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THE LEDGER: GAFFNEY, 8. C., SEPTEMBER 3, 1896. THE WEEKLY LEDGER. PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY BY The Limestone Y rioting and Publishing Co. Incorporated. $1.00 per Year. R. O. SAMS. 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 Correspondents who do not contri bute regular news letters must fur bish their name, not for publication, but for identification.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. DoCamp, Manager. Obituaries will be published at five cents a line. Cards of thanks will bo published at one cent a word. Reading notices will be published at ten cents a lino each insertion. Single copies of the paper are five cents each. LI HUNG CHANG. The great Chinaman is the guest of the nation. With great pomp and military display he enters the port of New York and is escorted to quar ters suitable to his excellency. At an age (71) when most men are disposed to seek the retirement of quiet home life this Celestial is mak ing a tour of modern civilized nations and is as inquisitive as nature and art combined can make them. Gen eral Grant formed a high estimate of the man when ho met him on his native heath. In fact he thought him the greatest man of his age. As like begets like, Li saw in Grant his ideal of a man, and after the formal ity of his reception by President Cleveland is over his first act is to visit Grant’s tomb and lay a floral tribute to his memory. A touch of nature. Truly all the world’s akin. Even China is giving way to modern civilization. She cannot stand the pressure from without. This vast em pire that runs back into the centuries, and has kept intact while other na tions were changing with changed conditions is now giving way to the inevitable and the Chinese wall of exclusiveness is everywhere falling down. Twenty years ago who would have thougnt o? the advisor of the Em peror of China, with a retinue of over three hundred, visiting the courts of other nations? The world does move after all. HOKE SMITH. The Secretary of the Interior has resigned and the President has ac cepted the returned portfolio. He went into an untiicd field and did better than his predecessors, though the responsibilities had multiplied. He leaves the ofTice in prime working condition and the well-done of his chief ringing in his ears. Why sever ties now when the term is nearly spent? Simply to be con sistent. The President and his cabi net should be a unit on the political issues of the day, especially when these issues are disrupting parties and dividing families. The Presi dent, with the rest of his advisors, think the same way, and Secretary Smith stands alone in hiif adherence to the Democrotic party us that party announced its platform and named its standard bearers. In this decis ion and this resignation the Secre tary is not apt to be the loser. He more intimately identifies lines with the party. While everything is not as he would prefer within party lines, the way to correct wrong, if any there be, is from within, not from without. THE RECENT ELECTION. The unexpected lias come to pass. Evans has to make another run be fore ho reaches the United States Senate. Perhaps even then he will full short of the mark. Were wo able to select our man for this, the high est gift of Hie people, neither Evans nor Earle nor Duncan would occupy Calhoun’s seat. As it is we are cir cumscribed and cannot go beyond the two men who made the highest run. Evans has shown himself a partisan, he cun never rise above Evans; a statesman’s view? lie does not know what it means. Neither does Kurlo fill the hill. His ability is acknowl edged ; his honesty—as the world calls it—is all right, but his sails have been trimmed to catch the changing breeze and the taint of sus picion still rests upon his honesty of purpose, (trie of these men wi,11 bo Senator for six years from South Car olina. In the second prim ay we Willi be called upon to say which one will best represent our state. The privi lege of casting a vote comes with it solemn obligation. Our mind is made up. OCEAN TRAVEL. Four score years ago and not a steamer crossed the ocean. White sails, like sea birds, were seen wher ever water was deep enough and the exchange of the products of labor in vited the guiding hand of commerce. Behold! what has been wrought within less than a century! Now, from our country alone, one hundred and fifty steamships ply and plough the mighty deep with a capacity of 200,000 passengers and 5,000,000 tons of freight. Within less than a week the stormy Atlantic is crossed with case and comfort and as much safety as if we were about our daily duties. Man’s skill has made of the oceans highways of commerce. The out going and incoming ships run on schedule time and they pass each other on their ocean voyages with nearly the same regularity that our trains do on their iron rails. It is as refreshing a change to leave the dusty railroad car for the airy steam ship as it is to turn from politics to the quiet of a happy home. MEN AND MEASURES. GENERAL GORDON. This noted Confederate general, and equally noted statesman and or ator, proposes to retire from active political life. He has well earned the rest that advancing years cull for and a noble life readily grants, but he does not propose remaining idle. Rest for him is not folding of the hands; it is not drawing himself within a spacious mansion and watch ing his fellow men as they toil and struggle, and, it may be, contend one with the other. To an active brain and a loving heart true rest is found in doing good. And this the great Gordon proposes as the work for tin* closing years of his life. Happy thought, and happy he who can carry it unto perfection. Why a Publisher Must Dun. A valuable exchange explains the position of a newspaper us follows: Suppose that a farmer raises 1,(KX) bushels of wheat a year, and also soils this to 1,000 persons in all parts of the country, a great portion of them saying, “I will hand you a dol lar in a short time.” The farmer does not want to be small and says, “All right!” Soon the 1,000 bushels are gone, but he bus nothing to show for it, and he then realizes that he has fooled away his whole crop and its value to him is due in a thous and little driblets, consequently he is seriously embarrassed in business be cause his debtors, each owing one dollar, treat it as a small matter, and think it would not help much. Con tinue this kind of business year in and year out, as the publisher does, how long will ho stand it? A mo ment’s thought would convince any one that a publisher has cause for persistent dunning.—Banner of Gold. —— — • - —— $ioo Reward,$ioo. The readers of this paper will ho pleased to learn that there is at hist one dreaded disease that science, has been able to cure in all its stages, and l)mt is Catarrh. Hall's Catarrh Cure is the only positive cure known to the medical fraternity. Catarrh being u constitutional disease, reipiires a con stitutional treatin'nt. Hall’s Catarrh Cure is taken internallv, acting di rectly on the blood undjnucous sur faces of the system, thereby destroy ing the foundation of the disease, and giving the patient strength by build ing up the consititution and assisting nature in doing it* work. The pro prietors have so much faith in its curative powers, that they offer One Hundred Dollars for any ease that it fails to cure. Send for list of testi monials. Address. F. J. CHENNEY A CO., Drops,, Toledo, O. Sold by druggists, price 75c. THE CITY OF FITZGERALD. Georgia can well boast of her city one year old, with a population of 8,GUO. That they mean to make their power known and felt is evinced by the preparations made for an ex position at Fitzgerald on the 8th of September. Think of a building 170 feet square, erected just for this pur pose. Hotel, three stories high, and other buildings that would grace any of our Southern cities. It takes time to change the current of immi gration, but it is changing, and such successful settlements as around Fitzgerald, in Georgia, and in the pineland region of North Carolina, will invite to our sunny clime the thrifty of other lands. The excessive heat of the summer just passing was felt in its prostra ting power in the North, and West where the cold also is the most se vere. This tlie South escaped. Here is a good place to live in summer as well us in winter; wc are free from both extremes. Our lands, too, re spond heartily to the skillful touch of the husbandman. Things Said and Done About Politics and Politicians. If you are a real Democrat, you will abide by your party’s rules. After all our difference is a mere household matter.—Charleston Sun. Georgia Republicans decide not to put out a ticket. South Carolina Re publicans might act in a similar man ner with good judgement.—Horry Herald. Tenants who get in debt to land lords and then “jump” ought to be severely punished. It is a growing evil and a great impediment to agri cultural prosperity.—Anderson Intel ligencer. ¥ ♦ 5lC Use wire instead of ties on your cot ton bales. The tie trust is an outrage and a barefaced robbery, and our farmers should unite and whip it. This they can do by expending one- half the energy that it took to crush the jute trust.—Cotton Plant. * 5|C * It looks and sounds strange to de cent South Carolinians—very strange indeed—to hear Duncan tell Evans right to his face : “I have proved t he lie in your teeth time and again, you cowardly little puppy.” Whew!! —Edgefield Chronicle. * * * Keep your eye on Senator Butler, of North Carolina, chairman of the Populist executive committee. He will not let his party go into the Democratic combine if he can possi bly prevent it unless there is an equal divide in all respects.—Green ville News. * * 5ft The whole state should rejoice in the triumphant re-election of Reform Solicitor G. Duncan Bellinger. He defeated a conservative. Some peo ple tried to defeat him because he prosecuted the Broxton Bridge mur derers. Hurrah for law and order.— Union Times. * * * The farmers will win in their fight against the cotton tie trust as they did in the bagging trust fight and they deserve to win. Wo are with the farmers in this and hope they will win the fight. We are glad that the Newberry farmers have taken a stand in this matter.—Newberry Her ald and News. * * 9ft The civil war is with some news papers, not yet ended. They seem to delight in unearthing the hatchet and in rehashing the justice of their side and unrighteousness of the cause of the enemy. The result of their utterances is the rekindling of the fires of hatred and envy in the public mind.—Bamberg Herald. * * * The campaign is over, the speaking has closed and we t rust every man lias cast an honest ballot for an hon est man. “The laborer should be worthy of his hire,” and if you have not voted for the best man you have done wrong. We hope to see a clean, honest set of men get hold of our State and give us a pure government. —Ilonea Path Chronicle. * * * Governor Evans is reported as say ing in excuse for his pardon of the murderer, Ready, that “the petition for the pardon was signed by nearly everyone in Barnwell and Aiken” counties. In these circumstances, it may be suggested, it would have been more proper, if less politic, to have issued the pardon the day after the primary election rather than the day before.—News and Courier. ^ * Several days ago Senator Tillman went to Thomson, Ga., and had a long conference with Hon. Thomas E. Watson. The papers arc all sur r noising the result of that conference, and wondering what the two leaders met for. Our prediction is that Sen ator Tillman sees and realizes the fact that with Sewell and Watson both in the race our cause is surely doomed, and he is trying to arrange some compromise to withdraw one of ATTACKED BY A NEGRO. Highest of all in Leavening Power.—Latest U. S. Gov’t Report the other.- -Piedinont Headlight. - — Two Lives Saved. Mrs. Phoebe Thomas, of Junction City, 111., was told by her doctors she hail Consumption and that there was no hope for her. but two bottles Dr. King’s New Discovery completely cured her and she says it saved her life. Mr. Thos. Eggers, 185) Florida St. Sanfrancisco,suffered from a dread ful cold, approaching Consumption, tried everything else then bought one bottle of Dr. King’s New Discovery and in two weeks was cured. He is naturally thankful. It is such reults of which these are samples, that prov»* the wonderful efficacy of this medicine in Coughs and Colds. Free trial bottlei at the DuPre Drug Co.’s Drug Store. Lay Aside Something^* FOR YOUR FAMILY by buying a policy in the Mas sachusetts JJenefit Life As sociation, from R. S. LIPSCOMB, Agt. Also Fire Insurance Agt. Norman Elders at Brown’s Chapel and Other Trough Shoals Notes. (Correspondence of The Ledger.) Trough Shoals, 8. C., Aug. III.— The health of our town is fair at present. Only a few cases of fever. Among them arc H. A. Meetze, who has gone to the homo of his mother in Lexington county; I). I). Little john, our cotton buyer, nconpieo hig place. Also W. S. Wright is sick at the home of his parents in Laurens county. W. W. Lancaster occupies his position during his absence. On last Friday evening Charles Wells, on his return from the coun try, when near Newton Littlejohn’s on the Union road, was attacked by a negro. Wells—to bluff the negro —made believe that he would shoot him. The negro drew his shooting iron and snapped several times at him. Wells luckily secured a rock, knocked the negro senseless and beat him with a slick, and mounted his steed and rode off. When some forty or fifty yards away, the negro recov ered enough to throw rocks after him and curse him. He is described by Wells as being a black, slender negro, wearing a cap and carrying a yellow gri))-sack. A negro filling this description was seen the same day at Trough, wandering aimlessly about. Rev. W. J. Langston is taking a short and a much needed rest. He is now rusticating about Asheville, N. C., and will return the latter part of this week, and hopes to be able to occupy his pulpit next Sunday. Two Mormon Elders named Bond and Wallace put in their appearance among us one day last week and ad vertised themselves to preach at Brown’s Chapel (a Baptist church on the suburbs). The preaching failed to materialize and the latter day saints have departed. They were well dressed and had a very polite and manly bearing. One evening last week a horse hitched to a buggy became frightened and in running across the bridge (a covered way across Pacolet) ran one of the end of the shafts in a mule that he happened to meet. The mule is seriously and dangerously injured. Constable John Petty went to Co lumbia recently after a desperate negro criminal charged with burglary, whose arrest he had effected by offi cials of that city. Constable John is wide awake and ever on the elert— a very terror to the fugatlves from justice. homo. — - - — In a recent letter to the Manufac turers Mr. W. F. Benjamin, Editor of the Spectator, Rushford, N. Y., says: “It may be a pleasure to you to know the high esteem in which Chamberlain’s medicines are held by the people of your own state, where they must be best known. An aunt of mine, who resides at Dexter, Iowa, was about to visit me a few years since, and before leaving home wrote mo, asking if they were sold here, stating if they were not she would bring a quanity with her, as she did not like to be without them.” The medicines referred to are Chamber lain’s Cough Remedy, famous for its cures of colds and croup; Chamber lain’s Pain Bul.n for rheumatism, lame back, pains in the tile and chest, and Ciiamleriain’s Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy for bowel complaints. These medicines have been in constant use in Iowa for almost a quarter of a century. The people have learned that they are articles of great worth and merit, and unequaled by any other. They are for sale here by DuPre Drug Co. ENTERPRISE STASBLE M. G^KONTCOMERI, Prop.’ PURE Discriminate in the Use of Words. A society paper, eager to be cor rect, referred to the “unbonnetted women who received with the host ess,” and oddly enough the effect on every reader was the same. Before her arose the vision of a loud-voiced, loud-mannered, overdressed woman who had literally thrown off her bon net. Discriminate and use the words “lady’ and “gentleman” when they should be used, and “men” and “women” as they are most paoper. Remember, too, that the charming girl you met yesterday is an “ac quaintance” and not a “friend”; friends are gained after a long ac- quantance, followed by a close inti macy.—Ruth Ashmore, in September Ladies’ Home-Journal. Sent It To His Mother In Germany. Mr. Jacob Esbensen, who is in the employ of the Chicago Lumber Co., at Des Moines, Iowa, says: “I have just sent some medicine back to my mother in the old country, that 1 know from personal use to bo the best medicine in the world for rheu matism, having used it in my family for several years. It is called Cham berlain’s Pain Balm. It always does the work.” 50 cent bottles for sale by DuPre Drug Co. W. D. ARCHER, TOnroi* Hair-cutting, in the latest styles. Shaving and Shampooing at reason- uble prices. ^Jfl^Shop next to J. D. Goudc- ock’s store. DR. J. F. GARRETT, Dentist, Gaffney, - - - S. C. Our Doctrine Exactly. The Aiken, S. C., Recorder nevd spoke a more pregnant truth tiiaijj when it said that “free silver will nol help anyone who does not help himf self.” Free silver is not a hole fo* drones.—Charleston Sun. — -*•»- •— — Old People. Old people who require medcine tol regulate the boweTs and kidney willf find the true remedy in Electric Bit-1 tors. This medicine does not slimu-| late and contains no whiskey norl other intoxicant, but acts as a toniel and and alterative. It acts mildly] on the stomachc and bowels, adding] strength and giving tone to the or-| guns, thereby aiding Nature In the performance of the functions. Bloc-1 trie Bitters is an excellent nppetizerj and aids digestion. Old People fine it just exactly what they need. Price fifty cents per bottle at W. B. Du-| Pro’s Drug Store. Notice! Office ovor J. R. Tolleson’s new store In office from 1st to 24th of each month; J. E. WEBSTER, Attoi'iiey-iVt- Gaffney City, S. C. Practices in all the courts. Collec tions a soecialtv. This is no emporium, no grand! aggregation, no symposium or| other grand collection of high sounding circus humbuggery. BI T THE! PLACE to roI your Poors. SusliJ Hiinds ;mi| Mil I-imls ot liiiiliUiii'Mm-{ I'-rI;il. S,i v.ill Mini IImimI MmlvShin;;!' for tin.- least pn-.M'ih’ casji. Al>\ H'T'. jrivoii free in re^.'irds to pro|K‘| . sizes for iiial:it!" frames, etc. HILLS for materials ami estimates ui.-ultj promptly. OFFICE in warehouse. Respectfully. liAicrs**.! The cheapest thini on earth—The Weekly! Ledger at one dollar a| year. Ires: 'X'lICC O Al'I'rntJIV, fcs. C. First-Class Livory niul Feed Stables. Nice Turnouts, First-Class Hearse, Ac. Horses Fed by the Day or Month. Your Patronage Solicited. M. (». MONTGOM EUY. Cotton Gins! COMPLETE GINNING SYSTEMS CONTRACTED FOR WITH Thomas Elevator. Lint Flue, Cotton, Condenser, Self-Packing Revolving Box, Steam Cylinder Presses and all improvements for an up-to- date 185)(i ginnery. Buy no other system until you Get Prices on the “Thomas,” ]£ii}*;ine*4 9 1 foil ere*, HLi w XIII 1m, CUtne XI i 11m, Klee XI 111m, OriMl XIHIm. WRITE FOR PRICES V. C. BADHAM, UKNKRAI. AGENT, COLUMBIA, - - S. C. ' • -i -i S •: V •W •' • • • j ;>•' S /i . j j va 7 i r n r' W ''•S * h- 7j Say the m.iiu thing* to do is to I ccp the s:cn . r! ay the imin tl oracr if you want to live lorg ; t.<l l.etji well, the same thing, too. The remedy c. IkU liver a nt Pov.v's in fdood physicians sry RIPANS BUIES while not mysterious or miraculous in its cmaiv <; iito, i; a ilnulj formula prescribed by the best physicians for >;i ciCn .f ibo eiigislbe organs. Just little tablets, easy to takc,.t;:‘\ t,> 1 m , i| ,■ (.!, tunc'. If vour trouble is Dyspepsia, biliousness, Diz/incv;, IL; e'ae’l <.’« nvipation, Heartburn, and the like, no necelof c.illii g a phjcie-i.-n. Kip:u ! aLi.l s contain exactly what he would tell vou to t;d.c. ONE TABIILE GIVES RELIEF. PERMANENT CORK FOLLOWS A FAIR TRIAL NO U (.TRTAtNt Y ABOUT IT. The Gaffney City Land and Improvement Company, Offer for Sale Building Lois in this Flourishing Town, JL Or JY IT IV E O IT Y. Also Farms near by and in reach of the schools of Limestone Spring* and of this place in lots of from 80 to i<H) acres on liberal time rates. Also Agricultural Lands to rent for farm purposes. For Ml particulars af ;ly tt MOSES WOOD, Agent. N. B.—All trespassing on lands of this Company cutting and rotnoving timber, fishing or hunting are forbidden under penalty of law. LIMESTONE • SPRINGS • LIME » WORKS, CARROLL & CO., Lessees. Manufacturers of BUILDING, * * AND * . * LIME, And Dealers In Coal, Shingles, Laths and Plaster Hair*4 Dymamite, Blasting Powder, Fuse and Dynamite Caps. L . J _ ■ , ,^.1