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mV '■ - :<■ -U* ■ THE GAFFNEY LEDGER, Tuesday and Friday. Ed. H. DeCamp, Editor and Publisher Tii* Ledger la mot respaatfbla tar the ylewa of it* oorreapomdemta. CITY DIR«CTORY. OWelaia. W. H- W. O. Johaaoa .... Mayor PraTein Goo. *. Hood City Cira T. H. Littlejohn T. H. Lockhart Chial Poua* A. L. Halim a* Batler A Oaborao .. .. City Awya Board of P«Mle W*rta ▲. n. Wood J. N. \ B. 0. Clary Board of Trad* W» C. Hamrick J. c. Otta SEWERAGE. The most vital question which con fronts the people of our city is that of sewerage. It will not be long un til our people will be called upon to vote upon this question, and while some opposition to the measure may nafcurally be expected, it should carry by an overwhelming majority. A sewerage system for Gaffney would not only help the property owners of the city, but now at a time when the demand for labor is hardly normal, large numbers of the laboring claso mav secure employment in putting in the system. Skilled labor will be needed on some phases of the work, and every cent of the money to be used in the enterprise except what is necessary for material will be ex pended and put into circulation amongst the laboring class and through the laboring class into the hands of our merchants, so that its benefits can hardly be estimated. It is the duty of every citizen who is in terested in the growth of Gaffney to support the measure with all of his energy; because the town of Gaffney cannot dfcand still; it must either go forward or backward, and if the sewerage project should be defeated our little city will have taken such a long step backward that ft would take years and years to recover. notes and comments. There was a most enthusiastic meeting of Gaffney’s Board of Trade Tuesday night. Committees vrere ap pointed and steps taken which will make this organization felt in the fu ture growth of our city. The Board of Trade has been no small factor in the upbuilding and betterment of our little city, and let each and every member of the organization resolve thav. 1909 shall be the banner year of our progress. • • • The General Assembly of our State will convene at Columbia next Tuesday, and the most im- of our State will convene at Colum bia next Tuesday, and the most im portant question to be discussed is that of whiskey. This paper has al ways advoeaied prohibition, and since we have seen the good which has resulted in our own town and community in getting rid of the dis pensary, we are more than ever in favdr of the measure and we hope that the law-making body will enact such legislation as will result in driving the legal sale of whiskey from a State which before the ad vent of the dispensary was noted for her pride. LIBERTY AND LAW. Substance of Dr. CarlltU’s Sermon At Buford Street. The following remarks upon Dr. Carlisle’s sermon at the Buford Street Methodist church Sunday should have appeared in Tuesday’s issue, but the manuscript was re ceived too late for that paper. How ever, it is none the less interesting and forceful on account of the delay: The text was a double one, Judges xxi: 25 and Matt. vi:10. The first presents a state when there was no law, the second sets before us the ideal toward which God is discipling us, \he perfect obedience to the per fect law. With this contrast in mind there was presented a study of Liberty and Law. That there is pre valent a wide-spread disposition to disregard law is evident to all. It is shown in the open teaching of atheis tic and anarchistic philosophy; in the mob violance in all sections of the land; in the open violation of law by the liquor people; and in other no torious ways too numerous to men tion. It is easy to see how such a spirit of opposition to restraint has arisen. Study the national history, and we find the American nation had its beginning in the revolt of the colonies and their asseition of in dividual rights. The dominant French philosophy of that day, strong in its influence on the young nation, was an individualism of the extreme type, the ideal State is a State of absolute individual freedom. The result of the war between the States was the triumph o fjust such an emphasizing of the individual value as against the class ideals of the South. Then for fifty years there has been pouring in to our land thousands of immigrants —men and women in the rebound from restraint and oppression and superstition. Such naturally are against law and regard liberty as lawlessness and freedom to do as they please. But liberty is not lisense to do ac- cordng to the individual impulse. Liberty rests on law. Both rest on the fact of the divine Lawgiver whose enactments for His people are based on His own great existence, "for I am the Lord thy God.” Therefore men were to be free from oppresion. The prophetic picture of peace and pros perity is based on the same principle of obedience to law aud ‘he freedom of conscience and Christian liberty which Jesus gives rests on the # act of the supreme dominion "One ns! your master, even Christ.” Liberty 1 and law always go together for per fect liberty is only found in perfect obedience. This is illustrated in many familiar ways. So long as the laws of body are not violated we have bodily freedom. So of mind; so of soul. We can’t get away from j law; we can only conform to law or oppose it. The righteous law-abiding citizen never feels the restraint of law. HeJ moves in its great lines and he is the' true freeman. The vicious and wick ed are restless because of the law. They feel its great crossing of their self-will and selfish actions. Every free man has the right to seek the best for himself unhindered. No man has any right to seek evil for himself or others. The law at once becomes operative against him. We must learn the lesson of law as of liberty. There is need in the home of parental authority and of filial obedience. Too little of both is apparent. The schools must deal with the fundamental principles of self-con trol and self-mastery. We must have teachers who exemplify these quali ties, and the higher character in their own lives. The church must insist on the res traints of the divine authority; and then from home and school and church we must go to work out the highest liberty by the deepest rever ence for the law. Mr. and Mr*. Lipscomb Entertain. The following from The Evening News, Roanoke, Va., January 4th: “Wedneeday afternoon at their home on Clarke avenue, Mr. and Mrs. William Oscar Lipscomb entertained a large number of friends at a charm ing reception, and in the evening they again entertained in honor of their daughter, Miss Elma Lipscomb, and their son, Mr. Meng Lirjcomb. The entire lower floor of the hand some home was thrown open, and was prettily decorated with patted plants and cut flowers. A stringed orchestra rendered beautiful select ions throughout the afternoon and evening as scores of guests thronged the house. "Misses Estelle and Lucille Lips comb received the guests at the door and ushed them into the parlors, where Mr. and Mrs. Lipscomb, Miss Lipscomb and Mr. Meng Lipscomb received. “In the afternoon the ladies assist ing in looking after the comfort and pleasure of the guesis were Miss Pauline Massie, Miss Wortham and Mrs. A. B. Antrim. In the dinirg- room were Misses Mozelle Williams, Winifred Burnett, Elizabeth and An na Engleby, Callie Bennett and Miss Carrington. “At night. Mrs. C. R. Fishburn, Mrs. T. J. Burke and Mrs. John W. Sherman assisted, while the young ladies in the dining-room were Misses Virginia Evans, Elizabeth Wolfe, Eri ma Cannaday, Ruth Markley and Mattie Long. Demonet’s ices, in shapes suggest ive of the Ohridtmas season, cake, bon bons and coffee were served.” -■ - - ■ - The Way of the World. (W. B. Wilson, in the B. of L. E. Journal for January, 1909.) “Laugh, and the world laughs with you, Weep, and you weep alone,” Fo> earth has no sorrow That heaven can no. own. Sing, and the hills will answer. Sigh—it is lost in the air; The echoes bound to a joyful sound, But shrink from voicing care. Rejoice, and men will seek you, Grieve, and they’ll turn and go; They want your full measure of pleas ure, But they do not want your woe. Be glad and your friends are many Be sad, aud you lose them all. There are none to decline your nec- tared wine But alone you must drink life’s gal!. Feast, and your halls are crowded. Fast, and the world passes you by; Succeed and give, and it helps you live, But there's no man can help you die! There’s room in the hall of pleasure For a large and lordly train, But one by one we must all file on Through the narrow aisles of pain. Mr. Broom Is Pleased. Mr. Ed. H. DeCamp, Gaffney, S. C. Dear Sir:—Please allow me to thank you for the watch that was given me by The Ledger. It is cer tainly fine. I thank my friends for helping me in the contest and I know they will not regret the money they have spent for the paper. I am much pleased with the watch and I am always ready to work for The Ledger. Yours, W. M. Broom. Limestone Mill, Jan. 3, 1909. In Interest of Cherokee’s Minerals. Mr. L. U. Campbell, of the Flint Hill gold mine, left yesterday for an extended trip West, East and North. He goes in the interest of mining and other Cherokee industires. For twenty-two years "Lucy” Campbell has been working and talking the minerals of Cherokee. He has had much to do with developing the monazite industry in this section. Recently he has interetfied some capitalists in the Flint Hill gold mine, which is now being developed. He has always been enthusiastic about Cherokee’s minerals and is still enthusla&ic about them. He has plans on foot for a wider and more extensive development of our min erals, and everybody who knows him will wish his venture success. The word “Yankee” is derived from a Cherokee word, Eankke, which signifies coward and slave. This epithet of “Yankee” was bestow ed upon the New Englanders by the Virginians for not assisting them In a war with the Cherokees. DaufneiH Cannot be Cured by local applications, as they cannot reach the diseased portion of the ear. There is only one way to cure deafness, and that is by constitutional remedies. Deafness Is caused by Inflamed condition of the mucous itnlngofthe Kustachtau Tube. When this tube sets Inflamed you have a rumbling •oundor imperfect hearing, and when it Is entirely closed deafness Is the result, and unless the Inflammation can he taken out and this tube restored to Its normal condi tion. hearing will b destroyed forever; nine cases out of en ar* caused by catarrh, which Is nothing but an inflamed condition of the mucous surfaces. we will give One Hundred Dollars for any case of Deafness (cased by catarrh) that can not be cured by Hall’s Catarrh Cure. Bend for circulars, free. F. J. CHENEY A CO., Toledo. O. Sold by Druggesto, 75c. Hall's Family Pills for constipation. Two Colored Men Dead. George Corry, a well-known young colored man of this city, died Wed nesday afternoon after an illness of over two weeks, during which time he suffered greatly. He was buried yesterday at the colored burying-ground near Lime stone. Will Agers, another colored man well known in town, died about Vwelve o’clock Wednesday, after an illness of only a few hours. He had been at work at the power-house on Tuesday, became ill about six o’clock next morning and died at the time stated. He, too, was buried a'c the Limestone burying ground for colored people. Unclaimed Letters. The following is a list of the un claimed letters that remain in th* poffroffice for the week ending Jan. 4. 1908: E. E. Andrews. Miss Mattie Byars. Mrs. Hattie Boheeler. Joe Baker. Mr. Temple S. Carpenter. Miss Slona Dover. Mr. Soloman Ellis. Mr. Milton Edwards. Mrs. Zella Fender. Mr. J. C.'Green. Miss Nannie Gardner. Mr. Floyd Goforth. Mr. Frady Harmon. W. E. Heath. Myrtle Hopper. Mrs. Ruby Hill. Mr. J. D. Jones. Mr. Marlow Kennedy. Mr. Vance Leech. Miss Alven Laney. Miss Bell Lee. Mr. Oscar Land. Miss Ida Lewis. Mr. Clifford Teague^ Mr. Richard Liftlejohn. Mrs. Aler Lipscomb. Silona Moore. George Mizell. Rosa Mizell. Mrs. Asa Martin. Miss Blanch Moore. Miss Minnie Moony. Miu Ama B. Moon. "IW'l Mr. John McMan. Miss Martha Neal. Mr. Walter Suggs. Mr. C. D. Taylor. Bill Thompson. Miss Lily Wise. Thoa. Hester, Post Master. ’ is, by no means, the dreadful disease it is thought to be—in the beginning. It can always be stopped—in the beginning. The trouble is: you don’t know you’ve got it; you don’t believe it; you won’t believe it—till you are forced to.' Then it is dangerous. Don’t be afraid; but attend to it quick—you can do it yourself and at home. Take SCOTT’S EMULSION of Cod Liver Oil and live care fully every way. This is sound doctrine, what ever you may think or be told; and, if heeded, will save life. Send this advertisement, together with name of paper in which it appears, your address ar.d four cents to cover postage, and we will sen * you a “Complete Handy Atlas of the World." SCOTT & BOWNE. 409 Pearl St, New York of the latest and most approved designs, at prices to s<>lt purchaser. Also all kinds of granite work. Address or apply to T. C. PETTY, Gaffney, S. C. Dec. 8 lyr. TRESPASS NOTICES. Trespass Notices, on heavy card board. for sale at The Ledger office. FOR Up-to-Date Job Print ing, call at the LEDGER Office. Gaffney, 8- C Beginning Sal. Janwi Dili 15 day onlys. JMIMRY Absolutely Spot GASH. No Approbations SHOE SMI HUMPHRIES SHOE CO. W E HAVE JUST FINISHED TAKING STOCK and find that we have entirely too many Shoes for the time of year, due to the warm, dry weather and scarcity of money; and to reduce this stock immediately, we will begin Saturday, January 9th, and continue for 15 days only includ ing Saturday, January 23d, the greatest Clearance Sale of fine ard heavy Shoes ever presented to the people of Gaffney and Cherokee County. We do not need the goods, but do need the money at once. This is no fake, but a genuine sale of new, f *esh Shoes and Gents Furnishings and consist of our entire ftock. If you have no other business in town it will pay you to * attend this sale and buy for future use if you do not need the goods now. We give the makes of Shoes and prices below and you know exactly what you can do before you come to the store. As the price is either stamped on the Shoe or marked ' in plain figures. We mean just what we say and it will pay you to come early and get a fit. No goods charged or on approba tion. We will exchange any article not satisfactory. Men’s Shoes. $6.00 Clapp Shoes for Men. .$5.29 5.00 Howard & Foster Shoes for Men 4.29 5.00 Walkover Shoes for Men 4.29 5.00 Crossett Shoes for Men. 4.29 4.00 Walkover Shoes for Men 3.29 4.00 Crossett Shoes for Men. 3.29 Men’s Shoes. $4.00 Tilt'Shoes for Men — $3.29 4.00 Educator Shoes for Men 3.29 3.50 Walkover Shoes for Men 2.89 3.50 Crossett Shoes for Men. 2.89 3.00 Shoes for Men 2.39 250 Shoes for Men 2.19 Shoes for Women. $4.00 Ziegler Shoes for Wo men $3.29 4.00 Queen Quality Shoes for Women 3.29 3.50 Zeigler Shoes for Wo men 2.89 3.00 Queen Quality Shoes for Women 2.89 Hosiery. 50c Onyx Hosiery 39c 35c Onyx Hosiery 29c 25c Onyx Hosiery 19c loc Hosiery 12c 10c Hosiery 08c Shoes for Women. $3.50 Red Cross Shoes for Women $2.89 3.00 Shoes for Women 2.39 2.50 Shoes for Women... . 2.19 2.00 Shoes for Women 1.69 2.50 Excelsior Boy's Shoes.. 2.19 2.50 Educator Boy's Shoes.. 2.19 3.00 Excelsior Boy's Shoes.. 2 39 Gents Furnishings. $1.00 Wilson Shirts 79c $1.00 Underwear 79c 50c Underwear 39c 50c Neckwear 39c 15c Cluette Collars 10c GLOVES, MNDKEBCHIEFS ETC. * Everything in Everything in Our Humph essnoebo. Our Entire Stock Entlrs Stock —at— ' DEALERS IN Same Reduction. Solid Leather Shoes. Same Rednctien.