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Mlt. Mc.MAII AVS KKl’ORT.
The annual report of the State
Superintendent of Education is said
to be completed and now ready to bo
submitted to the legislature. Ihe
Columbia State publishes a synopsis
of the introductory parts of it and
speaks of the entire report in terms
of strong commendation.
As we have not seen the report in
full of course we have no criticisms
to make on it in its entirety. We
notice, however, one or two asser
tions in the exordium which we sup
pose sound the key note to the whole
report and which to our untrained
ear is a false note. If the key note
is faulty, we may expect the music
to be fauliy throughout.
.Mr. McMahan says: “Since the
State has accepted In-r proper task
of providing for the education of her
people, she cannot discharge her
responsibility by anything thort of
such an education as the times de
mand."
if the Slate did not assume this
“task," she “accented" it from a
crew of carpet baggers, scalawags,
and negroes, who in ten years bank
rupted her and left her in debt to ti e
amount of twenty millions of dol
lars; and we would respectfully re
mind Mr. McMahan that there is
a wide difference of opinion now as
to the limitations of that “task’ 1 and
as to whether it is a “proper" or
highly improper one. The amount
of high-sounding assumption con
tained in this sentence together with
the shadowy authority of the name
less powers making inexorable de
mands under the guise of the “times,"
is sufficient to impress us with a feel
ing of awe, though failing to illumi
nate the judgment with the clear
light of truth, llut we pass to hia
next utterance.
“Her pledge is to provide for all
the people an education adequate to
the demands of life."
To whom has the State ever made
such a pledge, and how is she going
to re j deem it? “The demands of life"
increase and multiply with the op
portunities of life. They are al
ways In excess of the means of sup
ply. They are varied and almost un
limited. Food, clothing, wealth,
pleasures, friendship, love, and a
thousand other things are included
iu the demands of life. An educa
tion adequate to the demands of life
would transform a race of men into
a race of gods. If the Btate has ever
pledged herself to furnish such an
education she has stultified herself
and made herself absurdly ridiculous
by promising a palpable impossibility.
The State can do more negatively
than positively towards supplying
the demands of life. One crying de
mand of life at this time, is that the
means of sustaining life shall not be
extorted from the average citizen un
der forms of taxation for the purposfc
of fostering, the wild socialistic
echemes of tfie day. The highest de*
rnutul of life at this time, is that the
individual shall be encouraged to
grow and expand into a noble, self-
reliant manhood, which cun never be
done by making him a pensioner of
the State’s bounty.
Perhaps after all, Mr. McMahan
means by “the demands of life," the
demands of good citizenship, and
that his ideal of good citizenship is a
citizenship merged wholly into the
State, and that exists solely for the
benefit of the State, that is, for
those who hold the offices and draw
the salaries. On this hypothesis his
meaning will become clear, his whole
report consistent, and our remarks
will be subject to considerable modi
fication.
The report further says: “The
charity which in the past generation
gave free school education to the
indigent helpless for their own wel
fare was a seed which has germinated
and grown, until now it is the recog-
ni/ird duty of society as an organic
whole to provide a successor to itself
fit to take up its burden of human
progress urui press onward."
If we understand Mr. McMahan’s
figure here, the “charity" bestowed
on the “indigent helpless of a past
age" was a seed which has grown and
produced a crop of duties quite out-
aide of the domain of “charity."
This is bud rhetoric and worse logic.
In nature everything is true to its
kind, and “men do not gather grapes
from thorns nor figs from thistles."
Thinking men will fail to understand
How the “charity" bestowed on “the
ut a past age,
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ft i ■ lion:it v <> i t li" li ■ ui< licit In r
•'ii.-ligt nt nui In Inii. .i.’
Again Mr. McMahan ti lls us that
"diaritj b is made it obligatory on
society ns now constituted to provide
a successor lit to take up its burden
of I uman progress and press on
ward.”
It is cl- arly implied in the form of
this assertion, that the successor fit
to take up the burden, ought to be
equal to the present burden bearer,
but hot necessarily superior. Wo
wish to ask then who provided the
present society which must have a
worthy successor? Is it the out
come of Mr. McMahan’s free schools?
If not, might not the samo influences
that formed it, bo trusted to mould
and shape its successor? \\ hat was
it in that past age when “charity”
was bestowed on “the indigent help
less” that gave the State the most
superb citizenship, the most splendid
typo of manhood and of womanhood
that ever adorned the annals of any
age or clime? What other State out
of a voting population of forty odd
thousand, ever armed, equinped, and
sent to the field sixty odd thousand
fighting men? What other state
since the palmy days of Athens, ever
boasted a nobler line of statesmen,
of jurists, and of heroes?
It was not slavery, but freedom
that made that age luminous with
talent and noble achievement—free?
dom for the growth of individuality
under the fostering hand of individ
ual responsibility—freedom from the
abominable interference of govern
ment in assuming (unctions which
do not belong to it, by which as
sumption individual responsibility is
largely transferred to the State and
a spirit of dependence substituted for
a spirit of self-reliance.
Mr. McMahan complains of tho
want of system in the free schools
and justifies his complaint by assert
ing that “each teacher works along
in her own way, whatever that may
be, almost uninfluenced by the exis-
t. nee of any other school or school
authority.”
Now (hat is exactly the way that
each teacher ought to work and the
teacher who attempts to wora in
any other than his or her own way is
no longer a vital force but a weak
transmitter of a force that Is wasted
and dissipated by the friction in-
curred in the transmission.
We have no quarrel with Mr. Mc
Mahan personally. He is an active,
energetic, wide-awake, enterprising
officer, and his views are no doubt In
accordance with the socialistic ele
ment now dominant in South Caro
lina. The ideal of these so-called re
formers and progressionists is to have
such a system of schools that one
man can sit In Columbia and pull a
string or press a button and every
wheel in the system will begin its
revolutions. For those who like a
thing of that sort. Mr. McMahan’s
report will make fascinating reading.
Sometime in a future more or less
remote, the fact will be discovered
that men and women cannot bo
ground out to order by machinery.
NOTKb AND COM M KM'S.
The term of enlistment of forty
thousand of our troops in the Philip
pines will expire on the 1st of June,
and transportation has been provided
for only nine thousand. In the
meantime the president announces
that these troops cannot be spared
from the seat of war until new levies
are raised to take their places, and
that ho has no authority granted him
tj enlist more men. He asks con
gress to grant him that authority
and to provide a bounty of $250 for
every man who will enlist. Expan
sion comes high and Aguinuldo and
his followers are an unconscionably
long time in dying.
Congress has taken hold of the
great inter-ocean canal business in
earnest and it begins to look like
something more than talk will be
realized. Hut there are many ob
stacles to be overcome and many
complications to be unraveled. This
nation is assuming to be a world
power and it must meet the difficul-
I ties incident to a world business.
, England is jealous and hard to please.
.Nicaragua sees millions in the right
of way; then there are Tom, Dick and
Harry that must have special stipu
lations as to tfieir rights and privi
leges; and altogether the digging of
the canal will scarcely be a bigger
job than the disposing of the endless
preliminaries.
A brace of doctors over in Cuba
have been experimenting with tho
mosquito with a view to learning
more of his habits and character, and
they have made tho btartling dis
covery that in addition to all the
ills he has wantomly inflicted on the
genus homo, tie is a regular whole
sale manufacturer and dealer in yel
low fever! One of the doctors paid
his life for the secret, and the other
one barely escaped the same penalty.
Now, if some other doctor, or the re
doubtable (ienerullissimo Miles of the
I nited States army, will have the
musqulto expelled fr un our South
ern coasts, there will he a long stride
made towards health, population, and
prosperity. Horn is an opening for
(fi ll. Mil wli') su ms t»> have found
(•otlMiig worthy of Ids gt-i.ius and
brawry him" the prison (iayn of
.1 Hf I >avis.
NVHi'Hml.. N» « k Will* I ho Town.
11 iilmi I t tm s. |
The (iallney Ledger came out fast
week with a Id-page edition, contain
ing a comprehensive write-up of tho
thriving little city of Gaffney,
which makes a very fine showing
hath for tho town and the paper.
Gaffney is one of the prize winners in
the recent census returns. Its de
velopment and industrial progress
has been phenominal, and The Ledger
is humping right along neck-and-
neck with the town.
Our t.'hrlNtniHs KiUtlnn,
{.Indicator. 1
The Christmas edition of the
Gaffney Ledger, Gaffney, S. C., ap-
poared last Tuesday in great shape.
It was brimful of photograph cute
and short sketches of the leading en
terprises and business men of Gaff
ney City. Tho Ledger is a clean
and up-to date paper and is rarely on
the wrong t-ide of any public ques
tion, save that of politics. It has a
deservedly liberal patronage among
the colored people of its city and
county.
One of the t'orcmoHt in the .State.
It'lifloii World,]
The Gaffney Ledger came to us
last week sixteen pages strong and
full to the brim with interesting news
matter and attractive advertising.
The Ledger is one of the foremost pa
pers in the State.
!*ruf. Mark at Ormigriiurg.
[Baptist Courier. 1
Prof. J. K Mack, A. M., who was
at one time president of Cooper-Lime
stone Institute, has been added to
the faculty of Orangeburg College.
The college is fortunate in securing
him. He will enter upon his duties
January 1.
[Prof. Mack we-nt from this place
to Hrownville, Tenn., where he took
charge of a female college and re
mained there for a year or more.
His friends here hope that his new
work may be both pleasant and pros
perous.]
Cant of TliunkH.
Mr P. D. Phillips and children de
sire to express their appreciation of
the kindness shown them by neigh
bors and friends during their recent
bereavement.
Many persons have had the experi
ence of Mr. Peter Sherman, of North
Stratford, N. JL, who says, “For
years I suffered torture from chronic
indigestion, but Kodol Dyspepsia
Cure made a well man of me.” It
digests what you eat and is a certain
cure for dyspepsia and every form of
stomach trouble. It gives relief at
once even in the worst cases, and
can’t help but do you good. Chero
kee Drug Cu.
A sugar plantation in Cuba, near
the town of Fergus, is DI.OOO acres in
extent. It employs 1,500 persons,
and on it are two forts, 510 miles of
railroad, belonging to the place, three
steam railroad locomotives, many
homes for the white people and na
tives, a big sugar factory and a river,
which ilouts lighters loaded with
sugar from the plantation docks to
Die ships on the coast,
Help is needed at once when a per
son's life is in danger. A neglected
cough or cold may t>oon become seri
ous and should be stopped at once.
One Minute Cough Cure quickly
cures coughs and colds and the worst
c«ses of croup, bronchitis, grippe
and other throgt and lung troubles.
Cherokee Drug Co.
Isaiah T. Montgomery, who was in
his youth a slave of Jefferson Davis,
and his older brother, Joseph Davis,
founded a colony of Negroes in the
Yazoo river valley, in Mississippi,
after the yur, and he is now “mayor”
of tha village of Mount Hayou, the
center of the colony. The Negroes
own 12,000 acres there.
Now is the time when croup and
lung troubles prove rapidly fatal.
The only harmless remedy that pro
duces immediate results is One Min
ute Cough Cure, ft ia very pleasant
to take and can be relied upon to
quickly cure coughs, colds and all
lung diseases. It will prevent con
sumption. Cherokee Drug Co.
The man who will not accept the
Bible because he cannot see through
everything it contains, might just as
well stay in bed on a cloudy day, be
cause he cannot see tho sunshine.
When the stomach is tired out it
must have a rest, but we can’t live
without food. Kodol Dyspepsia
Cure “digests what you eat” so that
you can eat all the good food you
want while it is restoring the diges
tive organs to health, ft is the only
preparation that digests all kinds of
food. Cherokee Drug Co.
An Indian may not vote as long as
he remains a member of a tribe; but
if he gives up his tribal relationship
and becomes a citizen, he may vote
under the same condition us any other
citizen.
When you need a soothing and
healing antiseptic application for any
purpose, use the original DeWitt’s
Witch Hazel Salve, a well known
cure for piles and skin diseases. ft
heals sores without leaving a scar.
Beware of counterfeits. Cherskeo
Drug Co. _
If you wish success in life mak u
perseverance your bosom friend, ex
ptrienco your wise counsellor, caution
your elder brother, and hope your
guardian genius.
DeWitt’s Little Early Bisers are
dainty little pills, but they never fail
to cleanse the liver, remove obstruc
tions and invigorate the system.
Cherokee Drug Co.
Toe total urms-bearing population
of Europe is about 5i5 (XX) <XXJ men.
The most effective little liver pills
made are DeWitt’s Little Early
ilisera. They never gripe, Chero
kee Drug Co.
MASON-THOMPSON.
Whiit I h«* KIvIiiiioimI Huy .Ahont
Till.' (alT'Ulll.
Tim following ixtructs from the
Richmond papers in regard to tho
marriage of Miss May Thompson and
Mr. Stanley Mahon speak for them
selves.
The Richmond News a few days
ago had the following:
“Stanley Mason, tho popular ship
ping clerk of Watkins ife Cottrell,
hardware dealers, is expected to re
turn to Richmond at the end of the
holiday season and to bring with him
a bride.
“Mr. Mason left Richmond last
week for Gaffney City, S. C., where
his sweetheart lives. He announced
that he would be married on Christ
mas day. Although his friends in
the Watkins it Cottrell store have
not received word of the ceremony
having taken place, it is expected
that Mr. Mason is now enjoying his
honeymoon. Mr. and Mrs. Mason
will make their home here,”
Later the same paper had the fol
lowing :
“No doubt it will be a great sur
prise to the friends of Mr. Stanley
Mason, of this city, to learn of his
marriage. Mr. Mason left Saturday
night for Gaffney, S. 0., and was
married yesterday to Miss May
Thompson.
“Miss Thompson is a very attrac
tive young lady.
“Mr. Mason is the eon of Mr. W.
R. Mason, the stone contractor, and
is employed by the Watkins-Cottreil
Company, and is a very popular young
man.
“The affair was a very quiet one,
and took place at the home of the
bride, at Gaffney, S. C.
“Mr and Mrs, Mason returned this
morning, and are at home to their
friends, at No. 218 South Belvidere
Street.”
The Richmond Dispatch contained
the following:
“Mr. Stanley Mason returned yes
terday morning from Gaffney, S. C.,
accompanied by his bonnie bride—
Misa Mary Thompson she was until
her marriage to Mr. Mason on Christ
mas day.
The groom is a son of Mr. W. R.
Mason, and is employed by the Wat-
kins-Cottrell Hardware Company.
Ho went to South Carolina very
quietly Saturday for the purpose of
claiming his bride. The announce
ment of the happy event is in the na
ture of a surprise to the groom’s
friends.
“Mr. and Mrs. Mason will make
their home at No. 218 South Belvidere
Street.”
LEONORA JACKSON,
ThU Talented YiolinUt Will Plyy at lAtne-
stone January loth,
"he German Empress, in Novem
ber. IS'JG, commanded that a special
musical and dramatic entertainment
be given at the Royal Opera House
in Berlin, with the most eminent
talent in Qermany participating.
Great preparations were made, and
cn the evening in question a vast and
brilliant audience assembled. The
Royal Family and Court were pres
ent, together with prominent Govern
ment Officials, Diplomats, men of
science and letters and the most not
able personages of the capital. They
noted on the programme, placed be
tween two of Germany’s most re
newed singers, an unknown name,
announced for a violin solo. “Who
is this?” they queried. “By what
right here?"
Great was tho surprise of all when
the “unknown" proved to be a young
girl in her teens, who came forward
clad in white; modest, timorous, yet
of rare sweetness and charm of man
ner. The hush of expectancy set
tled over the great Opera House.
The little tpaifjen ip white grasped
her violin, and soon tho strains of
beautiful music poured forth, touch
ing the hearts of the immense throng
with the magic power of genius. The
solo ended, there followed such a
scene of enthusiasm, such a storm of
applause as all present will long re
member. The young violinist with
ope step became famous. Americans
present that evening will never for
get the triumph, for the little maiden
in white was an American whose
subsequent triumphs in many lands
have made her renewed. Her name
is Leonora Jackson.
This famous young virtuoso will
appear at Limestone College audito
rium January 10th. She will be as
sisted by other artists of high rank
from New York and it is safe to say
that the concert will be the musical
event of the season.
K. of r.’n Elect Ofllcent.
The Knights of Pythias met in
their Castle Hall last night and
elected the following officers to serve
during the ensuing year: J. G. Ward-
law, Chancellor Commander; J. B.
Bell, Vice Chancellor; W. 8. Hall,
Pulale; C. T. Lipscomb, Master of
Work; J. C. Otts, Keeper of Records
and seals; Ed H. DeCamp, Master of
Finance; D. C. Itoss, of Ex
chequer; H- M. Monroe, Master at
Arms; H. L. Spears, Inner Guard;
B. L. Lipscomb, Outer Guard.
l.ocul Cotton Report.
The following are the prices paid
for cotton in Gaffney today:
Good Middling 9:25
Middling 9:12£
He Fooled The HurffonH.
All doctors told Renica Hamilton,
of West Jefferson, ()., after suffering
18 months from Rectal Fistual, he
would die unless a costly operation
was performed; but he cured himself
with five boxes of Bucklen’s Arnica
Salve, tho sufest Rile cure on Rarth,
and the best Salve in the World. 2^
cents u box. Sold by Cherokee Drug
Company.
—Dr. W. H. Wakefield will be in
his office at No. 8 North Church
street, Charlotte, N. C., all of Janu
ary, except each Thursday. His
practice is limited to diseases of the
Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat.
Trouble is often brewing with a hot
punch.
Dr. HuII'm Cuuirh Syrup Cart'd overnlflit
I li«' most tftuhborn cold ud well ut all lt» 6orn-
pllcailooN tlck'liiR In tlic throat, hiidky
voice uml violent couahlux. It Is the uiovt
wonderful nioUielne defence hud produced.
PERSONAL PARAGRPHS.
I’imiIiIc* Yuu Know iiimI IVopIt* Vou Don't
K DOM •
Mbs* i Viola llri'lgcs and Oeie
II nniick, two fucinafing little ladies
of Boiling Springs. N C., are tho
guests of Miss Etylono Wilkins, cor
ner of Frederick and l/igan streets.
X. P. Petty, of Bowlinaville, was
hero yesterday.
J. 11. Mintz, a prosperous farmer
from near Blacksburg, was one of our
visitors Saturday.
A. S. Smith, of Cowpens, was in
town yesterday.
Lon Holmes, of Charlotte, N. C.,
was in the city for a short time Fri
day. Lon “has his hands full" in
Charlotte and doesn’t have much
time for visiting.
W. C. Allen, of Converse, called to
see us yesterday while in the city.
D. L. Vassey, of Thickety, was in
town Saturday.
R. M. Injram, of Cherokee Falls,
came in to see us yesterday.
E H. Sterrett, a popular travel
ing man of Charlotte, spent Sunday
in the city.
W. Allen Jefferies, of Bowlinsvillo,
was among the comers to the city
yesterday.
R H. Ferguson, of Spartanburg,
was in the city Saturday.
W. S. Wood, of Byarsviile, N. C.,
came down to our city yesterday on
business.
Capt. John M. Nichollsand family,
of Spartanburg, visited the family of
Mr. J. A. Carroll Saturday and Sun
day.
Col. J. G. Wardlaw and bride have
returned from their tour in Florida.
Conway Po.^ey, representing the
Crutchfield-Tolleson Company in
Spartanburg, was here Friday.
W. C. Ray, of State Line, was a
visitor in the city yesterday.
P. H. Bright, of Maud, was one of
our callers Saturday.
Rev. B. P Robertson went away
Friday for a few days visit to rela
tives and friends before leaving for
Baltimore. Mr Robertson’s house
hold goods have already been shipped
to his new home.
Scott Brown and soc, of Blacks
burg, were here Saturday. Mr.
Brown is the new proprietor of the
Cherokee Inn at that place.
J. P. Young returned yesterday
from Hartwell, Ga., where he had
been visiting his uncle, Mr. T. P.
Harris.
A. McCraw, a substantial citizen of
Goforth, spent a few hours in the
city Saturday.
G. B. Wright, or the Abingdon
neighborhood, called in to see us
Saturday and contributed his part
to wards The Ledger’s support.
Feli* Littlejohn, of Ravenna, was
on our streets Saturday.
Sam Clary spent Sunday in Spar
tanburg
W. E. Ray, of State Line, was he r e
yesterday. He prepared for the new
year by making himself a present of
a new buggy,
J. L. Glover, of Spartanburg, was
In our town Saturday.
Pever'LHtle, who is now attending
Wofford College in Spartanburg, was
here Saturday and Sunday.
M. W. Littlejohn, of Ravenna, was
here Friday.
W. N. Turner, a successful mer
chant and farmer of Stevy, in the
Midway section, was one of our visi
tors Satuiday.
J. M. Reynolds, of Cowpens, was
in the city Friday.
Jones J. Darby returned to the
city Sunday night from a business
trip to Chester and Columbia.
J. S. Vinesett, of Grassy Pond,
called In to see us Saturday while in
the city.
Mr. and Mrs J. N. Cudd have re
turned to their home in Spartanburg
after visiting relatives here for sev
eral days.
W. YV. Hawkins, of Byersville. N.
C., was among the visitors in the
city Saturday,
J. Russell Sparks and Martin Falls
spent Sunday In Spartanburg.
John T. Branlett, one of Green
ville’s business men, was in our city
Saturday for a short whi'e.
Miss Mamie Jefferies Is in Green
ville visiting her sister, Mrs. C. 0.
Allen-
Capt. and Mrs. Carlisle, of Spar
tanburg, spent Saturday and Sunday
in the city the guests of Mr. J. A.
Carroll’s family.
Charles Littlejohn, of Webster,
was among the comers to the city
Saturday.
T. J. talker and family returned
from Greenville Sunday where they
had spent the holidays with rela
tives.
Mrs. B. R. Grey is visiting her
sister, Mrs. G. T. Willis, in Green
ville.
Mist; Etta Bailey, one of our city
friends, called to see us Saturday and
renewed for her paper.
Mrs. J. A. Carroll and daughter,
Miss Minnie, returned Thursday
night from a few days stay in Atlanta,
Ga.
Paul Webb, a popular young man
of Shelby, !$. C., spent Sunday in the
City.
C. B. Turner, a prosperous young
planter from near Grassy Pond, was
in the city yesterday.
Mrs. Alie Carpenter returned Fr 1 -
day from Thermal City, N. 0., where
she had been on a visit to her son,
Mr. Kit Carpenter.
Tommy Cole returned yesterday
from a visit to his father near Green
ville, with whom he spent several
days.
Miss Mignnn Walker visited rela
tives in Yorkville last week.
J. R. Healan, of Blocksburg, was
in the city yesterday.
Miss Alma McBrayer returned
from Shelby Suncjay, having spent
the holidays with relatives in that
city.
W. M. Roberts, of Sunny Side, was
in to see us yesterday.
Mrs. R S. Lipscomb spent Satur
day and Sunday In Shelby, N. C.
Jonathan Moore, of Blacksburg,
was here yesterday.
Louis Wood spent Christmas in
Shelby with his sister, Mrs. George
Blanton.
Mr. and Mrs. YV’. S. Gossett have
returned to the city after spending
the hQliday? with relatives and
friends in Pacolet.
Ernest Neville, of Chapel Hill, N.
C., was in the city Saturday.
Miss Jennie Mae Miller, who for
three years was a student Win-
throp ftollece anil who I-* nr.w a
teacher in Ihe Graded School ut
Gaffney, spent Wednesday in Die
uty, the guest ijf lier aunt, Mr*. |{
S. Hanna.—Ruck Hill Herald.
Mrs. C. L. McGuinu. inother uf our
townsman. L. YY’ McGuinn, is on an
extended visit to her daughters in
Spartanburg and Greenville
L. Marion, of Atlanta, Ga., repre
senting the large book firm of Collier
ifc Sons, in New York, was in tho city
Saturday,
SHORT LOCAL ITEMS.
Dora I Item* ToooShort fora lira*! (•r<>ii|>« <1
Toffetlitir.
Can you write it? 1901.
Our merchants did an excellent busi
ness during the holidays. Y’ery few
Christmas goods were left on their
hands.
Messrs. J C. Lipscomb it Bro. will
be closed taking stock from YY’ednts-
day (tomorrow) morning until Satur
day morning.
Gaffney city is just now enjoying a
building boom. Many very substan
tial buildings are in course of erec
tion.—Spartanburg Herald.
The large stables of the Gaffney
Live Stock Company are finished;
the stock has been put in and the
company is now ready for business,
S. J, Lipscomb, a prominent colored
teacher and farmer, returned from
Fingerville Saturday, where he had
been visiting friends and relatives for
several days.
Cherokee Inn, at Blacksburg, has
been reopened by Mr. Scott Brown,
of Salisbury, N. C. The Ledger
wishes Mr. Brown much success in
his new undertaking.
A train load of horses passed
through Gaffney Friday night bound
for the Philippine Islands, The train
was composed of twenty cars and
passed over the Southern on its way
to San Francisco.
Gaffney is “putting on city airs”
sure enough, now, in the way of hav
ing her houses numbered and the
names of her streets put up. It will
not be very long until we shall have
a free delivery mail system.
Rev. B. P. Robertson preached a
farewell sermon to the congregation
of the Limestone Baptist church,
colored, Sunday afternoon Dec. 23rd,
at 3:30 o’clock, which was highly
enjoyed by all who heard him.
T. A. Corry, a highly respected,
industrious and thrifty colored man
of Blacksburg, was one of our visi
tors yesterday. He prizes The Ledger
so much that he not only paid up for
back lime, but had his paper run up
to 1902.
The drummers are coming to our
town at a great rate now, and the
hotel porters are having lots of bag
gage to handle. One morning this
week tho trunks placed for the south
bound vestibule reminded one of
commencement at Limestone when
the college girls go home.
Capt. Mark Parker, of Cleveland
county, near Shelby, N. C., stopped
over in the city to visit relaOvcc a
few days ago on his way home from
Columbia, where he had been spend
ing Christmas Mr. Parker is now in
his seventy-eighth year, but is still
very lively. He was a Captain in the
war between the States and was an
t-xcellent soldier. YY’e would like to
have him vi-it Gaffney again.
Death At Antlooh.
Died at her home near Antioch
church on December 28th., Mr. R.
M. Roark after a short illness. Mrs.
Roark was twice married. In early
life she married Mr. YY^m. Eddie, who
lived about four miles southeast of
Blacksburg. M{. Eddie died leaving
four children, two sons and two
daughters, J. A. Ellis, of Grover, N.
C., and R. C. Ellis, now of Pacolet,
8, C., Mrs B. F. Turner, of Grover,
N. C., and Mrs. D. R. Bird, of Blacks
burg, 8. C. Her last marriage re
sulted in three daughters, two of
whom are married, Mrs. C. C.
Hughes and Mrs. Charles Mullmax,
and one single daughter, Miss Flor
ence.
Mrs. Roark leaves seven children
and a husband to mourn her loss
The funeral was preached on the 29th
by her pastor, Rev. J. D. Bailey, to a
large congregation, and her remains
were laid to rest in Antioch ceme
tery. Mrs. Roark was a member of
the Baptist church for forty-seven
years and was sixty-three when the
summons came.
“Blessed are the dead that die in the
Lord, henceforth they rest from their
labor and their works do follow them,”
was the pastor’s text on this sad oc
casion. d.
So»k lirciu | at 1 ImmloHi
Tin iv will be a sur g r. i-il'.i
Liim st«*ne <‘ ilfi • nir i oriu i
evei ing, .)«• uaqv Ph. ii I r tl
•*gein< nt of Mrs. \\ .nh It Bi.iwu as-
HisP'd by 'Ir. Brown.
The public is cordially invlt .-d. The
program will he as follnwN:
I. a Sapplili' Ode , I r.iliuw
1) Melni'i.icIm'1st (<run . Hrubih*
c Hao<lriiaini-li."i (Little Dusimuii/ llnilnu^
il t!njr«'<l»l<i (Imuaiii iiei-i .s Imi.i-n
J. I’ntiiiiiilv rhoplii
;i. a Aria Oli! I*ni l liy II. Ip (Sam on am)
DdMati) St. Hik-iih
Ii Sntniui (I Un-amt) .. s.-|i|r:i
<• Htand.'lien (S.-t-i'ii <l«) If. Strauss
4. a l^.ve has cy.-Mi »|,| rru-lisli) liisliop
l> Puiiond ((M l s,-oii-lii Voprli I.
<• Tin' Lark no# haves (Old Knalislo
• • • • • II I'xrkcr
.1 Tin* Oul.l fluid Shawl (Old Irisli
liattison II .yn. h
5. a H.-reeuse (Cradlt: Sr.njf). ... rural-
li Gavotte uml Museit ■ d’Aliiert
. it My Star .Mr-. II. il. A. Ueaeli
l> Love Is 4 liuldde I ruuecs Allitscy
• • The Silver Kin C. <'lintuinado
d A iluneli of \ Inlets (iuy (I'llardelm.
e Sweetheart tliy lips are touched with
•lame Chadwick
Mr. U K litr.iot »l First llaplist Church.
Rev. Mr. Light foot, of YVuynes-
ville, N. C., occupied the pulpit of
the First [Baptist church Sunday.
He is an eloquent and forceful
preacher and the conk’regation was
much pleased with the discourse.
Mr. Lightfoot look dinner Sunday 1
with his old friend “L’ncle Sam”
Hopper, whom ho knew in \\ r aynes-J
ville, and is now tho guest of Dr. and
Mrs. S. B. Gtawley, on Race street]
He will leave for his home tomorj
row.
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| need a fatty food to c
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I their cheeks and restori
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rich*
% health and strengtl
| safe to say that tt A
j aii reject fat with.
CODi
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TUMiSSODA
I is exactly wSPmey require; |
| it not only ^ives them the im- jg
J portant dement (cod-liver oil) |
$ in a palatable and easily di'|
£ gested form, but also the hypo* g
| phosphites which are so valua-!
% ble in nervous disorders that Z
| usually accompany anaemia. |
I SCOTT’S EMULSION isa|:
| fatty food that is more easily ^
* digested than any other form
| of fat. A certain amount of §
% flesh is necessary for health,
g You can get it in this way.
We have known per-
a sons to gain a pound a
| day while taking it
50c. and $t.oo, all druggists.
SCOTT & BOWNE, Chemists, New York.
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Limestone College Anditorinm,
8 P. Wl.
Negry Shot In the Fr.ce.
Alburn, Ala., Dac. 3.—At Orayton’a
saw mill, 6 miles south of Auburn, tho
loreman of the mill shot Jake Dowdell,
a negro, in the face and neck with a
charge of small shot. It seems that tho
negro had been trespassing and had
been warned not to do so again. He
disregarded (he warning.
The Appetite of a Goat.
Is envied by all poor dyspeptics
whose Stomach and Liver are out of
order. All such should know that
Dr. King’s New Life Pills, the won
derful Stomach apd Liver Remedy,
gives a splendid appetite, sound
digestion and a regular bodily habit
that insures perfect health and great
energy. Only 25 cents at Cherokee 1
Drug Company. I
Grand Concert
By the Famous Y’iolin Virtuoso
LEONORA JACKSOI
AND HE I !
Company of Artists.
" Her succ< ss was th a of u «re it unist.”—
Li; Hiilo-I, I’m Iji.
“Aniirti-i of (Jod-trivvn genlis."—.-tras*-
burjrcr /.cilunif.
‘‘One of the foremost violinists."—New
York .Fournal.
“She achieved an immediate triumph."—
Chicago Tine. s-H* raid.
Admission. 75 cents and $1.00.,
Subscribers reserve seats at A.
Gaines’ Monday, January 7th. Reg
ular sale begins January 8th.
SPECIAL RAILROAD RATES.
F. G. Stack v. President.
J. G. Wakdi.aw, Vice-President.
-THE NATIONAL BANK OF GAFFNEY.
CAPITAL., ....... 950,000.
SURPLUS AND PROFITS, - 10,000.
f3tntc. County a.mi City Ucponitory.
Ik'positH solicited from Farmers, Merchants, Manufacturers and others. Every aecom
sJation extended to customers that their business and responsibility will warrant.
U- C. Rotate*, Cunhier.
The Gaffney City Land and improvement Company
Offers for sale RulldlngLol.ln this flourlshtnif town, Gaffney City; Also Farms ne_£
by and In reach of the Schools of Ltmehtouc Sprintrs and of this place, In lots of fmi*
30 to 100 acres on liberal time rates; also Agricultural Lands to rent for Farm pur
poses. For full particulars apply to
J. V. iVtfent.
N. B.—All tresspassing on landsof this company, cuttla and emoylng timber. Ashingo*
bunting are forbidden under penally of law