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CLEARING
SALE.
?N OBDEE TO REDUCE OUR IMMENSE STOCK OF GOODS, and to
make room for the third large shipment of Dry Goods, expected to arrive daily, we
have determined to offer all our lines in this Department for the next thirty days
AT GBEATLY REDUCED PRICES
To cash^-paying customers! and we wish to assure those who patronize us with their
cash trade, that they are only charged one price for the Goods they buy from us.
We mean this: That we do not charge one person more for the same article than
we do another, and that we deal with everybody alike.
In offering this reduction in prices we do not say that we are selling out at or
below cost. On the contrary, we are engaged to sell Goods at a legitimately fair
profit ; and while we are satisfied with a small profit, can justly say that we are in
a position to offer you better goods, prices and bargains than many other houses.
We buy in large lots for cash, with our own money, therefore paying no interest on
them, wherelty we save six per cent on the goods, four per cent for buying in large
lots, and ten per cent interest?a total saving of twenty (20) per cent. You can,
no doubtj.-rea'dily seer now^why we can afford to make a large reduction from former
prices^?nd still live.
We much prefer selling twice as many Goods as we do now at much lower
prices than to 3ell h;ilf a3 many at the old-time high prices.
? It is conceded by every Lady who has visited our Store that we keep for sale as
pretty and well selected a stock of Goods as can be found anywhere, and our largely
increased City and County trade has much encouraged us to try to please the public
still better in every particular.
We expect to double our sales for the next two months over the sales for the
corresponding time List year, and aee.no reason why we should not do so, having
more Goods, at lower prices, and increased facilities than formerly.
OUR DRESS'GOODS DEPARTMENT
Is replete* with BEAUTIFUL GOODS of every texture and shade, and our lines
of WHITE GOODS are simply superb. Elegant Novelties in?
LADIES' NECKWEAR,
EMBROIDERIES, HOSIERY,
HANDKERCHIEFS,
GLOVES, RIBBONS,
BUTTONS,
Arid Notions in general.
A large an.: beautiful line of HOLLAND WINDOW SHADES, on self
jiciiog rollers, just received.. Price, 75 cts. each. Every'home should be provided
?^rpathf them. .
IN OUR GROCERY DEPARTMENT
We carry the usual heavy stocks, and are prepared at all times to meet competition.
OneTSundred-ahd Twenty-five Barrels fresh ground Flour just received. Coffee,
Sugar, Soda, Eise, G.-ist, &c.} constantly arriving and kept for sale fresh.
- Levering Boasted Bio Coffee a specialty. Try a pound, and you will use no
-other. ?
. Come in and see us?we will do you right.
BLEGKLEY, BROWN & FpTWELL.
June 10,1886 ?_
48
E. PEOPLES,
Agent for the Celebrated
U HIDi (II. FEEDER 1) COHB,
Manufactured at Atlanta, Georgia, and to which Pre?
miums were awarded at the Atlanta Cotton
Exposition, Charleston Industrial Expo?
sition Feb. 2,1882, and at the South
Carolina and Georgia State
Fairs 1881.
THE TAN WINKLE FEEDER AND CONDENSES can be attached to any
other Gin, so parties having other make of Gins and wishing Feeders or
Condensers can be supplied by sending in their order in time, and I will guarantee
satisfaction. .
All kinds of PULLEYS and SHAFTING and most IMPROVED CANE
MILLS and EVAPOEATOBS famished to order."
Van Winkle King Cotton Press
Has long been before the public, and is too
well known to need any further description. Its
chief points of merit are : It takes very little
room, is easily handled, and takes so little pow?
er; can be used on all kinds of powers?horse,
water or steam. Ginniug and packing can all
go on at the same time, without interfering with
the Gin. A two-inch belt will pack a 500 lb.
bale of cotton. It saves its cost the first season
in labor. Bead the following testimonial:
Anderson, S. C?Mr. John E. Peoples?Sir:
The Steam Power Van Winkle Cotton Press
bought from you last Fall has given entire satis?
faction. I packed bales of cotton weighing 660
to 725 lbs. in five minutes with all ease, using a
4-inch belt and 25 lbs. steam. There did not
seem any more strain on the Press than with a
1400 lb. bale. For durability, strength, lightness
of power, small quantity of steam required,
economy of space, I deem, it the King of all
Cotton Presses?especially ao as the low price at which it can be bought for puts it
within reach of every man running a steam Gin. In fact I would not be without it
for twice its cost, I would advise all my friends to buy one of Van Winkle's Steam
Power Cotton Presses, as you will save its cost in labor in one year.
M. A. COBB.
BOSS PRESS.
I am Agent .also for the "Boss Hand and Power
Presses," which are strong, easily bandied and easily
erected.
STAR PRESS.
I am Agent also for the Star Hand Press, which
gives general satisfaction. Suitable for traveling
Gins. ? v
THE HALL SELF-FEEDING COTTON GIN,
;
Manufactured at Sing Sing, N. Y., has given satisfaction wherever used. The saws
are made of the best imported steel. The saw shaft is the largest made. An ex?
amination of other Gins will convince you it is the most substantially built Gin in
use. It never breaks the roll, and therefore does away with the expense of the
revolving head, as the secret of making the Gin to prevent its breaking the roll is
in tho proper shape of the roll box. Every one should examine the improvements
in the Hall Gin made this year, especially the improvement in the Feeder.
Second-hand Machinery.
I have a lot of second-hand GINS and PRESSES, which arc almost as good
as new, that I will sell for about one half the price of a new one.
Come in and see mo and get prices beforn buying.
Juno 24, 1886
JOHN E. PEOPLES,
50 3m
J. G. CLINKSCALES, Editor.
TEACHERS' INSTITUTE.
Let every teacher in the County re?
member that the exercises of the Teach?
ers' Institute will begin July 5th", about
11 o'clock a. m. Prof- Morrison will
arrive a little after 10 o'clock on tbe
down train and go to arranging his pro?
gramme immediately after arrival. Be
sure to be on hand at the opening and
get full benefit of tbe entire session.
Misses Minerva and Lucinda Drake
have closed their schools. They have
done bard work and will appreciate a
few weeks' vacation. They will attend
the Normal.
We do hope the Trustees will make
earnest effort to attend the Normal. It
will be a busy time with many of them,
but we do hope that quite a number may
be able to attend the entire session.
The public schools for tho summer will
open July 19th. If you have not pro?
cured a teacher yet, apply at this office?
we can supply you. Let the Trustees
come to the Institute and select teachers
for their summer schools.
We had the pleasure of meeting Mr.
K. A. Bagwell for a few moments about
two weeks ago, in Belton. Mr. Bagwell
was on his way home from his school in
Brushy Creek Township. He reports a
pleasant session, and expresses himself
2.3 delighted with the community in
which he teaches. It is constitutional
with Bob to do faithful work, whatever
he undertakes. If his student life was
an index to the work of the teacher, his
patrons are fortunate.
The Superintendent of Education has
issued a circular to the following effect:
A competitive examination for the
Peabody Scholarships in the National
Normal College will be held in Green?
ville, on Wednesday, August 25, begin?
ning at 10 a. m. Seven scholarships will
be awarded. Tbe State Normal Institute
for white teachers will be in session in
Greenville at the time of the examina?
tion. I would earnestly recommend ap?
plicants for scholarships to enroll them?
selves as regular pupils of the Institute
ab the beginning of the session, as they
will thereby be greatly aided in acquiring
euch knowledge as will enable them to
pass the examination successfully, and
will also receive the benefit of the re?
duced rates of transportation offered to
pmpils of the Institute.
We notice with pleasure that the an?
nual addresses delivered this year at tbe
Colleges are more practical than they
have heretofore been. It is well some?
times to theorize, but when a man is
called upon to deliver an address on a
Commencement occasion to an audience
composed largely of students, male or
female, it is well if he say something
that will give them clearer views of life,
with its responsibilities and possibilities.
Nowadays, young men not unfrequently
leive College with a very incorrect idea
of what real- life is. If the chosen
speaker at that mile-stone in a young
man's life can throw open a door that
reveals to him the bright and dark shados
of the picture of life, and impress upon
his mind the truth that with most men
life is what they make it; if he can, by
using plain English, banish that abomi?
nable idea that an educated man must
not work, and that manual labor is be?
neath the dignity of a College graduate,
then is it possible for a Commencement
oration to result in good.
We boast of our Colleges, and we have
a right to be proud of them, but, beyond
the shadow of a doubt, tbey have all
spoiled some mighty good farmers and
turned loose upon the world some very
sorry professional men. An education
should not take a man from that vocation
in life for which nature has specially en?
dowed him. The real object is to develop
his; powers, to sharpen bis tools. The
speech delivered by the Hon. Mr. Busbee
at tbe recent Commencement exercises
of tbe Furman University was replete
wiih good bard sense and calculated to
set any young man to thinking, if he is
capable of thinking at all, and will only
give it a careful reading. More ?peeches
of that kind, and fewer on the subtle
theories that ouly perplex and disgust
young minds, would accomplish much
for tne cause of education and the com?
mon good of our country.
WONDERS OF THE SEA.
The sea occupies three-fifths of the
surface of the eartb. At the depth of
about 3,500 feet, waves are not felt. The
temperature is the same, varying only a
trifle from tbe ice at tbe poles to tbe
burning sun of the equator. A mile
down, the water has a pressure of over a
ton to the square inch. If a box six feet
deep were filled with sea water and
allowed to evaporate under the sun, there
would be two inches of salt left on the
bottom. Taking the average depth of
tho ocean to be three miles, there would
be a layer of pure salt 230 feet thick on
tho bed of tho Atlantic. The water is
colder at the bottom than at the surface.
In the many bays on the coast of Nor?
way the water often freezes at the bot?
tom before it does above.
Waves are very deceptive. To look at
them in a storm, one would think the
water travelled. The water stays in the
same place but the motion goes on.
Sometimes in storms these waves are
forty feet high, and travel fifty miles an
hour?more than twice as fast as tbe
swiftest steamer. The distance from
valley to valley is generally fifteen times
the height, hence a wave five feet high
will extend over seventy-five feet of
water. The force of the sea dashing on
Bell Rock, is said to be seventeen - tenfr
for cacn sTjuaro yard. Evaporation is a
wouderful power in drawing the water
from tho sea. Every year a layer of the
entire sea, fourteen feet, is taken up into
the clouds. The winds bear their bur?
den into the land, and tbe water comes
down in rain upon tbe fields, to flow
back at last through rivers. The depth
of the sea presents an interesting prob?
lem. If the Atlantic were lowered
0,5(34 feet, the djstance from shore to
shore would be hau ^ great, or 1,500
miles. If lowered a little moro than
throe mile.-, pay 19.GS0 feet, there would
be a road of dry land from Newfound?
land to Ireland. This ix the plane on
which t. . great Atlantic cablen were
laid. The Mediterranean is compara?
tively shallow. A drying up of (ICO feet
would leave three diflcretit !;ea.", and
Africa would be joined with Italy. Tbe
British Channel is more like a pond,
which accounts for its choppy waves.
It has been found difficult to get cor?
rect soundings of the Atlantic. A mid?
shipman of the navy overcame the diffi?
culty, and shot weighing thirty pounds
carries down the sinker. A hole is bored
through the sinker, through which a rod
of iron is passed, moving easily back and
forth. In the end of the bar is a cup
dug out, and the inside coated with lard.
The bar is made fast to the line, and a
sling holds the shot on. When the bar,
which extends below the ball, touches
the earth, the sling unhooks and the shot
slide off'. The lard in the end of the bar
holds some of the sand, or whatever may
be on the bottom, and a drop shuts over
the cup to keep the water from washing
the sand out. When the ground is
reached, a shock is felt as if an electric
current had passed through the line.?
Electrical Review.
The Manufacture of Candy.
The word candy comes to us from the
Arabic and Persian yand, another name
for sugar. Candy-making is a consider?
able trade in itself. The census of 1880
reported 13,692 confectioners. There
are eight or ten large factories in New
York alone, employing perhaps a hun?
dred each, and using a hundred barrels
or more of sugar a week, besides quanti?
ties of glucose.
The stick" candy which seems to be
an indigenous American product, is of
ordinary "A" sugar, boiled down with
water and a little cream of tartar to pre?
vent crystalization. The mass is taken
in batches of about fifteen pounds to a
marble table, where it is kneaded like
bread, and the flavoring and coloring
worked in. The paste then goes to the
"pulling hooks," where for five or six
minutes it is pulled and twisted and re
pulled and retwisted at the hands of a
workmsn who certainly earns his liviug.
Thence it returns to the marble table, at
one end of which is a mental plate, kept
hot, on which he works the enndy into its
final shape. Stripes are pressed into the
batch, two feet long and a foot thick, and
'it is then drawn and twisted out till it is
the proper size of the penny "stick," the
right length of which is clipped off by
huge Bcissors. Clear candy is not knead?
ed or pulled. Plat candy is run into
pans, and a knife is run across where it is
to be broken into sticks or squares. The
drops, fishes, and other fancy shapes are
made by passing the paste through a
machine, which cuts and presses it to
the proper size and shape.
Lozenges are rolled out like pie-crust,
sometimes printed in carmine with a
hand-stamp, and then cut out with dies.
Sugar-plums and sugared almonds are
made in a very interesting way, by
throwing the nut, seed, or other nucleus
with boiling sugar into great copper
pans, which are shaken-by hand or re?
volved by machinery over a hot fire.
Rolled over and over in the moist sugar,
the plums soon begin to grow, and are
"polished off" by each other, while the
above steam-worked fans carry off the
dry dust. Gum drops are made of gum
arabic and sugar, boiled and mixed,
seven or eight hundred pounds at a time,
in huge copper steam kettles, whence the
mixture is taken out into smaller kettles
to be flavored and colored. The cheap
gum drops and "marshmallows" are
made chiefly from glucose. Cream or
soft candies are made in a simple way,
from sugar mixed with cream of tartar
to prevent crystalizing. To give them
their fancy forms, a flat tray is filled
with starch, which is pressed into moulds
by a series of plaater-of-Paris models?
a drop, band, face, berry, or what it may
be?arranged on a long stick. Into these
starch moulds the hot cream is poured,
and then allowed to dry. Some factories
have as much as 50,000 pounds of starch
in this Use.' The drying room is kept at
a high temperature, in which "creams"
soon become dry and solid. They are
then separated from the starch by huge
sieves. If they are to be glossed, they
are placed in huge tin pans and a cold
solution of sugar poured over shem to
stand overnight. In the morning the
ice BUgar on top is broken, and the
"creams" are found coated with fine
crystals. The liquor drops are a very
curious product. The syrup is mixed
with brandy or flavored water, and is
poured into the starch moulds. As it
cools at the top and on the mould, the
crystals make a continuous case, impris?
oning the liquor within.
The adulteration of candy is chiefly
by the use of terra alba, or white clt>y.
This harmful stuff can be detected by
"dissolving the suspected candy in water,
when the clay falls to the bottom undis
solved. An ounce roll of cheap lozenges
will sometimes contain three-quarters of
an ounce of this injurious stuff. The
coloring of candies is for the most part,
not oY)v igerous, since a piece of-red col
orirgjftnatler the size of a gum drop will
color 5,000 pounds of candy. Unscrupu?
lous manufacturers, however, occasion?
ally use mineral instead of safe vegetable
colors, and cart loads of such candy
have been seized and destroyed by the
health-officers in New York. For the
most part, carmine and cochineal axe
used for red, saffron for yellow, caramel
or burnt sugar for brown, and this with
carmine for orange. Green and blue
candies are to be avoided. These colors
are used sometimes, however, in "decor?
ating"?a surface treatment of fine can?
dies by hand, in which a water-color
artist is employed to do art work at
wholesale according to the model set him.
As for this purpose the proportion of col?
oring matter to sugar is about one-mill?
ionth, the result of swallowing paint'is
not so disastrous as might be expected.
In flavoring, essential oils are used, about
a pound to a thousand pounds of sugar,
and this is worked in during the boiling
or kneading. Licorice colors and flavors
both at once.?Harper's Magazine.
Crushed to the Earth.
Marion, June 17.?Mr. Thomas J.
Bass, a prominent citizen of this County,
living about twelve miles above this
place, was killed last evening about 6
o'clock about a half mile from his home.
According to the best information re?
ceived he started from home on foot to
get his mail from the postoffice at Buck
Swamp about one hour before sundown,
and while walking a path through the
woods a large pine, two feet in diameter
and bent over the path, suddenly fell
just a3 he was under it, killing him in?
stantly. When found his body was hor?
ribly mangled, and but for the fact that
his head happened not to be crushed by
the tree he would have been scarcely re?
cognized. After dark his wife, thinking
that he was detained unusually late, sent
over to his brother's who lives near, to
know whether he had stopped there on
his return. As nothing bad been seen of
him, she next sent to the postoffice to
know if be had been there, but nothing
c?ui'u be "learned of him. The messen?
ger on returning was told by a colored
man that he had seen him at a certain
point on the path above referred to.
About midnight his body was found in
the position above mentioned not far
from the spot where be was last seen by
the negro. The deceased was a juror at
the term of the Sessions Court just
adjourned. The jury was discharged
Tuesday afternoon about 6 o'clock, when
he returned to his home, and about the
same time on the following evening ho
was killed. He leaves a wife and four
small children. He was about 35 years
old. I
? Senator Kcnna, who has contented I
to serve as chairman of the Democratic
Congressional Committee, thinks that
Cleveland will be the Democratic caudi-1
date in 1888. I
? It takes 800 full-blown roses to j
make a tablespoo; ."ul of perfume.
IS THE NEGRO A FAILURE 1
A Very Strong and Thoughtful Letter.
Howcll Cobbin Augusta Chronicle.
A short while before bis death Alexan?
der H. Stephens asserted that the South
had grown poorer since tho war. This
provoked much criticism. When, how?
ever, it was known he referred to tbe
agricultural interest, the foundation of
stable prosperity, many who first disputed
concurred in his opinion. The fact that
this interest is prostrated and suffering
from protracted depression will now be
conceded. In Georgia, whatever statis?
tics may show, no intelligent observer
will contend that the condition of the
farmers as a class has improved.
All tbe fault does not lie at the door of
the negro. The former slave-holder did
not fully realize immediately after the war
his serious loss. The negro's presence
still as a laborer blinded bim. I recall,
in 1865-66, many declaring they were
better off? they no longer had the negro
to support. The high prices for cotton
helped to fasten upon us the system of
all cotton. These two causes deluded us
into continuing the life of luxurious ease
and extravagance engendered by slavery.
Emancipation crippled the individual
owner, but did not impoverish the South.
The productive power remained undis?
turbed other than as affected by the con?
fusion incident to the change. Tbe land
and the negro, serving as the labor,
wrought what prosperity we have had
since the war. The free negro, then, has
not proven an utter failure. As in slave?
ry, he enriched, by his increase and profit
of his labor, his master directly and the
whole South indirectly, so as a free
laborer he has by tbe sweat of his brow
materially aided in tbe rehabilitation of
the South.
Can it be said, then, that tbe negro is
not to be depended upon as a permanent^
and reliable laborer, or that he is unfitted'
to be the land tenantry of the South ?
To answer this question fully and intelli?
gently we must consider the influence of
the negro upon our material development
before and since the war?the effect of
his presence upon our progress, both as
slave and freeman. Did his presence
impede our full development before the
war? None will deny that slavery was
injurious to the non -slave-holding and
labor class of whites in tbe South.
I presume that it will not be claimed
that slavery developed either economy,
thrift or industry in tbe slave-holding
class. Slavery enervated the slave-hold?
er even to dependence upon the slave,
hindered the progress of the non slave?
holder, and made the South as a section
dependent upon the North. Before the
war T. R. R. Cobb, addressing tbe Alum?
ni Society of the Georgia University,
recognized this dependence. He declared
the North furnished our teachers and
literature. Not a text book was written
or printed South. The North supplied
our fabrics, machinery, what little we
needed, our household goods, our garden
and agricultural implements, down to
tbe axe-helve used by the negro upon
tbe plantation. He deplored this depen?
dence, and urged our people to arouse from
their lethargy.
After the war B. H. Hill, addressing
the same society, deplored the still exist?
ing and ever increasing dependence. He'
never uttered a more absolute truth than
when he declared tho defence of slavery
had enslaved tbe South, hampered her
mind, contracted her resources, dwarfed
her material development and'.Ijisolated
her from sympathetic contact with the
world. His utterance provoked criticism
?but, as often with Mr. Hill, be but
anticipated public opinion.
Has twenty years of negro free labor
altered our status of dependence? In
truth it is worse. In the main, we are
still dependent upon the North for our
books, fabrics, machinery and implements
of trade and agriculture. Before the
war we did mak? a support first, and
cotton as a surplus crop. Now, after
twenty years of free negro labor, we are
literally dependent upon tbe North for
bread and meat. Tbe testimony of all
who work the negro is that he is growing
more unreliable as a laborer.
The tutelage of the time of slavery
benefited tbe negro solely through his
faculty of imitation. He now contemns
the white man's opinion and example.
It is true he is of a cheerful spirit and
easily contented. A little seems to con?
tent the negro?a full stomach and no
work save when hunger impels him.
This tends,to make him unreliable as a
laborer?improvident and thrifiles?.
The negro thus, at present, unfitted to be
a reliable laborer, is slowly becoming an
independent tiller of our lands. He is
gaining this position neither by merit,
nor with tho voluntaiy consent of the
landowners.
After twenty year3 of struggle to work
the negro under intelligent control,
which is best alike for landowner and
negro, tbe former, exhausted in device*,
patience and purse, is in despair gradual
ly yielding his land to negro tenauts.
This he does, not from choice, but coer
ciou of circumstance as stated, with the
firm conviction that the negro tenant will
impoverish tbe land, as he has in many
instances already bankrupted the owner.
The evil is great and a speedy remedy
imperative. The mcst hopeful I have
seen suggested is white immigration, both
of farmers able to buy aud cultirate the
lands and intelligent laborers.
Artificial increase of white tillers of
the soil will overcome the present dis?
proportion in numbers of the negro, and
natural increase of same, which threat?
ens disaster to our agricultural interests.
Every inducement should be offered;
advertise our advantages of climate and
soil, pure water, health aud cheap lauds
adapted to varied culture. The State
should open its treasury to this end ; an
efficient bureau ot immigration should be
immediately and permanently established.
The landowners should co operate in the
way of easy purchase of lands?both as
to price acu time of payment. If it
could be constitutionally done, tbe State
could well afford to buy the lands and
denate tbem to bona fide settlers?title
conditioned upon certain period of occu?
pancy aud improvement thereon. In a
few years the State would be amply
repaid in increased value and revenue.
I think the tendency of such immigration
will be to distribute the negro gradually
over the whole country. Necessity will
compell him to seek work on terms con?
sistent with a profitable utilization of bis
labor, both for the land-owner aud him?
self. Proper control and tutelago of
example will develop any latent virtues.
The negro problem involves more than
merely our material growth. In fact, this
U only embraced in tbe broader problem
his presence involves. If we go on as
now, the negro in abnormal disproportion j
to the whites?as a product of slavery?
and this disproportion increasing, what of
the future? What will a century, or
even less, yield us, social .19 well as mate?
rial ?
Hutaraty" speaking, .judging by the
past and present, without knowledge of
the future, the cloud grows more dense
and angry. Every agency to augment
the difficulty of solving the problem
grows more active, while nur resources
seemed lessened. Will thc.cnd be con?
flict of races? This seems" the natural
result. God has implanted in the heart
of the negro, as well as the white, race
antipathy. 71- is equally strong in each
race. Struggle and not peace seems the
natural law. It is not to bo conceived as
possible that tho white ma:V4?ijl finally
surrender to negro supremacy, wlratfiver
tho condition of the races. Nor that trie
while will abandon Iwially tin* fair see
to negro exclusive posyesaiou. Conflict
mu?t have but one termination?the
weaker will go down, llcnco if the ne?
gro hoa capabilities possible of develop
ment after long tutelage under proper
influences and examples, bis interest as
well as that of the white, imperatively
demands an influx of proper white im?
migrants to overcome this disproportion
and to give permanent peace and pros?
perity alike to the land-owner and negro.
Grant the negro's defects are not
inherent. Grant there is no danger of
social degradation of the white. Grant
that with proper influence, and patent
and well directed effort, the negro wi1.
ultimately develop into a distinct race
citizen, contributing at every point to
our common growth and welfare abiding:
beneficial results. Still such influence
as indicated is to be secured more speedy
ly and substantially by immigration of
whites. This will alike arrest tendency
to destruction of the negro by conflicl;
and degradation of the whites in charac?
ter, at least, by contact with the negro ic
present relative numbers. As a political
factor it needs no comment to 6how thin
tendency to corrupt the white. A pur?
chasable voter invites bribery and fraud,
which, while it fastens the negro depravi ?
ty upon him, tends to debauch the white,
A thriftless, dishonest laborer, working
only under the compulsion of hunger,
invites dishonest dealing by the employer
to equalize results. These evil tendencies
should be neutralized. We must, at all
I hazards, preserve the purity, integrity
and supremacy of the white race.
Had there never been any outside agi?
tation, and the conscience of the South
ever remained dormant, sooner or later
she would have awakened to, and been
appalled, by the problem involved in the
increase of the negro even as a slave.
Sudden emancipation and enfranchise?
ment of the negro is rushing the problem
to a solution, but it nevertheless existed
in slavery. The black cloud was gather?
ing all the days of slavery, and has only
burst upon us with the violence of a
cyclone by suddcu freedom and its sur?
rounding.
The Acquittal of Ferguson,
John 0. Ferguson, on his fourth trial,
was acquitted of all legal blame for the
killing of Arthur M. Benedict. The
readers of the Press and Banner are
familiar with all the facts of the homi?
cide, and any rehearsal of them here
would be superfluous. Every man in
Abbeville County who has intelligence
enough to read a newspaper, has, it is
presumed, made up bis mind as to whether
it was a crime to go to the store on De?
cember 24,1884, and shoot the Jew while
he was quietly pursuing his daily work.
But whatever opinions individuals may
hold as to the justifiableness or unjusti
fiableness of the act, and whatever the
public may think of the jury for the
verdict, Ferguson has been legally vindi?
cated. Through the solemn forms of
law, he has been declared innocent of
any offence whatever. The jury have
declared that it was no harm at all to
"kill the damned Jew."
The theory of our system of govern?
ment is, that juries not only reflect the
sentiment of the couutry, but that they
also, "without fear, favor or affection,"
award exact justice in accordance with
the law and the evidence, bat we think
that verdict did not reflect the sentiment
of the intelligent and respectable public
of Abbeville Coumy, and we believe the
verdict was not in accordance with the
law and the evidence.
It seems to us that there is something
wrong in our jury system. While it is no
trouble to punish, even to u cruel extent,
for offences against property, yet the
law is seldom enforced for the protection
of the life and limb of the citizen. The
Court at every sitting, proves that proper?
ty is jealously guarded, but the records of
the Court prove that juries are drawn
which refuse to convict for offenses against
the person?no matter how aggravated.
Is a peck of corn in a neglected field of
more consideration than the life of a
human being? Is the price of a pig more
sacred in the eyes of the law than the
life of a citizen? With this state of
affairs how long will it be before we will
be compelled to resort to lynch law ?
If the present jury system, by which
all offenders against the person escape
punishment is continued, we must organ?
ize for that protection which the law
refuses to give, and the excited and
incensed mob must finally be called upon
to administer certain and speedy justice.
?Abbeville Press and Banner.
That Boundary-Line.
Mr. Arthur Winslow, engineer, has
completed the field work of his survey of
the disputed boundary between North
Carolina and South Carolina, on the line
between Mecklenburg and Lancaster
counties. He spent three weeks in mak
ingjtbe survey, the work being done by
direction of Cupt. S. B. Alexander, of
Charlotte, the Commissioner on the part
of North Carolina. The survey was
made some years ago by the South Caro?
lina Commissioner. He made a compass
survey. Mr. Winslow'8 survey was what
is technically known as a venier survey,
in which a venier and theodolite were
used and the exact course was taken from
the stars. Numerous errors and varia- ?
tions were discovered in the old survey.
In all Mr. Winalow went over thirty
miles of line. The greater part of the
country is fine farming land, but near the
Catawh.i River there is some laud almost
mountainous in its roughness. In a dis?
tance of five hundred feet there are val?
leys one hundred and fifty feet in depth.
By Mr. WinsJow'a survey, made with the
greatest care and accuracy, he states,
about seven thousand acres of laud here?
tofore claimed as South Carolina territo?
ry, are part and parcel of North Carolina.
Most of the people in this territory Mr.
Winslow found to be very well pleased
with the change which throws them into
Mecklenburg. They are in a strip of
country far from Lancaster, the county
seat of the county of that name. By the
change of counties and States they get
within ten or twelve miles of Charlotte,
their new county seat. Of course some
of the residents in the territory do not
like to leave South Carolina, on account
of old associations, etc. Mr. Winslow
will to day begin to make?up the maps,
etc., from his survey. The papers will
all be placed in the Governor's hands.
It is probable that a board of arbitration
will be required to adjust matters satis?
factorily in all respects.?Raleigh News
Observer. ' ;
? A great deal of talk has been occa?
sioned by the mention of the fact that
the President always used new money.
Some people laughed at the idea that he
banded a crisp new $100 bill to Dr. Sun
derland for his marriage !'ee, and, again,
that he put a crisp new $5 bill in the col?
lection plate at the Oakland church.
People said: "Why, the President must
have money made especially for himself."
The truth is, the President always receives
new notes direct from the treasury. He
never gets old notes, except in change
when he pays a bill or makes a purchase.
The United States treasurer, on the last
day of each month, sends the President
his salary? $4,1GG.66?the odd change in
bright, new silver and copper cents, and
the notes all new and the latest issue. Mr.
Cleveland, like his predecessors, keeps a
private bank account with Riggs & Co.,
and the day after he gets his salary he
makes a deposit, reserving enough to pay
current expenses. It is said that his ac?
count has shown as large a balance aa
?3-3,000, as he has an income besides lr.s
official saury. Before he entered public
life he made from $10,000 to $lf>,000 a
yfittr by his practice, and his expenses
were iJQfc more than $2,500; lie has
saved much of his first year's salary, but
now that he is i.iarried his expenses will
increase.
MONTANA'S FRONTIERS.
A Class of Women Different from Those
in tbe States.
With tbe remarkable development of
tho Western Territories has grown up a
class of women totally different from
their sisters in the States. The very fact
of being in a new wild country, often
left alone to looklafter the herds and
flocks, has made them wonderfully self
reliant and independent. I run across
women up in this country so full of pluck,
grit and endurance that I verily believe
that in a stand-up fight with hostile In?
dians or marauding horse thieves they
would be equal, man for man, to the
same number of cowboys or soldiers.
These ladies by reason of their wild life
on the frontier do not by any means lose
all tbe gentleness and refinement of their
sex. To be sure, they become somewhat
roughened by hardship and exposure,
but through it all they still preserve their
womanly traits, and when tbe necessity
arises for them to ride, hunt or shoot,
you will find tbem there, and in tbe end
perhaps a little better off than a great
many males would be under Bimilar cir?
cumstances.
There are all kinds of women in the
Northwest. From the cultured dames of
our best cities the grade runs all tbe way
down to the female road agent. But, as
a rule, tbe girls of Montana are made of
the very best material to be bad on the
continent. Scattered all over tbe broad
prairies of Montana are refined and cul?
tured women, bred in affluence and ease,
proud, young and hopeful, called by the
misfortunes of their husbands or led by
their desires to enter and achieve in new
fields the mission of life, to surrender
society, the home and friends and scenes
of their youth, and march boldly to a
far-off wilderness and endure privation,
toil, labor and suffering. But these wo?
men have grown to be brave, industrious,
self-reliant, full of pluck and energy,
perfect horsewomen, healthy, hearty,
active and independent, and iu many
cases about as pretty aud as plump as
the very best of climates can make them.
Now, the typical Montana girl if left
alone will succeed where an ordinary
man would fail; With no vices they
stick closely to business, and if bent ou
tree claiming, homesteadiug or pre?
empting a quarter, half or whole section
of land, they generally stay by the claim
to the end and prove up on time.
Many of these enterprising damsels
wouldn't have a husband at any price.
Again, many after laying the foundation
of a comfortable fortune, are taken in by
some lazy bachelor who comes loafing
along, sees the chance, marries the maid?
en and settles down into a nice ready
made home. Ourgirls are bread-winners
and no mistake. They are up to all sorts
of schemes, such as ranching, herding of
sheep or cattle, school superintendents
and even politics. ,
The latter should be expected, how?
ever, as the females of Montana have the
right of suffrage extended to them in
case they happen to be taxpayers. As
nearly every woman in the territory is a
taxpayer, why, of course, she votes, 'as
she has a perfect right to do. - In Boze
man, a few miles west of here, one can
see plastered all over the town placards
appealing to the passer-by to "Vote for
Hamilton, the people's choice," or "Give
your vote to Darcy," or "Vote for Nich?
ols and reform." Hamilton, Nichols
and Darcy were candidates for the school
superintendency of the county, and a
fourth candidate was in the field?? man.
It is . needless to add that the "horrid
man" was beaten by all .three of tbe girls,
Hamilton coming out ahead.
There is no question but what female
suffrage is a benefit to Montana. Female
jurors ,in cases which involve intempe?
rance, breaches of promise and gaining
would hang a culprit on moderate testi?
mony. Yet with all this, girls are.scarce
in Montana. Tbe town of Maiden close
by (tbe county seat of Fergus county),
whose name is suggestive of wit, beauty,
etc., is in fact a sate retreat for bachelors,
since there is not an unmarried lady in
the town. Sadie, whence these lines are
being penned, is a community of forlorn
bachelors with not a female within a
radius of fifteen miles, excepting tbe
Crow squaws in the neighboring Iudian
camp. One old bachelor wandering
around, the village has a $70,000 bank
account and no one to help him spend it.
? Cor. San Francisco Chronicle.
A Contractor's Ghost Story.
"I never go much on ghost stories,"
began Contractor Van Duke, at the
Clinton House, tho other evening. The
old gentleman bad been listening with
more or less attention to a series of tales
being told by the guests of the hotel.
"You dou't bel'eve in spooks, then,"
suggested one of tbe gathering.
"Well, I don't know," the old contrac?
tor replied. "My experience in that
direction has been somewhat remarkable.
I don't suppose you will believe mo, but
the story I will tell you is true. I can
produce a living witness to it, and I will
it any time make affidavit to its accuracy.
Two years ago I was building a piece of
railroad dowu iu the Eastern part of this
State. Among the people who furnished
me ties was an old trader in whom I had
little or no confidence. As tbe bills for
ties came in I paid tbera promptly and
took receipts from every man. I knew
to the tie the number used. After my con?
tract was completed the old trader used
me for tho price of fifty ties. The case
was tried and I was made to pay the
money. The old man had sworn to his
bill, and little or no defense could be
made. When I paid tbe money I warn?
ed the fellow. I told him he had perjured
himself. I predicted for him an unhappy
eudiM". About six months ago, I was
awakened at one o'clock in the morning
'by this same old trader. It was dark in
my room. Ju.-t as plainly as lean see
you now he was there in-life. He wak?
ened me by calling my name. My part?
ner was in a bed in tbe same room just a
few feet from me. I called him and told
him of the visitor's presence. He said
ae could not see him and laughed at me.
He told me that I wan dreaming aod sug?
gested that I had better go to sleep.
While we were talking the old trader
called me by name. He said he had
been mistaken about the ties, and offered
lo return me tbe money. The vision
then vanished. My partner talked with
me of the matter before we went to sleep
again. The next morning he told the
iitory on me as a joke, but while we were
at breakfast the news reached us of the
old trader's death. He had died within
len minutes of the time of his visit to
me. I have no idea how many more
calls of the same character he had to
make, but I am satisfied his visit to me
was the last one. That story is true as
holy writ," the old man concluded. A
distressing silence followed its telling
find the party broke up before all recov?
ered.
What nn SO-Ccnt Horse Did.
An 80 cent horse in this County has
cultivated 22 acres of land thus far this
season. Last winter a negro came to B.
B. Martin's for a bushol of corn, bring?
ing tho poorest and most pitiable speci?
men of horseflesh ever seen. Cornelius,
a son of Mr. Martin, gave the starved
nnitnal a feed of corn und fodder, and
getting his sympathies aroused, he begged
Iiis father to let him buy the horse. He
j;nt his consent and overtook tbe owner
nfter he was on his way home, and
offered him SO cents for the old frame,
which was gladly accepted by the negro.
Cornelius began to feed the animal judi?
ciously and he was soon ready for the
plow and has cultivated 22 acres of land
and is quilo lively.?Carolina Spartan.
A Wild Western Story.
"I was huntin' and trappin' along the
! Columbia River on the Oregon side,"
i said Uncle Joe, a veteran of the plains
and mountains, "and while I was right
in the Injun country I kivered my tracks
so well that it was weeks before they got
on to me. I built a brush hut in a
heavily timbered bottom, and thekeerful
manner in which I moved around that
neighborhood would have done credit to
a cat. I used the bow and arrow alto?
gether in killin' game, and my traps
brought me in a back load of furs about
as fast as I could take keer of 'em.
"I guess I had bin located about six
weeks, and had become sort o' careless,
as was nateral, when I got a sudden eye
opener. One arternoon I cum plump on
the moccasin track of an Injun, and
from the way it circumlocuted around, I
soon made up my mind that he was
huntin' fur me. I was a bit puzzled at
first, because there was only one track,
but by and by I figgered out how it was.
It was either soma Injun who had slipped
off to trap by himself for a few days, or
it was some warrior who had had his
suspicions aroused and was doin' a leetle
investigation on his own hook. If he
got my scalp he was so much ahead, and
glory awaited him. If he got nuthin'
he wouldn't be laughed at by the rest of
his tribe, fur none of 'em would know of
' his adventure. The minit I diskivered
his footprints I pulled myself together
fur bizness, and I hadn't follered his trail
over twenty rods before I found that he
j was follerin' an old trail of mine.
"It didn't take me a minit to realize
that one of us had got to die afore that
I bunt would be ended. It was a question
of fish or cut bait with me. I should be
j follered if I left the bottoms, fur that
: redskin wanted my life, and I couldn't
stay if he did. On bis side, it would
1 never do fur him to abandon the place
arter he bad diskivered that I was alone.
! He must take his life agin mine and
I abide the issue. Mebbe you kin realize
sunthin' of the feelin' which comes over
a man when he knows that be is bein'
tracked by somebody who demands his
life. I'd rayther have had a whole tribe
of redskins come whoopin' and yellin'
down upon me than to know that a sar
pent was dodgin' and crawl in' along my
trail, silent, determined and implacable.
I bit the feller's trail about half a mile
from the hut, and the hour was about
three o'clock. I knew that' he must
sooner or later strike one of my fresh
trails and bring up at the hut, and in?
stead of follerin' him as he fellers my
old trail I broke off after a few minutes
and made directly fur the hut. Near by
was a mass of rock which offered a se?
cure faidin' place, and if I could reach it
without bein' seen I should have an ad?
vantage. That is, it was reasonable to
believe that he would show up within
shootin' distance durin' the next twenty
four hours.
. "I made the tallest kind o' tracks when
I once got started. I had to take the
chances of his havin' found the hut and
bein'in ambush, and I'm not disputin'
that it was a great load off my mind
when I got safely settled among the
rocks.. I dashed into the hut and got
my rifle and a hunk of cold meat, and
in twenty seconds more I was safe for
the .time bein.' Jist what direction the
varmint would approach from I could
not guess, but he would be still more
puzzled to know what had become of me.
Fur the first hour the place was as silent
as a graveyard, and I was lookin' and
listenin' as only a man can when his life
is at stake to git a bint of the where?
abouts of the enemy. I finally got a
sign. A buck deer cum runnin' past me
in a way to show that he had seen a
human bein' not far off, and I figgered
that the redskin was approachin' from
the east. He had made a complete half
circle of my faidin' place. Fur the
next half hour I used my eyes and ears
until my head ached. I knew the var?
mint was approachin' the hut, but he
was comin' so cautiously that I could not
tell the exact direction.
"The sun was now gettin' purty low,
and I allowed that if he didn't show up
purty soon I'd be badly boxed up for the
night. I was all on aige and skeercely
able to hold myself, when, all of a sud?
den, the silence was broken by an awful
yell, follored by a cry from some hutSan
bein'. It wasn't 'way off, but right there
within stone's throw, and I riz up as if
I had springs under me. Right there
before my eyes, and not a hundred feet
away, a panther and an Injun was havin'
it hot and heavy, the beast usin' his
claws and teeth, and the redskin cuttin'
and slashin' with his knife. I was so
astonished that I couldn't move for a
minit or two, and when I got ready there
was no use in movin'. The two varmints
rolled over and over a dozen times, too
badly mixed fur me to tell which was
, which, and then the panther kinder
drawee! out of the fight. He might have
got fifteen feet away when he keeled over
and kicked in a way to tell me that he'd
got his full. The Injun uttered a faint
whoop as the panther drawed off, but
when I reached him he was as dead as a
door nail. He had fit it out hand to
hand, usin' his huntin' knife, and I'm
tellin' you he was a terrible lookin' ob?
ject. The beast had tore almost every
inch of ciothin' offn bim, and he was bit
and clawed until he was like raw beef.
"Well, I figgered it out purty easy.
That panther bad stowed hisseif away on
a limb calkelatin' to make it hot fur me.
I reckon he didn't git up there nntil
arter I had ambushed myself, and when
the redskin cum crawlin' along the beast
didn't stop to see whether be was white
or black. I was a panther skin, rifle,
tomahawk, and huntin' knife ahead, and,
although I remained there for three
weeks longer, I saw no further signs of
Injuns."
? At precisely 12 o'clock on the night
of June 30 instant the big clock in the
Courthouse tower will toll the knell of
all the barroms in Atlanta. When the
first stroke rings out upon the air there
will be beard a rattling of doors and
windows, and when the last ceases to
vibrate the barrooms will have been
closed not to be reopened for a period of
at least two years. Tbc number to be
closed is not as large as the uninformed
may imagine. Previous to July, 1884,
the average was about 120; but, after
that time, the license was raised from
?300 to $500 and the average decreased
to about 100. Since the election by
which it was decided that prohibition
should reign in town and county after
July 1,1886, thirty barrooms have been
closed, leaving a total of sixty-nine in
town to be tolled out of existence at
midnight on June 30. In a radius of
five or six blocks, with the Kimball
House as the centre, there are thirty
five barrooms. A few of these retail
nothing but beer. The majority retail
not only beer but all sorts of alcoholic
liquors.
? A good many people will be dis?
posed to laugh when they read of Ger?
man infantry regiments being drilled to
the use of bicycles and tricycles, but on
the good roads of Europe they might be
made very useful equipments for an
army. The soldiers could ride them in
marching order with less fatigue than
they could march and at a rate of speed
that might easily determine the fate of a
battle.
? Mr. R. M. Stevenson, who recently
died in Fairfield, was perhaps the tallest
man in the State, measuring six feet and
nine inches. Some fifteen years ago he
thought it advisable to purchase a casket
for himself, as ho would hardly find one
to fit in cute of sudden death, so he had
one prepared for him which has been
pre3erved by one of the furniture dealers
in Winnsboro.
Mr. Cleveland is ioea^^S BJ
tentions to curb tbe extr^B KJ
Congress. On Monday be vetoeWBaWI
sion bills and two bills appropr?SBI
money for public buildings. He BtafH
in a message to Congress that during tnS
Eresent session 493 special pension bills^
are been presented to him, and that be
is advised that 111 more will be presented%
in a day or two. He dwells upon the ,
propriety of leaving applicants for pen- -
sions to the regular channel of the Pen?
sion Bureau, which is fully equipped to.
attend properly to their cases, anu con-,
demns the demoralizing idea "that as
against the public treasury, the most
questionable expedients are allowable."
He vetoes the two public buildings bills.,
because no Federal offices are located at*
the places provided for in the bills except
post offices, and the postal business of
those places does not warrant the erec?
tion of public buildings for their e3pctM :
accommodation. -V
In this connection it is interesting to^;
notice the figures showing the expeudi-ij
lures by tbe United States Government ; i
on account of pensions. The total ^
amount of disbursements on account-of r
pensions during the fiscal year ending]
June 30,1886, was $65,693,707, being-4p4i
increase of $8,420,170 over tho previous^
year. Ten years previous in 1875, jih?!;
disbursements on account of pensions;:
were only $29,683,117, and in 1865 they *,
were only $8,525,153, Bo that tbe pen4
sion disbursements last year are nearly' ,
eight times as mucu as they were 20years'/;
ago, and more than twice what tfiey wereuj
10 years ago.
The number of pensioners on. tbe roll?:
in 1865 was 85,986. In 1875 they had}'
increased to 234,821, and in 1885 thai
number had grown to 345,125.
Is* there any wonder that there shouWVi
be such an expression as "pension grajMj
current in this country? Is not tbe!(
President right when he insists that Con-:?
gress shall cease the reckless passago^efji
pension bills at "nominal sessions helji|
for the express purpose of their consider-.j
ation and attended by a small minority :
of members?" In his position he very.)
properly recognizes the propriety of)
granting pensions to soldiers who are';
entitled (o them under tbe principles .?f |
the pension laws. Bet he is also right 1
in thinking that some greater effort shouUjA
be made to ascertain who are entitled to.1
them than can be put forward in ftm* \<
"nominal sessions."
In this very matter of pension legisla-1
tion, and in other extravagances of Con-..5
gress in squandering the public treasure,^
are to be found so:ne potent causes of .;
the present depression of business. Aside^
from the burdens of taxation, whicbvgnjjo-i
expenditures involved, it is impossibly \
that a great government like this Bhajg?
mar age its immense financial
loosely and in violation of the ordinary-\
prii ciples of economy without demoral-:-\
izin.j to some t the business of^htfT:;
civi'ized world. Free trade and protecv-j
tior., the silver dollar, inflation and con: j
trac ;ion of the currency, imports*, finan- j
cial questions, as they are, are not'so-J
important as the necessity for stopping^
the waste of public money that Los beenp
going on so long under Republican rule,%
and which the President is now so brave-q
ly endeavoring to stem.? Columbia
Uneqnally Mafchcd, i%
If there is any woman in the worlds
who deserves our pity, but who would-1j
feel properly angry if "it were offered to A
her personally and conspicuouslv^^M
the woman who is wedded? H
whom she knows, and o\?
knows, to be her inferior. .V H
married in early girlhood, IJSBH
found out that judgment must In B
foundation for trne love; or perh'apsnsH
remained single till well advanced in ligB
and then tried to satisfy her hungry heSrf
on the mere husks of wedded happiness
which she vainly hoped might enfold thjf ',
rich fruit ;g?r, possibly, she was a pluirrp
homeless girl who was advised to take ojj^
with the ''first chance" to marry for -feaiT
she would never have another one; or,
perchance, she was wearied in youth by $
over-hard toil, and thought she would^
get somebody to "support" her, whim "
usually turns out to mean that she haf, to,
really lahor to support from two to half
a dozen instead of one. Many a womae
is laughed at for "wearing the breaches,'?
when she has to, because tbe man in tbe;
case won't.
Such a woman is not only unhappy
and weighed down with double burdens
in the care of the family, but whgr^ffifj
she ventures out among people, she Jm
still unable to enjoy herself very much,!
because if she will acknowledge it ewn f
to herself, she is conscious of being]
ashamed of her husband. Almost every I
one if acquainted with such an onetA
After once making the mistake, there ,?%
nothing left for such women but to make,
the most of what is left to them; but|j
they ought to be a terrible warning tOK
young girls who are in danger of follow^
ing in their footsteps.
No, girls, if you can't marry a man tov
whom you can look up with resp^ct-apd^
admiration, never marry at all. Single 1
blessedness is far preferable to doumex
misery. Old maidbood is honorable, in .
this day, especially if onr has a worthy^
aim in life?to help the fallen, suffering,^
or unfortunate of the world, to care for :
aged parents, or to educate younger
brothers and sisters, or even to pursue -a*
worthy career of one's own for love of it.:
In a marriage of the highest type, botliv:
husband and wife look up to each others
for different qualities. This is bliss; tho?]
opposite is desolation.?Pee Dee Index^^M
Extraordinary Medical Skill, ?
One stormy night, when the roads w^H
well nigh impassable, a son of Erin ca fl
into a doctor's office and desired the cfgl
penser of physic to go to see a friend wfl
was "jist a-dyin'." He would not tafl
no for an answer; so putting the saddH
bags upon his horse, the physician startW
out upon his journey. As soon as hes:M
the sick man he knew it was nearly ovpi
with him, and remarked to the courier^
"Peter, you told the truth : your friend?
is just at the point of death."
"Can't ye do ainytheeng for heem?^
replied Peter.
,rNo; it is too late."
"But, docthor, aint ye goin' to givej
beem ainything at all at all ?"
"It will demo good." i
"But, elocthor, ye have come so far, i&
would bo too bad to go back without!
doin' anything."
For the- peace of Peter's mind, thai
doctor now took a small quantity of.sugar]
from a phial, and placed it upon the dy^
ing man's tongue just as he was drawing '
his last breath.
Peter, seeing his friend's head drop
back, looked up to tho doctor with big
eyes, and said, half in a whisper', "Ob,
docthor, an didn' ye do it quick!"?JSar-:
per's Magazine for July.
? Grapes may be preserved iu a fresh
state until January, February or March":
by a very simple device. * Before the;
fruit is fully ripened, cover the vino with
a guuny-sack, tying the sack snugly
about the bottom. In adjustiug Ihe sackr
the ends of the canes may be cut away
if necessary. Thus protected, the fruit
will ripen gradually, and continue tot
draw enough sap from the vino to ksep;
perfectly fresh several months after the
usual time of maturing. Some grape*!
growers in the immediate vicinity of the:
larger cities make a good speculation by<
sacking their vines and selling fruit out
of season when it commands three 0%
four cents a pound. ?
? A woman never will bo "the oldest
1 inhabitant" She wouldn't admit it.