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CA6xxaT1 t A* SENN'S e in Ei J. t lilc } BbLe Apples. lbs Famek Candy. FOR TCe, ET... bea Oranges. ALL AT BOTTOM PRICES R AI' AJ-- TTTTTINEWBERRY, S. C., WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1892.PRICE$1.50AYEAR NEWJB. _ - ~L- -. - I" Holid To Our Pa'trons ar We beg to exi for their liberal 1 them all a Happy pleasure in soliciti ing them that we always expect to h during 1893 of tl custom will convin.+ 1 ways prove our ass positively indisputa Respectfully, '1CLOTF cia C I SHOES SSHOES I all the little singing birds, and all the a Klttle chirpers and whistlers,-how they son all came fiying in from all directions, sori up the creek and down, and from over glit beyond, and .from~ across the fields un- wa til the leaves on the trees in my imme- me diate nieighborhood seemed all turned pre to birds-all quivering with the desire to to express the joy they felt. I tell you, than Facis, it was one of the most won- " derful and remarkable incidents I ever " witnessed in all the days of my life. wal When the bird company had all assem- pre bled the leader gave a signal and such ma brst of melody, as I then heard that litt moj,i seldom h'.rd on- turi .I have heard bird music many .the , and it is always good, but never ' eI beard it since equal to that. for ere are many lovely, elemental too children of light and air, who Ar us, though unseen by us, and ,cre know the birds and can commun. bir ith them. It is with these be- thi hat the old Greeks peopled the not ins, sylvan streams and woods, of med them naiads and dryads, ere of the fountains and the woods. ten through the influence of these the though I have never seen them, stra birds were made to assemble en1 ,at that time and place, to gli' that grand concert of bird gra for they knew that I loved loi that I bad never harmed on. yes At the given signal the het the woods; and it seemed * fr off, from another body of ' ynd the hill in front; yea, fi he very sky overhead, and wi d"ad"1as7oein a MESON ay Greel id Friends: end our thanks to our frien atronage during the past y New Year, and a prosperou g a continuation of their ff are still in the lead of lo' ead the procession on this ] iose who have not yet favor ee them that we mean whal ertions with cold, hard, soli ble. SVL JAMIEI THE LEADE IING I A THING ! W A LOTHING! SHOES ! hiding behind the trees about,- me, that the wl s of joy and gladness; of grief and with the song: ow and reproach, were heard min- "Praise God fr g their notes and tones in such a fiow; ' as to be absolutely inimitable, but Praise Him, all Lodious and beautiful beyond ex- Pris Fater ssio. Francis, I am not ashamed Thnfrat say that my heart was melted and still silence. What did you cry for?" semed to hei Oh, becaus~e I could not help i. fo I t hevr joy, not sorrow. It was an inox- sn frdm esibly deep and tender sadness that by the angels t de me cry. Ab, boy, never hurt a Judea: "Gloy le bird, or any other harmless crea- ado at s.They are all children of earth; me n Tove 'y are all children of God." knl h o be joyous, glad music continued thykin talso i awhile, say half an hour, when it te igas k on a higher and more solemn tone. IAnd then t then it seemed as though other Wt ap stures of nobler natures than the eahohra a had joined the company. How persed, each si may be I' do not know, but it is' own home. I improbable, for wherever the sphere glimpses of 1o ood will is, towards that point all nymphs of tb tires of good will 'have a natural they dodge dency to move. Be this as it may, pasdttei melody rose to a grand and solemn suppose that w in and then subsided and almost I sometimes d ~irely ceased, phni rd ally gadpa~ ed into and assumed that slow, j leasant day; Lnd movement used in singing the afternoon well ig-metre doxelogy; and I could hear, Iwords of an ok . I could hear the very words I have neo. wae rd so often at church, old woods an< 'Did the birds use them?'" they were fres sing around and filling all the wos andwl h h their grand tones; and floating Story? ___ THE I PLACE FOR ing. A ds and customers R ear. Wishing s future, we take G ivors and assur v prices. We .ine, and a trial ed us with their we say and.al d facts that are R OF LOW PRICES. ki e COMIE WE $2100 SUIT FOR $17.00. $18.00 16.00 SUIT FOR 12.00. 15.00 14.00 SUIT FOR 10.00. 12.50 11.00 SUIT FOR 7.50. 7.50 6.00 SUIT FOR 3.50. J<<ZOUR SIIOES A W 0OST IS ~ Vv'Money is what N defyreompetiti iole universe was filled THE NEW RAILROAD DEAL. om whom all blessings nuncan, Thomas and Sligh to Ran the Raihoads of the State under the creatures here below; wsnLw lve, ye heavenly host;WionLw Bon and Holy Ghost." ble while there was deep, [pca oNw n ore. and then I heard, or CLMI,Dcme 2-h d r, coming from far up, itain lt o aira oms ky overhead, words, the soeshdagetbghl nce tion, sung once before it tt-a.Eeyoeudrto :a band of shepherds inthttepormesarngdee to God in the highest, drn arwe a htMsr.J peace, good-will toward A lg,o ebry .Y hms me words a voice added o utr n .H edl,o ow and tenderly, "Treat Egfed eet eeetdrira gters of the grove for cm isoes a o aysrn n heaven."me,ucasER.Wle,oOrg he meeting broke up. br,D .MLui,o ain n hirps and greetings toT.WSanndofBrey,cmou El to me, the birds dis-agisthcobnin,ndyter oging as he went to his cmie fot n h aua ou fancied that I caughtlriyoCo.DP.D cheetdhm vely dryads and naiads,ashetidm brofheor. e stream and wood, as Tevtsb hc h oms behind the trees andsinrweeeetda:H.Y.To s several haunts. But I ,.A.lgh8. .P.Dna o as only a fancy, though Teeeto a prtdfo hvr oubt it.jupadiwanoutitean uc m my way down to your mn ftersl nteFeodhl .; found all well; had a returned home in the ltta h red fCl ucnfl and cheerful, with theanwycranothreu.Te - poet in my heart: "To- cn alt hc eie h aeo s woods and pastures Cl ucn a sectn n ls ally, they were the same I pastures.. Spiritually,asaytahaee rben el.B b and new, and so theyamagnotwvteCo.Dcnwa in without growing old, ce. Hdnttefre fWle is, this is Christmas Day adSaln obndo ucnh ido for a Christmas (3RANDPA. wudhv oeit hr aewt 92.aSpoecial dtf ewsdCurier. CooxI, ecmer22--Te d miitato laefrralod/ oms A BIRD CONCERT. A CLristmas Story for Francis. and Other Cood Boys and Girls. Once upon a time I used to walk, very often, down to your pa's grand pa's by Ebenezer meeting house, down the creek and along an old road that ran alongside of Mr. Crotwell's field. There was a good deal of wooded land along the creek for some distance. All that country was once quite heavily timbered and was full of game of differ ent kinds, such as deer, turkeys, foxes, rabbits, squarrels, and other animals and birds; but at the time I now speak of, the game was nearly all gone, ex cept partridges and some few other. whieh may be considered lawful spoil. There are many birds which are not lawful game, and these abounded there, such as mocking-birds, thrushes, cat birds, red birds yellow hammers, goldenorioles and a great many others; some good singers, and many who were not singers, but mere chatterers and jabberers, but who helped to keep the woods alive and jolly with their merry fusses. Most folks, or many folks at best, will not believe the story that I am now about to tell you; but never theless I feel right confident that it in true. Birds have life and melody and language in their songs. Their music is not mere gibberish, or a soulless rou tine without meaning or sense; but it is really a song, and sometimes they have a grand concert, especially on Sabbath mornings in the spring of the year, when the air is balmy from the South or Southwest, and sweet with the perfume of flowers and the odor of leaves just out in their brightest and freshest green. 0, but the woods are happy sometimes, and like the holy temples of God, when these grand bird concerts are at their best. Many and many a time have I stopped to lister to some solitary singer far up upon the top of some high tree. I have seen him perched right upon the top, the very highest top of a tall tree, and sing and sing, like as if he would sing his ver3 soul out, till all the woods around werf filled with his music. It seems at suc: times as if all the other birds were li tening to see how well one solitar3 singer could do. It seems so, and in deed it is so, for as soon as he stops wi hear a gentle chirping and a few brie; snatches of song, as if though the3 were applauding the performance Then again we hear two or three sing OMA IS OU1T. ILE YOU SUIT FOR $13.00. We have SUIT FOR 11.00. will dispos SUIT FOR 8.00. cannot be SUIT FOR 4.50. everybody, and Yests E CHEAPR THA hos tii8s It|lf i IOTIIING 1I we want, anm itD. We ineaRi THE BALLOTING. At 1 o'clock the Senate was an nounced, and the work of electing the commissioners was begun in short order. By a joint resolution ther.e were no nominating speeches, and the fol lowing candidates were placed in nomination: Senator J. A. Sligh, of Newberry. Mr. J. M. Galloway, of Fairfield. The Hon. D.W.McLaurin, of Marion. Col. D'Arcy P. Duncan,.of Union. Commissioner B. R. Thomnaa, of Sumter. W. H. Yeldell, of Edgefield. Capt. Eugene R. Walter, of Or ange burg. Commissioner E. P. Jervey, of Char leston. Capt. T. W. Stanland, of Berkeley. G. Walt Whitman, of Union. N. W. Hardin, of York. There was every desire to get at the Ivoting as soon as possible. The first ballot resulted in the eleetion of Mr. Thomas and Mr. Sligh as predicted, and strange to say indcated the third man in the race. The Charleston delegation voted solidly for Mr. Jervey on the first bal lot, with one exception for Capt. Walter and for Capt. Statnland. On the final vote the delegation was somewhat divided. The first ballot resulted: Thoma.88, S1igh 82, Duncan 55, YeldelI 62, Wafier 46, McLaurin 37, Stanland 30, Jervigy 21, Galloway 23, Hartin 5, Whitmanel. On the second ballot the vote, ager the changes were annonnced, stdod: iug together, while all the others are silent, just as if they were, rehearsing their parts in preparation for a grand concert. I have heard them often; and so may you, if you listen with your ears open. Often these mocking birds and thrushes, and some other little fellows, chatter and whistle to me and bid me good morning when I walk out into the garden. Believe me, they-understand me well when I speak a kind word to them, as I always do. They know and understand a great deal more than we usually give them credit for, and I have no doubt that we could establish an intelligent inter course with our wild feathered kindred, were we to take pains to do so. All creatures have a language by means of which they express their thoughts and wishes fo each other. The note of warnin.- the mother hen gives t&' her young ;hen she sees an enemy near is very diLerent from that gentle clack with which she calls them to their food. Why should we suppose that the wild, sweetly singing birds are entirely ignorant of the Hand that formed them and of the Life from which they came? 'Why should we suppose that they do not tune their throats to sing His praise? If the heavenly Father feeds the sparrows and hears the ravens when they cry, as we are assured that h3 does, why should we think that they do not know and never can know the Hand that feeds them? They do know it, and they are not ungrateful, and they pour out from their full hearts notes of praise, and of adoration, and joy to the All-father. This is especially the case in the Spring and early Sum mer, when Earth is wading from -her long sleep of the winter and feels the strong puls.ition of a new life through all her veins and arteries. Then these feathered songsteia of the grove, chil dren of light and air, pour out,.they cannot help pouring out in song the joy that thrills them, breathed into them from the great divine heart of the world. As I walked that road once upon a time, Francis, down to your pa's grind pa's, it was the brightest and balmiest season, almost, that I had ever felt. At that time I was engaged in writing that book called Within the Vail, and sometimes I would stop by the way side, no matter where I.was, and write down with a pencil the thoughts that rose in the mind from some preceding cause, or suggested by some object that .met my vision, or some sound heard CAN GE few odd Coats and Coats and Vesti e of at GREAT BARGAINS. Our)] urpassed, and will sell them at pri from 25c to $3.50. Our Wool U ~re so cheap, I will not quote prices iTH CHES 10 Ionb1e to lio !O US NOW I for the Cast what we say Duncan 75, Yeldell 62, McLaurin 4, Stanland 3, Walter 4. The Orangeburg and Berkeley dele Igations changed their votes from Stan land and Waiter to Duncan and that, wihthe votes of Blease and Anderson, elected him. The Testimonials Published on behalf of Hood's Sarsa parilla are as reliable and as worthy your confidence, as if they came from your best and most-trusted neighbor. They state only the simple facts in re gard to what Hood's Sarsaparilla has done, always within truth and reason. Constipation, and all troubles with the digestive organs and the liver, are cured by Hood's Pills. Unequalled as a dinner pill. What is "Reform?" [Greenville News.] This is certainly a day of new things in South Carolina, R. T. H. Bell adver tises that at Renno on Monday two Jersey bulls will fight. Not to omit the gentle sex of the bovine kind, an un limited number of cows will be ad mitted to a contest in the matter of milk giving for a prize of$25. "Adults" will be permitted to behold this in teresting exhibition of varying talents for $1 while "ladies" will be charged but 50 cents, the advertiser apparently proceeding on the gallant hypothesis that ladies never become adults. The legislature should stop at Benno on its way home and see the bulls fight and the cows give milk for twenty-four hours for a twenty-five dollar purse. afar off. I have always been friendly with the birds; always loved to watch their sportive ways, and always fan cied-no, it was not a fancy-that ] could perceive in the music a deel undertone, almost, if not quite, angelic and seraphic in its nature. I have fell often that I could even fra'me theli songs into English words and verses At any rate, I could feel and hear the words even though they were only sug gested by the rich melodious tone of the bird notes. I have just told you Francis, that on my walks I was Ii the habit of stopping by the wayside and writing thoughts or verses thal might come into my head. On thi particular walk I had just stopped ani taken a seat od a smooth rock near thi roadside by Mr. Crotwell's field. Somi lines had come.to me, suggested by I note of a bird that had just settled him self on a small hickory tree near -by He looked at me for a moment witi his bright clear shining eyes, when without warnh.Jie burst into a de licious, long drawn, half-dozen notes o richest bird melody. Then stoppinl a moment as if to tune his throat hi rose into a high and triamphant song and-darted like a bright beam of min gled light and music to another tre almost a hundred yards away. I Im mediately wrote: "And 0, such blissful songs the bird do sing Hid in their leafy coverts in the wood* Thcy know no fowler's gun with deadl; aim, Will ever harm them in these greei retreats." I was writing for the ideal world int which it is possible to translate thi Immediately, as though in response t my just written thoughts, the sam bird burst forth into a rich and glori ous melody just over my head, on th limb of the tree near which I was oil ting. Soon afterwards far down tb creek, so far that I could just hear i there rose an answering melody, in tone slightly different but sweeter possible than the first. Then anothe one over beyond the creek joined ir as though to say "I too am ready an will be ready and will be with you. And another and another, some ff and some near make response. It soo became evident to me that there ww something more than common in tb wind. They were coming nearer an nearer to where I was seated, .just as they were getting up an entertatnmer for my especial benefit. Ah, could -think so? It .was evident that the and posi ~ business, but o telling whatlIw which we ino a Come ar idrSuits g inced., I Iwonder a Don't Overdo the Thing. [Augusta Chronicle.) The Hampton, S. C., Guardian I its last issue contains the following: Mr. Alfred Shepperson, the we known cotton statistician, estimate the cotton crop of 1892-93 at 6,500,00 bales or less-a falling oft of 5,645,00 bales from the preeceeding year. 01 tbe strength of this statement the At gusta Chronicle thinks cotton "is necei sarily obliged to advance sharply I price * * * and that all the chanc4 are in favor of a firm and advancin market." This is cheerful news to ti farmers; but the rise in price it hoped, should not have the effect 4 stimulating over-production. This is good advice from the Gua dian, and it only emphasizes what i have said before. Our advice to ti farmers has been to continue the economical habits for another year; .1 hold down their cotton acreage as the did this year and to carry to agreat extent the resolve to raise food for zna and beast on the farm. If our souti ern farmers will raise at home all ti provisions they need, and not have. buy it all in the west, they will soo be able to snap their fngers at thi grim spectre "Hard Times." The South could not make a grave mistake than to produce another bi cotton crop next year. They are o rising ground now. Let them eor ntie to .be economical, ,and pitc anotprAr'small cotton crop If they wai ionb p rosperous. were not afraid of me, for they. kew $ that I was there. He who seemed to be the leader hopped- down ftOaiJhW- - limb of the tree upon -which he hi first taken his posioti and ightigon - Salittle bush near me, he aoftlywhes tied. I smiled, and even laughed out somewhat loudly,'when withajoyoos chirp he flew- af to his first pnosao and poured fourth a long, loud, 'gli melody, almost enough, it wouldaeem to burst the little fellows throat. But it did not hurt him inthe least. No,. he knew what he*was about. His~og.g was answered in a similar strain by that same one whom I had just heard : far down the creek. Ah, thought- T, is it possible that they are getting up a = concert for me? This is more than! - dared to hope for. Surely themefa lum is not far off. But suddenly-p strange-warning note was given by the leader and all was stilland hushed. Not a note wassung; notabird:chirped: for a long time. The silence wea found. The birds bid themselveu. every leaf; covert so thatt-twas possible for an unfriendly eye#a them, they sat so still and They had detcted, long beforeI the approach of an influenceunfriendly - and hateful to them. Here was a. wonderful instance ef sympatheticantipathetit feeling. These 3 birds had felt the approach of an ene my; they felt it in the tone of voice in which that enemy hadsunga few lines, and notes of a carousing or drnking 1 song. I had not heard nor seen the approach of any one; but thdeimm were so acute that they knew ofsr approach of a baleful influence lngbe. $ fore they could see the person f %m. whom the influence manat - not so much the fear-of e ger that made, them hide for they knew it was the b " that it was not usual for even eviia - lawless men togoganning on th ijb: , a The spell cast upon them by hi3n !fluence was of such a-nature that_ttey - r could not do otherwise tbn-oese: r - singing and hide themelves untibe d had passed. He passed nesrwhe '. was sitting merely said "good mern s ing," and, walking rapidly, was aoan a out .of sight. The leader of thbi M a musicians-watched him, and eve e lowed him, but without a sing- - bling note of song until e ar I away. 'Then on his return the er it gave a joyous and-nerr desni- =- - I quvavertrill; then al aoadebe bo v were alive and you ong haaee :" - -- - 4 tively will not do , my! for the Cash there's no_ Uldo. d See an-dbecon-. ion't stand still and hy there's nothinig ri for you. TMLAO JKgTAND I It Takes the Cot.. LGreenvllle News.1 Fifteen years ago in the old radl Sdays the governor's salary represented - about fifty eight bales ofcoetton and.th~ 4 1clerk of the house for a.month's work 3 sreceived sixteen bales of cotton. Under t.he present reform administration the - 3governor's salary represents -eighty 3 ibales of cotton and the clerk of the '. house receives for his months wo -and not very , hard work,. either-. itwenty-three bales. gWith many clergymen, publicapa eers, siners, and actors, Ayer's Oer 'Peeto is the favorite red or hoarseness and all affection,softe - if cal organs, throat, and lungs. Its anodyneind expectorant efetsare rpromptly realized. e Just s Good without Mistietes [r They were standing.under .the chan > delier when he suddenly put his arms y around her and kissed. her. - r "Why," she exclaimed,-as a scarlet aflash aroe to her cheek, "there is no mistletoe there now." S"That's why I did it," he said, with osmiling effrontery, "in short, to show ithat it's just as good when the m5J~ ttoe isn't there." -Not every wnary who arrives at gmiddle age, retains the color an&betin ity of her hair, but every womasay do so by the occasional application i k yer's Hair Vigor. It prevents bald.~C ness, removes dandruff, and: cpiILv -scalp diseases. - -