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I THE LEDGER: GAFFNEY, S. C., APRIL 14, 1898. The: Tedhoem*. $1.00 per Year. PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY BY Ed. H. DkCamp. 1'he Ledger is not responsible for the 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 Correspondents who do not contri bute regular news letters must fur bish their name, not for publication, but for identification.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 bo insure publication; also endeavor to get therti to'the office by Tuesday. \11 corrdsbohdence.should' be ad dressed to EOL tJeCapap. Manager. Obituaries will be. published at flye cents a line. j ■ •••’.. ■>. Cards of thanks will be published at one cent a word. Heading notices will be published At ten cents a line eaph insertidn/" :j . . . '|MPORTA NT. ‘ * ‘*f Watch the date on your^.la^.and it you are in'ari'ears call in and r settle up, thus saving us the upplea^pt duty of mailing you a notice inform: ing of you that fact. ' ' ; f' < have been forgotten in the excitement caused by a prospect of more exten sive murders to be committed in the name of war. In the meantime the state ofjSouth Carolina is bearing the !oad 1 'of"disgrace which that murder hnpQs^d, tjppn her, with good temper and mild complacency. • /. ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ -The Kingstree Record says: . ”It is strange how some people who have something to sell, endeavor to im press uppq'the publisher of a news paper the fact that' the aforesaid ‘Something’ ^hould be ‘written up’ for the benefit of the readers.” Ad- vertisVng is a newspaper’s stock in trade, and if v it. is given away the publisher will come-out at the little Ciul of the horh.” . iClemson College is to have a tex tile’-SchbOl added to the curriculum li'-'t* >i)’) •* f ( ,1 * 1 and.,holding 300 feet long by 50 feet •Avkle'is ference between this process and that and the manufacturers and producers up for that will be ENTRIES FROM OUR DAY BOOK. Not one of the Lake City murder ers has been arrested. They seem to now going pjifrpbso. The machinery placed before the opening 6/ the next sfc&sibn. The objectofthis school is to prepare boys for high positions in the cotton mills, without their having to So'rN'e the Usual apprenticeship. It :m»y he o good plan,'but we don’t be lieve it. ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ Mr. L. P. Eptos, candidate for [ Comptroller Coneral, issues a card in I which he mildly accuses Hon. E. L. | Affcher, candidate for Governor, of acting one way and talking another, and of various little inconsistencies, which,*in Mr. Epton’s opinion, do not adorn the State Senator’s charac ter. Pshaw! Don’t mind these little things. Mr. Archer has an ambition to be unique, and he’ll soon find that in order to gratify that ambition he must, pursue a different course. ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ CcfL. R. 13. Watson* announces that he is in the race for governor to stay. | He is in favor of educating public sentiment up to prohibition and then enacting prohibitory laws. I3ut he Idoes not tell us how to educate. The most effective method of educating the people in this direction that we know, is by strong prohibitory l»w. Politicians might learn something about education from our common schools, in which more than half the processes are mandatory and pro hibitory, ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ The frost always expected at the full moon in April, came on time, I and extended south to the northern borders of Florida. Tynder vegeta tion was killed and the fruit crop damaged, but, so far as we have ob- Iserved, the peach uml the apple crop lin this vicinity, havQ not suffered to lany great extent. Some varieties of plums are killed, wlrle other more I hardy ones have come through un scathed. If no further disaster befall „he fruit, we think there will be a good average crop. ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ We read the full text of Senator Tillman’s eulogy on Senator Earle delivered in the United States Senate on March the 2Sth, and published in j the Sumter Herald of April 8th; and when we had finished it we thought that a proper heading for the speech as published would be something like the following: ‘‘A eulogy on Till man, pronounced by himself in the United States Senate, on the occa sion of a memorial session in honor of the late lamented Earle. All rights reserved and no infringement allowed.” The board of visitors of the Citadel Academy expelled sixty-four cadets from that institution last week, giv ing them only two hours in which to pack their trunks and to leave the Citadel. The trouble grew out of the fact that one cadet Cantey had re ported four or five cadets for viola tion of rules. The cadets undertook to expel Cantey, and the result was that they were expelled themselves. There are only about fifty cadets left in the school. Public sentiment en dorses the action of the authorities, | and many of these boys will live to learn how foolishly they have acted. Notwithstanding the detailed in formation given us last week by Mr. Hardin, the fact remains that the grand jury is selected by a species of lottery. The number of tickets is limited and,consequently the chances of drawing a prize ore increased, but the principle is that of a lottery. The chairman of the board of county commissioners, presumed to fill the most important position on the board, is elected by the people, while the other members are viftually appointed by the county senator and representatives; In most cases on the recommendation of the citizens of the different townships. For practi cal purposes, there is not much dif- of a popular election. This whole matter, however, has only a very slight bearing on the question at issue between Mr. Har din and this paper. ' . Editor Bkan'n, of Waco, Tex., and Capt. Davis, of the same place*, en gaged in a duel in which* both of the combatants were kUlIed. This* ehds the career of Jlrann.and lvis:pnp.er called the Iconoclast, v^e hathd-re- . ■- — • liglon and politics, and stinted up more animosity among his fellow- men than atiy “Athei£ fnan in the United States. lie was the indirect cause of the killihg 'Ofthe,* Harris brothers, and had been: engaged di rectly in more than fifty personal altercations. His ? vocabulaf^ of abuse was inexhaustible; and peace, Honor and character withered under his powers of sarcasm ' and vituper ation. What a mistak-en life! .What a'perversion of talent! < What a pros titution of all the noblest attributes of mind and heart! His life and death furnish another example of sowing the Wind and reaping the whirlwind. Whenever any one man declares war against the human race the result may be delayed, but it is none the less sure, whether that man be a lirann or a Napoleon. The' con test is as unequal as that of Mrs. Darlington with the Atlantic ocean. ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ The State Democratic Executive Committee met in Columbia last week and decided that the prohibi tionists have the constitutional right to run a ticket in the democratic primary. No other reasonable de cision was possible. The prohibition movement may be unwise from the standpoint of politicians, but that is not the question. The point was raised that in accordance with the constitution of the democratic party of South Carolina, no faction inside the party can put out candidates in the primary and have their votes counted. It is strange that men will indulge in such twaddle in the face from, 1890 to a very there were two dis- in the democratic these factions could strength only by a primary. The very object of a pri mary Is to settle factional difference inside the party and thus enable, the party to present a solid front in the general election. But for this there would he no use of a primary. Fur ther, the principle of faction applies to the supporters of every individual candidate, and to rule out factions from the primary would bo equivalent to enunciating the principle that there must be only one set of candidates, or if more than one, they must not differ on any of the live issues of the day. of army supplies will reap a rich harvest^.. After a time prices of va rious commodities will be stimulated, and raon«y, will become more plenti ful as the vast expenditures of the government begin to be. All this‘-prediction, however, is based on ~ unexpected happen. ; War ift conragious. sometimes sends out.branches like a banyan tree;Trorn which roots strike downwards and'’start a .whole forest of new and- vigorous-trees. No man can tell what’complications may arise —what other nations may bp drawn into it—when it- will end. At the’ beginning of the great civjl war In this country the wisest and most far- seeing men in the United States thought that the war woilld end hr thi’rty dfays. and if we remember cor rectly the first troops oh' the northern sid6 were enlisted for-only that .time. Then pinety days were fixed as the limit beyond which the war, could not possibly be extended. The Con federates thought It possible; but not at all-probable, that it might take them a year to dealt up the Yankees and all other hostile • comers, and so, their first levy of troopsx.as for twelve months, ‘‘if not; sooner dis charged.” A war with Spain, in its scope and duration, rray pay as little respect to humap expectations and show as little regard for human calculations, as the war of thirty-five years ago, Asbury Notes. (Correspondence of The Ledger.) Aobury, April 11.—The larm^rs In thia community, are getting along nicely with their crops. There has not been any cotton plarited yet. We have had sd/he * Severe frdsts but.it has not jilted the fruit. Iscar Petet, of Paeolet Mills, spent , , .. , . . _ . Friday, night-with James Ha-man. th.e supposition-thAt .the i Misa Susie Foster; of Paeolet Mills, d and 'unforeseen -o': „pent Friday-, with Misses Cora and It [’Clarissa Hames. Misa Mary Petet; of Paeolet Mills, spent Friday night with Della Har- man v • Johnnie and James Harmon visited their friends at Paeolet Mills Satur day and Sunday. Mason Pridmore, of Paeolet Mills, is visiting hrS friends in out commun ity. The entertainment at the Asbury High School was a sCtccesg.. Their was a large attendance and everyone enjoyed it.. • ... Our school has closed until July. The Hustler. of the fact that recent period, tinct factions party and that measure their Events hearing on the war follow eacli other so rapidly that it is hard for the editor of a weekly newspaper to keep up with them. If he writes upon one phase of the subject today the kaleidoscope will turn and pre sent an entirely different phase to morrow. If he comments on the latest exciting event that certainly means war, and puts it in his paper as the very latest, that event will be eclipsed by others, long before his article has reached its readers. At the risk, hoWever, of all contin gencies we will say at this writing that affairs seem to be drawing to a focus. The president’s long delayed message was laid before Congress on Monday and was received without demonstration. It is a well written document, broad and conservative, yet firm in its tone, and does, as wo think, credit to the President’s mind and heart. It deals largely in the details of former negotiations, depre cates the inhuman way in which Spain has conducted the war in Cuba, and declares emphatically that the war must stop, and asks Congress to give the president power to stop it. The whole matter is now in the' hands of Congress. In the meantime Gen. Lee has ar rived, having received an ovation all along the line from Savannah to Washington; Spain has ordered an armistice; there are riots with some bloodshed in Madrid; and the ques tion is, what next? ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ A war with Spain, under normal conditions, will hardly affect the masses of our people, one way or an other. The beginning of it may fur nish an excuse for banks and capital ists to call in loans and withdraw large sums of money from circulation, thereby causing tightness in money matters and inconvenience to many, but if no unlooked-for emergencies arise, reaction will soon set in and relieve the stringency. Array con tractors will make great fortunes, # Artichokes for Hogs. [CottonJ’fant.j . During the last few years there have been carr :d on in the columns of the farm j apers very animated discussion as to the value of arti chokes for hof food. The difference of opinion oi the subject has been very . wide. V great many thought that the croj was a failure and others who succeed- l in raising good crops thought thev were worth very little as.food for 1 ogs. In a late copy of tile Farm Journal was published a letfer which took the ground that artichokes were of very little value. Tnis provoked a number of very strong letters from the people who had had large experience in raising and using artichokes, praising them highly. One man from New York State, writes that he bus five acres of artichokes that are equal to twenty- five acres of corn, unit that 200 hogs had been feeding on them for four weeks, with nothing else to eat. He says further that lie places greater value on the artichokes than he does on any other crop, although he raises 2,000 bushels of potatoes, 800 of wheat and 2,000 of corn. Such an opinion from u farmer is certainly entitled to great weight. Another man writing from Iowa, near the home of Mr. Wilson. Secretary of Agriculture, says that the latter thinks as highly of them as he does, and that in his section they are re garded as the most important article of hog food, both for making them grow and keeping them healthy. He says he can raise 800 bushels of them to the acre and it does not cost more than a fourth as much to raise them as potatoes do. This -being true, artichokes will certainly prove to be a most, important crop for the South. With an abundant crop of them, hogs can be wintered in the South almost without any cost at all, and with a proper succession of clover, oats, peas, sweet potatoes, etc., port can be raised for probably less than cents per pound. With such strong testimonials in favor of artichokes, every farmer who raises re them a trial A Publisher’s Platform. An Arkansas [publisher announces his.platform as follows: ... , Our aim—To tell the truth though the heavens should - take a tumble. Our paper—Of the people, for the people, to be paid for by the people. Our religion—Orthodox, with a be lief in hell for delinquent subscribers. Our motto—Take all in sight and rustle for . more. Our policy—To love our friends and brimstone our enemies. If thine enemy smite thee on one cheek, swine him with haste and dexterity at the butt of tho most convenient ear. What we advocate— One country, one flag, t(nd one wife— at a time. Oar-.objeQt—To live in pomp and oriential splendor. any hogs should g this year. [Artichokes grow well in Cherokee and might he tried with profit to the farmers.—Ed. Ledger.] Ravenna Reading. (Corri-snondence of The Ledger.) Ravenna, April 12.—A number of our people went to the school enter tainment at Asbury last Friday night. It was the closing exercises of a school taught by N. G. Littlejohn. The colored Methodist Sunday school celebrated Easter at Griffin Hill church last Sunday. They hud several recitations and decorated the house with flowers. They report quite a nice time. Mrs George Brown, of Gaffney, is spending a while with relatives in this community. Rowland Brown is very sick. The frost of last week killed nearly all of the cherries but the peaches are not hurt much yet. a. b. c. i ——. State or Ohio, City or Toi.edo, » Lucas County. \ ' ' Frank .1. Cheney makes oath that he is the senior partner of the linn of F. .1. Cheney & Co., (loTntr business in the City of Toledo. County and State aforesaid, and that said linn will pay the sum of o.NK HI'NOKF.I) pOLLAKS for each and every case of Ca- TAitiiii that cannot ho cured by theusoof IIAl.l/H CATARRH CURE. FRANK .1. CHENEY. Sworn to in-fore me and subscribed in my presence, till* titli day of Decern her, A. I). inm;. A. W. GLEASON. - ^ i Notary I’ubllc. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally and acts directly on the blood and mucous sur faces of the system. Send for testimonials free. F. J. CHENEY A CO., Toledo, (>. Sold hy DruRKists. 73c. Hall's Family I’ll Is are the best. -- * Everybody Says So. Cuncarcts Candy Cathartic, the most won derful medical discovery of the a»re, pleas ant and refreshing to the taste, act stoutly and positively on kidneys, liver and bowels, cleansing the entire system, dispel colds, cure Iteadnche, fever, habitual constipation and biliousness. Please buy and try a box of C. C. C. to-dny; 10,85, 50 cents. Hold and guaranteed to cure by all druggists. Royal make* tRa fo*4 pars, ^ ^ wholesome and delict 4 &akiH0 POWDER Absolutely Pure ROYAL DAK I NO ROWOER CO., HEW YORK. Abandoned. “The doctors have given him np.” “No!” “Yes, his case baffles the highest bill sllectiug skill.’’—Detroit Journal. fAKE ONLY the best when you need a medicine. Hood’s Sarsapa rilla is the best blood purifier, nerve and stomach tonic. Get HOOD’S. SOUTHERN RAILWAY. It ia impossible for the system to withstand the demands made upon it just at this season, with out the assistance of a £ood puri fying and strengthening tonic. The changes which Nature decrees shall take place each spring are so severe that a breakdown is almost sure to come. It is wise that all possible assistance bo given during this period, as upon this purifying process depends the health for the entire summer. Everybody just now* should take a thorough course of Swift’s Specific S.S.S.tL Blood which thoroughly cleanses the blood of all the accumulated im purities, tones up and strengthens the entire system, and aids Nature in renovating and renewing the body so as to render it healthy and strong. Those who purify their blood with S. S. S. at this season are well fortified against the many forms of disease so prevalent dur ing the dreaded heated term, for it has been demonstrated that the aystem that is thoroughly purified in the spring is well prepared to resist disease all summer. No other remedy on the market is equal to Swift’s Specific as a spring medicine, because it is the only purely vegetable blood rem edy and is guaranteed absolutely free from potash, mercury and all other minerals. It cleanses, puri fies, builds np and strengthens. Insist on S. S. S., fortherois noth ing half us good. Comlen.ed Schedule of Tawinser Train*. In Effect February 27th, 1SS»8. Northbound. Lv. Atlanta, C. T. “ Atlanta, E.T. “ Norcross “ Buford “ Gainesville. . “ Lula Ar. Cornelia Lv. Mt. Airy “ Toocuo “ Westminster “ Koneom " Central " OreenrUIe. . “ Sj-arttinburg. “ (raffneys “ Blacksburg . •* King’s Mt. “ (-rflstonia..... Lv. Charlotte .... Ar. Greensboro No. 12 I>Hily 7 50 n 8 50 a OilO n 10 05 a 10 05 a 10 58 a 11 25 a 11 HO a 1150 a 12 aim 12 52 p 1 40 p 2 24 p 3 87 p 4 20 p 4 38 p 5 03 p 5 25 p 0 30 p 9 52 p Ve*. No. 18 Kst.MI No. 38 K*. No. 30 Dally. Sun. [ Dully. 4 85p|ll 50 p 5 35p 12 50 a 8 28 p 1 27 a 7 08 p! 12 00 m 1 00 p 2 22 p • 43 > 2 42 > 8«ip j »35p « ZU A 2 40 «i 3 3) p 3 25 u 4 03 a 4 15 p 4 22 a 4 7)3 it 5 22 p 5 45 a 6 10 p! 0 37 a 8 22 10 43 . 7 15 a 7 85 a ! 7 58 » .! 8 20 a 9 85 a 12 la p Lv. Greensboro. Ar.Norfolk .... Ar. Danville 11 25 p 11 51 pi 1 35 p C 25 p Ar. Richmond , 0 00 a 0 00 a; Ar.Washington j 6 42 a “ Baltm’ePRR. 8 00 a “ Philadelphia 10 15 a . “ New York .J... 12 43 m 9 35 p 11 85 p 2 56 a 0 23 a Southbound. Put. All Ves. No. 3r. No. 3 Datlv. Daily. jNo.ll! Daily Lv. N V..P10T. 1;! !o u 4 “ Philadelphia 3 50 a 6 55 “ Baltimore... 0 31 a 9 20 “ Washington. 11 15 a 10 43 Lv. Richmond .. 12 00 m 12 00 Lv. Danville . (l 15 p 5 50 Lv. Norfolk . 10 119 Ar Greensboro. tl 50 Lv. Greensboro. r 32 p 7 05 Ar. Charlotte . lo 90 p 9 25 Lv. Gastonia .... 10 49 p " King's Mt “ Blacksburg 11 31 p 10 45 " Gaffneys 11 4-i p 19 58 “ Spartanburg. 12 2-1 a 11 34 “ Greenville... 1 25 a 12 :#) “ Central “ Seneea 2 30 .. a 1 33 “ Westminster “ Toccoo 3 25 n 2 18 “ Mt. Airy ... ” Cornelia... . “ Lula 4 15 a 3 18 “ Gainesville 4 35 a 3 37 “ Buford “ Norcross 5 25 n Ar. Atlanta, K. T. 0 10 a 4 55 Ar. Atlanta. C. T. 5 10 a 8 55 ‘'A'’ a. m. “P” p. m. “M" no >!. 2i < •>** i U 11 i» 1 08 l;5 a 209 a 2 25 a 3 15 p 4 85 5 43 l 615 0 ijtl p 7 15 7 42 7 45 p 813 p 8 4!) . 9 11 9 43 p 10 33 9 80 m. “N” nig Nos.37 and 38—Daily. Washington and South western Vestibule- Limited. Through Pullman Bleeping cars between New York and New Or leans, via Washington, Atlanta and Montgom ery. and also between New York and Memphis, viaWusiiington,Atlanta and Birmingham. First class thoroughfare coaches between Washing ton and Atlanta. Dining ears serve all meals cn route. Pullman drawing-riMim sleeping oar* between Greensboro and Norlolk. Close con nection at Ferfoik for OLD POINT COMFORT, arriving then- in time for breakfast. Nos. 35 and 3(5—United States Fast Mail runs solid between Washington and New Or leans, via Southern Railway, A. <fc W. P. R. R., and L. St N. R. R., being composed of baggage car and coaches, through wiini passengers of all classes. 6 85 a 6 57 a 7 29 a 7 48 a 8 27 a 9 39 a 8 39 a ,-ht. . A. N. WOOD, BANKER, does a general Bankingand Exchange business. Well secured with Burglar- Proof safe and Automatic Time Lock. Safety Deposit Boxes at moderate rent. Buys and sells Stocks andBonds. Buys County and School Claims. Your business solicited. FOR Up-to-Date Job Print ing, call at the LEDGER Office. Gaffney, S. C. >ut change for j..... „ Pullman drawing room sleeping cars between New York and New Orleans, via Atlanta and Montgomery. Leaving Washington each Wednesday and Sat urday, a tourist sleeping ear will run through between Washington and San Francisco without change. Nos. 11,37, 38 and 12—Pullman sleeping car# between Richmond andCharloite. vi i Danville, southbound Nos. Hand 37, northbound Nos. 88 and 12 - , . The Air Line Bello train. Nos. 1. and 18, be tween Atlanta and Cornelia, Gn., daily ex cept Sunday. . ... _ FRANKS. GANNON. J. M.iTLP. Third V P. & Gen. Mgr., Traffic M g r. Washington, D. C. W ashmgton, D. U W. A. TURK, S- H. HARDWICK, Gen’l Pass. Ag't , AsVt Gen 1 Pass. Ag t., Washington, D. C. Atlanta. Ga. OMo River and Charleston Railway Co., CONJUNCTLY WITH THE South Carolina and Georgia Railroad. Schedule In effect October 18th, 1897. SOUTH CAROLINA AND GEORGIA. NOKTH BOUND. Lv. 7 10 a. to. Lv. 8 57 " Lv. 10 25 “ Charleston. Bru-ieh ville. Kingsville. SOUTH BOUND. Ar. 8 00 p. m. Ar. 5 55 •* Ar. 4 44 “ (HHO RIVER AND CHARLESTON. Noim ROUND. SOUTH BOUND. Lv. 12 05 p. in. Camden. Ar. 3 00 p m. 1, V. 1 05 “ Kershaw. Ar. 2 (8) *• I,v. 1 45 Lancaster. Ar. 1 (8) Lv. •) A) ” Catawba .l et. Ar. 12 15 *• f.v. O 55 “ Rock Hill. Ar. 11 55 a m. Lv 3 30 ** 5’orkvlllo. Ar. 11 15 *• Lv. 4 50 ** Blacksburg. Ar. 10 10 •• Lv, 5 20 " Shelby. Ar. 0 so ** Lv! 5 .Vi Henrietta. Ar. h 35 ** Lv. 6 12 •' Forest City. Ar. 8 20 ** Lv. ti »»*• t > Rut herfordton. Ar. 8 05 • * Ar. 7 30 “ Marion Lv. 7 no • * llAFENEY DIVISION. Lv. 6 30 p. m. Blacksburg Ar. 7 25 • i Ar. 7 U’> - Gaffney. Lv 0 50 tt Trains north of Camden run dally except Sunday. Trains between Charleston and Kingsville run daily. For Information as to rates. Clyde Line Sailing, etc., call on local contraetlirg and traveling agents of both roads, or L. A. EMERSON. T. N„ E. F. GRAY, S. C. A. G. R. R.. Traffic Malinger. Charleston. S. O. S. II LFMPKlN. Gen’l. Puss. Agent, uiaciuitnirf. s». C.