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4 , S. O., NOVEMBER 8, 1898 THE LEDGERS The: i^ejdoejh. $i.oo per Year. PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY BY Ed. H. DeCamp. The Ledger is not responsible for ♦.he views of correspondents. Correspondents who do not contri- bate reguiar news letters must fur bish their name, not for publication, but for identification. Write short letters and to the point !*> insure publication; also endeavor to get them to the office by Tuesday. \I1 correspondence should be ad- Iressed to Ed. H. DeCamp, Manager. Obituaries will be published at five cents a line. Cards of thanks will be published tt one cent a word. Heading notices will be published it ten cents a line each insertion. IMPORTANT. Watch the date on your label and it you are ! n 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 a- well ns the one where they want it changed to. THE RACE PROBLEM. The relations between the negro and the white race on this continent arc to all appearances becoming more and more strained; and there are questions being evolved by the march of events, which will tax all the re sources of patriotism, statesmanship, and philanthropy to settle. Again and again it has been thought by men of short-sighted policy and nar row minded prejudice that many of these questions had been permanently settled; but the blows that have simiiiiered the parent flame have hurled a shower of sparks into the surrounding stubble, and these have quickly kindled and threatened a wider and more destructive conflagra tion than the first. As the head of the dangerous hydra has been stricken from his body two more heads, fiercer than the first have taken its place, and the difficulty lias been increased and the danger doubled. When the United States with the strong hand of military power struck the shackles of slavery from the mgro, the nation drew a long breath of relief, that the vexed question 'srhich liad troubled the country for forty years, which had nurtured wide-spread prejudice and animosity, until at last it had fanned human passions into u flame and hurled the North against the South in the fiercest and crudest fratricidal str’fe, recorded in the annals of thru—that at last this vexed ques tion was settled and settled forever. Hut events soon proved that only one phase of the question had been bellied, and out of that settlement other questions sprang up and multi plied and pressed for settlement. Then when blinded by passion, driven by hate, and drunk with power, the Republican party bestowed the ri^htof suffrage on the negro race just released from bondage, it was thought again at the North, no doubt, that the last demands of the q ua. ion had been met, that the bi.mis of the negro had been fixed, ai .i tiiat neither hate nor philanthopy could find in this question further material to feed upon. Hut how short-sighted was the poliiical wisdom that provided the conditions of settlement! It was so >i. evident to all except those who will not see, that the whole negro question was more unsettled than ever. Jnour state there followed the darkest period in its history—a period during which the land-marks of civilization were almost obliterated; uml intelligence, and probity and enlightened patriotism almost dis appeared in the flood of Ignorance, venality, and barbarism that over whelmed the land. Goaded to desperation the remnant of the A' glo-Saxon race left within our l,,filers rose in their unconquerable ini„ .I and hurled the black demon l.„in the throne of his power. Hut still the negro question was n it settled. The incubus was bhaken oil, but only for the time. The fior- rid creatures that peopled the night- ir c were btill to be seen cowering ba k in the shadows, ready to begin ti^uin their weird orgies over their victim at the first signs of sleep or relaxation of vigilance. Now, we havo had an era of reform, ut.d our political Colons have framed u i cw constitution, anil they tell us mat the negro is eliminated from politics and the trouble is at lust uli over. Hut wait and see. There aie pro visions in that same constitution, which are like the small leaks in the dike, hardly noticeable at first but gradually doing their work with ever | increasing power, until at last the ocean bursts through with a roar that is deafening and a fury that is overwhelming. This constitution provides an educational qualification for voting, which it is claimed elimi nates the negro from politics; and at the same time it puts the means in his hands of quickly clothing him self with that qualification. How absurd to call such an arrangement as that a settlement, and how puerile to think that by it, the negro is eliminated from politics! There is nothing in the present conditions to debar him at the close of another de cade, from standing the test of all educational and property qualifica tions and marching to the polls with his 20,000 majority. Then what? Will he be put down as he was in 1876? But the conditions will be widely different from those of 1876. Instead of an ignorant, superstitious savage, you will find him this time a man of education, intelligence, property, and possessed of all the elements of power. He will not be intimidated, demoralized, and driven from his position by the same means that were used in 1876. Then the result^ that may follow are fearful to contemplate, for it is absolutely cer tain that the white man as now con stituted will never submit to com plete negro domination. Present conditions are anomalous and without any precedent. We educate the nogro and expect him still to be a servant. We put the ballot into his hands and become in dignant if he aspire to office. We make a soldier of him and yet with hold the praise and honor due to a soldier. We open the way for him to become a Senator or a Governor or even President of the United States, and yet we provide a separate car for him and recoil with horror from so cial contact. A condition of affairs involving so many anomalies and in consistencies, so many outrages upon natural and moral laws cannot long continue. A crisis will sooner or later be reached when this question will no longer admit of patchwom or partial solutions, and both races will be required to face it in all its rami fications and settle it for once and forever. For our part we sincerely wish to see the negro placed under conditions favorable to his highest develop ment. The white people of this country owe him a debt of gratitude which it is difficult to pay, and his condition appeals strongly for sym pathy, kindness, forbearance, and generosity. Yet this is a white man’s country and white men must and will rule it, and the sooner the negro race recognizes this fact, the better it will be for both races. There seems to be only one of three ways in which the race problem in this country can reach a complete and final solution—amalgamation, extermination, or peaceable sepa ration. The first is not to be thought of; the second violates every canon of civilization and every sentiment of religion and humanity; the last only is both feasible and desirable. It may bo that in the recent con quests of the United States, God is preparing a final solution of this hurrassing problem, and that in some of the acquired territory the negro will find a congenial home whore he can work out his destiny in his own way. This would be a con summation to gladden the hearts of millions who are interested in his welfare and who desire only his hightest good. GAFFNEY AND THE LEDGER. We suppose that it is pretty gener ally known that we, the writer of Lite editorial columns of The Ledger, have nothing to do with the business management of the paper. We are not personally interested either in its financial success or failure. We perhaps do not habitually read the paper as attentively as others do. Hut we have recently looked care fully through it with a view to dis covering its business status, and we have met with several surprises. The first surprise is, that so many of the strong business houses of the town are not represented in its adn r. tising columns. The north side of the town shows up well; but south of the railroad fully 60 per cent, of the merchants and business men have no voice in the proclamation that goes forth once a week of Gaff ney's enterprise, resources, and progress. A reader at a distance who judges the town by the showing made in its paper, us ail readers do, that d«« not know it through other channels will conclude at once that it is nothing more Umn a little strag gling village with two or throe good stores, a blacksmith shop, and a poat- office. This is not the Impression which our business men would like to make abroad. Our neighboring city of Spartan burg publishes two daily and four weekly papers, six in all, and each one of those papers that we have ex amined, is alive with advertisements of home business and home enter prise. It is safe to say that with a population not much more than double that of ours. Spartanburg is doing more than twelve times the amount of advertising. No wonder that Spartanburg moves, and it will be no wonder if Gaffney complain that times are dull. The second surprise we have met with in looking into the affairs of The Ledger, is the large amount of patronage bestowed upon it by for eign advertisers. On comparison with other papers, it seems to be far in the lead of papers of its class and equal to many of a higher and broader class. We conclude that the paper draws a large part of its revenue for advertising from this source. The third and most overwhelming surprise is to find that there are so many intelligent, prominent people in Gaffney, who do not even take the paper at one dollar a year. The great bulk of each issue goes off in the mails, an astonishingly small part of it stopping in Gaffney. Now, we do not presume to tell the merchants of Gaffney how to conduct their business, nor prescribe to the people what they must or must not do. Neither does The Ledger ap peal to anybody’s charity nor beg for anybody’s patronage. It is strictly a business enterprise, which pro poses to pay large dividends on every | dollar that the town may invest in it, and in many ways to contribute to the progress, happiness, and pros perity of the place. Advertising has been aptly styled “the art of making people want things,” which of course includes the art of making them know where things are to be found. If this defi nition is true, it follows that when times are dull and money is scarce, there is all the more necessity for the business man to make people want his goods, and want them badly enough to stint themselves in other directions in order that they may get them. We do not think that it will be denied by those who have watched the recent progress of the town and noted the influences that have con tributed to its growth, tiiat The Led ger lias borne a conspicuous and honorable part. It was undoubtedly the strongest factor in the new county movement and it is almost certain that but for it the movement would have been defeated. Now, it is doing the county advertising at exactly one-half the rates allowed by law. though it has no competi tion and could just as easily exact the fall rates. The manager spends every surplus dollar that ho makes in improving the paper, and we be lieve that were his income twice what it is he would do the same thing. Yet we know that during the past summer he has been strained to meet current exponses, notwith standing his magnificent subscrip tion list and strong foreign patron age, all for the luck of the homo sup port which he hud a right to expect. Fellow citizens, this is not in keeping with the spirit of our people and must be an over-sight rather than studied neglect. The paper is doing more for you than you are doing for it. Starve it out and you’ll starve out a large portion of your business. Let it help you in your business, and the measure you mete out to it will be returned to you heaped up, pressed down, shaken together, and running over. ENTRIES FROM OUR DAY BOOK. It is said that the Peacj Com missioners in Paris are now face to face with the chief feature of the problem, that is the Philippines. On all other points the imperious lion’s have been disposed to be agree able. They will however, not yield the Philippines without a largo money consideration and probably not at all, In which case negotiations will be at an end and our big peace jubilees will have been a little •‘pre vious.” ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ The Columbia State and the Green ville News have for sometime past been “smoking” each other out. The breath of each has held out re markably well, but at lust they are both in the jigiit and Gonzales dis covers that Williams is no better than a Republican, and Williams dip- covers that Gonzales is not quite so good. In the meantime both the State and the News will continue to serve the public with th? latest news and many fresh breezy editorials from the same old stands. ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ We imagine that a degree of satis faction and exaltation arises in the breast ot blockaders and their patrons when a fine job has been successfully done. Most people have enjoyed the pleasure of success some time in their lives and usually in some way make their joys known to their friends. But in the case of joys derived from being successful blockaders and being their patrons the happiness of the city the county and all the friends of the patrons will be best subserved of all parties to the deals will so con duct themselves that their joys will not become known. Our soldiers in Porto Rico are said to be a disgrace to the flag under which they serve, or to any other flag except the black flag suppose to wave over bands of pirates and rob bers. They terrorize women, rob stores, plunder towns and make the nights hideous with drunken brawls and revelries. And yet we have sent them over there in the cause of civili zation and humanity, and they were kindly welcomed by the inhabitants as deliverers from thralldom and op pression. President McKinley will not do his duty if he does not see to it that some of them are punished and some of the officers especially are cashiered and dismissed from the service. ♦ ♦ ♦ The soldiers are starting for their Southern camps. Two brigades will go into camp at Greenville, one at Columbia, and one at Summerville, Spartanburg is left out in the cold. After having been promised the lux ury of one brigade, somehow she failed to pledge the requisite number of luxuries to the delicate and fastid ious soldiers. She seems not to have been fully prepared to put a hydrant and an incandescent light in each tent, with a Turkish bath, rocking chairs, sofas, feather bed, and other things so necessary to a modern soldier’s toilet and so indispensable to his health and comfort. We sympathize with Spartanburg in her poverty and congratulate her on her good luck. ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ Perhaps there has never before been a case tried in any court that has excited more interest over the whole world than that of the Dreyfus case tried in Paris. We doubt if the trial and execution of Louis the Fourteenth of France or of Charles the First of England was the subject of as world-wide interest and com ment as^this.case has been. Dreyfus was a captain in the army, and was accused of communicating some military secrets to the government of Germany. He is a Jew, and race prejudice was thought by many to be at the bottom of the charges made out against him. After a trial that almost unsettled the French government, he was banished for life. Then tales of all sorts of forgeries, perjuries.und evil machinations began to be told, and many high officials both civil and military began to be accused of plotting the man’s ruin, and at lust the presure has become so great that the court of Cassation, which is the highest court of appeals in France, is considering the question of re-opening the case, and there is every prospect that it will be done. On a second trial there will be many startling revelations made, some of them involving the character of even cabinet ministers and generals in the army, and there is no telling when or where it will all end. PRESS OPINION. How’s This. We offt-r One liundred Dollars Reward for any case of Catarrh that cannot he cured hy llnll's Catarrh Cure. F. J. CUESEY & CO., ProiToledo.O. We, the undersized, have Known F. .1. Cheney for the last l.*» years, and liellevo tdm perfectly honoralde in all husincss transactions and financially aide to carry out any obligations made hy their firm. West & Tki ax. Wholesale Druzzlsts, To ledo. O. WA1.DINO. Ki.vnan & Marvin, Wholesale Druzzists. Toledo. O. Hull's Catarrh Cure Is taken Internally, netinz directly u|xin t he blood and mucous surfaces of t he system. Price 7-V. per tsittle. t*old hy all druzirlsts Testimonials free. Halls Family Pills are the best. —— -- -• •— - Olecascs of the Blood and Nerves. No one need suffer with neuralgia. This disease is quickly and permanently cured hy Browns' Iron Bitters. Every disease of the blood, nerves and stomach, chronic or otherwise, succumbs to Browns’ Imn Bitters. Known and used for nearly a quarter of a century, it stands to-day fore most among our most valued remedies. Browns'Iron Bitters is sold bv all dealers. C. JEFFERIES, GAFFNEY, S. C. Attorney and Counsellor ot Law. Practices I All the Courts. Collections a Specialty. TllOfl. It. llTTLEM. 11 £M(Y K. OritOK.NK BUTLER & OSBORNE, A TTOMIW K YH-oVr-I. AW • * Gaffney, S. C. Very careful and prompt attention given to all business entrusted to us. JZ0C Practice In all the courts. There should be large crops of wheat and oats planted this fall. It is better to sow outs in the fall than in the spring. The experience of the best farmers is that a fall crop is the surest crop.—Union Times. * A * John L. Sullivan was enthusiasU- cally applauded by the lunatics in a New York asylum a few days ago. But that isnU the first time John was applauded by lunatics. Boston used to go wild over him.—Columbia Register. * * * One great trouble with the people of this country is and has been the credit system. Next year is a good one to try a new plan—the cash sys tem. It would work great hardships at first, but in the end cause great satisfaction.—Bamberg Herald. * ^ * The price of cattle should induce farmers to pay more attention to them. It would not be a difficult matter to double the number now raised. There is always a demand for for milch cows and beef cattle at fair prices.—Anderson Intelligencer. * * * We note with pleasure that the war between The State and The Green ville News is about over. No procto- col has been signed, and no Peace Commissioners are at work on a treaty of peace. The antagonists ap pear simply to have drawn off for rest and repairs.—Lee County Recorder. * * * Chief Justice Mclver refused the motion to vacate the injunction in the Berkely county contest, and by so doing the primary system has been struck a blow. We fear that unless some changes are made in the law our primary system is doomed. As the matter stands now, there is no Democratic nominee in Berkely county for sheriff and the field is open for all comers.—Manning Times. * * * David B. Hill, is not dead “by a big sight.” His Brooklyn speech is a masterpiece, and it shows that on the quiet he has been watching the Republicans with his keen eyes. Such men as Hill are two valuable for the Democratic party to cast aside. The chances are that his speech will make more Democrats in New York than any speech tiiat has been made or will be made in the campaign.— Fairfield News and Herald. Advice to | Consumptives! There are three great reme- X ; dies that every person with ♦ • weak lungs, or with consump- X ; tion itself, should understand. ♦ These remedies will cure X ; about every case in its first t J stages ; and many of those • ; more advanced. It is only ♦ • the most advanced that are X : hopeless. Even these are | • wonderfully relieved and life X ; itself greatly prolonged. f What are these remedies ? • Fresh air, proper food and | scon’s Emulsion of Cod-Liver Oil with Hypo- phosphites. Be afraid of draughts but not of fresh air. Eat nutritious food and drink plenty of milk. Do not forget that Scott’s Emulsion is the oldest, the most thoroughly tested and the highest en dorsed of all remedies for w«cak throats, weak lungs and consumption in all its stages. 50c. and $t oo; all druggist*. SCOTT “ BOWNE, Chemists, New York. Ohio River and Charleston Railway Co., % T l ME TABLE of t lie Oh in Hirer and ('harlrs ton Railway Company, conjunctly with the South Carolina and (fcortrla Railroad. SCHKDI I.E in effect May 10th. IHtlH. NORTH HOUND. Eastern Time. HODTH BOUND. Lv. <s. CHARLESTON BRANCH VILLE KINGSVILLE (O. R. k V.) CAMDEN KERSHAW LANCASTER CATAWBA .1 BNCTION ROCK HILL YORKVILLE HLACKSIHJRO KARLH PATTERSON SPRINGS SIIKI.MV LAT H More Mo< 'UEsHoRO H LN I! I ETTA Forksr city BBTHERIORDTON MILWOOD Golden valley. THERM \L city G LEN\ < nil) MARION G AfTxr.y Bmamch. - NOHTH BOUND. KOI Til MOUND P. M. Ar. 7 5n HI. \CKSHtJRG M. Lv. 5 is) " 7 80 CHEROKEE FALLS - 5 15 Lv. 7 15 GAFFNEY A r. 5 :tr> »' * . U. M. Trulii* north of Camden run dally except Sunday. Train* between Charleaton and Kiu-rsvllie run daily. For Information ns to rates. Clyde Line Saillnz. etc., call on local contractlnz and traveling OKcntg of both roads, ot L. A. EMERSON. T. M.. E. IF GRAY, S. O. A O. It. K.. Traffic Manager. Charleston. S. C. » iuclnoati. Ohio 8. B Ll'MPKl.V, Gen’l. Freight and Pass. Agent. Blacksburg, 8. C. RoVal Baking Powder Made from pure cream of tartar. Safeguards the food against alum. Alum inking powders are the greatest menaccrs to health of the present day. *OV»t ■*> NO POWOCN CO., NEW YOPK. His Ways Past Finding Out. [charleston - Post.! The Columbia State remarks a fact which has impressed many as curious • in regard to the changed sentiments in the First South Carolina regiment since the succession of Colonel Till man to the command. This is that Tillman, who was the champion of those desirous to be mustered out of service, is now most anxious that the regiment be retained by the government. Colonel Tillman’s efforts to secure the regiment’s dis missal were so active us to cause criticism end censure, and to stir up strife between the officers and the men. Indeed Colonul Tillman did not confine his agitations to his own regiment but went into the camp of the Second and made trouble there. He enlisted the aid of Ids uncle, Sena tor Ben Tillman, in his effort to have the First discharged and when the mustering out order was given, he took great credit to himself us the champion of the privates. Now that lie is the regiment's colonel he is trying to undo all that has been done and has appealed again to Uncle Hen to assist him, this time to keep the command in service. Who will now champion the cause of the private eoldiers? A GREAT record of cures, une qualled in medical history, proves Hood's Sarsaparilla possesses merit un known to any other MEDICINE. Dr. C. T. LIPSCOMB, Dentist, Office over R. A. Jones & Co.'s Stcre. Can be found at office six days in the week — — XT SOUTHERN RAILWAY" Condensed Schedule of Passenger Trains. In Effect Dot. 10. 18UM. L Ves. No. 18 Fst.Ml Northbound. No. 12 No. 33 K*. No. 30 Daily 1 Dally. Sun. Dally. Lv. Atlanta. C. T. 7 S3 a 12 00 m 4 85 P 11 50 p “ Atlanta. FI. T. 3 5J a I I UU p 5 35 p 12 50 • H Norcrosa ii :xi a 0 28 p 1 27 > “ Buford hi <6 a 7 08 p “ Guincavill*.. 111 85 a 1 2 22 n 7 43 p 220 a M Lula.. 10 58 alp? *2 d 8 OH p 2 40 • Ar. (*«nielia. 11 25 a 13 00 p 8 85 p Lv.Mt. Airy 11 8J u •• Toeooa 11 53 a 3 3) p 3 25 a “ Westminster 12 31m 4 03 a “ Seneca 12 52 p 4 15 p 4 2? ■ “ Central 1 40 p 4 52 a “ Greenville ... 2 34 p 5 22 p 5 45 a “ Spartanburg. 3 37 p G 10 p n iff a “ Gaffneys..," - . 4 20 p 0 44 p 7 15 a " Pirn-ksburg .. 4 38 p 7 00 p 7 a5 a " King’s Mt... 5 03 p 7 58 a “ Gastonia 5 25 p 8 20 a Lv. charlotte 0 30 p 8 22 p (i 25 a A r. Greensboro 0 52 p 10 43 p 12 10 p Lv. Greensboro.. 10 50 p Ar. Norfolk 7 60 a Ar. Danville 11 25 pill 51 p 1 15 p Ar. Richmond ... G 10 a ... 6 40 a 6 25 p Ar. Washington 0 43 a 0 35 j) “ Baltm'ePRR. 8 03 a 11 35 p “ Philadelphia. 10 15 a 2 iVi a “ New York... 112 43 m 0 23 n Southbound. Ev. N. \’.,P. Ii.tt " Philadelphia '• Palfunore.... “ Wnshinzton.. Lv. Richmond . Lv. Danville Lv. Norfolk . Ar. Grrensboro. Lv Greensboro.. Ar. Charlotte .... Lv. Gastonia ' King’a Mt •• Blacksburg .. FNt.Mll Ve». No. 3.1 No. 37 Dullr. ,Dai!v. irn 3 50 li U1 11 15 a TTo a, 0 56 n l» 20 ft 10 40 12 01 mint 01 Ut <) 15 p! 5 50 a “ 0 35 p C 45 a 7 »} 10 00 10 40 11 si p 7 16 0 25 10 45 Gaffneys 11 40 p lo 5» bpartanburg. 12 20 a 11 34 “ Greenville.... “ Central “ 8eneca “ Westminster " Toeooa 3 25 a 2 IS •* Mt. Airy.. " Cornelia f3 00 “ Lula 4 15 a ft 18 Gainesville... 4 35 a 3 37 “ Buford ** Norcross Ar. Atlanta, E. T. Ar. Atlanta. C.T. 4 55 p No. II Daily 12 lOnt 610 a 7 37 a 12 0f>ni 1 12 p 138 p 2 00 p 2 24 p 3 15 p 4 30 p 5 25 p 5 55 p II10 p 0 50 p 7P5p 7 40 p 8 14 p 8 40 p 012 p 9 43 j> 5 25 6 10 fi 10 n 3 55 NORCROSS - NOON TRAIN. Dally Except Sunday. 0 35 a 6 57 a 7 20 a 7 43 a 8 27 a 10 30 p 0 30 a p 0 30 pi 830 n Ur. Atlanta, central timi Ar. Norcrce*. eastern time Ev. Kofwroaa, eastern tInto...' .. Ar. Atlanta, central tllne •‘A” a. m. “P” p. m. ••M'' Chesapeake 11 20 1 IS p 2 20 p 2 20 p nooa. “N” night. . Line Steamers in dully kcrvieu between Norfolk and Baltimore. Nos. 37 undBb—Daily. Washington and South western Vestibule Limited. Through Pullman sleeping cars between Now York and New Or leans, via Wimhlngton, Atlanta and Montgom ery, and also between Nev. Y irk and Memphis, via Washington, Atlanta and Blrtabigham. First class thorough!are coaches betweea Washing ton and Atlanta. Dining cars serve all meals en route. Pullman drawn;:.-: "»m slci iiingc.ir between Greensboro and Norfolk. Oio-m con Diction at Norfolk for OLD POINT COMFORT arriving there la time for breakfast. Nos. 35 and WF—United States Fast Mall runs solid between Washington and New Or leans, via Southern Railway. A. Jt W. 1*. R. R,, and L. & N. It. K., being composed of baggage car and coache*, through without change for paiMengerf*of ail classes. Pullman drawing room sleeping cars between Ntw York mid New Orleans, via Atlanta and Montgomery. Leaving Washington each Wednesday, a tourist sleeping ear will rua through lie tween Wash ington and San Francisco without change. No*. 11,37. 78 and 12—Pullman sleeping ears between Richmond and Charlotte, vl i Danville, aouthhouud No*. 11 and 87, northbound Non. U« and 12 FRANKS. GANNON. J. M.CCLP, Third V-P. & Gen. Mgr., 'Initte M'g'r. Washington, D. C. Wai hiugbm, O. < W. A. TURK, S. II. HARDWICK, Gen’l Pass. Ag’t . AsVtUon'l Pus- Ag’t., Washington. D. C. AM <U. i