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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 FBIDAY. WE GUARANTEE The Reliability of Every Adver tiser Who Uses the Col umns o* 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. SEPTEMBER 22, 1903. $1.00 A YEAR. “RUBBER AND DARK- LANTERN CURRENCY" The Intention of Republicans to Force the Issue IN SENATE NEXT WINTER *od one of his ablest opponents. Look out for these two young giants in the next Congress. * * * Will Canxe the Wannest Tariff Debate Heard In Congre** for Many Years—A Young Murat of Debate from Texan will be an Opponent of the Republicans. (Con esoondence of_The Ledger.) Washington D C., Sept 21.—The intention of the republicans to force the “rubber and dark-lantern cur rency” issue in the Senate next win ter is going to precipitate the warmest tariff debate that has been heard in the halls of the Congress since the days of the Mills bill, back in 1888. The republican leaders in the Senate are going to have their matches in t'.iat body when the debate is opened, and they will come from the younger element in that body. Of all the young Murats of debate in theSmate the State of Texas stands at the head as the best equipped State in the Union in that regard. It is undoubt edly, from the standpoint of demo« cracy, the ablest represented State in the entire country in the persons of the Hon. Charles A. Culberson and the Hon. Joseph W. Bailey. They are both under forty-five years of age, and both have achieved notable dis tinction in the political arena. Both have had remarkable careers. They have attained their present positions through the sheer force of intellect and exquisite fitness for the position, and not through the power of money, as have the majority of the men on the republican side of the Senate. Those two men will tak-ecommanding positions In the coming debate for the reasons that their democracy is on straight and they have the brains to back up their reputations as demo crate. The so-called leader of the Senate. Mr. (Jorman. will not shine in this debate, for the very good rea son that bis tariff coat has rents and holes in it that will be plainly visible to the naked eye when each men as Aldrich and Spooner get on his trail. His tariff record has blow holes in it and be will be compelled to take a back seat. The real leaders in the next session of the Senate will be Culberson and Bailey, of Texas; Car mack, of Tennessee; Patterson, of Colorado, end Money, of Mississippi. There is no better equipped man in the Senate than Culberson. He is essentially a lawyer, and it is the questions of the law and the Consti tution that be prefers, but he is per fectly at home io a tariff debate. This is his first experience as a legis lator, and be has not been as ready to jump into the arena of debate as has bis distinguished and brilliant colleague, Mr. Bailey, who bad ten years’ experience in the House before be came to the Senate. Senator Cul berson’s past experience in public life has been confined to the executive department of governmental affairs as the Attorney-General of Texas and Governor of the same State. Ho was twice nominated and elected Attor ney-General, and twice nominated and elected Governor, and elected, without opposition, to the United States Senate as a tribute to bis bril liant record in the former offices he had held. As Attorney-General of his State he defended the State’s tights in a suit before the United Spates Supreme Court, involving the validity to the title to Greer county, Texas, and bis speech in the case be fore the Supreme Court was so bril liant that it called forth the encomi ums of the most distinguished men of the bar in the country. Chief Justice Fuller told Col. D. B. Culber son, the father of the brilliant young Attorney-General, that it was the finest argument he had ever listened to io all his experience at the bar, and praise from “Sir Hubert” was praise indeed His two terms as Governor of Texas reached the high- water mark of statesmanship and unanimous election to the Senate was a froegone conclusion. He is easily the leader of his State, a State of strong and virile men, and can stay in the Senate as long as be de sires, and with little or no opposi tion. His colleague, Mr. Bailey, easily takes rank as one of the best debaters io the entire Congress of the nation. His specialty is the tariff, having been on the Ways and Means Committee of the House for ten years, and in delending constitu tional points. His brilliant fight in the Senate during the long session of • vLie last Congress to compel the President of the Senate to restore the Dames of Senators Tillman and Mo- Laurin, of South Carolina, to the rolls of the Senate, from which they bad been stricken after their fist fight oo the floor of the Senate, was the finest personal triumph ever seen in cbs Senate, and was so designated by Senator Foraker, one of bis ohlsf The republican leaders are all at sea and absolutely unable to agree on what legislation is necessary by the coming Congress. President Roose velt demands that the Cuban recipro city treaty mast first be attended tr, and says be will call an extra session of Congress for that purpose. The republican leaders in the Senate are all opposed to reciprocity legislation, and Senators Aldrich, Platt, Depew, Hanna, Quay and Spooner have all advised him not to call an extra ses sion this fall, and they are all op posed to his policy. There is a like division of sentiment on the neces sity for financial legislation, and even those who desire a change in the law are hopelessly divided on the scope of the alterations that should be made. On the trust question the President has declared for publicity, but be is powerful slow in putting it into operation, and a majority of the republican leaders are for letting well enough alone, so anti-trust legis lation will be at a standstill. There are a respectable minority of the party in power who believe in some sort of tariff changes, and who are being pressed by their constituents to that end, but they will not meet with any success, unless they work in harmony with the democrats, which they will not do, and the most of them are talking only to fool the voters of the country. The repub lican politicians are also at logger- heads over the Panama canal ques tion. Many of the leaders are con trolled by the transcontinental rail roads of the country, and really do not want any canal, while others fa vor the'Nicaragua route, and in con sequence there has been nothing done, and won’t be during the next session. Charles A. Edwards. Ezell Etchings. (Correspondence of The Ledger.) Ezell, Sept., 15—Our school at Simpson closed last Friday and our teacher, Mr. Woodruff, returned to his home at Greer’s S. 6. Mr. Wood ruff is a young man of high moral character and fine mental qualifica tions. He made many friends while here, who wish him success wherever be goes. Some of the patrois of Simpson wish to enclose an area of something like three miles and by special taxation run our school eight or ten months in the year. We have an enrollment of nearly one hundred. The tax would not be very heavy. What say you patrons of Simpson? Let us hear from all. Shall we not all work together to build up our community? We know there is nothing that will build up a com munity like a good school. We earnestly hope our trustees and county superinrendent of education will take hold of this matter and bring it before the people. There is a good deal of sickness in this neighborhood now. Our Dr. J. E. McKinney has not recovered yet and our nearest physician is now eight miles. Those seriously sick are Mr. Sam Harris, who has fever, and Mr. Miller Vussey’s baby that has diptberia. Mr. Jonas Vassey and Mr. H. Z. Hicks have gone to Rutherfordton, N. C., to attend court. During the recent revival at State Line 27 members were added to the church, of whom 22 were converts. The Arrowood church re-elected Rev. L. C. Ezell their pastor for next year. Cotton is opening very slowly, and few have begut picking Jok. htoiusich Trouble Chuh«h Heart Trouble, Heart trouble is almost always caused by stomach trouble. The stom ach fails to digest all the food, and the residue ferments, forming excess of gas which distends the walls of the stomach, causing a depression on the nerves and the arteries that lead to the heart. This cause) the heart to palpitate or skip a beat occasionally, or both, which is usually very alarm ing,causing grave apprehensions. Ry- dale’s Stomach Tablets will prevent this trouble. They digest the food and prevent gas from forming in the stomach. If there is no gas in your stomach your heart will not trouble you. Gaffney Drug Co Flour Higher. The late government report makes the wheat crop thirty-five million bushels less than last year. This means very much higher flour until another harvest in 1904. All flour is higher now, but the advance on Bransford’s “Clifton” has not yet been as great in proportion to other flour. However, it is a mighty good time to buy a supply betore it goes still higher. Fresh flour constantly received. W. J. Wilkins <feCo. THE PALMETTO STATE. Items of Interest of Passing Events. NEWS UF THE WEEK IN LOWER CHERPKEE From Our Correspondent at Etta Jane. ALL OVER THE STATE. PERSONALS AND LOCALS. In the case of Junes Dennis Ed wards, charged with the murder of Frank Neeley, tried in Greenville, the jury Thursday morning returned a verdict of guilty with recommenda tion to mercy. The trial contumed the entire day Wednesday and was not concluded until Tuesday morning shortly before noon. The crime for which Edwards was tried occurred February 17, 1901. Do you need a good hair brush? We have them.—The Gaffney Drug Co. events that Have Taken Place from One End of the State to the Other Culled from Exchanges for Quick Reading by Scores of Busy People. Twelve months in jail and a fine of $100 was the sentence passed by the court of general sessions in Spartan burg on a man who plead guilty of operating a slot machine. Jonesvilie is building an oil mill, and as it has a yarn mill and knitting mill already in operation, every bale of cotton and every bushel of cotton seed raised in the surrounding coun try can find sale at the highest mar ket prices. In the Court of Common Fleas in Charleston on the 10th instant was filed the suit of Hamilton Deas, an infant, by bis guardian ad litem, Ransom Deas, against the Charles ton Consolidated Railway Gas and Electric Company, for damages in the amount of $5,000 and costs, for alleged injuries. The plaintiff, Hamil ton Deas, is a colored boy under 14 years of age, who, on May 1, 1903. was knocked down by Electric Car No. 20, in King street in that city. The Southern Railway authorities are not waiting for any orders from the railroad commission as to what they shall do in the way of needed repairs on the road between York- viile and Hickory Grove, but are now engaged in doing the work suggested by the grand jury in its report, as published last week. Reports from Bullock's Creek are to the effect that a new trestle will have to be erected by the latter part of this week, and that m-w ties are being put in at the points recommended by the jury. Two convicts, Mart McNeill, a Charleston negro, and Iiaac Sims, a York county negro, attempted to escape from the State farm, near Hagood, Wednesday evening, with the result that Mart McNeill was shot and killed, while the other negro made good his escape. They had each attempted to escape once be fore, at which time Sims got posses sion of a gun and fired at Mr. Morris, superintendent of one of the farms. McNeill was a life convict and was regarded as a bad man. He had to be continually watched. The State board of health and the South Carolina sanitary conference ! have been getting in some good work lutel/ by catching up with violations i of the Statu laws in regard to ship ment of dead bodies, and one regular ly licensed embalmer of Sumter has Deeu suspended by Dr. T. G. Simons, chairman of the State board of health ; and another unlicensed em balmer, who has been working under the license of the embalmer who had license and who has been suspended, will probably soon be arrested and prosecuted. Only those embalmers i who stand examination before the Sta^e board of heultL can do em balming in this State, and bodies ; must be shipped under certain rules > and regulations prescribed by the I State board of health, approved by 1 the governor. As Harry Tucker’s negro excursion train, returning from Charleston, j reached St. George Thursday night about 9 o’clock, the negroes were in a high state of excitement and the ; train was held there until Sheriff Var- nadoe and Chief of Police Minus could quit^t them. The excitement was due to a row which took place be tween St. George and Fregnall’s. One dead negro was put off at St. George and a live one was turned over to the sheriff charged with the killing. ; The dead negro was horribly cut in the back. The inquest held next morning also revealed a death wound from a pistol, either wound being suf ficient to cause death. The negro charged with the crime will be held responsible. A negro minister was shot twice in the face while sitting just back of the mao who was killed. I News was received in Newberry Thurbday of a shocking tragedy which occurred in Washington on Saturday, , and which has a deep interest for the people of Newberry. Mrs Willie Mae Denhum. daughter of Mr. James j Kilgore, now of Washington, but formerly of Newb< rry was shot and killed by her madly jealous husband, who then sent a bullet into bis own demented brain killing himself in- : stantly. Mr. James Kilgore, the father of the unfortunate lady, was a native oi Newberry, and lived there until 1888, when be moved to Wash ington, carrying bis family with him At that time the daughter whose life was ended by her husband on Satur day was a beautiful young girl of about 13 years of age. Mr. Kilgore ie a nephew of the late Andrew J. Kilgore, of Newberry, and a first cousin of Messrs. John B. Kilgore and Jesse Kilgore, who now reside near that city. Interesting Paragraphs and Recent Hap penings In Lower Section of the Connty Gathered Up by Our Regular Correspon dent for Benefit of Ledger Readers. (Correspondence of The Ledger.i Etta Jane, Sept.219.—The cool weather has made thick clothing and fire comfortable these mornings. Mr. Noah Buice, photographer, was in this section this week with his outfit and took a few sample pictures. He will come back in about two weeks and finish up bis work in this section. He took a picture of Salem church that is very good. There are some very dangerous places in the public roads in this sec tion the authorities ought to look after and repair at once, or the coun ty may have trouble. The gully at Mr. Dave Fowler’s, we are told, has been bridged and is now safe. A very dangerous p'ace is in the road near Salem church where the ground has caved in until there is scarcely room to pass it. Our old friend Uncle Jimmv Rains has sent us a copy of the Virginia Sentinel of March 27th, 1861. Long live Uncle Jimmy, is our benediction. The rain last Wednesday did not extend far up the creek and river, and these streams did not overflow their banks to do any harm. Yesterday Sam Strain had a regular fodder pulling and saved 1,200 or 1,- 500 bundles of fodder. The muddy water on the creeks, and rust on the uplands has damaged | a lot of hay and it will be unfit for use. Cotton is opening fast and people are gathering it.* The present cool snap will put an end to its growth and the result will be a lot of frost bitten cotton that will never open. . We might calculate on a shortness of 100 000 bales in South Carolina alone. Cotton was at best, on an average of three weeks behind, and it’s easy to see what amount of damage it has sustained by the present cool spell. There will be preaching at Salem the first Sabbath in October by Rev. W. H White, who has been taking a month’s vacation. The announce ment hasn’t yet been made whether the full communion will come off then or not. There is a general scarcity of vege tables in this community. Gardens, with very few exceptions, are com plete failures. Early in the summer we had an abundance of vegetables; but the worms and dry weather put an end to them and now we frequent ly find cows tied where cabbage and other vegetables ought to be growing. Only a few people have got a stand of turnips this reason. We regret to learn that Mies Lucy Smarr is sick at the home of her aunt, Mrs. Peek, in Blacksburg. Mrs. Lizzie Mitchell is also reported sick. The whooping cough is still rang ing and roviog in this section. Our friend, Mr. James F. Froctor, now has charge of the mail route be tween this and Sarratts offices, and is carrying it on schedule time to a minute. New advertisements are now out to let the contract out from Sarratts to Wilkinsville for the next four years, beginning July 1st, 1904. We are very glad to learn that Mrs. William Jefferies’ health is much im proved. She has been sick a long time and we hope to soon see her out again. There will be several changes in the way of hands on the farms next year. We have read Oapt. Thackston’s article on road building and think he has got the matter down about right. We think, however, that in many places the services of a civil engineer will be indispensable in order to give the roads the proper grade. Many of our best informed men think it will be better to cut through the hills where it is at ail practicable than to try to go round them. It will short en distance and in the end cost less to keep up the roads. But of all things we must not be unmindful—all the public roads in Cherokee county can’t be rebuilt or worked over iu one or two years. It will take a long time, do the best we know how. Ourcounty commissioners may, and no doubt often do, fail to do what might be done as it is need ed, but we we must be patient and go slow. Perhaps all told, there are several hundred miles of public roads in the county to keep up To super- viee all these is a big job for even half a dozen men to look after. It will take money, money, money, to make oar roads as we want them; and oar idea Is to keep the chain- gang at work on the roads leading out of town Id every direction until they are put in proper shape and let the other roads out to the lowest re sponsible bidders to work uotil all are worked up. A few miles each year will put them in proper condition in a few years. In going from one place to another the chaingang loses much time that can’t be helped, and for the loss of which the commissioners nor super visor are not responsible. Everybody thinks they ought to have t he chain- gang to work the roads out—it’s simply impossible for it to do so. J L s. BILL NYE’S GRAVE. THROUGHDUT THE HR HEEL ST1TE. From the Mountains to The Sea. NORTH CAROLINA NEWS. Memorial Window In a Near-by Church hut IHh Grave In Unmarked. [Rev. C. C. Brown in Sumter ltem.1 Four miles away, southward, at Calvary Episcopal church, between Arden and Fletcher, is Bill Nye’s grave, unmarked and utkept. At the bead a little tree is growing, and some one had laid there a rude piece of stone picked up on the highway A memorial window was set up io the near by church by Mrs. Ny.-»; bu‘- the grave itself is neglected. I am won dering if I cannot set on foot some plan io South Carolina to erect a monument at the grave of this man, whose writings we need to read with so much pleasure from week to week. The story is afloat that Bill left $50 • 000 to his widow, the result of his labors with his pen, but all of this was lost in the breaking of two hanks —one in Asheville and one in the north—where Mrs. Nye had deposit ed her money ; and out of the wreck she saved nothing but the money she recovered for her home near Fletcher, what is known in the Nye parlance as “my perpendicular farm.” Rumor also informs us that years Bill made a manful fight against pulmonary troubles, and when weakened away, died of some brain disease. During all those years of suffering, he con' tinned to send out the merry, spark ling letters to the papets, which made his name famous throughout the United States. Thr fact- is pathetic —he loved to inV*? nrhcrs laugh, while he bimseli wu* Ociug slowly consumed hy a malady incurable. Alongsirtf of Nye’s gravn is the grave of his dunghu-r, wiio dieh here in the mountains, plucked from the treasur ed jewels of his heart, and whom he quietly buried away among the bills, but of whose going-off he had no word to say in the letters he was then en gaged in writing, over which the world would laugh and be merry. Educational Rally. There will be an educational rally at Goncher Church next Saturday, Sept. 26. The last rally did great good. It is the object of these meet ings to instruct the people in every thing pertaining to longer school terms, special taxation for school purposes, and better paid and pre pared teachers. We cordially invite all the people to turn out and hear what is said along this line. The people only have to understand these matters, then we will have all we want in the schools. We are aiming at ideal schools in the country. We want to get all the country schools on a high standard. We only want concert of action. We need enthnsiasm and public interest more than we do money. We expect Hon. O. B. Martin,State Supt. of Education, and all other speakers we can get, who vill throw light and vim into this all important matter. The speakers will get din ner there and we are expecting a large crowd. M. L. Guthrie, J. B. Broun, J L. Walker. Local Cotton Market. Vl/V/ t V/W ouu C The following prices prevail on the ney Wreeo and of others, of Fhilac Interesting Items Concerning Our Neigh bors Beyond the Line Which May Prove Entertaining Reading for Hundreds of Ledger Readers George W. Pack, of Asheville, Sat urday gave $100 for North Carolina’s exhibit at the World’s Fair at St. Louis. The postoffice at Troy was robbed Thursday tight of between $300 and $500 in money and stamps. There is no clue to the robbers. The body of Wilford Roseboro, th® negro murderer and rapist, who was hanged in Statesville last Friday, has been taken to Raleigh. The body has been given to the Wake Forest Medi cal school where it will be dissected. Frank Boger, the Charlotte negro who has developed a case of insanity, was Thursday removed to the Meck lenburg county jail, where he will re main until arrangements are perfect ed to take him to the asylum at Goldsboro. The residence of Sheriff J. M. Wall, six miles north of Wadesboro, was totally destroyed by fire Friday night. The loss is partially covered by in surance. It will be considerable. Mr. Raleigh Moss, a young man hurt at the fire, is iu a very serious coudi- tion. The Supreme Court at Raleigh con sents to rehear the case of McNeill against the Seaboard Air Line. Mc Neill is the editor, who, while riding on a free pass, was injured and was given damages by the lower court. Tne Supreme Court decided last term that be was not entitled to any dam ages. Articles of incorporation for the Dove-Sloan Company, a new mercan tile concern established at Cornelius, Mecklenburg county, were Thursday afternoon filed in the office of the clerk of the Superior Court. The company is capitalized at $50 000, incorporators being: J. M Dove, H, M. Sloan, 8. I. Brotherton, J. A, Dove and M. L. Keistler. Drayton Medlin escaped from tbt penitentiary at Raleigh Sunday. He was seen just after dinner and no) seen at the prison since. The man ner of bis escape is either unknowc or not told by the officers of the prison. Medlin was in on a life time sentence for killing Will Brown al the Old Mill at Gastonia four yean ago last June. His family live al Dallas. The steamer Tar Heel, of the Mer chants’ and Miners’ Transporatioc Company, and plying between Wil mington and Fayetteville, went tc the bottom of the river Wednesday night a short distance above Eliza bethtown. She was hound to Fay etteville with a cargo of general mer chandise, and the extent of the dam age will not be known for several days, or not until the steamer is float ed. The State Saturday permitted the domestication of the Carolina Mona- zite Company, which was chartered in New Jersey, but which now be comes a North Carolina corporation with headquarters at Shelby, the capital stock being $50 000 and Gaffney market today: Good middling 10-80 Middling 10.65 Mrs. A. C. Orr, the widow of A. C. Orr, the engineer who was killed in the wreck near Belmont May 25, has brought &uit in Mecklenburg county , for $40,000 damages on account of the death of her husband. An effort has been made to effect a compromise with the railroad, hot failed. The ! accident in which Mr. Orr met his ! death occurred at 12:15 o’clock the 1 morning of the 26Yh of May. near the South Fork river, about two miles south of Belmont. Fair weather friends emies io disguise. are often en- ohia, being the stockholders. _ company is domesticated under chi ter 766, acts 1903, and not under t Craig act, which the Supreme Cot has declared invalid. In the case of R. M. Harrill, i ministrator, vs. the South Caroli and Georgia Extension railroad, tri at Rutherfordton last week, the ja found dimages for the plaintiff in t sum of $10,000. Harrill is admin trator of the estate of Engineer Ja Metcalf, who lost bis life by the fa iug of Buffalo trestle about eights months ago. This is the second trl 1 of the case and the second verdict f the plaintiff. It is probable that t case will again be appealed to the e preme court of North Carolina. The steamer Alma and the freif depot of the Norfolk <fe Southern Ri way at Elizabeth City, were destroy by fire Wednesday night. The A Cough Only a Symptom. A cough is not a disease but a symp tom of disease. 4. cough always indi cates that either the throat or lungs . , are affected When the mucus lining started on the steamer at 9 :3U, of the throat or lungs becomes in- say in the oil room, others in flamed the irritation causes coughing. 1 freight room; the cause is unkno Don’t neglect a cough. It may be the The steamer, which burned to symptom of serious throat or lung edge of the water and then sank, disease. Rydale’s Elixir kills the loaded, and nearly everything 1 germs that cause the trouble, soothes lost. One horse was burned to de the irritated mucus membrane, gen- UQ d one man, a deck hand, is rep tly stimulates the nerves that con crol ed missing. The steamer was ale the respiratory organa, and thus helps “‘do the Norfolk & Southern ftailr nature to speedily restore normal coo- ’ wharf and the flames spread to ditions and healthy action. Gaffney ro °f of the large freight shed, wh Drug Co. was covered with tarred paper. The aifloey Dru* Co. will IIM your I r***™'fr 2 ?-*" 0 - «<• ' prescriptions accurately, with drugs I in,a 5 e d f° r $4,000. A half too of the best quality. 1 powder stored in the warebou rowly escaped. The estima Subscribe for The Ledger. - about $100,000.