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WE GUARANTEE The Reliability of Every Adver tiser Who Uses the Col- i umns of This Paper. The Ledger F. 0. Stacy. President. J. G. Wardi-Aw, V f ice-Proslder}t THE HATIOML BAHX OF GAFFHE?.. Capital $jo,ooo.oo. AVili. buy county claims, receive deposits and make liberal loans on approved paper. I>. C. KotM, t'asnier. A Newspaper * n that the Word Implies and Devoted to the Best Interests of the People of Cherokee County. ESTABLISHED FEB. 16, 1894. GAFFNEY CITY, S. C., THURSDAY, JUNE 16, 1898. $1.00 A YEA It. FROM ETTA JANE BY THE SAGE OF LOWER CHEROKEE. News Items of Local Interest Tersely Told for the Edification and Enlightment of Ledger Readers. (Correspondence of The Ledger.) Etta Jake, June lo.—Yesterday the Salem Sunday school decided to have Children’s Day on Thursday, August 4th. Rev. Mr. Thomason preached at Abingdon Creek yesterday. His text was 1st John, 2:19. His discourse was a powerful effort to the back sliders. The weather with us is still dry. Showers were passing about yester day. Gardens are complete failures in many places. The field crops, where regularly worked, are doing fairly well. The Fowler Brothers began thresh ing last Saturday evening. They threshed something over 100 bushels on thfoir own place. Several parties from this section went to Piney Grove picnic last Sat urday and report an enjoyable time. We understand that Mr. W. P. Goforth will come home from Cam- pobella this week and bring his bride. Willie is one of Cherokee’s best young men and we wish him and his life partner a Jong, happy and prosper ous life. He lias been taking a busi ness course in the Campobella High School. Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Lotspeich, of Gaffney, are visiting friends and rela tives in this section this week". The Gaffney Lf.dgbr was the first paper in which was suggested the name of Gen. M. C. Butler as com mandant of U. S. troops in the Span- ish-Cuban-American war. He’s a good one, too. Our colored neighbor, P. R. David son, has discovered his mistake in what he said through The Ledger two weeks ago in regard to the colored troops, etc. Its not best to say a ■^reat deal about the class or color line in connection with this Cuban- Spanish war. That’s a national and not a state affair, and the people of the south (and especially South Caro lina) do not feel that they arp respon sible for it. Besides, we are mixed up with all kinds of people, and those who either by word or deed directly or indirectly express a disregard for the welfare of our women and chil dren will be carefully watched and summarily dealt with. The State’s history is already blackened with crimes against its women, and the swift punishment visited upon the criminal by outraged humanity, and we can’t be too cau tious how we act and talk. There never has been and there never will be a time when the south ern white men will fail to respond to the calls of duty, and God forbid that there ever should be a time when the Anglo-Saxon race will not hold the virtue of their pure and no ble women as sacred, yea dearer than life itself. It will cost a brute (be he white or black) his neck any time to insult a decent woman in this country. Wc have heard it reported that dif ferent negro men have said what they intended to do when the white men go off to the war. Such rumors create a holy jealousy among the whites, anything said that gives the least coloring to the report will bring summary vengeance upon its authors. The colored man is and will con tinue to be, a citizen of the United States as long as he conforms to its laws. His liberty has costs thousands upon ten thousands of lives and rivers of blood, to say nothing of the immense treasure in money, and he ought not, for a moment, to question his right as to whether he ought, or ought not, to follow the flag of his country, wherever it leads in be half of freedom—let his local feircum stances and surroundings ber what they may. We do not wish to charge "P. R. D.” with any criminal attention in what he said. From our acquaintance with him we believe him to be a fair represen tative of the best elements of his race, as well aa a man of more than ordi nary intelligence. As a leader of hia race he can do much to teach them to desist from the practices and courses which lead to trouble rather than otherwiae. A report reached here a few days ago that two negro men came into the field where Mrs. Hamp Mitchell, (who livei on the York side of Broad river) was at work and ordered her to E o to the house or they would kill er. Mrs. Mitchell is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ben McCuliooh and his family stands high in the commu nity In which they live. a number of tramps and vag abonds are prowling through the country who ought to be taken up and put to work. They are fit sub jects for the chain gang and ought to be there—more particularly at this time than at any other. Some of them, no doubt are spies selling little trinkets and humbug medicines. They dodge through the county evading tlie officers of the law. Any citizen has the right to demand of this class of impositors their license to peddle in his county and upon his or their refusal or inability to show it, have him or them arrested and treated as other criminals. This will rid our country of a lot of nui sances. From the “Pearl of Days” we get the following which teaches an impor tant lesson on Sabbath observance: “Girard, the infidel millionaire, of Philadelphia, one Saturday ordered all of his clerks to come next day to his wharf and unload a newly-arrived ship. One young man replied (juietly : “Mr. Girard, I can’t work on Sun day.” “Your know our rules,” said Girard. “Yes, I know. I have a mother to support, but I can’t work on Sunday,” says the young man. “Well, step up to the desk and the cashier will settle with you,” said his employer. For three weeks the young man could find no work, but one day a banker came to Girard to ask if he could recommend a man for cashier in a new bank. This discharged young man was at once named as a suitable persoff. “But,” said the banker, “you dis charged him.” ‘Yes,” replied Girard, “because he would not work on Sundays. A man who would lose Tiis place for con science’s sake would make a trust worthy cashier.” He was appointed. The question is often asked us: Where are the Philippine Islands, and what are their products? They are nearly on the opposite side of the world from us—a large group of Islands in Oceanica lying between the Pacific ocean and China sea, and the most important colonial posses sion of Spain in the east. They ex tend between north latitude five de grees and thirty-two minutes and nineteen degrees and thirty-eight minutes, and east longitude 117 and 127 degrees. There are atfout 1,400 of theso islands with a total area of 50,000 square miles. The surface is mountainous and of volcanic sub structure; the soil highly fertile, pro ducing sugar, tobacco, indigo, coffee, rice, spices, vanilla,, cotton, the cereals and choicest fruits. The na tives are a mixed Malay and Papuan stock and in the interior constitute wild and independent tribes. Ma nila is the capital and is the resi dence of the Spanish Captain General, orY'ice Roy. The population is 4,319,- 299. Our friend, Jim Smarr, of Hope- well, had a rat killing last Thursday, in which 238 of them “went up the spout.” His crop of dead rats weighed o40 pound. Pretty good work for one killing, Jim. He don’t know how many rats the dogs de voured, as two helped him all the time. “Blossom” must understand that I included the Grassy Pond girls in my estimate of the good looking women and girls Of Cherokee county I believe “Grassy Pond” has the largest number of young people that I have met in any of our country churches, and I agree with Blossom that the girls are good looking— better looking, really, than the boys Wednesday and Thursday, August 10th and Uth, is the time for the Cherokee County Sunday School Con vention to meet at Gaffney City. Under the heading “$10 in gold to be given away to our subscribers.” The Ledger makes an honost propo sition both to the advertiser and pur chaser the outcome of which will be looked to with great interest. As we understand it, A goes to Gaffney and if he sees proper, buys an article from B, however small or large, cheap or costly, it makes no differ ence. He then goes to C and does the same thing, then goes to D and so on until he goes to every store or place of business in town advertising In The Ledger, and each time he makes a trip and a purchase has his name registered. Then the names having been registered the greatest number of times by October first will be entitled to the prizes—#5, $! and $2 respectively, that is the high est number will draw $5 and the next $3 and the next $2. This plan has been adopted by The Ledger to show what virtue there is in printer’s ink. It costs the advertiser or pur chaser nothing. j. l. b. Free Pills. Send your address to H. E. Bucklen & Co., Chicago, and get a free sample box of Dr. Kings New Life Pills, trial will convince you of their iner its. These pills are easy in action and are particularly effective in the cure of Constipation and Sick Head ache. For Malaria and Liver troubles they have been proved invaluable They are guaranteed to be perfectly free from every deleterious substance and to be purely vegetable. They do not weaken by their action, but by giving tone to stomach and bowels greatly invigorate the system. Reg ular size 25c per box. Sold by DuPre Drug Co. ENDORSED IN VIRGINIA. ‘The Ledger’s” Sentiments on Adul terated Flour Approved. . Richmond, Va. June lUth, 1898. ‘The Ledger”, Gaffney. S. 0. Gentlemen:—We have a copy of your paper today dated June 9th, in which there is an editorial we have read with interest, it is the ques tion of corn Hour, which is really starch from the corn and many of the mills who have been employed in this have made enormous profits at it and at the same time have forced many of their honest fellow mills either into bankruptcy or to doing their business absolutely without profit. From the best Information we can secure, Louisville, Ky. mills, Nashville mills, Chattanooga and tnoxville, Tenn., and many of the Tennesseq, Indiana and Ohio mills lave made a custom of tiiis practice for a long time and they have reaped arge profits out of it for themselves, and this profit has of course been especially heavy in the last twelve months with its cheap corn and high priced wheat. We wish all japers of the South would take the losition you do k and let the trade Generally know that Hour is adulter ated with corn meal and make the trade require evidence of its purity. Our Virginia State Legislature has lassed a law requiring every package of adulterated Hour to be marked with the word “combination” and the various ingredients and percent age of same to be plainly marked on the package. We do no business in your market on flour. Unfortunate- y for urs, we make honest wheat lour and have found it impossible to compete with the adulterated flour from other points, but fortunately have so far succeeded in* finding enough people who wanted pure flour to take a fair percentage of our out put. We thank you for your editorial of the 9th and think if the papers generally would take the position you do in this paper on using adulter ated flour it would do much good. One thing is certain, that. all mills have got to use it or the mill that does use it can run the one that does not use it out of the market unless the public will back the honest miller but strange as it may seem to us, there is nothing the public likes better than to be “juggled” into using an adulterated article be cause price is cheap. Yours very truly, Dunlop Mills. Webster Locals. (Correspondence of The Ledger.) •* Webster, June 13.—We are hav- ing exceedingly hot weather now. J. D. Tate, formerly 5f Lockhart Shoals, has been visiting relatives in this section. Mrs. H. A. Tate, whom we reported sick last week, is improving. Miss Bessie Thackston and Mrs. I. G. Phillips spent the evening at Mr. H. A. Tate’s last Tuesday. Unlike “Blossom” of Grassy Pond we cannot boast of anyone studying law, but we have some pretty girls here, and we invite him down to see them. Several people from Trough Shoals were visiting in this section Saturday night. A. 0. Tate and 'family visited his father Saturday. We hope the Fourth of July cele bration will be a grand success. Everyone*should try to maRe it so, not only in order to derive pleasure from the day but in memory of those brave heroes who fought and died in order that they might gain their in dependence. Anonymous. Blacksburg Graded School Closes. (Correspondence of The Ledger.) Blacksburg, June 14.—The Blacks burg Graded School, after a success ful tierm, will close on June 17th. The following program has been ar ranged for the closing: On Thursday and Friday nights exercises will be held in the town hall. On Thursday night Prof. B. F. Wil son, of Converse College will address the school. There will also be exercises by primary grades. Friday night will be devoted to the Senior grades. The public are cordially invited. Exercises Thursday night will com mence promptly at 8 o’clock on ac count of the little folks. Friday night at 8:30. Beats the Klondike. Mr. A. C. Thomas, of Marysville, Tex., has found a more valuable dis covery than has yet been made in the Klondike. For years he Buffered un told agony from consumption, ac companied by hemorrhages; and was absolutely cured by Dr. King’s New Discovery for Coneuraption, Coughs and Colds. He declares that gold is of little value in compar- iaon with this marvelous cure; would have It, even if it cost a hun dred dollars a bottle. Asthma, Bron chitis and all throat and long affec tions are positively cured by Dr. King’s New Dlecovery for Consump tion. Trial bottfee free at Du Pre Drag Co. Regular slsee 50cts. and (LOO. Guaranteed to cure or price refunded. NINETY-EIGHT YEARS OLD. MRS. SALLIE KIRBY IS THE OLDEST CITIZEN. Her Birthday Celebrated by a Family Reunion in Which Many Descendants Joyously Participate. Orrospondenco of Tne Ledger.) Ravenna, June 14.—The oldest person that lives anywhere in this section of the country, so far as I know, is Mrs. Sally Kirby, who lives near Jouesville, in Union county. She was ninety-eight years old on the ninth of June, having been born near Thompson’s branch three miles south east of Spartan burg in 1800. Her father was James Harrison, born near Danville, Va., her mother was Rhoda Morris, born in Union county, near Grindal Shoals, north side of Pacolet River, on u farm that afterwards belonged to Mr. Jack Littlejohn. In 1818 Sally Harrison was married to James Kirby. That event occur red on the north side of I'acolet river near Easterwood Ford, now Wood’s Ford, on land now belonging to D. H. Mathis. In 1822 she was converted at Gilead church under the ministry of Rev. Elias Mitchell; united with that church and has been a member there ever since. Departing somewhat from the ob ject of this article, I will say that a few years after baptizing Mrs. Kirby Preacher Mitchell died under peculiar circumstances in Chester district, at Shaw’s grave yard near Brushy Fork church. It is related that he often wished to die preaching and es pecially to die in the pulpit. There .was an arbor and stand at that place and he had an appointment to preach a funeral sermon there on Sunday. A large crowd .was present and at the proper time he ascended the stand, apparently in his usual health* and gave out the familiar hymn: “That awful flay will surely come. The appointed hour make haste. When 1 mnst stand before my judge And pass the solemn test. Just as he had lined out the last stanza he asked the congregation to excuse him and sinking down died in a few moments. While Mrs. Kirby was never a very stout woman, her usual weight being about 111 pounds, she was always industrious. She is now bard of hearing and quite blind, but she has all her reasoning faculties and talks intelligently and interest ingly of olden times, and especially on Christian topics. From information received. Mrs. Kirby has more than 400 descendants in this and sther states. Three of her grand children, R. J. Kirby, W. H. Kirby and Mrs. Sarah Jane Lit tlejohn were present at the reunion, also nine grand children, forty-three great-grand children and seven great great-grand children. All of the relatives present seemed to take great interest in their aged ancestors and were very affectionate in their conversation and dealings with her. Mrs. Kirby has always been fond of the pipe. She smoked twice before 10 o’clock a. m., on her last birthday. The house in which she lives is quite old.* havieg been built in 1778, the second year after the Declaration' of Independence, though it is not now standing on the same ground where it was first built. the dinner. One of the realy enjoyable parts of the program was the/dinner which was served at the spring. Well filled baskets, boxes and trunks were un loaded and spread on a long tempo rary table arranged in the ebade of the large oaks. A more tempting table one rarely ever sees. A com mittee of young ladies and gentlemen were announced to waite on the peo ple, and gracefully and well they performed their duty. There was no ugly or boisterous conduct, nothing to mar the pleasures of the occasion. This is not often the case, I am sorry to say, at a public dinner. I don’t think I ever saw anything of the kind managed more successfully. No one went away hungry, yet there was left enough on the table to have fed as many more, and there was cold lem onade in abundance and no one slighted it as far as ia known. Before dispensiog a number of per sons were invited into the house to engage in devotional exercises. Some of the old hymns were sung, a chapter in the Bible read and a short prayer made. During all this the old lady manifested much pleasure, frequently clapping her hands in religious exul tation and remarking that on account of her helplessness she had not en joyed congregational singing in a long time. We should all take courage when we see how patiently and faith fully the aged Christians hold up the banner of the cross. How comfort ing to mingle with the old seiuts oc casionally t Quite a commendable act took place when dinner was an nounced. One of the great-grand sons, himself not very strong, took from a carriage his blind, aged grand parent in his arms and gently placed her in an easy chair at the table. Late in the afternoon a number of young people visited Jonesville and had an opportunity cf inspecting the knitting mill. On returning there came near being an accident to some of the party. A passing train fright ened the horses and one spirited ani mal. with buggy attached containing an interesting couple made for the nearest plum orchard and be fore he could be stopped jostled up the male occupant considerably. One other item I mention at the risk of being tedious. Not more than a mile from the Kirby farm there can bo seen some ridges that were made during the Revolutionary war. Thomas Scott was bedding land for corn and was called away before it was planted, and, strange to say, it has remained as he left it, though the land has grown up in timber with some oaks large enough to make many rails. t. G. c. Rulings of the Prohibitionists. We publish the following rulings of the State Prohibition Executive Committee for the benefit of the friends of the cause in this county: As the recent declaration of the new State Democratic Executive Committee leaves the question of our position in the coming Democratic primary in doubt, and as our first al legiance is to the Democratic party and aU’our efforts to urge the laws of the state must be made through this source, and with its approval I would submit to your approval the following' Whereas, before making sugges tions of candidates for the nomina tion for State officers in the demo cratic primary of 1898, the prohibi tionists of the State were led to be lieve by the Democratic State Execu tive Committee (then acting) that such suggestions were not contrary to the rules of the democratic party, and. Whereas, the prohibitionists did make suggestions for State officers, pledging loyalty to the democratic party, and. Whereas, the new Democratic State Executive Committee has been elec’ted, and. Whereas, said committee, when the question of the construction of the rules of the party was before it, passed a resolution, the construction of which is a matter o/ controversy, but did not recognize such sugges tions as in accord with the rules of the party; and, Whereas, it is a matter of grave doubt whether such suggestions will be recognized as regular, and, Whereas, the prohibitionists of the State desire to act in entire accord with the rules of the democratic party, now be it Resolved, That this committee does hereby withdraw the suggestion heretofore made by the prohibition ists for State officers. Very Respectfully, A. C. Jones, Chr’m’n S. P. Ex. Com. Approved. Pactolus Paragraphs. (Correspondence of The Ledger.) Pactolus, Benton Co., Ark., June 11.—I see from The Ledger that you are having dry weather in your county. At this time we are almost drowned. This is Friday evening and I ajn sitting out in the yard under a large sugar tree and the clover and grass are up two feet around me. I will have to go into the house before I finish this letter on account of rain. It his been raining out here every few days this spring. We had one of the coldest and most backward springs that I have ever experienced, having had frost on the 20th of May. Our corn is now waist high. We plowed two days this week, three last week and one week before last. Our wheat crop is good. Arkansas is on a boom. Money is plentiful. If my friends could see my mead ows now they would like to live in Arkansas. I have sixteen or twenty acres in clover and grass which is about three feet high. It will make from three to four tons per acre. Wheat is selling at from 9100 to 91.15 per bushel; corn 50c per bush el; bacon six and eight cents per pound; cattle higher than ever known before and horses lower. You can get a good horse for from 93.00 to $6.00. Mules are on the rise, being worth from 975.00 to 980.00. This leaves us well and as doing well as we deserve to do. Mr. Editor, I will send you and the boys iu the office a centiped which you can put iu bottle of al cohol aod keep. I will also send you a pair of horned froga as soon as I can catch them. J. m. m’c. Bucklen’s Arnica Salve. The Best SMve in the world for Cuts, Bruises, Sores, Ulcer, £|plt Rheum, Fever Sw^s, Tetter, Chapped Hands, Chilblains, Corns, and all Skin Eruption, and postlvely cures Piles or no pay required. It iegura- anteed to give perfect satisfadtion or money refunded. Price 25 cents per box. For sale by The DuPre Drug Co. FREE FERRY WANTED. A Suggestion to the County Commis sioners. Etta Jane, S. C., June, 7th, 1898. Editor Gaffney Ledger : I fee! justifiable in asking space in your valuable paper to call attention of the merchants of Gaffney and the citizens of Cherokee county to the fact that there will be presented to the county commissioners, at their next regular meeting, a petition to establish and maintain a free ferry at or in the vicinity of Howell's ferry, and that three disinterested persons be sent to locate the said ferry. Without a dissenting voice we cry, let us have the free ferry, but to as certain the wishes of the people who will be benelitted by a free ferry. I submit that the proper course would be for the honorable board of county commissioners to order an election at the polls in townships they deem proper. Is it true that “This is a county for the people, of the people, . and by the people?” if so let us have an expression from the people as to where this ferry shall be located. It may be said that I am prema ture in that the commissioners have never granted any petition for a free ferry, and until that is done no uneas iness should be felt as to the loca tion, but my excuse, here is, tjiat th,e petition also has engrafted info it a plea as to how and by whom the lo cation shall be made. It goes with out saying that if the prayer- for a ferry is grunted, also will be granted the .request as to how the location shall be determined. Beyond a doubt if the free ferry is granted, there will be two places to select from,, the present Howell's Ferry site and the “Darwin place, about a mile and a half further up the river. Here is the “bone of contention,” the site. While the merchants of Hickory Grove desire the latter, in as much as it will bring trade from Etta Jane and vicinity to their thriving little town, the people of York county desire the former be cause it will open to them a new market, for there are many who, near Hopewell, in York county, trade at Chester, and will, if .a free ferry is established at the present §ite, go to Gaffney for their merchandise. So, readily can it be seen that a free ferry established at the present site, will give the people of York a new market—Gaffney—while al^o the people of Cherokee county will have the choice of Hickory Grove, Sharon and Lockhart markets, while if the free ferry is established at the pro posed site, “Darwins place,” Gaffney, Lockhart and Sharon are "virtually debarred from competing for the trade. Surely this, gentlemen, of • Hickory Grove, cannot be the cause of the zeal and generosity you so no bly display in the attempt to change the present location? But why degress? Some reason should be shown why an election will subserve the interest of the people more satisfactorily than the decision of three disinterested men. As has been shown, the advocates of the Darwin place expect to reap a rich harvest in trade, and of course will appear before the committee advoca ting their site, while “the people and farmers” will have no motive of such magnitude to actuate them, therefore they will not appear before the committee and present their cause, but if left to express .their de sires at the ballot box, on a day when higher and more patriotic motives call them from their fields of labor they will also express by ballot their choice of locations for the ferry. “You may fool all of the people some of the time, some of the peopl§ all ol the time but not all of the people all the time,” Therefore lest mistake be made, leave to those who are to be henefittad by a free ferry the right to say by ballot where it shall be loca ted. It is not necessary here to attempt to enumerate the advantage of one site over the other, for our public officers, I belive. to be gentlemen, who when locating any public institution seek to establish it where it will be of most advantage to the most people. Why|not then leave to the sovereign votes the selection. Echo answered 41 *1 But one feeble argument against allowing the people to vote upon this question is presented, and that is, “the man who does the most election eering will get the most votes for the site he advocatest”. I deny this and many defeated candidates will agree with me. But accept as true the ar gument, will not the men who advo cate with most “zeal and pleasing entertainment before the committee of three be victorious, so alas, it ends with either allowing all the people to select for themselves as their con science dictates, or a committee of three. Which honorable county commis sioners will you give us? Respectfully submitted, Henry W. Thomson. Advice to wives—Man is very much like an egg; keep him iu hot water and he ia^ound to become hardened. According to the best authorities, there has never been a rice of men that was ignorant of the use of fire.