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NIGH WATER ON TUGALOO. Rocord of Overflows Since 1840-The 1887 Fresko! is the Highest on Record. Tugaloo, July 15.-Editors Koo wee Courier : It may be of interest to some to know of the various freshets on Tugaloo river, therefore I will commence ,/ith the May over flow in 1840. While it occurred be fore I waa boru, the facts have been related to me by my father, and so many phases of the freshet pointed ont to me by him, and also Borne of the effects, which remain even until this day, and having been an eye witness of some like rises sinoe then, it was indellibly stamped upon my mind at a very youthful period of my life. This freshet was considered by him the highest that occurred during his life, whioh terminated in 1883. The next of importance was the August freshet in 1852. It occurred in the latter part of the month. It was most disastrous to the orops, but not to the bridges, for there were fewer bridges at that time. All the valley was ccered by an extra fine crop of corn, peas, etc., and Liuch of the oom was getting hard, and some saved by opening the shuck and let ting it remain on the stalk. It oured sufficient to feod to stock, but a con siderable part was utilized by being fed to hogs for pork. Every farmer had large numbers of hogs in those dayB and raised his own bacon and lard. My father's herd contained nearly 100, and the way they en joyed the damaged corn in its soft ened condition, confirmed the old adage that <(the hog never looks up to him who threshes down the acorns." My personal recollection of this freshet is now very vivid. Although under nine years of age, 1 admired the grandeur and magnifi cence of the water, without even thinking of the destruction it pro duced, but personal experience has brought upon me more considera tion now. The next of importance was the January freshet of 1805, and, of course, no damage was done to any crop, but rather tended to improve the lowlands along the river, except in some few cases, which were badly washed. The sediment, or rather the deposit, left was composed prin cipally of leaf mold and the rich black soil from the mountain sides converted many stiff and unproduct ive parts of the bottoms into rich al luvial soil. The character of the deposit of to-day ?B quite different, containing less vegetable matter and more silt from the red olay soil of our worn-out hillsides. The condi tions of the county, as relates to food supplies, was not seriously ef fected up to this time by the total destruction of crops on low lands, for many-yes, many-farm ers held sufficient produce of all kinds on hand for another year's supply, and were not dependent upon the importation of their sup plier from a distant field, but when the eventful freshet of June, 1876, came it was not so-a very decided change had overtaken tho country i.- the conduct of the farms and King Cotton reigned supreme over the hot i s of many farmers. The grain ci ;p and the hog crop and diversified farming were in the very throes o? cb!;/ion. This freshet was very disastrous to the growing crop, but large bodies of the destroyed corn were replanted, and made good feed for the Stock, yet it caused much loss and financial Bullering, for many men, claiming loss ol their crops from high water, refused to pay for their supplies upon which they had lived the whole year, when, in reality, there was not even a spring branch on their farms. In the cycle of freshets we have a most remarkable coincident, consist ing of two in one week. They oc curred on the 2d and Nth of August, 1887. Their destruction was com plete-the crop was a total loss and no time to make any substitute for tha winter. It brought many hardships upon the sufferers, for I have never known a people so elated over their prospects for an unusual yield a? they were on the 1st day of August. But, alas ! before the close of the day a deluge of water com pletely covered the standing corn in many plaoes, and it went down to rise no more. In the first instance the river rose higher than her tribu taries, but in the second freshet the small streams rose first and the force of the current of many of these small streams was so great that they plowed their way across the river, edyiug the main current for some distance up the river. The second rise was about two feet higher than the first, and it reached about the same height of the great freshet of 1840. The average Leight of these fresh ets was about '20 feet perpendicular water at this place. The years of '95, '96 and '97 were very wet years and several times de stroyed the growing crops, but the principal loss was occasioned by the land being so wet that it was un productive. We now come to the new cen tury. The 6rst freshet was that of June, 1903, when the cloudburst poured out its contents in suoh fury that it brought consternation to many persons. Tugaloo was fortu nately on the extreme west of this vast outpour and received her over flow from Chattooga and Chauga. They sent down an immense surplus of water, which covered all the low lands on her borders, and drove tbe plows from the fields in this section. It was, indeed, a novel freshet to us and only slightly damaged the grow ing crop as it soon receded, except where it washed the land away, but our neighbors east of UB fared worse, which has been well written before. The freshet of July 1, 1905, is of such recent date that all are fully acquainted with the published ac counts. While tho river here wanted two feet to equal the freshet of 1887 by no means did its want of that height lessen its destruction. I learn that Chauga and its tributaries were eight or ten feet higher than during any previous freshet. I know per sonally that Choestoe was higher than ever before, and has done more damage than heretofore, for it not only destroyed the crops, but, in many places, washed thc land to the clay, and it will take many years to replace it. I estimate the loss of the corn crop at 66$ per cent. This brings us up to the present day, and the question arises, What shall wc do ? Well, first go forward. As the ground dries well, plant over with some early varieties of corn. If it does not fully mature it will make feed for stock ; also plant all the early peas you can ; sow a large tur nip patch and later sow rye for stock ; also, at the same time, sow a good lot of rape for hogs, cows and sheep, and don't be afraid to invest in the latter. It is a good thing. Sow oats in tho fall. Sow in deep furrows and cover lightly, and then all the wheat you can. We have passed through many such disasters and have received many profitable lessons therefrom. Whilst they are severe and cause much temporal loss, let us not be cast down, but look on the bright side and rejoice that not a living soul, to my knowledge, has been lost on Tugaloo river during any of these freshets. We are told in His word that "God doeth all things well," and King David says: "I have been young, and now am old, yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging bread." John W. Shelor. Tuft's Pills This popular remedy never falls to effectually cure Dyspepsia, Constipation, Sick Headache, Biliousness And ALL DISEASES arising from a Torpid Liver and Bad Digestion The natural result is good appetite and solid flesh. Dose small; elegant ly sugar coated and easy to swallow. Take No Substitute. Insect Pests in Anderson. 15. K. Karie, State organizer of tho Farmers' Kdueational and Co-operative Union, said to a reporter this morning that the county's cotton crop is seriously threatened hy insect pests which have proven a c.jrse to cotton growers in Texas, whore ho resided for about IS years. Ile said that in one cotton field near Williamstou he had found evidences of tho boll woovil's work. Specimen stalks and weevils will bo sent to Clemson Col lege for examination and identification. Mr. Karie said that all over the county, which he has traversed in all directions recently, he has found tho "Texas sharp shooter," a tiny worm which bores into the square, causing it to drop off. The worm is about half an inch long and about the size of a small broom-straw. Anderson Mail. -- -,- ? - Chamberlain's r^inko?0????dv, fever fail?. Buy lt now. lt may save life. Smith's Plan fer Raising Association Funds. At a meeting >f tbe Executive Cunnii ire of the Southern Cotton Association, recently held in Mem phis, Tenn., it was decided to rec ommend to every association, State, county and township, to ereot ware houses at once wherever necessary. They further recommend that this be done by looal capital if it be pos sible. This plan of erecting ware houses will be taken up by every State in the cotton belt so that there may be a sufficient number of ware houses ready for cotton by fall to guarantee organizing a mutual insur ance company. The plan of this in surance is as follows : Kaoh warehouse is to become, through the mutual insurance plan, security for every other warehouse belouging to or under the control of the Southern Cotton Association. In this way the insurance will be re duced to a nominal sum, and will guarantee absolute fire protection without being forced to subscribe to all of the plans and specifications of the Southeastern Tariff Association. E. D. Smith, President of the South Carolina Association, and a member of the Executive Committee of the Southern Cotton Association, bas given out the following : "Bankers, merchants and business men of all vocations are solicited to take stock in these warehouses. This will solve the problem of cheap stor age and cheap insurance and will save to the farmers and business men of the South, themselves, all the money that is now paid to foreign corporations for insurance. "It will be impossible for me to reach each county in person, but I hope ?;very county paper will copy this letter, and every organization building warehouses will notify this office as soon as it is assured. "The Planters' Holding and Com mission Company is now ready for business, and we hope that all farm ers and business men in the South will take stock in this company, so that in conjunction with our ware houses we may have a fund from which money can be gotten at a low rate of interest to take up the sur plus and distressed cotton if there be any such on the market. "To sum the whole matter up, our plan is this : "The cotton farmers and Southern people will build their own ware houses, organizing each State, and get a charter for doing a commission business, and then every warehouse in the entire cotton belt carries its pro rata share of the risk of every other one so that if no cotton is burned our insurance will cost noth ing, and taking a ten-year average, if we can get enough warehouses built and enough cotton stored, the estimate is that it will not exceed 5 cents per bale for insurance. The farmers themselves, \ having taken stock in the warehouses, will have their storage charges reduced to a minimum, in that their stock will, if managed,correctly, very nearly pay for their storage, and if sufficient funds are pooled by the Southern cotton grower and the Southern peo ple, and it is managed correctly, there will be a loan fund sufficient to carry the weak and distressed cotton at a low |rate of interest, thereby giving the South and the Southern planter absolute control of the mar keting of his cotton. "This plan Ijappeared the most feasible andjl think will appeal to the business judgment of every one, and we hope|that the warehouse feature will be pushed vigorously. "The Southern Cotton Association also decided to ask every man, wo- j man and child in the South, who to- ! day feel that they are under obliga tion to the Southern Cotton Associa tion for the present rise in cotton, to contribute one nickel apiece. All South Carolinians who feel so dis posed and think they can afford this much for this great Southern cause, can forward their nickel to F. H. Hyatt, Treasurer of the Southern Cotton Association, South Carolina Division, Columbia, S. C. The as sociation is in debt and thinks that this is a just and equitable way of appealing to the people for aid. "We hope there will be a generous response from the people all over the State. "I want once more to congratulate the people of my State and the South in general upon the magnifi cent achievement of the Southern Cotton Association. For once in the history of the South we seem to be in the saddle, and my advice to the people at large is to sit steady and ride easy. U?mann & i Two One-Doll One Two-Doll GENUINE AT Don't be troubled with thi season, as our prices are s Cherry Seeders, Dase Ball Bicyole Tires, eto. Sash.. Doors, Lim Supplies, Buggy without Fringe. MATH ES VN People Unwilling lo Wait. In his letter upon the dispensary situation Senator Tillman advises the people, before voting ont the dispen saries, to wait and see "whether or not the Legislature, at its next ses sion, will purge the corruption out of the dispensary system and put safe guards around it for the future." We bt lieve that the people are un willing to wait, for the following reasons : 1. They have but little hope that the next Legislature will afford any relief. The last Legislature, in which the pro-dispensary intluenoe was dominent, refused to revise or amend the law ; that, too, in the face of the open eharges of corruption, which charges were as true then as now. 2. The personnel of the next Leg islature will be the same as the last; the same dispensary leaders in '"he Senate and House; the same mem bers of these bodies to vote as voled last year; the same dispensay em ployees lo distribute free liquor among the law-makers ; the same wholesale liquor dealers and distillers to furnish this free liquor. Why ex pect any relief from such a source ? 3. The people are unwilling to wait another year because they desire the matter settled while the "dispensary" or "no dispensary" question is di vested of politics. During an off year, politically speaking, the voters can quietly-without any passion or prejudice-express their wishes. It is now a moral question and they de sire that it be settled as such. If its settlement be postponed till another year, when men are scrambling for office, it will be made a political issue and will not then be considered dis passionately. In other words, we be lieve the people of this county want the liquor question voted upon apart from men and politics.-ridgefield Advertiser. o/LnTonxA.. Bean tte sf fa KM Vg Ha* Always Botqflt Horrible Disaster in Welsh Coal Mine. An explosion of fire damp in No. 2 pit of the United National Colliery Company at Wattstown, Rhondda valley, Wales, the center of the great Welsh coal fields, is believed to have resulted in the loss of 126 lives. The explosion was followed immediately by belching of clouds of smoke and dust from the pit shaft, in which one hundred and lilty men were working. The force of the ex plosion wrecked the machinery at the mouth of the pit. All communication willi the doomed men in this direc tion was out off. Up to last Tuesday at midnight 08 bodies had been re moved. It is not believed that a sin gle man now in the shaft will come out alive. Kescucis are making he roic efforts. It is the worst Welsh mine disaster since 1894. Twenty-Four Mutineers Hanged. Odessa, July 17.-Twenty-foui leaders of the recent disturbance* here were hanged at various prison? last Thursday. Seventeen more will be publicly executed upon the arrival here of Gen. lgnatieff. The battle ship Pobiedonosetz arrived last week with a fresh crew to take 67 muti neers to Sevastopol for trial by court martial. Philpott Water LITT TI tar Bill? or ar Bill_PETS KINS SILVERED STEEL s Fliee. Everybody oan buy SCREEN DO< o low. We are also offering bargain? in Goods, Ice Cream Freezers, Grazing Cbaii j& GRAIN CRAD e. Cement, Saw Mill flRO^ umbrellas, with and U Stapler Cultivators. UOS" ON HARDV WESTMINSTER, S. C. Graft Unearthed in Dispensary. It has been suspected for some time that certain liquor dealers who sell their goods to the State dispen sary were paying the county dispen sers to push their brands of liquor. Commissioner Tatum has made a dis covery which proves that there was j ground for suspioion. Ho has found that some oases of goods contained a greater number of bottles than were billed to or paid for by the State dis pensary. This excess would become the property of the county dispenser to whom the whiskey was shipped, who would either drink or sell it and put the money in his pocket, instead of the cash drawer. On opening the cases of whiskey that yet remained in the State dispensary Mr. Tatum found *3,000 worth of whiskey that had not been invoiced. It is then a fact that some county dispensers have been paid thousands of dollars to increase the sales of cer tain brands of liquor, and, as a mat ter of course, this money was taken out of the quality of the liquor. If this form of graft has been conducted in the broad open daylight, so to speak, think of what probably has been done in the dark hours and in "executive sessions."-Edgefield Ad vertiser. Testimony of a Thoughtful Man. A gentleman who resides twelve miles north of the county seat said to the writer a few days ago : "If we do not get rid of the dispensary I do not see what is to become of the boys and young men in the country. A young roan who likes whiskey will go to Edgefield and buy a half gallon of mean liquor for eighty cents, and bring it home and demoralize half a dozen boys with it. Often they carry it to church on Sunday and drink it out in the bushes. You all in the towns do not see near the evil from the dispensary that we do who live in the country. The old bar rooms corrupted the towns but the dispen sary is corrupting the country peo ple." The condition set forth in the foregoing is what this thoughtful and > j very reliable citizen has seen with his own eyes-not what he has heard. Are the people of Edgefield county , willing, for the few dollars that are paid into the public treasury by tho dispensary, to stand by and see the boys and young men of the country thus debased and debauched ? We do not believe that they are. Father, who knows but what if this deplora ble condition continues, your bright boy will become a victim of this forty-oents-por-quart corn liquor. Aid in stamping it out before ho suf fers from its blighting infiuenoe. , Edgefield Advertiser. Truckers to Sue tor Losses on Strawberries. i Wilmington, July 15.-A suit which it is said, is but the first of i many claims, has been filed in the Superior Court here against the At lantic Coast Line by truckers in the Chadbourn seotion for alleged losses . by the failure of the railroad to fur ( nish adequate facilities for handling ( the strawberry crop during the late I oar famine. It is estimated that the I total olaimo against the Coast Line will aggregate $100,000. OABTOniA. Bean th? ?A o'" Kto? Yea Haw Atwajs Bought HAND SAW. )RS AND WINDOWS thia Ham mooka, Creek Seiua, ia, Calf Mn//W'n, Bicycles, fm BUGGIES. rON WAGONS. t VARE CO. 9 interesting Situation in HOITY. The correspondent of the News and Courier from Conway baa been recently writing Borne interesting matter in regard to the whiskey situ ation in the Independent Republic. From 1875 to 1895 no whiskey wns.'n" openly sold in the county, and con- W. ditions were ideal, according to our correspondent. The people were "noted for their sobriety and piety. They were law-abiding citiienB,riovs, disturbances, or disorders were prac tically unknown, magistrate courts and constables were not called for. CourtB were held twice a year, and generally continued for two days. There were no incorporated towns, no police courts, and the sheriff lived on his farm, coming to town on sales day. No locks were on the doors, and everybody was neighbor to everyone else, and it was considered a disgrace to be seen drunk, in fact an intoxicated person was about as rare as a millionaire." Surely here are conditions that are little less than ideal, making I lorry an exceedingly happy place. But in 1895 came the dispensary, three of them-"all out in the woods without police protection, and, it is said, managed without re gard to law and regulations." With their coming our correspondent im plies that all is changed, and that conditions are no longer ideal in Horry. If this is the case, those good people are paying very dear for their whiskey, and one need not wonder that a movement is gather ing force to wipe it out altogether. The entire State will watch with in terest that effort on the part of the people to restore conditions in the Republic to that former ideal and happy situation, when drunkenness was not and courts and officers of ^ the law were not needed. A victory in Horry will give new energy and hope to the fight which every county means to make at the proper time. Southern Christian Advocate. Murdered on His Way to Prison. A special term of the circuit court oonvened at Hazelhurst, Miss., on Tuesday of last week to try Jim Col lins, a negro, for attempted criminal assault on a young white woman, several weeks ago. The grand jury returned an indictment, the negro pleaded guilty and was sentenced to ten years, the limit of the law and was started on his way to prison, all within five hours. On the train at Crystal Springs, Mr. Dickery, a brother-in-law of the intended vic tim of the negro, entered the car, fired three shots into Collins, killing him instantly. Dickery surrendered, expressing satisfaction at his deed. Claim Entered by Lumbermen. The lumbermen of Western Nortli Carolina will make an effort to have the Southern Railway repay them a 2-cent rebate on all lumber shipped during the period in which the ad vance of 2 cents a hundred pounds was kept in force by that company. This is in accordance with the deci sion of Judge Speer that the railway had no power to make the advanoe. The amount involved is about >100, 000. The claim is already made upon the company and if it declines to meet it the matter will be put in the courts.