The Pickens sentinel. (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, October 11, 1877, Image 1
DEVOTED ITO POLITICS, MORA LITY, EDUCATION AND rO TIIE GENEllAL INTEREST OF TTlE COTNTRY
VOL. VII. PICKENS, S. C., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 11, 18TT
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Is it Anybody's Business I
PIs it anybody's business,
If a gentleman should choose
To wait upon a lndy,
If the lady don't refuse!
Or, to speak a little plainer,
That the meaning all may know,
l It anybody's bujiness
If a lady has a beau?
oes It anybody's business
When that gentleman doth call,
Or when he leaves the lady,
Or if he leaves at all?
Or is It necessary
That the curtain should be drawn,
To save from further trouble
The outsido lookors.on?
"Is It anybody's business
But the lady's. if her beau
Riidoth out with other ladieS,
And doFen't let her know?
Is it anybody's husine.in.
But the gentleman's, if she
Should accept another escort,
Where he dosen't chance to be?
"If a person's on the side-walk,
Whether great, or whether small,
to It anybody's business
Where that person means to call?
Or if you see a person
While be's calling any where,
Is it any of your business
What his business may be there?
"The substance of- our query,
8inIply stated, would be this:
Is it anybody's bussiness
What another's business?
Whether 'tis or whether 'tisn't
We should really liko to know,
For we are certain, if it isn't,
There are somec who make It so.''
,Caught and Condemned.
Sloan Leaird, of Long Cane was
brought before Trial Justice Calhoun
at this place on last Friday, charged
with buying seed cotton after night.
For a long time farmers in that sec
tIon have Buffered very greatly from
the operations of the cotton bagger
and have determined to break up
the gang who have preyed upon
them. On Thursday night a special
detective force was organized and
set to watch the roads leading to
Lezird's house-he had boon suspect
ed but the evidence necessary to
conviction was lacking. Our detec
tives discovered a squad of negroes
loaded down with cotton on the way
to Leard's, saw them sell their 'turns'
and captured several of the thieves
on their return bomne. Comning to
Abbeville they secured the services
of Sheriff Jones who arrested Leard
on Friday morning before he wvas out
of bed and brought him to Abbevillo
Judge Calhoun looked into the case
and fined the party fifty dollars and
costs. Leaird had partly paid for
his cotton in poach and p>lum brandy
and bis. prosecutors allowed him
either to submit to indictment in the
United States Court for illicit traffic
in whiskey or banishment from the
State. The cotton bagger accop)ted
the alternative and has left the coun,
try for the country's good. This is
only thi beginning of the end-the
* ~ farmers are thoroughily aroused and
are determined that their labors shall
not all go to enrich the thievish deal
er in seed cotton.-A bbeville Miedium
There are some human tonguts
which have two sides, that like of
certain quadrupeds, one swooth, theo
-other very r'cugh.
Higgins and the Widow!
One day Higgins came into my
office and sat down without a word.
For some minutes he sat still, watch
ing me intently as if he was trying to
make out by the sound of my pen
what I was writing.
"Squire," said be at length, "did I
ever tell you about my scrape with
the widow Horry, up here on the
river?"
"Never did," said I, laying down
my pen, "let's have it."
"They're curious creatures, widows
is," paid be in a meditative tone,
"and the more you study about 'em
the more you don't know about 'em.
What was this thing I've read about
in Egypt, or some other country, that
nobody could unriddle?"
"The Sphinx, probably," I replied.
"Well,' he continued, 'that was a
widow as sure as you ever had a
granny. Everything else in the
earth has been found out but them,
and they're as much a mystery to
day as the length of the North Pole
You may read the history of the
wr-ld from Genesis to Revclations,
and you'll find that widows has been
at the bottom or top of five quarters
of all the devilment dhats been cut up
Was you ever in love with onel"
"Lots of them," said I.
"You're a great gander--that's
what you are,'said he. 'A man that
loves one and gets over it won't nev
or get bit by another, it he's got as
much sense as a.ground hog. I dont
cinsider I've got any sense at all, bnt
I'm a little grain too smart to let
another of them got all the trumps on
me. The wi(low Iliorry that I was
speaking of, is a little the handsom
est woman I reckon that ever looked
a man into fits, and I ought to be a
judge, for I've seen lots of pretty
women in my day. She w about,as
twenty-five years old when I went tp
there to work, just in the bloom of
her beauty and as full of deviltry as
a three year old mule colt. There
was a ball over at Jenkins', and of
course I w ent, for I always go where
there's any fun going on, and gener'
ally act the fool before I get away, of
course. The widow was there, dres.
sed as fine as Solomon's lilies, and
flying around as frisky as a young
lamb in a rye patch. I got intro
duced to her and asked her to dance
with me, and when sho flashed her
eyes at me and said "yes," I jumped
up like I had set down on a griddle.
You may talk about sensation, but
when she took hold of miy hand and
I sorter squeezed it, I felt a sensation
as big as a load of wood, and it kept
ru-'ning up and down my back like
a squirrel with a hawk after him. 1
am very fond of dancing; but I'll be
hanged if I know whether I enjoyed
it that night or not, for every time
she took hold of my hand I'd come',
mence feeling curious behind my ears
and up and down my back again, and
then I wouldn't know whether I was
on earth or in a balloon, or on a com
at, or anything about it. It was uin
doubtedly a case of love at first sight
and a powerful bad case at that. For
a wonder I got throngh the frolic
without making myself conspicuous
or cutting up any exdras, as I am in
the habit of doing when I go into
public. I'd set my pegs to go home
with the widow after the ball, but just
as I was fixing my mouth to aek her",
up steps a big, long, leather faced
doctor, named Mabry, and walked
her right off before my eyes. That
riled me a little, but I kept my towns
gue still, inwardly swearing to break
his bones the very first opportunity
that.presented itself. I saw there
was no use in saying anything, so I
wont bomne and ,ront to bed, and all
the rest of the nighi I wa8 dreaming
about rainbows, -angels, butter filiee,
fiddles, widows and doctors, mixed
up worse than a Dutchman's dinner.
w V1L 'Squire, to ak, a abotstory.
of it, I made up my mind to have the
widow, or kill myself or somebody
else. So I mado it convenient to be
on hand where she was, upon all oc
casions. I couldn't eat, 1101 sl0p, nor
work, and if the thing had held on, I
wouldn't have had sense enough left
to skin a rabbit. But I was deter
mined it shouldn't last long, for' I had
been fooled so often by women that I
thought I wouldn't give her time to
think of anything but dae. She ap
peared to take to me right sharply,
and the doctor seemed inclined to mix
in with i me, but I didn't consider him
no more than a brush fence, .for I
was so far gone I thought she could
see nobody on earth but me. Well,
'Squire, things went on so for 'bout
a m"onth, and one Sunday I sctowd
up my spunk and put the question to
her. She sorter laughed and sorter
looked one sided, and finally told me
she couldn't give me an answer just
then, but if I'd call at her louse next
Thursday evening she'd give me a
final Aiswer. Thinks I you are mine
just as snre as there's a fiddler be,
low. Whenever a woman takes timo
to study she'll say yes. 'Squire, don't
the poeti say something about the
calculation of men going crookej?'
"Mice and men," Burns says," I
answered.
"Well mice and rats is all one, and
so is men and fools sometimes, as I
have found out in my travels. I was
so sure she would have me I went off
and spent all my money for fine
clothes, thinking I would have them
ready for the wedding-and I didl
Contonnd that widowI I saal cn
found all widows! Thursday even
ing came at last, though it was a
long time about it, and over I went
dressed into fits, and feeling as big
as Josh Raynor did when he wau
elected coroner. I got there about
dark, and found a right smart crowd
collected, which was not on the bil,
but I felt as big and as good as the
rest of 'ei. So I marched in like a
blind mule into a potato p)atch, anud
took a seat by the fire. I dJidnl't see
anything of the widow, but I kop)t
looking for her to come in and send
for me, and passed awvay the time by
cussing the crowd to myself, thinking
they had no business there, and I
would not get to talk to my wonmn
a bit. Presently the door opened and
in walked Polly and that long-legged
Doctor, and a whole teamu of boys
and girls fixed up savagely, I tell
you. I looked around for a fiddler,
thinking they were going to lhave a
ball, but wondered what they kept
so still for, and was about proposing
a reel, when up gets a little preacher
and before you could swallowv a live
oyster, ho had Polly andl the Doctor
married laster than a Mexican grens
cer could tie a bull's horna. I was so
compjletely flummuxed that I sat
there with my mouth open like I was
going to swallow the whole crowd,
and nmy eyes looked like billiard balls
till the ceremony was -over, whenlI
jumped up and bellowed;
"I forbid the concern from being
constituted I"
"You are a little too late, my friend'
said the preacher, and they all com
menced laughing like they had
soon something funny.
"I'll be squizzled .if I don't be soon
onough for somobody yet,' says 1, "for
I was mnad Squiro, and no mistake in
tho ticket. I could have cat that
Doctor quiekor'n a hungry dog could
swallo w a tiquirrel skin, if I could have
had a fair chance at him. it, wais too
bad after J had fixed up to marry her
myself, f'or bor to wvalk right out ho
fore my eye- and marry that great
baboon."
"It was bad, that is a fact," said I.
"Bad!' cr'ied ho, 'it was meaner than
eating fried coon. I first thought I'd
go straigh't home,.but then concluded
that wouldn't, spite nobody'so 1 de
termnined to stay and see if I couldn't
grot satisfactiont out of somebody. You
know I am the douce to got myself or
The VuTry Law
As the time for the meeting of the
General Assembly draws nigh the
people should be alive to the best in
terests of the country, and urge upon
their Legislators the enactment of
such laws as will advance the gener
al peace and piosperity of our dear
redeemed Carolina. Urge upon our
reproesentatives the great importance
of placing the farmer and the labor.
or upon an equality with the more
fortunate, and in many cases, the
more rascally capitalists, who, under
Radical rule, havo been able to live
npon the high and unjust rates of in%
terest demanded from the "bone and
Binew of the land." One of the modt
injurious and unjust laws that has
come down to ns through the corrnp
Lions of that monstrosity, Radicalism,
is that which permits one who lenda
money to charge fifteen, twenty, or
thirty per centumn intetest. The ag
ricultural interests, in fact, the gen
oral prosperity of the State, call for
the ei)actmncut of a reasonable and
equitable usury law. It must be
passed at the next scEsion of our
Legislature. It is hardly necessary
to argue that this high iate of inter
cat eflects the farmer, although he
may never borrow, and whatever
operates against his progress is a
curse to any country. Iundreds ot
brave hearts have been crushed in
the attempt to build up a farm which
wonild p&y the individual and prove
a blessing to his fellow men, crushed
by the unbearable weight of interest,
Which, with the substance of the
hardest kind of labor, finds a resting
place in the capacious pockets of the
capitalist. Hundreds of acres of our
best lands lie idle and unimproved
because he wbo ho!ds the money can
live istimptuously upon the interest,
without work; while he who would
till these fields and cause them to
blossom as the rose has not the means
and cannot borrow and pay the usury
deanarided. And again, hundreds of
our largest and best farmers are,
each year, compelled to secure ad
vances in!snpplies, giving their notes
for "value received" with interest at
eighteen,.et#d sometimes twenty-five
per centum. Value received, in..
deed I When we buy supplies from
the merchant do we not pay his per
cent. without the addition of interest?
Value received I Why it bears the
unmistakeable ear marks of a lie, a
cheat, a fraud and a swindle. And
yet we cannot censure the merchant.
ILe has to employ capital, and in
many instances pay the same per1
cent, dlemianded by him. The capi..
talist, very reasonably, claims the
right secured by law, to charge any
rate ho pleases. So, the evil is di
rectly traceable to the abominiable
law, and in o'rder to mnake the labor,
ing mana a free man we must have
the usury law. A large and respec
table number of our legislators urged
its passage at the last session; all hion
or to them, and now let the people
hold up their hands so that they may
be able, at the next session, to carry
it throngh, the Opposition of the
bloated cap)italists to the contrary
notwithstanding.--summnit Courier.
MIn.- Mind your tongue! Don't
let it speak hasty, cruel, untruthful
or wicked words.
Mind your eyes? Don't permit
thoem to look on wicked books, p)ic
tures~ or ob)jets.
Mind your eare! Don't suffer'
themn to listen to wicked speeches,
snigs, or words.
Mind your lips! Don't Jet strong
drink paUss them. Dimn't lot tob)ac
pollute them. Don't Jet the food of
a glutton enter between thorn.
Minid your handsl Don't let themi
steal or' fight,- ofe write miy wicked
words.
Mindl yonr feet! Don't let them
wahlk in the step) of the wicked.
Mind your heart! Don't let th~
love of sin d well ina it. Don't give it1
to 8atan, but ask Jesus to make i
h ie throne.--Youthsb Companio.
some'body else into a scrape when I
take a notion, and Id taken One that
night that wont all ovor me like a
third day chill, so I commenced lo
study'n out sone plan. I recollected
hearing the doctor say that whero ho
como from (but the Lord only knows
where that was) tho brido and groom
always washed their faces togothor as
a ebarm against infidelity, or somo
other long word. While I was study'n
about that, I spied the doctors saddle
bag sitting up in the corner, so I
waited till they went into supper, and
then I got the bags and looked to see
what I could dioovor. Nearly the
frst thing 1 saw was a piecoo of lunar
caustic. I slipped it into my pocket,
for I had my plan as soon as I saw it.
Well, I watched around till I saw one
of the girls go to the pail with a pitch.
or, so I went out and asked her what
she was going todo with it. She said
sho was going to carry it into the room
for the Doctor and Polly to wash
their fhcoes in. I kept talking to her
whilo she was filling the pitcher, and
when she turned her hoa:1 I dropped
the caustic into it. It was then about
bed timo, and I got my hat and put
out, but I couldn't help laughing all
the way homo, whonever I'd think
about noxt morning.
"Well, 'Squire, they do say that
when that couplo wakod up next
morning they both had the hardost
kind of fits, each one thinking they
had been sleeping with a nigger. Oh,
it was rich! He a coussin' and tear
ing up things, and she a faintin and
comin' to and going off again, and me
not there to see it. They mado such
an unoarthly racket that the folks
broke into the room to see what was
the mattor, and thero they was with
their faccs and hands all as black as
the inside of an old stove pipo. I'd
give half my intorest in the tother
world just to havo boon at somo safo
place where I could havo seen the
whole row. As soon as they found
out that they was really the same
folks that married tho night bolore,
they called for warm water and soap,
but just hore tho doctor happened to
think about the pitcher and took it
to the door to see what was the mat
ter. There was a little p)ieco of caus
tic that had not dissolvod, and as soon
as he saw it, ho says:
"It's no uso washing, Polly'. All
the SOap) in New York city wouldn't
wash that black off."
"That was the truth, 'Squire, soap
and wateor had no moreoeffect than it
would ou a native born African, and
all the chance was to wvait and let it
wear off. Ilow long it took them to
get white again, I never found out,
but one thing I do know," he con
cluded, getting up to go out, "the
next time I saw the doctor I had the
hardost fight, and come the nighest
getting whaled tlhat I ever did in all
my born days."
Tusi INSOLENCE OF OFFloE.- eYs
terday afternoon two prlofessio)nal
dead beats, known as spotters ini the
revenue department of the United
States Government, wvent into a sa
loon kept by a respectable citizen
and demnanded an inspection of the
cigar boxes. 'rho clerk complied
with their demand and showed up
the cigar boxes, whbich were found to
be regularly stamped. Oneo of theseo
ofilcers then proposed to have drinks
"on the house," a p)roposition which
the house failed to agree to, whore
upon the other beat remnarked, never
mind, I knowv the old -, and
I'll have him up int loss than a week.
It seems to na t hat a little civil serv
ice reform might bo0 applied with
ad vantage ini this direct ion .-Unuion
Titu0sO.
Indien'tions~ of a pm ehisitorii people,
which are plentil in south western
Culorado, have lately been discovered
in western Nevada. Ant igne pottory
and undecipherable writings on the
rocks are the umost ommon tokens.
AL one place, engraved n)pon a rock,
is the nude ligure of' a mian, holding
in his right hand a shirub, the outline5s
of which show conisiderable artistic
skill.
[From the ou"ern (N. Y.) Herald.}
Piohan Couty, . .
Thi conity is in the Stat-ci fodOr
Oarolli, and embraces, perhap, W
greater variety of the clirm or-MArW4,
than the samki amhnt of territory in
any other ection sonth of tho line of
the PDne Ridge motentaint, Which is
the northern line.- It conseguently
includeR the southern slope of 'its
portion of theso mountains, conposed
of a varied assortment of rich hills
and valleye, checkered with its many
beautiful rivilets, creeke and branch
es of pure watery so olar that a pin
may be seeny in woa of them a4 a
depth of from tvee to- seten feet.
These atremis abound with a variety
of fish, from the salt water shad in
the Keowee-thie westn. bonmdaty
-to the jumping sucker, leaping up
the shoals on the smaller strcami
descending the valleys. The water
courses of this eounty aTl head south
of the line with North Oarolia, which
is the meandering ridge on top of the
Blue Ridge, and generally make
their course in a southwesterpt diree.
tion, on the west side of the COUIty
to the beautiful Keowee; on the east
sido in a southeastern direction to the
rich valloy of tire Saluda. These
streams all have more or less valley
(or bottom land, as it is called) which
is rich, productive and continpally
fed from the slopes of the bills on
either side. Much of the northern
portion has not been disturbed since
the the Red man left it, and yet re
mains quiet as when left by the hand
of nature, except when entered by
the seeker of game, with his born,
dogs and gun. The southern half of
this county begins at the toot of the
slope of these hills, which as it were,
build the southern sido of the grand
old Blue Ridge, and breaks off in a
beautiful level plane, interspersed
with its streams, running in diversi.
ried directions through a more thickly
settled section of the county, and
through whicht runs th'e Aire%Line
Railway. In this portion of the coun
ty by use of fertilizers or manures,
one acre of land is frequently made
to produce one bale of oottorn, twenty
five bushels of wheat, and from thirty
to forty bushols of corn and other
products in proportion.
From the resnlts of the late war,
this county rem'iins undeveloped.-.
Very few improved implements for
farming have been introduced, the
old system of labor being kept u'p.
There is, perhaps, no se9tiori on the
North American continent that has
so many advantages for factories as
this. The county has its idle water
sites, its virgin timbers, its mineral
resources, with its powers of produc
tion, all blended, which when prop
erly utilized, will make Pickens
county second to none south of the
Blue Ridge.
The crop~s of this whole section of
county, now being gathered, are uin
usually large, produce is cheap and
land is now cheap. The cspitalist
can doubtless wake investments inl
this county that will soon .And abun
dantly pay. Go, see, and you will
find that this is no exagerated ac
cont of Pickene.
The Israelitos in E~ngland are e0l-.
leeting subscriptions in .aid of tbeir
brethren in Bulgaria, who have been
robbed and oppressed by the Russi
ans. They call on Jews all over tho
world for assistanco, and particularly
on the Union of American. Hebrew
Congregations. The Jews 000,000
strong in Hungary have already re..
sponded to the appoal. in Russia
the prosecution of the Israelitos is
continued, with nearly all its ancfont
cruelty. They are not pormitted to
resido in many or tho greatest ofiok#
Kief and Novgorod, as well as Mos'.
cow, are forbidden Lo thorn, atnd oven
in the rural diAtriots w,bey are bg~r
deod with multitorm 0xaCtions.
We canl pardonW buti can1 We1 tfo'g