The ledger. [volume] (Gaffney City, S.C.) 1896-1907, February 18, 1899, Image 2
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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.
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Gaffney. S.
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BANKER,
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rent.
Buys and sells Stocks andBoi
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