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ir #« ■ J / • L / > / C. JEFFERIES,4- i GAFFNEY, S. C. AUonwty .'nd Counsellor at Law. Practices in A/ tlie Courts. Collections o Specialty Ledger. Ledger Readers Patronize Ledger Advertisers, VOL A Newspaper in all that the Word Implies and Devoted to the Best Interest > of the Peop’e of Cherokee County. . iv, NO GAFFNEY CITY, S. C., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1897. $LOQ A YEAH. ETCHINGS FROM ETTA JANE. THE SAGE OF LOWER CHERO- j KEE SEICD3 THE NEWS. 0 An Old Confederate Soldier Who is Fall ■ of Historic Reminiscences. Few F:sfc Caught Out of the Broad. (Com spendence of The Lodger.) Etta Jam;, <>ct. 11.—The ruin this morning is a backset to cotton pick ing. More than half of the crop is open in the field if picked out. The crop is short. Today Miss Jessie Strain celebrates her 13th birthday. Some weeks ago it wag suggested • that a teachers’ column be opened in “Thk Leixjkr" for the advancement of the eduritiona! interest of our county—for the benefit of the girls and boys who have the means to ed ucate themselves, and who will take advantage of the help such a column would give tr.em to obtain an educa tion. It is my honest opinion (hat through a medium of this kind the j very best talent within the radius o ; Tul Lej-igluV circulation would he : concentrated, and open up wonderful 1 possibilities for those who might take ! advantage of its help. Ther ‘ is many an Isaac Newton. Thomas Jefferson, John C. Calhoun, Daniel Webster, T. J)e Witt TaImage or Charles U. Spurgeon to he found in Cherokee county if only such a missionary as the teacher’s column could be sent out to hunt them up. Through .lie I'nion Times I learn that Dr. Jerome 1*. Miller died a few days ago at Pea Ridge. We have- a fine season on turnips and potatoes now. The Salem Sunday School will ob serve its regular Thanksgiving exer cises on the 2oth of November. A collection for the Thornwell orphan age will be taken up on that day and alLfpends of that institution are in- vff'd to attend. II. B. McDaniel, of had u very sick It is getting better Mr. and Mrs. ickory Grove child last week, now. Mr. JohnT. Whitesides, of Hickory Grove, one of Western York’s best men, is an old confederate soldier full of historic reminiscences. He gave me u history of nis prison life while confined at Harts Island, New York, in 18<io, just after the surren der, It was tlie custom of the prison authorities to ship a few hundred prisoners over into the city and keep them in the prison barracks until ar rangements could be made for trans- portiiig them (south. It happened that he and R. G. Whitesides of com pany A 12th Regiment got into the good graces of the officer in com mand of the barracks, and he gave them “city privileges”—a right to go out in the city and look around, only requiring them to report at his head quarters every morning, which they did. One day as they were walking along one of tho fashionable thor oughfares of the city they espied two ladies following after them walking very briskly. He said to ,“Rufe” that those ladies were trying to over take them. Rufe told him they were not. for a New York lady would not speak to them—Southern rebels. However they allowed them to over take them and in passing one of the ladies handed him thirty-live cents nnd told him to get them a drink if they wanted it. One of my neighbors in speaking of another the other day said, that if he took colic it would kill him for he was so hide bound his skin wouldn’t expand a particle. Ham Lee, whose misfortune was mentioned in my last letter, is better. He run bis ferry boat last week with only one hand. Mr. T. Robbs, of Gaffney, was in this section last Thursday on busi ness. I visited friends in Western York last week. Am always glad to meet with them. Krody’s travelling show exhibited at Hopewell school house last Fiiduy night. In the burning of his house on Monday morning of lust week, Mr. John Hprouse’s family lost nearly every article of their clothing, as well as all their household and kitch en furniture. To this may be added his seed wheat and oats and ail his entire stock of plow tools which were under the house. The loss was us complete us it well could be. Ills family barely escaped with their Jives. If it could be positively as- cert-lned that it was the work of an Incendiary and the scoundrel could be caught up frith there would be no use trying to prevent a first class lynching in this community. Jeff Blackwell has laid up a line aupftly of hay for winter use. He expect# to run a market, garden and truof farm near Gaffney next year, I lhaven’t heard of a fish being caught out of Broad river this year For either pleasure or profit Ashing with us is a thing of the past. I hope that Col. Ham .Tclleries and others who have them will conclude to stock th3 river next spring. He could spare several thousand out of his pond and not miss them. I sec no reason why they would not raise there. Mr. Meek Parker, of Gaffney, was in this section last week fixing clocks. He fully understands his business. When he does a.job it stands. Everybody likes Meek. Home housewives are having much trouble, to say nothing of Joss by the chicken cholera. It has been somewhere in this neighborhood all year, and still it goes on, and kho fatter the fowls the n!bre fatal it seems to be. v A laborer agreed to thresh HI days for a farmer, on the condition that he would give him 1 grain of wheat for the first day’s labor, 2 grains for the second, and double each succeeding day: What number of bushels would he reeeieve, supposing a pint to contain 7680 grains; and what number of ships, eacli carrying 1000 tons burden, might be loaded, allow ing 40 bushels to a ton? Boys and girls send me your answers and 1 will publish your names. From Win. Moore, tiie deaf mute, of which something was said in this correspondence some time ago, 1 have received a long and interesting letter giving an account of his travel from here to Elberton. Ga. lie also sent me u number of newspaper clip pings which I highly appreciate. 11-seems that the abnormal condi tion of our State politics is such that the virtues will be called upon next year to decide between prohibition and anti-prohibition in order to solve the liquor problem. Politicians might as well begin now to set their sails. We hope, however, that at the next meeting the Legislature will be able to do something and avert any further trouble and discord arising from the* vexed question. Infidelity, and in fidelity are dis tinctive terms with exactly opposite meaning. The man who lias a high strung brainless wife is an object of pity. It is said that Xanthippi tiie wife of Hocrutes was endeared to him only on account of hie children. Domestic happiness is a failure under such circumstances. The sickness reported last week is generally abating. Hum Htrain and Asa Blackwell went over into York county on a visit last Saturday evening. Home of our people attended the show at Gaffney last Thursday and speak highly of it. The bridge at Thompson's nill should have attention at once, as it has swagged in the middle and the camber is out of it. The low price of cotton compared with the short crop is very discour aging to tho farmers. The season for resolves is upon us and it is no new* thing to hear people say they will plant less cotton next year. But this is all taffy. There is no depen dence to be placed in such resolu tions. The lower it gets the more the farmers try to raise, it seems. Mr. and Mrs. T. J. Estes, visited relatives at Hharon last Haturday. In getting tiie opinions of different parties 1 find that nearly all who have read Tm: Ledgkr speak in high est terms of it as a paper of fairness and one that*, can be depended upon when it asserts anything to be the truth. This is saying a good deal for our county paper, but the truth must be told. Fagan Martin says that the old flint and steel musket with which a private by tiie name of Whitner killed Major Furgerson at the battle of King’s Mountain is still in the possession of the Whitner family on tiie South Fork of the Catawba in Lincoln county, N. C., within fifteen miles of where lie was horn. There will be preaching at Abing don creek next Habbath by tiie pastor. Rev. Mr. Thomasson. It is about time our Hunday School Convention would call its meeting. Isn’t it? A few years ago it was said that Charlotte, N. C. was the only city in the United States completely sur rounded by railrosds. Gaffney City can heat that, for withiq a very short lime it will be cut in two length wise by two of the greatest competing systems of the Houth which must necessarily give it us<cheap if not the cheapest transportation rates either of these companies can afford. The latter rail is on top. , Our sweet potatoes are fine, al though the dry weather for the last six weeks has greatly Hindered their growth. Tiie decimal point in the quotient is found by pointing off from . the right hand as many places for deci mals as the number of decimal places in the dividend exceed those in the divisor. If they are not us many, supply the deficiency by pre fixing ciphers. J. L. h. Croup Quickly Cured. Moi'ntain UlrKN, Ark.—Our chil dren were suffering with croup when we received a bottle of Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy. It afforded almost Instant relief.—F. A. Thountoh. Thli celebrated remedy li for sale by the DuPre Drug Co. JAMES BRADFORD JONES. THE FIRST TREASURER OF CHEROKEE COUKTY. Born and Reared in this Section of Old Spartanburg—A Business . Capacity of Note for a Man of H:s Age. James 1 Bradford Jones was born about five miles north of Gaffney, in the Grassy Pond neighborhood, June 3rd 1864, and is therefore a little more than thirty-three years old. His parents were Lewis and Jemima Jones, who were rearedin that neigh borhood. Lewis Jones, the father of the subject of this sketch never reached home after the war, but it is supposed became a victim to yellow jaundice, with which he was afflicted at tho close. Mrs. Jemima Jones, tiie mother, still resides on the old home place and is quite hale and hearty at the age of seventy. James is the youngest of a family of ten—four boys and six girls, one of the latter being dead. James at tended the country schools of his neighborhood and worked on the farm until he reached the age of seventeen, when he went to Grover to attend immediately on receipt of it Mr. Jones took charge. He has filled the position with signal ability and we venture the assertion that no county in the State has a more efficient and courteous treasurer than has Chero kee in the person of James Bradford Jones. Personally Mr. Jones is a charming fellow. He possesses a warm heart and a willing hand. He is alike courteous to prince or pauper and no one, no matter how humble, ever approaches Treasurer Jones on county matters that they do not re ceive the same kind of treatment as does the most wealthy, Mr. Jones has rei-antly taken unto himself a wife, going over into the Tar Heel Htute and taking for a bet ter-half om* of Lincoln county's most estimable young ladles. They are now keeping house in his pretty little cottage on Depot street and Gaffney is proud to number them among her citizenship. - FLAW PICKER’S TROUBLES. THE BACHELOR OF BUFFALO THE VICTIM OF AN UNHAPPY MEDIUM. says about them, but still there is one thing that can’t be denied, viz: that they are above the average of mankind in point of intelligence in us never rush tre ul—into much as unlike foois ihey in where unguis fe;-r to this muntrimoniul ul- are Some People Do Not Like His Plain Manner of Writing and Getting After Him—Th Man m the Moon. V f(l f / JAMKS HUADKOHI) JOXKS. school. He afterwards went to Blacksburg and attended school, then was a pupil of Prof. W. F, McArthur and afterwards fo Profs. Dargan and Harratt, who were tho principals of the Gaffney High Hchool at that time. From 1881 to 188!! James was engaged in teaching school, attending school and keeping books for his brother-in-law,* R, A. Westbrook, who was merchandising at Blacks burg. Desiring to better fit himself for the battle of life young Jones, together with a number of ambitious young men in this neighborhood, went to Lexington, Ky., to attend a business college. After graduating and receiving two diplomas—one of honor and the other for proficiency— he returned to Houth Carolina and engaged in teaching school at Pleas ant Grove, Buffalo and Pine Grove, In the meantime he did book-keeping for Mr. Westbrooks. In the fall of 1892 he also kept books for 1). D. Gaston, who was at that time doing a general mt ,'chandise business. In 1893 when J. J. Magnes# moved to Hpartunburg he engaged young Jones to look after his large farm and store at Grassy Pond. In the fall of 1894 Carroll <k Carpenter employed Mr. Jones nod he remained with them until January, 1867. when ho resign ed in order to move to Gaffney, Car- roll & Carpenter having in the mean time made him manager of their store at Grassy Pond. Mr. Jones was a new county man from the start and labored faithfully for the cause. After the legislature had granted the new county and the Governor had ordered the election of officers, the friends of J. B. Jones prevailed upon him to allow his name to be put forward for the position of Treasurer. Three days after Mr. Jones was approached on the subject he agreed to make the race. This was but eighteen days before the election and his opponent in the race had been announced about two weeks’ and had a magnificent start in the ruje. That his opponent was a ca pable and clean man no one would deny. He had been reared in this section and was for many years en gaged in tt)e mercantile business and no one has over been found who had the hardihood to say one word against him. It was a pretty race. ‘ During the campaign the candi dates were on the beat of terms and it was only after the ballots had been counted that It was found that J. B. Jones had won over J, V. Harratt but by the small margin ofJ*about three hundred votes lu the entire county. Governor Ellerbe signed Mr. Jones’ commission on the 19th of April and* things to He Has Been Forced to Join Job in HLs Bewailments. .■Correspondence of The Ledger.) I'lTLU CoAI.JX’ GjIOKNO, Oct. 11.— Some how or nother I think some- j times that I am afflicted with Halb; J (Scribbler’s wife) disease—the ups i and downs, but my ups an downs { puts me awfully in the mind of tho hoppy-toad in the well—have the ups two feet of a day an the downs four feet of a night. A little down atnountH to a treuvnuous big thing but you may faithfully climb ever so far an you can’t hardly tell it. It has been allotted to me to lay a^ide my daily avocation, from whence the broad of life comest, up. jine in with Job’s bewailments. True, I’m not afflicted with sores as I know of but wherein there’s no sore there’s a hundred an one other make my troubles great. First, I’m homeiast—too dratted weak an no count to leave tne house, an tooalliired tired of the bed to lay me down, but all this is us -nothing an vanisheth when the whole team of little Pickers com. s rushin’, tearin’, atom pin/ squallin’ an straddle of sticks for horses, through the room where I uni a tryin’ to find rest an recreation. They can actually stump and bump the headache into man to whom pain is a stranger an i do raley bleeve moreover that they could shatter the nerves of Humpson ef he was buck here in the fiesh. An as far us women are conceruo'l 1 don’t raley know hut I guesa there ain’t very mutch difference between Mrs. Picker, Granny an Job's wife since most all women have pritcy mutch the same traits. Mrs. Picker ain’t told me to cuss God or die yit but it’s no tellin’ what she’s thought indurin’ the run of past time. I be lieve I’ve succeeded in making her think that I’m the biggest fool in this round created world of sin an sorrow an that ef I should accidentally drap off as it were that no other mor tal man would be as big a fool as me an consequentially she would haf to remain a widder. That thar feller ycu call Scribbler aint no fool by a whole passei, 1 don't care bow he looks. Any man is lia ble to buy a boss that will, after a time, eventually take the swinney, botts, colic, or something else that will make him a burden to his owner, an so it is with a woman—any man is liable to git a woman on his hands that is liable to take the svfellin’ git fat. or sick, or somethin’ else, that will make her a burden on his hands, I don’t care how much sense he’s got, an since Hcribblor’s wife wasn’t fat when he married her 1 don't think any reflections should be cast on his good, back-woods boss sense, or at least no further than the murryin’ is concerned. There was one time indurin’ my life that I thought I didn’t need a thing in this world of trials <xnd tribulations but a wife, but e’er this i have learned that 1 need everything else in this vain and Heelin’ world but a wife, but Ole Flaw is a man of nerve an backbone, an ef he makes a bad trade he sticks the tighter to it, an right here what Banjer Lu said comes vividly before me—that love tore down mountains an leveled up low places an made ole courtship easy sailin’ for a man. Now, In regards to these rithmetica, as Jim Burnett la wont to say. I thought, way back yander many years ago, that that gal which I now call Mrs. Picker, was the onliest gal that was ever made for calloo an rib bons an various other sundry fix- ments, but wherein as 1 have afore said, I see now where I could have got along elsewise. But she aint never got too fat yit and alius heats bllln water fer the travellers an whenever an opportunity presents it self she Is alius ready to do my bid- din’ or to pieaae me in any wsy she can, an I don’t bleeve 1 could have found a better wife in this world, but yet, I say I could have managed some way without her. But, honest ly, I would rather live In that coun try where powder houaea are eo scarce as to live with some women I have seen In mj day tod flneratlon. Flaw Pici ek. (Correspondence of The ledger.) Bui/ alo, Oct. 11.—The health of this section i:» very good. When people are well they are self wiiled, and disobey the Lord and abuse the doctors but when they get sick they pray for mercy and medicine. What strange manner of creatures we are, anyway! It is said that a young man of this community some time ago, ran his mule almost,to death going for a doctor. It was his first trip. But now he smiles from ear to ear and sings “itock-a-bye baby" because he ffs called papa. That is going to be the case of some more young feiloAS be fore long. A few of our citizens went over to the metropolis to see the show last Thursday, but a majority of them saw a greater curiosity than John Robinson’s circus. It was the man in the moon. Tradition has it that he was put there .or burning brush on Hunday. When all the Habbath breakers get there wo will have a full moon ail the time. A prominent mau of Gaffney comes over here nearly every Sunday to supervise his plantation. He is an other man going to the moon. One of my host neighbors is said to be a relative of Jessie James, the noted out-law, but, unlike Jessie, he is a peaceable and law-abiding citizen. How often do wo seo people of tho same blood us opposite to each other in their natures, us tho North and Houth poles? Nature, like people, is cranky and jumps from one extreme to tho other. Here is an example. In Father Bachelor’s family thero were only two children, and tho other one was a girl. From her child hood she was industrious and relig ious, but I have always been regarded as the black sheep. Every family is said to have a black sheep, or one member that does more mischief than all tiie others combined. The very best of people have kin folks of whom they are ashamed, and everybody knows of somo one else whom they think are their inferiors. Helf-conceitedness, like Habbath breaking, may land a lot of u? up in the moon. We’ll be so little up there that people down here wont see us at all. People are about through making mpluses. The yield from sugar cunc was very good. One of our well-to-do fanners reduced the toll on his cane mill from the tenth to the twentieth gallon—an example well worthy of imitation, especially by deacons of the church that own cane mills or any other kinds of machinery. If they arc shining lights for the merci ful Nrzurene they ought to show mercy to his poor subjects. Wnether there is any combine be tween cotton mill owners and buyers to keep the price of cotton down I mn unable to say, but there are good reasons to believe there were a com bine between some guano com panies last spring to swindle the farmers. In Blacksburg an amen corner agent sold two distinct kinds of guano both madu by the same company in Baltimore, under the same brand. One kind was very inferior to the other but was mixed in the car so that the farmers would get sacks of both kinds in taking it out. Nobody suspected that they were being thus swindled until they began putting it in their fields. A guano drummer gave himself away confiden tially that he sold two hundred tons In Gaffney, under precisely the same circumstances. I make mention of this fact in order to give the fanners ample time to protect themselves against such a swindle agu'n next year. Why not patronize a home industry. We have u large factory in Cherokee county with a reliable man at its head. Why can’t our farmers combine and make some ur- ragements to get exactly tho quality of guano they bargain for. There are some people very much imbittered against me for telling so much naked truth in uy letters. Several people have been talking to me about it, and all admit that it is the truth that always hurts. I can’t read a chapter In the Bible without finding something that hurts me, but I don’t fall out with the Lord about It. If people want to get mad with me fur telling the truth let them put their finger lu ffifti/r and take it out and look for the hol^, and they will have an Idea how this World could get along withomt them —just as though they had never lived. Don’t Mn. Waters give poor old bachelon “cold comfort.’* But there Is a world of truth in what she lia-ice with some old blue hen s chick. As a general tiunj, bachelors v.hoare poor and homely and work to make an honest living and who keep them selves within the bounds of common decency, can find but little room in society. But there are sometimes exceptions to rules, and it has been my observation tlmt old bachelors with plenty of money and a smuttv character cun always swim in the so called “bon ton" society. Even young ladies will sometimes snub respectable young men for their cop- pany. Mrs. Waters what do you think of this fashionable society? Young ladies who look with scorn and contempt upon their less for tunate eiisters will take some old smutty fellow by the arm and unblushingly walk right up into God s sanctuary with him. D > they deserve any more r sped than their company? What do you think of these double faced ladies one so of ten meets, who always meet people with u pleasant smile, and yet they will pour out all the venom of their nature upon their best friends when out of thyir presence. In take the general nature of a large majority of women under careful consideration is there much encouragement fora man to enter the realms of matri monial bliss or is there really any bliss in matrimony at all? Is there not a good many ups and downs, trials and tribulations for every un fortunate man that enters into mat rimony? It has been my unhappy lot to no the medium through which a poor dead woman took revenge upon the head of her treacherous lover, hence I am dubious of all wo mankind either dead or alive. Bachelor. The Circus. The John Robinson and Franklin Brothers shows were in the city Thursday and give two performances one in the afternoon and the other at night. The afternoon audience nearly filled the large tents. The perform ance was good, as was also the menag erie but did not come up to tiie per formance of the Walter L. Main show last year. It was a clean show, however, and everything was con ducted in a genteel, business-like manner. There was nu gambling or swindling of any kind and the people, as a general rule, seemed well pleased with the exhibition. -* •— - - —— Smothered in Cotton. Frank, the thr%e year old son of Mr.and Mrs.J. A. Brown, of Ravenna, had the misfortune to lose his life a week ago yesterday by being smoth ered to death. The little fellow waa playing in a lot of cotton and waa digging a tunnel when the cotton caved in on him and smothered him to death. Tho remains were interred Thursday. Mr. and Mrs. Brown have the sympathy of a largo num ber of friends. -• •- Colored Folk’s Day. On Thursday Oct. 2lst the colored people will own the town. On that day a colored excursion from Lancas ter will be in the city over the O. R. & 0. . The colored people of Gaffney are making preparations to give them a royal reception and with that end in view preparations are now -being made to entertain the visitors. - ■— - - To Preach to the Soldiers. Hubbuth evening at 7:30 o'clock Rev. C. E. Robertson will preach a special sermon to the Gaffney Light Infantry at the Presbyterian church, In the morning at 11 o’clock the usual services will be held. Prayer meeting to night at 7 :30 o’clock. A cordial invitation is extended to the public to attend these services. Rain. The long dry spell is past and line rains have fallen. Notwithstanding there has been some damage to the already short cotton crop our people welcome the ruin. Catarrh Cured. No remedy is us effectual in eradi cating and eurin" Catarrh as Botan ic Blood Balm (B. B. B.). It puri fies and enriches the bloo^, elimi nates microbes, bacteria, etc., and builds up the system from the first dose. Thousands of cases of catarrh have been cured by its magic power. For all blood and skin diseases, it has no equal. Buy the old reliable and long tasted remedy, and don’t throw yo.ur money away on substitu tes, palmed off as “just as good." Buy the old’ reliable Botanic Blood Balm. Price $1.00 per large bottle. BAYS IT IK ULOHIOrg. I earn.oi refrain from telling you what a glorious medicine you have. For two year* my mother had suf fered with severs catarrh of the head and ulcerated sore throat. Hhe re sorted to various remedies without effect, until she used Botanic Blood Balm (B. B. B.) which cured her catarrh, and healed her sore throat. W. A. Peep*, Fredonia, ^la., For sale by Cherokos Drug Co. *