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4 THIS LEDGER: GAFFNEY, 8. C., DECEMBER 8, 1898 The: Si.oo per Year. PUBLISTIED EVERY THtlRSBAY BY Ed. H. DeCamp. i'he Ledger is not responsible for fche views of correspondents. Correspondents who do not contri bute regular news letters must fur nish their name, not for publication, but for identification.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 it ten cents a line each insertion. IMPORTANT. vVatch 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. er . THE LEDGER OUTFIT. It is not at all improbable that some of our readers think that The Ledger is printed on an old lever Hoe Press, in thejold slow, laborious way, turing out about a hundred and fifty impressions an hour, inking by hand, and taking proof with block and mal let. Such readers will be astonished if they will step into our office at a busy time (and that is almost any time), at what they will see and hear. Entering from the front, they will very probably find the irrepressible manager at bis desK in the front office pouring over proof sheets, letters or exchanges, making settlements with subscribers and advertisers, or behind the counter showing bill beads, note ami letter paper, envelopes, cards, and other things in the stationery line, and striking bargains with cus tomers, all the while with a mild Havannu in his mouth to steady his nerves J,and maintain his mental, moral and physical equilibrium. You will hear the clash of machin ery in the large printing room in rear of the front office, and if you are per mitted to go in there you will think, for a few moments that you are in the printing room of some metropoli tan daily. A plucky little steam en gine, with a heart of fire and arms of steel is panting and puffing as if its breath were stifled or its rising emo tions were held down by some power ful pressure, while shafting and pul leys are whirling, and the great Acme Two-Revolution Press is taking in the sheets of blank paper at one side and placing them straight and smooth on a low table at the other, all neatly printed and ready for the reader seye. In the mean time the job presses are clashing, and there are fine looking young men standing along the long rows of cases, deftly fingering the types, letter by letter, and putting somebody’s thoughts into a form to be stamped indellibly on the printed page. Such is a brief out-line of what you may see at the headquar ters of the Gaffney Ledger. Though it is not yet six years old, it has made up by rapid growth what it lacks in age, and perhaps has now as fine an equipment as any weekly newspaper in the State. Both the manager and patrons are to be congratulated on the success of the paper; and the patrons may rest assured that the manager will not be satisfied with past success, however gratifying it may have been, but will strive ear nestly and faithfnlly to rise to still higher ground and make the paper better and better with each passing week. Citizens of Gaffney and Chero kee County, move onward and up ward to higher and better conditions, and when you arrive at the goal of your ambition, look around and see if The Ledger is not there too. COUNTY COURTS. The subject of County Courts is now receiving considerable attention from the public. The grand jury of G reenville, with Ex-Governor Mauldin as foreman, brought it into notice, and it is exciting much in terest. It is admitted that these courts will be too expensive for the smaller counties, and hence in lieu of them, the Greenville News urges the election of a set of “emergency judges” for the whole .State, who shall at the call of county offiBors, convene a court iu any county and dispense summary justice to the per petrators of flagrant clime. • It is plain that something must be done, and that soon, or the coun try will be at the mercy of rapists, murderers, and lynchers. The law, as now' administered, is so loaded with slow methods and so crippled ivibb technicalities, that it has about lost all of its terrors. And if these county courts be organized, or these emergency judges be elected, and the court machinery be not so adjusted as to run more rapidly and effectively, there will be the same exasperating delays, the same opportunity for un conscionable lawyers to take advan tage of legal technicalities, the same chances for the miscarriage of jus tice in the end, and hence the same encouragement to lynching bees and red-handed lawlessness. The legis lature will have to face this problem at the coming session and we hope there will be found in it wisdom and patriotism enough to reach some satisfactory solution. We do not believe that this coun try will lapse into barbarism. There are indications that public sentiment is awakening to the dangers of law lessness. and.when it shall become fully aroused, the law will be ad ministered with a strong and steady band. A ROLLER MILL FOR GAFFNEY. Our far-sighted and enterprising citizen, T. G. McCraw, has decided to erect a patent roller flour mill in Gaff ney, and we all know that when he decides to do a thing he means busi ness. The mill will have a grinding ca pacity of about three hundred bush els a day and will be running before the next harvest. Mr. McCraw al ready has the steam power necessary to run it, and he proposes to have the very best mill that money and skill can construct. We hope the mill will make him a Mii.L-ionaire, for when a man devotes his time and money to an enterprise which will be a bless ing to a whole community, he de serves to get rich, and the people will enrich themselves in making him rich. This announcement ought to cause every farmer within a radius of fifteen miles of Gaffney to add at least a third to the area already or about to be sown In wheat. The inconvenience of mills and the inferior quality of the flour made by them, have hereto fore, in this locality, been serious drawbacks to wheat culture; but with a fine roller mill in operation in our midst the farmer who will not make an effort to raise at least enough wheat to supply himself and family with pure sweet biscuits and loaf bread ;the year round deserves, to have his digestive functions impaired by the abominable mixture of chalk, kaolin, mineraline and corn meal, shipped here and sold as flour. ENTRIES FROM OUR DAY BOOK. We are pleased to learn that the Baptist State Convention accepted the invitation of Gaffney to hold its next annual meeting here, which will be the last of November of next year. Let the Baptists and Metho dists of Gaffney have their new churches erected by that time, and let the whole town put on its best face and give the convention a royal reception. The meeting will be an event in the social and religious life of the town. The fifty-fifth Congress convened last Monday, and the President’s message was delivered. The message contains 20,(XK) words, but fails to discuss the very questions concern ing which the people are most anx ious. It does not mention the Phil ippine problem nor suggest any leg islation for new possessions, nor say a word about race troubles, nor give any new argument on the tariff ques tion. It ig mainly a history of the late war. The most gigantic enterprise now on foot in the South, is the building of the Black Diamond Railroad; which is to extend from Port Royal, S. C., to Columbus, Ohio. The road will he double-tracKed and three hun dred and twenty-two miles long. It will pass through Knoxville and pen etrate all the coal fields of east Ten nessee and Kentucky. The road will be builc by an English syndicate and the estimated cost is $40,000,000. When this road is completed Charles ton will dry up as a seaport town and Port Royal will become the New York of the south. A native newspaper, published at Manilla, says the Filipinos had con quered Luzon and the most impor* tant of the Philippine Islands be fore the conference in Paris had ter minated its labors, and. therefore, Spain ceded authority which she did not possess. Filipinos will never consent to the ignomy of being treated as chattels. There it is again. So far as wo are informed, nobody has asked them to consent, and from all appearances they will not bo asked. Yet Spain gets her $20,000,000, and the Philipppinea will belong to the United States all the same. ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ The Allendale Pen and Press, one of the brighest and breeziest little papers with which we exchange, has suspended publication. We shall be sorry to miss its pleasant face among our exchanges, especially so, as it waseditidbya charming and tal ented Limestone girl, who, we hope, will now find a wider field for her lit erary endeavors. No amount of tal ent nor of money can make a news paper flourish beyond the journalis tic capacity of its surroundings, and and to bestow money and talent on a paper limited by narrow surroundings is like bestowing the capital required for a large farm on a potato patch. Best of all, a Greenville jury brought in a verdict of manslaughter against two white boys who went into a negro’s house, raised a row, anti be cause the negro “sassed” them, shot him to death. The plea of self-de fence, of course, was urged, but it wouldn’t go down with the jury. The crime was murder, with perhaps some little extenuating circumstances, and the boys ought to have received a life sentence in the penetentiury. But it is a long stride towards order and justice when a jury brings in a ver dict of man-slaughter against a white man for killing a negro, and again we say, all honor to the Greenville jury! ♦ It is now very probable that the regular army of the United States will be increased to at least lOO.OuO men, and possibly to double that num ber. This means that the Philippines are to he held nolens volens. In the mean time a navy, such as this re public never before dreamed of, must be constructed and maintained. The Filipinos occupy about twelve hun dred islands which they believe to be their own, and if they fight, as it is thought they will, Uncle Sam will have and endless, profitless, and nasty job on hand, of which a decent nation should be ashamed. McKin ley »fc Company are doing the fid dling, and the people are dancing and paying the fiddlers. Nine prominent citizens of McCor mick were arrested last week on the charge of conspiracy in forcing Jas. \V. Tolbert to leave McCormick. They were carried to Columbia, where they gave bond in $1,000 each for their appearance at the next term of the United States Court. The de fendants claim that they warned Tol bert to leave in order to save him from a lynching and to spare his wife any trouble. The man Ethridge who was shot by a negro, lived near by, and they were advised that a mob was coming from Phcenix to kill Tolbert. If this was the true spirit of their warning, and Tolbert now takes ad vantage of it to gratify his malice, it is a great pity that they gave him any warning at all. There are signs of returning health to a long-diseased public sentiment in regard to homicides. At the re cent term of court in Greenville the jury rendered a verdict of guilty in the case of Chaffin for the killing of Grube and also in the case of Wil liams for the killing of Potts, not withstanding in both these cases there was the usual plea of self-de fence, the usual threatening attitude of tl^e slain, the usual mysterious, unaccountable motions, by which of lute years, a man forfeits his rights to live. Ail honor to the Greenville juries! They have sounded a note of warning to those who are thirsting for human blood, and we hope their action indicates a wholesome change in public sentiment which will soon bring the reign of red-handed murder to a close. ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ The Aiken Journal and Review on Nov. :10th, issued a superbly illus trated and magnificently printed edition, in which the resources, pro gress, and attractions of Aiken are reflected as if from some large clear mirror. The fame of Aiken as a health resort is almost as old as the nation and wider than the western hemisphere. The town is crowded every winter with health-seekers and tourists from all parts of the United States and the amount of money they bring and leave behind is enough to make any town go. Aiken is to be congratulated on being entirely in dependent of the price of cotton and the chances of trade, and the Jour nal and Review is to be congratulated on the fine showing it has made both for itself and the town. ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ i Our correspondent from Willie last week took exception to our as sertion that farm labor is as high as it was ten years ago and made counter assertions to sustain the ex ception. Our observation extends only to day labor, and that we find in our locality to be about fifty cents a day, just what it was ten years ago, and it is often difficult to be obtained at that. We have no doubt of “Cum- tux’s” figures by the month, but taking them at their face he must ad mit that the decline has not been at all in proportion to the decline in farm produce, especially iu cotton. We believe with “Cumtux” that land ought to be taxed at its full value. If this were done, the prices of land, labor, and produce would soon adjust themselves on a more reasonable and natural basis. The Columbia Register, after a long and persistent battle for life, has succumbed, and the place that knew it once will know it no more forever. It’s life and death ought to consti tute an impressive object lesson for journalists as well as for men in other lines of business. The paper never lacked capital. It is asserted, on what seems good authority, that from beginning to end it has absorb ed a capital of $110,000. Neither has it locked journalistic ability. It has been often ably edited, and never more so, than of late. Then it has been managed by men of wide expe rience in all that pertains to running a newspaper, it has had a central lo cation, enjoyed a monopoly in state patronage, and yet after all, it is dead! Our opinion is that its career is but another illustration of the saying, “wanting in one thing, want ing in all.” The Register has been wanting in one thing, which is better inferred than named. PRESS OPINION. Every State that has adopted bien nial legislative sessions is better gov erned than before—because it is less governed. South Carolina would no doubt profit by having biennial ses sions of her Legislature.—Anderson Intelligencer. * The Southern farmer is the kindest hearted man in the world, and the most unselfish. He is quite willing to work hard and live harder in order to help the Western farmer, the rail roads and the middle man get rich.— Bamberg Herald. * * * Cotton has gone up slightly in the past few days. Always the way, when the crop has been about ex hausted. It is very exasperating to the farmer to have this experience with the delusive staple year after year.—Sumter Herald. * * * From different parts of the State come reports that the farmers are planting largely of small grain. This is promising indeed. The diversifica tion of crops furnishes one defense against the consequences of four cents cotton.—Hampton Guardian. * * * The farmers of Bamberg and Barn- v.ell counties are making every ar rangement co plant tobacco next year and leave off cotton. The cot- tontots of every section are begin ning to fall in line. An experiment with tobacco cannot bo more disas trous than another with cotton. That is the way to look at the ques tion.—Orangeburg Patriot. * * * “The man who is right,” says the Charlotte Observer, “gets his vindi cation in the long run.” He may have to wait for it a good while, and sometimes does, but it always comes. In view of the sacrifices of life and health, and the expenditures of money within the past six months; of the showing the Cubans have made of themselves; of the war taxes which are upon the country for an indefi nite period, and of what is ahead of us in thej conquest and subsequent management of the Philippine Is lands, any fair-minded man should be willing now to admit that the war with Spain was a mistake.” The war may or may not have been ne cessary. Something was demanded on account of the perishing people of the island. The indubitable and gross “mistake” is in the use that is being made of the victory.—News and Courier. - -• . — Deafness Cannot be Cured Ity loeal as llit'y canuot reach the dlsea.sisl |»<>rtlnii of the ear. There Is only one way to eure deafness, unit that is hy constitutional remedies. Itcafness is caused hy fullutucd condition of the mucous lining of the Eustachian Tuhe. When this tilin' nets inflamed you have a rumbllm* sound or Imperfect heurintf. and when it is entirely closed deafness is the result, and tiuless the liitiammatiou can lie taken out and this t uhi'restored to Its* normal condi tion. hearing will lie destroyed forever; nine cases out of ten a re caused hy catarrh, w hich is nothltiK hut an itiHatueil condition of the mucous surfaces. We wlll-ttlve One Hundred Dollars for any case of Deafness (cased hy catarrh) that can not lie cured hy Hall'* ('alurrli (.'urc. Send tor circulars, free. F. .1. t'HENF.Y A CO., Toledo, <>. >oli| hy Drufftfests. 7.V. Hall's Family 1‘illsurc the hest. Don't Neglect lour Liver. Liver troubles quickly result in Kerimiii complications, and the man who neglects his liver has little rt trard for health. A hottle of browns’ Iron Hitters taken now ami then will keen the li\er in perfect order. If the disease has developed, browns’Iron Hitters will cure it permanently. Streniftli anil vitality will always follow its use. browns’Inm Hitter* is sold by all deslt-rs. C. JEFFERIES, GAFFNEY, S. C. Attorney >nd Counsellor at Lew. Practlcee I All tha Court*. CollecUont a Specialty. Royal 6ar,n6 ARSGlJlTirwtaMDir Powder Makes the food more delicious and wholesome 3: BAKISO POWDER CO., NEW YORK. John Quincy Adams : A man’s dia ry is a record in his youth of his sen timents, in middle age of his actions, in old age of his reflections. When a man doesn’t know enough to make a living, his wife goes around saying that he is too honest to suc ceed. The canal boat mule would never get along if he didn’t have a pull. Why not secure the Miria Teresa for the Alger investigation? It has a way of going to the bottom of everything it strikes. M E R V ES must be fed on pure, rich i blood. Hood’s Sarsaparilla is the I , tonic. By enriching the blood it makes the nerves STRONG Tested and Trieil j For 25 Years *-• s 4 I X X I 3 3 X I i I Dr. C. T. LIPSCOMB, Dentist, Office over R^A. Jones & Co’s Stcre. f tin be found atotflec six days in the week 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. Look out that someone does not try to make you invest your health in a new tonic, some new medicine you kmow nothing of. ^ $oc. and $1.00; all druggists. •? SCOTT & BOWNE, Chemists, New York. A 3 1 I t A S t 1 1 X i ? 3 X X X X X 8 I CLINE BROS. & CO., Livery Feed and Sale Stables, Opposite National Bank. First-class turnouts; prompt attention; and courteous attendants. tJ^'We solicit your patronage. Piedmont Saving and Investment COs , s. c. i^oivivss. The loan plan of tin's company will be | found far more desireable in every way than the plans of building A Loans Associations. Our plan is a dclinite com raefc at reasonable rates. Loans made an approved property. J. C. Jefferies, Local Attorney, Gaffney, S. O. Real Estate For iSale. For sale, on liberal terms, five tracts of land adjoining Limestone property. Tracts vary in acreage from 10!:, to 70 :s-10. Also eight lots of the hotel property at Limestone. Excellent building sites and cheap. The old hotel and lot is also for sale. Apply to K. O. Sams. You should keep posted on the issues of the day. Don’t worry your neighbor by borrow- ing his paper when you can get The Ledger for $1 a year, f)0c for sis months, or 25c for thref months. It will keep yot posted, so order it ai once. Don’t delay. STRONG AS THE STRONGEST! The Prudential Insurance Comp; of America. HOME OFFICE, NEWARK, N. J. JNO. F. DRYDEN, President. Assets Joly 1, 1898, - - $26,029,137.04 Sorplus July 1, 1898, - - 5,627,584.24 Income for 1897, - - 15,580,764.65 Insnrance Written in 1897, - 143,900,000.00 •/ i The Prudential has forged its way ahead until it now stands in the front rank of the great life insurance companies ofjthe world. It offers all that is good in life insurance, and under the best conditions. The Prudential’s policies are the most liberal and modern contracts now issued. No re striction on occupation or travel. JAS. O. WYNN, Manager So. Department, ATLANTA, GA. C. T. RAWLS, Gen. Agt, f ASHEVILLE, N. C. WOOI> & SMITH, ItcMiclcnt -Agents.