The Anderson intelligencer. (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, November 02, 1892, Image 1
BY CLINKSCALES & LANGSTON.
ANDERSON, S. C? WEDNESDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 2, 1892.
VOLUME XXVII.?NO. 18.
For Asthma, Bronchitis
Colds, coughs,
la grippe, pneumonia,
and all disease* of
the throat and
lungs, take
"For more than twsnty-lre years I was a
sufferer from lung trouble, attendod with
eoughing 10 isTere at times as to causa henv
orrnace, the paroxysms frequently luting
three or four hours. I was Induced to try
Ayert Cherry Pectoral, and after taking
(our bottles wai thoroughly cured I can
confidently recommand this medlelna."?
Franr Holman, Clay Centra, Kan*.
Ayer's Cherry Pectoral
Pi?parcdbyPr. J.CAy*rkCo..Lowtll, Utss. PfOmpt tO SCt, SUTO tO CUfG
300 Bushels Seed Bye,
500 Bushels Seed Barley,
1000 Bushels Seed Oats.
New Crop
Blue' Grass,
Orchard Grass,
Bed Top Grass,
Clover Seed,
FRESH STAPLE AND FANCY GROCERIES
ArriYiMff every day at the Itoweet Prices for Oaah.
D. S; MAXWELL & SON,
WD. f HOTBL OHIQTJOLA.
OUR LEADER FOR 30 DAYS ONLY!
ALL OF OUB
O-OOIDS
AT COST FOR CASH,
Irteludin.tr, ail our Fall Purchases.
HENRIETTAS, CASHMERES,
SERGES, BROADCLOTHS,
BEDFORD CORDS,
LADIES' CLOTHS, in blacks and colors.
Tha OcJihmerta you pay elsewhere 10c. for wa will let yoa have at 15o? The
J0s. lint at IsOo. the iOc. line at 35c, and the 50c. line at 33*0., the 73*. line for half
'a dollar, and the dollar: line for 70?.
Yoa will save on s, $2.40 Drees Pattern 00 cents, on $3.00 Pattern the same
amount, but the difference on the finer goods is greater: On $4.80 yon save $1.80,
oa the $?.00 line yoa save $2.00, on the $8.00 line yoa save $6.00, on $1300 line
yoa save $4.00,
Eemember, this sale will be <[>nly for Thirty Days.
LADIES' STORE
STILL LEADING IN
HANDSOME GOODS!
Buyer has been in the Northens majkets for three weeks, and has bought
the handsomest stock of ladies GOODS that has ever been brought
to leia mattet at p3i0e8 to suit ALL. We have added a new feature in
toe way ef?
A B4RGAIN COUNTER.
*?- Don't Call to inspect oar entire Stock, for yoa will SAVE MONEY I
Thanks for the past and hopes for the totere.
Beapectfnlly,
MISS LIZZIE WILLIAMS.
Successor to Peoples & Burriss, stilt Headquarters for
House Mil Ms, Fancy Cffina, Dm Sets, Vases,
Holiday Goods, &c.
JPhE celebrated IRON KING COOK STOVE is mach improved over the old
pattern. We have a fine Stove, No. 7, for $10.00, with 25 nieces, as ornamental as
any first class housekeeper need want. A big lot of Second. Hand Stoves maet go
at some price, so come in and price them.
TINWARE LOW DOWN !
*&. Bring your BAGS, SIDES and BEESWAX to ua
Those indebted to the firm of Peoples & Bnrriss are respectfully invited
to call in as soon as possible and settle their Account at the same old stand with
W:P.- ^fl_ JOHN T- BUBRISS.
WHY ORDER
JPXJLJSTCDB and OrRGKA-ZtNTS
From any other Market when
THE O. A. REED MUSIC HOUSE
Can and will Save you Money by Buying at Home.
?-w^dafA-H-^ OUB Gooda art bought in large lots
Ilit^iiS^Bil^Tlm ft"om tli0 Manufacturers for CASH.
SHS?jP ?1 Y wl Ouraxpcnsea ar6 mnoh lighter than
7 ?T ^^fra, Kdealere in larger cities, who sell almost
|LJ */ "^?<e exclusively through Sub-Agents, thns
^* adding largely to the prices charged you
And, "besides, we have th. LARGEST 8TOCK IN THE
STATE to select from, and every Instrument is sold under
A POSITIVB GUARANTEE.
Ws respectfully solicit yonr patronage, which will be
highly appreciated. Respectfully,
C A REED MUSIC HOUSE.
ANDERSON. 8. C.
M-cGree & Dillingham.
We are very much obliged to oar friends for their liberal pationage for the pas
year, and will say that we will have oo hand at our Stables?
FIRST CLASS MULES AND HORSES,
AND WILL GIVE ydu LIVING PEICES.
Be sore to tali and see us if yoa want a First Class Male or Horse cheap for
eaah, or with good security.
We also can furnicb you a first class Turnout at any time. Our Livery De?
triment is equipped w;tb fir*t class Horses and Buggies. We also have on hand
a lot of?
PEPTONS, BUGGIES and HARNESS
$fttft we will sell at Rook Bottom Prices.
MoGBB & DILLINGHAM,
BULL AST'S TALI.
Arp Writes Another Letter Frum Texas.
APCanta Oonatiiution.
This is the jumping off pi act, I reckon,
and ought to bo oallled Laed'a End in?
stead of Midland. It Ii S10 milM west
of Ft. Worth aid i? another 810 miles to
El Faao. I did not know I was on the
plaint until 1 waked up this morning.
It is all cattle tad horses aid sheep oat
here. .Ne eotten or c?:a, no potatoes or
cabbage, no nothing but grass and
bonndlois prairies. No vegetation caa
stand the long summer droughts except
the grau and that suffers sometime*.
But there ii plenty of water about thirty
feat underground and tlii windmills
bring it up, for the wind is over blowing,
and the air is full of ?aad much of the
time. A drummer aald "they have to
climb for water and dig for fuel," as
moat of the wood they me is roots dug
out of the ground, roots of the meaqaite
trees. This town supplieu the ranch
mea for a hundred mileii north and
south, and has a fine trade. The mer?
chants carry large stocks of geoda, espe?
cially canned goods and California fruits.
The windmills are everywhere. I count?
ed seventeen in view from my window.'
One man who has a ranch twenty miles
square told me he had forty-eight of
them oct there and keeps a mechanic
hired to keep tbem lu order. But ranch?
ing is a hard lifo, and if there is any fun
in it, it ia of a coarae, rugged kind. It ia
not so demoralizing as it uied to be.
The preachers and the teachers have
j brought schools and churches within
reach of the cow boy i, and they don't
mind riding twenty or thirty miles to
mingle with Christian people about once
a week. A ranchman's home is like the
Arab's camel?it is bi? ship of the desert.
All along the line from Abilene I
watched the prairie dogs from the car
window. There are thousands and thou?
sands of tbem, and they are no tame that
the older ones will not run to their holes
on approach of the train. The young
ones scamper away and tamble in like a
school boy tumbles into the millpoud.
Their burrows have a funnel-shaped top
with dirt around like an ant hill, and
you can eee them twenty or thirty feet
apart among the mesquite trees as far as
the eye can see at all. This little ani?
mal is a rodent about the sue of a gray
squirrel with brown back aad whitish
breast. Tbey stand up like a squirrel
and use their fbrepaws for hands and eat
the roots aud grass in the same way.
They are a species of guinea pig, though
aot so pretty. It is said that if you hold
up a guinea pig by the tail his eyes will
drop out. The prairie dog'a eyes will
not for he has a tail while the guinea
pig baa none. The old story that a rat?
tlesnake and an owl and a prairie dog
all lire in the same bole ia oot true.
Bev. Dr. Cochran, who ia a man of ob?
servation, told me that sometime* the
snake did go down into the borrow, but
it was either a dos or ted one, or else he
was after the dog aud he got him, too.
He says he has seen a dozen dogs carry?
ing grass aad roots and gravel to stop up
a snake that had crawled in a hole, and
they packed it tight by thumping it with
their heads and so destroyed, the snake.
In such cases they raise a great commo?
tion, and show signs of skill and inge
ouity. What these little creatures are
good for has not been discovered. They
would be good to eat if it was not for
their musky, musty odor.
Mexicans are quite common here and
some of them aro good looking, espe?
cially the children. There are more
Mexicans than negroes. I have seen
but one negro in Midland. I asked a
Mexican last night on the train how far
it was to Midland. He smiled, Bhook
his head and said (something about "Ma?
heko," which meant that he did n jt un?
derstand me. They are allowod to travel
in the white, folk's car, while the negroes
are not, though we sometimes see mu?
latto negroes who are whiter that tho
Mexicans. Conductors are very strict
about that in Texas, fox it is $25 penalty
for every breach of the law. No white
man is allowed to ride in the negro's cat*
and vice versa. Eren a Sheriff with a
negro prisoner must ride in the car for
the whites, so saye the Attorney General
of the State.
"Turn Texas loose" is the battle cry
of the Olark men now. They say that
Governor Hogg's policy is against rail?
roads and aliens aad foreign capital, and
that be has shut down on all progress
and has driven foreign capital away.
"Turn Texas loose" is seen everywhere
?heard everywhere. Hogg Bays in re
ply: "You tried bo inflate your towns
like a balloon aud because the bubble
burst you lay it on Hogg. Around Dal?
las and Fort Worth and other cities you
turned your cotton fields into town lots
aud because you couldea't catch suckers
you say Hogg did it." Even no me of the
preachers have taken the siump and they
draw upon the sacred scriptures for their
witnesses, just like ours did during the
war and just before. In the meantime
Nugeat and the People's Party behind
him are still hunting for votes and as
usual are claiming the State. I met tho
noblest Roman of them all at Mexia.
Judge Pendergrast is his name. He is
the candidate of the Prohibition party, a
wealthy banker, a gentleman whom
everybody loves and honors. Of course,
he does not expect to be elected, but
says that he feels it his duty to hold the
fort. When told that he is talking away
votes from Cleveland he says: "Yes,
that is bo down here where Mr. Cleve?
land does not seed them ; but our party
will take away more Harrison votes up
North where he does not need them, for up
there the prohibitionists are generally
Republicans in feeling."
You don't know how much these Tex?
as Democrats rejoiced over Governor
Northen's great victory. The Georgians
who live here are jubilant. Georgia
ranks higher in Texas than any other
State except Texas. When I meet an
old Georgian he talks as lovingly about
his old home as a college boy does about
the girl he left behind him. And they
go back again every now aud then to re
visit their kindred and the scenes of
their youth. Of course we regret to see
our young men leaving us, and it is a
move that is environed with risk and
even with peril, for there is no El Dora*
do anywhere. I was touched with pity
and smuBsd at a young man of my town
who had just arrived at Gainesville a
few days before I got there. He was as
glad to see me as If I was his rather.
"Found anything to do ?" said I. "No
?not exactly," said he, "but I'm going
to work to-morrow." "What at?" said
I. He looked rather sad and said,
"Well, I'm goiisg to work in a cotton*
seed oil factory. I can get a dellar and
a half a day to shovel up seed and I'm
going to do it"?and he looked away off
dreamily towards Georgia. Well, he
cob!u?a't get anything to do back there
and no boy ?rot tried harder. If any
young man thinks he can just step right
into a pleasant business out here he is
mistaken. He will have to begin at the
bottom and work up?but labor does
command a better price out here and it
is easier to get a place. Western Texas
is but little settled yst. In fact not set?
tled at all far away from the railroads.
The Texas Pacific has opened it up
within the last ten years. It is a won?
derful line of railway and gives good
service to the people. It is nearly 900
miles long in one unbrokea stretch, and
I have been over 600 of it. It seems to
be crowded on every train. This side of
Ft. Worth there Is but one train a day,
and when night somes these western
Texans oall on the porter for a pillow
and give him a dime and they double up
and tumble down. It is the only road I
know of that rents pillows to the night
passengers. Last night I watched the
prairie sun go down and nothing could
be more grandly beautifully brilliant, for
it illuminated the fleesy clouds with all
the hues of autumn. It is said that
when a northern woman was one night
walking with Tom Ochiltree she went
into rhapsodies over the beautiful Texas
moon that was shining on the boy and
Tom sighed and said, "Ah, madam, you
should have Been our moon before the
war." There must be something in the
rarified atmosphere that makes even the
Btarry heavens more brilliant out here.
For an hour or two after dark I gazed at
tba stars and took comfort in v tching
the Big Dipper as it slowly descended
beneath tho horizon. It made me feel
as if I was not so far from home.
Van Alatyne is a good little town?so
clean, so neat and everybody so fri endly.
I rode out with some lady friends and
they chatted with and hailed the good
nabors all along, just like it was all one
family. I like that. Whei society gets
so stiff and stuck up that they must pay
their calls in a oarriage and are so glad
when the folks are not at home and so
leave their cards and count it a visit?a
debt paid?I want none of it. Visiting
ought not to be a debt. It should be a
pleasure or be nothing. Van Alatyne
baa a bran now college that her own peo?
ple built and established. A graduate
of Vauderbilt, Mr. Piner, has it in
charge, and he has already gotten a mu?
seum and a labratory and some astro?
nomical instruments and a library, and
everybody is prond.
Gianbury is an older town and has a
college, too, in oharge of Mr. Williams,
and there Is another one only two miles
away. Eduoation is a big thing here,
and it is within easy reach of the rising
generation.
Bat I mnst halt for the mail is about
to olose. Bill Abf.
Here's Profitable Cotton Raising.
The statement is often made that cot?
ton can not be profitably raised at the
present prices, This may be so with the
majority of farmers, but there are some
who make money ait it. Among them is
Z. Frank Foster. In conversation a few
days ago Mr, Foster gave an illustration
of how he makes cotton raising pay. On
one part of his farm he planted six acres
in cotton. He put on the land fifty one
horse loads of stable manure and six
sacks of guano. He has sold six bales of
cotton from it from which be realized
$204. He has picked oat 1,100 pounds
and is sure of getting at least three more
baleB, making at least nine balee. From
the cotton, at the present prices, he will
realize ,$304; from the seed $38; total
$342. Here is what it cost him to make
nine bales:
Fifty loads of mannre, including
cost of hauling.$ 41 50
Five sacks of guano. 11 25
Hoeing. 45 00
Plowing. 5 00
Preparing ground. 8 00
Picking. 40 95
Seed. 1 00
Total cost.$152 70
Profit $119.80, or $86.55 an aore.?
Greenville News.
They poulticed her feet and poulticed her
head,
And blistered her back till 'twas smart
ling and red,
Tried tonics, elixirs, pain-killers and
salves,
(Though grandma declared it was noth?
ing but "narvea.")
The poor woman thought she must cer?
tainly die,
Till "Favorite Prescription" she happen?
ed to try.?
No wonder it praisea so loudly they
speak;
She grew better at once, and waa well in
a week.
The torturing pains and distressing
nervousness which accompany, at times,
certain forms of female weakness, yield
like magic to Dr. Pierce's Favorite Pre?
scription. It is purely vegetable, per?
fectly harmless, and adapted to the deli?
cate organization of women. It allays
and subdues the nervous symptoms and
relieves the pain accompanying function?
al and organic troubles. Guarantee
printed on bottle-wrapper, and faithfully
carried out for many years.
? At Cavendish Falls, on Black Elver,
Vt., a vertical cliff is known as Lovers'
Leap. It's a poor town that has not one
such feature in this country. A man
actually went over this Vermont leap
along in the "40s." He did not mean
to, and a companion orept to the edge
and looked over, expecting to see him
dashed to pieces below. The man was
crawling out of the river. "Hello,"
shouted his friend, "are you hurt much ?"
"I ain't hurt much," was the answer,
"but I'll be darned if I haven't lost my
jack-knife."
CATTLE RAWING I"OR PROFIT:
Ttro FrofrreMlT* Parmern Demonstrate
the Feasibility.
Prom tht YorhrUU Enquirer.
Cattle raising for profit in York Coun?
ty! Ttn yearn ago nobody would hare
thongbt of inch a thing. The poeieasion
of a few head of fine cattle wai looked
upon ai a luxury that none but the
wealthy could afford, and the idea of
raiting cattle, and flue onee at that, for
the money that was in them, would not
have been entertained for a moment.
When eotton was ten cents a pound, an
acre would yield something like $20
worth a year, and as the same amount of
land would not begin to support a cow
that would only be worth from $12 to
$16 at three years old, how could there
be any money in suoh a business ? That
was the old way of looking at things,
but things have changed somewhat. A
large per cent, of the general public to?
day have the same old ideas as to tho ex?
pense and profit of the two business, but
a few more advanced farmers here and
there, are beginning to demonstrate that
although she figures say that there
is no money in eattle raising, the actual
profits, no matter how they come about,
say that there Is money in it, and not
only money, but good money.
Of course there is nothing wrong with
the figures aud estimated expenses. Or?
dinarily anybody oan coant up expense,
omitting not a single item. But some?
times some people lose sight of the
profit, and especially is this the case in
this business. There are many sources
of profit in the business of cattle raising
that cannot be at all appreciated except
through actual experience, and actual
experience never fails to bring about a
great many gratifying surprises.
A representative of the Enquirer went
down to see Mr. J. W. Betts, at Leslie
station, about five miles south of Rock
Hill, recently. A few years ago Mr.
Betts was a cotton farmer. Now he is
rapidly drifting into the stock business.
When he quit cotton, be was very much
discouraged. Then he was in debt; now
he is getting out of debt just as fast as
any other farmer in the country. Here
Ib the whole history in a nutshell.
Surely all farmers will understand it.
Along about 1888, without any previous
experlenae, Mr Betts commenced raising
eotton. He ran a two mule farm and
got along splendidly; sometimes clear?
ing over and above all expenses as muoh
as four or fire hundred dollars a year.
Although this was first rate, none of us
are doing as much as we want to do.
Mr. Betts thought he would enlarge his
operations, and undertook to run a six or
seven horse eotton farm. He did not
run it long. He landed just where
ninety nine cut of a hundred who try
the same thing, under the same ciroum
stance*, will land. Now, be h paying
his debts. He will be square up again
before a great while longer, but it will
be so with very little thanks to cotton.
Mr. Betts has now had four or five
years' experience with cattle, and espe?
cially in view of his former experience
with cotton, it is reasonable to presume
that he knows what he is talking about
when be discusses the subject.
"Cattle an expense 1" he says. "Whv
no more profitable economy was ever in?
troduced on a farm. I have always been
a ioyer of stock, and especially flae stock.
It used to be my ambition to have money
in order that I might ind-'^e myself in
this hobby. Now that I -ave tried it,
without any money, I find that I have
wasted years waiting to get able to go
into a business that would have paid me
from the very start. Of course I may
fail, but I am satisfied now that if I do,
it will either be my fault, or the result
of accident?it will not be the fault of
the business.
"And how do I manage it? Well, it
is getting easy enough now. When I
I first came to this place I succeeded a
man who bad been forced to leave be?
cause he conld scarcely make a living.
The land was so poor that it wouldn't
pay for the working. I bought a few
head of cattle, turned them on the worn
out land, and began cleariog fifteen
acres or more of new ground every year.
It has been an uphill business?expense
without any return?from the very start.
But now things are getting better. The
old worn out lands have been greatly
enriched from the droppings of the cat?
tle, and I am just now getting my new
grounds in fine trim for making good
crops.
"But aside from the manure, here is
how the cattle can be made to pay. Last
year I milked four cows, two of them
full, and the other two half Jerseys.
From these cows, in addition to all the
milk aad butter used at home, I Bold
881 pounds of b: .?jr in Rock Hill at 25
cents a pound, receiving in all $220.25.
With this money I hired a hand at $10 a
month, and with very little- help from
me, ha made fifteen bales of cotton and
800 bushels ot corn. The entire crop
coat me only $4.40 over and above what
I received for my butter.
"Now, as to the expense of my cattle,"
continued Mr. Betts, "I hardly know
how to count it up. Last year I win?
tered eleven head, and about all the
money paid out was for two loads of
wheat straw. This year I have fourteen
head, aad unleas I can get a fair price
for a few of them, I intend to winter
them all. If you will joat raise your
own clover and hsy, cattle will pay you
more for it than anything else.
' And by tho way, I never sell any hay
or roughness of any kind. If I have
more roughness than I need, I buy more
cattle. You see it works this way; the
more roughness, the more cattle, the
more manure, and the more manure the
bigger craps.
"Up to a year or two age, I was always
puzzled every spring to know how much
cotton I should plaat. That question
does not trouble me any more now. I
have adopted a new rule that is infalli?
ble. It is juit this: Regulate your cot?
ton crop by the size of your manure pile,
and don't plant any more cotton than
you oan fertilize with home made ma?
nure."
Though Mr. Belts hss not gone into
the cattle business exclusively, it is clear
from the above that he has struck the
right line, and it is only a question of a
very short time until he will be realizing
larger returns from hii farm than is pos?
sible in any other way. A few head of
his cattle axe paying the expense* of the
entire herd with their milk and butter,
and besides this, the herd is paying a
clear profit of not less than six per cent,
on the amount Invested in it In manure.
In the face of such a showing as this, it
is a very poor business man wko claims
that there is no money in oattle.
a jehsky dairy.
Nobody in this County is ahead of, or
even up with, Mr. Wade H. Hioklin, of
Guthriesville, in the dairy business. Mr.
Hicklin has a small hard of pure blooded
Jerseys, and ia realizing as big a profit
for the capital invested, as is derived
from any other legitimate business in
this country.
"I am a great lover of fine cattle,"
says Mr. Eieklin, "but I would not think
of spending any time or money on them if
it didn't pay." Mrs. Hicklin takes the
same view, and both taking a hand in
the management, they have a splendid
I thing of it, They not only derive a
great deal of pleasure, but a handsome
profit from the business.
A lepreseutative of the Enquirer visit*
ed Mr. Hicklin recently. He had only
a short while to Btay, but he saw and
learned a great deal that was of interest.
The first thing was the herd. It consists
of fifteen or sixteen head of blooded oat?
tle, including nine sleek, well-fed Jer?
seys, all registered or entitled to registry,
and having pedigrees running back to
the days when progressive people first
began to take an interest ia fine stock.
"That is my bull, over there," said Mr.
Hicklin, indicating an animal which
bears all the marks of the full blooded
Jersey. "He is just twenty-five months
old, and is ont of Bom ping Dolly by
King Koffee, Jr. Romping Dolley's
butter record is thirteen pounds in seven
days, and Xing Koffae, Jr., now owned
in Tennesseo, sold for $3,500 when only
five months old. I don't bslisve a finer
bull than this was ever brought to this
section.
"We are milking six cows now," said
Mr. Hicklin, in answer to a quei
tion, and two more will be in within a
few months. Everything in the lot will
givo four gallons of milk a day when
fresh, but seme of them are not giving bo
much just at this time. We make some*
thing over six pounds of butter a day,
and have no trouble In selling all we can
make in Columbia at twenty-five cents a
pound, We just ship It in a bulk any
where from twenty five to fifty pounds at
& time, and parties in Columbia take all
that we can send them."
From the cow lot, Mr. Hicklin led the
way to tho silo, "I have just built this,"
he explained. "It is just like that of
.Or. Black's, recently described in the
Enquirer. It is nine and a balf feet
wide, nineteen feet long;, sixieen feet
high, and contains about forty five tous
of ensilage, composed of thirty five loads
of sorghum-cane, fiva loads of green corn
stalks, and ten loads of peavines. With
me this silo is an experiment. I bad
the cane, cornstalks and poavines, and
having no place to put them, just decid?
ed to convert them into ensilage. If it
spoils why it will just spoil, and if it
keeps all right, then so much the better."
Mr. Hicklin's cow stables, which were
next visited, are arranged in a manner
altogether worthy of the fine stock for
which they are intended. There are a
number of stalls, each provided with
mangers, and a passage way, with a
trough in the middle, running by all the
stalls, the full length of the stable, to a
manure pile outside, which contributes
to the ease and convenience with which
the droppings may be cleaned up. This
is attended to every morning, and the
surroundings present an appearance that
give evidence of the utmost care and at?
tention.
"My oattle were brought hers on the
10th day of last December," said Mr.
Hicklin, "and Binge that time I have
hauled out thirty two loads of solid ma?
nure. This is a source of considerable
profit to cattle raisers, and it alone will
go along way toward paying the ex?
pense of feeding the stock that make it.
"But of course," he continued, "the
butter is the biggest thing in the busi?
ness. I would like you to stay over and
see our system of making it, and of
handling milk; but as you say you can't,
I will have to try to tell you about it,"
and with this, Mr Hicklin proceed to ex?
plain the operation of his improved
creamery cans, and different arrange?
ments for convenience, and for securing
best results. "We don't churn anything
but the cream, he aaid, and of course
there is very little buttermilk. The
skim milk we feed to the calves, which
we always take from their mothers when
they are three days old.
The churning is done in a sixteen gal?
lon swinging churn, and it takes from 30
to 85 minutes to convort a churn full
Into butter. And such butter I Mrs,
Hicklin supervises the working up of it
herself. It is a beautiful golden color,
almost as firm as cheese, has a perfectly
delightful taste, and will keep nice and
sweet for weuka. Mrs. Hicklin did not
toll how these results were produced,lasd
the writer did not think il exactly fair to
ask her. He felt that that was her se?
cret?the reanon why her butter always
brings not less the five cents a pound
over the regular market price.
- wm ? -a?
There is more Catarrh in this
section of the country than all other
diseases put together, and until the last
few years was supposed to be incurable.
For a great many years doctors pro?
nounced it a local disease, and prescribed
local remedies, and by constantly failing
to oure with local treatment, pronounced
it inourable. Science has proven catarrh
to be a constitutional disease, and there?
fore requires constitutional treatment.
Hall's Catarrh Oure, manufactured by
F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, Ohio, is the
only constitutional oure on the market.
It ia taken internally in doses from 10
drops to a teaspoonfu 1. It acts directly
on the blood and mueous surface of the
system. They offer one hundred dollars
for any case K fails to cure. Send for
circulars and testimonials. Address,
F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, O.
Sold by Druggist3, 75c.
? Good sense is the best frif nd a man
can have in an emergency.
A ROMANCE OF TEE WAR.
Recalled by the Blgkt of a Woman In
Man's Gart) Waikius In an Orange
Grove
Frow the Detroit Free Press.
"While oh Ihe train coming from
Louisville I read a story which remind?
ed me of a romance in real life which
occurred ig the picturesque South," said
M. P. Oorcorau, of New Orleans. "I was
half dozing in the smoker, after having
finished my cigar, when the train boy
threw a lot of books into the compart?
ment and I picked up one of them and
mechanically began to read. It was the
story which opens with a scene in a con*
vent and an interview which took place
when a soldier saw once more a society
woman whom he had adored in the world
of fashion. I even forgot the name of
the story; it was the Duchess someone,
As I read, the occurrences of a Summer
spent on tho Golf of Mexico came to
mind and although I am not much on
romance, the details of a certain story
which I had heard came vividly to me
and I saw once more the characters in
the startling drama which was enacted
some time ago.
"That Summer was one of delight for
me, for was not my dally companion an
old /fiend of the family, Father Bailey,
one of the most scholarly priests whom
it has been my good fortune to meet, a
gentleman of affable manners and an
irrepressible wit ? He was a broad, big
man, with a hearty red face, and a voice
like a fog-horn. He was the life of the
neighborhood sod could tell a story or
sing a song in a most remarkable manner.
When any entertainment was in pro?
gress the good Father Bailey was always
central figure.
The children of his parish were always
giving pleasing socials of one kind or
another, and somewhere in the middle
of the programme Father Bailey would
be announced, and then be would lift up
bis mighty bass voice in 'A Warrior
Bold,' delivering it not perhaps as an ar?
tist would, but with a hearty feeling that
was capivating. A storm of applause
would follow, and then be would come
forward, and, seating himself at the
piano, sing a rollicking Irish ditty in a
manner that was all his own and which
caused the children to laugh so heartily
that it actually did one good to be pres?
ent.
"It was the time of the year when ev?
erything was in bloom; when the flowers
fairly overran the bouses, and when the
orange trees were loaded with fruit. One
day I was strolling through the orange
field with Father Bailey, and he was tell?
ing me a particularly good story in Irish
dialect, when suddenly we approached
the figure of a nun. She was tall and
stately, and, although her face was per?
fectly white, her beauty was such that I
pau.ed unvoluntarily and exclaimed:
'There is a picture for an artist, that
magnificent woman in dark array, stroll?
ing in this paradise of nature.'
"Father Bailey returned dryly that
hers was not physical beauty, but beauty
of the soul. I replied that I could not
believe that, having looked for a moment
into her dark, soulful eyes. 'Such a wo?
man must have a history,' 1 added. 'That
is true,' he responded. 'But her history
belongs to the past.' The woman pass?
ed slowly away. Then Father Bailey re?
turned to his story, and I aiked him no
more questions about her. However, I
saw her frequently thereafter, and bad no
difficulty of learning of her past, for ev?
ery one seemed acquainted with her ro?
mantic career.
"Before the war Bhe was the only
daughter of an extremely wealthy plant?
er, and lived in one of the large, hand?
some homesteads which then wero so of?
ten seen in the hind of Dixie. She had
been educated in Paris, and bad acquired
all the graces which are supposed to ac?
company a perfect education in tbe fine
arts. As she was an heiress she bad
many admirers, one of whom was a
Southerner, while the other resided in
the North, having met the accomplish?
ed girl in Paris. There was a hot race
for her hand, but her heart evidently in?
clined to the latter suitor, who was grace?
ful and talented and altogether a worthy
young fellow. The Southerner witness?
ed his rival's success with much chagrin,
and when tbe announcement of the
engagement was made was heard to re?
mark ihat he would kill his hated rival
at the altar. However, the wedding bells
did not ring, for war troubles were im?
minent. The lovers took a sorrowful
farewell, vowing to be loyal to each oth?
er, although he, perforce, was going to
join the ranks of the enemy of the South,
and assist in putting down the Confeder?
acy.
"Tho denounemcnt to the otory was
sad aud startling. One day a man, worn
out and travel-stained, sought refuge at
the house and was admitted into the
young woman's presence. She gave a
cry of rapture, for it was her Northern
lover, and then exclaimed with conster?
nation :
"?How did you get here?'
" 'By crossing the line.'
" 'But if you are found here they will
kill you.'
" 'I could not resist seeing you.'
"Then in an agitated manner Bhe in?
forms him that a detachment of South?
ern soldiers was encamped beyond tbe
small wood and that tbe officer in com?
mand was bis former rival.
" 'You must go at once,' she urged.
'They come here for supplies, and if
they find you the; will hang you as a
spy.'
" 'I know that,' he returned in a gloomy
manner.
"At this moment the door was burst
open and a number of soldiers entered
tbe room.
" 'Ah, here U the spy,' said a voice. It
was the Southern rival.
" 'I am no spy.'
" 'What are you doing here?'
" 'You should know.'
'At this the Southerner waved his
arm to his men. 'Leave the room,' he
said. The men obeyed.
" 'Now, Bir,' said tho Southerner, 'you
are aware what your fate will be V
" 'You cannot take me alive,' was the
sollen answer.
"The young woman threw herself bo*
fere tbe Southerner.
" 'Yoa know he is no spy I' she ex?
claimed.
" 'Well, he will be shot as one.'
" 'Have you no mercy V
" 'What mercy have you had for me 1
He shall die like a dog.'
" 'See,' she implored, 'I beg on my
knees. Could you not withdraw your
men, or so arrage It that he may return ?'
" 'PosBibly I could.'
"'And you will?'
" 'On one condition.'
" 'Name it.'
"He boot over and whispered in her
ear.
" 'Never!' she exclaimed.
" 'Then he shall die.'
"'Not as a spy!' exclaimed the
Northerner, rushing for the window.
There was a sharp report. The North?
erner staggered, placed his hand to his
breast, and then fell to the floor, dead,
shot by his rival before the eyes of the
young woman who bad been the occasion
of the bitter vendetta. That strange fate
which bad permitted the meeting of these
two men under such circumstances had
occasioned one more tragedy among the
many remarkable and sorrowful events
of tbe war. The opportunity for a bitter
revenge had been offered and accepted.
The Northerner was buried, the yoang
woman became a nurse, and after tbe
war retired to a convent, where doubt?
less she still cherishes the memory of her
lover. That is the reason one could Bee a
past in her eyes as she strolled through
the orange grove."
Watched fer the Fox a Week,
Cjcranton, Oct. 21.?Yankee, a fox
bound belonging to Farmer Willis W.
Parke, of Cranberry Creek, went on a
fox hunt of his own accord on Monday
afternoon last week. Tbe folks heard
biiu baying on the hills for several hours,
and a little before sunset they lost the
Bound of his voice. Yankee didn't come
home that night and no one in the neigh?
borhood saw him or heard him baying
on Tuesday forenoon. After dinner Mr.
Parke went in search of the hound and
late in the afternoon he found Yankee
lying close to a hole in a ledge of rocks
near a piece of woods over the hills on
the adjoining farm of Marcus 0. Hull's.
Yankee was as bright as a dollar, but he
was lank and hungry. He had run a
fox into the ledge and he was watching
for it to come oat so that he could nab
it. Mr. Parke ordered the hound to fol?
low him and Yankee cringed and whined
and begged bis master to let him stay by
the hole. He couldn't coax the hound
to come away and he decided not to force
him. On examining tbe ledge Mr.
Parke was convinced that the fox couldn't
get oat except where he had gone in, and
he made up his mind to let Yankee stay
at the bole as long as be wanted to.
Then he went home and got a jug of
spring water and a basin lull of meat for
the vigilant hound. Yankee drank two
quarts of water from the basin before he
would touch the meat, and while he was
drinking and eating he kept one eye on
tbe hole in the rooks, though he was
afraid the fox might give him the slip.
When the hound bad devoured tbe meat,
Mr. Parke again coaxed him to come
away, but in vain. Mr. Parke left the
basin of water for Yankee to drink dur?
ing tbe night, and when he started for
home the bound was eagerly watching
tho bole.
There was a thick white frost on the
ground when Mr. Parke trudged over to
the ledge on Wednesday morning with a
jug of water and a package of food for
the hound. Yankee was still watching
the hole. He k_d drunk the basin of
water, and Mr. Parke filled it, placed the
food near the hound, and went away.
On Thursday and Friday mornings he
again fed and watered the watchful
hound. At sundown on Friday he found
Yankee watching tbe hole with more
eagerness than he bad shown at any time.
He had gone up with the intention of
leading the hound to the house, having
come to the conclusion that there was no
fox in tbe ledge, but when he saw that
Yankee was as vigilant as ever he dacid
ed to let him stay there that night.
On Saturday morning Mr. Parke
started for the ledge without any food or
water for Yankee. He carried a strap
I and a whip, and be was going to lash the
hound away from the rocks, and not
have any more fooling. When he ap?
proached the ledge he didn't see the
hound in his uaual place near the hole.
He wasn't anywhere in sight, and Mr.
Parke made up his mind that the hound
had got tired and gone home on his own
hook. There was some water in the
basin and a lot of meat near it, but no
signs of the hound. While Mr. Parke
stood looking around Yankee gave a loud
bay down in the bushes several yards
below the ledge, and Mr. Parke called to
him. He continued to bay, but he
didn't run to his master, and Mr. Parke
hastened down to where he was. Yan?
kee had bis paws on a dead fox, and he
jumped up, made a great fuss around his
master for a moment, and then ran back
and lay down by the fox as though he
feared it might scamper off. The fox
was cold, and looked as if it bad been
half starved. It had been dead several
hours, and Yankee had not lain in wait
all the week for it in vain. Mr. Parke
said on Sunday that no amount of money
would bay that hound now. Yankee is
an ordinary black and tan fox bound, 3
years old, and two weeks ago Mr. Parke
would have sold him for $20.?Nxo York
Sun.
Bucklens Arnica Salvo.
The best salvo in the world for Cuts
Bruises, Sores, Ulcers, Salt Bheum, Fe?
ver Sores, Tetter. Chapped Hands, Chil?
blains, Corns, and all Skin Eruptions,
and positively cures Piles, or no \)&y
required. It is guaranteed to give per?
fect satisfaction, or money refunded.
Price 25 cents per box. For sale by
Hill Bros.
? "Traveling stones" have been found
in Nevada. They e.e perfectly round,
and about the size of a walnnt. When
placed on a smooth surface, such as a
floor or table, and separated two or three
feet from each other, tbey move unt?.l
they meet at a common center, where
they rest like eggs in a nest. Tbey are
formed of magnetic iron ore,
All Sorts of Paragraphs.
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? The speedjof a wild duck is 90 mile
an hour.
? A falsa friend and a shadow alten
only when '.he sun shines.
? Churches built in the United State
in 1891 numbered over eighty-five hur^
dred.
? A man who lives fast cannot ex
pect that enjoyment will keep up witl
him.
? Sunday School Teacher: Who lorefl
everybody, Johnnie? Johnnie: My p;
does, cos he is running for office.
? We often hear people say there I
only one good cough medicine and thai
is Dr. Bull's Cough Syrup, the specifii
for cold.
? Salvation Oil gives perfect satisfac
tion for horses with cracked heels, d
W. Lee, 414 W. Balto, St., Baltimore!
Md.
? Mrs. Susan Conrad, who died the!
other day in Chicago weighed 6oM
pounds, and much difficulty was had in
obtaining a coffin.
? Priscilla: But don't you think it
a girl's duty to ask the consent of bei
parents ? Prunella: Oh, yes; unless shcj
thinks they won't grant it.
? John Boss, aged 18, and Johr
Vogt, aged 15, had a fight at PaducahH
Ky. The latter broke Boss'neck witbl
one biow of hia fist. '
? "I overheard Maude and Tom talk
ing in the moonlight last night.''
"What were they talking about?" "Tfc^
weather. She didn't know whether she'd
have him or not."
? The highest temperature on the]
globe is at Death Valley, Inyo County,
California. Its surface is 159 feet belo
sea level, and in summer the thermome?
ter has occasionally marked 122 degrees,
? First Friend: Heard old Smithson'ej
going to be married for the fourth time j
MuBt cost him something for licenses.
Second Ditto: Think he oaght to appl
for a season ticket.
? No death has occurred in the family]
of Bev. Samuel Wakofield of Latrobe,j
Pa., in 61 years. He is in his 94thyear
his wife is a few years his junior; they
were married in 1821, and have 10 chil?
dren.
? Some of the native women of Aus?
tralia have a queer idea of beauty. They
cut themselves with shells, keep thaj
wounds open for a long time, and when
they heal huge soars are the result.
These scars are deemed highly ornamen?
tal.
? A pear tree which was set by Gov
ernor John Fndicott in 1680 is still stand
ing near Danversport, Mass. It blos?
soms freely, ,ili hough 262 years old, but
the fruit, Use most of the pears of that
date, is of poor quality.
? To relieve headache, correct disor?
ders of the stomach and Increase the
appetite, and for the cure of liver com?
plaint, use Ayer's Cathartic Pills.
They are perfectly safe to take, and inva?
riably promote a healthy action of the
digestive and assimilative organs.
? For tbe cure of headache, constipa?
tion, stomach and liver troubles, and all
derangements of the digestive and assim?
ilative organs, Ayer's Pills are invalua?
ble. Being sugar-coated, tbey are pleas?
ant to take, always reliable, and retain
their virtues in any climate.
? While George Washington was on
a visit to Turk Hill, Conn., in 1785, says
the New York Becorder, be dropped a
bright copper penny near the site of the
Ira Meads homestead. It was one of thej
few coined that year, and diligent search
was made for it?all to no purpose. The
property changed hands a few weeks ago
and the new owner began improvements.
In throwing out the dirt near the old
foundation the old penny was unearthed.
? The trunk of a rose bush or tree
which has been in full bloom at Ven?
tura, Oal., ail summer is 3 feet in circum
ferecce at tbe ground. The first branch,
which juts out at a height of about 4 feet
from the ground, is 8 inches in diameter,
or about 2 feet in circumference. It was
planted in 1876 from a slip obtained,.at
the Centennial Exhibition, and, although
several wagon loads of limbs are annual?
ly pruned off, it now covers an area of|
nearly 2,000 square feet. It is predicted
that by the time it is 25 years old'it will
have outstripped the gigantic rose tree!
at Cologne, which is known to be morel
than 300 years old, and Is lees than 4]
feet in circumference.
? This la a trick which will provide
amusement and valuable instruction to
the young. Place upright on the month
of a bottle a stiff ring of paper about 4
inches in diameter. On top of this ring,
exactly over the opening of the bottlej
lay a dime. Pot the end of small rod]
into tbe ring and give it a sharp blow!
sideways. Tbe ring when it Is struckf
will fall down, bat the coin, instead of
being carried with it, will fall directly
into the mouth of the bottle. In conse-f
quence of the sudden noes of the shcrckf
the coin, by virtue of the principles ofl
inertia, has not time to feel the hgtc-T
ment given to the paper. There are]
many similar experiments showing thej
inertia of matter. One is to place onf
the forefinger of the left hand a visiting
card, in the oenter of which is a 50 eent
piece. Give a hard rap on one of the
corners of the card and it will fly away,
leaving the coin on the end of your fin
ger. I
? A correspondent writing from AI?
bany, Ga., says: The greatest nimrocl
of the age, Bink Savage, told Bill HilsmsS
that there were several flocks of turkejl
doing great damage to his pea cfcpoa
the swamp. He, therefore, baited sever-^
al places with corn, and on finding thai
the game was sating hia bait, decided tc
go next morning and kill a lot of them
That night he examined "Old F?tsjr
carefully and found her ia fine fix, bpj
on looking up his ammunition founc
that he had not a grain of powderur arJ
ounce of shot. An old darkey standing
near by saw his dilemma. He hadjuyj
returned from town with a gallon of purl
corn whiskey, and says he, "Mars' Bink
let's soak the next lot of corn in the
whiskey, an' if dey eat dat dey is sha
drunk." Bink caught on. The resul
was be found a flock of sixteen fine wil<
turkeys on a high old drunk, and with]
his walking stick soon killed the who!
flock. Steve Price has wired for fivl
barrels of corn. Look out for a glutJl
the turkey market.
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