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P , G. STAr*Y, I’ri-siilout, J. O. Warblaw. Vico Presldon THE KiTIOHiL BANK OF CAPFNET, Capital $50,000.00. WiLt, buy county claims, receive deposit aad make Tiberai loans on approved paper I). C. Itoss, Cashier. The Ledger SEMI-WEEKLY-PUBLISHED TUESDAY AND FRIDAY. WE GUARANTEE The Reliability of Every Adver tiser Who Uses the Col umns of This Paper. A Newspaper in all that the Word Implies and Devoted to the Best Interests of the People of Cherokee County. ESTABLISHED FEB. 10, 1894. GAFFNEY CITY. S. C., FRIDAY, JUNE S, 1900. $1.00 A YEAH. THE CLOSING SCENES OF LIMESTONE COMMENCEMENT, Grc.H Crowds Attend the Closing Exercises at the College Auditorium. MAGNIFICENT LITERARY ADDRESS BY DR. POWELL. I.;isi 1 1 if.r.iin \\a» the <'l!ina\ of the t’.diuiiciiceiiicnt KxereUes and Km braced the '.alulalnry. the l.iterury .\ddre.s, tlie Aildrcaa t«» the t.ra.lnating C'Ih»*hch, the rresenlatiun of tlie IHphiiiiu*. the \aledietory and n Hare .Musleal I’roKram. eral constituents, especially carbon ate of lime, which, consolidating and crystallizing, accumulate over tlie lioors and walls of the caves and The closing scenes of the nineteen hutidred commencement at Limestone College will long he remembered by those wiio h.'id t!u* privilege of attend ing. The attendance was the largest that we have known and the interest manifested bus been very deep. The class day exercises at Lime stone on Tuesday were unusually at tractive The exercises were con ducted entirely by the young ladies of the graduating class, (^uite a number of friends and visitors mani fested their interest in the class and an appreciation of what they have ac- complislied during the year by as sembling in the commodious and beautiful auditorium to witness the exercises. Promptly at 10 o’clock the class appeared on the platform clad in Ox ford caps and gowns. The following young ladies constitute the class: Miss Corri X. Smith, President; Miss Kay Macomson, Vice-President; Miss Margaret McKie, Secretary and Treasurer; .Misses Annie W. Krown, Claire H. Hrown, Annie It Denny, Violet Morel.oad, Maud It. The npson. Nancy K. Thompson and Jtertha I. Walker. The first number on Hie program was the class history, by Miss Claire Ji. Brown. The ciass prophecy was delivered by Miss Ann: It. Denney. After a piano solo by Miss Annie M. Martin the class poem was read by Miss Margaret McKie. The class oration was delivered by MissCorrie X. Smith. Miss Minnie Carroll fa vored the audience with a delightful solo, after which the class will was read by Miss Kay Macomson. The audience was highly gratified with the charming and cultivated manner in which the young ladies acquitted themselves. They had about them that sweet, refined, wo manly manner which is characteristic of all true women, and a characteris tic which girls at Limestone imbibe almost unconsciously, for the very atmosphere of the place is permeated with the influence of dignity and thorough Christian culture. In the evening a reception was giver, by the graduating class. The parlors in the college were ta '(.felly decorated and brilliantly lighted. Quite •! number of guests were pn sent. The Limestone girls are certainly delightful hostesses, and everybody seemed to throughly enjoy tl .* occasion. During the evening the way was led to the diningroom where refreshments were daintily served by fair hands. Among the guests were members of the Alumnae who had not seen their Alma Mater for a number of years Lai who had returned to hid nor Godspeed. Beginning at 8 dK 1 o’clock Wednes day ev< ning the faculty of Limestone gave a reception in the college to the people of Gullney, visitors attending the commencement, and the college Students. The occasion was one of great success and brilliancy. The faculty of Limestone are noted for succeeding in everything they under take, hence those who had been in vited knew that a rare treat was in store for them and had looked forward to the occasion with many anticipa tions. More than three hundred guests were present. The parlors were brilliantly lighted and tlie long verandas were decorated with Japan ese lanterns. The old chapel was converted into a banquet hall where from tables tastily decorated with ferns and llowers dainty refreshments were served. Last night’s exercises were tlie most elaborate of any of the entire com mencement week, uud the program was of such a nature as to he easily classed as the climax of the com mencement. It was !> o’clock when the doors leading to the spacious au ditorium wore dosed and the invoca tion was pronounced by Kev. F. C. Hickson, after which Prof. Wade It. Brown rendered Batiste’s ofTertoire, D minor, upon the pipe organ. Presi dent Ley Davis Lodge announced the program, the first of which was the salutatory, by Miss Ray Macomson. Mrs Grace Buttis-Brown rendered in a charming manner Sullivan’s "The Last Chord," after which Dr. Lodge introduced in appropriate and fitting terms Major John W. Powell, LL. D.. who delivered the literary address. Major Powell began with a few im promptu remarks and then took up the subject of his address, which was archaeology, and spoke ns follows: In the study of archaeology men re sort to three great classes of records. The science of geology seeks lo din- cover the history of the earth—of the rocks of which it is composed, and of tlie olurits and animals which have iivt-d from time to time. In this rc- m arch I lie gt ologint discovers that nature’s last chapter contains a story of mankind, for it is found that the I-oim s of man and some of the works of his arts have been hurled by nut ti ll I Hgcnco s in tlie gcologh forma tions. Komctiiin n tin sc materials of in -lory uro buried in cave drift and In di ptisiis d» rivi I from riiineral wa ters . w i,h h drop ftotn t he ceilings or o i/e from tin* crevices of the eaves, Jo Mowing away and evaporating, luch waters leave behind certain min- form pavements of calcite and ara gonite. From the waters dropping down from the ceilings stalactites are formed above and stalagmites be low’, in marble columns of great nat ural beauty. Under and within such formations the bones of men and ve tiges of their arts are sometimes dis covered associated with the bones of animals, some of which are found to be of extinct species; but the relics of man are found in other formations. Altogether, the finds aro not many. The geologic record of man we may cal! the Stone Book. It records but a meager; tale the rock-leaved bible of geology lias but a postscript devoted to mankind, but in it are facts which prove to be of profound interest. The Stone liook. The history of iiriiniil man is founil In doomsday hook of generations dead The rock-leaved bible called Geology. W ith pages graved in elemental strife. And every fossil letter cost a life. The primal arts were liorn In every land, j I - ' 1 r-. widely .scattered o'er ail lands are found Slone tomahawk and spear and knife and dart — The cruder vestiges of man's first art . r i ia* culture first expressed.in tools of Hint liegan in every laud, and long ago, — A moment reckoned right in scale of time. Tile geologic dial used by sage, Hut told in years of man, an unknown age. That history in stone spread «»Vr the earth Whose pagination is in fossil forms Records a meager tale of primal man — That lieing stiared by every lowly brute Without tlie trace of higher attribute. The t ime-hleaehcd casket erst ttiat held the brain Reveals but ill t he mind of early man, For nobler life of proud humanity Is not expressed in framework osseous, . Which petrifies in beds of ooze and clay. To Ire exhumed for cabinet display. Fools dig for bones and measure them by 1 uic, Their art yeleped as •‘Anthropology," Ami vainly deem they resurrect the man 1 n empi y cranium of ancient mole And find a "dolichocephalic" soul. Those primal men of stone-hook record liv«-d iu forests, round Die sheltered hays of sea, On shore where wild birds’ (light to reedy isle W .is mirrored clear in «iuiet woodland lake, j On hank where fishes played in purling brook. Nearspiing where llower bloomed iu (jub-t nook. The Kden fair of stone-book men was large They could not wander out through pinar zones. For, wailed witli ice, their l.deu was en closed. between these frozen lands, where summer's sun 'Die verdant lilils and waving meadows warmed, Their garden strelehed through all tlie zones of life. So all the lands to primal men gave hirtle- The universal denizens of earth. before they learned stoue knives to fashion fair. before they learned shell heads and plumes to Haunt, To build of llough end bark and reed and stone Their shelters rude from wind and drench ing storm, These men had wandered over every vale, And made their homes iu many a quiet dale. These sylvan men and dusky mates of old In tribes whose bonds were streams of kin dred blood And cords of love entwined of marriage ties Were scattered everywhere throughout the eartli before tlie human tongue was skilled iu sjieeeh, before tlie race had learned tlie trade of kings And forceof laws and majesty of courts. They lived in plenty with the crudest arts, And high emotions kindled not their hearts. but primal man expressed his thought in art, And fashioned stocks and stones for simple use, And slow evolved a lore of my tide life, And speech for mild or harsh exchange of thought, invented social life for help ami peace, And sports for wold illumed hy fagot light That eleft the shadows dense of forest night. From inoderu culture hack to primal slate These arts are traced In suie converging lines, The lore hoconilng more a mythic tul**, The tongues more balding iu simplicity. The Instil utluns ever found more crude, Tin* snorts more childish iu t heir simple glee To t race all this witli Just fidelity In task of truer Aulhroiiology. Song. book of the rocks adamaullne The drama of ocean and laud Mountain and forest and prairie And fountain a id cataract grand Aeons of change is your story While islands of ocean were planned. book of Hie ages unnumbered Willi record of Hood and of fire Headlands engulfed hy tlie waters And seas raging high In their Ire Aeons of earthquakes your story And mountains on funeral pyre. book of biology primal of lives on diversified plan blooming In Kdensof verdure Or 1 naming vy kindred and clan Aeons of life is your story Witli postscript for primitive man. Man was scattered widely overall tliu liuhitahlu eurlh in the early period of his development. The ‘ Garden ot Kden” whs nulled with ice, so Unit, iimn was not dispersed to the poles, lor the outer or polar lands were uninhabitable. Within these walls men were scattered far and wide, on the coasts of every sea, on the shores of every lake, and on the hanks of every stream, for every where between the frigid zones the vestiges of primeval man are dis covered. The ruins of his habita tions are thus widely spread—in palefits erected over lakes, in habita tions constructed in every valley, in villages where men gathered f>y tribes, and in cities where they were gathered by nations. The ruins of iiis ancient dwelling places and the vestiges of his arts scattered over the land are now esteemed of priceless value hy the scientific historian. The ruins furnish much more material than the rocks for the ancient history of mankind. Htone implements are found in great abun dance over all the eartli; implements of bone, horn, shell and wood are in like manner widely dispersed. In ruins of habitations and vestiges of arts a story is told of developing activities in all of the five great departments of art, for by them we learn much of the industries, pleas ures, speech as recorded in glyphs, institutions as illustrated by the paraphernalia of social organizations, and even of opinions us they are expressed in picture writings and ideographs. Let us call this the Kuin Book. It is a strange hook, studied bv aid of the pick axe and the shovel. Some-times habitations are found in ruins piled one over another, giving evidence of the occupancy of the sites for many Along the craggy battle-field of mount The cohorts plunge adown thu steep defile In torrent columns over pumice siopc And open canyon lanes to valley iow While chalky clitts are left to mark the way Of mighty rivers rolling on for aye. High up these cliffs the ancient tnan made home In lodges excavate with maul of trap Deep chambers carved in pumice. rock of white Tlie eavate dwelling strange of primal knight. but patient time who builds tlie continents And scatters them again o’er ocean Moor, but smiles at tufa clitl's and lays them low In ruined heaps where buried arts now show. The vales and planes that gather water sweet To feed the crystal streams that pour tin ir Hoods In Midland Sea that rocked tlie cradle soft Of early culture, now historical; The desert valley led hy tawny Nile: The bulbul vales of Tigris and Kuphrate The river lands of “I ml and far Cathay;” And table-lands bocrowned with mountains huge; Are all the sites of ancient cities dead Whose walls and turrets now an- buried deep And kings ami prophets tombed in final sleep. Then comes tin* story of Vesuvius With cities buried under fiery Hood For twenty centuries of deep repose. Tlie all ilestroyingelement of tin*, Its lust for slaughter sate with sacrifice, A moment paused to make a liook of fate A history devoid of love and hate, but more all over oriental lands From time to time great cities spread their walls, Whose ruins slumber deepen fertile plain Where rivers Dow in haste to join the main. Their roster vast is hook of final doom And every rolling hill is hut a tomb. to tho sacrifices as necessary to the happiness and prosperity of the dead on their journey to the spirit abode and for their welfare on their arrival in the land of the ghosts. In the burial of these works of art, records of the stage of culture to which they and their contemporaries had arrived were placed with the dead. It is thus that the tombs be come priceless relics of antiquity. In later times, when tribes had been organized into nations and higher arts developed, catacombs, sepul chers and mausoleums were con structed, sometimes hewn in rock. In the sarcophagi and in the cham bers of death many vestiges of cult ure are found, and often inscriptions •are discovered, all of which are now of prierdess value. It is thus that the tombs of the ancients constitute a book of history. Let us call it the Book of the Tombs. The Tomb book The peaks and crags and minarets of mount With crimson coronets and golden glow, Forever and forever doff their crowns And hide their mourning heads in clouds of woe As souls depart from life to vale Im-Iow Through many centuries of rolling years Mankind has marched around this planet hall Adown the htoad highway of teeming life The death's grim portal, open wide to all, . beyond whose gale there spreads a mystic pall. And on they course iu armies to the gate, Their greeting e’er a song of joyous tone, Their farewell e’er a requiem of grief; From joy to grief the phalanx marcheson beyond the pale where multitudes have LI M F.STUNK COL LEG K. centuries during successive culture periods extending from ruder to higher life. The vestiges of early homes are found 111 wild confusion scat tired o'er t lie cart h on sites of thorps no longer used hy man \ll marked with relics rude and strange and waste As tools of Hint jitel potsherds seat tered wide And mealing slom s and Isiwls of steatite And many a needle made id’ hone or horn And kitchen fragments now in heaps forlorn. For knife and spear and arrowhead man wrought The torrent fnshioiiod boulder of the stream And dorulck quarried from tin* bank of scaur And deftly wrought the stone to cutting edge With blow of granite hammar wrenched from cliff A while the spalls were scat tered o’er the glebe With reject forms that fitted not the plan of primal, patient, toiling artizan. Anon tlie failures found in quarry lodge Are made to tell of "paleolithic" man The finished tools of village site give proof Of "neolithic" art to puzzled sage So wandering by river hank at work Tin* sylvan man belongs to primal age but home rot 11 rued Is classed Ir, higher stage Ami 1 wo mysterious groups of men are found Whose occult arts bestrew the modem ground! In humid lands clear tarns relied the i|ky With sapphire depths and drifting clouds of gray While reeds and waterlillies fringe the shore Whose creeping roots reluctant share tho sands With driven boles of ash or oak or pine Foundation wlerd of undent pulefit The clustered dwellings reared alnive the wave Where sis'artnan pierced the trout with ant ler gluve. Lacuslriundwellings now in ruins lie beneath the storm-fed, wave-washed sands of time To bury many a work of primal art That now a tale of undent i imes Impart. In arid lands when- dill's and ledges stretch Athwart the opalescent <l«-si i t wild High mesas stand as broad foundation built I or pueblo homes in cent urlcs agoue Whose ruins tell the tale of culture's dawn. Where stalked the Ijoasling chief the wolf now prowls Where danced the lawny maid the raven hops Where children nude dcs|>orled in the sand i he badger digs a home for owl and snake 1 n undent tom-tom halls the bats now screech And gliding llzzards turn Its agile heudi To gaze on squirrel sporting o'er the dead. Eternal rivers roll through high plateaus And cut their chunnels deep witli llinty saws Till eiiuyoii wallso'erhiing the roaring wave With buttressed shelves uud adamantine Hours And stairways grand to storied halls of clill Allcarved by artists storms for homesof men iTIiucvul wanderers In canyon glen. These homes have crumbled, cliffs have fait 1*11 low And stairways grand have yielded unto Hood And primal arts are burled d< <*p In sand To In exhumed for lore of modern land. In geologic lluie the earth Was rent And blast from subterraneous furnace pour- cd A dot m of .lust athwart the firmaneiit In ill 1 an.s purveruleniof puinlee slom Which fell to earth awhile new mountains rose And round whose summits purple elouds ri - pose. As storms arc marshulloU under banner red I n occidental lands as ages came A thousand, thousand villiges were built To llourish under rule of chief and priest And be o’erwhelmed tty war of man and storm, Their lengthened roll a scroll of many tongues, Their history the tale of many tombs. Their hook of wars illumed by clubs and darts, Their book of deeds illumed by shard-,of arts. I The Itnln Itook. SOXti. 1 Tlie wind drifts dust on ancient thorp And the wavesspivad their ooze over hamlet of lake. The wild beasts roams where pueblo stood And the storm sweeps the sand over cliff- dweller's wake. The talus tombs the eavate lodge And the river engulfs the pantheon proud, Tin* desert creeps o’er ancient mart. And the hurricane weaves for the city a shroud. m Volcano dooms Pompeii fair Ami the gates of old bahylon swing never more I’alenque sleeps iu tropic word And the Andes •i*c dirging Huanacoof yore. In all ages birth and death have been abroad in the land. From the infant’s wail at birth to the mourn er’s cry at deatli men are engaged in the five great activities, i’rimeval man learned to bury his dead, and as the swarming generations have come down from antiquity through fields of life whoso sheaves wore garnered hy the sickles of death, tlie tombs have become the granaries of arts, to which the scientific historian resorts that ho. may discover the vestiges of the earlier humanities. Over all the earth these granaries are scattered in graves, mounds, catacombs, sepul chers and mausoleums, and the whole habitable earlft is a necropolis. Some times more than bones are found in tho ancient tombs, for often they con tain works of art. J’rimeval men were organized Into tribes hy bonds of affinity and consanguinity, The ownership of property was mainly in the tribe and in tlie clans and gentes, which were organized tribal units; hence property was cliieily communal in tho clan or gens and in the tribe. But some articles of property belonged to individuals, chiefly clothing uud ornaments, though u few implements and utensils were owned by Individual men and women. In order that con troversy should not urrse about the ownership of property of this charac ter, it was a fundamental doctrine of this early life that personal properly should be inherited hy the grave. With the dead person, therefore, were buried tlie clothing, ornaments, in struments and utensils which ho pos sessed at his death. Gradually thin institution became a sacred rite, as about it wore thrown the sand ions of religion; and in this more highly de- veloped stage property belonging to tho mourning friends was sometimes added to the sucrifieo. This was es pecially the case when personages of great importance were buried. In connection with thu rite a m>thoI(igle lore sprang up In many tribes by which special virtues were attributed siiil 011 they eonie, adown tlie sequent years. With cheer and glee and loud exultant boast, In tribes and nations pouring down tlie way, Forever eoming in a mighty host, Departing ever to the mystie coast. beside the cradle way to eoming life Fair.loy forever stands with arms unfurled. In earnls white resplendent as the clay, lies-golden tresses by the breezes curled. To greet arriving hosts to beauteous world. beside the postern way from life lo death >\ an Grief forex er leads tlie weeping band, In 1 railing rob •> of sorrow's sable hue For boils depart ing to I In- unknown strand From region filled with light to shadow- land. \\ hero every copse of blossom life isspreud Has rocked some cradle watched by mot bur's eye; Tin-soft south wind a fanning baby cheek: A low sweet song abashing baby cry, And fond caress asoothiug baby sigh. W'herever continents and islands rise Alxne the restless wave of boundless main, There every rood of land is ancient grave; And round this portal all the weeping train With sobbing liosonu, chant the sad refrain. The lullaby of joy is never hushed. The threnody of Grief is ever rife; but canticle and ululatlou mix In w ierd and ditliyramhic hymn ol strife That echoes dow n the corridors of life, Alas, pale death lias wandered round the world; His footprints mark the universal earth. His trails are meshed in every glade and wood. And tombs on tombs are piled lodlsmal bight And Imnes with Pune-, in ossuary laid And skull hy skull in circling ranks dis played. In mounds were placed tlie dead of early man. And multitudes of tumuli were built In tropic forest, palm grove, eypress wold. In fiord glen and stony glacial plain And on the sand spit built by stormy main That peace might reign they stored beside their dead Tlie simple wealth acquired by stilfi *ss It>i 1 ; As garments, weapons, tool of handiwork And baskets, vases, nrn imeni s mid toys And all the primal storeof childish joys, The cusloniaiy deed heeaine a rile lie|M au*i| o'er as sacred gift to love. I mil at last religion sealed it meet As sacrifice to deal aneest ral shade. An olTering to unseen spirit made. U he re Hows the Tennessee from mountain founts In sweeping curves lo river heuulil'ul, Among magnolia groves <d' attar rich And tulip trees whose blossoms strew the ground, There ancient clustered graves are stone wrought cl is That hold Ui • last remains of tribes un- know n Above whoso forms the mighty oaks have grown. On River Green that Hows from mountain turn To wed the River Grand whose source is found Where asters, gentians and lilies grow, \\ hose silent song is melody of light; There cairns tire built above the long lost dead And every native swart who journeys by Adds stone to stone In pious memory. beneath Andean peaks whose summits ilse A Give 1 he tide of tlie wide I'uciUc sea A sand dune strelelies bleak to naked sliore SV here men are tombed iu vestments wrought of wool, The wondrous tapestries of Gols-liu In weird necropolis of old Ancon, The city held hy hosts of tiiqe o’erthrown. Where turbid Tilier creeps o’er ancient plain Among tin* ruins vast of elder world. Fast tomb of emperor and tomb of slave The hosts of dead are stored in catacomb, The gloomy subterranean hall of Rome. Where Kedron’s rills roll on as .Iordan rolls To lib t he I a ad Sea vased in Falcsi ine, Jerusalem the mighty stands to guard The Saered Sepulchre w here Mary stood And weeped her Lord and Give and Life and Hope. Anon the armies meet and warfare wage To win Redeemer's tomb as battle guage. In Afric highlands where the mountain rise To kiss the clouds and woo their welcome snows, Great rivers How with waters sweet and pure To join where lauds are swept with wild simoons And waves of Nile are stained w itli drifting dunes. Tlie Nile fed desert homed an empire vast, Once kinged by Fharaohs w hom Moses knew. Who ruled o’er hosts of slaves, the spoils of war. These weary toilers, urged hy tyrant lash. Wrought mighty blocks from distant granite cliffs, And built the pyramids as tombs for kings Who sought through mummied deatli new life to gain And wondrous immortality obtain. Where many a city stood in ancient time A mausoleum housed a line of kings Embalmed and wrapped in cerements of the waste. Now titles proud and histories are lost, but refuse cerenieiiLs have a story lore More highly prized than scripture tomes of yore. A melancholy book, this tome of tombs Whose leaves a re scat tered over ail the eart h. No pinion plucked from wild bird’s soaring wing. No papyrus from reedy river hank, No pitchy ink compound of gum and soot Were made lo serve the author's Ulikeuued task. Ah. lilt le dl earned lie oj't In* curious lore He writ in silent sepulchre of yore. Song. t 'enturies come and centuries go, Solitude reigns where monarch was crown ed; battlements down and minarets low. The cities arc strewn over desolate ground. Gone are the years and gone are tin* folk; Lost is the tale of opulent life; Whelmed by the years or whelmed at a stroke Tliweities are gone with their turmoil and strife. Capitol wrecked, metropolis crushed. Palace in dust and temple in ash; Tyrant in tomb and orator hushed, The cities are gone in the centuries’ crash. Major Powell was given tho closest attention duriiR; the delivery of his address and at its conclusion was lib erally applauded. Miss Addle McArthur Gien dered in charming style Mendels sohn’s Concerto, G minor, the or chestral parts being played on the second piano hy Mr. Brown. Prof. Griffith was introduced by Dr. Lodge and in his own inimitable style delivered the address to tho graduating classes. This was follow ed by the presentation of the diplo mas by Captain Joint H. Montgomery, president of tho board of trustees of tho college. Miss Minnie Carroll then rendered Faure’s Sancta Maria with good af fect, after which the valedictory was delivered hy Miss Corrie X\ Smith. This was followed hy Tannhauser’s Overture on two pianos and the organ hy Misses Steedly, Jones, Griffith and Sams and Mr Brown, after which the benediction was pronounced hy Kev. B. P. Robertson, thus' closing one of the most successful coinmenceznents in the history of Limestone. BLACKSBURG BUDGET. l'cr*ou:il 1‘itrugrupliH Concerning tlie Peo ple AcroM the llroitil. Bi.At KgbURG, June 7.—Messrs. T. V. Mays and P. R. Freeman returned home Monday night, after spending several days in Louisville. Capt. B. J. Anthony, who has been in our city for tho past few days, left lust Tuesday, accompanied by Walter Bontly, for Baltimore. Mr. A. M. Bridges went to Gaffney Monday on business. Mrs. S. K. Bridges has gone on a visit to her daughter, Mrs. M. F. Nichols, at Furls. Mrs. \V. Hester and daughter, Miss Lilian, of Kuthcrfordton, are visiting their many friends in this place. Mr. Jumta Brown went over to Gaffney Tuesday night to tho com mencement ut L mestone. Mr. Gilliard Cline, of Gaffney, was in town last Tuesday. Miss Beda Wright, of Spartanburg, is visiting her sister, Mrs. J. C. Dun can. Kev. D. M. McLeod has gone on a visit to his mother in Lynchburg. An ice cream supper was given in the Park Iasi ni^ht for the bent fit of 1 he base hull club, which was quite successful. About $22.00 were made. Mr. W. II. Mercer, who has been in Richmond for, some time, is at home on u visit. We are sorry to learn that Mrs. J. A. Maxwell, who has been quite ill for some time, is not any better. Mr, Ben Hill Brown, ui Cowpens, was in our place Tuesday. Miss Pauline Whisonunt is in Gaff ney attending the commencement ut Limestone. l. b. u. A Good Couah Medicine, It speaks well for Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy when druggist use it in their own families In preference to any other. "1 have sold Chamle r- lui’s Cough Remedy for the past five years with complete satisfaction to myself and customers,” says Drug gist J. Goldsmith, Van Ktten, N. V. "1 have always used it iu my own family both 'for ordinary coughs and colds and for tho cough following la grippe, ami find it very efficacious.” For sale by Cherokee Drug Co. fHVTSS A NEW NATIONAL PARTY He Writes a Letter on the Po litical Situation. WILL FIGLT M’KINLEY National Negro Party Organized to Oppose His He-Electlon — Colorado Democrats Meet—Holt Nominated by Democrats of West Virginia. New Haven, Juno b.—E. C. Bene dict, tho New York banker who recently returned from a trip with ex-Presideut Cleveland, has written a letter iu which ho says: “The gross outrages perpetrated in the name of the Democratic party by tho present managers of a party by that name will scarcely have a vestige of old Democratic gospel left in it and makes me at present a political orphan. I am practically disfranchised hy their action, while their infidelity to Democratic principles have proved infidelity to the name to such au extent that 1 greatly fear we can never again succeed under it. “lam net alone in this orphanage. On the contrary I have uot a single ac quaintance among my Democratic Irieuds with whom I have conferred who does not share this feeling with me. Ir is also very apparent that this politi cal orphanage is not confined to those of our faith. McKinley is becoming almost as repugnant to the rank and file of It* publicans as Bryan is to us. Asa temporary choice of evils the latter may survive the former, but only for a little while. “These vast and increasing rebellious elements from the ranks of Ixith parties, having common duiro-rs are fast becom ing common friends, and are anxious to become enrolled under one banner. “But before an organization of these elements can bo effected it is the plain duty of outraged Democrats to use their best individual efforts in the absence of organization to clean house by the com plete destruction of Bryunism. Soon thereafter MeKiuli-yism must surely perish as a punishment for its infidelity to all sound principles of government. Then will come the opportunity for the formation of a great party, based on a platform similar to the National Demo cratic party of ls!i<;. The leaders will he forthcoming when the proper time arrives.” CONNECTICUT^ FOR BRYAN. Delegates Elected and Adopt Plat> lunn—Sympathy For Hocrs. Wateubuky, Conn., June 8. — Tho Democratic state convention assembled here and elected delegates to tho na tional convention ut Kansas City. Tho state committee was engaged untilalate hour considering the New London con test, which was exceedingly acrimoni ous. 1 u the New Haven district caucus ex-CoBffressmun James D. Digott de feated National Gomraittceman Alex ander Troupe for delegate to tho na tional convention. The convention unanimously adopted u, platform, naming William J. Bryan as its candidate for president, instruct ing tho delegates for Mr. Bryan and pledging support to the platform of tho Kansas City convention. Temporary Chairman E. G. Kilduff made si short speech, appealing for har mony in the party. After scoring the Republican party for what he declared were its relations to tho trusts ho at- tueked the administration's stand on im perialism, ad\ >fated government owner ship of railroads, telegraphs, telephones, and advocated the election of senators by popular vote and concluded with an oxpres. ion of sympathy for the Boers. He niado no reference to the money question. NEGROES OPPOSE M’KINLEY. K. G. Walker Interviewed on National Negro Party. Boston, Juno 8.—Former Judge E. G. Walter, who was mentioned as a presi- denHal possibility at the meeting of tho National Negro party iu Philadelphia, says: “I have heard rumors of tho forma tion of such ti party. It is a beautiful theory. I believe one of the principles of tho party was for negro men either to refrain from voting or vote for this new party. So far as not voting is concerned, I iKdieve in voting if I were up to my neck in blond. “In regard to a presidential nomina- tiou, I have no desire or ambition to be dragged around in tho mud. “This action of the negroes seeking a new party is no doubt inspired by tho recent talk about repealing tho fifteenth amendment. The United Btates will never repeal the fifteenth amendment. “There is it general feeling among tho negroes against tlie Republican party this coining election if President Mc Kinley is the standard beamr. Mr. Mc Kinley has no sympathy for tho negro.*' Colorado Democrats Meet. Denver, June 8.—The state Demo cratic convention in session here sur- }Misses in attendance and enthusiasm any similar gathering of that party ever held in Colorado. More than 1,000 del egates assembled in the Tabor Grand Opera House, Of t lie 72.‘I delegates from outside Denver and Arapahoe county tho supporters of Governor Thomas claim assurances of 423 votes, while tho M;t- loney delegation claims 600. It is be lieved that Governor Charles 8. Thoma will head the Colorado delegation to the national convention. Holt Heads the Ticket. PAUKi'iisauRo, W. Va., Juno 8.—The Democrat ie state convention which ad journed after midnight reconvened this morning. The only nomination made last night was that of Judge H. H. Holt of Huntington for governor. Tlie other nominations were made during the day. Navigation Is Open. Hkatti.e, Wash., Jnuo 8.—News in dicating that tlie ice has loft Behring sen and that navigation is o]ieii to Capo Nome lias bo u received in this city in a lefti r from one of the crew of thu sail ing nchoouur Fischer Brothers. - ■ —: <j