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_ / / ■+ v't■wt’xm 1 ■ v . ■ v« *r * V' ' ••. v • ■/,.'•■ j.fS.saaEK • - WW ■ f. V” TIIK WEEKLY LEDGER: GAFFNEY, S. C M SEPTEMBER 6, 1805. THE WEEKLY LEDGER riTHi,i8in:n kvkky m:ipay by The Limestone Printing and Publishing Co. Incorporated. $1.00 per Year. R. O. SAMS, - - Editor. ED. H. DcCAMP, Manager and Local Editor. i’hk Lkdcjkh is not rosponsible for the views of correspondents. Correspondents wlio do not contri bute regular news letters must iPr- Aish their name, not for publication, but for identification. Write short letters and to the point bo insure publication; also endeavor to get them to the office by I uesday. \11 correspondence should be ad dressed to Ed. H. DeOamp, Manager. •o* Obituaries will be published at one cent a word. Cards of thanks will be published at one cent a word. Reading notices will be published at five cents a line each insertion. Single copies of the paper are five cents each. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 6. 1895. FREE OF CHARGE. We offer absolutely free of charge a full course in Hudson's Business University, of Charlotte, N. C., to the man or woman, boy or girl, who will send us the largest number of paid in advance subscribers by De cember 25th, 1N95. Thin is no catch penny device, but an absolute bona- fide-oiler. .1* ^rfp^coive hut onosub- 7T7\vecu “‘J'< .. • 1 1 ini*. we will give the tuition to the person sending it. In order that there may be an in centive for you to work for us we will offer a commission of !<• percent, on all subscriptions sent in so that even if you do not get the business course you will he paid for your work, hut the person who receives the business course will get no commission. Now is the time to get to work. The course embraces book keeping, bank ing, penmanship, commercial law, English, civil government, business forms, spelling, correspondence, arithmetic, etc. COTTON STATES EXPOSITION. Atlanta was hold and brave to un dertake an exposition after the plan of the world’s, so recently closed and so successful. When a people act together, act a^ a unit, it is astonisii- ng what they can accomplish. It has been thus with Atlanta. Each citizen’s individual interest is wrapped up in Atlanta’s success. Indications are that (ho exposition so soon to he opened will be no mean affair. Perhaps it will be second only to one that has opened its doors in this country and invited the pub lic to enter. And Atlanta alone should receive the nraise for that heaping measure of success that lias so far attended her efforts. With us in Spartanburg county, it is not whether the exposition will be a success, as our being there, in field and forest and mim sand waterpower and product of loom and spindle, to show a little of our attractions. Time and again have we tried to impress upon our people the impor tance of getting ready to present a rc- repectable front when the time for opening should arrive. Gaffney is looking forward lo being a county seat before long. She is the center of a fine section noted for variety and wealth of mineral - and could very well get up enough from her fields and display sufficient from Inr mines to invite inquiry, and capi tal and labor. But the time is short, and no one will do for us what we ought to do for ourselves. When we go to Atlanta and see for ourselves what other section’s have done towards advertising themselves; sections not so well cured for by na ture us we are, it will be too late to repteie. Our mines need to be de veloped and our farms need laborers; our crops need to be all of these require known our wants. mark ' the past quarter of n cen tury. Thus does fortune's wheel con tinue to turn. '1 lie low price n f > iv*. I for * he staple product brings t'Jihe surface another that, in its turn, had been supplanted when prices ruled low. Before the days of railroads, to bacco, from tlihs up country, used to be wagoned to Charleston, and in some cases, we are told, even rolled in hogsheads by using horses or mules as the motive power. Now it is far better. Let enough tobacco be cultivated in any section to warrant the erection of a ware house, and there will the buyers ffoek. In such cases the market price is secured. We have seen the crop growing, the barns in which it is cured and the ware houses where it is sold. It is a crop that requires care and con- ,-tant watchfulness, hut the returns are correspondingly quick and remu nerative. Hereafter no papers will be sent without the CASH accom panies the subscription. IMMIGRATION INTO GEORGIA. Ex-Governor Northern is a man to move things in any direction that he turns his mind. Having been placed in charge of the Bureau of immigra tion ho has continued untiringl) at work, trying to pave the way fur Iniiiding ^ places of his State. Naturally he would go to Nebraska and South Dakota where they sutler from long continued drouths, where water is scarce and provisions an almost unknown quan tity. Georgia paved the way for this influx to her population even while Northern was governor. A train load of the ‘Tat of the land was sent to the starving Nebraskans, and naturally as spring passes and summer comes on, these dissatisfied farmers v.' h lo , c the people whose hearts were moved with compassion, and to settle on the lands where waters never fail and grass continues green all the year round. The first installment of 12000 have found their way to South Central Georgia by travelling overland through Kansas, Missouri, Tennessee and Alabama, and have pitched th< ir tents in the region that is to he llieir future homes. 100,000 acres ha\^ already been secured for these set tlers on Georgia's soil. Here they will build cities, erect factories ami rapidly develop land that knows not the spade and has hut a superficial knowledge of the piow. if these people are industrious and love law and order, and especially if they are a God fearing people, it will not he long before Georgia receives an impulse forward that will make her rejoice that a helping hand was held out to them in their extremity. diversified, and that we make TOBACCO, A FIELD CROP. The soil about Gaffney is well suited to raising a fine quality of to bacco. Florence, Darlington, Sum ter, Williamsburg, Marion and Horry counties have gone forward in the cultivation of this crop and are now reaping where they sowed. Ware-houses have been built at central points and from the day of opening there has been no scarcity of buyers from ol Ik r slates. Tin* very first day in Florence over $;{0,<tb0 worth was sold and i of one half of the wagons could ho unloaded for want of floor room. Tis slated that $20,000 of the first days sales at Florence found its way to the farm er's homes. This is a profitable Industry for this people and it came at the op portune moment when the price of cotton had reached the low water The Area Of Counties. One of the wholesome opportuni ties of the Constitutional convention will h ■ lo sweep away the absurd and oil ■ -ive rehtriefion of the present Constitution upon the formation of new counties. There has seldom been a more senseless provision in the basic law of any Stale than that which forbids j the creation of new counties of less j extent than 025 square miles and the j reduction of the area of old counties ! below that figure. It indicates a ; gross misconception of the objects | for which the geographical subdivis- j ions of a State are established, and it i violates flic foundation principle of! our government. The convenience of the people is J the end sought to be attained by the ! subdivision of a State into counties. | The purpose of such subdivision is to ' afford Jo the people convenient ae- ; cess to the courts and the public offices, and to ensure to them the ; prompt and economical administra tion of the laws. Public convenience is the foundation of the whole system of county government. The ; failure of our colonial rulers 130 years ago lo provide county govern ment for the interior of Soutli Caro lina led to a reign of lawlessness ! which aimost produced civil war and I revolution, and ti e niggardliness with which such concessions are still doled out to the people seems to bean un conscious survival of the spirit which then sought to concentrate all ad- I ministrative powers in the city of ; Charleston. Our institutions are ; founded upon a theory that it is the ri to t j)d the privilege of the people fcjk.i themselves, end yet we JAPAN AND RUSSIA. The result of the recent war be tween Japan and China, while appar ently to the advantage of Japan, is not such as will satisfy Japan. That island empire lacks what Rus sia revels in—“elbow room." It is not now so much China and Japan as Japan and Russia. In Ja pan every square Toot of terri tory is occupied, she wishes more, and has nowhere to go for it than to the continent of Asia. Russia covets the same territory on which Japan lias been casting sidelong glances. The inevitable conflict is hound to come. Russia, with her almost boundless dominions, lucks outlet. On the North she is a priso ner wit It doors locked and burred. West and South she is viewed with jealous eyes. Eastward she looks for relief. At great expense she builds her transcontinental railway to the Pacific coast. Hero she wants and must have an open port where her navy may rido secure, and her merchantmen bo protected as they travel hither and thither across the mighty deep. What a prize would Corea he to Russia. Were she successful here, her next step would be across the Sea of Japan lo where the Mongo lian has reached his highest develop ment. Russia and Japan are near neigh bors, but they are not very neigh borly. Mr. N. Jones. Girard. Ala., says, May Kith, 1895: "I was suffering from Catarrh in the head and was cured by King's Royal Germetucr. ■ We keep it all the time, and be lieve that it is the best family medi cine there is on the market today." Germature suits all ages in the home. It is so pleuseut to lake that all like it. It is so harmless that the tenderest babe and most delicate invalids are always safe in using it. It cures wheo all else falls. New mckage, Jnr^o bottles, JOS dozens, For ialo oy W, B. Dnpre. pne $1. wil aiT effort, by the dictum of the basic law itself, to bind hundreds of thousands of people to counties of excess area, w' ose seat of govern ment are remote or difficult of access, and to prevent them from establish ing new counties of such conforma tion, area and population as will meet their convenience and their ne cessities. There is of couse a selfish interest in every existing county, strongest at the county seats, which opposes the subdivision of the present coun ties. It b the same as that which caused Charleston, in the middle of t he last century, to oppose the holding of courts elsewhere than in that city: but natural as it is, it is not to be ; given a consideration unwarranted | by the strength of the arguments I supporting it. It is not sufficient to plead that “old Edgefield,’ or “old Abbeville” or “old Lexington" should remain intact on account of their “glorious associations,” when there are or may be—we only use their mum s by way of illustration—many thousands of their citizens who have to travel thirty or forty miles, and by circuitous and expensive routes, to reach their county offices and tin ir courts; whose business takes them to one town and their public duties summon them to another, perhaps fifty miles from that nat ural and convenient resort; who are taxed of time and money against their will, and who are deprived of their free action by the shackles of an outgrown constitutional restric tion. As fairly might a county seat seek to prevent the establishment of new postoflices within the territory of its county, on the ground that t hey would take away a portion of its prestige and deprive it of the visi tors to which it hod been accustomed. The convenience of the public is the only proper consideration in the creation of new counties as well as of new postoffices. As population and wealth and trade increase there must also in crease the desire and the need for the subdivision of old counties and the erection of new ones. The greater the progress of the State, the faster will this tendency become apparent. Eor this reason it will he inadiyisable to reduce the constitutional require ment of county areas to even half of that which is now of force. There would be continuous pressure for further reductions and the question would still be a vexing one. The better plan is to sweep away all re strictions and leave the Legislature free to act as it may deem proper upon the appeals made to it for the formation of new counties. After all it is a question of population and wealth, rather than of area. Who can doubt that Charleston, for in stance, contains within the space of a few square miles a population amply able and willing to support a county government? Why should it bo compelled lo annex to itself hundreds of miles of territory, un productive and sparsely populated, having different interests and differ ent needs, merely that it may meas ure to the proerustean bed of the Constitution? There need be no fear that the sub divisions will become so numerous and the counties so minute us to tax the people unduly. They may be trusted to draw the ..nu at the proper point. They will not under take to build new courthouses and jails unless they really need them and can afford them. They ought to be released from the maternal lead ing strings of the Constitution and allowed to think ami act for them selves. We have from time to time urged the other considerations that prompt us to favor smaller counties. All the arguments of advancing civiliza tion are on that side of the question. «mr present purpose is to make a plea for the principal of “home rule," of “local self-government." under lies the is me. The constitutional barrier tu the formation of new counties cannot be maintained with out a denial of the ability of the peo ple to decide foil theraielrei what they want—without an admission that they are not to bo trusted. Will the Constitutional convention, a large majority of whose members claim to lie the special champions of popular rights and the rule of the people, refuse to give the right to make smaller counties?—Columbia State of August 3<>. • —• «»•«- — Beaverdam Brevities. [Correspondence of The Lkdgkr. j Beavehdam, S. C., Sept., 2.—Some communities boast of their pretty girls, good schools and fine farms. We can do the same. Other com munities boast of their saw-mills, cotton-gins, corn-mills, wheat-mills, etc. We cannot boast of either of the last named industries, yet we can boast of one of as fine water powers us this upper North I'acoltt section affords. This water power is known as the Tendall mill place. Mr. Ton- dall used to operate both wheat and corn mills at this place and it still furnishes fine facilities for the opera tion of the same kind of machinery. So what we need now is that some energetic, wide-awake, “git-up-and git” fellow who has money to invest and desires to invest it in machinery, will lay hold and utilize this water power. A good set of mills located here would be not only remunerate hut. would also encourage our farmers to raise larger crops of wheat. “Our mills make such bad flour" is often an excuse made by our farmes for their not raising more wheat. Then let us have good mils, for you are Highest of all in Leavening Power.—Latest U. S. Gov’t >«ipprt Baking Powder Absolutely pure Why Certainly, Come Along. Gafkney, S. (*., Sept., 2.—Dear Broke His Collar Bone. [Correspondence of The Ledger.] Pleasant Grove, 8. C., Sept., 2.— ! Uncle Ed : Will you allow us “kids 1 Everything is very quiet in this sec- ; a column in your valuable eight page tion now, but fodder harvesting is on paper? If so come right along boys a boom. We believe cotton will be and let us have a nice time of it, for middling. The meeting at the grove has closed. We had a good, lively time for eight days. Four or five decided to take Christ as their leader and there were a number of penitants. The Rev. Twitty Thompson, of Maud, will preach here on the sec ond Sunday, and the Rev. Crowell Blanton on the fourth Sunday. we will have no fussing in it, but will address each other as cousins, and write all lhe news we can think of and tell each other of all our works, plays and fun. I am thirteen veers old and I thii it would lx* so nice for us to write each other through Tm: Ledger, it has most everything else in it ex cept t he •'iiiUivn’s ('orncr. If Un-1 Alderman F. G. Stacy, of yourcity, c,e l ' :<1 ' vil! n- ;!<ace. let us hear passed through here last Monday in from you. emsin kids. Nour cousin, a kind of a rush. 1 I * We were sorry to hear that W. H. — - Bachelor, a youth from your city, re- Cbanborlain’u unci Ckln Ointmnt ceived injuries by his" filly falling la a certain cure for Chronic Sore Ey«4 down with him last Tuesday, thus nr-riUtcd Eyo Lids ^ Nipple^ Pika, , . . , . ,, , , , . . ixzcraa, tetter, bait uucum and beald Head, breaking his collar bone and bru.-.ng ^ ccnU pcr bo ’ x . F. jr , a ] c Ly druggists. Ins shoulder as he was returning cr_» home from this place. k e _glariq^ inconsistency of j g 0 }ng to continue to have a fierce tussle with hard times until all our people get educated and trained up to raise their own corn, Hour and meat. The tract of land on which the above named water power is located will be for sale a little later on this year. The many friends of Miss Mattie Blanton are glad to welcome her home again, and regret that she can not make her visit longer. Miss Mattie has been working for some time at Henrietta. N. C. .Mr. and Mrs. Choice and their two little daughters, of Spartanburg, stopped with J. L. Spake last week. Judging from the frequent visits which one of the beef market men of your city makes to our community someone must be selling quite a ! number of cattle. This speaks well j for our neighborhood as a stock rais ing section. And we do have some fine pasture lands. But the above named gentleman visits our com munity on Sundays as ’.veil as other days. This leads to suspect that ho lias found other beauties than those of fine fat cattle. Messrs. Sam Morgan and Ed Go forth, of Goueher, were in these parts not long since. Rev. A. D. Davidson took u busi ness trip to North Carolina last week. J. L. Spake is building a new barn. Perhaps the time will come when our country churches will think better of their pastors Ilian they do now, and therefore will treat them better. As it is now the poor coun try pastor and his family, if ihey have nOjOther source of income, may lack for bread and meat, Another thing remarkable about these good people is that they want to dictate what business their pastors shall en gage in. If their pastor farms why that is alright hut if lie talks about selling goods or engaging in this, that or the other—all honest callings followed by honest men who make an honest living—they say to their pastors, we do not want to hear you preach any more. They want him to plow hard all week, and then expect him to preach a big ser mon on Sunday. This is what Flaw Dicker would call inconsistency, and that is what it is. But as I started out to say some of these country preachers know how to make corn as welt as how to preach. Your corres pondent hud the privilege of walking over the farm of one of our country preachers not long since, and I tell you he has got a “line crap" of it. Ham Cole, who married a few weeks ago, moved his wife home last week. Sam's mother seems to think that one house would he two small for two Mrs. Coles to occupy at the same time, so Sammy moved into another house near his mother’s. Our school will be out next week. II. A. « — Along The Route. Will E. Mabry, road overseer aged about 18 years, has the best section of road between Gaffney ami Jonos- viile. He is quite young but he “nighabout" understands his busi ness. Joe Lowery says, “lie is a po- tatoe over the older overseers persim mons. This is bis first years expe rience. Jno. O. Tate has two cases of fever on his place, Mrs. Gibson and son. Both are very low at this writing. People are now commencing to pick cotton along the mail route. J. J. Mubry says he will have a bale out In a few days. Tim Mail Carrier. . .«*•. • While in Chicago, Mr. Charles L. Knlilcr, a prominent shoe merchant of Des Moines, Iowa,hud quite a seri ous time of it. Ho took such a se vere cold that he could hardly talk or navigate, hut the prompt use of Chamberlain's Corgh Remedy cured him of his cold so quickly that others at the hotel who had had colds fol lowed his example and half a dozen persons ordered it from the nearest drug store. They were profuse in their thanks to Mr. Kahler for tell ing them how to cure a hail cold fto quickly, For salt ft? W. B, Dupre. TO nOE?E OWNERS. p ’ For putting :> lior?3 hi a fine healthy con- dilion try Dr. Cady’s Condition Powdenu _ i hey tone no the re. rtem, aid digestion, euro lu;« of appetite, relieve constipation, correct kidney di -ord ; and u. . Iroy worms, giving pew life t an old or r ’er worked horse. 25 rents per p.-cbiro. V : ~I; by druggistfc Free Pills. Send your address to II. E. Buckleu & Co., Chicago, and get a free sample box of Dr. King’s New Life Fills. A trial will convince you of their merits. These pills are easy in action ami are particularly effective in the cure of Constipation and Sick Headache. For Malaria ami Liver troubles they have been proved invaluable. They arc guaranteed to he perfectly free from every deleterious substance ami to bo purely vegetable. They <io ter work promptly and at prices not weaken by their action, hut .by ^ suit the quality, and always giving tone to slomaehe ami bowels , , , ,, • . •q greatly invigorate the system. Regu iar size 25c. per box. Hold Dul’re. Druggist. L. BAKER, CONTRACTOR AND BUILDER, Will do any class of carpen- GEO. S. HACKER & SON CO keeps on hand flooring, ceiling, by w. B. siding, sash, doors, etc. Also a good supply of heart pine shin- gles at market price. Will alsol make out hills for building ma terial for parties who desire it and fill tin: same for a small perj cent. Give me a trial. Respectfully, 1^. SSsiker, Manufacturers of Doors, Sash, Blinds, Moulding and Build ing Materia!, Sash, Weights and Cords, On a it i« igt-vrt >x, Ho o. Purchase our make, which we guarantee to be Superior to any sold South, and thereby Save Money. WINDOW and FANCY GLASS A SPECIALTY \ : / S t N f V '• tJ/M L\ N; r- 1,000,000 People Wear IW,Douglas Shoes HAND SEWED PROCESS. $5.00 W30 ■ &*** 1 $150 $150 $125 For Men’ Wear W. L- Dougina shoes and Kitve from •1.00 to 93.00 u pair. All Mlylctt and Width.. The advance In h athc r liasincrenscd the price of other makes, but the qu.-ility mnl prin-s of W. L. Dougina •horn mu silo (lie assiue. T:ikcnosiiii*tituti;; Cve that name audpricelsstntnp'd bit sole. W. L. Dougin., ISnotli ion, Sold by pu - r ■ rp. wiuttos 030s.fr7 BEST IN THE WORLD. $3.00 $2.50 $2.00 $1.75 for Boa ailTootlis fjRDVES . *5 "LOW FAT Watches and Jewell ean be Keen by visiling our place busim ss In DuPre’s Drog Store. We will be glad to have you cal All work done by a skilled workr with years of f.xporu ncc. CORRELL & BR< I NO. EARLE UOMAR. > S. J. SIMPSON. A. McIVER BOS1 BOMAR, SIMPSGH & BOSTICK, Attorneys at Law, GAFFNEY, S. KKKDKK'K Al'KKill.n. |j. g| A US FELD A SK1Z, AIK'II ITKCTS, Atlanta, G.j Plans and Specifications for prl« public buildings. TASTELEBS CHILL TUNIC IS JUST At GOOD FOR ADULTS. WARRANTED. PRICE 60cts. C A’.ATIA, ll.LH., Nov. M, 189tl. ! Paris M<-dlcln. r«., K U.uU, Mo. Gentlemen:—Wo r »l«l InM year. <100 Ix-ulon o." C.llOVh'K TAHTKJ l>H CHIU. TONIC amt hnv.t Ixnmlit tbreo imxui ilrnady this yenr. In all ear ex* an A. N. WOOl BANKER, dor?* n gen nil F.mkirgaml Excl buHiucN*. Will secured with Bai Proof Hnfc uml Automatic Tima Hiiftty DcpoMi If.ixc* ut. rent. . perieuce of It ye rs, in the drug t>u-lni">x. have never aoid an artk- i that gave Mich nuiversa! suila> fMttoa aa roar Tc alo. Xout* truly, iBXXY.CABB F5» iftio bj»W. B» DnFrt. Buys ami to lh; FiockH and Buys County and Hchool Claims. YoU* buiineu solicited.