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>. 1 V THE .LEDGER: GAFFNEY, S. C., SEPTEMBER 17, 18««. THE WEEKLY LEDGER. PyBLIBHKD KVKRY Tlll'RSDAY BY The Limeitone (Tinting and Publishing Co. Incorporated. $1.00 per Year. R. O. SAMS, - - Editor. ED. H. DeCAMP. Manager and Local Editor. Thk Ledger is not responsible for the views of correspondents. Correspondents who do not contri- botc regular news letters must fur bish their name, not for publication, but for identification.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. DeOamp, Manager. Obituaries will be published at five rents a line. Cards of thanks will be published st one cent a word. Reading notices will be published at ten cents a line each insertion. Single copies of the paper arc five cents each. ever left French soil. May it be so with (Jenoral Weyler! and Cuba reap in the end freedom from her relent less foe! MEN AND MEASURES. THE SECOND PRIMARY. More interest centered in the sec ond primary just closed, than any election in South Carolina since the stirring scenes of ’7<>. Conservatives and Reformers turned out side by side and together approached the bal lot box. There was fraternity and good will on every hand—the old time bitterness was completely gone. The centre of interest was the sen atorial contest. The first primary developed a decided weakening to wards Evans on the part of the Re formers. Evidently Duncan’s reiter ated charges of corruption, and Evan’s unsatisfactory replies or evasions were having their effect. Evans was quick enough to give the blow to pro tect his person, but when it comes to protecting his honor and that of the state over whose interests he pre sided, he is mum. Not equal to the emergency in affairs at home, how could he he expected to cope success fully iu that larger field which he aspired to occupy? Senator Tillman might desire to duplicate his vote in the United States Senate by having an associate who is ever ready to be at his beck and call, and who, con- signingly, will ask his advice before acting, but such is not the man that South Carolinians would, in their sober moments, have to occupy the scat of Haync or Calhoun. It is not the defeat of the Reform party, sim ply a non-endorsement of Evans. TILLMAN’S MISTAKE. ‘’Consistency is a jewel.” It brings its highest price when, passing through the fires, it comes out purer than ever. Tillman’s biggest mistake of recent years was his advocacy of Evans at the eleventh hour. Rut a beam was in his eye, and he could not see clearly. We must believe that llie Senator's vision was distor ted, distorted by friendship and per haps distorted through prejudice. Signs of corrected vision begin to show themselves as the Senator re gains consciousness, lie looks upon Earle now with some degree of ap proval. He is as good a man men tally as Evans and will represent his state as well in the Nation’s councils. thinks Tillman now. Two weeks ago he knew Earle us well as he does today. Then his election meant dis aster, now no harm bus been done. Man is mortal. Even an Achilles bad his vulnerable heels to invite the poisoned arrow. The Senator then cannot expect wholly to escape. He has seen his weakness and will doubt less profit by bis clarified vision. Senator Tillman has taught the people to think fur themselves.—This is what he should have foreseen. Things Done and Said About Politics and Politicians. The dispensary system is proved to be a pest house of corruption. A moral institution indeed!—Sumter Watchman and Southern. * * * Palmer and Buckner are the nomi nees of the Jr.depc ident Democrats and they stand as i iucIi show of elec tion as a eat in a well without claws. —Manning Times. * * * It really appears that the factional lines have been wiped out. All pa triotic men will welcome the return of good feeling between the Demo crats of South Carolina.—Edgefield Monitor. * * * It is claimed that John Cary Evans went into the gubernntional chair a poor man and that today he can draw a chock for 17.").•'<>(>. Before his term expires he may be able to make it a round hundred thousand.—New berry Observer. ♦ * * It is not at all singular that the discomfiture of ‘‘iiliman in South Carolina should have been brought about by Ids dispensary system. The attempts to control and regulate per sonal liberty generally turn out this way.—New York Journal. ♦ * 4 Mr. Ellerbc as the next governor of the state will 'have an opportunity that he will likely take care of. by avoiding the pitfalls of his predeces sor and will no doubt, profiting by the lessons of the past, give the state a good administration.—Horry Her ald. * * ♦ Senator Tillman’s challenge of ex- President Harrison to a joint debate, has caused a great deal of comment at the North. While many do not think Harrison will meet Tillman, they think lie will not allow the chal lenge to go unanswered.—Yorkville Yoeman. WEATHER AT WILLIE. * * * CUBA AGAIN. Poor Cuba continues between the two fires of her friends and enemies, (ieneral Weyler’s policy seems to be to concentrate in the larger cities and hold them with an iron rule, and making hurried sallies into the inte rior destroying, confiscating and slay ing as suits the fancy of the moment Cuba’s own leaders have to pursue a policy that will best throttle the ef forts of her tireless enemy. Spain is after revenue; her hand is as greedy us when her “galleons” sailed the Atlantic and Pacific and filled her coffers from the Aztics of Mexico and the Inca of Peru. So Maceo and (Jo- imz themselves apply the torch and help to lay waste their fertile fields. It may be the true policy in the end. but her people are passing through an ordgul of fire and blood and star vation that Cuba may be free. Even Napoleon was vanquished in his Russian campaign when, of their own accord, they gave their homes in Moscow to I be [lames. His retreat from Inhospitable U'us.da marked the wreck of the finest army that bad Now that John Gary Evans is de feated and can no longer be of any benefit to Golden Rhind, of broker age fame, that interesting individual might be induced to tell something which would be of great interest to thousands of people in South Caro lina.—Darlington News. ¥ ¥ * Most of our exchanges in the state, inclusive, too, of the reform papers, among them the Columbia Register, advocate the candidacy of Judge Earle for United States Senator. It is because the charges against Gov ernor Evans have not been satisfac torily disproved.—Bamberg Herald. * * * When Laurens county elects what is known as a conservative to repre sent that county in the legislature, it is the very best evidence that fac tional-lines have been torn away and that the people of the good county are tired of estrangement and politi cal separation. Laurens sets a good example for other counties to follow. —Greenville News. 4 4 4 Thanks come bubbling up sponta neously from the heart these pleas ant September days, and wo desire to extend the heartiest of all to Senator Tillman in allowing the people of South Carolina a direct primary for all elective offices. Had the choice of United States Senator devolved upon a convention or upon the legis lature it is quite probable that no candidate would have dared enter the lists against the annointed Benjamin. —Columbia Slate. —— -«•»- •• $ioo Reward,$100. The readers of this paper will be pleased to learn that there is at last one dreaded disease that science, has been able to cure in all its stages, and that is Catarrh. Hall's<’atarrhCure isthc only positive cure known to the medical fraternity. Catarrh being a constitutional disease, requires a con stitutional treatment. Hall’s Catarrh (’lire is taken intcrnallv. acting di rectly on the blood andjnucous sur faces of the system, thereby destroy ing the foundation of the disease, and giving the patient strength by build ing up the consitit ution and assisting nature in doing its work. The pro prietors have so much faith in its curative powers, that they offer One Hundred Dollars for any ease thut it fails to cure. Send for list of testi monials. Address, K. J. CHENN'EY & CO., Props, Toledo, O. Sold by druggists, price 7f)c. FOR Up-to-Date Job Print ing, call at the LEDGER Office. Gaffney, S. C. United States Deputies Capture Moon shine Stills. (Correspondence of The Ledger.) W11,liu, S. C., Sep. 7.—We had a good rain the 3rd instant, which was the firat rain that we have had to amount to anything since the first week in July. Therefore the entire crops are greatly damaged. Cotton is cut off from one to two-thirds, for ward corn is considerably cut off, and late corn, peas and sweet potatoes are almost a complete failure. The United States deputies cap tured three moonshine stills, together with three moonshiners, last week just over the Greenville line. Rev. L. C. Ezell will administer the ordinance of Baptism next Sun day to those who made application to the church for membership during the series of meetings held in August at Thally Springs. Mrs. Will Keller died yesterday of fever, and will be buried this after noon at Thally Springs. J AKH S. —• Better Husbands, Brighter Homes. I have read with much amusement some of the letters written by men giving their views of wives. One would suppose that all depended on woman, and that man should make no effort to brighten home life. I am of the opinion that the true reason of there not being more good wives is because there are not more good husbands. After marriage the man must re member that lie lias married a hu man being like himself and must ex pect to discover many imperfections, but if be would be happy he must overlook them, and he will find she will overlook any he may have. It is not right for a man to complain of a wife such us this regarding her dress, for she is more than apt to al ways be as neat and as well dressed as her position will admit. A man should show his wife the same love and kindness he did when he carried her to the alter and promised to love and protect her. But O, a man never realizes how disagreeable his own words are until ho is forced to eat them. ^Whonjl hear some little up starts say you promised to obey I put it right down that will never he a happy home. I was so glad to see that Flaw Ticker bus had manhood enough about him to come out boldly and say what he pleases. Now Flaw put such as that down as low as you please, and I will meet you a little over half way to give your old hand a good shake. I now believe that it was the fash ions and not the women you so op pose. > Do you ask what will make our husbands better and our home brighter? Let us all read and remember that it is written and too seldom read and no thought given to it that Christ says himself that there will be wit ness against the man that deals treacherously with his wife. Let us read our Bibles more and find less fault that onr homes may be brighter, and husbands better. Mils. K. Ass Watkks. -• •- In 11 recent letter to the Manufac turers Mr. \V. 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 me, asking if they were sold here, staling 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 Lain Balm for rheumatism, lame hack, pains in the side and chest, and Chamberlain’s Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy fur bowel complaints. These medicines ; have been in constant use in Iowa J for almost a quarter of a century, j The people have learned that they are articles of great worth and merit, and unequuled by any other. They 1 are fur sale here by DuPre Drug Co. | Waverly Dots. (Cornsixitulcnce of Tn«. Wavkkly, N. C., Sept. 11.—Miss Mary Beam, after spending some time with her sister Mrs. Davie Beam, has returned to her home in Cherryville. Wo would like to have some more good and nice young ladies like Miss Mary to visit our settle ment. Hope she may come again. Messrs. K. Davis. James Ham- brick, Samp Scruggs and John lltimcK went to Henrietta last Satur day on business. Misses Lola and Talula Davis spent Sunday and Monday in Henrietta. “Baby” <>sio Simmons is spending a couple of weeks with papa (George Simmons.) She is greatly missed at her Grandma Davis, while visiting. Mrs. K. Blanton and her least ones visited her old home last Satur day. Miss Lucy Hollis, a beautiful little girl from Greenville is visiting her Aunt Leaker Wood. Miss Turah Scruggs’s brother, Nettie and Nora Hamhrick spent Saturday and Sunday at Tom Stacys. Sam Ruppe has gone to part un unknown. He told his wife that he was going to Georgia and didn’t know when he would return. I am sorry to relate of a separation of a man and wife. I truly believe that if each one should use their eyes to the fulliest extent in courtship there would not be so many stumb ling blocks after marriage. For I think that life without love would be like a world without a sun, dark as a myriad night in one. A true woman can brighten some of the darkest scenes in man’s life. She stands by his sick bed, also she is with him in the darkest cell, and in his d earns he hugs the form to his bossom that he loves so well. I have been told that this man floes not love work. He married this poor, innocent girl. Takencd her out in the world where cares, trials and temptations are all along life journey. He takened her from her parents, her friends, her school mates, her all. And the husband proves false forever. Knowledge, truth, love, beauty, goodness, faith—these alone awaken the full chords from this harp of a Highest of all in Leavening Power.— Latest U.S. Gov’t Report thousand strings. Sal Jok. Monumental Works. 1 ust Received I A LOT OF !NFW GOODS ! fc>hnc*f*. I WILL •i'll you lower tliuii ever Ix-fort*. I litt*. I WILL -.ell you at a very sliorl juolii. I fry OooiIh. I W ILL sell you ul rock-lxitloui (IjMiie.s. ( » rocoricM. I WILL s"ll you at the lowest market pllees. Von j\ le 'peCI > ally iuviterl toeall and examine my i:otx!-, ami priee, Ix'fore Imylnj;, Youi s reipeel fully. Granite Monuments a specialty. Agent for IRON FENCES. No. 235, W. Trade St., Chariot to, N. C. T. L. ELLIOT. ENTERPRISE STASBLE M. GJJONTGOMERY, Prop.^ I. M. Peeler. For Sale J. E. WEBSTER. A.ttorney-iYt- Gaffney City, S. C. Practices in all the courts. Collec tions a sueciultv. Tie - In . Holmes K room house witli Ipieifar- ih 11. si allies ainl out l.uilfliims atlaeheil. I .‘1 101 (in rot I aim on Limestone St. ir.H.in is a t •i;.'e on l.alnes H. with splemlhl i garden. ^ \. it M>ts on < 1.1 ini s s|. I 1.ir .ut lot s on I’aetory 11 ill. I 1 1 ..ml lot on Oranurd Ml. opixmltt T. t». | Met Yuwa. insurance! I represent none hul I he lie.si of Fire, 1 Lite and Aee|i|ent Insiiranee < i nipanh s. ; Am prepared to furnish I’yclone and Tornado Inutiranee at modi rate coat. Your patron ise will hi-duly appreciated. F. G. STACY. First-Class Livery and Feed Staines. Nice Turnouts, First-Class Hearse, Ac. Horses Fed l>y the Day or Month. Your Patronage Solicited. M. (i. MONTGOMKRY. The cheapest thing on earth—The Weekly Ledger at one dollar a year. -AtlUrcMH Oakx'xcuv. W. C*. AB&OLUimV PURE «« Electric Bitters. Electric Bitters is a medicine suited for any season, but perhaps more generally needed, when the languid exhausted feeling prevails, when the liver is torpid and sluggish and the need of a tonic and alterative is felt. A prompt use of this medicine has often averted long and perhaps fatal bilious fevers. No medicine will act nore surely in counteracting and free ing the system from the malarial poison. Headache, Indigestion, Con-1 stipation, Dizziness yield to Electric Bitters. bOc. and I UK) per bottle at DuPre’Drug Co.’s Drug Store. DR. J. F. GARRETT, Dentist, Gaffney, - - - S. C. Office over J. it. Tolleson’s new store In office from 1st to 21th of each month ; Algood Items. (Correspondence of The Ledger.) Algood, S. C.. Sept. 1.").—Rev. It. North Pacolet S. S. Convention. The North Pacolet Interdenomina tional Sunday School Convention will J. Tate filled his last regular appoint-'. niect ut church on tie 27th ment at Macedonia. inst at 10 o’clock a. m. The foilow- The second primary election passed in ff is t,ie program : off quietly at the Macedonia precinct. A light vote was polled. Ananias Gardner of Greenville is visiting relatives here this week. Rev. It. J. Tate spent last Satur- dah night with J. Gardner and family. Open by song and praise service, conducted by Rev. Simpson Blanton. 10:30a. m.—Enrollment of schools and delegates, reading reports of the same and hearing reports of town ship superintendents. 11 a. m.—What are the objects of Mrs. Ozora V. Ford, of Hicksville, Interdedominational Sunday N. C., visited relatives and friend* here last week, School Convention, and what does it hope to accomplish? To be discussed Ed. Stacy and his sister Miss Ara by Rev. J. P. Whelchol, N. G. Little- visited relatives here Saturday. ' C. W. Whisonunt and others. L. L. Linder and wife from near 12:00 m.—What is the host method Cowpens visited T. W. Price and | G-aching the Bible in the Sunday lamily Saturday and Sunday. : school? Discussed by Prof. W. F. Win. Gardner went to the county McArthur, seat last Saturday on business. Intermission. J. L. Clary went over to Cowpens ^ p. m.—Music as a means of last Saturday on business. praising God t.i the Sunday school. There wusa hail-storm in the Pied- 1 by IU A. Foster, A. <!. Davis and mont neighborhood last Friday even- otln rs. which did considerale damage to the - P- ,n -—Gan the horn training cotton that was not picked out. children be overcome in the Sun- A great many of our citizens at- 'b*}" school? by J. M. Greer, T. M. tended the camp meeting atCannon’s Camp-ground last Sunday—causing a small congregation at Macedonia. Saturday Oct. 10th is the time set apart for the election of a pastor for the Macedonia Church. All mem bers are requested to be present as the rules of the church will probably he read on that day. We held one last Saturday which produced a great deal of dissatisfaction and it was j thought best to hold the general election at next conference. So now , all should come and bring their reg- | istration ticket box reeept, etc., and be prepared for the emergency. Truly, COKN't'KACKKIl. — • • 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 I know from personal use to be the best medicine in the world for rheu matism, having used it iu my family for several years. It is called Cham berlain's Pain Balm. It always does the work.” fit) cent bottles for sale by DuPre Drug Co. Littlejohn and others. •{.'Kip. m.—(Question box Miscel laneous. I ;tKi p. m.—Adjournment. Each school is requested to send three ('ll) delegates and a c ntribution sufficient to meet its part of the nec essary expences of the convention. All persons friendly to the work are respectfully invited to attend. J. M. Gulch, J. L. Shcaiv, Secretary. For Ex. Com. -• ■*•*- • Marvelous Results. From a letter written by Rov. J. Gundcrmun, of Diumondale, Mich., wo are permitted to make this ex tract: “1 h ive no hesitation in rcc- I omniending Dr.King’sNew Discovery as the rosuits were almost marvelous i in the case of my wife. While I was pastor of the Baptist Church at Hives Junction she was brought down with pneumonia succeeding la grippe. Ter rible paroxysms of coughing would i last hours w th little interruption ! and it seemed as if she could not sur vive them. A friend recommended. Dr. King’s New Discovery; it was 1 quick in its work and highly satisfac tory in results.” Trial bottles free 1 at W. B. Dul’re s drug store, llegu- ‘ lar size 50c and Jjil. -V' fk’PrW ;; /r- r - > Say the ninin tliing r to do is to keep the ‘.‘.on . tT. liv.-r a id hov. !■; in order if you want to live loi." at.d keep well, (hood physicians sr.y the same thing, tco. The remedy called RIPANS s sM a rcc? while not mysterious or miraculous in its ruraiiv • To, i. a p!c formula prescribed by the best physicians for Li oh.u . f ihc i. <‘!i : organs, lust little tablets, easy to tal.c, c; y t-i ! u in’ t . , |, i., ; <-i. If vour trouble is I tyspepsia, Ihliousni'-s, I iz/ini-s, I ti .k!.u l i, < h ■nsHpalio.’, Heartburn, and the like, no need of calling n phjsiei..!:. K.p.u s T ai t.l .s contain exactly what he would tell you to take. ONE TABltLE GIVES RELIEF. M5KMANENT OCKK FOLLOWS A KAJU TUIAL. NO f'C: RTAINTV A LOUT IT. The Gaffnej City Land and Improvement Company, Offer for Sale Building Lots in this Flourishing Town, O j\ IT IV 10 Y G I 'T Y. Also Farms near by and in reach of the schools of Limestone Springs and of this place in lots of from ilO to l<M) acres on liberal time rates. Also Agricultural Lands to rent Ur farm purposes. For fuli particulars apfly MOSES WOOD, Agent. N. B.—All trespassing on lands of this Company cutting and removing timber, fishing or hunting are forbidden under penalty of law. ) LIMESTONE * SPRINGS * LIME * WORKS CARROLL & CO., Lessees. Manufacturers of BUILDING, * PLASTERING * AND * AGRICULTURAL * LIME, And Dealers In Coal, Shingles, Laths and Plaster Hair. Oymamite, Blasting Powder, Fuse and Dynamite Caps.