Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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I The prompt and e nerous response of e Oliver Typewrler Go m p a n y to the world-wide demand for universal type writing, gives tre nt meodous Impetus to the movement. The uuver, with the largest sale of 'Jay Typewriter in existence, was the logica. ma culae to take the initiative In bringing about the universe! use of typewriters. It always lepdsl Save Your PemuesandOwn OLIVER Typewriter TXd Standard Visible Typewriter This 17-cents-a-day selling plan makes the Oliver as eisy to own as to rent. It places tho ma bine in e;isy reach of every home— every imiivl Ju^l. A mao's "cigar money"— a woman's "pin money”—will buy it. Clerks <-n small salaries can oow afford to own Olivers By utilizing spare moments for practice they may lit themselves for more unportaut positions. School boys and school girls can buy Oli vers by saving their pennies. You can buy 'to Oliver on this plan at the regular catalogue price-$100. A small first payment brings the machine. Then you save 17 cents a day and pay monthly. And tbe possession of an Oliver Typewriter enables you oearn money to finish paying for the machine. Advantages Service Possibilities M. r M The Oliver is the most highly perfected typewriter on the mar ket—hence its 100 per cent, efficiency. Among Us sources of conveniences are: Mis ■•lane* Shift Mia Ruling Oavlaa Mia Doubla Ralaaaa Mia LaoomoMva Baa# Mia Automatlo Spaear tha Automatic Tabu lator Mia Dioappaaiing In dicator tho Adjuatablo Papor Flngora Mia SelanMflo Con* dansad Keyboard The Oliver Type w r1te r tu r ns out more work, of (letter quality and greater variety than a njy other writing ma chine. Simplicity, strength, ease of op eration and visibility sre the cornerstones of its towering su premacy in Corroapondoneo Card Index Work Tabulated Ropo-te Follow-up Syotome Manifolding Sorvloo Addrooolng Envoi- OP#6 Working ou Rulod Forma Cutting Mlmoo- graph Stonollo Can you epond 17 oonta a day to bottor ad vantage than in the purohaea of thla wonder ful machine T Write tor Special Easy Payment Proposl tion or see the nearest Oliver Agent. The Oliver Typewriter Co. OUver Typewriter Bldg., Chicago, 111 Nov 6-27t HAVE YOUR ELECTRIC WORK DONE BY THE Lawrence Electric Co. Office next door to Pearl Bteam Laundry. We guarantee all work to meet the requirements of the Underwriters Asso ciation. Grindall Gossip. Grindall, Feb. 2.—Five years today we have been alone except for four small children, battling to keep the wolf from the door with no one to look to for real help or comfort ex cept our Heavenly Father; and yet in the past few months several of our friends (?) have been called upon to take charge of us. Now friends, since we have paid the penalty for a crime that never existed except in your fertile brain, it’s high time that you were seeing that we get some recom pense. Now if there is a physician in the State or elsewhere that believes our troubles imaginary and will come here and put himself in our place and If at the end of six months he is not ready to give up the job, well agree to be his devoted Slave for seven years. We have no news to report this week as St has been too cold for us to get out to church or elsewhere. We wonder how many more of The Ledger correspondents want to write hooks. But, say, Ben Hope, hadn't you and I better wait ’till we find a real live heroin and hero so we can wind up by "living happily ever after wards?” Thanks to you "C.” and "J. L. S.” for your words of appreciation, but there was a time when they would have given more pleasure to us and that was when two eager eyes scanned the columns of The Ledger to see if any one missed Annie Laurie or was bold enough to claim her although she was—what shall I say? Promising not to come quite so soon again, I now hid you adieu. Annie Laurie. C. R. Kluger, the Jeweler, 1060 Vir ginia Ave., Indianapolis, Ind., writes: “I was so weak from, kidney trouble that I could hardly walk a hundred feet. Four bottles of Foley’s Kidney Remedy cleared my complexion, cur ed my backache and the irregulari ties disappeared, and I can now at tend to business every day, and re commend Foley’s Kidney Remedy to all sufferers, as it cured me after the doctors and other remedies had fail ed.” Cherokee Drug Co. Humble yourself before God and man, then you can expect honor. This is just the time of year whtn you are most likely to have kidney or bladder trouble, with rheumatism and rheumatic pains caused by weak kid neys. Delays are dangerous. Get De- Witt’s Kidney and Bladder Pills, and be sure you get what you ask for. They are the ^est pills made for back ache, weak back, urinary disorders, Inflammation of the bladder, etc. They are antiseptic and act promptly. We sell and recommend them. S. B. Crawley & Co. Many a man thinks he is religious because he has a peculiar pleasure in regulating other folk. Address all communications intend ed for this department to J. Stanhope Love. Filbert, 8. C., R. F. P. No. 1. From York County. "A York County Farmer” writes us an interesting and entertaining letter. Well, my dear readers of The Led ger, as it is raining and I cannot get out to work, I desire to write some. In this way I think I can manage to pass away the “wet time” quite pleasantly. I’ll begin by thanking The Ledge, for its kindness to me through my friend, "J. S. L.” I can assure you that I am reading the par per with much pleasure and satis faction these days. It Is a fine pa per. The only fault I find with it is, that it isn’t printed in dear old York. “W. A. C.,” I enjoyed your letter. You are about right as to what peo ple sometimes say. The R. F. D. fel lows don’t like to travel over had roads; hut they have to do it, never theless. The Saye road law will per haps mend the matter some, though Let us hear from you again. Our old friend, B. R. T., is “putting it on” to Teddy just now, I see. And I like to see it. The "Pitchfork” and the "Big Stick” are a pretty good pair of fighters. Now, I do hope that the latter will go away to Africa just as soon as he can; for I’m tired of him and "his doings.” But there now! I must not discuss politics in this de partment. I see that Mr. "C.” and Mr. "S.” are having a little dispute over the price of cotton, the Farmers’ Union, and several other points. And I am Inclined to think Mr. "C.” is about right when he says 121-2 cents is a living price for cotton. If we cannot make a living at that, I think it were better that we should give up in des pair, and say that we can’t success fully manage a farm. The Union has made a number of mistakes. Yet, It is to be hoped that it will do some thing fo. the farmers ere they finally lose confidence in it. But chicken suppers, oyster stews, and "big times” generally won’t ever accomp lish a thing, brother farmers. Never forget that. I am a Union man; but I have no faith in "all talk” and “nothing doing.” You remember the old saying, don’t you? “Brag was a good dog, but Hold-on was a better one.” So left us make our living at home this year—if we can. We owe it to ourselves and to those dependent on us, to do Chis. A York County Farmer. I was compelled to leave out a part of this letter. I halted to do it, as it contained much sound advice along progressive lines. Farming, running into debt (which Tom Watson says is hell), honestly and dishonestly, good roads, and several other things were treated at length in the last part of his letter, ft was good, but I had to “cut it out.” as the saying is: “Farm er” is one who “makes both ends meet,” and he does it farmipg too. He works every day that he can work, and has a very well-kept farm. Next time I hope to be able to do a “better part” by my correspondents; or at least, I should desire to do more for my scribes’ letters than I am able to do for "Fanner’s” letter. But I know my readers will be charitable enough not to censure me too severely. Read what I have to say in “Chat,” and perhaps you will find something of interest to you in it. J. S. L. Foley’s Honey and Tar clears the air passages, stops the irritation in the throat, soothes the inflamed mem branes, and the most obstinate cough disappears. Sore and inflamed lungs are healed and strengthened, and the cold is expelled from the system. Re fuse any but the genuine in the yel low package. Cherokee Drug Co. No man has a poorer outlook on life than he who always is on the lookout for himself. Foley’s Orino Laxative cures con- sUpation and liver trouble and makes the bowels healthy and regular. Orino is superior to pills and tables as it does not gripe or nauseate. W> y take anything else? Cherokee Drag Company. ITCH cured la SO minutes by Woolford’s Sanitary Lotion. Now fails. Sold by Gaffney Drag Co. Dear Reader: Hfther we come once more withjthe department. This week we have for it “Frank L. Stanton,” "Memory Gem,” “Historical Facts,” “From York Coun ty,” and "The Georgians”—Will N. Harben’s greatest book. (These, of course, are the headings only of the different topics). Rev. H. J. Mills, of Clover, has promised to become one of our con tributors. Write, friends, write! By all means let us hear from you. But write on one side of the paper only, and make your letters short and to the point. Some say that 12 1-2 cents is enough for cotton. But I am one of those who always contend for 15 cents cot ton. There seems to be a general opin ion among our people that, when one graduates from college, he is educat ed. But this is a mistaken view. Schools and colleges only fit one for business, or prepare him for acquir ing an education. No amount of classical training will ever enable a man to fight the battle of life success fully unless he also has what is known as a liberal education. Send us letters, post cards, clip pings, books, papers, subscriptions, news items, or anything else that you may have. How little or how much it may be, matters not to us. We here give a short lecture on “The Way of I^ove.” You know, the author of these “lectures” is doing his best for The Ledger, the depart ment, the people, and himself. This subject deserves more time, thought and space than I have for It here; but perhaps I can “touch In the high places” as I go along. This life of ours is a peculiarly strange thing. A small boy once said to me, "Stan hope, ever’thlng is strange, when you come to think ’bout it.” Ah! the truth of this. And it set me to think ing, earnestly thinking. The boy un consciously taught me a lesson which I shall never forget. Yes, life is a strange, wonderful, awful thing. When we see every thing in the world throbbing and pul sing with gladsome life, we cannot avoid being Impressed with tbe truth of it all. And while a great part of the life of man is vanity, I want to believe that some of this vanity is at least excusable in us. Because there is no earthly reason why we should not enjoy life some, just in order to have it said of us that we didn’t be lieve in vanity. For man can never live a perfect life; but he can live an honest life. And when he admftstbe truth he will be on “the straight road.” Frank L. Stanton. Some one haa called Stanton the "Sonny Jim of Georgia journalism,” and I believe that he deserves such a distinction. Love, sentiment, and good, lively nature mark him as a sunny-hearted “knight of the pen.” I used to read his columns in the Atlanta Constitution and Sunny South with the keenest delight; and his easy, graceful style inspired me with a desire to learn to use the pen with as much ease as he uses it. His rhymes and anecdotes have done much to bring sunshine into the world, because he possesses “the hap py knack” of charming his readers In a way that is at once refreshing and delightful. And the world “hath need” of all such fellows as Stanton, too; because it is so refreshing for one to get away from all that is heavy and tire some in literature, and read what Stanton, and others like him, write Just for our entertainment. He Is not a genius, like Longfellow or Henry Timrod; but Stanton is a wonderfully gifted man. His talent for composing and wrfting, as he does every day, in truly remarkable. And after all, it is the talented man that succeeds, and not 'che genius, every- time. But the “prettiest part” of Stanton is this: He is a native of South Caro lina which ought to make us all love him. And when he passes away, his place will be an “aching void” in this old world of ours. "The Georgians,” by Will N. Harben. I read this book several years ago, and so profoundly impressed with it was I, that I have never forgotten it. In my opinion It is Harben’s greatest book. The principal characters of the book are Abner Daniel, Eric Vaughn, and Marie Warren. And speak ing of love stories: the love-scene in the closing chapter of the book, where Eric Vaughn and Marie Warren meet, after long, dreary years of separation, is almost the sublimest thing thJtt I have ever read in a novel. Tom Watson was so well pleased with "The Georgians” that he wrote Mr. Harben a letter of congratulation, which was published in the papers. Now, Mr. Harben is a native of the Sunny South, therefore we should all read his books. Memory Gem. Copied for the department by “Ben Hope.” Ashes of Roses. Soft on the sunset sky Bright day closes. Leaving when light doth die, Pale hues that mingling lie. Ashes of roses. When love’s warm sun is set, Love’s brightness closes; Eyes with hot tears are wet. In hearts there linger yet Ashes of roses. —E. G. Eastman Under the heading, “Memory Gem,” it is our purpose to publish a select ion from the writings of some bril liant “knight of the pen,” every week. I say “knight of the pen,” but this does not imply that women writers shall be slighted. Ben Hope. Historical Facts. The deluge, or the flood, happened 2348 years before Christ. Envelopes were first used for .let ters in 1839. Figures in arithmetic were intro duced from Arabia into Europe in 991, and into England In 1253. The American flag was first used by Washington at Cambridge, Janu ary 1st, 1776. It was legally estab lished by Congress, June 14th, 1177. Gold was first coined at Rome, 206 years before Christ. Gunpowder, was first used by the Chinese, in the year 80; just about 1829 years ago. Horse shoes were first made of iron in 481. Juries were flnft instituted in Eng land, In 970. . Ben Hope. A FABLE OF NIGERIA. DROPS CASE AGAINST EDITOR. Enters Nol Pros to Journalist’s In dictment of Assault and Bat*ary. Lexington, Feb. 2.—When Judge Dantzler sounded the criminal dock et yesterday Solicitor George Bell Timmerman announced that he would enter a nol pros in the case of the State against N. Rogers Bayly. Mr. Bayly is the editor of the Batesburg Advocate, and it will be recalled that he was indicted last summer upon the charge of assault and battery, the warrant having been sworn out i by Mr. Allen J. Bethea, the govern- 1 or’s private secretary. Mr. Bayly was charged in the warrant with hav- • ing attempted to assault several mem hers of a wedding party during Christ mas, 1907, in the Batesburg hotel at Batesburg. Ths Crafty Spider and the Way He Paid His Debts. The following fable of the spider is one of the folk tales of northern Ni geria: A spider, it seems, had occasion to borrow a sum of money. A Journey round to tbe generously disposed brought him 2.000 cowries each from the cat. the dog, the hyena, the leopard and tbe lion. When pay day came round, the spider remained at home to receive the visits of his creditors in a certain prearranged order. First came the cat to claim repayment of his loan. "Hush!” said the spider. “I hear a noise outside. It is a dog come to see me. You must hide under this cala bash for safpty.” The cat was scarce ly hidden when the dog, coming in, made a similar request for his money. Says Master Spider, “There is a cat under that calabash. Take him and consider the debt paid.” No sooner said than done. Just then a snuffling and scraping were heard at the door. The third creditor, the hyena, bad ar rived. "Don’t be alarmed, my dear dog. but hide here till he has left.” And the spider bustled him under the calabash. “I smell a dog,” said the hyena, routing al>out. “Under that calabash.” the spider replied. “Eat him np; and your debt is paid.” The dog paid the penalty of his simplicity, and all was quiet once more. The hyena was preparing to leave, when he heard an ominous sound that sent him crouching against the wall. It was the pattering of the leopard's feet at the door. “Quick! Under this calabaah!” cries his host, and the hyena curls up In the fatal cache, only to meet a like fate from his more courageous enemy. "My debt is repaid,” said the leopard, and ran against the lion coming In. A terrible fight ensued, for the leopard and the lion are equal in strength, so the natives say. When blood and dust make havoc in the house and both an imals are exhausting their strength the spider is busy at the fire. Seizing a pot of boiling grease, he pours it over the clawing mass. Leopard and lion roll apart in their death agony, and f he spider has only to straighten and clean up before resuming once more the humdrum Ufa of fly catching. No wonder he Is known as “Mal- wayo,” the crafty one. The Mission Of those corpusclos In yoiAr blood that have been catted Little Soldiers,” Is to fight for you against the disease germ* that constantly endanger your health. These eorpusoles are made healthy and strong by the use of Hood’s Sarsaparilla. This medicine is a combination of more than 20 different remedial agents in proportions and by a process known only to ourselves and it has for thirty years been constantly proving its worth. No substitute, none “ just-as-good.” RAILROAD STORIES. Ths Man Who Paid the Conduotor and the Name on* the Ticket. An old time traveling man was talk ing of experiences of former days on the road. “FraiuenUy,” said this trav eler, “I journeyed to Cincinnati. The fare from my city to that place was then about $3.25 I saved something by handing the conductor $2 in cash. One day there was an excursion, and I bought a rr-’ind trip ticket for $1.25 or $1.50—I’ve forgotten the exact amount, Liu that circumstance need not cripple this story. When I handed this ticket to the conductor as he tore otf the no urn coupon be looked at me and in a voice betraying how dsepiy he was hurt he remarked, ’My young friend, don’t you know that I can af ford to haul you much cheaper than j this company ••an?’ “On another occasion, when fa Chi cago, a colored man met me at ths en trance of the station, asked ms where I was going and offered to sell me a ticket for $1. Tbe ticket vas to Louis ville, but I was only going to Indian apolis. Cheap enough. “When the conductor came along to take up my ticket be asked ms my name. It was usual to write one’s name on the ticket in the presence of the conductor. I told him my was on the ticket. He grinned as he handed it back and asked me to look at it and say if that was my name. I looked. The name on the ticket was ‘Mary Flaherty.’ He grinned again, somewhat sarcastically, but he took the ticket”—Pittsburg Press. AUTOMATIC FOOTBALL Actions of One Player After a Kick In the Head. “Speaking of queer things in foot ball,” said an old player, “I recall a game that was played at Annapolis some years ago between Columbia and the Naval academy teams. "One of the men on the Columbia 'team, the quarterback and a very prominent player of tbe year, started tile game in good condition, but after part of the first half he was kicked in the head in one scrimmage. It took some time to get him around, but he suddenly arose and gave a signal The tiro teams lined up and play went fght on. “This man went through the game, asd no one noticed that anything was wrong with him. When tbe game was over and the Columbia team was on the way hack to New York in the train this player, who had appeared to be in a brown study, suddenly turned to the man next to him and asked, ‘Who won the game—what was the score?* and a number of other questione that made it seem as If be hadn’t been anywhere near the field of play. “The players were greatly surprised and thought perhaps the kick, in the head had hurt the man so that his mind was affected. Later they learned that he was unable to tell what hap pened from the moment he got the kick in the head until the time he re covered consciousness, so to speak, on the train. “His playing of quarterback and hie giving of Signals had been entirely au tomatic, or, rather, subconscious. That case was referred to frequently in the psychology courses at Columbia, yon may well imagine.”—New York Sun. If you would hear the joys of heaven you must go into the saddest placet of earth. Pneumonia Follows La Grippe. Pneumonia often follows la grippe but never follows the use of Foley’s Honey and Tar, for la grippe coughs and deep seated colds. Refuse any but the genuine in the yellow pack age. S. B. Crawley & Company. After a snowstorm the paths should be shoveled down to the ground for the fowls to walk without getting in* to the drifts. If you need a pill take DeWitt’s Lit tle Early Risers. Insist on them; gentle, easy, pleasant, little liver pills. Sold by S. B. Crawley & Co. CATARRH MUST GO. And Hawking, Spitting, Snuffles Must Go Too. Hyomel (pronounced High-o-me) will give the sufferer from catarrh joyful relief in five minutes. ft is such a remarkable cure, and so positive in its action, that The Gaffney Drug Co. goes so far as to guarantee it' to cure catarrh or mon ey back. A compl&e outfit, which consists of a hard rubber pocket inhaler, a bot tle of Hyomel, and a unique dropper for filling the inhaler, only costs one dollar, and If an extra bottle is af terwards needed the price is only 50 cerfts. Hyomei is a healing, antiseptic balsam, taken from the mighty eu calyptus trees in the health-giving forests of Australia, where diseases of the respiratory tract are unknown. All the sufferer has to do is to in hale the antiseptic air of Hyomel over the inflamed parts where the germs are entrenched, three or four times a day. ft cures coughs, colds, asthma, hay fever and .croup without stomach dosing. Bismarck and Music. Bismarck's utterances regarding mu sic are compiled in a book by Keudell, “Furst und Furstin Bismarck, Erin nerungen a us den Jahren, 1846-1872.” Kendell once saw the man of blood and iron shed tears during a perform ance of Beethoven’s Sonata Appasio- nata. His favorite composers were Beethoven and Schubert. The only thing he did not like in their works was the variations. These, he said, “do not speak to tho heart” Concern ing the sonata just referred to he re marked: “This Is like the singing and •obbing of a whole human life. If I heard this music often I should al ways be brave.” “His Excellency—“Tell' the people to go home quietly. (Drains a glass of Champagne). People in this world can get on very well withoirt work— Hoarse coughs and stuffy colds that may develop into pneumonia over night are quickly .cured by Foley's Honey and Tar, and It soothes in flamed membranes, heals the lungs, and expels the cold from the system. Cherokee Drug Company. —Solid gold Eye Glasses for $5.00. Gaffney Drug Co. Ma Meant Well Anyway. A young woman overheard an old negroes call to a pickaninny, “Come back, Exy, Exy!” “Excuse me,” said the young woman, “but isn’t that a queer name for a baby, aunty?” "Dat ain’t her full name,” explained the old woman, with pride; "dafs jes* de pet name I call fer short. Dat chile got a mighty grand name. Her ma picked it out in a medicine book. Yessnm, de chile’s full name is Ecze ma."—Ladles’ Home Journal. res Dyspepsia. Your money bade 0 it don't Givcz im mediate refid from heartburn, sour stoat* zfri—fA dirtresiend sick h—Arlui. SO connkigi boat The Gaffney Drag Company. The Basis. He—I wonder If we can get along all right She—Certainly. We can buy the auto with the money father left me, and yon will surely make enough to pay for running it, don’t you think?— Puck. The more one speaks of himself the lees he llkee to hear another talked at —Levater. CONTRACT TO LET. I will be at the Deck Tindall place, on Thlckety, on Thursday, February 18th, at 11 o’clock, for the purpose of letting contract to cover and weather board the bridge over Thlckety Creek. I reserve the right to reject any and all bids. E. F. Lipscomb, W. H. Ross, Co. Supervisor. Clerk. Feb. 2, 6, 9, 12, 1$. Hexamethylenetetramine. The above is the name of a German chemical, which is one of the many valuable ingredients of Foley’s Kid ney Remedy. Hlxamethylene&etr* mine is recognized by medical text books and authorities as a uric acid solvent and antiseptic for the urine. Take Foley’s Kidney Remedy as soon as you notice any irregularities, and avoid a serious malady. Cherokee Drug Company. ft is an ill time to boast of your speed when your lusts are running away with you. There is not any better Salve than DeWitt’s Carbolized Wich Hazel Salve. We hereby warn the public that we are not responsible for any injurious effects caused from worthless or poisonous imitations of our DeWitfs Carbolized Witch Hazel Salve, the original. It is good for anything when a salve is needed, but it Is es pecially good for piles. Be sure you get DeWitt’s. Sold by S. B. Crawley ft Company.