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WE GUARANTEE The Reliability of Every Adver tiser Who Uses the Col- umjis of This Paper. The Ledger OUR SUBSCRIBERS Can Secuxe Bargains by Patron ising Those Who Adver- tise in The Ledger. A Newspaper in ail that the Word Implies and Devoted to the Best Interests of the People of Cherokee County. ESTABLISHED FEB. 10, 1894. GAFFNEY CITY, S. C., THURSDAY, APRIL !M, 1898. • 1.00 A YEAR. THE DREADFULNESS OF WAR IT EXPOSES ALL TO PERMISCU- OUS RUIN. The Sage of Etta Jane Thinks the Idea Perfectly Revolting and Scores Ultra Politicians who will Shed no Blood. (Correspondence of The Ledger.) Etta Jane, April 18.— We are marehing forward to Cuba. Where the llfos and drums are beating; Our armies are collecting there And the Spanish they arc meeting. This seems to be the state of affairs into which our country has at last been brought by ultra politicians who expect to shed very little of the blood it will cost. However, our faith in President McKinley is such that he will guide our ship of state through the storm and land the na tion safely c» a bloodless shore. The idea of war at this time (or any other) is perfectly revolting. Take the poor men from their work, whoso families are dependent upon their daily earnings for support, and what Is to become of them? Forty-nine fiftieths, yes, ninety-nine one-hun dredths of them arc men who never get above a want and they will have to do the fighting and all the sutfer- ing. Until the guns open fire we shall not despair. Just think of & war. It tears the son from the arms of his mother and the husband from the fond embrace of his wife and exposes all to pro- niiseuous ruin. The man who really wants war is either a lunatic or else he expects to profit by it. We are reliably inform * ! that if seed corn be smeared over with kero sene oil it will prevent the cr iws from pulling it up, or bud worms from cutting it clown. Spirits of turpen tine will cto as well I suppose. Wo believe that the most of the peaches escaped injury from the cold spell. Complaint has been made by some of the citizens of the Pine Grove H ighborhood that they were annoy- on last Sunday by the firing of ns in that section on that day. Thjs is a gross violation of the law and if the parties are prosecuted they might see trouble. We find the chain uang has done some good work on the Howell’s ferry road down as for us the Tolkson place. Here are a few facts about the cal endar with which our readers may acquaint themselves with a little study: No century can begin on Wednesday, Friday or Sunday. The game ca'endars can bo used every twenty years. October always be gins on the same day as January, April as July, September as Decem ber. February, March and Novem ber begin on the same day. May, June and August always begin on different days from each other, and of every other month in the year. The first and last days of the year are al ways the same. These rules do not apply to leap year, when comparison is between days before and after February 21)lli. Unless the centennial year is divis ible by four, without a remainder, it is never a leap year. 11KX) will not be a leap year. Miss Oregon Estes spent the night with Miss Ethel Strain last Wednes day night. Mrs. J. L. S. visited Mrs. Jane Howell last Tuesday. Miss Jessie Strain returned last Saturday from a visit to the Hick ory Grove section. Mrs. William Fowler visited Mrs. Amanda Le * last Tuesday. Mr. Uoyd was in this section last week in the interest of the Pres byterian, published at Clinton, S. C. Meny of our farmers find that they have an insufliciency of guano this year. They have used acid mostly. Messrs. Willie and Walker Goforth, who are attending the Campobello High School, came home last Satur day to see ttieir parents and friends. They return this a. in. The young people gathered at Mr. Goforth’s on Hatuiday night and hud an enjoyable time. Mr. and Mrs. T. II. McCullough gave the young people an entertain ment last Saturday evening. They had a nice time. Your correspondent attended the prohibition convention at Columbia lust Week. It was composed of men of all religious denomination and political factions, whose sole object was to stop the manufacture and sale of intoxicants us a beverage in this state. Hud 1 the space at my dis posal would give a synopsis of the proceedings. One thing was noticed —the absence of the politicians. The private characters of the men sug gested for the minor offices were closely scrutinized as to Their consis tency and, us a result, teinpcancv lion are on the ticket. Sit was properly argued that no nyn who indulged in the most mod erate use of intoxicants, as a bever- uge, was a suitable person to hold the anti liquor forces, and if the cause could not furnish such men it was destined to be a failure. Col. James A. Hoyt, of Greenville, chairman of committee on platform, presented the following platform which was unanimously adopted: The Prohibitionists of the State of South Carolina, in convention assem bled, on the 11th day of April, 1898, hereby adopt the following platform : First. We declare our allegiance to the regular Democratic party and our suggested nominees stand pledged to abide the results of the Democratic primary election. Second. We declare that we are un alterably opposed to the manufacture and sale of alcoholic or malt liquors, except for mechanical, medicinal, scientific or sacramental purposes. The followihg names were suggest ed for the various offices: “Governor—Joel E. Diunson, Wil liamsburg. “Lieutenant Governor — L. D. Childs, Richland. “Attorney General—Geo. S. Mower, Newberry. “Secretary of State—D. H. Tomp kins, Greenwood. “Treasurer—W. H. Timmerman, Edgefield. “ComptrollerGer.eral—L P. Epton, Spartanburg. “Superintendent of Education—E. 1). Smith, Sumter. “Adjutant and Inspector General —Henry T. Thompson, Darlington. “Railroad Commissioner—Thos. N. Berry, Chester." In accepting the nomination Mr. Brunson said, in substance: You have nominated me from a combina tion of circumstances, and I feel my inability to be your chief standard bearer, but I will do my best We shall go into the fight to win. The subject of prohibition has been one of slow growth. The stronger we make our organization the sharper will be the conflict. Wc must, hav ing God and right on our side, man all the guns and make the organiza tion as strong as wo can. Let us go into this fight to win, for win we must, and win we shall for God decreed that this must be. Rev. James S. MoiTatt, of Chester, introduced the following which was adopted: Resolved, That the executive com mitteeman from each county be charged with the duty of thoroughly organizing his county to the end that a full ticket, be placed in the field from each county pledged to prohibi tion. Speaking of the nominee for Gov ernor the State says, editorially: “Mr. Joel E. Brunson, the nominee for governor, was born in Sumter county f>l years ago. Ho succeeded the Rev. H. F. Creitzberg as grand chief Templar in the State. When he took charge the total membership of the Good Templars was about SOU; in three years lie succeeded in increasing it to 4,500. For one year some one else held the ofiico; then he was call ed back and he m still at the head of the order. He owns and operates one of the largest sash, blind and door factories in the State at Sumter and a very large lumber mill at Kingstree, where he resides. He has a wife and six children. lie stands high in t he business arid social circles of the com munity in which ho lives. He has been a consistent member of the Bap tist church since his boyhood. He lias not been identified with either of the political factions in South Car olina." The C. E. Society met at Mr. F. A. Goforth’s last evening. Mr. T. J. Estes and wife visited friends and relatives at Sharon last Sat unlay. Owing to the small pox scare many of our old “vita” will, no doubt, give up the idea of going to Charleston on the 27tii inst. It is urged that all who will, attend the memorial meet ing at Elbethel on the .'10th inst., at 2 p. m. 1 want itdistinctly understood that our young men arc not fools for the want of sense. They are all at work trying to make an honest living. But if the war starts ami they find it necessary to go they will do so and when they get there somebody is go ing to be hurt. That’s right boys, keep cool, and if It is necessary for you to go, God bless you, you’ll have the old confederates at your side. They can’t move about much, but they know how to fight, yet. J. L. s. * - - - — Robbed the Grave. A startling incident of which Mr. John Oliver of Philadelphia, was thj subject, is narrated by him as follows : “l was in a most dreadful condition. My skin was almost yellow, eyes sunken, tongue coated, pain continu ally in buck and sides, no appetite— gradually growing weaker day by day. , Three physicians had given me up. Fortunately, a friend advised trying I “Electric Bitters," and to my great joy and surprise, the first bottle m -idc a decided improvement. I continued their use for three weeks, and am now a well man. 1 know they saved , my life, and robbed tlie grave of an- i other victim." No one should full to try them. Only 50 cents per bottle at DuPre Drug Company. LATEST COTTON MILL NEWS. ITEMS OF INTEREST TO TEX- ^ TILE WORKERS North and South Carolina Mills, Their Improvements and Their Ad vancements—Opera tive Personals. (.Southern and Western Textile Excelsior.] J. A. Guy is now electrician for the Pelzer, 8. C., cotton mills. The Ashby Cotton Mills, Marion, S. C., have recently installed a new dynamo. 8. Ramsbotham changes from the Newberry, 8. C., cotton mills to Osdartown, Ga., cotton mills. The Salisbury, N. C., Cotton Mills declared their regular 2 per cent, quarterly dividend on April 13. A Carolina spinning mill of 2.000 spindles made a clesr profit of $2,000 for the month of December last. The Florence Cotton Mills, Forest City, N. C., have recently placed an order for additional twisters. The Columbia Manufacturing Co., Ramseur, N. C., have recently over hauled their cloth room machinery. Arch. Her has resumed work at the Greenwood, 8. C., cotton mills as M. M., after having recovered from a fever. John Shaver, of Greenville, S. C., has been engaged as second hand in No. 3 weave room, Muginnis Mills, New Orleans, La. L. \V. Boyd, of Laurens, 8. C., is now bookkeeper for Lockhart, 8. C., cotton mill, tilling the shoes of that genial Squire Edmund Bacon. Chas. Rhyne, of the Gastonia, N. C., cotton mills, lost his wife last week, who died of pneumonia. They had only been married about a year. Chas. L. Strolls, formerly at Lock hart, 8. C., cotton mills, is now put ting up the machinery for the Elm wood Manufacturing Go., Columbia, 8. C. The W. R. Kindley Cotton Mills, Mt. Pleasant, N. C., have just paid a 4 per cent, semi-annual dividend. Their last 0 months’ dividend was 3 per cent. Chas. M. Harper, who has been loom fixer with the Ft. Mill, S. C., Manufacturing Co., for eighteen months,has relumed to a like position at the Highland Park Mill, Charlotte. D. L. Eilis and J. B. Ivey have es tablished a weekly newspaper at Henrietta, N. C., called Die Henri etta and Caruleen News, which we trust will meet with uoundant suc cess. C. C. Harmon, engineer and ma- chinesl in the Southern Cotton Mills, Bessemer City, N. C., has severed his connection with said mill, and J. A. Jenkins has taken -Mr. Hannon’s place. J. O. Bell, bookkeeper for the Hen rietta, N. C., cotton mills, is North, where lie lias been having an opera tion performed on his leg. While absent a son was born to nun at his Henrietta home. The Milfort Cotton Mills, Fort Mill, 8. C., it is reported, are going to have all their looms stopped, so us to en able tie company to card and spin yarns for the Highland Park Mfg. Co., a Charlotte, N. C. E. W. Thompson, of Raleigh, N. C., who has been employed in the roller covering shop at that place has accepted a like position witn isham Ashworth at Lalayette Holt’s shop, Burlington, N. C. The Highland Park Manufacturing Co., of Charlotte, N. C., have re cently placed an order for Whitin, Kitson and Woonsocket shops for their additional picker, card room machinery and spinning. The old 8taudurd Warehouse at Columbia, 8. C,, burned Monday with $30,000 worth of cotton belonging to Richland Mills, Granby Mills and J. H. Hloan, cotton buyer. Insurance companies stand the loss. T. M. Hurt, who has been with the Highland Park Manufacturing Co., for some time, also formerly a fixer with the Lancaster, 8. C., cotton mills, has accepted a job of fixing with the Caroleeu Mills, Henrietta, N. C. Ulysses Nopling, an operative of the Clifton, 8. C., Cotton Mills, was committed to jail in Charlotte while on u spree, unu tried to commit sui cide there this week by hanging himself. Hu was cut down in the nick of time. ^ The Gaaton Mills, Cherryville, N. C., will add twisters at once to twist the entire product of the mill. The cloth they are weaving only brings 18 cents per pound, while the yarn of the same number, when twisted, will bring 22$ cents. Ennis Brown was badly hurt at the Durham, N. C., hosiery mills on j April 7. He was passing over a rap idly revolving shafting, when a set screw caught his clothing and jerked him to the floor. His knee was badly lacerated and his body pain fully bruised. W. J. Hunter, boss slasher at the Highland Park Mill, Charlotte, who has been very ill with pneumonia, is now improving. He was so near death that his daughter, Mrs. H. C. Gildard, wife of superintendent of weaving of Brookside Mills, Knox ville. Tenn., came on. Capt. J. O. Haynes, outside super intendent for the Piedmont, 8. C., cotton mills, has the new bicycle and base ball park nearly completed. When the grading and fencing is finished the grounds will be hand some and prove a pleasant recreation place for the employees. Chas. K. Oliver, manager of the Columbia, 8. C., Cotton Mills Co., says that the U. 8. Government has bought up all the tent duck cloth that it could find in the country. All that his mill had in stock was sold. If war is declared he expects to get large orders for duck. The office of the Courtenay Manu facturing Co., Newry, 8. C., was en tered on Friday night, April 8. and the secretary’s desk explored. Very little money was obtained, but the certificates of five shares each of Courteney Co.’s stock standing in negotiable form were stolen, and an advertisement warns the public against buying these shares. Change in Voting Precincts. (Correspondence of The Ledger.) Home, April 18.—Knowing that the acts of the last legislature are not in the hands of the county officials, I think it necessary to publish the voting places for Cherokee county so that the clubs may govern themselves accordingly. Voting places are us follows: Gaffney. Grassy Pond. M aud. Ezell’s. Macedonia. Thickety. White Plains. Ravenna. Allen. Littlejohn’s, at T. D. Littlejohn. Timber Ridge. Draytonville. Sarratt’s. Wilkinsville. Blacksburg. Buffalo, King’s Creek. Cherokee Falls. Yours Respect. Wm. Jefferies. Profits of Meat Packing. | Manufacturer’s Kccord]. In a number of issues the Manu facturers’ Record lias referred to the success which could be made by meat packing in the South, when conduct ed properly and economically. The packing house at Augusta, Ga.. has been referred to in this connection. At Dalton, Ga., Davis it Sons packed and sold hams, sausages, kettle-ren dered lard and other products of like character to the amount of $10,000 in the month of February just past. Only a few years ago this firm was not dciog one-tenth of the business they now do. Next year, it is stated they will increase their cold-storage plant, double their steam-power and very nearly double the number of kettles and machines, and they will undoubtedly more than double the output of their slaughter-houses. Cured of f^ood Poison After Fifty-Two Doctors Failed. Blooi* Balm (io., Atlanta, Ga. Gentlemen:—In 1872 a small pim ple broke out on my leg. It began eating and in four months 1 was treated by a physician of Talladega county, Ala., where I lived eighteen years. He relieved it for a short while. In six weeks It broke out again in both legs, also on my shoul der. Two small bones were taken out. It continued until 1876. In this time I had twelve different phy sicians. They told me the only rem edy was amputation; that it could never be cured. For six months I could nut walk a step. I went to Mineral Wells, Texas, spent $300.U0; came home; went to Hot Springs. Ark .stayed nine months—all failed to cure me. In 1887 I came back to Birmingham, Ala. 1 was advised to write you, which I did. You wrote me that it. B. B. would cure me, and 1 could get the medicine from Nabors & Morrow, Druggists, of our city. 1 bought ten bottles and before 1 had finished my fifth bottle my legs began to heal, and in less than two months 1 was sound and well. That has been nearly two years ago, and no sign of its return yet. I have spent in cash over $400 00, and B. B. B. done the work that all the rest failed to do. You have my permission to publish this. I have traveled so much trying to get well that my cure is well known. Fifty-two doctors have treated me in the last 17 years. All they did was to take what money l had, and done me no good. I am now a well man. Prof. 0. H. Ranger,, 8hady Dale, Ga. For sale by Druggist. Price $1.00 per large bottle. FALLACY OF INTERVENTION. has this country a right TO INTERFERE? ‘J. H. W.” Discusses This Phase of the Question in The Nation. An Able and Conserva tive Argument. [J. II. W. In Tho Nation]. If intervention by Nation A in the affairs of nation B is to-doy good law and justice, because of B's oppres sion of a portion of its people, then intervention in nation A’s own af fairs by nation C or D may to-mor row or next week become equally good law and justice. The right to meddle which we claim to-day must equally be conceded toothers against ourselves when the time comes; and the time never failj to come to every nation. Take the condition of the blacks under slavery in our own country. That was a case of cruel oppression on an immense scale, as our civil war clearly conceded. But should we have listened for a moment in the ’50’s to a British proposal to teach us our duty by stepping in to free the blacks by force? Did we not even treat it as an insult that the British should offer to feed the starv ing Southerners? When, as late as 1894, a British society was formed for a crusade against negro-lynchiog in the South, did wo not serve notice that even such peaceable meddling in a most righteous cause would be re sented? Would we, at any moment, now or in the past, have brooked any outside rebukes of our scandalous maltreatment and looting of our na tion’s wards, the Indians? In the winter of 1886 nearly 100,000Chinese, in this civilized republic of liberty, gathered in California, fugitives from the frightful cruelty and oppression ol the whites throughout the North west: but would we have conceded that this national dishonor was the business of any European state? Thu mere statement of the case shows how preposterous the notion of in tervention becomes when onco practi cally and consistently applied—of course it must be. It would become the most prolific breeder of interna tional discord ever invented. No na tion could pass a decade of its life without giving caues for the self- righteous meddling of some other na tion, blameless of that particular sin. The civilized world would be in a state of intermittent war, waged in the name of humanity. Let our neighbor's blood be upon his bead and our own upon ours. We must all agree to stand firmly by this rule, for any other is absolutely incompati ble with the peace of the world. And yet our people, in these clos ing years of the century, inspired by the conceit of their own prosperity and power, are allowing themselves to lose sight of the world’s experience and boldly assuming the seat of an international dispenser of righteous ness, vested by their own mandate witii the task of doing justice to tlie oppressed. First it was the Jews under the Czar that we reached out to encourage; then it was Venezuela against Great Britian, the Armenians and the Greeks against the 8ultan, and now the Cubans against Spain. No one knows what distant commu nity will be the next object of our sentimental frenzy. It is fortunate for us that each of these waves of ro mantic emotion speedily absorbs and abates the preceding one, else we might by this time have hud half-a- dozen wars on our hands. Cun we not learn the lesson that, however noble these sympathies may be, they do not confer on us the right to us- ! sume such an impossible function as that of international dictator of righteousness? What of tlie other reason—that which tells us that we have us little duty as right to interfere? This rests upon an enlightened selfishness which realizes the chimerical impolicy of surrendering ourselves to tho al truistic pleasure of meddling. There are individuals whose circumstances are so comfortable, and whose oppor tunities so manifold, that they may devote the better part of their time to righting tlie wrongs of other indi viduals. But of nations there is none such. The business of interna tional reformer is a luxury in which no nation can afford to indulge. its own problems are deep and fierce ard pressing enough to engross its com plete attention. It is simply a wick ed neglect of duty to its own people when a nation allows itself to spend on suffering foreigners that energy and anxiety which is tiius diverted from those who have the first claim upon it. We are acquainted, among ] modern women, with that type of mother who seeks to fulfill her miasion by ussidious attendance upon clubs for tlie improvement of other women and other women’s children, and who meanwhile neglects her primary du ties to her own children and home, and we justly ridicule such conduct. But are we not fast coming, as a people, to exemplify that type of conduct among nations. Are we not tending to become an international gadabout and charity-monger, while the increasing evils of our own’housc- hold are complacently neglected? We have vitally interested ourselves in the affairs of a South American dicta- torate; we have groaned over the Russian Jew-baiting and the Turkish misrule; and now we choose to think of nothing but Spanish misrule in Cuba. Meanwhile, we are heedless of the approaching precipice of national re pudiation and bankruptcy, the preg nant terror of the labor problem, the racial oppression of blacks and of In dians. Inspired by the love of for eign humanity, we are insensible to the stench of municipal corruption. Shocked by the photographs of starv- ing Cubans, we lavish our money to buy food and appropriate millions to make war for them, while the thou sands of starved and oppressed creat ures within a stone’s throw of us, in New \ ork and in Chicago, beg for help in vain. They may live and die in their slums for all the help they will. get from us when we are filled with fine frenzy for (foreign) human ity. Ask any worker in the slums, who knows the true conditions of our poor and oppressed, and he will tell you that, if the neglect of their con dition is excusable, it ceased to be so when we so readily passed them over and poured out our wealth in abun dance to a stranger community, whose suffering, forsooth, were so much more romantic and lieart-stir- ring because they were not so close to our own doors. There is a dissipation in charity as well as in drink. This emotional and tlighty altruism is as unhealthy as it is misguided. It violates the dictates of moral consistency, national duty, and international experience. We may as well come to realize that this sentimental dissipation of meddling In other nations’ affairs is, in spite of its attractions, bad national morals and wicked neglect of home duties. We cannot afford it. Tlie sooner we turn back our national energies into the channels of domestic duty, the greater tho chances of tho Republic mastering its own internal dangers and vindicating to its critics the mis sion of popular seif-government. Wool Growing South. [The Wool Record]. While it is not to be expected that cotton growing and other agricultural pursuits are to be displaced entirely by the wool-growing industry, it is evi dent from present conditions that a great buttle between wool and cotton is imminent in the South. Texas furnishes a remarkable object-lesson for the states that have been depend ing on cotton for some years. The Lone Star State has demonstrated the practicability of wool growing. She has prospered while her neighboing states have suffered, because their cotton crops were bringing returns constantly on the decrease. The present development of wool growing in Die South must work to the benefit of the wool-growing interest and the country in general. — —— •— - — Grover Gossip. .Correspondence of The Ledger.) Grover, April 18.—We are having some very lino weather. Farmers are preparing and planting corn. Some few have planted cotton seed. Wheat and oats are fine for the time of year. Here is a preventive, as well as cure, for chicken cholera. Keep poke root in their water in spring. Rambler saw a black snake swallow a lizzard. Tlie snake was killed three hours afterwards aad-it was discovered that the lizzard wit* still alive. ‘ iJ r J. A. Ellis has tlie brick to build another -tore room by the side of his other one. ! The people of Grover are so law- abiding that tl.e police had to go to the factory. I ho school is still progressing rap idly. 'I here is to be a planing machine at this place soon. Rambler. Mankind is divided into two classes those who earn a living without getting it and those who get a living without earning it.—Chicago News. Wheelmen toil and they also spin yerns. Remarkable Rescue. Mrs. Michael Curtain, Plainfield. 111., makes the statement, that she caught cold, which settled on her lungs; she was treated fora month by her family physician, but grew worse. Ho told her she was a hope less victim of consumption and that no medicine could cure her. Her druggist suggested Dr. King's New Discovery for G’onsumption; she bought a bottle and to her delight found herself benefitted from first dose. 8lie continued its u*e and after taking six bottles, found her self strong and well; now does her own housework, and is as well as ah* ever wu*. Free trial bottles of thia Gre it Discovery at DuPre Drug Co. La.'^e bottles 50 cents and $1.00.