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. -i in Viikjifin -'ilfr THE LARGEST circulation of Any Newspaper in the Fifth Congressional District of S. C. The Ledger SEMI-WEEKLY-PUBLISHED TUESDAY AND FBIDAY. Wt GUARANTEE The Reliability of Every Adve> - User 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 HAFFNEY. S. C., TUESDAY. MAY 19, 1903. $1.00 A YEAR. THE U. G. VETERANS MEET IN Koyal Reception Given Them at State’s Capital LARGE CROWD ATTENDS The Door, of the City Thrown Wide Open hoc! the Old Ueroe. Kntertalued In True Southern Style—Addre.Heit by Mayor Karl and MUn Lumpkin. (Correspondence of The Ledger.) Etta Jane, May 16 —In the short space allowed us we can't give our readersa full or satisfactory accountof the United Confederate Veterans’ re union which closed its exercises at Columbia last Thursday night after a three days’ session, neither can we pay to the people of that grand old city anything like proper tribute for their magnanimous hospitality and courtesies. Practically all ^business affairs that could possibly be laid aside for the time being were dis persed with, and the people, both male and female, went to work to make their visitors, and especially the U. C. veterans contingent, have a good time. Nothing was left un done that would accomplish this, and our readers can better imagine than we can describe how wonderfully well they succeeded. From the chief executive of the State and city au thorities, down to the humblest citi zen their was only one aim—to maks this the greatest of all reunions ever held in this State. How well they succeeded is for each veteran or visitor to say for himself. Of the thousands and tens of thousands of people present, going to and return ing from Columbia, as well as during itheir three days' sojourn in the city, ■•we haven’t heard of the slightest accident or trouble to occur that would mar the pleasure of the occa sion This speaks loudly for the splendid city government as well as the efficiency of the railroad service, and also for the good conduct of our people. As The Ledger was well represented it will not be necessary for your correspondeut to give details outside the convention. Were we to tell all we saw and heard during these three days our readers would get tired of listening. Therefore we give only a few of the incidents without trespassing upon our space or the patience of our read ers. The first session is generally the most interesting. The hearty welcome given the veterans by the local camps and city authorities made us feel at home. The theatre building was packed to its utmost capacity. The first or lower floor was reserved for the veterans exclu sively, and they filled it, too. When the hour for opening the ex ercises had arrived Bugler Lightfoot, with his instrument, gave notice that the exercises were ready to begin. When he bad closed the curtain was raised and trained choristers on the stage sang "Praise God from Whom All Blessings Flow," etc., in which a thousand others from the floor and gallery, who felt impressed with the solemnity of the occasion, joined. Rev. W. D. Gordon then led in prayer, all standing. Choir sang "Bonnie Blue Flag." which was loud ly cheered from both floor and gal leries. Mr. W. A. Clark, president of the chamber of commerce, wel comed the veterans in behalf of the businese men of Columbia. He was followed by Mayor Fort Sumpter Earle, one of the most accomplished young men in the State (whose hos pitality your correspondent enjoyed so much two years ago). We will be pardoned, we hope, for giving a few extracts from Mayor Earle’s address. Among other things he said: "We have gathered this evening to honor the men who have honored us by accepting our invitation to hold their reunion with us again, and to my lot, as the chief executive, it falls to ex press to them the esteem, the ad miration and the love we have for f them—esteem for their virtue, ad miration for their courage, and love for themselves. "Confederate soldiers, we welcome you; our gates are open, our homes are open, our hearts are forever open to you, and may God forbid that the time should ever come when they shall be closed to men like you. In honoring you we honor ourselves, and in entertaining you we entertain our selves. It is our only wish that your stay with us shall be fruitful of much pleasure, and to that end I this day ' Arrender the city into your hands. Soldiers, the city Is yours; during your stay I resign my guardianship of her Into your keeping and grant her full permission to keep open houses both night and day In unre strained pleasure free. During the hundred Mays which have dropped their roses Into her lap we gather them np tonight and present them to those who io the days that tried men’s souls entered the list to de fend her from the oppressor and champion the cause of right against wrong, ofjjfreedom against tyranny. We are indebteed to you as soldiers, we are indebted to you as citizens, and tonight it is my duty, pleasure and privilege to welcome you to our homes and our hearts.” Although these words of welcome were warmly received and highly ap preciated, the enthusiasm of that immense crowd did not reach its height or vent itself until Miss Lizzie Lumpkin came forward to welcome the veterans in behalf of the sons and daughters of the Confederacy. Her appearance was a signal for applause, and heartily did the whole house re spond. As soon as the storm of ap plause had quieted she said, in sub stance: "They have asked me to talk to you again. I am to talk to you as one of you, as belonging to you. I thank God that I do belong to you—that I am one of you. There is nothing stronger nor more splendid on this wide earth than to have borne the sorrows you have borne; than to have endured the pain that you have endured for love’s sake For of you we can say, ‘Greater love hath no man than this, that he lay down his life for his friends.’ Aye, you fought and bled and died, and lived for that cause and,though— ‘We furled our 11;ik in sorrow, Nor could hope nor comfort borrow, From the promise of the morrow. For tliut flag had ceased to waive ; And we turn no more defying Foes, we’d see it o’er us Hying, Us to cheer, and soothe t he dying. For ’twas furled o’er Dixie’s grave? And though they put both shame and death on you then, we who hold your names above every other name on earth, not only remember those who never came back, but we give our hands in deepest reverence to those who did come back—to you among us now; and for every blow they struck you we give you glory, for every wound they made we give you love, and upon your devoted heads we place the crcwn of victory. "Woman's love is the tenderest and most wonderful thing on earth. It crowns you like a diadem; it shines in you like a star. May God pity the man who has never seen the smile of the woman he loves. Once a blind man said, 'Just to see you, just to see you and then go blind again.’ Once there was a Confeder ate soldier starving to death in prison He had not seen his beloved one for two years. He was dying in prison and they told him if he could live till he got home he might go. In sight of the old home she came out to meet him with their two boys at her side. ‘Oh, 1 am at home and well again, beloved,’ he said. Then he held out his arms, smiled and died. That smile never left him—like an angel of light sitting triumphant in the whitened halls of death. Aye, even on the conquerou’s own throne, and proclaiming that there be earthly loves which build their temples on the stormy brow of dissolution itself. "Daughters of iSouth Carolina, for our fathers’ sakes we love and honor these old heroes. My father was a Confederate soldier, and though with out that glory to crown his head I would love and honor him above all men. Still, with that heritage he gave me he must needs be a thousand fold greater to me. There is one re gret concerning the men we may loie and marry—they cannot be Con federate soldiers I I would rather be a woman than a man. What woman would not if she could be a southern woman and loved by a southern man? But there was a time I would have been a man. I would have joined Pickett in that grand charge at Get tysburg when all hope was lost; or watched with Hood at Winston’s Hill when he gave his fateful orders for his brigade to go down to their death; or I would have stood by For rest when that great cavalry leader of the Confederacy laid down his sword long enough to melt his soul in sor row; I would have been at Nashville when from the 2nd day of December till the 16th, Hood’s remnant of our army stood and fired and froze and fell, and when it began that freezing, dying retreat that ended the war and buried the flag of the Confederacy in the soil of its birth. "You, young men, in whose veins beats the blood of these heroes, uncover your heads, for the land in which you live is holy, hallowed by the blood of your fathers, purified by the tears of your mothers, for every drop of blood a southern soldier spilled was mingled with the tears a southern woman shed.from which has sprung up the lillies of memory that shall blossom throughout the coming ages. "The man who does not lift bis hat, or the woman who does not bow her head when she meets a Confederate soldier, is not worthy of the name of southerner." j. l b. Hometime back a Mormon miesion- ary in Williamsburg county was white capped and later went crazy. He was put In the asylum in Columbia and ever since the Mormon church has been looking after his welfare. THROUGHOUT THE PALMETTU STATE, items of Interest of Passing Events. ALL OVER THE STATE. tiventH that Have Taken Place from One End of the State to the Other Culled from Exchanges for Quick Reading by Scores of Ilusy People. Innis Alexander, the fourteen-year- old son of Mr. and Mrs. M. L. Alex ander, of Greenville, died Friday af ternoon at 2:45 o’clock as the result of a fracture of the skull received by a fall from the loft of Mr. Alexander’s barn, located in the rear of his resi dence in Washington street. The Southern Express office at Fort Mill was entered by thieves a few nigh’s ago and four gallons of whisky taken. A negro man {named ‘’Shorty," who was found in a drunk en condition the following morning, was suspected of the theft, but as no incriminating evidence was offered at the preliminary, the prisoner was re leased. W. W. Lewis, Esq., of Yoraville, for Lillian S. Adams, plaintiff, in her damage suit against the South Car olina and Georgia Extension railroad, defendant, has perfected his appeal from the order of Judge Dantzler, granting a non-suit. The case will be argued within the next few days. Geo. W. L. Hart, Esq., of Yorkville, represents the defendant. The event marking the closing of the Confederate reunion in Columbia was a very realistic camp fire scene on the stage of the opera house. Many thousands of people witnessed a very handsome floral oarade given complimentary to the {veterans. A feature was the appearance at the head of the procession j of {General Hampton’s aged body servant leading the beautifuJ horse the general rode on his last public appearance in the reunion procession two years ago. Friday morning while at work at his post in the Spartan Inn laundry, in Spartanburg, Mr. George Story, while leaning against one of the ma chines used to rinse water from wet garments, managed to get his right arm caught in the machinery. Be fore the limb could be extricated from the machinery, the wrist was broken and there were two fractures of the bone above the elbow. The acute pain and shock caused Mr. Story to lose consciousness for a short time. Robert Toland, colored, on Tuesday morning shot Major Fowler, colored, in the yard at Dr. M. A. Renwick’s house, about twelve miles from New berry. Fowler wes walking towards his house, which was in Dr. Renwick’s yard. He met Toland and passed him. Just as Fowler was about to enter his house Toland turned and shot him in the back^with a shot-gun which he was carrying on his shoul der. Fowler’s wounds are not fatal, a d it is very probable that he will recover. Tuesday evening last, Miss Vannie Chambers, of Rock Hill, met with a serious accident which happened about 7 :B0 o’clock at the home of her brother-in-law, W J. Neely, on Black street at that place. While running across the back yard at a rapid speed Miss Cbambersc came in contact with a suspended wire used as a close line, the wire striking her across the nose. Thesudden forcejof the contact threw herjto the ground. Her right collar bone was brokengand she was otherwise considerably bruised. William Frasier and Willie Gilliard, two negro men, of Columbia, were ar rested Thursday morning on the charge of attempting to pass counter feit money. It was charged that the two went into a dispensary and bought some whiskey, passing over a dollar, which afterwards proved to be bad money. The two were ar rested but at a hearing before United States Commissioner Verner, it was thought that there was not {sufficient evidence to hold them and they were released. The men were represented by Col. P H. Nelson. Messrs. Broadus Maybry and Bud Landrum, of Spartanburg,recently ac complished a nice piece of detective work in capturing the thieves who broke into a box oar at Bennett’s siding, a short distance above Campo- bello. This box car was broken into about oue month ago, and about $65 worth of meat and lard was stolen therefrom. The Southern railway employed Mr. Landrum and Mr. Maybry to work up the case. About one week ago they arrested Kit Ed- gertou and Sam Mackerel, two ne groes, who confessed to the crime, and Implicated Henry Smith, another negro, who escaped. About half of the atoleu goods wae recovered. Digging up gardens Is almost as expeuslre as digging up gold mines. THE CORRUPTION IS DAILY UNEARTHED While Roosevelt Condems it in St- Louis OFFICERS RESIGNING The Ncandata in the 1'ostoftice Department An Washington are Still Going On while the President Condemn Corrnption In Public and Private Life. (Correspondence of The Ledger.) Washington, D. C., May 18:— While the President of the United States is loudly inveighing against corruption in public and private life in bis speeches at the dedication of the World's Fair buildings at St. Louis, the corruption in tha Postoffice Department under his own admin istration, which is being daily un earthed by the investigation now pro ceeding, smells to high heaven. It is the expressed opinion of many offl cials of the government here that it wjuld be the policy of consistency for the President to return here at once and see to it that the investiga tion is made thorough and that no guilty man escapes the punishment which is his just due. Th» truth of the matter is that this investigation in the Post Office Department is dig ging up more snakes than the admin istration can conveniently kill, and the administration would like nothing better than to kill the investigation. When Postmaster General Payne returned here from his trip among the West Indies islands with Secre tary Moody and others, he was amazed and terrified at what he found. When he left here and told First Assistant Postmaster General Wyrne to go ahead with the investigation he supposed nothing would be unearthed beyond a few irregularities which would be fixed by the suspension or discharge of a few scapegoats. What he found was that a number of the divisions of his department were rotten to the core and that sev eral of the heads of those divisions had already resigned under fire, and that several more would have to resign or be kicked out. The investigation was either unear’.hing more serious charges against these men every day orelsehewas receiving from other sources serious charges. One of the men who already bad resigned had his wife go to his old office in the P. O. Dept, and rifle a safe of papers that would, presumably, incriminate him and perhaps others in his division of the Department. Now comes a m m named Seymour Tullouch, who had been cashier of the Washington City post office for over twenty years, and was fire 1 by Postmaster Merritt at the dictation of Perry Heath, who then was the First Assistant Pos'master General, because Tullouch refused to pay people who were carried on the rolls of the city post office in a fraud ulent manner. Tullouch charges that some men were on the pay rolls three times under different names and were drawing three salaries; that a certain newspaper man w as on the rolls as the physician to the city post office, and that be knew no more about the prac tice of medicine than a hog knows about navigating a ship, yet he was receiving a salary of $1,700 a year. He says these frauds and irregu larities have been going on ever since Perry Heath, who now is the Sec retary of the Republican Natknal Committee, was installed as First As sistant Postmaster General; that he has the papers in bis possession to prove all bis charges and only asks the opportunity to do so. From the way things look now he probably will not get the chance to prove his charges. Mr. Payne is making a bluff at investigating these charges made by Tullouch, but from bis motions he hardly will give Mr. Tullouch an op portunity to go on the witness stand. He sees what the whole thing is lead ing to and is doing his best to squelch any further investigation. He is a shrewd politician, was placed in the cabinet as Roosevelt’s political guide aud counsellor, and it evidently is his belief that a continuance of the inves tigation will result In serious conse quences to the administration. Sena tor Henry Cabot Lodge, of Massachu setts, whe Is 1 be spokesman for Roose velt on the floor of the Senate, evi dently thinks otherwise, for be said here theother day after reading in the Washington 4 ‘Evening Star" a defence of A. W. Maoben, Superintendent of Free Delivery, by Postmaster General Payne, that Maohen would have to go and that his suspension or discharge had been ordered by the President before he left on his western trip; that if the Postmaster General did not get rid of Macheu there would be something doing In the resignation line In Mr. Payne’s office, and the Postmaster General would be forced out of the Cabinet. Mr. Payne la now between the devil and the deep blue sea. If he kicks out Bob Wynne, who started the investigation, Wynne will pull down the temple. Macben knows too much, and if he is kicked out he will play the same game, and there you are. In the meantime the demo crats are holding their noses and watching the fun * * * Everybody interested in the ad ministration is beginning to shy rocks at General Miles for his report of the conditions existing in the Philippine Islands. He recommends in that re port that tho army in the Philippines be fed on beef on the hoof killed fresh, because he ascertained that the army is still living on embalmed beef. The War Department pays no at tention to bis recommendation for the reason that the beef trust could make no profit out of the government if Gen Miles’ suggestion were com plied with. How long will the people stand it? * * * If the President will return and make as close a study of the work ings of the civilservice here as he made of the animals in Yellowstone Park, he will find some game that has crept in under the civil service tent more worthy of his gun. * * * In trust-baiting, publicity seems to be one of President Roosevelt’s strong cards. Why does he not try some of the publicity medicine on the Scan dals of the War and Post Office De partments of his own administration? * * * "Considerations of moment not confined to Porto Rico,” have caused the ac ministration to let up on the prosecution of offi.-ers down there who are accused of smuggling. The American District Aitorm-y already had a lot of the natives of Porto Rico io the penitentiary for the same of fense, and was proceeding against the American officers when he was stop ped by the above telt-gram from the Attorney General. Does that mean that the same condition exists in the Philippines and the airing of the Porto Rican matter would precipitate the prosecution of men in the Philip pines? That all this rottenness com ing to the surface at one time would swamp the administration and knock out the nomination of Roosevelt? That certainly is "considerations of moment." Where, oh where is that universal panacea, publicity? Charles A. Edwards. COAT SNATCHER CAUGHT Attempted to Get Away with Coat aud Vest—Rut He Didn't. Yesterday morning a negro who said he hailed from. Gastonia N. C., and who called himself Sam Smith, went into Will Switzer’s store on Limestone street and after some lit tle parley traded for a coat and vest, for which he was to pay eight dollars. Switzer wrapped the goods up and turned his back for something, when the negro bolted and ran off with the goods without paying for them. Switzer pursued at once and soon caught him and had a cor siderable scufllle with him,and the negro w uld probably have gotten away had not Deputy Sheriff Lipscomb made a timely appearance and gone to Switzer’s assistance. Smith was car ried at once before Judge Bridges and tried for the theft of the goods The evidence was so conclusive that he was promptly couvicted and sen tenced to pay a fine of $30 or to serve thirty days on the county chain- gang He took the days. A pistol was found on the negro, and not being of the regulation size and length, a warrant will be issued against him, and when his time on the gang expires he will be hold for court under a charge of carrying con cealed weapons. This stealing was done in open daylight, the thief was pursued and caught and the goods taken from him ; still.there were some mouthy negroes standing around the magistrate’s of fice door who were not pleased with the way things went and declared they didn’t believe he stole anything. Death or Mr*. HenUeritou Carroll. The many friends of Mr. W. H. Carroll will be paited to learn of the death of his wife, which sad event occurred the last of the week at his home in Cherokee township. The first intimation friends in Gaffney had of it was a telegram to her daugh ters, Mrs. Wm. Philips. Mrs. Carroll was an aged lady with the good traits of character that make home happy and the neighbor hood better because she has lived in it. We hope to get a more extended sketch of her. THROUGHOUT THE TAR HEEL STATE, From the Mountains to The Sea. NORTH CAROLINA NEWS. TowctU Without Coat, Every forty-eight pound sack in which "Clifton" flour Is packed will make two good towels, the regular towelling goods being used In the manufacture of the sacks. Ask for "Clifton" In the towel sack. W. J. Wilkins & Co. Interesting Items Concerning Our Neigh bors Beyond the Line Which May Prove Entertaining Reading for Hundreds of Ledger Readers The Southern Cotton Spinners As sociation met in Charlotte Thursday and Friday. According to a special to The New York Journal of Commerce, Mr J. W. Cannon, of Concord, is the Southern manufacturer who sold in New Or leans 15,00 bales of cotton at 12 cents, on the 15th Inst., Mr. Cannon bought the cotton at 7 :30, it was said. The Norfolk and Western Railway has bought a lot at Winston on which it proposes to erect a big freight depot and build additional side tracks, one of which will be used to get into the new union passenger station. The company paid $12,500 for the site, which has a frontage of 275 feet. Mr. B. Frank Mebane and a German syndicate will build a 200,000 spindle and 14,000 loom cotton mill on a 4,000 tract of land they have bought at Spray, in Rockingham county. It is also their purpose to build on their purchase near Spray the biggest woolen factory in the world and manu facture blankets. A four-year-old child of Hovis, of the Bonnie Mill in King’s Mountain,, was scalded to death Wednesday afternoon in the engine room of the mill. It was playing around the en gine and fell into a pool of hot water which came from the exhaust pipe. The child’s legs were horribly scalded and it died in great agony. Two negroes arrested for being im- plicat d in the disturbanc ' at Dover last week, escaped from the Atlantic and North Carolina train at a point close to Newber: , by leaping from a window. The prisoners were in charge of Officer Whitt and were not man acled. One of the negroes named Tom Clark was run down and captured. The other is scill at large. It is learned that Ernest Tillett, who was bittea by a dog at Durham the latter part of last week, has gone to Baltimore for treatment. A short while ago a pony belonging to Mr. C. C. Taylor, of that place, was bitten by a dog supposed to have hydrophobia and since then the pony has been kept in close confinement. It is not thought now, however, that there will be any danger of hydrophobia. The supreme court grants a new trial io Harrill vs. the Southern Rail way. in which the plaintiff secured $15,000 damages it the lower court for killing an engineer by the falling of a trestle over Buffalo creek in South Carolina. Judge Montgomery writing the opinion, holds that the suit cau properly be maintained in North Carolina, but says errors in the ad mission of evidence were so serious as to necessitate a new trial. There will be a hearing of the case against Ernest Haywood, for the kil ling of Ludlow Skinner, in Raleigh, Thursday evening, May 21st, on a writ of habeas corpus. Col. Thomas M. Argo, of counsel for the defense, presented to Judge R. M. Douglass, of the supreme court, a petition for a writ of habeas corpus in behalf of Haywood, the purpose being to have a bearing before Judge Douglass and get Haywood admitted to bail. The Asheville school board filed a complaint before Judge Fred Moore, who issued an order restraining the Bumcomhe county board and county treasurer, T. M. Duckett, from paying out any more of the school funds of the county until a proper accounting and prorating of school funds can be had. Reprfsentatives of the city schools contend that the coun ty board has violated not only the spirit, but the plain letter of the law iu refusing to pay over to the city board its pro rata share of the school funds. The corporation commislon of North Carolina has made the rules to govern storage and demurrage charges to go Into effect July 1st, next. The rules allow railroad companies to charge $1 per day on »11 car loads not unloaded within 48 hours after notification and 1 per cent, per 100 pounds per day od less than carload shipments. The rule further requires the railroads to place loaded oars lo 48 hours after their ar rival ; otherwise the shippers are to be paid $1 per day In excess of that time. It Is further provided that when shippers make application for unloaded oars the railroads shall furn ish the same within four days, other wise the penalty of $1 per day in ex cess of this time is imposed. A man will deal with and a woman marry most any one for money.