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/ THE LARGEST CIRCULATION «f Any N«w*pap«r In th« Fifth Congr«Mlonal District of S. C. »¥* QUARANTCB THB RBLlABlLlT 1 •f I vary Advarttpar '•(Ho Usos ths Columns of Thlo Papor. • VERY ONE PAID IN ADVANCE SEMI-WEEKLY-PUBLISHED TUESDAY AND FRIDAY* DEBT ADVERTISING MEDIUM. A Newspaper in All that the Word Impllsa and Davotad t* ths Bast Interest of tha Pe.pl* of Cherokee County. - t ESTABLISHED FEB. 16, 1894. GAFFNEY, B. C, FRIDAY, APRIL 26. 1907. * « 11.00 A YEAR. WADE HAMPTON, AN IDEAL SOLDIER, HE WAS ALSO AN IDEAL CITI ZEN. Capt. H. P. Griffith Pays a Worthy Tribute to South Carolina’s Most Distinguished Son. At I^anford Station on April 13, 1907, Capt. H. P. Griffith, of Lime stone college, delivered an address before a re-union of Confederate vet erans. Capt Griffith was introduced by Judge O. G. Thompson, and spoke as follows: Comrades, Indies and Gentlemen: I esteem it a great privilege to be here today, and to have the opportu nity of looking into the faces of this audience, and of grasping the time worn, but true hands of a few at least of my comrades and companions of the days now long gone by. I am on ground that was familiar to me in my boyhood, and there is hardly a spot in all this region that is not associat ed with memories of the long. ago. To me the Enoree murmurs perpetu ally of the past, and these hills and ravines have tongues that sneak of forms and faces long since vanished, and all around my ear catches the echoes of voices long since hushed in the stillness of the buried vears. In the tide of war and time and change, whole rank- of the true, the beautiful md the brave have gone down to death, and onlv a small rem nant of us are left today to tell the tale. ily old comrades, God has dealt very kindly witii you and me. Old age has come on as softly as the snowflakes fall on the mountain peaks, and as gently as the shadows of evening creep over hill and plain. The thin gray line that survived the march, the bivouac, and the battle, is fast yielding to the onset of the vears.'and we who are left are clos ing up for the last struggle against the last enemy. In that struggle we shall go down, but not forever. No; somew'here in God’s glorious domin ions we shall pitch our tents again with our comrades gone before, and rejoice in a victory that shall endure forever. For the true, the faithful, and the brave, the battle of life must end in a triumph compared with which all th<> glories of earthly battle will fade into insignificance. It is very gratifying to me to see so many voting people here today. I tak^ it for granted that thev have come to honor the memory of their fathers and that their presence shows that the spirit of the past is still alive. In behalf of my comrades I welcome them with my whole heart, and urge them to keep alive the spirit of their fathers, and to cherish as a sacred trust the ideals of a glo rious past. It is for them that I will sneak todav and not for you. mv com rades. There b- no necessity for. me to speak’ to you. You know as much about war as T can tell you. and there is little more that lies before you an.'i me. I know not better how to hold up before the young men ideals of Southern manhood than by a con crete example and to this end I want to talk to you lust for a few minutes about one of the great leaders in the war and on-* of the loftiest tvpes of Southern valor, and true manhood that our State ever produced. I mean Wade Hampton. My young friends. God only knows how much you ow'e today to Wade Hamnton how dark might have been vour pros pects in life, how narrow your snhere cf action, how limited your opportuni ties. how low and degraded vour^ as sociations. if there had been no ^ ade Hampton to answer when a down trodden people in the throes of des peration called for a leader. The world now knows, or mav know*, that there was a time wheo he stood between your fathers and all that brutal, conscienceless pow'er can inflict,—power blind with fury, drunk with excesses, chanting its infernal orgies among the ruins of the temple of virtue, holding a wild carnival amid the wreck of wealth and over the prostrate spirit of truth, decencv and honor, and feeding and fatteriiner like vasts flocks of black carrion crows or hun^v myriads of muster ing vampires upon the verv vitals and viscera of the land. Between your fathers and such a hydra-headed power as this, gloating in the wild exuberance of unrestrain ed license, he stood—stood for five long wearv months like a column of granite in mid ocean with the temp est howling around it and the heav ing billows in all their mad fury dash ing against it in vain. It is impossible for me in a short talk—and I intend this one shall be short—to present Hampton in his three fold sphere of citizen, soldier, and statesman. Any one of these spheres would furnish abundant material for the pen of the historain^the fancy of the romancer, or the tongue of the orator. And on the back ground of each, there is his sublime manhood standing out in bold outline—one of those grand, majestic human figures that now and then move over the face of this world and ennoble, dig nify. and glorify mankind. To mv mind Hampton.’ the dashing, daring, yet cool and skilful cavalry leader; Hampton, the strong, wise. far-seeing, imperturbable patriot and statesman, must yield precedence to Hampton in his exalted, peerless, uncompromising manhood; or per haps it would be more accurate to say it w r as because he was all man from the crown of his head to the sole of his feet, from the innermost chambers of his heart out to the tips of his fingers that he was the glorious warrior and the peerless statesman. He was an aristocrat by birth and a gentleman by instinct. I use the word aristocrat in its true and origi nal sense and not in the perverted sense which so often excites preju dice and animosity. At the beginning of the war between the States he was perhaps the richest man in South Carolina; but wealth and luxury, so far from being sources of ease and en ervation. had been made subservient to the development of his physical manhood. He was a daring hunter; equal to a native forester In wood craft: he sat a horse as if moulded to his back, and swung a saber with the arm of a Hercules. True as steel to duty and honor, quick to resent an insult and to redress a wrong, devoted to h 4 friends and generous and for bearing to his foes, gentle in his manners, tender and sympathetic as a woman in his nature, vet fearless and daring in the presence of danger, he was a magnificent type of a South ern gentleman and the beau ideal of Southern chivalry. He was in middle life when the tocsin of war sounded and though he had been opposed to secession, he was one of the first to respond. He flung his vast fortune to the winds, organized the Hampton legion and led it through the thickest of the fight at the first Manassas. From that time on through the four bloodv years that followed, his grand figure became more and more prominent as dangers thickened and the clouds of war hung more and more darkly over our beloved land. The Hampton legion which he com manded at Manassas was a body of men made up of infantry, cavalry, and a battery of artillery, numbering in all not more than 12 to 1500 men. Such an organization could not be maintained as a separate command in a regular army, and there was big ger work for Hampton to do than to command so small a body of men. The infantry part of it was retained as a regiment, and the artillery and cavalry adjunts to it were assigned to their appropriate spheres of ser vice. while Hampton was made a brigadier generr’ of cavalry—a posi tion for which he was peculiarly fit ted both by nature and training. When old Gen. Ixmgstreet. himself in the shadow of death, heard of his death, he said, “Well, there’s another one of us gone. He was naturally the greatest cavalry leader of this country and of the world,” and. that must be the verdict of impartial his tory. if such a historv shall ever be written. He was equal to that ter rible thunderbolt ^f the west. N. B. Forrest, in the fierceness of his on slaughts. while he towered far above him in intellectual clearness and moral grandeur. He was fond of hand-to- hand cont°sts and in such contests his own sword was weilded with matchless skill and power. At Get tysburg when he saw an opportunity for which a contest, he handed his great coat to his son. so that his sword arm might be free, and com manded him to take care of it. As the melee opened with the roar of pstols and the clash of steel the Hampton spirit surging in the boyjs iiosom became too strong for filial lovaltv and he exclaimed in disgust. “I didn’t come here to carry baggage, but to fight,’ and he threw away the coat drew his sabre, and dashed into the fray. That boy was afterwards killed in a cavalry charge south of Peters burg, and the father in hot pursuit of the flying foe dismounted only for a moment to place a knapsack under his dying head, kiss his marble brow, speak a word of love into his ears fast becoming dull and cold, and then to speed onward in the pursuit, leav ing his darling bov “to breathe out all alone the death rattle.” Ah that is a picture of war. A private, a subordinate officer, would have stay ed by his dying boy. and the ipost heartless martinet of the arm” would not have forced him from him. but the great soul that was guiding the tempest must stifle the impulses of love—even f he love of a father for his first born. I would like to speak at length on Hampton’s career as a soldier, but I must not do so at this time. I should Mke to tell vou of the consummate skill with which he handled the Con federate davalry. of his sleepless vigilance, of his thundering charges, of his daring raids, of his hand-to-hand encounters. Especially should I like to tell you of how he led his daring troopers right through the enemy’s lines at Petersburg and drove back before him 2.500 fat beeves to Lee’s starving arnn—beeves that had been fattened on the rich clover fields of the north and sent down to feast the army of the Potomac, and how Lee’s army feasted on “Hampton steak” as thev called it. for weeks and even months. But these things are a part of the history of the countrv. and I must not tax your patience as I am prone to do when speaking of the achievements of our Southern heroes. I will mention briefly the battle of Trevillian Station and the revolution in this State in 1876. I have already alluded to the latter, but there are other features to be emphasized. The former of these events stamps Hamp ton as the greatest cavalry leader of his age; the latter reveals him as the one man in all the world that could and did save the State of South Caro- ina to Christian civilization. When Gen. Grant towards the close of the Wilderness campaign, had be- mn to see clearly the Impossibility of crushing Lee’s army and it had dawned upon Mm that nothing but starvation would ever remove that army from his front, he determined to send an irresistible cavalry force to the rear of Lee’s army. Gen. Sheridan, a man who had won fame as a cavalry leader in the West was the commander. The force consisted of over 9.000 picked men superbly mounted, finlen- didly equipped, armed with magazine guns, sabers and pistols, with six batteries of artillery of four guns each—altogether apparently the most compact and powerful body of cavalry assembled on this continent. As soon as Hampton’s scouts in formed Mm of the movement and that was almost simultaneous with its be ginning. he communicated the fact by signals to Gen. Lee. and’ imme diately wrote him by courrier stating his views as to the object of theVex- pediton, and asking permission to fol low it. Those views by subsegQpnt events were amply vindicated. The object was to seize the Virginia Cen tral. now the Chesapeake & Ohio railroad connecting Richmond with the valley of Virginia, from which Lee drew large part of his supplies, capture Charlottsville and hold it. thus completely cutting off the main source of supplies from Rchmond and the array. With that road in pos session of the Federals Lee and Richmond would be starved out in less than a month. Sheridan then had orders, after seizing that railroad and capturing Charlottsville. to form a junction with Hunter operating against Lynchburg, when the. com- hined forces were to march down James river, demolishing the James river canal an other great channel of supplies, do whatever other mis chief might fall in the way and finally strike Richmond from the west while Grant still kept pounding from the east and south. I mention these par- ticula”- to show w’hat tremendous is sues were hanging on the expedition and how heroically those issues were met and thwarted by the Confeder ate cavalry. Gen. I^ee at once gave Hampton permission to follow Sheridan and bv the next morning after the latter had moved Hampton was on hi§ track with his own and Fitzhugh Lee’s di vision of cavalrv numbering in all 4,700 troopers armed with sabers, pistols and breech loading carbines that threw ounce balls. He also, had three batteries of artillerv of four guns each, making twelve pieces of artillery against twenty-four. Stuart was dead. The flower of cavaliers had withered at Yellow Tavern to bloom no more on the field of strife and carnage. On the spot where he fell there stands todav a monu ment bearing on one face this inscrip tion: “Fearless and faithful, pure and powerful, tender and true. He saved Richmond but gave his owu life.” Hampton then was thg senior cavalry officer of the army and as such had entire command of the ca valry force. One might think that there was little inducement for this force of 4,700 men to overtake a hos tile force of 9.500 with twice the number of field pieces and immensely superior in all the equipments that make effective soldiers. Wells, the historian estimates the odds against Hampton at 160 per cent, 100 per cent in men and artillery, and 60 per cent in other necessary equipments for battle. But Hampton’s firm purpose was to cross swords -with this formi dable host before it accomplished its mission of spoliation and destruction, and the whole country awaited the result with breathless anxiety. He was one day behind Sheridan in starting, but taking a nearer route he reached Trevilian Station on the Central railroad, a point about seven- tv-five miles northwest of Richmond, just as Sheridan's force was going in to camp a mile or two away. I should like f o describe in detail the battle that followed but I must condense. It began early the next morning and lasted through the greater Part of two days. It was fought exclusive ly by cavalrv. The enemy claimed afterwards that Hampton was surport- ,j d by infantry, but there was not an infantry force within seventy-five miles of either one of the combatants’ It was as if that isolated and distant solitude bad been selected to test the nrowess of this arm of each army. It was skill and valor pitted against numbers, discipline, and equipments. It was a fair field: there were no un expected occurrences, ne accidents, which sometimes turn the tide con trary to all human calculations, ex cept two or three which were against the Confederates, and the results de monstrated before the whole world that two Southern horsemen directed by Hampton were more than a match for five of the best soldiers under the ablest general that the United States could bring into the field. I have said that the unexpected occurences were all against the Confederates. Hampton brought on the battle and on the first attack Fitzhugh L^e's di vision failed to advance as it had been ordered to do, tnus keeping put of the action about one-half of Hamp ton’s whole force. *At another time during the battle Gen. Custer passed a large force to Hampton’s rear over ground that Fithugh Lee was expect- »d to guard. Hampton was astound ed when told of what had happened, and according to all military science the dav was lost, and the best that could be done was to order a retreat, and attempt to save at least a part of his little army. But Hampton, was not then in a scientific frame of mind. He had gone into win and had no idea of retreating. Perfectly cool and collected, he galloped from one part of his little army to another, rapidly formed his plans which were as rapidly executed; and Custer was driven pell mell from his position and barely escaped having his whole force captured. I do not want to reflect on an honored and honorable name. The truth is that Lee’s division ren dered no important service until the afternoon of the second day. Butler. Rosser and Young with their gallant brigades stood shoulder to shoulder and Imre the brunt of fight till well nigh Its close, but why Fitzhugh Lee’s division stood aloof I am not able to explain. Hampton In the generosity of his great soul cast no reflections on any one in his report of the bat tle. I know this only; if we could know of the petty jealousies that ex isted among our general officers and of tlie selfish bickerings in which thev often Indulged on the eve of a battle, there would be many a name now high up on the roll of fame that would sink into withering contempt. At one time during the battlq Butler’s men had exhausted their ammunition and were compelled to stand under a heavy fire without the ability to fire back—the most trying oosition that a soldier was ever called upon to >ccupy. Still the brave fellows their hearts were fast sinking with despair. But by and by an ammuni tion wagon came rattling down the hand, so to speak, on Chamberlain’s throat and the other on the Presi dent’s shoulder, and after five months of negotiation he prevailed on the latter to withdraw the Federal troops. When this was done, there was a wild stampede among the carpet-bag gers. scalawags, and negroes, and the State was redeemed. I would not if I could revive the passions and animosites of fprtv years ago; but I have this to say: The treatment that South Carolina received during what is known as the Reconstruction period. constitutes the darkest page in the history of this continent, and is the one deep, black, damning blot on the record of the Republican party, which can ne ver be white-washed nor erasecl and how any white man to this day with Southern blood in his veins and the heart and soul of a man within him. can affiliate with that party with .guch a record behind it. is an ethical />r psychological problem which no Philo sopher can satisfactorily expldfn. I am alxmt to close and have not xnientlioned perhaps the grandest period of Hampton’s life. Conditions changed, and many who shouted hosannas in 1876. cried “crucify him" in 1890, fierce passions, and fciind prejudices were aroused by men seek ing self-aggrandizement, and Hamp ton was jeered and hooted, and driven stood as if fixed to the ground, though >into obscurity and poverty* by the people of a State that he had saved from destruction. He retired in the spirit of Aristides to a cottage, his burned by Sherman’s vandals, and never a word of complaint from that cottage reached the ears of the pub lic. Soon, that cottage was lost by fire, and Hampton was homeless. When a movement was started to build him another by subscription he quietly but firmly answered that con tributions for such an object could not be accented. Then later, power ful friends interceded and secured a promise of the Columbia potsoffice for him. from a Republican adminis tration. WTien the offer was com municated to him he replied. “Hamp ton is not for sale." And when the end came he died invoking a Divine blessing on the peo ple of the whole State. Ah, voung men. there is manhood for you. Ah. young women, there is an ideal en- trutsed to your keeping for future genrations. Shame on South Caro lina if she ever ceases to revere his name and to draw inspiration from his sacrifices and glorious deeds! line with the horses in a sweeping gal- once palatial residence having been lop and a man in it frantically throw ing out packages of cartridges, while Butler’s men jumped on them Hi a wild scramble like hungry hogs upon ears of corn. Then in a few mo.ments the rebel veil rent, the air and. the carbines were ringing again, and the Minnie balls wer> again whistling their tunes of death. Hart's and Chew’s batteries though outnumbered two to one answered volley with vol ley. and thunder with thunder with deadly aim and terrible effect. At last a shell from one of these bat- teies struck a caisson in the enemy’s line, and as the loud explosion d ol ing death all around was heard over the field. It was taken by Hampton’s men as a signal, and the whole line charged, the enemy gave way. and Hampton and his heroes shouted victory. Sheridan fled rapidly back to the main army and Hampton pur sued him vigorously and came near cutting him off from his line of retreat: but fortune favored the Federal com mander. and he made good his escape. But the whole object of the expedi tion was foiled. Sheridan’s force was badly beaten and demoralized, and the superiority of the Confederate cavalrv was forever established be yond all question or cavil. If Wade Hampton appeared in his tory onlv at Trevillian. he would be fairly entitled to Longstreet’s en comium. of the greatest cavalry lead er of this country or of the world; and if he appeared only in South Carolina in 1876, his sagacity, his coolness, his courage, his far-reach ing wisdom, his self-control and his power to control others, would all stamp him as one of the greatest men of his age or of any other age. I will not take up in detail the events of ’76. There are many still living upon whose memories those events have been impressed in cha racters that will never be erased. For eight long years the true people of South Carolina had suffered a con dition worse than that of war. A motley gang of negroes, scalawags, ; and carpet-baggers were in full nos- ! session of the State government and under the forms of law plundered and oppressed the people to an extent never before known even in the an nals of despotism or barbarism. Tax es were levied, which in many cases amounted to confiscation, and mil lions of dollars were stolen in de fiance of all law. Intelligence, virtue, patriotism, dis-| tinguished services, were all subjects | of ridicule to the ruling powers and ■ constituted for their possessor in-1 surmountable barriers to public favor. Ten thousand negro militia paraded , over the State with Winchester rifles in their hands and ball cartridges in their cartridge boxes. Behind all was the United States army, with one re giment stationed in Columbia, and behind that was the Republcan party in power at Washington. I will not multiply the heart-sickening details. The conditions became unbearable, and the proud Anglo Saxon spirit rose to the measure of the desperate emergency. Then all eyes turned to Hampton as a leader and did not turn in vain. He accepted the nomi nation for Governor, and with Butler. Gary. Simpson, and others rode all over the State arousing the people to a pitch of enthusiasm that swept evervthing befpre it. The negroes and scalawags outnumbered the Be ats by more than thirty thousand s. and no one ever will know the election did go hy a fair count. Both sides claimed it., and the result was the anomalous speclacle of two Governors and two Legisla tures assembled in Columbia, eadh claiming to be the legal government. It was then that Hampton for five months towered Hl-’O a pillar of cloud between the enraged factions. Thous ands of armed men filled the streets of Columbia, bent on annihilating the regiment of Federal troops and scat tering the negro Legislature to the winds—a step which would have brought ruin to the whole Stale. Day after day Hampton appeared before the angry hosts and told them not to strike a blow till he gave tb« word, and his power and prestige were such that no one dared to disobey hint In the meantime he bad one RAVENNA READING. The Spartan Rangers. The following is the roll of the Spartan Rangers, commanded by Capt. W. T. Wilkins 1864-’65: Captain W. T. Wilkins. 1st Lieutenant, J. C. Bivings. 2nd Lieutenant. James H. McMillin. 3rd Lieutenant. Edward Means. 1st Sergeant. Edward Bivings. 2nd Sergeant. Chas. Petty, d. 3rd Sergeant, Edward Minus. 4th Sergeant, T. A. Irwin. Corporal. Anderson Shamblin. Corporal. J. F. Cleveland. Coropral. Ike Smith. Corporal. B. F. Cleveland. Tom. J. Burnett. James Bomer. Duncan Brook, d. William B. Cleveland, d. J. F. Cleveland (Greenville). Fell Cantrell. P. Camp. W. M. Cuningham. Charles Drayton. James Dobbins. K. Davis. John Dodd. John Dempsey. Edward Finch, d. Dan Fairchilds. John Foster. Ixigan Gaffney. Sam Green. John Green. Sim Hendricks. Jack Henderson. C. Holden. L. Hunt. Greene Humphries, Gabe Humphries. T. E. Johnson. J. P. Leonard. W, Lipscomb. X. J. Leonard. T. Moore. Ellis Moore. Miles Mason. Dave McDowell. James Odom. John Odell. Colubus Petty. Jake Ross. Raymond Raines. Charles Shields. Jef. Solesby. Earl Smith. H S. Smith. J. D. Smith. Dickson Smith. J. D. Smith. G. Smith, d. Junius Thompson Doc Turner. Gus Wilkins. P. D. Willis. W. Willis, d. E. J. Willis. Ai Walker. T. J. Wood. I have placed a “d” after the name of those who have “crossed over the river.” The roll is made out from memory, assisted bv Mr. J. P. Leonard, and if there is any omissions or inaccuracy I win be glad for any member Qf the company to inform me. J. F. Cleveland. Local Items and Personal* of Gen eral Interest. Ravenna. April 24.—Misses Addle’ Brown and Maggio Goforth were He happy guests of Miss Mary Chalk yesterday. The following Gaffneyites vistted here last Sunday: Misses Ednn Brown and sister. Minnie. Lille Go- gorth, Rassie Wadson, Messrs. Dr. Jefferies. Dr. Gunter. C. C. Kirby, “Bill” Johnson and Shelt Prior. Messrs. Champ Cooper, Apple and Jimmie Smith and John Clary of Macedonia, visited relatives and friends here last Sunday. Mr. M. W. Brown, who was a busi ness visitor to Gaffney yesterday, went by Limestone college and re turned with Misses Rassie Watson and Minnie Brown, two students of the college, who have been visiting her for sevral days. Messrs Charles and John Hump hries. of Pacolet, visited their sweet hearts here last week. Mr. Junie Parker, of White Plains, visited the Goucher services last Sunday. Mr. D. H. Mathis, our hustling “Dink,” was a Gaffney visitor last Friday Mr. J. L. Spake was a Jonesville, visitor last Friday. Mir. and Mrs. George E. Brown and family, of Jonesville, accompanied by Mr. W. C. Goforth, visited relatives here last Sunday. Mr. Collis C. Kirby, of Gaffney, and Miss Vennie Era Pettit, of this place, were happilv married here this after- j noon at 4 o’clock. Rev. A. D. David son. of Beaver Dam. officiating. Only a few friends of the contracting par tes were invited. We wish them well through life. Mr. Ben Clary, of Union, is here to dav attending the Kirby-Pettit wed ding. Mr. C. D. Burgess has been “down on Pacolet River,” visiting his sister, Mrs. Albert Mathis. Mr. T. L. -Wilkins, of Pacolet. spent a few hours here Sunday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. E. B. Bonner and fam ily. of Pacolet, spent la^t Sunday here with Mrs. Bonner’s parents. Mr. apd Mrs. B. G. L. Pettit. Miss Blanche Littlejohn, ore of our charming young ladies, is visiting her sister Mrs. W. F Thomas, of Spar tanburg. Mrs. M. W. Littlejohn and son. Lar mar. spent lart Sunday at Gojicher with Mr. and Mrs. L. D. Bonner and family. We are glad to state, after a care ful examination, that our section will have some fruit. It was thought first all our fruit was killed, but are glad it was not. Success to The Ledger, its Editor and readers. C. d. Note* from Timber Ridqe. Timber Ridge. April 24.—The farm ers who held back planting their cot ton on account of the cold weather and who intended nlanting this week are too much elated to see th a rain set In this week. Our school closed last Friday. Most all the patrons and a good manv of the young neoolp were present. The scholars all had to recite, and all did remarkably well for the short prac tice thev had reclved. Miss Katie Tate, of near Grover, spent a few davs here last week with relatives and friends. Mr. Frank Coyle spent a few days last week with his son. W. W. Coyle. Mr. B. F. Tate we are sorpv to re port. is very sick at this writing. Messrs. J. S. Carter, D. W_ W. B. and ’ C. V. Tate all attended relieous services at Gethsemane last Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. W. G. Webster, of Gaffney, snent Sunday h f re with Mr. and Mrs. C. V. Tate. Mr. Edmond Pettit is quite sick at this writing. We hope for Mm a speedv recovery. Miss Virginia Tate is on our slcb list this week. Mr. J. F. Jamieson was called to Chester last week on account of the death of his brother. Mr. and Mrs. B T. Porter and Miss Clarena spent Saturday night In Gaffney. *We notice In yesterday’s Ledger that Mr. W. D. Kirbv said neaches were not all killed. We do not know how it is in other places, but we can safely say thev are all killed in our section, and we are expecting to see them all drop off when the sap go°s In the tree. Misses Mayme and Kate Tate at tended religious services at <Jethse- man a last Sunday, also Mr. Shell Lit tlejohn and Miss Devinnie and Mr. Claude Tate. Several people are complaining of their potatoes rotting in He bed. Bin® Eyes. d. —Canning tomato seed for sale at Gaffney Drug Co. —J. W. Abbott for th« boot Una of organs In Charoko* county. Prloos right torma what you ask far. GUARANTEED STOMACH REMEDY* You may ask why the Gaffney Drug Co. are able to guarantee to refund the monev unless Mi-o-na Stomach Tablets cure when no othfl remedy for stomach troubles Is sold in this manner. If the stomach is only given 4 rest bv using a digestive, the rrniscles soon become weal:-, and it is ncessary to continue taking a digestive tablet after everv meal. On the other hand, Mi-o-na used before eating, strength ens the stomach so that you will soon be well enough to give up the use of medicine. Mi-o-na costs but 50c a box. ana makes noeitlve and complete cures. The best proof of its merits .is the guarantee to refund the monev if It does not cure that the Gaffney Drag Co. give with every box. f»r Th« i 91 a