Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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/ pp r The: i^e:t>oe:h. $!.oo per Year. rUBMKHED EVERY TlirKSDAY BY ED. H. DcCAMP, - Editor. i’he I.KDOEU is not responsible for the views of correspondents. Correspondents who do not contri- bate regular news letters must fur- 'ish their name, not for publication, but for identification.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. DeCamp. Manager. Obituaries will be published at five cents a line. Cards of thanks will be published at one cent a word. Beading notices will'be published at ten cents a line each insertion. Single copies of the paper are five cents each. CO-OPERATION. It is not the intention of The Ledger to lecture anyone in this community on the subject of co-op eration. Wo have neither the time nor inclination to lecture our people. It seems to us that the people of this section of the state, and especially of Cherokee county and Gaffney, arc as near in one accord as it is possible to be. What we desire to do. however, is to endeavor to impress upon them the urgent necessity of keeping in accord. This country needs i o lay ing or pulling back on the j nrt of anyone. The people of Galfne/ and Blacksburg should get closer to gether, socially and in a business way. If Blacksburg’s enterprising business men desire . to further a business enterprise in which there is merit, and we feel satisfied they would not inaugurate any other kind know ingly, and desire that persons outside of their city take an interest in it, then the business men of Gatfncy should, in so far as they c an, associate themselves with them in such an en terprise, and vice versa. There should he no jealousy be tween us whatever, and one should aid the other. We want to see our . neighboring city thrive and prosper, and at the same time we want our own town to prosper. Although our county is one of the smallest in the state, if not the smallest, being but twenty-eight square miles over the constitutional requirements, its nat ural resources make it one of the richest counties in the state. We need action—consecrated action—to realize our own possibilities, and ac tion we must have. So let us con tinue in a brotherly attitude, one helping the other in all Instances where possible and make Cherokee what has been predicted for her—one of the leading counties of the slate. We can do this by co-operation. OLD CAMBRIDGE. Most of the readers of The Ledger have rerd about old Cambridge of revolutionary times, but few have been privileged to see the old fort, and through the almost closed en trance way to its subterranean pas sages go into its numerous chambers. Here the marks of the pick are as plainly visible as if made but yester day. The entire scene brings to mind those stormy days when whig and tory were striving for mastery in upper Carolina. Particularly impressed were we. with the the fertile fields on every side. Nowhere in the state are the lands more productive 1 ban around this old historic spot. For over a century and a half these fields have yielded their increase and yet they seem to be in the spring tide of their fertility. Here grow clover and tim othy as in Kentucky or in the noted Shenandoah Valley of Virginia. Cot ton and corn are in their highest per fection, and the Ninety-Six ru. t p oof oat leads all the rest. This—the garden spot of Abbeville county—will bo in the new county of Greenwood. We are not surprised at the old mother wishing longer to hold on to her favored daughter. . i.—i-i. - i.. . LOCAL HISTORY IMPORTANT. While our teachers, newspaper.- and people generally are agitated over our school histories, and properly so, we have for a long lime thought it strange that no attempt has ever been made to instruct children in the local history of the section in which each school is located. How many of the pupils of our schools can tell when Spartanburg county was first “created,” ‘estab lished” or ‘‘formed?” as our late con stitution makers were pleased to speak of making counties; or how many can tell the dates on which the Cowpens and King's Mountain tattles were fought, when the first company left this section for the war between the states, who were its officers, members, etc.? An account of our industries, past and present, our schools, our men and women, if taught to our children, would interest an4 improve them. Cannot some of our teachers form ulate a plan by which local history can be taught in our schools? In the absence of written histories, how would the lecture system do? THAT GREAT BALL. The daily papers for more than a week have been talking of the great ball of the Bradley-Martins, in which social event nearly half a million dol lars were expended. Some have con demned It as a lavish and foolish man ner in which to spend money, while others have said it was a good thing for the ‘‘smart set” of the metropolis of America to put so much money in circulation. Some have lamented that this magnificent sum could not have been spent on the teeming mass of destitute humanity in that great city, forgetting, perhaps, that nearly every dollar found its way into the tills of the trades-people, thus en abling them to pay their employees and employ additional help and at least kept this mass from increasing. For our part we think the Bradley- M art in ball was a success in more than a social way, and we should not feel vexed should some of the “smart set” undertake to outsnine the Brad ley-Martins. Remember that “those who dance must pay the fiddler.” OUR LEGISLATURE. It can be truthfully said that the present state legislature is a good one. True, there are some of the members who are not burdened with “horse sense,” and some have introduced some measures that would do credit to an insane asylum, hut, as a rule, the legislation so far has been in the interest of the people of the whole state. Altogether it is a decided im provement over any legislature of re cent years and if they will but be ns cautious the remainder of the session as they have been so far, they will not make any serious mistakes. The people of this section will have much to be thankful for and the legislature has been very kind to us, but not more so than we deserve as we have earned by persistent labor everything given us. THE LEDGER*: GAFFNEY, S. C., FEBRUARY 18, 1897. York county, could afford it weak hut very rary.” c—■ ■ Perhaps some one in order to crush “a persistent contempo- W. \V. Ball assumed editorial con trol of the G.eenvillo News with its issue of Tuesday. Upper South Car olina journalists will extend hearty greeting to the inimitable “Billy.” A genial,clevei fellow, uncompromising, yet withal a man whom to know is but to admire, we will.one and all,open our arms to him and welcome hjm to the grandest and best section of the Car- olinas—the Piedmont. Oue city council is a hustling, “git-up-and-git-tlmr” body of men and we know that they are doing a great deal—in fact, all they possibly can—to build np Gaffney, but we respectfully submit that the extra ordinary bad weather has placed our streets in a condition which suggests that they might be improved a little. Gaitxey is to have water works be fore long. Then won’t we be in it? We would if wo had a fine hotel with all the latest improvements. But the hotel is coming, too, bye-and-bye. We have received the Washington Past almanac for 1897. It is full of valuable information in condensed form and is more than worth the price asked for it. PRESS OPINION. Gaffney is not on a boom. Her growl )i is a steady, natural one, hut property holders can make the town grow much faster if they will Keep the price of their property within reason. Don’t become insane and think everybody on earth wants to move to Gaffney and put your prop erty out of reach of John D. Itocka- fellow and his crowd. The people who want to come tg Gaffney, as a general rule, haven't got the cash to pay fancy prices for real estate. Keep your real estate within the bounds of reason so industrious people of small means can come here and buy and help build up the town. One of the very first things Chero kee county should do is to begin the macademizingof her public highways. Lot the work begin in a business-like manner, small at first and grow as fast as possiole. We want good roads. We must have good roads. In ten years from now let it be said of Cherokee county as Baxter Moore once said of Mecklenburg county, N. C.: “It used to be a question of how much a team could pull on our roads, hut now it is a mutter of how much u wagon will hold up.” An KRKONEors idea generally pre vails among the great musses who toil in regard to the wealthy few. It is true we hear of o ie ft ilo v In re and another there with his great fortune who are lazy and do nothing, and whose heart and soul are ohdurant and calous, but as a general rule the people who have the money are the people who have hustled and are still hustling, and who have made others happy by their being able to give them employment. A WELL-KNOWN gentleman said to The Ledger a few days ago: “1 never in ali my life knew men to lay aside so completely all selfish motives and work for one common cause as the people of this section have in the new county matter.” That is true, and it is just such patriotic and un selfish people who make a community desirable to locate in, and we have as many of that kind as any com munity. We have no interest in the mutter i only as It effects the tax payers of j the state, and the legislature may j settle the matter without consulting us, but our advice is to let the public printing go to the lowest bidder. It is not altogether unprobable that the state may find a beneficiary like unto The Views of Our Exchanges on Live Topics of the Day. What we need in this country is more money rather than a safe place to lock up what wo already have. Our scant supply is all needed.— King’s Mountain Reformer. * * * The selection of Mr. Julian Mitch ell, by the Legislature, to be a trus tee of the South Carolina College, was a tribute to distinguished ability and worth.—Charleston Son. Senator Tillman, it is said, wants the inscription “Author of the Dis pensary law” put on his tombstone. The Norfolk Virginian knows some - folks who want to put it on right away.—Charlotte Observer. * * * To quiet the nerves of the esteemed Washington Post we would say that a complete and unconditional surrender was made on board the flagship of the North Atlantic Squadron at 1 o’clock on Wednesday afternoon. We would add that the event was appropriately celebrated, and that all is peace.— News and Courier. North Carolina bachelors are might ily stirred up over the bill recently introduced in the legislature to tax unmarried men over 24 years old $10 for the first year and double the tax for each year they remain unmarried. This geometrically progressive tax proposed would force the boys into matrimony, bankruptcy or both, or banish them from the st ate.—Spartan burg Herald. — -- — * Living on Wind. (Columbia State.] “Speaking of the Bradley-Martin hall, it is said that tnere are over 1100 families in one section of Arkansas that are Jiiing on turnip*.—Wash ington Post. That’s nothing. There are over 30,000 politicians in this country Jiving on wind—and uome of tlit-m would not lose their way if drop ped in either the national or our State capilol. There Are a Few Around Here. (Union Times.] The Savannah Republican declares that not a single man has paid his subscription to that paper without a dun being sent him. If the Republi can can collect subscriptions by dun ning it ought to be satisfied. There are tvwns in tins country where de linquents pay no attention to a dun Good Roads and Live Towns. (CTinrlotte Observer.] It is said in the South Carolina pa pers that the legislature of that state is considering a proposition to come to Mecklenburg to see the good roads. By all means let it come. It will be very cordially welcomed and its mem bers shown not oniy the very best roads, hut the very liveliest town in the Carolinas. Wait Until You Hear From Cherokee. (.Saluda Advocate.] We are glad to be able to congratu late our county on having a county board of commissioners that are mak- a study of the county business, and who, we think, will run tiie county government with less expense than any other county in the state. — — '*•*- —- "We’ll Go You HaWere." (Aiken Journal and Review.] An Orangeburg man lias been bun coed out of $3,000 by the well known “gold-brick” “windle. Ten to one this man does not subscribe to his homo paper because “he can't afford it.” Why will you buy bitter. nauticuLluir tonirs when Grove 1 * TaaUdcM Chill Tonic U u» pleut*- unt iim Lemon Syrup? Your druggist l» au thorized lo refund the money In every ease where It tuilii to cure. Some Things Worth Consideration. I am like other people, I hear and think and wonder. I hear things I don’t want to hear. I think about things that are not worth thinking about. I wonder at tilings I see, and stop to sec if there can come any good out of the scene. I hoard two men talking a few days ago. The conversation held me spell bound for some time. I tried to act polite and not appear as an intruder. I was recognized and wel comed. They said they were discuss ing small matters. I thought, yes, many large things had their small beginnings. They were dissecting Gaffney and its contents, from the mayor down to the puny church mem ber that gives more to the blind tiger than to his church. The conversa tion ran thus: “We have for mayor and council men of intelligence, ability and honor up to the standard, but they are only men at last and learn by experience.” “Yes, we have fine officers so far as they go, but they don’t go far enough on some matters and too fur on some.” "‘I don’t dispute that, for no man sees a need like (lie man that feels it and knows it is a need.” “We have all the protection we need during the day and at night we can go to bed and give the rogues a chance, and if wc are imposed upon by intruders coming into our houses and frightening us or plundering our premises and helping themselves to anything we have, they are exercis ing their own undisturbed right, and if men are not at homo at night or don’t wake up it is their own sleepy- headed business.” “Yes and this random shooting at night a man is in danger of running in the way of soipe stray ball at night on some of the streets of our town ; but that is his own look out, for who says that these armed loafers and tramps shall not siioot when and where they please seven nights in a week?” “Well, hut hold up a little. This town is not composed by our officers only, hut by the citizens at large, and when the citizens elect a man to office, they say help us to carry out the law and see that it is enforced, and amend or repeal any ordinance as our welfare requires. To maintain or der, it concerns every citizen. And again, no man ought to he allowed to carry around and sell whiskey in a town contrary to law. Is this their undisturbed right? No, hut it soon will be if church members don’t cease to buy and drink the stuff.” “Well, go on and tell it all. Some men don’t want to submit to a law that is too big for a party, for prohi bition was too big and the dispensary Is too big, for some good registered citizens will violate their constitu tional allegiance by taking moon shine because they do not want to bring condemnation on the glorious old state by submitting to her as vendor of the vile stuff. Liquor is liquor in the hands of saint or devil, and the devil correcting sin only makes room to let other devils in. Now the truth is this, ‘the biting will go on until the snake is killed ir we stay out of the way.’ ” “That is true.” “And then there is no use of so many men losing time to meet every train, crowding the yard till all de cent people are shocked; and our police ought not to allow a drunk man to hoard the train to disgust decent people. It don’t give us a favorable opinion by the travelling public as they look out on our church spires.” “That’s it, you have struck the key note, If we are a decent, dignified people which 1 believe we are. Let us put up our sign that sneaks and tramps may know who live here.” inter:upted then and said let us move upon our water works that we may have protection against fire, and petition for a night force and forex- tended side walks and better streets and let every man come with his eight inillsor more, if it he necessary, and you will see the kind of city of ficers we have. They are considerate men and will gladly accept everything that is for good. Let the crooked ho made straight that we may all be good Samaritans, for a truly pious man is the noblest work of God. Gleanoh. - - - — • Two Lives Saved. Mrs. Phoebe Thomas, of Junction City, 111., was told by her doctors she had 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. loggers, 139 Florida St. San francisco,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, lie 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 bottles at the DuPre Drug Co.’s Drug Store. Higi.:st of all in Leavening Power.—Latest U.S. Gov’t Report Baking^ Powder Absolutely pure Mr. Butler Tells Us About it. Gaffney, Feb. 15.—Mr. Editor:— Having a few moments before my train comes to take me back to Co lumbia—the “seat of war”—I will give to the many friends of the county the true status of the Cherokee County Bill now pending in the Gen eral Assmbly. To begin with, we are perfectly safe, the enemy has been routed and the victory is ours. The test came in the Senate on Thursday night last, and we won after a two hours debate, in which Senators Archer, Brown, Hay, Connor, and Sanders of Colleton (the latter is a brother of Mr. Sanders, of Spartanburg, who fought us so bit terly) voted against us. Senators Archer, Douglass and Hay spoke against the formation of the county, but after Senator Douglass of Union heard our side most ably presented by Senators Henderson, Mower and Rags dale, he voted with us. When I have more time I wish, with your permission, to give to the readers of The Ledger my impression of the legislature and how we won over a hard fight. The Bill is ready for the last read ing and would have been read but Senator Archer had it made a special order for Tuesday tholfith inst. The only tiling they light over now is, Archer wants tiie bill to go into effect Jan. 1, 1898; we want it tagointo effect as soon as passed, and I am pretty certain we will defeat Archer again. If I cun do anything in that direction he will he defeated. His object in postponing the matter to 1898 is to deprive us of this year's tuxes, but we will show him lie can’t win representing a bad cause and against the expressed wishes of al most 1,400 voters. I will telegraph you the result, us to when we begin “house-keeping,” on Tuesday or Wednesday. Thos. B. Butler. Old People. Old people who require medcine to regulate t he bowels and kidney will find the true remedy in Electric Bit- tors. This medicine does not stimu late and contains no whiskey nor other intoxicant, but acts as a tonic and and alterative. It acts mildly on the stomacho and bowels, adding strength and giving tone to the or gans, thereby aiding Nature in the performance of the functions, Elec tric Bitters is an excellent appetizer and aids digestion. Old People find it just exactly what they need. Price fifty cents per bottle at W. B. Du Pre’s Drug Store. DR. J. F. GARRETT, Dentist, Gaffney, - - - S. C. Office over J. R. Tolleson’s new store In office from 1st to 24th of each month ; I . DRESSED LUMBER ! Shingles! If You Wish~” lu liold yrur cotton, store It In niy warehouse. No thinner from dam- a .-e iiinl ready for market at any tjme. Charlies are reasonable. When ye:: have cotton for sale call at my office, rear of W. O. Lip scomb & tiros’. Highest prices paid. it. S. LIPSCOMB, Fire Insurance Agent. A. N. WOOD. BANKER, does a general Banking and Exchange business. Well secured with Burglar- Proof safe and Automat ic Time Lock. Safety Deposit Boxes at moderate rent. Buys and sells Stocks and Bonds, ^/uys County and School Claims. Your business solicited. Sash, Doors, Blinds, Brackets, Mouldings, and All Kinds of Building Materials, For Sale at Lowest Cash Prices. No charge will be made'for infor mation us to amount required for building. Call on L. BAKER. Caveat*, a ad Trade-Marks obtained and all Pat ent businei* conducted fur MOOCRATK fees. Oun Office it Oreo site U. S. Patent Orncc and we can sucure patent la lea* tim« Qm uwac remote from Washington. Send n* del, drawing or photo., Trtth descrip tion. We advise, if patentable or not, free of charge. Our (re not due till patent is secured. A Pansmuxt. " How to Obtain Patents,” with cost of same in the U. S. asd foreign countries sent free. Address, C. A. SNOW A. CO. Op**. Patbpt Orncc, Washington. O. C. »a<wvwvv%<w>%*^v»»w»www»%%»%%<ei Gadabout Talkabout. (Correspondence of The Ledger.) Gadabout is a small lizard. At first he is disposed to be timid but grad ually becomes very tamo. As nearly as possible gadabout takes the color of whatever he rests upon. Indeed those changes take place in a marvel ously short time. Ir all probability he knows very little, if anything, about his many-tinted coats. But mother nature enables' him to take the color of his surroundings and thus find protection by not being easily seen. But poor talkabout has but one way of changing and that is by being good to your face and at your back telling what he has heard or made to another’s disadvantage. Tulkabouts do a great deal more harm than the guuuhuls. And if a talkabout could find no one to pass along his talk about without being sure .is to their truth or falsity, he would have no success in his infamous occupation. Before wo tell anything to another’s discredit we should first know (not merely think) it is true. And then we should he sure that goou is to come of its repeating. God wants no man to he meaner than a lizard, nor does He expect a lizard to be better than a man. For, while gadabout is quietly asleep upon his leaf ghed, talkabout is trying to prove his own goodness by talking about fciloffmen. Some may be and are very far from perfection. But your discernment of tiie fact does not in the least enhance the quality of your personal piety. Instead of cultivating a suspicious temper towards others, it is vastly better that you should spend your time in examining yourself. First, “cast out the beam out of thine own eye, and then”—and not till then — “shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother’s eye.” Mrs. R. Ann Waters. N ERVOUS Troubles are due to impoverished blood. Hood’s Sar saparilla is the One True Blood Purifier aud NERVE TONIC. A. L. HAMMETT, MERCHANDISE BROKER, GAFFNEY, S. C. ^ Correspondence Solicited. OiAce Over A. |. Settiemyer. EUGLEBERG RICE HOLLER. The only machine that in one operation, will CLEAN, HULL aud POLISH Hough Rice—putting it in merchantable condi tion, ready for table use. SIMPLE AND EASY TO MANAGE. Write for prices and terms ALSO Corn Mills, Saw Mills, Planing Machines and all kinds of wood-working machinery. TALBOTT and LIDDELL En gines and Boilers on hand at FACTORY PRICES. V. C. BADHAM, GENERAL agent, COLUMBIA, - - S. C. 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