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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 GUARANTb 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. NOVEMBER 10, 1903. $1.00 A YEAR, FILTH AND DISEASE AMONG THE HEATHEN Cholera, Smallpox and Scarlet Fever Prevalent THE GOSPEL IN CHINA K*',wlttuititi]dinK the Wretched Condition of the People »nd Country There In a tireat Future ilefore China—The Gospel U Tak,' 1 * Among the Inhabitants. Tue Ledger:—I have just been reading the account of the meeting of the Broad River Baptist Association, and I must say it is good reading to a wanderer on the face of the oarth, an exile in a far off land. One cannot help looging to be present at such a meeting and getting once more some of the happiness that seems to lie around so plentifully at such meet ings. What a delight it would be just to soak in the atmosphere a little, and feel aa well as see and tasse and hear the good things. The meeting of old and new friends, the cordial greetings of brethren who love the Lord, the welcome smile, the thrill of the meetings, and enlarged views which come from the speeches, the encouragement of the reports, the devout and Godly worship and con duct 1 I suppose one might mention •Iso the lesser blessings of fried chicken and pickles! (there are al ways pickles at the picnic dinners at the Association), and good things for the physical man innumerable. One longs for these good meetings at home like water springs in the shade trees ic summer. When we, over here, have to have our water carried in dirty buckets from a dirty river of yellow water, and then put into a vessel and allowed to settle to a par tial clearness, and then have to have it boiled before we can drink it, it pictures to a great extent how we fare iu a social and spiritual way as to meetings. Certainly you people wander in paths of pleasantness, in almost every way. Let sunshine reign in your hearts, and praise God for ail his blessings. You do not live in the midst of pestilence, cholera, small pox, dengue fever, scarlet fever, typhus fever, and innumerable other diseases which it is practically impos sible to avoid, with foul smells and moral filth of every kind staring you in the face at every turn. A short time ago, as a river steamer was pro ceeding up the river, the captain and three of the officers and a pilot were taken suddenly and died in a few hours, and the ship was left without a orew. A party of missionaries were proceeding up the Grand canal and the wife of one of them was suddenly taken and she died on the boat, and they brought her body here to be buried. We are thankful that God has given us good health. But to re turn to the Assooiatiou. It was very gratifying to see that the churches have come up so nobly to the help of the spread of the Kingdom in the World. “God loveth a cheerful giver.” It gives more courage here to work and hope and believe. There is a great future before this great country, and I believe the generous gifts that are being made will pay better than any other investment at all. Last Sunday I was at Kinxiang, 300 miles up river, and I went over to the Chinese service, and the chapel was nearly full of a nice looking con gregation met for the purpose of worship. As I sat there and looked at them, my mind wandered to the hundreds of similar congregations scattered over an Empire as large iu territory as the United States, and far more thickly populated. The thought was a thrilling one that In almost every city, in hundreds of vil lages and country places on this Lord’s day are gathered similar con gregations to hear Christian teaching and to worship the only true God. Yes, the gospel is taking China, and the efforts which are being made to give them the truth pay a thousand times over. Now let me give a word or two about my own work. Since I came here 1 have baptized six natives into this church, and the native pastor baptized four more just before he died. The church now has about forty members. I am acting as pas tor at the preseut. Besides this I have a country station where we have begun a hopeful work about a year ago. It is the county seat of a dis trict which has almost as many peo ple in it as the whole state of South Carolina, aud we are the only ones practically at work in it! Besides that I have evangelistic meetings here in Cbinkiang for outsiders,—I mean, for the heathen and any who wish to come. At these meetings we have generally a house full, and nearly every time someone manifests an interest in the gospel. We have five meetings a week of this kind. I have one native assistant, Mr. Tai, to help me. Besides this I have a theological class, and at present I have three pupils. This is of the ut most importance. I meet the class two boars a day for five days In the week. This class requires a great deal of study and care, as they have to be taught, of course, in Chinese, and it is not easy. It is a work I enjoy very much. You can see readily that it is of great importance that the natives shall be taught to be pastors and leaders among their own people as soon as possible, thus raking the ex pense and burden off the shoulders of you and me. I am interested in that Scotchman who is leading the campaign of foreign missions in the Broad River Association. My home here is under “ScotchJaw,” my wife says, |and if my experience counts for anything, it’s a good law to be under, May 1 send greetings to the Baptists of Broad River, and a word of fellow ship and love in the effort to give the gospel to those who have it not. W. E. Crocker. Chinkiang, China, Oct. 3, ’03. CENTENNIAL EXERCISES. One Hundredth Anniversary of ElBethel Church Appropriately Celebrated- The one hundredth anniversary of Elbethel church, in the lower part of this county, was celebrated in an ap propriate manner Saturday and Sun day. On Saturday at 11 o’clock a. m. a missionary address was delivered by Rev. A. C. Cree. Missions being one of Mr. Cree’s hobbys, he was well equipped for the occasion and made an able address. After Mr. Cree’s address an intermission was taken, in which dinner was served in the fine quality and great quantity for which Elbethel has long been famous. After dinner the Rev. E. P. Easter ling, agent for the endowment fund for Furman University, preached an interesting sermon. Sunday at 11 o’clock a. m., the his tory of the church was read by the pastor, Rev. F. C. Hickson. It was an interesting st^ry gathered together in Mr. Hickson’s well known good style, and we hope to get it for publi cation in The Ledger. Mr. Hickson was followed by Rev. W. T. Tate, a former pastor of the church, who de livered an address on the “Country Church and Denominational Growth.” He handled his subjects well and evinced to his bearers his thorough knowledge of them and the deep in terest he has in his work. After the address of Rev. Mr. Tate, an inter mission was given when another El bethel dinner was served. At 2 p. m. Dr. Lee Davis Lodge, president of Limestone College, ad dressed the meeting, his subject being the "Developments of the 19th Century.” It is needless for us to to say that the doctor was interest ing and instructive,for his well known store of information and bis eloquence makes that go without saying. Both days were gala-days for the good people of Elbethel and their hundreds of friends who gathered with them at old Elbethel, and will long be remembered by them all. There was a large number of our Gaffoey people present, many of whom remembered Elbethel as the place where the most pleasant hours and days of their lives had been spent and where rest the remains|of|several generations of their ancestors. THE REAL COLLEGES. List of Institutions Whose Graduates May be Granted Certificates. (Spartanburg Herald.] Columbia, Nov. 5—Superintendent O. B. Martin today sent out the fol lowing letter: To county superintendents of educa tion : Gentlemen: At a meeting of the State board of education on Friday, October 30, the following report was adopted: “We submit the following list of colleges as those which, in our opin ion, are doing real college work and come within the provision of the school law, section 1200. We also place upon this list Meminger Nor mal School, whose graduates are ex empt from examination by special enactment school law, section 1200. We do not mean to exclude other schools from this list here represent ed, bnt at any time when the proper showing is made to this board by any college that is doing work up to stan dard, we will order it placed on the list' of colleges as designated in school law as above referred to.” South Carolina College, Wofford College, Forman University, Clem- son College, Sontb Carolina Military Academy, Erskise College, Newberry College, Greenville Female College for Women, Limestone College, Con verse College, Presbyterian College for Wome i, Winthrop College, Wil- liamstonSFemnle College,Presbyterian College oi Sooth Carolina^ Doe West Female College, Clifford Seminary, Cheileston College, Meminger Nor mal School. Colored: Claflin Uni versity, Sate Colored College, Bene dict Institute, Avery Normal Insti tute. —You can get Perfumed Amulets from The Gaffney Drng Co. They are fragrant little hearts of oompressed sachet. More convenient and lasting than powder. rHRQDGHOUT THE PALMETTO STATE. Items of Interest of Passing Events. ALL OYER THE STATE. Sventa that Have Taken Place from One Bud of the State to the Other CoUed from •exchanges for Quick Reading by Scores of Busy People. Charles Stokes, a negro boy of fif teen or sixteen, of York county. was committed to jailjlast Wednesday by Magistrate R. L. A. Smith, of Broad river township, on the charge of housebreaking and larceny. The Spartanburg Journal reports that the olaim of Marvin Morrow, of Blacksburg, against the Southern railroad on account of injuries bus tained at the Fishing Creek wreck, has been compromised for $6,000 and other considerations, not made pub lic. Advices were received in Charles ton Saturday of the destruction of Ingleside Mine and Manufacturing company’s plant in Berkeley county. Several box cars and a part of the Sonthern railway trajks were also destroyed. The company is com posed of local capitalists and was or ganized several years ago for the manufacture of marl into fertilizer. The company is capitalized at $35 - 000. The plant was worth $15,000, and is insured. Mr. J. W. Gallman, a farmer, liv ing five miles from Jonesville, has some fine cotton of an improved kind. He has a cotton gin and in ginning cotton fur the bands on the place be noticed some of the seed of his fine cotton mixed in with the seed of the negroes’ cotton, which caused him to believe hie seed cotton was being stolen. He stood guard by his cotton house and caught a man with a bag of cotton. He “pulled down” on him with a shotgun and filled the fellow pretty full of bird shot. The thief turned out to be Ed Johnson, a color ed man, who lived on the place. He is not seriously hurt. Not content with the indictment of the five dispensary constables in the court of common pleas a few days ago on the charge of assaulting him in bis place of business last August, Radolph D. Wietere, of Charleston, carried bis case into the United States court Saturday, securing an order from Judge Simonton for the arrest of Constables Bateman, Hoy, Gideon, Grady and May. Wieters is represented by Attorney J. P. K. Bryan. The action is for $10‘000 damages and the bond of the consta- hies is fixed at the stiff sum of $6,000 each. The case will come up for hearing at the regular term of the court. Quite a sensational episode occurred in court at Barnwell at the trial of Tom McKay, colored, for the shoot ing of Greenville Green, a party of hiaown race. W’illis Woods, an in telligent white man, testified in be half ol McKay, but the circumstan ces of the case and the verdict of the jury showed clearly that the testimo ny of young Woods was not believed. Immediately after the verdict was read Judge Purdy said that he had been awaiting such a decision and instructed Sheriff Creech to arrest him at once on the charge of perjury. This is considered a step towards the uplifting of the character of testi mony given in courts. A serious charge has been lodged against two young men of Montmor- enci. D'ck Burgess, from the Runs section in the ower part of Aiken coun ty, reported Clifford and Wiol Wood ward on Thursday night for highway robbery. The story told by Burgees is in substance as follows: A few days before the robbery the three men were gambling and Burgess won all the money the other two had. The Woodward boys determined to recover the money if possible, and on Thursday evening they held up Bur gess in the woods on the west side of Aiken. Wiol kept him covered while Cliff went through his pockets and took all the money he had, amount ing to $180 50. In tearing down the old brick walls of the old Agricultural Society build ing, upon the site of the new Art Institute, on Meeting street, in Charleston, Mr. H. T. Zacharias found among the ruins of the massive brick work that marked the north east corner oi the bnilding, a small, dark-colored, four-ounce vial, her- metlcall sealed|and containing what appeared to be a roll of paper money, the outside bill of the de nomination of $20. In the presence of a reporter for The News and Cou rier Mr. Zacharias broke open the bottle revealing a roll of five Confed erate bills of the following denomina tions : $5, $1 0, $20, $50, and $100 all in good state of preservation. —We use Merck’s Chemicals In prescriptions. Ask yonr doctor If they are not the best that can be had. The Gaffney Drag Go. NEWS OF THE WEEK IN L0WEI1CHEBOKEE From Our Correspondent at Etta Jane. PERSONALS AND LOCALS. Interesting Paragraphs and Recent Hap penings in Lower Section of the County Gathered Up by Oar Regular Correspon dent for BeneSt of Ledger Readers. (Correspondence of The Ledger.) Etta Jane, Nov. 6.—At the risk of being criticised, ostracized and styg- matized as an “old fogy,” crank or fool, we heartily endorse what the Atlanta Constitution says about the old blue-back speller in our schools. Every intelligent parent, citizen and taxpayer in this State feels and knows that the oath-bound duty of the State and county school officials, is to give thorough instruction in the primary branches—spelling, reading, writing and arithmetic. Our children need education. They need to be thoroughly taught in the rudimentary principles of business with which they come in contact in every day life. Without which they can never enjoy or exercise the functions of citizenship. The sort of education needed by the school children of Georgia is the sort of edneation needed by the school children of South Carolina and every other American State— that sort which does not come na turally from the improved methods of the present system of education. It’s the sort whiob follows the me thods pursued by the older genera tions—which always meant thorough ness. Here is what the Constitution says: “The corner-stone of the education of the older generations of Americans now living was the old-time blue hack spelter of Webster. Drilled and bickoried through that inspired lexi con of the American language as it should be spelled and written the sure foundation was laid in the minds of ftie pupils for any breadth of after liberal edneation. “Nowadays our children are shut off from the ten-cent blue-back spell er and forced by the faddisticedncators of the day to pay from 40 to 60 cents for fancy pictured and phoneticized ‘language books’ that are delights to the artistic eye and daffy-dealing to the children who are set to studying them. Some of the specimens we have lately seen would be good refer ence and guide books to a post graduate student of scientific philol ogy, bnt for learning a seven-year-old onild to go with understanding pre cision from a*b—ah to ‘incomprehen sibility’ they are the veriest gold bricks ever sold to Reubens come to town.” Not many weeks ago we heard a lady in Spartanburg say her little daughter was getting on with her studies very well, except spelling and pronouncing. In these she was very deficient. She could tell the different fiarts of speech and repeat many of the rules of grammar|with wonderful precision for a child of her age from hearing them repeated over and over by other scholars in the school room. Bnt, like many ocher children of the present day she was put to reading before she could spell and practically her education, so far, is a blank. She is a lovely, bright little girl and it’s a pity her mind is so warped that she will never get a well rounded up edu cation. She must unlearn much she has learned mechanically. This good lady said she thought the best thing she could do would be to keep the child at home until she could teach her to spell and pronounce, then she might do some good in school. That’s a sensible mother. Most teachers ol the present day (in the country schools at least) try to cram the lessons into the head* of their pupils rather than teach them, and the result is the children get only a very vagne, indistinct idea of the lesson. Practically it’s a blank with them. The fact is the child is pushed and hnrried through a multitude of studies at such a rapid rate that its impossible for it to understand any of them as it ought—it can gather nothing bnt a vagne,indistinct idea of the matter intended to be taught. Under snob circumstances it is no re flection on the child’s capacity to say it can’t learn—it has no chance to learn. It’s not given time to reflect upon and assimilate the thought first given it. In proof of this assertion we ask any reader, or parent, to have his child who has gone (or Is going) to school and apparently getting .on •finely in Its studies to set down some evening after he returns from market where be sold a load of cotton and perhaps made a number of purchases, or paid off accounts, and let him figure np the day’s transaotions and give the resalt. That will prove the truth or falsity of oar theory. Thafe’e what we lend oar children to school to learn, and the sooner we put them to the test the better it is for both of us. Borne teachers never think of putting their scholar* to practice tests—the very thing that will accomplish their aim. They teach the book only. If the pupil can manage to get the sum, itdoesn’t matter with them whether he under stands the principle or not. They never try to find out the process of reasoning by which he reaches bin conclusions. In inviting the editors over the Georgia line, Brother Risinger, of the Lexington jury, seems to forget that South Carolina affords ample facili ties for settling old scores. The terrible encounter with a safe breaker in York county by the officers of the law reads more like romance than true history. What a great pity the life of so brave a man should be forfeited in such an ignoble caute. Mr. Morgan Horton, of Bullock’s Creek, was on this side of the riv<>r this week. He visited bis brother and friends at Maud and returned home Tuesday. The prospects are that he will be a citizen of Cherokee county next year. Mr. Vaney C. Comer, we under stand, has been employed as ferry man at Howell’s ferry for next year, 1904 Several of our people went to Gaff ney on business today. Rev. Mr. Hammett will preach at ^Abingdon Creek on the third Sabbath —15th inst , at 11 a. m. Ten cents per pound will move most of the cotton yet in the hands of the fstmers. Possum hunters have picked up a few “poor Sams” in this neighbor hood. But they are not fit to eat yet. Mr. T. Jeff Hughes was in this neighborhood yesterday buying chick ens and eggs for the Union market. Corn, especially that planted late, after the June flood, is too green to gather and bouse yet. j. L. s. CROPS IN OKLAHOMA. Eastern Families Moving: in and Buying Land. (Correspondence of T * 1 H. ::.. Harrah, O. T., Nov. 2 —J. and G. R. R. is being put to quite an expense in repairing the roadbed that washed out along the Canadian river between Shawnee and Ok!ahoma city. The lands that are being sold now, which were donated to Indians and the Indians have since died, are very fine lands. There are thousands of acres of such lands to be sold in the near future and there is no better nor more fertile soil in the United States. The wheat crop here was fine this year, and sold for 60 to 65 cents per bushel. The corn crop is fine. The farmers are glad to get 30 cents for it deliver ed on cars. The hay crop is also fine. There will be a large quantity of hay ship ped away from here at $5 to $6 a ton bailed and on cars The cotton crop is fair. The farmers are just beginning to bring it in. It sells here now at 3:10 to 3:20 in the seed. Eastern families are coming in and bnying farms and building good houses and making all modern im provements. This country is rapidly being settled up by the very best peo ple of America and of foreign lands. There is a district school every three miles, nearly all of which have good bouses. The schools are free and run by a district tax This is the country for the poor man ; good wages are paid for every kind of work. The lands around Harrah are rich, the water fine and health is good, There were ten carloads of Alberta peaches shipped from this point this season. A large quantity of cord wood is being shipped from this point at $2.40 on cars. The large cotton gin plant of the Harrah Mercantile Co. is now run ning day and night. There are parties who are endeavor ing to procure leases and options on lands near here where there are signs of oil oozing out of the ground. There is no doubt but that oil wells will be drilled in the near future not far from Harrah, O. T. Calvin of the West. Stomach Trouble Causes Heart Trouble. Heart trouble is almost always cansed by stomach trouble. The stomach fails to digest all the food, and the residue ferments, forming ex cess of gas, distends thejjwalls of the stomach, cansing a pressure on the nerves and arteries that lead to the heart. This causes the heart to pal pitate or skip a beat occasionally, or both, which la usually very alarming, causing grave apprehensions. Ry- dales Stomach Tablets will prevent this trouble. They digest the food and prevent gass from forming in the stomach. If there is no gas in your stomach yonr heart will not tronble yon.—Gaffney Drng Co. —Nature’s Cough Remedy will stop that cough or we will refand yoar money 50f, a bottle. The Gaff ney Drag Co. THROUGHOUT THE TUB HEEL STATE, From the Mountains to The Sea. NORTH CAROLINA NEWS. Interesting Items Concerning Our Neigh bors Beyond the Line Which May Frovc Entertaining Reading for |Hondreds of Ledger Readers The State Saturday chartered the Ashtville Telephone and Telegraph Company, with an authorized capital of $300,000. The second annual convention of the State Association of County Su perintendents of Edneation will meet iu Raleigh Nov. 20fb. Of the 97 superintendents 85 have notified Snpt. Joyner tnat they will be present. An interesting program covering two days has been arranged. Ernest F. King, a white flagman of Raleigh, aged 24, fell while coupling cars at Neuse Saturday, was run over and killed. Yardmaster Geo. Windson, who was on the car which went over the coal chute at Hamlet, has died. His body has been sent to Green Castle, Ind. The news comes from Taylorsville thac Wednesday night an action for malicious prosecution was instituted bv Dr. J. H. Moore, proprietor of the Moore Cotton Mills, at Liledonn, against the First National Bank, of Statesville, and George H. Brown, cashier of said bank. The damages claimed are $53,000. Charlotte will soon number among her industries a biscuit factory. The promoters of the new enterprise are A R. Newcomb, of that city, and W. D. Sprague, of Black Mountain. These gentlemen have recently se cured a patent on the Sprague Bis cuit Beater which will be made use of in the factory. The case of Atkins v> ' * hern Railway Co is expecteu to come up for trial at Marion, N. C., this week. It will be remenfbered that about a year ago Mr. Atkins who lived in Spartanbnrg was killed by a South ern train near Marion. His widow has brought suit for $2,000. She will be represented by R. K. Carson and I. A. Phifer, of Spartanburg. Sam Walker, the Charlotte negro, charged with burglarizing the bouse of Viola McRae and Lula Osborne, residents of Springs’ alley, that city, and who was given a preliminary hearing before Recorder Shannon- house Saturday morning, is on a fair way to the gallows. The >lcRae woman can positively identify Walker as the negro who entered her honse while she was asleep and stole $8 for her person. H. A. Gndger, oonsnl general to Panama, who has been spending the summer and fall months at bis home iu Asheville, left Thursday for New York, whence he will sail for Pana ma. Consul Gndger would make no statement regarding bis unexpected departure beyond saying that the acute condition of affairs on the isthmus had materially changed his plans and had forced him to return to his post sooner than he had ex pected- Train No. 13, from Spartanbnrg Thursday night ran over and terribly mangled Miss Kate Amberg near Buena Vista, a station six miles from Asheville. She was instantly killed. The victim was a German girl, an em ployee of Mrs. Jno. A. Reobling in Victoria, a suburb of Asheville. It is said she had once been in an insane asylum and it is probable that dnring a temporary mental relapse she had wandered down the railway track, oblivious to the danger J. T. McGhee, one of the thieves who entered the score of the Charlotte Hardware Company on East Trade street, about two years ago, escaped from the Mecklenburg chaingang on the night before the circus in Char- latte and bis whereabouts are at pre sent a matter of much concern to the authorities. McGhee was sent to the chaingang for five years and bad ac cordingly two more years to serve. The camp from which he escaped was located on the Pioeville road several miles from Charlotte. The authori ties will make every effort to capture McGhee. The Continental Manufacturing Company, which has been formed for the purpose of operating the Victor Cotton Mill, in Charlotte, recently purchased by Dr. J. H. McAden, will be formally organized this week, when the stockholders will meet for the purpose of electing officers and trans acting other business. The mill is expected to be in operation in the near future. The plant is being thoroughly overhauled and will be put in perfect condition. The com pany has placed orders for 30 new cards, new Uppers and new drawing maohlney. —We sell Nature’s Congh Remedy on a positive guarantee. The Gaffney Drag Co.