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£ THE LARGEST / Circulation of An/ Ne^snaps • in the Fifth Congressional District of S. C. The Ledger SEMI-WEEKLY—PUBLISHED TUESDAY AND FRIDAY. WE GUARANTEE The Reliability of Every Adver tiser Who Uses the Col- umns of This Paper. A Newspaper in ail that the Word Implies and Devoted to the Best Interests of the People of Cherokee County. ESTABLISHED FEB. 10 t 1804. GAFFNEY. S. C., TUifiSBAY, A1MUL 1004 81.00 A YKAIL THROUGHOUT THE PALMETTO STATE. Items of Interest of Passing Events. ALL OVER THE STATE. Event* that Have Taken Place from One Eml of the State to the OtherCulled rrom Exchanges for <Julck Kt-aiilng by Scores of Busy People. Representatives of mill supplies and machinery dealers from five southern states met in Charleston Tuesday and effected an organization. The 315th session of the South Caro lina Presbytery closed at Abbeville Monday. Richland church. Oconee county was chosen as the next place of meeting. A petition signed by a majority of the voters of Lee County has teen filed with the the county board of ntrol asking for the establishment 'f a diepensary at Scranton. Fo*r something over two years Sheriff Buford of Newberry has had a warrant for Dennis Limi-ay. a negro charged with riot and o* 1 r thine*, and has been searching him. On Wedne-day he cantured I. ..usay at Bartow, in Barnwell county, and has him safely lodged in jaii. Thurs lay Andrew Cosby, a colored boy living in Columbia, who was ar rested a few weeks ago on tne charge of trying to kill his father, was taken before an t xtunining board and ad judged insane. The judge of probate made out the necessary papers for his commitment to tne asylum. Wallace Williams, a negro boy about 12 years old of Union, was run over by a freight train on the South ern a few days ago and lost his foot. It is said he attempted to cross the track, and being half blind he stum bled and fell on the tra> k but man aged to get off all except the foot. A. P. Aldrich, a machinist working in the Grendell cotton mill, Green wood, had a spell of tvpho’d fever. He brought suit against the company for $10, 000 damages on account of loss of time, pain, mental anguish and all that sort of thing. After a trial lasting two days, the jury rendered a verdict in favor of the cot ton mill. The entire faculty of Converse Col lege in Spartanburg has been re-elec ted with the exception of the follow ing, who have resigned: Prof. J. F. Brown, Miss Nina Horner, Miss Lil lian Luitweiler and Miss Anna An- nable. Two of these positions, so far, have been filled. Mr. M. R. Hamer, of Dillon, has been selected as secretary of the college. The governor Thursday reappointed Maj. W. H. Gooding, of Hampton county, to be a member of the board of regents of the State hospital for the insane for the term of six years dating from April 10. Maj Gooding is one of the oldest members of the board in point of service, having been -originail.v appointed by Gov Hugh 8. Thompson in the early ’80s and hav ing served continually since. He is also one of the most painstaking and valuable members. A warrant was sworn out Thurs day morning before Magistrate Garris of Spartanburg, for Geo. Bowen for larceny. It is charged that on Tues day night Bowen entered the bouse of C. F. Felmet, who runs a boarding house at Converse, and stole $125 70 in cash, a watch and a pair of brass Jcnucks. Most of the money belong ed to E. B. Farmer, a boarder there, and the rest, $5 20, was the property of other parties. The watch and part of the money were found on Bowens person and be was locked up. Tuesday was the 533 anniversary of what is known as the “April snow.” On the 15th of April, 1849. snow fell throughout the upper part of the State, covering the ground to a depth of eeveral inches. The weather that year had been balmy and vegetation was far advanced. All the fruit was killed, and the wheat and oat crops were badly damaged. Corn was spring ing up and was all killed, but was re planted. The cold was very intense and a great many grown trees were killed, as they bad commenced put ting out foliage. Thursday the supreme court banded down a decision in the case of Kirby vs. Southern Railway Co., in which the judgment of the lower court was affirmed. By this decision the family of the late Ison Kirby, of Clifton, who was killed about three years ago by a moving train on the Southern railway at Ciifton, will re cover $5.(KX) damages and interest. The attorneys in the case were C. 1‘ Sanders, Esq., for the Southern rail way and Hon. Stanyarne Wilson and Hon. D. E. Hydrick for the plaintiff, •11 of Spartanburg. There was a small wreck on the Southern at Spartanburg Junction Wednesday. The dining'car of No. 35 which ie left in Spartanburg for the mbrning train, was being pushed up to rheJunotion by the shifting engine in order to have it reversed, A freight train from Asheville was standing on the track The engineer of the shifting engine did not know this and pushed the dinning car into the freight train. One end of the car was badiy broken in and the front of the engine somewhat icj red. Con ductor Logan was bruised, but not seriously. » Thursday Capt. James Mike!!, an engineer on the government dam and locks at Granby near Columbia met with an accident which happily was not serious. Capt Miaell while crossing the S. A. L. bridge was over taken by an express train from the south. He attempted to reach a side platform, but the distance was too great and so to avoid the imminent danger of being run down he lay down on the outer edge f the cross ties. As the train was passing some hanging chain or car step struck him in the h<^d inflicting a painful scalp wound. Thursday night lie was resting easliy and it i» expected that he will sjon be out again. The B B. Evans case, which was to have come up in Columbia last wvek. has been continued until next term of court, on motion of George Johnstone, attorney for defendant Mr. Johnstone presented an affidavit setting forth that a most important witness, the defendant’s brother, was in Waterbury, Cone where his wife whs dangerously ill on account oi the death of her mother. This week Mr Johnstone has an important engage ment elsewhere. The affidavits also stated that Mr. Johnstone had hoped to have the witness on hand M ed- nesday. but the above stated facts prevented. Solcitor 3 liurmond an nounced that the state was ready to try the case. Judge Buchanan gran ted a continuance of the case on the grounds set out in the affidavit. CORINTH CHRONICLES. Farmers t’lantiiiK Cotton-A Flourishing Sunday School—Other NotdS* (Correspondence of The Ledger.) Corinth, April 21.—Farmers are getting a move on themselves now. Many of them ere planting cotton seed, and th „ who are not ready are preparing for it. Farmers, let me give you a piece of advice : If you will plant a little more of what you need, such as corn, peas, potatoes, wheat, oats, etc., you are sure to escape the sheriff (as our Cowpens correspondent says). Let us live like our friend 8 over the line in the Tar Heel State. Mr. F. C. Hobbs, of Knoxville, Tenn., is in our community repre senting the Treeville Nursery Com pany. We hear that our friend, Mr. W. D. Kirby, will be in the race for the legislature, and if what we hear is correct, bis platform is to let the white educate the white and the cpl- ored educate the colored. We can agree with Mr. Kirby in this, as we think that as much or more money is going to the colored public schools. We don’t mean to speak anything against our honorable superintendent of education, Mr. W. F. McArthur, but we do hope that in the future our public schools will be in a better con dition So, let us support Mr. Kirby and some other good man of the same platform, as we think it would be an advantage to our county and State. We agree with our friend, “Oc- tavus,” as to the men who voted in the legislature for the eight-day road law. Just think o'a man working at 12.J cents a day in the long summer days! We think that we, the voters, should pull against all such men as that. Of course we do not mind pay ing $1.00 road tax, but we do oppose pauper labor. We need men to rep resent us in the legislature who will oppose all such laws as that. We hope that our present members of the bouse wont think hard of us for these few dots that we have written, for we think they should run for the State senate. Messrs. Collis Kirby and Dock Clary, of Gaffney, poked their feet under Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Littlejohn’s table last Sunday. Sunday school has again opened at this place, and we have a good at tendance. Mothers and fathers, bring your children to Sunday school every Sunday and let us have a good school. I am sure that it will be a help to them and probably it would teach you something. Messrs. Forest Petty and Fred Tur ner were in our community last Sun day What’s up boys? Come again We are glad to have “Flaw” with us again; so we can expect to hear from the “Coalin’ Grounds” now. Give us some good ones, “Flaw,” and tell us how you and old “Banjo Lu” are getting along. There was a big hail storm in the Goucher neighborhood last Saturday which did a good deal of damage, i Billie. UNCLE SAM'S BUYS IN THE PHILIPPINES, Strenuous Methods Used to Make the Natives “Talk.*’ THE WATER TREATMENT DEBATING SOCIETY ilEAl! ETTA JANE Treatment of V.' a . Indian and Negro Discussed. The Boy*‘‘(.ettlngr Even” for the Way the Ninth Infantry wa* Butchered at Samar— Native* a Tieaclw rou* and Iteeeitfnl I’eo- plewlih a LauKtiaK* Worse than ”Monkey Talk”—••>• Non Hitcir'aud Water Treat ment" T*ed. (Corre^nondonee of The I.edger.) In; an a avitk Pkov , March 11 — Since n .• Ib>t writing <>ur “Co.” has been n.,'Vrd to this piace. thirty miles south f F. De MalabLD, the place I !>*«' dirte from, but sti'l in the 'Him- 'ovir;c r ' (Cavite). And now we are to be moved to Batangas City, Bata? _as province about sixty miles aout i rf here and still closer to that dreadful place. Samar, where bolus are used at any old time and when you least expect them. All will re member Samar, the place where the galianl Ninth were butchered oniy a few months ago. There also a few of our boys got a slight dig soon after thr-y arrived in connection with the 17th Infantry, when six were killed a id fourteen wounded. But we have < tie consolation—we have a comman der who hates a Goo Goo worse than any officer I know, and when he starts after tnem is one of the fiercest horn- bres after niggers there is in the is lands. He believes in the water cure for niggers that will not oblou (talk). Now, a great many of you do not Know what the water treatment is, so I will try and explain it. Well, a company is out after nig gers, and in passing along the trail will suddenly come to a small clear ing and will see an hombre, or maybe several, working for all they are worth, as though they never did a mean act in their lives. Still their guns are hid in some batr/boo pole or in the brush not far off. As the Americans have gotten on to this method of fooling people, we just ar rest these honest, peaceable, hard working nigger^, who in reality are the ones who are causing all the trouble over here. We try by fair means and gentle persuasion to get them to oblou (talk) and as they are very true to their cause, they will not do so. If they do not we send them to a place nearby where water can be found and make them drink till they can’t drink, then pour it down them till they have all they can hold, then stand on their middle or stomach and continue this till they oblou. If this fails, which it sometimes does, we next tie the “Nelson” hitch; grasp them around the neck with the left arm (standing behind them), throw your right foot to their right and your front, catch their right wrist and then bring your knee in under tha shoulder and press upward and back at same time, which will, as you will find, give a very nice feeling to the entire right side of the person from the hip up the spinal column out tha entire arm; also, at the same time, you want to press with all your might against the windpipe with your left forearm, your shoulder and body act ing as a brace for his bead and shoul ders, which thus adds force to your (left) arm pressure on throat. This generally gets the desired informa tion, though we have failed on one so far. But there is one less (hombre) now. Just try the water cure, or at least, try the “Nelson hitch” and some time it may be of service. Of course these methods are not allowed, but still they are used, just as other things that are not allowed are used. Take Samar island ; we cannot hear any official reports to amount to any thing, but now and again some one comes up from there and you can rest assured that the boys are getting even for the way the Ninth was butch ered. Still it is not officially reported for lack of means of communication —I mean convenient. I guess a blind man can under stand what I mean, and who can blame them when they think how the Ninth was treated? Of course this would seem cruel, and it would be if these people were civilized, but they are—well, the nearest things I can compare them to (outside of monkeys) are Indians, which they resemble in both color and features. They are the most treacherous, deceitful people living, their language, even, is worse than “monkey talk,” no heads nor tails to it; it is far worse than the peon lingo of Mexico. Of course a few speak Spanish, but very few. Now, the above may seem strange, but if you were over here you would soon be convinced that it was even more than the truth. Well, if I write all now I will not have anything for next time, so I will say adiot, my Ameticano amigos. H. M. NEGRO NOT MISTREATED. The Soelety w»* Orgavu/.ed Three Week* Aro and the Hoy* aro Taking Great In terest in it—Mowel'.'.* Ferry Working Like a Charm—Other Note*. iCorresponnence of The Ledger.) Etta Jane, April 18.—We are in clined to think the outlook for our country is more auspicious now than it has been for sometime. Farmers are cheerful. They have oorne the disaster of consecutive crop failures v ith commendable patience, and are go»r:j to wo'k with renewed energy. The i tat, we believe, will ^rove a blessing in disguise. We never x- pect to see the masses of them take *o little iuterat in raising provision crops ajjai’'. They who are teachable have iearntu a it-ssoo they wiii hardis ever forget. ‘ Hog and hominy” i a the slang ot the tanning masses now and forever hereafter, we hope. As our problems have been the means of bringing quite a number of hoys and girls into the contest, we propose hereafter to offer a three- mo' (h’s sui -ci.ption to The Ledger to me first on»j sending correct an swers to any of them as they appear in The Ledger from time to * W ith the answer we we-' testent lo give us his or ner metnud of solution. We want the shortest, easiest and plainest methods—not for publication but for examination. i‘he winner will always get the paper, if the solver is already a subscriber his time will be extended three months, or he can have the paper sent to some friend if he wishes, for that time. Now who will get the prize papers? While only one can get the paper we will be glad to have an honor roll of those who solve the questions. if five men can mow thirty-three acres in five days, working eleven hours a day, how many days would it take four men to reap thirty-two acres, working ten hours a day, pro vided they can reap^five acres in the time they can mow six acres? Mr. J. Wesley Smith, of Georgia, came down today to visit his niece, Mrs. Laura T. Estes. The first of this month the boys organized a debating society at the school house. It meets every two weeks. Last Saturday night the subject was: Who has been the worst treated by our people, the In dian or the negro? It was decided in favor of the negro, after strong arguments on both sides. Nearly thirty years ago we bad the same subject in the same house, but before an entirely different set of speakers. Then Messrs. Barnett Moss and Hosea Webber were both on the side of the Indian. It was a lively debate. Barnett was left-handed, and a black smith by trade, and in his gesticu lations he hammered his arguments out with his left band as if he was laying plows. He said: “They talk about the ‘nigger’ being mistreated by being buck**d down and bit two hundred and fifty lashes on the bare- back with a cowhide, or a buggy trace, when be should have had at least ten thousand. What did be care for two hundred and fifty or three hundred lashes,—it only made him sleep good at night and kept him from wanting to run about.” Hosea capped it by saying: “Gen tlemen, we stand on stolen ground to night. This school house is on stolen tn keep back the crowd but were powerless On they rush 'd cheering the great statesman and the occasiou which brought them together. Women were screaming and children culling for help. The commands, “stand back gentleman. stand back,” was un heeded; no one paid any attention to it. At last the great statesman stop ped short in his discourse and called out: “Stand back gentlemen, stand back ” “It cannot be done, they shouted. “Stand back. I say, gentle men,” he said without a change of voice. “It s impossible. Mr. Web ster,” they shouted.” “Impossible?” repeated Webster. “Impossible? Nothing is impossible for Americans to do on Bunker Hill.” and the vast crowd tolled back like a mighty wave of t he ocean. A few vears ago old fogies were crying ou : ‘You can’t have a new county. You can’t have an iron bridge or a free ferry across Broad river ” Yuu can’t have this, that and the o'her improvements, that now show what can be accomplish'd when men set their minds and mu • cles to woik. What a great “bugaboo” that word “impossibility” is? William Pitts Chatham, who was *ii k with gout when he received a message iroui Lord Anson that it was impost.'We for him to tit out a fleet within a limited rime, lock'd at the messenger in surprise, as well as disgust, and said: “Impossible? Who dare talk to me of impossibility ?” Then springing to his feet while great drops of agonizing sweat stood upon his brow, he said : “Tell Lord Anson that he serves under a minister who treads on impossibilities.” When Nupolion was told by his engineers that it would be impossi ble for him to take his artillery and cavalry across the Alps, he replied: ‘ There shall be no Alps,” and at the head of 30,0OU men he ordered the advance with his horses and artillery : he overcame the apparent difficui- ties and like an Alpine eagle eager for its prey he swooped do«vn upon Italy. What a forceful declaration is that of tfc* Apostle Paul who says : “If God be for us who can be against us.” Etta Jane April 19 —Mr. Ekitor : The answer to J. N. Swafford’s ques tion is three and one-half hours after the candles are lighted. His answer to the question of a few weeks ago was given correctly by Mr. Carr, of Gaffney,—it is 40,9*50 acres. The answer to “Meno’s” question in yesterday’s paper is six and one thousand seven hundred and eighty- seven ten thousandths of a foot. Were it not that “Meno” gives “J. L. S.” a special invitation to answer this question we would let it pass for a few days in order to give the boys and girls a chance at the three months subscription to your paper. It will be remembered that about two years ago “J. L. S.” gave the rule for working this special class of problems and therefore we don’t think it fair for him to enter the con test in competition with deserving boys and girls who are much our juniors in years, at least. Let the first one of those who sends you a correct answer have the paper with our best wishes. J. L s. THROUGHOUT THE TAR HEEL STATE. t From the Mountains to The Sea. NORTH CAROLINA NEWS. ground Squire ’s stolen ground, Mr. on stolen ground, the bouse is on -’s house is railroad up here at Gaffney’s old field is on stolen ground and the town and city that is seen to grow up there some day will be on stolen ground. It by right belongs to the Indians and we have no right to it.” It will be remem bered that at that time the place where the city of Gaffney now stands was known as “Gaffney’s old field.” The subject however was decided in favor of the Indians. The subject for Saturday night 2(>tbinst., is: ’“Resolved, that the art.of man is more attractive to the eye than the works of nature. Come down, Mr. Editor, and hear the boys and take part with them. They make things lively when they get stirred up. The rigging of the ferryboat at Howell’s ferry works like a charm. When two such counties as Cherokee %nd York undertake a work it is to accomplish it. This remark recalls an incident which took place when Daniel Webster delivered his memor able oration at the dedication of the Bunker Hill monument. The crowd pressed forward to and around the stand until women, children a^nd old men were fainting from heat and suffocation. The officers were trying ,.a»hed Between Cara. IaC. Hugh A.Stead, a car coupler on the Salisbury yard of the Southern, was caght between two cars and crush ed to death about 8 o’clock Saturday morning, near the freight transfer shed in Salisbury. The cars were equipped with the automatic couplers required by law and it was not in the act of makiog a coupling that the accident occurred. He was trying to pass between the two disconnected sections of the train as they were being brought together, probably preferring to make the coupling from the other side, but misjudged the distance and the cars closed on his body at the waist. The unfortunate man’s injuries were too horrible to be described A pistol in a hip pock et was twisted like wire and forced through the flesh He was taken, still living, to the Whitebead-Stokes Sanitarium, where be lingered two hours. Mr. Stead was 25 years of age and had been in the employ of the Southern for four years. / A Gentle Hint. In our style of climate, with its sudden changes of temperature—rain, wind and sunshine often intermingled in a single day—it is no wonder that our children, friends and relatives are so frequently taken from us by neg lected colds, half the deaths resulting directly from this cause. A bottle of Boschee’s German Syrup kept about your home for immediate use will pre vent serious sickness, a large doctor’s bill, and perhaps death by the use of three or four doses. For curing Con sumption, Hemorrhages, Pneumonia, Severe Coughs. Croup or any disease of the Throat or Lungs, its success is simply wonderful, as your druggist will tell you Get a sample bottle free from Cherokee Drug Co. Regu lar size. 75 cts. Get Green’s Special Almanac. lutereNting Item* Concerning Our Neigh bor* Deyoud the Line Which May Prur* Entertaining Reading for Hundreds ol Ledger Readers. Anoth'-r silk mill is soon to be erected at Fayetteville. It is rti:iiored that the Southern Railway will locate large repair shops at Char!' ' te soon. David C. Lnughlin, of Henderson, known formerlj in circus life us Cas te.le, the rider, haff both feet cut off while tryinir to board a moving train ui Hamlet Saturday. The wife of R v. H. M. Blair, edi tor of the North Carolina Christian A vocate of Greensboro, died sudden ly at her home in that city Friday evering after an illness of only a few hours. Frank Shaw, colored, was hung at Lumberton Tuesday for the murder of his sweetheart. Mary Ferguson, last November. He was tried and convicted at the F-bruary term of court and was tbiice given a respite by the governor. Henry StO'k ; i fanner l ; v ty near Snow Hill, is c r.fined in ti ■ Greene county j ti! charged with l ie killing of IDnry Weber, a young man who was in his employ. Stocks and Web er had quarreled, the result of a mia- uinjersiaudicg about some work, being done. Allen Cogsdell, an aged farmer of means in Rutherford county, has pre- nared to commit suicide in a spectac ular manner. He has issued invita tions to bis friends to a dinner to be given on June 10th. At 11 o’clock that day he will give his friends an opportunity of seeing him commit suicide by shooting himself. Some Syrians who keep a taffy store in Concord, were badly Imposed on Friday night by a negro who went in to trade and passed a $20Confeder ate bill over the counter, receiving $13 in good money as change coming to him. After finding out how they had been cheated search was made for the offender but without coming anywhere within sight of him. The sensational case of Flauner vs. Butler was decided in the Superior Court in Wilmington Friday in favor of the plaintiff, who is awarded a val uable store on Front street, valued at $7,000. The plaintiff, however, contended for other residence proper ty in the city valued at about the same amount, and both sides took ao appeal to the Supreme Court. Thursday afternoon George, the four-year-old son of J. L. Wilson, of Begonia, in Gaston county, got hold of a bottle of arsenic which was being prescribed for Blanche, his older sla ter, who is sick. He drank the con tents. It was soon discovered and Dr. G. R. Patrick at once summoned. Timely medical attention averted the danger and the boy was getting along well at last reports. W. W. Hunter, brakeraan on south bound through freight No. 63 on the Southern, while cutting off the cab at the water tank in Gastonia Wednesday afternoon to leave a car, lost bis footing and fell. His left heel was caught under the wheel and smashed very badly. He will be con fined for some weeks. His home ia in Charlotte but be is staying at the Gastonia Inn till he gets better. A little boy in Monroe, two aod a half years old, found some matches at bis aunt’s home and struck a num ber of them, setting fire to his clothes. He ran into the streets screaming and a colored boy came to his aid and ex tinguished the flames. His outer garments were almost completely burned off, but the child’s injuries are not serious. Pass it to the col ored boy’s credit that be saved tha child from being burned to death A man named John Berry or John Beattie, going by both names, waa struck by a train one mile from Cberryville Friday while intoxicated, in a most unusual manner. The fel low was sitting on the end of a cross tie but seeing the train coming ha staggered away a short distance, bat just as thd engine came past him ha gave a sudden dive as intoxicated men will do, apparently aiming his head at the engine wheels. He fell but escaped the wheels and waa struck by the steps of the baggage car and was knocked around in a cir cle. The train was halted and invea- tigation made. The man had tha clothing of the right shoulder knock ed off but little damage was suffered by him.