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* loop holes. T^tlie government refuses to commit itselfaml the millions of freemen on tbisV^itinent who want to know what this wanton butchery of the Philippines is about, will have to wait until such time as the plans of the government will develop them selves. In the meantime the poor ig norant savages were shot down by the thousands; twenty thousand invaders are on their soil with all the most im proved impliments of death and de struction. and untold millions of do!. Jars are wrested from the people of tins country for the purpose of carry ing on the work. And yet this nation went to war a few months ago for hu manity’s sake! Now its “inhumanity to man makes countless thousands mourn. NOTKK AM> COMMK.NTS. The 8tate Entomologist of Georgia announces that the peach crop of that State has been totally destroyed and that the peach growers will probably go out of the business. The crop last year was valued at #1,000,1 0<J0. ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ The Nicaragian Canal bill, the most gigantic measure Congress has ever tackled, excepting perhaps Spain and the Philippines and a few <Tb- streperous Southern states years ago, has, it is thought, been laid on the shelf for this session. ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ The population of Atlanta, ac cording to a directory just published, is 124,207. Yet there are many men living who remember the time when Atlanta was a smaller town than Gaffney. This wonderful growth has been accomplished mainly by Allan- tians working and pulling for Atlanta. ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ The farmers of this country inten ded to sow many a broad acre in small grain, which owing to the un usual amount of unfavorable weather has not yet been sown. We hope they will not now yield to the temp tation to put it in cotton. Let the oats fall on every square foot of such land, and let the plows follow with a rush and a whoop. A few daya of brisk, steady plowing as soon as the ews. The Tnating and the cities are put to keep themselves warm. In many of them coal is scarce and wood is not to be had. In llichtnond it is said, some handsome yard fences have been pulled down for fuel. In the larger cities north, the situation is still more serious. A week more of such weather as the be ginning of this, would bring about conditions fearful to contemplate. With the railroads blockaded, some of the coal mines shut down, and business of all kinds suspended, the poor of the great cities would suffer untold horrors. Yet there are ^mil- lions of cords of wood rotting in southern forests and millions of acres of fertile land waiting for the husbandmen to draw from its bosom ricli supplies of comfort and happi ness. Population is as much con gested as money. Distribution is the remedy for both. v ♦ ♦ ♦ We ful’y endorse an editorial in the Baptise Courier on the State Col leges. Like the Courier, we are not opposed to the State Colleges, nor to reasonable appropriations to them. We have at least double the number of these colleges that we ought to have, but it would now he difficult and perhaps unwise to abolish any of them. We do not object to a limited number of beneficiary stu dents in them. But we do protest against the wholesale free tuition that brings them into ruinous com petition with all other schools; against some of the teachers that draw big salaries—teachers who were known failures before they were set up in such positions by political favor itism; and against the enormous and unnecessary amounts of the people’s money squandered on those colleges from year to year. The appropria tion to Winthrop *Iter it has been thoroughly and sumptuously equip ped, of #35,000 a year, representing an interest bearing endowment at (5 per cent, of over #580,000, is an outrage and a shame, and the appro priations to Clemson are in the same category. The people are being mode poor, while all state institu tions are being made ricV And this is an era of reform! e nest, "e, submissive, an' mu«t fhave a great big heart lippin’ full \ % au’ a runnin’ over, as it were, of trueNJove an'ef she’s got the right kind'''of stuff—Christianity—mixed with '.it hit helps out a whole passel toward' makiu’ of a man happy. “You can’t tell me a thing, Flaw a woman of this kind will make a man, ef he’s the right kind of a man, work his very finger nails off for her happiness an’ comfort. A man is a galoot that will marry just any ole kind of a gal an' try to raise a respectable set of children into manhood an’ womanhood, fer ef a gal gits it into her head that she’s the king of her household, the protector of her country, the biggest tuter in the house, she most inginerally puts out the lights in her home—makes it dark, you understand—an’ gits the children in wrong an' dangetous roads whilst there’s no more happi ness fer the man than there is for the Hy in the ’lasses pitcher, an’ by gatlins, you can tell the effects of i t in ginuerations to come. Don’t thiniv that jist because a womnn’s as pritty as a butterfly in May that she’s the stuff. “Flaw, the best way to pK*k a gal fer a wi-fe is to pick her mother first. Ef her mother is the proper stuffashe has raised the gal right an’ you needn’t be afraid of giftin’ a bad article. Ef her mother has raised her right she will raise your children right an’ they will bo an honor to you in your old days. Wherein I say pick the mother Snstid of the gal is this: If you loVe the gal you can’t see her faults* but mind you, she will imitate beg mother, an' ef her mother’s got you you had b alone.” I’d rather he utes than som whole day fer 1 lulls obnoxious to tier let that gal Ben talk five in in- folks I know of a talks with sense. Flaw Pkkkk. A Sluggish Liver causes Drowsiness. Lethargy and ft feeling of Apathy, Dr. M. A. Sitrimons Liver Medicine arouses the Liver, and cheerful energy succeeds sluggishness. Some tailors give customers fits while others give them convulsions. A. J. Gill,.Jr. Scotia, S. C., writes; I have used Lr. M. A. Simmons Liver Medicine In my family 10 years. It has cured Indigestion, Dyspepsia, Constipation, and many other ail ments. When ft man steals lie does it for himself; but when a woman steals she does it for some worthless man. Dr. M. A. Simmons Liver Medicine by expelling from the body the excess of Bile and Acids, Improves the Assimilative Processes, Purilies the Blood, Tones up and Strengthens. - . — r - w ~ — st inconceivable degree. My opinion is, that if South Carolina needs any one thing more than another it is cotton mills. It is, as I believe.conceded that the cotton mills of the State would not have been built up to the extent that they have without the encourage...cnt of an ex emption law. The exemption of a cotton mill for live y ears would not ncrease the tax of anyone else one single mill, but would actually de crease it from the very start, in that thfjy would not be exempt from the 3 myll school tax, and bv the en hanctement of the value of adjoining property ar *d by the increase in the population of State and county. Take me cotton mills and the taxable (properly that has been drawn to the oounties by the influence of the cotton mills out of Spar.anburg and Cnetokee counties, and where would .their taxable property be 9 Ghenokee county «,ould have not yet bee'll born. Then it does seem to me t hat The Ledger, least of any, should appose the exempting of the invest ment of cotton mill companies for a period of five years, and thereby pre- i renting by its influence, the building of cotton mills in Lkoso counties in which the cotton mill industry is yet in its veriest infancy. We are glad that a majority of our members to the Legislature did not forget by whose votes they were elected to office even after they got to Columbia. The fact of which was proven by the overwhelming defeat of tjie bill for the repeal of the lien law*. The lien law has been a great eye sore, now for several years, to a great many people, including a few (of the unthinking) of the laboring people, but the majority of those who oppose it, do not oppose it upon the ground that the law is an oppression upon the part of the laboring man, hut be cause they say : “We can’t work a man and some one else feed him,” which 'demonstrates very plainly from whence cometh their opposi tion to the law. Whetherjthe lien law gives to the tenant a, “kind of spurious credit.” as The Ledger de nominates it, or not, it enables him, at least to some extent, to live in- dependantly of the land lord, hence the great opposition of that class of farmers to the law. There was a time r hen the laborer was dependent upon the land lord for their supplies, and the result was that they hud to pay r , not from “10 to 50 per cent.” but fiom 50 to 150 per cent, upon their supplies. In fact it was the exorbitant prices charged by the land lords that led up to, and in fact made the enaettm ut of the lien law for the benefit of the tenant class of farmers. The lien law as it now stands simply give Ute tenant the privilege of mortgaging his labor for his sup plies. and Of obtaining them from whom he chooses. If he finds it more lomorrow is pay-day and all of the hoys are jolly. A#l»ury AsM-rtions. (Correspondence of The Ledger.) Asni’RY, Feb. 13.—We have had some rough weather during'lhe past week. Snow began to fail Saturday ut 11 a. m., and continued until night, when it began to sleet. It be gan the next morning and continued until about Sunday night. It is an old saying, “A rougli winter for a ^ood crop year.” Somebody will have to live on half rations this year, or be skinned this fall, which ever they prefer. More people are behind with their debts this year than ever before, but it is impossible to squeeze blood out of a turnip. Some of tb« merchants are going to try to do it if they have not already done so. The farmers haven’t sowed a large quantity of oats yet and from the prospects of the weather, they will not get to sow any very soon. The weather has been so bad the people have not been working very much. Blce Bi»d. PRUDENTIA Insurance * Company * of * Ameri The ChluniuMii’s “HolI." Of all the men who make their way about on the streets or in the street cars in this frosty weather, John Chinaman is the most comfortably clad, and, there- fojv, the most comfortable. He does not look it, bat the Chinaman has the knack of getting a lot of warm qnilted cloth ing next to his yellow ekiu. His blouse la. of course, of heavy material, and the thick soles of his odd shoes keep bis feet warm. Neither does John have to fidget •round and unbntton his clothing, ex posing himself to the cold blasts that blow throngh the street car, to fish out his nickel for fare. Before he leaves home he sticks a nickel in his ear—right handy to reach when the conductor comes around. In jnst what part of his odd clothing John carries his money is a problem not even the long and the short men have been able to solve. The average China man carries a bnndle “big enough to choke a horse,” as the saying is, but, though ofb-n tried, no hold up man has ever prospected successfully for the roll in his victim’s mysterious wraps, and the average thief would jnst as soon tackle a guaranteed burglar proof safe as a Chinaman —Chicago Chronicle. Catarrh Cannot Im- Cur» «! with LOCAL APPLICATIONS, as they can not reach the seat of the disease. Catarrh is a blond or constitutional disease, and-In order to cure It you must take internal rem edies, Hall’s Catarrh Cure Is taken inter nally, and acts directly on the mucous sur faces. Hall's Catarrh Cure is not a quack medicine. It was- prescribed by one of the best physicians in this country for years, and L a regular prescription. It Is com posed of the best tonics know, combined witlith. best blood purifiers, acting directly on the mucous hurfaco-. The perfect combinat u of the two ingredients Is what ur<Mluces surh wonderful results In curing Catarrh. Semi for testimonials, free K..1. < IIKNKY & CO- Props.. Toledo. O Sold hy druggist, price 75c. Hall’s Family Pills arc the best. Home Office, Newark, N. J. John F. Dryden, Presij James O. Wynn, Manager houthern Dep’t., Atlanta, G« Assets Jan. 1st, 1899 Surplus Jan 1st, 1 399 Annual Income Insurance in force Insurance written in 1898, $28,887,1961 $5,888,89* $ 1 7,481.871 $414,547,05; $ 1 64,600,00( Paid Policy Holders to Date Over $36,450,01 ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ A THE PRUDENTIAL lias forged its way ahead until it in the front rank of the great Life Insurance Companie] the world. It offers till that is good in Life Insurant and under the best conditions. C. 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