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4 THK LEDGER: GAFFNEY, S. C., OCTOBER 80, 1898 The: $i.oo per Year. PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY BY Ed. II. DeCamu. The Ledger is not responsible for f .he views of correspondents. Correspondents who do not contri bute regular news letters must fur- -deh their name, not for publication, but for identification. Write short letters and to the point bo insure publication ; also endeavor to get them to the office by Tuesday. \.ll correspondence should be ad dressed to Ed. H. DeCamp, Manager. Obituaries will be published at five jents 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. vVatch the date on ycur label and it you are in arrears call in and settle up. thus saving us the unpleasant duty of mailing you a notice inform ing you of that fact. Parties wishing the address of their paper changed to another post- office must give the name of the office where they have been getting it n< well as the one where they want it changed to. ONCE MORE. We have previously opposed not the State colleges but the scale of extravagance on which they are con ducted. In the first place, the num ber of them is extravagant in the ex treme, and the amount of money lavished on two of them is.far beyond what is necessary to their efficiency, and is such as the tax payers can at this time ill afford. These two col leges were established not because educational necessity demanded them, but because the leaders of a political faction deemed them ne cessary to boost their popularity and perpetuate their power. Being the children then of factional politics it is but natural that they should be imbued not only with the political but also with the factional spirit. That spirit when excited by opposi tion and heated by passion, is from the very conditions incapable of planning or acting with broad benevo- lence or discriminating wisdom. At such a time, such a spirit would bankrupt a state, steal the birth right of future generations, and swap oil Heaven, to save itself from sinking. We have it from what we consider good authority that ore of tluse colleges proposed to take students gratuitously from one family in consideration of political services rendered by the head of that family. We understood that the proposition included board and all o'her expenses. In this case the pro position was not accepted, but we nat urally infer that what was proposed to one was proposed to others whose political services might be deemed worthy of acknowledgement, and if so we infer further that in most cases the proposition was excepted and that both Clemson and Winthrop are taking numbers of students without charge for either boaid o: tuition, all hi flagrant violation of law and in more ilagrant violation of that boasted slogan of demagogues, “Equal rights to all and special privileges to none.” On no other hypothesis can we discover even the shadow of excuse for the immense appropriations an nually made to these colleges, or account for the wide margin between the amount which would secin to he needed, for an honest and economi cal administration and the amount actually expended from year to year. As we said at the beginning of these articles, we have no quarrel with the existence of any of the state colleges. That existence is an ac complished fact and it would be un wise not to recognize and deal with ii as such. The State has invested such vast amounts in buildings and equipments, that it could not now alford to abolish any of these col leges, even if public sentiment de manded it. But we do quarrel with the spirit that prompted the establishment and pervades the management of two of them as well as with the extravagance that char acterizes the legislative appropria tions. Why should Clemson be provided with an income more than four times that of the South Carolina College? Why should Winthrop have #<).j,000, while the South Caro lina College gets only $2o,000? Why should the State appropriate as much as $250 for the tuition of each student in these colleges, and less than $3 for each one in the common schools? True, higher education is more costly than primary, but are not the amounts out of all just pro portion? These questions have been answered only by the calls of the tax gatherer and a continued flood of appropriations. It is high time that the people were knowing what Is be* ing done with their money. We be lieve if they could know they would soon put a stop to these annual ap propriations to Clemson and Win throp. amounting nearly to $100,000. If they are to continue, then pri vate and denominational colleges in this state are to be crushed or badly crippled, and the whole business of education is to pass into the hands of the State. Such an event would inaugurate a new era of civilization in which material utility would be the dominating idea and from wnich the influences of Christianity would be slowly but surely eliminated. There are many thousands—perhaps a ma jority of the people of the State—who would recoil with horror from such a consummation as that, and there are many othres, who, while they do not recognize such a tendency in edu cation by the State, yet would greatly prefer to educate their boys and girls in their own denominational colleges. But in the strained financial condi tion of the country and in the unjust discrimination the school authorities are making more and more in favor of graduates of the state schools over those of private and denominational schools, there is a quasi compulsion brought to bear upon the people to patronize the State schools. This is as arbitrary as it is unjust. When ever a State persistently hedges its people around with conditions that compel them to adopt a certain policy which must accord with those conditions, it is exercising despotic power just as truly as if it compelled them by edict to bow to stocks and stones. We have but one or two more ob servations to make in closing this series of articles. If it is the pur pose of the State to assume full con trol of education within its borders, then let it with a high hand and an unmasked face adopt such measures as will at once drive all competitors from the field. Let it declare that the youths of the land shall all be educated by the State, and let it ap propriate millions instead of thous ands to carry on the work. But if its purpose is to do only a part of the work, then its colleges are competitors with other colleges in the educational fields and in all conscience they should make some show of fair and honest competition. If Clemson and Winthrop be held to their legitimate sources of income, wiiich we have shown are amply sufficient to insure a high degree of efficiency, though they would still have an immense advantage in re sources over any private or denomi national colleges, yet these latter, by closer economy and greater activity, would be enabled to com pete with them on something like equal terms. If present conditions continue, the denominational colleges must make expenses of education as low as they are made in tiie State schools. This cannot be done with the number of denominational schools now in ex istence and the consequent small patronage bestowed on each. Then fully one-half of them must be abolished and the forces of the de nominations concentrated on a few, thereby making them strong enough to warrant u great reduction in cost. There is not a male college in the State that with 4<X» students could not reduce expenses below those re quired at Clemson, nor a female col lege that,with Winthrop’s patronage, could not afford to take girls for less money than the published demands of Winthrop require. And this isn’t all. The denominational college under such conditions, would sup port as strong a faculty and do us thorough and extensive work as Winthrop does, and u work far more in accord with the demands of Christian civilization. THE WAR AT VIRDEN. There has been a serious race war at the little town of Virden, Illinois. The white laborers in the coal mines went on a strike for 40 cts. a ton instead of 28 cts. and the company owners of the mines imported two hundred negroes from Alabama to supply their places. The strikers gave notice that they would not al low the negroes to take their places in the mines and the owners declared that they would have the mines worked, if It bad to be done under cover of Win theater rifles. Gov. Tan ner was appealed to for troops to pro tect the negroes from the fury of the mibers, but he declared that be would not furnish protection to such a horde of “undesirable citizens.” The mine owners hired a number of deputy constables to guard the ne groes, and when the train which brought them rolled in, the miners opened fire on them, and the consta bles tod negroes gave them vollej for volley. The result was that about twenty men were killed and wounded and there is wide-spread consternation and demoralization. The mine owners accuse the Governor and the Governor accuses the mine owners of being the cause of the bloodshed, and the authorities in Washington hardly know what to do. We wonder how all this sets with the negroes of the South, who have been taught to believe that their friends are all north of Mason and Dixon’s line, and how the great benevolent, negro-worshiping heart of the North can bear to proclaim them officially “undesirable citizens” and to give them such a rude recep tion as was given at Virden. ENTRIES FROM OUR DAY BOOK. It is esttmated that the war with Spain has cost up to this time $301,- 000,000 and that the expenses are still going on at the rate of $330,000 a day or about $10,0f>0,000 a month How will that do for the price of glory? ♦ -4. ♦ The State gives scholarships worth forty four dollars apiece in cash, to one hundred and twenty four girls. These girls must all be sound in body and strong in intellect, which facts must be established by competitive examinations. Who is going to help the girl of frail body and ordinary in tellect? Is she not in greater need of help than her more fortunate sisters? Now, the negroes that were whip ped by order of Col. Tillman come forward with affidavits to the effect that they deserved all they got and more, that Col. Tillman has always treated them with great kindness and consideration, that whither he goes they will go, where he dies they will die, and there will they be buried, and much more to the same purport. Truly’. “Afflictions, though they seem severe, Are oft in mercy sent.” ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ King Frost is not a merry old soul like old King Cole, but rather a sullen whimsical old soul, if indeed he has any soul at all. He gave the country a slight whiff of his cold breath last Saturday and then with drew as if for a deep, long inspiration preparatory to a strong blast at the yellow fever and the top-cotton pest. While the old King is fooling away time, the yellow fever is having its own way and the top cotton crop is spreading its fleecy sails far beyond his reach. The political campaign in the Old North State just beyond our borders is a stirring one. The populists have fused with the republicans, and the issue ut stake, is no less than white supremacy and good government, or negro and scalawag domination. We send sympathy and good cheer to our democral neighbors, and hope they will stand to their colors like the truckmen they are and gain such a sweeping victory at the Jpolls in November that the enemies of good and respectable government will never again be heard of within the borders of the grand old state. ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ The State Fair/-in Columbia this fall ought to attract a large crowd from every county in the State. It is true that money is scarce and the people are not in a very joyous mood, but the railroads will give cheap fare and a mingling of the people from different counties, in Columbia, will do much towards putting every body in a better humor. Besides the stimulous imparted to the produc tions of brain and muscle by the fair, its social features, its broaden ing influence on mind and heart, its quickening power on the spirit of enterprise and ^progress, will be worth more to every man and woman who attends than the money spent on the trip. ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ The case against Lieut. Col. Till man for having the three negro boys whipped in camp, is not likely to be pushed. Senator Tillman has taken a band in the case,not, as he says,be cause Col. Tillman is bis nephew, but for the honor of the regiment. If Col. Tillman is guilty of conduct unbecoming an officer and a gentle man as he is charged, we cannot ex actly see bow the honor of the regi ment will be compromised by a thorough investigation and vigorous prosecution. We do not profess to be thoroughly familiar with Senator Tillman’s standard of honor, but ac cording to ordinary standards, there would seem to be more risk to honor In conniving and condoning than in exposing and pnnishing. ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ Tui compliment which the Editor of the Greenville Newe generously pays this paper and town, is one to be appreciated. The value of a com pliment depends entirely on the mo tive that prompts it and the ’man who pays it. We feel specially proud of this compliment because we know the motive must have been disinterested—and more so because we have long considered the editor of the Greenville News the finest edito rial v-riter and one of the broadest- minded men in the State. When the King of England cemplimented Dr. Sam Johnson, tbe latter made no re ply, bolding that what tbe King said must be so, and that it would be un becoming in him to bandy compli ments with his sovereign. So we feel towards tbe editor of the Green ville News. This is an era of low prices. Everything that a man eats or wears can be bought at prices which have no precedent for cheapness in the history of prices. The products of the fields can scarcely be sold for the cost of production. Yet salaries and wages do not conform to the low prices, but remain about what they have been for the last fifty years. Land too, and town property, remain high, with a tendency to rise still higher. Ordinary farming lands within two or three miles of Gaffney are held at $20AK) an acre or more. If we could be so inhuman as to wish any man a bell on earth, we could find no nearer road to the place of his abode than by persuading him to buy one of these farms and under take to pay for it by cultivating it with hired labor. The twelve labors of Hercules, would be child’s play, compared with his task. ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ Editor Larky Gantt of the Pied mont Headlight announces that he has purchased a splendid Cottrell press with a speed of two thousand impressions an hour, and that he is going to convert the Headlight into a semi-weekly without advancing the price, and in additon to publish an afternoon daily to be called The Evening Star at the modest price of $4.00 a year. With the Headlight and Evening Star, the editor proposes to throw a perfect flood of light both original and reflected on the dark places in politics, morals and do mestic economy. He is going to labor too, to remove from the farmers the burdens they have borne so long—an herculan job. In the meantime, this pointed ray of light darts from his facile pen : “It is wrong either to try and array the country people against the town people, or the town people against the country people.” If the editor could by some happy process have evolved'this ray of light about eight years ago, there might not be so much darkness now. PRESS OPINION. We Doff Our Cap to the News. [Greenville News.l Our Gaffney correspondent is in error when he says he could write of the glories of his town at more length than the Greenville News could give space for. Gaffney could not ask more space than wo would be glad to give it. It is one of several towns along the main line of the Southern which have won the affection and admiration of the Greenville News by their splendid pluck and tireless enterprise. Gaffney deserves special credit and has been particularly successful. The people there are true blues and they keep their town right up to the front of the procession. They are never tired or discouraged and go ahead while other communities stop to mourn or meditate. They have everything of the best, including the town’s newspaper, which is one of the brightest, most strongly edited and best managed in the State. They can have all the space in the Greenville News they may want to boom a town which is so well worth booming. It is easier to see through the plot of a play than through the big hat in front of it. The respect due to old age is al ways dealt out with a ladle to tbe wealthy grandparent. ____ ——* » $ioo Reward, $ioo. The readers of this paper will l>e pleased to leuru that there Is ut least one dreaded dis ease Unit science has been able to cure in all Itsstatresandthatlst'aturrli. Ilall’st'atarrli Cure is the only positive cure now known U) the medical fraternity. Catarrh beliiK a constitutional disease, requires a constitu tional treatment. Hall's Catarrh Cure Is taken Internally, aetfnff directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system, thereby destroying the foundation of the disease, and ftlvitor the patient strength by hulldlntr up the constitution and iisKlstlnir nature In aolng Its work. The proprietors have so much faith In Its curative powers that they offer One Hundred Dollars for any case that It falls to cure. Head for list of Testimonials. _ Address, F. J. Chenicy A Co., To.e in, O Bold by Druinrists. 75c. Hall's Family Fills are the best. Y alnahls to Women. Especially valuable to women is Browns' Iron bitters, backache vanishes, headache disappears, strength takes the place of weakness, and the glow of health readily eomes to the pallid check when this won- derfal remedy is taken. For sickly children or overworked men it has no equal. No home should bs without this fhroous remedy. Orowas’Iroo Bitten la sold by all dealers. The state board of control ought to bo mustered out. It’s too big for it’s breeches.—Chester Lantern. * * * The lion and the lamb have at last lain down together. A few days ago Ben Tillman visited Charleston, where he was feasted, fondled and caressed by the conservatives of that city. Even Cal Hemphill, of the News and Courier, fell down and worshipped the apostle of Fuss X.— Piedmont Headlight. * * * How circumstances do combine to change opinions! Here we have the State newspaper the ardent champion of Ellerbe. who is nothing without the dispensary, and the News and Courier gushing over Ben Tillman. Who would have thought five years ago that such a state of things could ever come to pass?—Kingstree County Record. * * a We have a wonderful people here —clear grit as ever lived. It is a study in the capacity of human courage, with an element of the pa thetic in it, to watch the folks from the country gather the little money they got for cotton, at five cents or less, and go cheerfully and sturdily to pay what they owe and buy what they must have. The dollars left to them are few, but there is no evidence of depression or loss of hope. They just do the best they can, make the best of what they have and prepare to try again. Nobody starves or goes naked oi lacks a shelter. Our peo ple always get on somehow and they meet adversity with splendid patience and valor.—Greenville News. * * * The Tuskegee Institute, of Ala bama, has just received its first student—a fine-looking and promis ing young colored man—from Porto Rico. Other students from Cuba and Porto Rico will enter Tuskegee as soon as the Government quaran tine regulations will permit. In a note to The News and Courier con veying this information Booker Washington says that it is his pur pose “to give industrial training to a few Cubans and Porto Ricans at Tuskegee, so they may materially help their people in Cuba and Porto Rico.” The purpose is entirely praiseworthy and should be en couraged.—Charleston News and Courier. To stand still is to shun some duty. - • ' ' TrioH' For 25 Years Would you feel perfectly safe to put all your money in a new bank? One you have just heard of? But how about an old bank ? One that has done business for over a quarter of a century ? One that has always kept its promises? One that never failed ; never misled you in any way ? You could trust such a bank, couldn’t you? SCOTT'S EMULSION of COD-LIVER OIL WITH HYPOPHOSPHITES is just like such a bank. It has never disappointed you, never will. It has never deceived you, never will. 2 Look out that someone does not try to make you 3* invest your health in a new z tonic, some new medicine jq you know nothing of. ^ $oc. and fi.oo; all druggists. jq if SCOTT & BOWNE, Chemists, New York. J Ohio River and Charleston Railway Co., T IME TA RLE of t lie Ohio Rlvor and (*harles ton Railway ('omimnv. eoniimi'tIv with the South Carolina and Georgia" Railroad. Schediti.e In effect May Kith, iwi*. NORTH Borxn. Eastern Time. SOUTH HOUND. 33 :i2 A. M (S O. A. G.) P. M. Lv. 7 10 CHARLESTON Ar. k oo •• i» nn branciiville " 5 47 " p) 10 KINGSVILLE “ 4 28 P. M. CO. R. A C.) P. M. “ 12 05 CAMDEN " 2 35 “ 1 Of. KERSHAW “ 1 50 “ 1 50 LANCASTER 12 50 “ 2 30 CATAWHA .1 UNCTION “ 12 05 “ 2 55 ROCK MILL “ 11 45 “ 3 30 YORKVILLE j BLACKSBURG # “ 11 05 “ 4 35 “ 10 00 “ 5 10 EARLS “ 11 30 5 20 PATTERSON SPRINGS “ 9 25 “ 8 00 SHELBY “ 9 10 •' t! 40 LATTIMORE “ 8 20 *• li 55 MOORES BORO *' 8 10 '• 7 10 HENRIETTA FOREST CITY “ 7 no “ 7 35 “ 7 25 *• 8 1(1 KUTHEKFORDTON “ « 55 " H 30 MILWOOD •• li :(5 “ 8 55 GOLDEN VALLEY. •* tl 10 *' 9 00 THERMAL CITY “ «or. " 1* 25 GLENWOOD “ 5 40 Ar. 9 50 MARION Lv. 5 3) P. M. A. H. Gapk.ney Branch. NORTH SOUTH HOUND. HOUND P. M. P. M. Ar. 7 50 BLACKSBURG Lv. 5 00 '• 7 36 CHEROKEE FALLS “ 5 15 Lv. 7 15 GAFFNEY Ar. 5 35 P. M. P. M. Trulna north of C'unitlen run dally except Hunduy. Trains between Charleston and KinKsrlllo run dally. For Information as to rates. Clyde Line Halllnjr. etc., rail on loenl contract!iifr and travefinq aKcnts of both roads, or L. A. EMERSON. T. M., 9. O. k O. R. R.. Charleston, H. 0. E. F.ORAY. Traffic Manatrer. Cincinnati, Ohio l H. B LUMPKIN, Geu'l. Freight and Pass. Agent, Blacksburg, B. <J. RoVal Baking Powder Made from pure cream of tartar. Safeguards the food against alum. baking powders are the greatest ers to health of the present day. Alum menacers SOYM. BAKINO POWOCR CO.. HEW YORK. A Hot Time in the State House. [Clinton Gazette.] A close study of the situation and a peep into the unknown future in clines the Gazette to the belief that there’ll be a hot time within the granite walls of the State House during the coming session of the Leg islature. The prohibitionists, local optionists, high licenseists and blind tigerists will combine their motly odds and ends and make a barbed wire fight against the Dispensary, and the feathers will fiy. The con- flet will bo watched with interest, and after the smoke of battle rolls away to read and understand the patched and amended product of these differing Solons will require many long, weary hours with the Sphinx. T hink about your health. Do not allow scrofula taints to develop in your blood. Take Hood’s Sarsapa rilla now and keep yourself WELL. Piedmont Saving and investment Co. ille, S. C. The loan plan of this company will be found far more dolreable in every way than the plans of Uni Id in;'A Loans Associations. Cur plan is a dcliuilc contract at reasonable rates. Loans made an approved property. C. .1 KPFEHIKS, Local Attorney. Gaffney. S. O. SOUTHERN RAILWAY Condensed Sehednl* of Passenger Tratal In Effect Oct. 18. I8U8. Northbound. hr. Atlanta, C. T. “ Atlanta, E. T. “ Norcross “ Buford “ Gainesville... “ Lula Ar. Cornell*. Lv.Mt. Airy •* Toooo* “ Westminster • Feneo* " Central “ Greenville ... •• Spartanburg. *• Gaffneys. a Blacksburg.. " King’s Mt .. " j^Mtoitin Lv. charlotte Ar. Greensboro Lv. Greensboro. Ar. Norfolk .... Ar. Danville Ar. Richmond Ar.Woahington “ Hultm'e PRR. *• Philadelphia. “ New Vork .. 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" Cornell* Lula " Gaiuosvills.. " Buford “ Noroross Ar. Atlanta, E. T. Ar. Atlanta, C. T. 6 10 * 855 p 9 30 p * NbfioRStolTOGjr fit Dally Except bun day. Lv. Atlanta, centra! time 10 46 10 58 a 11 34 a 12 80 fJ 00 fJ 18 387 No. 11 Dally 12 lOnt 810 7 37 n 12 05m 1 13 p 188 p 2 08 p 224 p 315 p 4 30 p 5 25 p 5 55 p 010 p 0 50 p 7 35 p 7 40 p 8 14 p 840 p 912 p 9 43 p 4 35 p 10 30 p 0 85 a 8 57 a T 20 a T 48 * 827 * 080 a 830 a Ar. N'orcroes, eastern tint* Lv. Kororoas, caeternHnie Ar. Atlanta, wmtral Uice.. iW 115 p 2 20 p 2JWJP A 71 *. m. "M n noon. “N’ f night. Chesapeake Line Steamer* In dolly serrior between Norfolk and Baltimore. Nos. UT and**—Daily. Washington and South western Vestibule Limited. Through Pullman sleeping cars between New York and New Or leans. via Washington, Atlanta and Montgom- ery, and also between New York and Memphis, vie Washington .Atlanta and Birmingham. First class thoroughfare coaches between Washing ton and Atlanta. Dining cars serve all meals an routa. Pullman drawing-room sleeping ears between Greensboro aad Norfolk. Cfloee non nection at Porfolk for OLD POINT COMPORT arriving there la time for breakfast. Nos. 34 and 84-United Htmtm Fast Mail ran* solid between Wsahiugtoe and Nqw Or- loans, na Mouther* Ksihrsy, A. kW.P. R. B., and L. A NTB. R. heiag eompoead of baggage ear and ooaohaa, taro ugh without change for passenger# of all class** Pullman drawing E h sleeping oar* between New York ana r Orleans, via Atlanta and Montgomery, vlng Washington saekWedneeday, a touria* sleeping oar will ran through betwuan Wash ington and dan Francisco without change. Nos. 11.37. 18 end U-Pnllmeu sieenlng ear* between Rtohmoud aad Charlotte. vU DoaviUe. southbound No*. 11 and 87, northbound Moa. Atlant