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/ THE LARGEST circulation of Any Newspaper in the Fifth Congressional District of S. C. The ledger. SEMI-WEEKLY—PUBLISHED TUESDAY AND FRIDAY. Wr. GUAHANTEF 'he Reliability of Every Adve> • 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. ESTABLISHED FEB. 16, 1894 GAFFNEY, S. C., FJRIDAY, MARCH 20, 1903. 151.00 A YEAR. THROUGHOUT THE , PALMETTO STATE. < 1 items of Interest of Passing Events. ALL OVER THE STATE. «£vt-ntH that Have Taken Flare from One Kn<l of the Ftate to the Other Called from KxehangnH for ^Julrk Heading by Scores of Kutty People. The gran.l Purim masquerade charity hall took place in Orange burg Tuesday night. It is the four teenth of its kind to be held. Par ties from all over this and adjoining states attend this social event annu ally, and it is considered one of the most enjoyable affairs ol the kind given in this state. George Washington Ford, a negro, was found dead with his head smash ed on the railroad near Mars Bluff Monday. Ford, it is thought, jump ed from train No. 55 Sunday think ing at the time that he was near Mars Bluff and that the train was slacking up, but it had passed the station and was running at a rapid rate. The tournament of the Palmetto Golf Club is now in progress at Aiken. The play Monday included the pre liminary rounds in the match play handicap for a cup presented by C. W. Dolan and the semi-finals in the Norman’s handicap. In the latter Mrs. W. Butler Duncan defeated Miss F. Iselin 2 up and 1 to play. Miss N. Iselin defeated Mrs. Tappin 5 up and 3 to play. Nearly the entire day was consum ed Tuesday by Magistrate Kirby, of Spartanburg, in hearing the case of J. W Wingo vs. Southern Railway for $90 damages for the burning of a quantity of wood on the plaintiff’s laud seven miles from Spartanburg, the tire being caused by sparks from an engine H. L. Bomar anpeared for the defendant. The court decided to award $G4 damages to Mr. Wingo. Tnree attempted desertions have occurred at the Port Royal marine barracks since Friday night. One of the men was captured by Town Mar shal Hayes at the Port Royal depot as be was boarding the train. Two other marines drove through the country to Seabrook station. They ^ then boarded the train and got as far as Yemassee, where they were recog nized, arrested and returned to the barracks. The dead body of .Lewis Pittman, a Rock Hill mill operative about 50 j ears old, was found Tuesday morn ing on the Southern Railway near the western city limits at Rock Hill in a mangled condition. The find was made by section hands passing to their work. There was an arm and a leg broken, a jagged hole under the chin and another in the head Evi dence at the inquest showed that Pittman had been drinking and must have gone to sleep on the track. Some of the negroes living on Mr. Jule Miller’s plantation in Varennes township. Anderson county, had a gathering Sunday afternoon, at which there was a liberal quantity of whis key. A quarrel followed and a woman named Moselle Thompson was shot with a pistol and seriously wounded. The negroes, named Vess Thompson and Ellis Simpson, have been lodged in jail. It is alleged that Thompson did the shooting and that Simpson gave him the pistol. The woman will probably die. The inquest in the case of James Patterson, colored, who was shot in Columbia on the night of the 27th of February, was held Tuesday evening in the court house in that city. It will be remembered that Patterson was shot by an unknown negro sup posed to be Charley Hall. That it was Hall who committed the deed was the conclusion of the jury. -Pat terson asserted in nis aute-morfera statement that Hall whs the man wtiolshot him. Jealousy was the cause. Hall will be tried for the murder in April. Safe blowers entered the store of D. L Cato at Monetta, on Saturday night, and blew open the safe with nitro-glycerine. The explosion awak ened most of the people. Mr. Caro’s home is only a short d’staoce from his store and the men of the place quickly gathered. The inside of the store was a scene of wreckage. The show cases were broken and th» door of the safe was blown across the store among the crockery ware. The robbers secured no money as it bad been removed from the safe. As yet no clue to the burglars has been found News has reached VVilliamston of a tragedy in Memphis, Tenn., on last Thursday which resulted in the shoot ing to death of Rev. C. W. DePew, a Wesleyan Methodist minister, and a former resident of Williamston. The details of the tragedy have not been learned, but from the facts as gather ed it seems (hat Rev. Mr. DePew dis charged from his service an employe who acted as driver about the place, and his discharge so greatly enraged the man s wife that she determined to assuage her wrath with the preach er’s blood, and procuring a revolver, she met Mr. DePew and shot him dead. Recently Magistrate Elledge, of Kullivan township, Laurens county, sentenced a negro named Davis to 80 days on the chaingang or pay a fine of $20 for carrying concealed weap ons. Davis was ir. a contract with a farm* r for this year who declined to pay the fine and told Davis to go to the gang Another farmer who hap pened along upon hearing the situ ation promptly paid the fine and Davis made a contract to work for him three months. The interesting part of it is that farmer No. 1 says that at the expiration of 80 days he expects to demand the return of Davis to his farm. Fannie Randolph, a young mother living in Spartanburg county, has sworn out a warrant before Magis trate Kirby, of Spartanburg, against Isaac Randolph, charging him with bigamy. The deserted young wife charges in the warrant that on last Sunday her husband married Annie Kirby, of Beaumont, the ceremony being performed by Rev. E. L. Arch er. The woman who swore out the warrant was married to Randolph six years ago but she claims he deserted her about two years ago, since which time she has made her home with her parents The wronged woman is only 19 years of age. Randolph is in jail. GOD’S GENERATION OF FALLEN MANKIND The Worst Elements are in the Majority COMMENTS ON ONE CLASS Danger of Colds and Gr.'». The greatest danger from cUds and grip is their resulting in pneumonia. If reasonable care is used, hov vver, and Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy taken, all danger will be avoided. Among the tens of thousands who have used this remedy for these dis eases we have yet to learn c f a single case having resulted in pneumonia, which shows conclusively that it is a certain preventive of that dangerous disease. It will cure a cold or an at tack of the grip in less time than any other treatment. It is pleasant and safe to take. For sale by Cherokee Drug Co. The United States Steel company alone produces twice as much steel as Great Britain. Curett Cancer and Blood PoUon, If you have blood poison producing eruptions, pimples, ulcers, swollen glands, bumps and risings, butuing, itching skin, copper-colored spots or rash on the skin, mucuous patches in the mouth or throat, falling hair, bone pains, old rheumatism or foul catarrh, take Botanic Blood Balm (B. B. B ). It kills the poison in the blood; soon all sores, eruptions heal, hard spell ings subside, aches and pains stop and a perfect cure is made of the worst cases of Blood Poison. For cancer, tumors, swellings, eat ing sores, ugly ulcers, persistent pim ples of all kinds, take B. B. B. It de stroys the cancer poison in the blood heals cancers of all kinds, cures the worst humors or suppurating swell ings. Thousands cured by B. B. B. after all else fails. B. B. B. composed of pure botanic ingredients. Improves the digestion, makes the blood pure and rich, stops the awful itching and all sharp shooting pains Thoroughly tested for thirty years. Druggists, $1 per large bottle, with complete direc tions for heme cure. Samnle free and prepaid by writing Blood Balm Co , of Atlanta, Ga. Describe trouble and free medical advice also sent in sealed letter. Four new lighthouses have been ere :ted recently oft the coasts of the Red Sea The reason why Hancock’s Liquid Sulphur should he in every house, it is indorsed and prescribed by the leading physicians, for such disease* as Eczema, Pimples, Ringworm, Salt Rheum, Dandruff, Diphtheria, Sore Throat, Cuts, Burns. Open Sores, and all blood and skin troubles. No home should be without, it. For sal by the Cherokee Drug Co. The United lion lobsters a States year. imports a mil- THROUGHOUT THE TURJEEl STATE, From the Mountains to The Sea. The best pill ’neath the stars and stripes; It cleanses the system and never gripes. Little Early Risers of wordly repute— Ask for DeWitt’s and take no sub stitute. A small pill, easy to buy, easy to take and easy to act, but never failing in results. DeWitt’s Little Early Risers arouse the secretions and act as a tonic to the liver, curing perma nently. Cherokee Drug Co. Any, Cook Good Enough “Clifton” flour makes the sweetest and most nutritious biscuits that ever came out oftbe oven—and any cook is good enough cook to make them. The CltiH* that Work Their Little Children From the Ageu of 5 to lO Yean* Old from 1(1 to 13 Hours a Day on Half KaaliioiiH and Thinly Clad. (Correspondence of The Ledger.! Coalin’ Ground, March 19:—It has bin said by. some smart people that the book of Genesis was written- by Moses, but at what time they don’t exactly know. Accordin’ to the booktionary Gen esis means generation or production- ments, an’ my friends an’ fellow citizens, there’s nothin’ in the world what I’d rather talk on this mornin’ than God’s generation of fallen man kind My, my, what a subject! Man, the boss animal of the earth, made in God’s own image, once as pure as the dews from heaven, with hut only one law to obey, an’ conse quentially only one sin that man could possibly commit, for where there’s no law there’s no sin. In the Garden of Eden d imagine it was the most beautiful, lovely spot in all the earth) God placed Adam an’ Eve, pure an’ lovely, with out spot or blemish as it were, an’ made them king an’ queen of the animal kingdom an’ recinients of all the earth's productions, to live in sublime bliss an’ love, an’ happiness throughout all the eternal rock of ages, an’ with but one simple little law to obey, with but one possible way to sin an’ fall. Now look at man! My, my! The most miserable, deceptible, corrupti ble, treacherousible an’ contemptible niece of God’s creation of the animal kingdom, with enough laws a bangin’ over his head to choke a Giraffe from one end of his neck to the other, an’ a whole passel of these laws as cor rupt as corrupt man can make them. The time has even come to pass now when the best of poor failin' man kind can’t elect the best out of the bad, to send off to repeal bad laws and’ make good ones, because the worst elements are in the majority an’ they want the laws to suit their individual cases. By gatlins, the best of this corrupt generation can look in no direction but what there’s a law to head them off from some liberty or pleasure which they should enjoy. In speakin’ of Cod’s generation of mankind there’s one particular class of this generation what 1 want to take up on an’ I’m a goin’ to sift it to the bottom, by gatlins, ef 1 haf to take a lickin’ tomorrow on the strength of it Hit’s the class that work their little children at from the ages of five to ten years old from ten to thirteen hours a day on half rash- ions an’ thinly clad whilst they loaf the streets an’ drink up the earnings of their little ones. Hit’s a wonder t( me that God don’t turn this class of unmanly, heartless brutes into a drove of Jackasses an’ proclaim to the world that a mule is of the devil. There’s nothin’ under the canopies of heaven so dear to me as a sweet, innocent, helpless child, an’ a con temptible cuss that will compel one of them to stand on its little feet for ten or twelve hours a day an’ slave, an’ blight its tender life from useful man or womanhood, with just half enough to eat or wear whilst he drinks up their earnings an' eats bet ter food in town at restaurants, is a wretch unhung and a curse to moth ers and children. And when I realize that it is almost utterly impossible to get men with manhood enough to stand up in a iaw-makin’ establish ment an' fight to correct this evil it makes ole Flaw’s heart go out in further sympathy for the innocent little ones. God pity them ! Little children, you are as pure as Adam and Eve was when God first placed them in the garden, with but one commandment to obey. Here’s that one commandment: “Little children, love and obey your par ents.” But how a little child can love and obey its parents when they pull i; out of bed before daylight an’ force it to work ontil way after dark with only 30 or 40 minutes in which to eat a scanty dinner, year in an’ year out, thus deprivin’ it of an edu cation an’ a happy future, is more than ole Flaw can comprehend. Men! Men! Go to work! Educate your children. If you can’t educate them an’ drink too, give up the drink. Mark these words. Educate your children and they will take pleasure in supporting an aged father an’ will caress your gray locks when a frowning world has shut its face against you. Come out an’say, “I’ll be a man. I’ll go to work and edu cate my children that they may marry well an' take advantage of a progressive generation. I’ll prepare them so they can take care of me when I’m old.” Flaw Picker. NORTH CAROLINA NEWS IntercBtlug Items Concerning; Our Neigh bors Beyond the Line Which Mity Provt Entertaining Reading for Hundreds of Ledger Readers. The Bell Telephone Company are preparing to place all their wires in Charlotte underground. Prohibition carried the day in Statesville Monday. The “dry peo ple” won the election by 240 maj >r- ity. Fourteen cars of a freight train on the Norfolk and VVestern road were wrecked Monday afternoon m-ar Stoneville in Rockingham county. The train crew escaped injury, but the cars were badly damaged and the track blocked for several hours. Some time between now and fall all the real estate in Charlotte belonging to the estate of the late Henry Graf ton Springs will be sold at public auction. The property includes the old court house, the Central Hotel Annex and other valuable sites, and is worth $250 000. In response to the letter sent out by Secretary of War Root concerning the proposed compilation of the ros ters of the Union and Confederate armies during the war between the States. Gov. A vcock Tuesday appoint ed Msj. J. F. B Dixon. State auditor to collect the material asked ior of North Carolina. There was a conference Saturday night of the attorneys for the defense in the Haywood case in Raleigh. When asked whether there would be any application for a continuance of the case until July one of them said he had nothing to say. There is a rumor to the effect that a continuance wiil be asked for. Daniel Cauble, the 10-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. H W. Cauble, of ^harlotte, died Tuesday morning as the result of a severe attack of lock jaw. The little fellow while playing several days ago, stepped on a nail— one of the sharp wire variety. It pierced his shoe and penetrated his foot to a depth of at least an inch or more, and lockjaw soon appeared. A human skeleton was found in an isolated spot in a pasture six miles from Wilmington, near the coast,and identified as the result of an investi gation by the coroner Tuesday, as that of W. W. Young, a white carpen ter, 82 years old, who disappeared from his home in that city May 3, 1900. The cause of the man's death is unknown and the investigation is being pursued. Because he refused to be vaccinated and to pay a fine of $25 us imposed upon him by the court, 1’rof. T. A. Weaver, a well-known citizen • of Buncombe county, and a profesfor at WeavervilJe College, has gone to jail. Frof. Weaver belitvei that the fine was an unjust one and did not intend to submit to it. It is said that he will try and make it hot for the Bun combe officers who had him arrested. A meeting of the stockholders of the Tuckaseege Manufacturing com pany was held at the mill tear Mount Holly recently to consider the ques tion of increasing the capital stock and building a new mill. Mr. John F. Love, of Gastonia, sold his interest to Mr. T. W. Springs, of Mt. Holly, and he, with the other stockholders, Messrs. A. P. Rhyne and A. 0. Liue- bergt-r, decided to build a new mill, the work to begin in about a week. Saturday evening at the close of a country school, near Belwood, fiftet n miles north of Shelby, a difficulty arose between two men by the name of Richards, a man by the name of Cline and another whose name is un known, in which rocks and pistols were freely used. Seventeen shots were fired, resulting in Frank Cline receiving two flesh wounds in his leg and thigh, and one of the Rich ards a shot in the hand. The trouble arose from an old grudge. Adele Ivey, a small colored girl, was Knocked from Bissell’s trestle in Charlotte Monday afternoon by an engine of a freight train and received injuries from whicn she died. The child was grazing a cow near the trestle when she with others decided to walk across the structure. Just at this time a freight train turned the curve. All the other children made their escape except the injured child. The pilot of the engine struck her and knocked her from the track down underneath the trestle. One limb was crushed badly and the other was broken. As the result of a feud of long standing, Dr. H. T. Bass, of Tarboro, was shot in the abdomen Monday morning by Dr. J. M. Baker, also of that pluci*, and mortally wounded. The encounter began without words, Dr Bass attacking Dr Baker with his fists, landing several blows upon the side and top of his head. Baker fired twice, the first shot being deflected by Ba^s grasping the pistol. A eecond immediately followed, but Bass’ bold had been broken. When Bass per ceived that he was shot, he drew his pistol. In preventing him from using it it was discharged in the air. Baker claims self defense. By agreement of counsel he wa« admitted ro bail in the sum of $5,000 Dr. Bass died Monday night. Miss Josephine Burns returned to her home in Whiteville, Columbus county, Monday from Marion, S. C., where she was acquitted Sunday morning at 2 :30 o’clock of the mur der of Dustin Survis, the young tele graph operator of Nichols, S. C. with whom she claimed a secret marriage, the tragedy having caused widespread interest last November. Solicitor J. Monroe Johnson, for the,prosecution, closed the argument to the jury at 12 :80 o’clock and within two hrurs after retiring tne jury returned a ver dict of not guilty. A fine of $20 im posed by the judge upon Miss Burns for carrying a pistol contrary to the statutes provided in South Carolina as to length and weight, was made up by spectators in the court room and Mies Burns departed a free woman. Tragedy Averted. "Just in the nick of time our little boy was savtd’’ writes Mrs. W Wat kins, of Pleasant City, Ohio “Pneu monia had played sad havoc with him and a terrible cough set in besides. Doctors treated him but he ^rew worse every dav. V ’-.r rtb <ve tried Dr King’s Ne * I n r. I >• c ui-um prion, and our darling was saved. He’s now sound, and well ” Every body ought to know, it’s the only sure cure for Coughs, Colds and all Lung diseases. Guaranteed by Cher okee Drug Co. Price 50c and $1.00. Trial bottles free. The first printing press in America was at the house of the president of Harvard College. 1638. Wanted. We would like to ask. through the columns of your paper, if there is any person who has used Green’s August Flower for the cure of Indigestion Dyspepsia, and Liver Trouble that has not been cured—and we also mean their results such as sour stomach, fermentation of food, habitual cos tiveness, nervous dyspepsia, head aches, despondent feelings, sleepless ness—in fact, any trouble connected with the stomach or liver? This medicine has been sold for many years in all civilized countries, and we wish to correspond with you and send you one of our books free of cost. If you never tried August Flower, try a 25 cent bottle first. Wt have never known of its failing. If so, something more serious is the matter with you. The 25 cent size has just been introduced this year. Regular size 75 cents. At all drug gist. G. G. Green, Woodbury, N. J. A copy of the first edition of Robin son Crusoe sold recently in London for $1,225. NEWS OF THE WEEK IN LOWER CHEROKEE From Our Correspondent at Etta Jane. Lard Expensive and Injurious. Lard is not only expensive but in jurious to the health when used in liberal quantities. To make the so- called cheap patent flours white enough, the life is all ground out of the flour; then it is necessary to load it up with lard in order to make it work. This accounts largely for your heavy biscuits and rolls and your bad dijegtion. It takes less than one-half the lard to work “Clifton” that it does cheap patents, so that you not only save more than the difference in nrice bjut get a more healthful and nutritious food product. Health and economy dictate the use of “Clifton.” Roses came from Persia, and into IVrsia from India. The Stoiuacli N the Man. A weak stomach weakens the man, because it cannot transform tbe food be eats into nourishment. Health and strength cannot be restored to any sick man or weak woman without first restoring health and strength to the stomach. A weak stomach can not digest enough food to feed the tissues and revive the tired and run down limbs and organs of the body Kodol Dyspepsia Cure cleanses, puri- fi-s, sweetens and strengthens the glands and membranes of tbe stomach, and cures indigestion, dyspeysia and all stomach troubles. Cherokee Drug Co Detached hits of human skin live two to 10 days. Fufumoiih* FoIIowh m Colli but never follows the use of Foley’s Honey and Tar. It stops the cough, heals and strengtbens tbe lungs aid affords perfect security from an at tack of pneumonia. Refuse substi tutes. Oberokee Drug Co. PERSONALS AND LOCALS. Interesting I’aragraphs and Decent Hap penings in Lower Section of the County Gathered Up by Our Regular Correspon dent for Benefit of Ledger Readers. (Correspondence of The Ledger.) Etta Jane, March 17.—Last Sab bath night, about dark or a little after, this community was thrown in to a whirlwind of excitement over a cry that ran along the line from house to house and from one person to another that a man, horse and ouggy were in the river at Howell’s leriy. For a time pandemonium reigned, men were calling for help, help, help; women and children were crying, dogs barking and everybody talking, while nobody listened; lan- ters could be seen through the inky darkness going toward the ill-fated spot with all the possible speed their carriers could put on and chaos reigned for the time. When the trouble was found out, it was that Walker Goforth had got into the river. He attempted to cross after dark with a ten-year-old boy, Fred Comer, as ferryman. His horse took fright at a lantern and ran backward with the buggy plunging the wnole “lay out,” including Walker, in the river. The flat, n soon as relieved of its freight, wt t ! no leisurely to the Cherokei bank, while Walker cut his horse loose from the harness and got back with it to the York bank, leav ing his buggy in the river until the necessary help came which, with the aid of the ferry boat, saved and brought it safely with Walker and the horse to this side of the river. W’e are sorry to say that Mrs. Bets/ Hartford is not doing well. iShe is iu very poor health just now. Jordan Smith, who was oaptaudat Hickory last Saturday with a load of liquor, has been tried and sent to the chaingang for thirty days for trans porting liquor. Perhaps we were premature ia say ing that Jordan Smith was captured by Rev. P. B. Ingram at Hickory Grove last Saturday. We should have added the names of other citi zens; Dr. Wood, VV’arren Wbisonant and James Castles aided State Con stable R. L. Scoggins who made the seizure and the arrest. The report came to us just as we were closing our letter to The Ledger, and we gave it just as we got it. We do not suppose Bro. Ingram wishes to pose as a “bully” before the people, but it’s unhealthy for blind tigers to invade his jurisdic tion, and he has some good backers, too. The captured man we are told, was in the habit of carrying a double barrelled shot gun. We note with both interest and pleasure that the New Orleans people are making every preparation pos sible to entertain the immense crowd that is expected to meet there during May—the occasion of the U. C. veterans r union. They say nothing shall be left undone on their part to make it eclipse anything of the kind in the history of the organization. Now is the time for those who can to make arrangements to attend. The entertainment committees will soon be ready to make arrangements for tho ; e who need their service. Every thing is being done,too, for the enter tainment of the sons and daughters and grandsons and daughters of the Confederacy. Let all go and have a good time in this grand old city. The roads are still bad. In many places the mud has been to the axle- tree. If there was ever a time that our people might agree on the good roads question it is now. This week the equinoctial gales are due, and from all weather appearances they will be on time. Mrs. Corner, mother of our ferry man and Mrs J F. Wright, is in very bad health. She is at Mrs. Wright’s where she has been confined to her bed for a long time. Mr. Bud Comer came down from Jonesville last Sabbath to see' bis mother. j. l s. More Riots. Disturbances of strikers are not nearly as grave as an individual dis order of the system. Overwork, loss ot sleep, nervous tension will be fol lowed by utter collapse, unless a re liable remedy is immediately em ployed. There’s nothing so efficient to cure disorders of the Liverjor Kid neys as Electric Bitters. It’s a wonder ful tonic, and effective nervine and the greatest all around msdicine for run down systems. It dispels Nervous ness, Rheumatism and Neuralp'aand expels Malaria germs. Only 50c, and satisfaction guaranteed by Cherokee Drug Co.