Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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S the Press and Banner taf"Published every Wednesday at S3 a ear Id advance. Wednesday, Jan. 29,1902. Whose Neat ? The Augusta Hera'd says: "HHrdiwlcfc is after Congressman Fleming's seat." Referred to the Chester Lantern. Does Hardlwlck own a seat in Congress? The expression of the Augusta Herald is on a par with a South Carolina office holder who spoke with energy aboat another man running for bis office. Off for Texas. Mr. I. C. McLano of Monterey, is off for Texas. He goes to Cameron where he will meet his three sons and a daughter. His daughter Miss Lizzie McLane, will go from ' Aobeville with her father. His son Foster B. McLane, who is in charge of the poor bouse farm the onlv membpr of the family to perpetuate the Dame. Mr. McLane Is now past sixty-one years of a^e. and when the time comes to depart, he goes with sorrow. To break up the associations of a life time Is bound to be a trying (ordeal. The Almighty , never coDtemplaied the transplanting of an old tree or an old man. When an old man leaves the place of his birth heart-aches are sure to follow, but we hope that flowers may bloom ) Texas fields and that nothing but pleasant memories may come to the old man In his dreams. PreniilfDt HarriNon. Vice-President F. E. Harrison of the Farm era Bank Is acting President of the bank dnr lng the absence of the President, Hon. VV. H. Parker. He will be glad to see any one having business with the Institution over which he Is now presiding. Those who need money and have the proper collateral can get from him all the money that may be desired. School Tax Election. In the election for four mills extra levy for school purposes the majority in favor was about twenty. Very little interest was felt In the matter, and the vote was a small oneless than a hundred. A. R. P. Church, Feb. A ~u -? 11 ? *** noTt. Sah. TOO pastor Will prctti-u at IX a. 1M. balb at tbe Associate Reformed Presbyterian Cburcb on tbe subject: The Sorrowful Question. "Is It I"? Friends and strangers are cordially invited. Daughter*) of the Confederacy. Tbe regular monthly meeting of the Daughters of tbe Confederacy will be held at tbe home of the president on next Tuesday, February 4lb, 1902. Lout?Small bunch of keys, containing Post office key Ac. between Post office and Baptist Cburcb. A liberal reward will b>glven for delivery of same at this office. Db. B. F. Wilson has resigned the Presi dency of Converse College, to take effect next June. Mb. J. W. McKee, one of our most enterprising young merchant?, goes to Hodges on Sundays, prospecting for a wire. Miss Douschka Mabtin of Newberry, s. C., alter spending several days wtib be> sister. Mm. T. W. Sloan, In this city, returned home on Monday. Mr. Bruzeale, tbe tailor has bought tht bouse recently occupied by Mr. Holllngs worth In Fort Pickens, and be Is now living there. Lost?A small black memorandum book. Will pay liberal reward If returned to me. L. T. Miller. If yon want to see tbe most complete line 01 up to-aaie *iauunery >uu oci om, uiu i?. Milford'a Drug Store*. Floe perfume aDd toilets soap a speclaltj with as. C. A. MUlord The Druggist. For lamdentB seed go to MUford Drug Store Phone 107. Nicb Jkwelry.?If you want nice Jewelry of tbe Dewevi and beet patterns, or II you need spectacles or watcbe?, call on J. W. Rykard. His goods are both pretty and cbeap. , He has beautllul presents lor loved onts. 11 Mill Stock fob Sale.?i win otter for eale on Sale Day in February live shares ol tbe common stock of the Abbeville Cotton Mill. Mrs. W. a. Lee. LETTEB FBOM MANILA. An Abbeville Man In the Pblliplues? Notes of Interest from tbat Far-oil m liMnd. Manila, P. I., November, 30, 1901. Mr. J. Hayne MoDlll, Abbeville, S. C. * ? 1"?' Hiivn?'?Thin will rfwh vnil. but hardly In time 10 greet you a Merry Cnrlstinas, but, possibly, iu lime for a Happy New Year. I bave learned wltb much regret, your mis fortune In being burned out in tbe early uu' tumn. I hope and trust tbat j ou were full) covered witn insurance and suffered no loss, except an interruption In business. 1 see from ibe newspapers tbatcotton muln tains a (airly good price, but bave not beam how tbe crop;) are around Abbeville. I bop< tbey are good, but suBpect tbat I am wruug as (be " Government Crop Report " states baa crops In tbe Atlantic Cotiou mates. Tnis place out bore is so far oQ tbat we learn things in a general way only lrom newspapers: very few ot us have access to more than one Hie of papeis. Since I was In Balllmort I have never taken one or tbe Abbeville County papers, and the only Information 1 have, or can gel of local adans, Is Obtained from letters. 1 bave been so busy since 1 ?rri?ed in Manila that 1 bave nrautica'lv bau to give up correspondence with my frlendc. I actually have not time to write olten enough to keep up toe correspondence. The boun people have entirely gone buck on uie iu tblillne. I expect to be bere about a year loDger when I will return to tbe United states, and bopt on my return to get a Ntatlon somewhere Id In tbe mountains, preferably In the *'Rockies " My health has been pretty good, but I have never entirely recovered from the attack 01 malarial contracted In Cuba, and 1 ani'am Ioub to ireeze it out with mountain cold. Tbe Manilla climate has been much abused. People, as a rule, wbo come over here In ? perlect state ol health live very comfortably* It Is unnecessary to say that it Is possible lor one to have typhoid fever, dysentery and numerous other diseases to which human man Is heir, but I do not believe that they have very much more bere than in the Southern States. However, when people get ou> and hike, tbey getsick. Tbe water tbioughout tbe Islands is polluted, auJ under uoclr cumstances can one afford to drink waterwhlchhas not been boiled. We have considerable plague In Manila and expect to have a deal more than ever next Spring ; a premium la now being paid by the city government lot UCttU litis. JCiVPI J 1UI UIVUiUK IU id UVIUh CA* amlned in the iaOriiory lor plague, ana aooui one per-cenl is fonnd lo have 11 This pre sage In Hi for tbe uatlve and Chino Inuabiiani la,likecomlngbprlngor dry ueaeou. During the rainy season, plague almost entirely disappears as far as man Is concerned. The rainy season lasls about nine months, three months of whico, the rainfall is about wbat yon would expect at home; the other six months it ranges from two to ten times as much. Affairs are settling down out heregeneraliy. The Filipinos are being licked at every polut and are gradually being forced to acknowledge the supremacy ol the Americans. He does so reiuctautiy as you may well imagine, lor the American does not look upon blm a* an equal, but treats blm as a buman being lower In the social scale tban the negro ai home; even the negro regards himself superior to the Filipino. The Filipino, of course, resents this attitude of ttie American aud will flgbt a good deal longer than any hope of success will warrant. There are a great many Americans over nere now uemuea me tiiui; , i|uuc a uuuiun have come over to enter Into business, others go Into business after being discharged iroui the army, and there Is quite an army of employees of the civil government. American ideas, push and energy are gradually permeation the whole of the Islands, but several generations wilt pa?s before a material Impression Is made. Manila, itself, however, will be an American city within live years. Foreigners consisting of British, Germans, Mpanlsh and Americans have practically the tuass of the import and export business to Manila and for the Islands as well. There are many rich Filipinos in the city of Manila, but they do not apparently care to eDgage iu an enterprise which leads them Into business connection with foreigners. As a rule, they know but little of the outside world. There are very few blguly educated Filipinos. Tnis is due largely to the distance of the Islands from Euro Dean colleges, and the fact that tbere are very few colleges over here; the! only ones of any accouuL, wbaisoever, are I those instituted by tbe itooiao Catholic Clergy. Ii will not be many years nowever, beloretbere will beasuflJclenluuinberof Ainer leans over tie re to warrant the establishment of a tirst class American college, wblcb will Offer to aoy one wbo Is desirous of obtaining sucb an opportunity, a good liberal education. I will not tatte up more of your time at present. I bope you will find time to write me occasionally, giving me tbe general news of tbe country at large and particularly of your. self and family. Witb best wishes for your good health and hoping that you and family are enjoying life, and with kindest regards to tbe madam, I remain, Very sincerely, J. M. Kennedy. P. 8.?Please remember me kindly to all my /rlendfl In Abbeville. _>?? 1 "y -.j gaaa= - sesesaggj A BUSINESS GIRL, Jj a Betty Holmes was au unsuccessful journalist, aud wheu both her parents ^ died withiu a few weeks of eucli other, s< her cousin, Daniel Oilberlshaw, took ?j her to live in Little Gorston. Even jt then Daniel was a big, slow, man, p witb a placid manner aud silver-streak- * ?d hair, aud years older thau his only w sister, Martha, who was uis uuuockeeper. He kept the only general |( shop in the village, and Jived iu the w cottage attached to it?so small a cottage that when he aunounced that y Betty was to find a home under its ^ roof, Miss Mattie really had some reason for asking him bow he proposed to make room for the new comer. "Woi, lass," Daniel answered, in hisslow way, "t' place ain't big, surely, sj but Hetty herself be only a bit o' a u wench." "She'll grow," Miss Mattie objected, j ".Belike, belikf, Daniel admitted, j.g uurutHed; "but 'twill not be so fast U( we'll not ha' time t' get usea v ic an plau accord in.' .No chap's bouse were L, ever robbed o' comfort 'cause t' orphan were given shelter iu it." 80 be went oft'to Loudon?far away, tj wonderful, confusing Loudon, whence be was glad to escape with the little t girl; and Betty came to live at "t' jj( shop" in Little Uorstou. She got 0J aloug with Lauiel famously from the Q( beginning; and on the Sunday after ^ her arrival, when she went to church tj with him, the villagers stared at the slim, black-frocked, pale-faced little u, creature, whose frail lingers rested confidingly in the huge brown hand of the clumsy gentleman, as they came up the church-yard path together. a, Miss Mattie came stalbiug grimly be- |)( hind?so grimly, that when the child aj glanced back, with a little smile, she was too frightened by what she eaw to dare to repeat the experiment. j Miss Mattie did not approve of Bet- ^ ty's coming, nor take to her. Her life k, was centered in her brother, aud from , the first she resented and feared the thought of the child coming between him and herself. She was willing to ai make many, if not all sacrifices for bim in ber own severely practical way, and she could not understand why he should desire anything else. ButDaniel?easy-going, slow-thinking, slower- * \-_j_i mm, tirm hanunea hp speaKing uauici?mm, ? m saw bis duty clearly before bim. .: ji "It's right, lass," be said to bis ?ister. "T' little lass ha no kitb nor kin j1( rcept you' an' I. We mun stan' by r, her." " And he did stand by Betty during y the years which saw her shoot up from D< a short-frocked child to a tall girl bor- ^ dering on womanhood. She came to be his constant companion, his right C( baud, his oracle in all his commercial r perplexities. She bad inherited from ner mother a quick braiD and an in- tB stinct for figures and affairs to make eI her a veritable business girl. Matters ol which made her big, gray-haired cousin ct groan in anguish or plod with futile rc helplessness over columns of blotted or involved accounts, were nothing to w her quick wits aud keen eyes. Daniel accepted ber help at the outset with cc marveling trepidation, which resolved into contented and absolute faith. , , Without Betty he was nothing; and the girl always remembered who had gj, stood between herself and the world, and treated him with all the respeci ^ uis owu aaugiuer uiigm u?vC pan.. Daniel never meant to drift apart w froiD his sister; but Miss Mattie, al- ^ chough devoted to him in her heart, and ready to serve him as his hand maid, lacked the gift of sympathy; rj' aud refused to take any part or interest (a in the affairs of the Bhop. She lost no ctJ opportunity of saying, in her old- w fashioned, prim way, that she disapproved of advanced women, and conMdered that girls were wholly out of place in business, even if that busi- a uess only extended to looking after a ju village shop. And, perhaps, Miss u. Mattie felt more bitterly than she cared ' to own, or even than she kuew, her Q< brother's unconscious transference of a so much of his allegiance to the girl ?, whom she regarded as an intruder, j She did not quarrel with Betty, but never pretended to be her friend or tr glad to have her iu the house. w The latent hostility and thinly veiled dislike made ,the girl uucomfortable aud unhappy, and one* she siig- H 11 4 ~ if .wnnl^ hu hcif tpr I ^esieu 10 L/amci luai IX nuuiv. ~. if she went away?but only once. 8he b( was startled by his distress and terror. ''Nay, nay, lass," he suid, Martha k( doesn't know thee yet. But her'll jj, learn?her'll learn. An' I couldn't ^ bide wi'out thee now. What would U( tlie shop be wi'out thee ?" tj( Ah, yes, Daniel well knew what the 0j shop would be without Betty?the u, shop wheuce came the living of them se all, and which wa3 to keep Miss Mattie d, from waut if she were left alone. Times w were changing, new rivalries and com- ^ petitors were springing up like Jion.s in the path. The stately, leisurely sj. methods which had been well enough once and had worked like machinery, Q( would no longer do. To win success and make a way now was needed youth uj and pushful tact?yes, the talents of the business girl, whom in his simple pious heart he thanked God every day ai for sending to him. Without Betty the shop woulQ be nothing at all. He re was growing old and tired, and Mist. m Mattie knew nothing, and would ecorn r to learn, even it it were not too late. Not that Miss Mattie ever tnougui so ^ herself. She did not suppose, of at course, that matters would go on in- ( definitely without a change, but cher- q ishedavague notion that Daniel and ()j herself would eventually retire on a Dj modest competence. [ , And even Hetty, although she anxiously watched the lines of thought ' deepening ou Daniel's face, did not t)( fully realize all his secret cure for the [ sister'who had lived with him so long without really knowing or understand j1( him. : So Betty remained to help Daniel j and to cling to the hope of winning ^ Miss Mattie in the end?a forlorn hope, apparently, and witnout much chance ri of realization. But, to compensate for sy this disappointment, into the girl's C1 life came a new interest?to make rt Daniel smile in his slow way, and Betty wonder sometimes, and to inspire her with a fresh and tender thought- ' fulness, the significance of which she (jj scarcely understood at first. George (j( Marsh was the sou of one of the farm- sj ers whose homestead lay beyond the sl village, aud he fell into a custom of ju calling frequently at the shop. Daniel liked him for his straight forward p character aud steadiness; Miss Ma1 tie favored him with nothing but a most ^ utuielv and reserved courtesy; and ? Betty?well, it was nobody's business "l but her own what Betty thought. Then Daniel died. He broKe down quite suddenly, and passed out of life just as simply as he had walked-his . daily path in his dull, kind way. A , little while before the end he pressed Betty's finger's and whispered 10 her, "Mattie '11 know?her'll know sometimes, lass. Btati' by her i't' houro' tribulation. The shop's nowt wi'out thee." y< His whisper was inaudible except to ,r the closely bending girl, but his dim eyes were not observant of the gray, sharp face at his bedside, and he gently f1 drew his fingers from the strong, j*c * .u;v ' ' J V * . ?y >t /. JK?* ouug clasp that had helped him'h< brough so many years, and groped jm bout until he touched his sisters band:!sb *r_*si ?? ?'? u ? \.fiaa U II LI I UltCl LUC lUIJCiai iu ion mavuvi :as like one dazed, but not softened.! gc lore grim than ever, going about with 01 it lips and red, swoolen eyes, a pa- w letic and yet an awe-inspiring figure 1 her deep black. She repulsed all th rotters of sympathy almost fiercely, sh tid did not exchange half a dozen ar rords with poor Hetty. co After Daniel had been laid to rest, li* owever, and alt was over, when they st: ere alone in the little kitchen and lif le >-hop was once more open, Miss lo [attie said something that almost th lade Betty's heart standstill. dc "You?you don't wau't me here?" ta ie girl gasped when she could trust ne ? - * "?H Vam tn ie-K mo fr? rrn u?>70t*9" or CI V UlUC. 1UU ? IOIJ JUL! C IV fju wni?j. vi "I think it will be best," Daniel's ar flter answered, iu a hard dry tone, w You and I have never agreed, Eliza- ca ?th Holmes. I never liked you, and th always thought my brother was mis- B( ikeu in having you here. But I will ht ot be unjust. You shall have time to nd something to do, and if you need w iiv help you need not fear to ask for dc hi Betty groped her way to her own pe ny room, She was taken by surprise be jd bewildered, although she had not wi ipposed, any more than Miss Mattie th erself, that things would have gone cr a unchanged forever. Only she had ty ut looked .'or such an abrupt disrup011 as this, and had hoped that in be me she might win Miss Mattie's lik- m tg and pay part of her debt to Daniel Bi v being a help and comfort to his sis- "1 r; and now all was apparently so th liserably over. When Daniel died. George Marsh was in ,vay op business for hi* father, and G< o message came from him to Betty, lei though she expected it. There had se ;en no formal engagement between w. lem, but his previous conduct had not m repared her for his silence in her time h? r trouble. But davs passed and I ] rough t no message. Only, as her ac iart urew heavier, Miss Mattie had A ;come more sour, and had looked at wi sr with an uneasiness in which defl- tri ice and struggling shame had been lingled. w. Daniel ha:* left no will. Apart from to le shop tneiv< had been little to be- an ueath, and he had taken It for grant- wl i that his sister and cousin would re- an iain together. Thus it happened that bo lere was no provision for Betty, lesnd a few pounds which had been sr mother's, and which Daniel had tfused to touch, and had allowed her i i keep a9 a nest egg in case of heed. ad it been different and herself inde- ve indent, she might have found it ea-ier i plead and reason with Miss Mattie; aD at, things being a9 they were, she to >uld not persist after one answer she av ic.eived. "My brother, Daniel, was always Iking about your cleverness and tal- ^ it for business. I don't think you lght to need to ask for a homo and larity when you know there is no gc iom'or you here." rj. Betty turned away, with her face pj n!ie huu ner lips preuseu muse iu ic- a? rain a sharp answer.1 She felt she Cq iuld not stop after that insult. But f0j le did not judge her cousin. Her ze jick girl's instinct told her that be- i jath all Miss Mattie's grimness and m, larp and bitter speeches there was a jivering pain and a crying out for te dead brother, who had been every- wj ling in her circumscribed life, and ^ bom another, although innocently, fa] id seemed to draw away from her. tu j it had come about that when Betty ot^ ad seen her box lifted into the car- jj er'scart, and turned and takeu her ua rewell at 'be shop, a swift impulse lused her to go back and kiss the tj{ ithered, cold cheek. Miss Mattie flushed ever so little, mi it the girl was gone on her way to ie station and to Londou; and, after HC( pause, Daniel's sister nave up start- eu g down the road, and drew herself f.u d with more than usual firmness. A, f*??/-??-?<-4o r\f fathap tirhr\ harl OUUJC 111CUU3 vji mwuwi, 3t forgotten her, had obtained Betty fG, situation in an office in the city. At cjj rat she was given only the most sim- , e duties; but, as time went on, her ^ ilue was understood, and she was en- m) usted with,niore important work, to hich she proved herself quite equal. t? , came to be acknowledged in the ot- t^( je that, if she chose to remain, Miss lat olmes was much surer of her position 8CJ id promotion thau many who had wj >en there long before her. . i Yet, although she did her duty and ca, spt a brave front to the world, her ;art was heavy. She could not forget re] auiel or the shop in Little Gorston, m( jr help thinking sadly of Miss Mat- tll e, whom she knew must be growing f0J d and lonely. She wrote two letters; aQ it the first was not answered, aud the ^ coud was returned unopened, ad- cjt esj-ed in Miss Mattie'a stiff handriting. Then Betty sighed, but even qj leu could not forget Daniel's dying faI ords; and, except her own returned, ue le had no letters from her old home. *-> -r -Hi r\ ..4. ^ r rom JUliue uorstuu, uieieiurt?, u?luc ex 3 news, and she could not prevail on j.n jrself to go there during the holidays, tio though a louging to see Daniel'* ^ ave wasstrougon her. She felt that ' le was not wanted by auy one there, ^ id that she would only make her pain ^ irder to bear by the visit. To this arj solution she kept firm, until the onths lengthened into two years, id then something happened. co, A great deal of the work in the office j1}| id to do with outside law matters, co id it was part of Betty's work to copy ne nfidentiai legal papers. It htippened je( lerefore, that one afternoon a bundle ' red tape bound documents was t0 aced on her desk, aud that within m] ye minutes afterwards she was in the ne rivate office of the head of the firm. ejj "I must go, sir," she said, "as soon as ^ jssible. 1 am very sorry, but if this cj( true I cannot slop, indeed." roj The solicitor glanced at the paper she a sld out. Its formal tenor was suffi- p]' ent to have made Daniel turn in his uv'o In nhrnsps-'ind tpnhnip.rtli es it set forth that Miss Gilbertshaw, ' Little Gorston, was on the verge of jla tin, and that, uulessshe immediately an itisfied the claims of the pressing wi editors, she would be sold out and duced to beggary. , Betty obtained leave, and went down > Little Gorston next day. She reach- n0 1 her old home in the evening, and a ismal welcome awaited her. Such a c|( reary, miserable, almost empty little f0| iop; such a bare, comfortless cottage; ja] ich a faded, weary, sick-at-heart [iss Mattie! Ah, no! Betty did not mi eed to be told how it had all happened. trj aniel's sister had known nothing of m usinefS?not even how to manage a au lop?aud new rivals had risen to r()| ght pitilessly against her futile efforts (. w id her ignorance, until all was come mj i the verge of ruin. ,0 When Miss Mattie saw Betty comicr throueh the untidy shop into the ?? leerless kilchen she put out her thin j Etnds to ward her off* I, "Not you!" she said. "Not you?l! mnot bear you here!" And then she would have fainted,' q1( ad she not been caught in the strong j ue DUhgarms whose help she had thrust | 1 om hero'*ce. Gentlv Betty restored Of er and helped her to lie dowu. Tbe ge vo year* bad uiade her au old woman, jj| larked with struggling, and care, and th< mely weariness. That night saw her }ec ' rvering between life and death, and oaning incoherently to herself as ie held fast to Betty's hand. To Betty's hand, which was no less ritlo whim the rrirl r>ailtrht. thf? mnatl it words of delirium and understood hat bad been done, Betty did not return to the office in ecity. She was wanted at home, e wrote, and the firm excused ber id wondered how a bu-iuess girl uld throw away her prospects so tbtly. It was a long and wearisome ruggle to win Miss Matlie back to e; aud in another sense, an equally ng and wearsome matter to avert the reatened ruin. All the girl's inimitable courage, all ber brains and lent, and also all her savings, were ^eded to extort patience from the editors, to unravel the fearful tangle, id to save the shop. But it wasdoue, ithout help or faltering, and a day me when matters were almost as ey had been in Daniel's days; aud stty repeated nothing of what she id heard to Miss Mattie. rhere was at last a pleasant evening, ben the ghost of Daniel's sister came iwnstairs, sharper featured than ever, it robbed of all her grimness and asirity, and when she saw what had en done, and knew that her home as safe and that she was free from all e struggling, she burst into wild ying, and would have knelt at Bet's feet had not the girl prevented it. "You'vefave me!" shetaid ''You've en the messenger of the Lord?the pssenirer to the unworthv servant. ut you don't know what I've done." ifes, I know," answered Betty, genY> "You know?" repeated Mis* Mattie, credulously. ' You know that when eorge Marsh wrote to you I kept his tters back, and that when he wa9 eking you I told him I didn't know here you were? Oh! Betty, Betty, y wicked heart! I thought that you id come between Daniel and me, and tiated you, and I could not bear that lything should keep you near me. ud when I was sorry afterward, I as afraid, and dared not tell the nth. But I will." AAdsbedid, bravely and simply, hen George Marsh came hastening see her in answer to her message; id it was Daniel's sister, after all. bo put Betty's hand in her lover's id begged forgiveness from them lb.?End. , BOYS AND THE FARM. j The 8outh has missed; many of its ys during the past fifteen or twenty ars. Tbey have drifted to other parts the country, principally to cities, id in their successes have contributed the upbuilding of communities far /ay from their homes. It is time for is program to be changed. The luth is ottering greater and greater iportunities to its young men. But e change will not take place unless e leaders of puplic opinion in the lutb induce the boys to take the jht view of tbeaituation. Thenewspers of the South are beginning to rvi.,ffrtv n nrl or* 4 n fnroo i r* or uaic tuc ujai/iu, auu au luwAvoviug ntribution to the discussion is the llowing from the Sau Antonio Gatte: i "A contemporory advises young en not to quit the farm, but to stay ere aad reap the reward of fruitful dustry. Advice o( that sort comes th better grace from one who has monstrated his preference for the rm by devoting himself to agriculre than from one who sits in a stuffy tice in the city and writes of the dehts of country life more from imagition than from actual experience. 'The young mau who has aspirates for something higher and better an mere plodding may be ever so uch attached to 'chilhood's happy me down on the farm' and all the enes and associations by which it is deared to him, but he has no sooner it school than the allurements of e city create a longing for the wider Id of effort aud the quicker returns * labor which he is persuaded the y offers. 'The hunprum life of the farm is too 11 and piosaic for the young man of Jttle aud spirit to plod through when contemplates the bustle and activi, the ceaseless round of gaiety and e dazzling opportunities for accumuiug wealth and for rising in the lie of business and social distinction lich the city is supposed to afford. 'After the farmers boy has beeneduted' he begins to look upon farm lar as beneath his dignity and far less aumerative that the gentel emplo-y jnt of whatever sort to be found in e city. And so when he strikes ont himself, the farmer's boy who has ibitiou seeks the busy haunts of instry to become a lawyer, a doctor, a irb- r?r nnvthiiior #>!?(> that will enable cu to live in the city aDd enjoy life, course it is all a mistake, as many a mer's boy has learned from sad ex-, rience in the city, where labor is agested and where the struggle for istence imposes hard conditions, un,own in the country. The tempta>n to vice and immorality may be esped, bnt the temptatiou to extravance is not so apt to be. The larger iges may|come to the city boy, but b greater saving is with the farmer, d at the end of the year the latter s ihe most to show for his industry. 'Nearly all the great men of the untrV in literature and in statecraft ve come from tbe farm, and the untry air seems to have a special fitss for developing the stronger iutel;t, as well as the higher virtues. U proper efforts have not been made render farm life ideal. Bad roads ake the distances too long between ighbors, and there is not sufficient ort to form attractive social circles. jo farmer boy might have liis bieyi and his pleasure vehicle, but the ads are so nearly impassable during *reat part of the year that it is no ?asure to travel over them. So the ances are that he keeps neither a bicle nor a butjgy, and though he lives ly a few miles from town, he would ,rdly think of driving in and out for evening's enjoyment in town, iiich he might easily do under more arable circumslnuces. 'It is easy to see how farm life might made far more attractive than it iw is ; how neighbors might be ought closed together and social cir;s formed by improving the facilities travel which virtually climate disuce. llapid transit has built up the rburbs of the cities, and may do as uch for the most remote country discts, especially when carson electric ilroadsrun at the rate of 110 miles hour, as is proposed by ttie new ad which has been chartered beeen Liverpool and Manchester. ?eu, perliaps, everybody will desire live in the country and only have siness location in the city. But en then will the educated farmer y still be content to live on the farm, follow agricultural pursuits and to ply his education to the higher deiopment of the farming interests and e conduct of the business on busiss principles? 4Will agriculture reach the dignity a science, requiring as much intelliut thought and purpose as auy other le of industry, and agriculturist take e rank to which he should be entit1 in the social scale ? Not until the farmer is educated for the farmand takes pride and glory in being a farm-1 . er;" " ' -Vi \* 11 Very wisely, the Roanoke Times ' says: "There are comparatively few city boys who drilt into the country, whiie i the number which find iheir way to " j the city is large. A minister addressing a large audience as Buffalo the other day said that a very great per cent, of the successful men in the cities were those whose early lives had been spent in the country, and who had drifted to the city in scarch of fortune. If this is true, aud it is true, as most ?..? ?.:II nir AHn,iu UUJUUC Will all IJLl I t/f ail IUC IUVIO U1CUIL is due these country boys who And so much of temptation and glitter awaiting them when they come to town. There is no doubt about the hardships the country boy has to put up with when he reaches the city. He is usually a very lonely individual. He lives in a dingy boarding-house, follows a regular routine of work and has little comfort. When begets through with his day's labor there is nothing for him to do but to go back to his lonesome room and go to bed. He arises the next morning and goes over the experience of the day before. Every day is the same. It is small wonder that many of them yield to the allurements that the city presents at night and find companionship among those who are not good for them. Yet those who do stick to the determination that brings them to the city always succeed. They have to struggle harder than they would in the country, but their opportunities are larger and the fruit of tbeir labor more valuable. Bringing with him the freshness and vigor of the country atmosphere, the country boy is able to irnpart more energy to his work and to pive more careful attention to his duties. "The city-bred boy going to the coudtry to live usually finds it a bore. He is used to excitement' and something to occupy his mind when he is not at work. His evenings are more of a burden to him than those of the country in the city. He rarely stays long, and if he does remain he is often beard to complain of the bard fate that has condemned bim to such a life. The surroundings may be comfortable to him, but they are different from those'hc has had in the city, and they do not appeal to him. Getting up early in the morning and retiring early at night are new to him, and furnish a revolution in his habits that he is unable to adapt himself to without much inconvenience. Of the two classes the country boy coming to the city is the more contented. It is to be deplored that so many should leave the farms and seek a living elsewhere. The country needs, not the boy who ? comes from the city, but the boy raised in the couutrv. It would be better if bis vigor and fresh energy were directed in building up the resources of bis native neighborhood. This is his natural heritage, and . one that he is better fitted to develop than the boy from the city. Yet the cities would soon miss the country boy and his impress upon their affairs were he stop joining forces with them. The changed conditions for the boy in the South are sketched by. the Char- J lotte Observer, with the addition of some good advice, as follows : "In the time before the civil war it ; was not uecessary for parents to worry about what their sons would do when they grew up. Outside the professions ' the great occupation was raising cotton, aud the average youth got a most excellent training on the plantation or < farm. This training together with a common-school or college education, turned out a young man at twenty-one I years of age who was capable of going ' immediately to work planting and producing cotton or tobacco, occupations that were amply respectable, and when attentively followed, reasonably f)rofltable. For'tho^e who had no taste or the professions of law, medicine and th? .ministry there was always this unlimited opening, and in growing up the boys were always sufficiently in contact with it to qualify them to successfully conduct its operations, . "In the new conditions that have developed since the civil war the situation of the youth as to future occupation is very materially changed. It has become importaut for parents to concern themselves while the soq, is yet young as to what he is going to prepare himself to do in after life. Educition alone does not qualify a young man to make a living. Witn or i without education, experience and practical training are also necessary. Much of this experienee and practical 1 trainiug could be acquired at an early age if some care was taken to help a boy decide what he proposed to pre- s pare himself to do and he was brought i into 9ome sort of contact with his worfc j while he was yet a boy. "Even if the boy should afterwards j conclude to change his first purpose, s the practice and experience bad in his \ first selection would not be lost. The c contact of the country boy with farm life and his experience and training q on I he farm is well known to give him t preference in the city over the city boy r with notrainiugat all in almost-any t competition for a job. r "It is pitable the number of well-in- c structed youth the colleges are turning out who have selected no particular a occupation, and who at twenty one a years are, in many cases, more helpless c in a matter of actually doing some- a thin? than farm bovs twelve years old. t "In saying this tnere is no purpose a to disparage educatian. On the contrary, the room for further develop- t ment of education is practically un- e limited. But the number of college graduates who each year start out 5 huntine 'Dositions.' who are willincr to r undertake'almost anything,'but who c are actually qualified to get no full or t valuable result in any way, would be c very materially reduced if the boys c could be induced to make some effort to get some idea of the practical side of j his future occupation while yet young, i Such apprenticeship or other work of s training would put to profitable use t much time that the city boy now t spends in idleness or puts to worse use. b The boys of the South are usually of jj the most excellent material, aud with ^ a little judicial aiil in boyhood to help a them prepare for a life'occupation it i] might be made much easier for them ii to prosperously embark at about twenty-one years of age on their life's v voyage." i< D t Itiirksdulc's I.oiiiIn. V Get your garden seed from W. D. Burksdale. v New ?upply Just In. You will need noruo fertilizer for your gar- n den i hlH j ear. Buy Knymer's bone goods from \IT l\ I)n..L.o.lolo Tlmu DK Iho hnut Seed oa's, runt proof and red oats. When you need corn, oats, meal, flour, ba- . con or other supplies call ou us. Fresh lot of garden seed. Got prices from W. D. liarksdale before you 0 buy your molasses. D Canned goods of all kinds can be found at fi the store of W. D. Barksdale. J Car load of New Orleans molasses jus't received. Keep your eyes on DuPre's show windows ^ and get bis prlccs on vases, dolls, nod other Christmas goods. g We exchange school books. Speed Drug.Co g i ' L.'.-UUj. LJL1_?I1^ J. W. Mc Has opened up at Wile stock of New Good Groceries, Dry Goo< Glass and Tinware, bles, Flour, Sugar, Meat and Lard. Specialty. When in need o: call and see me. j. w. a " Virgi|iia=< m * *a ^nemicai1 CHARLES' R1CHMON ATLANTA Largest M&nufaci Fertilize! Importers c<f . . . Pure Germn Muriate of 3 Nitrate of S( Sulphate of It is important in buy only to buy goods of establi grade, but to buy wher character can be supplied. We are in position t goods and in such quantiti will pay you to see us bef : Address Virginia^? w Cti Send (or Virninia-Carolina Ahsantt. free for the ilfiki.'ig. For Sale! i I ===== 8 c Abbeville Steam Lanndry, ) i Good Family Horse, \ I Single Phaeton, . ' j B 1 Horse Dooble Seat Surrey, J I Sets Boggy Harness. 1 - t Prices Reasonable. See Me I t at once. f P HMDI u. i. uiiiTiiiiimu. ; Jan. 21, 1902. 8t 8 C 7 f, NATION'S NEW MONEY YAULT. b t a 8 Holds Million* and Thlevea Could ( Not Break In. a In the panic of 1893 there was a J) udden call for bank notes from banks n all parts of the country. The de- 1 nand, beginning in moderate terms, ? >resently increased to eroumous projortions. It wiped out the $5,000,000 b upply of bank notes in the treasury 11 raults in no time, and still the call joutinued. J The issue division. of the treasury tl lepartment was set to work double 6 ime in the effort to keep up the sup- ?j >ly. It fell behind hopelessly from he first, and at one time there were ? equests for some $30,000,000 more than A :ould be supplied. a. Naturally this increased the panic ,nd aided in bringing about disaster, " ,nd the authorities at Washington ?' ame in for severe criticism. Their " ,'nswer was that the $5,003,000 in bank ? lotes on hand took up all the space .vailable for such storage. "Provide more space, then," baid he banking interests:'and the govrumentset about doing so. The result of that complication is a vonderful new vault, just now competed, which will store $90,000,000 in aouey. With this enormous sum on iand it is not probable that any demand will be able to exhaust the imaediate resources. The new vault is 12 feet square and ts walls rise to a height of 12 feet, .'he liuiug is composed of Bessemer teel plates three eights of an inch In hichuess, and these are securely faseiied by means of huge screws and olts to a frame work of steel, which i built into the masonry. All the liireoo holes, nearlv 6.000 in number. re of steel and there is not au inch of flammable material in the furnish gs of the vault. This receptac e of the nation's wealth is doubtless an object of deep auging to some thousands of gentleoen who make a living by helping hemselves to other people's money in paya not sanctioned by the law, but it yould be a veiy remarkable cracksflan, or array Jof cracksmen,;for that aatter, who should get anywhere near he ?90,000,000 securely nested in the lew vault. This new vault can be entered only hrough the old vault, and its location 3 impossible to determine from the utside of the building. The government has even gone so far as to put in ilse windows, heavily curtained, to eceive any one who might try to deermine the resting place of the treasre from outside. Two special guards who h&ve for ears done sentry duty over the bank lotes, guard the new vault as they uarded tne old. i3ut even if these uards could be overcome the bank|y( f . , ler's Old Stand a nice Is, Staple and Fancy M Is, Crockery, Lamps, 9 Fruits and IPe^eta-.. ;-.3 Coffee, Meal, Grits, *. j Country Produce a || f anything in my line | Yours truly, m jr ^ rm-r* v v$ LVXCH?^A UL. Carolina | ' ^ shed reputation and W ies as buyers desire. It , aMA iummittee^lieved thatjthe^ rancef Now there are duplicate looks n those doore, and the whole coo- ' I * ut dynamite woultfhave much effect ; || torehouse -of wealth opposite the \'M iVhite house has the benefit of one of 1^ he most complete systems of griahia ver devised. About seventy watch en are employed and they work iar . v-u bree reliefs, patrolling the entire . ^ tullding at all hours of the day'and In. the office of tbe captain of the ' *<H; patch are recording instruments to . ^ vhieh each watchman mast send an; utomatic report once every half hour vJ phileonduty. Tbe captain's office is ' ontinaally iu^ communication ' V?|j ommandant at Fort Mever and-the" ommandant of the Washington ar- ? eDal, so that in the event of emergen- ' y the police or a cavalry or artillery Dree could instantly be summoned. Stacked in the various parts of the milding where money is stored, are , v. ufflcient weapons'to arm over a thou- . V/. and men and quantities of ammani- . vk?3 ion. The interior of the building is ' s-'^m lao lined with wires to fascilitate '".a uick communication and should any jolbardy robber attempt to intimidate ' be treasurer, assistant treasurer or ashler, the official would only have 3 press a button under his han< l to ping an armed force to his assistance 11 less than 30 seconds. At 5 o'clock each day all the doors of lift trMDiirv hnilrfl no> *ro nlnoiu) oavn 'i 'l V.H hose at the main entrance, and by 6 'clock every, person save the watchlen must have left the building and ae keys to all the various doore been elivered to the captain of the watch. listing the guards on tha inside are number of outside watchmen staoned in'sheltered postB or watchouses, so disposed as to command <" very foot of the exterior of the bnlldig and its approaches,?New York ' /mt un. WHEN YOU TAKE MEDICINE You do so because you want to get well quick- ? , .O T. ly. Bring your . . . ' PRESCRIPTIONS to our Drug Store and we will help all we can. . . Your medicine will con- - J' /fj tain exactly what the Doctor directs, and it will be compounded from purest and best ' fresh drugs. Our prices are much below the average. All goods delivered at your home imm^rliai-AlTr w i t Vi n r? extra charge for the delivery. Let IJs Fill * Your Prescriptions. THE SPEED DRUG CO. Dont fall to see oar Ads Una of ntnae who*. )u come to the fair. Mllford'a drag store. ' - : V ^ J