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% / t WE GUARANTEE The Reliability of Every Adver tiser Who Uses the Col- J umns of This Paper. The Ledger. F. O. "TACY, Pntiidcnt. J. O. Wabdt.aw. Vice-President THE HiTIOHtL BiXK OF GiPFXET. V Capital $50,000.00. Wn.i. buy countv claims, receive deposits end make liberal loans on approved paper. IM'. Hoss. Cashier. A Newspaper in all that the Word Implies and Devoted to the Best Interests of the People of Cherokee County. ESTABLISHED FEB. 1G, 1894. GAFFNEY CITY, S. C.. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1898. *1.00 A YEAR. RECOMMENDED TO MOTHERS DR.TALMAGEON“THE MOTHER OF MEN.” * The Small Boy Knew His Grandmother Mlq Was Acquainted With God. * Neighborhood News from Etta Jane. (Correspondence of The ledger.) Etta Jane, Oct. 17.—Rev. C. E. Robertson will preach at Salem on the 29th and 30th inst, administering the sacrament of the Lord’s Supper on Sunday. We hope that the mothers who feel an interest in their offspring will carefully read and re-read the sermon of Dr. T. Dewitt Talmage on “The mother o< men,” and how women shape destiny, as published last weeK in this paper, and measure their responsibility by what he says. If they would do their duty in the light in which we see it the millium would soon down upon the earth. We look upon motherhood as the most hon orable, influential and responsible of fice ever bestowed upon humanity by the Creator. There is nothing the devil fears like he does a praying mother. She rocks in the cradle the destiny of two eternities. Rut, with all this, the father and teacher are not relieved of the responsibility that attaches to each of them in their respective spheres. Neither would we have them think that neglect on the part of the mother is any excuse for the improper dis charge of their duties to the young. As proof of this we quote from a religous paper now before us: A gentleman was riding in the su burbs of Buffalo with his small boy, and they stopped at a tavern to water his horse. The child watched the operation intently, and evidently thinking it clumsily managed spoxe out: “Rapa, why doesn’t the horse take the pail up with his feet and drink?” “Why; he isn’t made that way.” “Why not?” “Well, God didn’t see fit to make him so.” “Why didn’t God make him so?” “Ah! that beats me. How should I know?” The infant’s respect for his father clearly suffered. "H! m!” said he. after a moment’s reflection, “i’ll ask grandmama. She knows God.” Mr. W. T. Osment is sick. He has something like heart disease. The man who worships the “Al mighty dollar” never plays the hypo crite. We were busy working up our molases last week. On Saturday morning last, some of our neighbors seen frost. Mr. Joe Estes went to see Dr. T. R. Wood, last Friday to get him to dress his foot. Joe has had a hard time of it. He hasn’t been able to do a good day’s work since last Jan uary when he cut his foot. Sam Strain had a chill last Friday. He is still unwell this a. m. Farmers think most of their corn along the river will be entirely use less for anything but hog feed and not mu«h fit for that. There are some people whose idea of worship is only to thank God that they are better than their neighbors. We will be greatly disappointed if there are not some weddings in this community before Christmas. John F. Estes passed the ordeal of having a tooth broken off one day last week in trying to have if ex tracted. If we would think more about our own faults we would have less time to ta[k about other people’s. Mr. Lem Brown is quite feeble. So is Mrs. “Bisty” Hartford, his sister They are out near and kind neighbors, whom everybody speaks well of. Mr. Jesse Mabry paid us a pleas ant visit last week. The latch string hangs on the outside for “Uncle Jesse.” Mrs, S. F. Estes had quite a sick spell last week. She was confined to her bed for several dpys. We have a man in this community who argues from an astronomical point that the “Sun do move” In stead of the earth. Miss Oregon Estes was very un well for a few days last week. There is scarcely a house in this neighbor hood in which some one is not sick or complaining. We agree with the idea that “charity should begin at home.” But we contend that it should be al lowed to go and see its neighbors, occasionally. Mr. and Mrs. John W. Mitchell are rejoicing over the arrival of a new boy at their house. By the last of this month, with good weather, most, if not all of the cotton will be open and picked out provided people can keep their health. Charity is best described as kind ness flowing in a stream of benevo lence. b<ast week we received a letter fro|b our old comrade, Dr. A. E. Funt, of Santuc. He is suffering with vertigo and paralysis. This will be sad news to his many friends who read this paper. It is a fact that professional infi delity does less barm to the Chris- ^jaa religion than ordinary unfaith- ness on the part of church members. Wb Vrould be glad to give a list of |11 Uy*t^avel^| visits, etc., of* our neighooss last'week-hed we'the time and space to do so. What has become of some of our brother and sister correspondent? We would fife to hear froth them, occasionally. We are told that Londou is now the largest city in the world, and that if its streets were placed in a row they would reach across the world with enough over to reach from Maine tojCalifornia—upwards of 30,000 miles. I have found an old book of prob lems, puzzles, etc., which the gran dad’s and grandmamas used to work at, and which will doubtless interest our young readers. Here is one of the questions. Try it. “A boy bought a pair of shoes for $4.00 and gave a $10.00 bill in pay ment. The shoemaker had a neigh bor change the bill and gave the boy liis change. The boy left the town with the shoes and the $11.00. The neighbor returned the bill, saying it was counterfeit and the shoemaker had to give him good money for it. What was his loss?” Send in your answers boys and girls and we promise to give your names in this paper. If you miss, we will not mention it or expose you. Here are the names of those who correctly answered our last prob lem: JohnS. Thomas, Willie May, Misses Mattie Jennings, May Love, Ardella Good, Alice McDonald, Fan nie Hames, Lizzie McGill, Nora Dun lap, Janie Motts, Pearl Gregory, Minnie Bailey, and Josie Taylor. Thank you, young friends. A housewife (who knows what she talks about) tells us that clothes rinsed in salty water will not lose or change their color. The C. E. Society met at R. A. Foster’s yesterday. The house was crowed and much interest manifested. It was agreed to have a special Thanksgiving service at Salem church on Thursday, November 24. Prof. R. A. Foster will close his singing school at Mesopotamia next Saturday, The ladies are invited to come and bring well filled baskets. Oscar, the oldest son of Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Williams, is quite sick. Mrs. Amanda Lee has been very unwell for several days. Mr. Julius T. Howe is still low down with something like consump tion. In compliance with the published request of “The Peace Jubilee Com mittee” the C. E. Society took part in the Thanksgiving service yester day. Our friends, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Proctor are rejoicing over a “bounc ing” boy baby who joined their happy family lust week. Mes&rs. Garner & Robinson are gin ning at the Thomson mill now. Mr. Garner was wrestling with a “Buck argur” last week and I believe it came out on top. Our friends must not forget that on the 17th of January we expect to celebrate the 118th anniversary of the battle of Cowpens. Let us get everything in readiness, and, it possible, have a few pieces of artilery present to fire a national salute. The weather will be cold, it is true, but liberty loving Americans don’t mind that. 80 let the work go on. Some people are trying to scoff at the idea of having a national par* established at Cowpens. They are weak tricks and not worth the pen cil dust it will take to notice them. It is a very common thing for us to hear people speak kindly of “The Led ge*. ” Well, it is a good clear, paper and wants to treat all justly. No paper inside the State has a better record than it has. It only lacks one thing—an educational column for the benefit of the boys and gfrls who have no school faculties. There is plenty of latent talent in the county to make this an interesting department. In one of Frank Beard’s significant cartoons, “Uncle Sam” with his flag stands before the prophet who holds a Bible in his hand, near them is a group of heathen children. “Uncle Sam” (pointing to them) says: “I have freed them and fed them—■ what shall I do next?” The prophet replies. “Give them the school house and the Bible.” There is many a poor child In the country who if only given an opportunity will make something of himself. We think the young should receive something from us besides protection and love. We are to guide thorn carefully; to instruct them fully in the paths by which they are to jour ney where they may no longer cling to our hand. We are to teach them so that when we leave them to go on their way alone they may know how to steer for the safe haven; and no art of well-doing brings its reward so promptly as we go along than faithfulness in this. It seems to us that the world is strangely indifferent as this point. If wo expect to claim Lorn our children love, affection and regard, we should sow the seeds in youth; and when the sun-set of our lives draw nigh, and the shadows are lengthening before us, how anxious will they be to repay us for the many years of care they have received from us. Our present life with all its ac tivities and enjoyments, is but the flower, form of a being whose fruit- form is an after and higher life, and decay and death are no more than the falling of petals from the well set fruit. Human life and .flower-life are alike mainly in this. Both are stages of progress. The fruit, not the flower, is perfection. This world is not all; there is a world beyond and there come to* all a time of re ward, or punishment. j. L. s. The African (Limbless Cotton. [Wattorboro Press and Standard.] Several Colleton farmers last spring planted small patches of the African or Jackson limbless cotton, being anxious to test for themselves the merits of the new botanical mar vel so elaborately extolled through newspaper advertisements. While wo have hud no direct information recently as to how the cotton turned out, we are led to believe that the results have not measured up to all that was claimed for the new cotton. The Press and Standard never did have any faith in the so-called new plant and took occasion to warn our farmers against investing lavishly their savings, in the seed. The curiosity of cotton experts was aroused when the advertisements first appeared, and one of them de cided to make an investigation. His decision is that the African limbless cotton bore no more relationship to the staple that nourishes in the Dark Continent than do California grapes to Irish potatoes. The expert states that while duly impressed with the extraordinarily large size of the trees and the fine quality of the cotton, reflection led him to form the opinion that the tall tree was not a desirable form of cot ton plant, for the reason that its height would render it more liable to damage from wind storms, the trees would have to be planted nearer to gether and the soil would require a great deal more fertilizer to produce fine cotton on such big plants. An other weakness was the exceptionally high price of the seeds. The mar velous African limbless cotton seed was $200 a bushel, while it has actually sold at retail at $1,800 a bushel, so taicen wore some of the less careful cotton growers with the description of the new cotton plant's merits. The expert states that he was prejudiced at the offset against the new cotton, but set about his investi gations conscientiously, as many in tending investors had asked opinions and were awaiting the report before risking their money. The result of the expert’s investiga tions were that the.African limbless cotton was precisely the same as that produced by a cotton grower of Texas, who, by combining a tall va riety of cotton plant with a short one, and using an unusally liberal amount of fertilizer, had made of the combination a very tall cotton tree, with branches that spread but a lit tle way from the stem. Continuing, he found that the headquarters for tho African limbless cotton seed were located on a small farm in a Southern State. The planter had taken the seed described and had sown it in soil impregnated with animal manure, to which had been added liberal quantities of phosphate of lime. In a word, the soil had been fertilized with a liber ality that would be impossible to the planter, and in this soil the seed had been sown. Of course it grew under such favorable conditions to an un usual height, and the staple was ex tremely fine. But African origin had nothing to do with this. It was American clear through. The Department of Agriculture at Washington has been communicated with and replies that it has been looking into the claims of the advertiser of the new cotton plant, and has discovered its identity with that of the Texas combination plant. Furthermore, the two plants have been submitted to an eminent botan ist, who has made the most careful examlcations of both and found them to be similar in every respect. Do all the good you can, to all the people you can, In all the ways you can, and you will be happy. Free Pills, Send your address to H. E. Bucklen & Co., Chicago, and get a free sample box of Dr. Kings Now Life Fills. A trial will convince you of their mer 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 2f)c per box. Hold by DuFro Drug Co. LATEST COTTON HILL NEWS. TEMS OF INTEREST TO TEX TILE WORKERS North and South Carolina Mills, Their Improvements and Their Ad vancements—Opera tive Personals. [Southern iincl Western Textile Excelsior.! The Elkin, N. C., Cotton Mills have had their race and dam repaired and will soon be spinning yarns again. Scott Maxwell, superintendent of Millfort Mills, Ft. Mill, S. C., this week removed his family thither from Rock Hill, S. C. Mr. Wallace is the new dyer and chemist at the Muscogee Mills, Co lumbus, Ga. Mr. Wallace is lately from Greenville, S. C. Where is Ed. Duke, formerly at Aiken Mills, Bath, S. C.? His ad dress is desired by W. J. McDonalds night superintendent of the Atherton Cotton Mills, Charlotte. Wm. H. Thacker, who resigned as second hand in spinning at Anderson, S. C., Cotton Mills on account of poor health, is engaging in the mer cantile business at Spartanburg, S. C. W. E. Pong is overseer of carding and 8f inning at the Victoria Cotton Mills, Rock Hill, 8. C., with L. W. King, second hand in card room, and Chas. Green, second hand in spinning. W. B. Card has resigned as boss carder and spinner at the Red Bluff Mills, Clio. S. C., and is in Charlotte at present. He was formerly super intendent of Swift Creek Mills, Petersburg, Va. The Willard Hosiery Mill, which we recently announced was moving from Willardville, N. C., to Raleigh, N. C., is being located along the 8. A. L., near the Union depot there. S. A. Ashe, Jr., is secretary of the concern. W. P. Wingate, boss spinner at the Ada Cotton Mills, Charlotte, will on Nov. 1 be promoted to the superintendency. The news of the advance was somewhat of a surprise to him, ns it was a voluntary act on the part of the company. Cloth room overseer, Ed. Shank- lin, is making some good improve ments in his department at the Piedmont, 8. C.. Cotton Mills, es pecially in the stitching and brush ing of the goods. The cuts of cloth do look beautiful when they are stamped and ready for baling.—The Sun. Mr. Stultz, a loom fixer at tho Fort Mill, S. C., Cotton Mill, had his right arm broken while engaged in his work week before last. He was underneath a loom working when an operative innocently started the machine with the above unfor tunate result. A. A. Freeman, who recently gave up the card room at Rocky Mount, N. C., Cotton Mills, and moved to Columbia, S. C., has been very ill with typhoid fever, but is now im proving. He was a member of the Knights of Pythias at Piedmont, S. C., and his lodge looked after his comfort. The G. W. Patterson Manufactur ing Co., Concord, N. C., have closed down night work. Their 2,080 spin dles are still turning out yarns in daytime, ttnugh G. W. Patterson, the treasurer, says that the yarn mills are overstocked. He has 13 bales of 26s two ply on hand for which there is no market. A Columbia, S. C., correspondent informs us that F. S. Mosher has never been superintendent of the Richland Mills there, but manager, and is manager yet. B. F. Barnes, superintendent of the Granby Mills, being put in as superintendent of Richland Mills, did not conflict with Mr. Mosher's position at all. Jno. C. Tiddy. of Shelby. N. C., is now running the carding and spin ning at night for the Cabarrus Cot ton Mill, Concord, N. C., with Thos. Biurae second spinner. W. B. Chance is day overseer of carding and spinning, with A. L. Hopkins second carder, and J. B. Thomas second spinner. W. B. Cole is su perintendent of the mill. The Aurora Cotton Mills, Burling ton, N. C., are making some Improve ments by adding some new carding and spinning machinery. They have put in 17 new revolving fiat top cards, also some new Uppers, and are put ting in a new steam plant, with an 800 h, p. Corliss compound conden sing engine, and 4 upright boilers 32 feet high. E. W. Graddick, whose death was announced in these columns last week, was a loom fixer in the Poe Mills, Greenville, S. C. He died of typhoid fever on Oct. 1, and was taken to the family burying ground in Saluda county, S. C., and there burled on Oct. 4, '98. He leaves a wife, mother, sisters and brother to mourn bis loss. J. M. Allred, superintendent of the Ada Cotton Mills, Charlotte, who has filled that post acceptably to the company for several years, has resigned to accept a similar position with the Granite Falls, N. C., Manu facturing Co., in which we under stand he has taken a financial inter est. Mr. Allred was previouslyjsuperin- tendent at Granite Falls, and on Nov. 1 succeeds his father there, who is giving up mill life. At a meeting of stockholders of the Enterprise Cotton Mills, Orangeburg, S. C., held some time ago, it was de cided to issue $75,000 worth of bonds with which to purchase machinery and put the mill in operation. A part of these bonds have already been disposed of, and President S. Dibbel and superintendent Arthur Whitman expect to leave within the next ten days to complete the financial ar rangements and purchase the ma chinery. At the last meeting of the hoard of directors their secretary, D. O. Herbert resigned and superinten dent Whitman was also elected per manent secretary. — > —— Not Forgotten. We often hear it said, “Out of sight, out of mind.” But sayings like this are not always true, from the very fact that I have just received a letter from a messmate of my departed hus band in which he very freely express ed himself as to their intimacy during tho war between the states. He says: “Well do I remember his career as a soldier was characterized by that high sense of honor and fidelity to duty that attached to him in all the relations of life. Every duty was faithfully performed by him and so prompt and faithful was his life to the claims of duty that the captain under whom he served said to him on one occasion, ‘My dear sir, we have no friend who would be so greatly missed as you.’ We all had unbounded con fidence in his judgement and while very unassuming he was brave enough to do what he believed was right in the face of all opposition. I said to him one day while our scanty meal was being cooked, ‘How do you feel about living till the war is over?’ His answer was, ‘So long as I have a praying wife at home I have no doubts.’ Then after our meal was over, as was his custom, he took his little Bible and went off to himself, and more than once I saw him mark where he was reading, and when I heard of his death 1 said, 'A great, good man is gone.’ In addition to the above I believe I can safely say, none knew him but to love him, none named him but to praise him.” Yes, he brought that little Bible you speak of home and many are the marks I find in it, such as, “I am just off duty and will read twenty- third Psalm. While I am reading this chapter in Math. I hear someone singing ‘Home, Sweet Home.” I can say I know of no one in any posi tion in the church more loyal than was he. He was a true friend of the preachers, ready to defend them against all attacks, and prompt too, to point out their errors—a friend to them indeed. (>, how we miss him ! especially in our home, for no man ever loved home better than he. There seems to be a change everywhere and in everything. I feel that the course of true wisdom is to look forward and if possible try to grasp the aims of God in these wonderful changes and seek to be what He would have us to be in their midst and in the peril of their admin istration. Mks. R. Ann Waters. A Point. It is possible to overreach the peo ple that you want to reach in your advertising. You have to decide on the intelligence of your hearers. You have to talk their kind of talk. You have to reason their way. You have to use their kind of words. There is where the syndicate form of adver tising is a failure. It doesn’t appeal to the right kind of people in one case out of ten. When a man wants to reach a laboring man he must use the laboring man’s advertising. 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(MumphiH Commi'rclal-Appeal.) All efforts so far by conventions to curtail the acreage of cotton have failed. It seems to me that there is a way to success, and it is by putting an end to the prevailing system of cropping. An owner of land usually rents out bis fields to small tenants in such sized tracts as they individu ally seem capable of ‘cultivating. These tenants proceed to put iu as much cotton as they individually can possibly cultivate and twice as much they can possibly pick out; then, at harvest, extra pickers are in demand and they being scarce, are able to dictate their own terms, the conse quence being that the cotton costs more than it will bring in the mar ket. Resolutions by conventions cannot alter this condition. Planters meet and resolve to plant less cotton, go home, rent out their lands to croppers and the old game is played over and over, year after year. Is there no|||remedy? I think there is. Let landlords hire labor and pay for it as it is perfonned. The merchants are to blame that this plan has not been adopted long since. If a land owner, seeing the evil of cropping years ago, approach ed a merchant (and cotton factor) and asked for assistance to work his lands, in the form of cash advances, agreeing to give mortgages on his lands, crops, stocks, etc. the mer chant would coldly refuse; he would be willing to aid with merchandise, for which he would charge as large a profit as a conscience would per mit, with perhaps a little cash now and then to pay doctor’s bills and for coffins. The planter was com pelled to accept these terms and went sorrowfully home and again let out his land to small tenants, who consented to work after a fashion, provided they were furnished with supplies in quantities largely beyond the actual value of their labors. There is a large number of plant ers with credit so well established that they can get tho cash needed and cun work their lands with hired labor. They can put in as much or as little cotton us they think it profitable to raise, and there cun be no complaint among the laborers if they are paid in full every Saturday night. Planters too often buy their corn instead of making it. They say it is not a paying crop, and it is not, when made by renters. It does not realize as much to the acre as cotton, but it requires ten months to culti- vote and harvest a crop of cotton, and but five months for corn, and at less than half the expense of labor. Merchants and factors who hold large ' plantations, on which they have foreclosed, may not fancy the plan suggested, as these plantations are dumping grounds for large quan tities of merchandise, but it will pay even them to have responsible mana gers and pay their laborers weekly; nor will it in any way affect their mer chandise business, as each of these owners maintain a store on his plan tation, where, instead of supplying the people on credit, he can sell them goods for cash. As long as the owners of large bodies of land leave their land to the ignorant management of irre sponsible croppers, white and black, just so long will cotton be overpro duced, and soon the wages of labor in this favored Southern land will be on a parity with those of the peas antry of Germany, Italy or Russia. James a. Craighead, Arkansas. Tit tor Tat. [Greenville Nows. The News and Courier. State and The Greenville News are having a monkey and parrot time of it that is intereating—to the editors of those papers.—Yorkville Enquirer. It would be interesting to know what you take to develop the abnor mal nerve required for you to criti cise anybody for engaging in contro versy. If we remember correctly, you have been quarrelling violently with your esteemed local contempo rary through many years of time and many columns of space over a mat ter of county public printing involv ing about $86.83. Biscuit making as practiced by some woman is hard work. 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