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i. •+J. C. JEFFERIES,4- GAFFNEY, S. C. Attorney and Counsellor at Law. Practices in All the Courts. Collections a Specialty. GER. To Reach Consumers in this Section Adver tise in The Ledger. —-^-■^■^<*01*%^* A Newspaper in all that the Word Implies and Devoted to the Best Interests of the People of Cherokee County. VOI IV. SO. 2^ GAFFNEY CITY, S. C.. THURSDAY, JULY 29, 1897. $1.00 A YEAR. TOTALLY US FIT TO TEACH. SOME SO-CALLED GRADUATES OK COLLEGES. The “Kernel” Tells the Truth About Seme of the Folks Who Aspire to Instruct the Youth ot Our Land. (OortcFpcrvlfnce of TIip Err a Jane. July 20.—We hud some slight showers lust week, and crops are crowing very well. I find a good many chills in the county—they are some of last year’s crop. For several days a protracted meet ing has been going on at Abingdon creek, and much spiritual interest manifested. Brothers Thomason and Covington have labored with unabat ed Christian zeal to build up their master’s work in this community. I have had the opportunity of being there only a few’times, but from all that I can gather they have a good meeting. I must commend the enterprise which has put as good a Hat in at Howell’s Ferry, I think, as I have seen there in many years, and the public can reiy on safe and speedy crossing now. The wagons here do well. There were some few errors in my last letter which were merely typo graphical, and the reader can no doubt point them out. There will be preaching at Salem next Sabbath, August 1st. Mr. John Dixon gave us a call tfiis morning. < There are a great many chickens dying with cholera in this neighbor hood. Concentrated lie (potash,) I am told by those who have tried it, is an unfailing remedy for the dis ease—just mix it in the dough but not so strong but that the chickens can eat it. They will stop dying. Prof. A. G. Davis will sing at El- ford Grove on the 2 ( Jth instant, be ginning at Jl o’clock, and at Wesley’s Chapel on the 31st. Scholars will bring book and baskets and stay all day. Miss Olive McKown, of Mercer, sent me a correct answer to our fish problem o! week before lust. 1 did not get her answer in time to acknowl edge it in my last letter. The boys cut a bee-troe last week, and got a lot of honey from it. Messrs. John Sprouse, of Sunny- side and J. H. II. Howell, of Kelton, have bought out the stock of goods of the late firm of O. H. H. Clary & Son, of Sunnyside, and expect to con duct a general mercantile business there. They say they intend to .sell at rock bottom prices. Mrs. Cupt. W. D. Alexander, of Birmingham. Ala., is now visiting her son, J. W. Alexander, Esq., of Lawn. Mr. James Garner came over last Wednesday and repaired our well- house. Messrs. W. R. and J. L. Walker were over to see us on business last Thursday. East week we had some good rains, and the crops are apparently greatly benefited by them. I thunk A. B., of Grover, very much for the interest he takes in the mat ter of education. Our white people in the country at least, are getting wonderfully behind in this accom plishment, and the result must ne cessarily be that our children grow up in ignorance. It will never do. They will do better fed on bread and water (if we can do no better,) and given an education than to live at the top of the pot without it. To withhold an education from a child is to rob him of his manhood and usefulness. *‘A. B.” is right about the exami nation of teachers. Let the exami nation extend throughout the whole time of the school, and the scope of it embrace all the studies taught. It is a certain fact that there are some so-called graduates, Voiding di plomas from respectable institution of learning in this state (and others too for that matter), also those who hold first and second grade certifi cates, who are totally unfit for teach ing—many of them, if living in anti- bellutn times, couldn’t write a “nig gers’’ pass correctly, or give the child a correct idea of the most sim ple calculation, and yet at the same time they are proud to make igno ramuses of our children. This is no reflection upon our col leges or examining boards, simply be cause the collegian has only studied his books, and bus no knowledge (or very little at least,) of human nature, the most important study with which he had to contend, and upon a knowl edge of which depends his success or failure as a teacher. \ The board of examiners are confin ed principally (if not exclusively) to tflte examination papers, the answer of)a certain per cent, of the ques tions entitles candidates to a teach er’s certificate. If perchance, the applicant, through some friend or favoritism, can get hold of one of these blanks he can soon prepare himself to pass as a first-grade scho lar. The board has no means to measure his knowledge of human na ture. and his power to control the minds of his pupils. That must show of itself. The proof of the pud ding is the eating thereof. Frank Harris is about to engage in law. It’s a great pity some people can’t behave themselves. I hud the pleasure last Saturday of visiting friends and relatives on Bul lock’s creek, in York county. In company with my friend, Mr. A. B. Crosby, I rode over his plantation on Bullock’s creek, the home of my chilrinood. This is as fine a planta tion as is in western York, and has us fine a crop as I have ever seen on it during the 48 years I have Known it. Mr. Crosby is a first-class farmer and has good lands on his farm—many changes have been made there dur ing my absence. The cutalpu trees in the yard, though much larger than when I knew them—they are power ful reminders of my childhood days. The hills are much lower and the dis tances much shorter apparently than they used to be. / The cordial welcome I received at the home of Mr. Crosby made a deep impression on me. He and his fami ly spared no i-llorts to make us feel at home. His most excellent wife and accomplished daughter, prepared a meal that would have done honor to a king. The evening was made delightful with music. Misses Ma mie and Marie sang and performed on the organ—both have splendid voices—while H. B. McDaniel sang bass. I never enjoyed myself better. I saw the steam shovel at work near the Buckner’s creek trestle on the O. R. & 0. R. R. This is a sight wortii going some distance to see. I also vlSflftfd the Hopewell Sunday School yesterday, and witnessed the performance of the children there— all of which was very creditable to both children and teachers. At the home of Mrs. Smart, at Hopewell, I was again treated with some splendid music. Miss Lillie is a splendid organist and singer. She was aided by Miss Mildred and other members of the family. This is one of the happiest homes in this county, I verily believe. They are great friends of The Ledger. Our last problem has created much interest in the neighborhood circles, and I propose another. Here it is: 1(2 be 3 and 3 be 5, and GA be 11; What will be the half of . r >6 And the third of 27. J. L. S. KNOWS WHAT HE’S WRITIN’. HE WANTS THE OIL MILL. Thickety Locals. (Correspondence of The Ledger.) Thickety, July 26.—It is awful to think how one class of people are used as work tools by big men. How can a man clear anything raising cotton at its low prices and paying three or four prices for his supplies? When you gather your crop and go to settle your debts you will not have enough to pay out. Laboring men —farmers—should raise their sup plies, as far as possible, at home to prevent going in debt. This loin business has caused many a man sorrow. There are men who will sell corn in the fall at 35 and 40 cents a bushel and then buy corn in the spring. Will ho buy it for what he sold it at? No! He will have to pay 70 and 80 cents a bushel for it. The man who stands behind the counter likes for you to sell him corn in the autumn, for he knows he will get Ins money back and as much more. That is building him up and leading you to poverty. Miss Essie Moore, of Georgia, ar rived at W. T. Horton’s a few days ago. She is a daughter of John Moore. R. A. Mayfield, col, is conducting a school at Shady Grove. Plough Bov. [Plough Boy should not take such a pessimistic view of matters. We grunt the truthfulness of all he says, but man is in a great measure the creator of his own fortunes and mis fortunes. The man behind the coun ter can no more afford to do business for nothing than the man on the farm, and the farmers who succeeds— and there are thousands who do—are the men who look after their business and raise enough at home to meet their necessities and do not depend on the merchant. He may say we know nothing about it, but the adage “There is more in the man than in the land’’ is distressingly true,—Ed.] There Is Nothing So Good. There is nothing just as good as Dr. King’s New Discovery fur Con sumption, Coughs and Colds, so de mand it and do not permit the dealer to sell you some substitute. He will not claim there is anything better, but in order to make more profit he may claim something else to be just as good. You want Dr. King’s New Discovery because you know it to be safe and reliable, and guaranteed to do good or money refunded. For Coughs. Colds, Consumption and for all affections of Throat, Chest and Iftngs. there is nothing so good «• is DI. King’s New Discovery. Trial bot tle free at DuPre Drug Co’s. FLAW DISTINGUISHES BLOOM ERS FROM "BRITCHES." JA1RUS IN THE MOUNTAINS. A Mort Infernal Flaw is Cruelty to Animals—He Hits the Heart less Wretches a Rap. “Me and Bob.” (Correspondence of The Ledger.) Liter Coalin’ Ground, July 20.— In all my born days 1 never saw such a niun as the “Kernel.” I have got good reasons to believe that some body has went an’ told him that that gal had bloomers on instid of britch es, fer because he is got too mutch downright hard boss sense to believe that gals wear galluses with bloom ers. No sir, I tell you it was britch es an’ long legged britches at that. You see, Kernel, bloomers only come down to the knees, then stockin’s from there on down, but these britch es come clear down to her shoes an’ I aim, right shore ef she didn’t have ’em rolled up a little ways. Don’t never think that ()!e Flaw don’t know what he is writin’ about. The most infernal flaw I have no ted lately is cruelty to dumb ani mals. A man went to town ’tothcr day an’ hitched his horse an’ then proceeded to git drunk an’ left his horse there all night with the saddle, blanket, an’ everything on him till ’way up next day without a bite locator a drup to drink. This is more unhumanlike than a natural born brute would be, an’ I can prove it by Bible talk. Take the ravens for instance, who fed ole Elijah. Think how good an’ considerate they were an’ think how cruel to hitch'a boss up so he can’t help himself an’ go off an’ leave him there to starve. It’s a doggone low-down shame, so it is. I reckon you all are beginnin’ to want to know what has become of ole Banjer Lu. Well, me an’ him has split up to some extent, though we associate a little yet, you under stand. I jist naturally put the bri dle on him an’ brought him down somewhat. It got to the pint whffTP I jist had it to do or else let him keep mean’ himself both in trouble most all the time. He aint bin drunk in over two months now, notwithstandin’ the bountifulness of the Palmetto plants which bear forth ^'original packages” in profusion, aV many other dastardly dirty tricks that I have known him to do are now omit ted. Ef I could git finally rid of him entirely I believe I would be the happiest man on earth. As Jim Burnett says, “Don’t toll me a thing,” I know that which I utter forth in parables. Me and ole Bob, it seems, have dissolved copartnership. We haint took a trip together in months an’ months, wherin it seems like years an’ years to me—not since some dir ty coward stole my twenty dollar banjer what had the “400” in pearl figures on the neck of it. In those days it came to pass that I was en quirin’for sitch a banjer when Jim Wilkins tole me how he had seen a nigger with one way down the river from Trough Shoals on the Dink Matthis ole place. After scrapin’ up all the evidences an’ information possible I started, me an’ Bob, soon Sunday mornin’ to do a fine piece of detective work. Hide an’ wool, or banjer, or both was to come back with me an’ Bob, but when I got there hide an’ wool was in the woods gambolin’ an’ the ole banjer refer red to was bangin’ on the wall, but it didn't have no “400” on it—itwern’t mine. I come back home on’ that is the last time ole Bob has nad the pleasure of servin’ me. That man Jarious, up at Willie, has shorely had some experience with womankind. It seems that he has bin a careful observer along that line as well us ole Flaw. An’ instance which has come under my observation recently in the feminine sex is as follows: One day one of the Coalin’ Ground’s bibbers took too many original packages on an’ went home an’ give his wife a thrushin’ wherein she sent for the officer to come an'protect her from a drunk ard’s furious rage but when the of ficer arrived with his papeais of com- pelinent, as Rufe would have it, she jumped on to the officer an' give him one of the offelest lashin’s with her natural mouth an’ tongue that mor tal man ever got. 8hu made thti. officer think that she was a gnin’ to jump on him fist and skull fashion whether or no. Flaw Picker. Bucklen’s Arnica Salve. The Best Halve in the world for Cuts. Bruises, Sores, Ulcer, Salt Rheum, Fever Sores, Totter, Chapped Hands, Chilblains, Corns, and all Skin Eruption, and postively cures Piles or no pay required. It is gura- anteed to give perfect satisfaction or motif v refunded. Price 9b cents per box. For sale by The DuPre Drug Co. Mike, a Farmer, Thinks It is a Qooa Thing. (Correspondence of The Ledger.) Dear Hik :—I am but a farmer, one that plows and hoes, makes corn and cotton, uses guaner but never gives a lien on ray crap. I read what you writ in last weeks’ Ledger about an oil mill at Gaffney’s old field. I say send round the pa per, 1’li scribe all I kin toil. I want the meal to fatten my steers and feed my cows and when Corn’s scathe to bed my mules and fatten my hogs. 1 want the meal to make my own guaner. I kin buy acid and mix at home. 13(X) lbs acid cost $0.50 and 700 I Is meal cost about $3.50. $10 00 will make a better tun of guaner than was sold at the old field last year for $22 cash. I know, for I have tried it and if you dont believe it come and see my crap now growin. Y’es. jist hand round the paper and have a guaner factory and brand it Cherokee guaner. Have the oil mill so we kin sell our cotton seed and git the hulls oack fur ruffness. This county is no great shakes fur hay. Have the oil mill and Cherokee county will How with milk and be greasy with yuller butter. The craps will be increased and in plase of 8000 bales soon 12000 will be sold at the old field each year. , Have the ice mill, now that theyal- 'er legged dispensary is kcrflumaxed, and the farmers kin git a package ihats a jng I reckan and mix with the mint outen our gardens and have ice junclips at home in spite of Elerby arid old Tildy and the spies. Have the ice, we laburin people want some thing coal now and then. Have the ice mill, you can supply the 3cs ana sell all up and down that road. Now Cherokee is a bully county— no weak yearling hut full-grown head up and horns a shaking. Nor is Gaffney’s old field any one-horse town —or a two-horse town or even u three horse town but it is a full four-in- hand team with a big kivered wagon full of live people and as you said go- aheadilive people. Have the oil mill, 2 the ice mill, 3 the guaner mill, dry mix or wet mix as you please, and 4 have a new ginnery and make the round bessernet Dale—and my friend -2Yua!*».the very man to run it—and maybe you can put him to carryin round the scription paper and I say have it only $10.00 a share so some of us small farmers can can scribe for a share or 2. Y T ou say $25,000 "will build the whole shebang. Good! Thatsonly$3a bale tax on all the cotton thats sold at the old field ev ery year Now there is sound sense in build ing the oil mill, the ice mill, the Cherokee guaner mill and the round bale cotton gin—more sense than some of my brother farmers used in build ing the ’Jiunce warehouse which soon went in the enemies hands. Now I see you is to have a meetin of them fellers us wants to git in the Senit. None of them is any great shakes anyway. Maybe the populists think they are but down our way we think its Ilobin’s choice which gits in. Its coat tail swinging and puter money anyway. I say better turn this meet in into a roarin sock doluger of a meetin to raise the $s to build the oil mill, the ice mill, the Cherokee guaner mill and the round bale gin. If my friend Tom will go in it and pass the scription paper Business is better than polertics. Mills will make Cherokee and the old field rich. Seed; men begging for office will impovish it. Mostly they is no good anyway. Yours truly, Mike. The Gaffney Lawyer Wins. The Supreme Court has handed down a decision in favor of the plain tiffs in the case of the Kenmore Shoe Co., et. al., appellents, in. re. Mer chants Coffee Co., respondents, vs. J. A. Foster <fc Co., et. al.. defend ant. J. C. Jefferies, Esq., of tills city, was attorney for the winners and it speaks well for his ability as a first- class attorney and adds to his reputa tion as a legal advisor in civil cases. • /. - •- Restored to Health. If you are suffering with any skin or blood disease, Rheumatism. Ca tarrh, Ulcers, Old Bores, General' Debility, etc., send stamp to the Blood Balm Co.. Atlanta, Ua., for book of wonderful cures, free. This book will point the way to speedy re covery. Botanic Blood Balm, (B. B. B.) Is manufactured after a long tested pre scription of an eminent physician, and is the best building-up and blood purifying medicine in the world. Beware of substitutes. Price $1.00 for large bottle. * For sale by all Druggist. ONE IN A THOrSAXD. One summer, several years ago, while railroading in Mississippi 1 be came- badly effected with malarial blood poison, that impaired my health for more than two years. Several of fensive ulcers appeared on my legs, and nothing seemed to give perma nent relief until I took of Botanic Blood Balm (B. B. B.), which cured me entirely. M. D. Lane .Deveraux, Ga. HE MEETS AN OLD GAFFNEY- ITE AT COLUMBUS. If We Could Get Senators and Repre sentatives to Look After the Whole State We Would • Be Better Off. (Correspondence of The Ledger.) Willie, July 24.—Jairus has just returned home after a three day’s trip in the mountains. He went via. Campobeilo, Landrum. Tryon and Columbus, Mill’s Spring being oiir objective point. Landrum is a little town situated on the S. & A. Division of the Southern roadway, noted chief ly for the number of cross-ties which are handled there. I think that I do not exaggerate when I say that I saw at least six thousand cross-ties piled along the railway truck at Lan drum’s. I next struck Tryon which is a beautiful little town situated right among the mountains. The only trouble about Tryon is that you can’t see more than about three houses at one time for the hills. However Tryon is progressive and the principle town of Porte county. There arc six stores at Tryon, and'l am told that the revenue derived from the post-office amounts from $800 to $1,000 per your. I next visited Columbus, and from there on to Mill’s spring. I met a former Gaffneyite at Columbus, Mr. W. R. Lipscomb. The principle enterprises at Colum bus are three stores, a court-house and II jnil, and I will not undertake to sav how they managed to get rid of their lawyers, but there is only one in the place, and he an invalid and not able to get away. Surely they didn’t starve them out. In traveling from Columbus to Mill’s spring, a distance of five miles, I had to cross 19 creeks and branch es and I will leave it to iry readers to calculate for themselvety, the num ber of hills I had to go up and Gown. Mr. Gabe Sherbert’s baby died last Monday, the 19th insiant, and was buried at Mt. Lebanon cemetery Tuesday. 3Irs. Sherbcrt is very ill. and her recovery is ddtibtful. Mafried, at the residence of the bride’* father, on Sunday the 18th instant, Miss Maggie Floyd to Mr. Setn Fitz, of Delonaga, Ga., Rev. J. B. Underwood officiating. Mrs. M. L. Sims, of Tryon, paid our Bection a short visit recently. The whooping cough has broken out in our section. Mr. Ed. Gam- bell’s baby has been suffering ex tremely with it for some time. Mr. Irvin Howell is a sufferer frop kidney trouble. He is confined to his bed the most of the time for a month. There has been considerable out come in crops in this and other sec tions since my {last letter. Crops are fairly good now. If we could get senators and repre sentatives to represent us in Con gress like Senator McLauren* says they ought to be—men who would look after the interests of the whole state, and all the people, regardless of parties and factions, we would soon be on the high way to prosperity. But, alas! it seems that the thing can’t be done. When we elect a man to fill an office now-a-days, instead of looking after the interest of the peo ple he looks principally after the in terests of number one, and the peo ple’s interests come in us secondary matter. Two Mormon elders passed through this section lust week, and preached at the fine school house, at Norah, on Wednesday night. There was a considerable crowd out to hear them, mostly youngsters, who gave them a respectful hearing. J. M. Floyd went to Felzer last Monday, partly on a visit and partly on business. Miss Berrie Smith, of Wellford, was visiting friends and relatives in this section not long ago. It seems that we are not going to lack for candidates who aspire to fill the unexpired terms of Messrs. Miles and Barry, in the Legislature. There are some four or five already announc ed, besides several others spoken of. Now I want to give the boys some advice in regard to bluffing, which may perhaps, if heeded, prevent some of them from getting hurt some time: Don’t ever insult a man and then undertake to bluff him out of it, it will most generally pay much better to promptly apologize. One of our young men insulted one of his neigh bors the other day.Jand thought that he would bluff him and keep him off him by drawing his pistol on him, but the thing didn’t work worth u cent. The man insulted very prompt ly knocked him down and gave him a good whipping for his trouble. Al ways act the gentleman, and apolo gize—don’t try to bluff. Mr. W m. Davis, of Greer’s, was visiting in this section yesterday. James Wilson, son of Berry Wil son, of Norah, shot and seriously hurt, but not fatally, Columbus Wat son. Friday evening, the 28rd instant, hear the home of Mr. Wilson, the bad taking effect in his left hip, pa-s ine around towards his spine. Wat son is getting along aU right/ and will, it is hoped, be aide to be up again in a few days. Wilson's dogs was (because of the trouble. Wat son was riding along the public road bj Wilso.i’o place, and Wilson’s dogs ran out and attacked iiis horse, caus ing it to throw him, whereupon he he attacked tiie dogs, and Dave Wil son w T ent for him, and while Watson and Dave were engaged in the fight, Jim came up behind him and did the shooting, firing three times, only one shot of which took effect. This is Watson’s side of the affair. It is currently reported that the Wilson’s were aliogcluer at lauit. Watson says that he will not prosecute them, that when he get’s well he will attend to that himself. Jairus. —7 - — Buffalo Briefs. (Correspondence of The Ledger.) Buffalo, July 27.—Wo horny handed sons of toil have converted ourselves into genteel sons of rest, and perhaps will reconvert ourselves into little children of divine graces as a protracted meeting is going on at Buffalo church this week. The people are looking forward for much good to be accomplished. For the first time in my life I am going to try to do good for evil by praying for backsliders. Some of them wanted me turned out of the church last fall for writing up the maked truth about our protracted meeting. Be sides telling the naked truth there is one other way to make enemies, viz: To help people in time of need so as to make them feel under oblieatk to you. But everybody are not so’ ungrateful as to want to return evil for good. It is reported that somebody rode over into N. C., some time ago, and on his way back home he fell off of his mule. I do no not wish to im pair his mule’s reputation, for he was not thrown off. but foil off because he was in a condition that he could not stay on any longer. It is noth ing uncommon for a servant to get above his master, or for a boy to know more than his father, or for a woman to get the last word, but this is occ instance when a m-ia got be neath the dignity of his mule. Judging from the immense vol- umns of smoke displayed at Buffalo church last Sunday, it seems that some wide awake progressive busi ness man might do a thriving busi ness in cigarettes by locatingjtbare. When fire is at one end of a cigarette what s at the other end? On yesterday there was a runaway at Buffalo church which came very near being a disasterous one. A liveryman from Lattimore brought a. young minister there in a two horse buggy. After services when the crowd began to disperse he was in vited by some friend to help eat a watermelon, and unthoughtedly left his team hitched to the buggy. The horses started off in a trot and the crowd lost its wits and everybody began to hollow “whoa?” which only tended to frighten the animals and they soon ran into a buggy containing Mr. William Hopper his sister Mias Mollie, and Miss Minnie Ellis. The buggy was completely demolished and scattered in fragments over the road and Mr. Hopper, and his sister were seriously hurt but Miss Ellis was thought not to be hurt so badly. It seems almost miraculous that they escaped being killed The misfortunate people have the sympathy of the entire community. Bachelor. —— ■ —— The Gaffney Seminary. Prof. W. F. McArthur will open the Gaffney Heminary on Wednesday, August 25th. For the coming session he has engaged the services of Prof. W. S. Hall, of Fairfield county, who will assist him. He will have other teachers of competence to assist also. The outlook for a prosperious session is bright. Reasons Why Chamberlain’s Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Rem- • edy is the Best. 1. Because it affords almost in stant relief in case of Pain in the stomach, colic and cholera morbus. 2. Because it is the only remedy that never fails in the most severe cases of dysentery and diarrhoea. 3. Because it is the only remedy that will cure chronic diarrhoea. 4. Because it is the only remedy that will prevent bilious colic. 5. Because it is the only rtmely that will cure epidemical dysentery. G. Because It is the only remedy that can always be depended upon in cases of cholera infantum. 7. Because it is the most prompt and most reliable medicine in use for bowel complaints. 8. Because it produces no bad re sults. 9. Because it is pleasant and safe to take. 10. Because it has saved the lives of more people than any other medi cine in the world. The 25 and 50c sizes for sale by DuPre Drug Company.