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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. 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. ESTABLISHED FEB. 16, 1894 GAFFNEY. S. C., TUESDAY, JUNE 83, 1903. $1.00 A YEABi FLAW PICKER IN THE GATE CITY. He Writes of the Sights He Sees There IN PERSONAL LETTERS. Flaw Has Gone to a HoHpital for Treatment but the Spirit of Humor Is Still In Him — Personal Letters from Him Reproduced Because of their Originality. The only, original, inimitable Flaw Picker is laid up|for repairs. He has been ailin’ for some little time, and last Wednesday night he left for Atlanta to enter a hospital for better or wor-ie. He still flourishes, though, and, like Mark Tapley, continues to be “jolly” in spite of ill health and the reverses of fortune. Several letters have been received from him since his arrival in Atlanta, and they are so original that we have decided to reproduce them for the benefit of many of our readers who admire Flaw and his writings. We give them in the order in which they were received: Atlanta, Ga., Thursday, June 18, 1908. Dear Ea.:—I’m here 0 K. but my neck’s broke a-ready, lookin’ to the tops of these here dog gone high houses, an’ .cs not 9 o’clock yet—got in at 0:20. Am now waitin’ in front of T. U. Hall until the Prest. comes. Will see what kind of advice he has for me and write you again this eve. or tomorrow. Flaw. Atlanta, Ga., Friday, 19th, 1903 Am still alive, buthurtin' powerful bad. I ain’t got in no hospital yet. President of A. T. U. (48) was to see a friend yesterday and put me on to the route to Grady Hospital today. Am waiting in hall to see him now. I took bedroom with—or rather—in the Salvation Army hall last night. Cost me twenty cents,includin' a hot- water bath—hope I won’t take cold. I haven’t been a block away from Marietta since I've been here, and have spent less than one buck since I arrived I have met one person since I’ve been here what called me “Flaw ” It was John Me Abee what used to live on the factory hill there about four years ago. He wanted to pay my way out to De- Catur, to his house, about eight miles from here, and give me a good time; but I declined his hospitable offer by tellin’ him it was a baa time an’ not a good time I was a lookin’ for this time. The boys are out on strike here now and there’s licker on every hand ; but if the Lord is willin’, I’ll not drink anything but water. I could have went to work yesterday, but I tole them J raley didn’t see how that would help my cause any. T have been advised by some friends to fall down an’ holler “O, Lordy,” an’ have some friend along to ring telephone for Hospital Ambulance to come git me, but I’m feard that hit would take a star actor instead of myself to work the trick. Wish ole Nat was down here—bet I could pitch a quart of penuts down bis mouth the first time he’d look to the top of some of these buildings. I wondered to myself yesterday if my Deck raley was rubber or was it doublejointed. Tell Mr. Thomas there’s nobody hurt yet—either me or tho hospital. If I manage to git in I don’t know which will be hurt worst, me or the H. P. Well, good bye. Give my regards to all the boys. With a big heart of love an’ gratitude, I am, as ever, Ole Flaw. Atlanta, Ga., June 20th, 1903 I am feeling lots better this morn- ing than I was last night. I was hurting awful bad last nigh. I went to the hospital last evening and they told me to come back today. A friend gave me the address of a minis ter who, he says, can get me in if anybody can. I’m going to see him today with a recommendation from the president of the union. I’ll come back home before I’ll give them forty dollars. I just can’t afford it. I get a bed for fifteen cents a night and a hot- water bath—cover all over in hot- water—for five cents. It helps my feelings lots. I didn’t eat anything all day yesterday but a fiveceut beef steak and a five cent bowl of tomato soup—I didn’t feel much like eating. The more I see of city life the more disgusting it is to me, ar.d the bigger the city the worse it is. The streets here are laid with stones like the main square in Charlotte. Ve- hickles of every description are so thick I don’t see how they manage to pass, and when an old wagon sees a few vacant rods in front of him he proceeds to trot, and that makes a bigger fuss than ever, and adds the noise of that to the rumbling and screeching of the street cars—a dozen passing at most all the time and you only have a faint idea of the racket. If you speak to anyone on the streets you Iiave to talk like when you are In a cotton mill to make oue hear. This racket keeps going until after 12 o’clock—and you are awoken next morning by daylight with the same din in yonr ears. It seems to me that the suffering the poor dumb ani mals endure with their feet and legs from constant pad on the hard rock from early morn till late at night is enough alone to invoke the wrath of a merc'ful God on a civilized nation, to say nothing of the vice and im morality that must be in a place of this proportion. Ah, my little home (if I ever get it paid for) in the quiet suburb* of old Gaffney, with its con- j s^ant cooling breeze, is much prefer- able to me than the whole of Atlanta. The hospital is the prettiest place | I’ve seen here. Its flower gardens and cool, open doors and windows have an inviting appearance, but when one thinks of the suffering and misery of humanity inside he feels a commotion within which adds to his horror of city life. It’* in the cities you find so much wickedness and crime—no wonder' God burnt up Sodom and Gomorrah j after sending His good people to the country. You find all classes of people here. In the reading room of the Salvation Army hall, where I am now writing, is one old crippled, drunken, harm less man, slobbering—and another, whose days can’t number many more summers, preparing some kind of FHRQUGHOUT THE NEWS OF THE WEEK PALMETTO STATE, IH LOWER CHEBOKEE items of Interest of Passing From Our Correspondent at Events. OVER THE STATE. Etta Jane. ■events that Have Taken Place from One End of the State to the Other Culled from Exchanges for Quick Reading by Scores of Hasy People. The Abbeville cotton mills will re duce the hours of labor to three- fourths of full time. The William McKeithan Lumber 1 Co., of Darlington county, has been I chartered with a capitalization of $300,000. Henry Richardson, colored, of Lexington county, who has been blind for thirteen years, fell from the window of his housejthe other day and broke his neck. The eight-year-old sou of P. B. PERSONALS AND LOCALS. Interesting Paragraphs and Recent 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, June 20.—While in Gaffney last Monday we met “Ole Flaw” and were very sorry to know that he has been unwell for some I light of day and knew nothing what- i ever about the kingdom of light. Therefore according to owl logic, as sumed that what he didn’t know must be incomprehensible to any other creature. Presently a bat, which had been fluttering awkwardly about, ap proached the owl and ironically in quired what the nature of the medi- tatiocs were that made him look so wise. The owl replied that he was con sidering the possibility of such a thing as sunlight. At this the bat, to whom the sun light was impenetrable darkness, with some heat rejoined that any creature who had doubts on that sub ject was certainly a decadent and ought to be caged. The owl staring contemptuously at the bat replied that there might be a THROUGHOUT THE TAR HEEL STATE. From the Mountains to The Sea. NORTH CAROLINA NEWS. sun, but even if this were true it; time. We hope, however, he will QeV er shone, because he bad never soon be well again and at his post seen the sunlight, and challenged the among The Ledger contributors where ' ;0 P rove there was any sun at all. The bat then said that although he made no pretense of wisdom, yet he Bryan, of Saluda county, died of fake medicine to hawk on the streets, : hydrophobia. He was bitten two or and nearer to me are some well dress- three months ago by a mad-dog. ed, pleasant fellows, some perusing Jesse, the seven-year-old son of books and periodicals while others Jouson Brabham of Greelyville, died they throw are conversing intelligently—and one on Friday from the effects of a dose | erec t remarkable feature is that all seem of morphine administered by mistake to be pleasant and good-natured. Well, I will close for this time. Flaw. he makes things lively always. We heard a very intelligent lady say not long ago, in speaking of those octogenarions who want to marry after they lose their wives: “They usually go to the grave on a stick, but soon as they want to marry again it away and try to knev that the sun shone in the day time because daylight was so intense ly dark. And thus they argued until they finally engaged in a fierce battle, each hoping to vindicate tf.e truth of his convictions in proportion to the in walk jury he could inflict upon his antago nist. A NEW CHURCH. Uedi- Centml ItuptiHt Church »t Cowpens cate-.l Sumliiy. (Correspondence of The Ledger.) Cow tens, June 22:—The Central Baptist church of Cowoens was or ganized the first Sunday in February of the present year with about forty members. The house of worship has just been completed at a cost of about $1,800, all of which is paid. The new church was dedicated yesterday. Dr. T. M. Bailey, corres ponding secretary of the State Mis sion Board, preached the dedicatory sermon. His text was 2nd. Cor.. 5th ebapt.. 21st. verse. Outline: 1st The sinlessness of Christ. 2.od. Thus o’- fered as a sin off ring—“made Him fo be sin for us ” 3rd. That we might He made righteous. Dedicatory prayer was offered *by the pastor. There was an exceeding large crowd present and the behavior was per fect. A collection for State missions was taken up and amounted to $11 65. At 3:30 p. m., the pastor, Rev, J. D. Bailey, preached, taking as bis text 1st Tim., SrdJJchapt., 15th verse. Theme: “The church, the 1’illar and Ground of the Truth.” Outline: 1st. The Church of God a living Church. 2nd. The church the base and sup porter of the truth. 3rd. The church the herald and propagator of the truth. Five candidates were received for baptism. The congregation at the evening service was also large. Thus closed an eventful day in the religi ous history of Cowpens. Quite a large delegation from Gaff ney attended the services. J. D. Bailey. News Around Kings Creek. (Correspondence of The Ledger.) Kings Creek, June 16:—Mr. W. C. Wilburn has gone over to Cross Keys on an extended visit to rela tives and friends in Union County. Dr S. B. Crawley, of Gaffney, was at the Station recently, and also visited Piedmont Springs. Mr. J. A. Cooper, formerly of your city, but now of Lincoiton N. C., was down at the Station Sunday and Monday at the residence of Mr. T. P. Whisonant, where Mrs. Cooper and little son, Charlie, are staying for a while. It seems quite natural to see Mrs. Cloe around the Station again. Miss Inez Smith, who has been or, a visit to relatives at Blacks burg, returned home Monday. c. R. A. Rockwell, a son-in law of H. B. Register, captured last week with his son, Jabel Register, charged with the murder of Jesse Soles and Jim Staley, near Whiteville in March, has also been arrested on a charge of having harbored the last named when he was a fugitive from justice, there by becomitg an accessory to the mur der after the fact. Rockwell was com mitted to jail with the other two. It is said that the Registers will be taken to Wilmington for safe keeping, as the feeling against them in Whiteville is very strong and the jail there is not very secure. for calomel, Chief Hammett submits a report showing that the cost of the con stabulary has increased about $3,850 a month to $4,750, but the results justified the increased efforts to en force the law. The value of seizures , p a y an( j reimburse himself from the of liquor has increased from $1,230 to ! proceeds of the farm. „ u u , ... i Moral:—Fools always try to prove Farmers have been very busy this . . .. ... J J 1 ^ nlanfi ncr r«nl» nH n„ 1 h«, r . 1 heif P 01 D ^ tlD g tUad. J. L S. week planting and replanting their low lands; and thinning out their cotton. Hands are scarce and labor is high, in fact, hired farm labor is the most expensive commodity in the mirket for which the employer has to SHORT LOCAL ITEMS. Mils Ruth Hanna, youngest daugh ter of the Ohio Senator, was married to Mr. Joseph Medill McCormick, at Cleveland, before a*distinguished as semblage, including President Roose velt. If You are tbe Hoaxekeeper You will appreciate our suggestion that you use Braueford’s "Clifton” flour. It makes the best bread, cake and pastry for home people as well as visitors. Don’t let your prejudice In favor of another brand prevent yonr trying it. W. J. Wilkins & Oo. $4,414.15, a difference in favor of the new constabulary of $3,184 12. Dr. Bacot, of Charleston, secretary of the State Board of Health, to whom was referred the rep rt of an epidemic of lung disease among the negroes of Williamsburg county, has made an investigation and says there is no epidemic, but many negroes have consumption resulting from the dissipated life they lead, and that ih»- matter is not, within tbe jurisdiction of the board to act upon. Rev. J. Barr Harris, a young preacner who gained considerable prominence in upper South Carolina through his revival meetings, where in he ardently preached sanctifica tion, has been convicted of seduction in Montana and sentenced to one year in the penitentiary. Previous to his conviction he was charged with another case of like nature out there. He is well known here. After months of parleying and spin ning red tape the much-mooted claims against the Charleston Exposition company are to be paid. W. H- Welcb, chairman of the board of re. ceivers, received from the treasury department at Washington $95 745.88, which will be devoted to the purpose aforementioned. The money is in the hands of M. Rutledge Rivers, attor ney for the receivers of the exposition company. A heavy wind and rain storm passed over St. Matthews Thursday after noon about 5 o’clock, accompanied by a severe fall of hail. Corn and cotton are injured more or less, but the tobacco crop of Mr. John McLauchlin is well nigh a total loss. He had 45 acres of beautiful weed which he held as worth at least $4,000. Now he de clares he will take $500. This is the third time that section has been visited by hail this season. Johnson Smith, a colored man that lives in the suburbs of Jonesville, while on bis way from the harvest field late Thursday evening riding a mule and carrying his scythe, was thrown from the mule. He fell oo the scythe blade and cut bis hand nearly off. Drs. Southard, Douglass and Hames attended him and found it necessary to cut the arm off above the wrist. Friday the wounded man was doing very well. Mr. J. C. Wasson, a prominent farmer of Alma, Laurens county, was in Laurens Thursday searching for his son. The boy is 13 years old, well grown for his age, and bright. His name is Grady Wasson. It was as certained that he boarded a south bound train for Greenwood at Mad den’s station oc the 0. & W. C. rail way. It was thought that be had gone to Greenwood, but inquiry by telephone in that town failed to bring any informatior The boy’s father thinks that the lad had absorbed big ideas about traveling and seeing the world from a negro who was hired on the farm. Frioay morning a tragedy was en acted at the Appalachian mills, near ■Greers, as a result of which “Shug” Calhoun, colored, lost his life, and Mery Dent, a negress, is in the Spar tanburg county jail charged with his murder. From what can be gleaned of the affair it seems that Mary Dent, who is a Spartanburg negress, was conducting an eating bouse at the Appalachian mills for the colored laborers. She and ‘ ‘Shug” became Involved in a difficulty when “Shug” ejected her from the house, and, pureuing her, fired eeveral shots at her. The woman finally turned and shot “Shag,” killing him almost Instantly. We regret to state that Miss Evira Bankhead is very sick, and that Mrs. Betsy McCulloch is also in a low state of health. She is a very old lady, too, and that adds to the anxiety u-TT'j " of her family and friends. She is one ‘ ^ of the oldest white ladies in this part of the country that we know of, hav ing nearly, if not quite reached her four score years. The was a Goude- lock. a -ister <>( Mr. Win L. Goude- lock. She was Mr a widow ab)Ut the beginning of the war and has raised a family of boys, whom we are glad to acknowledge as some of our best citizens. They are : Ben, Bridge and John D McCullouch. Adam, another son, is living in Texas. They are all well-oo men. A gentleman passed here yesterday moving his son from Trough Shoals, back to Rock Hill. The recent rains have done much damage to the roads. In many places they are welljnigh impassable—washed into gullies. Farmers would like to have a showtrof rain. The ground is get- There was a good rain at Camp’s ; cr^ss roads ytsterday morning and a light one in the city. A freight train passed here Friday morning consisting of forty-nine box ; cars and one passenger coach. Rev. W. T. Thompson left the city to fill his appointment Sunday at Bethesda church, in Spar tanburg county. The ladies of the Presby:erian church will serve ice cream in the park near the conrr ■« I hnr*- dav evening at 6 o’cio. k ting hard in places—aspoialiy where it^was packed by the rain. Mrs. R. A. Foster and her children are visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. S. F. Estes. Some of our people attended the communion meeting at the A R. Presbyterian church at Hickory Grove last Sabbath. Before this letter appears in print our readers will have had an opportu nity to know whether that phenome non predicted by some scientific man —that the sun is going to stand still on the 22nd of June—is true. We could havejmentionedjthis sooner, but it is sooa enough for tbe interest our readers feel in it. The fact is the sun stands still twice a year, anyway —when the days change from long to short ur from short to long—certainly it is still while the change is taking place. But some folks say it never stands still, and so we dismiss the sub ject. Mrs. Jimmie Strain is still quite sick. We never saw fewer country peo ple in town court week than were there last Monday, and most of those who were there seemed to have a great desire to get away. The next ten days will largely, if not entirely, decide the crop prospects for this year, and nobody knows that better than the farmers themselves. The cuts of the wrecked mills, etc., on Pacolet which appeared in The Ledger of yesterday are as natural as life itself and certaiuly.speak well for Artist Carr’s work as well as the en terprise of this paper. To those fa miliar with tbe scene these pic tures will be forceful reminders of tbe almost inconceivable destruction of property there. If it’s not making our letter too long we would be glad to reproduce one of Frank Beard’s Fables here, which ^ will teach a lesson people ought to know: THE OWL AND THE BAT. IA Fable, by Frank Board.1 An owl, who on account of bis pom pous ways and solemn aspect bad gained the reputation of being a great scholar and profound philosopher, and who himself believed that he was a point or two iu advance of the rest of the world on any or all matters pertaining to a rational perception of tbe logloai fitness of things, and who moreover had a habit of hooting down all views opposed to his own, sat one night on tbe dead limb of a sycamore tiee, blinking wisely at nothing In particular. The owl was entirely blind in the Sunday was the longest day iu the year. The sun rose at 4:52 and set at 7 :10, which made the day fourteen hours and eighteen minutes between sunup and sundown. Cotton, cloth and furnitureare still being recovered from 1’acolet river and adjacent rafts and low grounds. And occasionally a human body is found, but none of them found now can be recognized. Mr. Adolphus Gaffney presented us with a very thln-sbelled egg yester day with several protuberences on the shell, which elastic imaginations many might conjure into faces, letters or anything else that might suit their fancies. The Blacksburg Building and Loan Association, with a capital of $10,000, applied to the secretary of State Fri day for a charter. The corporators are: Chas. Baber, J. R Healan, P. R. Freeman, W. E. Anderson and N. W. Hardin. A “dinner on the ground” mission rally at Grassy Pond Baptist church Sunday was attended by a number of our people. Tbe meeting was a suc cess and the proverbial hospitality of the good people of that section was fully sustained. Many of our people attended the dedication of the now Central Baptist church at Cowpeus Sunday. Among them were: Mrs. I. W. Avery, Misses Maud and Nancy Thompson, Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Gaines and little son, Willie, Needham Avery and Green Avery. Mr. John B. Pettit, while at the baseball game Friday, accidentally touched a bulldog which bit him twice, once on the hand and once on the leg. We learned that the bites were|right severe but are glad to know that be is doing well and that no serious results are expected. Magistrate A. J. McCraw made a business trip to the city Friday. He says his fields have had his undivided attention since the floods,and while they were greatly damaged, work is making a marked difference in their apperance and most of them will soon be in a hopeful shape apain. There was a big crowd iu the city Saturday. Merchants report good sales and the farmers good prospects with their farm work. They say the crops are small but that last week’s work put most of them in fairly good condition. Growing wheat is cut and some of it has been thrashed, aud while once the yield was is better thought it would be, it is far from good. SucceHHful MImhIoii Rally. The mission rally at the Grassy Pond Baptist church on Sunday was perhaps the most successful in the serU* recently held throughout the Broad River association. Tbe col lection ($50) was tbe largest single collection for foreign missions Id tbe history of the ohoroh. This will place Grasay Pond church well to the front at the next meeting of tbe asso ciation. Intereiitlng Itema Concerning Onr Neigh bors Ileyond the Line Which May Prove Entertaining Reading for Hundreds of Ledger Readers Hon. H. F. Sewell gets $4,500 for the egging he received in Shelby in 1900. There are no less than 23 divorce suits on the Wake county docket, and during the past year 25 divorces were obtained. It is said that there have been 4,- 400 cases of smallpox in North Caro lina during the past twelve months. Of this number 160 proved fatal. Greensboro enjoys the distinction of being the first town to have a hus band swear the peace against his wife. He says he is afraid she will do him bodily harm. Another landslide has occurred on Saluda Mountain in tbe same railroad cut that was filled by the slide of last week, and railroad authorities say that it will be at least a month before the track can be cleared for through traffic. Martin Nordstrom, of New York, a Dane, aged 47, who was decorating the Capital Club at Raleigh attempted suicide early Thursday morning. He leaped from the window of his room at the Park Hotel to the sidewalk, fracturing his skull, breaking his leg, and arm. and receiving internal in juries. He had been drinking nightly for weeks. J. T. Rogers, of Durham, who on Wednesday morning drank an ounce bottle of laudanum at his home in Edgemont, was ref' Thursday to be getting along vf r d consid ered out of danger, no uud a pretty close call, and it is said that but for the faithful work of the physicians, he would not now be in the land of the living. The Ada Manufacturing Company's plant in Charlotte will in all prob ability be bought injand the company reorganized by the directors of the present company. The directors are : J. H. Weddington, chairman; Dr. Joseph Graham, Mr. Geo. A. Howell, Col. W. C. Maxwell, Col. J. T. An thony, Mr. Frank D. Alexandfr and Capt. David Clark. James Wilcox, convicted of killing Nellie Cropsey at. Elizabeth City, is now number 13,994 on the roll of con victs at the penitentiary. He arrived in Raleigh in the custody of Sheriff Winslow and Deputy White about 5 o’clock Tuesday morning. At the prison Wilcox had nothing to say, simply moving about quickly at the direction of the officers. Burglars entered the Forsyth Roller Mills at Winston Wednesday night but they were frightened away by the night watchman before they opened the gate. The watchman saw three men. Two of them were in tbe office but they escaped through a window. A hatchet and monkey wrench were found on top of the safe. Tbe watch man fired at the men as they were leaving. Capt. James M. McGowan, a well- known justice of the peace of New Hanover county and a prominent sec ret order man of the State, died in Wilmington Saturday morning, after a brief illness with asthma, following chronic bronchitis. At 4 o’clock he arose In bed and asked for a drink of water and before his wife could com ply with his request he sank upon his pillow and was dead in a few minutes. In Crab Orchard township, Meck lenburg county, Thursday, Archie Benton was seriously wounded with a razor by Sam Orr, a colored man. Orr cursed Beuton’s son and Benton pro ceeded to thrash him, when he pulled out his razor and cut Benton seriously on the side and on the left arm. Orr escaped. The same afternoon one negro woman split the skull of an other with a hoe, on tbe farm of Mr. D. A. Johnston, in Crab Orchard. Mr. W. H. Hartis had a difficulty with a negro on his farm, in tbe same neigh borhood, aud broke a hoe over his head. Mr. T. Blackwelder’s house, at 414 East Oak street in Charlotte was struck by lightning Saturday evening during the storm which passed over that city about 7 o’clock. Mr. Black- welder was standing on the front porch at tbe time and was severely shocked, as was his little son, who was closing a window from the inside of tbe house. Neither was seriously hurt. Besides tearing a bole in the root about two by four feet square and scattering shingles to tbe four winds tbe bolt passed down the chim ney, damaging It considerably, and tore a stove down in tbe kitchen. Tbe tower of tbe Beoond Presbyterian church was also struck and some slate knocked off.