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THE LEDGER t GAFFNEY, 8. C., MAY 18. 18«8. The Si.oo per Year. PUBLISHKD EVERY THTTK8DAY BY Ed. II. DeCamp. The Ledger is not responsible for Ibe views of correspondents. Correspondents who do not contri bute regular news letters must fur bish their nun.e, not for publication, but for identification. Write short letters and to the point to insure publication ; also endeavor to get them to the office by Tuesday. 4.11 correspondence should be ad dressed to Ed. H. DeCamp, Manager. Obituaries will be published at five cents a line. Cards of thanks will be published rt one cent a word. Heading notices will be published it ten cents a line each insertion. IMPORTANT. vVatcii the date on your label and tt you are in arrears call in and settle up, thus saving us the unpleasant duty of mailing you a notice inform ing of you that fact. THE PH1LIPINE ISLANDS. We suppose there is hardly a coun try in the world just at this time of more geographical interest than the Philipine Islands. Everybody wants to Know where they are, what they are good for, and everything else be longing to them. While in many directions war is a great demoralizer, in some, it is a great educator. It pulls down in one direction and builds up in an other. Itself the greatest of evils, it yet corrects and restrains other evils. While it exposes cowardice and de velops patriotism and heroism, it broadens knowledge, unifies a na tion, and nurtures manly sentiments and sturdy qualities. With pride and admiration excited among our people by the great battle in Manila harbor, comes an impulse to the study of geography—to learn more of those distant islands of which heretofore we have known so little, and now hear so much. Acording to the best sources of information to which we have had access, there are more than 1200 of these islands, called by the general name of Phili- pine, in liunor of Philip the Second of Spain, after their discovery by Magellan in 1521. Many of them are small and some few are uninhab ited. The total area of the group is estimated at 150,000 square miles. Luzon, in the north, on which Ma nila is situated, is the largest, and contains 51,300 square miles, being more than one and a halftimes larger than the state of South Carolina. The next in area is Mindanao in the South, which contains 25,000 square miles. The population of these is lands in 1«7G was 0,173,032, three- fourths of whom were subject to Spain, the remainder governed ac cording to their own laws and cus toms, by independent native princes. United States Consul Williams says that the population of the islands is now estimated at 15,000,000, but that must be an over estimate. They lie between the 5th and the 20th degree north latitude, and hence are in the torrid zone, and between the 117ih and the 127th degree of longitude east from Greenwich, or be tween the 153rd and the 1(53 west from Washington. Students of ge ography ought to bo able from tfceso figures to get up a pretty clear idea of their location and distance. Their northern limit is almost 1,100 mHes farther south than wo are. If you were to start at Washington and travel in a Southwestern direction you would reach the eastern borders of the islands in about 10,000 miles. If you were to travel eastward you would reach the western border after you had traversed over 14,000 miles. The city of Manila by the last cen sus has a population of 225,000 of whom IGO.UOO are natiees; Gl,000 are Chinese, and the rest, about 4,000, are Spaniards and other Europeans. Terrible and destructive earth quakes are frequent. Manila was destroyed by one in 18(53, and in 1801 another terriffic one shook Mindanao from center to circumference. Again in 1880 Manila was shaken up and many buildings were totally demol ished. Immense forests spread over the islands, clothing the mountains to their summits. Gold, iron, copper, quicksilver and coal are to he found in abundance. From December to May the weather is very line, but then the tempera ture rapidly rises and the be comes oppressive. The fertility of the soil and the humidity of the atmosphere produco a richness of vegetation not surpassed anywhere else in the world. '1 ho productions are line woods, orange, sitrons, ba nana, pine apple, sugar cane, coffee, cotton, indigo, tobacco, and every thing else indigenous to a tropical climate under the most favorable conditions./ Some traveler has said that hives of wild bees hang from the branches, and along side of them are nests of humming birds dangling in the wind. Strange to say, there is not a beast of prey larger than the wild cat found on the islands, while there are vast hems of cattle, buffaloes, sheep, goats and hogs. Such is a hasty glance at these islands which have suddenly loomed un into vast importance in the eyes of tlie world. They areas far from Spain as the United States, being nearly 10,000 miles from the nearest port on the Spanish coast. What the United States will do with them—whether she will attempt to hold them, or give them back to Spain—only the future can deter mine. WAR NOTES. The war at the end of the first two weeks had cost $137,312,180. and there is now a bill before Congress carrying $(500,000,000 for war pur poses. They that dunce must pay the fiddler. In all wars of any duration disease is to be dreaded fur more than bul lets. In the great Civil war three men died of disease to one in battle. During the first year the mortality from measles and pneumonia was fearful. Comparatively few of # the soldiers passed through the first year without a close call from sickness. ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ Commodore Dewey’s official report of his great battle in Manila harbor reached Washington on last Sunday just one week after the battle. It fully confirmed previous reports and went far beyond. The victory was overwhelming. The Spaniards lost eleven ships and over GOO men, while the American squadron had only one ship, the Baltimore, slightly damaged and only about half dozen men wounded—not a single man killed. Dewey’s report says that the fire from his ships completely “smoth ered” the fire from the Spanish land batteries. lie has the city of Manila at his mercy, but has not occupied it, for tho lack of men. It is said that troops will be rushed to him from San Francisco, and that the Philipines will he occupied and held by the United States. The victory was unique and over- whelming. Never before on the ocean has there been anything like it, and not since Gon. Jackson’s victory at New Orleans in 1814, has there been anything on land that approach ed it in completeness with so little loss to tho victors. And yet every bravo man in the world must admire the splendid heroism displayed by tho Spaniards, and almost wish that it could have been more nobly re warded. Their ship, the Don Anto nio do Ulloa made a magnificent show of desperate bravery. When her commander found she was so torn by American shells that he could not keep her afloat, he nailed her colors to tho mast and she went down with all hands fighting to tho last. Honor to the true and brave, whether friend or foe. ENTRIES fr ROM OUR DAY BOOK. What has become of the Hying squadron under Schley? Did it fly away with the storm? If not, why doesn’t it liy now. Wheat is worth $19.0 a bushel and flour is likely to go to $10.00 a barrel before tho middle of summer. Provisions of all kinds are advancing while our farmers are clinging to cotton and dreaming of an Eldorado. ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ The original package stores must go. So savs the United States Court in a recent decision. According to tho decision tho dispensary is firmly established, though the right of citi zens to import liquors for personal use is not to be interfered with. ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ Wk hear little of candidates and their ••views” in these latter days. It looks like the state political cam paign is going to bo a mild, tame, harmless affair. Score one case of suffering relieved, one nuisance abated, and one incubus lifted from the people by war. ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ Capt. Edmund Bacon, of Union, is nom nated for the office of Secre- , tary of State. Cupt. Bacon was for merly auditor of Spartanburg county, and he has many friends in that county us well us in Cherokee and adjoining counties who admire his character and capabilities. ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ The latest indications point to a speedy invasion of Cuba with a much larger army than was at first proposed. It is probable that in ad dition to the regular forces, an army of 40,000 volunteers will soon be landed on tke shores of Cuba, and that the work to be done there will be dispatched in short order and without much ceremony. ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ Editor N. G. Gonzales, of the Columbia State, left Tuesday for the front. He goes to Tampa and ex pects either to join the advance force of Cubans returning to fight for their country, or to get a place in the reg ular forces. If our contemporary uses the sword and rifle as valiantly as he has used the pen in the cause of Cuba he will prove himself an all round hero. ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ Admiral Sampson’s fleet was ex pected to engage the Spanish squad ron several days ago, but as the said squadron was not at home when Sampson's fleet culled, the fleet has turned to other work, the nature of which has not yet been made known. It was stated at the war department on Tuesday that Sampson would not be heard from in several days, but that the authorities were not at all uneasy about him. Congress has extended a vote of thanks to Dewey and his officers and men. It has further promoted Dewey to the admiralty, presented him with a sword of honor, and or dered a bronze medal commemora ting the battle of Manila, to be struck for each of the officers and men who participated in the gallant fight. The neat little sum of $1U,- 000 is appropriated for the medals. The country honors those who honor it. ♦ ♦ ♦ Secretary of War Alger, has in formed Gov. Ellerbe that one battal ion of the South Carolina volunteers is required to join the rendezvous at Chickamaugti Park, and it is proba ble that tho troops will move the latter part of this week. We had hoped that our troops would all be kept together, but in time of war hopes must not be encouraged, and even thinking by the private individ uals is discountenanced by tho au thorities. ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ Has it been generally observed that since this war business began to be serious, thoro has been almost a complete dearth of murders and sui cides? We have scarcely read an account of either, in a month. What Inis become of the nimble pistol and dfadly razor’ And what has become of tlie man who is tired of living and who is so bent on killing that when he can find no one else to kill, kills himself? Is man such a moral mon ster that he must vent his murder ous spirit in war, in order to keep from killing his friends? ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ The wily Spaniards at Hahana sent out a decoy duck in the shape of a small schooner the other morning at day break, and the foolish American ducks in the harbor, the Vicksburg and the Morrill, arousing tliemselves from a pleasant nap, immediately gave chase, following it in their ex citement right under the guns of tlie Santa Clara water buttery. It is said that nothing but the bad aim of tlie Spaniards saved our ships from destruction. As it was, they were under fire for a half hour, and though some of the Spanish shells howled through their rigging and plunged into the water uncomfortably near. the ships escaped without injury. ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ Just now. a new pronouncing bio graphical dictionary is m demand. Many new names are coming into prominence which would never have been heard of by a majority of our people, if times had remained quiet. We cannot hope to master all the outlandish Spanish names that are coming to the front, but we should like to know how to pro nounce the names of some of the American officers who are becoming famous; notably, Dewey, Schley, and some others. It is no reflection on the scholarship of persons in pri vate life not to know how to pro nounce unusual proper names, for no rule which can bo learned applies to them, except the rule of calling them just what their owners call them. The Columbia Rkgii-:tek comment ing on the fact that so many of our vol unteers have been rejected by the Medical Board argues that tlie Amer ican race is physically degenerating and is now far inferior in virility to the pioneer race tiiat has gone before. We think the Register is in error in its conclusions. Tlie standard of comfortable living is much higher than in the early history of the coun try ; men live longer than they for merly lived; and there is every rea son to believe that the present gener ation is far superior in physical power to any that has gone before it. In the earlier wars men were scarcer, and red tape hadn’t been in vented. That is ail there is in it. Over forty per cent, of tho volun teers that went to Columbia have been rejected on account of physical defects and sent back home, and there will have to be more volun teers to fill the ranks and make up the State’s quota. There is a vast amount of tom foolery somewhere. Some of these slender light-weights that the au thorities are so unceremoniously re jecting, are as tough as whale bone and as nimble as wild cats. They would efand more service, escape more bullets, and kill more Span iards than any of the physical Goli aths that look upon them with con tempt. In the civil war tho Southern army was largely made up of just such boys as are now being rejected in Columbia, and for powers of endu rance and superb lighting qualities, that army has nevc-r been surpassed in the annuls of war. ♦ ♦ President McKinley is severely denounced by some Southern news papers for his course in appointing generals for the army. Of eleven new major generals, seven are se lected from the sixteen brigadier generals, and all of the twenty-five brigadier generals are chosen from the colonels of the regular army. The snub for the South, which these newspapers see in these appoint ments, we fail to discover. 'Of the four major generals, appointed from civil life, two are from the South, Fitzhugh Lee and Joe Wheeler. This certainly looks like a desire to do the South justice. The President has acted on the principle, that other things being equal, the man who has been educated for a specific work is more competent to do that work, than one who has had no special training. That the South is not more largely represented among the brigadiers of the regular army is not the fault of the President, but the result of conditions that have pre vailed since the civil war. There is nothing now of less mag nitude and importance than u battle, that will satisfy the cravings of the public for news. Base ball and horse races cun no longer claim pub lic attention and they may as well take a back seat. The hero of the diamond shrinks into insignificance, and the 2:2U horse is a worthless beast by the side of the field charger. We have long mentally protested against the factitious importance given base and foot ball in tlie public prints. When attracted by start ling head-lines to the effect that Baltimore has ruined Philadelphia, or that Yale has annihilated Har vard, we eagerly glance down the column for the particulars of so un expected and direful a calamity, only to find that a few boys, whose names could never have reached the public through any other channel- have struck a ball and run round a ring a few mere times than some otlier boys, we are disgusted almost ad nauseam, and are templed to in dulge in reflections on the subject of rats, for recuperation and refresh ment. Lockhart Locals. (Correspondence of The Ledger.) Lockhart. May 9.—Miss Maud Hill and Mr. Camp were united in marriage recently, R. B. Spears, Esq., officiating. Some of the boys that enlisted or offered their services to do buttle for their country have been weighed ana found wanting and have returned to the civil occupations of life. * Mr. Craig Kirkpatrick, of Chester county, was on our streets Saturday. He is (juite old, being in bis eighty- fifth year, yet in all these years he lias never had u fight and has been a useful citizen. Tho Mill Company are enlarging the pasture. Possibly we have the best pasture of any mill in tin- State. No small pox has put in its appear ance among us as yet. Our town is us healthy us well could he and every tiling is in good running order and, please let me add, it runs, too. Homo. • -*#► . Catarrh Cannot be Cured with LOCAL APPLICATIONS, as they can not reach the bcmI of tho disease. Catarrh Wuhloodnr countiiulioiiaI di»easi>. and in order to euro It you must take internal rem edies. Hail's Catarrh Cure is Cikcn Inlci- nally, and nets direct ly on I ho mucous sur- facos. Hall's (Jutarrh Cure Is not a <|u:tck modlclno. It was proscribed hy one of the host physicians in tills country for yours, ami is a regular prescript him It IkcomiisihciI of tho bust tonics know, combined with the Lest blood purifiers, acting directly on tho mucous surfaces. The perfect eotunlnatioii of the two liiKrcdlouls is what produces sucii wonderful results lu curing * iiturrh. Scud for testimonials, free F. .1. CHKNKY A CO.. Props.. Toledo, () Sold by druiTKlst, price i.io. Hall's Fiimfiy Pills urc tho best. No-To-Hue for irifty Outs. Guaranteed tobacco habit euro, inancs weak men stroug, blood pure. Wo.ll. All tlruuKibU , PRESS OPINION. Greenville ha« furnished about one ninth of the State’s total quota of troops.—Groenville News. ♦ * * Wo might fiud some use for the Philipines as u coaling station and a retreat for the newspaper warriors who will bo without un occupation when tlie war is over.—Charleston Critic. * * * Farmers should not forget corn and hogs this year. If this war lasts long, hog and hominy will be very high and may be hard to get. It’s a safe thing anyway to have plenty of it.—Yorkville Yocman. ¥ ¥ * We’ll whip Spain ; no doubt about that; but we won’t do it in a day or a week or even a month, brethren. There will be some long and hard, hard lighting before it is accom plished. we fear.—Sumter Herald. * * ¥ The Confederate war is over at last. The appointment of Fitzhugh Lee and Joseph Wheeler to be major generals in the armies of the United States, is equivalent to the signing of a treaty of eternal peace.—Yorkville Enquirer. * * ¥ Governor Ellerboo has made very excellent choice of officers for the South Carolina volunteers. He could have found no better men to lead the state troops to the war, and he de serves commendation tor his wise selection.—Charleston Post. I- * ¥ A petition originating in Yorkville has been sent to the president asking that Col. Asbury Coward be ap pointed one of the brigadier generals provided for in the Hull bill. Few, if any, better recommendations have been made. Col. Coward is cool and self posessed, and as brave as he is modest.—Chester Lantern. ■ii * ¥ “In Teneriffe, Canary Islands.” it is noted, “the people communicate with each other at a distance of over four miles by un organized system of whistling.” Tlie island must be particularly vocal at this time. As the people are subjects of Spain they have a plenty to whistle about.— News and Courier. ¥ ¥ ¥ There is a mania all over the coun try to serve Uncle Sum, but about all who are seized with it want to be officers, nobody wants to be a private if he can help it, and few are willing to fight their way up. Well, we don’t much blame them when the pay of a private soldier is only $13 a month and a captain’s $125.—Greenwood Journal. * * * Governor Ellerbe solved tho mili tary problem very happily in making his appointments for the field and staff, and there has been very little unfavorable criticism upon the selec tion made by him. Tho officers des ignated are capable and experienced in military affairs, and will give a good account of themselves if they are destined to meet the enemy on an open field.—Greenville Mountain eer. Rayal male** the loed pure, wholesome end dellde Absolutely Pure ROYAL CAKING POWOtR CO., NEW YORK. Through the War. [.Saluda Sentinel.] W ashington, April cs -Coitjfress I'w/O, v decided to sit during the war. so as to ii>». tvs he in readiness for any iL^islation may lie necessary. y wiucu The above is one of tlie \qfLt acts of Congress. If the membfr B want to show their patriotism^ true gen uine fashion, let thenf now p ags tt bill to cut their pay (j^. n ono ha ] f< It will be just as we expected, that those who^ * c i am jj re( ] f or war will seek goofi paying situations away from danger, while the more prudent anj peaceful are expected to bear the hardships of war. THINK about your health. Do not • allow scrofula taints to develop in your blood. Take Hood's Sarsapa rilla now and keep yourself WELL. A. N. WOOD. BANKER, does a general Banking and 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. SOUTHERN RaMLWAY. ", CandensM Schwdule of I’as'flnffer Tralao. In Eject May lat, 1498. I Ve». No. UlFit.Ml No.!? No. 33 Ex. No. 38 Wally: Lully. Sun. Dally. Northbound. Doctors Can’t Cure It! Contagious blood poison is absolutely beyond the skill of tlie doctors. They may dose a patient for years on their mercurial and potash remedies, but he will never be rid of the disease; on the Dtiier bund, his condition will grow iteadily worse. S. S. S. is the only cure for this terrible affliction, because it is the only remedy which goes direct to i the cause of the disease and forces it : from tlie system. I wns afflicted with Blood Poison, and the best doctors did me no k-mi-L though I took their treatment faith fully. In fact, I seemed to aet worse all the while. I took nl most every so-called blood remedy, but they did not seem to reach the dis ease. and hail no effect whatever. I was dis heartened. for it seemed that 1 would never la- cured. At tlie advice of a friend I then took Ly. Ar. Lv Ly. Ar Atlanta, O.T. Atlanta, E. T. Koreroa Buford Gainesville.. Lula Cornelia Mt. Airy Toccoa Wostminstar Benesa Central Green villo... Spartanburg. Gaffneys Blacksnifrg.. Ktug’s Mt Gastonia Charlotte .... Greensboro • 5) u;i2 1 8 bJ «. i 9 90 aj... 19 06 a| lu A5 a I 2 10a, 2 11 £> al 1180 a! 11 "1 a 3 19 31 m 1 12 Mp 4 1 4« p; .. 2 34 pj 5 8 37 p 0 4 20 pi 0 4 38 p 7 B03 pi. 5 25 p, « M p 8 0 51 p lu 00 m 00 p 22 p! 4- I* Lv.Grecnaboro. Ar. Norfolk — Ar. Dan villo Ar. 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It is like self-destruction to continue to take potash and mercury; besides totally destroying the digestion, they dry up the marrow in the bones, pro ducing a stiffness and swelling of the joints, causing the hair to fall out, and completely wrecking the system. Lv. Greensboro. Ar. Charlotte Lv. Gastonia..., “ King’s Mt .. “ Blacksburg . Gaffneys 12 01 mT2 tint 12 lunt 7 20 1U (10 10 49 11 31 11 4*1 5 5U a iu OJ p G 50 a #05 H | 7 ft) a 712 a! 9 25 a 11 16 al 1 08 p i :3 p “ b|Mirtanburg . 12 20 “ Greenviilu... 1 25 “ Central " Bsaicea ' 2 30 “ ’Westmlnater “ Toccou 1 3 25 * Mt. Airy.. Cornelia— ** Lula. 4 15 ** Gainesville . ** Buford ** Norcross 5 25 Ar. Atlanta, E. T l 10 Ar. Atlanta. C. T. 6 lu pTO 45 p lu 6S a ll 84 a 12 3d » 2 ud p a 2 26 p a 5 15 p, p 4 3ft p ] 6 45 p Sul',. p 0 lo pi p; 7 15 i- 7 4.* p inri: I 7 45 p 0 Hi a pi 8 13 p <>5' a p 8 40 p 7 2U a I 911 P • 4 s “ a i 9 43 pi 9 27 u a 4 55 p 103J Pi VS) a u 3 66 » 9 8J u! 8 30 a 1 53 2 IS 3 13 3 37 c c cr«* The Blood Is guaranteed Purely Vegetable, and is the only blood remedy free from these dangerous minerals. Book on self-treatment sent free by Bwift Specific Company, Atlanta, Oa. NOKCLlMft NOON TRAIN. Daily Except Sunday. Lv. At her. a, central time “ ACun'u,easieiuiuue ... Ar. Nor twin. ** .... Lv. Koniross,ou* cm tin.^ .. Ar. Atlanta, ‘* .. . ** Atlanta, central time.. . “ V A” a. in. 11 20 a 12 2o u lit?. 2 20 p 3 20 p 2 2>J> night. FOR Up-to-Date Job Print ing, call at the LEDGER Office. Gaffney, S. C. •?" p. tu. ••ftl" no-a. ‘‘Tc U Nos. 37 iiml88—Dally. Waihiagton and South western Vestibule Li.-nited. 'i'nrough Bulimvi ■h-cpiug curs between New York and New Or- leunb, via WuMhu.gtuu. Atlanta «tnd Meatgom- «r> . »ud also between Now Yi.ru oa.i iltunuhis. ViaWtuihiuutou, Atlanta and jTriiilnuhum LTrut clan* tholuughturv coaches between Whshltg- ton and Atluuta. Dining cars serve all meats to route. Pubinauurnw mu-room sltcpmgeaiw Letweon Groer.hbir" and Norfo'k. (Tom-e>in flection ut YorfolU for OLD POINT COlD OUT (ii l iving theie in time f.»r breakfast. Nou. 35 and 83—relied States Timt Mall runs sjTi! between W11.sUa.7toa and New Or leans, via boutheru 1-anway, A. A W. P. U. Ik, and L A N. K- U . being conpoMtl bafgng* ear and coaches, through wi’huu; chuage for iudsonger* of i.’l Puliman dtawluff fcuin moepiag cars between New York and j\ew Or euns, via Atlanta an l Montgomery. Leaving WTulilagt-JU eari We.ltK.day, 1. tourist ££ e.riinjf ear will run throuy.i 1 < tween Woolf mtou and bail Francisco wu 1 .ut chango. >0:'. 11.37. U at d 12—Pullman hlwmiugear* iMtwuoa RicbiuoudBudCnstdo to, vt 1 luuvUlo, Ooiitubound Nos. 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