Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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* * ^This i >o ick. fc POBLISHEP TUESDAY AND FRIDAY. r ^ Ed..H. DkCamp. j The Ledger it* not respouaible for • lb« views of correspondents. Correspondents who do not contri- bnte regular news letters must fur nish their name, not for publication, but for identification. Write short letters and to the point to insure publication; also endeavor to get them to the office by Monday nnd Thursday mornings. Obituaries will be publnlised at five •entsaline. Cards of thanks wil 1 be published It one cent a word. Reading notices will oe published •t ten cents a line each insertion. All correspondence should be ad- iressed to Ed. H. DeCamp, Manager. SOME DOVTS. Don’t make it a habit to borrow your neighbor’s paper. The paper is too cheap to do that. 'advice to farmers. Two prosperous Cherokee planters. both of whom have made money farming, were in the city Saturday. Each of them bought corn to haul home. Meeting up with a Ledger man, one [remarked : “Mr. Ledger, what do you think of a farmer who buys corn?” Without hesitation, and u t knowing that either had pur chased corn the reply was to the ef fect that a farmer who bought corn was no farmer at all. The exact lan guage used was more forceable than elegant and the gentlemen addressed agreed with the views expressed and then proceeded to explain that they had bought corn. These gentlemen do not make it a rule to buy corn, however. It is a rare thing for them to do, but last season was somewhat of a failure and they were forced to resort to this expediency. What a spectacle! The idea of a farmer buying corn! It is prepos terous. No man who expects to suc ceed in agricultural pursuits can af ford to do it. One of these gentle men, continuing on the subject, said: “No sir, a farmer cannot afford to buy corn. You might give a man a thousand acres of land and six good mules, free of all encumberance, and and if he will plant nothing but cot ton and buy bis supplies, at the end of six or eight years there will be a mortgage over the land and the mules. Its all nonsense to talk about raising nothing but cotton in this country. A man can’t do it and suc ceed. Diversification is the keynote of successful farming. There is no good reason why any farmer in this section should not raise his home supplies and make his cotton crop a surplus one. You hear the tenant and renter say they are forced to plant cotton by the landlord. Of course this may be the case in some instances, but the land owner who forces bis tenant to raise cotton ex- clusiyely is opposing his own best in terest. 4 tenant who is forced to plant all cotton will almost invariably have to pay out all the money he takes in and in all probability will not have enough to meet bis obliga tions, much less a surplus, conse quently be is dissatisfied, and no landowner can get the best results from a dissatisfied tenant.” This farmer was talking good hard fcorse, sense and although be was the victim of circumstances and was com pelled to deviate from bis established rule he had the money to pay cash for bis corn, not because be was a cottontot, but because he was a diver sifier. It would be well for every planter in this county to heed the good advice and wise council of this level-headed planter. By no means depend upon one crop, but plant a dozen different crops and if one third or one-half of them should fall It is more than probable *bat the others will mske good and then at least a half loaf Is assurred. In other words do not put all your eggs In one bas ket, because you might let the ba:ket fall and then all would be broken. Wbat would be thought of a wagon- maker that would send to his next door neighbor to have his wagon re paired, or a shoemaker that would aend bis boots to a cobbler next door to have a half-sole put on them, or a printing office that would send to an other printer to have his stationery printed? The same argument applies to the farmer who sends to the west for his corn and meat while be spends bis time and talents in an effort to raise a crop that depends largely up on a favorable seaeon. If the farmers of this section ever hope to be happy and prosperous they must learn bow to diversify their crops. In striking contrast to the planters who purchased corn is an advertise ment in this issue of The Ledger who Advertises corn and cotton for sale. L MR. CROCKER WRITES FROM THE ORIENT, Difficulties of Traveling in Heathen China. SPRAWLING IN THE MUD. Koa<lw Bail and I'onlen Do Not Like the “Foreign DevlU”—CMnene Afraid to Rent Hoase* to the Missionaries—Million* of People acd Few Preachers. tCow«*no na * nc# °* Ledger.) Chinkiang, China, April 23 —It looked like rain the morning we started out for the country, but as it was a good way along in April I thought it not necessary to take along very much bedding or extra clothes. There was one donkey to carry the baggage of myself and my two native helpers and one donkey to ride, and a Chinese pony kindly loaned to me by Dr. Evans. After some considerable difficulty and with the stable boy at bis bead, I was able to mount the pony and we were off into the country We were going to a city about thirty miles away to spend a week in preaching and in an endeavor to get the city open for work. The country just now is beau tiful and the wheat is heading out and a very large part of the tillable land is covered with it. The rice fields have not yet beep planted. We bad gone about seven or eight miles when the clouds grew dark and the ominous thunder began to roll over the mountain in front of us. We saw it was going to rain so we turned in to a rest house, or “bungalow” (as|it is called by the foreigners) up on the mountain side among the trees. This place is a great place for the foreign ers of Chinkiang to go and spend the day, or several days, picnicing and sometimes hunting the wild boar and other game in the mountains Juear by. The rain came blustering up through the trees and* the wind changed around to the north and it got cold, and I discovered that my bedding was insufficient and that my clothes were rather thin to sit about without any fire. The next morning we started off and though it was still cloudy there was no rain. The roads, if you could call a rough path a road, were very muddy and bad going.. We kept constantly meeting the Chinese freight trains in the shape of thin lit tle donkeys and small mules with bags of beans, or wheat, or rice on their backs. The roads were nearly always too narrow for us to pass sat isfactorily, but we generally man aged to scramble by some way. One time I met a good-sized mule and be took it into bis bead to get after my horse. The horse wheeled aod came near throwing me off aod then finally jumped down in a eoft field. Mud, mud, mud, was the order of the day. I bad to walk a good deal to keep warm as I couldn't ride fast on account of the donkeys. We passed through the mountain pass out into the open country beyond, and coming to a bad road where it was almost impossible to walk with out just wading in the mud 1 had already got my feet wet by slipping into a pool of water and thought 1 would mount my horse. I waited till the man brought him up aod then I tried to get on. But Mr. Pony,said, “No foreign deviL f *r me, if you please.” I jumped on any how and he wheeled and darted off, sending me sprawling down into the mud. I thought I was knocked up. but I found no bones broken but a great plenty of mud. The pony waited for us up the road a little way and then I taught him a lesson about bow “foreign devils” do naughty pon ies, aod after that be decided to let me have my own way aod I could get on and off ai I pleased. We etopped in the city in a big old rambling inn with a part of it open to the free air of heaven and furnish ing a shelter for a pair of wild pig eons to build their nest. The room was cold and I was muddy and tired and my bones were sore from the fall —perhaps the word “miserable” would about express bow I felt that night. I ate for supper a oowl of coarse Cbineae rice and some “greens” and then went to bed. We preached nearly all over the town,| in the ensuing daye, aod 1 went in and out at all five of the gates. Several persons expressed themselves as wishing to hear the Gospel. Among them a tailor, a deaf old fellow. I bad my man enquire ail over town for a place to rent, but they were all afraid to let ue have any place. Finally, after we had given up hope, the tailor said we could get a part ot hit place. So we rented a little room on the main street in nearly the center of the town, for about twenty five cents a mouth rent! We will have it whitewashed and fixed up » little, and then we can go there aod have a place to meet the people. The people of the town seemed to be friendly enough. This town lies in a large section of coun try with I should say several millions of people, aod there is no one to give them the Gospel except ue. A le ered mountain lies la that region, and thousands of people go every year to worship there. I believe the outlook is hopeful for ua. Out io another region a few days ago Mr Pierce wae preaching and a good number said they wanted to believe, aod sbree of them burned their idols publicly. We have several enquirers here in Chinkiang, nod alooe I began tbie letter one has come in to fee me. Let ue hope that there will be more progreee io the future than there ha> been in the poet. W. E. Crocker. NINETY LIVES LOST 0 KILLER, 6INJIIREO IN TEXASJORNADO IN RAILMAD WRECK Historic Town of Goliad la Portland-St. Louis Flyer Col Practically Destroyed. ONE HUNDRED PEOPLE INJURED Almost Without Warning Great Cloud Rushed Upon Town, Demolishing Scores of Buildings and Leaving Death In Its Wake. Dallas, Tex., May 19.—A special to The News from Goliad says: Ninety a e dead, over a hundred are wounded. In addition there is a gap ing wound in the town—the path of one of the most destructive tornadoes ever known in Texas. The tornado struck this place about 3:45 o’clock Sunday afternoon, lasting only about 5 minutes, leaving death and disaster everywhere in its wake. It came from the southeast without a warning, completely demolishing a strip about two blocks wide through out the whole western part of the town about a mile long. Among the many houses demolished are the Baptist church and parson age, just built, the Methodist church and a negro church. It is impossible te estimate the num ber of houses destroyed, hut it is thought the number will reach 100. Damage done cannot be approximated, hut it.is very great. About all the hu man dead and wounded have been taken care of. The path of devastation is strewn with all kinds of debris and dead and wounded animals. The tornado was preceded a few minutes by a heavy hailstorm and a deep rumbling sound, but no one had any premonition of the disaster, and there was no opportunity for escape, as the tornado, dealing death and dis aster. was all over in a few moments. The section which has most suffered was the resident portion, the lower part being the negro settlement, while the upper part contained many resi dences. The cyclone is believed to have originated on the gulf coast at a point almost directly south of Goliad, and traveled in a northeasterly direction as far as Kentucky. It left desolation behind In four states, but Texas seems to have suffered more than the others. The Injured are being cared for this morning by physicians and nurses ar rived on special trains late last night. Up to this hour, 10 a. m., no names of the dead or injured had been re ceived here in addition to those al ready reported. The storm which swept Goliad de stroyed much property in other por tions of the state, but so far as known no lives were lost. Shortly after noon the storm struck San Antonio and demolished property to the extent of possibly >75,000 and Injured several persons, none serious ly, however. Austin also suffered considerable property loss. At Mincola a windstorm, followed by rain, uprooted hundreds of shade trees and blew several houses from their foundations. A Mrs. Willing ham was Injured. Heavy rains fell throughout the western portion of the state and will kelp crops materially. The Panhandle especially was drenched. Destructive Hurricane In India. ’ Bombay, May 19.—A destructive hurricane has swept over the prov ince of Scinde. British India. Forty miles of the Scinde railroads were washed away and bridges, houses and embankments disappeared. Fifty miles of telegraph wires also disappeared. Many Hyes werje lost. Big Educational Rally. Montgomery. Ala., May 19.—Rev. Bdgar Gardner Murphy, executive sec retary of the southern educational board, has called a grand educational massmeetlng to assemble in Montgom ery on May 28. The purpose Is to for mally inaugurate the campaifn of the board in Alabama, and it will be push ed vigorously from that time. All friends of education, especially the county and city school superintend ents. are invited to be present. Kodak Enterprises to Combine. New York. May 19.—Details of the plaa for the consolidation of the Ko dak enterprises have Just been made public, says a Rochester dispatch to The Tribune. The aggregate cash vhl- ue of all these enterprises is estimated at $20,000,000 and capttal stoefc of ttie consolidated corporation is $86,000,000. The new company, which has been in corporated in New Jersey, sill acquire properties all over the world. British Mute Purchases Have Ceased. Chicago, May 19.—The wholesale purchase of Missouri mules by the British government for service In South Africa has ceased, according to a telegram received by agents of the British at St. Joseph, says a special to The Tribune. The telegram, In ef fect. said the war in South Africa, would close at an early date aod that no use could be found for more horses and mules. Justice Miles Beech Dead. New York, May 19.—Joetkw Miles Beach, of the supreme court of New York, died early today ot his sport- ments In the Waldorf Aateiio. Hie fatal illness was reported as diabetes. lides With Stock Train. LIST OF DEAD AND INJURED Collision Occurred One Mile East of Hyannis, Neb.—There Is Nothing to Indicate Who Was Responsible for the Wreck. Lincoln, Nebr., May 19.—Five men were killed and six others injured, two of them seriously, in a collision on the Burlington's Billings line yesterday. The dead: William Kay, Tecumseh, Nebr. W. W. Pitts. Eldorado Springs, Mo. M. Tuttle, Whitman, Nebr. John Cox, Strong City, Kans. Lee Leinhart. Seriously injured: O. F. Philips^en gineer; Isaac Cox. Strong City, Kans. Slightly hurt: Brakeman R. H. Sit- zer, T. Houston, freight engineer; E. E. Colvin, conductor; J. McDonnell, freight engineer. All of these, save the fireman, were riding iu the smoking car at the time. This car was reduced to kindlirg wco^ in part. All of the injured have been removed to Alliance. The collision oceyrxeij. a mile east of Hyannis, between the Portland-St. Louis flyer easthound and an extra stock train bound west, with ;25 car loads of cattle. There Is nothing to indicate who was responsible for the two trains, moving in an opposite di rection, being on the same track. WHISKY MADE HIM MADMAN. Peter Lineman Wrecks Three Houses and Fatally Injures Woman. New York, May 19.—Peter Lineman, 30 years old, a farm hand employed by Charles Winner near Green Village, has wrecked three houses and nearly killed Mrs. Winner. Lineman, who had Just quit work, is said to have been fettoxlcated. RctnrBing to the Winner house he found the door loclsed. Securing as ax he broke in and demolished every thing in sight. When Winner and his wife appeared Lineman hurled his ax at the woman and she fell, severely wounded. Lineman took up the weap on and visited the homes of two other families, breaking in the doors and de stroying the furniture. Meantime Winner ran to the nearest telephone, half a mile away and tele phoned Sheriff Baker, who swore in a posse of eight men. Before they reach ed the place, however. Lineman had fallen before a load of shot from a gun in the hands of a house owner and he was carried to jail. Mrs. Winner probably will die. NINE TOURISTS DROWNED. Their Boat Capsizes on Lake Killarney During Squall. London, May 19.— Nine English tou rists. including four women and four boatmen, were drowned yesterday by the upsetting of a boat on the Lake of Killarney, County Kerry, Ireland, dur ing a squall. A train near Glasgow was derailed this morning. There was no loss of life, but numbers were injured. These are the earliest samples of the accident* wbicb usually mark the Whitsuntide bank holidays. A storm Is sweeping over the coasts of the United Kingdom. The weather is wet. windy and cold Inland, and the number of “trippers” were consequent ly much curtailed, holidaymakers con tenting themselves with attending nearby racing events and cricket matches. The cart horse parade In Regents park today attracted the usual crowds. Were Put on Short Time. Easton. Pa.. May 19.—As a result of the anthracite coal miners’ strike the 500 men employed at the Lehigh Val ley railroad company's shops here have been put on short time. Tlhe road has taken off all its coal trains and only three of the 15 crews usually em ployed in making up trains here are at work. Kelly Has Been Fired. Manila. May 19.—Treasurer Kelly, of the province of Nueva Eeija, Lu zon, whose charge that the native gov ernor of that province, Senor Santos, had been guilty of dishonesty, was not proved on inveetigation. has been dis missed from office by Acting Civil Gov ernor Wright following his refusal to resign. Ferryboat and Steam Yacht Collide. New York, May 19.—The Staten is land ferryboat Middletown was in col lision with the steam yacht Aileen this morning. The ferryboat's cabin was badly damaged and it is reported one man was killed. The Aileen belongs to Richard Stevens, of the New York Yacht Club. Rusal an Situation Not So Alarming. New York. May 19.—In spite of the terrifying reports spread so industri ously by the foreign press, the situa tion In Russia generally Is not such as to warr int the slightest alarm, says a Moscow dispatch to The Herald. Earthquake In California. Sen Francisco, May 19—A slight hboch of ea'thquake was felt in north ern California at 10:30 this morning. CUBAN CABINET HOLDS SESSION. United States Coat of Arms Removed from Portal of Custom House. New York. May 19.—The United States coat of arms has been removed from the front portal of the custom hmiFe and the Cuban coat of arms sub stituted. says a Havana dispatch to The World. Above it remains an old Spanish crown, which was not remov- ed when the Spanish coat of arms was taken. President Palma and his cabinet vis ited the senate chamber in the sec ond paTare on Sunday, where he intro duced the ministers to a committee of , senators. The senators then withdrew. At one end of the council table was placed a large black chair. General I Palma sat at the other end, saying that the empty chair was reserved In honor of the dead hero and patriot, Jose Marti. The cabinet session was secret. , Mrs. Wood and her children will leave May 2f> for Spain, where they will spend the summer. General Wood will Join them there after reporting to Washington, when he will be allowed six months' leave. AV ICA ] AXLE JL jBknd light loads. QKEASE ^•^^ood for everything that runs on wheels. Soli Everywhere. Ma«« by STANDARD OIL CO. B'nal BVith Convention. Kansas City. Mo., May 19.—The flf- 1 tleth annual convention of the district lodge No. 2, B’nai B’rith. is in session here with about 100 delegates present from Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky, Missou ri, Kansas. Colorado and New Mexico. Alfred luuller, of Denver, presigent of the district, is presiding. The endow ment fund for 1901 has a total of $60,- 000 paid in endowments. The total re sources of the department are $385,- 928, of which amount $333,950 is in real estate. Man’s highest art is that by which he fasbione for himself a vision of the perfect God. This highest art is one that nature rnnkes. that nature | which is God. VVheiefore.our vision \ of the perfect is God’s surety that 1 such a thing must he. Why? Why have a vacant house on your hands when a Ledger for rent ad. will rent, It? Why let your unused rooms remain empty when a Ledger to leo ad. will fill them? Why want for more boarders when a Ledger want ad. will get them? Why do without a desirable board ing place when a Ledger want ad. wil! find one? Why want a pleasant room when a Ledger want ad. will secure one? Why keep property you do not want or need when a Ledger for sale ad. will sell it? Why have an unsatisfied business want when a Ledger ad. will make it satisfactory? Why keep farm produce when a Ledger for sale ad. will sell it? In other words, let your wants be known through The Ledger at one cent a word and they will be satisfied. A friendship which makes the least noise is very often most useful; for which reason 1 should orefer a prudent friend to a zealous one. Love of virtue is as native to as love of knowledge. man Chance never helps the men do not work who -IF YOU WANT- Fertilizers Manufactured by Swift <fe Co., Atlanta, Ga. ; F. S. Royster, Norfolk, Ya. ; W. C. McMurphy & Co., Charleston, S. C., call on me, I have them as cheap as any guano sold in Gaffney with the same anal ysis. I also have the Highest Grade Acid and Kainit. Buggies and Wagons of all kinds and cheap for cash or on time. I carry supplies for the farmer for cash, or on time with good papers. If you want gooes cheap go to my Goforth store and buy Molasses from 2oc to 50c per gallon, in 5 r 10. 25 and 50 gallon packages. Sugar, Coffee and anything usually found in a general store. Dowlaw and Hampton Cotton Planters, Plows, Plow Stocks, Dixie Plows, Hoes and anything else. Go and see and you will find it at Goforth as cheap as at any store in Gaffney. • . Yours truly, J. I. SA-RR.A.TT'. foe GiBne; City Lad and Inpmeneot Conpaij Offers for sale BulMIng Lots in this flourlshlnir town, Gaffney Olty; Also Parma nea by and In reach of the Schools ot Limestone Springs and of this place, In lots of from •0 to 100 acres on liberal time rates; also Agricultural Lands to rent for Farm pur poses. For full particulars apply to J. V. ©AlCJKATnr, Ajpent. N.B.—All tresspassing on landsof this compaay. cuttle and amoving timber, lahlagov VUBtlnc are forbidden under nenaJtv of i«w F. G. Btact, President. j. G. Wardlaw, Vice-President. THE NATIONAL BANK OF GAFFNEY. CAPITAL., •00,000 SURPLUS AND PROFITS, - lO.OOO. State. County and City Uepooitory. Deposits solicited from Farmers, Merchants. Manufacturers and others. Every accom modatlon extended to customers that their business and responsibility wilt warrant. 13- C. ROMf* Cawhier ROTE HEADS, 1000 FOR . . . $1.50 “ “ 1000 “ . . . $1.50 . “ “ 5000 “ . . . $5.00 | EIVELOPES, 1000 "... $1.75 " 2000 "... $5.00 “ 5000 “ . . . $0.25 • I • • i LETTER HEADS, BILL HEADS, STATEMEHTS AND EVERY KIND OF PRINTING AT LOW PRICES. ORDERS BY HAIL PROMPTLY FILLED. THE LEDGER, GAFFHEY, S. C.