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A *T?7ry-- r Sr ffTMT" g, '- •vS' ; • ' -v *«., -iJ ••. THE I l^DGER: GAFFNEY, S. 0., DEOElVf HER 3, 1893. r RE' nti THE WEEKLY LEDGER. PJOLISHBD KVEKY TIirR8I>AY BY The Limestone Irinting and Publishing Co. Incorporated. $1.00 per Year. R. O. SAMS. w . Editor. ED. H. DeCAMP, Manager and Local Editor. The Ledger is not responsible for the views of correspondents. Correspondents who do not contri bute regular news letters must fur- -dsh their name, not for publication, but for identification. Write short letters and to the point to insure publication ; also endeavor to get them to the office by Tuesday. \11 correspondence should be ad- Iressed to Ed. H. DeCamp, Manager. Obituaries will be published at five cents a line. Cards of thanks will be published at one cent a word. Reading notices will be published at ten cents a line each insertion. Single copies of the paper are five cents each. THE GREAT GROWING POWER. The complexion of Europe is charging. The “great powers’ are trying to hold their own. Kach seems afraid that the others will get or undue advantage. France eyes Germany, and Austria Russia, while England views each with a critic’s eye and sees imperfections in them all. While most of these powers are holding their own, one is silently, but surely forging her way to super ior power and greater prominance. Russia is this great and growing power. England, by vast outlay of capital, is co npelled on account of their insular position and widely scattered provinces, to maintain her supremacy at sea; Germany has all she can do to harmonize the discord ant elements that make up her Em pire; but Russia is free from intang- ling alliances, and is homogeneous throughout her vast dominions. No other country.in one unbroken reach, stretches over one hundred seventy degrees of latitude—nearly halfway round the world. The C/.ar of all the Russians holds this power within an easy grasp, but his hungry palm is itching for more, and more he is bound to have. His eye is never taken from Tur key. And when at last the Sultan ahull havejrun down and can no longer further his projects the boundary line of Russia will be stretched around Turkey as a gridle, and no European power will say. nay. Talk about preserving the balance of power in Europe! The bodice is already lost, and Russia bolds the scales. Her development has, of late years, been unprecedentedly rapid, due mainly to wise statesmanship. THE LAST CHANCE. The time is now short in which we must make up our minds how we will vo* n the new county question. True it ..that no question has ever before been submitted to usthat con cerns us and our children more inti mately. And we must decide it by our votes. Let us try to look at the question free from passion or prejudice. How the new county will help or hinder my interests; how will it affect the interests of the great mass of people within its limits; how will it be with our children for w hom wo are now striving with might and main. This is the opportunity of a life time. It will not pass this way again, it is our last chance. Let it not be a lost chance. If we now close the door instead of entering in, it will bo useless after awhile to wail: “It might have been.” Other sections are waiting our ac tion. If we succeeed, they fail. If we fail the}’ would be wise enough to profit by it. THE SWEET POTATO. As a food crop it would Do difficult to find a plant better suited to our wants. From August to May every farmer ought to have them in abun dance for man and beast. Horses fatten on them and enjoy a mixed ration of potato and corn more than corn alone. How your favorite milk cow would thunk you if with her cotton and meal and hulls you would mix a few quarts of potatoes, chopped lino cnought to prevent chunking. And then too, the milk pail would he heavier as you return from the harm That is a poor acre that does not yield one hundred bushels of the tubers. The trouble is not in the making but In the keeping—you say. Well don’t dont* pasture your cows on the land before harvesting the crop. Fuel save (lie vinca for winter forage and immediately gather and properly care for the valuable tubers—one of God’s best gifts to man. LOPEZ COLOMA. The execution of this Cuban pat riot tiirows discredit on the Spanish cause. That cause is weak indeed that tries to bolster itself by putting to death,under disgraceful conditions, a patriot leader who surrendered un der flag of truce—embracing the Spanish general’s proclamation of annuity. General Weyler must have been severely handled by Maceo to vent his ire thus on one of his most noted prisoners. This murder will not have a mollifying effect on Cuban sympathizers in the United States; neitherds it apt to invite the laying down of arms on the part of the in surgent Cubans. General Weyler says that Spain’s honor must be maintained at any price. Neither men nor money count anything when this is to be preserved. Thus is Weyler hurrying to his doom. Have both your reg istration ticket and your 1895 tax receipt when you go to vote next Tuesday for the New County. Reasoning on Their Own Grounds. (Correspondence of The Ledger.) Golden St'kings School Hocse, Nov. 24, 1 Slid.—Mu. Editor:— Wo wish to reason through your columns with some of our esteemed friends upon their own ground for opposition to the new county move- ,U Two of them have told us that’they j !irtet * n >’ oars an T d 1 wi11 ‘^Unuo to llLl f,™ if if i rt f ! I l‘V«, fOV I COP.SCl could vote for it, if two prominent men of Gaffney were out of it. ! “The have always,” they say, ”con- ! trolled the town in most instances | for their own selfish ends.” They continue to say that these j gentlemen would never be satisfied ! unless everything was controlled by them or their agents within the en- | tire area of the proposed new county. . Be that as it may we fail to see a justifiable reason on the part of our 1 friends or any one else for withholding i an earnest support of the new county | movement. That it will be beneficial ; to every industry (within its limits and that our institutions of learning, ! both morally and religiously will I e greatly advanced, I b-dieve no one : has ventured to deny. This being conceded no man alive to the pro gress of the day in wnich we live can afford to cast his vote against the proposition before us. Now our Ra venna friends, gentlemen of whom any community ought to justly be proud come before us with ob jections altogether unworthy of the high esteemed and acknowledged confidence that they are, under all other consideration, entitled to. To us their objections seem to have had their origin from a view peculiarly seltish. We can see them in no other light. Reasoning from their own standpoint we would never build another public school house, nor open another public road. Wo would never build another railroad, nor church, nor would any movement for improvement that did not leave the mightier end of the singletree in our own hands find any sympathy or approval within us. For this reason we cannot from the circumstances that surround ns ail be alike benefitte j' by the im provements. While we consede that advantages largorly will be in the hands of some more than others, we further know that every man in its limits, far be yond this most sanguine expecta tions, will be bench Med. “Higher taxes,” the most fnvolant excuse of all, because it is improvement. Im provement is progress. Are any among us opposed to progress? If so it is strange he has lived through the last twenty years (if he is so old) and not before now been ground to power. Surely such, if there be any among us, will hear a word of caution from us and seek for themselves some m >re congenial spot (if one can he proud) where the great wheel of progress does not move. No money spent for improvement or progress is unwisely used, however large the sum, and should taxes be increased ns is the fear of some (while I do not belit vo they will) they bring improvements to us so far in excess of what we ever anticipated that we will be asliiMned that we ever thought of op posing the new couuty movement. L. I*. Dams. How’s This. Wo offer one hundred dollars re ward for any case of Catarrh that cannot be cured by Hall’s Catarrh Cure. F. J. CHENEY <feCO., Props., To ledo, O. We the undersigned have known F. J. Cheney for the last 15 years, and ! believe him perfectly honorable in all business transactions and financially 1 able to carry out any obligation made by their firm. West »t Trunx, Wholesale Drug gists, Toledo,O. Waidlng, Kinnan : it Marvin, Wholesale Druggists, To ledo, (). • Hall’s Catarrh Cure is taken in ternally, acting direct ly upon the i blood and mucous surfaces of the system. Price 75c. per bottle. Sold i by all Druggists. Testlmonqi]* free, | Vote as You Pray. | (Correspondence of The Ledger.) Gowdeysvillk, S. C., Nov. HO.—Mr. Editor:—I was a candidate for i county commissioner in 181)0 but I have tak n more interest in the new county campaign than l did in my own candidacy. I electioneered more f^r .1. M. Greer and Jim Walker than I did for myself. 11 rather an noys me lo think that the two men whom I have worked harder for t han I did for myself should turn their back on the new county question on which hinges the best interest of 20- 000 people. If a man will listen to 8quiro Wm. Jefferies, one of the pur est and best Christian men in this county, and hear him say that it is to the best interest of the people and that it will decrease taxes, which he shows very plainly by the tax on the railroad property, and do as he says, I am convinced lie will never regret it, for Squire Jefferies has studied this question in all its different as pects and he is convinced of the benefits to be had. Mr. Jefferies is. getting along in years, it is true, but ho possesses a great store of com mon sense and in all his public and private life lie has never yet been known to do a dishonest act and his council has always been right on buostions which wore of vital inter est to the masses. I wish to state also that I am a member of the Methodist Church, and, I will add, that the man who goestoGod in prayer and asks His blessings on the people and then turns his back on the people of the proposed new county by voting against the very measure that will bo a blessing to them is, to say the least, very inconsistant. or that lie has nat carefully and prayerfully studied the subject. This is my last letter before the election and 1 appeal to my friends, my neighbors and the people whom I love, to cast tiieir ballot on De cember Stli for “New County—Yes.” I have been a new county man for be scieir- tiously believe it will be a step to ward progress, a step toward educa tion, a step toward civilization, a step toward higher and nobler Chris tian living, and a step toward low taxes. T earnestly ask my own neighbors of Union county and my friends of Spartanburg and York counties to study this new county question thoroughly and on election day to present a solid front and vote for the new connty. R. \V. Davis. , —-• •— The Ideal Panacea. James L. Francis, Alderman, Chi cago, says: “I regard Dr. King’s New Discovery as an Ideal Panacea for Coughs, Colds and Lung Com- plaints, having used it in my family h.r the last five years, lo the exclus ion of physician’s prescriptions or other preparations.” Rev. John Burgus, Keokuk, Iowa, writes: “I have been a minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church for 50 years or more, and have never found anything so beneficial, or that gave mo such speedy relief ns Dr. King’s New Discovery.” Try this ideal Cough Remedy now. Trial bottles free at store of DuPrc Drug Co. FORTY-TWO YEARS OLD. The New County Movement Originated m 1854. (Correspondence of The ledger.) The county movement is not a now thing, as some would make believe. In 18;>1 the citizens of the various townships of Spartanburg, Union and York held a meeting at Lime stone .Springs. Several speeches were made in behalf of a new county. Hardin, of York, Dr. S. Otterson, of Spartanburg, and Curtis, of Lime stone Springs, and others made speeches. After the speaking a pe tition was presented for signers. It was headed by Thomas Curtis, D. D. It was presented to the legislature by Hardin and Otterson, who were members of the legislature at that time. The movement was defeated on account of the constitutional limitations. Now the constitution is so fixed that wo can have it. Then let us not have any fear of the cry of cliques, corporations and high taxes. They are a lotjof nothings thrown out to delude the simple. We will name some of the advant ages that will arise from a new county. It will bring to us a school of legal instruction that we cannot have in our present condition or situ ation, having no advantages of the courts and their teachings. Many a man had his talents and faculties aroused to action and his mind ex panded gathering knowledge from the tree of science .until he become a light in society. It will bring a great plus of money that we will be debarred from in our present condition. The many officers that will of ne cessity have to be be selected to ti 1 the positions of trust for the county will all add strength to this section. We will have some strength in the legislature thaw we will never have without it. It will add to our social position very much. It will make us join co-partners in a political relation. Highest of all in Leavening Power.—Latest U.S. Gov’t Report ABAOB.Wl'fSFJ'f SHOBE T. J. C. —- *». - — A Valuable Prescription. Editor Morrison of Worthington, Ind , “Sun” writes: “You have a val uable prescription in Eletric Bitters, and I can cheerfully recommend it for Constipation and Sick Headache, and as a general system tonic it has no equal.” Mrs. Annie Stehle, 2625 Cectage Grove Ave., Chicago, was all run down, could not eat nor digeet food, had a backache which never left her and felt tired and weary, but six bottles of Electric Bitters restored her health and renewed her strength. Prices 50 cents and$1.00. Get a bot tle at store of DuPre Drug Co. O L. SCIIUMPKHT. Taos. B. BUTLXK. Sol. TtU. Judicial Circuit. U. S. Com. Wm. McGowan. For Sale Tlie lir. Holmes H room louse willi flncirar- den. si aides and out buildings at I ached. 1 *> room e.iita^e on Limestone SI. J room eoltage on Gaines St. with splendid I gulden. v:i ■ : at lo, s on (:allies St. 1 vacant lots on I'actory Hill. 1 elegant lot on GranaidSt., j McCraws. opposite 1'. G. insurance! he: of Fire, I represent none but the Life ind Aceidciit Insiirunce <'onipauh s. Am prepared to furnish Cyclone and Tornado Insurance at moderate cost. Your patronage will he duly appreciated. SCHUMPERT, - BUTLER«& * McGOWAN, ATTOX* K YH-AT-I.AW. Union and Gaffney, S. C. Ofllcc days at (lafTney. Friday and Satur day of each week. Very careful and prompt attention given to all business entrusted tons. Practice In all the courts. G. STACY. You Throw Awav KLEBERG # RICE DULLER. The only machine that in one operation, will CLEAN, HULL and POLISH Rough Rice—putting it in merchantable condi tion, ready for table use. SIMPLE AND EASY TO MANAGE. Write for prices and terms ALSO Corn Mills, Saw Mills,; Planing Machines and all kinds of wood-working machinery. TALIiOTT and LIDDELL En gines and Rollers on hand at FACTORY PRICES. V. C. BADHAM, GKKKRAL AGENT, When You Pay $100 for a Typewriter. COLUMBIA, s. c. IN T. I ELLIOT. TI IIC —- BLICKENSDERFER TYPEWRITER Weighs hut Six Puunda unri costs hut iXi.OO. Ihipliratlng the Work of any of the Standard slO) Machines on the market. I’ractical ar ranged key-hoard, writing visible, perfect align incut, adjustable line spacer, weight sF; ih.mills. Interchangeable ty|ic. only i.'oo pan a . compared to luno to :iuin in the aver- age machine. 1 ml foi sampleof work. Testimonials ami cut a loguc free. K. n. TURNER, GENUKAI. SOUTHERN AUliNT, No. II N. Broad St., Dully Record Building, ATLANTA. GA l»A I.T I M( HyMl). N'uFI FmUui BiilMing. No tilt F. Main Si W A .-1{!XGT»IN D C. BK iJMUND. VA. Monumental Works. Granite Monuments a specialty. Agent for IRON FENCES. No. ‘2:35, W. Trade St., Charlotte, N. C. T. L. ELLIOT. “It is Mere Blessed to Give than to Receive. (Correspondence of The Ledger.) We have all been taught that it is more blessed to give than to receive, but a great many people make it very difficult for us to offer anything for fear of offending even when we have something that is of no par ticular use to us and is just what I they particularly need. ! heard once of an old lady being right sick and as they were strangers in Die com munity I thought it just right that I should visit them and help th>.m should 11;vy tmea it. When 1 got there the old lady was sick, but sit ting up. I looked around and I saw they were poorly fixed with not a de cent quilt in the house. I asked if • could help them, telling them I was willing to do something for them. They asked mo could I spare some milk. 1 told them yes, every day thev would come for it. So they come several days and one day I said to the girls (for there were two) that 1 would give them some pieces like my dresses to put in a quilt, and I was very careful cow I spoke so as not to wound their feelings. They seemed very proud and saiq they had nothing to do, so in a day or two they come for more milk. And of all the abuse I got it. They told me they were not poor far my scraps or any tiling I had, but they come on for milk and I got the blessing whether I appre ciated it or not. So now, dear friends, if you haven’t done so already, learn to accept gracely whatever you can make use of which is offered you in good faith, and above all tilings do not feel offended, nor go at one ■ and buy something of equal value for by so doing you spoil all tii • “blessedness” of the giving. A great deal of uncertainty exists in some minds concerning the true meaning of this sentence. I heard a friend say she appreciated a little embroid ered doyly given her more than a handsome silver lamp given by some party. She says its u perfect gi :i and I shall always keep it. There is a right way to receive what is given, therefore let us re member l hat Wlii’ii', vri- a nohiiiiUhsI is wrouirkt Wiii'in’M'i ; - spoke ii iiohlc thi>'.i;:h! Our he;ii ti'i /lail surprlsi’ To hlgh-.c h'vi’ls riai’. So we must learn the art of giving intelligently and also of refusing politely whatever we know will be of no use to us, suggesting at th- time that we know of some one who could make use of it. and then wo would have no fear of offending. Mus. U. Ann Watkks. Why will veil F’.iy hlGcr imis'ittin^- : ic . when Grove's Taat-less Chili Tonic is ii’ pi'-.: - ant as l.einon syrup. Yuiir ilriiyyiv, a timrl/i’il t'i ti-fuiiil the iniiney in evi’i , c. - where It fugs to cure. Price .iii c’lit s. . Showing His Colors. (Correrpoinhnee cf The Leilffpr.) U vMprkllo, 8. C., Nov. 28, 1596.— Although, I know that the new •ounty movement so far us its success concerned cares no more for what 1 think and say about it than it does > v.hat some who oppose the move- : icnt are thinking and saying, and t d the final result of the election will lie effected no more thereby than ' it wdl be by the fuss which some of th*’ would-be opponents are making; - ill I want to say that 1 tun heartily in favor of the new county. Why?* Ib’cause 1 think it will ho an econo mic benefit to the greatest number of people within the proposed bounds. As my work takes me from homo I ’ 1 * n °t get to sign the petition when \-'s circulated and will not for the oil reason get to cast a “yes ’ for to m .v county. However, I want i to :• • like the old woman who went mi! to battle with a broom-slick on her shoulder—“Show which side I run on,” show that I am for progress i and prosperity, for any movement ; lha! pertains to the common interest : of the common masses. It seems to me that a summary of t ;ie arguments pro and con is about : u. follows: 1 hose who advocate the new county j do so, because they believe, as shown by facts and figures, both of which are stubborn things, that the new i county will be an economic benefit j to every one within the bounds, of thj proposed limits, unless it is to just a few in the extreme comers. I his is commonjsense. Those who op- I pos ■ it do so because, while it will enhance their real estate, create a : tier market for their pro,luce, and f J --v them time in transacting their h“-al business, it will enhance some body elses real estate a iittlo more than it will theirs, bring a good Market a little nearer somebody else’s home than it does to theirs. ! Ttid save somebody else a little more time in looking after their legal af- ! . rs than it will them. This is un- • common sense. \. c. m/ICH RSD BLOOD i> the foun- '-*■ dniioa of good health. That is why j !! mkI’s Sarsaparilla, the One True Lloud Uurilier, gives HEALTH. W. D. ARCHER, TO.XKOK IgYTv TYI*T!» Hair-cutting, in the latest styles, -'having and Shampooing at reason- prices. i 2P“rihop next to J. D. Goudc- ! lock’s store. » DR. J. F. GARRETT, Dentist, Gaffney, - - - S. C. !*' j ovar J. R. Tolieson’s new store In office from 1st to 21th of each : mouth; - \ < ' -y - ;i L - f . . 3 •. , , b”! ” . m • V' n z? Y'r ’ ' 'An ■’ -T-.S - ’An ’ ’V J *1 tS>:. ' / d v * ; / ‘/t/wife //l.N'-'.’To'L/ i $ H >3 'j Cl 01 Sny the main thing r to do L to l.«.i p tl order if you want to live !oi . . ,• L-. the same thing, tco. '1 he icna ’ v -,J . liver and bowel* in Good physicians say mpjm Li U while not mysterious or miraenk t; • i: <t«rativ.’ <;•.%• 1 it®, is a simple formula prescribed by the best i ! > hi.ie* for id-outers «,t the digestive organs. Just little tablets, easy to r !.*. •; • y to I uy a: d i nick to act. If your trouble is I Jyspepsia, F 1 < a iuss, I uz/ii.t sv. I!. adail.-, ( --nstipation, Heartburn, and the like, no need - * t-J • a physician. Kipar.s Fabules contain exactly what he would t.J ytu to t he. 0N£ TABULE CiVES KLLIEF. MHtMANEXT CCBE FOLLOWS A F\i;: .1 NO t’Vi’l KTAISTV AOOOT IT. The Cheapest Thing on Earth! it The Ledger” at $ I a Year.