The ledger. [volume] (Gaffney City, S.C.) 1896-1907, February 15, 1899, Image 3
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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