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Vmc i^ici >oicw. Si.oo per Year. FtTBLTBHRD WEDNKBDAY AND SA'ITKDAY hY Ed. II. DkOamp. The Ledger is not responsible for the views of correspondents. Correspondents who do not contri bute regular news letters must fur- -ush their name, not for publication, but for identification. Write short letters and to the point to insure publication; also endeavor to get them to the office by Tuesday. \11 correspondence should be ad dressed to Ed. H. DeCamp, Manager. Obituaries will be published at five cents a lino. Cards of thanks will be published *t one cent a word. Heading notices will be published 4! ten cents a line each insertion. THE COED 8PKIX. The country has just emerged from the coldest spell of weather known for years. Indeed, with perhaps two ex ceptions, the temperature has not fallen so low since the white man first began to clear the woods and build his cabin. Thirty-five years ago old people talked about “the cold Saturday," which we think occurred during the winter of J83."j-(5. 'Iher- mometers were scarce then, but we have the impression that a record was made at Greenville of live degrees below zero. Sometime in the early ’80’s we had a self-registering thermometer at Limestone which marked eight de grees below zero for one night only. Last Monday morning at sunrise our thermometer stood at five below. Bo we may safely say that this spell ranks with the severest that have oc curred in a hundred years. The snow seems not to have been so dtep here as further south. In some sections of middle and lower South Carolina, a fall of 8A inches is reported, but this report must be an exaggeration, or the measurement must have been made in a drift. We have reason to believe that the people of Cherokee were well prepar ed for the Cold, and we doubt if there has been any real suffering caused by it. They have plenty of wood, plenty to eat and and to wear generally good houses to live in, and they can stand a seige of several months. While all farm work must neces sarily be at a standstill, the cold spell is not without its compensations. It will mellow and fertilize the land, set the fruit blooms back, and kill the germs of myrads of pestiferous insects that prey on the farms, fruits and vegetables. So it may prove a great blessing in disguise. Providence is taking care of us all better than we could take care of ourselves. I N HOLY WARFARE. In the United States Senate a re solution to declare the policy of the government with regard to the Fil- ippines met with a tie vote and was defeated by vice-President Hobart easting his vote in the negative. In place of this resolution which was de finite and specific, another one was )assedwaiiittJMateER£ue and fi land dries, will work wonders. Wo have known good oats made from sow ing us late us April. ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ The government workshop at the Brooklyn Navy Yard was destroyed by lire on last Wednesday night and over $1,000,000 went up in smoke. But Uncle Sam w’ill not send round a petition for help. It is not half so bad as it would have been for some poor man to have lost his cabin con taining twenty-five dollars’ worth of furniture and a week’s rations for his family. ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ Col. Colstan and Lieut. Scott of the 4th Kentucky Regiment, quar tered at Anniston, Ala., engaged in a regular pitched battle with each other just before the regiment was mus tered out of service. Col. Colston was shot through the hip and Scott was unhurt. It was not customary in the old war days for a colonel and a lieutenant, in the absence of worthier foes, to stand up and shoct at each other. Such an encounter would have been considered, under army regulations, as prejudicial to military discipline. But these are progressive times, and our martial spirit must now and then blow off. ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ At this writing, Thursday evening, the dispensary Octopus is holding its own in Columbia. All bills look ing to straight out prohibition or providing for local option between the dispensary, high license, or pro hibition, have been defeated, and Mr. Archer’s Senate bill alone is left. This bill which has passed the Senate, provides that the counties have the privilege of deciding each for itself, whether it will have the dispensary or prohibition. So high license is ruled out, and the whiskey problem is us far from solution as ever. As we understand it, if the Archer bill become a law, a county cannot have the privilege of handling liquor for itself under dispensary regulations. No hand but the State’s can munipulate that immaculate moral “institooshun.’’ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ An old man writes up in the News, Greenville as it was fifty-two years ago, giving the names of all the citi zens, stores, and enterprises. The pictures he draws of life and manners are vivid ones, and ’.sharply contrast ing with the living ones of today. The merchants sold goods on a credit of twelve months and rarely lost any thing on their customers; the tax collector for the county took all the returns of the property and collected the taxes at a salary of three or four hundred dollars; there were only two courts a year and the most important cases were disposed of in a few hours; there were no lynchings, no auditors, no returning boards, nor boards of *ny kind. Distance may lend en- thantment to the view, but w« se riously doubt if the people of the whole country are as happy now as those people of fifty-two years ago. ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ Theresa a dearth BEN RADFORD TALKS TO FLAW PICKER. Men and Women the Subject of Conversation. WHY COTTON MILLS SHOULD BE EXEMPT, “Octavus” Takes The Ledger to Task. WHAT MAKES A WOMAN. AN INFANT INDUSTRY. It 1m a I’rt-Ky Safe Kul<'to .IiuIk** a Girl l»y ■ rr Mother, for Generally a Fellow U Rlimleil to the Fault* of the Girl With Whom He Full* in Love. (Correspondence o( The Ledger.) You meby mought think, to take a fair an’ square off handed look at ole Flaw, that he lakes his daily fits regular an’ ain’t so powerful many when it comes to a dead count but, by gatlins, you watch a man what ole Flaw has done an’ sized up an’ spent his opinion on an’ you’ll most. ingenerally always see wherein I ain’t so doggone fittified after all. Wherein I speak forth this gob of truth, as it were, is because I have spent my opinion on a man, an’ you may watch him. He ain’t no star to speak of nor I raley don’t bleeve he is wont to be, but he is got some sound, solid goods in his upper story, you understand, an’ I love to hear him talk. Th s feller is no more nor no lees than Ben Radford. T’other day whilst we were a talkin’ in our gineral conflabulatin’ style he says, says he: “Flaw, you have bin a man what’s went most ail the gaits in this wild an’ wicked world, an’ you've seen some little freaks of natre in your day an’time, leastwise I bleeve so; now let me go on down to tell you somethin’ what’s bin a botherin’ of my mind fer some time—two things —man ! woman ! “Flaw, in plain ole English them thar two words shore means some thin’. To make a man in deed hit takes u whole passel of things—brains, dignity, bravery, honesty, git-up-un’- git, physical strength, backbone, vitality an’ Christianity. When a man’s got all these traits he’s a man, worthy to be regarded as king of his household, the stuff of society an' a poser fer nature’s artist. In him his wife finds happiness, council an’ protection. He’s king oftheb.asts of the earth, the fowls of the air an’ the fishes of the mighty waters. Now, mind you, Flaw, I’m a talkin’ of men, not forked sticks. “An’, Flaw, there’s more difference between a man an’ a woman than a common feller takes time to stop an’ think of. “A woman in deed don’t haf to have tny braverj to speak of to make her a woman proper. Ef she has to grab her skirts an’ run from a mouse every day in the weea that don’t make her none the less a wo man proper. She is not expected nor intended to fight her own battles nor brave the storms of this life. I have hearn tell of female women a gittin' in a little boat by her onliest self an’ a goin' out to sea to save somebody’s life whilst the storm was a ragin’ wild, as it were. Well, that kind of business meby mought make her somewhat of a hero or tom boy but hit don’t make her any □lore of a woman by a jugful—wo- nen weren’t cut out for sailors no how. “First of all, Flaw, a woman, a woman right, hi The Lieu Law a Great Eye-Sore to a Great Many People, but 1’laee* the Tenant Farmer Iiuiependant of the Lanlonl. Congratulation* to the Semi-Weekly. (Correspondence of The Ledger.) Maynard, Feb., 13 - —We congratu late The Ledger upon the prospect of its semi-weekly appearance, and we look forward with fond anticipation to the time, which we hope will not be in the far distant future, when it will make its daily appearance. We are now receiving perhaps the “boss” snow of this season. It be gun snowing here Saturday about two o’clock p. m., and the snow fall was almost incessant until about noon yesterday (Sunday). We have been having some sick ness in our section for the past few weeks. Mrs John Witnpey has been suffering extremely with acute rheu matism for some time. Besides, we have had several cases of the grip. Our new board of County commis sioners held its first session at the court house at Pickens last Tuesday. Mr. John Williams, of thisplnce, and Mr. Clayton, of Central, together with Supervisor Frank Lupo, consti tute our new board of commissioners. It begins to look now like some of our farmers will be planting and gathering cotton both at the same time this year, as there is a considerable amount of cotton yet in the p«t6l>, and unless a very great change in the weather sets in it will most assuredly stay there for some time yet. The Ledger, in speaking of the de feat of the bill by the legislature lo exempt cotton mills from taxation for five years, says: “In the infancy of the cotton mill industry in South Carolina it was perhaps wise and politic to encourage the establish ment of such mills by exemption from taxation. But the time has passed and the mills should now bear tbeir part of the burden of taxa tion along with other enterprises.’’ Of course Gaffney and Cherokee county having passed the limits of “infancy” in the cotton mill indus try, can now very well set back and oppose any further encouragement for the building of tucb enterprises, by exempting their investment from taxation for a limited time. But The Ledger, should recollect that, com paratively, the cotton mill industry, iaking the State at large, is yet in its infancy. That but a few of the most favored counties of the State have developed tho industry to any thing like their full capacity, and that they owe their thanks to the in fluence of an exemption law for the building up of their enterprises. The law exempting cotton mills from tax ation for a limited time, was un doubtedly repealed on purpose to cripple -the cotton mill industry, which it did. I have no other idea but that if the factory exemption law had remained in force in this State, that the manufacturing enterprises woulc to his interest to obtain his supplies from fhe merchant than from his land lord, he simply has tho privilege of so doing. Whereby had the lien, law been repealed he would have been placed at the mercy of the land lord, with tho exception, of course of those who might he able to get credit upon their “honor.” There is no compulsary clause in the lien Jaw, therefore it is left to the choice of each farmer whether he gives a lein on his crop or not, if he can buy his supplies more cheaply on his “honor” or any other way, ho is at perfect liberty to do so. The lien law is one thing that will die a natural death without the ex pense of repealing it, whenever the farmers are able to live without it. Our opinion in regard to what the prosperity of the country might have been had the lein never have been enacted, is just the reverse to that expressed by The Ledger last week. Octavus. HAMMETT IN HAVANNA. Ho Toll* Something of Hie Country un<l It* IVoplo. The following letter is from A. L. Hammett, a young man who is pretty well know in this section, but who is now with the Second S. C. Regiment, now at Havanua, and was writted to Mr. J. L. Strain. We print this for the benefit of .Mr. Hammett’s many acquaintances in this section : Havanna, Cuba, Feb., Oth.—We landed here safely and we are getting on splendidly. I was much surprised at the country for I found it better than I expected. We were three days and nights on the water. A great many of the boys got sick but I did not. The land here is very fertile and can be bought for from $1000 to $15.00 per acre. Sugar, molasses and tobacco are the principal industries. American labor is worth from $2.00 to $4.50 per clay. I am going to spend a few years in Cuba after I am discharged from the army, for I am sure I can make more money here than I can in America. I guess you have read that Cuba was a sickly country, but it is not so. It is a healthy country. Tho 1st army corps is having better health than it ever did in America. Havanna is sickly on account of the filth that is on the back streets. Our camp is eight miles from Havanna on a high bill in full view of the ocean. We get a heavy sea breeze all the time. I have seen corn and cotton grow ing and all kinds of vegetables. Fruits are very plentiful. I would advise any young man who wants to make money to come to Cuba. Have you ever seen any of the Cu ban money? I enclose you a ten cent piece. I was detached from Company “C” while in Jacksonville, FJa., and placed with the commissary, and I am there yet, I like it much better than being with tho company, for I do not ha\e any guard duty to do. I also get $10.50 extra pay per month. The Cubans do not have any chim neys to their houses. The country is very hilly and rocky. The Cubans use a yoke of oxen in plowing. They never use wagons, hut instead use two wheel carts. I do not know when we will be sent home. Col. Jones says he has not the least idea. A great many of the Grover Goh*I|>. (Correspondence of The Ledger ) Grover, N. C., Feb. i3.—Rain, sleet and snow! Building fires and sitting by them is the order of the day. At the time of this writing, the snow Is almost five inches (Jeep. We are glad to see it, as the Lord’s will must be done. But tho indications are that when planting time comes we farmers are going to be like the key-hole in the back of a dock, which is always behind time. When Mr. Rustin says that “a couple should court for seven years,” he failed to state who should pay for the kerosene. Wake up School Boy, let us hear from you again. t. j. g. G ood news comes from those who take Hood’s Sarsaparilla for scrofula, dyspepsia and rheumatism. Reports agree that HOOD’S CURES THESE ABIES State Line Statement. (Correspondence of The Ledger.) State Line, Feb. 13.—-It is such bad weather that the farmers cannot do anything but get wood and make fires, but it don’t stop the youngsters from having a fine time. Mr. J. W. Camp had a quilting on the 8th inst. Tho youngsters en joyed themselves very' much. Now that it has snowed it delights the boys to think of catching rabbits. The Ledger is a welcome visitor at our house. u. c. h. Written from Wright’* (Correspondence of The ledger.) Wrights, Feb. 20.—At Wrights The Ledger is a most welcome paper. I have been missing it all the time until I commenced taking this paper, I advise everybody to take it now you all know that is right. vVe have had cold weather and ! plenty of snow for this season. M. S. Allen is ono of Blue Branch’s i farmers. He is the leading colored ' men of Wrights. Stoves Jointer. For La Grippe. Thomas Whitfield «fc Co., 240 'V a -j bash avenue, corner Jackson street, one of Chicago’s oldest and most proininent druggists, recommend Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy for la grippe, us it not only gives a prompt and complete relief, hut also counter acts any tendencyof la grippe to re sult In pneumonia. For sale by Cherokee Drug Co. A fox has a reputation for shrewd ness among silly old hens. Children are like jollies; as they are molded so they will turn out. Don’t wreck a Life! From Girlhood to Womanhood the monthly courses should be regulated with Simmons Squaw Vino Wine or Tablets. About the greatest drawback to a man’s happiness is himself. HAVE NEVER Tried The^reaT system regulator PRICKLY ASH BITTERS. I Because they think if is nasty and bitter, disagreeable | To the stomach and violeif j I in action. ASK THESE f-** •>] They will fell you itis 'notatall disagreeable. [Andasacureforlndiijestiot},] .Constipation,.Kidney .Disorders it is un-/ excelled. FOR Up-to-Date Job .Prink ing, call at t%e LEDGER Office. Gaffney. S. A. N. WOOlf, BANKER, does a general Banking and Excha business. Well secured with Burg Proof safe and Automatic Time Safety Deposit Boxes at mode^ rent. Buys and sells Stocks andBoi Buys County and School Claims. 1 Your business solicited. The GJney City Land and Improvement Company Offers tor sale Building I>ots In lliis flourishing town. Gaffney City; Also Farms 1 by and In reach of the Schools of Limestone Springs and of this place. In lots of | HO to 100 acres on liberal time rates; also Agricultural Lands to rent for Farm! poses. For full particulars apply to a J. V. Affent. N. 11.—All tresspassing on landsof this company, cutting and removing Umber, fishj hunting, are forbidden under penalty of law. 1 >g HE ...