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i THE LARGEST Circulation of Any Newspaper ifi the Fifth Congressional District of S. C. The Ledger. t ' SEMI.T EEKLT—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 Impijos and Devoted to the Best Interests of the People of Cherokee County, ESTABLISHED FEB. 16. 1894 GAFFNEY. S. C.. TUESDAY. SEPTEMBER 39, 1903. $1.00 A YEAR. LIGHTNING STROKE HITTING IN PUCES. The Postoffice Grafters Re- ceiving the Shocks. BEAVERS HAS GIVEN UP. PoHtma.Hter General I’ayne Subpoenaed to Testify iu the Heaven* Case, but Kefiued to Appear on Aeeouut of ■•SiekneKH” The TroatM Still in the Saddle. (Correspondence of The DedKer.) Washington, 1). C., Sept. 28.—The lightuiti^ id the Tost Office Depart ment iovestiiration is beginning to strike about in places close to throne after the police hear of the constitutional rights of an individual? Never in your life. Some months ago, newspapers were full of statements to the effect that the Fed eral Government wouldn’t do a thing to the pernicious, rapacious coal trust after Mr. William Randolph Hearst had put it in a hole, soaped | the sides and pulled up the ladder. Well, what has been the result? Nothing. The coal trust is still doing business at the old stand and de termined to give prices another boost this winter. Verily, the consumer’s is an un happy lot. He pays double prices for the things he needs, and at the same 1 time looks in vain for redress for grievances innumerable. He boasts of constitutions MROUGHOUT THE PALMETTO STATE. Items of Interest of Passing Events. NEWS OF THE WEEK IN LOWER CHEROKEE From Our Correspondent Etta Jane. at ALL OVER THE STATE. 1 do not protect him, and of courts which consider it great sport to set at naught laws designed to safeguard the ; the rights of the people. Extortion Beavers, who has given him- is the watchword all over this broad .elf up voluntarily >h B noli™ land of ours. There is Done among PERSONALS AND LOCALS. „ , consumers who can escape its arro- seem^ d to be un i ile to gf im, ias 2dnce anc j tyranny, none who can de- had Postmaster General I’ayne sub- V jg e m( > ana to bring it to an end. Oh, poenued to appear as a witness in his , prosperity, what sins and injustice and the P. M. G. promptly re- are committed in thy name! And these will never stop until the repub lican party is kicked off the face of <• case pudiates the subpoena and refuses to appear. He says be is sick, and must perforce spend a fesv weeks down at Virginia Hot Springs to re cuperate his health. He probably knows too much of the doings of his private secretary, Mr. 11. H. Rand, in connection with Beavers and Ma- chen’s industry in the grafting game in the Post Office -Department, and does not desire to be questioned un der oath. In fact, he is doing all in his power to stop the publicity of de tails of the Post Office Department scandal, and now he gives it out that the end is in sight and that there will be nothing more doing after the iirst of October. He knows full well that there are too many members of Con gress and republican leaders mixed up in the matter who must protect the looters, and some of them too much dread an investigation to allow / the matter to proceed further. Such a competent machine politician us the P. M. G. knows that the republi can party cannot receive any more such hard knocks as it has received -a by even a small part of the scandal ^“thus exposed to public view, and sur vive the treatm u nt How the repub lican party leaders are praying that something will turn up to distract the minds of the public from this nasty mess. See how the Beirut in cident was seized upon to take the minds of the people from the scan dals cropping out in the administra tion of the affairs of government. The Panama Canal affair is also being ueed to get the minds of the people from the rottenness of the depart ments as administered by the repub lican party, but all in vain. the earth, unholy alliance between that party and the comorants of the country is pulverized, and the demo cratic party alloyed to rip the rocks olT'tbe tariff wall that grants special privileges to the favored few. When will the people act? * * * There is considerable criticism here among democrats who will visit the national capital anent the methods being used by a man who has long been prominent in democratic circles in one of the big eastern states, and who lias posed as one of its bosses, is his warfare on a most distinguished democrat ol his own State. Those methods are considered to be nothing less than baseless calumny and vic ious slander. It is predicted that not only will such methods fail of their purpose, which is to kill off the further men tion of the name of this most distin guished democrat for the democratic presidential nomination, but that the so called democratic boss will soon find that he has some one with whom to deal who is his master, and that he will hear something drop that will not have a very pleasing sound to his ears. A word to the wise should be sufficient. If 1 have occasior to refer to this matter again I will call names and give details. Charles A. Edwards. Stabbed With a Knife. With a gash two and a half inches long in his left side and the depth of a knife blade, Robert Penland, one of Those * cn0WD an d most prominent (CventH that Have Taken I’lace from One End of the State to the Other Culled from Exchanges for yulek Reading hy Score* of Busy People. Lou Bogan, colored, of Spartan- which burg, has been bound over to court for stealing cloth that was the prop erty of the Pacolet Mills. Cards have been issued by Col. and Mrs. T. L. Gantt, of Inman, announc ing the marriage of their daughter. Miss Helen, to J. Z. Mims, a promi- uent business man of Sumter. The marriage will take place on Wednes day, Oct. 7, at G p. m. The Williamstou Cemetery asso ciation was grunted a comu ission Friday by the secretary of State. The association is capitalized at $2,000 and has as its incorporators: B. F. Brown, S. L. Landon and W. D. Hutto, all of Williamston. At a meeting of the stockholders held at Piedmont Thursday afttruoou the following were elected and the organization of the Bank of Piedmont completed: Directors, Jas. -L. Orr, W. H. Hammett, W. A. Simpson, Jas. Norwood, E. D. Vandiver W. S, Mauldin, J. T. Long. J. M. Long, M W. Merritt. The officers are as fol lows: President. W. A. Smith; vice president, E. D. Vandiver, of Ander son; cashier, Jas. Noiwood. Bill Ware, a negro fireman on the through freight from Greenville to Columbia, Thursday night fell off the engine at the trestle across Saluda river, near Dyson, and was killed. It is supposed he was leaning out of the engine and lost his balance. The en gineer did not miss him until he had gone about four miles and bis steam began to get low. The train was stopped and run back, but they were unable to find the negro. Ware’s home was near Ninety-Six. So many negroes around Spartan burg are addicted to the cocaine habit that druggists there who have fre quent calls for the dope, are neces sarily concerned. The evil has been spreading, the claim being made that the habit was passed over to t he local people from their swell brothers iu Atlanta and other cities. A well known druggist in Spartanburg said little incidents are but the wonder of an hour, and the minds of the people wander back to their muttons, the scandals in the departments at Wash ington. Like Banquo’s ghost, they will not down, but return with per plexing persistency to plague an ad ministration that is rotten to the core. The people have a specific for this cancer on the body politic if they will go to the polls and administer it. It is up to them. * * 4- The trusts are still in the saddle. The anthracite coal trust is advanc ing the price of coal Hga<n, though it is reported to have mined and stored some millions of tons more than can be sold this year, and yet this trust has such a monopoly that it can put up prices as it pleases. The meat trust also files notice that it intends to raise the price of its products to a level more in accord with the times and permissive of the garnering of larger profits. Congress, last winter, when the coal trust was a live issue, appropriated a special fund of $50,000 for the Department of Justice to use to prosecute trusts. Congress also provided for a number of assistant Attorneys-General to prepare cases against the trusts. Many months have elapsed since this money and those attorneys were placed at the disposal of the administration, hue no action has been begun. There is ou file with the Attorney-General more than one case against trusts, prepared by private enterprise, such 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, Sept. 2G —The oil mill company of Wilkinsville have most of their machinery on the ground and the buildings are nearing com pletion. They will be in readiness to handle most ot the present crop if they have no backset. Mr. Morgan Leech has sunk three wells to furnish the water to run it. Mr. T. Jeff Hughes passed here this week on his way to Union with chick ens and eggs. Rev. W. H. White will preach at Salem next Sabbath, Oct. 4th, at II a. m., when the sacrament of the Lord’s Supper will be administered. We are authorized to extend a general invitation to the public to attend this service and to say that the church session will be open and glad to meet any one wishing to confer j with it on any matter pertaining to its work. We hear some complaint of chills | iu the neighborhood but nothing serious as yet. Mr. Noah Buice, of Jonesville, will be in this section next week taking pictures. He took one or Salem church which is a fine piece of work manship. Last Wednesday and Wednesday night we attended the meeting at the 1 Presbyterian church in Gaffney and heard Rev Mr McLees preach. Sol much if a s been properly said of this meeting thaL the picture has not, by any means, been overdrawn. The half has not been told. On entering the church one is im pressed with the thought that he is in the presence of an ideal congrega- j tion of worshippers The warm cor- i dial gra«o of the hand and the Chris tian welcome a stranger receives from the officers and leading mem bers of the church, at once settle any apprehension of a cold reception being tendered him. The exercises throughout were full of interest. The music was in per- Tbey are the riff-raff of society and 1 deserve the pity and contempt of all good people. j We spent Wednesday night with 1 Mr. J. D. Jones anti family where we were most kindly treated. Mrs Jones is a member of one of Union i county’s best families—the Normans, of Cross Keys. Mr. Jones himself, sprang from that good old Scotoh- Irish Presbyterian stock of York county, who know exactly how to make one feel perfectly ar home with ! them. Unde Jimmy Rains has sent us a lot of interesting old papers, to wit: i Two copies o! The Banner of Temper- i ence, published in Richmond. Va , j i one dated December 24 1847, the | other July G. 1849 Alexander Mar tin is editor and proprietor. Two copies of The Richmond Christian Advocate, dated May 31, I860, and May 5, 18G4, respective!v. Leonidas Rosser is the editor. One copy of Christian Advocate dated Nashville, December 8, 1859, edited by H. N. MeTyeirt. Among other things the paper contains an account of the execution of John Brown, the great insurrectionst which took place at Charlestown, Va , December 2, 1859. We may reproduce this tragic affair iu The Ledger later. Some of these old papers contain reports from the battlefield, which are interesting to a lover of such reading. Mrs J L. S. is spending a few day s with the family of her daughter, Mrs. H B McDaniel, whose children have whooping cough. Our people are making molasses Mr W. S. Wilkerson, of York coun ty, will make 2 000 gallons He has a complete outfit for making it He will put all. or most of his entire crop he sells, in cans of from one- half to one gallon capacity for ship ment. Mr Wilkerson has gone to considerable expense to fix for the manufacture of molases and he is now doing i fine business. Brother LeRoy has gone to the Saxon Mills, near Spartanburg, from where «e hope he will cot to write to The Ledger. Mr. Joe Eison is running his saw 1 mill at Messrs John H and William G. Fowler’s. Ttuy expect to build | new houses this season. Rev. J. H. Gamble, Ph I) , Profes- ‘ sorof Church History and Homileti's i in Alfred Theological Seminary, A • fred, N. Y , in one of his lectures dis* t cusses the subject, “Shall we eat swine’s flesh?” He argues its use from the Bible and from pres ent human exp srience. It’s well THROUGHOUT THE TAB HEEL STATE, From tLe Mountains to The Sea. NORTH CAROLINA NEWS. liitereMtluv: IteniH Concerning Our Neigh bor* Beyond the Line Which May Prove Entertaining Reading for Hundreds ot Ledger Reader* The State charters the Stough-Oor- neliu* Company, of Cornelius, capital $50 000, to operate cotton gins and oil mills and deal iu real estate. At the annual election in Boston, Mass., Thursday of the National Asso ciation of Carriage Builders, Geo. Hackney, of Wilson, was elected vice- president. Two freight trains at Seaboard, on rhe Seaboard Air Line, had a head-end collision Friday. The engines were badly wrecked and some cars also. No one was hurt. After a hearing before Judge G o. 11. Brown, Jr., at Salisbury Saturday Tnos. J and Chalmers L. White, who killed Russell Sherrill at Mt. Ulla, ui September 17rb, were allowed bail in the sum of $25,000 each and re leased from custody. Mr. L Banks Holt, of Graham, a well known cotton manufacturer and s-tock breeder, is spoken of as a possi ble candidate for Governor. He is a brother of the late Governor Thomas M Holt and is one of the best known and most highly esteemed men iu the State. He has never been iu politics. The Charlotte police are making up a list of idle negroes and whites iu that city,. and it is likely that within a few days the sham-gangs of the county will be considerably rein forced by the vagrant * Generally in 'ha fall there is more begging and vagrancy than at any other “eason, but if the good work of the ( •lice and recorder is kept up it will not be so in Charlotte this year. William Jones, colored, who was to have been hanged Friday for the murder of Jake Lee, a Caswell county farmer, who was killed and robbed in citizens of Buncombe county, lies se riously wounded at his home in Lei cester as the result of a fight Tuesday afternoon with his nephew, Henry Penland It seems that the trouble was the outcome of a long standing feud between the two Penland broth ers, Robert and the late Gus, and the three families, and that when Gus Penlad died his son Henry continued the quarrel that had been going on for years. Henry Penland and his mother were arrested and given a hearing. Mrs. Penland was later re leased on $200 bond. The explosion of an oil tank in Greensboro set fire to a number of cars standing on the side tracks there and about twenty-five cars were entirely consumed. At 2:30 a. m. they were still burning, and it was feared would spread to adjacent buildings. Trains Both ways were delayed by the main line being blocked. Stomach Trouble Cau*es 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 that he was surprised at the Lumber harmony with the eloquent, dig- of requests, and while he had refused ll 'fi e d preaching of the Word, and in every instance to supply the de- we P*^y poor demented wretch mand, he suggested that it might be w fi° attends one of these services who possible for the fiends to get it else- d° e9 8° away a convicted man or where. The number of blaik dope womau • ajn8t Danville, Va., in November, was tn 0 nr(lS . j Thursday afternoon granted a re* 1 prieve by the Governor. Jones’ attor- worthth'eTime'spent7n' reading" it] \ Uey v Wi !i circulate tt P btition P ra y iu S and he throws light upon the subject to the Governor to commute his sen- J tence to life imprisonment. Arthur Wilson has already been hanged for complicity in the crime for which Jones stands convicted. pared by William R. Hearst, and the case against the tobacco trust has been on file for over two years, but it has reposed in a pigeon-hole in the department, and even the extra money and the extra help have been unable to drag It into court. There seems to be nothing that can •top this insatiable greed of bloated trusts, except business depression. That with its resultant redudetion in the people’s purchasing power, will prove the only effective means to bring prices down again to a reason able limit, so long as the republican party remains in the saddle. So far as legislatures and courts are con cerned, they are, apparently, unable or unwilling to do teot the consumers. Anti-trust laws passed by the law-givers are, as a rule, promptly and neatly knocked out by the judges, who seem to be exceedingly anxious to protect what they consider the constitutional rights of corporations. Did you ever as the case against the coal trust pro* and prevent gas from forming in the tlT; 11 ■ o nn T4Ta a «*a t. a nri t h ^ . _ • r * . * * 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 bushe+s 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 before it goes still higher. Fresh flour constantly received. W. J. Wilkins «feCo. To the fraction of a drop your phy • anything to pro-, sirlan’s preacriptiona will be correctly filled bv TheflQaffney Drug Co. Our stock fa freah and complete, our prlcea reasonable and service prompt, polite and efficient. We discontinue each subscription prompt ly at its expiration. Bo watch your label and the date and renew before ’Us too late. fiends around Spartanburg would open the eyes of the average man. News was received at Newberry Thursday of a horrible murder com mitted at Saluda Court House Wed nesday night. Smith Cockrell, about dark, was sitting in bis back yard on a plank walk leading from his house to the kitchen, cutting splinters to start a fire, when he was shot in the back four times with a shot gun and instantly killed. One load entered the back of the head and one the right shoulder. The load which en tered the shoulder ranged downward, penetrating the heart. There is no clue to the murderer. The coroner empanelled a jury and held an in quest, but with the scant evidence before him adjourned the inquest to today (Friday). The first of the French Canadian colonists who are to settle at Sum merville have arrived, the contingent numbering two families, 10 in all. The site of the colony is about a mile and a half out of town and Civil Engineer Hale, of the Southern railway, put his services at the dis posal of the colonists Friday in run ning the lines for the fences and houses. The contingent is just an ad vance corps of the many people who will arrive there next month and in November from Canada and New England. The Southern railway land agents have arranged to bring large numbers of Canadians south, to settle at various points in South Carolina, and the Summerville colony will be one of the largest and most encourag ing. J. H. Polhemus, formerly city pas senger agent of the Plant System at Charleston, committed suicide by shooting himself at Summerville Wednesday morning. The act appears to have been a very deliberate one and poor health is thought to have caused it. Mr. Polhemus was found dead in a corner of his garden about 10 o’clock, with a small bullet hole in bis heart. He was seen to go into the garden with the rifle an hour be fore, but nothing strange was thought of this, for he had been in the habit of occasionally shooting birds about the yard. He was found by his little daughter. His coat, vest and shirts had been opened, permitting the placing of the muzzle of the rifle di rectly against his body and the trig ger was pulled with a stick, the butt of the rifle resting probably on the fence rail. Rev. Mr. McLees preached two very impressive sermons while we were there, and we would be very glad to give an outline of them, if it were at all practicable. They were simply grand. His first text was : Genesis, 42 :36 in connection with Romans, 8:28, and the second, Math. 1G:2G. The speaker showed his familiarity with his work and sent the arrows of con viction to every heart, not already impervious to gospel teaching and gospel truth. Rev. W. R Potter, pastor of the church, assisted in the service, leav ing the preaching with Rev. Mr. Mc Lees. The music led by Mrs. West- rope, assisted by Miss Littlejohn and Mr. Westrope at tne organ and a choir of trained voices, was absolute ly faultless. The unanimity and Christian spirit with which the good people of Gaff ney, irrespective of denominational persons j affinities, went into the work, is truly commendable. It shows that they are an intelligent Christian people— much more so than many swell com munities we hbve visited. No strang er can enter one of their churches on occasions of this kind and tell who is a Methodist, or a Baptist, an Episco palian or a Presbyterian. Just here we would be glad to eay, parenthetically, that the impression that the city people don’t care to as sociate with the country peple or make tbam welcome to their churches is ail wrong. If the poorest man or woman in the county will dress them selves as well as their circumstances will admit and go among those people and conduct themselves properly they will be respected by the best peop’e of all the churches and be made perfectly welcome at any time. Though it may be the duty, yet it is not the custom in Gaffney or any where else, for the churchjoffioers or members to go out on the street or elsewhere and and Invite every Arab to come in unless he sbowe a desire to do so. But if he does be will be met at the threshold of the church and made to feel that he is welcome and that he is In the house of friends There are people, of course, in all communities and in all churches who think they are better than others who can’t dress as well as they can, and who like to point the finger of scorn at their less fortunate neigh bors who are In every other respect by far their superiors. Such people represent nobody. that but few of us (if any) ever thought of. He says that the verdict of medical science today goes to show that the meats forbidden in the Old Tes tament Scriptures are still injurious to man’s physical system; thatGod’t laws are never arbitrary, but are wisely and lovingly adapted to the constitution and needs of mankind— not Jews alone. The statement has been made on the very highest medical authority in Europe and America, that “pork eat ing is the fruitful source of scrofula and consumptioh.” Who ever heard of a Jew being af flicted with cancer? There isn’t a case on record that we know of. The question is asked: “What then was the hog created for?” An agricultural paper says: “The pig may be made profitable by making him a scavenger for the removal of matter that would otherwise become more offensive.” “That is true,” he says, “and it’s the only way God ever designed the pig to be made profit able.” He belongs to the scavenger family, the same as the turkey-buz zard, the wolf and the hyena. We have a fine spell of weather for picking cotton, pulling fodder and doing other out door work. The complaiot is general that the cotton crop has been greatly short ened by the recent cold snap. In several places frost was seen on the morning of the 18th. This is unusual ly the case in this latitude. Seldom do we see frost before the first of October, or even later. In 1888, we had a killing frost the 30th day of September, but the cotton was three weeks ahead of what it now is. Old people have always told us that one year with aootber, cotton that bloomed by the 10th day of Septem ber, would make white cotton. It won’t do it this year, sure. Many of our Ledger readers will re gret to learn that Mr. Lee Robinson died with typhoid fever at bis home near McConnellsville last night. He was the youngest son of our dear old friend, Mr. William A. Robinson, to whom our heart goes out in deepest sympathy at his great loss. lie’s Kone from his father, lil* child and his wife, Whom he willingly tolled for, and loved as his life; Oh, God, how mysterious and strange are Thy ways. To take from them their loved one in the best of his days. J. L B. The Gaffney Drug Co. invites you to call. Bring your prescriptions to ua for careful compounding. Your wants in the Drug, Medicine, Toilet Articles, Rubber Goods and such lines can all be satisfactorily and economi cally filled here. Mr. W. T. Jordan, who has been operating the Mountain Island Cot ton Mills in Charlotte for the last year and a half, under a lease from the owners of the property, Friday assigned to the W. J. Hooper Manu facturing Company, controlled by Col. Barbour, of New York city, all his rights under said lease, and also sold that company his mercantile business and other property owned and used by him in connection with the mill and store. The State chartered Friday the Turner-White Coffin Company, of North Wilkesboro, capital stock $25,- 000; the Sbuford Cotton Mill Store Company, of Brooks Ford, Catawba county, capital $10,000; the Marietta Mercantile Company, of Marietta, Roi eson county, capital stock $25,- 000; Smith-Davis Fertilizer Company, of Wilmington, capital $125,000. Stockholders. N. J. Smith, of New York, O. F. Davis, of Wilmington, and R. G. Hege, of Charlotte. The safe of the postoffice at Apex, Wake county, was blown open by ex perts about 2 o’clock Friday morning and about $19 in pennies and about $100 in stamps were taken by the thieves. The clerk in the postoffice who was asleep at home across the street heard the explosion and thought it was some one firings gun. No clue to the robbers ha|-/been •ound. They used some tools ob tained from a blacksmith shop and left these in the postoffice. A young «on of Police Officer Yan- dle. of Charlotte, eged about 18 or 20 years, was, at last account, lying at the point of death at the home of Mr. R. R. Peoples, in Long Creek town ship. Saturday morning he was found in an unconscious condition, the blood flowing freely from a wound in his head. The young man could not tell bow be was injured, but later it was ascertained that he had struck himself with a hammer, presumably with suicidal intent. Will Sinclair, of Charlotte, a young negro about 18 years of sge, was ar raigns! before ’Squire S. H. Hilton in that city Thursday morning at 11 o’clock on the charge of assaulting, with criminal intent, Mamie Torrence, the 15 year-old daughter of Annie Torrence, a colored woman who lives on South Cherry street in Charlotte. The assault was alleged to have taken place last Sunday night, when the mother was at church. The magis trate bound Sinclair over to Snperior Court and sent him to jail in default of a bond of $500.