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THE LEDGER: GAFFNEY, S. C., SEPTEMBER 24, 1896. THE WEEKLY LEDGER. rUBMSHK!) EVERY THURSDAY BY The Limestone 1-rinting 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 Correspondents who do not contri- bnto regular news letters must fur bish their name, not for publication, nut for identification.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- Ircssed 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. OUR COUNTRY HOMES. A traveller passing through our county is struck with the lack of at tention bestowed on ouj- homes. It is not that we are lacking in industry, nor that we are not a prosperous peo ple. The tax books show thrt, ex cepting the metropolis of the state, Spartanburg pays more taxes than any other county. We are too much disposed to live in the old style of our fathers and are too easily satis fied. Except in isolated sections, the spirit of improvement is rare. A beautiful country home is a charm to the eye and a delight to the soul. It need not be an imposing residence two stories high with fluted columns and encompassing piazzas and verandahs to make it a home where father and mother, brothers and sisters may meet amid scenes calculated to arouse the sense of beauty that too often lies dormant in the soul. Even the humble cottage, with but little outlay of capital may be changed into a thing of beauty when the eye sees and the inner man feels the throb that calls for some thing better. Would that a spirit of improvement possessed our thrifty farmers. The wilderness would be gin to blossom as the rose. Farm life would be dignified. Gradually the stream would cease flowing from country to city and to factory and in creased prosperity would invite de velopment. The earth under our feet teems with hidden treasure awaiting the hand of the diligent. THE PROSPEROUS SOUTH. From the North and West often comes the cry of depression. Large enterprises fail to be remunerative and “shut down” to avoid failure. Capital is timid and withdraws her self into burglar proof vaults and comes forth only when enticed by “gilt edge” securities and the offer of high rates of intesest. Of course the South is bound to Lei to some extent the pressure that is so severe in other sections, but siie always forces through the storm with colors flying and stronger than when she entered it. One reason of this is that she depends more upon herself. Her strong self-reliance makes her to be more respected by capitalists, and favors are more willingly granted her. It is even so now. The Southern merchant at the centres of trade, North, are yet sought after, while the Western man pleads, but pleads in vain. West, further West has been the c.’y for decade after decade, until the wave from the East has met that from the West and men have time to think. The Atlantic Seaboard has sent colony alter colony to Alabama, Mississippi,[Louisiana and Texas, but no section of this great country is being more closely watched than the lands that slope south-east from the Uluo ridge. Her brightest days are yet ahead of her. though the line is short, it brings us in touch with a system that competes with our only present outlet and re- iluced|rates will assurodlyjbc given us. Another advantage is had in the proposed road running nearly paral lel with the Southern. Except at the factory on llroad river there will not be a station established where business may develop that may lake away from Gaffney’s trade. Our peo ple are pulling together with great unanimity, and wo look for yet brighter days in the near future. ■j GENERAL LEE IN CUBA. Our people express uneasiness about our Consul General in Ha vana. He is in a position of exceed ing delicacy, and there is no doubt that there is danger to his person from some crank or over-zealous Cas- tillian, but there is none from the government of Spain or from her rep- i resentative on the Island of Cuba. General Lee is a discreet man. This he showed as a distinguished officer of tfce Confederacy, as Gov ernor of his own state at a critical period of her history, and as a con- i servativc man in all the relations of life. The Spaniard is excessively po lite, he is punctilious to a fault, but General Lee knows how to meet him and bo at ease. Because General Weyler may ob ject will not prevent him from per forming his duty to his government in seeing that a just trial is given to her citizens who happen to fall under the displeasure of Spain. The ( n 1 of the struggle is not in sight even though Spain is gathering her strength for the coming campaign. MEM AND MEASURES. THE CZAR AND CZARINA. The crowned heads of Russia are on a tour of observation. They pass from kingdom to kingdom and are being received with the honors be- comingjlie Czar of all the Russians. Russia is the growing power of the world. In Europe, her territory em braces forty degrees of longitude and thirty of latitude, while in Asia one hundred and ten degrees of longitude and thirty of latitude hardly encloses her vast domain. The Siberian plain has been looked upon as a barren waste, a lit place for her exiled subjects to expiate their crimes under hard tusk masters. Not so now. The hand of enterprise has built railways and opened to set tlement lands that vie in fertility with Manitoba and Albhrta. The Czar is still reaching out after more territory. He views Turkcj with a critic’s eye, while, Argus|like, he never sleeps over his interests opening up on the I’acific coast. RAILROAD TO BLACKSBURG. Railroads arc sometimes a neces sity. They are important factors in the growth of cities, and in the de velopment of countries. They help to bring different sections of the same country cloicr together. This is particularly needed when water ways, broad and difficult of passage, separate its sections. While the pro posed railroad from Blacksburg, via the factory, to Gaffney is nob a ne cessity. the advantages that will ac crue'to us arc so many that the re quired outlay of capital should neces sary readily bo secured. In the event fo Gaffney being the county seat of the pro posed new county to bo carved out of Spartanburg, Enion and York, ac cess to Gaffney from every point of the proposed an u should be made easy and pleasant. Then, too, The Henrietta Cotton Mill No. 2. The land upon which the Henrietta (N. C.) Cotton Mill No. 2 is built was sold a few years ago for four dollars per acre, yet when the Henrietta company bought the land aforesaid they had to pay something like $1 000 per acre. Theretore the land for some distance around jumped up f>0 per cent. Such is the outcome where cotton mills are planted. Nor is that all. The farmer in such locali ties get a market for his product, and a placowhere his family can find employment. Yet we are told that the farmers are not satisfied, that they want the earth, yet will not do a hand’s turn to obtain it.— Southern and Western Textile Excel- sor. In a recent letter to the Manufac turers Mr. W. F. Benjamin, Editor of the Spectator, Rushford, N. Y., says: “It may he 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 he 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, j stating if they were not she would 1 bring a quanity with her. as she did j not like to be \vi|!ioiyt them.” The medicines referred to are Chamber lain's Cough Remedy, famous for its I cures of colds and croup; Chamber- j Iain’s Rain Bal.n for rheumatism, lame back, pains in the side and I chest. and Chamberlain’s Colic, 1 Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy for bowel complaints. These medicines have been in conotunt 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 DuRro Drug Co. Things Said and Done About Politics and Politicians. Ralmer hopes to split the Demo cratic vote in the doubtful states. Ho will make a magnificent success of splitting the gold-bug vote.—The South Side. ¥ ¥ ¥ The state dispensary, now having a bad odor attached to it, should have a scrupulous and impartial examina tion and the public should got full benefit of the results,—Yorkville Yoe- man. * * * Now is the time for genuine Re form. The word has been abused for a long time and has lately become a by-word and reproach. South Caro lina politics never needed reforming more than at the|present time.—Dar lington News. * * * During this year in campaign cir cles we have, Democrats, Baltocrats, and Hannacrats, but it seems to us that most of the politicians in this state are Selfocrats as they dispose of all doctrine and take up the rule. Do or be done.—Honea Rath Chron icle. * * A Mr. W. i>. Bynum, who occupies the neutral position of Chairman of the national committee of the Rul- mcr-Buckner democracy, classes Ill inois, Ohio, Indiana and Michigan as “doubtful states,” and adds that “we look to the East to make Bryan’s de feat certain.”—News and Courier. * ¥ ¥ It seems to us Gen. Earle went out of his way to compliment the people for electing Mr. Ellerbe. Mr. Ellerbe is a good man and we believe will make a good Governor, but what has the election of General Earle to do with the tlection of a governor for South Carolina.—Newberry News and Herald. ¥ ¥ ¥ Mr. Ellerbe’s assurance that when inaugurated he will be “the governor of the whole people, knowing no po litical factions and cherishing no ani mosities” will do much to restore to the state government some of the old-time dignity and draw to him the sympathy and support of all the peo ple of the state.—Rock Hill Herald. •* * * At the dispensary investigation the other day, it was brought out in the evidence of Colonel Mixson that the pivsent state board of control was suspected of getting rebates. Rossi- bly Mr. .Scruggs, the personal repre sentative of Governor Evans, is keep ing a sharp eye on the members of the board. He has the same oppor tunities of watching them that he had of watching Mixson. Let every dispensary man he on guard.—Green ville News. ¥ ¥ * Wo are sorry for John Gary Evans, sorry that he has had this great si lent knock down blow when least prepared for it; sorry that he has been relegated to private life with un denied charges hanging over his head. We hope he w'll find a lesson in de feat ; will set to work and clear him self in the eyes of the world, if he can, and will use what ability he possesses to better advantage than he lias in the past.—Aiken Journal and Review. * * * ll is well that Mr. Bryan has come. It was a pleasure to have had him. Those of his fellow-partisans who en dorse him entire can work for him with increased enthusiasm; those who cannot, can vote for, him with greater cheerfulness. All can unite on the ground that he is able and honest; that he is a patriot; that he means nothing but good to his coun try in all its sections, and that he has the strength, the poise and all the furnishing which fit men lobe Rresidents.—Charlotte Observer. $100 Rewarr',!j)ioo. The readers of this paper will he pleased to learn that there is at last one dreaded disease that science, has been able to cure in all its stages, and tha.t is Catarrh. Hall's Catarrh Cure is the only positive cure known to the medical fraternity. Catarrh being a constitutional disease, requires a con stitutional treatment. Hall’s Catarrh Cure is taken internally, acting di- rc'dly on the blood and mucous sur faces of the system, thereby destroy ing the foundation of t lie disease, and giving the patient strength by build ing up the consilitution and assisting nut tire in doing its work. The pro prietors have so much faith in its curative powers, that they offer One Hundred Dolhirs for any ease that it fails to cure. Send for list of testi monials. Address, F. J. CHENNEY A CO., I Tops. Toledo, O. Sold by druggists, price 75c. In Unity There is Strength. In all measures tending to the up building of our town and country, our people are generally very enthu siastic, which is ail well enough as far as it goes, hut in some enterprise something more substantial is re quired than this. In any business undertaking something must he put up a* collateral for investment, some sacrifice must he made, some risk to he taken before we can expect to reap any profits on an investment. Our people, in mass meeting, passed resolutions authorizing tiie Town Council to take such steps as they thought best in the interest of our new county movement. After a thorough canvass of the situation, anti by legal advice and consultation with representatives from the various townsitips proposed in the formation of a new county and at considerable individual self-sacri fice. the Town Council has formulated a plan that, in their judgement with all the lights before them, promises success. Now, unless the citizens of the town will come up and back us finan cially in pushing the matter to a con clusion our efforts will amount to nothing. There is no use grumbling and saying “I am tired of so many meetings,” and won’t sign anv DR. J. F. GARRETT, Dentist, Gaffney, - - - S. C. Office ovor J. R. Tolleson’s new store In office from 1st to 24th of each month; o I.. ih mitht. Tiios. IS. ISiiti.ku. So!, all .Itidiriiil ( iri'iiit. I!. S. Com. Wm. McGowan. SCHUMPERT,«-BUTLER • &« McGOWAH, A T TO l< >► l£ VH-AT-J < A W . Union and Gaffney, S. C. oili.-c <l:iys ni iiiilTiicy, Friday and Sutur- f day of cai-l. w i ck. \ cry calrf 111 and |>rnin|>t uttciilioi: glvcii In all lilisliicsN i-iilrimtcd to »s. ;< ' I'ruc-tli'f in all tin: courts. more papers,” and “I don’t believe it’s necessary,” and all that kind of talk. Who in reason has the best in formation on the suoject, and know from all points in the premises? Who was delegated by the people to engineer this project? Is it not the Town Council? Are we, as individ uals who compose the council, to get any more benefit from a successful termination of the enterprise than any other citizen? Do we not take individual risks also, by personally endorsing notes and other papers to carry the movement on successfully, and why? Because we have conti- dence in its success, and know that the only way to safely, push the en terprise in the limited time and in the face of opposition is to come to the mark when money or security is necessary. There is no time to dally witli this matter, and if we should lose the opportunity we now have to get a new county, I oelieve it is our last. Other sections are looming up and claim a right in part of the ter ritory involved, and if they succeed we are done for. Now all the council asks of the cit izens of the town—if you have confi dence in their judgement and ability to steer this enterprise for you. as you have commissioned them—when they call upon you to back them with your na.no to a subscription or other guarantee. If you have any in terest in this town or ever expect to have any, why sign the paper with out a long argument and all kinds of excuses. Why should you not? This is as much for your interest as ours, and you should at least lend us your aid; and unless you do, we can not accomplish the desired end. You may say you want a new county as much as anyone and wish it success, etc., but unless you will risk something and help to pay for it, your wishes don’t amount to a row of pins. Suppose you were to say I would like to have a good home, or a suit of clothes, <>r any other comfort (I wish for it), but can’t risk anything to get it. \\ hen do you suppose it will be long to you? Do you expect your neighbors to join in and pay for them for you? Try this awhile and see how it will pan out. Yet this seems to he the plan that some of our en terprising (?) citizens have fallen upon to get the great benefits of a new county, new railroad and other necessary enterprises. You fellows go in—I wish you well, but I will wait awhile. (And if it fails, I told you s«.) The Lord helps him who helps himself. He who helps his neighbor helps himself. Enrich those around you that you may share in the gen eral prosperity. Cut oil' the source of income in a community, and you beggar yoursel f along wit b I be ot hers. Why kill the goose that lays the golden eggs? Now is the time to work for your interests and to help others in all and every way possible. Take bold and hold on, for in unity there is strength. We ask you to do that only which we, ourselves, as individ uals, are doing and will do. j,. in ■* •- The Discovery Save! His Life. Mr. G. Gaillouette, Druggist, Bea- vcrsville, III., says: “To Dr. King's New Discovery 1 owe my life. Was taken with La Grippe, and tried all the physicians for miles about, but of no avail, and was given up and told I could not live. Having Dr. King’s New Discovery in my store I sent for a bottle and begun its use and from the first dose began to get better, and after using three bottles was up uud about again. It is worth its weight in gold. We won’t keep store or house without it.” Get a free trial at The DuRro Drug Co’s., Drug ■Store. Highest of all in Leavening Power.— Latest U. S. Gov’t Report ABSOLUTmif P3J8ZE Waverly Dots. (Correspondence of The Ledger.) Waveiu.y, N. C., Sep. 1!>.—John Martin went to the sneaking at Char lotte last Thursday. * Joe Watkins visited his old home last Sunday. We would like to have him visit oftener. Mrs. Beckie Amos, of near Gaffney, is visiting her * brother, Edmond Haines. Charlie Cash has purchased a new buggy, and from all appearances he is a candidate for matrimony. Ed Scruggs is assisting Mr. Yassey in hailing his wood to town. Cube Wood was in this community last Sunday. There will be a few days meeting at State Line church, beginning the third Sunday. Miss Addio Kay is very low at this writing. Miss Julia Clary visited Misses Lola and Talula Davis last Tuesday. Miss “Sis” McCraw visited her sister, Mrs. Queen, last week. 1 he family graveyard at Joe Mc- Craw’s old place has been paled in. Mrs. Martha Davis is confined to the house. She is suffering with her back. While your humble servant was writing these few lines, a large pilot attracted my attention just in front of the door. A crowd of us women killt'd it. SalJok. Asbury Locals. (Correspondence of The Ledger.) Amifky, S. C., Sep. 13.—At pres ent the weather is very warm and rain would be very acceptable. Reople are very busy now picking cotton and making up molasses. The sad death of Mrs. Sarah Koon occurred September 10. She was in her 07lh year. She has been a con sistent member of the Presbyterian church every since childhood. ' She lias been in feeble health for several months. The last words she spoke were that God was with her. The funeral was conducted by Mr. l^prig- ner, of Jonesvillo. The remains were entered in the family graveyarl near her home. She leaves seven children to mourn her death. Miss Cora Haines, of Asbury, is . visiting in North Carolina. | , Misses Maggie and Ola Foster, of | I rough Shoals, are visiting relatives I and friends near Gowdeysvillo. bi’iisv i:i 1 • From all accounts Chamboriain’s Cough Remedy is a God. on ! to the aHUeted. There is no advertisement I about this; we feel just like saying it.—The Democrat, Carrollton, *Ky. For sale by DuRro Drug Co. Sent It To His Mother In Germany. Mr. Jacob Esbenscn, 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 in my family for several years. It is called Cham berlain’s Rain Balm. It always does the work.” 50 cent bottles for sale by DuITe Drug Co. i \ r .VI t'-rs - x KEaE Caveats, and Trade-Marks obtained and all Pat ent business conducted for moderate Fees. Oun Office is Opposite U. S. PatentOffice£ and wc can secure patent in less tniic liiaa tliuac2 remote from Washington. Send model, drawing or photo., with dcserip-j >tion. We advise, if patentable or not, free of> charge. Our fee not due tii! patent is secured. A Pamphlet. “ How to Obtain Patents,” with cost of same in the U. S. and foreign countries sent free. Address, vwwwwwwwvwwvv*. 1 jM; A \ 1 1 -S — VGA • '■ /h VA<v , -:! Wv-v 1 ■ ? ? S A -P c v- //j yjiii '//> ••Vt / / ■ V 1) ‘J / If ■i "A V Say the main thing' to do is to keep the sloirai . iiv r nail bowels in order if yon want to live long and L ep well. Geod pi.y.-ici. :i-> s.y the same thing, too. 'The icmcVv udied RIPANS ^SUILES while not mysterious or miraculous in nu.vlv < !Yts i, a simple formal.1 prescribed bv the best pl y d ia. s f r< i <• 1. I ihe digestive organs. Just little tablets, easy to t..kr, «. • la 1 1. ; d .:Yk to act. If yoar trouble is Dyspepsia, Biliousness, | j in< », lit atiacheK Constipation, Heartburn, and the-likc, no i.ecd< I .. liir.g .1 physYi n. R.ipm.s Tabulcs contain exactly what he would tell y u to ; i.e. ONE TAK E GIVES SEEliEF. PEHMANEXT CURE POLUAVa A . T.ilAt : ’■ C I. !.M 1V ABOUT IT. —r.-.-am ^ nvc.* -.•TV W. D. ARCHER, I'O.NHOKI AIv AUdTIHT. Hair-cutting, in tho latest styles. Shaving ami Hliampoolng at reason able prices. jDJ^^bop next to J. D. Goudc- ock’s store. The cheapest thing on earth~-The Weekly Ledger at one dollar a FOR Up-to-Date Job Print ing, call at the LEDGER Office. Gaffney, S. C. The Gaffney City Land and Improvement Company, Offer for Sale Building Lots in this Flourishing Town, o a iv ic y o i 'r y. Also Farms near by and in reach of the schools of Limestone Springs and of this place in lots of from 30 to lOO acres on liberal time rates. Also Agricultural Lands to rent for farm purposes For full particulars af fly U MOSES WOOD, Agent. N. B.—All trespassing on lands of this Company cutting and removing timber, lishing or hunting arc forbidden under penalty of law. LIMESTONE * SPRINOS * LIE * WORKS, CARROLL & CO., Lessees. Manufacturers of BUILDING, * PLASTERING * AND * AGRICULTURAL * LIME, And Dealers In Coal, Shingles, Laths and Plaster Hair. Dymamite, Blasting Powder. Fuse and Dynamite Caps. year. rii<c Oaki'icky, H. C. J. E. WEBSTER, JY1 torney-A. t- I Gaffney City, S. C. I'ractices in all tbo courts. Collec tions a succialtv. The Cheapest Thing on Earthj (6 The Ledger” at $1 a Yean