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THB LEDGER: GAFFNEY, S. C., NOVEMBER 4, 1897. The: i^etooisi*. Si.oo per Year. PUBUSMED EVERY THTRSUAY BY ED. H. DcCAMP, - Editor. The Ledger is not responsible for *be views of correspondents. Correspondents who do not contri bute regular news letters must fur bish their name, not for publication, but for identification. Write short letters and to the point to insure publication; also endeavor to pet them to the office by Tuesday. 411 correspondence should be ad- tressed to Ed. H. DeCamp, Manager. Obituaries will be published at five cents a line. Cards ot than swill be published at one cent a word. Reading notices will be published At ten cents a line.each insertion. THIS PREACHER IS IN ERROR. A KWit majority of the preachers who have replied to Governor Ellerbe’s circular in regard to the liquor ploblem. favor prolii- tion. One of them (roes so far as to say that drunkenness has increased 100 per cent, since the dispensary started and ’prays that we have no more license or dispensary.— Par- linxtdu News. We do not know anything of tjie condition of the drink question in this particular preacher's locality but it is very evident that he only speaks locally. In the State we believe the liquor habit is on the decline. We know there is not as much drinking now as there was under the bar-room system and we know that under ihe bar-room system the drink habit was on the decrease. Our people are growing better and better and bar rooms or dispensuries or no bar-rooms or dispensaries they will continue to grow better and drink less. As a matter of fact we will for many years to come have among us some who will indulge the liquor hab it but the number is growing less and less every year, and if our ministers will but continue to do their duty in presenting the “word of life” to poor fallen humanity they will hasten the day when the drink habit will be a custom of the past, and their good council will do more to bring about this reform than all the legislation in the world. Men can more easily be persuaded to become temperate than they can be forced, and there is nothing that is more persuasive than is the beau tiful story of the cross told in its simplest manner by a man who can impress his hearers with the idea that he truly believes what he is saying. Supervisor King’s call to tin. 1 66ilbly supervisors of South Carolina to meet on \\ ednesday, November 10th in the State House at Columbia to discuss the public road question is a step in the right direction. We hope Cherokee’s Supervisor can at tend. This county should be repre sented. We need better roads and we should strive to learn all about road building that it is possible to learn. Do not wait until we have spent enough on the old roads we have to build good roads before we begin to improve our roads but go to work at once and build good roads. Inside of twelve or fifteen years we should have splendid macadam roads traversing the whole of Cherokee county. It is only by such methods that we can show our progressive spirit. “The truth is that the sole issue in New York is honesty against the machines. If Low is elected, the machines lose. If Low is beaten, the machines win.” The above is from the Greenville News and is an evidence of the erratic reasoning of Editor Call. The truth of the mutter is that the sole issue was machine against machine and a machine won and seven machines lost. We sus pect Tammany is as pure as any other political organization in New York, or anywhere else for that mat ter. In the case of the Tiger he bus bad a * better change to show his stripes by reason of having been on exhibition for a considerable length of time. Not so with the others. for a child, and it has often seemed to us that the more wayward and reckless was that child the greater was that love. We can’t understand this indiscribable love and devotion, and when the question presents it self we are forced to conclude that it is something more divine than human. Every person in Cherokee, who has the means to spare, should attend the State fair next week. It will be a week of recreation and none have earned a more well desi rved vaca tion than have the tillers of the soil. “All work and no play inakt s Jack a dull boy,” and a week or a few days at the fair will be the thing to shar pen the wits of tiie boy.- and brighten the intellect of the girls. By all means go to the fair and take as many of the family as possible. PRESS OPINION. The United States was shocked on learning last week of the sudden death of Henry George, one of the eight candidates for Mayor of GreuUr New York. Mr. George was a most reaiarkuble man and had achieved bis fame by hi rd labor and strict in tegrity He would probably have been deu u >.ed for the high office to which he aspired, but he was making a brilliant yet sensational campaign. In the fierce battle that was being waged he was a leader, and yet in the midst of it all ho was compelled to lay down the armor of life and cross the dark river. Buck is life. Queer, Isn't it. how anxious our relation! and friends become about us when we atray away from the old home? We have often noted the •re displayed by a father or mother The Union Times and New Era have locked horns over a court house question. Its none of our fight but we would like to know on what kind of hypothesis the New Era can claim that if the old court house is not fit or cannot be made fit for county pur poses it could be of service to the city for city purposes? Surely the county would not wish to put off on the city a piece of property unfit for use and vice versa. “Sow Wheat” should be the talk of every farmer in Cherokee. We understand it is easier for one to sit down and write “Sow Wheat” than it is for one to sow wheat, and that many will say that one should practice what he preaches, etc., hut only the pessimist will indulge in such clatter while the wise farmer will say nothing but go on “sowing wheat.'** Governor Ellerbe has decided that it is unlawful to haul whiskey into this state by wagors. We think the Governor is wrong in this instance. Why have not wagons as much right to haul whiskey as the railroads? We do not say that the railroads should do it, but one should have as much right as the other. Publisher Aull should not display his temper because the brethren of the press have not published his prospectus. It is too long. Bes'des the request to publish it savors of the advertising agency style of doing bu siness. Would he print an ad free? »Ve hope not. Messrs. J. 8. Newman and E. II. Aull are to publish an agricultural paper. Prof. Newman who is con nected with Clemson College, will be the editorand Mr. Aull the publisher. The first issue is to appear on Novem ber loth* ^ Enterprising business men in Co lumbia have just completed a hand some $100,000 hotel. When will the enterprising business men of Gaffney undertake the erection of a suitable hotel for the growing capital of Cher okee? The Baptist brethren of this sec tion of Cherokee—and they are legion —had a great time last week. The Sunday School convention and the Baptist Rally were both pranounccd successes. Diversify your crops. The back bone of this nation—of the world for that matter—are the agricuiuralista. We want them to succeed and the only way to do it is to diversify. Brother Bioham : The State char ter reads Gaffney City, while Uncle Sam calls it Gaffney. We prefer the latter but you are at liberty to take your choice. E. ■- 1 -■ At last Mr. Norton has resigned. It would have been more manly for him to have done so earlier but it is better late than never. It is no use for the O. P. shops to I “wait for the wagon” any longer, i Governor Ellerbe has decided that no I original packages can take a ride in that style of vehicle.—Columbia Register. * * * The prospects are that the cylin drical cotton bale will soon take place of the old shape, giving the farmers a great advantage, as it saves the cost of ties and does away with bag ging.—Sumter Freeman. * * * A reluctant retreat before the in evitable is rarely ever gracefully done. Some men fight prohibition in favor of local option, until they see local option cornihg, then they fight local option in favor of high li cense.—Chester Lantern. * * * In the West the price of wheat is high and money is plentiful. In the South the price of cotton is low and money is scarce. If under tiie gold standard wheat is high, is it because of the gold standard that cotton is low?—Greenville News. * * * Either the heart or the mind of the man who does not see in the liquor question a great problem, is seriously affected. He who witmsses the misery, want and crime caused by drink and scoffs and jeers and jests at the righteous cause of temperance has lost his conscience, or a good part of it, and he who cannot see in the drink habit a great evil must have lost his mind.—Bamburg Her ald. * * * One story is that Senator Tillman, of South Carolina, has Bright’s dis ease; another, that it is catarrh of the stomach. At all events he is sick and laid up at home. If he should die there would be great joy and great lamentation in South Caro lina. There is no occasion in his sickness, however, for either expec tancy or apprehension, for men like Tillman don’t die—that is, not early. —Charlotte Observer. —» « The Enquirer is Sarcastic. (Yorkville Enquirer.] The publishers of Maury’s geogra phy are bragging about having got ten out the first map of South Caro lina showing the new counties of Cherokee, Greenwood, Saluda, Bam berg, and Dorchester. While it is a fact that the achievement shows considerable enterprise in the school book publishing line, we are in doubt as to whether these people are enti tled to very warm congratulation. If they undertake to keep up with all subsequent changes in the map of South Carilina, they will have quite a task. The facility with which new counties may now be formed is such as to tax even the enterprise of the daily newspapers to keep up with the changes. How's This! We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward for any case of utarrb that eunuot be cured by Hall’s Catarrh Cure. F. J. CHENEY & CO.. Props.. Toledo, O. We. the undersltred. have known F. J. Cheney for the last 1A years, and believe him perfectly honorable tn all business transactions and fluuncially able to curry out any obllKations made by their firm. V\ kst Si Tbuax, Wholesale DruKKlsts, To ledo. O. Waldikg. Kinkan & Makvim, Wholesale Drusnrlsts. Toledo. O. Hall's utarrh uru is taken Internally, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. Price TAc. per bottle. Sold by all druggists. Testimonials free. Halls Family Pills are the best. ------ - » Croup. Colds, LaGrtppe and Ho re Throat, cured by Goose Grease—no cure no pay. DcPhi Dkuo Co. —t- — . Dsa't Tobaeea Spit sad Smoke Tsar Mfs Away. To quit tobacco easily and forever, be maff netlc. full of life, nerve and vigor, take No-To- Uac. the wonder-worker, that makes weak mej strong. Alt druggists, 60c or 91. Cure guaran teed Booklet and sample free. Address Sterling Kenedy Co, Chicago or Wow York. We sell and guarantee Rice’s Goose Greas I.lnament—no cure no pay. CtiEuoitig Dado Co. What is Scott’s Emulsion? e It Is a strengthening food and tonic, remarkable in its flesh-form ing properties* It contains Cod- liver Oil emulsified or partially digested, combined with the well- known and highly prized Hypo- phosphites of Lime and Soda, so that their potency is materially increased* WhatWillHDo? It will arrest loss of flesh and restore to a normal condition the infant, the child and the adult* It will enrich the blood of the anemic; will stop the cough, heal the irrita tion of the throat and lungs, and cure incipient consumption* We make this statement because the experience of twenty-five years has proven it in tens of thousands of Cases* Be sure you gel SCOTT'S Emulsion. 50c. and f 1.00, all druggists. SCOTT * BOWNE, Chatnisu, New York. Piedmont Savings and Investment Company, GREENVILLE. 8. C. This company has money to lend on Gaff ney real estate. Our loan plan Is cheaper and more snttsfuctorv than Uni plans of any building and loan association offered In the State. For our loan circulars, which tell wll about our loan plan, cull on J. O. Jefferies, Esq., our local attorney. (Ulo-tf J. E. WEBSTER, Attorney-A. t> Office In Court House. (Probate Judge’s offiec( Gaffney City, S. C. Practice* in all the courts. Collec tions a soeclaltr. Color Tints. It ia interesting to know the real meaning of tho various color tints with which we arc familiar today. Tho ma jority think tho titles are bestowed hap hazard, but it is not so. Each one in traceable to a well defined origin. For instance, mastic, tho fashionable gray tan shade, is named after tho mastic tree which grows in Greece, tho gum of which it resembles in color. Blue black is in honor of tho charcoal that comes from tho vino stock. India ink is made from burned camphor. Scarlet is iodine of mercury. Chinese white iazitic. Tur key red is made from tho madder plant that thrives in Hindustan. For Indian yellow we are indebted to tho camel, and for sepia to tho cuttlefish. Tho lat ter is an inky fluid the fish discharges when attacked in order to make the water opaque. The vivid crimsons, ear- mines and reddish purples are all fur nished by the cochineal insects. The beautiful prussiun blue is achieved by fusing horses’ hoofs and other refuse animal matter in a strong solution of potassium carbonate. Vermilion is from the ore cinnabar, gamboge from the yellow sap of a tree in Siam. Bister is the soot of wood ashes, and raw sienna is tho natural earth from tho vicinity of Siena, Italy. Umber is also an earth found close by Umbria.—Table Talk. A Cliineae Secret Society. The Chinese secret society the Ko- lao-Hui, which is answerable for sc much of the antiforeign agitation, ex ercises a perfect terrorism over its mem bers. One of the rioters at Wusnch was tortured to try to extract the names ol the ringleaders belonging to tho society, but nothing could be wrung from him. “My life,ho said to his judges, “is forfeited in any case. If I tell you the names the Ko-laos will kill me and the whole of my family and wipe my name off tho face of the earth. If I remain firm, you will kill me, but tho Ko-laos will take caro of my family.” These terrible organizations recruit members in a very unscrupulous fash ion. One way is for a man to go round tho various kitchens selling cooking utensils and telling each purchaser that he need not pay till ho has proved the wares—perhaps not for a year, only be must sign the peddler’s book. The next day tho peddler calls again and shows tho unlucky cook that he has signed the membership roll of a secret society and henceforth must consider himself at its service. “The worst cold I ever had in my life was cured by Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy,” writes \V. H. Nor ton, of Sutter Creek, Cal. “This cold left me with a cough and I was ex pectorating ali the time. The Reme dy cured me, and I want all of my friends when troubled with a cough or cold to use it, for it will do them good.” Sold by DuPre Drug Com pany. Bonds, notice. For Officers—.ludI dais,Executors. Ad ministrators’ and Contractors,at short For Sale rci^Aiv kstatg; 1 lot 80x200 ft. on Logan street. The Dr. Homes Snxim house with fine gar den, stables and outbuildings attached. 5 room cottage on Limestone street. S room cottage on Gaines street, with splen did garden. 2 vacant lots 011 Gaines street. 1 splendid farm containing 50 acres M miles from City Hall. 1 house and 5 acres located at Limestone Springs. 1 new 6-room Cottage East Logan street. AO-acre farm within city limits, at a bargain. 80-acre farm 1 mile from the city. stock:© 14 shares Gaffney City Land and Improve ment Co., stock. 5 shares Blacksburg Land and Improvement Co. 10 Shares Lockhart Cotton Mill Stock, 3 Shares Richland Cotton Mill Stock. 3 Shares Victor Cotton Mill Stock. A0 Shares Limestone Springs Lime Co. stock. 74 shares stock Gaffney Alfg. Co. Insurance! 1 represent none but the best of Fire Life and Acc ident Insurance Companies. Am prepared to furnish cyclone and tor nado Insurance at moderate cost. Your patronage will be duly appreciated G. SStacy* TAX NOTICE! Cherokee County.. I will be at the following places for tho purpose of collecting taxes: Treasurer's office from Oct. 15th to Nov. 1st. Wilklnsvllle. Tuesday Nov. 2nd. Sarratts. Wednesday Nov. 3. Asbury, Thursday Nov. 4. White Plains. Friday Nov. A. Thlckety. Saturday Nov. 6. Ezells, Tuesday Nov. k. Maud. Wednesday Nov. 10. Blacksburg, Thursday & Friday Nov. 11-12. Kings Creek. Wednesday Nov. 17. Cherokee Falls. Thursday Nov. 18. Treasurer's office from Nov. IB to Dec. 31. L.KVY FOR CHEROKEE TOWNSHIP NO. 1. For State purposes A mills. For constitutional school tax 3 mills. For ordinary county and past indebted ness mills. Total 11H mills. Interest on 3C. R. R. bonds 1 mill. For Blacksburg graded school district No. 1, 4 mills. LEVY TOR (JOWPEYVII.I.E AND DRAYTON VILLI TOWNSHIPS. For State purposes A mills. For constllutfonal school tax 3 mills. For ordinary county tax 4 mills. For Interest on R. R. bonds 2!4 mills. For sinking fund to retire bond* 8 mills. For road tsx 1 mill. Total 17M. LEVY TOR LIMESTONE. WHITE PLAINS AND CHEROKEE KO. 2. For State purposes A mills. For const!'utlonal school tax 3 mills. For ordln-.ry count* tax 3 mills. Lor interest on R. if bonds D« mills. Lor sinking fund 1 mill. For new jail H mill. For county road h mill. Total I4V4 mills. At the same time and places I will collect the commutation tax In those townships In which said tax Is due. „ _ , „ „ J. B. JoKaa, Co. Treas. Gaffney, S. C . Sept , 80th. 1007- Big Magnets For Hoisting iron. It is known that for soino time past electro magnets have been used at Wool, wich for hoisting shells and for other purposes. It appears that these can be advantageously employed for handling plates in plate mills. A recent installa tion of electro magnets for this purpose has proved remarkably successful. A primary difficulty was encountered in tho circumstance of the magnets pick ing up too many plates at one time, as the magnetism was carried for some distance through the pile. The diffi culty, however, was found to be readily overcome by a little dexterity on the part of the operator. After the magnet has been lowered on to a pile of plates and several plates have been taken up together, the operator simply pulls the switch out, thereby breaking the cur rent for an instaut ' By this operation one or two plates can be dropped off at each breaking of the current, sufficient residual magnetism remaining with the plates next to the magnet to hold them until the current is switched on again. The operation is continned until only one plate is attached. With double polo magnets up to five tons can be safely handled, taking four amperes at 240 volts.—Loudon Industries and Iron. Something to Depend On. Mr. James Jones, of the Drug firm of Jones & Son, Cowden, 111., in speaking of Dr. King’s New Discov ery, says that last winter his wife was attacked with the La Grippe, and her case grew so serious that physi cians at Cowden and Pana could do nothing for her. It seemed to de velop into Hasty Consumption. Having Dr. King’s New Discovery in the store, and selling lots of it, he took a bottle home, and to the surprise of all she began to get better from first dose, and half dozen dollar bottles cured'her sound and well. Dr. King’s New Discovery for Consumption, Coughs and Colds is guaranteed to do this good work. Try it. Free trial bottles at DuPre Drug Co's. M. CHAS. A. JEFFERIES, Physician and Surgeon. SPECIALTIES:—SURGERY, EYE, EAR and THROAT. |2<Y* Office, Cherokee Drug Co’s Store Telephone No. 40. Dr. C. T. LIPSCOMB, Dentist, Office over R. A. Jones ft Go 's Store. Can he found at office six days In the week. DR. J. F. GARRETT, Dentist, Gaffney, - - - S. C. Office over J. R. Tolleson’s new store In office from 1st to 2Gth of each month; At Blacksburg Thursday morning each week, returning to office at 2 :30 T. STOBO FARROW, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, OAF'KXEY, - - - 8. C. Associated with Bomar & Simpson. Spartanburg. S. C. Munroft Munro. Union. S. C. Hart & Hart. Yorkville, S. C. IV. W. HARDIIV, , ATTORNEY AT LAW, HlaclcRburg: and Gaffney, &. C. W ILL practice In all the Courts. I can lie reached over the ’phone from Car- roll & Stacy’s Bank, at my office In Blacks burg. at any moment. O. L. SCHUMPERT. THOS. B. BUTLEK. \Yh. McGowan. SCHUMPERT,} BUTLER a * McGOWAN, A.TTOm« e YH-AX-X. AW. Union and Gaffney, S. C. Very careful and prompt attention given to all liustness entrusted to us. tar’Practtce in all the courts. *The Cherokee Barber Shop.* 8. W. TAIvIvY, Prop. Razors Keen and Towela Clean. I respectfully solicit the patronage of my old customers, at my new stand, rear of Clarkson ft Smith’s Confectionery. J. G. Spencer, Headquarters for Buggies, Carriages, Harness, Collars, Saddles, Bridles, Hal ters, Lap Robes, Horse Blankets Brushes, Currycombs, Defend ers, Harness Polish, and every- tliing usually sold in a first class horse millinery establishment. Terms to suit. Prices right. Call on me. A. N. WOOD, BANKER, does a general Banking and Exchange buaineaa. Well secured with Burglar- Proof safe and Automatic Time Lock. Safety Deposit Boxes at moderate rent. Buys and aella Stocks andBonds. Buys County and School Claims. Your business solicited. Royal makes the food pure, wholesoaic and delicic &AKIN0 POWDER Absolutely Pure ROYAL BAKING POWDCR CO., NEW YORK. They Will Have a N ce Time. [Greenville News. A pair of additional special consta bles have be n appointed by the Gov ernor to enforce the dispensary law in the country districts. The State of South Carolina contains about thirty-three thousand five hundred square miles of “country districts,” and we wish the four additional con stables joy in the task of suppressing the tigers in this area. Read This. I will sell you anything in the way of dry goods, hats, slices and groceries as cheap as they can he sold by anyone. I have just got in 10 doz. of my cele brated Keen Clipper axes ; every axe warranted, call and see them —cheap. I will sell you good coffee 10 lbs for .$1. 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