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WAisinKGTOK, Jan. 20.—A Senator
whose position enables him to know
whereof he speaks, and also p.-ecludos
the use of his name, said to a personal
friend concerning the Arbitration
treaty now in tho hands of the cenato
committee o. Foreign Relations:
“The treaty cannot be ratified as it
is now, and should the committee de
fer to public clamor for its ratifica
tion and report it to the senate with
out amendment and succeed in getting
a vote upon it, it will surely be re
jected. When 'a treaty has been
amended so as to leave no doubt
about this country's intention not to
submit to arbitration its right to
maintain the Monroe doctrine and to
have a voice in the control of any
ship canal that may be dug between
the Pacific and Atlantic oceans, and
by striking out that clause which
makes King ft car, of Sweden, the
chooser of an umpire in cases of dis
agreement, as I believe it will be,
there will be no trouble about its rat
ification. Rut I have my doubts as to
whether England will care whether
the treaty be ratified when so amend
ed. None of those who are taking part
in the public meetings in behalf of iin-
mediute ratification of the treaty can
possibly bo stronger advocates of the
principle of arbitration than I am,
but I am opposed to tieingthis coun
try hand and foot for five years and
giving England an opportunity to
gobble up whatever she pleases on
this continent with the certain knowl
edge that when the question of her
right to do so is submitted to arbitra
tion it would be decided in her fa-
. vor.”
1 Senator Allen led the fight which
^resulted in the defeat of an amend
ment to the Military Appropriation
bill, appropriating the money to pay
for the tranportation of the West
Point cadets to and from Washing
ton, in order to allow them to take
part in the inaugural parade. Mr.
Allen had the support of all the
populists and democrates present and
of six republictm Senators—Aldrich.
Allison, Burrows. Hale, Lodge and
Wetmore.
Several interesting and several
amusing things occurred while the
House was considering the Indian
appropriation bill. Among the former
was Representative Sherman’s state
ment that the Daws Indian Commis
sion had performed a remarkable work
and was now taking a census of the
Indians which was almost completed,
He said that it had negotiated treat
ies with the Choctaw and Chickasaw
Indian nations, and that if it were
allowed to finish its work it would
bring about a condition in the In
dian Territory of which every Ameri
can could be proud. Delegate Mur
phy, of Arizona, questioned the good
results of the present Indian educa
tional system, and declared that
every Apacho educated in the east
who had returned to his reservation,
was to-day wearing the breech clout.
Representative Mahon, of Pa.,
warmly defended .the work of the Car
lisle Indian School, and Representa
tive Curtis, of Kansas, paid a glow
ing tribute to the good work being
done in Kansas and other States by
the educated Indians. Representa
tive (Irosvernor, of Ohio, asked if the
Indians had not developed great
power in football, and when assured
that they had said: “And is not
football considered in our modern
colleges the hightest test of culture
and civilization.” But the humor
ous hit of the debate was made by
Representative Hartman, of Montana
who offered an amendment appropri
ating one billion dollars for the educa
tion and civilization of the Seeley
savages of the Manhattan reserva
tion. This was regarded by the
House as .payment in full for the
jeers of New Yorkers at the civilza-
tion of the “wild and wooly west”,
and Mr. Hartman was crowned vic
tor.
The gold standard democratic
ticket got together this week when
Senator Palrm r was escorting (Jen.
Buckner around the Capitol build
ing, and possibly telling him of the
onerous duties ho escaped by not be
ing elected Vice President last No
vember.
The proposed amendments to the
Nicaragua Canal bill, by which it is
caculatcd to stifle the opposition of
Nicaragua by providing that it ■hall
receive $4,000,(/Mi of the amount re
ceived by the Canal Co. froinjtho sale
of the bonds which the bill makes
Uncle Sam guarantee, are not re-
irded as eulficieut to put new life
the dead bill. Senators Turpio
id Daniel n It Riiceches against
re bill this week, showing among
other insurtuouiitable obstacles to
the control of the Canal by this
country the existence of a treaty be
tween Great Britain and Nicaragua
by which the armies and navies of the
former are granted entry to the canal
at any and all times. About the
only consolation the friends of the
bill have is the knowledge that it
couldn’t hare gotten through the
House anyway at this session.
After a somewhat spirited debate,
in which the peculiar methods adop
ted by the North German Lloyd
Steamship Co., to try to make votes
against the bill by getting individ
uals from widely scattered points to
telegraph their menibi r «>f Congress
asking h>m to oppose the bill, the
House adopted the conference report
on the Immigration bill, and ended
a long and at times bitter fight.
The principal item of the bill is its
exclusion of all immigrants between
the ages of lo and 50 who cannot
read in some language a clause of the
Constitution.
Statements from Slice.
fCorrespondence of The Ledger.)
Stick, n. c.. Feb. 2.—As 1 haven’t
seen anything from this nourishing
little village in Thk Lkdgkr for some
time I will try and pen its readers a
few items from this side of the
branch.
Sunday evening at the home of the
bride’s parents, in the city of Earl,
James Erancies and Miss Doeia Hippy
were united in tho holy bonds of mat
rimony in the presence of a number
of friends. Miss Hippy is a charming
young lady who numbers her friends
by the score while Mr. Francies is one
of the most promising farmers in this
community.
We have a large number on the
sick list at this writing. Mrs. 0. C.
Sarratt, Mrs. Jane Wylie, Mr. S. D.
Randall, Mr. and Mrs. John S. Hop
per, and many others are suffering
from severe colds.
David Champion is as happy ns a
big sunflower. It’s a ten pound boy.
H. M. Angle now wears a long smile
on his face. It’s a big boy.
The farmers of tins section are
about through turning stubble.
James Champion, of Sharon, N. C.,
was in this section one day lust week.
John Grumbling and family visited
friends and relatives in this section
last week.
To give a list of all who have been
complaining the last week would take
up more space than could be allowed,
However, we well say that most
everybody is sick.
Old Hustler.
•
Waverly Writings.
(Correspondence of The Ledger.)
Waverly, N. C., Feb. 1,—Our
worthy citizen. Eli Bailey, celebrated
his birthday the 2(1 of last month.
It was an entire success, especially
the eatables. He had all kinds of
the wing tribe, fattened for the occa
sion. His devoted and loving com
panion gave orders and everything
was to a perfection. Those present
were: Mr. and Mrs. W. S. Wood,
Mr. and Mrs. K. Blanton, Mr. and
Mrs. A. McCraw, Mr. and Mrs. B.
McCraw and mother, Misses Lola and
Talula Davis, Messrs. Bill Martin,
Scruggs and McCraw and wife. All
enjoyed the alfair and only wish his
birthday would come several times
during the year.
The “lagrippe” lias loosened its
hold on us and has made its way
somewhere else. Dave Beam has
been very sick, but is improving.
Mr. and Mrs. John Dames are all
smiles these days, for it is another
boy.
The new church at State Line will
be completed some time in the sweet
by-and-by.
Yours truly and sister (Pol) are in
vited to a valentine drawing the 13th
inst. We are expecting a halleluyah
of a time.
A new store house is being erected
on Bud Wood’s place near his old
home, on Ashworth creek in Cleve
land county, N. C.
Cicero Barnett’s little child was
laid to rest at State Lino church tho
30th ult. Sal Joe.
Church Notes.
There will be sevices at the Meth
odist church Sunday afternoon at
8:30 o’clock by the Rev.C. E. Robert
son, of the Presbyterian church. The
services announced for last sabbath
did not take place on account of
Mr. Robertson having to go to Blacks
burg but lie inforns us there will bo
no mistake about it this time.
Next Sabbath tho Rev. B. P. Rob
ertson will resign the pastorate of
Providence church. Mr. Robertson
desires that all members be present
on this accasion.
At the First Baptist church next
Sabbath morning Rev. B. P. Rob
ertson will inaugrate a series of ser
mons on tho “Holy Spirit.” It Is
assential tlv.t those who are inter
ested should attend the first of the
series, if possibly, in order to better
understand the full scope of the ser
mons.
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I nliko moat proprietary medicines,
the formulae of Dr. J. C. Ayer’s Sar
saparilla and other preparations are
cheerfully sent to any physician who
applies for them. Hence the special
favor accorded these well known
standard remedies by the World’s
Fair commissioners.
DELOACH EASILY DOWNED.
THE HOUSE REFUSED TO AC
CEPT HIS BILL.
He Wanted to Cut off Ten Square Miles
From Cherokee and Let it Re
main in the County
of York.
[Spartanburg Ibiily Herald.1
Columbia, S. C., Fob. 2.—The house
was in session only two hours this
morning. Tho senate did not meet
until night.
Most of the time was spent in pass
ing the bill organizing Greenwood
county. Kinard wanted to fix in tho
bill that the court house and jail to
be built by Greenwood should not
cost less than #25,000, but this failed.
DeLoach wanted to got back into
York about ten square miles of Cher
okee county. He said all except two
or three in the territory wanted to go
to York. Layton, Austell and John
son, of Spartanburg, opposed the hill.
Austell made a considerable argu
ment, saying that if this and a por
tion of Spartanburg were allowed to
leave Cherokee, that that county
would not have tho requsite area.
deLoach made this as a flyer, but the
bill was snowed under. He said that
the people v.ould hold an election and
secure the same result.
Killed the Measure.
[Yesterday’s State.]
When Mr. deLoach't> bill to change
tho boundary line of Broad River
township in York county was called
up, Mr. Austell moved that the un
favorable report be adopted and the
bill rejected. He said that this por
tion of the county wtiuld be included
in tho new county of Cherokee.
Mr. Patton said that if this town
ship had been carried into a new
county by an election, the legislature
clearly had no power to exempt any
number of miles. In this way any
new county could be defeated in the
general assembly. The Constitution
could not be so construed ; it contem
plated no such thing.
Mr. deLoach argued that this was
not an established new county, but
merely a proposed county.
Mr. Stevens wanted to know if this
territory was not included in the map
filed for Cherokee county before the
election was ordered.
Mr. Patton said no matter if the
line was changed the new county
would be entitled to the territory.
Mr. Johnson explained the course
of the committee, saying that the
pitfall that it was proposed to estab
lish had been seen and both this and
another bill on the same subject had
been unfavorably reported.
Mr. Rogers said under the Consti
tution the general assembly was com
pelled to give Cherokee county every
foot of territory proposed in tho orig
inal map.
The inacting words of the bill were
then stricken out.
Maud Musings.
(CorrPBpoiftU-ncc oC The Ledger.)
Maud, 8. C., Feb. 2.—We spent
most of iast week sitting by the fire,
but wo hope to sco the weather mod
erate soon.
Homo of tho sick that was reported
in our last letter aro improving, while
there is a good number that are still
sick. Wo could report one or two in
almost every family in our commu-
Bity. Lncle Billy Godfrey is still in
a low state of health and it is thought
that lie will never recover.
R. E. Linder, our accommodating
postmaster, is having the finishing
touches put on his dwelling. He is a
hustler in tho way of business.
We could hardly wait for The
Ledger to come lust week, we were so
anxious to hear from tho now county,
and according to the message The
Ledger received from Columbia last
week, wo can all rejoice together over
our new county.
T. G. McCraw, of your city, has
moved his saw mill to Andrew Bon
ner’s place and will soon bo ready for
business.
Mrs. G. H. Camp, of Inman, is hat
ing a dwelling house erected on bet
plantation near this place.
J. 8. Ruppe gave tho young people
of this suction a party Haturday night
in which a good number took a hand.
J. 8. Hammett has made some ad
dition to his store house and is going
to enlarge his stock. w. k.
HE MUST BE DEAD.
NO APOLOGY IS NECESSARY.
But as We Have Not the Particulars
We Cannot Write His Obituary.
Some time ago an individual who
owed The Ledger #1.25 for subscrip
tion to the paper met a representative
of the paper on the street and asked
if wo could use a load of wood in the
office, adding that if we could he
would bring us a load the very next
day, if he lived that long, and have it
credited on his subscription. We told
him to bring it along. The next day
wo waited and watched but no woo'd
came, so we concluded the fellow was
sick or dead, but imagine our conster
nation when we saw the same indi
vidual a few days later perched upon
the top of a fine load of four foot
wood. We believed that was our
wood and our co'd nature began to
warm up as the thought of sitting by
a red hot stove writing patriotic sent
iments for the edification a long suf
fering constituency coursed through
our brain. But, alas! How we are
doomed to disappointment. The
wood hauler (or his ghost, and if it
was a ghost it was a pretty lire one)
moved on with his wood, and the
wood wc looked for never came. But
we guess the fellow is dead. At any
rate he said he would bring us that
wood if ho lived, and as yet we have
never received the wood.
THE PRINTER WAS WELL AC
QUAINTED.
At Least He Seemed to Know Flaw
Picker Better Than the "Ker
nel”—A Batch of News
from Etta Jane.
Ivy Cliff Items.
(Correspondence of The Ledger.)
Ivy Cliff, Feb. 1.—It has been
some time since I have written to
The Ledger hut nevertheless I have
been a silent admirer and have noted
with deljght its progress.
The cold wave is now upon us and,
according to some of our modern
prophets, this will be a good fruit
year for the trees are bending with
icicles.
A man who will so degrade himself
by drinking that accursed stuff called
liquor and abuse his wife and children
should not be recognized by humanity
as a man but should be put in state
prison until he learns how to be a
man.
God did not create us to make the
world worse by us having lived, hut
to try and make it better.
When wo do the very best w’o can
we do enougli that is wrong, but when
anyone deliberately does that which
he knows is wrong he lias little res
pect for the God who made him.
Your correspondent is suffering
with a severe cold.
Edna Leonard, aged two years and
six months, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Wm. Northey, was fatally burned
Saturday afternoon about 3 o’clock
and died at 8:30 o’clock. The little
one was interred at the Providence
cemetery Sunday. Tiie bereaved
patents have the sympathy of the en
tire community.
The infant of Mr. and Mrs. Harvey
Allison was also buried at Providence
Sunday afternoon. “Suffer little chil
dren to come unto me and forbid
them not,” said Jesus; therefore we
should not grieve for the little ones,
but it is hard to give them up,
Mrs. Lizzie Gaffney is suffering very
much with a heart trouble. We hope
sho will soon be well again.
We are having a good Sunday
school at Golden Spring. Let all
come out next Sunday at 2 o’clock
and help us make it one of tho best
Sunday schools in this community.
Bea»..
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Child Burned to Death.
Tho three-year-old daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. W’m. Northy, who live about
three miles northeast of the city, got
some matches from their resting
place in the house last Saturday af
ternoon between three or four o’clock
for the purpose of setting fire to a
field of broom sage near the house.
Mrs. Northey was at home alone.
She was not aware that tho little ono
had tho matches. In trying to set
the broom sage on fire the little girls’
clothing caught fire and she was so
badly burned she died that night
about eight o’clock.
Mr. and Mrs. Northy ar« highly
respected people in their neighbor
hood and the whole country will sym
pathize with them in their awful be
reavement.
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Dare Devils.
Thursday night unknown parties
entered the back yard of Postmaster
Littlejohn and frightened Mrs. Little
john and horjmother, Mrs. Watson,
very badly. Mrs. Littlejohn is a
bravo little women, however, and
she grabbed her husband’s pistol and
went to the front door and fired it
several times and called for help.
The affair occured about 8:30 while
Mr. Littlejohn was at tho postofflee
attending to his business. The par
ties evidently meant mischief but
Mrs. Littlejohn’s action frightened
them away.
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Highway Robbers.
Mark Griffin was held up last 8at-
urda(y night, almost murdered, and
robbed of #35.00. Rev. Goo. Neshit,
a colored preacher; Jim Broadus, Nim
Cast eberry and Brooks Ferguson
werd arrented and placed in Hpartan-
iast Monday for tho crime,
shit is a Baptist preacher and is
supj osed to be tho boss of the job
but leclares that the others have put
up t job on him.
(Correspondence of Tne Ledger.)
Etta Jane, Feb. 1.—To say Chero
kee county, South Carolina sounds as
euphonious as if it was an old county.
The blizzard struck us last Wednes
day night and practically put a stop
to all out door work. The colds that
have been so prevalent and annoying
are getting better. We have no se
rious cases now that I know of.
Hon. C. W. Wliisonant ran up from
Columbia last Saturday. He will re
turn to bis post of duty in the state
legislature tomorrow-^Tuesday. He
has the appearance of a man whom a
legislative life has treated very well.
For the persistent fight tho town
of Gaffney lias made for the new
county the country people owe them
a debt of gratitude.
Some of our farmers sowed oats and
turned stubble lands during the few
days last month that was fit to plow.
Several guano agents are now work
ing for the spring trade. Tho man
who sells the best fertilizer on tho
best terms will get the trade sure.
The Ledger has made its way into
almost every home in this section.
During the recent cold snap many
people have had their feet frost bit
ten.
Rev. W. R. Owings will preach at
Salem next Sabbath—7th instant.
Rev. Mr. Isom preached at Mesopo
tamia from the text Acts 4:13.
We learn that Robert G. Ingersall
has permanently retired from the
practice of law. He had better give
up infidelity, too.
The epidemic of lagrippe through
out tho country is believed to bo the
tail end of the Russian influenza, and
an eminent Richmond, Va., doctor
saya that it does not spring from a
germ. A patron of the Yorkville En
quirer says lagrippe isn’t fit for a
white man to have.
The editor of the Union Times
gives excellent reasons for not sub
mitting the election of judges and
solicitors to the people. What he
says is to the point, but ho might
have gone a step further and spoke
of getting the purest Christian men
in the position as well as of taking
them for their knowledge of the law
and character. With what judge
ment will laws against immorality be
executed by those who are grossly
profane and immoral in their own
practice. Just think of a judge on
the bench of justice administering an
oath to a witness or passing the sen
tence of death upon a criminal and
putting him in mind of a judgment
to come when he himself ig a politi
cal debauch. With what propriety,
dignity, or force would either of these
bo done by one who is known to be a
blasphemer, an infidel, or by whom
in his conv'ral hours everything se
rious or sacred is treated with scorn
and contempt. Those who wish well
to the state ought to choose to places
of trust men of inward principle,
justified by exemplary conduct and
conversation. Is it reasonable to ex
pect wisdom from the ignorant;
fidelity from the profligate; or appli
cation to public business from men
of dissipated life?
The Inaugural address of Governor
Kllerbe is tho strongest state paper I
have read in many years, if ever be
fore. No man who opposes his ad
ministration, while conducted upon
the plan he has mapped out is a
friend to good government. His sug
gestion in regard to tho free school
system is excellent. If we work upon
marble, it will burnish; if we work
upon brass, it will efface it; if we
build temples, they will crumble
into dust; but if we work upon im
mortal minds—if we imbue them
with principles, with a just fear and
honor of God, and love for our fellow
men, we engrave on those tablets
something which will endure to all
eternity. The true aim of the highest
education is to give character as well
as knowledge; to train men to be as
well as to know. While on this sub
ject there are seven rules if adopted
will guarantee success:
1. Never attempt to teach what
you do not understand.
2. Never tell a child what you can
make it tell you.
8. Never give a piece of information
without asking for it again.
4. Never use a hard word if an easy
one will convey your meaning, and
never use any word unless you fully
understand tho meaning it conveys.
5. Never begin a lesson without a
clear view of its ending.
0. Never give an unnecessary com
mand, nor ono which you do not wish
to sue obeyed.
7. Never permit a child to remain
in tho class even for a moment with-
g
out something to do and a motiv
for doing it.
While urging upon our school au
thorities the adoption of a better class
of books for our free schools, (espec
ially histories) I feel justified in quo
ting from Mrs. Susan Pendleton Lee’s
History of the United States. What
she says of our Southern women dur
ing the war, to show the character of
her work: “The history of every
free people tells how, in all times of
danger and difficulty, the women of
the nation have shared in the trials
and lightened the burdens of the men
who fought and toiled for freedom
and sacred rights. In no age or
country has this been more remark
able than in the Southern states,
from tho beginning to tho end of the
Civil War. With sorrowful but sym
pathizing hearts, they gave their
dearest and best to what they felt
was their country’s cause; and, in
the hour of defeat as well as of vic
tory, they stood ready to cheer and
encourage their defenders. Endur
ing privations and facing danger with
silent courage; nursing in the hos
pitals; taking charge on farms and
plantations; exercising the wonder
ful ingenuity to supply the daily in
creasing deficiencies in all household
departments; looking after and di
recting the negroes left almost en
tirely dependent upon them; main
taining their trust in God and tho
righteousness of their cause, when
their best beloved were languishing
in prison, or dead upon the battle
field. The women of the Southern
Confederacy • will be remembered for
their patriotism and womanly fidelity
while the world stands.”
My friend“Billy” Sanders bought
a cow last week from Dr. Garner. I
met him as he was taking her home.
He said, “The Doctor told me she
would give three gallons of milk a
day and I am satisfied she will do it
for the first thing he told me about
her was the solemn truth—He said
she was poor and ugly and I knew it
was so, and I thought that as he told
me one truth that was sufficient to
make me believe all he said about
her.”
“A little truth told now and then,
Will have effect on most of men.”
In last week’s Union Times the cor
respondent at this place is made to
say in the paragraph : “Mr. J. Luther
Sherrill, of the Gaffney Ledger, paid
us a pleasant call last week. He is
canvassing in the interest of The
Ledger. Hope and fear are blinded
(blended) in a lazy man hunting
work.” The last sentence has no
connection whatever with the first
two. It is the work of the printer’s
devil putting it in the same paragraph.
Mr. Sherrill is a persistent worker
and is not afraid of work. The sen
tence referred to was coined for the
benefit of those lazy dead-beats who
won’t work when they get a chance,
and not to such a gel-up-and-get
newspaper man as Mr. Sherrill is.
Miss Dora Whitlock, of Jonesville,
has correctly answered my problem
as published in a recent issue of this
paper. She is a teacher of the right
kind and makes a study of her pro
fession. Besides, she is an admirer
of The Ledger. Wish we had many
more such.
J. L. s.
Attacked by Highwaymen.
Monday night about 10 o’clock as
Dr. B. D. Bates was returning fro'm a
professional visit he was attacked by
two negroes at a point about two
hundred and fifty yards below Chief
ol Police Camp’s residence in the
northern section of the city. The
doctor was riding in his gig and just
before he met the negroes they sepa
rated, one going on one side of the
road and the other on the opposite
side. As Dr. Bates drove up they
closed in on him. His horse stopped
and the negroes grabbed his arms.
The doctor rolled out of his gig back
wards and as he did so one of his as
sailants fled and the doctor fell on top
of the other one. He then proceeded
to maul the negro, who managed to
scramble to his feet and at once be
gan to put distance between himself
and th<» doctor. Dr. Bates returned
to the city a little agitated but none
the worse off for his experience.
Cowpen’s New Postmaster.
John Webster, of Cowpens, last
week received his commission as
postmaster at Cowpens. Mr. Web
ster will make an accommodating
postmaster. Mr. Chas. Setzlerhas
been the postmaster there for a
number of years, and he was a good
one, too. Cowpens is fortunate in
her postoffice appointments.
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A New Firm.
J. L. Alexander and R. O. Bal-
lenger have bought the stock of
groceries of J. H. Cook, who assigned
about a month ago and will conduct
the business in the old stand. The
firm name will be J. L. Alexander &
Co. They are both clever follows
and will in all probability succeed.
Ayer’s Cherry Pectoral is known by
its works. Tho experience of half a
century proves that no other prepa
ration of the kind stops coughing and
allays irritation of the throat and
bronchial tubes so promptly and
effectually as this.