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-+J. C. JEFFERIES,4- ' GAFFNEY, S. C. Attorney and Counsellor at Law. Practices in ^11 the Courts. Collections a Specialty. The Ledger To Reach Consumers in this Section Adver tise in The Ledger. A Newspaper in all that the Word Implies and Devoted to the Best Interests of the People of Cherokee County. VOL. IV, NO. GAFFNEY CITY, s. a. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, I8i)7. $1.00 A YEAR. FROM LOWER CHEROKEE CO. THE VANGUARD OF THE EQUI NOCTIAL GALE. It is a Deplorable Condition of Affairs When People Endeavor to see What Heathens they Can Make. (Correspondence of The Ledger.) Etta Jane, Sept., 20.—The van- cuard of t he equinoctial gale struck here yesterday evening and we had a nice rain but no storm. Rev. Mr. Walker, of Gaffney, filled the pulpit of Rev. Mr. Thomasson at Abingdon Creek church yesterday. He administered the ordinance of baptism to three candidates. John Childers, of White Plains, was at Abingdon Creek yesterday. JIamp Mitchell, of Bullocks Creek, was also around looking for his best girl. It is a deplorrblo fact, that in cer tain sections of our county the col ored people (some .of them, at least) are trying to see what accomplished heathens they can make of them selves. This state of affairs when sandwiched with a few disreputable* white men, who are worse than the negroes, if any tiling, speaks badly for the future. The grand jury may present and present until doomsday, but until they find men with enough moral courage to come up and testify in court to the actual state of affairs things will be no better. Magis trates are expected to suppress these nuisances, but they must have proof before they can act. So our com plaints must either “put up” or “shut up." When farmers think they must put up with every kind of sin and immorality in order to save the labor to the country I say God save the country, then as Abraham Lincoln used to say, “Watch the man who doesn’t eat three square meals a day.” ,J. W. Alexander, Ksq., magistrate l)f Druytonville Township, has •idopted a rule for breaking up /bouses of ill-fame which should claim the attention of the legislature at its next session. It’s both novel and efficacious, as well as original. On our public roads, in places, there is much need of work being done before the \yinter season sets in. Bam Btrain was sick one day last week. He’s all right now. Mrs. Julia A. Kendrick, of Gaffney, and Miss Carrie Inman paid us a pleasant visit last Wednesday. Mrs. Janie Bowen and Miss Lillie McCulloch and Travis McCulloch visited Messrs. Jeff and John Hughes Isat Saturday. A man asked me the other day if Flaw Ricker was a nigger. He said someone said he was. I told him no, no. Our people made some molasses last week that are equal to the best in the home market. Julia Tate, colored, wife of Mose Tate died last Friday. She was an industrious woman and well thought of by her white neighbors. Her fam ily are ardent friends to The Lelgeu. Last Friday I attended Magistrate Jno. W. Alexander’s court. The case was between J. C. Wallace and M. II. Stuard, in reference to the ownership of a clock. The jury failed to agree and a mistrial was made. I had the pleasure of visiting Mr. and Mrs. Joe George last week. Their’s is a model home. Mr. George is one of Cherokee’s foremost fann ers, and his good lady ranks among its best and cleverest women. Mrs. Capt. W. 1). Alexander is vis iting her son J. W. Alexander, Esq., of Lawn. She will return to her home in Birmingham, Ala., some time before long. Col. T. B. Butler was before Esq. Alexander’s court on professional business last Friday. Quite a cyclone passed over the Flint Hill section of this county last Friday avening, uprooting trees and doing other slight damage. No per son was hurt that I know of. Hon. C. \V. Whisonunt visited Blacksburg lust week. Several parties in this neighbor hood attended the tent meelir.g at Hickory Grove last week and gener ally give a satisfactory account of the same. S. M. Littlejohn and son were in this section lust week on business. Mrs. J. L. S. bus put up 4 lot of sauer kraut. Jim Hughes, of Gowdeysville, got bis hand badly mashed in the cogs of a cotton* press last week. Dr. Doug las was called in, and he dressed it ana picked out several pieces of fract ured bones. The patient at lust ac counts was resting very well. A very competent man for the bus iness is now writing a sketch of L'nion County Presbyterians with sketches of the most prominent fam- Hien of that denomination, from the earliest settlement of this country. Ihi^ will prove intensely interesting. The sugar cane lias very little seed in it this year especially that raised on upland and having suffered with dry weather. Mr. William’s children are all get ting better.- “Doc" Bpencer, the Gaffney stable man. passed (brought this section one day last week. Willie Mabry is studying law in the cilice of Col. T. B. Butler: He is one of our-most promising young men. We congratulate him upon his undertaking and bespeak for him a liberal share of public patronage in his chosen profession when be shall haje entered upon it. I am sorry that I forgot to speak in my last letter of the demands now being made upon the various camps of the U. C. Veterans for a fund with which to build a fitting monument to tiie heroism of the noble women of the South during the war. This mut ter was fully and ably discussed at tlie Veterans' meeting in Greenville last montn, and it was unanimously agreed to raise a sufficient fund to build it. It will be built, certain and the people of Cherokee county can’t afford to neglect their duty. They won't do it either. We ought to raise at least $1.0(1 for each vete ran for tliut purpose. Elsewhere in this paper will be found the 2nd se ries of Chaplain Ellweil, chairman of the monumental committee, which more fully describes the work of the committee. Read it carefully friends and let your patriotism rise high enough to pay a debt of gratitude you owe the noble women of our land who bravely stood by us in the darkest hour of our country’s peril. Corporal Tanner, an ex-Union sol dier in eulogizing the women of the south at the Richmond reunion last year said : “Had it not been for the women of the south we would have whipped you in one year." All over this land of ours stand monuments to mark the last resting place of the no ble men whose memory we love to cherish and whose valorous deeds are handed down to their posterity us a rich heritage, yet there isn’t a single witness from whom unborn genera tions are to learn the devotion of the noble women to the “lost cause." “Oh! ingratitude, where is thy charm?" Our Grover correspondent, “A. B," is about right in his answer to lum berman’s problem. He did not give the solid contents of the piece of wood. Miss Olive M. Earle, of Co lumbia, a graduate of the Columbia graded school got the same result as to the specific measure of the lum ber. Several of the solvers have missed it badly in their collection, if 1 am any judge I shall attempt to give (next week) a few old, old newspaper re ports of the building of the present monument on the Cowpen’s battle ground and the celebration there in 1856. This will no doubt interest some of our oldest readers, j. l. s. Pools Pencilmgs. (Correspondence of The Ledger.) Pools, Sept. 17.—We are having some dry and hot weather at this writing. Vegetation has dried up. The turnip and potato crops are fail ures. About.one-half the cotton bus opened and a greater portion has been picked out. The corn crop is very good but cotton is short. The pea crop is a failure. The camp meeting at Cannon’s Camp Ground closed Tuesday morn ing. We certainly had some good preaching. Those who conducted and assisted in the meeting were Revs. A. J. Cauthan, P. E., I. M. Friday, P. E., J. D. Croat, N. B. Clarkson, J. Roper, Jas. Smith, E. B. Loyless, J, L. Harley and Mr. Car lisle. All went well until Sunday when the serenity of the meeting was disturbed by some fiends in human form who were fired to u frenzy by u too free use of lire water. A large crowd, estimated at between fifteen hundred and two thousand, was out Sunday. Much good was accomplish ed for the cause of Christ. John Geddes, of your city, was among the attendedts. The indications were that he enjoyed the meeting very much. Mrs. Mamie Mabry is improving J very slowly. Peek. *— -• Catarrh Cured. Xo remedy is as effectual in eradi-, eating and curing Catarrh as Botun- j ic Blood Balm (B. B. B.). It puri fies and enriches the blood, elimi- ! nates microbes, bacteria, etc., and builds up the system from the f st dose. Thousands of cases of catarrh h ive been cured by it - magic po\u. For all blood ami .in disea-o. it has no equal. Buy the old reliable and long tested remedy, and don’t throw your money away on substitu tes, palmed off as “just us good.” Buy the old reliable Botanic Blood Balm. Price $1.00 per largo bottle. SAYS IT IS ULORIOFS. I cam 01 refrain from telling you what u glorious medicine you have. For two years my mother had suf fered with severe catarrh of the head and ulcerated sore throat. She re sorted to various remedies without effect, until siio used Botanic Blood Balm (B. B. B.) which cured her catarrh, and healed her sore throat. W. A. Pkitk, Fredonla, Ala., For sale by Cherokee Drug Co. FROM THE COALIN’ GROUND FLAW PICKER TALKS OF “EAN- JER LOU.” He Can Tear Down Mountains and Level up Low Places When it Comes to Picking a . Banjo. (Correspondence of The Ledger.) IJiT'EK Coalin’ Ground, Sept. 20 — About the onlyest thing I know fer certain is that I seed Banjer Lu bright and early this moruin’ before sun up smilin’ all over with his face as he crossed the fence an’ proceeded forth to where I was a settin’ down a smokin’ of my pipe, an’ the clos- ter he got the more of his teeth you could see till, bless gracious, when he got right fernent me I could almost tell to a T. what he had for breakfast. “Flaw, I have bin a knowin’ of you nearly ever since you come into this vain an' sinful world an’ you have knowed me about tho same number of years an’ days an' hours. You know I can tear down big moun tains an’ level up low places an’ smoothe off the nateral earth when Flit comes to pickin’ my ole banjer uraongest the calico, and Flaw, you know a man that is brung up in his likin’s to banjer pickin’ an’ fiddlin’ aint worth a continontiul durn fer nothin’else, so, to keep folks from talkin’ with their mouth an’ think- in’ so allfired mutch I have turned in an’ went an’ had a whole passel of song books printed with the very best songs I could rake an’ scrape an’ now I’m a goln’ to travel where I aint knowed by nobody an'sell’em, but Flaw, I’ll never forgit you. You may look fer a letter wonst a week anyhow, an’ so fur as Sallie is con cerned. I 'lowed to take her in about Christmas or maby perhaps start in with the fust of the year, but do you know one thing? That dadblasted ole adage about a fiddler or a banjer picker not bein’ worth a continentia! fer nothin’ else, has found hit’s way to her ears an’ she has broke it— the engagement I mean—kerslap dab off an’ consequentially you know that whilst I can’t give up my banjer jist to suit her fool notions, an' whilst that word “work" means “sweat of the brow" which the scrip tures speaks of, you understand, I jist made up my mind this way: That whilst she has played quits, an’all like that, yet, at the same time I canjtake up my ole banjer an’ go where that ole adage has bin fer got an’ git iu the game again, an’ you have knowed me fer io these many days an’ you know that I al ways git the winnin' hand when the banjer is in the deck, an’ the calico at stakes." The word had got out an’ v as talked permiscusly around free and fast that Monroe Mize an’ Banjer Lu want no manner account only fer to pick the banjer au’ play the fiddle an’ live on the fat of the land, as it were, an’ consequentially that gal Sal, the widder Withers’ daughter, witch you understand Banjer Lu was a (lyin’ around, received tho report an’ give it out to him that she want goiu' to have nothin’ to do with him unless he would hung his ole banjer on the wail, as it were, an’ go to work. A gal that gits a crack banjer picker or a crack fiddler on her hands lias dead stock an' a whole pas sel of it to keep up unless he follers it for the money that’s in it an’not ferthe fun, an’ that gal knowd it, so she give him the grand bounce, an’ now lie's got them books an’ is a goin’ to leave. “Flaw, you know how me an’ Mon roe Mize have bin full Hedged copart ners until deatli do us pari?" Ban jer Lu went on to say. “Well, you know, years an’ years ago I mot Mon roe an’ somehow or uother I took a kind of likin’ to him an’ hencefor- wurds we inudu a doublcbreusted vow to be friends until death do us part. Whilst I have done an’ told you how I cun play a banjer, this man Monroe you understand, is the fiddlinest man in the Bluebranch settlement, an’ only the pure in heart an’ the true an’ tried can tarry over in the Blue- hrancii settlement. Monroe is all woolun’a yard wide, stands fully 4 ft. an' 20 inches in ids socks, you understand, an' every “inch" a man an’ us honest from the browband up us any livin’ mortal man on God's green earth but somehow or nother Ids “feet" would travel in forbidden paths, an' it want no use to rta) , a word to him when he wonst made up his mind to go In them sort of road’s for he’d go or bust. I raley do be lieve that the onlyest harm that that man ever done was to hisself." From that Banjer Lu, said, “well Flaw I jist come-over to juggle with you a little an’ now I must go. fer^ there’s more 4n my head now than* nits an’ lice, but you shall hoar from me in the near future before long," so off he.put the way he had come. This* Banjer Lu I apeak of has plenty of mother wit us it were, but work is a stranger to 1dm an’ sweat is a somebody he don’t know, lie belong* to the Knights of the Never Sweats.|un’an officer of the Sons of Rest, hoids a high seat in the Inde pendent Order of Prevaricators an’ lias a “hang out" with the Knights of the Shade. Flaw Picker. •— • -*»► •— — WRITTEN FROM WILLIE. What Might be Accomplished if He Had Faith. • Willie, S. C., Sept. ISth.—“If ye had faitli as a grain of mustard seed ye might say unto tins Sycamine tree, be ye plucked up by the root and bo thou planted in the sea, and it should obey you.” Faith is absolutely essential to suc cess, both spiritually and secularly. It is Faith in our ability to succeed that prompts us to undertake the accomplishment of any object and if we have faith ns a grain of mustard our success is assured. Faith is the mud sill of every avo cation in life; let the faith of tiie people in the stability of tho govern ment begin to waver and a panic, as in 1893, is the result. So long as confidence is maintained, failures are unknown. The same rules apply to the religious world us to the secu lar. The great difficulty with us is. that “faith as a grain of mustard.” We have too little confidence in our own ability, much less that of other people, and it is not only the case with the worldly-one but it is the case with professors of religion and even with some, at least, of our preachers. Think what the church might accomplish, think wiiut our preachers might accomplish or wiiat each one of us might, in onr several avocations, accomplish if we even had “faith as a grain of mustard," but if we have not faitli in our own exertions or labors, how can we ex pect to receive any reward for our labors? or if we have not faitli iu our selves, how can we expect others to have faith in us? As I didn’t want to miss anything that 1 thought would be of interest to my readers, I requested a divine not long since to furnish me with the outlines of a series of sermons, at which it was impossible for me to be present, for publication, and 10 my great surprise Iim answer was, “it would do no good." Surely this divine must have spoken unthought- ol'v, but be that as it may, I thought the . and 1 think yet, that he might proft , by tho reading and studying of the quotation used at the beginning of this article. We don’t exactly envy “Scribbler" in the possession of that big wife, but if Mrs. Jairus was about of the same proportion, we know that we could a great deal more conveniently dodge the “poker" some times. Shaw! we wouldn’t mind her tongue, she can’t hurt with that. “Jairus" and J. K. Atkins went fishing yesterday,result: Real genu ine “fisherman’s luck." Don’t think we’ll try it again tliis season. We don’t know whether all the words that we use could Fie found in the dictionary or not, but we always know very well what we mean by a word when we use it—guess they are though—because we don’t know anything about any other than the English language. The continued dry, hot weather has cut the cotton crop in this section very short. There will not be over a half crop gathered, if that. The United States Deputies scoop ed down upon some of our moon shiners in this section lust wees ; cut up their still and cut down their bar stands and piled up the staves and burned them. The ways of the moonshiner seems to get harder and harder. There were eight applicants for membership into the church, who received tho ordinance of baptism at Holly Springs, last Sunday. J. J. Johnson and wife and daugh ter, Miss Muudie, and W. R. Johnson and son, Master Green, et al., are visiting relatives at Hendersonville* N. 0., this week. They are expected to return to-day. Mr. Albert Robertson, of Wollford, spent one night this week with the family of J. J. Johnson. A colored tooth dentist, of Green ville, 8. C., passed through our community one day this week solic iting patronage, but we don’t think he got any. The election lust Tuesday at Holly Springs passed off very quietly, Pollard got 43 and West 8 votes, so you see Boyce was almost solid hero if he did get badly beat in the county. Jairus. Bucklen’s Arnica Salve. Tho Best 8 dve in tho world for Guts, Bruises, Sores, Ulcer, SuFt Rheum, Fever Sc ^s, Totter Chapped Hands, Chilblains, Corns, and all Skin Eruption, and postively cures Piles or no pay required. It is guru- anteed to give perfect satisfaction or money refunded. Price 25 cents per box. For sale by Tho DuPre Drug Co. POVERTY AND PROSPERITY ARE AT DIFFERENT ENDS OF THE ROAD. Solomon’s Wives no Doubt Fretted the Life Out of Him ani Shortened His Days. Buffalo Briefs. (Correspondence o£ The Ledger.) Buffalo, Sept. 21.—The cotton crop is short and the price is low, consequently a great many people who run in debt lust spring will have to crawl out ou their knees. But they ought to be very careful or else they might imitate the example of the frog in tf)e well, thafclimbed out two feet in day time but fell buck three at night and, finally landed in hell. While people may or may not go there, it requires only a few leaps and buck sets to land them in the poor house. Poverty and prosperity are at the different ends of the same road, one at the bottom of the hill and the other at the top, and we are scattered all along the road with our faces turned toward the latter placd, and with out-stretched arms towards Mr. McKinley for help. He is trying to run tiie hog of gold standard prosperity down our throats while his allies, the national bankers, specula tors, .rusts and corporations are very effectually, little by little, dragging us down to the level of serfs and slaves. At present, the poorer a man is the less sympathy he gets. The untimely end of Rufus San ders is regretted by a large number of Ledger readers. However, it will not impair the popularity of The Ledger. A paper is always what the editor makes it. People on this side of the Broad often express fears that I will some day be lynched, because I dare to write the naked truth, but I wish to say to them that I would try to give a lynching party a warm reception. At least one man in Gaffney knows where to get good old time home made Hour, in as much as he sends his wheat over here to the Buffalo Mills, owned by Bridges and Jones. “Billy Jones" is the genial and ac commodating miller, and the only man that has never kicked because I told the truth on him. It looks a bit like Buffalo has at least one dishonest man. Rumor has it that sometime ago ho sold some colored people a milch cow and, after they bad paid all but five dollars, he went and took the cow back, in the face of the fact that good security was offered for the remaining five dollars. That brother is an amen corner fellow, a wolf iu sheep's cloth ing. Experience has taught me to keep one eye awake when sleeping with some amen corner “fellows." Jno. D. Wilson smiles from ear to ear. It is a bouncing boy. It is the third descendent of tiie Bachelor family. It is a well known fact that ‘•bachelors" themselves are not very prolific. One of our public roads has not been worked since last spring and a few days rain put it in rather a bad condition. We are told public roads are to be worked next year by taxa tion and it i& thought to be to the interest of a few individuals, for them to be in us bad condition as possible. If this commutation tux is not tal en off 1 shall be in the race for Supervisor next year myself, and I’ll make things lively too. It is worse than stealing. If roads are to be worked by taxation at all. put it on property, and not the poll, and let every man pay iu proportion to what lie is worth. Is there any logic to make it fair for a poor renter that does not so much ns own an old mule, pay as much to keep up public roads as a man that owns a large plantation and three or four teams? Which of the two are benefitted most by the public roads? If any man kicks at this it is a sure indica tion that lie has a principle that always wants something for nothing. An old time curiosity is making his sojourn among us. Ho is nothing more or less than a hard shell Bap tist from the old Tar Heel state. He is a good man. but like the old far mer’s sheep that butted itself away, all but itsjtail. If anybody would contend with him he would argue 011 predestination until there would bo not so much as u toe nail left of him. “Be it ever so humble there is no place like home." Tis true enough. There is no place so happy as where a good man lias a good wife, nor no place so lonely for an old bachelor like myself, but it is better to be alone than in bad company, or in a mile of a high-tempered woman. Lust year there was an upheaval of popular sentiment against tiie new woman on account of her knicker bockers or puffy knee breecltes, but nothing was said about these old long tongued creatures who assume to boss around and wear their hus band's breeches. Mrs. U. Ann Waters dubs me as an uncharitable old bachelor for expressing my opin ion about some women’s t-rngues, and criticises St. i’uul for something he said about women, but King Solo mon said that It was better to dwell in the corner of a house top than in an open house with a brawling woman. Who can deny that Solo mon had more experience with women ttian St. Paul or myself either. His .vives no doubt fretted his life out of him and shortened his days. Mrs. Waters what do you think of bachelors and women preachers any way, especially Ihelatler? Are they not a considerable way out of their places? Are they not evidence that women are trying to be tiie stronger instead of tha weaker vessels? Bachelor. News from Grover. (Corrosjioiulenco of The Ledger.) Grover, Sept. 20.—The weather still continues very drj and the far mers are all busily engaged gather ing their short crop of cotton and before many weeks more it will all be gathered. Turnip patches seem to be doomed to a complete failure, us but very few obtained anything like a standi and]Old Sol’s scorching rays has kill ed nearly all that came up. On one day last week Mr. Rob. Ab Hambright, .while attending to ids cotton gin at Grover, got Ids hands caught in the saws and badly lacer ated. The doctor fears that amputa tion will be necessary, but it is hoped by his many friends that this will not be the case. A called conference was held at An tioch ou last Sunday for the purpose of fixing tiie date of service, as the date had been changed ou the first of the year from the 1st to tiie 2nd Sun day in each month. An election was held to determine whether it was tiie wish of tiie church to continue service on the 2nd Sunday with Rev. J. D. Bailey as pastor, or whether they would change back to the first and obtain another pastor, (us Bro. Bailey could not serve them on the 1st.) The election resulted almost unanimously for the 2nd, pnd Bro. Bailey, which shows the esteem in which Bro. Bailey is held by his flock, notwithstanding his short stay among them. After the election for pastor was over an election was held to elect delegates to the York Asso ciation, which meets with Pleasant Valley church in Lancaster county, which resulted iu the election of Rev. F. C. Hickson, Rev. K. B. Me- Swain, Rev. Van Moss. F f H. Dover, E. Hardin, J. R. Roperts and W. R. Hambright. Edgar Moss, who lost his house 1 and contents by fire sometime ago, desires to return his heart-felt thanks to his many friends who have so lib erally contributed to him in his loss and, any others who wish to contrib ute, it will be very highly appreci ated. Your correspondent learns that J. L. Roperts will move this week from his farm, in this section, to Gaffney City. Mr. Roperts is mov ing for the purpose of sending his oldest son to school—he will go to Prof. McArthur’s school. Mr. Roperts family will work in the Gaffney cotton mill. a. b. State Line Dots. (Correspondence of The Ledger.) State Line, S. C., Sept. 20.—Mr- Joe Ruppe, of Maud, departed from us last Thursday to rest beyond the river, where there is no sickness nor sorrow. After two weeks sick ness lie died, and was laid to rest at Cherokee church on the 17th inst. He leaves a wife and seven children to mourn their loss. The bereaved family have tho sympathy of the en tire community. Eddie Scruggs, of Hampton, visited his home lust week. Samp Scruggs, of State Line, has sold three Pales of cotton this season. Charlie Wilson, of Maud, lost about five dollars and his pocket book sometime ago. or rutiier some one picked it up off tiie piazza. Misses Lola and Tolula Davis are sewing at Gaffney in R. A. Jones &, Co.’s store. George Humes, of State Line, has been sick, but glad to say, he is himself again. It will be several months before I write troiu this place us I will not be lure. Ccwpen Chronicles. (Correspondente of Tin* l.tdgcr.) CtmvtNs, Sept. 20.—We are still having dry weather. We arii sorry to relate the death of Mrs. Jolie Sellers, who dice, last Monday and was buried Tuesday. She leaves a husband and four chil dren to mourn thetr loss. She was loved by ail her friends. Mr. and Mrs. Sum Haiiunet are tiie happy possessors of another big boy. ggj. II. Hughey had tho misfortune to loose ids mule week before lust. A prayer meeting is conducted at Mountain View school house every Thursday night. Gil Feu hkt. Burning. Itching skin diseases in stantly relieved by De Witt’s Witch Hazel Salve unequalled for cuts, bruises, burns. It heals without leaving a scar. Cherokee Drug Com pany.