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-+J. C. JEFFERIF.5,4- jOAPPNEY, S. C. Attorney Counsellor at Law. Practices in All tha Courts. Collections a Specialty. HE ¥ > f "' T? • “ ii Ledger Readers Patronize Ledger Advertisers. A Newspaper in all that the Word Implies and Devoted to the Best Interests of the People of Cherokee County. VOL. IV, NO. 4f. GAFFNEY CITY. S. C., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1897 $1.00 A VEAL. ETCHINGS FROM ETTA JANE BY THE SAGE OF LOWER CHER OKEE. He Talks of Men and Measures in His Usual Interesting Style and Give the News of His Neighborhood. ( .ience of The Ledger.) Etta*' m*, Nov. 22.—From Mr. A. B. Crosby, of Sliaron, we had a pleasant visit last Saturday. Rev. Janie's Russell, the Evange list, of Bethel Presbytery, preached at Hickory Grove yesterday. His text was John 12:3. His discourse was in upon woman’s usefulness church work; what she has done and can do. I am sorry all the good ladies of this country could not be present and hear it. It is not often that they get credit for what their sex have done and are still doing, but I think Dr. Russell’s discourse yes terday completely vindicated them. [i I had the pleasure of meeting many of my old York county friends at Hickory Grove yesterday. I am glad to note that the health of the community is very good at present. * I find a tot of cotton in the field on the York side of the river. Messrs. Horton and Hammett, of Maud, passed through this section last Saturday from a visit to Morgan Horton, of Olive. Our Methodist brethren are mak ing preparations to build a church at Flint Hill, near Mr. 0. C. Davis They are being encouraged and help ed by other denominations, which is right. Our worthy solicitor, Hon. J. K. Henry, is perhaps the proudest man in the judicial district—a bouncing bov has been added to his family. Mrs. C. W. Whishant has the largest pig I have seen this seasou. It will weigh at least 400 pounds. We ought to speak kind words of our friends and neighbors now, for it costs too much to put them on tombstones after they are dead. Our people finished ginting the firs^ installment of their cotton crop last week. The remainUer will not •mount to a great deal. The cburch-going people will ob serve Thanksgiving day next Thurs day, 25th Inst., and bird hunters will ply their vocation too The Ledger still continues to im prove in its mechanical make-up. Its cuts of the public men in the county and town have been quite recognizable until last week, when we beard a reader say that Dr. Gar rett was the “ugliest picture for a white man be ever seen.” The doc tor is a good looking man and I am inclined to think that my friends’ eyesight is failing him. Miss Ethel Strain has got a type writer. Our friends who see proper to crit icise the church session of Salem “for being too easily satisfied” in the disturbance affair list summer have a perfect right to speak out in meeting if they wish, without the least danger of being noticed by anybody. While the best element of society sustain a cause the best of us esn afford to go that way. This we have done—nothing more or noth ing less. An observant Bible reader has no ticed that “east-wind” occurs in the Scriptures 22 times—19 of which it is spoken of in a disparaging manner. The weather last week was cool and frosty, and those who have fat hogs feel somewhat inclined to try sausage. The fate of Prof. Andree, the aero nautic explorer, is still in doubt. His air craft is supposed to have been seen from the Spitzbergan coast Sept. 23rd. The scientific world will wait anxiously for his re port. The colored people speak of' re moving Pine Grove church near to Mr. Lem Brown’s place, where they will build a good house in which to worship. If ever there was a time when felt called upon to ask immunity for our farmers it is now, when their hard earned products are being sacri ficed in such a low market. But the merchant is powerless to help them and save himself. Thrtre is a spirit of restlessness agi tating our people that forbodes trouble. A panic generally precedes a revolution, anyway. The answer to our whiskey proof problem of week before last has beoB sent In by William Moore, Marion 8loun, Miss Ellen McNair and Robert McGinnis. It is 31 4I-C1 per cent (or proof) in No. 2. and C8 23-04 per cent (or proof) in No. 2 What is the square root of .0009 multiplied by .04? Last week your correspondent was called upon, officially, to investigate and certify as to the loss of Mr Smith Wood, whose house w»s burned on the nvrnitjg of October 4th. and he found tliut many of the rumoA seriously refiecliuj upon Mr. Wood were either too thin to expose or absolutely false, and it is with much pleasure that we can say that quite a number of certificates and affidavits were made and filed by some of the best men in Union or Cherokee counties tending to excul pate Mr. Wood. The matter is now before the proper authorities and perhaps will be thoroughly investi gated. as it should be. Some of our people went to Gaffney last week and sold cotton. As the time for Congress to con vene is fast approaching we must take the proper steps to put our National Park, at Cowpens, in such shape as to secure the attention of our National Legislature. We must have a plat of the land and an esti mate of its value. Let those who feel an interest in this matter meet at the court house in Gaffney, on Tuesday 30th instant, at, 11 a. m. for the purpose of taking the initiatory steps to bring this matter to the attention of Congress by appointing a committee to confer with the real estate owners of, and contiguous to the Cowpen’s battle ground as to its area and valuation so that there will be no hitch or cause of delay, when the matter is brought before that body. Let our members of Congress and United States Senators, too, be invited to attend the meeting on that day and let us urge upon them to have the federal government recognize, pre serve and decorate afield upon which its own existence was made possible by the shedding of human blood. Let this committee, if possible, re pair immediately to the Cowpen’s battle ground and make a survey of the premises and draw up plans and specifications to submit to Congress so that that body can act intelligent ly in the matter. The people of Cherokee county owe this to them selves and their posterity, and let them act promptly and properly. We hope that the citizens of adjoin- ng counties in this State as well as contiguous sections of North Carolina will feel that they have a common interest in this more and will attend the meeting. One of the hardest things in the world for us to do is to prove we are right by proving somebody else is wrong. It is said that the art of making one happy without money has been discovered. If that is so there are many people who would like to be experimented upon. The editor of the Murfreesboro, Tenn., News thus accounts for bard times: “We let our timber rot and buy fencing. We throw away our ashes and grease, and buy soap; we raise dogs and buy hogs; we raise weeds and buy vegetables; we catch five cent fish with four-dollar rods; we build schoolhouses and send our children off to be educated; and, lastly, we send our boys out with a forty-dollar gun and a ten-dollar dog to hunt ten-cent birds”. As cousin Fogan Martin says, “watch,” and see if it isn't true. The next meeting of the United Confederate Veterans will take place in Atlanta, Ga., July 21st and 22nd 1898. After this week very little cotton will be left in the patch to be picked out. The Cotton Grower's Association, of South Carolina, which was organ ized in Columbia week before last is a move in the right direction. Its proceedings have the ring of pure metal and its expressed sentiments ure those of every citizen from the merchant prince to the wage earner, whether he be white or colored. In this movement there can be no fric tion, as alt the several interests in the county and state are practically centered in the success of the farmer and all can work harmoniously through him, advance his interest in order to advance thejr own. As meetings have been called for the several counties in the State to meet in convention at their respec tive court houses on the first Mon day in December, to take such action as in their judgment will redound to the good of the farmers and through them every other industry in the land, it is right that the county of Cherokee fall in line. too. The beauty of this movement and that which promises its success is, that no one interest or industry is antag onizing that of another, but that all are invited to cooperate with the far mer and through him succeed them selves. We hope all sections of the county will be heard from through next week’s Lodger. The highest common factor of two uumbers is 173, and the least com mon multiple 15224; one of the num bers is 1384. What is the other. Every farmer In the county can raise sheep if he will do so. Leave them to go with the milch sows and they will be no trouble, any fence that will keep the cows will hold the sheep. Besides, the dogs will not trouble them. Let us have more sheep and reduce the price of woolen goods. | l Home one has said that men are the salt of the earth. If that is so, the women are its sugar. Napoleon’s mother on being asked which one of her children she loved the most, answered, ••the one that needs me most.” That’s the senti ment of all mothers who ar<» worthy of the name. Farmers can’t be too careful in selecting their seed wheat. The ex perience of most farmers is that the branded variety is the surest crop, yet it does not always give the larg est yield. Mr. “Rush” Dover, of the firm of F. H. Dover and Son. tobscoo manu facturers, of Grover, was in this sec tion last week on business. This firm is located in Cherokee county and works as one of its industrial en terprises. We bespeak for them a liberal share of our people's patron age. There was a full turn out at the meeting of the C. E. Society at Mrs. Amanda Lee’s last night. I am glad to (enow that our good friend Mr. Jonathan Buice.of Hickory Grove, is doing well on hia farm. “Johnnie” is one of the best farmers in upper Carolina and in a few years, with good health and fortune, will be independent. He has a whole family of boys growing up before whom he is setting a noble example of how to work. J. L. s. Talks From Texas. (Correspondence of The Ledger.) Devine, Tex., Nov. 4.—I have been thinking of writing to .The Ledger for some time but have neglected it. We are always glad to see Saturday come so we can get it—all hands and the cook want to read it at once. I like to read the sketches of the offi cers of Cherokee county, for I was quite familiar with some of them in my boyhood days. In reading the life of my friend, J. B. Ross, I would like to make some corrections. Ross was a successful school tcuchcr as well as farmer. I remember well when I used to go to school to him. He sure made us walk'tbe chalk line. I also remember your Representative. We used to go to the little old mill down below Limestone Springs fogether. His picture iu The Ledger looks quite natural. I would like to visit Gaffney this winter but as McKinley prosperity has come to us in the shape of four and a half cents cotton I will not be able to do so. We are making good crops of cotton but it is worth nothing. Our gin has ginned 1,200 bales of cotton this fall and will gin 500 more. So you will see that we are making good crops of cotton. Our town has shipped 2,500 or 3,000 bales this year. Cattle are selling at a good price, steer yearlings at $12 ahead and slock cattle at $15 around. Every thing is down to bedrock prices. I have just returned from the Baptist Convention at San Antonio. It was indeed a grand meeting of Baptists from all over the country. Over 5,000 people attended. While in the city I visited the Alamo Mis-ion, “The Slaughter Pen,” of Texas, We went all through the historic building. I was in the room where Bowie lay sick during the massacre. I could have seen the old Mexican woman who nursed Bowie during his last ill ness and who, so she says, was hold ing him up giving him a drink, when the Mexican soldiers entered. She is still living and is said to be 115 years old. Her yonngest child, who lives with her. Is 60. I also saw the horse shoe which Crockett had put on bis horse in Tennessee. San Antonio is indeed an historic city. I saw in The Ledger some time ago, from Rosedale, Summerville county, Tex., a letter advising South Caroli nians to stay away from Texas. I think J. J. H. has done the state and people of Texas an injustice, for al though we do not want anyone to come to Texas who does not want to, yet we welcome all who wish come to our great state. Texas is certainly the grandest state in the Union. We have an excitement here over the high prices charged for ginning. We pay $3.50 for 5201b bales and 80 cents additional for every lOOibs over that, bagging and ties included. We vould like to hear from Lrdger writ ers on this subject, also the prices charged for ginning in South Caro lina. w. M. D. Cures Kidney and Bladder Troubles. Thousands of such cases have been cured by the use of Botanic Blood Balm (B. B. B.) If you doubt it, call or send to the Company whose adver tisement appears in this paper, and they will, for a one cent stamp, send you a book of wonderful cures, not only of the above diseases, but of all manner of ailments arising from Im pure blood. It is the standard rem edy of the age for the cure of all blood and skin diseases. $1.00 per large bottle. CURED WITH TWO BOTTLES. J. A. Maddox, Atlanta, Ga., writes: “1 had great trouble in passing urine, which was fille-d with sedimenls. My back and loins gave me much pain, and 1 lost my appetite, strength, and flesh. I became nervous and unable to sleep. Two bottles of Botanic Blood Balm (B. B. B.) gave me entire relief.” 8. M. Ellis, Atlanta, Ga., writes: “Botanic Blood Balm (B. 1). B.) cured me of most stubborn eczraa. I had doctored it without euccess for twelve years.” For sale by druggists. DIVERSIFY YOOR CROPS. THIS PICTURE HAS A ROSY HUE. The Difference Between Raising Home Supplies and the All Gotten Method of Faiming Prac tically Illustrated. ]News uml Courier.) The cotton growers in onw of the richest sections of the State, who, as reported a few days ago, will have to abondon their farms and work for wages, because of the low price of cotton and their resulting bad plight which will prevent them from getting “advances” next year; our corres pondent, J. N. D, ;all cottontots; young men in quest of work, and peo ple generailv, who think that farm ing in South Carolina is an unprofita ble business, should never hereafter lose sight for a day of the facts re- po*-ted by Mr. T. J. Moore, of Spar tanburg. astotb? farming of Mr. David H. Rush in Orangeburg Coun ty this year. Mr. Moore mot Mr. Rush, an old one-armed Confederate, at the State Fair, and “incidentally asked him how he had succeeded with his farm ing operations this year”—expecting probably to hear in reply that “times are very hard” in Orangeburg County and especially on Mr. Rush’s farm, that “cotton is low,” and that he will have great trouble in “getting supplies of corn and meat from the town merchants to make a crop next year,” and feels like “giving up farm ing as a bad business,” and trying to “find something to do” in town or in the political line. That was not what he heard, however. He heard instead that Mr. Rush had “made enough corn to last him for two years.” Had made enough wheat, and sugar cane syrup, and rice, to feed all his people for a year. Had made “great quantities of potatoes.” Had supplied, from his own smoke house, all his “hands” with all the meat they needed “without purchas ing a pound” for them. And #hile his neignbors were not sowing oats last fall he bad sowed them, bad made 40 bushels to the acre, and had within the past week or ten days “sold 700 bushels to his neighbors for seed.” And. besides all this, he had planted 140 acres in cotton, which had “made 150 bales, averag ing 500 pounds each,” 21 acres hav ing “made 39 bales, or at the rate of □early two bales to the acre. What a record it is of Intelligent and provident farming, as distin guished from the irrational, reckless and “gambling” methods pursued by the confirmed cottontot, and what a difference in the results and rewards achieved and won under the two sys tem! On the one hard is t.h ! s pros perous and prospering “farmer,” with his farms, and bees and smoke bouse and store house, overflowing with corn and wheat and oats and rice and potatoes, and syrup to feed his family and working force for an other year or two, and 150 J)ales of cotton to sell, when he is ready to sell them, instead of asking any man’s leave; and on the other hand, aye the all-cotton growers, with their cotton already sold, or belonging to somebody else, and their barns and smoke houses bare, and with nearly all their supplies of wheat and corn and oats and potatoes and rice and syrup and meat and all the rest to buy on credit, at ruinous interest, or their farms to be abandoned outright if some merchant will not take pity on their forlorn state and “advance” to them what they need to keep soul and body together for another year, and until they can beg for like favors again. There are many of these un fortunates in the State, unhappy for them and for the State, and it is a pity that the lesson which their one- armed, but double-brained neighbor has set for them could not be set be fore their eyes, every one. The news papers of the State should spread it as far as they can. The cold facts it presents, of the merits and value of the “hog and hominy”—and wheat and oats and rice and potatoes and syrup—policy are more convincing than all the arguments and plead ings and advice that can bo printed in a life time. They cannot be an swered, or explained away, or for gotten. They abouid be brought to the attention of every all-cotton grower who can read, und dots rea l, the newspapers, or who can be brought to hear the story told to him at a fair or a Farmers' Institute or a precinct club meeting. Mr. Kush should be invited to de liver an address at the Cheraw Fair next week. So also sbonld Mr. McClain, of York county, who as re ported a few days ago, began farming five years ago, and iin<* made, by deep ploughing, 2.500 bushels of corn and 115 bales of cotton this year, on worn- out red, hard grouud, on which weeds would not grow two years ngo with “liberal fertilizing.” They should be induced to lecture this winter wherever any company of cot ton farmers can be collected to hear them. They know how to farm aod have made it pay and pay well. What they know other fanners can learn from them. What they have done other farmers can do, under their inspection and instruction, and after their example. Think what South Carolina would be in a few years if all its cottontots were con verted into Rushes and McClains! Let Us Love one Another. (Correspondence of The Ledger.) It is even so that a good many men are spending their lives in the service of small things in obscure places and occasionally allowing themselves to grow restless over the narrowness of their own thoughts. If they did but know it the fact is they have a lot of time for reading and writing and improving their minds, but do they do it? In last week’s Ledger is asked, what has become of Banjo Lu and Brother Bacl^alor? I am only in sympathy with them, Banjo Lu is so forgetful that Ivq very often forgecs whether he is i$ the midst of the road or on the ^fide walk, whether in a mud hole or on a straw bed. And as for Bachelor he is so absent mind ed that he seems to think of women as a parcel of frogs sitting on the side of a mill pond ready at the sight of man to jump into the water nut of sight. Bachelor says he’s been laid on the shelf with a cold. If I was a better I would not be afraid to bet all he and I are worth, he very readily accepted some woman’s help whether good or bad. It has been said that every good man leaves a track of light behind him as he pass es through the world, but we so sel dom see the track. We pity more than blame Banjo Lu and Bachelor, for we honestly be lieve that if a few women were to get after them they would like Balaam’s ass or other animal cry out what have we done unto the.e Bachelor wants to know what I think of fashionable society women, I am not fairly prepared to do that question justice as I do not under stand It. But if observation gives any li$kt on the subject,that is seeing peopl&give their hand to the preacher aaying they had given their heart to God and that they were done with all so callsd worldly amusements, and then before a week go to a ball and dance all right and brag on how many ••eets”thuy danced, now if that is fashionable society, I, for one, am ready to take It like an old sock and ravel it all out aod bundle it up and throw it into an old unused well where eveo dogs couldn’t scratch it up even if they bad any use for it. Bachelor says a woman without grace is a curse to the whole human race. There would be no human race If it were not for women. Bache lor, show me a drunken woman, and then show me ten men out of one thousand but what takes, “I must have my dram,” even very often to drunkeness. Again he says talk about the kind sympathy and the tender love of a woman’s heart but give them power and they are 16 to 1 more oppressive thau men. Well,.I dont know hut in stead of sending missionaries to China, according to Bachelor’s writ ing, it would b# well enough to send some to Buffalo. Oh, deliver me from such men that are so opposed to women. Though the likelihood is that there is something very wrong in their own character and conduct that would sufficiently explain when known. The world on the whole does not intend to be unjust in its dealings. Mrs. A. Ann Waters. "A Modern Ananias.” [Abbeville Medium.) Governor Ellerbe recently sent out circulars of inquiry to the preachers oj this State to find out their views on the dispensary law. Amongotber things he inquired whether drunken ness had increased or diminished un der the operations of the law. To show how little value the answers to these inquiries have it is enough to give what a preacher in the eastern part of this State replies. He says that drunkenness has in creased five hundred per cent under the operations of the dispensary law. There are 22 allusions in the Bi ble to the east wind, 19 of them be ing of a disparaging character. Household Gods. The ancient Greeks believed that the Penates were the gods who at tended to the welfare and prosperity of the family. These were worshipped as household goods in every home. The household god of to-day is Dr. King’s New Discovery. For consump tion, cough, colds and for all affec tions of Throat. Chest and Lungs it is invaluable. It has been tried fora quarter of a century and is guaranteed to cure, or money returned. No house •houid be without thie good angel. It is pleasant to take and a safe and sure remedy for old and young Free trial bottles at DuPre Drug Cu. FATAL TRAGEDY IN TEXAS. OUTCOME OF BAYLOR UNIVER SITY SCANDAL. Judge and Editor Meet on Streets of Waco and Fight—The Editor and His Brother Killed, Judge Wounded. St. Loots, Nov. 19.—A special to The Republic from Waco, Texas, says: J. W. Harris, editor of the Waco Times Herald, a tnurning paper, and W. A. Harris, bis brother, on one side, and Judge G. B. Gerald, a prominent citizen, fought on the street this afternoon at o o’clock. W. A, Harris was suet dead, J. W. Harris wounded fatally, his body- being paralyzed, and Gerald shot in the side. He may die. The trouble was the outcome of the mobbing of W. C. Brann, publisher of The Icono- claot. Gerald was ex-county judge and one of Waco’s most prominent citi zens. He had written a bitter criti cism on Baylor university, with ref erence to the recent mobbing of W. C. Brann, and had filed it with Edi tor Harris for publication. After ward he asked to hare his manu script returned and became incensed at the editor’s delay in complying. Bad feeling resulted and when Judge Gerald was crossing the street at the corner of Fourth and Austin streets at 5 o’clock. Editor Harris came out of a drug store and opened fire. Hearing the shooting, XV. A. Harris came upon the {scene und took a hand in the fusilade, shooting Gerald from behind. Gerald pursued him into the drug store, shooting as he ran. Harris fell to the floor with these words! “You shot me iu the back.” Gerald emptied the remaining chambers iu his pistol into the pros trate form of bis victim, killing him on the spot. Gerald then left the scene. A little colored boy who stood near was shot in the leg by a stray bullet. Editor Harris was carried into the drug store by friends. His windpipe had been severed by a bullet which injured his spinal column. He was removed to his home, but cannot live. Judge Gerald was wounded in the neck and side. While serious, his wounds cannot be said to be neces sarily fatal. The above is an Associated Press dispatch clipped from the Columbia State. Mr. W. A. Harris was a son- in-law of our fellow-townsman, Capt. W. H. Richardson. Judge Gerald i» partially paralyzed and it has been necessary to amputate one of his arms. The version given by a number of eye witnesses to a reporter of thw Waco Times-Herald is to the effect, that Judge Gerald’s attack on W. A, Harris was most cowardly, he shoot ing Mr. Harris in the back, while the latter was in the hands of an officer. Waco, Texas, Nov. 23.—The Rev. Harry Carroll, who preached the funeral oration over W. A. and J. W. Harris, created a sensation by de nouncing in unbridled language the cause of the tragedy. He referred to the bad blood which had been en gendered by W.C.Braun’s Iconoclast, and its assaults on Baylor University. Continuing the narrative to the inci dents of Friday, he declared that the Harris brothers bad died at their posts in the discharge of their duties. The card which they had refused to publish for Col. Gerald, the preacher said, was slanderous. He asserted that so long as the Iconoclast is permitted to con tinue its anarchistic course, just so long will it be responsible for disasters and the wringing of hearts. Death of a Good Woman. On Monday, November 15th Mrs. Emma Bailey passed away, at the ago of fifty eight years, after a lingering illness. Deceased had been a mem ber of the Baptist church for thirty* fiv« years and had lived a consistant christain life. She died in the faith of a Crusified Redeemer. Just before she passed away she stated that she was not afraid to die. ’The remains were carried to the cemetery and there interred to await the sum mons on the morning of the resurrec tion. A Friend. J. C. Berry, one of the best known citizens of Spencer, Mo., testified that he cured himself of the worse kind of piles by using a few boxes of DeWitt’s Witch Hazel Salve. He hail been troubled with pile: for over thirty year* and had used many dif- fi rent kinds of so-called cures; but DeWitt’s was the one that did the work and be will verify this state- i ment if any one wishes to write him. Chtroaee Drug Company, Gaffney, and Macon Thornton, Blacksburg.