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m: 11 to >o rcw. i?. HV Ed. H. DkCamp. UBLIAHKD TUfcSDAY AND FRIDAY SUBSCRIPTION PRICE: l\vice a week, per year $1.50. Once a week, per year 1.00. The Ledger 1b not responsible for tbe views of correspondents. Correspondents who do not contri bute regular news letters must fur nish their nan.e, not for publication, but for identification. Write short letters and to the point to insure publication ; also endeavor to got them to the office by Monday and Thursday mornings. Cards of thanks will be published at one cent a word. Heading notices will be published at *ien oents a line each insertion. Obituaries will be published at five cents a line. All correspondence should be ad dressed to Ed. H. DeOainp, Manager. FOR THE ANDERSON MAII.. A week or two ago we stated that the trustees of Winthrop College had asked the legislature to appropriate $25,000 more for the purpose of com pleting tne new dormitory. We men tioned furthermore the amount of the original appropriation as bting $85,- 000, and we said, this will make $00,- 000 paid out for the dormitory, which added to the regular annual appro priation of $35,000 will make $95,- 000, which added to the annual ap propriation of $5,000 for hiring stu dents, will make $100,000. This is what we said, and, so far uS we remember, without a word of com ment. Whereupon the Anderson Mail after stigmatizing us as a chronic fault-finder, proceeds straight way With the air of “one set under authority” to show how facts and figures ought to be handled. The Mail says: Tlie unfairness iu tills statement is in this respect. The Ledger seeks to make the im pression that the legislature is appropriating $100,000 to Winthrop lor this year, when by its own showing $15,000 was money appro priated last year, and it might as well in clude all previous appropriations since the institution started as to include that $55,000. Our esteemed contemporary gets into a serious muddle here, and reaches conclusions by processes hitherto unknown either in science or in art. It says by our own showing the $35,000 was appropriated last year, and yet in the same sentence it pj ,,trvinp to make our readers believe itw'ffS ta4 f!*jUl££ PI' this year. Out of your own mouth, contemporary, we condemn you, and challenge you to point out any inti mation in all that you quoted from us, that the money was appropriated this year. We showed, as you truly say, that it was done last year, and after having shown that we should have been a fool indeed to attempt to make any one believe it was done this year. You say we might as well have gone on and mentioned all the appropriations made to the insti tution since it started. We might have done so if we had known the fTourvEsf* -^ci^suppose we had. Would there'llavem)«: anything un fair or hostile in it? ArV 'Ap propriations not to be mentioned ex cept with bated breath, and is it a crime to add them together and show the people what is being done with their money? Who is it now that has been “ex ceedingly unfair,” we to Winthrop, or you to The Ledger? We leave your own conscience and your intelligent readers to answer this question. Now let us review the Mail’s charges of inaccuracy. It says: This reduces its flo0,ft00 to fiVi.noo and shows its Inaccuracy. But its inaccuracy is fur ther shoWn in tiic statement at the begin ning of Its article, where it says, "Winthrop College Is to get $25,000 more for completing the new dormitory.” Tills is not correct, for the appropriation Is $20,000, a slight inac curacy of$5,000 which brings itsowu estimate down to$fio.ooo and even Mils is not correct for the appropriation for the current year Is not made yet and if It should be the same as last year it will be just $£i,0()O, a slight inac curacy of $2,000 more reducing it to $58,000 and The Ledger well knows that $20,000 ad ditional was made necessary by the failure of the legislatuie to give them die 100 con victs asked for lust year and the Increased cost of labor and material. We have already shown that the reduction of $35,000 claimed by our contempoiary is not to be made, but that this amount is to stand just where we first placed it. It will be noted further that we said the new dormitory is to get $26,000, not had gotten. This was the amount asked for by the trustees and we took it for granted that the legislature would give it. It turned out that the amount was too South Carolina dollars too small. Now, who has been inaccurate, and that with a sinister motive? Towards the close of the Mail’s article it shames us for begrudging the college “this one crumb.” How is it that the $100 000 given to Win throp appears so small to the Mail as to be designated a “crumb” while the $7,000 w hich it accused us of overstating appears large enongh to cast a shadow over the whole State’ In other words why d66s a large amount look so small and a small amount look so large in the eyes of the observant Mail? We think we are able to offer a plausible explana tion of this freak of an abnormal visior., but as this question belongs rather to speculative physiology than to the subject in hand, we pass it by The Mail continues: Nor is The Ledger any less inaccurate in making the statement that the legislature appropriates "$5,000 for hiring students.” The Ledger knows that the average reader will understand by that that tills much money is actually used in hiring students to go to Winthrop and it knows that that statement is incorrect. It knows that Win throp does not have to litre students for it lias to turn away from its doors every year more students than it lias admitted. It knows. tbAt the $5,400 is for scholarships which go’fb the different counties and are awarded on a competitive examination. We stated the amount for scholar ships at $5.0000, the Mail says it is $5,400. Why didn’t it show our in accuracy in regard to this amountr O, why? It is perhaps not generally known "that each one of these scholarships carries with it a certain amount of cash, we believe $45, but to escape the charge of inaccuracy, we shall say $40. We might have said that this money is furnished as an inducement, or premium, or bonus, or used some other word which would have grated less harshly on the fastidious ears of the Mail, than the homely word hire with its low associations; but we should have been inaccurate, be loved contemporary, and you know you can’t stand inaccuracies. If that offer and payment of $40 in cash to each student who secures a schol arship does not contain the nature ard spirit of hiring, then that word may be banished from the vocabulary of business. “It knows that Winthrop does not have to hire students for it has turned away from its doors every year more studeftij^-VrfkWi-iL-kas ad mitted.” Exactly so, and hence the supreme folly and reckless injustice of the measure. Once more and the indignation of the Mali reaches its climax. It says: It has been "the fixed policy" of the State to support the South Carolina College fora century umi the Citadel for more than a half century and Tlie Ledger knows tliat not one scintilla of it was fixed In "the days of good stealing," and it cannot substantiate that statement. And The Ledger ought to be ashamed to compare “the fixed policy of the State in supporting the State institu tions’’ with ‘‘the fixed policy of the gambler to gamble, of a drunkard to.drink, of a swindler to swindle, of a robber to rob." Certainly The Ledger knows that the policy of the State to support the S&uth Carolina College and tbe Cita del Academy was- r.ot “fixed” in “tbe days of good stealing” and it never said it was. Wbat it did say in substance was that tbe present policy of supporting five State col leges and a general free school sys tem was “fixed” in “tbe days of good stealing” and was propagated, ex tended, and intensified by a legisla ture more intelligent but scarcely less inflamed with passion and pre judice than tbe one that first “fixed” it. That is what we said, and that is the record. PERSONAL PARAGRPHS. and it was red teems we hi lity am larg^fo^MM^ Amply Worth t>1.50. [»;>artnnburg Journal.] Our esteemed contemporay, The Gaffney Ledger, has recently raised its subscription price from $1 to $1 50 a year ftr the twice-a-week edition, but stilixsends out a once-a-week edtioq foY $1 a year. We do not know how*he subscribers take the increase, buMhey ought not to ob ject to it. Our Mieighbor is one of the best county papers in the State and is among the Ralf dozen best edited papers in the Slate, daily or weekly, and is amply worth $1.50 a year to its readers in news and high- class and instructive reading matter. We have no doubt that its readers will see it that way and that The Ledger will not only maintain itp present large circulation, but wil increase (it. No such paper as The Ledger can be produced under the circumstances for a less price, and it ought not to be asked or expected. McMahan’* Theorle*. [The Columbia Dally Record.) Tbe legislators show no desire to chase after Superintendent of Edu cation McMahan’s bubbles. His the ories are very pretty, but unsub- •taotial. Tbe editor of tbe Green ville News and the editor of tbe Gaff ney Ledger, who are better posted on educational matters than any dozen ther editors In . state, not ex- The State, have ^ McMa- and im- H( I I’coplc You Know and Feoplo You Don’t Know. Wilks F. Thomas, one of our pop ular fancy grocery merchm's, spent bis Sunday hours in the Ravenna neighborhood. J C Arwood, nf the Southern Rail way, was h- re Tuesday C. W. Earl-, a prominent citize of (’ampobeilo, *pent \\ ednesday in our midst. Mi> Griffith and Mrs Montgomery returned from Faoolet mills Tuesday Mrs M ntgomery returned to her home in Gainesville Ga . yesterdaj W. H. Crews of Spartanburg, was in the city Tuesday. * W C. Kirby, of Sunny Side, came in ty see us Wednesday and renewed for his paper another year. Mr. Kirby is one of the county’s best citizens and a man that stands true to his colors and convictions. We are always glad to have him call ou us when in town. Rev. J. M. Bridges, of Algood, was visiting in our midst yesterday. Mr. Biidges called on The Ledger while here and had his paper con tinued another year. W. E. Starr, of Rock Hill, was in the city Tuesday. C. H. Carlisle, one of Spartanburg’s leading business men, was here the first of the week. J. C. Thompson, of Blacksburg, was oyer for a short while Tuesday. C. A. Oats, of Grover, N. C., spent Tuesday in our midst. N. H. Stansell, a pominent citizen of Elko, was in the city the first of the week. W. T. Magness, of Chattanooga, Tenn., stopped over with friends here Tuesday. Mrs. L. S. Adams, of Rock Hill, was a visitor in the city Monday. F. E. Mitchell, a prominent resident of Asheville, N. C., was in our town Tuesday. Luther Bonner of Goucher, one of Cherokee’s substantial citizens, was among tho visitors in tbe city yes terday. Frank White, one of Greenville’s business men, visited our city Tues day. A. Jones Yorke, a prominent resi dent of Concord, N. C., was here Wednesday. R. E. Blakely, of Columbia, was here Wednesday visiting his daughter, Miss Sophia Blakely, who is a student at Limestene College. Prater Smith, of Goucher, was among the Cherokeeans in the city yesterday? Capt. A. B. Woodruff, of Woodruff, arrived in the city yesterday and is the guest of his nephew, Prof. H. P. Griffith, at Limestone. Miss Maude Thompson left Tues day for Shelby, Cleveland Springs and other places in North Carolina on a three weeks’ visit to friends and relatives. -OLV. Gaffney’s many friends are glad to seeT*him*U\fl kgSiff a week’s confinement with grip. Paul came home from the road over a week ago. but owiog to his illness his friends haven’t seen much of him. Prof. W, L. Johnson, another of the the Carpet Mills’ deservedly pop ular representatives, came in last week to spend a few days with his family, and to rest up a bit after his labors on the road. Dr. S. M. Gunter, of Clifton, spent Sunday in our midst w“b friends. Miss Nina Burriss, of Anderson, who is attending Limestone College, was registered at Parish’s Hotel Wednesday, in company with friends. Ed. Turner, of tbe South Carolina & Georgia Extension, was among tbe visitors in the city Wednesday.. Murry Robinson, of Orangeburg, was here Wednesday. ,W.D. Wilkins, Jr., of Union, visited friends in tbe city Wednesday. Moses Littlejohn, one of Ravenna's good citizens, was here yesterday. J. C. Boyd, a prominent citizen of Greenville, was in the city yesteruay. A. B. Williams, former editor of the Greenville News, but qow living in Richmond, passed tbrougb Gaffney Wednesday on his return hoouMrom a visit to Greenville. Local Cotton Report The following are the prices for cotton in Gaffney today: Good Middling Middling SHORT LOCAL ITEMS. Local ItentM Too Short Corn Oronpfd Together. Ri v G. Cnfi William* w I li«>ld serviers in the Epi-cnpiti church Sun day afternoon at 4 o’clocu. The public i* cordialU inv ted. ( t\ pr .» condi- nii) s »ve ii^ve been on’ w venti t.i mmunl- \ w ill npp* ar in our O e >ii i tim of nnr ( <• r»t i>i (I, tit cation!! hut 11 n> x 1 i-mip. Th la ne* of it' Rtif ir 1 Htre* Method at ehtino *i | l give a aupp-r thi- ev tiintr the oH ftjrniturt atore on. Greimrd -♦ret t. AM are cor dially invited. Regular supper will be Frappe and cake. Mr. E. H. Shaw, the newly appoint ed general passenger agent of the South Carolina and Georgia Exten sion railroad, took charge of bis office Saturday. Mr Don Lumpkin con tinues to hold tbe same position with the company that he occupied before his father’s death. Rev. J. K. Holman, of Virginia, will preach next Sunday at 11 a. m., at Gethsemane and 3 p. m. at Wil son’s chapel. The first. quarterly- conference for Gaffney circuit for this year will be held in Limestone street church on the 20th inst. at 11 n. in. All the members of the conference are urged to be present. On account of tbe absence of the pastor there will be no services at tbe Second Baptist church next Sabbath morning. Mr. Ford will be in Sum ter attending the annual meeting of the Y. M C. A. In the evening, however, Rev. W. T. Thompson will hold services at the usual hour. A cordial invitation is extended the public to attend the evening service. Pain mac. Flatulency, sourness, haJ tasce, loss of appetite, a sense of weight or fullness after eating, together with uneasiness, impa tience, irritability of temper, nervousness, anxiety, lost energy, depression of spirits, sick headache, bad dreams and sleepless ness, come from weak and debilitated nerves. That kind of nerves have to be braced up, strengthened, invigorated and helped if you would have a sound stomach, a keen appetite and a cheerful mind. “It was dyspepsia all the time. I had pains all through my stomach, chest and back, palpitation of heart, smothering, swelling hands and feet and twitching muscles. My sleep was unrefreshing anew when I awoke in the morning I would ba^f* tired and broken-down and unfit to attend to my business. I procured a bottle of Dr. Miles’ Nervine, took it as directed, and was cured after using three bottles.” Louis V. Balthazer, Natchitoches, La. . Males’ Nervin Brings back appetite, stimulates digestion, gives refreshing sleep to the tired brain, health* ful vitality to the nerve centers, and tones up the whole system. Sold by all druggists on a guarantee* Dr. Miles Medical Co*, Elkhart, Zod* TEACHER’S EXAMINATION. "PIIE roirular examination for teachers in 1 Cherokee county will he held Friday, Feb. 15th, 1901, at the court house. All persons wishing- certificates please take due notice, W. F. McArthur, 2-5 Supt. Education. CATARRH Catarrh has become such a common disease that a person entirely free from this disgusting Qomplaiut is seldom met with. It is customary to speak of Catarrli as nothing more serious than a bad cold, a simple inflammation of the nose and throat. It is, in fact, a complicated and very dangerous disease; if not at first, it very soon becomes so. The blood is quickly contaminated by the foul secretions, and the poison through the general circulation is carried to all parts of the system. Salves, washes and sprays are unsatis factory and disappointing, because they dc not reach the seat of the trouble. S. S. S. does. It cleanses the blood of the poison and eliminates from the system all catar rhal secretions, and thus cures thoroughly and permanently the worst cases. Mr. T. A. Williams, a leading dry-goods mep chant of Spartanburg, S. C., wrttesj “ For yean I had a severe case of nasal Catarrh, with all the disagreeable effects which netong to that disease, and which _ .. jnakeji(- yauiTi.il ,»nd UjQk MBk unendurable. I used* . medicines presented by *' ' leading physicians and suggeAed by numbers of friends, but without getting any better. I then began to take 9. 8. S. It had the desired effect, and cured me after taking eighteen bottles. In my opinion S. S. 8. is the only medi cine now in use that will effect a permanent curt of Catarrh." is the only purely veg- ^ ^ etable blood purifiei known, and the great- of all blood medi- cines and tonics. If you have Catarrh don’t wait until it becomes deep-seated and chronic, but be- S 'n at once the use of S. S. S., and send r our book on Blood and Skin Diseases and write our physicians about your case, THE SWIFT SPECIFIC CO., ATLANTA, GA. Have you a Watch, Clock, or some Jewelry THAT NEEDS liFPA I RING? If so I will do the work right at a reason able price. Shop at W. Harry Dodenhoff’s jewelry store. Watch (.'leaning next week only at half price. J. I*. COOPER. I • • • • 4 The Best Prescription for Chills and Fever is a bottle of Tasteless Chill Tonic. It iron and nuinine in a tasteU No cure—no pay* Price The first use country was locomot this Dr. Boll’* Cough Syrup will prove a quick and sure cure for croup. Mothers, when your children are attacked with that dreadful dis ease, you can depend on t^l* marvelous rera- ' r. It never falls edy. It never I i to curekjt once. Price 25c. TO lit. The repairing of the o W ens Ford Bridge will lie let to the lowest ifesponslble bidder on Friday, March i*t. 12 o’clock. The IS reserved bids. 15-2t-law reject any and all J ’)V. Wmlcbkl, County Supervisor. Clerk’s § a ie. State or v 4.1 Cornit ol HEKOKKK.'* f c. ir.<‘ l,Tn . e y’ \ al„ vg. / Nor Edna. Norfhey, et. al. In obtsdlence to an order made herein, for partition, dated March 16th, 1000, I will sell at Gaffney, S. C., before the court house door, during tho legal hours of sale, Sales*.ay March 4th, 1901, the following described land, to-wlt: Twenty-nine (29) lots lying on each side of the "Tank Branch.” In the western part of the town of Gaffney, 8. C„ designated as lots Nos. 48, 49.50. 51, 52, 55. 56. 57, 5M, 50, 60. 61. 62 63. 64, 65, 66. 67. 66, 69, 70, 71, 72. 73, 74, 75. 76, 77, 76 79. These Iota are to be sold as a whole. Also lots Nos. 2, 5, 25, 125. 116, "C," 89 and 6, on plat made In the altove case. Also lot* No*. 1, 7 and 12, which are to be re-sold at the risk of tbe former purchaser, Mr*. Clara Hame*. Term* of sale; One-third cash; balance on a credit of one and two years, In e<jual in stallments, with Interest fiom day of sale at eight per cent, per annum, to be secured by a bond of the purebsse and a mortgage of the premises. Purchaser to pay for papers, reve nue stamps and recording. J. Eb JicrriRiM, Clk O.O. Pis. ■*t' • US)|, Probate Judge's Sale For March, 1901. cate or .South Carolina, i County or Hpartanburq, f Carrie A. Petty, Individually, and as (huinistratrix of the estate of W. O. Petty, ceased, Petitioner, against lol Petty and Lawrence Petty, by their [uardiau ad llu-m. L. P. Epton, Defendants, By virtue of a decree passed by the probate court in tbe ultovc entitled case. I will sell to the highest bidder in the city of Gaffney, be fore the court house door, on salesday in March. 1001, between tho legal hours of sale, at public auction, the following descril>ed real estate, to-wit: All that boust: and lot situate in the town of Gaffney, in the State of South Carolina, and county of Cherokee, bounded by land of K. S. Lipscomb on the est, on. the east by J. M. Webster, on the south by Oil Mill, and on the north by stn-et. said lot being 100 feet front and 370 feet deep. Termsof sale:—All cash, purchaser to pay for papers, recording and stamps. J. J. Gentry, Probate Judge for Spartanburg Co. Feby. 13th, 1001. Estate Notice. All pt'rsons holding claims against the es tate of James 11. Ezell, deceased, are hereby notified to present the same, duly attested, to the undersigned on or before March 1st next; and all persons Indebted to said estate must make payment soon to the undersigned ad- mlnlstratoi. W, II. Martin, Admr. Estate James II. Ezell, dec’d, Jan. 29th, 1901. Published In Gaffney Ledger Feb. 1st, 8th and 15th. Homestead Notice. Notice Is hereby given that Mrs Sallie M. McCraw, widow of J.Carb McCraw, deceased, has applied to me by petition to set off to her a homestead In the personal property of her said Uec43UMMl husband. Witness my band and seal of office at Gaff ney,8. C., this 90tb day of January, 1901. J. Eb JcrrKKiEM, 2-l-4t Clk C. C. Pi’s. Don’t Forget tbe Exchange Cash Market Is Headquarters for Fresh Fish. Come most any day to get them. 1 will have them fresh and fine. When you want a good dinner call here and you can get that too. I pay the best cash price for Beef Cattle and Hides. W. J. MANESS, Telephone No. 17. Our Specials this Week. AND SPANISH OLIVES O. & O. TEA, The Finest Tea on the Market, Call and Get a Free Sample. Sparks & Humphries, -_~ThM.wders, Phone No. 79. New Goods Arriving daily of the best qual ity. Try our Triple Blend Coffee, Best in town. Cash Paid for Country Produce. J. E. EZELL. ITor-» Building and Plastering Lime, Coal, and Plaster Hair, Plaster Paris. Itoscndale Cement, Portland Cement, Dynamite, Blasting Powder, Fuse and Dynamite Caps, call on Limestone Springs Lime Works CARROLL & CO., Lessees. Telephone 57. Just Arrived. Full line best quality TEA BLACK, GREEN and MIXED, at 60c and $1.00 per pound. PEELEI & LEMMOND, Prompt Delivery. Phono 55. T. I. WALKER, GAFFNEY, S..C., Deals Exclusively In Lumber and Builders' Material and carries in stock a complete line of DOORS. SASH, blinds, Faints, oil, PLASTERERS’ MATERIAL, and everything needed for building purposes. Look him up when you need anything In his Hue. The Gaffney City Land and Improvement Company Off'n for sale Building by and In reach of the 30 to 100 acres on 1, poses. For full g Lots In this flourishing town, Gaffney City; Also Farms near tF ‘ ' ~ -^eetone Spring* and of this place, lu lota of froac ''--v. ^ •'cultural Lands to rent for Farm pur- >XT'jr, a icent. y' $oultln and emoving timber, flsblag or RoyAi Worcester Corsets. 13 f s*s These are the Corsets that stand out pre-eaiment- ly as the best values for the money ever offered. w i Royal Wofccifcg \j Royal (dorcester A tlie Uesst. Not ouly in quality of material and workmanship are tliesl Corsets way ahead of others at tlie same price, but in all other % essential features'they far outshine their closest competitors. Made upon latest French models—Perfect Fitting-—of extra fine Satteen-in prevailing colors, White, French Drab, Blue, Pink and Black. Sizes 18 to 30 inch. Retails for One Dollar. J. I>. OOITOICI^OOK. GAFFNEY QY-'HW Oil! m '■M3 ■ n. Dealers in MULEs, HORSES, Harness, and Vehicles of Every Description. We sell the Old Hickory and Tennessee Wagons, the very best made, and the famous Parry, Babcock, and other excellent makes of Buggies, Phaetons, Car riages, etc. We have the finest lot of Mules ever brought t< this country, and our stables are headquarters foi drovers and out-of-town dealers. We will endeavor by fair and courteous treatment to all tl warrant the confidence and patronage of the public. Ours is th« finest livery stable to be found between Charlotte and Atlanta; Come to see us when you desire anything in our line. Our prices are the lowest commensurate with correct business princi ples. We sell for cash or on time for good paper, Oaffne^r JL4ve ^ioelc C2o., Limestone Street. Gaffney, S. O. THE SPECIAL HEALTH POLICY ISSUED BY THE A Life Insurance Company, of Hartford, Conn.. Accident Department. COSTS $10.00 A YEAR FOR Payable In event of Total IllindnesB due to dlaeaac; OK $2,500 <j»0 In event of Paralysis due to disease, Involving total loss of use of hands, both feet, or one hand and one foot; OH 4LO Weekly Indemnity for total loss of time resulting from anjnjf the following diseases: " * ' " Appendicitis, Asiatic Cholera. Acute Bronchitis. Diabetes, Diphtheria. Erysipelas, Measlc Peritonitis, Pleurisy, Pheumonla (lobar or lobular), Searlet Fever. Smallpox, Typhoid Feveri Typhus Fever, Varioloid. * OTHER AMOUNTS AT PROPORTIONATE COST. Jewish J. OiVKBY, A&t. Wilkins' Hardware Store. Our rooms are crowded. Have had to add to our Hardware Department In order to store our goods. Have just received goods of the following: Poultry Netting. Barbed Wire, Plow Stocks and Handles. One and Two-Horse Turn Plows, Wire and Cut Nall*. Buck Bands, Collar Pads, Double and Single Buggy and Wagon Harness, and Tinware. Best make of Pocket Cutlery ou the market Complete line of Shelf Hardware. Mattocks, Picks, Shovels. Wash Pots, Skillets and Ovens, Bellows, Anvils, To Vises and Hammers, Just received big loiof PITTSBURGH STEEL PLOWS. Come and see us. R. M. WILKINS & CO, 2-1 u o HONEST TOIL as well as high-grade material> on- I tfi’s into the makeup of our tools for mechanics’ and artisans’ ul ails for tlie household, implemejL for the gardoer and the farmei Honest toil and business foresight united in getting together the bos line of hardware displayed at the S;nith Hardware Co. Wo hope to have a yisit from you.