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THE i.l.DGEK. ; Tli it low S. Cartn, FPTTOli AND MANAGKR. SATt'KOAY .TANl'AUY 27, 1000. I For The Ledger. 1 VAN WYCK ITEMS. i There are a good many cross ' ties being placed along the S A L ^ Kailroad. The price paid istnirty- ' one cents per tie, which brings ' tic sailer a remunerative price for 1 his timber and labor. Mr. .1 A Hyatt is filling a eontraci of two hundred cords of \v<> ><1 for the Mom ua cotton mills, at K I gem ore, S t\ Some others are shipping wood to other places which helps to keep some money circtihil itig What has become of our cotton factory ? Has the wind works played out, anil the organization IniiM.'d ? "Old Hickory" report tho outlook. Anout ten days ago, one night as iht) ten o'clock passenger train w is passing Van Wvck, some one hurled a stone through one of the windows of the sleeper, shattering the glass, and cutting tho face of one of the passengers. A few days after this happened a detective was put olT of the vestibule one morning at Van Wvck and in about naif an hour, ho hud his g one, which turned out to bo a i little colored boy about 11 ; years old. Tho detective gave j th- little urchin a timely lecture, and turned him over to the boys' father for a full chastisement and ninny promises for better he^ j huvior. It has been reported by trust- J worthy authority that Van Wyek i had an elopement, a few <luv* wince. The elopers are M E Slur.ie* of Union county, N C, an<l , (Mi-** Eula VIcGnirt, daughter of the late Isom McGuirt. It is re p ?rted that Mr. Starnes has n wife and several children in North Carolina. Miss NlcGuirt is shout 21 years old and an attractive girl It is thought from r fts of the'r departure, that they have gone West. Mr. j Star es had the hoodie and brass to nuke a g.>(> 1 long trip. Nlrs. .1 K Williamson and Miss I K iooy llou-ton, lift Van Wyck W ednesdav night, for a visit to ,V W i,in n > -istcr, Mrs. I! nhriok at X'illa Ivica, Ga. They will visit relatives in Atlanta and other places before they return. Mr. It II Massev is not seen about Van Wyck much now. lie i spends a good deal of his time in V; \haw, N C, looking after his business interests there. Mrs. Glasscock, Mrs. Drennan ami Mrs. Mattio Hyatt of liar nieny are visiting Mr ,1 A Ilyatt and family. Mrs VV .J Crenshaw is visiting relatives in York county, this week. Mr. Crer.shaw, is our constable and looks like he has tried to arrest some one hut has fai !<>d. This can he explained by his loneliness in the ahsenae of his vife and fine hov. Wo presume Mr \V R Tillman's conscience has I wen eased in hi* expl ination of that post office petitio i: Some of his statementM are misleading and especially the one, where ho refers to Mr Voder thinking that a man's signature is worth nothing unless he has property. No man thinks more kindly and has more sympathy and charity for the poo** man tlun M r V<?<Inr tin li->" '!> >""? ' ..... - ?/'W? . IIIU III' ni kindlv feelings for those who signed Mr Tillman's petition and knows do difference between those and the ones who signed his. Mr Tillman's reasons for the petition are foreign to the real catiso and if jn ilice had been eliminated from ( the feelings of the originators, there would never have been a petition circulated to remove Mr Voder. Some courtesies extended to some patrons of the office by him hare been used to stab him in the managtnient of the office. If there is a doubting Thomas ns to the strength of the petition to sustain Mr. Voder, backed by the wealth, intelligence and influence if the community his doubts can tie satisfied by an inspection of the petition tiled in Van Wyek postof!i:e, while Mr. Tillman's petition has been committed to the flames, ami the number of those who signed and were going to sign are known by memory. We regret that this petition has been destroyed and think the originators should have kept it as a souvenir of iheir follv. op r i.MiTs. Those who argue that the Filipinos are as capable of self government as the people of this country were in 177b forget that the American colonies had known more than a* century of training in civilized and orderly govern ment here and came from civilized governments. If experience and conditions teach ns anything they tell us that Colonel Bryan's plan of immediately leaving the Filipinos to themselves while for- j bidding outside interference with thorn would ho to precipitate anarchy and build a fence around it to make it permanent. Ho would make us responsible to the world for a peoplo over whom we would have no control. The early history of this country contains many suggestions that but for the guiding and controlling power of homo governments our honorod ancestors would have been at each others' throats most of the time. No hard-hip or bloodshed canswd by our armies in the Philippines could be half so horrible as the hardship and bloodshed that would follow the withdiawal of all control from a people of whom the vast majority are half civilized or actual savages and who are divided into a score or more ??f antagonistic tribes. (Irecnv i I It) News. As an instance of how the uension system of the government is being abused, The Philadelphia Times calls attention to the fact that m single Ma-sachusctts regiment that never was under tire, that spent but a short time at San tiago after the surrender of the Spanish army, has to-day 550 ap plications tiled for pensions, m more than half of the entire number. This has been done chiefly or wholly by the pension sharks getting access to the - oils of tho regiments.and personally appealing to every soldier to make ap plication for u pension." The Times wants tlio pension sharks kicked out, and warns "the pen~ sion veterans of our civil war and the soldier* of our war with Spain and the Filipinos" that unless this is done, "our jiension system must provoke revolution." The Times is not the only Northern paper that has been driven to openly protest againut the growin<r frauds in the pension system. In the eilort to bring about a leform, the Southern papers have had their inning. The Northern papers now having taken up the work, we shall watch for the re suit honefollv- hot vr>t with momt - ' '' .' - J misgivings. ?Charlotte Observer. UKI) HOT PKOM TIIK Was the hull that hit (? B Steadman of Newark, Mich., in the Civil War. It caused horrible Cleers that no treatment helped for 20 years. Then Bucklen's Arnica Salve cured him. Cures Cuts, Bruises, Boils, Felons, Corns, Skin Eruptions. Best Pile cure on earth. 25 ets. a box. Cure juaranteed. Sold by Crawford Bro's Druggists. ROBERTS WAS REJECTED. T House Refused by an Overwhelm ing Vote to Admit the Mor- L mon. Washington, D C, Jan 25.? The first vote on the Roberts case was taken in the house today on 1 the minority resolution favoring w swearing in and then expulsion, i f< The result was ayes SI, nays 244. C The vote on the majority resolu- In twins favoring rejection was ayes hi 278, nays 50. i n t f< rt Points in Darlington. . p V* II Special to The State. Darlington, Jan 23.? All of the sto( k of the addition to the cotton u mill here, $100,000, has been n taken. This will, of course, in- ^ crease the population of the town, () arid make us have more tnonev in ?, circulation. It will not ho long bof >re Darlington will spin all of j, tlio cotton made within her tor (lorn. - ? m - c MRS. VIRGINIA C. AIKEN. k 11 Death of the Widow of the La- t< mented D. Wyatt Aiken. n v Special to The State. Abbeville, .Inn 23.? Mrs Vir- t ginia C Aiken, the mother of our townsman and Court Stenogra- i pher Wyatt Aiken, died last week t< while visiting her daughter in the v city of Atlanta. She was ill with fj pneumonia for only a few daya and her death was unexpected. She was the widow of the lamented Col D Wyatt Aiken who so ably represented this diatrict in congress. Mrs Aiken was held in the highest esteem in this com- 1 munitv and many friends lament her death. She was buried at , Greenwood,S C. ; -GAfl W~ For 1! | I No Shoddy o torn prices. be more nat trade where tlie> - We That means W K are the only people in position to handle the CASH trade. Time merchants put up prices at this sea- I son for credit trade. \V? }' put down prices for cash trade. We do not have to charge honest people twoprieen to pay losses on had debts. The, trade knows and appreciates | this fact and we are ?ret- t tin<? the cash business. ! t I !- Shoe Ba - T? t^T" The fact that we sell r Our Guaranteed Line of La< For Bargaii o? GrAl HE CONFEDERATE REUNION. ouisville Already Preparing ? Find of $100,000 will be Ready to Meet Mr. Rouse's Offer. Louisville, .Jan. 24. ? Active o?*k in being done in preparing >r the annual reunion of United onfederate veterans which is to t? hold beginning May 30. The >wer board of the council has lade an appropriation of $20,000 ir the entertainment of tho voteins and as much more is to tie rnished l> public s ibsoription. In connection with the gatherig the interesting announcement i made that (ion ,Iohn C Under nod writes that be will have ady by May 30th the $100,000 Inch it was necessary to raise in rder to secure $1<)0)000 offered y Charles Broadway Roiisk, of lo*v York, foi tho Confederate attlo abbey. In tho House Thursday the bill reating ten judicial circuits \v?n illed, and a constitutional amend lent looking to divorce for ndulpry was proposed In the Sente the compulsory education bill >as killed . Tho house spent the entire day Tuesday discussing the Ashler ill to reduce the fertilizer tax to 0 cents instead of 25 cents per i>n After a tiirht a compromise fa- adopted tixing tne royalty at fteen cents. CASTOR IA For Infants and Children. he Kind You Have Always Bought BsasiKaEr, TVT r mranmrragsg ISONjC/ ! ea 1 \i a T11E ] t Store s '^VPSiM6SaESL-3T:- J r inferior goods Ifa i'illii11 the best ha Sell Stri -'I'wo .Iniiuar.v I h Beautiful colorings in the no u?t hulf, lu rents. Also anothei n new desirable styles, 7.J ets, w GREAT MILj Those who have not yet hoe uck. We are running off the hi ban half price. You should uvi huso a nice hat. rffains ! ?e Very Best tli nore Shoes than all of Lanei lies', Misses and Children's tine ns in every lin SON Ci DISPENSARY PROFITS FOR 1809. I I Over $414,000 and the Largest Yet Reported. I , . ?T Special to Greenville News. Columbia, Jan 23?The State hoard of control completed its annual report today. It shows a net profit for 1S99 of $414,000,81, the largest in the history of the institution. Of this amount $220,492 35 went to the counties and cities and $193,699 49 to the State. Within the present month the hoard has turned over $100,000 to the superintendent of education for the achool fund, this being the total amount asked for the present year. MOREMULES, BETTER MULE; . LARGER MULES, ' FATTER MULES. ! lot 4 ' ll?? I Jent, K ce|i posted by chi lug at our Htaldet | fri <|U- nt-y himI hmh the quality ant! mi out pi ices?We lire In ti e business t ? succeed, him) "the way to suec (1 l? to succeed." and that is whai w are d->1 n Mil Mr Elliott is iiow in the West' em mark-Ms an-l will ruturn by th< U'Jici wiiii an line a lot of Ml." I.K-t ant HOUSES as bus ever been seen lr Lancaster? We hu> thera to sell again i and if von want a good male or horst g>ve us a trial, and if we do not sel y?>u we will iielieve you are not ir In markei We guarantee wliat w< '?e'l and will do every I liing reasouabli t suit ??H who buy from us x e i?ie indeed tliankful for tin patronage iiikI confidence of ?he peo pie ' a castei ami s-ij lining cntin ins -n-i Iiv siriet integrity and fsii n t iiik' i li 'pe to merit a coiitiiiuautM of (lie a nie m,i-ir & mW'RIl. \SH?STQ r <r a 1 ii FOLKS nSouth ( trvmmn T.*wxma*aem but reliable me lucks lii Is! 'gains, anil we Lctly For ( f ii gniiiN .1 u<st Ctnne. w '>() cent Poplin Plaids, our price p caae of thosesplcndid twilled Heec< orth double.* LINEBY SALE.ipht their winter millery are in grei dance of our stock at a little bettt til youi>elf of Mich a chance to pui Shoes Th* e JRfarket A (for later combined would indicate th imu Allocs cannot i>e equaled for j ic, Come to lsh sto T.W.StCREST, SURVEYOR, CH? EOLa. H. O. , Ir fully equipt-ed, and qualified, and solicha Miur survey mu Ike h, 1 Or rail at IfiifiVs Market 'i>r a Roast -teak or some g<>"d HausaireH or a first class Fry ?>r Sipw of Norfolk Otx'erH ami (>e convinced that it's so tin* Meg kf<? ti you wilt net front the Market on lie r nrner of Ma n and I>uiiIh|i streets. THE RESTAURANT You wilt find supplied with the Brs' Nor1' ik Oy?U is every Wednes* day ant! Friday. i Hespcctfully. I A. F. DUFFT. CHESTER MACHINE a ? ? opa IANU LUMStK COMPANY. ; CHESTER, S. O. o The Cheater Machine Co. and B. M. t ^pratt & i o . have consolidated the two p'anta, and now ready to furntah anything in the Machine and Lumber ? linen, with a well equipped Foundry 9 and Machine Shop, and Door, Haah I ami Blind Fae'ory <ur faclhtiea are I urn quailed in tliia part of the State. REAPERS MOWERS, ! THRESH KK^, GINS, I ENGINES RAW MILLS, 1 HAY AND CO i TON PRESSES, 5 HARROWS. CAS IINGS, K I C. also > second hand machinery. tMF" RIIIh complete for Dwelling*. St'?re Ruoma, etc. Send uh list of r your want*, and we will anaw?r by , return mail Reap.ctfullv, Chester machine a LUMBER COMPANY. Irets W E are Carolina., i i - x i ^ :rcuaiiuise ai ooiNothing could urn I' People are giving them. J ash | Long Faced ls Merchants .j. i Are claiming higher prices. Goods they say have gone up. Wo are getting them chea|)cr than ever. The ready it cash always wins, and >r we are in the lead with some soft snaps for early trade. it Wear! - (Is. nt w? nre Headquarters. nfk-1 ?ood service and low priceti. ,jVV-| RE. 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