The Anderson intelligencer. (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, August 17, 1892, Image 1

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_' ...... ?- -. ' -?? BY CLINKSCALES & LANGST?n! ANDERSON, S. C WEDNESDAY MORNING, AUGUST 17, 1892._VOLUME XXVII.- -NO. 7. jeshe r, smith. v a. a. bristow. WHEN YOU GO TO GREENVILLE Call and see the Handsomest and Newest line of Clothing, KCats and FWnishings, To toe Found in tike City, Ok send us an order., which we will gla?ly fill, and If nol; satisfactory to be returned all our expense. ? SMITH & BRISTOW, Clothiers and Furnishers, Greenville, S. C. I TVlNEGARS! We have in Vinegars the very Best Qualities obtainable and at 1 Reasonable Prices. Apple Cider Vinegar?four years old. N "Whine Wime Vinegar?extra quality. Claret Vinegar?for table use. .- Wesi; India Spiced Vinegar?our specialty. Our Spiced Vinegar :ia made from Pure Grape Wine Vinegar, boiled down with West India Splcea. The combination of imported Spices for the production of this Pine Vinegarhas been sltiUfolly made, after many years of experiment. The result is an absolutely perfect 8pit? Vinegar, retaining the delicious flavor and delightful fra? grance of West India Spice, Ifris the only Vinegar you can heat, warm or boil that will throw off the same fragrance ancf flavor as when cold. Especially desirable for Meats and Vegetables. When used to make Spiced Beef or Spiced Onions it will satis-1 ' iytftemwi; fastidious taste. . ' ? TAYLOR & CRAYTON, 42 Granite Bow. SPRING AND SUMMER GOODS. in order to clear out all kinds of Goods to make room for a new Fall Stock. .WE have decided to make the people of Anderson an * offer to secure good, first-class Goods AT AND BELOW COST. WIT MEAN JUST WHAT WE SAY-rall Summer Goods tc> go regardless of what they are worth. Embroideries, Laces, Lawns, Muslins, Bedford Cords, Challies, Atic\ in fact, a nice clean Stock of Spring Goods. A big lot of REMNANTS, all kinds ot Goods, to close. Now is your time to get the Childrens' Winter Clothes cheap. * ' ; ? ' ^ Gome and see me. W. A. CHAPMAN, Agent, .Next to Masonic Temple. LITERALLY WASHED WITH BLOOD. Police do their Duliy without respect to: Persons. The Wall Still Covered with Bloody Go je. JjETE fight wau on South Main Street at the Bazaar and Ten Cent Stores of 0. S. Minor & Co It was sn attack of the combined forces of seven other merchants . on the famous 0.3. Minor. They fought in defence of'their prices, which they claimed had been crushed out of all respectability by the said C. S. Mioor, and they fought with desperation to restore the former prices, but down they go in the dif.d of the fight, and their blood on our Store-front only is left to tell a pitiful tahs ot woe. Stranger than Strange. One man claimed that we had reduced the price of Pants to 25c. and 50c. per pair-less than cost to make. We don't care. Another claimed that we Bell the ben quality Mason Fruit Jar at less than he can buy the second quality. * We dou't carj for that, either. , Another said our 10c. Hosiery was the same that he had to sell at 15c, or two pair tor 25c, and that we sold his 15c Suspenders at 10c, and his 25c Suspender* at 15c Well, what of that ? f:,.^Another man believes tha$ we are selling his 40c Cups and Saucers for 30c, and his 85c Plates at 25c Why should we care ? A certain millinery man thinks we have knocked bim out of more than a hurdred tales. We don't have to pay a milliner, and he don't believe we pay for our goods. ' What concern is that of his ? Another man claims that we sell Tobacco at a starvation price. Has he any right to object ? ... These are some of the complaints made against us. We ask you whose bust new is it, if not that of our customers and ourselves ? Can't we make such figures its we see fit without beiog bounded down and forced to fight' for our lives ? We'll fight to the death?we'll put their blood on our walls and their scalps on our doors, and their customers in possession of undoubted bargains. Say, would you wash torn; blood off the wall, or would you let it stay as a warning ? i Yours for Spot Cash, C. S. MINOR, THE BAZAAR and the IGc. STORE. ll MILLS, EVAPORATORS AM COTTON GINS! WE are agents for the Celebrated Kentucky Cane Mills and Hall Seif Feeding Cotton Gins* It will pay any person to call and see our Ma? chinery and get our prices before buying, as we feel assured we can save you money, and can sell you on easy terms. We can bottom and repair old Evaporators, making them as good us new at a small cost. We also manufacture Smoke Stacks, Spark Arresters and Suction Pipes, which evury Olnner should have, as it saves time, labor and expense. Onr 8tock of Stoves, Tinware, Crockery and House Furnishing j Wehaveft1^?^ supplv MASON FRUIT,JARS tnd TIN CANS which are going cbe<?p. It will pay you tc buy as soon as possible, as Fruit Jars are going to be scarce and h'gher latter part of season. ' Cafi and sue our Cherry Seeders, Apple and Peach Pealers-sometlnng that every household should have. It saves much time aud labor, and are so very cheap. When yon come to Town be sure to call and see us. We will make it to your in? terest to buy 31 our Goods from us. _ We still buy RAGS, HIDES and BEESWAX. ... All kinds ROOFING and GUTTERING done on short notice, and in a thorough workmanlike manner. Yours very truly, PEOPLES & BURRISS. jos. H. e1b&, J. W. qua.ttlkbatjm, Greenville, 8. C. Anderson, S. C. Earle & Quattlebaum, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, ANDERSON, - 8. C. April 28,1892 .48 8m INSURANCE! IAM prepared to issue Al Policies on first class Gin risks, Cotton, and all other kinds of Country and City property, in the best of Insurance Companies, and shall be glad to furnish rates or any other information concerning the Insurance bus? iness. Call on or address J. H. Von HASSELN, Anderson, 8. C July 20.J893 3 3m T^A?H|n^'C)OI,?MN. -aas. All communications intended fo this \Jolumn should be addressed to C WARDLAW, School Commissioner, An? derson, S. C. MEMORY OEMS. "An honest man is the noblest work of God." I "I'd rather be right than be President." Be patient during this ho, weather. Do not expect too much from the little ones. They get tired and deepy and drowsy just as big folks do in hot weather. Miss Boy Nance can be secured as a teacher in a good school. She iB well qualified, and one of the best girls in our acquaintance. Any vicinity that secures her is fortunate. A good place is open for a male teacher of experience and ability at the Qenerostee School in Dark Comer. Ap? plicants for the place may confer with Bev. R. C. Ligon at Iva, S. C. "i We wish again to call attention to the importance of making arrangements for the next school year. Patrons would do wall to look after the interest of their children. Secure for your school a good teacher for the next year. It is the most important work you have in hand at this time. Do not neglect it. We have worked the schools of our County up to the reputation of being the best, in the State. Every few days we get letters from teachers from other Counties wanting to teach in this Coun? ty. The word "we" as used above, in? cludes the 'eachers with the Schoo} Com? missioner. The teachers have raised the schools to their high standard, while the School Commissioner has assisted and encouraged the work. How Oak Grows. The extreme limit of the age of the oak is not exactly known, but sound and living specimens are at least 1,000 years old. The tree thrives best in a deep, tenacious loam with rocks in it. It grows better on a comparatively poor, sandy soil than on rich ground imper? fectly drained. The trunk, at first (in? clined to be irregular in shape, Btraight ehs at maturity into a grand cylindrical shaft. The oak does not produce good eeed until it is more than sixty years old. The acorn is the fruit of the oak; the seed germ is a very small object at the pointed end of the acorn, with the future root uppermost. The acorn drops, and its contents doubtless undergo important molecular and chemical changes while it lies under its winter covering of leaves and snow. In the mild warmth of spring tha acorn swells, the little root elongates, emerges from the end of the shell, and, no matter what the position of the acorn, tarns downward. The root penetrates the soil two or three inches Jbefore the stalk begins to show itself and grow up? ward. The "meat" of the acorn nour? ishes both root and stalk, and two years may pass before its store of food is en tirely exhausted. At the end of a year the young oak has a root twelve to eigh? teen inches long, with numerous shorter I rootlets, the stalk being from six to eight inches high. In this stage it differs from the sapling, and again the sapling diners from theVee. To watch these transfor? mations under the lens is a fascinating occupation. If an oak could be suspended in the air with.all its roots and rootlet; perfect and unobscured, the sight would be con? sidered wonderful. The activity of the roots represents a great deal of power. They bore in the soil and flatten them? selves to penetrate a crack in a rock. Invariably the tips turn away from the light. The growing point of a tiny outer root is back of the tip a small distance. The tip is driven on by the force behind it and searches the soil for the ecsiest points of entrance. When the tips are destroyed by obstructions, cold, heat or other causes, a new growth starts in va? rying directions. The first roots thicken j and become girders to support the tree, no longer feeding it directly, but serv? ing as conducts for the moisture and I nourishment gathered by the outer root? lets which are constantly boring their way into fresh territory. These absorb water charged with solu? ble earth salts?sulphates, nitrate*, phos? phates of lime, magnesia and potash, etc. ?which passes through the larger roots, stem and branches to the leaves, the lab ratory of new growth. An oak tree may have 700,000 leaves, and from June to October evaporates 226 times its own weight of water. Taking account of the new wood grown, "we obtain some idea of the enormous gain of matter and energy from the outside universe which goes on each summer." Oak timber is not the heaviest, tough eat nor moBt beautiful, but it combines more good qualities than any other kind. Its fruit is valuable food and its bark useful in certain industries. An oak pile submerged for 650 years in London bridge came up in sound condition, and there are specimens from tbe Tower of London which date from the time of Wiiliam Bufus. To produce a good oak grove requires from 140 to 200 years. It seemB a long time to an American, but forestry is a perpetual branch of econo? mics when once established.? Ohio Stale Journal. Bucklens Arnica Salve The best Balve in the world for Cuts Bruises, Sores, Ulcers, Salt Bbeum, Fe? ver Sores, Tetter, Chapped Hands, Chil? blains, Corns, and all Skin Eruptions, and positively cures Piles, or no pay required. It is guaranteed to give per? fect satisfaction, or money refunded. Price 25 cents per box. For uale b Hill Bros. ? Little Ethel had never seen a toad before, and having by chance discovered one in her flower garden, came running to the bouse, her face flushed with ex? citement, crying, "Mamma, mamma, come quick I There's a pocket book hopping around out here with four legs on it," BILL ABP'S TALK. He has just Returned from the West and 1? Tired. Atlanta Constitution. Texabkana, on the Wing. When a patriarch has been on the road for two daya and missed the connection at Memphis and bad to bam around in a strange place waiting for the next train, and then sets and sweats all day for 300 miles, until his back aches and one of his kidneys gets restless and tries to get out, and bis eyes and ears and the back of his neck are full of cinders he does not feel like penning his random thoughts to please anybody. All he can do is to ru? minate and jump from one thing to the other and think about home and its blessings. His constant prayer is that he may live to return to those who love him best and for awhile to rest from his hard labors. Now, while I write, I am in that State of "inocuous desuetude" that Mr. Cleve* land told about and thrt causes me to think and to wonder. When he used that curious, original expression I reckon 10, 000 readers turned to the dictionary to see what he meant. It fit the case all right and the public was satisfied. But it won't do for ordinary men to venture upon Buch pigeon English. I've been reading bis speeches and his late public utterances, and I would like to know when and where he got his scholarship. Chauncey Depew sets him up very high as a typical American and the New York Tribune in a late editorial admits tbat he has the happy faculty of saying what he means and saying it in the very best manner. He leaves no room for doubt. The August number of the Review of Re? views, which is the best and fairest of all our monthlies, has a splendid biography of Mr. Cleveland. Mr. Albert Shaw, the editor, is a conservative Republican, but is opposed to the force bill, and dares to say so in unmistakable language. He is also opposed to any political interference with the status of the negro, and declares tbat it is a Southern burden and may be a Southern danger and the South is more capable of dealing with it than the North. It is good for us to read after such high toned candid men. The July number had an excellent biography of Mr. Harrison, and if I was away off in Europe and : anybody should speak disrespectfully of him I would resent it. He is no little man, and his success proves it, but he is a man of prejudice. He believes the Southern people are heretics, and he is Buch an old-fashioned Oalvanistic Pres? byterian that he would rather torture us a little than not. This biography .says that he was a soldier after Sherman's pat? tern, and that Sherman said he did not have a more capable General. It says that Harrison especially distinguished himself in the battle of Cassville while marching through Georgia. We are sor? ry to know that. We never did know be? fore what destroyed that beautiful town. We supposed that it was done by Sher? man's orders, but it seems now tbat Hat* riBon was the man. He ordered all the women and children away and then ap? plied the torch. Two large Colleges were burned and every Church and every dwelling?nothing was left but tottering walls and lonesome chimneys. Old Cass? ville was the County seat of our County and was the nursery of education for our boys and our girls. The Duke of Alva never committed a more disgraceful act and I was in hopes that the shame of it centered upon Sherman, and that gentle* men, like Harrison, turned away and wept when they saw the fires and the homeless women and children. But let tbat pass. Let by-gones be by-gones now. Mr. Cleveland's inocuous desuetude re? minds me of Henry Grady, for he enjoy? ed it immensely. How much he enjoyed levelling in big words himself just to per plex the boys. How heartily he would laugh when he had bothered them with his jawbreakers. Shockley was our town constable and had waited attention on the Court and listened to the lawyers un? til he began to affect some large words and very frequently made some awkward misfits. Henry was fond of puzzling Shockley, and .one day called him to one side and said seriously, "Shockley, I want to ask your opinion on a private matter. Suppose you were just standing by your? self on the sidewalk not doing anything to anybody and a stranger was to come up. to you without malice aforethought and was to 're-cog nize' you?what would you do about it ?" "Say tbat again, Henry?say it slow," said Shockley. When Henry repeated it Shockley said, "Henry, I wouldn't take the likes of that from nobody. I should just haul away with my stick and take his interrogato? ries." And this reminds me of the original Bill Arp, whom the boys about town elected to the office of coroner just out of mischief. Bill felt highly honored, and, as he couldn't read the law about coroners himself, he got the boys to read it to him, and they garbled it so as to make Bill be lieve tbat he must sit upon the dead body in order to make it a legal inquest. He was told tbat be held a very responsible position, and that he must do his duty at all hazards. A few days after his election a traveling showman came to our town with an Egyptian mummy that he placed on exhibition at 10 cents a sight. The devilish lawyers sent for Bill, and told him with great solemnity that he had a case?a very remarkable case, and that he must do his duty; that there was a dead body in town that nobody knew bow or when it become dead, and ho must sum? mon a jury and set upon it. They read him the law again, which said the coro? ner should hold an inquest upon the bod ies of all dead persons where the cause of death was unknown or where there were suspicions of foul play surrounding the death. The law also authorized the cor? oner to exhume any dead body that had been buried and to bury it again after the examination. Bill was advised to see the gentleman first and interview him befme summoning a jury, which he did. The showman claimed to be a preacher who had been a missionary in foreign lands, but he had a speculative turn of mind and the gift of language, and be made the same little speech to all visit? ors. When Bill called- on him and made known his business the showman was amazed, astounded and indignant, but Bill was solemn and resolute and inform ed the gentleman if he didn't at once produce the dead body he should arrest him, and Bill meant what he said. He feared no man when performing his duty. There was fire in his eyes and the show? man saw it. He sent for the mayor, bat that gentleman was one of Bill's best friends, and didn't seem to understand how an inquest could be prevented If it was the law. The argument got warm and then hot and Bill demanded to view the body. "Bat it is a mummy," said the showman, "and she has been dead 3,000 years." "My Lord," said Bill, "is it a wo? man you have got, and are toting her around. She ought to be buried, sir; decently buried. That's what the law says." "But she has been buried," said the showman. "Entombed in the cata? combs?embalmed. She is a mummy I tell you." "What in the dingnation is that," said Bill. When the showman explained Bill shook his head and declared that it was all very suspicious; that no dead body would keep more than a week in the country, and as he 8,000 years that was away before Jesus Christ was born, and he didn't believe a word of it. "I must view the body," said he, "and I'll be doggoned if I'm gwlne to wait ou you any longer." The mayor advised the showman to yield and let the coroner see it, whic* he I reluctantly did, and BUI was bewilder? ed. "Is she folks or a monkey," said he. "Is she white folks or an Injun ? Looks like a Chinese. What you got her wrap? ped up in all this barky stuff for ? How in the dingnation is a karri ner to tell what killed her while she is sealed up this way ? The law says I must view the body and you don't show nothing but her fingers and toes and a part of her face." "She was embalmed," said the show? man. "Fraokincense and myrrh?" "Frank who?" said Bill. "What did he bave to do with it?" By this time several of the town boys had slipped in and were dying with the fan. The preacher became desperate and declared he would protect his property; that he had brought that mummy all the way from Africa. "Thought she was a mnlatter," said Bill. After much tribulation the mayor took Bill aside and advised him to hold up and let the poor fellow off if he.would pay the coroner's fees, and so be consult? ed his lawyers, and as they concurred he concluded to drop the proceedings for $3. He said the law allowed him $5 where he set on tbe body, bnt as he dident set he would take off a couple. Never, was a poor missionary more greatly relieved than wbeu this one got rid of Bill Arp. He wrote a receipt and Bill signed with a K K at the end of his name, which he eaid was for County Coroner, but tbe preacher said it was for kuklux, Bat farewell for the present?oh, my back I Bill A p.p. ? I Si ? Caldwell's Fright. John Burns, of Bedford, had at one time a very uarrow escape from the In? dians. One of Burns' neighbors by the name of Caldwell used frequently to tease him about the occurrence and ques? tion his courage in the affair, and end by declaring what he would have done un? der such circumstances, One evening Caldwell was at his neighbor's, aud Bums found his boasting rather hard to bear. "I suppose you know just what you'd do if you met an Iodiau that wanted your scalp ?" Barns inquired. "Waal, I guess I do," was Caldwell's confident reply, and he Boon after took his departure. No sooner had he left the bouse than Burns rigged himself up to look as much like an Indian ss possible and sallied forth after Caldwell. It was a clear, moonlight evening, and Caldwell had no difficulty in seeing the Indian. He ?prang quickly into the bushes, where he stood still. Barns, too, stepped into the bushes. After awhile Caldwell ventured out and, looking fear? fully around, moved forward. Burns followed him. Caldwell again concealed himself in the bushes and his pursuer did the same. Several times this performance was re? peated. At length Caldwell could endure it no longer, and leaping from the bushes he ran forward at his topmost speed. B?ros uttered a wild whoop and pursued him. When Caldwell came to tbe brook, which was spanned by a single plank, he was in such haste that be could not stop for the bridge, but bounded through the wa? ter. He ran into tbe first house he came to and gasped "Tbe woods are full of In? dians? more'n a thousand of 'em! And they'll be here in a minute! Where's the gun ?" Ho was in a terrible fright. While tbe owner of tbe bouse was try? ing to find out what had really occurred, Burns appeared at tbe door, laughing heartily. "I say, Caldwell," he said, "I thought you wouldn't run from an In? dian !"?History of Bedford. Urs. Million's Ride. When Mrs. Million goes to ride she travels forth in state, Her horses, full of fire and pride, go prancing from the gate; But all the beauties of the day she views with languid eye, Her flesh in weakness wastes away, her voice is but a aigb. For Mrs. Million is in an advanced stage of catarrh, and all tbe luxuries that wealth can buy fail to give her comfort. She envies her rosy waiting maid, and would give all ber riches for that young woman's pure breath and blooming health. Now, if some true and disinterested friend would advise Mrs. Million of the wonderful merits of Dr. Sage's Catarrh Remedy, she would learn that her case is not past help. $500 re? ward is offered by the manufacturers for a case of catarrh in the head which they cannot cure. ? Montana is larger than Turkey; Texas is larger than the whole Austrian empire by 30,000 square miloB, and New Mexica is larger than Great Britain and Ireland put together. THE ? AIS IN GBAPES. How they are Grown In California?Tbe Coring und Shipping. The editor of the Hutchinson (Kansas) Herald gives a fall description of the growth and management of the raisin grape in California, and as many of oar readers have asked as questions concern? ing this industry, we copy for their bene? fit the following statement as to the vi? cinity of Fresno, which is the chief cen? tre of the raisin grape: The extent of the vineyards in this lo? cality is something to be seen rather than described. Mile after mile on each side of the track, as far as the eye coald reach, were the never ending and never ceasing rows of grapes. They support themselves without post or trellis and are cut back until the stock becomes more like the stump of a tree than like easterners' idea of a grape. Like the orange groves of the southern part of tbe state, nothing iu the shape of vegetation was allowed to grow, except the igrape, and the surface of the earth was given no time to settle. It is cultivated pret ty much all the time, and between cultiva? tion, irrigation aud fertilization the earth is made to do its utmost and really does yield most prodigiously. The vines are about six feet apart each way and a healthy vine will produce from sixty to seventy pounds of fruit. The raisin grapevine is pruned low and so cultivated that the growth goes to the grape; the suckers aud all rebundaut growth,are cut off, and the product is marvelooB. It is customary to gather two, often three crops bach season. The first is the large grape of commerce and from which the best raisins are made. The subsequent growths are smaller, dried without the stems and shipped in. bulk. The raisin product in 1890 was eight hundred thousand boxes; in 1891, twelve hundred car loads, or twelve hun? dred thousand boxes, valued at a million and a half of dollars. The raisins ship? ped from Fresno county in 1890 weigh? ed nearly twenty two millions of pounds. Tbe drying is done in large crates in the fields and large buildings may be seen, where these crates are stored. The product is increasing year by year as more land is brought under cultivation and the irrigating system is now capable of reaching six hundred and forty thous? and acres. Many of the vineyards are enclosed with tight board or wire screen fences, to. keep out jack rabbits, which are very numerous and very destructive. Nearly every year they have a rabbit drive, the last one being at tbe close of the encamp? ment of tbe grand army, in March last. It wai one of the most successful ever given, more than five thousand people being on the ground and about twenty thousand rabbits were slain. We were shown a photograph of the line of drivers containing nearly one thousand buggies and carriages nearly four miles long. It is great sport and beats a Kansas wolf hunt for either Eport or profit. Tbe process of drying and curing the raisin grape is this: Tbe bunches, weighing from two to five pounds, so large that they have to be out in pieces to dry, are spread out as thinly as possi? ble?no bunch on top of another?on trays made < f latbs or "ehakes," as the Californians call the red-wood clap? boards, and placed upon the ground be? tween the rowfl of vines. Iu two or three weeks the bunches are carefully turned over and allowed to continue dry? ing for another, two or three weeks, until they are thoroughly colored and the juice has all evaporated. The dried grapes are put into boxes holding about a bushel and hauled to the packing house, where they are piled on top of each other aB high as the ceiling or roof. In the course of eight or ten days the slight moisture left in some of them, aud the beat, cause them to "sweat," and this moisture so permeates the whole bulk ? as to give them a soft and fresh appear? ance. They are then ready for sorting and boxing. This is done by women and boys, seated forty or fifty in a room, at long tables. To each is emptied as often as is needed a sweating box full of fruit and alongside of each is placed two new boxes, into one of which the large, per? fect bunches are packed, and into the other the smaller and less perfect bunch? es, while tbe loose berries are passed through a windmill and cleaned of their stems and dust and boxed. Though moat of them are tbe finest berries of the crop, they sell for a much lower price?being used for cooking?than those adhering to their stems. Three sizes of boxes aie made, one to bold five pounds, another to hold fif? teen pounds, but the largest number to hold twenty pounds; and as the boxes are filled heaping full a careful inspec? tor examines and weighs each, taking out any surplus, and passes them to the pressman, who put on the lids and puts them in the press, wheta they are gradu? ally squeezed down and the lids nailed on. They are then ready to be shipped by the carload?about one thousand box? es to the car. But ihey are not consid? ered "perishable goods" like oranges, lemons, pears, and are not rushed off, re? gardless of demand or prices. Tbe con? sequence is, (they are worth about two dollars, to two dollars and a quarter, per box, which affords a very fair profit to the manufacturer. The whole cost of raising, curing and getting the raisins ready for tbe market is about four cents per pound. Over half of the raisins produced in tbe State are grown there, the climate and soil being particularly adapted to them. Most of the vineyards are started from cuttings and average about six hundred and eighty vines to tbe acre. Tbe fourth year the yield is from eight to twelve tons to the acre and the price ranges from ten to twelve dollars per ton. It takes five pounds of grapes to make one of raisins, arid the income of raisin vineyards is variously estimated from seventy five to one hundred and fifty dolllars per acre. -m ? m -? ? It is a fixed and immutable law that to have good, sound health one must have pure, rich and abundant blood.. There is no shorter nor surer route than hy a courseof De Witt's Sarsaparilla.?Wilhite & W?hlte. A MODEL SPEECH. An Esteemed Contemporary In Barnwell County Gets off a good one. Irom the Bamberg Herald. [The country campaign is upon us and many aspirants for public office who are not used to the rostrum will be called out to speak. We have no patent on the following speech. The Herald and the following oration will be furnished one year for $1.50.] Fellow Citizens of the grand old coun? ty of Barnwell: I appear before you to? day as a candidate for an office. (Loud cheers and cries of amen from 75 other candidates.) It is needless to tell you where I stand. The great question is not where I stand but where you stand. You may rely up* on it, fellow citizens, I am always with the majority. I would rathar be wrong with the majority than right with the minority. (Immense yells.) Fellow citizens, if you will just let me know whore you all stand I will tell you in a minute where I stand. Fellow Democrats, I love every man here w! is old enough to vote. Bless my starb, how I love you 1 Many a night have I lain awake on my couch looking at the pale moon through the cracka in the shingles thinking of the deep love I bear you and the big salary the office pays. I have left my crop for the old woman to tend and have roamed and ranged from the black Edisto to the red Savan? nah ; from the beautiful hills of Willis ton to'the luxuriant sugar cane brakes of Fishpond. I have hugged to my throbbing bosom every screech-owl baby that I could de? coy into my arms. But, fellow citizens, my love goes further than the babies. My heart is not shrivelled up like a fried rac? coon oyster. When I meet the father of the baby and when I remember tbat be is over 21 years old and has reached the age of vo* tability, then it is that my love pours out thicker and faster than smoke from the tall smoke stack of the Bamberg Cotton Mill. (Tumultuous applause.) Bless your darling hearts, I love every voter here, and I love the sacred soil of Barnwell county, except I don't like to pay taxes on it. If our county was a big hoecake and if Salkehatchie was a stream of molasses flowing across its broad sur? face, I would eat and eat till I burst with gratitude. But, fellow citizens, I will nev? er eat dirt. No never! never 1! That is why I always join the happy majority. If I were transported beyond the blue skies where my soul could mingle with the star dust, and if I had the choice of being born again, I would say let me first see the light of day in Barnwell County, and let me he born just in time to put my card in the Bamberg Herald. (Cyolones of cheers.) But my heart is saddened, fellow dem? ocrats, on this occasion. The audience is half candidates and half voters, and it wrings my heart to think thre ain't enough offices to go around and all of us can't be elected. (Prolonged wailing and gnash? ing of teeth among the candidates.) Choose you this day whom you will vote for. Lend me your ears, dearly be? loved, because I'm going to speak a parable. Be it remembered from now till election day that I am the man you ought to vote for, and I will tell you why. It is not because I am am a good business man. You all know that I am not much of a business man and might get things tangled up in the office at Barnwell if elected. Like a spring in a watch, that has nothing to do with the case. My silly opponents, in their desperate efforts to sneak into an office, tell me that i I did nothing for the county in the dark days of Badicalism; they tell me that I am not qualified for an office. I admit their dastardly charges, but, fellow citi? zens, that is a small matter. Those argu? ments are so small that you could put them in a mustard seed and hear them rattle. The one unanswerable reason why you should vote for me is that I am al? ways going to think and vote just like the mojority of you think and vote There is a piece of machinery in my head called a thinker. There is a band on the flywheel in your head. When your thinker turn.) mine turns. Fellow citizens, I solemnly promise never to think for myself. Whenever a bill is introduced in Con? gress, just take a vote in your club and tell me how the mojority stands and right there flatfooted and firm as the rock of ages you will find me. It is true that all I want is a country office, but no man is fit to hold a country of? fice unless he agrees with the majority on all the great national and State is? sues. Fellow citizens, I will now close my speech. (Thunders of applause and sighs of relief.) When the American eagle which soars above the Alleghany mountains, and looks at the sun full and fair with open eye, when tbat immortal bird of freedom settleth down upon the nut grass mead? ows of old Barnwell where browseth sore back mules and where rooteth razor back hogs, and when that sacred bird calleth on the sons of liberty to gather under her wings, even as a hen doth call her little chicks, then, fellow citizens, I will be there. Then, fellow voters, I will stay there till my nest is feathered, or until an enlightened citizenship turns me out of the offico to which I am to ba elected and instals my successor. (Flashes of quietness and hosannahs of silence.) ? A shrewd-looking old man stood in front of one of the leading jeweler's gaz? ing at a queer-looking clock. One of the affable clerks was standing in the door* way. "That's an Jl fired funny clock," said the old man. "What do you call it?" "That's a spring level chronometer," re? plied the clerk. "It will run four hun? dred days without winding." "So? That'e a long time. But say, how long do you suppose it would ruu if you should wind it up once?" ? Bright people are the quickest to re? cognize a good thing and buy it. We sell lots of bright people the Little Early Ri? sers. If you aro not bright these pills will make you bo.?Wilhito & Wilhito. Renovation of Pastures. Pastures are so convenient they cannot be altogether dispensed with even in favor of soiling crops, and upon tbe highest priced land. The finest pastures are to be found in England and Ireland, and some of them return a fair interest on a value of $2,0G0 per acre. This is far in advance of the value of any farm land in America, hut it is only reached by the employment of capital and labor skillfully applied, which, were the same used here, would give our If is an equal value. An English paster a laid down with the greatest care art.' .egardless of any proper expense. The land is ma? nured and weeded for three crops preced? ing ; it Is then manured and summer fal? lowed, and the land is brought into the finest tilth. It is then seeded with a va? riety of grasses and forage plants far more liberally than is ever thought of by an American farmer; 10 or 12 bushels in all of 8 to 12 kinds of grasses and clovers being used per acre. The seed is cov? ered by Larrowing. This being an espe? cial point, it is worthy of particular notice by the American farmers who rarely practice it. The pastures are kept clean, never eaten down too closely and are top dretised at times with artificial fertilizers in the most liberal manner, the stock being kept off from them for a few weeks until the grass is washed clean, by the rains, and has recovered its growth. By such treatment, with new seed, and a harrowing to cover it, and ample manur? ing, these pastures remain profitable for centuries, some of them having been in use for 800 years without ever being broken up by the plow. If American farmers would have the moat profitable pastures they must do likewise. Bat the beginning of a new way is the difficult point. One does not know sometimes where to begin and how to go on. Some? times it is best to begin as mentioned above, and sometimes a beginning can be made at once without breaking up the land. To get rid of the weeds is the most particular point. This may be done now by cutting them with a mower and rak? ing them off and burning them. Then a heavy, sharp harrow may be run over the field and a fresh seeding given. This may be done on one part at a time, the stock being kept off by a portable fence until the new growth is ready. A top dressing of wood ashes, or a mixture of potash, salts and lime, with fine bone dust or superphosphate should be given, and this treatment repeated as often as may be required. But the chief point to be remembered in caring for a pasture is, that it should never be eaten down to the roots, nor should tbe droppings of the stock be left to accumulate iu spots and kill out the grass. If the land is ever bare of grass the sun's heat will kill the roots, and this is the most probable dan? ger to be apprehended. It will be very clear to a thoughtful farmer that a pas? ture is not to be carelessly prepared; hurriedly seeded; wastefally used and then left to take care of itself. Every one of these points is to he assiduously avoided and the very opposite treatment is to be given,if the fall value of a pas tare is expected to be realized! The pasture is the heart of a dairy farm. It is the point around which all the work revolves. One may introduce soiling und green feeding crops, covered yards and dark barns, and stables for feeding; but the pasture is the natural and most healthful method of feeding for cows, they are most contented iu it, they are more free from tbe common diseases in the pure air aud sunlight, and the miik will be purer and better thau from cows confined in yards and stables. Dis? eases of the worst character are becoming frequent in dairy herds, and danger to tbe public health from them is justly apprehended. It may be that these dis? eases have beeu encouraged to . ->me ex? tent by the too artificial life forced upon the cows, and that the use of pastures of the best kind must be made a rule, and the prevailing tendency to make the cow a mere machine for tbe manufacture of milk and butter, be restricted out of re? gard to the purity of these products.? Practical Farmer. Skimmed Milk for flens. We have many times urged the feeding of skimmed milk to laying hens, and will add that on the farm, where dairying is carried on, the use of buttermilk will also be found of great benefit, and will very sensibly increase the egg production. After a few days trial the "biddies" will look out eagerly for your coming with the accustomed dish in hand. Use it instead of water and the slightly saline quality will be beneficial. Either buttermilk or skimmed milk is excellent. The latter, of course, is not as rich and fattening as the former, but still contains much of good. Should you be keeping a large flock of hens, and the choice lies between feeding the milk to a pig and giving it to tbe hens, decide in favor of the hens every time. The extra production for one year by the milk feed will buy all the pork your family may need, and make your occupation much pleasanter all round. $100 Reward. $100, The readers of this paper will be pleas? ed to learn ih&t there is at least one dreaded disease that science has been able to cure in all ita stages, and that is Catarrh. Hall's Catarrh Cure is the on ly positive cure now known to the medi? cal fraternity. Catairh being a constitu tional disease, re^ui::es a constitutional treatment. Hall's CVarrh Cure is taken internally, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surface of the system, there by destroying the foundation of the dis? ease, and giving the patient strength by building up the constitution aud assisting nature in doing its work. The proprietors have so much faith in its curative powers, that tbey offer One Hundred Dollars for any case that it fails to cure. Send for Hsi of Testimonials. F. J. CHENEY & CO., Props., Toledo, 0. ??*Soltl by all Druggists, 75. ? The new navy, when all the vessels authorized are completed, will comprise forty five vessels of all degrees, carrying 364 guns' and 11,090 officer* and men. These include five battle ships, six harbor defonse vessels, and three armed cruisers. All Sorts of Paragraphs. ? The world consumes 4,000,000 ateel pens daily. ? Beware equally of a sudden friend' and slow enemy. ? Wealth is not his who gets it, but his who enjoys it. ? Laplanders often skate a distance of 150 miles in a day. ? There is a wide difference in hone sense and horse talk. ? A leopard shot in Bengal is credited with destroying 154 persons. ? It's a pretty small scandal of which there isn't enough to go round. ? A hive of 6,000 bees will produce about fifty pounds of honey annually. ? Fewer suicides occur in Ireland than in any other country of Europe. ? When a man's word is not as good as his bond, keep watch on his bond. ? When marriage is anything else than an equal partnership it is a mistake. ? For 100,000 cigars an Elk County, Kansas, man recently traded off his farm. ? The czar's throne is said to be worth four times as much as Queen Victoria's. ? The only way it pays a person to be his own lawyer is to keep his own coun? sel. - ? Wars during'the . last thirty-three years have cost 2,500,000 men and $300,- 5 000,000. ? A brain specialist says that nearly a quarter of all the cases of insanity are hereditary. ? There are few people who do not at sometime shy when they run suddenly upon the truth. ? The French war office has provided for the enrollment of between 6,000 and 7,000 bicyclists in war. ? The combined weight of three peaches seen in a New York market re? cently was seven pounds. ? Did any one ever see a woiranwho could look intelligent while talking to a baby? asks an Atchison, (Kan.) paper. ? The original portrait of Pocahontas, painted in 1612, now owned by a Lon? doner, will be exhibited at the World's Fair. ? A Kansas newspaper man wrote ay? communication to a rival editor, calling him an ass and then signed it, "Yours fraternally." ^ ? A Charlotte paper eayB tb ity Evan? gelist Fife is to be a resident of that town, having purchased the residence of Walter. Brem for $8,000. ? The mean man likes the magazine tbat tells women how to dress on nothing ' a year and look well, remarks the New Orleans Picayune. ? There is no difference in the mind of God between the man who breaks the . Sabbath and the one who sells goods by a short yard stick. ? Do not make it a matter of moment \ who may be for you, or against you, but let it be your caie and business that God be with you in all you do. ? From time immemorial men have been held up for examples, and now and then they have been held up for what. | they had about their clothes. o ? Statistics recently compiled show that about 12,000 miles of new railroad were built in this country during the first ~ six months of the year 1892. ? A lawyer being interrupted said, "I will speak, sir, just as long as I please." "You have spoken longer than you please," was the opponent's retort ? Palos, Spain, will have a Columbus celebration, beginning on August 30 and lasting till October 3, the anniversary period of Columbus' notable voyage. ? An old soldier out in Kansas re? cently received from the government three cents, which had been due- him ? without his knowledge for moro than thirty years. ? Bees are said to have such an antip? athy to dark-colored objects that black chickens have, been stung to death, while white chickens of the seme brood are untouched. ? Mamma?When that boy threw stones at you, why didn't you come and tell me, instead of throwing them back ? Little Son?Tell you ? Why, you'could" not hit a barn door. ? The Atchison Globe has noticed that ; when you tell a woman her daughter is just the image of her when she was thai! age, the mother looks pleased and the daughter looks scared, ? Little Girl?My papa has to get up I awful early, so a.? to get to the office to see if his clerks is there attending to business. Little Boy?My papa doesn't have to. He's one of the clerks. ? Colorado appears to show a surplus of commemorative holidays. Among the anniversaries celebrated in the State are Watermelon day, Peach day, Potato day and then there is Grape and Cherry day.] ? Watch crystals are made by blowing a sphere of glass about one yard in diam-;; eter, after which the discs are cut from it by means of a pair of compasses having a diamond at the extremity of one leg. ? People who like frequent changes in their national government may fiod a variety in Mexico. During the^past* sixty -two years that country has had fifty-; four presidents, oneg reency and one emperor. ? A paterfamilias, with eight marri? ageable daughters, advertised, as a last' resource, to get them off his bands. He received the following answer: "Am a bachelor, and wealthy. Will gladly mar-,: ry one of your daughters. Send eample" at once, please." ? Teach children to breath through the nose; not through the mouth. Mouth breathing children are liable to wandering minds, feeble memories, headache, im? paired sight, deafness and lung trouble.j European physicians are just now attention to this upon the part of pa| ? That's a neat motto, said Brii I ins to a real estate man who says, "Why' pay rent when you can own a home?" Yes, was the reply, but I have just had a tenant who revised it in a way that made me dislike it. He says, "Why pay for a home when you can owe rent money?" ? There seem? to be no limit to the possibilities of cold storage. A steam? ship recently arrived at Liverpool, Eng? land, having on board twenty-five tons of butter shipped from New Zealand. The butter was in excellent condition, and its flavor had not been in anyjway impaired by the long s$a trio.