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<4 WE GUARANTEE Tjie Reliability of Every Adver- ^iser Who Uses the Col umns of This Paper. The Ledger. F. 0. Stact, President. J. O. Warm,aw. Vice President THE HATIOHAL BANK OF GAFFNET. Capital $50,000.00. Wili. buy county claims, receive deposit s ntid make liberal loans ou approved paper. IN.C.Uohs. 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, DECEMBER ], 1898. *1.00 A YEAR. QUERIES FOR THE STUDENT. THE“KERNAL” EQUAL TO THE DEMANDS. Items of Interest Tersely Told by The Ledger’s Valued Correspond ent from the Lower Porton of Cherokee. Etta Jane, Nov. 28.—Mr. J. C. Wallace, who has just returned from a business trip to Golleton county, gave me a stalk of genuine sugar cane that grew in that county this year. It has an eye o.- bud at each joint from which it grows. The Christain Endeavor Society held a Thanksgiving service at Salem last Thursday. Mr. W. T. Osment who has been unwell for some time has recovered. The blizzard reached us luft Sat urday and Saturday night. Will Foster was riding l.is wheel yesterday. That beats taking a horse for the old man to he troubled with, Will. The school at this place will begin next Monday according to appoint ment. Miss Ilettie iJlair is the teacher. . Mr. Kay Littlejohn, of Star Farm, give us a call lust Saturday. He is one of Cherokee’s most progressive young farmers and business men. Mr. Sam Foster bought a new wagon last weett. Miss Grace Whisonant has been elected teacher of the school at Wilkinsville Academy this season. She is one of Cherokee’s most ex cellent young ladies and we wish her success in her undertaking. We understand that Miss Alice Littlejohn will teach at Star Farm. Mrs. Sallie Ingram, at Gowdeysville and James L. Walker at Sunnyside this season. From what we know most of the teachers, and have reason to ekpect of others, we predict good schools for Gowdeyville this winter. Evefry section of Gowdeysville township was well represented at Gaffney last Tuesday. Our old friend and army comrade, /eke Childers, of Hickory Grove, has moved to the thriving town of Gaff ney, and will work in the cotton mill, /eke is a brother of ’•big” Wash Childers who was also a mem ber of Company B. 12th. S. C. Regt. At tho battle of Second Manassas it is said Wash Childers locked bayo nets with a Yankee and pinned him to the earth. We are proud of our people. While they may be as poor as poverty can make them, they are honest. We know of families who to-day have not the necessary comforts of life and where (the children, and often the mothers, are in the cotton field, bare footed and illy clad, picking cotton to pay their debts at 5 cents per pound. The majority of the farming classes are honest, but the world thinks and saysjjwhat it pleases of them. There will be services at Salem next Sabbath December 4th at 11 a. rn. Messrs. Robinson <Si Garner had the misfortune to break their cotton press last week and their ginnery has been stopped in consequence of it. It is doubtful whether they will re sume operations. The farmers are preparing to sow large areas of wheat this fall. They are generally putting it in good order. All the manures they can rake and scrape they are putting under it. We, us and family, are greatly in debted to Mrs. Laura T. Estes for a Benjamin’s mess of pork sent us lust week. In consequence of the cloudy weather wo have been deprived of the pleasure of seeing the meteoric displays that have been going on re cently. Astronomers tells us that still greater ones will happen next year—1899. Jimmie Strain is a banjo picker after the order of “Old Flaw. ” Come down, Flaw, and cross swords with him. One of our correspondents thinks that the Legislature ought to amend the game law bo as to make the kill ing of negroes unlawful at certain seasons of the year at least. “Student” must think “J. L. S.” is an encyclopaedian by liring such a fusilade of catechitical grape-short at him. However, we never dodge an issue and will attempt to answer them, seriatim: 1— What general was captured while sitting up in bed? Ans.—Gren- eral Prescott. 2— Who is known as the father of History? Ans.—Herodotus. ;{—Where is cape Desolation? Ans.—On the northern coast of Brit ish America. 4—Where is Bug river? Ans.—In Russia. f>—What animal has three eye lids? Ans.—The chicken. 0—What is the pulling pig? Ans. —The Porpoise. I 7—Who first invented letters? ilns.—The Phoomeious. 8—What is the difference between a story and a novel? Ans.—A novel is intended to exhibit the passions, especially love, while a story is the narration of some particular facts or j facts. 9— From what is calomel made? Ans.—It is the chloride of mercury. 10— Why are there three valves in the right side of the heart? Ans.— To serve its purpose in pumping the blood to all parts of the body. 11— Who was the Indian Apostle? Ans.—John Eliot. 12— How is the world bounded? Ans.—By infinite space. 13— How many counties has Texas? Ans.—Two hundred and twenty-six. 11—What is the rule for dividing decimals? Ans.—“Divide as in sim ple numbers, and point off in the quotient, from the right hand, as many places for decimals as the decimals in the dividend exceeds those in the divisor; and if there are not so many, supply the deficiency by prefixing ciphers.” (See any standard Arithmetic.) 1")—Has Patagonia a capital? If not why not? Ans.—It has none, for it lias no general government of its own. Brother if we are wrong correct, excuse us, and then answer the fol lowing- questions: 1— Wiiat American officer, of the Revolution—a native of South Caro lina—was kept a prisoner at Jamaica? 2— Where in the scriptures do we find the origin of the phrase, “A lit tle bird told me?” 3— Did General Washington ever see a steamboat? If so, when and where? 4— How was Xapolian’s life saved by a drunken coachman? 5— When and where did an eclipse of the sun terminate a battle? <i—Who is the author of the say ing: “Speech was given to man to conceal his thoughts?” 7— The waters of what river can be detected 300 miles at sea? 8— Who rode the black horse at the buttle of Saratoga? 9— Who said, “Show me a man’s handwriting and I will tell you his character?” 10— When and how did the “horse shoe” become an omen of “good luck?” 11— If a boy standing at the north pole would throw a stone which way would it go? 12— How did Xerxes count his vast army? 13— Who first asertained the ratio of the diameter to the circumference of a circle, and what is it? 14— What is the square root of <4 cents? 12—What battle of the Revolution was preceded by prayer? The Ledger don’t seem to under stand that it was in the spirit of levity that we acknowledged our ignorance in spelling eschalots in stead of shallotts. We made no at tempt to conceal our ignorance then, and make none now and we hoped The Ledger would so understand us. But, instead, it jump on us with both feet, pulls our ears, boxes our jaws and gouges our eyes while we “hol ler,” oh! ouch ! murder! Take him off etc., until we get a chance and run like a scared dog. And then to prevoke another rucus it turns round wnd spells celery with two I’s instead of one. While digging Mr. Howell’s grave at Blacksburg last Saturday Mr. Robinson was accidentally but severely wounded in the hand by a pick ux in the hands of a colored man. Mr. and Mrs. H. B. McDaniel, of Hickory Grove, with their children, attended the Thanksgiving service at Salem last Taursday. Last Tuesday Jimmie Strain and Ed Edwards had a runaway scrape with two mules and a load of cotton just as they were entering the sub urbs of the town of Gaffney. If peo ple who own “baby wagons” would not trouble themselves to rue out to the road to show them to people driving wild mules there would be less cause for complaint than we have at times. In answer to the question:— “What is politics?” a bright boy said: “It is tlie science of enriching yourself while you fool the people.” Investigation has proved the fact that misers have wrinkles on their hearts before they appear in their faces. A sinner saved makes a better preacher than an angel who has never been lost. Mr. Julius T. Howe died last Fri day evening after a long illness; and was buried at Blacksburg on Satur day. He was a ruling elder in the Presbyterian church at Hickory Grove. He leaves a wife, three chil dren, a mother and two sisters, to gether with a large number of friends to mourn his loss. TIioukIi we limy trials hard endure From slu or tleath or hell; Our heavenly Father'u love Is sure. And therefore "all is well". Soon will our sorrows here la- o’er. And we shall sweetly tell On t'nnaan's hriirhl and happy shore, Thai all at Iasi is well. J. L. rf. — — • . -«•» — Dr. Bull’s Cough Syrup is still in the lead. The people seem to like this old reliable cough medicine, and we don’t blame them; it is the best remedy for a deep-seated cough or cold, and will effect a cure in one day. SOME SOUND ADVICE. I LATEST COTTON MILL NEWS. Common Sense View of the Cotton Situation, and the Remedy. [Union Times.] A prominent business man in Un ion received the following letter a few days ago, which we are permit ted to publish for the benefitof our readers: New York, Nov. 17th, 1898. Dear Sir:—What is the matter with the people of your section of the country? According to the govern ment reports, they keep on increas ing the production of cotton when cotton is selling at the lowest price in its history. Why do they not di versify their crops? Certainly the soil will produce almost everything which they consume, and yet they continue raising that which is a drug on the market, and buying that which they ought to raise. Do they not realize that the demand for cot ton is not keeping pace with the in creased production? Especially in view of the fact that other countries are increasing their production of the raw cotton. Notwithstanding the growth of the population, it is evident enough to anyone who observes, that other materials are taking the place in which cotton once had an absolute monopoly. Hone is in debt, it is folly to attempt to pay off the indebt edness by doubling the production of that through which tho debt was originally occurred. One might as well try to lift one’s self over the fence by tugging at one’s own boot straps. The more you add to the production of cotton, the less chance there is of the price of that commo dity advancing in the markets of the world. Just so long as this overpro duction continues, just so long will tiie indebtedness grow heavier, and just so long will your people, strug gling under an ever-increasing burden of debt, be dissatisfied. The remedy, iiowever, is entirely within them selves, and is easy eneugli to apply. That remedy is, as referred to above, a diversification of crops. We under stand, for instance, that the people in your section of Hie country pay from 90 cents to $1 a bushel for wheat, from GO to 05 cents a bushel for corn, from $4.50 to $5 a barrel for flour, from 7 to 8 cents a pound for bacon, from 40 to 50 cents a bushel for oats, from 8 to 10 cents a pound for lard, from 40 to 50 cents a gallon for molasses, 5 cents a pound for hogs on foot. 2A cents for cattle on foot, 50 to GO cents a bushel for cow peas, $1 a bushel for Irish potatoes, $1 a bushel for peanuts, 40 cents a bushel for sweet potatoes, and from 12 to 14 dollars a ton for hay. All of these things could easily be raised, or obtained from the natural prod ucts in your section of the country; yet, your people go on raising cotton at 5 cents a pound and paying these high prices for those things which are the necessaries of life. We wish they could be brought to see this thing in the right light. The South is not prospering as the West is pros pering; and the reason is that they go on in the same old lines, notwith standing the fact that conditions have changed. Western people are happy to-day. The writer of this has just returned from a long trip in the West, extend ing as far as Omaha. There the crops have been good; prices have been higher than they have been in years. Tho farmers have paid off their debts to the local store-keepers; the interest on their mortgages and, in some cases, the principal of the mortgages themselves, and have a surplus. They not only raise a sur plus of products for sale to the east, to the south, and abroad; but they raise that which they consume them selves, and are not dependent upon any other section of the country for what they need to eat. Your people raise that which they cannot wear, for which there is a glut in the mar ket, and apparently absolutely per sist in refusing to raise that for which they have to pay a high price, and all of which they could produce themselves. Diversity of crops means prosperity; and prosperity brings happiness. It is a bad plan also to put all of one’s eggs in tho same bas ket, if anything happens, the eggs are ruined. Yours very truly. The Merchants’ Association, ok New York, By Wm. R. Corwine. Free Pills. Send your address to H. E. Bucklen & Co.. Chicago, and get a fret sample box of Dr. Kings New 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 25c per box. Sold by Dul’re Drug Co. The army of Germany has eight women colonels. ITEMS OF INTEREST TO TEX TILE WORKERS. North and South Carolina Mills, Thnr Improvements and Their Ad vancements—Opera tive Personals. Dr. M. A. Simmons Liver Medicine searches out a'l impurities in the System, and expels them harmlessly by the natural channels. I Southern and Western Textile Excelsior.] W. B. Woods, loom fixer at Saxe Gotha Mill, Irene, S. C., lias changed to the Columbia, S. C., Duck Mills. The new machinery for the Granby Cotton Mills, Columbia, S. C., is be ing daily received, and erection is go ing on. The Darlington, S. C., Cotton Mills have just erected 4 new Saco-Fettee cards, with drawing to mutch; also 1 Saco-Fettee ily frame. The site has been secured for the new xMarie Cotton Mills, at McCoil, S. C., and work will commence soon putting up the buildings. J. C. Gregson, Treasurer of the Hadley-Feoples Cotton Mill, N. 0., will on Jan. 1, take charge of the ! rebuilt Manetta Cotton Mills, Lando, S. C. Sam Bishop, section hand in card room of Spartan Mill No. 2, Spartan burg, S. C., last week while wording at some shafting, fell with his ladder and was badly hurt. Geo. B. Hiss, of the Geo. B. Hiss j Oil Co., Charlotte, has received one of the handsome 4-yard art square car pets, manufactured by the Gaffney, S. C., Carpet manufacturing Co. The Holt-Morgan Cotton Mills, Fayetteville, N. C., have placed a re peat order for curds, drawing and speeders, also an order for picking machinery and 3,000 spinning spin dles. A. L. Bram, who lias been night watchman at the Froximity Mills. Greensboro, N. C., since it first star ted, died last Tuesday. He leaves a wife, six children, and a mother 95 years of age. W. E. Morton, Superintendent Clover, S. C., Cotton Mills, is taking a combined business and pleasure trip of several weeks North. He stopped in Washington and then in Baltimore, his early home. The Eureka Cotton Mills, Chester, S. C., are now putting in 5,000 ad ditional Whitin spindles, with Whitin cards and drawing. This makes a 10,000 spindle mill on bail' and link, warp and skein yarns. Chas. Koon, assistant Superinten dent of Arkwright Mills, Spartan burg, 8. C., visited his mother-in-law, Mrs. Garrett, at Fiedmont, 8. C., a few days ago, and the Sun describes him as fat and jolly as ever. Jno. W. Shaver, who resigned as boss weave at the Ettrick manu facturing Co., near Fetersburg, Va., did so to accept a position as designer at Brookside Mills, Knoxville, Tenn. His successor at Petersburg was J. D. Farr, from the Huguenot Mills, Greenville, S. C. T. S. Haskell, who has been en gaged as second and overseer of the spinning department in the Langley, S. C., Cotton Mills, and more recently in the Aiken Cotton Mills, Bath, ti. C., for three years, has resigned his boss spinner’s position in the latter mills. The carder has also taken charge of the spinning. The Henrietta, N. C.. Cotton Mills are finishing up a combination mer cantile building at No. 2 Mill, equip ped for a tin shop, meat market, bar ber shop, and picture gallery, which they will rent to a tinner, a butcher, a barber and a photographer. They are also making nice sidewalks all though No. 2 village, which is being further adorned by a fine new Baptist church. At the officers’ meetingof the Abbe ville, 8. C., Cotton Mills week before last a full representation of theBoard of Directors were present, viz: B. F. Bailey, B. S. Barnwell, W. H. Parker, G. A. Visanska, Hugh Wilson, of Abbeville, and William H. Bent, Taunton, Mass.; 8. M. Milliken, New York, N. Y.; John W. Danielson, Providence. R. I.; J. D. Cloudman, (of Draper Co.) Atlanta, Ga. The Whitney, S. C., Manufactur ing Company who voted at their annual meeting to increase the capita 1 stock by $84.00(1 and add 2,500 spindles and other machinery, thus filling up their buildings, have not decided just what will be done about it. As one of the officials of the company remarks, however, “It does not follow that a thing is done even after it has been voted to doit.” Jno. B. Cleveland was elected president of the mills, aftrr being out of office a year, and xM. G. Stone, who has been president and treasurer the past year, was elected treasurer and general mana ger. Jas. K. Deaton, ex-Superintendent of tho Odell Mills, died at his country home 2A miles west of Concord, N. age 53 years. Mr. Deaton was a well known character in that community. He was born in Iredell county, and moved to Concord with nis narents when quite young. And at "the age of seven years he took a position with McDonald Mill, now Mill No. 1 of the Odell Manufacturing Co., and he rose step by step until, in the seventies, he became superintendent which place he filled for quite awhile under the McDonald ownership, after which lie went to Mountain Island, N. C., as superintendent of a mill there, owned by Wilson it Moore, but when the old .McDonald mill was bought by Capt. J. M. Odell it Co., lie returned to Concord, where he managed the Odell .Mills until about the year 1887, in the capacity of superintendent when he retired to private life, but later accepted a position with the Odell Manufacturing Co., as chief en gineer for about two years. Mr. Dea ton’s health has been waning for some years, but he was always cheerful and hopeful. He leaves a wife and five sisters. The funeral was conducted from the Forest Hill Methodist Church Sunday a week ago at 11 o’clock by Rev. J. Simpson. The remains were interred in the city cemetery. A BIG POLICY. C., last Friday evening at G o’clock Chilly Sensations. The Prudential Gets a $400,000 Policy in Newark, N. J. One of the largest transactions ever consummated in life insurance in the United States, and undoubtedly the largest credited to the State of New Jersey, was closed last week by the Prudential Insurance company of America. It was in the sliape of an insurance of $4011,000 of partnership insurance in favor of four members of the firm of Hahne & Co., pro prietors of tha Newark department store. The first annual premium of over $18,000 has just been paid and the policies have been delivered. The persons insured are August Hahne, Richard Hahne, Albert J. Hahne, and William H. Kellner, each taking a policy of $100,000 and making the same payable to the firm so that in the event of the death of any one of them, the sur viving members will receive from The Prudential $100,000 in cash. This plan or partnership insurance, according to the Prudential, is growing more popular among busi ness men every day, and this move ment on the part of Hahne & Com pany is a striking example of how an up-to-date firm can protect vast interests in the event of their being assailed by death. Before deciding in what company the firm would seek the insurance, the leading life insurance companies of the United States submitted figures. No policies so completely satisfied the Messrs. Hahne and Kellner as those of The Prudential which were proven to their satisfaction to be as safe and certain of payment as a government bond. Wood it Smith are agents for the the Prudential Insurance Company in this territory and are doing a fine business for this old and tried com pany. Powell Paragraphs. (Correspondence of The Ledser.) Powkei., Nov. 29.—When it comes to manual labor the average man is an immune. The lawyers assets are his lie abili ties. Most men are so proud that they will quit a job rather than ask to resign. The funniest thing about the mother-in-law is that she isn’t any joke. Flattery is tho gravy of human existence, but honest criticism is the meat. Don’t be afraid of using good ad vice for fear of spoiling it. R. B. Powell went to Spartanburg Saturday on business. Your coorrespondent went to Cow- pens Saturday on business. Mrs. W. T. Horton and her daughter, Miss Lizzie, went to Cow- pens one day last week on a shop ping tour. Wm. Gardner and G. B. Fowler went to Spartanburg not long since on business. E. Gardner and family, of Martins ville, visited relatives here Saturday and Sunday. We feel under obligation to thank J. L. S. for answering our problem in the issue of Oct. 20th. Will some Ledger reader please answer why the hands on jeweler’s signs are pointed at the hour 8:18? COHNCRACKSB. -• ► Soothing, healing, cleaning, De- Witt’s Witch Hazel Salve is the im placable enemy of sores, burns and wounds. It never fails to cure Files. You may rely upon it. Cherokee Drug Company, Gaffney. R. S. Withers & Co., Blacksburg. — - •- — Do you ever think you might be in the wrong as well as others? — - —• ~ Simmons Squaw Vine Wine oa Tab lets Prevent and cure Palpitation of Heart, Dizziness, Sick Headache, WRITTEN FROM WILLIE. “Cumtux” Takes Issue With The Ledger Concerning the Farmer. (Correspondence of The Ledger.) WiLUE, S. C., Nov. 28.—The types made me to say, in my letter of the 15th., in speaking of Greers as a cot ton market, it has been from 5 to 10 cents per hundred behind other markets, when I said, it is claimed that Greers has been from 5 to 10 cents behind other markets. Now, as I did not mean to make any charge against Greers, on my own account, you will please make the correction. Messrs. L. T. Wimpey and Sam Mahaffey, of Maynard, Pickens county, S. C., spent several days last week, visiting friends and rela tives, in this section. The editorial writer says in an editorial in last week’s Ledger, that whiie for several years. Hie product of the farms have scarcely sold for the cost of production, the price of land keeps up, and farm labor is as high as it was ten years ago. Now, while the price of land is as high as it was ten years ago, and in fact out of all proportion to the price of everything else, the editor is mis- takened about the price of farm labor being as high as it was ten yean ago. The wages of the tenant class of farm labor, has been reduced just in the same proportion of the de crease of the price of the products of the farm, while the wage working class, ten years ago. could get from 8 to 10 dollars per month and board, they can now get but from G to 7 dollars At last 90 per cent, of the farm labor of this part of South Carolina is composed of the tenant class, and the rental of land remains about the same that, it has been for the past twenty-five years; the third, and third and fourths of all crops grown on the land. The price of picking cotton ten years ago, was from 40 to 50 cents per hundred, now it is from 30 to 40 cents, of course one can occasion ally, to catch a man in pinch, get 50 cents for a days work yet, but the ruling price for day labor, during the main crop reason, is about 40 cents per day. It is useless to advise tenant farmers to buy land and become in dependent farmers, so long as the laws of our State permit men to hold land, at from 10 to 30 dollars per acre, and pay taxes on it at from 3 to 8 or 9 dollars per acre, and that is just what its doing. The laws of our state, as they now stand, do not only permit the hold ing of land for speculation purposes, but actually encourage it, in that the land holder is limited only by his conscience, if he should be so lucky as to have one, in what per cent, he charges for the rental of his land While the man with money to lend’ is limited to 8 per cent. Now my opinion is, that if land was taxed to its full value placed upon it by the holder, and land and money was placed on the same basis as regard to usury, tbat is, not al low a man to charge more than 8 per cent, of the value of the land used for rent, taking the price at which it is assessed on the Auditors books for a basis of value, that it would go far towards ameliaorating the condition of the common farmer. Among a list of questions asked J. L. S., last week, by “Student,” is where is Bug river, which we will answer for J. L. S., to the best of our ability: “Bug river” we suppose, heads some where in the neighborhood of Glassy Mountain, as from that sec tion is where the most of that fluid, called “bug juice,” comes from and empties into the tigers, (the blind tigers) of the various towns of the country, the products of which is said have, when partaken of freely, a very exhilerating influence upon the spirits of a man, but is liable to sour ou him hext day. 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