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A~~~ ~~ Family Companlon, Devoted to Literature, Miscellany, News, Agricultur,Mres c Vol. XIII. WEDNESDAY 1VORN G, SEPTEMBER45, 87 No 3(r3a.ss T HE H ER AL D IS PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY 31ODNING, At Newberry, S. C. BY THOS. F, GRRNEKR, Editor and P.roprietor. Terms, .O0 per admnu urn, Invariably in Advance. ;T The paper is stopped at the expiration 0f time for which it is paid. f The 'o, mark denotes expiration of sub scription. Drive.,s X Fancy &Irticaes. BLUJE GLASS! If you wish a soft, pleasant light to read by, get a Blue Glass Lamp Chimnney, or a Combination Chim: ev and Shade from POPE & WARDLAW. DRUGGISTS' SUNDRIES. We have just received a splendid assort ment of HAIR and TOOTH BrU SHES, TOILET SOAPS, from 5c. a cake upwards, and an entire new supply of DRUGGISTS' SUNDRIES and FANCY GOODS in gene ral, to which we invite the attention of all, more especially the ladies. Our stock of DRUGS, PATENT MEDICINES, PAINTS) OILS; VARNISHES, GLASS, SEGARS, TOBACCOS, PIPES, CAN DY, Brandies, Wines and Whiskeys For Medicinal purposes, Is full and all recently pnrchased, which we will sell as LOW AS THE LOWEST, and upon reasonahle terms. PRESCRIPTIONS COMPOUTNDED at all hours by our Dr. D. S. Pope, who can be found at night in room over rear por setr, . "WE ALL DO FADE AS A LEAF." Falling all around, Floods cf wondrous glory, Silent as the snow flakes, Brea thing each a story; Like a shower of sunbeams In the autumn mellow, Fall the leaves of crimson, Russet, brown and yellow. Sobbing out low music, When the wind is sighing, At the thought so mournful That the year is dying; E'en the leaves are fading; With the thought comes sadness, Ah! my spirit longs For that land of gladness. For the golden pavement; For the flowers immortal; Fain my feet would press Toward the pearly portal, Falling all around, Floods of wondrous glory, All things here must fade This the leaflet's story. t LEAP IN THE BARkS o Though George Maxwell was comparatively a young man, his hair was white as snow. I often wondered at his strange appear ance, and one day, in a playful hu mor, I said to him: ""George, why is it that you look so prematurely old ?" His face became suddenly cloud ed, and for the moment he lost his accustomed cheerfulness. "There is one episode in my life," he said gravely, "that I never like to talk about." "Pardon me," I exclaimed, "if I have introduced a subject that is displeasing to you, and let us pro ceed to talk about something else." A few days later, while we were passing a pleasant hour together, I ordered a bottle of wine, and poured out a couple of glasses. I carelessly pushed one of them to ward him and called out : "Your health." To my astonishment he firmly de lined to drink with me. 'But," said I, "it is only a little ght wine. It won't affect your' ead in the least." "Nevertheless," he responded, the slightest indulgence in the up that intoxicates is contrary to y settled principles." "Very well, then," I rejoined ruffly, "here's luck to myself," and swallowed the- contents of both lasses. "Newvton," said my companion, eriously, "I wish I could persuade ou to never drink another glass of iquor. Do not regard my refusal o drink with you as an unfriendly ction. ..You know little of my ormer life and habits ; if you did ou would not tempt me.' "We have all been boys in our ime," I said with an exhibition. of onsiderable levity. "The indis retions of youth are many, and it s but natural to suppose that you ave been one of us." My laughter seemed to pain him. e turned partly about in his chair, xed his dark, piercing eyes upon e and said: "Newton, I am a reformed drunk ard." It was now my turn to look as onished. "Yes," he continued, "I ran hrough a br-ief and brilliant career f pleasure and profligacy, and but for one night of terror, that changed the whole current of my life, I ight, like many of my former ompanions, be lying in a drunk ard's grave to-day." I looked again at his prematurely hite hair. "I understand your thoughts," e continued, "I dislike to talk of the past, but for your own good let e give you a little of my expe dence." Resting his elbows upon the ta ble between us and supporting his head upon the open palms of his hands, he told me the following story: "I had the misfortune to lose my parents at an early age. Upon leaving college I found myself the ndisputed master of a large for tune, and like most college gradu ates I fancied myself only about second to the pope in infallibility. My parents while living had been indulgent and liberal with me. I had never learned the value of a dollar. I had acquired no practi cal ideas of business. My only thought was of ease and pleasure. My fortune seemed ample, and I saw no necessity for exertion, and I entered at once upon a reckless and extravagant career. "My liberality made me hosts of apparent friends. I had no lack of boon companions while my money lasted. I kept fast horses, and like 'Jehu' I drove furiously, I gambled extensively, I drank deep ly and my inheritance rapidly melt "When one gets fairly star.ed in a downward career, every earthly circumstance seems to help him along, even his professed friends regard him as their lawful prey, and justify themselves while they plunder him, upon the ground that they might as well have what he squanders as anybody else.. The road to ruin for a time is very pleasant and easy to follow, but it ever leads us to a frightful end, where we may pause in grief and horror to contemplate the instability of human friendship, the fleeting cha racter of riches, the follies of ex travagance and the selfishness of our fellowmen. We often learn when it is too late what glorious opportunities we have wasted for accomplishing good to others and of acquiring profit to ourselves. "At the early age of twenty- five years I was pronounced a moral and physical wreck. I was poor in purse, feeble in mind, and weak in body. I had acquired tastes and habits that I had no strength to overcome. My property was sold to pay the debts incurred by my various dissipations. I was sick and weary of life, and I endeavored to drown my cares and the mem ory of my misfortunes by constant scenes of drunkenness and debauch ery. "Among my college classmates there was one very dear friend whom I had dragged with me through my downward career. The only son of a widowed mother who had at last died of a broken heart, occasioned by the profligacy of her son. He had been a youth of bright promise. I made him a worthless and reckless vagabond, but I never paused to reflect upon my responsibility. "No man can follow the road to ruin without becoming a false guide to others. "One black November night I v:as returning with four dissolute companions, my classmate among them, from the county seat where we had been holding a wild ca. rousal, to the f6wn where I lived. We had taken the- midnight train, and were all in a state of partial intoxication. Just before arriving at our station, the train crossed a high bridge that spanned a dark rushing river. Owing to a slight accident to the engine, the car in which we were seated stopped in the center of the bridge.. S uppos ing that we had arrived at our des tintion, and being too much under the influence of liquor to thorough ly understand our situation, we stepped from the train upon the parapet of the bridge, mistaking it for the platform of the station; then after a moment of confusion and wildly clutching at each other, we stepped off into the darkness and plunged downward into the abyss beneath. "We struck the water simultane ously. "The sudden shock almost in stantly sobered me. By a violent effort I succeeded in disengaging myself from my companions. The icy water gurgled and surged about me. I heard their drowning cries. At last I clutched the jutting point of an overhanging rock that pro jected a few feet above the water, and formed a miniature island in the center of the river. I managed to draw myself out of the water, and seating myself astride of the cold, slippery stone, I shoutedl loudly for assistance. "Nobody seemed to hear me. The whistle of -the locomotive shrieked wildly, and after a few moments of delay the train round on and passed out of hearing. I exerted myself to the utmost to keep from freezing, but my feet and hands soon became numb and helpless, and I began to feel that I was dying. I can not express to you the hor ror of death that I felt at that mo ment. They who talk lightly of death when out of danger, find life inexpressibly dear when presented face to face with 'the grim muon ster.' I felt how little prepared .1 was to die. Every mean action I had ever committed was presented to me. Not only the excesses I had committed upon myself, but the evils I had done to others. "The terrible experiences of that night completely changed my whole character. My hair, that had been as dark as the plumage of a raven, soon became as white as snow. I renounced my former dissolute habits and companions, and from that night I have tried to be a re spectable and useful man." "But how did you escape from your frightful situation ?" "I was discovered by the station master at an early hour on the fol lowing morning, and though my feet and hands were badly frozen, I soon was about again. My com panions were all lost and their bodies were not recovered until several months afterward. Now do you wonder that I refused to drink with you? Do you wonder that I am grieved to see you slowvly drifting into the same channel that carried me so nearly to destruc tion ? I implore you to put away frm yome cupm that intoxicates. Come now, give me your hand, and promise me to drink from that cup no more." I gave him my hand and my word, and from that moment I have been a temperate man. niscelains. TIE GRANGERS' WELCOME. ADDRESS OF COL. E. M. RUCKER, DELIV ERED BEFORE THE STATE GRANGE AND FAIR &SSOCIATION, IN AN DERSON, AUGUST 8TH, 1877. At the requestf of the Pomona Grange of Anderson County, the duty devolves on me to extend their cordial welcome to the distinguish ed visitors here -present. 1 trust, sir, we are all intelligently appre ciative of those principles and in terests in whose name and for the promotion of which we are to-day assembled. We meet to confer to. gether in the highest interests of agriculture and the agricultural class. That class is the most nu merous in the community, and its success and prosperity are essential to the welfare and growth of all other classes. We may, therefore, legitimately claim that we meet in the best interests of the entire peo ple of .South Carolina. The neces sities of civilization require that a country should become institutional, by means of which human progress may be effectually assisted, and a beneficent influence diffused throughout .the length and breadth of the land. Otherwise, prosperity -wealth itself-bears a sort of charmed life, becoies petrified, so to speak, and is incapable of being utilized properly for its possessor or for others. The society of which you' are members has already effected much good for the country ; much remains to be dcne. There is no reason why you should be discouraged by partial successes and even by tem porary disappointments. Such is the law of all life. All growth to be steadfast apd sure must be slow. [t is true in the business and social :elations as in the natural order. atura non fecit saltum-nature makes no leap. She loves the soft %pproach of dawn, the slow sprout ing of the seed, and moves by a elicate gradation through her ound of cahn and storm, of growth 2nd life. The human mind, like he human body, takes but one step it a time, and that step indicates he feebleness and decrepitude of ge rather than the energy and elas city of youth. A boundless area ies before you of noble possibilities o be achieved for yourselves, your ountry and for civilization. It is for you to impress upon the class f which you are representative nembers tTie dignity of agriculture s a pursuit, and its proper social status. And as a legitimate conse qence of that dignity that its mem ers should be educated men-edu ated as farmers and as citizens. They should vividly realize the ruth uttered by the most eloquent f the Romans, that of all the pur suits followed by man, there is none more beneficial, so necessary or nore honorable than that of agri ulture. They are to be impressed urther of the importance of skilled ma ingenious labor, for unskilful labor does not prove remunerative. A necessary requisite of success is the union of intelligence and labor -a clear understanding of the ob jects for which men should strive, nd forcible and intelligent adapta tion of one's work for their accom plishment. As no thought is health ful without labor, so no labor makes the laborer prosperous and happy nless attended by thought. All that man has achieved in any field >f action, the splendor of civiliza tion, all the beauty of art and science are founded on a necessary basis of hard physical labor". Labor is the true philosopher's stone which trans mutes all things into gold. You have naught to do with politics as partisans, naught to do with rival ries and competitions of parties. But as citizens you are profoundly interested in whatever concerns government and the purity of its administration. You should lend an effectual assistance to the eleva tion of the whole tone' of politics, to the exaltation of the standards by which men are to be measured who aspire to office, in competence, integrity and public spir-it, and in the removal of the partisan aims and ambitions that are so rife. The noble science of politics are not un frequently lowered into a tempora -y saffolding of shifting expedients to perish with the occasion. Exert your healthful influence to restore it to original purity and true mean ing-a solid framework of princi pleson which society may securely repose applicable to -all emergencies and proper for all times. There is no department of our American life in which improvements is more needed and in which more can be done to promote the public welfare. I congratulate you, gentlemen, on the place selected for your an nual meeting. We are in the midst advancement in its agriculture in the last decade. There are farms in this vicinity and in other per tions of the County whose high cul ture would not be thought slow or unattractive in the prosperous North. I indulge the hope that the whole State may soon present the same fair face and growing pros perity. It is your duty, gentlemen, in your individual and organized capacity, to assist such results at the earliest day. When you look back upon the history of South Carolina its record must encourage you. In ante-bellum times the State had attained to a degree of pros perity and wealth which had never been paralleled in the annals of human affairs. The noble possi bilities of the future animate you. All things inspire you. We have a climate in which it is a glory to live. We have a fertile and versatile soil. We are mem bers of a race on whom kingship has been conferred wherever they tread. I feel sure all the advanta ges of the present, the forms of pro gress of which we are most proud, 'e only the unpolished rudiments the coming time. The obliga tion rests upon us to transmit the country improved to posterity. We extend to you, gentlemen, a hearty welcome to the town and county of Anderson. '" your visit prove a pleasure to you .,elves, and of lasting benefit to the State. SMALL MANUFACTURES. AN ESSAY READ BEFORE THE STATE GRANGE BY ME. G. WARNER, OF WALHALLA, UPON THE SUBJECT OF SMALL MANUFACTURES. I will call my essay stray thoughts and matters of fact, by an emigrant, on home manufactures, and when done with the facts I will give you some figures. Before I go on this my errand allow me to say, "Don't expect a speech from me." Speak ing is not my forte. Only the hope that my matters of fact will be bene ficial in encouraging home enter prise induces me to take the stand. Home manufacture-this great supporter of a country-Are we as a whole doing -anything in this State toward introducing it among us ? I am sorry to say "No !" We never have tried ; we never gave a helping hand and a cheering word towards introducing it here. Yes, there are a few exceptions, among them our editors, who in their pa pers sometimes try to awake the mind of the people, and some few Northern mechanics who have im migrated here, and who are work ing hard against the stream in- lay ing the foundation of home indus try. Many amongst you will say, "We get things so cheap from the North that it would be no use to try to compete with the North." TIhis shows how little confidence we have in ourselves, and how small an opinion we have of the richness of our soil, which in every way is so lavishly bestowed on us by Mother Nature. I am young in years, but I have seen the world, and in my fifteen years of travel in which I have ram bled all over this great Union, from east to west, from north to south, over Mexico, South America, Aus tralia, Africa, China and the whole European continent, I have never seen a better, a healthier, and for home manufacture, a more suitable country than the upper part of South Carolina. Water Powers--Find me a coun try where there is such an abun dance of natural water power, large and powerful enough to run~ all the factories in the Northern States ? And what are we doing towards using them ? Nothing, my friends ! The waters will run towards the sea yet for years until you get con vinced that not farming alone, but home manufactures too will help to make this State the banner State' of the Union. My friends, shall the waters, Nature's great gift, still~ longer run idly without paying us their tribute ? Is not our State gifted with all the materials neces sary to utilize these waters ? Forests and Timbers-See our forests ! The pine trees are wait ing for the axmen to be felled, to be hauled to the saw mill, moulding and planing machines, there to be turned into prepared lumber with which to build and furnish for us comfortable homes. Now, instead of the luxury of a comfortable home we live in log huts, and the soft side of a rough plank is our bed. There too are the oak and hickory, also waiting to be cut and manu factured into spokes, felloes, pick and axe-handles, wagQns, &c., &c. The willows on the creeks grow and die where idle hands might be em ployed in basket work. Cotton--what are we doing with our cotton ? We sell it to the North or to England to be worked into different cotton fabrics, and in the latter shape it comes back to us again, and we, as good people knowing ~no better, pay all the freight, commissions, manufactur ing cost and other expenses with a heavy interest, and admire the wonders of the water powers of he Norh, which with the help of machinery are made from the fruits of our soil and with our money. How many people could we not iemploy.in such enterprises? Well, my friends, the time is I hope not far away when we will make our own prints and other cotton fab rics, and give our Northern friends a chance to buy from us. I Wool-How much wool yearly leaves our State, bought from us at a trifle? We buy this wool back again at enormous prices in the shape of woolen goods, such as clothing, blankets, hats, &c. Many of you wear to-day a pound of wool in the shape of a Hampton or Til den hat, the original cost of which was thirty cents, and now perhaps cost you $5. Is it worth two, three or four dollars to make such a hat? I guess not. Hides-How many hides are yearly shipped to Baltimore and New York to be returned again in leather or in the shape of boots and shoes? And what kind of an arti cle do we get in exchange ? Why the meanest in the world ! Instead of boots and shoes of full stock, we get them manufactured of the worst kind, such as are made from split leather with shoddy work. Have we not water and oak timber in abundance for tan yards ? I guess we have ! Why then do we not make use of them, turn our hides into leather, and make our own boots and shoes? There is timber enough in Oconee County alone to run fifty large tanyards for years, and yet how many have we there?. Only five ! The tan ners of the North pay from $12 to 818 for a cord of bark. * We can buy it and get an3 amount of it, too, at from $3 to $6 per cord. The tanners South are obliged to sell their rough leather to Balti more or New York, where it is fin ished, sold to Northern shoe man ufacturers or returned to as South as Northern leather, harness, boots or shoes. Many of you wear to day a pair of Northern boots or shoes made of Southern leather. The general opinion here is that leather and shoe material manu factured here is of no account. In this you are blind. Encourage your tanners. Sell them good hides (don't hang your hides on a rail in the sun.) I warrant you they will give you a good article back again. Iron-By hunting around your premises, I wanrant you that you can find old iron enough to make farm implements and mill gearing to last you for fifty years. Gather your old iron before it is rusted and becomes all worthless. Start a foundry-you have pine trees enough to keep a large foundry in coas for many years-and buy your ironware for one-half the cost you do now. How many of you are lovers of a good cigar, or a pipe of good smok ing tobacco? What becomes of the tobacco which you make ? Most of it is shipped to the North and comes back to you in the shape of Havana cigars, or of Durham, or some other brand of good chew ing tobacco. You get from 8 to 15 cents for your weed, and after it has been sent North and been fla vored a little, you buy it back at from 60 cents to $1.25 a pound for smoking tobacco, or pay for it in the shape of cigars from 5 to 25 cents apiece. 1lbelieve it is time for us to have our own cigar and tobac co factories, and so be able to give employment to many poor girls. - Thousands more could find em ployment in another enterprise, and that is, canning fruit by the wholesale. Just see the large amount of peaches, tomatoes, ber ries, peas, &c., which you ship to the .North, and for which you scarcely get anything, and then when winter comes you pay enor mous prices for the fruits of your own soil which have come back to you. enclosed in tin cans. My friends, I could go on for a whole day in showing and telling you what we can do that we do not do, but I know that you will all say, "How can we start such enter prises when we don't know how to do it ?" I will tell you how. En courage immigration. Through it you will encourage home enter prise. Induce the right kind of immigrants to come here, and in less than no time you will see home industry flourish, and our beloved Palmetto State enjoy that prosper ous condition to which she is justly entitled. I have given you the facts, let us now go to the figures, which I hope will be found to lie. There are about 700,000 inhabitants in South Carolina. For clothing, $30 each per annum, will give .$21, 000, 000 Two pairs of shoes each at $2 per pair give 2,800,000 One hat each at $3 gives.............. 2,100,000 One hundred thousand tobacco users at 810 each. ............. 1,000,000 Allow for farming im plements........... 800,000 and we have a grand tota of..-......27,700,000 which leaves our little State annu ally never to return, for necessaries of life, which home industry pro perly economized would enable us to manufacture for ourselves. From the Washington Capital.] SOME OF THE SOUTHERN WORKiNG WOMEN OF NEW YORK. When the war-clouds cleared away from the Southern land one vast wreck lay exposed. Houses and lands, stock, furniture, all were gone, and Poverty, the grim King, ruled the South. Then it was that the Southern women, throwing the traditions of the past behind them, arose to the dignity of work and went forth with reso lute hearts to meet their strange new destiny. Never were war riors on the battle field braver than these women who were now called upon to fight the great, hard battle of life. Undaunted by dis tance, or the loneliness that they knew must await them in strange cities, they scattered themselves over the United States, going wherever they thought they could earn an honorable maintenance. While many sought employment in Washington, a number wended their footsteps to the great city of New York, and took up cheerfully whatever work their hands found to do. Among those who are at work in Gotham we may mention the following: Mrs. McNeil, of South Carolina, a venerable and lovely lady, has established herself in- a very suc cessful boardirg-house. Mrs. Sadler, of South Carolina, a daughter of the lion. George Buist, of Charleston, keeps a popu lar boarding-house, well patronized by her Southern friends who sum mer in 3ew York. Miss Florence de Treville, whose father was the Hon. Richard de Treville, once Lieutenant-Govern or of South Carolina, also presides over a popular boarding house. Forgetting that she was a petted society belle in Charleston, her native city, with a courage and energy most admnir able, she went heart and soul to work, and suc cess crowned her efforts. Young, frail in form, delicate in health, for years she f4ught a glorious fight--as glorious as any hero ever fought ->n the tented fields of bat tle-and she has come off victor. Mrs. Ed ward White, the~ wife of Col. White, of Charleston, S. C., p)residles over an educational es tablish ment for young ladies. For this her accompjlishments eminent ly fit her, and her Murray Hill home is the abode of refinement and culture. Madame le Grand Coulson, the genial and accomplished wife of Dr. Rowley Coulson, of Virginia, instructs classes in the French lan guage. Mrs. Patton, the widow of Mr. James Patton, a lawyer of~ Ashe ville, North Carolina, and daugh ter of the Rev. Dr. Chapman, is teaching in the school of the Sis terhood, established by the late Rev. Dr. Muhlen burg. Miss Alice Simmons, the gif ted daughter of .the late Dr. Hume Simmons, ot Charleston, South Carolina, and great niece of Wash ington Alston, the celebrated painter, teaches in one of the pub lic schools of New York. This young lady also writes for the press. Reared amid the refine ments and what may be termed the exclusion of that proud city, Charleston, she came to New York and, like the rest of her Southern sisters, plunged into the thickest of the fight, making her way with a resolution and energy wbich place her in the foremost ranks of indomitable women. Among those who have entered the training school for nurses at Bellevue Hospital we may men tion Miss Luce, of Arkansas, who has received her diploma, and Miss Laborde, of South Carolina. Mrs. Jordan, the widow of a physician of South Carolina, came to New York to better~ her for tunes. She established he:-self as a dressmaker, having a peculiar aptitude for the work. Her suc cess has been most complete, and "Madam Jordan" is now one of the celebrated "glasses of fashion" in New York. Miss Mary Cheeseborough is a daughter of the late Mr. Jown W. Ceeseborough, a prominent ship ping merchant of Charleston, S. C., and sister of Mr. John Cheese borough, for many years cashier of the Bank of Charleston. As an artist she has met with much suc cess. Among the Southern women who have entered the field of lit erature in New York may be men tioned Miss Sallie Brock, of Vir inia, whose name appears in Southbland Writers." Miss Brock was connected at one time, per aps still is, with one of Frank L eslie's publications. She has also published two novels, and contri butes to many of the leading peri odicals. Mesdames Sallie and Emily Bat ten, of Gneria, wield most suc ADVERTISING RATES. 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She came to New York to make her way with her pen, and fell into the meshes of matrimony. ;he writesforvarious publications. tier article on the Florida Hurats, contributed to the Galaxy was widely noticed. Miss Carolina Adams is a daugh ter of the h tc IRev. Jasper Adams, an Episcopal clergyman, who was at one time President of the Char leston, S. C., College. Full of en ergy and perseverance, she never faltered in the task she had under taken. With a resolute will she set to' work to conquer fate, and has succeeded. She is connected with Demorest's publications, and is the fashion correspondent of several leading newspapers. Miss E. B& Cheesebordugh is a younger sister of the artist of the same name, and is a native of Charleston, S. C. Her name ap pears in Buchanan Read's "Female Poets of America," "Women of the South Distinguished in Litera ture," published by Derby & Jack son, of New York, and in "South land Writers." For many years