Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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e ',r*7v riSr I save by the draymen and .drivers of) delivery wam>ns. Yesterday morning j Ed. H. DeCamp, Editor and Publisher, the thermometer registered eleven THE LEDGER. Tuesday and Friday, A. W. Griffith, Local Editor. above zero, two degrees lower than on Wednesday morning; but the wind wa not so high and the cold did not seem intense. It was very diagreeable, t NEWSY LEIi£3 FROM WILKINSmiE. i hough, lor all outside work, and es- Tbe Ledger Is not responsible for the views of correspondents. Oblturaries will be pObllshed at | five cents a line. Correspondents who do not oontri-j fa cially for the mall carriers on the imte regular news letters must fur-i rural routes. The weather bureau re- nish their name, not for publication, p 0r ^ [ or yesterday was still ‘‘lair and but for identification. . ... , ■ , All correspondence should bo ad-| an(l coId ; sHghLly warmer for hnday. MOVEMENTS OF THE PEOPLE OF LOWER CHEROKEE. dessed to Ed. H. DeCamp. Manager. NOTES AND COMMENTS. STUDY OF THE BIBLE. \ “After a sojourn of several days with the millionaires of Chicago and Cincinnati, we are at home again to take up the simple life.’ And that is no Jobe.”—Gaffney Ledger. Behold what hath prohibition wrought?—The State. • • • , Despite the extremely cold weather workmen are busily engaged in finish ing up t he large storeroom in the new National bank building, which will be a magnificent affair when completed. Messrs. Carroll & Byers hope to oc cupy it on or about the first of next month. ■ • • There will be three ariniversaries of national interest during next month, one of them a legal holiday. The fli is Lincoln’s birthday, which falls on Sunday, February 12th; the second is St. Valentine’s day, Tuesday the 14th, and the third is Washington’s birth day, Wednesday, tfie 22nd. The latter. Js generally observed throughout the » • * The supreme court of appeals of Virginia has decided that reading of a case in the newspapers does not disqualify a man for jury service. This seems to be right and proper, for a man would naturally be better posted and better prepared to servo as a juror who had acquainted himself with all the details of the case by reading the newspaper accounts. « • • The “strike" in Russia is assuming a more alarming aspect. The latest news form the seat of trouble is that the Cossacks have been shooting down the “rioters” in Moscow (including women and children) by the hundreds, and that notices have been posted all over the city giving the strikers the choice of returning to work within twenty-four hours or deportation to the villages in the country. • • « The town of Bennettsville also had a big fire Wednesday. The plant of the Southern Cotton Oil company at that place was entirely destroyed \p.bout one o’clock Wednesday after- ripon, entailing a loss estimated at a hundred thousand dollars, partially covered bj • C/mer property narrowly escaped the flames, by not being in the course of the high wind that was blowing at the time. • • • The great farmers’ and bankers’ convention in New Orleans will have its effect upon the price of many things. A reduced cotton acreage will mean cheaper fertilizer, cheaper meat, corn and hay. The South is the great market for all these supplies, and if the cotton crop is reduced all these supplies will feel the effect in a short time. The mule market has felt it al ready and others will follow. • * • All lovers of high-class music in Gaffney should bear in mind the date of Edward Baxter Perry’s appearance i't Lim^srtr.ne College—Friday night, ’ebruiry 3rd. Mr. Perry Is one of the ;.'ri'&Le.-t r’-nists now touring America, sind k is not often that Ga.Viey peo have the opportunity to hear such sin artist in their own city. The di rector of music at Limestone Co l g“ nhould be encouraged in his efforts to procure such attractions for our people. * * * The whole State will sympathize with Union in her recent misfortune, and especially with the ones whose property was destroyed by the fire. All praise is due the gallant firemen who did such heroic worfc in check ing and subduing the flames, and to the others who rendered valuable as sistance. The weather was terribly cold, with a high, cutting wind blow ing, making the work of fighting the fire not only perilous in the extreme, but enhancing the difficulties and hardships of the fighters. Spartan burg responded with alacrity to the call for help, and sent down a company with an engine on a special train, the men suffering terribly from cold on an open flat car. Union appreciated this tangible evidence of the sympathy of her sister city, and should occassion ever re quin* it, she will be equally as prompt to respond to a like call from Spartan burg. • * * The cold wave came swooping down upon us Tuesday night, and by Wed nesday morning the mercury had taken a tumble down towards the 'zero mark. Tho wind was high, too, which made tho cold more severe and cutting—more like a breath from “Greenland's ley mountains” than any thing wo have had to face this winter. Those whose occupation did not re quire them to spend much time out doors were fortunate, indeed, and the streets wore almost entirely deserted, Important Source of Training That is Sadly Neglected. As a teacher in our common schools for more than ten years, we have hail forced upon us more than once, the painful fact that a majority of our young people are grossly ignorant of Scripture. Not infrequently a pupil, bright iu other lines, will be densely ignorant of the simplest teachings of the Bihle. N'or have they read it suf ficiently to have become familiar with its style, nor have its princeless pass ages fixed themselves in their hearts and memories. We have found them utterly unable to distinguish a famil iar proverb of Solomon from a popular saying of Poor Richard, and often they confound a beautiful, widely-used passage of Scripture with the writings of uninspired men. The ignorance of Scripture is widespread—it is appall ing—it is the crime of the century. The church must face this palpable, though unpleasant fact, and in the grace and wisdom of God must solve this problem of the century. Bible study should be the all import ant study of youth. Viewed merely as a part of a liberal education, a knowledge of the Bible is a necessity. No man can lay claim to culture, who has not made a systematic and thor ough study of the Scriptures of God. A thorough knowledge of God’s Word may not be essential to salvation, but to get all the light God is willing to give us from Revelation is our duty to Him, to our fellowman and to our selves. A knowledge of Scripture where it is the servant of love and humility, enlarges our minds, strength ens our convictions, makes our relig ion an intelligent faith, instead of a blind superstition, enables us to vin dicate the truth, when impugned, and is indispensable to a healthy religious life. May not this ignorance of Scripture be the cause of the low state of piety in the church, the leth argy in evangelical work, the lack of competent consecrated teachers in the home and in the Sabbath school, and the falling away in the number of candidates for the ministry? In the days of good King Josiah. God blessed Israel because there was a revival of the study of the Book of law. The hope of the church is Its youth, the hope of the youth is its faith In the Christ of Calvary as revealed in the Scriptures of God. Our youth have no intelligent, helpful, vital knowledge of Scripture. How shall this ignorance he combatted? How shall a knowl edge of the Word be made to cover the earth as the waters cover the deep? The first and the best place to teach the Scripture is in the home. Moses says, “Thou shall teach them diligently unto thy children.” Lois and Eunice taught the child Timothy in the Holy Scriptures. The command of God and the vows of the church are upon us to train our children in the knowledge of His truth. What, are the facts? Parents do not take time to give Scriptural instruc tion to their children, or are wholly incompetent to do so. The child may he required to read a chapter in the Bible on Sabbath evening. Without any guiding and encouraging help he does this in a barren way. One hour’s listless reading of the Scriptures a week, fifty-two a year will deepen but little one’s knowledge of the Word. Another means for teaching Scrip tures is through the Sabbath school. This is a church service for tho criti cal and devotional study of the Bihle for moral and religious instruc tion, and for the worship of the true God. It is a most excellent method of training the young and ignorant in the duties we owe to God and to our neighbor. We must not only read the Bible to study it, and a good place to study it is in the home and in the Sabbath school . What are the facts? Possibly on an average the Sabbath school meets thirty times a year for Bible study. The average pupil spends forty-five minutes in preparing and reciting the lesson. In the course of a Sabbath school year he would be engaged In Bible study 1,350 minutes, or twenty-two and a half hours. Let me ask, how much Latin or Algebra could be learned by a study of twenty-two and a half hours a year? Then the ordinary Sabbath school teacher is incompetent; he has made no diligent, thorough study of Scrip ture. He cannot teach what he does not know. His head may be right, but his light Is dim. The pulpit Is another divinely ap-v pointed method for extending a knowl edge of the Truth. The ministry, as a whole, is cultured tfhd competent. On an ar .‘rage a man may hear forty sermons a year of thirty minutes each. Twenty hours a year is not sufficient to give one thorough knowledge of His Word. Our remedy is to teach the Bible earn- estly and continuously in liie home, in the Sabbath cb<K>l and in the pul pit, and then supplement an re en force these methods by having the Bible taugbt in our common schools by competent, spiritually-minded teachers, who will teach it with sys tem and thoroughness, with love and reverence . With the Bihle taught by this fuller system there will be an awakening in the next generation; homes will have Scripturally trained parents, and Sabbath so'iools will have competent Bible teachers. If our churches were f.tled with a Personal Paragraphs Concerning Pop ular People and Short Items of General Interest. 24.—Rev. R. P. N. has sent Wllkinsville, Jan. Smith, of Asheville is a twenty-page pamphlet entitled. Some Results of Mission Work in the Mountains of North Carolina.” It tells what he and bis co-laborers arc do ing and have done within the last eight years in that hitherto much neglected section. We know no one better qualified for that work than Rev. Robert P. Smith, i On our return from the Memphis re-1 union of Confederate veterans nearly two years ago, we stopped over in Asheville and spent two days and > nights with Mr. Smith and his family! in Asheville. It’s interesting to hear him tell of his experience with the! mountaineers. He says they are the truest people in the world. At the close of the late war. and a great por tion of the time since, many of them have been engaged in the blockade business—making and selling whis key. The revenue laws, and the often unprincipled and cruel men who exe cute them, led these people to t hink | that the United States government was their worst enemy, and hence they have been in practical open re bellion ever since. Since the advent of the missionaries into that section the work they have done has had a decided effect upon them and their business. Mr. Smith told us of his once being stopped in the road by some big, rough-looking fellows who eyed him suspiciously and wanted to know who he was, where he was go ing and his business. He told them he was a minister of the gospel and had been sent to that section to do some misssionary work. They told him he had better go back for they did not allow preachers and niggers to come about them. He remonstrated and told them he was going up to Mr. ’s to spend the night and hold some re ligious service and invited them to come and Join him in the service. They agreed to let him pass. That night these same fellows, with a great crowd of others, came in and after service the leader of the party (or the one who seemed to be their lead er) brought the others up and in as modest and polite a way as he knew how introduced his friends to Mr. Smith and told them his business. “Now,” said Mr. Smith, “these very men are among the best friends I have in the mountains. They come to see and hear me when I am in their neighborhood and they always give me good attention. They invite me to their homes and treat me as well as they are able and I greatly appreciate their hospitality.” “They are not so much to blame,” said Mr. Smith, “as you may think. They have been badly treated, often hunted and shot down, like wild beasts by revenue official in the discharge of what they claim to be tbeir official duties. Reading the scriptures, teaching the Word to these people has had its desired effect and many of them have quit their old practices and gone to other kinds of work. The time is not far distant when this mountain section, with its schools and churches, will be equal to, if not surpassing, many other sections of our country in many respects.’ Mr. Giles M. Hill was in this sec- tion yesterday on business. He. with part of his family, has left the cotton mill and v\ill farm on Dr. W. A. Fort’s place near Star Farm this year. Mr. Frank Mitchell, of Hopewell, spent Saturday night on this side of the river. Mr. Man Farris is attending Thom- -on’s rtiill at present. Uncle Jeff Hughes is still trading in butter, chickens and eggs, for which h e allows the highest market price to producers. Mr. Jimmie Strain has a fine hog to kill. He says it is easier to raise meat than to buy it at almost any price. Miss Stella George, we are sorry to say. is not much better. Albert is getting on very well. Mr. J. Farrow Wright went to Jones- ville last week to see his aged father, who is lying very low at this time. Old age is the cause of his illness. Mr. “ToshV Foster will move his awmill to this neighborhood In a few days. The oil mill at Wllkinsville is run ning on full time, making oil. The low price of cotton has stopped the ginning and selling of it almost en tirely. The last few days of sunshine has lone much to dry the land and travel in the public roads is some better. Some of our York county neighbors are hauling cotton seed meal ami hulls from the oil mill at Wllkinsville. The work of putting the iron fence around the Salem graveyard has been commenced. Some of the Texas folks tell a good Joke on one of our old neighbors. •Vhen Uncle Tom Goudelock was out there nearly two years ago he went to tN> home of a family where he found i big chandelier hanging In the par lor. Looking at it in amazement, he tid: “Humph! you’ve got to bo big folks I see.” Will some one give the answer to this: Divide three hundred and flfty- 1ve hundred thousandths by three and fifty rt'.e one-hundreths? Give the an swer in decimals. Farmers in this section have done FOREST Cl T Y FACTS. A Sunday Marriage— A Deplorable In cident—Otbe" /utters. Forest City, Jan. :t Your corros-' ! pondent had the pie su of attending ! -ervices at I’rovi ien church, (in | this county), on Fc'day last, and in addition to an interest 1 , ig sermon, we. ir 1 the pleasure <4 icing a witness ! to the uniting of an interesting young ■ couple in happy wedlock. The ceremo- I ny was performed by the pastor, im- j nediaudy follo .ving the preaching ser- ; vice, after which the congregation was j dismissed. The contracting parties ; vere Mr. Oscar Carroll and Miss Ber tha Wright, both of whom are promi nent young poopie, and it is hardly necessary to add that they have quite a number of friends, who not only wi h i [ for them a long and happy life, but a j prosperous and useful one as well. They will make their future home at i Forest City. A very deplorable incident occur red a mile or two above Forest City on last Saturday morning. A small white ; boy, the county surveyor’s son, was j blindfolded, bound, stripped of his clothing, and left out. in the wood« to suffer in the cold. On the previoio night a house was broken into and some money stolen. Three negroes were thcr perpetrators of the former! offense and it is thought that the! same parties were engaged in the lat-1 ter. As soon as the deed became ^ known a posse quickly gathered, the boy among the number, and If the 1 criminals are apprehended trouble is expected.. The father of the boy, in conversing about the matter, contained ! himself really well, but a casual oh- ] server could have detected by the gleam in his eye and the toy (?) in his j band that, in regard to those savages safety lay in distance. Indeed, should a person’s temperature fail to rise up-! ou such provocation as this it seems j that, the mercury in his disposition ; would have long been obselete, never I to bo resurrected. We have not words in our rather limited vocabulary' to express our ut ter abhorence of such outrages as these. A person should not permit himself to indulge in thoughts that he would be ashamed to express in words, were it necessary for him to do so, but we frankly confess that when we fall to thinking of “social equality,” the attitude taken by the north concerning the matter, and the negro question in general, our conclus ions would not all appear at a good advantage in print. The south, taken as a whole, is the best friend the negro has. The southern people, as a rule, like the negro as long as he remains in his place, but when three negro men meet a helpless little boy in the road, blindfold, bind and strip him of his clothing, leaving him to suffer In the cold, the proper place for them is—well,—it is hard to conceive of an appropriate habitation for such characters, whether white or colored. For fear that something might be said that would not savor of gentility we submit the foregoing without further comments, and change the subject. Perhaps we might try Mr. Arp’s plan and go to the wood pile and chop until wo regain our equilibrium. Last week we were made to say, “Conceiving the art of bookkeeping,” when the phrase should have been, “Concerning the art of bookkeeping.” However, mistakes occur in the best of families, and the men who handle the printer’s ink are not supposed to bo exempt from them. Therefore, in making the foregoing corection no re- fiection is thrown on either the editor or the compositor. Really, Mr. De camp has corrected more mistakes Hr this writer have ever occurred after the manuscript left our hands. \nd were it not for the fact that he might take our rude compliments as flattery, become disgusted, and dash IV y>* dor-. V» V mg Powder! Menkes Clea^rv Breach With Royal Baking Powder there is no mixing with the hands, no sweat of the brow. Perfect cleanliness,greatest facility, sweet, clean, healthful food. Full instructions in the “ Royal Baker and Pastry Cook” hook tor making all kinds ot bread, biscuit and cake with Royal Baking Powder. Gratis to any address. ROYAL BAKING POWDER CO., 100 WILLIAM ST., NEW YORK. vriiole composition in the wast -ket, we would like to add, by way larenthesis, that we hold the editor this paper in high esteem, and i!e in regard to “men, means and asures,” our ideas do not always ncide, that does not detract one o from the kind feeling that we er.- tain for him. If two persons a*e Tost in their convictions and con- mtious in tho expressing of their ‘"’s, R matters not if they differ as t r nd day it should not effect heir friendship in the least. It is the little vexations of life that annoy one most, and while the writ ers realize that occasional typographi cal errors are unavoidable and that all well-informed and broad-minded readers will be lenient in regard to such matters, yet we venture the assertion that since the invention of the printing press the writer has not ye existed who has not experienced that indescribable feeling that is occa sioned by little embarrassing mistakes that frequently occurred in his pub lications. The editors are very often made to say things they never thought of, but the one advantage they enjoy over the distant correspondent lies in the fact that they are near the scene of action and may correct the mis takes made with very little trouble and feel no delicacy in doing so. And, too, the editor has the privilege and pleasure of “swearing” at the tpye- setter until he feels greatly relieved, while we can’t do anything but kick the cat—which we must confess has quite a soothing effect—and then to repair to the wood shed to obtain com- rdote relief, which is a very disagree able remedy unless one is possessed with an unusual amount of industry. Pshaw! this article is about long enough and the subject of which we intended to ” >ife has not even been Without furth t promises a, brief introduction fc ,> ill now be given, increase of liter try pro- t eedom of the press has cor i-es tw >n d i n gl y. Es pec- Bailing Muraerers. [ Yorkvilie Enquirer.] The system by which judges of the circuit bench grant bail in homicide cases is outrageous, to say the least, it frequently happens that when a murderer is forced to remain In jail until his trial, that is all the punish ment meted out to him, however strong the evidence of his guilt might have been. To open the doors of pris on for a prisoner charged with mur der to walk out on $1,000 or $1,500 bond is not right, no matter what law yers may say. The South Carolina law is too much like a farce. In New York, for instance, a woman who will doubtless be acquitted just as soon as another jury can pass judgment on her ease, cannot be liberated for any amount, the sum of $50,000 having been refused by the court. And yet, down here in this State, a prisoner can almost name the figure which he is prepared to give. Naturally, of course, the lawyers can explain these tilings to their entire satisfaction and to the satisfaction of their blood stained clients, but there are thous ands of us who do not believe that there is any justice in the plan. Th€ solicitors are silent the family of every solicitors are slent the famly of every victim should secure the services of a lawyer who can prevent 30-cent bail. mentioned, or apolo ie- the subject With the duct ions tV Increase 1 ially in 'werma, tfio home of a fear less, ^rc'-thinking and free-speaking i people, has litis been the ease. We ' have soon foreigners stanin the fl ! in an uncontrolable rage while con versing e out tee tyrannical govern mem in the’r ■ ‘five land and at the same time prehTi grand old America for its libera' and freedom. Tr the United Stall is M “ refuge of the oppressed. But “every sweet has i. , bitter.” and the liberal policy of this country has had some evil effects. It has Increased the flow of degraded immigration to an unreasonable de- j gree and it lias placed the honor of a man in public affairs at a premium. At no time in the history of the world : could the saying of Lord Byron be bet- ' ter apnrecinted than at the present i day: “He who aesends to mountain toi>s will find the highest, peaks most i rapt in clouds and snow.” j The conclusion of this article is merely a preface, but we shall make i no rash promises as to when the i “sto r y” will be written, H. M. I very little work as yet. It is the eon- youth having abundant kruwledge of I f ’“ nHU s of opinion that tin* acreage of His Truth tho places of the.'r abodes would become “too strait for them,” and they with a “love of ChrisJ £on- triiirug them” would go forth n(|^' untiring spirit of Christian enterprTs I spreading a knowledge of the Lord over the whole earth. With such pil lars and polished stones the temple of the Lord would indeed be beautiful. Blessed with such intelligent support ers of tho cause of Christ, the church would he strong for her Lord’s work at homo and abroad . J. Marion Moore. cotton planted this year will bo mate rially reduced from that, of last year, but that with favorabe seasons and other conditions, tho yield will he Imauiy, loss, as with proper cu’tivation they\<-an rafke the same amount on three rNj^uhs of tho land. Intensive rather thanV> x tenslve farm ing is now the idea. \ j. L. S. —Ladies and Misses \ Jackets cut prices, at J. I. Sarratt’I What la “Eg NoqT” TA, it at HE above picture of the man and fish is the trade mark of Scott’s Emulsion, and is the synonvm for strength anti purity. It is sold in almost all the civilized coun tries of the globe. If the cod fish became extinct it would be a world-wide calam ity, because the oil that comes from its liver surpasses all other fats in nourishing and life-giving properties. Thirty years ago the proprietors of Scott’s Emul sion found a way of preparing cod liver oil so that everyone can take it and get the full value of the oil without the objectionable taste. Scott's Emulsi m is the best thing in the world for weak, backward children, thin, delicate people, and all conditions of wasting and lost strength. Sfiad for free aiimitle. SCOTT & BOWNE, Chemists 400—Alt PBAH1, STHKKT, KKW TOOK 60c awi ft.oO. All druggiata. Webster Writings. Webster, Jan. 23.—Last Sunday was I preaching day at Mt. Zion, colored, ' Baptist church. Rev. R. B. Beaty, of I Newberry, preached one of his delight- | ful sermons to a very large crow’d of 1 people. Our Sunday school is getting along ; very well. G. W. Littlejohn is the superintendent. We have on roll ; about forty children. Another cold spell is upon us. A. B. G. Wood’s Seeds. Wood’s Soloctod Seed Potatoes are specially grown for seed pur poses, and are very much superior to ordinary potatoes. We carry the largest stock in the South, and can supply large buyers to the very best advantage, both as re gards quality and price. Wood’s Twenty-fifty Anni versary Seed Book, which is mailed free on request, tells all about the best new and standard varieties of Potatoes, as well as about all Garden and Farm Seeds. Write for Seed Book and special price list of farm seeds. T.W.Wood&Sons, Seedsmen, RICHMOND, ■ VIRGINIA. 'WOOD’S SEEDS BRAID PRIZE • ST. LOUIS, 1904. BOLD MEDAL - PARIS, 1900. In Re the Boll Wevil. [Easley Progress.] Personally before me comes the Texas boll weevil, who, upon being duly sworn, says that he is a particu lar friend of the cotton planter; that he has a feeling recollection of an old a(u)nt in Guatamala, that while he knew that she was very fond of him, yet he felt that there were other world’s to conquer, so he came to Texas. That he claims this territory by right of discovery; that his old • )nt had no business following him, so he now calls upon the said cotton > ! liter for protection, promising in ottirn to make the surplus in the < tton fields look about as small in a i y short time as the surplus in the U- f od States treasury at the adjourn- .it of a Republican congress. BANKRUPT’S PETITION FOR DISCHARGE. ni the District Court of the United States. For the District of S. C. in the matter of Morris Switzer, Bank rupt. To the Honorable Wm. H. Brawley, Judge of the District Court of the United States for the District of S. C.: Morris Switzer, of Gaffney, iu the couty of Cherokee md State of South Caroline, in said District, respectfully represents that on the 5th div or De cember, 1!)04, last past, he was duly adjudged Bankrupt under the acts of Congress relating to Bankruptcy; that he has duly surrendered all his prop erty and rights of property, and has fully complied with all the require ments of said acts and of the orders of the Court touching his Bankruptcy. Wherefore, he prays that, he may be decreed by thfe Court to have a full discharge from all debts provable against his estate under said Bank rupt Acts, except such debts as are excepted by law from such discharge. Dated this 7th day of January A. D., 1905.. Morris Switzer, Bankrupt. Odrer of Notice Thereon. District of S. C. On this 23rd day of January A. D., 1905, on reading the foregoing petition, it is— Ordered by the Court, that a hearing be had upon the same on the 8th day of February A. D., 1905, before said Court, at Charleston, S. 0., in said district, at 12 o’clock In the noon; and that notice thereof be published in tho Gaffney ledger, a newspaper printed in said District and that ail known creditors and oher persona in interest may appear at the said time •and place and show cause, if any they have, why the prayer of the said pe titioner should not bo granted. And it is Further Ordered by the Court, that the Clerk shall send by mail to all known creditors copies of said petition and this order, addressed to them at their places of residence as stated. Witness tho Honorable Wm. H. Brawley, Judge of tho said Court, and tho seal thereof, at Charleston, 8 .0., in said District, on the 23rd day of January A. D., 1905. R. VV. Hutson, Clerk. Trespass Notice. All persons are forbidden to tree- pass on my lands for any purpose whatever. Hortensie Morgan. 1-24-pd.- 3t.