The Anderson intelligencer. (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, August 27, 1891, Image 1
BT CLTNESCALES & LANGSTON.
THE LITTLE BOY'S SPEECH !
LADIES AJfI> GENTIiEMEN?My -worthy opponents have endeavored to dis?
courage you by telling you of the low price of cotton, but let me entreat you
not to stop to look at the dark side of this thing, but go to the?
GREAT BARGAIN HOUSE
And see what a great heap of things them boys are offering for such a little money.
Oil Ho. per gallon, Axle Grease 5c. per box, Candy 10c. per pound, and oh! so many
tbines, hat I have not the room here to tell yon of.
? D. C. BROWN & BRO,
MACHINERY! PROGRESS!
Steam Engines
and
Boilers.
Cotton Gins
AND
Presses.
THE CELEBRATED
With Feeders and Condensers.
this gin partakes of the BEST FEATURES in others, and corrects the
defects in all.
RUBBER and LEATHER BELTING,
Said (Ader a positive guarantee that will protect every buyer.
SST By recent special contracts with Manufacturers we are in shape to com?
pete with the world. All we ask for is a fair opportunity and do fa vor?.
HARDWARE,
CUTLERY,
IMPLEMENTS, &c,
;-In such quantity and variety as to give ns the lead not only in Anderson but in
ythisState.
DOORS,
SASH,
BLINDS,
AND
FINISHED BUILDING LUMBER,
A SPECIALTY.
SULLIVAN HARDWARE CO.
Buggies,
aggies.
BUCCIE
We have NOW IN STOCK AND ARRIVING DAILY A LARGE
stock of BUGGIES.
Tyson # Jones' Celebrated Buggies,
'//]2?ti? laNorth-XJaralina, are the beBt sold in this market. They are superior in
material; style, workmanship and finish to any other maker, and present, with their
elegant silver mountings, a very neat appearance, besides combining durability and
\ ~. strength with lightness and easy riding qualities. In fact, there cannot be said too
much in their praise, and all we ask is for yon to come and see them before buying
elsewhere.
The well-known Haydock Rice Coil Spring Buggies,
Of which we have sold so many during the past two seasons, have given universal
satisfaction, and the demand for them is constantly increasing. They are conceded
to be the easiest riding Baggies made, and less tiresome for long distance travels
than any other. We keep a complete stock of these constantly on hand.
Besides the foregoing we have a variety of other manufactures, and are there?
fore prepared to suit all classes of trade.
Prices Low and Terms to Suit Purchasers.
We also keep a large assortment of all kinds of?
HARNESS FOR SALE.
89" Before buying elsewhere be sure and call and examine our stock and
prices.
SYLVESTER BLECKLEY COMPANY.
for Infants and Children.
"CMforlalssowehadaptedtochildrenthat I Castorla cures Colic, Constipation,
Ircc^endh^ S ^^X^?otcs dl
iawwntome." H. A. Aucheh, M. D., I geetioi^
111 So. Oxford St, Brooklyn, N. Y. | Without injurious medication.
Tea Ckntacb Cohpast, 77 Murray Street, N. T.
M O NEY.MO N E Y.MONEY.
EVERYBODY is willing to admit that the people need more money, and we hope
they will get it. We would not mind having a little more ourselves. It is ter?
ribly scarce, but we have?
ONE FIVE DOLLAR GOLD PIECE
Jjeft, and are saving it for the man that will raise the?
HEAVIEST TURNIP
FROM OUR SKR?.
A Big Lot of Fresh Turnip Seed
Just in, and for sale at lowest market price.
All Turnips competing for the Five Dollars must be brought to our Store by
?he4?th of November.
iS" ORR &? SLOAIT^
TeJ??h^'?oi^umn,
-tfe All communications intended for
this Column should be addressed to C.
WARD LAW, School Commissioner, An?
derson, S. 0.
MEMORY GEMS.
Wrong is wrong, no matter what you
believe.
Believing a thing is right does not
make it right, even to the one so believ?
ing._
The school at Ebenezer is taught by
Miss Delia Browne. We found every?
thing in good order, and Miss Delia
faithfully at work. Her pupils seem to
be advancing very well. The discipline
is good, and indications favorable.
Mr. L, M. Mahaffey had seventy-five
pupils present the day we visited his
school at Bethany, in Martin Township.
He is a real teacher, who is doing a work
that will tell wonderfully in the elevation
of that vicinity. The people around
Bethany are interested in educating their
children._
Miss Minerva Drake had sixty-five
pupils present the morning we spent
with her. She is equal to the emergency,
but sixty-five is too many for one
teacher. Her work is thorough, and of
a very high order. No risk is taken in
committing children to her care. She
gives them moral and intellectual train?
ing both in full measure. We do not
remember when we have ever speut a
morning more pleasantly.
Mr. B. B. A. Eobinson is the master at
Mt. Bethel. He has a good opportunity
for work, and seems to be UBing the op?
portunity. We regret to see a commu?
nity so full of children not have a school
for the full school year. It is a great
mistake to depend on summer schools for
education. The citizens of Mt. Bethel
vicinity are able to pay a good teacher
by the year, and we hope to see a good
school at this place for the next school
year. It is impossible to estimate the
benefit of a school to a community.
There will be no white Teachers' In?
stitute in this County this year. We
have enjoyed the greatest edncational
meeting ever held in the State, and with?
out a single cent being taken from the
public school fund. It was a great meet?
ing, but -cost nothing except the enter*
tainmeut given by the good people in and
around Anderson. Teachers and officers
think it best not to have an Institute this
year, becauee it would not be well attend?
ed, and we have enjoyed the Teachers'
Association, which was such a great suc?
cess. The colored Institute to be held
will cost the County nothing.
The Bchool at Generostee is now with?
out a teacher. Mr. McElroy, who has
done such a good, thorough and satisfac?
tory work there, is going to North Caro?
lina. We regret to give up Mr. McEl?
roy. He will be missed, and Anderson
County suffers loss in his departure. He
is a real teacher, and a man that will be
an acquisition to any community. We
regret to eee him leave, but we commend
him and his good wife to the most favor?
able regard of all good people. He car?
ries with him the good wishes of the
School Commissioner, who has been so
well pleased with his faithful work and
successful efforts. _
We would urge the patrons of all the
schools to put their tchool houses in good
repair, so that the children and teachers
will be comfortable. Also make your
arrangements for teachers. Do not wait
and just take anybody, but go to work
and secure a good teacher just as any bu?
siness man would secure a good clerk,
salesman, book-keeper, &c. It is a most
important business with parents to en?
gage a teacher. Do not deal carelessly
and loosely with the training and edu?
cation of your children. Be exceedingly
careful in reference to their training,
Trust not their future life to just any?
body. Protect their training with jeal?
ous care. The community, the State, the
Church, and God requires this of you.
A man is responsible for not knowing
what he might have known. This will
fix a dreadful responsibility on some of
us. We will not be allowed to plead that
we did not know better when we neg?
lected the opportunity to gain such
knowledge. When an opportunity once
passes it is gone forever. Another may
come just like the one past, but it will
not be the same opportunity. The young
do not fully appreciate this, but they
might be taught to realize it nearer than
they do. Parents fail to seize the pass?
ing privileges and opportunities to edu?
cate their children. In some instances
they fail to supply their children with
sufficient and proper books and papers.
A newspaper is an educator. No family
should be without one. Children will
learn to read with very little help if pro?
vided with proper reading matter. That
man or woman has a false idea of econo?
my who thinks it does not pay to buy
books, (that is good books) and take pa?
pers, not too many, but enough. It would
be a good Christmas gift or birth-day
preseut to send a good paper to your own
boy or girl for a year. Such a course
would give handsome returns. Parents
try it. Subscribe fur a paper for your
boy or girl, and you will be pleased with
the result.
Sonic Bible Questions for Children.
1. Who first ueed a saddle as recorded
in the Bible?
2. What was the text of our Saviour's
first sermon ?
3. Who carried a little coat to her son
every year ?
4. Who had a coat woven without
scams ?
5. Of whom does the Bible speak of
plowing with twelve yoke of oven ?
6. Six women once took a journey
which resulted in a wedding ; who was
the bride and groom ?
7. Who prayed, "Give me neither pov?
erty nor riches ?"
8. What is the shortest soug iu the
Bible? _
? If the scarcity of money causes the
low price of cotton, what causes the
high price of corn.?Ncxvbcrry Observer,
ANDERSON, S. C,
BILL ABP.
How Time Is Destroying Sectional Animos?
ities.
Atlanta Constitution.
It waa good to be there, Twenty years
ago a re-union of the soldier boys was a
lively gathering. They greeted one
another with loud hilarity, They stepped
around with a double quick and joked
and laughed and cheered immensely.
Most of the boys were then between thir?
ty and forty, but now they are nearing
sixty, and these twenty years make a dif?
ference. B?lling yearB will change a
man. Anno Domini will tell. The years
are all coming this way, and every one
gives us a lick somewhere. I used to
think that General Young was the finest
looking man in the State, and was getting
the best of the fight with old Father
Time, but I noticed him at this re-union,
and he carried a caue and limped. Old
Anno Domini struck him on the hip,
they say. Mo?t all of the veterans look?
ed older than usual?a little stooped?a
little stiffer in the joints. As they sat to?
gether in front of the speakers' stand
they made a goodly picture, and the pic?
ture should have been taken. How solid,
how thoughtful, how serene they looked.
A consciousness of duty done was set in
every feature?no shame, no repentance,
no fear, no boasting?they went through
the fires and were refined. You can tall
a veteran when you meet him in the
road. It is said that Jerry Simpson, the
sockless statesman, looked upon a gath?
ering of Georgia farmers and said : "My
friends, this is the first time in my life
that I ever stood up before a native
American audience." Where he came
from more than half the people are for?
eigners. If the institution of slavery did
our region no other good it did that. It
kept the foreigners away and is doing it
yet. We are all one people?the descen?
dants of revolutionary sires. Senator
Ingalls has been down here and profesB
ed conversion. He ought to have been
baptized just as soon as be finished that
speech so as to make his conversion stick.
It was such a sudden conversion that our
people are dubious. If a northern man
will come down here and live awhile he
always get converted. I never knew but
one exception, and that was William H.
Seward. He taught school in Putnam
County when he was a young man, and
the old settlers told me that he courted a
pretty girl, and her plantation and nig?
gers, too, and because she wouldent have
him he gave up his school and went back
and began to write us down as barbarians.
Because he couldent get the niggers he
dident want anybody to have them.
But all the other yankee school
teachers that I ever knew became good,
warm-hearted southern men. Dr. Alonzo
Church, the time-honored president of
our State college, and Hiram Warner, the
chief-justice of our BUpreme Court, were
two of them. I have before me now the
News-Democrat, of Canton, 0., which
has a marked letter written by a citizen
of that town and State, who Bays he came
to Georgia in 1839, and taught school in
Danielsville, Madison County, for two
years, and then studied medicine, and in
a few years his personal advantage called
him back to Ohio, where he is now prac?
ticing medicine- But even the two years
in Danielsville implanted a love for tbose
people, and his letter is tender and kind
concerning the South, and this last
spring on his return from Florida he
went to Athens and rode horseback from
there to Danielsvillo, eighteen miles, just
to see the old place that had lived in his
memory for fifty years, and to inquire af?
ter his pupils. What devotion, what af?
fection is that to come from a stranger, a
northern man who came south with pre?
judices and went back without them.
Strange to say, he did not find a man,
woman or child in the village who lived
there when he did. He heard of four of
his pupils who still live, only four. Sad
and lonely he walked about and repeated
to himself the old song:
I feel like one wbo treads alone, etc.
He says he visited the same old court?
house, where he used to see Garnett An
drewB presiding and where he heard
Toombs and Stephens and Howell Cobb
and Bill Yancey speak. He attended the
old-time barbecue and heard the band
play Old Dan Tucker. He went coon
hunting with the young men and helped
to hold the doga while the darkies cut
down the tree. He defends our people
from the slanders that have so long been
heaped upon them and says, "My rela?
tions to the school and its patrons and
the outside public were most pleasant and
agreeable. There is a quality of southern
blood whether derived from Hugenot or
Cavalier which gives them a hospitality
unknown in the north?a cordial wel?
come and a sociality to which we are
strangers."
In speaking of Blavery he Bays, "I have
Been them Bold on the block and at ad?
ministrators' sales for division, but I
never witnessed any such scenes as are
depicted in Uncle Tom's Cabin and kin?
dred works of fiction. The internal sug?
gestions of humanity and self interest
were as rife in slave sb in free territory."
* * s
While this happy re union was going
on it occurred to me that it had been
about two hundred and forty years since
Milton said, "Peace hath her victories no
less renowned than war." It has been
over one hundred years since Ben Frank?
lin said, "There never was a good war or
a bad peace." This seems to be the
common verdict of mankind, and yet bo
long as the devil runB loose there will be
wars. In fact, I don't know but what
there would be some if the devil was
dead, for we are taught to believe that
there is such a thing as original sin,
which the devil nurses into total deprav?
ity.
Nevertheless, it is our duty to get all
the good that we can ont of the evil that
befalls us. In fact, we would hardly
know whet good is if there was no evil.
We wouldent enjoy health if there was
no sickness. We wouldent enjoy pros?
perity if there was no adversity. And ho
if there had been no war we would have
no reunions of the old soldier?, no
plensantgrcetings, no camp-fire anecdotes,
no thrilling recollections; in fact, we
wouldent bn here at all, and there would
not be any eloquent speeches, and, worst
of all, nothing to eat.
Very frequently wc are asked questions
THURSDAY MORN
by our children or by the youths of this
generation concerning the war that wc
cannot answer. How many soldiers did
Georgia Bend to the war? How many
were killed in battle ordered in the ser?
vice? How many have'since died ? Most
of these things are guessed at. Only a
few months>go onr legislature determin?
ed to pension the Confederate widows and
the committee had no data to go by and
guessed there were about six hundred and
fifty, and so they voted them $100 apiece
and appropriated $65,000 to pay it. But
most of the committee were youngish
men who dident know how long a Con?
federate widow lived, especially if she
lived in Carroll County. They say now
that over four thousand have been heard
from and 140 of them are from Carroll
and only half the county heard from.
Now, there is some explanation for
this. Those were game women who sent
their husbands to the war. "Go and
fight, and whip them yankees," they
said. "I'll run the farm and take care of
the children till you come back." Game
women are like game chickens?they live
a long time?and as for Carroll having so
many it was because Sherman ran all the
women and children out of this region,
and. they just dropped over in Carroll,
where there was no railroad and a heap
of hiding places, and after the war they
were too poor to get back again, and they
are there yet.
The trouble that now concerns the leg?
islature ia how to get out of the scrape,
for they have pensioned these widows
$100 apiece, and it will take half a mil?
lion dollars a year to pay it.
Now there are some facts that we do
not have to guess at. For instance we
know that there were Bent from Georgia
to the war?
66 regiments of infantry numbering.5(3,000
25 battalions of infantry numbering.12,500
11 regiments of cavalry numbering.9,350
8-1 battalions of cavalry numbering.10,200
60 companies of artillery numbering.4,800
Making a total of.. 92,250
These were the original volunteers, and
there were added to them by recruits,
25.000, making a total of 117,350. Not
including the home guards.
Now, this is about one-sixth of all the
Confederate army. Georgia showed her
faith by her works.
But what proportion of all the soldiers
still survive is a question where guessing
is in order, but it ia record that over 30,
000 of them fell or died during the war,
and 4,200 of these died in northern pris?
ons. It is probable that 40,000 have
since died, and if that be a fair guess,
then about one-third of the Confederate
Army still lives. The veterans are pass?
ing away very rapidly now, and we see
before us many old soldiers who will not
attend many more re-unions. We have
no pension rolls to tell us from year to
year how many have fallen before the
reaper. I believe that pension rolls would
tell us down here, though they do not
seem to show any deaths up north. I
waa talking to Dr. Headen about it yes?
terday, and he said the men who lived on
pensions and the bounty of the govern?
ment and had no care or apprehension
about food and clothing, did naturally
live a long time. Well, that may account
for their not dying, but how does it ac?
count for the number increasing. They
have now about seven hundred thousand
on the rolls, just about as many as the
Confederacy had soldiers, and their re?
cords say they lost about seven hundred
thousand during the war. Good gracious,
what a record. These veterans helped to
do it. They did their full share in
swelling these pensions to $160,000,000
for the year 1891. They ought to be
ashamed of themselves for saddling such
a debt upon the country.
But they keep opening the pension
door wider and wider. A man can now
get a pension if he can't see as good or
hear as good or walk as good as he used
to, provided he will swear that he believes
it came about by reason of his service in
the war. The Youth's Companion, of
Boston, told us not long ago about a man
applying for a pension because he had
recently cut his foot with an ax that he
brought home from the army. And
another paper told of a Boldier who re?
cently died and bad been drawing three
pensions for eleven years. He volunteer?
ed as John Tomson, got sick and was
discharged ; got well again and hired as
a substitute, and put his name down as
John Thomson, got wouuded and dis?
charged, and hired again as a substitute
with the name of John Thompson, with
a F. He soon became an invalid and
drew three pensions under three different
names, and they never found it out until
his widow applied and got things mixed
up.
But enough of that. It is all mighty
bad, but the good of it ia they have to
pay more of it than we do, and they are
getting awful tired of it.
Our re-union was of the survivors of
the Fortieth Georgia, commanded by
Colonel Abda Johnson, and Phillip's
Legion, commanded by General William
Phillips. Colonel Johnson is dead, but
General Phillips was present in the flesh,
and looks like he is good for many years
to come. It ia said that the Fortieth
Georgia is the only regiment that never
changed its staff officers. The legion was
not bo fortunate. Excepting the general,
the staff was changed many times. In?
deed, there were six different lieutenant
colonels, four majors and four adjutants.
I remember that the Eighth Georgia
changed its commander four limes, and
that Company A. in the First Georgia
regulars, that went out under Captaiu H.
D. D. Twiggs, changed its captain eleven
times during the war. Most of these
changes are marked "k. i. b," killed in
battle, but some are from resignations
and some from promotions and some from
transfers. The privates did not change
much. Death was their main chance.
Sometimes the company fought down to
the ragged edge. I heard Captaiu Neel
say yesterday that oue company in his
regiment fought down to one man, and
he had to stack his arms with another
compauy, for one gun won't staud alone.
This reminded me of Jonas?poor faith?
ful Jonas?an iBraelite, indeed, whom
any town boy could alap around before
the war and ho never resented it. But
he joined one of the Rome companies,
and never lost a roll call or missed a bat?
tle or straggled on a march. I remember
that after a hard day's march Colonel
TNG, AUGUST 27, 1
Towers called up his companies to see
how many men he had, and when he
called for Company I, poor meek-hearted
sore footed Jonas stepped forward and
saluted the colonel. "Where is your
company ?" Baid the colonel. Jonas gave
another salute and meekly said: "I ish
der kompny." He did not go to the war
from courage or for glory, but from a
sense of duty. That duty he performed.
Bill Ar.p.
Six Unlucky Sprees.
One poor man?he is now dead?I
know, who was ruined half a dozen times
i by drink in a very curious and, I believe,
unique manner. *He was miserable
enough about his sins, but his penitence
never drove him to get drunk. Quite the
contrary. Drink ruined him, andjyet he
was drunk exactly sis time3 during the
whole of his lifewind no more. ' Most un?
fortunately these were the very days
when he ought not to have got drunk,
He had, I believe, a weak and excitable
head. As a rule he drank very little.
Now the first time that he got drunk was
when he was made captain of his school
and got a scholarship for the university.
He drank champagne and it went to his
legs and he met the head master. Re?
sult, loss of his place and scholarship.
The next, time he got drunk was the
night before the final examination for his
degree. It was of the highest importance
to him that he should take a good degree;
if he did himself justice he was sure of a
good first and of a fellowship. Unluck?
ily, he got drunk on the very evening
when he should have gone sober and
early to bed; the next day he wa3 a
wreck and failed altogether. In the end
he took a third, After this he renounced
scholarship and went into journalism.
He did pretty well, writing articles and
making a good income and being per?
fectly steady, though, of course, he had
the reputation of the man who had got
drunk and lost his first. Then there
came a moment when a certain editorial
chair was vacant. He knew that he was
mentioned for it. He got drunk and was
seen by the proprietors in a condition of
hot coppers and imbecility. So he failed.
He then got engaged to be married.
Will it be believed that he got drunk
the very evening before the wedding, and
was seen in that condition by the unhap?
py bride and all her friends? Result:
marriage ceremony not performed. So he
remained a bachelor. And there was
once a lawsuit in which his evidence was
all important. He got drunk the day
before the case came on. When he went
into the box his brains were addled and
the case was ruined. Lastly, he got
drunk en his birthday?I believe his six?
tieth?went home in a pelting rain, took
pneumonia and died. "I've only been
drunk six times in my life," he lamented,
with his latest breath, "and each time it
has ruined me. For a tenth part of the
penalty that I have paid for these six
times most men might have got drunk
every night of their lives. If I had it to
do all over again I would too." And in
this impenitent frame he departed.?
Waller Beasant.
A Convention or Fanners.
St. Louis, August 18.?The executive
committee appointed by the Fort Worth
Farmers' Alliance convention, with U.S.
Hall, president of the Missouri Alliance,
as chairman, has issued a circular to the
members of the Farmers' Alliance and
Industrial Union and of the farmers and
laborers of the United States, call ling a
convention of the members of those bod?
ies who are in accord with the resolu?
tions passed at the Fort Worth meeting.
The convention will be held in St" Louis
on Sept. 15th next at a period when fall
festivities are in full blast, streets illu?
minated, exposition wide open, and the
fair only a few weeks distant. Nearly
all the railroads have agreed to make re?
duced rates for the convention. The
basis of representation will be fixed at
three delegates from each and every
County in the jurisdiction of the Na?
tional Alliance. All members are cordial?
ly invited to take part in making this man
festation of the farmers of this country a
grand success. It will be remembered
that the resolutions referred to reject the
Bub treasury plan and appeal to the farm?
ers to vote against all schemes that
would make a loan establishment of the
United States Treasury. The circular
concludes as follows:
"This meeting will be a protest on
part of {lovers of the constitution of
the Alliance against seeing that organi?
zation prostituted by a body of men who
have no interest in farming and whose
love for the organization is limited by
the amount of personal gain they can
get out of it. This is au effort on the
part of conservative members and real
farmers of the order to emancipate the
Farmers' Alliance from the control of
scheming politicians and designing dem?
agogues. That we will succeed in this
effort we entertain no doubt."
The letter wub signed by U. S. Hall,
Chairman, of Hubbard, Mo.; W. S. Mc?
Allister, Canton, Miss., and W. L. Sar?
gent, Hayner, Texas,
The brusque and fussy impulse of these
days of false immpression would rate
dowu all as worthless because one is un?
worthy. As if there were no motes in
sunbeams! Or comets among stars! Or
cataracts in peaceful rivers! Because
one remedy professes to do what it
never was adapted to do, are all remedies
worthless? Because one doctor lets a
patient die, are all humbugs? It re?
quires a fine eye and a finer brain to
discriminate?to . draw the differential
line.
"They say" that Dr. Tierce's Golden
Medical Discovery and Dr. Priece'a
Favorite Prescription havo cured thou
aauds.
"They say" for a weak eystem there's
nothing better than the "Discovery,"
and that tho "Favorite Prescription" is
the hope of debilitated, feeble women
who need a restorative tonic and bracing
nerve. And here's the proof
Try one or both. If they don't help
you, tell the World's Dispensary Medi?
cal Association, of Buffalo, N. Y,, and
you get your money back.
? The majority of tho people live
poor in order to die rich ; it is a great
deal wiser to live rich and die poor,
891.
A Prairie Fire.
All night we have seen a red glow in
the northwest. It is a prairie fire but
it is miles away. The harvest has been
late this year and our wheat is still in
shock on the dry stubble. But we have
turned thirty furrows about the field
fifteen furrows and fifteen more twenty
feet from the first?and burned off the
dry grass between. It is an excellent
fire-break, although these prairie fires
have been known to "jump" greater dis?
tances than this.
There is yet no call for worry. The
fire is miles from us, there is no wind and
for the present, at least, we are safe.
The next day, however, brings a
change in the situation. The sun shines
like an indistinct fiery ball through a
hazy atmosphere. The wind is refresh?
ing?it is growing to a gale and, oh, hap?
less fortune! it drives the fire toward us*
Rains have been plentiful the paBt
summer. The grass everywhere has
grown rank and high. But the sun has
dried it into tinder and it only awaits
the brandVo leap into flames of de?
struction.
See I Those little charred embers that
fall about us are from the fire. It is ap?
proaching us and the haze grows heavier
about the heavens. The sun is a mere
flush of yellow in the zenith and we smell
the burning grass.
There is no time to be lost. Bun!
Harness four horses to a breaking plow
and let us turn up wider furrows about
the house?our home! With a tingling
of nerves and a smothered feeling at the
throat we begin.
The first furrow is hardly completed
when a neighbor with his family and a
few household goods piled in the wagon
drives past.
"Stop ploughing fire breaks?it is use?
less?the fire is the worst ever known?
there is no fighting it?Logan County
is all burned over?fly! fly for your lives.
Our very horses catch the terror of
that warning. They rear and plunge
and will not pull the plow another inch.
Can nothing be done? We look
around us in desperation. We can hear
the crackling of the fire now, and see the
smoke tumbling and writhing in the
fierce wind.
But the calamity is at our very door?
the air is oppressing hot?we must go.
The snorting horses are hitched to the
wagon, into which a few odds and ends
of the household furniture are thrown,
and then?we look around to say fare?
well to home.
Home! It is a rude, house, built of
rough boards and tar-papered on the out?
side for protection against the wet. A
poor place, indeed, but yet we have work?
ed for it and struggled, and toiled and
lived in it; it was built with our own
hands and sanctified with our own hearts
and shall wo leave it ?
No I
Unhitch the horses and tie them se?
curely in the barn ; then we will fight
to the bitter end.
The flames are close upon us, now,
and coming with race-horse speed. Oh_.
what a wind! Will the fire-breaks pro?
tect the wheat field ? We have our an?
swer in the next minute when like a
huge, gaunt monster, the fire pauses an
instant to lick its red jaws and then
leaps upon the stubble and we see shock
after shock of goldeu grain melt into its
capacious maw.
So goes the fruit of one long year's
toil in a brief moment?but we have no
time to weep for the fire is dangerously
near the house.
Then what a battle do we wage j
Here, there, at every point, we meet the
red demon.and fight with the desperation
of life and death. Our faces are set,
and clothes and hands are burned, but
we throw ourselves like madmen into
the hottest portions of that seething fur?
nace, and at last we conquer but fall,
scorched and lifeless upon the field of
battle. Still, our home is saved, and as
for (he crop that once stood on that black?
ened field?why mourn for what is gone.
Our hopes must center about the year
to come.? William Wallace Cook in De?
troit Free Press.
Why Senator Irby is Happy.
When a Record reporter "dropped in"
at the Capitol to day and entered the
ante room of the Governor's office he
found quite a notable assemblage gath?
ered in Private Secretary Tompkin?'s den,
swapping yarns that were all wool and a
yard wide.
Col. John Lawrence Manning Irby, our
farmer representative from Laurens in
the United States Senate, was holding
down a conspicuous seat at the round
table. The Colonel was very exuberant
and was chatting merrily away at a 2,40
pace.
"Well, I have good reason to laugh a
little and feel way up," said the Colonel,
when some one remarked upon the jubi?
lant expression that played over his face.
"What's the matter ?" said one. "You
look like ycu might be drawing your
salary from Uncle Sam."
"That's the size of it, friend Tillman
ite," said the Colonel, "I've been getting
those little checks for some time. They
only call for iMlG.GG a month, but then,
you know, it helps to take the hayseed
out of an old farmer like me. Shell and
Johnstone get theirs, too, and we are con?
siderable of a happy trio."
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? An Arkansas man ou his death bed
confessed to three murders,
VOLUM
A Famous Suicide.
In these days a murderer or a suicide
docs not acquire worldly immortality by
his crime. But in"the good old times"
men often acquired.'everlasting renown by
killing others and sometimes one gained
"an immortality of fame" by killing
himself.
One of the most famous of the old
time Btiicides was Cato, miscalled the
philosopher. He is sometimes styled
Cato of Utica, because it was at Utica
that he killed himself. He was born
ninety-five years before Christ, and
showed in his youth the austerity of
character which had distinguished his
illustrious ancestor, Cato the Censor,
who was born two hundred and thirty
two years B. C. Like all Romans of rank,
he served in tbo|army and won consider?
able renown in suppressing the insurrec?
tion of the Blaves, which was excited and
led by the gladiator Sparticns.
Like the ancient Cato, he disdained the
luxuries usually enjoyed by officera of
rank. He refused the rewards for his
valor offered him by his commander,
and appeared upon the march in dress
which differed little from that of a private.
When the liberties of Rcme- were
threatened by Cresar, he took service
under Pompey; and after his general was
slain and Cxs&t was master of Rome he
thought it unbecoming a Roman citizen
to continue to live.
He carried out his suicidal intention
with singular calmness and resolution.
After supping cheerfully with several of
his friends, he went into bis room where
he embraced his son with such uriusuai
tenderness as to awaken the suspicion
that he intended to terminate his life.
He lay down upon his bed and read for
a while Plato's "Dialogue upon the im?
mortality of the soul." When he had
finished reading, be looked round and
observed that his sword had been taken
away. He called for it; and when his
son and friends rushed into the room in
tears, Cato cried out:
"How long is it since I have lost my
senses and my son is become my keeper ?
Brave and generous son, why do you
bind your father's hands, that when
Cresar comes he may find me unable to
defend myself? Do you imagine that
without a sword I cannot end my life ?
Cannot I destroy myself by holding my
breath for some moments, or by striking
my head against the wall?"
His son made no reply, but retired
weeping, and the sword was at length
sent into Cato by a slave. "Now,"
said he as he drew it, "I am my own mas?
ter."
When he found himself alone he again
took up his book, and when he had once
more read the dialougue, he lay down
and slept. Toward the dawn of day he
took his sword and pressed the point into
his body a little below the chest, inflict?
ing an extensive through not fatal
wound. As he fell he overturned a table,
the noise of which gave the alarm.
He was found insensible, welteriDg in
his blood.
While the surgeon was dressing the
wound, Cato recovered his conciousness,
thurst the Burgeon from him, tore out his
bowels with his hands, and immediately
expired.
Thus perished Cato, miscalled the
philosopher, in the forty-eighth year of
his age. A glamour was thrown over his
suicide by the muse of Addison, who in
his tragedy of "Cato" has glorified the self
m?derer with the unfading splendor of
his poetical genius.
A Shrewd Artist.
I called on a certain portrait painter
in Indianapolis last week. We had gone
to school together. Since then he has
acquired a national reputation as an
artist. I complimented him on his life?
like work. "Yea," he replied, "I sup?
pose it is creditable now, but it was not
always so. I remember the first job I
ever had. A wealthy lady come to me
and wanted a full length portrait paint?
ed. I did the best I could, but that was
nothing to brag on. When the lady
came to look at her picture she gave a
cry of disappointment.
" 'Why, that's not at all like me," she
said, 'I shall not take it!' "
I assured her it was a perfect likeness
and declared that even her little poodle
would recognize it. I am willing to take
that risk, she said. I'll take the picture.
Later in the day she brought in the
canine, and the sagacious little animal,
after surveying the portrait for a moment,
ran up and licked the painted hand.
My lady took the picture without any
further objections.
But the likeness must have been strik?
ing, I said, to deceive the dog.
Not necessarily, replied the artist. I
took the precaution of rubbing a piece of
bologna sausage over the hand before the
dog arrived.
|i Buzzard Struck by Lightning.
Yesterday afternoon about 3 o'clock
just before the heavy shower, several gen?
tlemen were sitting in front of a store in
WeBt Nashville when one of the party
observed a large turkey buzzard that was
sailing majestically across the sky, and
remarked that if the buzzard did not
look out he would get wet. Their atten?
tion was thus called to the bird, and all
were lazily watching its flight when sud?
denly, when it was opposite and above
them, they were bliuded by a flash of
lightning, which seemingly exploded on
the back of the buzzard. They were
astonished somewhat, but recovered
themselves and looked for the buzzard,
but alas the majestic bird was out of
sight. All that was left of him was a
few black tail feathers which fluttered
pathetically to the ground. Those who
witnessed the phenomenon succeeded in
catchiDg several of the scorched feathers,
which they exhibit in corroboration of
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:e xxvi.?no. 8.
All Sorts of Paragraphs.
? If there were no little sins there
would never be any big ones. The big
snakes have all been little ones sometime
or other.
? The true and safe course lies in this
direction: Let evey farmer see to it that
he has plenty of corn, oats, peas, hay and
other farm products, keep stock, and when
this is done make every pound of cotton
he possibly can. This we think is the
true solution of the difficulty, and atten?
tion cannot be too often called to it.?
Darlington Herald.
? When a man thinks nobody cares
for him, and he is alone in a cold, sel?
fish world, he would do well to ask him?
self the question : "What have I done
to make anybody care for and love me,
and to warm the world with faith and
generosity?" It is generally the case
that those who complain the most have
done the leist.
? An exchange remarks that it is not
much wonder that the human race finds
it uphill work to be decent and keep
straight. The first man was a liar and
a sneak, the first woman kept bad com?
pany and pried into things that did not
concern her; the first child born killed
his brother. Our first parents were a
tough lot and it is hard to get it out of
the blood.
? Governor Eagle, of Arkansas, is one
of the many men whose success in life is
due to the encouragement and stimulus
of a clever wife. Ever since her mar?
riage Mrs. Eagle has pushed her hus?
band forward. She even educated him.
Naturally, Arkansas is proud of Mrs.
Eagle, and her position in the State is
not unlike that of Mrs. Logan in Mis?
souri.
? The Egyptians had a very remark?
able ordinance to prevent persons from
borrowing imprudently. An Egyptian
was not permitted to borrow without
giving to his creditor in pledge the body
of his father. It was deemed both an im?
piety and an infamy not to redeem so
sacred a pledge. A person who died
withont discharging that duty was de?
prived of the customary honors paid to
the dead.
? It has been claimed that the seeds
taken from ancient Egyptian tombs are
capable of growth, but proof of the claim
is lacking. It has been demonstrated,
however, that seeds of a very great age are
capable of development. Raspberries
have been raised from seed taken from
the stomach of a man who died during
the time of the Emperor Hadrian who
reigned in the second century of bur
era. Think of it. a seed springing into
new life after lying dormant sixteen cen?
turies.
? Thoughtfulness of others is the chief
mark of good breeding, and nowhere
does it show plainer than in the hostess.
Some of the schools in this country have
adopted a course which teaches girls to
enact the part of the hostess. One of
the exercises requires the students to
enter the room with ease aud to be re?
ceived by the hostess, who in turn pre?
sents them to the guest at her side.
They are taught to walk, sit, stand, stoop,
bow, to move with ease, precision, flexi?
bility and the grace that is the natural
result of physical training.
? The heaviest modern ordnance is
the English 110-ton gun. Its charge is
9G0 pounds of best prismatic gunpowder,
and the cylindrical steel shot weighs
1,800 pounds. At the last test this enor?
mous shot penetrated entirely through
compressed armor (steel faced iron) 20
inches thick; then through iron backing
5 inches thick ; then it pierced wholly
through 20 feet of oak, 5 feet of granite
and 11 feet of hard concrete and 3 feet
into a brick wall. No existing fortress,
much less armored vessel, could with?
stand such a shot.
? Of the late Bishop Ames the follow?
ing anecdote is told: While presiding
over a certain conference in the West a
member began a tirade against univer?
sities and education, thanking God that
he had never been corrupted by contact
with a college. After proceeding thus
for a few minutes, the bishop interrupted
with the question: "Do I understand
hat the brother thanks God for his ig?
norance V* "Well, yes," was the answer,
"you can put it that way if you want to."
"Well, all I have to ?ay," said the bishop
in his sweetest musical tone, "is that the
brother has a good deal to thank God
for."
? Very frequently a champagne bath
has been referred to in illustrating some
freak of profligacy. Less than a half
dozen years ago a Louisville man took a
genuine champagne bath in Rufer's hotel. -
His name was?and is, for he is living?
Crow, and he was a sporty man. A rela?
tive died near Lexington and left him a
big lump of property. He bought
enough champagne to fill a bath tup at
Rufer's and plunged into it. On the
side he had champagne to drink and a
dozen companions to drink it. Two
years later he was on his uppers and
hadn't a nickel.
? The Wilmington, N. 0., Star notes
the success of Mr. William H. Dunn,
owner of 'be riverside farm, near New
berae. N. ft, who believes in the inten?
sive system of farming, and to which he
attributes his success. His farm of sixty
acres he bought in 18S1, paying for it
??30 an acre. He values it now at a
thousand dollars an acre. The farm has
netted him this year over 20 per cent on
this valuation. His net profits over and
which is doing pretty well on sixty acres.
He raises nearly everything for~which
there is a demand in the Southern mar?
kets, but banks on the Irish potato,
which he says always pays well, and with
which there is no danger of overstocking
the market. On three acres he raised 140
barrels to the acre, while twenty-three
acres averaged 110 barrels to the acre.
He insists that the man who understands
truckiug, knows what to raise and farms
right, can't help making money.
Whether on pleasure bent or business,
ahould take on every trip a bottle of
Syrup of Figs, as it acts most pleasantly
and effectually on the kidneys, liver and _
bowels, preventing fevers, headache and
other forms of sickness. For sale in 50c.
and ?1.00 bottles by all leading drug?
gists,
above all expenses have
Tourists,