Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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'yrTk^'Try T? 'W< :>*» J"11rc i-vTCr>oi>w $1.00 per Year. runUSHKO TUESDAY AND FRIDAY BY Ed. H. DeCamp. l< r . ai- The Ledger is not responsible for the views of correspondents. Correspondents who do not contri bute regular news letters must fur nish their name, not for publication, but for identification.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 Monday and Thursday mornings. All correspondence should be ad dressed to Ed. H. DeCamp, Manager. Obituaries will be published at five cents a line. , Cards o thanks will be published at one cent a word. , , Heading notices will be published at ten cents a line each insertion. another crop. It is time now for our farmers to begin to form plans for another crop, and the conditions surely will Hiiggest the propriety of important changes and modifications in all former plans and the necessity of making some entirely new depart ures. The country is said to be on the high tide of prosperity. Every where there are signs of material progress surpassing all former re cords. Prices are up and going higher; factories are running day and night; brick kilns cannot burn bricks as fast as they are needed; lime kilns cannot turn out the lime to make the needed mortar; the saw mills are ripping the lumber, the plank kilns are drying it, and the railroads are hauling it, all too slowly to supply the eager, feverish de mand. There is a boom, but the strangest thing about it all, is that the farm ers are not in it. The most impor tant product of the whole country is depressed, and the most numerous and important class of the whole population, is compelled to stand aside and view with longing eyes the prosperity of others. How long is this state of affairs to continue? How t much longer will southern farmers be held entranced with the dream of cotton? A half crop gathered, the price still depressed, the corn crop short, meat and flour to be shipped from the west, debts to be paid and other debts to be con tracted for the means of producing another crop, children growing up in ignorance, everybody else pros pering—these are some of the con ditions now confronting the farmers of Cherokee and of the South. Is it not time that the delusive dream had vanished—that the strange, long spell had been broken —that the farmers had shaken off their shackles and made a sensible, manly strike for comfort and inde pendence? They should begin right now to prepare for a plenty of wheat. It is not necessary, hardly desirable, that t hey should sow a large area, unless they are able to prepare it properly. Smaller areas with better prepara tion and more liberal manuring will pay better than larger ones half pre pared and poorly manured. Hut be sure to plan and work for a plenty. The roller mills are coming, but they will do you no good, if you have nothing for them to roll. Leave cotton for the present entirely out of the plan, and go in for wheat as if your lives and fortunes depended on that alone. It will be time enough next spring to take cotton into the account and to decide what you will do with it. NOTES and comments. The yellow fever is till tightening its hold at Key West and spreading to other places. There have been in all up to date, about one hundred and fifty cases recorded, and the prospect is that the health and medi cal forces will have a long tough bat tle with it. ♦ ♦ Our friends, the gentlemen of the Walterboro bar, appear to be in a state of blissful pacification as re gards ourself and the rest of man kind. We trust that nothing else will soon occur to disturb their serenity or to raise the slightest sus picion of their honor. We are sorry that we gave them some annoyance, hut we were the innocent victim of a combination of collateral circum stances, and couldn’t keep it. Here after we’ll try to keep an eye on the circumstances. ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ A terrible accident happened on the Columbia, Newberry and Lau rens Kailroad near Columbia last Haturday, by which four men were killed. A train loaded with granite rock, engine and all, went through a trestle forty feet high and fell in one confused heap on an island below. Such an occurrence ought to receive a careful and thorough investigation, and if found to bo the result of any body's carelessness, that person ought to be punished to the full ex tent of the law. ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ The trial of Dreyfus has at last ended and his judges have pro nounced him guilty. They have done this without the shadow of proof and in defiance of the senti ment of the whole civilized world, outside of France. Wo do not be lieve that their verdict can stand. It is so manifestly the outcome of prejudice and villainy that a reaction against it must soou come, even In France—a reaction that will crush the wrong, vindicate the right, and overwhelm the persecutors of the un fortunate man with disgrace. ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ The building boom is still booming. In ail progressive towns there is com plaint of scarcity of material and of mechanics. In Columbia there are big jobs waiting for their turn, the contractors having declined to hid on them because of the impossibility of procuring material and a sufficient force of hands. Bricklayers es pecially are in demand, and several hundred of them could find employ ment at remunerative wages In Co lumbia alone. No one can tell how long this state of things will last. There is a good deal of dirt left yet and plenty of old field pine and the limbs and stumps of other trees with which to burn It, so we need not dread a brick famine in the near future. But it is not more certain that the tide always ebbs after the flow, than that there must be a let up and a reaction, in this building boom. The danger is that it will be followed by abnormal depression, if not by a panic. ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ The Greenville Tunes refers to the fact that the South is sending no men to the I’hilfppines, as evidence that the spirit of the South has dc- c'ined. It is a most unjust and un* warranted conclusion. The people of the South have never been war like or blood-thirsty by nature. Their ambition has been to pursue the arts of peace and to deal fairlj and generously with all other sec tions and nations. In 1800, they avoided war just as long as self res pect and a conscious manhood would allow. When these were about to be violated anil degraded they rose in their might as one man and gave the world u spectacle of daring courage and of heroic endur ance, of which, the annals of nations furnish no parallel. They will do the same thing again under the same conditions. When they light, they fight for a principle that is dear to them, and it is their crov.n of honor that they will not fight for greed, or conquest, or wanton oppression. ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ The editorial page of the Colum bia State is, in our opinion, usually a model of good sense, good taste, and good literature. Besides the pointed, vigorous, and always sensi ble editorials, there are generally one or more poems, sometimes origi nal, sometimes selected, hut always good, and frequently exhibiting rare beauty and general excellence. We are aware that comparatively few of the readers of any newspaper are on the hunt for literary gems or have much appreciation of such gems when presented to them, but we think that the few who do enjoy them are worthy of being served and gratified, and we deem it to be the duty of every newspaper to uphold the standard of good English and incidentally to do what it can to wards improving the literary taste of its readers and cultivating within them a liner appreciation of the beauties in nature and art. The paper that does this stimulates purer and nobler thoughts among its read ers and elevates the standard of moral and intellectual life. In a word it becomes an educator in the true sense of the term. We congrat ulate the Btate on the high and pure model fashioned for Its editorial page. We usually read its poetry first, then its edit trials, and afterwards look after the horrible, abominable news. No Ki|flit to ('KlnifMH. The woman who is lovely In face, form and temper will always have friends, but one who would be at tractive must keep her health. If she is weak, sickly and all run down, she will be nerveous and irritable. If she has constipation or kidney trouble, her impure blood will cause pimples, blotches, skin eruptions and a wretched complexion. Electric Bitters is the best medicine in the world to regulate stomach, liver and kidneys and to purify the blood. It gives strong nerves, bright eyes, smooth, velvety skin, rich complex ion. It will make a good-looking, charming woman of a run-down in valid. Only 50 cents at Cherokee Drug Co. Dr. M. O. Rowland, of Spartan burg, has been appointed a member of the board of directors of the peni tentiary to succeed Cunningham, re signed. For wounds, burns, scalds, sores, skin diseases and all irritating erup tions, nothing so soothing and heal ing as DeWitt’s Witch Hazel Halve. Mrs. Emma Holies, Matron Engle wood Nursery, Chicago, says of it; “When all else fails in healing our babies, it will cure." Cherokee Drug Co., Gaffney, H. C., and K. H. Withers, Blacksburg, H. C. James Ellis, (Dock) the white hoodoo doctor and preacher has been arrested and is in Hpartanburg jail, charged with rape. “Best on the market for coughs and colds and all bronchial troubles; for croup it has no equal," writes Henry K. Wbltford, Houth Canaau, Conn., of fine Minute Cough Cure. Chero kee Drug Co., Gaffney, H. C.. and It. H. Withers, Blacksburg, H. C. THE LATEST COT TON MILL NEWS. Items of Interest to Textile Workers. OPERATIVE PERSONALS Tim I mpromurntM nn<t Ailvaiieonirntit of the I’m*! Week In North un.l Houth Caro lina Cotton MIIIm Mini llonlcry Kaeto- rlen, Ete. (Southern and Western Textile KxeeUlor.l James Tidily was in Charlotte this week on a visit from Fort Mill, fi. C. Thomasville, N. C., wants more factories. J. L. Mendenhall will give a site for a cotton factory there. C. L. Oats and L. W. Thomason, erectors for Saco JL I'ettce Machine Shops, were Charlotte visitors this week. J. A. Smith, of Bessemer City, was in Charlotte Wednesday on his way to I'hiladelphia and New York on businees. Work on the new slasher and dry er room of the Erwin mill is being pushed as fast as possible, and it is thought it will be ready to occupy by Sept. 20. J. W. Ingle, a mill man of Caro- leen, N. C., who has been attending school at Weaverville. N. C., study ing for the ministry, was in the city this week. Raymond Mcllanley, second hand in spinning room, Eureka Cotton Mills, Chester, 8. C., has resigned his position, lie intends going to school this winter. J. C. McCoy, second hand in spin ning room of Lancaster, 8. (*., Cotton Mills, lias resigned on account of bad health and gone to his home at Lin- colnton, N. C. O. W. Stites, of Cohoes, N. Y., has been appointed snperintedent of the Commonwealth Cotton Manufactur ing Company Durham, N., C. T. N. Denning has resigned. J. J. Ward, formerly employed at the Manchester Manufacturing Coin- pay Macon, Georgia, has gone to take a position with the Warren Cotton Mills, Warrenville, S. C. Chas. L. Eppley, has resigned as loomlixer at the Dilling Cotton Mills, Kings Mountain, N. C., to take a similar position at the Fulton Bag Cotton Mills, Atlanta, Ga. George Gray, a prominent mill owner, and Alfred Srnyre, of Gas tonia, N. C., were in Charlotte this week on business connected with their one million dollar cotton mill enterprise. H. H. Seawell, who had charge of the carding and spinning department in Victor Mill, formerly the old Globe Mills, Rock Hill, 8. C., has accepted the superintendency of the Crecent Mill, of that city. Work is rapidly progressing on the two new cotton mills at Tarboro, N. C. When these mills begin opera ting, Tarboro’s population will bo in creased about one thousand. Our people will not stop with three mills. Others will surely follow. The directors of the Darlington, 8. C., Cotton Mills are discussing an in crease of 0,000 spindles to the pres ent capacity of their mill, which will probably be done. The capacity of this plant has steadily been in creased, and this last would make 18,000 spindles. C. E. Massey, who has been the en gineer at the Raleigh cotton mill since its establishment, left Saturday for Huntsville, Ala., where he has accepted a position with the Dallas Mfg. Co. Mrs. Massey is the guest of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. B. S. Skinner, and will join her husband later. The Fountain Inn, 8. C., Cotton Mill is moving along nicely, with plenty of help and plenty of orders at fair prices. The officers are as fol lows: J. W. Shell, president; 1\ C. Poag, treasurer and manager; J. R. Young, superintendant and general overseer; Jas. Stewart, grinder and overseer of spinning, and these are they that started up the mill and have run it steadily. L. D. Duval, who has been superin tendent of the Cannon Mills, Con cord, N. C., for the last ten years, was presented a beautiful silver ser vice together with a set of silver spoons by the operatives of the mill last Tuesday evening. Mr. Duval had just resigned his position and the assemblage showed the high ap preciation and admiration in which he was held by those associated with him. Belton Wessinger died at his home at Clifton, S. C., last Monday after un illness of several weeks. His death removes from that community a gentleman who was esteemed and held in high regard by all with whom he came in contact. Of genial dis position and gentle bearing, he endeared himself to every one. Mr. Wessinger has been superintendent at Clifton Mill No. 2 for the past ten years. Mr. Wessinger was forty-two years of age. He married the daughter of A. J. Carr, the former superintendent of the Clifton Mill. The Piedmont, 8. C., Sun says that Nesbitt Jr Son, proprietors of the Fork Shoals Cotton Mills, are contemplating enlarging their plant and forming a stock company so as to development the property to the fullest extent. This Fork Shoals plant is a ideal one. With a splendid fall of water, and the real estate ly ing about in such a way as to make of it the most healthful and pleasant kind of a town site, in the midst of a cotton raising country from which a good supply of help can be drawn, a first class exclusive mill town and plant cun be created. Don't Tol>u*o Spit Slid Satokr lour IJfc Away. To quit tobacco eaally owl (orer?r, lie waff ni'Uc, luU of lifu, tiervu ami viffor, tuUe No To- Hue, ttie wonder-worker, that ujake* wnak wen utruiiff. All druKffiute, COc or II. Cureguarun- locd Booklet and aumple free. Ad drear bterling UuiMMly Cw, Chicago or New York. Conquering it Curse. IMouthern Farm Mtqratlne.l Georgia cotton growers have long regarded Johnson grass ana nuisance. Mr. Edward Napier, of Macon, lias a different opinion about it. He has planted UK) acres in the grass, and has this to say about it in the Macon Telegraph : “1 soli quantities of the loose hay to Macon cattlemen and others hat ing stock to feed and readily get $12 a ton,” said Mr. Napier. “Nextyear my land will yield a ton per acre at each cutting. It has not become well rooted yet, but soon it will be as thick as the hair on your head, and my hundred acres will give two mowing machines steadily employ ment during n’ 1 those months be tween frosts. I have a meadow now ready for cutting which was sown three weeks ago. “It is not a new business with me. I tried for ten years to kill it out and get it off my land, but I finally be came convinced that it was the most profitable thing a Georgia farmer could grow, no matter how rich or how poor his land might be, so I or dered 120 bushels of seed and har rowed it in. The season has been so dry that my Bermuda grass has done nothing, but I have had one harvest of Johnson grass after an other everj two weeks since I planted. “All kinds of stock devour it eagerly, and it is the most nutritious forage I ever saw. I am going to sow more of my land in it next year. It fattens cattle and makes ci ts so increase their milk flow that it would be the best thing I could grow even if I couldn’t sell a pound of it. But there is no danger of overstocking the market. When our people learn how much stronger and better it is than any other grass, they will buy it In preference to sending so much of their money out Wcg» for hay. “The grass grows so rapidly that I am obliged to lose u cutting oc casionally. If I do, I will just take my disc plow and turn the whole thing under to enrich the soil. It won’t be long before another crop will be ready to cut, and I will gain for my land what I lose in hay." Onlulnt'il it rreu<-li«*r. The solemn, beautiful and impres sive service of ordaining a brother preacher of the gospel of Jesus Christ was conducted by the pastor in the First Baptist church Sunday evening when \V. T. Thompson was ordained a preacher. Rev. J. 1). Bailey deliv ered the sermon and Rev. D. \V Thomasson the charge. Both of these good men were at their host, fully impressed with the importance and solemnity of their high duties and seemed only to want to discharge them faithfully; which they did in a manner that will long be remembered by the congregation, and must have made indellible impressions on the candidate for ministerial duties. The prayer of Rev. R. J. Tate showed that he, too, realized the duties of his high mission. It was a strong and pathetic appeal to the Most High and impressed his hearers with his humble and deep piety. Mr, W. T. Thompson is an ardent church worker, devoted to his calling; Ids deep piety is apparent to ail, unci he is one of Gaffney’s most worthy and highly prized citizens. He has the best wishes of his brethren and neighbors, and he will have their en couragement in his chosen work. WuMliliig « r<»< Uh amt Milk Whm-Ik. A great deal depends upon the care of crocks or pans in which milk is kept. They should he washed as soon as possible after being used. Rinse first witJi cold water, then wash thor oughly inside and out with hot water, in which enough of Gold Dust Wash ing Powder has been dissolved to make a good suds. Finish by rinsing with scalding water; wipe dry and set out, with right side up, in the fresh air and sunshine, and they will be clean and sweet. In spite of the Dreyfus affair and the strong anti-Semite agitation in France, the French army has about 300 Jewish officers, among them brigadier generals and even generals of divisions. DeWitt’s Little Early Risers per manently cure chronic constipation, bilousness, nervousness and worn- out feeling; cleanse and regulate the entire system. Small, pleasant, nev er gripe or sicken.—“famous little pills.” Cherokee Drug Co., Gaffney, S. C., and It. S. Withers, Blacks- bnrg. H. C. Power will intoxicate the best hearts as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power. “I suffered with piles eleven years before using DeWitt’s Witch Hazel Salve; now my health is fully restor ed.—I feel like a new horn man"— Conrad Stange, Pierz, Minn. A soothing, healing preparation of Standard merit; beware of worthless counterfeits. Cherokee Drug Co., Gaffney, 8. C., and It. S. Withers, Blacksburg, S. C. A Louisville judge has ruled that if a woman wears a man’s hut she must take it off when she comes into his court. There’s always hope while there’s One Minute Cough Cure. “An at tack of pneumonia left my lungs in bad shape and I was near the first stages of consumption. One Minute Cough Cure completely cured me," writes Helen McHenry, Bismurk, N. D. Gives instant relief. Cherokee Drug Co., Gaffney. B. C,. and R. S. Withers, Blacksburg, H. C. Senator Jones, chairman of the national Democratic committee will return from Europe to be in Chicago by October 1. Ueautr Is Blood Deep. Clean blood meana a '■lean akin. No beauty without it. CascarcU, Candy Cathar tic clean your blood and keep it clean, by stirring up the lazy liver and driving all im- 1‘urititfi from the body. Begin to-day to banish pimples, I (oils, blotches, blackheads, and that aickly bilious complexion by taking ( a sea rets,—beauty for tea cents. Ail drug gists, satufacuon guaranteed. Ilk, lie, 60c. Congressman Botkin’s Statement Washington, D.C., April 1, 1898. Dr. S. It. Hartman, Columbus, O, My- Drab Doctor: — It -ives mo pleasure to certify to the xccllent curative qualities of your medicines: FOUNDED IN 1845, LIMESTONE COLLEGE, GAFFNEY, S. C. I IiI.h Institution, furnous in tin* liMnry of in South t arollna. Irtn h«M»n thoroiiKhly reor^;iiii/.«*«l ;tn<] now, with n l;»rir«* un«t V.t«ully. j, prto «io colleen work of tin* very ItiKlt**! gmifr. Nearly twi nty thoiiMMiol <lotlur« have 1 • » n uimro~ iMiutefi for improM iiH nts. A nrn bniMinic i iM-ini: which will coiifuiit :x hinie Aii<iltoriu ,| i. ;i Lihrury. n U< k :tst(u;;-laOoif!. :i .Mufteiirn of Natucil Hcietin*. a iMVttitiful hall for the Ulorary Society, awl koiw J ofth**^. The huihlliijr will h • furii!sh(’«i with iww netitJJiK .1 |j)>:tralus throughout, aii tin* rotiinM will Im- *i!pi/li<*/| witli now fiirulltirt*. ww pianos will Im‘ purriiuM'fl, ih>w physical, chomleai and rniinoalo^ical lutxiratorios Fill be equipped m short evervthiinr that is ije«*cssa**y in tin* work of a first-Has* w'nuiati'ttwd* ■ • ' ii ■ »*'i ii t » ii' • ■ j i ^ • i i if» i I « » * t-S thesou h. I hf'rcv. n-dtHf.l II. I*, lirimil, i,th. S.-mm Prof. ssor. For further Informs- tion address trie I'residents n.wis i.otM;i*: 9 a. m.. n». Hon. J. D. Botkin. Congrt^tman-at-Larffs from Kansas. Pe-ru-na and Man-a-lin. I have been afflicted, more or less, for a quarter of a century with catarrh of the stomach and constipation; a residence iu Wash ington has increased these troubles. A few bottles of your medicines have given me almost complete relief, and I am sure that a continuation of their use will effect a permanent cure. Pe-ru-na is surely a xvonderful rem edy for catarrhal affections J. D. BOTKIN. iror Building and Plastering Lime, Coal, Shingles, And Plas ter Hair, Dynamite, Blasting Powder, Fuse and Dyna mite Caps, call on THE LIMESTONE SPRINGS LIME WORKS, 'Telephone ri7 CARROLL & CO., Lessees The Gainey City Land and Improvement Company Campobello High School iCo-educationai.i I. \\ . \\ :ind <i. 'I*. (;r<‘sh;tin, Co-prinHpul*. I lore! 1 am now receiving New Goods, and will sell you any thing in my line as cheap a> you can huy from any house. I carry a general line of Dry floods, Notions, Shoes, Hats, Groceries, Light Hard ware, Glassware, Crockery and almost anything in a general line of merchandise. Remem ber, I carry the best Axes. See my prices on all goods before buying. Respectfully, I. M. PEELER. 1.1 \. I.. T. GKKSUA.M. < 'umiMjItello, S. e. \\ ith every $20.00 sale of furniture I will give youuhand- some picture. Now is your chance to buy furniture cheap and get a beautiful picture for nothing. I also have an up-to-date line of funeral supplies. 1.5. Clarkson. tf^-Xoxt door to Postotlice. Commencing Saturday, September 9th, and will continue for the week. All Summer Millinery to go at cost and less than o<m . AOO yds Embroidery to go at cost and less than cost. 100 Corsets to be closed out regardless of cost. 1000 yds Colored Lawns, worth 10c., will sell next week for tie. 1000 yds Percales, best quality, regular 10c. kind, my price for the week .V. My stock ol Dry Goods and Notions are complete iu every respect. Come and inspect these bargains before you buy elsewhere. ®lioe I >c‘i>iii't meiit is replete w ith everything in tiie Shoe line, and I am offering some unprecedented bar gains. $2.50 Slippers at $1.00. $1.00 Slippers at 5<>c. 50c. Slippers at 25c. Ladies’ $2.00 Shoes at $2.00. Frank D. Wevlman’s goods. Ladies’ $1.50 Shoes at $1.00. Ladies’ $1.25 Shoes at 75c. T ncloi'woit i'. A few dozen 50c. gauze undershirts to be closed out at 20c. ©Iiii'tH sxt Oost Big line of Globe colored shirts from 25c. to 85c. Olotliiii}*'- I have arranged three tables of clothing iu which you will find genuine bargains. Your choice of any suit on table No. I for $ 5.00. Your choice of any suit on table No. 2 for 7.50. Your choice of any suit on table No. 2 for 10.00. We guarantee that these are the best bargains in clothing that are being offered in Gaffney. These prices will prevail for one week only, and will be withdrawn after Saturday, September 16th. Also carry a full line of Choice Groceries at rock bottom prices. 12 lbs. good Coffee for $1.00. Good Flour at at $2.00 per hundred. JOIIJV C.