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i Licnoici*. / ) TUE8I>AY AND FKIDAY. BY /Kr>. H. DkC'amf. k • ■" 1 1 ■' /LkdgehJb not reRponBiblfc for fcbs vievR of correspondents. Cards of thanks wil’ be published At ore cent a word. Beading notices will De published At ‘so cents a line each insertion. Write short letters and to the point to insure publication; also endeavor to get them to the office by Monday and Thursday mornings. Obituaries will be pubinlised at five cents a line. OoTespondents who do not contri bute regular news letters must fur nish their name, not for publication, but for identification. All correspondence should be rd- drtssed to Ed. H. DeOamp. Manager. SOME DON’TS. Don’t make it a habit to borrow your neighbor s paper. The paper is too cheap to do that Don’t mjae it a habit to lend your paper. You might want it some time when it’s away from home. ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ Don’t ask us to credit you. We | don’t want to hurt your feelings by refusing. -♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ Don’t be a dam, but take your county paper like a good, industrious citizen and keep posted on the hap penings of your section SPEC IA l, i.E I- LATiON. The clause in our State constitu- i tion forbidding special legislation is u | dead lettr-r except that now and then j it enables some lawyer with o had! case on hand to plead the uneonst.i- 1 tut tonality of the act under which the jury .vas drawn, and to have his plea sustained by the supreme court and his reputation as a shrewd and deep-sighted lawyer firmly estab lished. We venture the assertion that fully three-fourths of the bills intro duced and passed in the legislature are more or less of a special nature. When one of general application is introduced, one member after another requests that his county be exempted from its provisions, until when the bill is finally passed it is special leg islation intensified. In addition to such proceedings as this, almost every member has some pet scheme of a local, if not personal, nature to pusn through for the benefit of his own county, township, or personal friend, and the session is largely oc cupied with just such narrow and special bills. As the State government is now constituted we hardly see how it could be otherwise. We have a cen tralized state government which un dertakes to legislate directly f or every county, township and neigh borhood within its borders. It is im possible that laws can be so framed as to apply with tqual fairness to all Of these, subjected as they are to widely varying conditions. The ma terial conditions that exi?t in Wil liamsburg Berkely and Horry are as different from those existing in the middle and the upper portion of the 8;ate, as if the people inhabiting those regions belonged to two differ ent nationalities. The laws regu lating townships, free schools, and dispensaries, those pertaining to game, fish, cattle, and many other things cannot, by any species of political legerdemain, be made equally applicable to both of these sections of the State. And so it is with ail other parts of the State. There are conditions peculiar to each county, which do nor. prevail in any other couuty, and these demand dis tinct and special legislation. There is but one remedy for this stare of things and that is local self- government. If the constitutional Interdiction of special legislation con templated anything beyond the mere words which give it expression, it must have presupposed that coun ties and townships would be allowed In the main to make and enforce their own laws so far as those laws should Apply exclusively to themselves. Otherwise that constitutional clause ah >uld he abolished Local self-government is ideal de mocracy—an ideal which seems to b** fast lading from Die minds of n en. The S’ate absorbs the conn- tii-s uud Die aeoerai g iv rnment ab sorbs th** Slate and so we are fast becoming a c^ntraliz-d nation as ar bitrary and despotic as any nation In Europe But tms in an age of devel opment. 'A'e have out-grown form -r conUiliun* .iiid iimitationH \V haw risen to *he proud to i^hi of itfiperial- ton. NOl e n A Mil COMMENTS, assure "Cel” that he will be warmly supported in Cherokee. * <► « ♦ The Dally Observer Is the name of a new five-column quarto daily for (lastonia. We wish it success, at the same time doubting the wisdom of the venture. ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ The senate called up the crowing rooster and put him back into the bill from which he hud been eliminated by the house. So it is likely that his roostership will soon find himself in the clutches of the law when hereaf ter he shall lead a bevy of hens on a marauding expedition. This is right There is no use of a poultry law that exempts the chief criminal. ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ That was a stunner which Mr. Car mack, of Tennessee, hurled at the re publicans in congress when he taunt ed them with raising a cry of horror over a lynching in the South while they themselves were engaged in lynching ren millions of peonie whose only crime was thut upon which this government was founded. We won der how the tarder puritanical con science can recover from so severe a shock as that ♦ ♦ ♦ We are ready to admit that some of our county officers are serving the people on small salaries—very small when compared with those paid in other counties. But if we remember correctly the people were promised that Dies.- salarifH should he what they are and that they were incorpo rated in the act by which the enun’y was established. Now it would be unreasonable to hold that such a promise was intended to be binding forever though Die county should grow and the work for which these salaries are paid ehoulci be more then doubled. But the people certainly have the right to demand that good faith shall be kept and that these sal aries shall remain as they are for a reasonable length of time. There is also another view of the matter. There has been no scarcity of good men to offer for these offices up to this time and it is uot likely that there will be for some time to come. As long as good and competent men are not only willing but anxious to do the work of these offices for the sal aries fixed by law, we can see no valid reason why they should be raised. Offices are not. or at least ought not to be, for the benefit of the office- holders, but for the benefit of the people. The contract between tbe officer and tbe people is not one of sentiment, but of business and tbe principle that bolds in business is to get tbe best work obtainable for the least money DEATH FROM A FALL. THAT CENTERVIEW SCOOL. 1 A r.e***nt Afternoon. Miss Mattie Mae 1‘ierson enter- k. J. F.’aC’ontiiiiinirwtion stint t'j> a Mnr- taiuecl her little friends A’ednesday net'* Neat. .. . 1 afternoon, the occasion being her To The Ledger: I see a letter f rom ninth aunivtr-ary. After playing K 1’ crying out good school at many pleasant games, the guests Oenterview and asking someone to were invited into Die dining room make a law to force trustees to sign ! where they were served with delight- warrants to pay teachers for subscrip. f u ] refreshments, and at f>:80 after tion schools and throw trustees out tellnig Miss Mattie Mae what a pleas- and for preachers to attend to their ant afternoon they had spent, depart preaching and demijohn men to at- j ed for home. tend to their demijohn. So far us : Those present were Misses Maud the preacher is concerned, who is an McCraw, Freeman Garrett, Lula Mae Littlejohn, Vivian Surratt. Estelle Lipscomb. Carry Steward, Anna Du- Fre, Hattie Lou Littlejohn, Liza Gaines, Sadie Lipscomb, I’armce Brown ani Master Wulti-r Smith. A New Bridge. Supervisor Whelcbcl has had a sud- atantial bridge built across Cutrok-e creek near the "old furnace.” \Ve iearn the bridge is of first-ciass ma terial and workmanship, thut it is Oenterview school and its trustees I | built on granite pillars and that wel! am informed by W N. ’iurner. trus- graded approaches to the bridge have tee, thut the Oenterview people at- ! h,>en finished. tempted to run rough-shod over our ! The supervisor had this bridge trustee and run a subscription school built by hiring two mechanics by the and _er public money to pay for same . and assisting Diem with a por- by making fraudulent attempts to | rjon of the cheingang It would be get puolic money for a teacher who I interesting to s-}e the relative cost ul had no certificate from our honorable this bridge and -dmilur ones buiit in honorable trustee, he will do his duty to the letter regardless of R J P. or their perpetrators, and the demijohn men know how to take care of the demijohns, because they stopped at W. N. Turner’s gin house very often in former days and deposited their demi johns in a pile of cotton seed for a more convenient season, thinking they were cheating their wives out of the knowledge of their filthy habits, but cry out against their neighbors as being drunkards In regard to the Carpet Mill Uiiiinlnif. Mr. H. 1). W heat, the receiver of the Carpet Mill, has an inventory of ail th possessions and has began runnir the mill again, has retained nearly nil the former employees of the mill, who with hi? fine bu«in<:Hs methods will soon make it the pride of Guff ney. Success is sure where H. D. Wheat controls. , finished taking I WaA/I’cI O.f'/'Wn e Carpet Mi"'- 2 A Correct lou. In our transfers of real estate In Tuesday’s issue, W. H. Smith to J. B. Wilson, should, instead of 111 ' acres, beenfeleven and fourteen-oue 1 hundreds acres fur ^'(184; ara Smith! Hardware Co., to Granard Improve- ! mer* Go , #2 8UU for one lot instead i of .$2 000 Foley’s Honey and Tar is best f r croup and whooping cough, contains no opiates, and cures quickly. Care- ! ful mothers! keep it in the house. ' Cherokee Drug Co. J BEST FOR THE SOUTH. 3 n| Every Gardener, Farmer rnd Trucker should have Wood’s 1;X)2 Descriptive Catalogue. It not onlv give® reliable, practical, up- to-date information about all Seeds, but also the best crops to grow, most successful ways of growing different crops, and much other information of .special inter est to every one who plants sleds. It tells all about Vegetable and Flower Seeds, Grass and Clover Seeds, Seed Potatoes, Seed Oats^ Tobacco, Seed Corn, Cow Peas, Soja, Velvet and Navy Beans, Sorghums, Broom Corn, Kaffir Corn, Peanuts, nil let Seed, Rape, etc. Catalogue mailed free on request. —Don’t throw your money away, .Sure Cure Sarsaparilla 50 Cents. The i * best medicine at any price. ! T.W.Wos.i&Sons, Seedsnsn, 3 W3HIK9N9, • VIRGINIA. % county board, by trying to get the I trustees to sign a pay warrant with- j nut the knowledge of the trustee who j controls the Centerview school, ! and they mace u complete failure. 1 am informed by our worthy trustee . thut he employed h fuMv competent and worthy lady. Miss Diisie Willis, who has a large sctiool at Macedonia, I to t< ueb the Centerview school, but j because they informed her they were j running a subscription school, etc, i the county when let t c ntractors. I’Uilllri K*'«'ii>il. There will be a recnul by the stu dents in the musical department of the college next Saturday (to-mor- | row) afternoon at 1 o’clock this re- ! ! cital to immediately foil iw the muD- cal club meeting which will be hi Id at 3 o’clock. All faculty and pupils recitals ar rte GEjoej City Land and Improvement Conwy Oft-rs fur sal*? Rut id I i.uts In this flourishing town. 'Jaffuey Olty; W> Fa-tos naa by ami tr. reach of the Schools of Limestone S|>rln,r;» am! of t-us place, in lots nf from 30 to UK/ :u' ts on liberal thue r 'tes; a;s< Agricultural Lands to rent for Farm pur poses. For full particulars apply to R.—AH tie *• v. M nt' - i*r> Vf, on ! h s™* jx ** if* r t 's' f this .rill n !J 'Uttlr x arent. -rrui'wins tiro he *. Sshlnjror J. 3. v\- 'i . RliiVTT. that the trustee did not have any- open to the public. Friends of the jthers are always M. C. Wallace, a printer, la rui- nit g for mayor of Columbia We can Mr. U, Marian Moore, of Blacksburg. Sus tains Fatal Injuries. (Correepondence of The Ledger.) Blacksburg, Feb. 3.—Mr. G. Mar ion Moore died at his residence in this place on Sunday January 26th from concussion of the brain produced by a fall which he sustained on the 21st while crossing a gangway at the works of tbe Virginia-Carolina Chem ical Company, ol which corporation be was a trusted employee. Although be had received an injury so serious as to result in bis death, he walked to bis home, a distanoeof over a half a mile, gave a clear acount of his acci dent and then fell into a state of u; • consciousness from which he never rei overnfi. Mr. Moore was the son of Isaac Wood and Mary Ann Moore and was born near Buffalo church January 28tb, 1839, lacking at the time of bis death only two davs of being sixty- three years old In 1851. at the age of twelve years, he joiued the Baptist church at old Buff^o and has lived a consistent and prominent member of tbe same every year. In 1859 he was married to Martha N. Guuthorpe, with whom he lived happily and was aiw’ays a kind and devoted husband. In answer to the call of his State in 1861 ho promptly volunteered his services in defense of the South and, as a m*;mber of Company F. 17'h Regiment of South Carolina troops, he served faithfully and loyally us a Confederate soldier to the dose of the war. Although he was engaged in many of the hardest fought battles, he had tbe good fortune to e cape without a wout d. Mr. Moore was Die first re-idem of the nresent site of our town, having located s me y- ars after the war ou th* spo* where the residence of D; T B Whiteside now stands He was a public-spirited citizun arid always took u lively inter est in the upbuilding and welfare of th* 1 community. Ha was u memi>e<- of the Masonic lodge at this i lac ar d . on M u lay th< 27th uIt . afi r appro priate services in the cl.uich ny 'os | pastor, his remains were born- ti the I grave by the Masons and buried with j Musomc honors In tip- prisenee nf a I large concourse of bereaved relatives and irieuds. w. a i.im ,ii ('it. ton Market. I>.(- f |i invi g urines prevail on the | Uiffoey mat ki t 'oihiy: G ewi Middling 8 ( ft | MMilling 7 87A Or BnllY (.'miifli Syrup U iiiii|iieiitloi'ality lli" niosi reuiiii 1 ' ble ri ncily ever prodm-.u for the cure ot thro..!, ami lane troubles. It liai euieH tliou>,in(N. and has none jvoiuh is In bl ill,, c.is sol IncipientCoiisiiinplioii. tiling (o do with it. Bat b> the time one month was out the frauuulent scheme began to leak out. says our trustee 1 hc\ were uot a careful aa thed-tnijohn men. and in Dehalf ol our woithv trust es of Limestone N > LI, of with whom 1 Dn well acquaint o , and 1 believe th m 10 brf one of the b"-t ser ol rustees South Carolina | ever had and if kept in office will show ro others' us 1 see. Toe state superintendent endorses the action of W. N\ Turner to a letter. It seems from a large petition signed and s'nt to our couuty board to have W. N. Turuer removed as trustee was re fused by the board, as they could bring no charg-s against, him as trustee. The whole trouble of the Centerview school has grown out of small personal matters, says our trus tee. as the patrons acted very wrong in saying that the trustee was trying to keep them from having any school and with a few hot words the trustee demanded their authority for so say ing. When the whole matter we.s sifted out and each other claimirg his honesty, it seems as one of the patrons got io his words of honesty a little faster than the trustee, claim ing he would not have a cent belong ing to anyone else, and in order to test his honesty the trustee offered him one dollar to pay a claim of fifty cents, and the trustee says be grasped it more quickly than tl e eagle on it would have eaten pr*-y for its young, if it had been aliv.. My advice in one respect is like R J. P : Let tbe trustees run tbe publ c school and let the patrons attend to their demijohns or something they are capable of doing and our school will not be in trouble and quit trying to sway the mighty scepter that ate swaying at Ceuterview and trying to get up strife between patrons and trustee. When you have troubles In public schools you will invariably find that a few hot-he tded patrons aie trying some low scheme and generally b ame tbe trustees. I nave bad a little experience a nng that line my self at d know whereof I speak The trustees get no pay and there is no common sense in thinking they will try to break up a public school. The patrons are the ones that break up the schools. As I read a letter of instruction in the State from our state superintendent of education en- d> rsing the action of our trustees I think it is time for the patrons to shut up and for Jeckins bull dog to quit barking and let tbe cattle graze quietly, as Cunning Joe said a few years ago. and let the dog return to his varmint and the hog to bis wallow and the children to tbe public schools and let other people’s business alone, ami non let little personal matter- de prive ymr chil ren of the benefit of the public school, but submit to the school laws and the ru'ing- of the trustees and all trouble will cease. Let all teachers who expect to teach school be examined by our honorable county board and then make applica- r one for srhnolrt and not attempt to teach without the proper authority Stkvy. $ioo Reward, $ioo. Th<‘ renders of this paper will ho ph-asoil to huit'ii t Uat liit-i't-is at it-ast oni'(Ircaih-il dia- easi' thai •oituicf has bciu: able tocuro in all ! itsstaircsaml tiialUCaturrh. Hall'si atarrh ' i ur< i> ilie mi y positivc cure now known to i the met,l<-iil fraternity. C'aiarrh Delinr a constitutional disease. r*s|Hires a constitu tional in itnn-ut. Hall’s ' atarrh Cure is taken mteniully, tictliijr directly upon tlie blood and mucous surfaces of tie' system, fhereby destroyiiitr ihe foundation of the nlv s". and K'vln, tile patient strenvtii ny ; bulUlintf up the const it nt ion and asslstiiiv nature in doiii# its w >r,. The proprietors ! hiiV" s i much faith In Its euraiIve powers thut they oMer One iiundreil Dollars for any | .’use that it falls to cure, jsenu tor list of Test Itnonlais. Add) Ss, K. .1. Ctlt NKY .V Co., Toledo, O. Hold by I tfUs-jflsts. 7&c. Hall's T'lirnDy Rills tire the best. participants and welcome. #*^1 Kick a dog and he bites you. He bites you and you kick him. The more you kick the more he bites and the more he bites the more you kick. Each makes the other worse. A thin body makes thin blood. Thin blood makes a thin body. Each makes the other worse. If there is sroing: to be a change the help must come from outside. Scott’s Emulsion is the right iielo. It breaks up such a combination. First it sets the stomach right. Then it en riches the blood. That strengthens the body and it begins to grow new flesh. A strong body makes rich blood and rich blood makes a * rong body. Each makes the other better. This is the way Scott’s Emulsion puts the thin body on its feet. Now it can get along by itself. No need of medicine. This picture represents the Trade Mark of Scott's Emulsion and is on the wrapper of every bottle. ar;| Send for free sample- SCOTT & BOWNE, ^09 Pearl St,. New York. 50c. and |l. all druggists. My stock of General Merchandise at Go forths, S. C., is more complete than ever be fore and owing to the hsrd times I will sell at | greatly reduced prices, i handle almost every thing in Dry Goods, Notions, Shoes, Hats,. Staple and Fancy Groceries, Hardware, Etc. I also have about 30 head of Horses and Mules which I will sell cheap for cash or good paper payable next fall. Also three good Milch Cows with young calves on same terms. Don’t forget that I am still handling Tyson & Jones, Corbitt, Cincinnati and Studebaker Buggies, and Taylor, White Hickory and Studebaker Wagons at Goforths, S. C., and will meet any honest competition. Syracuse and Southern Harrows and Farming Im plements. Fertilizers of all grades on hand and to arrive soon. See me before buying. J. I. Sarratt. MOTT’S PENNYROYAL PILLS Tiny uverrouir WvakBCM. Irrptro. P ^ LI.. X Uaih Iwrlty itiul unil.-.|i<i>t,Iiiirt.'aM'vi^ur rUPrUTflinO i' 'W an 1 bunl,I, * puiiiM (if im rn-irua- UlOI y ii U If I tluM.” 1 hey ** I,|fV Ma ^ ^ JUST RECEIVED SPRING SHIPMENT WRITINGS Combine Linen, * Bizone Billet, Channcy Bond, Poplin Notes, Corduroy Notes, Averne, t"Klrl. at woinuali'ii"!, itl<Jlli4 do- v«l"l>ln< ut or oririiii. utifl tmily No kno" n n-iM'ily for womm fjtiul. . ^ . fay f (.■j.'V tlu in. ('iuiiii.i t OS: *>> mill ■TOTT to harm—life be- fc# Fur mt. *as®aa CHEROKEE DRUG CO. lilTokl <5 I >r ax Co. ENVELOPES, ti it 1000 FOR . . . $1.50 2000 u • . . $2.50 5000 (1 • . . $5.00 1000 it • . . $1 75 2000 II • . . $3 00 5000 II • . . $6.25 LETTER HEADS, BILL HEADS, STATEMENTS, AND EVERY KIND OF PRINTING AT LOW PRICES. ORDERS BY MAIL PROMPTLY FILLED. THE LEDGER. GAFFHEY. S. C. Here is a Bargain. Two excellent corner building lots within five minutes walk of Carpet Mill. These lots wiH • v, be sold on the Easy Payment Plan of only $3 per month. Here is an opportunity of a lifetime for working people. Apply to Kl>. H. 1 >el?JVXI I 3 .