of to wve vo;i r ^, ;J ( . riIue< - (. m „ e th* THE NATIVITY. And it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus, that all the world should be taxed. 2 (And this taxing was first made when Cyrenius was governor of Syria.) 3 And all went to be taxed, every one into his own city. 1. And Joseph also went, up from Galilee, out of the city of Nazareth, into Judea, unto the city of David, which is called Bethlehem; (because he was of the house and lineage of David:) :> To be taxed with Mary his es poused wife, being great with child. 6 And so it was, that, while they were there, the days were accomplish ed that she should be delivered. 7 And she brought forth her first- liorn son, and wrapped him in swad dling clothes, and laid him in a man ner; because there was no room for them in the inn. 8 And there were in the same country shepherds abiding in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night. 9 And, lo. the angel of the Lord came upon them, and the glory of the Lord shone round about, them: and they were sore afraid. 10 And the angel said unto them, Fear not; for, behold, I bring you '.■cod tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people. 11 For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord. 12 And this shall be a sign unto you; Ye shall find the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying In a man ger. 13 And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God. and saying, 14 Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men. • ••••••••• * * * Flowers Along Life's Psthway. * l l\ Not because he Is a newspaper! man, not because we have known him part of two centuries, but because of j his eminent fitness for the place would j we cast our vote (if we had one) for Ed DeCamp for clerk of the Senate I against the world, the flesh and the I devil.—The Tri-State Odd Fellow. Edward H. DeCamp, a leading citizen of Gaffney, a prime mover in Gaffney’s phenomenal prosperity, editor of the Gaffney Ledger, a man whose nobility of heart and soul is equaled only by his force of brain and hand, is candidate for clerk of the Senate of South Carolina. Edge- field, through her honorable senator, will vote for Edward DeCamp. He will be triumphantly elected as he ought to be. And Edgefield, as every other county in our State, will know him as a public servant sound, sure and safe.—Edgefield Chronicle. Cherokee and Cherokeeans. (Manning Times.) Senator Otts from Gaffney says in an interview: “The State of South Carolina has no right to ask protect ion from whiskey dealers outside of the State while It authorizes its coun ty dispensaries to sell liquor into dry territory.” Senator Otts is a lawyer and a very zealous worker in any cause he enlists in, but there is no law permitting “county dispensaries to sell liquor into dry territory” and no one knows this better than the senator from Cherokee. Then why make such a statement? County dis pensaries only sell over their coun ters and do not ship their goods any where, but the senator from the coun ty of frequent homicides, where pro hibition, he says, is enforced, becomes most extravagant in his remarks since taking a seat in the popular prohibi tion band wagon. If prohibition is enforced in Senator Otts’ count v, will he tell the public the cause of so much blood letting and murders there? There must be some reason for this deplorable state of affair*. It was i|r)t always so, Cherokee coun ty is becoming notoriou : for crime. If Cherokee county xeeps up her killing record, it will merit the name of “Bloody Ground.” ’herokoe coun ty is a prohibition stn nghold and yet it’s becoming no new 'hing to read of blood-letting and h* mickles there. But then we believe, 1 certain minis ter on searching the reeords found more crime in the 1 rohibition coun ties in this State than in counties where prohibkion has never beer, tried. We presume, if this is a fact, that the law against the “crime pro ducing liquid” is not enforced as it should be, or the officers are prevent ed from curtailing the consumption bv the inter-state commerce laws which permit public carriers taking the stuff into “dry” counties.—Man ning Times. Two White Men Pursue Negress? Spartanburg, Dec. 22.—The police are looking for two white men sup posed to be from Greer, who Sarah Fowler, colored, says are trying to kill her. The woman is almost scared to death. Sarah Fowler is the wife of Henry Fowler, who killed Bovce Stone, a young white man at Greer several months ago, because it is said tha\ Stone invaded Fowler’s home. Both Fowler and his wife were tried, the former being convicted for manslaughter and the latter acquit ted. Since the trial the woman has been cooking in this city and she claims she is being constantly pursued by two white men who are seeking her life. It will be recalled that Magistrate W. W. Wood resigned as a result of the inquest over the dead body of Stone. NOTES AND COMMENTS. D.mrneMi Cunnot b« Cured bv loca* appl1CHtlon«. att they cannot reach f-.p .,Hi;nTier« ut thu # omM the dlneas.-d portion of the ear. There Uj vf J’’ . rs a , T “ p only one w:iy to cure deafness, arid that Is ! ,,f ‘ 0 I” < ‘ •’•PPlaud this Humane act- by constitutional remedies. Deafness Is i ion of Supervisor Lioseomb caused hy Inflamed condition of the mucous 1 all the improbable and far-fetched ror * v Ll ., |,_ v voice, stories that were ever written, his ' •■[ v ill stv;’.;e 11 light.” latest book. “The Little Brown Jug at *Tic:>se ilo./t I itm under tiie cart Kihlare.” not only “takes the cake” of tin oci:;! t He inis placed me in but the entire bakery. Mr. Nicholson daikne/s i re;, •::,io;y to u" operation, iavs the scenf* of his story in Raleigh, I Imw been lice nil d.iy without a raj N. Columbia, and around Ashe- entering my eyes, for, in adtli- ville. N. C. He has no* been accurate' ti01 ‘ ;l, “ ro ,n ,la , rke “ ed ’ I”*' in his local color even, and the utter e j f>s 1,1 '* . f. 1 *! a |’ L . | ’ . ear ^** ^probability of 'he incidents depic*-j so |o3g , n perfect dark . -d in the book leads one to believe U( . sg> .. lV Kij j bt u vcrv * t roug. I have that his object was either to hold up v0 ... though dimly, from the first two sovereign States to ridictile..or' and c;:i; s.e yo.t now. Hadn’t ! Iietter eb-e h° has made up his mind to write Hi’g {•>'■ some one to take you away?*’ •’No: I will go alone. There is no fear 1 lint 1 will act as I intended. You have reliev. 1 the mental strain under which I suffered.” 1 gi’-e her a brief account of the causes that had led up to my Intended suicide. She exacted a promise front me t > go to her father and tell him ihe lueludlng my adventure with her. giving me a ring as a token. I left her and k n pt my promise. I was given a check to pay my Indebtedness, with another f >r temporary requirc- • o more hooks. Convicts to Have Holiday. County Supervisor Lipscomb is a humane man as well as an efficient officer, so he announces that he will allow the convicts to have Fridav and Saturday as holidays. Friday an 'x- tra good dinner will be prepared at ,, >r . I he camp, which is now located at Wilkinsville. There are about thirty. All good HowTo Gain Flesh Persons have been known to gain a poundaday by taking an ounce of Scott's Emulsion. It* is strange, but it often happens. Somehow the ounce produces the pound; it seems to start the digestive machinery going properly, so that the patient is able to digest and absorb his ordinary food which he could not do before, and that is the way the gain is made. A certain amount of flesh is necessary for health; if you have not got it you can get it by taking scorrs EMULSION ■ id »M-» advertisement, together with name < i priper In which it appears, your address and Hit cents to cover postage, and we will send > <hi a “Complete Handy Atlas of the Worid.” SCOTT & BOWNE, 409 Pearl St. New York 1'nlng of the Eustachian Tube When this tube gets Inflamed you hav« a rumblint: sound or Imperfect hearing, and when it Is entirely closed deafn**ss Is the result, and unleaa the Inflammation ••mi be taken out and this tube restored tolls normal condi tion. hearing will Ik- destroyed forever; nine cases out of ^n are caused by catarrh, which Is nothing but an Inflamed condition of the mucous surfaces. ' We will give One Hundred Dollars for snv case of Deafness (cased by catarrh) thatcau* not be cured by If all’s Catarrh Cure. Send for circulars, free. P. J. CHENEY * CO.. Toledo. O. Sold by Druggests '5c. Hatl’s Famllv Pills for constipation. — i mciitfl. C-o going out I discovered at A Dangerous Operation | tin- o.Tce that 1 had been taken to the is the removal of the appendix by a tvroi g room. surgeon. No one who taken Dr. Xing’s New Life pills is ever sub jected to this frightful ordeal. They work so quietly you don’t feel them. They cure constipation, headache, biliousness and malaria. 25c at Chero kee Drug Co. Subscribe for 91.50 a jear. The Ledser, only When I saw the lady who had saved me I saw'an atlmctlve girl of twenty We became close friends. Indeed, she and all her family were extremely kind to my mother and sisters. Her father gave me a desk In his counting room and 1 am now on a fair way to pro* -ritr. HORACE ft. OAVl/jRD Money to Loan! * am prepared to negotiate loans in .mount* from $300.00 up for a term of years on improved forms. Inter est 8 per cent. Call on 9-14-08-601 i. C. Jiifiriis, Att)., Gaffm*. S. C. FOR ALL COUNTY NlWB, IM PORTANT HAPPENING! IN THE •TATE AND EVENTS OP INTER EBT IN POREION LANOB, TAKE AND RBAD THE LEPQBR One Sure to have money is to save it. The one sure way to save it is by depositing it in a responsible bank. You will then be exempt from the annoyance of having it burn holes in your pockets, and aside from the fact that your money will be safe from theft, the habit of saving tends to the establishment of thrift, economy, discipline and a general under standing of business principles essential to your success. This bank pays 4 per cent interest on all deposits compounded quarterly. THE GAFFNEY SAVINGS BANK, t Office in The National Bank of Gaffney, S. C. A 4f .V 4i .V <f ,V 4f W J. Wilkins& Co. early, often and late, to-day and during the Christmas days, for bargains in Clothing, Hats, Shirts, Collars, Ties, Shoes, Dress Goods, Cloaks, Furs, Hosiery, Gloves, Umbrel las and Notions too numerous tomenT- tion We give you value for your mon ey every time. W. J. Wilkins & Co. <?:■ * ft ^ > S' K? U*' * J', If ' / > / / / ■■ VakiableLotForSale If not sooner sold, at private sale, 1 will offer at public sale, before the Court House door, at Gaffney, S. C.,' on the first Monday in January next, Salesday, that desirable vacant lot in Gaffney, fronting Limestone Street 80 feet, and running back 200 feet on 20 foot alley to another alley, and lying immediately above and South-West of J. V. Sarratt’s residence, and opposite the Court House Park. Desirable either for residence or business. Terms cash. J. E. WEBSTER. V. nr , i ttr!, hf, (ir.Vir'i Uf, <»r, ««r'. (irY<lrY(»rYtlrY<V. (irYilr'. /ir'i Ur'-, Ur'. iir, ft'rVrtr', (V. ftr', t»/V Christmas Greeting! Ladies and Gentlemen of Cherokee County : I wish to extend thanks to you for past patronage and hope to merit your future favors during the coming year. Wishing you a Merry Christmas and a glad New Year, I am, Very truly yours, S. R. SURER.