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rm Tub: x^b:i>ob:w. BY Ed. H. DkCamp. PUBLISHED TUESDAY AND KKIDAY SUHSCKIFTION FKICK: Oash in advance, per year.... $1 00. On time, per year $1.50. \ The Ledger Is not responsible for tbv views of correspondents. Oorrespondents who do not contri bute regular news letters must fur nish their name, not for publication, but for identification. All correspondence should be ad dressed to Ed. H. DeCamp, Manager. NOTES AND COMMENTS. The Farmer's Institute at Clemson College was largely attended, and if we are to judge from newspaper re - ports the benefits were palpable and immense. VVe do not mean to speak lightly or disparagingly of the Insti tute and its workings. But we really should like to see some of its leaders and instructors undertake to run a farm for one year and compare r< *ults in the fall with such farmersasT. M. Littlejohn, Lem Blanton, Basil Petit and B F. White, of Cherokee county. ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ It is confidently asserted that Rev. F. C. Hickson will meet Senator Till man at Marion tomorrow and publicly debate with him the question at issue. If it be true, the public may expect some rich developments. We have before asserted, and we repeat, that Hickson is more than a match for Tillman, and in this case, having the right and the best sentiment of the State to sustain him, he would be thrice armed, and we should look for him utterly to demolish his insolent and burly antagonist. Let the debate take place. It will do more towards clearing the murky political sky that) all the campaign thunder that for two months has been reverberating over the country. The State campaign ended last Wednesday in Columbia, and its end will bring nearly as much relief to the people as the end of the drought. With some exceptions it has been con ducted on a low plane, the leading idea being to pull down the other fel low, and its effect has been demoral izing rather than educating and ele vating to the people. We think that Patterson and Gary have failed to con vince the people that McSweeny’s ad ministration has been seriously defec tive, and we doubt if Ben Tillman’s officious Interference will turn many votes away from Hoyt. It only re mains now for the people to bring in their verdict,which will be awaited by many with great anxiety. ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ The long dry heated term has been broken at last and Gaffney and vicin ity have been visited by a welcome, refreshing rain. From the appear ance of the clouds the rain must have been extensive and we hope that the whole country has been relieved from the persistent, oppressive, wilting heat and drought. Many crops have been blighted beyond restoration, but others will be reclaimed. Early corn was pretty well made before the drought got in its work, and late corn is not yet exhausted. Peas and po tatoes will come with a rush, and the prospect is that the price of cotton will make up for the deficiency In quantity. New cotton is already bringing over nine cents and the con ditions may not be so bad after all. “Number Not “Hello.” [Greenville News.l Probably few people know that in articulating the word “hello,” there is a peculiar strain on the throat. Nevertheless it is a fact, especially if there is a rise in the voice in pronouncing the last sylla ble. The throats of the young wo men in the Home Telephone compa ny’s exchange here have become so affected by articulating this word so many times a day, that at the advice of a physician, Dr. W. C. Black, they have abandoned the word alto gether, beginning yesterday. Miss Eudora Martin, who has been serving '\ tne company several years as opera- ( tor is most affected. \ Hereafter- in answering calls the operators will say “number,” but firs does not mean that there will be any difference in making the connec tions. Au Editor’* MDtake. Editors have their troubles. One of these men who presides over the destiny of a Western newspaper is mourning the loss of two subscribers. No. 1 wrote asking how to raise his twins safely, while the other wanted to know how he can rid his orchard of grasshoppers. The answers went forward by mail, but by accident the editor put them into the wrong envelopes, so that the man with the twins received the an swer: “Cover them carefully with straws and set fire to it, and then the little pests, after jumping in the 11am“s a few minutes will be speedily settled.” And the man with the grasshoppers was told to “give castor oil and rub their gums with a bone.” NTATE Or OHIO. ( ITV or l OLKbO. » Lucas county. f* 8, Khan* J. Cmknky inulotNoitOi that IikIm the Keillor partner of tho linn of F. J. Ciiknky A Co., dolnif busliiess In the City of Toledo, county and Htute aforcMaiil. and that nald firm will nay the nuiji of ONE IICNDKKD DOLLAKH /or eaeh and every ea*e of Ca Tahiiii that vannot ho uurod by tbuuMiof il AM.'S C'ATAUUH VllllK. KUAtU J. CIJENKY. Kworn to before me and Huhtterlhed In my pretence, tills dlh day of Dei'tpdiey, A, I), J*M) Ih^aTI A, W. GLKASOM, I Notary Public, Hair*CuturrbCure I*taken Internally and act* dlreetly on I be blixxl uud mueou* sgr- faces of the HysU-tu. Send for U-M lmunlals f roe. E.J. CHENEY * CO., To ledo, O Hold by Hruiriflkt*, 7di\ HuH'm Family rills ar* tho best. AMID THE OAKS OF ANTIOCH. The Campaigners Pour Forth Their Eloquence. THE MEETING TUESDAY. A Fair Crowd of Voter* and Non-Voter* Turn Out to Hee and Hear the Candi date* at Antioch Ciiurcb, Near KIuk’* Mountain. Amid the classic oaks of Antioch on the borders of the historic battlefield of Kings Mountain the county cam paigners poured forth their logic and eloquence last Tuesday. Antioch is a lovely place. Nature has been lavish in bestowing her charms and gallent men and women have added their talents untill today there is scarcely a more beautiful place to be found in the whole state. A magnigeent brick church stands as a monument to the generosity and enterprise and Chris tian chracter of the people. At the foot of a hill about a hundrid yards from the church a silvey stream gushes forth as if impatient to release itself from the confince of mother earth and slack the thirst of man and beast. The first church building stands as a reminder of the early struggles of the people for the bread of life. It is now used as a school house and The Ledger man sat within its walls beside a man who had as sisted, when he was s boy more than 115 years ago, in the work of cealning it. This man was Mr. E. R. Johnson, one of the dest men in that commu nity. Upon the walls were such appropriate mottos as “Onward is our aim,” “Always be polit, ” “Always on time,” “No idleness here,” ect. Chairman J. B. Hambrick intro duced Mr. James L. Strain, candidate for county superintendent of educa tion, as the first speaker. Mr. Strain said in part: “It affords me a great deal of pleasure to meet the good people of this section and to speaa to tpeak to them on a question in which we are all more or less interested— the educational question. I have no fault to find with the administration of Prof. McArthur, If I am elected your county superintendent of education I shall do all in my power to further the cause of the common school. I shall not interfere with the regular established wors; of the schools except where I may think it would be for the best interest of the schools. I shall at all time seek and solicit the co-operation of the pupils and patrons, and will endeavor to work for their best interests. I am not in favor of the summer schools. I believe the money spent on them could be better expended in the interest of the common schools. I am in favor of employing the best teachers possible. It is only by the employment of capable teachers that the best possible results can be ob tained. I have no pet schemes to present to the people but will simply say that if I am elected to the office of county superintendent of education I will endeavor to discharge the duties of the office impartially and will know no friend or foe. I thank yuu for the attention you have given me, and especially do I thank those ladies for their attendance, and I will now give way to some other speaker Prof. W. F. McArthur said in part: “I have no set speach to make. This matter of the public schools is large ly a local one. You have a right to know about your schools and I hape you will ask me any questions you may see fit to ask and I will take pleasure in answering them if I can. (No one asked any questions ) At the formation of the new county the public schools of the new county were in debt$fi,200 in round numbers. They have paid that and now have on hand over $f?,000. This district, however, did not owe any of the $3.- 200. We have built nineteen school houses, rangigg in price from $75 to $400. I am being opposed in this race by some who think that I have not done my duty. I believe in car rying out the law whether I approve of the law or not. I am a Democrat. I mean by that this is a democratic government and that when a majority of the people want a thing done that I should acquiesce. I believe that I should continue to try to show to them that they are wrong if I believe they are wrong. When the trustees come to me in a body and demand a thing I belive I should give it to them if 1 can. I do not approve of the diploma system. A man or a woman may secure a diploma from a college, lay it away in a trunk or chest and try every other vocation and make a failure and then hunt up their old diploma and demand a teachcTs’ cirtificate on it whether they are qualified to teach or not. I have known this to be done. The county gets about $145 of the $10,- 000 appropriated from the titate treasury and the Peabody fund for the summer schools. It cost about $3 for each teacher who attend the summer school at Gaffney this year. If this money had not been spent in that way we would not have received any benefit from the Peabody fund. I am in favor of competent teachers whether they posaesa a diploma or not. Huccesa beats any kind of a diploma. The three mill tax runs the public schools. The poorest child gets the same advantage of this three mill tax ae the richest one. I am in favor of treating the negro right, but I claim that the white trustees have the right to give the negro $15 or $20 and the white teachers $30 or $40 a month If they wanted to. This is a white man's govt-rumeut and the colored people must know that tho white mao in tends to run it. I hope to beat my compeitor three to one, although 1 have nothing against him personally. J. li Jonee, candidate for county treasurer said > “I have been before the people twice for the office fqjr which l now seek re-election. I have but one promise to make ami that ia this i If I am eleoted I 'hank the people for their votes by giving thorn the best possible service.” Mr. Jones explained at length how errors occur in tne office of the treasurer in the matter of tax executions and sug- gestep that the matter could be minimized if the people would be careful to report all the transfers. Mr. T. II. Littlejohn, also candi date for the office of county treasurer, announced himself in a short but ap propriate little speech in which ho gave a brief sketch of himself. He said in part: “I hav&nothing to say against my competitor. He has held the office for nearly two tearms and I think it is time lor him to give it up to some else and I think I am toe man to have it. I want it and I will endeavor to make you a good officer if you elect me. I have lived in Gaffney nineteen years. I have been a clerk for fourteen years of that time. The other five years I was postmaster. I have had some ex perience in public work, and I be lieve I can and will make you a good officer. Mr. J. J. Gaffney, candidate for county supervisor, said: “I am a candidate for the office of county supervisor. I have nothing to say against my opponents. I am run ning strictly on my own merits, if I possess any, and will endeavor to make you a good officer if you think I am the man for the place. I think I am the man for the place. I think I am qualified to 1111 the position. I I will thank you for yonr vote if you see fit to vote for me, and if you do not see fit to vote for me, and if you do not think I am the man, why vote for some one else.” Mr. E. R. Sapocb, candidate for county supervisor, was the nextspek- er. He said: i am not among stran gers, and I come not as a stranger, but as one of you. This is the scenes of my ceildhood, and I have grown up among pou and spent tee happiest and best part of my life here. I think I am as well qualified to serve you as any of my opponnets. I think my eqperience with county affa<rs have given me some advantages over my opponents. If elected I will see that each section gets its proportionate part of the commution tax. I believe where a section uses the chain gang the commution tax of that section should go to some other section. If elected I shall have no pets. I will know no section, but will endeavor to make you a worthy and faithful officeV.” Mr. J. H. Turner, candidate for county supervisor, was the speaker. He said: “lama stranger among the people over here, but if you de sire to know anything about me I refer you to the people whom I live among and who know me best. If elected I shall tJeat every section alike and will endeavor to make you an acceptable supervisor. I have no criticisms to make of my competitors. I am running strictly on my own merits and promise faithful and ef ficient service if elected. Mr. J. V. Wheichell, candidate for county supervisor, was the next speaker. He said in part: “lama stranger on this side of the river and I think it will be well for me to tell you where I am from. I live three miles above Gaffney and am a farmer by profession. I have had some ex perience on the public roads and be lieve I am able to make you a good supervisor. 1 am in favor of chang ing the present system of road work ing. I believe in spending what money we have on permanent road building. I am sunning on my own merits and not on the demerits of any of my competitors. If elected I shall look after the affairs of the county in an economical manner. I do not believe in being niggardly but I shall endeavor to avoid extrava gance. I shall thank you if you vote for me on the 28th.” Mr. R. M. Jolly, candidate for county supervisor, was the next speaker. He said in part: “This is not the first time I have been before this audience. I adpeared before you ones before to discuss the Sunday School question and now I come to talk about the roads. Both of them are importane questions. I bave been on the county board for four years and bave had the experience. I was the ’first man to advocate good roads in this section of the country. I fiant the public roads in Cherokee county to be like those in Mecklen burg county, in North Carolina. I was sent up there to attend a good roads congress. Some business men took me out over the roads in a fine vehicle with two horses hitched to it. Ail these horses had to do was to hoist their tails over the dash board end sift sand in your face. I actu ally had to hold my bat over my eyes to kees the dirt out. They cut out the hills and take the nirt to fill in the low places. They bave the best roads up there ever I saw and I want Chorokee to follow their exampie. I believe in a man hoisting a stand ard and then going up to the stand ard, or higher if possible. I hate to beat four good men for this office, for it will make them all sick. But it will not kill them. I have been made sick maself, and I got over it The offioe needs a mao of backbone, git, grit and brain in it, and I pro fess to bave these four assential qualities. I propose, if elected, to give each section its just deserts. I claim to be the best road men in the lot because I have studied the ques tion more than any of the balance of them. If elected 1 shall advocate the calling of a road congress iu this county amj will do gll in iqy power to educate the people in tho intercut, of good roads.” Mr. Jolly closed by paying the people a nice little com pliment. A recess was then taken for din ner. The good ladies had brought baskets well filled with the sun- sUntials and delicacies of life, and the hungry gathering was not slow ts accept the generous hospitality of tec people. 4U were filled to the fullest eapaoity and there was plenty to spare. After dinner the Autiouh hand played several selections after which tbe speaking was resumed, this time under the shade of the stately oaks. Mr. J. V. L. McCraw, candidate for the House of Representatives was the first speaker. He said in part: “This is about the twelfth meeting we have attended |u this campaign. It is becoming very tiresome to some LIMESTONE COLLEGE, Limestone College is thoroughly equipped and offers to young women ad vantages unsurpassed, if equaled, hy any other college in the South. The Literary and Scientific Course comprises TXCIV »OIXOOI^», while there are Five More for the extra courses of Music, Art, Elocution, Business, Stenography and Typewriting, all furnished with the best modern facilities and presided over by teachers of acknowledged ability. New and superb buildings, steam heat, hot and cold baths, large airy dormitories, new furni ture, new pianos, extensive Chemical and Physical Laboratories, a great Library, 150 yards of broad piazzas, both pure Limestone and Artesian Water, the most beautiful ten-acre Campus in the State, with ten acres more of romantic pleasure grounds attached,—these are some of the prominent features and constant attractions of Limestone College. The regular instruction given in the class-rooms is supplemented hy lectures delivered by members of the faculty and at stated times by lecturers of * IVeit ioiiiil Bteputation in $»eienee mid Iviterntnre. The Winnie Davis School of History designed to collect, preserve and disseminate the His torical facts of our country, and to give the present and coining generations clear views of the motives and achievements of our lathers, is a part oi the College and is endorsed officially hy two State Legislatures, live Governors, many prominent citizens of tire South, and by the United Con federate Veterans. The next session will open on September 19th. Terms very reasonable. Write f< r Catalogue and further information to Senior Professor. Captain II. P. Griffith, or to the President, LEE DAVIS LODGE, A. M., Ph. D. of us. I am glad and I am sorry that it is coming to a close. Glad because the worry and anxiety will soon be over. Sorry because I will not be abH to mingle with tho people and receive their hearty handshake. VVe have had more- time for speaking during this campaign than we hud during the last one because there are not so many of us running this time. You will hear something today about bi-ennial sessions or the legislature. I am against bi-annual sessions. Georgia and North Carolina have both tried bi-annual sessions of the legislature and did not save money. You will also hear something said about two sets of jurors for Cherokee county. I never heard of that before this campaign. When the people want anything all they have to do is to let their representatives know it, and if they want too sets of jurors for Cherokee all they have to do is to let their representatives know it and the matter will be looked into. At the last sessing on the legislature we enacted a bill creating Antioch pre cinct because the people over here wanted it. We enacted a bill cre ating a sinking fund for the countv because the supervisor remmeuded it. You will hear a good deal said today about the State farms. I am not in favor of the convicts coming in com petition with free labor. '1 he State penitentiary made no motsey until the State farms were established. All this talk about abolishing the State farm and penitentiary is bosh. It is political thunder. What are you going to do with the women in the penitentiary? You certainly do not want to put them out on the road and make them pick rook and shovel dirt. Of course Bill Neal stole from the penitentiary. From time immemorial men have stolen and violated the trust imposed in them, Look at tiie stealing of the Republi can carpet-baggers in Cuba. Look how they robbed tbe South after tbe war between the states. The trouble with Bill Neal was that he got to living too high down tiiere in Colum bia and he hud to steal to keep up with his associates. Another thing you hear talked about is that tbe county is out of debt and that it should stay out. That it false econo my. I believe iu letting the coming generations share their portion of the public debt. It is better the county to bo in debt because it makes the officials more economical. We are not fighting each other. We simply take issue with each other >n these matters that interest the public. I voted for the completion of the State capitol and I am proud of it, and would do it again. When completed we will have the finest State capitol in the country except the one in Texas, and ours will be nearly as fine as that for they are both ou the same plan. They are on the plan of the capitol bui'ding at Wash ington. I am in favor of edu cation. I am in favor of Clemson and Winthrop, for they are the poor man’s college, but I am not in favor of those two old aristocratic colleges, the South Carolina College and the Citadel. I want to see the old Soutli Carolina College and the Citadel de stroyed. I am in favor of two State colleges. We enacted a bill at the last legislature not to require a boy to work the roads. I don’t believe in putting a buy on the roads along with his father. It makes him feel as big as his daddy. A bill was in troduced in the last legislature pro viding for an inspector to look after the kerosene oil used in the State. We hated to create another salaried office but we thought it was in the interest of the people. We after wards found out that the bill we ad vocated would endanger tho lives of the people so we were glad to aban don It. 1 Introduced the bicycle hill and Josh Ashley championed It for me. I believe there was merit in that bill, but we were defeated. 1 am against the wide tire hill because wo are too near the North Carolina line. The people from Nort h Caro lina could come down here and cut up our roads with their narrow tired ve hicles. I voted against tiie county salary bill because it would have cost us more to run our county on that plan than it does under the present plan. I am in favor of the dispensary because of the profit feat ure. 1 will never vote for prohibi tion. What is the use of allowing liquor to be sold and the county not got any revenue from it? You can’t enforce prohibition. Look at Cleve land county,adjoining us. J am told that there is more liquor sold in Cleveland county under prohibition loan was Hold under the hurroom system.” Mr. McCraw named aov- era! men who lived in North Carolina and openly charged them with selling liqu >r against the law. He declared that one of them was so open in his violation of the law that u boy could go there and get anywhere from a bottle full to a buggy loud. Mr. W. G, Austell, candidate for the legislature, said in part: “I come before you offering myself as a candidate for the lower house of tho ! general assembly, not as au orator, j but as a worker. We are all friends. I have conducted this canvass free j trom mud-sling, and so have the otiier candidates. As to what I have done and am capable of doing I refer you to the records of the general as semble when I was a member of the House. The journal of tho House will show what I have done. 1 can not tell you any anecdotes. I leave that sort of business to my competi tors. I am not in favor of prohibi tion. The inter-state commerce lt*w operates against prohibition. Any man can ship as much whiskey into the ritate as he desires for his ov/n use. The best solution of the liquor question, in my judgment, i- ths dis pensary. My competitors are all orators, but I yield to no man for honesty and hard work. I have seen some as good members in the general assembly from the farm as from any other occupation. The great bulk of the work of the legislature is done in committee room. If the committee reports favorably ou a bill it stands a pretty good chance of being adopted, but if *he committee report bo un favorable it stands very little show. I favor more money and more atten tion for the common schools. I do not favor freq tuition in colleges, but I believe competitive scholarships are all right. I do not know whether or not bi-annual sessions would be profitable. I am an economist but I do not believe in being niggardly. I have been elected to the legislature three times and during the six years I served in the general assembly have never been absent from roll call. If elected I will do all in iny power to make you a fair, honest and impar tial representatrive.” Mr. B. J. Gold, candidate for the legislature, was the next speaker. He said in part: “Our forefathers marched up the rugged sides of King’s Mountain and fought for their freedom because of oppressive tax ation, and taxes has been the theme ever since. Taxes are higher today than.ever before. If we are increas ing iu wealth why do not the taxes decrease? Farm lands have de creased in value, while stocks and bonds cannot be bought without a premium. Farm lauds are assessed at nearly their true value, while stocks and bonds are assessed at from 50 to 75 per cent of their par value. There is too much money spent on fostering higher education in this state. I agree with Mr. Mc Craw concerning the college at Rock Hill. I am not opposed to Clemson, but I am opposed to the South Caro lina college and the Citadel. The State spends $2.55 on the child that attends the common school, while it spends $200 on each scholar in the colleges. It is unjust to thus discriminate to the advantage of the rich man’s child and to tiie disadvantage of the poor child. The poor child gets three months school ing, while the rich man’s child gets nine months. There has been spent ou the State house over $3,000,000 since it was started. I believe it was good enough the way it was without this lust appropriation. When it is finished it will want a wing, and then after a while it will want another wing, for it would look odd with only one wing, but God forbid that it should ever require a tail. There has been some allusions in this campaign to former representatives who put up at side street boarding houses and sat around and ate peanuts. It is an insult to the great agricultural classes to refer to their representatives in any sued) manner as that. The framers of the constitution of the United States were composed of farm ers principally and no grander docu ment has ever betm framed thu t bat. Common sense is a rare commodity in the legislature. When 1 was a member of the House ! remember that the lute Cowp r 1‘aMon was also a member He could make the most brilliant speeches of any man in that body, and he was always making a speech, hut ho rarely accomplished anything. If tho legislature really mean busi(ie»s il could accomplish what they do in about twenty-five days instead of forty. N<urly every lawyer that goes to the legislature gets a h ave of absence the first Mon day and goes home to attend.to busi ness. Of course this retards the work. 1 am willing for all classes to be represented but the farmers should not he ignored. I am at home here. The people know my weaknesses and shortcomings and it is needless for me to speak to you longer Those were happy days I spent here. I am u temperate man. 1 bave drunk very little liquor iu my life. This Is a moral question. 1 do not think tSlulu uud church should mix. The dispensary lias admirable features over the old barroom system. 1’ro- nibitiou cannot be enforced. I refer you to Cleveland coqnty to substan tiate tips statement.” Mr. T. B. Butler was the last speaker. He is also a candidate for the House. He said in part: * 1 It is an unfortunate thing to be the last speaker. My friends have threshed over old straw, and some of them have even stolen my joke:*, until it leaves me little to say. I do not propose to fight over the battle (f King’s Mountain which was fought over one hundred years ago. 1 would have to bo an eloquent speaker indeed to hold my audience as well as my friends who have precec-ded me. I want to discuss matters of vital importance to the people of this county. I would not he a distroyer. I would encourage and foster colleges, but not so much at the expense of the people. I am in favor of bi-ennial sessions of the legislature. North Carolina has been forced to hold extra sessions, or to adjourn from time to time, because they dared not to ad journ sine die on account of a repub lican governor who would have op posed the re-convening of the germrul assembly. They had a delicate ques tion to deal with and they might nave found it necessary to call an extra session at any time, so they adopted this method to outwit the governor. At Blacksburg Mr. Gold wanted to know why* I was not elected. That is no problem. I did not get votes enough. I am in favor of persons who are convicted in our courts working on our public roads to pay tiie counties back for the expense of tiieir arrest and conviction I am in favor of selling the Stale farms. 1 am in favor of keeping the peniten- tiary and using it for female prisoners and as a reformatory for young crimi nals. You say that convicts will get away from the cuards. Lum Morris got away from the penitentiary and they have not been able to catch him with all the blood hounds in tho county. I am in favor of a school house at every cross roads. W hen a hoy 1 walked four miles to school, and stumped my toe ou every rock on the road. Two years ago you thought the Senate breeches were too large me. Nosv I am running for the House and I believe the House breeches will just fit me. If you think I will do you any harm you are mistaken. I have a future before me and am ambitious. Besides, you have a scotch in both sides. You will be sure to send one of these gentle men with me and he cun watch me in the House, while Mr. Surratt car watch mo from the Senate. But I declare to you that it is not my pur- pase to do you harm. J want to do you good. vVhen one ol you come into my office and employ me to de fend you in court I take your case and do the very best I can for you. If you send me to the legislature my pay will be your ballot and I will de fend and represent you just as earn estly as I would a client in the court house. The liquor question deserves the attention of the legislature. It deserves the attention of all right minded men and it deserves the at tention and prayers of the mothers of the land. I have been a strong pro hibitionist, but have come to the con clusion tliut so long as men live they will make and drink liquor. We could have prohibition if the people would not drink it, and that is the only way we can have it. I believe the dispensary law needs some patch ing. I am in favor of two sets of jurors for the county. In this way you will not keep a man away from his duties on the farm for two weeks at the time. I am interested in the county. I am interested in the wel fare of the people, and I propose to work for their interest and in that connection.” About this time a wind storm came up and the speaking was discon tinued. Mr. Ira Harding and several others barely escaped ir,jury hy a fail ing tree that was blown down during the storm. Hhortly aft<-r the people departed for their respective homes to think over the “weighty” ques tions presented to them by the can didates hut all seemed glad for the privilege of the day spent at Antioch. VVe had a report of the speaking of the congressional and solioitorial candidates, hut owing to the crowdt d condition of our columns this issue wo were compelled to omit it. To Nt'M' I'MIMltdMtf*. [Written for Hie Ledger.) tf you lire down upon your luck, Keep hu*tllu){. There's not hills' vvlas like pluek, Keep hliHlllug. If you'*! love to risk your ehuae. Just set a hotter p.ioe, Next tluie you'll win the race, Keep hustling. If things look u little blur, Keep hustling. Iliii'il work will pull you throu/h, Keep IiuMIIiik. Weary never untile it rent, Man to mourn was never meant, t rying never paid the rent, Keep hustling. It is said Hut when an Indian dies h(s surviving relativts pay all his debts. We are acquainted with a man who we heartily wish would turn Indian and die, twmmsmtsamBaaai! j COLLEGE OF CHARLESTON, CHARLESTON, S. C. Founded In I7HB. Next session npemi Octoller 1. iUOU. Hoard in ihe < ol lege Dormitory, including f urni-,he,| room and lights, can lie obtained at .Jin a mouth. 1 ultlon, (4<t uer session, pay able In two lietaltneuts. One schola^hip giving free tuition Is assigned \a> Cherokoe county. the holder to !*■ appointed hy the County huper.iitendent of Education and the Judge of I robaUi. All randidatus fop admin- sum iire permitted to com pete for Hoyee Scholarships, w hich pay *100 a year. Strong faculty; well njulpped chemical, physical and blolojfiual iatxjraLoriGs: oh- servatory: library of volumes, and the hnest museum of natural history In the South. Elective courses leading to the degrees of H. A. and M. A. l or catalogue. Illustrated circular and in formation In full address KAltKISON KANDOLPII, President.' Still Alive. ihe I p-to-Date Market is still alive, and don t you forget D, where you can get fresh meats of all kinds in season. Beef, Pork and Mutton, Fresh Fish on Fridays and Saturdays, Country Produce and I oultry. Heavy and Fancy Groceries. <on f oca loner iea/ Cigars and Tobacco. J nave an experienced cutter to serve you with pleasure. We know our business and attend to it. Come or call Pmne No. 60. L W. McGUINN. Bargains in Jewelry! I am now offering some extraordinary bar gains in WATCHES. CHOCKS. CHAINS, BRACELETS, EARRINGS, and all kinds of Novelties in Jewelry. The prices on iny entire stock have been reduced in order to move the goods. Jewelry repairing in the shortest possible time. All work guaranteed to be the very best. Tiios. H. Wesfrope, iii Crawley & Co’s Drug Store, iSS-- PARKER’S . HAIR BALSAM ICleumi and bcMtill** the hair. IProBMtt* ■ lujturmnt growth. 0Never Fails to )’.i store Gray ! Hiar to its You hful Color. i CiircJ realp <! «■«•<, & hair lulhug. SHORT LOCAL ITEMS. Local Item* TooaSliurt for a Head Grouped Together. The city authorities have bad the park around the artesian well and power house mowed off and it now presents a clean and neat appearance. All living members of Company E., Fifth Regiment, South Carolina Re serve Corps, R. M. Cash, Capt., are requested to s-uid their names to C. L. N. Legg, .Mercer, 8. C., in order that he may get a full roll of said company. Col. T. B. Butler received a pardon yesterday from Governor McSweeney for H. C. Mostdy who was convicted of a rather serious charge at the last term of court here and fined heavily iu addition to his imprisonment. He had paid his fine and was pardoned iu order that he might retain his citi zenship. W bile our driving in Shelby last Monday Mr. H. C. Knox had the mis fortune to get his foot and ankle se verely sprained. Mr. Knox and Mr. Walter Baker were driving out to Clevelaud Springs when the front axel of the buggy broke, throwing the occu, nts out. Mr. Baker es caped without injury. Itroad Blver 1. S. Cwnveotlou. The next session of the Broad River Interdenominational Singing Conven tion will beheld with the Piedmont church Saturday and Sunday, Sept. 1st and 2d. The following is the pro pram : Meet at 10 o’clock u. m. on Satur day. Devotional exerc'ses of fifteen minutes by chaplain. First subject, “How often should we sing praise to God”—Speakers, K. D. Edwards and Rev. A. J. Bon ner. Lesson by D. P. L. Martin on notes. question box. Intermission of forty-five minutes. A FTERNOON. Second subject, “Why do we neg lect singing so much?”—Speakers, A. C. Cudd, W. J. Henderson and others. Lesson by W. B. Blanton on mod ulation and transposition. SECOND DAY. Meet Saturday at 10 o'clock a. m. Devotional exercises of fifteen min utes by chaplain. E-isuys by Misses Muzzie Jarrett ami Lilia McKinney ou subjects of their own choice St rmo i on music at 11 o’clock by Rev A. J. Bonner. Afti moon to he devoted to singing conducted oy D. P. L. Martin and others. AM churches within Hie bounds of the norMi.ru section of the Broad River Baptist A»*ociution are re quested to send delegates to this convention. B. Ray, For Uoiniiiiite©. \ Mr. !.««•* Dt-atl Wm. G L es, the popular and effi cient overseer fur tho Gaffney Carpet Manufacturing Company, received * telegram yesterday from Philadel phia, Pa., announcing the death of hia father in tliut city, and request ing him to come ou at once. Th» message gave no particulars. Mr. Lees left for 1’h.ladelphia yesterday afternoon. “My baby was terribly sick with the diarrhoea,” says J. H. Doak, of Williams, Oregon. “We were unable to cure him with the doctor's assis tance. and as a last resort we tried Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrheos Remedy. 1 am happy to say it gave immediate relief and a complete cure.” For sale by Chero kee Drug Co.