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'Thk; PUBLISHED TUESDAY AND FRIDAY, RY Ed. H. DkCamp. NOTES AND COMMENTS. At last it begins to look like Gaff ney is again to have a telephone sys tem and this tune a system worthy of the name and of the growing impor- Uoce of the town. The work on the Huts is of thtf most solid and substan tial character, and the new ’phones which are being rapidly put in are beautiful in finish and no doubt as effective as science and art can make them. Curb your patience for only a few days longer, when the clatter will begin and we shall all be happy. The Carolina Spartan suggests that it will take a bale of cotton to buy two good hogs, and that the hogs can be raised far more cheaply and easily than the cotton. That depends al together on how a man is situated. A man with a good sized family can raise two hogs right cheaply by util izing the waste products of his kitchen, but the man who has to go to his corn crib for all his hogs will eat, will find them eating their heads off several times, and bis'own work thrown in. ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ The Greenville News, provoked by some criticisms of the Spananburg Journal comes forward with a vigor ous ^declaration of principles, the Strong points of which are death to Tillmauism andBryanism, down with the dispensary, push your territorial expansion, give us a ship subsidy and build the Nicaraguan canal. It seems to us that the News has out lined lor itself rather a big work. It goes ivt it systematically, however, when it attempts in the first place to have the Junior Senator again elected. ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ The Schley court of enquiry was interrupted for a day by the sudden death of Judge Wilson, one of Schley’s atto.neys, but it will soon move bravely on again. The mass of testimony taken would fill volumes and it would require as great a courage to read it as to fight over the battle of Santiago. The result of it all will be that Schley’s friends will still believe him to be a htro and Sampson’s friends will still demand for him the chief honors—not a very great improvement on the present status. ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ While we are enjoying the first cool bracing days of autumn, the people out west are again sweltering in summer heat. We hope the hot wave will not roll this way, as from oar standpoint we have had heat enough for one season. Cotton is opening slowly and needs cool, dry weather in order to check its growth and mature the fruit. We believe the cotton crop in this section will be above the average after ail. The bolls are large and plump, and there are plenty of them. They need only favorable weather through October to make them open, when they will whiten the fields like a snow storm *nd keep the hands busy until the middle of December in gathering and marketing the fleecy treasure. Capt. W. A. Courtenay writes a acathing letter to Comptroller Gen eral Derham on the cotton mill as sessments. He says in part: “I ask if the people of South Carolina are not living under a written con stitution which declares In the most imperative manner that there shall be equality in assessing and taxing the property of the State? This being ao, by what legal authority does a so called Board of Equalization go out of its way to select certain prop erties and arbitrarily assess them at £0 per cent, of their values, when bulk of the property of the State is notoriously assessed at 40 per cent, cut down to 30 per cent, and an average estimate at 35 per cent.? Mr. Courtenay further declares that the ‘'money feature of this startling revolutionary program shrinks into insignificance in the presence of such conspicuous incongruity, inequality and lawlessness.” We have already expressed and reiterated our opinion of this action of ti e State Board and we have no further comments to make on it at this time. We do not believe that public opinion in South Carolina is yet so warped by preju dice that it will sustain the board in this daring and lawless innovation. ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ Adjutant General Floyd is making investigations with a view to learn ing approximately the number of veterans who would go the soldier’s home, provided one should lie estab lished. Col. Crittenden, the chair- mao of the pension board, thinks that not more than twenty in the county of Greenville would avail themselves of the privileges of the home, and they would do so mainly for the medical attention they might receive. As a general thing the indigent veteran will prefer to draw his little pension and remain among his old friends and comrades- We are not opposed to any provision that the State may make for the comfort of needy veterans, but we doubt the advisability of establishing at this late day a soldier’s home. The last veteran will have gone to his long home before many more years, and the institution can hardly be put into proper working order before the numbers of those for whom it may be established will be so diminished, that the State could provide for them far more economically and accepta bly by increasing the amount of their pensions and letting them remain among their ^friends. ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ The most rabid anarchist ought to learn from the trial of Czolgosz a wholesome lesson on the necessity and benignity of law. Czolgosz has had as fair and impartial a trial as the most obscure and petty criminal ever had. He was furnished with able counsel; jurors were njected who said they had formed an opinion ; and every form of law instituted for the benefit of the criminal was strictly adhered to. If there had been any extenuating circumstances in the case the prisoner and his coun sel had ample opportunity to pro duce them; if tht-re had been the shadow of provocation for the das tardly deed, the assassin had the privilege to make the most of it. If he offered no defence, it was because he.had no defence to offer. It was not so when President Lincoln was assassinated. The civil law was then suspended, and the country was sub ject to military power, which is anarchy concentrated and intensified. Booth was shot down and every one intimately associated with him was hanged. Even an innocent woman, at whose house he had boarded, was hanged, to the lasting disgrace of the American people. Emma Goldman and the whole brood of Chicago an archists may thank their stars that they live under the reign of law. They owe their preservation at this time to the very laws which they would subvert and destroy. CROP BULLETIN. Condition of Carolina Cropi* as Reported by the Bureau, Columbia, S: C., Sept. 24 —The first of the week ending 8 a. m.. Monday, September 23rd, was warm er, the latter portion decidedly cooler than usual, with a maximum temperature of 98 degrees at Black- ville, and a minimum of 47 degrees at Greenville. The winds were gen erally northeasterly, and were high during a part of the week. The sun shine was generally deficient during the first of the week, while the last three days were almost cloudless. The rainfall ranged from 0.21 at Charleston to 8 10 at Anderson, with excessive amounts over all but the southeastern portion of the State. The rains were damaging to open cotton, and caused floods in all the • up country” streams, submerging lowlands to a greater depth than any previous freshet this season. The rains were beneficial to growing and immature crops. A drought of con siderable severity prevails in the southeastern counties, along the im mediate coast, to the injury of fall truck crops : there also the ground lacks sufficient moisture to quickly germinate recently planted seeds. Cotton picking was delayed, and open cotton beaten out of the bolls, by the heavy rains and winds. The recent cool weather checked the rapid and premature opening, and decreased rust and shedding. In some sections a large portion of the crop is open, In other places but lit tle has as yet opened. The crop is furthest advanced, and poorest over the eastern half of the State, while over the western half it is unusually late, with many young bolls that will require at least a month longer to mature. Sea-island continues to bloom freely and haa improved. Corn is being gathered, and the poor yields confirm previous esti mates. Rice is not so good as it ap peared to be before harvest; in the Georgetown district the crop is short; harvest is nearing completion. The hay crop is the largest in years, and much of it has already been secured in fine condition. Sweet potatoes are very good. P**as are good. Oats are being sown, and some have come up to good atiiiids. Minor crops us a rule promise excellent yields. There In mure Catarrh In iIiIn Nectlnn of tliecounlry thnnnll other OIni-iim-n |itll to- ifi-i hei ami iiiitll the last fe w ytMtn was sup- IHweti to h.i im-uralile. l‘or a ur< m niiioy years doctors iiroiioiinced It u locul iIIm'.ino, and |iri'Ni'rilH'<l loeal rennsllea, ami liy con stantly tallliiH to cure with local treatment, pronounced It liicttrable, Science has proven catarrh to tat a <‘oii»t llul loual disease, and t In-ref ore rci| u Ill's con si 11 ul Ion a I treatment. Hall's Catarrh Cure, manufactured by I .1, Cheney A Co., Toledo. Ohio Is the oufy con- atltutlouiil cure on the market. It Is taken Internally In dosi-s from In drops to a lea- s|M>onfiil. 11 net * direct ly on I he IiIihid and tliltCMUw siirfa* • s of the s)'»1cm I hey otter one I,midri'd dollars for any case It falls in cure ‘send fur circular* and ti silmoul.il*. Address r .1. C'MKNHV A Co., Toledo, II. Sold hy druuKlsi*. 75c. Hall's Family IMIla are the best. Etta .lane Ktcblinfs. (Correspondence of The Ledger.) Etta Jane, Sept. 23—Heavy dew falls during these nights so that out door work is hindered till nine or ten o’clock. The camp of the Woodmen of the World at this place met in the school house last Saturday afternoon. The patrons of the Etta Jane school will meet at one o’clock today to let the contract for buildfng a new and commodious academy building. The Woodmen will also have a hall put up over the school room. S. W. Foster, (‘ Doctor.” as he is dubbed by the boys) went over to Spartanburg a few days ago. “Doc tor” knows a good thing when he sees it. i Mrs. Sam T. Creech attended preaching and the convention at Mes- j sopotamia Sunday with her two little ' daughters. Kev. and Mrs. Isom also were in attendance and shaking hands with their old friends, who were glad to see them. Drayton Clary and Miss Ellen j Kirby represented Corinth Sunday j school in the convention j Oliver Byar-i was on this side last night until after the dew began to fall. James Isom will locate and operate his saw mill at this place. Cotton picking is now in full blast. Reporter Let it OJfMilAMdj Opening Display OF Fall and Winter Pattern Hats AND Fine Millinery, Afmaez WidnSSdBy Scott’s Emulsion is not ?. :ood medicine for fat folks. A'e have never tried e;i\ inq;i oa real fat person. \Ye don’t iare. You see Scott's Emill ion builds new flesh. Eat >eople don’t want it. Strong >eople don’t need it. But if you are thin Scott’.- Emulsion is the medicine for ou. It doesn't tire you out. There is no strain. The work s all natural and easv. You ust take the medicine and chat’s all there is to it. The next thing you know you feel better—you eat better —and you weigh more. It is a quiet worker. Send for free sample. SCOTT & BOWNE, Chemists. 4 «) Pearl St., N. Y. 30c and ft 00; all druggists. AND 1st. The Choicest Fabrics, Paltercs and Styles To be found in our stock of Fall and Winter Clothing. 2d. The most popular patterns worn during the coming Fall and Winter season will be rather quiet in effect but noted for good taste and quiet elegance. 3d. The always-popular Sack Suit will, of course, be the most worn of any style, and we have a beauti ful showing in warm Cheviots, serviceable Cassimers and handsome, dressy Worsteds. 4th. We have only such garments as are thor oughly reliable and they have our reputation behind each and every one. We want every man who can to come to our store and see how the clothes he wears should look. We have selected carefully ; have a large stock for you to choose from, and we have some pattern or style that will suit or please you. We take special pains to fii the hard-to-fit. No matter how tall, how short or how hard you are to fi+ we can fit you. The Company Store. Thursday, <§£1 Oct, 2d and 3d. if FREE*- Just Received A shipment of Holmes, Counts & Larabees fa mous Crackers and Biscuits. These are fine and crisp. At EZELL’S. THLiVAlUE STWagS Gaffney, S. C\. £ept. 24, 1901. fc i We will give that handsome Buck’s Junior” free to the girl under 14 years of age who bakes the Best Batch of Biscuits at our store on a regular Buck’s Steel Range. You have from now until Oct. 1 Oth, so Work Hard Girls. Learn to cook. The contest is free for all, but girls | who wish to enter must come in before the 1 Oth and register their names. A lunch of biscuits and hot coffee will be served to all who call. Are you satisfied with the Tea and Coffee you are drinking? If not, let us fix you up a first quality blend that we are sure will sat isfy the most fastidious. Peeler & Lemmond. Prompt Delivery. A N. Wood President. R. R. Brown. Vlce-Preslden IVI ei-clitiii ivncl Planter® Uank: OF GAFFNEY. S. O. CAPITA JU #30,000. State and County Depository. Doesa venernl Banking and Exchange business, is well fitted up with Fire Proof Vault a Burglar Proof Safe, with Automatic Tin'" 1 w " —<—* - occupations. ock. We solicit the business of people of a C. 7VI C!mhier. French Flannel, All Wool French Flannel for waists at 39c Up to Date and " JReliable. Collars, A good 4-ply Linen Collar at 5c Table Linen, Full bleached extra wide Table Damask, worth tiOc, at 50c Taffeta Silk, A line of colors in the 75c kind, at 50c Liberty Satins, 12 colors, suitable for the new full waists, at 75c Petticoats, A big line In silk, and mercerized, from GOOOS. SUITINGS—7 pieces 40 inch faucy suitings, in new fall colors, the 40c kind to go at 25c WHIPCORD—9 pieces. 40 inches, all wool whipcords, the latest I colorings, suitable for waists, skirts and children’s dresses, the j equal of any 75c goods in town, special at 50c DRESS GOODS—Assortment—including many pieces of fine all wool granites, unfinished worsteds, henriettas, etc., ranging in value from 65 to 85c, a bargain at 50c s LADIES CLOTH—8 pieces, 54 inch, all wool, new colors, suita- j ble for children’s dresses and wraps and ladies’ skirts and dresses, j the dollar kind, at 63c BROADCLOTHS—11 pieces, 54 inches wide, in black, white and new colors, a good value for $1.35, to go at $1 .00 PATTERN SUITS—Imported, no two alike, from... $5.00 up CORDUROYS—7 pieces, narrow welts, suitable for waists, walk ing skirts and walking suits, value 50c, at 45c Shirts, A good 50c negligee shirt at 39c Shoes, Mens’ "Storm King,” a good waterproof shoe, worth $2.50, for $2.00 Ginghams, AmosWeag staples, less than the agent’s price 5c Hosiery, $ 1.00 up These are only a few of our many Corsets, A full line In plain and fancy. A double thick boy’s hose that wears like flinL at \ 1 5c od Fine laee-trlnin»ed, short straight front, for | only 50c Laces and Embroideries, An Immense line new. up-to-date, and cheap. Come to see us; we are glad to show you through. G, G. BYERS. 805 Limestone St., next door io the Postoffice Underwear, A full line union aud two-piecesu women and children, s,-riven's i 75c