THE LEDGER: GAFFNEY, 8. C., FEBUUAI Y 10, 1898. "X u ic l^E:r>oE:i^. $i.oo per Year. PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY BY Ed. H. DeCamp. 1'he Ledger is not responsible for tbe 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 Correspondents who do not contri bute regular news letters must fur bish their name, not for publication, but for identification.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 e^t them to the office by Tuesday. All correspondence should be ad- tressed to Ed. H. DeCamp, Manager. Obituaries will be published at five dents a line. uards of thans will be published •t one cent a word. Beading notices will be published At ten cents a line each insertion. IMPORTANT. Watch the date on your label and if you are in arrears call in and settle up. thus saving us the unpleasant duty of mailing you a notice inform ing you of that fact. ENTRIES FROM OUR DAY BOOK. The Columbia State must be far gone in poetical iniquity. Last week when we ventured to raise our feeble voice in behalf of suffering poetry and struggling genius, it flew into an unpoetical frenzy, it stamped its feet, tore its hair, bit its tongue, embraced Coogler on Main Street in maudlin tenderness, shed tears of prosaic vexation, called us by ugly names and gave us ugly advice, and got up a spectacular exhibition worthy of a whole company of Merry Andrews at a Fool’s Feast. It even went so far as to advise Coogler to Bend us a volume of his poems bound in morocco, which it knew he could not afford to do, and assured us by sundry implications that the volume would contain for us the seeds of death which, us soon as we should see the author, would germi nate into our complete annihilation. If we could only have dreamed that our meek words would have conjured up such a scene of “fine frenzy roll ing," we should have been dumb with silence; we should have opened not our mouth; we should have let suffering poetry suffer on, and strug gling genius struggle still. We bow in humble apology to The State and say as the immortal Lee said at Get tysburg. it was all our fault. ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ We hold Christian character to be the corner stone of all true education. The more mind is developed without a corresponding development of char acter, the worst it is for the individ ual and the community. We hold further that according to the very nature of things a public school aa such cannot develop Chris tian character. It may happen to have a teacher who will do something In this direction, but even he will be hampered by his surroundings and by the nature of the authority under which he acts, and cannot do the work that he could do in a private or denominational school. If the Btate build individual char acter at all, it must fashion it after the model of utilitarian philosophy. There is no God for a Btate; no heaven; no hell; no future life. Po litical sins are punished only in this world. The third generation in this country, after the Btate shall have taken charge of all the schools, will be a race of infidels. We argued this question a year or two ago in a publi cation of wide circulation, and there was not an advocate of Btate educa tion in South Carolina that dared to attack us. ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ If the policeman should do what we suggested with a view of getting up analogy for Prof. Hall where none existed, i. e. work our gardens, &c., the object of the authority under which he would act^would be to help us along in life. It is claimed that the government dispenses free edu cation for exactly the same purpose. Kjthere la no analogy between the two cases, then we plead guilty to the charge of knowing nothing about analogy. We do not compare the graded schools with small pox, but the suc cess of one vitb the success of the other, and we did it in order to*show that an evil thing can succeed as well us a good thing, and that the success of which our friends boasted, was no proof of success. Prof. Hall comments as if we n&d declared the graded school to be like small pox. The very nature of the argument re quired them to be as widely different as possible. When a debater resorts to such expedients as this he gives evidence of a great scarcity of argu ments. ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ When we condemn "an offshoot of Yankea civilisation" because, as we think, it hears a crop of evils, how is it that “in order to be consistent we must carry our condemnation further and reject the electric light, the tele graph, the telephone"—in a word, all the good which that civilization has produced! When we reject Spies and Parsons, must we “in or der to be consistent" also reject Whittier and Longfellow? What sort of consistency is that? Consistency is a jewel, they say; but this does not look well in its set ting. It does not sparkle; it has a faded, lack-lustre appearance. But perhaps our “logic and mathemat ics" have not taught us much more about consistency than they have about analogy. Bo this jewel is re spectfully referred to Prof. Hall for inspection and analysis. ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ We yield to no man in our appre ciation ol the blessings of education. We believe and therefore assert, that we have given more in time, thought, work and money without any pecuni ary recompense, to the cause of edu cation, than any other man in Chero kee county. And we are still willing to spend and be spent in the cause. We differ from some of our friends only in regard to what true education is and as to the means of obtaining it. We heartily concur in all that Prof. Hall has said about its benefits, but we wish to remind him that in his arguments leading up to those benefits be has steadily kept out of sight us being too evident to require statements, that which logicians call the minor premise, whereas this pre mise involves the very point at issue. This is a favorite trick of sophistry. ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ According to the Columbia State there is a small knot of disgruntled politicians in Columbia, whose pur pose is to get into office by reviving factional strife. That game has played out in this state. Those po litical watchwords which four years ago stirred the prejudices and pas sions of the people, have lost their magic. They are like Gov. Vance’s barrel of sugar, they have “got down to where they don’t taste good.” The people have been doing some thinking during these latter years, and never again will this generation allow itself to be fanned into a flame of animosity and passion for the ben efit of men seeking office. ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ A man gathers strength and cour age ami seif reliance by that which he does for himself; there is nothing in that which is done for him by an other to call forth these sterling qualities. Education proceeds from within, not from without. We wouldn’t give one young man, or one young woman who has obtained a liberal education by persistent ef fort and sacrifice, by braving the frowns of fortune and scorning the discouragements, to which others yield, for a whole river bottom full of machine-made men and women. ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ In our discussion with Prof. Hull, we have tried to keep within the limits of courteous debate. We have had no personal feeling in the mat ter, and can reciprocate the expres sions of kindness used by him in his last. Prof. Hall writes well, and if he docs not argue so well as he writes, it is perhaps because his side of the question does not furnish the mate rials for sound argumentation. ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ Our Legislature is opposed to bi ennial sessions. How could the dear people get along for two years with out laws fresh from the hands of their makers. How could the neigh borhood politician get in his; little bill? And bow could the average member draw his per diem and mile age? You don’t see through this thing, gentlemen of the affirmative. Ever since the fiat of God went forth that by the sweat of his face man should eat bread, acquirement in this world, in the true and broad sense of the word, have been worth just what they cost and have cost just what they were worth. This is a law which parliaments, and cong resses and legislatures can never annul. ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ When we hear a man say that a sister town carries a tax of 28$ mills we naturally Infer that Jit is town tax, unless otherwise specified, as there would bo no necessity for men tioning the state and county tax which is the same to everybody in the county. Prof. Hull will please make a note of this. ♦ ♦ ♦ ■♦ We do not think, with one of the opponents of the broad tire bill, that It Is “ paternalism run mad." When the State spends money on rosds for the good of the people, It has the right to dsmand that they should be used in the manner that will result in the least Injury to them. ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ The fact that Prof. Hall has visit ed the homes of those “not quicken ed by the influence of the existing schools, still does not explain why a graded school would reach a greater number of Jthose homes than the existing schools do during their free terms. We are pleased to note that our State Senator and both of our repre sentatives are constantly at their posts in Columbia and that their votes are generally on the right side of things. They are good and true men and will do their duty as they see it. ♦ The Child’s Prohibition bill re ceived strong support in the House on the first trial. If the Senate will do its duty we shall have prohibition. ‘HManiSt*” and u Artiste. n Wo observe with pain that impassion ed press agents and would be genteel persons persist in calling a female pian ist a “pianiste," thinking thereby to determine sex by the final letter. But “piauiste” is the French word for pian ist, and it is a masculine noun as well as feminine. And so there is a mistaken nse of the word “artiste." Mr. Leonidas Swet, the formidable pianist, is an artist, but Miss Eugenia Hammcrkuis is a charm ing “artiste," as well as a fascinating “pianiste.” “Artiste," however, is u French word and is primarily mascn line. The English word “artist,” mean ing specifically “one skilled in music," is as old as 1590—“argues a bad care and a bungling artist"—and Addison in 1712 spoke of “that excellent artist having shown us the Italian musick in its perfection." But this word is now obsolete except as in the general application, “one who cultivates one of the flue arts, in which the object is mainly to gratify the es thetic emotions by perfection of execu tion, whether in creation or representa tion. ” The word “artiste" is a reintro- ductiou of the French word, “in couse- qneuce of the modern tendency to re strict ‘artist’ to those engaged in the fine arts, and especially painting.” It means a publio performer who appeals to the (esthetic faculties, as a singer, dancer or one who makes a line art of his employment, as a cook, barber, corn doctor. Thus Charley spoke in 1832 of “the German artistes who did such am ple justice to the choruses of the ‘Frei- schutz, ’ ” and the “artistes ’ were male and female. If the sex of the performer must be indicated in one word, why do not the anxious use the word of Horace Walpole, “artistess," which means a female artist? It is no viler form than “artiste" m scxnal distinction.—Music al Record. The Blacks In Africa. The traveler in South Africa is as tonished at the strong feeling of dislike and contempt—one might almost say of hostility—which the bulk of the whites show to their black neighbors. He asks what can bo the cause. It seems to spring partly from the old feeling cf contempt fer the slaves, a feeling v.hkh has descended to a generation that has never seen slavery as an actual system, partly from physical aversion, partly from an incompatibility of character and temper which makes the faults of the colored man more offensive to the white than the (perhaps morally us grave) faults of members of his own white stock. It rarely if ever happens that a na tive, whatever his standing among his own people—for to the whites there is practically no difference between one black and another—is received within a white man’s bouse on any social oc casion. Indeed, he would seldom be per mitted, save as a servant, to euter a private house, but would be received on tbe stoop (veranda). When Kbama, the most important chief now left south of the Zambezi, a Christian and a man of high personal character, was in Eng land in 1895 and was entertained at luncheon by the Duke of Westminster and other persons of social eminence, tbe news of the reception given him ex cited annoyance and disgust among tbe whites in South Africa. I was told that at a garden party given a few years ago by the wife of a white bishop the ap pearance of a native clergyman caused many of the white guests to withdraw in dudgeon.—“Impressions of South Africa," by James Bryee. • ' *— «•» — - —- $ioo Reward, $ioo. The readers of this paper will be pleaseil to leitrn that there is at least one dreaded dis ease that science has l>«:eii able to cure In all Its stages and that ls<'atvrh. Hall’s Catarrh Cure Is the only positive ctire now known to the medical fraternity. Catarrh beln»r a const itutional disease, requIn-K a constitu tional treatment. Hall’s Catarrh Cure Is taken Internally, actiinr directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of tin* system, thereby destroying the foundation of the disease, and ylvliur the patient strength by hulldluir up the eonstltutlou and assisting' nature In doing Its work. The proprietors have so much faith In Its curative powers that they offer One Hundred Dollars for any case that It falls to cure. Send for list of Testimonials. Address. F. .1. Chejckv k Co., Toledo, o. Sold hy Druggists. 75c. Hall's Family Fills are the best. — • ♦ •— ■ ■ Don’t ToWrojSpIt asd Smuke Your Mfe Away. To quit tobacco easily and forever, be mag neilc. full of life, nerve atul vigor, take No-To- Uac, the wonder-worker, that makes weak meu strong. All druggists, GOc or91. Curcguarun- teed Booklet and sample free. Address Sterling Remedy Co , Chicago or New York. Uon t Neglect Yonr L'wer. Liver troubles quickly result i:i serious complications, and the man who neglects bis liver I ms little regard for health. A bottle of Browns’ Iron Bitters taken now and then will keep the Uver in perfect order. If the disease has developed, I’towns’Iron Bitters will euro it permanently, gtreiigth mid vitality will alwr.ys f..;jn W its use. Brtevus’ Iron Bitters is sold by all dealero! If Rice Goose Grease don't cure your aches and pains, burns, bruises and sprains, we pay you money back. DdPmi Dboo Co. Back to 7rare*. An Amsrican lately returned from several years of travel in Europe tells of an instance of New England thrift which caino under bis uotico. “In Italy,” ho said, telling the story to a friend, “tlio authorities seem to have a wonder;al faculty for scouting out dutiable articles, and the traveler over the borders from Franco often finds liiuisolf relieved of an unexpectedly large sum on this acco-nt. “1 was one of a party of Americans who crossed tho border in a comfortable carriage one day last year. Our host was a wide awake Connecticut man, generous with his money, hut deter mined not to part from it foolishly when he could avoid doing so. “There were fiva in the party, and among other supplies for our delectation on the road was a b:\sket cf grapes. Wo started shortly after breakfast and in an hour were over tho border iu Italy. Wo were promptly assailed by a levier of duties, who pounced upon tho grapes and demanded a good sum for them as imported articles. “ ‘No, sir,’ said the Connecticut man firmly, caring little whether what he said was understood by the official, as he intended to make his meaning clear by action, ‘no, sir, we’ll eat our lunch eon in France sooner than pay for those grapes. ’ “And before any ono realized what he was doing, back wo were in Franco again, where wo sat, eating our grapes in tho very faces of the Italians, though without quite as much relish as we might have had an hour or two later.” —Youth’s Companion. Tho Flrit Ecirntiflo Uiteflylns. Tho famous kite experiment is de scribed by Fraukliu iu a letter dated Oct. 19, 1752: “Make a small cross of light sticks of cedar, the arms so long as to reach to the four co.mcrs of a large, tkiu silk handkerchief when ex tended. Tie the corners of tho handker chief to the extremities of the cross, so you have the body of a kite, which, be ing properly accommodated with a tail, loop and string, will rise in tho air like those made of paper, but being made of silk is better fitted to bear the wet and wind of a thunder gust without tearing. To tho top of tho upright stick of the cross is to bo fixed a very sharp pointed wire rising a foot or moro above the wood. To tho cud of tho twine next tho hand is to be tied u silk ribbon, and where the silk and twine join a key may be fastened. This kite is to be raised when a thunder gust appears to bo coming on, and tho person who holds tho string must stand within a door or window, or under some cover, so that tho silk ribbon may not bo wot, and care must bo taken that the twine does not touch tho frame of tho door or win dow. As soon as tho thunderclouds come over tho kite the pointed wire will draw tho electric fire from them, and the kite, with all tho twine, will be electrified and stand out every way aud be attracted by au approaching fin ger. And when the rain has wet tho kite aud tv ino you will find tbe elec tric fire stream out plentifully from tho key on the approach of your knuckle. ’ ’ —Popular Ecienco Monthly. Well ClTildren that are not very robust need a warming, building and fat-forming food—something to be used for two or three months in the fall—that they may not suffer from cold*, SCOTT'S EMULSION of Cod-Liver Oil with Hypophoe- phites of Lime and Soda supplies exactlv what they want* They will thrive, grow strong and be well all winter on this splendid food tonic. Nearly all of them become very fond of it. For adults who are not very strong, a course of treatment with the Emulsion for a couple of months In the fall will put them through the winter in first-class con dition. Ask your doctor about this., B« aur* you got SCOTT’S Emulsion. Sot that ths nan and fiah art oa tha wrapper. AU druggists; >o». and fi^o. SCOTT a BOWNE, Chemists, New York. Obio River and Cbarleston Railway Co., CONJUNCTLY WITH THE Sooth Carolina and Georgia Railroad. Sciizuri.E In effect October IHth. 18l»7 SOUTH CAROLINA AND GEORGIA. NOUTH BOUND. Lv. 7 10 a. in. Lv. H 57 ’’ Lv. 10 25 “ Churlesto*. Hniiicli vllle. Kingsville. HOUTII BOUND. Ar. H 00 p. m. Ar. 5 55 " Ar. 4 44 ’• OHIO RIVER AND CHARLESTON. NOUTH BOUND. Lv. 12 05 |l. ID. Camden. Kervliuw. Lancaster. Catawba .I'ct. Rock Hill. York vllle. Black-burir. Shelby. IIcih letta. Forest City. KuD.erfordtoii Marlon SOUTH BOUND. Ar. :i oo |>. m. Ar. 2 oo| •• Ar. 1 On •* Ar. 12 15 ’• Ar. II 55 a. m. Aril 15 “ Ar. 10 10 •• OArr.NKT DIVISION. Lv. 0 p. in. Blacksburg. Ar. 7 25 “ Ar. 7 05 •• Gaffney. Lv. 0 50 “ Trains nortb of Camden run dally except Sunday. Trains between Clinrlcrtou and Kingsville run daily. For Information as to rates. Clyde (dm* Sailing, etc., call o:i local contracting and traveling agents of Itoth roads, oi L. A. EMERSON. T. N., E. F. GRAY, S. C. A U. R. R.. Truffle Manager. Cbarleston, S. C. S. B. LUMPKIN. Oen'I. Pass. Agent. Blacksburg. B. 0. ttntvorslsy of Pennsylvania. The annual report of Provost C. C. Harrison of the University of Pennsyl- vania, which has just been issued, gives much information regarding that insti tution. Ho speaks as follows of the needs of tho university: “Wo may con fidently look to the whole state of Penn sylvania and, I hope, soon beyond tbe limits of tbe state for the snms of mon ey necessary to carry on our work. The needs of the nniversity at this time are great iu amount and pressing iu their urgency. We need a building for our graduate echo'd. We need a physical laboratory. Y7o need a university gym nasium. We need a great law school building. Wo need a huild.ng for our school of architecture. We need a com mons hall. We need to continue the dormitories, to erect new and important medical laboratories, to remodel tho vet erinary department. We need scholar ships and fellowships. We need moans for tho thousand snd ono minor mat ters, each ono of which is of importance to some individual teacher at the uni versity and which should be provided, and last, tot not least, wo need a uni versity chapel." Colorado's Mineral Collection. Daring the past two years, with an appropriation of bnt $15,000 for tbe necessary expenses, there has been col lected, classified and arranged in the basement of tbe state capitol a collec tion of minerals which is far in advance of any similar collection in tho mining states of the country and is in many re spects superior to the best collections of tho older universities of tho country and in some of its special features has no snperior in tho world. Not long since a professor iu the mineralogical depart ment of Yale college spout eight hours per day for three weeks in studying the collection and said that he had never seen its equal An attache of the Brit ish museum, who visited Denver a few weeks ago, said there were specimens in the collection which could not be dupli cated in any museum in Christendom, and for ono of tho specimens he offered fl ,200, frankly statibg that it was tbe finest of tbe kind in existence.—Denver Republican. Something to Know. It may be worth something to know that the very best medicine for restoring the tired out nervous sys tem to a healthy vigor is Electric Bitters. This medicine is purely vegetable, acts by giving tone to the nerve centres in the stomach, gently stimulates the Liver and Kidneys, and aids these organs in throwing off impurities in the blood. Electric Bitters improve the appetite, aids di gestion, and is pronounced by those who have tried it as the very best blood purifier and nerve tonic. Try it. Bold for 50c or $1.00 per bottle at DuPre Drug Co’s. Petition for Homestead. Htatk or South C’aroi.ina, t County or chehokee. ( Notice Ik hereby given that Mrs. Marillu Bolin has applied, hy petition, to me to have a homestead in the personal property of her late hushand, Green Bolin, oeceaseii, set off to her. .1. Eh. .1 KEFEttl EK, t’l’k C. C. P. A G. S. for Cherokee Co. Gafeney, S. C.. January 17th. IW#. 4t DR. J. F. GARRETT, Dentist, Gaffney, - - - S. C. Office over J. R. Tolleson’s new store In office from 1st to 26th of each month; At Blacksburg Thursday morning each week, returning to office at 2:30 dr. CHAS. a. jefferibs! Physician and Surgeon. SPECIALTIES:—SURGERY, EYE, EAR and THROAT. Office, Cherokee Drug Co’s Store Telephone No. 40. Dr. C. T. LIPSCOMB, Dentist, Ofiice over R. A. Jones A Co.'s Store. Cun be found at office six days in the week. J. E. WEBSTER, Attorney-Lra-w, Office In Court House. (Probate Judge'sofflec( Gaffney City, S. C. Practices in all the courts. Collec tions a soeoialtv. IV. W. HARDIN, ATTORNEY AT LAW, lilcxckaburic ami Oaffney, 8. C. W ILL practice In all the Courts. lean be reached over the 'phone from Car- roll A Stacy’s Hank, at my office In Blacks burg. at any moment. O. L. Schumpert. Thou. B. Hutlem. Wm. McGowan. SCflUIPEKT, t BUTLER I & t KcGOWAY, ATTOR-M EC Ytt-A.T-X,A. W. Union and Gaffney, 5. C. Very careful and prompt attention given to all business entrusted to us. |3^"Practice In all the courts. Piedmont Savings and Investment Company, GREENVILLE. S. C. This company has money to lend on Gaff ney real estate. Our loan plan Is cheaper and more satisfactory than the plans of any building aud loan association offered In the State. For our loon circulars, which tell all about our loau plan, call on J. C. Jefferies, Esq., oar local attorney. s-is-tf Royal makes tbe tood pure, wholesome and deltclfy. &AKIH0 POWDER Absolutely Pure ROYAL BAKING ROWOtR CO., NEW YORK. Explaining Ills Delinquencies. Papa—James, they tell mo you aro at tho foot of your class. James—Yes, sir. To secure a full knowledge of any subject one must get down to the root of things, you know. —Chicago Journal. -take only the best when you need a medicine. Hood’s Sarsapa rilla is the best blood purifier, nerve and stomach tonic. Get HOOD’S. Bonds, notice. !'<>r Officers—Judl eiuls.Executors, Ad- m l ri I st nitons’ and Contractors,at short For Sale REAIv ESTATGJ 1 lot 80x200 ft. on Logan street. The Dr. Homes 8 room house with fine gar den, stables and out buildings attached. > room cottage on Limestone street. 1 room cottage on Gaines street, with splen did garden. » vacant lots on Gaines street. 1 splendid farm containing 50 acres H miles, from City Hall. 1 house and 5 acres located at Limestone Springs. 1 new