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The Press and Banner rel W W. d YV. R. ItRAItLET, Editors P ABBEVILLE, S. C. 5B@? ?#-PabllBhed every Wednesday at 82 a |Bsb year In advanoe. K Wednesday, July 27,1910. Wj& Prodigality. No State of tho United States is so blest with fruits, domestic and wild, as is Soutl Bb| Carolina. Bra There is no year with winter so seven Bag! ana protracted that fruit fails us altogeth er. So common and so plentiful are oui fruits that we do not value them at theii real worth, in fact many of us, do not loot on them as having food value. If there were any way to form statistics of the amount of fruit that will be utterlj H neglocted and wasted in South Carolina ir H the year 1910 the result would be astounding and would rightly bring down on out heads the severe condemnation of thos< students of the economy of living wh( know |the| important part that the fruit crop should play in our living. This waste does not go on in fruit farms. There the fruit is systematically looked after and harvested, but it does go on on I our farms and about our homes to an unreasonable extent. Many times have you seen an apple tree loaded with fruit which falls to the ground to rot. Like Grey's flower born to blush unseen. On asking a farmer why he did not market the fruit from such trees he replied. "There is no use, I could not sell them if I had tliem in town, and besides 1 have not the time to take them to market because I am busy in my crop". And so the apples rot! Peaches, too, go to waste in Abbeville County by the tons It would seem that people guilty of such waste would suffer, and they do in a way. They make their cotton but when the short days and the long nights come many ot them feel the need of the fruit that was wasted the previous summer. There is much in what the farmer said about the market. There is not always a ready market for his orchard fruits. Almost all the housekeepers have fruit of their own and do not go on the market to provide themselves with such fruit, but this is not ^sufficient reason for us to let our ^orchard fruits rot on the ground. They may be dried or they may be preserved so as to keep for months and they may be marketed in this form -when it ^ would be Impossible to do so as the fruit ripens. The blackberries and the old field plums that rot in Abbeville county each year would sink the American Navy, and yet these two fruits stand at the very top of the list In point of nutritive and health giving qualities. Not long since several Chlcoproans spent the summer in Greenwood County, and when the wild mulberries becran to ripen they began to get bnsv. True to the Instinct to save all of value they canned mulberries to the Intense amusement of the neighbors. The Chicagonan^ were brought up in a dlffierent school of economy to that in which we receive our schooling and it is second nature to them to I save, and while we might draw the line at canning mulberries still it might be well [for us to realize that we do waste tons of fruit that could be turned Into healthy food and even to money, had we the energy to do so. There is no excuse for the peaches and \ apples to fall off their stems and rot. It were better that we change our law and provide some means of turning them into brandy rather than to have the fruit to go thus utterly to waste. The brandy proposition is one reason there are so many peach trees scattered over the farms. Before the war each farmer made his own brandy and to do this he had to have peaches and apples. The brandy is gone but the peach and the apple remain. Let us use them somehow and not allow this great food crop to go thus to waste. Union ServiceOn last Sunday night Union Services were held at the A. R. P. church. The little church was full to overflowing. The Rev. Mr. Pratt of the Presbyterian church preached a splendid sermon on the Unity of Christ and his Church. In the course of his remarks he spoke in commendation of Abbeville's custom of holding these Union Services. xne union services are aiways wen attended and the purpose of such services is being fulfilled. The churches should meet often on a common grtund. After all there is but the one great purpose and that should never be lost sight of. The The Union services bring us into closer relationship. The Union services broaden our creeds. The Union services strengthen the tie of our common brotherhood and bring us closer to our Elder brother. Let us keep them up. Let us lend them our encouragement by our attendance. The Moving Pictures Move. The opera House is the scene for kaleidoscopic movement these pleasant nights. The pictures as a rule are very good and, as we prognosticated months ago, the crowds are on the increase. By the last of the season everybody will be going to see the moving pictures. You can drop in almost any time and see interesting pictures for a pleasant hour. Change of pictures daily make the week one round of varied entertainment. The Civic League now asks us to boil all of our water and we have a mind to take a vacation in Augusta or Charleston or Milwaukee where people drink?where they don't drink water at all. Our vote is ready for the Legislator who will show us the way to "pike" Abbe" ville County from A to izzard and lead in the work. Good roads are coming and we .. might just as well get ready to pay for them and get them. The Deadly Fly. Hardly as large as the nail of the little linger, yet able to carry G,G0u,000 germs. It is a disease aeroplane! And it carries consumption, typhoid and other repulsive disease tferms, above its altitude rudder. It may kiss the lips of a consumptive patient, ana then fiy to kiss the lips of a sleeping infant. It can dip its deadly bill in typhoid germs and carry them to impregnate the morning bread. Then like a ghoulish atom, it may fall in the morning coffee and form a cup of poison as deadly as the asp of Cleopatra.?Johnson JNews Monitor. j (Consistency. (Contributed.) A numl>er of our exchanges are criticis ing the consistency or inconsistency of tii candidates for Governor. This scribe a ways reserves the right to change hi mind next week -if convinced thatwcwei wrong, or mistaken, last week. Consis oncy is a f<H>l, and never learns anythinj Only fools and dead men never chanj. their mind. It may be that some of tl candidates fur Governor know more aboi the liquor business today than they kne about it years ago, and their added know [ edge has warranted a change of the , mind. We have always voted, as wo thougli ? for the least evil in the liquor traffic, ai . expect to do the same thing in the futur r but we do not propose to vote for Sta r wide prohibition. As we look at it. Abb > ville County has no legal or moral right interfere with the local government or o ; fairs of another county. The wishes i the people of other counties should be r , spected, even as other counties respecte . the wishes of the people of Abbevil . county. , Another matter: If prohibition is forct , on an unwilling county, how are we to ei force the law in that county ? Again: Prohibition, with no provisic for the aged or the sick to get whiskey, I not right. A law that is too stringent cai ! nut Ui ?iu nut ut* cuiuiuuu, uuu ouuuiu in be enforced. Very many old persons, an some sick persons, or their physician , think they need a little whiskey. Is i [ then, for their neighbors to deny it 1 1 them ? "We care not what any candidate thougl , years ago of State wide prohibition, or 1 cal option, as we do not expect to vote f< a "State wider." Nor do we expect to vol for one who is not in favor of inodifyin the existing law?if there is such an one i the iield. I "While we voted against closing the di pensary, wo would not vote to open again. But the prohibition should be s modified that feeble folk or sick folk, < others needing it as a medicine, could I allowed to keep it in their houses, even they were not legally allowed to buy it. ? Should Judges Delay Opinions Charles Dickens emphasized the tard ness of English Courts, that often delayc even to the miscarriage of justice. In a recent number of the Saturda Evening Post nu merous cases of delay i oar own courts -were cited, in some < which, judgment was so long suspended I application for new trial, appeal and othe wise, that the parties originally gainin the suits, died or gave up in despair, fc want of funds to further prosecute the: claims. That such delays are common even i our State Courts seems incredible; an yet they are. In this County when Greei wood was a part of it, the Pope Salina case, a suit over a house and lot in Ninet Six, in one form or another, was in th courts for ten or twelve years. A growing evil of the courts is th tendency of Judges to hold up their dc cisions. The State Constitution provide that decisions must be rendered withi j? J- ? i.L. ^ i :_ si.\ty uity? noiu uaw ui iieuniiif, uii yet some Judges have held cases thro months, six months and even twelv months. When it is considered that th tortuous way to the Supreme Court, an possibly back for new trial, must be er dured by the parties to a suit, and the ir terests of the parties, however momentu must stand In abeyance, all the whil< there is little wonder that the people con: plain of delay in court procedure. "While there is no court other than th Legislature that can hold a Judge accour table for such delays, a sense of his res ponsibility, consideration for the interest of the parties .to a suit, and the plai mandate of the constitution should b to him imperative reasons for renderin, his decisions promptly. The May Pop Next to nut grass the May Pop is th most industrious hard working plant o the South. In season and out of season i worns. it is an example ior me siuggaru For penetration and -'stickability" it ha no equals, nut grass excepted. It is said that one Mr. Leard of Abbf ville County while digging a well an having reached a depth of soineteing lik fourty feet encountered there a root, whit and succulent which to his astonishmon proved to be the top root of a May Po vine. Mr. Leard had always wondere why it was when cotton was nearly dea for the want of moisture that the may po seemed to thrive just as well as ever, tha while the Jblades of corn shreveled an dried up during a drought the may j>o was ever green and nourishing. When h discovered the root at^tlie bottom of tin well he no longer wondered. The May Pop is a beautiful flower. It i! much prized by people who live in a differ ent clime from ours. Not long since man who lives in Ireland wrote a frien in South Carolina to send him a passio flower. The flower was forwarded. The May Pop got its name of passio: flower from the early Spanish settlers c the South. They were a sentimental ire aginative people and could see more in i flower than the ordinary man. They in; agined that the flower represented th Passion of our Lord. The fringe, vari colored, was taken to represent the crow of thorns. Just above the fringe are liv yellow petals on green stamens, these t Hia imaginative SDunish mind reDresentei the marks of the wounds. Two in th hands, two in the feet and one in the sid< Still further from the fringe are thre styles which represent the nails of th cross. On account of the large and beautifi flowers many of the May Top species ar cultivated in hot houses. In tropici countries they are cultivated for thei fruit. POSTMASTER ABROAD. He Sees Better Corn and More of It tha Ever Before?Peas Are on Their Be: Looks?The Cotton is Good and Blooir ing? Farmers Prosperous. Postmaster Tolbcrt of Abbeville lias jus returned from a visit to the Antrevill country. He reports that the people hav more acreage and better corn than eve before. Peas are looking well. The cottoi is good, except on sandy spots. W. E. Lc lie, S. J. Wakefield, Joe Hill and Mr. Bel have notably fine fields of corn. Tlies fields are practically made. Other field will need more rain. Mr. Sevier Wilsoi carries the star route mail dally, excop Sunday, from Antreville to Brownlee post office, "making of thirty miles trip, cross ing Little River over the fine new bridg< at Martin's Mill. Antreville may act th< part of Joseph in feeding the hungry. Prof- Patterson WardlawProf. L. \V. Dick, Superintendent of the >- Abbeville Summer School, has arranged e for several lectures. The first was deI livered Monday night by Prof. Patterson i is Wardlaw of the Sout h Carolina University. I o Prof. Wanllaw spoUo of the great] t- changes that are going on in education and the tendency of the day toward voc.ice tional education. An appreciative nui-iie enee heard the address which was internt esting because it was intensely practical, w' opening to the minds of his hearers some"1 thing of the thought that is being agitated ir in educational circles all over the land. | lie spoke of how Educators are noting d. the value of technical education and are id about ready to cast off as useless and e.'worthless many things that our fathers te studied asiduously. e- As a matter of fact we are just entering to an era of universal education, which of .f- course means mind training for every of man and woman in the body politic for e- some purpose in life. If education then fd s to serve its purpose it must not only le train men for the polite professions but alw train men for the common vocations sd in life, and as we all know, to do this will i- require many radical changes in our present standards. >n To take a concrete example: mere are is in our city, say, among the white popula11 tion of 2500. Five ministers of the Gospel, )t eight lawyers, six doctors, eight pharmaid cists, sixteen teachers and maybe a dozen s, others whom our present methods of t, education would help vocationally. There to arc then fifty five out of two thousand and five hundred! "What about the other two it thousand four hundred and forty-five? (v Have they not the right to demand some >r vocational education? Do they not pay te their part of the taxes? There are some ig of the questions that are occupying the in thoughts of our educators of to-day. Of course the schools, and colleges as s- well are open, to boys and girls from the it industrial walks of life and always have jo been but what is there for them in the )r colleges and schools. Prof. Wardlaw says >e most people answer this by saying that if they have their minds trained but that> he doubts whether five men out of a hundred know just what they are talking about when t.hev answer thus. No plan for the education of those two j. thousand four hundred and forty-five has >cj been formulated. Schools and colleges all over the county are experimenting, feeling ? in tho dark for some method by which n they may accomplish something for the ->f vocational classes. y Years ago vocational education was rer. ceived thru tho old method of apprenticcg. ship. Many men in Ablicvillo to-clny )r received their education thus, hut to-day jr men are asking tho question why cannot the schools of our State accomplish for n the individual what the old apprenticeship ^ plan accomplished. The question has not j. yet been answered. But there is a '.way' lg and it will be found. Be assured that the y teachers of this land are not asleep and no e more progress is being made in any other profession than in the teachers profession. e It is their problem and they will work it out in their own good time. s ? - ? r" LECTURE ON THE HOOK WORM. e . e With a Prelude by the Editor 0 j On Friday night Dr. Ward of Georgetown, the Government Expert on the Hook worm, will deliver an illustrated lecture in the High School Auditorium on the subject "Hook Worm." ' We will proceed to deliver our lecture now, a sort of preludo to the main play. e The Hook Worm Is a sort of narrow minded insinuating invertebrate with de. cided carnuovous tendencies. He is ovoviviparous, and while he is not so large n as a equirrelor a rat he l>elongs to the e familyof rodents, that is ho gnaws mainly p for a livelihood. The horpetology of this infernal reptile has been developed by one Dr. Styles who is proud 'of his job, tho little kens ho of the uneasiness, the self examinations, the doubts and uncertaine and even agrivatod hysteria he has 'f brought on the body politic by so doing, t Lest we should shock tho modesty of some reader wo will say that tho Hook s Worm has his habitat in shady places, iTlio word "shady" is here used ligura' ively.) J There he lounges around and possesses e ^imself in all the patience that he can, e longing for some little boy to put his podt al extremely on him. Once stepped on p he resents it with all tho energy that ho J possesses and spends ,the rest of his life d in wreaking vergeance. Boys should be P very careful and look where they step lest it they should tread on one of these vindi u dive nttie animais. P Vermes, that order of Zoology -which e comprises worms, fail to give any history 2 of the Hook worm. We may safely say, however, that it is no relation to tho Hook 5 Bill or the Hook Squid. His family tree - lias somehow been misplaced and it is not a known whether his ancestors were jointed d snakes or "Stingamarees." Suffice it to n say he has developed marked interest in his history 1 about which wo will learn n something Friday night. 'f I3ut to revert: when once this aboinini able "paller killer", seizes on to a little a boys epidermis he hangs there like grim i- death to a defunct Stnogambian. He wige gles his way thru the poros and Sweat - glands just as you have often seen a large 11 cat fish wiggle his way Into a fish basket, e and when once introduced to the boys ! l.? U I. Jo l,?f f>1,l|c " nervous SJ'BIUUJ 111; uan^a 1<1< I no imu, |>uim ^ off his coat (if you don't believe thin just 0 ask Dr. Ward Friday nighti and begins to circulate like a red hot cornet in tin* so6 lar system. e While the scoundrel is amphibious lie never-thc-lesa posessos decided a<juatir 11 proclivities, so when he slips thru the dere mis he immediately makes for u blood vessel and takes a plunge. There in lii.ii1 guoviilis lounging lie lloats on the swiftly gliding current, planning and premeditating and gloating on vengeance prepense. He thus circulates his solar system until he plunges into the heart, and l ic-ht here you must pause to bow your U head ill gratitude to this vermicular "varmint," for if he stopped here in your an" atomy and began operations it would be I- hard to predict whether you would die right away and peaceably or go ofT in tant trums. But, thanks to him, and tins is i. the only instance in which we feel jjratee ful to him, he sweeps his lazy length along with your life blood until he. reaches your breathing machinery, and right here he II gets busy. ' L'| How it is he knows that just over the hill there are rich pasture lands is not yet t1 announced by Dr. Stiles, but he knows it -j somehow and he immediately begins to "I climb out of the lungs, up the wind pipo \ hill to the cross roads, and when ho comes to the cross roads ho falls down the othor fork frith an ecstatic toggle, Katies thiii the stomach, spends a short time gazing at the jjrarnl scenery and soon takes a train to his final destination which is the , | soft siiculcnt side of the sinal 1-er-or-well alimentary canal will do. When ho resiches this point ho "Socks" j his hook up totheeyo in your flesh and' ? v * begins a life time of chewing and maim-. i faeturing poisons. Friday night you will I see pictures of this post sticking on the i vail of the intestine inflamed and sore i and red with poison made l?v him. We think that there Is no doubt at all i but what you have them. You feel lazy in mornings, do you not? An inclination to lounge around and smoke and put ??1T. work until the last minute? You prefer to hire a negro toJjoe out the beans rather than your* self? Yes, these are certain | signs, undoubtedly we have diagnosed i your case correctly, you've got 'em. Bet tor go out and h#ur Dr. Ward. WEST END. Personal Paragraphs and News Items: Contributed by Miss Lily Templeton. Mrs. C. 15. Layton and her children are here from Gainesville, Fla. to spend tlio remainder of the summer with Jul ye and Mrs. R. A. Hill. Miss Eliza Mabry loft Tuesday for Greenwood where she goes to attend the marriageof her friend Miss Annie Tarrant. Mrs. .1. C. Roper and little Miss Ellon Sandifer arrived in the city Monday from Rock Hill. They will bo tlio guests of Vt:?/~ T ....So? 1J,r,?. tim.i JilOO X4UUIOG II iW4 ovmv tauu. Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Perrin and little .Miss Mary Norwood Perrin loft Sunday for Ceafar's Head where they go to spend the rest of the si mmer. Mr. Perrin will be (nit of the city for a week or ten days. Mr. W. L. Templeton left Saturday for his homo in New York after spending his summer vacation with his home people here. Miss Eunice Erwin of Antrevillo was in the city Monday, shopping. Mr. Garry Hall, Jr. is in Charlotte. N. C. spefiding a whilo with his grand parents Mr. and Mrs. John Hall. Mr. Lem W. Reid is spending this week at his home near the city. Mr. and Mrs. W. 1). lJarksdale came home Saturday from Washington where they spent last week. Mr. and Mrs. J. 0. Ellis left last week for California whero they will enjoy an outing of several weeks. Mr. J. Frank Clinkscales spent Saturday and Sunday with Mrs. Clinkscales in Columbia. Mis* Janie Belle Pennal who has been enjoying her summer vacation is back with the A. 13. Morse Compsny. Miss Margaret Richey and Miss Jnnie Lou Richey left Monday for Hutehisonville whore they will spend several weeks. Dr. and Mrs. John G.-Edwards ate here from Edgefield,-- visiting Miss Janie rVltrr.. .vie 1 Miss Louise DoBruhl left Saturday for Greenville jvhero slie will spend a while before goii^1 to Hendersonville for a j month's stay. Mr. and Mrs. C. D. Brown leave Wodnes-1 day for Milwaukee, Wis., where Mr. Brown (roes to attend the annual meeting of the j Knights of Pythias. Mr. and M re. Brown j will spend several days at Toxaway before stalling on their trip. Mr. and Mrs. Garry H. Hall went to Elberton Monday to attend the funeral of their friend. Mrs. E. "\V. Roberts, who died suddenly at her home Saturday. Mrs. ' Roberts has visited Abbeville several times and is pleasantly remembered.x Mrs. Laura B. Love left Monday for Monterey where she will spend sometime ; with her sister, Mrs. W. T. Cunningham. Miss Eugenia Robeitson left Saturday j for an extended visit to friends in Bates-! ( burg. Trenton and Augusta. She will be |! away until September. Mr. Clyde Morgan spent a jwtrt of last. WORK Willi HIS noniL' peopit: ill Jiuuruc. i Dr. J. C. Swinger and Mr. Bradley Mor- j rah of Mt. Carmel arc in the city spending a few days. Mrs. "Vv. P. Kennedy and Mrs. Neil Kennedy Moore are here from Due West, guests at the Eureka. They will be in the city a week. Mrs. J. S. Cochran is at homo, again after I spending sometime in Charlotte with relatives. I Miiss Gussie Cunningham and Miss Louise Cunningham of Monterey were ! shopping in the city Monday. I Miss Ellen Gambrcll left Monday for I Pell Oit}', Ala., when; she will spend some- < time as the guest of Mrs. E. A. Thompson. | Mrs. W. T. McFall went to Anderson and . spent Sunday with Mrs. Lou McFall. ' Mrs. Foster Barnwell and her children , left Monday for an extended visit to her 1 parents, Mr. and Mrs. E. A. Thompson, in Pell City. Ala. , i Miss Blanche McClelland of Anderson is I visiting Miss Alice Green this week. ; Mr. J. S. Bowie is at home again after a , pleasant stay at Tate Springs. Mis. P. A. Cheatham and Mrs. R. C. Wilson are at home again after a pleasant vis- ' it to Millcdgevllle and Augusta. I Mr. Bob Green is home from Isle of < Palms where lie spent his summer outing, i Mi's. A. G. Faulkner and her two pretty , little daughters are in the city from Alex- . audct, Va., spending some time with relatives here. Mrs. E. A.Thompson left Monday for her j 1 home in Pell City, Ala,, after spending M sometime here with liei daughter, Mrs. I Foster Barnwell. j, Mrs. J. E. Hopkins, of Seneca, is in the | , eitv snendintr sometime with Mr. and Mrs.! J. A. Check. MHenry PuPre spent Sunday with friends in Atlanta. Miss Mario Gary, Miss Blanche Gary and | Miss ICiiza Gary came homo Tuesday from i Charleston where they have been visiting < their aunt, Mrs. Marie G. Eason, at her i summer home on Sullivan's Island. Miss Mary. L. Robertson ieayeji Wednesday for Anderson where she will visit rcla- j' tives in the county for several weeks. j' Mr. S. E. Ingram loft Tuesday for his I i home in Manning after a several weeks' i stay here with his daughter, Mrs. F. E. i Harrison. < Miss Nina Thornton of Ilartwell. Ga., is I, in the city for a ten days visit to hsr cou-j sin, Miss Jessie Speed. ' Miss Irene Parie of El rod, N. C., is in the j city the guest of her aunt, Mrs. J. S. Coch- j t ran. t Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Perrin entertained , Friday evening at euchre in honor of Mr. , and Mrs. William H. White. Miss Sara Lee served refreshing punch at an att;rac- j lively decorated table in the hall. After ' the games Miss Lee was found to have top * score andf was given a fan. Mrs. White i \vn& given a picture; Mr. Albert Honrv i won thn>genticman's prize -an attractive t match Ifoldcrs. An elaborate saiau course j _ was served. J | The Bridge Club on,joyed a very pleasant!! ! meeting Friday afternoon with Mrs. Wyatt i } Aiken. An attractive salad course was i served after the games. Hiss Nellie Hay Csison of Atlanta is in ( the city spending sometime with Mr. and j, Mrs. Fred Cason at their pretty home on j North Main Street. j Mrs. Martin Heard of Alberton and Mrs. i ' James ration of Washington. D. spent J' Saturday in the city, the guest of Mrs. .1.11 II. Latimer. t j t Killed at Picnic- , At a baseball picnic about six miles 1 south of Abbeville, Saturday the 23rd, 1 ltobert Hughey killed Harry Carson by 1 striking him in the head with a rock or ( some other missle. j, It seems that Robert Hughey received i 1 a two jut; of prohibition liquor S.-iturday morning and while lie was proha-' * hly sellinn souie of it, he itnhided a good- J ' ly quantity himself. lie waseursing the I* negro woman on the ground when IJarry " C'arson tried to stop him. AVords follow ! ( ed with the result above stated. ' i SheriiT Lyon was soon on the spot and , 1 while the negio was not caught that \ night, he knew that he would bo caught* ' and he surrendered next morning. j , Hughey is now in jail. I * HISTORIC DOCUMENTS. .etters That Show the Villainy of Sherman as Weii as the True Bravery of Hampton In order (lint tin* younger generations may form some idea of the troubjous days of the sixties, The Advertiser publishes two letters that passed between Gen. Sherman and Ren. Hampton that were publihed in the Augusta Chronicle Sunday last. The documents also have a historic value and t.hould be preserved The following correspondence between General Sherman, the'modern Duke of Alva, and General Wade Hampton, should be of interest to the young men, not only of the South, but of the North as well. It shows something of the firm and desperate determination of the Confedeoate soldiers to protect the honor of Southern ladies even at the risk of war to the death. The iucideut to which allusion is made by General Hampton in this correspondence was an outrage committed at Feasterville by a lieutenant ill Sherman's army, who was soon afterward shot for, it. He killed the father of the house and the outrage following, left the beautiful daughter a white-haired imbecile. It is because of outrages like this that Southern men cannot understand why some Northern people greet Southern guests with the air, "Marching Through Geogia." They seem to think it appropriate. They would not if they knew the inhuman deeds it reoalln. Headquarters iu the Field, Feb. 24th, 18Go. Lieutenant Geueral Wade Hampton, Commanding Calvary Forces Con federate states Army. General: It is officially reported to me that otir foraging parties are murder ?1 after capture aud labeled "Death to all foragers." One instance of a lieutenant aud seven men near Cbesterville, and another of twenty, "near a ravine eighty rods from the main road," about three miles from Feasterville. I jiiave ordered a similar number of prisoners iu our hands to be disposed of in like manner. I hold about 1000, prisoners, captured in various ways, and can stand itas'long as you, anil would suggest that you give notice to the people at large tnat every life taken by them simply results in the death of one your Confederates. Of course, you cannot question npr right "to forage on the country." 'It is a war right as old history. Th* manner of exercising it varies with circumstances, aud if civil authorities will supply my requisitions I will forbid all foraging. Bull can flud no civil authorities who cau respond to my calls for forage or proviiions; I therefore, I must collect directly of [ the people. I haw uo doubt this is; the occasion of much misbehavior on the part of our men but I cannot permit an enemy to judge or punish with wholesale murder. Personally, I re gret the bitter feelings engendered by this war, but they are to be expected, aud simply allege that those who strucK me nrsi oiuw UIIU iuuuc nai inevitable, ought not iu fairness to reproach us for natural consequences. I merely assert ray war right to forage and my resolve to protect my foragers Lo the extent of life for life. I am with respect, your obedient servant, W.T.SHERMAN, Major General United States Army. To this bombastic fulmiuation General Hampton returned the following answer: Headquarters in the Field, Feb. 2(jth, 18U5. Major General VV. T. Sherman,, United States Army. General: Your communication of the 24th. instant reached me today. Tu it you officially reported that your foraging parties are "murdered after capture." You go on to say that you have "ordered a similar number of prisoners iu our hands to be disposed >f iu like manner," that is to say you liave ordered a number of Confederate soldiers to he "murdered." You haracterizo your order iu proper terms, for the public voice, even iu your own country, wnere it seiuoui lares to express in vindication 01 ruth, honor, or justice will surel> jgree will/ you in pronouncing you iuilty of murder if your-order is carried out. Before dismissing ibis portion of your letter, I beg to assure you i.bat for every soldier of mine "rnur Jered" by you, I sball bave executed it once two of yours, giving in all ja^es preference to any oflicers who nay be in my hands. ' lu reTereiice td the statement you make regarding tbe death of your foragers, I bave only to say that I Know nothing about it; that no orders jiveu by me authorize tbe killing of prisoners after capture, and that 1 do jot believe niy men killed any of yours, except under circumstances in which it was perfectly legitimate and proper that they should kill them. It s a part of the system of thieves, whom you designate as your foragers, ;o fire the dwelliugsof those citizens whom they have robbed. To check ,his inhuman system, which is justly xeci'ated by every civilized nation, 1 jave directed my men to shoot down my of your men caught burning louses. This order shall- remaiu in Virce as long you disgrace tbe profession of arms by allowing your men to lestroy private dwellings. You nuy that I cannot 01 course ques iou your right to forage oa the ceuu;ry?"as it is as,old as history." 1 do lot, sir, qutaliou ibis right. But here in a right older even thau this, ind one more alieuable?the right ;hat every man has to defend his home md protect tiiose who are depeudeui jpon him; and from my heaii, 1 wish .hat every old man and boy in the vnuilry who can lire a gun would .hoot down as lie would a wild beast, ;he men who are desolating their and, burning their houiia anil insuitug their wouien. You are particular in delining and ilaiming your "war rights." May I isk if you enumerate among these toe iglit to lire upou a defenceless city without notice and burn that city to lie ground after it had beeu surrendi.v ihw iuhabitauts, who claimed, " "J -- - . .hough in vuiu, Lhut protection is ilways accorded in civilised warfare o non-combatants; to lire the dwellngs of citizens after robbing them: ind to perpetrate even darker crimes han these?crimes too blaek to be mentioned? You have permitted, if you have not mitred the commission of these oll'en en against humanity ami the rules of var; you liivd on the city of Columbia' .vitliout a word of warning after its) mrrcndor by the mayor, who dcmat:mJ protection t? private properly, you uid tii j whole city in ashes, leaving imidst its ruins thousands <.f old men uid helpless woim-it and children > vho are likely 10 perish. The march' an be traced by the lurid light of Miming houses, and in more than one lousehotd there is now an agony vorac than death. The I ndian scalped lis victim legardless of ageorsex, but villi all his barbarity he always rejected the persona of his female cap-j MS. ?oUf goldleM.jttoKI &&v4gg than the Indian, insult those whose _ natural protectors are Absent. . . In conclusion, I.have only to request. that when you have one of. my ^ men "murdered" or "disposed of," foi*, t? the terms appear synonymous with D you, you will let me hear of it, that I may know what action to take in the L matter. In the meantime I shall hold Jc fifty-six of your men as hostages for those you have ordered to be executed. ? I am yours, etc.. WADE HAMPTON, Lieutenant General, i In the face of this threat of retalia- jj tion it is safe to say that Sherman ^ reconsidered his ill-advised proposition to "murder" his defenceless h prisoners. F Week of Entertainment at Anderson. ( Anderson, S. C., July 25th.?Everything a is in reaniness now for Anderson's Homo i Coming week, which will be August lst-6tli The Railroads have given special reduced rates for the occasion and are industriously advertising it and all indications point to a tremendous crowd for the entin: week. It is hard to tell which will he the biggest day of the week. On different days there will be different things to interest the different classes of people and each day promises to be a big one. There will be something doing all tho time. .Monday, August 1st, will be devoted to general preparations. The first of the Lyceum numbers will be given Monday night at Buena Vista Park and also 011 Monday night tho eleccric illumination of the public square of the plaza will be turned on for the first time. Thousands of incandes- ( cent lights have been strung around the 1 norlr onil Hirv nflVr-f will he hrillinnt. hevnnH I conception. Tuesday, August the 2nd, will Firemen's Day. Anderson's fire depigment will have annual parade and inspection and this will be followed by a hose reel tournament. There will be a number of visiting teams present and as the prizes offered aro unusually largo the contest will be spirited. The local firemen will give the visitors a smoker Tuesday night. Wednesday, August 3rd, will be Farmers Day. Dr. Tait Butler of Raleigh. N. C. and Rev. 0. J. Copeland of Gainesville, Ga, both popular and distinguished men, will be present and deliver addresses. The athletic team of the Y. M. C. A. will give a number of exhibitions at Buena Vista Park Wednesday morning. Thursday, August 4th, will be Woodmen of the world Day. Every camp in Anderson County will be represented in a monster parade and several of the camps are designing floats for the occasion. All of the state officer6 have been invited to be present and some of them will deliver addresses. A general invitation has been extended to all members of this popular fraternal order in the state, to be present. Friday, August 5th, will be Confederate Veterans Day. A barbecue dinner will be served the veterans^at Buena Vista Park by the members of the Chamber of Commerce. There will also be a number of addresses appropriate for the occasion. On this day the park will bo reserved for the i veterans exclusively. On Friday morning { the local autoists will give a hill climbin/? | rontest on Wost Market Street. Mr. H. H. ^ Orr is chairman of this committee in i charge of this event, and he has already c secured a number of entries from other C cities. Some very handsome prizes have [ been offered. ? Saturday, August 6th, will be Red Men's t Day. K special dispensation has been grant- g fid by the Great Sachem for all the tribes in Anderson County to wear their regalia in public that day. There are eight tribes c in Anderson County and each of them t will turn out in full force. A prize of 550.00 ?. has been offered for the tribe making the best display and $25.00 for the tribe making the second best display. The tribes are getting up special costumes for the , occasion and the Eed Men's display prom- I ises to be a very interesting and unique ' affair. Following.is the detailed program for the entire week: * j MONDAY, AUGUST 1. e a 8 p. m. Electric Illumination of Plaza and the Court Square. 1 8:30 Walden, Magician, at Buena Vista a Pni'k TUEEDAY "AUGUST 2. 10 a. m. Parade of Anderson Fire Department. ' 11 a. m. Firemen's Tournament, South Main Street. 2:80 p. m. Air Ship Exhibition at * park. ' 4;30 Baseball. j 8:30 Marvin William, humorous Lectur- 9 er, at park. I WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 3. | 10 a. m Y. M. C. A. display at park. c 11:20 a.m. Ilev. O. J. Copeland and Dr. c Tait Butler In addresses to farmers at ] park. -j 2:30 p.m. Air Ship Exhibition, at park, g 4:30 p, m. Baseball. ' t 8:30 p. m. W. Powell Hale, impersonator and entertainer, at park. THURSDAY, AUGUST 4. 10:30 Mammoth parade, Woodmen of the World. 11:30 a. m. Public speaking to Wood- p men and others, at the park. c 2:30 Air Ship Exhibition at the park. 0 4.30p. m. Baseball.i * 8:30 p.m. Band concert at the park. c j FRIDAY, AUGUTT 5, 10:30 a.m. Automobile Hill Climb, West Market Street. .. 11 a. m. Confederate Veterans Reunion g at park. (For the Veterans exclusively. * ~ ? ? * J- Olun avhiKifinn nt thn f *It !5(J p. Ill* All OlUf tAUiv<y?vu v*w wuv park. Jj 4 p.m. Horse racing at Fair Grounds. ? 4:30 Baseball. Q 8:30 p. m. McDowells Trio, Musicians at the park. . SATURDAY, AUGUST 6. * 10 a. in. Monster Red men's parade. j? 11a.m. Red men's exhibition, on base- t ball grounds. 11:30 a. m. Buiriss Reunion at Fair grounds. 2:30 p. m. Air Ship Exhibtion at the park. S 4:00 p.m. Horse racing at fair grounds, f. 4:40 p. m. Baseball. 11 8:30 p. in. Farewell band concert on court square. ? ? * Two Constables and a Baby- 0 A negro woman, named Met Patterson, w n was arrested July 22, charged with assault j( with inteut to kill Mr. John D. Alowine. P It seems that the woman had a baby about live montiis old, which fact she forgot to , montion at the preliminary trial. As sho was sent to jail the five months old baby Q was left on Mr. Will Bell's plantation. c Tho baby refused to be comforted. It o would eat nono of the man-made foods A prepared for it by the Ktncuy ioik inert- m about, and it cried incessantly. Mr. Boll ^ stood the crying baby as long as he could Zl and lje then phoned Magistrate Hurkness '* to coino and get the baby. The Magistrate's Constable, Mr. Prince, said he would resign his job before he would take the negro baby to the jail. Magistrate Hurkness was up against it, but out of the kindness of his heart he determined to do something. He agreed to go with his deputy. The two secured ? the weeping infant, and armed with all the majesty of the law, they brough it to 11 Abbeville. The deputy refused to carry of tin.1 baby, but Magistrate Harkuess took ^ it, cooing in his arms to Sheriff Lyon, who on took immediate charge. By dint of good nursing, paregoric, etc. the baby was landed safely in jail, in the arms of its mother. Sheriff Lyon will b I BI help to take care of it hereafter. I bj .. \ . MatoAtffir ,, ?, \ State Henatfe t We?reauthorized to annonnbe WM. N. RAYDON hm a candidate for re-election to ie State Senate, subject to the action of tbe emocratlc primary election. We are hereby authorised toannounce J. C. CM AX as a candidate for tbe Seattle, sublet to the Democratic primary. I berebv announce myitelf as a candidate >r tbe Senate, subject to the action of the lemocratlc prlm'ary. J. MOORE MARS. Honne of Representative*. We ar? authorized to announce J. HOWARD MOORE as a candidate for House of lepresentHitves, subjfect to the action of tbe lemocratlc primary. We are authorized to announce FRANK t. GARY an a candidate for tbe House of lepresentatlves, subject to the action of the lemocratlc primary. " / We nre authorized lo announce MELVIN . ASHLEY as a candidate for r?-f 1-ctlou to ho House of Representatives. subject to the etlon of the Democratic primary. Phe Following is the Apportionment of School Funds for the Scholastic Year 191Q-'ll. a a to S , ? u o. ? Name of Dlstrlot. ? a ? ?. ? so o a z z _? Corner : 1 82 $ 250 95 ildge..... 2 88 249 40 .?ownUe?ville...'. 3 213 481 52 tocky Kiver 4 110 320 1 8 'ork 5 80 187 08 Sextu* 6 108 861 58 jatlmer 7 346 861 88 kionterey 8 217 536 06 'alhoun Falle 9 300 758 62 rtt Carmel 10 300 602 67 >V linn* ton 11 289 882 81 Bordeaux ; 12 152; 406 36 vlcCormlck 13 395 1354 81 ! iuffiilo 14 145 642 31 iellevlew,... ,... 15 184 532 98 3old Branch 16 71 181 85 ?*lalwoodn 17 147 443 64 Jeihla- 18 156 494 59 'em Clitf. 19 33 59 21 " . iharon .C. 20 215 251 04 ietbel 21 140> 428 78 V Ibbevtlie 22 1190! 2126 60 Varrentou 23 178] 680 38 *eld 24 14U; 4o5 08 JrowDlee 25 119 289 93 jODe Forest 26 124; 380 27 V.DtrevlU> 27 250 434 ?i * Jnlou i 28 14H 644 29 iunny Hi ope *9 152 ?il 26 v Jold Hprlnif 30 881 186 81 liOng C*ne 31 158! 419 14 Jmllbvlie 82 203 528 94 ' i?nl <V"a o?) 'ronime la>iu i?? 011 ?*> Antral 31 85 220 86 iagau .So SO 200 45 'arfcH CreeH - 36 88 219 18 ieowee 37 208 539 68 Jue Weal 88 466 1886 94 Donalds 89 188 816 98 iMnevlllr 40 70 180 80 /ermlilon /.... 41 104 259 20 'ondville 42 82 435 24 , lurefea* 43 102 274 82 3roadmoutb 44 87 246 51 lock Sprlne 45 52 163 45 46 100 220 00 Vlnona 47 95 2H6 71 fOUDK 48 9-i 266 94 iall..:. 49 75 184 60 ;anit 50 86 292 88 )Q]?h 51 122 508 33 Ddluo Hill 52 100 210 80,. Drake 53 85 70 J5 jCbaDou 64 100 113 80 ,lne 55 44 134 08 ianlup.... !56 129 322 50 The above Is tbe apportionment Of funds ia band and money to be collected by Treasirer on account 8 mill constitutional tax, poll ax and do# tax. Money raised by special' nxi'i to be added to special districts. J. Foster Hammond, July 25 1910. Co. 8upt. of Education. taker College for Women A highly endowed institution of higher earning. "New building, new furniture and Kjuipment. Superior faculty. Music, Art md Expression. Annual Interest income makes possible lin nrlvnnt-jio'fi nf t.hn hiirh nrif!0d College it cheap rates. Nest session opens September 22d. Address Coker College for Women, Hart6ville, S. C. Those Pies of Boyhood. How delicious were the pies of boylood. No pies now ever taste no good. What's changed ? The pies? No. It's fou. You've lost the strong, healthy itomach, the vigorous liver, the active cidneys, the regular bowels, of boylood. Your digestion is poor and you )lame the food. What's needed ? A somplete toning up by Electric Bitters >f all organs of digestion?Stomach, Liiver, Kidneys, Bowels?Try them. They'll restore your bo3 hood appetite ind aopreciatiou of food and fairly fratirate your body with new health, trength and vigor. 50c at Speed's Irug 6tore. HAY FEVEB AND ASTHMA Bring discomfort and mt??>ry tr uoany peoile but Foley's Hrney and Tnr gl? js enne and omfort to tbe suffering ones. It relieves tbe ongestlon In tbe bend and tbroat and Ib ootblng and healing. None genuine but Foey's Honey and Tar In tbe yellow package. ;. A. Mllford & Co. A VFW SHORT WEEKS Mr. J. 8. Bartell, Edwardsvllle, III., wrl'ea: A few months ago my kidneys become conested. I had severe backache rdiI p In cross ibp kidneys and hips. Foley'? Kidney *1118 promptly cured my backache and oorected tbe action of ray kidneys. This whs rouubt about after my uslnp them for only tew short weeks and I can cheerfully recom3end them. C. A. MUford & Co. ERSKINE COLLEGE as contributed some potent forces to the itizenship of Abbeville County through he graduates located in the county. Erskine College tands ready to do further good work for .bbeville County, and to this end solicits ? school patronage. 4 Thorough instruction given in all departjents. Two courses leading the degree f A. B. The Wylie Home ITers an exceptional opportunity to young romen ready for tne cone^e ciusscs. n. ice new building with all modern convenances. Young ladies under the care of the 'resident. Tor illustrated catalogue, wiite > J. S. Moffatt, President. 1 A Frljshtfnl W reck f train, automobile or buggy may ause cut's bruises, abrasions, sprains r wounds that demand Bucklen's ?.rnica JSalvt?earths greatest healer. >uick relief and prompt cure results. 'or burns, boils), sores of all kiuus, ec- n ema, chapped hands and Jips, sore yes or corns, it's supreme. Surest j]e cure. 2uc at Speed's drug store. H JAMES CHALMEBS I INSURANCE I LIFE FIRE I Littleton, N\ H., Aoe 6,1!!06. ?9 le KlooUlue Corporation, Kenton, Mam. BQ Dfur Sirs?Please send me one dozen bottles K'oortlne hy txp?ens prepftM. Kind en- 9f nht-cl 1*. O. Motiev Order for S5.00 to pay for BB me. tieud mm mood an you can, as I am all it of It. Youth truly, Charles Noprae. IS U. A. Mllford A Co., special Hfituts. It will scon be t!n*e to paint your bonne 9 e sure to use tbe paint that goet- tLe further id lasts the longest?DeVoe's. For sale only 91 7 Speed's Drug Store. BH