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11 H*J. C. JEFFERIES, \ GAFFNEY, S. C. AUornrj^.nd Coun»ellor at Law. Practicea in Alt tjjie Courts. Collections a Specialty. GER. 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. yol. iv. no. GAFFNEY CITY, S. C., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1897. HEWS OF LOWER CHEROKEE THE “KERNAL’S” INTERESTING CONTRIBUTION. Sketches of South Carolina Are in De mand—Something About the Mistletoe that is Not Generally Known. {•jaJlpaT oqx J° ooaapuoUsajaoa) Etta Jake, Dec. 13.—Today is the 35th anniversary of the battle of Fredericksburg, Va., our sketch of which has just been completed and is now ready for the printer. Miss Mamie Crosby spent Saturday and yesterday with her parents at Sharon. Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Bigham, of Sharon, are visiting their daughter. Mrs. Sallie Estes and family. Mr. Boyd Orr was around to see us last week. Like everybody else, of good taste, Boyd likes “The Ledger.” It is impossible for me to keep up with all the neighborhood gossip that is going on. Will a few of our best talkers undertake this and report to me weekly? Rev. W. R. Owings visited his con gregation last week. That’s the way for a minister to do, to know how his flock is getting along. He can see more of them in their homes than anywhere else. Besides, ho can get a chance to brush the dust from the lids of the bible and hymn book. Henry Hill, col., is so infatuated with “ghosts and haunts’’ that he won’t stay home at night by himself. Look out Henry. John F. Hope, Wrn. Thomas and Lilly Sparks, (in addition to those named) answered our problem of week before last. Rev. Mr. Thomasson will preach at Abbingdon creek next Sabbath, 19th. Rev. Mr. Thacker’s solution of the liquor problem is the best we have seen and ought to put our law makers to, thinking. 'here was a full house at the C. E. liety meeting at Mr. R. J. Kirby's night. The following books are now In grsat demand: “Sketches of the History of South Carolina,” by Prof W. J. Rivers; “Ramsey’s History of South Caroli na,” “Carroll’s Historical Collec tions,” “Dr. Gibb's Documentary History of the American Revolution in South Carolina;” “Hwarts Rise and Progress of the Colony of South Carolina;” Weston’s “Documents connected with the History of South Carolina;” “Mill’s Statistics,” “Hawthorne’s Memories,” and others that give in detail a complete and impartial history of our State from its earliest days. There is something about the mis tletoe that Is not generally known. Besides its wonderful curative powers for certain of the ailments to which the animal kingdom is heir, the an cient Druids held it sacred as having occupied a prominent place among the flowers of Eden, The timber of which the cross upon which our Sa viour was crucified is said to have augmented into this growth. It is a parasite and usually kills the timber to which it attaches. That which grows upon the oak tree dilfers some thing from the other species in its medicinal properties. At the battle of Fredericksburg, soldiers of Meagher's Irish Division of Union troops, wore sprigs of mistletoe In their cups, thus showing that there is still some superstitious or religious bigotry for which this is a panacea. Borne one has said that the world is a big book full of pictures and good reading, but he that never travels only reads the title page. Our wrath is made up not so much in what we have as what we can got along without. A rumor reached here last week that Matt Walker, one of the chain gang convicts, from this section, was in a low state of health and could not live long. Upon inquiry I find that such is not the case. Our people finished sowing wheat last week. There is a larger urea of wheat sown this year, so far, than at any time in sixteen years, I verily believe. “Where the carcass is the vultures will be gathered together” is a truth no lessifounidablO^ tba days of the bible than now. There ia an Immoral state of society in tbie land headed by the arch enemy of society that saps the fountain of character In a young man or woman from which they never recover and from which outraged decency never forgives them. Young man. you can’t afford/ to mortify your mother and sisters feelings by frequenting places whore you would not wish them to see you. I am well pleaeod to hear 7 our friends and rslatives in the fai West speak in auch high terms <6( The LauoiCK. ThU U certainly p/oompll menjbto ths paper. ' \ MrV Wylls Estes, of Crops Keys, •ud hpr son Urosdus, passed here last week on their way to visit her daughter, Mrs. John Mitchell, of Hickory Grove. Mr. Moody says that character is what a man is in the dark.” That’s the best definition we have heard. Women are generally good match makers, yet it takes them a long time to match a bit of ribbon. We should never fear to bring the sublimest motives to the sweetest duties, and the most infinite comfort to the smallest troubles. Mr. Giles Hill has returned home and is doing as well as could be ex pected. His leg is giving him some pain. He is not able to use his crutches yet. The fools are not all dead yet. A worthy farmer had a marble statuette of cupid in his parlor, when a coun tryman indigious to the soil, after gazing at it for a long time, in utter astonishment, asked the landlady if that was the etatoo of her dead body.” The rabbit catching season is at hand. Gums are in readiness to take them in these cold frosty mornings. Cold feet is a sure sign of imperfect circulation of the blood, says some people who pretend tc know. The best remedy, at least cost, ia aheep skin in the bottom of your shoes, with the wool next to the bottom of the foot. It Isn’t the cost nor the beauty of a gift we should consider; it is the SCRIBBLER AND THE MAJOR 1 jtbrougb THE LATTER IS AN OLD RESI- DENTER. needs of the recipient. We haven’t yet learned definitely how many Christmas trees will be within our reach this seasou. Sev eral are in anticipation. Messrs. Allen Jefferies and Joe Cook paid us a visit last Wednesday. From Mrs. G. B. Estes, of Brocks- ton, Texas, we have received a copy of a beautiful poem written by a Texas lady, Miss Emma Hildman, on the death of her little sister, Hattie McCollock. It will, no doubt, give great satisfaction to the many friends of Mr. and Mrs. A. G. Me Cullough in this state, who take The Ledgeu. Here it is in full: “In the still and lonely nightfall Death's pale arifrel noiseless sped. I have Katbered only lillies For my Lord to day, he said. “Oh, the llllles, the pure white lillies That made earthly home so hrhrht, Oh. the sweet bud that Is raissin? Since the happy mornimr light. Waxen hands with blossoms in them Face so very white and fair Curtained eyes lixo hidden star-lights. Silken rings of soft brown hair. IImilled, ana still we (raze upon her, I And we scarcely know our loss Hut tomorrow we shall feel It Almost crushed beneath the cross. There’s no baby voice—we listen— ThlnkliiK that we hear It oft, On our face no baby's lingers Touches like the rose leaves, soft, In a casket, white as snow flakes, Nestllna all amonjc the flowers Is the pure and stainless lilly That a little while was ours. Wide the shining Kates are open, Now she Is at home— Back to us comes the sweet echo. Oh. parents, suffer her to come. Put away the empty cradle Keep it only In our sight, That brlKht little seraph's taken Where she rests with anKuls bright." 1 don’t believe I have ever seen such a spirit of unrest among the farming masses. The low price of cotton has bad a tendency to discour age them it seems, and many good families have quit the farm and gene to the factories. This is by no means a healthy sign. We need farmers. Land holders can’t well keep their possessions without laborers. A Held of 10 acres is twice as large as it is broad; find its length to the nearest tenth of a yard, and give the answer. There are several places on the public roads that are needing repairs just now. A team that a few days ago could haul four bale* of cotton has difficulty in gotting along with two bales now. There Is still some lands in this neighborhood to rent for next year. If our farmers were not so pressed in money matters some of them might turn large areas of their lands into pastures and go to stock raising. On Habbath night of last week some of our peaceful citizens were disturbed by the orgies, revelling and yells of drunken roughs. When bad men, bad women and bad whiskey form a neighborhood cesspool It is time for decency and respectability to assert Itself or forfeit its claim. As long as people submit to these indignities they will be no better off. No polished gentleman can rub against the pots without being becom ing smutted, and the young lady who, knowingly and Intentionally, keeps company with or accepts the atten tion of euch men mutt either com promise herself or else betray that alarming indifference which practi cally robs woman’s virtue ot Its appropriate value. The scent of the carrion h the vultures’ appetizer, J. L. S. Still He Would Like to Marry, But the Lady Must Possets Quali fications Which Would Recommend Her. How to Look Good. )d looks are really more than syin deep depending entirely on a ealthy condition of all the vital or- ans. If the liver be Inactive, you have a bilious look; if your stomach be disordered, you have a dyspeptic look; if your kidneys be affected, you have a pinched look. Becure good health, and you will surely have good looks. “Electric Bitters” Is a good Alterative and Tonic. Acts directly on the stomach, liver and kldnuya. Purifies the blood cures pimples, blotches and boils, and gives a good complexion. Every bottle guaran teed. Bold at DuPre Drug Company. (Correspondence of The Ledser.) Goucher, Dec., 13.—The major was one of our old residenters untel er few months ergo when he moved off an’left us; but now we can clap our bands an’ holler, fer he is cumin’ back to his old trampin’ grounds. The major has bin travelin’ up an’ down this old yeth fer more than half er century, an’ has er reebed which can’t be equaled. The major is er jolly old fellow, an’ likes ter go erround an’ see his nabors an’ play with the children an’ have er little fun in general. I bleve, when he grows a little older an’ his beard gets a little longer an’ a little whiter that he wood make a mity nice Santy Claus. The major aint no ways hump shouldered erbout it. but he wood take er nice gal in outeu the weather. The major aint no glutton, but he don’t object ter good rashuns an’ plenty uv them. The major wood marry jest in or der ter give sum body’s gal er good home the balance uv her days. The major owns er fine plantashun above here. It lies on the publick highway leadin’ from this country on todes Gorgy. The major says old maids an’ wid ows need not make eny applicashun. The major says he woodn’t take $3,000 fer his plantashun. The major sajs all gals makin’ ap- plicashun must be under 25 an good lookin.’ The major ia es game es a mud turkel, an’ ef you aint prepared fer action you had better not mess in bis affairs. I have seed the major ven ter into places so dangus that it look ed like no mortal man cood come out erlive, but he alius got out safe an’ sound. The major says red headed an’ freckled faced gals needn’t trubel their selves in the least, fer their ap- plicasbuns wont be considud. The major fou’t all through the war, an’ 1 mite jest say that he wus one uv the bravest Solgers that ever went on the battle field. I have hearn old solgers say the major woodn’t stand, meanin' that he wus alius pushin’ into the thickest uv the file. The major don’t want eny fat he’vy set gals, unless they are mity purty in the face. The major has got lots uv money, but some folks say he has got it ter get. The major woodn’t ubject ter er gal’s been rich providin' sho aint lackin’ in other things. The major says one uv the most curis an’ perplexin’ things that ever cum ercrosi his path, wus the unac- countabul freak uv a girl he love bet ter than words can tell. He wus correspondin' with her an’ gitln' er- long alrite, until he reached the pint whar it looked like bisness, when, without eny previous warnln,’ she tuck an’ kicked up an' busted outen the harness an’ left ths pora old major Bat. The major don’t want eny kickin’ er balkin’ gals. He wants good true pullers. The major has bin er powerful duel liter, but I bleve he has erbout quit that sport. The major don't want er gal that chaws terbacker er dipt snuff. The major aint bin ter no medikle school, but he Is er fust rate doctor. The major aint never studied law, but be is er geneuine good lawyer. The major wants it well understood that he dont want er bieycle rider, unless she will furnish her own wheel an’ let him ride berhind. The major is honest an’ truthful, an' ef you don’t want the stuffin' knocked outen you, be mity careful erbout wbat you say erlong this line. The major gives fair notice ter the fair sex. an’ ef eny one wants ter be so lucky es ter capture him, now is the time. The major erbove all, leer good old church member, an’ never has ac- eordin* ter my rockerleckehun, bln brung before the church fer breakin’ eny uv the rules. The major don’t take trubel ter heart like sum men, but he does take good things ter bis mouth. Now, tnsjor, in conclusion, I wish you a pretty wife and a merry Christ mas. ScKIRBIJtH. Mr. Tate Vindicated. The following letters explain them- gglygg * Union. S. C., March 12th '97, J. W. Nance, Esq., Griidall, B. C. Djcau Sir: In regard to M. M. Tate teaching school in Draytonsville township, no duplicate of his order can be found. If he taught the school it was against the law. No trustee is allowed to teach. He was appointed in Jan. 1895. His school claims were approved Sept. 2Uh, 1895 (two claims), one for $30.00 and one for $15.00, making in all $45.00 The name entered on the book is M. M. Tate, teacher in school district No. 2. It may be another Tate. I am not keen to find out. Yours truly, J. M. Greek. Union, S. C. Nov. 29, 1897, M. M. Tate, Esq., Dear Sir : There bus come a re port to me that you ha*e drawn about $45.00 of tho public school funds as a teacher, from your town ship, No. 2. Now, Mr. Tate, you know there ii not a man in the county that believes that, and yet borne desitmiiig person or persons keep the thing moving. There was a slight mistake on my part, and it was this, instead of putting the name of Miss M. Jefferies. I put M. M. Tate in the wrong column, hut it was in the proper group so it is im possible for anybody to mistake it. There were two of the claims pre sented for approval by yourself, one for $30.00 and the other for $15.00, and the only error was Tate in the wrong column. The vouchers are all right in amount and dates. Now in jus tice to yourself and to VV. A. Mc- Wherte* and R. S. Spencer, I take the liberty after the proper correc tion to say, there is notone word of truth in the report. You and I have always been good friends and if it is not too much to ask of you will you give me the names of those that agi tated this thing against you and me. M. La MASTER. THE COLONEL’S CANDIDACY. After hearing aome friends contin ually praising Chamberlaln’e Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy, Cur tis Fleck, of Anaheim, California, purchased a bottle of it for his own use and is now aeenthualaatioover its wonderful work as anyuie can be. The 26 and 60 cent sltoftor sale by the Du Pro Drug Co. THE REASON WHY HE DID NOT PRESS ON. The Madam Brought Him to His Senses By Applying to a Magistrate Fora Divorce Because of£ Dissatisfaction. Dots] from Devine. Dkvixk, Tex., Dec. 5.—The Ledger came in Friday evening all right and all glad to see it. We are still busy picking and hauling cotton and selling it at 5c. We will not get through picking before the 15th of January. I see some of the contributors to The Ledger complaining of rain stopping cotton picking. We have not had any rain to stop picking since the 15th of Aug. and you may be sure it is pretty dry here, but that is all right for cotton. I see an extract from the 6t Louis Republic iu The Lkdgbk of the 25th of the shooting between the Harris Bros, and G. B. Gerald over W. C. Bramm and the Baylor University scandal. I do not know anything about the parties or the trouble be tween them but it is not the brat time Bramm has been licked for his slang. An old Confederate soldier licked him in Ban Antonio till he did not know which one of the boys he was. Bramm has always got his -nose lu somebody’s business. If I wanted to find Iconoclast supporters I would not go to Sunday school to find them but would look on the street corners for them discussing Corbett and Fitzsimmons topics. I see a great deal of tala about im proving the battle grounds in the South. It really ought to be done but! am afraid that so long as Hanna and Tom Reed have control of the government that the South will not get much help. Friend Gossett is still in the sub treasury business. Gossett says be is in to stay so the cotton combina tion may look out. I glory in his epuok. M. M. D. Big Turnips. We are indebted to Andrew Byars, of Bunoy Bide, for the largest turnip in Cherokee, which be sent us by John Lipscomb, who fastened on to three similar ones for himself. Mr. Byars etands head on turnips to date, and will be bard to down. A country possessing such possibili ties need never be scarce of any of tbe food crop. It weighed 8} pound*. A.Household Remedy, And it never fails to cure Rheuma tism, Catarrh, Pimples, Blotches, and all diseases arisiog from impure blood, is Botaoic Blood Balm, (B. B. B.) Thousands endorse It as the best remedy ever offered to mankind. The thousands of cures performed by this remedy are almost miraculous. Try it, only $1.00 per large bottle. A FIIVSICIAN’S EVIDENCE—AN HONEST DOCTOR. Although a practitioner of near twenty,years, my mother influenced me to procure Botanic Blood Balm. B. B. B., for her. Hhe had been con fined to her bed eeveral months with Rheumatism, which had stubbornly restated all tbe usual remedies. Wbithin twenty-four hours after commencing B. B. B., I observed marked relief. She has just com menced her third bottle, and is near ly as active as sver, and has been in the front yard with “rake in hand,” cleaning up. Her improvement Is truly wonderful and Immensely gratifying, J. H. Montgomery, M. D., Jacksonville, AU. For sale by Druggists. (Correspondence of The Ledser.) Island Ford. N. C., Dec. 14.—I have been getting The Ledger some five or six weeks. It has been a wel come visitor to our home. The only trouble is we can’t all read It at the same time. Bat just how you hap pened to get my name so as to send me the paper has been a mystery. 1 have met Col. I. 8. Durham, cf Hicks- ville, several times lately and he has been very careful to ask me if I was getting The Ledger. He also asked me to give you some items from this neck of the woods and for his benefit, and I hope for others, I will make the attempt. But after reading so many interesting letters from your corres pondents I feel very small in attempt ing to write you a letter. But pluck and energy moves the world and if we make a failure, Flaw Picker, Banjo Lu, and Mrs. Ann Waters and J. L. B. and several others will still be on hand. The farmers have finished gather ing corn and cotton and have sown a lot of wheat and will sow more if the weather will admit. There has been sufficient said about five cents cotton. If we want more for our cotton we must raise less of it and more home supplies. The Company Store at the Henri etta cotton mills began selling sugar at 25lbs to the dollar a few days ago and some of the merchants around there say if they don't stop their fool ishness they will sell it at seventy five cents per bushel. J. W. Miller, a merchant at Island Ford, says when they get at that he will sell it at 33| cents, that is three bushels to the dol lar. He says that will be nearer on an equal with five cents cotton. Mr. Editor, did Col I. S. Durham ever tell you how near be came going to the legislature at our last election ? No 1 Well I will tell you how. But first I’ll tejl you the Col. and myself are good friends and, in fact, he is a splendid fellow. But he thought the good people of Ruthfordton county were not getting justice and some of the neighbors pursuaded him to come out os a candidate. He began to make preparations for the campaign and pretty soon his good lady came over and asked me if I was not a jus tice of the peace. 1 told her yes. “Well, she says,” I want to sue Mr. Durham for a divorce. “Why! what in the world is the matter with you and the Col.” “Oh, nothing much. You know he is going to the legislature.” “I heard he was going to run.” “Well, you know we have a house full of little children, and if he is as much carried away with tbe idea of being at tbe legislature as he is of going he will never think of home when be gets there and I thought if I had a divorce I could marry some other good man to help me care for tbe children.” “Oh! I says he will not forget you.” “Why! she said, he has got so now he don’t kiss me good bye and he don’t kiss me when be comes home and I tell you when he gets to the legisla ture he will never think of home.” But I prevailed with her to wait a while and in a few days I saw the Col. and told him he must not forget his good lady and that he must kiss her every time he went to leave home and when he came back. He said great scotts, that might cost me more than I would make by going to the legislature for some time when I •tart off she is not In tbe right hu mor for kissing and its tbe same way when I come home and I consider kissing a woman aod her mad very dangerous. The Col. quit the cam paign and he and his lady are got ting along all right. r. c. h. How to Prevent Pneumonia. At this time of the year a cold le very easily contracted, and if let to run Its course without the aid of some reliable cough medicine is lia ble to result in that dread disease, pneumonia. We know of no bettor remedy to cure a cough or cold than Chamberlalu’e Cough Remedy. We have used It quite extensively and It has always given entire satisfaction. —Oolagah, Ind. Ter. Chief. This is the only remedy that is known to be a certain praventive of pneumonia. Among tha4R»ny thou sands wbo have used it for colds and la grippe we have never yet learned of a single case having resulted In pneumonia. Persons who have weak lungs or have reason to fear an attack of pneumonia, should keep the remedy at band. The 26 and 50 cent sizes for tale by the Du Prc Drug Co. *1.00 A YEAH. WRITTEN FROM WILLIE. Jairus, Correepondeotly Speaking, Passes from Life Unto Death. Willis, Dec. 7.—I’agi- Jairus! What a pity! Just as he had almost reached the top round of the ladder us a correspondent, his foot slipped, as a great many before him have done, and he fell. Jairus passed from this world, as a correspondent, somewhere on or about the 25th of November, and was very respectably interred in the cemetery of oblivion, his obsequies being witnessed by a few sympathiz ers and a groat many who, although, they didn't demonstrate their feelings to any coneiderable extent, undoubt edly r* joiced at his downfall. The particulars and cause of his demise (correspondeutly), as related by him self, although he did nob sufficiently survive to be positive, in regards to dales, are about us ioiiows : One day between tho 10th and 20th of last month..he was in the city of Gaffney, the county seat of Cherokee county, and about noon he concluded that he would srep into a restaurant and partake of some refreshments and, he being a clod hopper, an4 not very well acquainted with the town, got into one of those original package Douses iustead of a restaurant, where they presented to him a bottle of some kind of aguardiente stuff, which he pronounced to be “pop skull,” as that was not far short of the effects produced, telling him that it was very refreshing and also invigorating. He drank tbe stuff and. after standing around for awhile and becoming alarmed at the effects it had pro duced on him, he broke for the drug store to obtain an antidote for the stuff he had taken. But. oh! the de cree of fate! He struck the dyspen- sary instead of a drug store, where the proprietor (he called him the pro prietor but of course it was the head clerk, as you knew tbe State is the proprietor) presented to him a liquid which he called “essence of rye,” telling him that it w&s a sure anti dote for the poison which he had taken. But, oh horrors! The last was worse than the first, and Jairus verily believed that had it not been for the antidote, there might have been some chance of his recovery. JalruH, before his demise, very earnestly requested Little Bill to take his place as a correspondent, which he has very reluctantly consented to do. and he begs to assure the Ledger readers that he will use his very best efforts to write interestingly. Mrs. Jairus, widow of the late Jairus, is very seriously contempla ting entering suit against the town of Gaffney for damages. But, of course, “Little Bill” will use all tbe influence that he may possess to pre vent any trouble, as Jairus, before his demise, exonerated the town from all blame. For tbe benefit of the rising generation, and to the memory of Jairus, we dedicate tbe following lines: Oh, consider young man. I would warning give thee! When hungry or thirsty you may happen to he. Original package and dyspei.sary combined. >le for the destruction of all man- Little Bill. North Pacolet I. S. S. Convention. The North Pacolet Interdenomina tional Sunday School Convention will meet at Ararat on the 26tb Inst., at 10:30 a. m. Devotional exercises will be con ducted by Cnaplain Rev. Simpson Blanton, after wnich schools and del egates will be enrolled. Officers for ensuing year will be elected and installed. Reports of schools will be made and directed. Township Superintendents will make their report. Firafc query: Has this convention accomplished anything this year, and if not why not? This subject will be open for general discussion by volunteer speakers. Second: Can we adopt a system atic study of the scriptures so as to benefit and interest all classes of people, especially the young? Teach ers and Superintendents are espec ially requested to discuss this query. Others will be heard. The exercises will be interspersed with music, and one hours recess will be taken during tho day. All people who are friendly to the Sunday school work are cordially in* vited to attend and take part in tbt exercises. J. L. Strain, for Ex. Com. ^ - r ••• 11 Consumption Positively Cured. , Mr. R. B.Greeve, merchant, of Chil- howie, Va., certifies that he had con- sumption, was given up to die, sought all medical treatment that money eould procure, tried all cough rem edies he could hear of, but got no re lief; epent many nights sitting up in a chair; was induced to try Dr. King’a New Discovery, and was cured by use of two botles. For past three years has been attending to business and says Dr. King’s New Discovery Is the grandest remedy ever made, aa It baa done so much for him and also for others In hie community. Dr. King,a New Discovery Is guaranteed for Coughs, Colds and Consumption. Ik don.t fail. Trial bottles free at tba Du Fro Drug Co. Are amp! kind.