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THE LEDGER: GAFFNEY, 8. 0., DECEMBER 1, 1898. The I^EHOEl*. $1.00 per Year. PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY BY Ed. H. DeCami*. The Ledger is not responsible for the views of correspondents. Correspondents who do not contri bute regular news letters must fur bish their name, not for publication, but for identification. Write short letters and to the point lo insure publication; also endeavor to get them to the office by Tuesday. All correspondence should be ad dressed to Ed. H. DeCamp, Manager. Obituaries will be published at five cents a line. Cards of thanks will be published rt one cent a word. Heading notices will be published at ten cents a line each insertion. IMPORTANT. Watch the date on your 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 as well as the one where they want it changed to. A FINE ART. The murder of Hughes at Oreer s silver mounted pistol loaded with a 1 silver bullet and smokeless powder, and let the owner dispatch her tru ant lover and her jealous female friend in her own dainty, graceful charming manner. This is an age of taste and refinement, and the old vulgar methods of murder must go out with the vulgar age that pro duced them. E PEACE. Spain at last has yielded to force, and our peace commissioners are hav ing their own way. The Uj-ited States takes posession of the whole of the Philippines and everything else that she wants. By way of courtesy and a little paliative to her conscience, she makes Spain a pres ent of a little purse of .$20,000,000. Spain ought to have said at the bo- ginningof the negotiations, “Gentle men, we throw up the sponge and are no longer in it. Take what you want, and leave us the balance.” So far all is smooth and serene. Wo are expanding with a vengeance. We now turn our backs on Spain, and salute the Filippinos with a “good morning! We have the pleas- by his wife is suggestive of a new era in the reign of homicides. The de voted and considerate wife gave the doomed husband two minutes in which either to get ready for “a fair light,” or if that should not alto- gether accord with his taste or judt:- ment, then by pious meditation to prepare for another finale of a more serious and tragic character. At the expiration of the time so generously accorded, it seems that Hughes was not ready for the first little piece of proposed diversion, and so on every principle of legitimate inference, he was suoposed to have spent the two minutes in preparation tor the inter esting alternative, and the faithful wife with delicate finger touched the trigger of the little “blue pistol,” and the work was done—done not in the usual rough brutal shocking manner, but done delicately, taste fully and with feminine grace and neatness. Time and again, in the world’s history, the delicate instincts of hu manity have protested against the rude, shocking methods of murder ers. as indicating vitiated taste and boorish manners; and now and then squeamish individuals have made spasmodic ellorts to impart some thing like taste and refinement to the profession of the murderer. The patriot, Brutus, begged his fellow conspirators not to hack and bruise Ca*sar, but to cuTve him delicately, as if they were carving meat for the gods; and according to DeQuincey, connoiseurs complained that Wright, the actor, had erected a standard of murder so delicate, decent and grace ful as to be utterly beyond the reach of the ordinary^practitioner, and that in consequence there had been noth ing done since his time, worthy of mention. But still the profession of the mur derer made slow progress in refine ment and attractiveness. At last it is receiving the softening, finishing touches of woman, and wo may now look for murder to rise to the dignity of a science and take its place among the fine arts, along with music painting and sculpture. It is wonderful how tilings <jnce re pugnant to our very nature-can not only be reconciled to our tastes but even transformed into things beauti ful and desirable, by the advances made in cultivation and refinement. A young man is ambitious to be come a hero, and he starts out a gun ning. Somebody crosses his path and says something which he does not like or does something which he does not understand. He brings him down and investigates afterwards. Luring the few days he is held by the so-called authorities, ho is the recip- ient of many little tokens of delicate regard and admiration, such as bouquets of choice Mowers, rare and dainty fruits and viands, and many other of those little things by which lovely women know so well how to convey meaning tokens of their ap preciation, admiration and love. We should judge from all that we see and hear that when he return* home, there will be many bright eyes that beam on him witli admiration, many ruby lips that smile the sweet smiles of love, and many gentle bosoms that heave with tender emotions as the eyes beam and the lips smile upon the beau ideal of chivalric young manhood. The time is opportune for young Isdies to put the soft touches of re finement on this practice of taking human life, to humanize, polish, and make it tasteful and attractive. Let a pocket be made in the jaunty win ter jacket for a little pearl-bandied ure of announcing to you, tha>. we have bought you and paid $20,000,000 for you. Look sharp now and walk straight, and there will be no further trouble.” How the Filippinos, some 10,000,- 000 strong, who have never consid ered that they belonged to Hpain, will regard this transaction, remains to be seen. And what the United .States will do with such a horde of wild, war-like savages, thousands of miles from home, also remains to be seen. Our own opinion is that the Filippinos do not propose to belong either to the United States nor to Spain, and that when the United States shall undertake to rule them by force, she will get into trouble compared with which all her trouble with Spain was but a pleasant recrea tion. ENTRIES FROM OUR DAY BOOK. A phrexologist says that the bumps on a man’s head sometimes indicate that Ins wife has a well de veloped muscle. ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ It is said that a woman never throws at anything until she is so mad that she cannot see straight. This we suppose accounts for the fact that she rarely hits the object she throws at. A Xkwherrv fanner says that he can raise sweet potatoes and sell them at ten cants a bushel and realize more clear money on each acre planted than he can on cotton. The farmer is safe in making the assertion, even though his margin for profits on the potatoes, should not amount to more than one cent on the acre. played out and the man who adheres to it will soon sink out of sight. The complaint comes from nearly every county in the State that the people are not paying their taxes. Two-thirds of the time allowed for paying, is gone and it is thought not one-ninth of the taxes has been paid. The truth is the people find it hard to pay their taxes, for taxes now represent a greater amount of farm products and therefore are higher than ever, before in the history of th's state. This notwithstanding the fact that a few years ago, we ran wild over loud-mouthed promises of reform and boosted a set of men into power with the avowed purpose of reducing taxes and inaugurating a reign of economy. Those men killed the phosphate industry, the goose that was laying a golden egg, foisted two costly and useless state colleges upon us, which like greedy vampires are sucking the substance of the land, and established the rotten dispensary system which has brought little but sorrow, demoralization, and blood shed to our people. Still we go on voting taxes for this that, and the other. “What fools we mortals be.” We can remember the time when the woods in this part of the country were alive with squirrels. Every farmer had almost continually to stand guard over his cornfields with dog and gun in roasting ear time, to prevent the squirrels from ruining his corn. Squirrel barbecues were common, for which whole neighbor hoods of farmers would band together after “laying by” time and hunt squirrels for about two days, killing hundreds and thousands of these lit tie animals and bringing them into the appointed place for the barbecue. There were usually at these barbe cues immense crowds of men, women children, and dogs, who came from far and near and there was a day of feasting, hilarity, and general jollifi cation. Where ure the squirrels to day? Where are the people for whom they furnished so much sport and the occasions for so much social enjoyment? A partial answer comes from Pickens, where it is said an old man went out with his gun recently and in one afternoon brought down thirty-two, and it was not a very good day for squirrels either. But we have not seen a wild squirrel in per haps ten years. They have disap peared with the original forests, and the sports of the old days and the people that enjoyed them are now only dim recollections. PRESS OPINION. The elections are over end now for a year or more the political pot will be allowed to cool down to a simmer. But she will be heated to her utmost in HHX).—Anderson Intelligencer. * * * The money from cotton at 4 cents a pound will not pay old debts in addition to current expenses; but home-made meat, lard, corn, wheat, etc., afford very considerable comfort even when the pocaet book is empty. —Edgefield Chronicle. * » * The end of the war tax is not in sight. It will probably be continued for a year or two. This revenue is a gold mine to the republican party. It will help them out of a hole they would have been in had no war txisted.—Chester Lantern. * * * Of the twenty-six democratic sena tors who will bo in the next congress, twenty-two will be from.the South. In democratic cancuses the South can at least control affairs. By sharp wire-pulling she may succeed in se curing the chairmanship of such a caucus.—Greenwood Index. * * * Murders follow each other in rapid succession in Greenville County, but the News is making a brave fight for law and order. A white men has this week been convicted thereof murder, without recommendation to mercy. Let this kind of good work go on and a change will soon by noticed.— Sumter Freeman. * * * The colored preachers in one of the Northern States decided at a recent powwow that Ben Tillman was re sponsible for the trouble at Wilming ton. The manhood of North Carolina was aroused to a realization of the political condition of their State, and if Tillman contributed anything to arouse this spirit, he should be proud of the job.—Marion Star. * * * We recomend to the general assem bly of South Carolina a law passed by the Vermont lesislature. It re quires that wagons to carry thr^e tons shall have wheels with a three- inch tire, over three tons a four-inch tire, six tons, six-inch tire. The same width of tire should be required for one-half the tonnage in South Carolina, for where Vermont has macadamized roads, here there is only natural soil.—Charleston Tost. —-•— ■ — A woman stole an alarm clock in a New York store and when placed in her pochot off went the alarm caus ing her arrest. — -«•••*- — Scerrtary of War Alger inspected the transport ships which are being fitted out at ITiiladelphia. As an offset to big cotton raising the News and Courier says that a Florence farmer named Brivett culti vated eighteen acres in tobacco, and sold the crop for $51,200, realizing, after a liberal allowance for the cost of cultivating and curing, a clear profit of $150, an acre. In the face of such results as that. King Cotton looks blue. ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ Gen. Wood, the military com mander at .Santiago, has turned over the mayoralty of that city to a native Cuban, Senor, Bacardi, an old resi dent of the island. The new mayor began the exercise of his authority by dismissing the entire clerical force and employing the Cuban ex soldiers in their stead. Gen. Wood stands and looks on with a view of testing the question whether the Cubans are capable of governing themselves. ♦ ♦ One of the most terrible storms known for years, swept the New England coast last Saturday night and Sunday morning. It is thought that 110 lives have been lost and about 1<X> vessels of all kinds have been stranded. New York expe rienced terrilic blizzards and rail road traffic was paralyzed. Wo in the South felt the cold breath of the storm, but it had been so modified by travel, that wo hardly recognized it us the whiff of a distant storm. ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ The papers say that John Kellett, of Fountain Inn, S, C., has made ten bales of cotton on three and three- fourths acres of land. We saw one of Mr. Kellett’s brag lots of cotton in the latter part of the summer, and though it was tine, we hardly thought it better than a ten-acre field we saw near Woodruff, belonging to L. E. Lanford. We should be glad for Mr. Landford to let the public know how much he made. The old method of cultivating from three to six acres of land for one bale of cotton has Revenna Reading. (Correspondence of The I.edeer.) Ravenna, Nov. 21).—Miss F.lmu Hammett, of Fucolet, was buried at Goucher last Saturday afternoon. She died of pneumonia. Miss Laura Pettit is now teaching school near Providence. Mrs. W. A. Stuck, of Cowpens, is visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Felix Littlejohn. Misses Ella and Edna Brown re turned last Sunday from Inman where they have been visiting their aunt, Mrs. Thomas Brock. Mrs. E. Lipscomb, of Goucher, has been sick some time with malarial fever. There was a magic lantern perfo - mance at Ruvena academy Monday night, but owing to inclement weath er, only a small crowd attended. Misses Maggie and Sallie Bryant were visitors at Sunday school lust Sunday afternoon. Mr. B. G. L. Pettit got very pain fully hurt last Thursday by a tree falling on him. The injuries are not serious however. Mr. S. M. Littlejohn has not im proved any since my last communi cation. The doctor’s pronounce his case hopeless. a. b. c. - *- — Bucklen’s Arnica Salve. The Best S?.lve in the world for Cuts, Bruises, Sores, Ulcer, Salt Rheum, Fever Tetter, Chapped Hands, Chilblains, Corns, and all Skin Eruption, and postively cures Piles or no pay reijuired. It is gura- anteed to give perfect satisfaction or money refunded. Price 25 cents per box. For sale by The DuPre Co. Drug Spain insists that the proctocil does not warrant any reference to her withdrawal from the Philippines. — - •••- • When you ask for DeWitt’s Witch Hazel Salve don’t accept a counter feit or imitation. There are more cases of Piles being cured by this, than all others combined. Cherokee Drug Company, Gaffney. R. S. •Whithers & Co., Blacksburg. — - • Mr. Chamberlain says the United States. Germany and Japan desire an opm door to China. A bottle of Pricki.y Ash Hitteus kept In tin- Ihiuhu ami used necuslonaly. im-aus jomxI In-allli lo tlm wlioli- liousi-liolil. Holil liy < lierokou Drui; i ompuiiy. OSBORNE’S Deafness Cannot be Cured liy local applications, as they cannot reach the di.seaseil portion of tin- car. There is only one way to cure deafness, and that is hy constitutional renn-illes. Deafness is caused hy intlanicd condition of the mucous llnini; of the Eustachian Tuhe. When this tuhe trets inltumed you have a rumbtinj; sound or imperfect hearint;. and when It is entirely closed deafness Is the result, and unless t he inflammation can he taken out and tills tuhe restored toils normal condi tion. hfurlnt; will he destroyed forever: nine cases out often arecuused hy catarrh, which is iiothim; but an inflamed condition oftln- mucous surfaces. We will give One Hundred Dollars for any case of Deafness (cased hy eat arrlu t hat can not lie cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. Send for circulars, free. F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, O. Sold by Drtitrjrests. T.V. Hall’s Family Fills are the best. » • Valuable to Women. Especially valuable to women is Drowns' Iron Hitters. Backache vanishes, headache disappears, strength takes the place of weakness, and the j;h'W of health readily conies to the pallid cheek when this w i- derful remedy is taken. For sickly children or overworked men it lias no equal. No home should he without this famous remedy. Browns’Iron Bitters is sold hy ail dealers- Royal Absolutely IPure Baking Jr Powder Makes the food more delicious and wholesome SOVAL SAKINO COWOtS CO., Niw VOWK. Endorses The Ledger. [Kiiitfs Mountain Reformer.] The Gaffney Ledger writes a strong : and denunciatory article on the Ph«*- ; nix election riot in his lust issue, and the utterances of that editor should 1 je endorsed by every good citizen of the state. We apply the article to our own Wilmington trouble and en dorses every word of it. These trou bles are both stains on the history of theCarolinas and we hope the press and citizens will strive to turn aside the causes that brought them about. While we all denounce the condition that cause these troubles we cannot endorse the crime arising therefrom. The final and complete evacuation of Cuba is to be ended by New Year’s day. Professor Thomas A. Kennedy, the noted hypnotist of London, is dead in Chicago. Secretary Alger denies that if Sen ator McMillan is appointed ambassa dor to Great Britian that he will seek the latter’s seat in the senate. Donkeys have been introduced in Berlin to take the place of dogs, which hitherto have drawn the light traffic of the streets of that city. What Shall Be Done FOR THE DELICATE GIRL You have tried iron and other tonics. But she keeps pale and thin. Her sallow complexion worries you. Per haps she has a little hacking cough also. Her head ache*; and she cannot study. Give her ; scon’s Emulsion; The oil will feed her wasting body; the glycerine will soothe her cough, and the hypophos- phites will give new power and vigor to her nerves and brain. ) vigo > » Never say you “ cannot take cod-liver oil ” until you have tried Scott's Emulsion. You will be obliged to change your opinion at once. Children especially become very fond of it; and infants do not know when it is added to their food. ;oc. and $1.00 ; all druggists. 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