The ledger. [volume] (Gaffney City, S.C.) 1896-1907, January 05, 1899, Image 4
TUB LEDGER: GAFFNEY, S. C., JANTJARY 5, 18U9.
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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-
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office where they have been getting it
as well us the one where they want it
changed to.
EIGHTEEN-NiNETY-NINE.
Again we change the figures. The
year iVJS is no more. It was written
every day and every hour by almost
everyone who could use a pen or pen
cil; it appeared on every paper that
passed from hand to hand, on every
legal document, on every bill of mer
chandise, on every formal note and
letter of friendship and love, and was
often scrawled in mere listlessness to
fill an idle moment or curved with
knife on the bark of a tree or cut in
stone us if in the vain effort to stop
it in its flight and give it some fixed
and permanent place of abode—“a
local habitation and a name.”
Wo shall not readily adjust our
selves to the changed date. The hand
has become so accustomed to tracing
the familiar figures, the eye has be
come so used to the ever present
date, and we have clung so fondly to
all that it represented, that we shall
perhaps often still write unconsciously
185*8 as in a dream or some pleasant
reverie.
Rut the stern decrees of life and
the rude shock of ^events must
arouse us from dreams and reveries
to the full realization of the fact that
one more year has gone to mingle
with the dust of dead ages; the ink
which recorded it is already begin
ning to fade; the rock in which its
name was carved is already beginning
the slow process of disintegration;
and we are borne onward to changed
times and new experiences.
We must not, we cannot, stand
and mourn over the flight of time.
Each new year that is added to our
lives, brings its own peculiar duties,
its own trials and its own responsi
bilities. The true man forgets the
things that are behind and presses
forward to the things that are before.
The last year may not have brought
us all that we desired. It may have
brought us many things which we did
not desire—trials, disappointments,
temporal calamities. Rut these
things strengthen the man of faith
and courage. Heart and soul and
love and duty are superior to all
earthly calamities, and if we have
been true to ourselves, true to the
high trust that God placed in our
keeping, true to our fellowmen who
have honored us with friendship and
confidence, true to the love that has
consecrated our homes and cheered
our hearts, then wo are to-day
stronger and better and more worthy
of the new year than we were of the
old.
So far as the past year teaches any
thing, it teaches a lesson of encour-
Rgement. The rains were sent upon
the just and unjust; the earth
yielded her increase ; the health of
the people was generally good; all
sorts of business enterprises pros
pered ; and though prices of farm
products are low knd many a man is
strained to meet his engagements and
to curry out the plans which he has
fondly cherished, yet upon the whole
the people, perhaps, never before be
gan a year under more favorable au
spices nor in better all-round condi
tion.
Rut if satisfied with the past, we
should be satisfied with it only us a
record—only as a stepping stone to
higher and better work, to purer as
pirations and nobler achievements.
With the experience and development
brought by the year 185)S, with the
hard knocks that it gave us, with the
sharp rebukes it administered to our
follies, with the prompt rewards it
bestowed on our faithfulness, we
ought to stand on higher vantage
ground to-day than we did at the be
ginning—we ought to be stronger and
wiser and more efficient and better
equipped for the battle than ever be
fore.
The Ledger is determined to prac
tice what it preaches. It is satisfied
with its success in the past, but only
because that success may be the
foundation on which it may build a
larger success in the future. It has
not yet seen its sixth birth-duy, but
it is ready to measure strength with
many papers that can count decades
behind them. To its many friends
who have so nobly sustained it and
helped it to spring at one bound, os
it were, into a career of usefulness,
it to-day makes its acknowledgements
and, as best it can, expresses its
gratitude and appreciation, its grati
tude, however, can be but feebly ex
pressed in words. It will therefore
endeavor to supplement Us words
with deeds, and strivejto be faithful,
earnest, and true through all tbs
weeks of the incoming year. It will
strive to make every home that it
may visit purer, better, and brighter
for its coming; it will rebuke the un
worthy, encourage the despondent
and faint-hearted, and draw near in
sympathy toj disappointment and
sorrow; and it fondly hopes that
when the year 1899 shall come to
fold up its records and give place to
another, it will be found that The
Ledger and its readers are united by
bonds of friendship and sympathy
which have been strengthened by
each weekly visit made and which no
change or calamity can ever com
pletely sever.
No one man lias made The Ledger
what it is. The indefatigable mana
ger nas done his part, the local edi
tor lias been active and untiring, the
writer of general editorial matter has
wielded his pen with whal v^gor he
conld command, and the noble yaung
men who have stood by the cases and
handled the cold typo through all
the weary days that have passed,
have been faithful, persevering, and
true; yet after all, the paper has been
made by those who have taken it,
read it, and paid for it. May 1899
bring them the crowning blessings
of their lives; may the work of their
hands prosper; and may their feet
tread the paths of peace and happi
ness, of duty and honor; and to them
and all that are dear to them, may
this be in deed and in truth A Happy
New Year.
THE TIMES.
Are the times hard, or are they
easy and prosperous? It seems a
difficult matter to settle this ques
tion, and it isdiflicult because every
man views the times from his own
stand-point.
The Greenville News and one of
its correspondents have been debat
ing this question with little pros
pect of agreeing on an answer. The
correspondent shows conclusively
that the people generally are in bad
financial shape, and the News shows
just as conclusively that they are
not. We are left to infer that the
correspondent’s finances are running
pretty low and that the News has a
little money in its pocket aid thinks
it can get a little more—and that is
about all there is in the argument.
The truth is, we may discuss this
question forever, and without a
standard or a clear definition, we
shall never reach an agreement. All
prosperity is comparative, and a
man’s contentment depends more on
what he wants than what ho has.
Compared with Russia or Ireland, or
some parts of India, our country to
day is a paradise on earth ; compared
with itself one hundred years ago it
is in a condition of ideal properity
and happiness; it is only when we
compare what we have with what we
want that the spectre of hard times
rises before our vision.
Our own opinion is that the peo
ple of this country were never before
generally in better material condi
tion than they are at the beginning of
this new year. It is true that money is
more or less congested but it is cheap
and abundant, and there are con
veniences, comforts, and luxuries
within the reach of all which our
fathers never knew. Still it is right
for people to be in a measure dissat
isfied with their condition and sur
roundings, for otherwise there could
be no progress. Men and women
mase the times in which they live.
If then we long for better times than
the present, let all now take hold
with the heart and the will to make
them better, and better times will
speedily come.
THE LEDGER FOR 99.
The Ledger has no swelling in the
bead as yet, but it is anxious to seo
some swelling done during this year
of grace. It wants to see its sub
scription list swell to a round 2,000
before the next Christmas holidays,
and it will not eat its next Christmas
turkey with the proper relish if such
a swell do not occur. Things all
around us are swelling and we mean
to swell too. and we mean to do it
without causing any body else to
shrink to the value of a nickel. \Ye
mean to swell by helping others to
swell—by serving the people of
Cherokee county earnestly and faith
fully—by imparting cheer and com
fort to their home-life—by stimu
lating and encouraging worthy pub
lic enterprises. In return for our
services we only ask that our friends
stand by us and give us what help
they think we deserve. A little
timely tho ightfulness on their part
would do a great deal towards ex
tending our subscription list and
hence towards increasing the use
fulness of the paper. Help us.
friends, to pay a weekly visit lo every
home in Cherokee county, and see
if by so.doing you do not bestow a
favor upon that home as well as
upon us while you yourselves will
suffo* no detriment.
CONFEDERATE PENSIONS.
In our comments last week on
President McKinley’s Atlanta speech
and Senator Rutltr's pension bill,
we did not intend to intimate that we
thought the government ought to
pension Confederate veterans, or that
the veterans would humiliate them
selves by asking for pensions, or by
accepting,tbem if offered. The men
who fought for four years without
pay, who inarched without shoes
and slept on the cold earth without
food or covering, who humbled the
mightiest armies that ever mustered
on this continent, on their own
chosen fields, who wrote Manassas,
Fredericksburg, Chancellorsvill* and
Chickamauga by the side of Mara
thon,Cannae, Ansteritz, and London
derry on the proudest page of history
—the men who did these things can
not, during the remnant of their days,
degrade their manhood and darken
the fume of their dead comrades by
stooping to humiliation and shame.
At the mere thought of such a thing
••Their breath would come Raspiaidy thick
And their crushed hearts turn blindly sick.”
The men who wore the gray will
never croucli and whine at the foot
of power nor lick the hand that offers
to bestow upon them the people-plun
dered alms of despotism. Rut the
government could bestow one favor
on the land for which the Confeder
ates fought which they could accept
without humiliation. It could cease
to wrest from the South over $10,000-
000 annually to feed and pamper an
ever increasing army ot hungry pen
sioners at the north, one half of whom
were sneaks and renegades during the
war, and have been nothing but dead
beats and miscreants during a reign
of peace. The Confederate veteran
will accept justice at the hands of
the North, but he would scorn a pat
ronizing generosity.
THE GRIP.
The large Northern cities are hav
ing an epidemic of grip. It is now
well established that this disease is
caused by living germs which under
the name of microbes, baccilli,
bacteria, or other names more or less
euphonious and indicative of re
spectability, invade the human sys
tem and wantonly tamper with its
machinery. In some parts of Europe
they talk about quarantining against
cities in which these mysterious
visitors are conducting operations.
We are not informed as to the plans
and purposes of these little marau
ders, but it is safe to predict that in
a few days or weeks they will find
their way into our locality and set
up for business. The only safe
guards consist in adopting wise
measures for fortifying against their
approach. See to it that the sleep
ing room is well ventilated and that
you get fully eight hours of sound
refreshing sleep every night; wear
warm clothing, avoid cold drafts and
sudden chills; eat at regular hours
and eat only so much of well-cooked,
wholesome food as you may actually
need; don’t chafe and worry either
over things that cannot be helped or
over things that cun ;—in a word live
and act like a sensible, intelligent,
responsible man or woman and you
will be blessed with an easy con
science and vigorous health. These
roving bands of bacteria are made up
of the veriest cowards on earth ; they
never attack the human citadel un
less they discover some weak or un-
. guarded point in the ramparts.
COLONEL NEAL.
Capt. E. Allen in the Spartan
burg Herald, makes a batch of red
hot charges against Col. Neal, super
intendent of the penetentiary. If
one-half of Capt. Allen's charges are
true Col. Neal is totally unworthy
of the responsible place he occupies
and ought to be invited to step down
and out. We are not yet, however,
ready to eaneuUe, or even to swear
by Capt. ▲Ufa.
CHRISTMAS FAILURES.
According to the New York Sup,
ten big houses der.ling exclusively in
Christmas goods have callapsed since
the beginning of the holidays. Some
of these houses carried stock to the
amount of $250,000. The Hun says
the failures were all owing to the
fact, that the firms did not advertise
their goods. Those that did adver
tise, did well. Here is an object les
son for merchant’s generally.
NOTES AND COMMENTS.
We are informed that at the close
of December 31st, the limit fixed by
the law for (he payment of taxes,
only ubrai $4,000 of the $50,000 levy
forCherokee county remained unpaid.
During the last days of December
the payment* were heavy, amount
ing to $9,OtO or $10,000 a day.
Christmas passed quietly here and,
so far as we are informed, pretty gen
erally over the state. There were a
few shooting scrapes, of course, and
a few aeW •/ rowdyism in some
places ba*. open the whole., the coun
try seems to have improved on its
manner of celebrating Christmas.
The ««ti»iblli»les of people are not
very good thermometers. Lust Mon
day everybody complained of the
cold. Some went so far as to indulge
in good-natnred hyperbole, and de
clare that II was the coldest day they
ever fell. Yet the thermometer did
not fail below 12. It has been down
to 10 sine* the winter began.
The Cubans la Havaona arranged
for a great hurrah over the evacua
tion of the city by the Spandiards
and became greatly incensed because
the American commander put a
checx on Iheir contemplated hilarity
as being inexpedient and in bad
taste. About the same time the in
surgents in the 1‘hilipinss showed
their contempt for American author
ity by occupying a town abandoned
by the Spandiards and by floating
their own flag over it. These two
demonstrations on the part of our
pets gave the authorities at Wash
ington some uneasiness, and the war
department revoked the order for the
mustering out of the volunteers.
A negro fanatic named Fortune
has been regaling large audiences up
in Washington with wholesale abuse
of the president and fierce denuncia
tions of all white men who deny so
cial and political equality to his race.
He says he wants mixed schools,
mixed marriages, and a mixed people
all over the country. We venture the
assertion that if Fortune will try his
fortune in the South for awhile in
preaching such doctrine, he will get
so deliciously mixed himself that he
will not know whether his name is
Fortune or Misfortune, Ruffalo Rill
or Davy Jones.
“Forefathers’ Day” was recently
observed in Charleston and many dis
tinguished guests were present,
among them Senators Hoar, of Mas
sachusetts, and McLaurin, of South
Carolina. A sensation was sprung
and a calamity threatened’by the un-
ceremonoas seizure by the State con
stables of tbe cases of fine wines pre
viously shipped in for the banquet.
For a time consternation and despair
seemed to prevail among the guests,
but Senator McLaurin, whose re
sources seem equal to any emergency,
sent a red hot message over tho wires
to Governor Ellerbe, and the Gov
ernor ordered the wines restored, and
with the restoration, good feeling,
hilarity and eloquence once more
prevailed. Senator Hoar especially
grew eloquent arid pathetic in telling
how much alike Massachusetts and
South Carolina are and always have
been. Rut here is the point of thrill
ing interest. Governor Ellerbe says
tbe constables did right in seizing
the wines, ard he ordered them re
leased solely in deference to Senators
McLaurin and Hoar. So it seems we
have a privileged class after all and
the boasted rallying cry of reform,
“Equal rights to all and special
privileges none,” does not apply to
men whose positions entitle them to
the deference of the Governor. Fur
ther comment is unnecessary.
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or Ohio, City or Toledo, <
Lucas oocntt.
Frank J. Chkkey makesontlitliai hclstho
senior partner of the linn of F. .1. I 'll t .\»:v &
i:o.. tioluir huslness in the City of Toledo.
< ounly and Stute aforesaid, and that said ;
tlrin will pay the sum of o.NK IIFNDL'F.D i
ItoLLAKN for eaeli and every ease of Ca
TAHRIt that ranie t he cured hy the use of
Hai.i.V Catarrh Criti:.
FRANK J. CHKNEY. 1
Sworu to before me and suhscrilx-d In niy
presence, this Ctli day of ItceomlHT. A. II. Issii.
j JV' ■ A. W. GLEASON.
Notary Fulillc.
Hal l*s Catarrh < tire is taken internally and
acts directly outlie IiIimnI and mucous sur
faces of tho system. Send for testimonial*
free.
F.J. CU ENEY & CO., Toledo, O.
Sold by Drurirists. 70e.
Hairs Fatally i'llls are tbe best.
Absoigitely 'Pure
Powder
Makes the food more delicious and wholesome
bovai MstKfi powers co.. *rw york.
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\V hittler Strikea u Light.
Jnst at tho moment when we had
imagined ourselves almost cunctipotent
in tho Philippines General Whittier,
collector of customs at Manila, insists
that onr “celerity should bo coutemper
ed with cunctatiou” in our dealing?
with tho Filipinos. Koine was not built
in a day; Manila cannot be American
ized iu a day and a night. Wise Whit
tier I Cunctatiou is tha word! Let ua go
slow! Let us cnuctate like a very Span
iard 1—-Philadelphia Record.
After the t'orre«ti«>».
Pupa—Now, Johnny, I have whipped
yen only for yonr own good. I believe I
have only done my duly. Tell me truly,
what d« yvn think yoar.-rlf?
Johnny—If I should tell what I think,
you’d give me another whipping.—Bos
ton Transcript.
1 Delicate !
(Children f
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They do not complain of £
anything in particular. They
eat enough, but keep thin and M
pale. They appear fairly well, J
but have no strength. You -5
cannot say they are really iff
sick, and so you call them J
delicate. j
What can be done for them? 5
Our answer is the same that j|
the best physicians have been £
giving for a quarter of a cen- J
tury. Give them $
Carried Off a Hoof by a Turkey.
Harry Dahill, at tho Norwalk hotel,
climbed ont on tho roof to catch a 32
pound turkey that had escaped and was
roosting there. He took tho bird by tho
legs. It started to fly and pulled him
into the air and off the edge of tho roof.
Then ho lot go, and now he has a brok
en arm. Hartford ConranL
mSPEPSIA is
told suffering. I
the cause of un-
r.. By taking Hood’s
1 Sarsaparilla the digestive organs are
| toned and dyspepsia IS CURED
—
CLINE BROS. & CO.,
Livery Feed and Sale Stables,
Opposite National Bank.
FirM-el:<ss turnouts: prompt attention:
I ana courteous attentlurits.
W<* solicit your patronage.
Piedmont Saving and Investment Co.
Greenville, S. C.
The loan plan of this company will be*
found far more d< siroabh* in very way 1 han
the plans of Building & Loans Associations.
Our plan is a definite contract at reasonable
rates. Loans made an approved property.
.1. C. .1 KIT ERIKS,
Local Attorney, Gaifney, s. C.
A. N. WOOD,
StMfS EtlNlSlini BANKER.
g! of Cod-Liver Oil 'with Hypo- J
phosphites. It has most re- %
S * markable nourishing power. «
^ It gives color to the blood. It jj
brings strength to the mus- 3
I* cles. It adds power to the
nerves. It means robust *
V health and vigor. Even deli- j»
£ cate infants rapidly gain in
flesh if given a small amount £
te three or four times each day. $
* am
S 50c. and $r.00 ; all druggists. 2
^ SCOTT & BOWNE, Chemists, New Yark. S
does a general Ranking and Exchange
business. Well secured with Burglar-
Proof safe and Automatic Time Lock.
Safety Deposit Boxes at moderate
rent.
Buys and sells Stocks andBonds.
Buys County and School Claims.
Your business solicited.
STRONG AS THE STRONGEST!
The Pratatial Insurance Company of America.
HOME OFFICE, NEWARK, N. J.
JNO. F. DRY DEN, President.
Assets July 1, 1898,
Surplus July 1,1898,
Income for 1897,
Insurance Written in 1897,
1,029,137.04
5,627,584.24
15,580,704.65
143,900,000.00
. ■» /•
The Prudential has forged its way ahead
until it now stands in the front rank of the great
life insurance companies of the world. Itoffers
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, CA.
C. T. RAWLS, Gen. Agt„
ASHEVILLE, N. C.
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