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THE LARGEST •Circalation of An/ Niwspaps in the Fifth Congressional District of S. C. The SEMI-WEEKLY-PUBLISHED TUESDAY AND rB^DAY. WE GUARANTEE The Reliability of Every Adver tiser Who Uses the Col umns of This Paper. A Newspaper in all that the Word Implies and Devoted to the Best Interests of the People of Cherokee County. ^.uvsnl'OL, ESTABLISHED FEB. 16, 1894.. GAFFNEY. S. C., i\ MAY % 1902 81.00 A YJCAlCf THROUGHOUT THE PALMETTO STATE, items of Interest of Passing Events. ALL OVER THE STATE. event, that Have Taken Place from One End of the State te the Other Culled fro in Exchange, for Quick Reading by Scores of Husy People. Rev. Sam P. Jones will deliver a lecture at Laurens Tuesday evening. May 27. The new Spartan Mills factory will shortly be installed with 5,000 addi tional spindles. Mrs. Eliza Davega was found dead in her bed at her borne in Chester Thursday morning. The poor box of 8t. Peter’s Cath olic church, Columbia, was broken open and robbed Wednesday night. The stockholders of the Farmers’ •Oil mill of Greenwood, have voted an increase of $20,000 to the capital stock. Hugh Minter, the nine year old son of W. O Minter, of Columbia, disap peared from his home Inst Tuesday and has not been beard of. The governor has pardoned Oscar Cureton, convicted in Greenville of assault and buttery with intent to kill and sentenced to 18 rnmnhs. The city council of Rock Hill has decided to issue bonds to the amount of $10,000 for the purpose of dis charging the floating debt of the city. The board of trustees of Columbia Female College will meet at the col lege June 2 and consider propositions for the enlargement or removal of the college. Prof. Brander Matthews, of Colum bia University, has accepted an invi tation to deliver a course of lectures of English drama before the royal institute of Great Britain.' Governor McSweeney has appointed Capt. John H. Montgomery, of Spar tanburg, one of the live delegates to the West. India convention, which will be held in Charleston on May 10th and 17th. Congressman Johnson’s bill for an additional district judge for the west ern district of South Carolina was in troduced Tuesday. The bill makes do recommendation as to the head quarters of the new judge. The governor last Thursday granted a pardon to Jack Johnson, convicted in Sumter county of receiving stolen goods and sentenced to 30. days on the chaingang. The pardon is giv»n in order that the fellow may be used as a witness. The secretary of the State Satur day issued a commission to the Lan caster Insurance and Real Estate agency of Lancaster. The corpora tors are D. R. Williams, John Craw- ford and G. B. Barron. The capital stock is to be $3 000. Senator Tillman said to a repor ter that ho let loose all the venom that was in him when Republican Senators declared that Gen. Wade Hampton set Are to Columbia. If be had incornorated with bis remarks the reply of Hampton to Sherman on this matter, the venom might have been retained for future use. The tine of $200 with alternative of three months on the gang, imposed on Wm. H. Hughes, convicted of violating the dispensary law. whs re duced to $50. Tue prisoner can raise $50, but cannot raise $200. and the governor took the view that $->0 was worth more to the county than the fellow's three mouths of labor on the gaug- The attendance at the exposition up to the present time is estimated at 500,100 and the prospects are trial the attendance will reach the 000,- 000 notch before the close of the show, a little more than ball the number figured by the officials of the exposition just prior to the opening of the show. At that time it was thought that the attendance for the entire period of the fair would reach 1.000,000 paid admissions. Drayton Mills, of Spartanburg, has tiled application for charter, capital stock being placed at $250,000. Books of subscription are now open, and the stock is being rapidly taken by local investors, some of whom are officers of other cotton factories. Arch B. Calvert, mentioned recently as proposing an enterprise of this character, is the promoter. Incor porators are Mr. Calvert, M. h. llojd, W. A. Law, John B. Cleveland, W. E. Burnett and A. L. While. Senator McLaurln called at the White House Saturday ana is thought to have made a full explanation to the president of his part in the fisti cuff which occurred between himself and A. A. Gates, of Greenville, in the Hotel Raleigh Friday night. Senator McLaurm felled Gates because he abused the president repeatedly for appointing Jvoester collector. Sena tor McLaurm struck Gates several blows and the two were then separa ted. It seems Gates and Koester are not on good terms. Senator Mc- Laurin declined to discuss the row except to say be regretted its occur rence. Last Tuesday a genuine sensation occurred at the Southern depot near the baggage room, in Spartanburg. A comely looking young white woman by the name of Mrs. Fannie P. Good- son, walked up to Mr. Sam W. Wood, who was standing near the baggage room, and struck him a very severe blow in the face with a bottle. The man was fe led instantly and lay stunned for about a minute or more When he arose and attempted to de part his assailant administered sev eral kicks upon bis person. Officer Mulligan, who was nearby, arrested the belligerent and she immediately gave bond. The blow received by Mr. Wood was a very painful one, a gash bring inflicted on bis foreheaa over the eye, and his head was consid erably swollen. The woman claims that Mr. Wood bad been talking about her, and thereby attempting to injure her. Mrs. Goodson came to Spartanburg from Greenville some time ago and for a while resided at Mr. Wood’s, who runs a boarding house near the depot on Magnolia srteet. For a month or more she has been boarding at Mr. Pearson's on Magnolia street. NEWSY PARAGRAPHS FROM ETTA JANE, Personal Items and Recent Local Happenings. NOTES AND COMMENTS. “RUDOLPH THE CRIPPLE” Will Im* I*reunited in tli«- Opera Ilou-te in illa«'k-)>urK Next h rl < I ay Mii'ht. On Friday night, May Ibth, Mr. and Mrs. Don C. Hall, supported by a company of talented artiste, will ap pear in the opera house in JUacks- burg in the intensely interesting story of ‘•Rudolph the Cripple.” The leading characters of the play are Ru dolph, the cripple, and Lesa, the beautiful child, the former being rep resented by Mr. Hall and the latter by Mrs. Hall. The entire personal? has been selected with the utmost care, and only the most capable peo ple have been engaged for the produc tion. Special and beautiful scenery and stage settings with artistic scenic and electric effects have been espec ially prepared for the play and are striking in their eff»cts. Manager Osborne, of the Blacks burg opera house, always exercises the best of judgment in securing at tractions for bis city, and he should have a good house next Friday night to witness “Rudolph the Cripple.” Powell I'amgrapha. (Correspondence of The Ledger.) Powell, May 9:—Planting is over in this section, and re-working the crops is in progress among the farm ers. Rain is badly needed. George Abbott and family have moved from Shelby, N. C., to R. A. Bridges’, at this place. Mrs. L. E. Dorman and two chil dren visited her brother, Hugh Wil kins, at Forest City, N. C., last Sat- turday and Sunday. Mrs. J. P. Moore, of Carrollton. Ga . is visiting Mrs. C. P. Wilkins here this week. Mr. Dock Holcombe’s child was buried at Macedonia today. H. L. Smith, who has been very sick for the past three weeks, is now able to sit up. Mr. Hugh Moore is up and able to walk about after having been confined to his home and bed for twelve or fifteen months. We hope he will continue to improve. x. Kevlvul ut A v*uu« HupUHt Church Rev. D. P. Montgomery, formerly of this Stale but now of Campbells- ville. Ky., is in the city and on Sun day commenced a meeting at Chero kee Avenue Baptist church, and will continue it for some days. He is an able and earnest preacher and in a few minutes spent with us, we found him a most pleasant and affable gen tleman. A Geotle 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 Byrup kept about your home for immediat^use will pre vent serious sickoess. 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, ss your druggist will tell you Get a sample bottle free from Cherokee Drug Co. Regu lar size, 75 cts. Get Green’s Special Almanac. tions assume a more definite shape and demonstrate to our mind that th*-y are prompted by a high order of irte’ligent r-search we will notice no “pop gun” batteries for they are only a fuss without any appreciable effect. j. l. s. STEVY STATEMENTS. Partial Khowem do Good to Crop*—Cotton Plant l« Vigorous Grav*M at Salem to be Cleaned Off—QueHtiona In Scripture—Ac- cident to Mr Webber—Other Item*. (Cot respondence of The Ledger.) Etta Jane, May 10.—Partial show ers have passed about this week and done some good in bringing up the cotton in places, but it isn’t all out of me ground We notice that the plant i-> unusually vigorous for the time of year. This we presume is at tributable to the warm nights. Mr. C. W. Wbisonant has erected a nice monument to his children buried at Salem. Next Thursday morning, 15th iost , all parties interested are requested to meet at the Salem graveyard as early as possible to clean it off for the memorial services. Miss Agnes Sherrer, who has been teaching at the Wilkerson school house in York county, gives her school a picnic today and several of our people have gone over there. The wind blows a little cool this a m. with indications of dry weather. We had the pleasure of meeting Mr. J. II Littlejohn at Gaffney yes terday. He is an old school South Carolinian and one of the most suc cessful farmers in Cherokee county. He says it’s a waste of fertilizer to put it under corn before it is thinned out to a stand. Bring your corn to a stand and apply the fertilizer and you only feed the plant that gives you raeturn. Mr. Frank McCluny is still teach ing at the Wilkinsville school. The patrons of that school realize the ad vantages of having a longer term than the free school gives them and they are wise in their conclusion. Mr. P. S. Webber had the misfor tune to catch a fall a few days ago that has laid him up. He way try ing to head a cow, and in running over a rocky place tripped and fell. He was considerably bruised uo, hut not seriously hurt we hope. Pink is a good fellow and has many friends in Cherokee county who will regret to hear of bis misfortune. We had the pleasure of meeting “Bachelor,” of Buffalo, at Gaffney yesterday. Rather than stop a plow he walked over to the city, a distance of eight miles. Doubtless be was soliciting orders for “hobbies” whicb he has proposed to manufacture for those candidates who need them to conduct their summer campaign suc cessfully. Gentlemen, send him your order with plans and specifications and be will do you a good job. If we needed anything in that lino would certainly patronize bim. We hope be will succeed in getting a desirable partner to carry on the business—a wearer of calico it much prefered, we think. Rev. Mr. McCutchens, of Blacks- burg, conducted the funeral service of Mrs. George Mitchell at Salem last Wednesday. A large concourse of poaple attended the funeral—an evidence of the high esteem in whicb he was held by his friends and ac quaintances. We are surprised to think that any one could conclude that we were ab solutely opposed to a collegiate edu cation—not a bit of it. On the con trary we bid all those God speed who are on the right road to it. We don’t see how any one can twist and per vert our words so as to justify such a conclusion. If any one will read in telligently what we said along that line he will not substitute the real for the imaginary. It’s this prematurely launching into collegiate studies, or even those of the higher common school, before the primary branches have been suffi ciently mastered, that we object to —nothing more or less. That’s wbat we are opposed to and always have been. The public school terms are too abort to allow the child of aver age capacity to crowa Into bis or her mind all the studies necessary to prepare them for the higher grades. Wbat we contend for is to begin at the bottom and learn as you go, and we assure you nothing of which we complain will ever appear. The teacher is often compelled to drag the child over his studies if.be or she would try to appease the vanity of some parents who want to see their children advance at a rapid rate. This is unjust to the child as well as teacher. It takes no expert psycho logist to understand that the childs’ mind can only assimilate a certain amount of mental food in a given time. Any measure beyond that Is abortive and ruinous. L'utiF objec- Dry Weather Retarding Crops—A New Preacher Called—The Llijbor QueHtlon. (CorresDondenc* ot Tne Ledger.) Nsar Stew. May 10.—The con- tinued dry weather is very much re tarding early garden vegetables; mnch of it is also being greatly in jured by insects. In some places cotton is coming up very slowly, and in all places rain would do much good. We see in some few fields the people are waiting for rain before finishing planting; most all, however, are about doue planting. The cotton that is vp looks much better than it did this time a year ago, and there cer- isifily is no less planted this year tnan formerly Wheat is low, but is clean and doing reasonably weiU Fruit is falling off the trees con siderably, but we hope enough will remain to give ua a good crop of ail varieties. Today was our regular church day at Macedonia. Rev. A. T. Bonner having notified us that in conse quence of his continued failure in health he could not serve us as pas tor, we today called the Rev. A. D. Davidson for the remainder of this year. He has promised to preach for us. We attended the county Democrat ic convention in Gaffney the 5th inst. Among the delegates we found the sentiment for straightout old line Democracy very strong, and in out opinion, none other need expect the support of Cherokeeans the present year. The storm brewing in national hails must be met by true and tried Democrats; no others will do. In looking about among the Demo crats and talking with some of them last Monday we were frequently asked what we will do with the sub ject of intemperance this campaign year. We wish to again simply state here, in perhaps a more forcible way, some things that we have before given to the public as our opinion upon this evil: That it is destructive to all elements of refinement, to all happiness in society, in homes, in re ligion, and to all phases of govern ment. There can be no doubt today resting on the minds of all thitking people, and the most humiliating thing that presents itself to us at the present day is the fact that it is un? questionably used very frequently as a fact orin all elections for the purpose of gaining votes,; thus becoming the greatest menace to free government. In this sense it is a great moral wrong, yea, a great sin against all lovers of good government. “There is pert’ business that yields as r as the liquor monopoly,” To $ <*ws regulating and perpet uating tue sale of such an evil by the government, or any branch of it, is a shame upon the civilization of which we boast. It indirectly throws the responsibility of all the butcheries, all the murders, and all their atten dant evils upon the shoulders of every law maker in all the land who voted for the enactment of them. “All men know that all illicit traffic is the sin of law breakers, and ail legal ized sin is the sio of law makers.” We see that it is reported by the State attorney general that theta was 1 715 casesof prosecution by the State of her own citizens the past year; and in conversation with the clerk of court for Cherokee couuty, we asked if four fifths of the prosecutions in our county could be charged to the use of intoxicating liquors as a primary cause. He replied that that would be a very low estimate, and that more than likely the per cent, would be greater than that. Taking the above then as an esti mate, we see that we «my directly charge the Jaw makers of our land who enacted and who continue to vote for the continuation of the pres ent protectorate system of the liquor monopoly, both in this State and the general government, with 1,372 cases of all the butchery aud murders and their attendant evils that we are so frequently called upon to record, during the year. In conclusion upon this subject, let us say that it is our opinion if those who favor reform along this line, will only combine and will live and teach by precept and example, voting for and advocg£ing the cause only of such candidates for any office as are known to be absolutely free from the Intemperateuse of intoxicating drinks, such an effort could not ul timately fail of bringing about the desired result. But ail outtalking, thinking and writing over and about this vexed question, without hard work and a great deal of it, will avail nothing in the end. l b. d. —Give your system a thorough cleausl#g with Sure Cure Sarsaparilla. —Sure Cure Sarsaparilla, 50 cents. The greatest blood purifier known. THROUGHOUT THE TIB HEEL STATE. Prom the Mountains to The Sea. NORTH CAROLINA NEWS. Interesting Items Concerning Onr Neigh bor* Beyond the Line Which M»y Prove Entertaining Reading for Hundreds of Ledger Readers. A negro was taken to the Shelby jail from King’s Mountaio last week charged with stealing a bottle of soda water from a store at that place. Mr. John Edwards died at his home at Smjrhern Bines Thursday morning, aged 82 Mr. Edwards was a promi nent member of the Baptist church, a most affectionate husband and o^e of the most prominent citizens. He leaves a widow and one son. The Singletary and T. J. Jarvis Chapters Daughters of the Confeder acy, of Greenville, Saturday unveiled a beautiful monument which they had erected at Cherry Hill cemetery, at that nlace, near the graves of four teen ULkuown soldiers who died there durirg the war. There was a cyclone at Roaring River, in Wilkes county, one night last wetk. The store house of Mr. Greenwood was blown over and the goods demolished. The occupants had only left the store a few moments before it was blown over. The smoke stack of the A. M. Church <k Sons’ lumber plant was also blown down. The Winston-Salem street railway is putting in a miniature railroad at Xissen Bark in that city. It is a cir cle track, half a mile in length. The train can make a schedule of twenty miles an hour. Mr. Z. A. Bean, of Montgomery ct unty, who is twenty- two years old and weighs forty-two pounds, has been employed as con ductor on the train. Five thousand delegates were pres ent at Saturday’s session in Asheville of the Southern Baptist Convention. Rev. J. H. Craighill, editor of the Baptist Standard, called the morning meeting to order. The committee on time and place of next meeting an nounced that Savannah, Ga., would be recommended as the city in whicb to bold the convention of 1903. In response to an appeal from Bres- Ident Blerson, of the State Audebon Society, for the protection of birds, the board of aldermen of Greensboro have adopted an ordinance making it a misdemeanor to destroy or capture the nests, eggs, or young birds within the corporate limits of the city under penalty of $5 fine. Pigeons and Eng lish sparrows were excepted from the operations of this law. Flagman Owen Fields, who was killed in the wreck at Lynchburg, Va., Friday, waa from Benaja, in Guil ford county. His remains were taken to bis home Friday night, and Rev. Thoma* Bell, of Greensboro, went out to conduct the funeral services. Mr. Fields was a good man and citizen, leaving a wife and five little children to join their eorrow with the regret at hie lose whicb hie friends freely ex press. Memorial exerciees were held in Pitteboro Saturday in the court house after adjournment of court, under the auspices of the Winnie Davis Chapter Daughters of the Confederacy. Maj. H. A. London delivered the address, giving statistics of the North Carolina troops during the war. Major Lon don had declined several invitations to deliver memorial addresses on this date, but preferred delivering an ad dress to his home people. Mr. L B. Johnson, of Charlotte, had an (xciting experience aboard an Atlantic Coast Line train Saturday. The train was spinning along at a lively rate when there was a crash of broken glass. Some culprit had thrown a missile that struck the win dow opposite the seat occupied by Mr. Johnson. The fragments of glass fell around Mr. Johnson but, luckily, be escaped uninjured. The train wee stopped as quickly as possible, but no one could be seen. A big forest fire has been, up to a few days ago, raging near Bine Hill, Crab Orchard township. The flames swept over an area of at least 30o acres, destroying a lot of verv fine timber and several tenement houses. For a week past the residents of Crab Orchard have congregated around the burning mass, using every effort to allay the progress of the flumes. Their efforts proved futile for the fire never stopped in its wild course until all the inlUmmable material in its reach was consumed. Reddeck Freeman, who lives some four miles from Lenoir, was plirced n jail at that place Friday. He is charged with having killed his eight een mouths old child some two or three weeks ago. The child died un der suspicious circumstances some two or three weeks ago and the neigbors brgan to talk, and sufficient evidence nas been procured to justify the arrest of Freeman. The body was to have been exhumed Fri day and a post-mortem examination held by Dra. Kent and Shell before Coroner Bush. The result is not yet known. It was learned Saturday that a Winston man nad left hia wife be cause she objected to him taking a glass of beer when he felt like it. The husband went away on one of the N. & W. trains a few days ago and it is understood that he has gone to West Virginia. He was severely reprimanded recently by his wife for drinking too much and she notified bim that sho did not propose to live with him if be indulged in strong drinks. The man left a uote to bis wife telling her that he would return if she would allow him to take a glass of beer when he felt like it, but she emphatically re fused to entertain the proposition. A young man named Burrus com mitted suicide Friday near Rockford, in Surry county, in a peculiar way. An uncle of the deceased who con ducts the hotel at Rockford, informed a gentleman who went in on the Wilkesboro train Friday evening that the nephew had been in bad health for some time. This produced de spondency, causing the young man to end his life. After taking a large dose of morphine, he went out iu the woods and stiuk his bead between two saplings, which had grown close together. He was dead w en found. The family believe tie morphine alone would have killed i im had he not adopted this strange plan of hang ing himself. SHORT LOCAL TEMS. The Spartanburg papers say that G. W. Chalk will be a candidate for railroad commissioner. Service at the Breshvterirn church to-night (Tuesday) at 8:15 Address by Rev. Dr. McElwain. All invited. The friends of Mrs. Win Jefferies, who has been critically ill, will be glad to learn that she is slowly re covering. Mr. and Mrs. John Byars have our sympathy in their trouble incident to j the loss of their infant son, who died Sunday and was buried hi the family lot in Oakland cemetety yesterday. Mr. Everett Ellis and Miss Lula Bettit, two of Cherokee’s most worthy young people, were married Saturday by R. F. Gibson, notary public, at bis residence in this city. They have the best wishes of The Ledger. Rev. W. R. Potter went to Blacks burg last Thursday to assist in ser vices incident to the communion ser vice at the Presbyterian church of that city Sunday. As a consequence there was no service at the Limestone Street Presbyterian church last Sab bath. Col. Strain Declines. Mr. Editor:—As your correspond ent, t“Plowmaj,” has placed my name before the people for a seat in the legislature, I beg to say that while I highly appreciate what he stye, I have no aspirations whatever to legislative honors. Honestly, as a legislator I believe that I would be a complete failure. Law-making is no trivial matter when rightly considered, and for me to ac cept such an undertaking would be injustice to myself and a disappoint ment to my friends. There is only one office in the county to which I ever have or ever will aspire, aud I feel that I am by nature and education qualified to fill it to the satisfaction of all reasonable people. This was my first conclusion and I have never yet had occasion to change my opinion. Very respectfully. May 10, 1902. Jas. L. Strain. A *lii«-l(l of Defence. Against competition is the reputa tion that “Clifton” flour has gained by its purity and high quality. It has fought its way to the front bv sheer merit and it challenges any and all other flours to dislodge it from its well earned position. Made in a modern mill, newly re modeled on special plans of the most advanced types; milled with the ut most care and scientific skill from carefully selected wheat, “Clifton” flour is now surpassing even its own former standards. Its popularity, its hold on trade from the dealer to the consumer, grows greater day by day. What this means to us. it means also to all who use or handle “Clif ton.” Do you use.or handle it? Can i you afford not to? , For sale by R. M. Wilkins A Co., in j Gaffaey. and Jones & Duff, in Blacks- | burg. —Flavor your ice cream with Blue Ribbon lemon or vanilla extract. —Sure Cure Sarsaparilla sick people well—50 cts. makes