The ledger. [volume] (Gaffney City, S.C.) 1896-1907, January 19, 1899, Image 4
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THE LEDGER: GAFFNEY, 8. C., JANUARY 19, 1899,
loving, yearning narents, and going to
the town to become a gentleman and
t > riM‘ to position and influence in
the world. Hut instead of realizing his
dreams, after a little while of smooth
sailing, he finds himself descending
the rapids with ever increasing ve
locity and is soon hurled over the
cataract into the bottomless gulf
below.
The moral which we wish to im
press on the young men of the coun
try is. that unless they arc well
fortified at < very point of moral char
acter, and have some definite pur
pose to accomplish and see their way
clearly to its accomplishment, they
make u dangerous experiment when
they turn their back on the farm,
and go to the towns to seek their
fortunes.
DISSOLUTION.
The firm of Gonzales and Ellerbe,
organized for the purpose of bam
boozling the people and making Kl-
lerhe Governor, has been dissolved,
not exactly by mutual consent, but
rather nolens volens. Those in-
^ Ir . . . . ^ I debted to the firm are hereby notified
of Potts. He was sentenced to be i , . , C.
, . • that they must settle with Mr. Gon-
hanged on the aith of tins month, ^ „
/.ales, those whom the firm owes,
must call on Governor Ellerbe.
Tii io i^io i >0101*.
$».oo per Year.
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but for identification.
Write short letters and to the point
to insure publication; also endeavor
to get them to the office by Tuesday.
All correspondence should be ad
dressed + o Ed. H. DeCamp, Manager.
Obituaries will be published at five
cents a line.
Cards of thanks will ho published
rt one cent a word.
Heading notices will lie published
it ten cents a line each insertion.
THE GALLOWS FORESTALLED.
James J». Williams, the slayer of
Major W. A. Williams, several years
ago, and Charlie I’otts recently, died
suddenly last Friday in the Green
ville jail where he was confined un
der a death sentence f >r the kiliii..
of this month,
but an appeal for a now trial was
pending before the supreme court
and Williams and his lawyers were
confident that the appeal would be
granted.
There are several practical lessons
to be learned from Williams’ life,
character and terrible end.
In the first place it is evident that
while' public sympathy is usually
with the murderer in his trial and i
juries are nearly always disposed to
err on the side of mercy, still tiiere
is a limit to this sympathy and be
yond that limit tiio instincts of so
ciety demand the murderer’s life.
If Potts had been the only man
that Williams had evi r slain we feel
quite sure, from ail the evidence in
the case, that no jury would have
convicted him of murder. He was
again partly on trial for the killing
of Maj. Williams, notwith-fund
ing all the law and all the charges of
judges to the effect tin.l a man shall
not be tried twice for the same of
fence, and that each crime must be
judged strictly on its own merits.
This is equivalent to asserting that
the minds of jurors shall not be in
fluenced by the man s previous char
acter. But the minds of the jurors
are beyond the province of human
legislation, and i\ man’s character
Debtors and creditors alike must act
promptly as the business must be
wound up’in the quickest time al
lowed by law.
It is not our custom to insert ad
vertisements in our editorial col
umns, but tliu above being one of
unusual importance, we give it
place, and proceed to make a few
comments.
In the first place, it seems to us
that in forming that copartnership,
Mr. Gonzales noted out of character
and without that high ana delicate
sense of iionor for which he is dis
tinguished. We know that in the
code of political morals in vogue at
this time, the political conscience is
not over-scrupulous in regard to the
moral nature of the means used to
accomplish desirable ends, but Mr.
Goij/.ai(.3 herd oforc has maintained a
standard of ethics immeasurably
higher than that—the standard of
right wit hout regard to consequences
—and we are sorry that in an un
guarde 1 hour his usually clear judg
ment b came clouded, and lie
brought his standard down to ihe low
plane of politics and politicians.
Mr. Gonzales confesses that he
agreed to advocate a man for the
highest office within the gift of the
will have weight, and great weight.
, r i ... r, M • . , , , 1 people of the .State, and at the amt
in spite of ah laws. 1 las is right uiut ' 1
ought not to be changed, even if i;
were in the power of L. gislature and
courts to change it. If a man has
built up and maintained a good char
acter, that character is, and should
be, a po.ver in his favor, though lie
may have committed some flagrant
crime.
On the other hand it is equally
right and just thflt the man whose
record is black with crime should
fail to receive that sympathy and
mercy usually extended to the inav
who has perpetrated his first crime.
In the second place, there is a
profitable ios- jn for young men in
Williams’ life. He but traveled the
same road that thousands of boys
and young men have traveled before
him. Me was raised on a farm in
Pickens county, and no doubt in the
time did not !,:.ve confidence enough
in liitn to believe that lie would keep
his word unless that word was re
duced to writing. This was done,
Mid events have proved that even the
written word was violated.
That Mr. Gonzales should have un
dertaken to do such Work in consid
eration of such a promise, is to be ac
counted for only on the ground tiiat
the wisest and strongest of men have
tlicir hours of partial blindness and
weakness, during which they are
liable to walk into traps and pitfalls.
Thai, he has been caught with fuire
pre inises and buncoed, only proves
him human. Wo do not believe
that his influence will be diminished
nor the r •spect which he has hereto
fore commanded, be abated, by this
little moral escapade.
Put what shall we think and say
years of his boyhood led a sober, .
industrious, happy life,comparatively of il ,,mn whom ,ho hftve hon -
free from temptations. Bub we sup
pose lie became dissatisfied with his
station and surroundings and was
seized with an ambition to rise in the
world, all of which is laudable in a
young man, provided his ideas of
what it is to rise in tiic world are
not distorted. Williams left the
farm for the town and while still a
green country boy, secured a posi
tion us a dry goods clerk. His quali
fications perhaps, were not of such
a typo as to make him an accepta
ble clerk in a dry goods store, and be
soon found more congenial employ
ment as clerk in a bar-room. Then
he became the owner of a bar, the
associate of drunkards, a frequenter
of the gaming table, a participator
in midnight brawls, and a stranger to
all that is decent and noble in hu
man society.
From this time on his descent was
sure and rapid. Finally in a drunken
brawl over a game of cards, he shot
and killed Maj. Williams, a popu
lar man of Greenville. He was tried
for his lifo and barely escaped con-
viction. Then instead of being sub
dued and softened by reflections on
his great crime, he became harder
and more vicious than ever. The
thirst for blood was added to the
thirst for whiskey, and he was not
long in finding and bringing down
his second man, when the results al
ready mentioned followed.
It is the same old story of a
hoy leaving his happy home and
ored wilh the highest position in tnc
State, when he humiliates himself
and through himself, the whole state,
by begging in a servile manner for
the support of a newspaper and bar
tering his manhood and his honor for
the emoluments of olTiee and power?
It seems to us that he has disgraced
the Governor’s office, and wo agree
with tlio Greenville News that lie
ought to bo invited to step down and
out.
NOTES AND COMMENTS,
Congressman Dingley. of Maine, is
dead. He was the father of the fa
mous “Dingley Tariff Bill,” and was
a noted and trusted leader of the Re
publican party.
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In these times of reckless expendi
ture of public money it is refreshing
to know that we have one state in
stitution that is making money. The
penitentiary reports a clear profit on
the 1st of January of .fl,8(Jl. There
is no other institution can beat it in
business except its twin sister and
counterpart, the state dispensary.
Again the time for the payment of
taxes has been extended, and delin
quents have been relieved of ail pen
alties. Next year we ahall have the
same thing over. Why will not the
Legislature pass a permanent act fix
ing the utmost limit on the first of
Februrary and let’s have done with so
much dallying and uncertainty.
Such a course would certainly be
more sensible and business-like.
Representative Stokes is llio author
of a bill now before Oongrev; providing
that mail matter shall be delivered
free along the star mail routes in the
country. If the bill becomes a law,
us Mr. Stokes confidently expects,
people living in the country along
the mail routes will only have to put
up boxes at their gates to have their
mail delivered free of extra charge.
Later the government will furnish
the boxes. The measure is considered
a step towards universal free deliv
ery.
The Nicaraguan canal scheme is
now before the United States Senate,
and it is very likely tiie bill will pass.
The constructing of that canal will
bo one of the biggest undertakings of
the nineteenth century and one which
will exercise a greater influence on
theccminerce of the nations tlian any
other one enterprise in the history of
the world. But Uncle Sum is a big
power, with 'nig notions and far reach
ing plans, and when he takes hold of
that canal in earnest the dirt will lly
and the water will flow 7 .
♦ ♦ ♦
We have never read a coarser and
more scathing denunciation of one
man by another than that made by
Eagan, commissary general, of Gen
eral Miles, commander-in-chief of the
Lnited States army. He calls Miles
the colossal, prodigious liar of the
nineteenth century, and throughout
liis testimony before the War Com
mission ho indulges in billingsgate
and fierce vituperation. We are not
an admirer of General Miles, and we
have now 7 1 lit little respect for Gen
eral Eagan. The republic would
suffer little detriment if these two
knights of the gold lace were turned
loose fur a Kilkenny eat light.
The Spartanburg Evening Star is
the only newspaper in the state which
has thus far attempted to defend
Goveraer Ellerbe for the part he
acted in the Gonzales etnbroglio. It
represents him as an all-round good,
honest fellow, who hardly ever cher
ished a wicked thought, unsophisti
cated, unsuspecting, easily gulled,
and withal “a plain biunt man that
loves his friendj,” and loves them to
such an extent that they can do any
thing they please with him. Accord
ing to tin: Star, ho did not understand
the arrangement with Gonzales, an 1
tin light ho was r ligiously ob iving
in Lis message all th<- terms and con
ditions of the contract, if tiio Ever -
ing Star’s characterization of the
Governor be correct, we are left in a
muddle between Ellerbe according to
Gonzales and Ellerbe according to tl
livening Star. In the one case lie is
a dishonest, hypocritical pettifogger;
in tiio other he is a contemptible
weakling. I i m ither ea e is lie fit
to be governor of a great State.
Our r. pn sontative MeGraw has in
troduce d a bill into the Jcgislalur •.
which the Greenville News says
might be properly entitled “an act
for {voU’ction against the idiosyncra-
cies of the country mule.” It is an
act forbidding riders of bicycles to
pass vehicle:.; without the permission
of the drivers, and is just as sensible
and necessary as one half of the other
bills tiiat are introduced and passed
in the Legislature. We suggest, how
ever, that if Mr. McCraw does not .so
frame his bill as to make it impera
tive on the driver of a vehicle to
grant that permission when asked,
he will not be conferring equal rights
on all. In that case the driver of a
slow mule or ox team might compel
a bicyclist to push his wheel along
behind him all day—a state of things
likely to engender bad blood and ugly
manners. If the bill be made broad
enough to apply equally to both par
ties concerned, it may then bo aptly
entitled “an act to promote polite
ness among bicyclists and team driv
ers”—a thing very desirable.
The little battle-scarred town of
Winchester, Va., has probably expe
rienced more of the ups and downs of
fortune than any other, town of its
size in the United States. Its history
is a mingled scene of glory and deso
lation—a tale of patriots and heroes
and a picture of destruction and de
spair. It was the home of the
hero of Cowpens, Gen. Daniel Mor
gan, and of Charles Broadway Rouss,
the noble, big-hearted ex-confeder
ate. It was the scene of some of
Stonewall Jackson’s fiercest battles
and greatest exploits. Again and
again for four long years did the tide
of war sweep over it, and friend and
foe fought and died in ita streets. In
ita cemetery aleepa the dual of boats
of the knightlieat heroes that ever
battled for any cause or any land.
Recently a mam died up io Penaylva-
nia and left the town tTOO.iHX), having
previously requested tiiat his body be
buried tiiere as near as possible to
the dead Confederates, so that In the
r correction be might rise in line
with the men tiiat wore the gfay.
His request was religiously fulfilled
and he was buried near the grave of
that “noblest Roman of them all,”
Turner AHiby. He was a northern
man by birth and lineage, but be had
lived in Winchester for a limited pe
riod since the war, and bad become
so infatuated with the place and its
associations that bis love for it be
came the ruling passion of ids life.
Thompson Mill Locals.
(Correspondence of The Leaser )
Thompson 7 Mill, Jun. 10—The
young people of our community
found themselves stealing away un
der the shade of the evening to the
home of Mr. and Mrs. F. F. Estes,
only to be the recipients of asocial
evening at a pound supper one
evening last week. By 8 o’clock
the parlor was the scene of
happy faces. 1 hey then were al
lowed the opportunity of indulging
in social amusements until about JO
o’clock when the supper bell assured
them tiiat a feast of dainties invited
them in the dining room. The ta
ble was beautifully and tastefully
decorated with evergreens, and
.Messrs. G. B. and J. F. Estes and
Benjamin Goforth were the ap
pointed waiters. This they did with
the air of vets. After supper the*
crowd retur 7 ’ed to the room from
whence they came, and give them
selves over wholly to cupid’s charge
until the night watches were counted
by twelve, when the merry band dis
persed to go to their “home sweet
homo.”
Miss Sallie Wilkins, of Fnion, is in
charge of the Sunny Side school.
And a large school is reported.
Sammie Lee seems to be busking
on l be South side of Thiekoly.
M r. Gunner has opened up a gen
eral merchandise store not far from
iiere and will no doubt do a good
business in that line. Wiu n Broad
river becomes navigable from Co
lumbia to Howells ferry, and Thiek-
ety to this place, then wo will have
a city, but 1 am afraid not until
then.
Mr. .1. H. Sprouse gave the young
people a singing last Saturday night.
Flaw Dicker is one of the hardest
ea: os that ever addressed The Led
ger. Ho might veil be calh 1 tin
Uufe Sanders of South Carolina
Hut write again old : How we like to
read your articles.
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and easy terms. Seeure l by fir .i, uioi-tgawe
on improve!I I'urms. Apitp to
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or to O. .11 !■ FKlii KS, New York O'ty.
(isilVneys, S. for information.
l-a-Cnio pd.
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Powder
Makes the food more delicious and wholesome
ntrlNC POwrFH CO., NEW YORK.
T!i« Hares. 'Bird.
Tho rarest bird in existcuea is a cer
tain kind of pheasant in Aunam. For
many years its existence was known
only by tho fact that its longest ami
most splendid plumo was in much re
quest by mandarins for their headgear.
A single skin is worth $400, and tho
living bird would bo priceless, but it
soon dies in captivity.
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llrm t»l hkxk) &
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Sold by l>i n::ei- Is. 7.V.
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CLINE BROS. & CO.,
Livery Feed and Sale Stables,
Opposite National Bank.
riist-i lsss turnouts: prompt atl-. ntIon;
air! v on M !■ el ■ Ml" I,da lit s.
„ U e solicit your pat roiia.j_e.
DR. S. H. GRIFFITH,
Physician and Surgeon
I n aii'111 ion In a RviR-ral prucl ice. makes a
specialty of di-c;is"s peculiar in tin-eye.
ear. nose and tlm it: is fully prepar'd tind
■i|ii Ipp. 11 inr p'-i li d i.iim: mH op,■rat ions com-
• i.. wit 1 in t b ■ s ooe of mriiI'- n aural, iRisal
and opt lialmie su .'.'ery. Ola ->es lilt'd with
sci'iitllb skill and ai—uraey .
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’I'iione No. lit.
Summons for. Roliof.
(COMPLAINT NOT sT.UVKIt.)
Statu or Soi tii c viiou na. i Court of Com-
COCNTV OF CHKUOKK'., ) moll Pleas.
.). Cloimh Wallace.
Plaintiff,
against
S. J. Miiirlics. Hern Ice Tanner. Eunice Poole,
IHchard 11 nifties, John lluirhcs, James
Hughes. Fred Hughes, Lillie lluirhcs. Sam
uel Hushes. O. S. Hendrick, J. T. Hrowu
and Richard C. Thomson,
Dcfenduts.
To S. J. HukIio*, Bernice Tanner, Eu
nice Poole, Richard Huahes, James llmrhcs.
John lluirhcs, Fred Hughes. Lillie lluirhes.
Samuel lluahes, O. S. Kendrick, .1. T. Brown
and Riehara C. Thomson.
Defendants In this action.
You are hereby summoned and mjulrcd
to answer the complaint In this act ion which
is tiled in the oHIce of the Clerk of the Court
of Common Pleas for said county and to
serve a copy of your answer to the said com
plaint on the subserilH'r at. their ofllee at
(Ltffney, S. O., within twenty days after tlV‘
service hereof, exclusive of the day of sucli
service, and If you fall to answer the com
plaint wltlilu tlie time {aforesaid, the plain
tiff In this action will apply to the court for
the relief demanded In the complaint.
\Y A I,LACK A OTTS,
Plaintiff's Attorneys.
(Dated). Dec., 21. 1*1*#.
To the defendant Bernice Tanner:
TAKE NOTICE,
That tho complaint In this action was filed
In the office of the Clerk of Court of Chero
kee County. In Oaffney, In Cherokee County,
In the stale of Mouth Carolina, on the ZUt
day of December, A. D., IWN.
Wallace A Orm,
IZ-IS-Ot Plaintiff's Attorney*.
T'.'ic* of tho Kan In Japan.
Tho uses of tiio fau are many and
various in Japan, where it is carried
by men, women and children. A but
terfly shaj d fan mtho hands of the
umpire at wrestling and fencing matches
is made tocxnress anumberof messages
perfectly understood and promptly at
tended to by tho combaLuits.
i'lie North Carolina legislature has
passed resolutions demanding that no
colored man be given political posi
tions in that state.
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To subdue Nervous Irritability,
Neuralgia, Hysteria, St, Vitus’
Dance, use Simmons Squaw Vine
j Wine or Tablets.
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I Bills have been introduced in tho
Norlh Carolina legislature to provide
separate railway coaches fur whites
1 aud blacks.
. What Shall j
t Be Done |
FOR THE DELICATE GIRL |
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You have tried iron and
other tonics. But she keeps ^
pale and thin. Her sallow $
complexion worries you. Per- Y
haps she has a little hacking $
cough also. Her head aches; §
and she cannot study. Give her ^
A fev doses of Dr. M. A
Liver Medicine will do
Weak Stomach than
course of any other medicine.
Simmons
more for a
a prolonged
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OresnYille, S. C.
The loan plan of ibis company will bo
fpuni! far (b sircublc in every way t ban
the plans of ibiililingA Leans Associations.
Our olan is a (h linitc coni ract at reasonable
rates. Loans nmle an approved property.
J. O. .Tzfi fui fs.
Loei.l Attorney, (iutl ney. M. C.
| The oil will feed her wasting
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'? her cough, and the hypophos- i
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£ vigor to her nerves and train. ^
£ > Never say you “ cannot ^
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& You will be obliged to change <
| youropinionator.ee. Children «
y especially become very fond \
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i when it is added to their icod.
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A. N. WOOD,
BANKER,
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>Safcty Deposit Boxes at moderate
rent.
Buys and sells Stocks andBonds.
Buys County and School Claims.
Your business solicited.
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