The ledger. [volume] (Gaffney City, S.C.) 1896-1907, September 03, 1896, Image 4
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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^*
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Also Farms near by and in reach of the schools of Limestone Spring*
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