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m tJLINKSCALES & LANGSTON. _ANDEBSON. S.C., WEDNESDAY MORNING^ JAN?ABY 3, 1894._VOLUME XXVni.-NO. ^
Ton Miss Half lour Life when yon Fail to See
WILL R. HUBBMtD'S
JEWELRY PALACE.
2d[o?EL Gooda than you <tsn ahake a stick at, and at prices that will astonish the
. satires. Tea will certainly loee money if you don't see me BEFORE BUYING.
Mj stock, ofGold and B?ftv Watches cannot be surpassed in the State.
Plain Gold and Set Slags. '
8tarline Silver and Plated Kairo, Forks and Spoons.
Japanese Goods, China. Novelties.
China Tea Sets, (Chamber Sets, &c, 1 n great variety.
JEWJSLRY WITHOUT JENI>.
J** Promptoessin everythkig. Watch Work s Speoislty.
^?J~ Engraving free on all Goods bought of me. >
WILL. R. HUBBARD,
Next to Farmers and Merchants Bank.
SEED BARLEY AND RYE,
HAMS,
I, ARD,
And a Fancy lape qf Canned Goods,
For stile at low Price* by
? " - v-v #
, :D, S. MAXWELL & SON,
NO. 5 CHIQUOLA PLACE.
160-acre r&rat to rent.
From now until Xmas offer
SPECIAL BARGAINS
H? lYBry line of Goods.. .
\i will do you good to see what a^power the Circulating Medium will have
with us for the balance of the present year,. Come and see our Bargains in
Sipes, Jeans, Prkts, Giflgiiams, Flannels, &c.
We can please any oae in Andewor 1 Ooauty on?
FL??K, {JOFFEE AND TOBACCO.
They are oar Specialties, a^ d we propose to lead on these articles.
, We fear no h nest comjoetition?in fact we rather like it,
Don't be too quick to believe any one when they say they can beat oar
prices. They may be handling the truth in a careless manner. So come and
see for yourself. .
Hoping to. see every one of you in our Store before Christinas, we are?
Yours, anxious to please, -
BROWNLEE & VATOIVERS.
P. 8.--Casli Cotton Bayers.
GROCERIES.
GROCERIES! GROCERIES!
LAR8SS?STOCK EVER SliEII IN ANDERSON !
Ml* AND SEE FOR YOURSELVES!
0
^sffS'stocVof * fa Prlni eX<,C**m0Unts ?' Good*f **009 day we may have
Floor, Meat, Sugar, Coffee, Hams, Lard, &c*
And the next it wfll be very much reduced. Our sales some days would astonish any
?ao. ?OW. there Is oartainl j a. reasoia for this, which we will try to ezplaia. First.
we cajiy? laii?Stoak6f Flour of iiU ^rao?, Bacon, Lard, Hams,-Su*ar and OofleeL
SlSSS?i-*^0?1^?? ;Jand 8000na? we Kood weights and the
lowest prices od first class Soods.
^5^iw ^uaive^ tale of Chase * Sanborn's Boasted, Co fle a, which
S^TrrS??*^ F?on do5%talieveit' Mk ^?M'.wfco visited the
World's Fair if he drank a bad cup <af C6?fee on the ground while there. They had
0x9 ^S?S?SJP3^ world-renowned ?JSeal Brand" at the Falri
FRESHERAISXNB, CUilRAHTS and CITRON arriving every day, and ?e are
ready for Xmaa. Call and see us, YourstruV, * ?
LIGON & LED BETTER,
Wholesale and Retail Grocers.
Pocket Knives,
Table Knives!
One Thousand "Varieties!
The Rangoon Razor
Every Razor Warranted.
Price, S1.50.
SULLIVAN HARDWARE CO.
H. B. FANT. H> SIMPSON.
PREPARE FOR CHRISTMAS!
> -BY GOING TO
FANT & SIMPSON'S,
WHERE YOU WILL FIND THE
Choicest Fruits, viz: Clrannes,-Apples, Bananas, Cocoanuts, Raisins,
i Grapes, Nuts, &c. ,:!
A T?f9l.* ^otiful awortmeut of Vases, Gift Cups and Sauce?, Fire Crackers, Can
JHLt A^.l2"?r/rt!c,es too numerous to mention. Come, everybody, arid set the
nicest Goods at the lowest prtees. Yours, readv to preise, 7 W ?
-' ? FANT & SIMPSON.
If. S?~If yon want the best FLO?? in Tosrh for the money you can get it here,
fcfcFREEOIIJY DELIVERY. F. is, '
IB ILL ARP'S LETTER.
He Talks of How Cbrf?tma? Nhonld Bo
Spent.
Atlanta Constitution,
Only a week until Christmas?the
day of hallowed memories?the day of
peace on earth and good will to men,
and especially to women and children.
The day of firecrackers and fuss for
boys, and dolls and dainty things for
the girls. The day when everybody
ought to smother their troubles aud
try to make all around them happy.
Selfishness is a sin at all times, espe?
cially on Christmas, and so let us all
open our hearts, and if we have noth?
ing else to give to others, let us give
our smiles and benedictions. We are
all poor now?poor in purse, but love
and good will -cost nothing and there
are many ways of showing it besides
making presents that we oannot afford
to buy. I see my folks working over
their scraps of silk and lace and
stuffing home-made dolls?making
cravats and hemstitching handker
chiefs, and doing some, other things
on the sly just for little tokens and
surprises, but we will have no Christ?
mas tree this time. When I was in
my teens we had a debating society,
and one of the favorite questions was,
"is there such a thing as disinterested
benevolence ?" I was for the affirma?
tive then and I am for it yet. With
many people I know that it is more
blessed to give than to receive, and it
is a comfort to me to believe that I
am one of them. Sometimes I wish
that I was rieh just to have the pleas?
ure and the fun of helping the unfor?
tunate. I would like to go about in
disguise as King Rupert did and look
in upon the huts and haunts of poverty
by- night, and see their wants and
miseries, and send round my charity
wagons next morning and make them
happy for a few days, if no more. I
would like to follow the wagons along
and linger at the doors and see the
eager-wondering faces of the children
as the good, things were handed out.
I would have something good to cat
and good shoes and stockings and
blankets and quilts and soap and
towels and a few simple medicines and
some second-hand books with pictures
in them. I would raise the family up
for a week or so any how and.leave my
card, "From a friend who wishes you
well and begs you to look up and not
down. Be a true man.and a true wo?
man and raise your . children to be
good and happy. Don't despair."
Yes, I have at times had just such
Utopian 'dreams as that, but I will
never be rich, and it is all right I
know?best for me and best for the
children. Old Agur's prayer was put
in the good book for a good purpose.
Solomon was trusted with riches but
he came to grief. We have scores of
millionaires in our day, but the Peter
Coopers and Peabodys are few and far
between. Most of them hold on with
a selfish grip until they die, and even
then they let go unwillingly and would
take their treasures with them if they
could. I knew a rioh man who would
never make a straight out deed to a
piece of land when he sold it, but
would only convey it by a lease to
last "as long as trees grew and rivers
ran." He actually olaimed a rever?
sionary interest in every acre that he
sold, and seemed to imagine that he
would get it all back some day. If
the time ever comes when there shall
be a new heaven and a new earth, I'm
afraid he oan't locate his boundaries.
We have got the grip at our house.
The worst thing about this new fan?
gled disease is its depressing influence
upon our emotions. I don't feel like
doing anything, or saying anything
or writing anything. I feel blue and
have lost my hilarity, and so we have
concluded to go to Florida for a sea?
son. We will divido the family.
Four of us will go to Clearwater Har?
bor, on the gulf coast, and bathe in
the salt water and breathe the salt air,
and we will fish and eat oysters and
oranges until we get well. Board is
very cheap there and I will radiate
around to the beautiful little town and
mix with the yankees and sell my talk
for more than it is worth at home. I
have long wished that they knew us as
well as we did them and I want a fair
chance to tell them some things that
they do not know. I am now calm
and serene and won't quarrel with
anybody nor hurt their feelings, but
it is a relief to a man to express his
sentiments. I have recently written
a little book?a history of Georgia,
and I was just obliged to give a his?
tory of the late war and who was to
blame for it?nothing to extenuate or
set down aught in malice, but I had a
time of it with my publishers. Ginn
&^Co., are Boston men. They are
pinker Hill yankees and love their
fatherland with its glorious memories,
which is all right, of course. Patriot?
ism is to be admired everywhere.
They engaged me to write a school
history of Georgia and when they pe?
rused my manuscript and got to that
part, about the causes of the war,
they were surprised and shocked
and wrote to me to know where I
got all that. I had written that Eng?
land never freed her slaves until 1843
?only seventeen years before the late
war, and I had to prove it before they
would go on with the book. I had
written the Massachusetts carried on
the slave trade for years after their
own slaves were freed, and I had to
prove that. They had never heard
that General Grant was a slave owner
up to Lincoln's proclamation. They
denied many things and required
proof pfoiy^fjjourse, they felt respon?
sible for the book. ^They even felt a
kind of reverence for old John Brown,
for they are -.young men who have
grown up since the war and hacl* never
read but one side, and that wasUheir
side. But I had my way and my Bay,
and established what I asserted and I
found them to he reasonable and
courteous gentlemen in all of our cor?
respondence. I had the advantage in
age and memory. A good friend said
that I should have got a Georgia pub?
lisher. Of course I would have pre?
ferred that but no Georgia publisher
would have paid me as well for my
work. No Georgia publisher would
have given away 1,600 copies to edi?
tors and Bohool boards. No Georgia
house would have done such good
work for the retail price of 60 cents.
Boston can beat us in book-making
and book-pushing, and our publishing
houses had better take lessons from
them. I have tried both. This
reminds me of old Squire McGinnis,
of our county, who, way before the
war, ruled "Greenleaf on Evidence"
out of his court because it was pub?
lished in Boston. But the war is over
and the old squire is dead. Let us
eat their codfish and ship them our
oranges in peaee, and when they visit
us, let us give them welcome and put
in our missionary work with alacrity
and good will. Bill Arp.
A Harrow Escape.
Fredericksburo, Texas, Dec. 29.
?-The bite of a tarantula is almost as
dangerous or as fatal as that of a rat?
tlesnake, and without prompt atten?
tion the sufferer dies in an hour or
two.
It was from one. of these creatures
that Johlh Thrummer, of this place,
received a fright lately that nearly
turned his hair while in a few min?
utes.
Patting on his outer shirt a few
mornings ago he felt something fall
from one of the sleeves onto his
breast, and through the opening of his
undershirt onto his naked flesh.
Looking down he saw an enormous
spider coiled up and seemingly half
dead with cold. But getting warmed
up with the heat of his body, it pres?
ently began to straighten out its long
limbs, covered with coarse, red bris?
tles, and, before Thrummer could
knook it out, was plainly its old ag?
gressive self. Mr. Thrummer did not
dare seize it with his fingers, lest it
fasten on them, nor did he dare to
make any movement to dislodge it for
fear that it would instantly fix its
jaws in his flesh. He called his.wife
softly, but she was still asleep. He
dared not lean over to touch her, so
he continued to call her until at last
she opened her eyes. Then he told
her to get up and take the. tongs and
remove the creature as quickly as pos?
sible so as not; to give it warning of
what she was about lest it might bite
him.
Mrs. Thrummer from her husband's
quiet tone, thought at first that he
was jesting, and pulled open the shirt
to look for herself, when she saw the
tarantula. The creature also saw her,
and still clinging to the man's breast,
bristled all over with menace.
Therefore, getting up without more
noise than oould be helped, she ran
for the tongs and approached the spot
where the insect lay.
But, as if it divined that she was
about to seize it, it suddenly ran up
Mr. Thrummer's left shoulder and
over on his back. Only able to guess
at its exact whereabouts, Mrs.
Thrummer was at first afraid to seize
it, for fear that she would not locate
it right and that it would bury its ter?
rible fangs in her husband. But at
last, seeing it move slightly, she made
a sudden plunge at it, and, catching it
well between the prongs of the tongs,
held it firmly, squeezing it as tightly
as she c.JT^d, endeavoring to kill it, or
at least render it so that it would not
be able to bite. Another of the fam?
ily now coming in,the shirt was out
away. Thrummer was so nervous
that he sobbed like a child. Mrs.
Thrummer let go her hold, and the
giant spider fell to the floor.
But, though badly crushed, it was
not dead, and showed fight at once.
It ran at Mrs. Thrummer fiercely, at?
tempting to get at her bare foot, and
had to be beaten off with a broom.
It was finally captured and confined
in a box with a glass top, but in a few
days stung itself to death. It would
fling itself upon the walls of its prison
and endeavor to seize the wood with
its mandibles in a sort of fury. Mr.
Thrummer is of the belief that were
these creatures substituted for snakes
that the whole world would be prohi?
bitionists. The one that paid him so
unwelcome a visit was one of the
largest ever seen in these parts, near?
ly covering, with its legs extended, a
Jarge saucer. It had probably sought
the house for warmth at the beginning
of cold weather.
How's This!
We offer One Hundred Dollars Re?
ward for any case of Catarrh that can?
not be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure.
P. J. CHENEY & Co.,
Proprietors, Toledo, 0.
We the undersigned, have known F.
J. Cheney for the last 15 years, and
believe him perfectly honorable in all
business transactions and financially
able to carry out any obligation made
by their firm.
West & Truah, Wholesale Druggists,
Toledo, 0. Waldino, Kinnan a
Marvin, Wholesale Druggists, Tole?
do, 0.
Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken inter?
nally, acting directly upon the blood
and mucous surfaces of the system.
Testimonials free.
JJSfSold by Druggists, 75c.
? "Your husband comes home very
late, doesn't he ?" asked a prying wo?
man of her neighbor. "Oh, no,
ma'am, he's always in very early,"
was the misleading answer, j
Tiro lf?j? to Improve the Firm Foal
try,
At the Middle Tennessee Farmers'
Convention, held in Pulaski, Tenn.,
the following paper was read by Mr.
Geer, and, at the request of Commis?
sioner Allisou, is published in the
Southern Cultivator:
In this essay I shall briefly discuss
poultry as meat, and poultiy for eggs,
and give my opinion as to how it
should be managed and sold so as to
I bring in the most money to the pro?
ducer.
In the first place, I am a strong be?
liever in the superior value of pure?
bred poultry, and advocate the breed?
ing of thoroughbred stock of every
kind, in preference to the common
sort.
In raising fowls for the market, the
half breed or grade chicken is mnoh
superior to the dunghill, and is just
as easily raised. No great outlay is
required at the start to raise half
breeds, as it is only necessary to dis?
pose of the common cocks and replace
them with thoroughbreds. This is
the course the market poultryman
shonld pursue. The best purebred
cocks for this purpose are those of the
larger or Asiatic breeds, suoh as Lang
shans, Brahmas or Cochins, or the
American breeds, Plymouth Rocks and
Wyandottes. If a smooth legged
chicken is preferred, then the Ply?
mouth Rock or Wyandotte cocks
should be used. My choice would be
the Plymouth Rock. The latter, in
its purity, is a very popular variety,
and one that stands in the front rank
as a market fowl. The time has not
yet arrived, however, when purebred
Plymouth Rocks can be bought in the
regular market. But cocks of any of
the above named varieties may be ob?
tained, however, at reasonable figures
at this season of the year from breed?
ers of purebred poultry, of which there
are a goodly number within the State.
The advantage in crossing males of
the larger purebred varieties on the
common hens of the farm consists in
the fact that chickens from such a
mating grow faster anot grow larger,
are capable of taking on a much heav?
ier weight when fattened, and they are
also more healthy and vigorous than
the ordinary inbred mongrel chickens.
The present system of buying and
selling poultry, however, operates
against the interests of the purebred
poultry industry, the raising of grade
stock and the fattening of the fowls
before they are marketed. The cus?
tom of buying and selling chickens by
the head or a dozen, instead of by the
pound, either dressed or alive, is
wrong, altogether wrong. It is un jnst
to the producer, it is of no advantage
to the middleman and it often disgusts
the consumer with chicken meat.
Gentlemen, is there one among you
in this convention who would take
poor, unfattened, scrawny hogs to
market, or wlio would drive cattle or
sheep to market too lean and bony to
walk steadily? No, of course not.
But you know, and I know, and city
and town housekeepers everywhere
know that in the spring of the year
some old hens and roosters are brought
to town for sale, so poor and tough
that no one can eat them.
Now thiB is all wrong, very wrong.
It comes of a system of buying and
selling that is based on the idea that
"a chicken is a chicken," no matter
what kind of a chicken it is, or what
it weighs. ?
In France, the greatest and most
successful poultry raising country in
the world, all market fowls, dead or.
alive, are bought and sold by weight.
Over there they fatten their poultry
before taking it to market, just as
carefully and as thoroughly as they
fatten any other kind of market stock.
The result is better prices, more
money and greater satisfaction to the
consumer.
In selling poultry by weight, the
producer has some incentive to im?
provement. He has cause to fatten
his fowls and to make them as heavy
as he can, because every pound of ad?
ditional weight means so many cents
additional cash for his produce.
If this system were adopted in this
country, if it was the custom here in
Tennessee now, it would revolutionize
the market poultry business of the
State. It would give the purebred
poultry industry a lasting boom. It
would place the thoroughbred fowls
where they shonld be?on every farm
in the State. As it is, the farmer is
handicapped and the purebred poultry
breeder is handicapped by a system of
marketing poultry that works injustice
to both, and to the consumer as well.
When we consider, gentlemen, that
an ordinary mongrel fowl weighs from
four to seven pounds only, and then
remember that a purebred Brahma, a
Coohin or a Langshan fowl weighs
from nine to twelve pounds, and Ply?
mouth Rocks and Wyandottes from
seven to ten pounds, then we can
readily see the great advantage that
would accrue to both the farmer and
the fancier, if justice should be done
to all, and fowls sold by the pound in?
stead of by the head or the dozen.
The system of selling by weight,
onco adopted, would open a new mar?
ket for the surplus grain and vegeta?
bles of the farm. Corn and wheat
and potatoes and other surplus pro?
ducts, besides the general forage of
the farm, such as fowls live and fat?
ten on, could be turned into poultry
meat and sold by the pound, just the
same as it is now turned into pork
and beef. The poultry would be fat?
tened before being taken to market,
for every pound then will have its
value in cash and the fowls would
at the same time be much tenderer
and sweeter in flesh, and therefore
much more satisfactory to the con?
sumer.
\ Gentlemen, this is a vital question
with the poultry raiser, and I hope
this convention will consider the mat?
ter and pronounce itself in favor of
buying and Helling poultry by the
pound instead of by the head.
This I consider is one way to im?
prove the condition of the farm poul?
try ; the other way is to improve the
laying qualities of the hens. This can
be done also by the introduction of
purebred male birds among the com?
mon hens. The old dunghill rooster
must go. He is a back date! He
stands in the way of. progress, and
must be set aside.
I would first abolish the dunghill
cock and then I would go to the
breeders of such thoroughbred varie?
ties as the Leghorn, tieMinorcas, the
Spanish or the Hamburgs. My choice
would be the Brown Leghorns. The
other varieties juut named are all
good layers, and th|:re are some breeds
that I have not nataed that are good
layers, but with mi the Brown Leg?
horn stands first. [The weight of tes?
timony from the gjneral poultry fra?
ternity is in favor df the Leghorn as
the best layer of all! So then, I would
get Brown Leghori cocks and mate
them with the common henu of the
farm. This I wou i do for economy's
sake the first year, instead cf buying
Leghorn hens too.
The pullets' fro n such a mating
would lay much 3 junger than their
dunghill mothers, and lay at least
one-third more egg a year. A com?
mon hen lays on 1 le average ninety
eggs in 365 days, whereas a purebred
Leghorn hen lay! from 150 to 175
eggs in the same] length of time.
Nearly twice as mu h as the dunghill.
These are well attt sted faotd.
It is true that it the market "an
egg is an egg," anc one egg is as good
as another, provide I it is not a bad
egg. But it caono ibe denied, gentle?
men, that two eggs fare better than one
and is worth just tiiceasmuch. This
is the point for us to keep in view :ln
grading up farm pjmltry. We want
more eggs, and thearay to get them is
to introduce the blood of the best
laying stock an:ong..our common hens.
I would take thefcrade or half-breed
pullets of the first grossing - and mate
them the second yew with other pure?
bred Brown Leghorn cocks, and I
would continue thit system of mating
until the farm hen&should be elevated
to the standard of pure Leghorns in
blood and laying characteristics.
l This course would, in a few years,
oause two eggs to k found where only
one is found to-day] and result in a
general increase in the value of the
farm poultry of theState quite beyond
calculation. ?;? .
Where large market chickens and
grade Leghorn pullets^are both desired
on ths same farm, they may be easily
raised by simply mating part of the
common hens with a cock of trie lar?
ger breeds, and part with a Leghorn
cock, keeping the two flocks separated
either by distance for fencing during
the laying and hatching season.?S.
B. Geer, in SoutKqn Cultivator.
The Meupj We Waste,
One of our Washington specials
yesterday quoted.' jome internal reve?
nue statistics showing that in spite of
the hard times we have wasted enough
money in the past|year to make every?
body in the country comfortable.
The American! who were howling
about the financial depression spent in
the past twelve months .$600,000,000
for whisky 1
The same crowd spent in that period
$617,268,460 for beer 1
For cigars and*tobacco they spent
$275,750,0001 j
These grumblers and growlers who
talked economy to their wives and
children and prayed for the return of
good times-managed .to sorape up
about $l,6Q^00i60 for their oommon
drinks and c \ flf%?rs, and what their
wines and*
agine! ^
9 cost we may im
This en
volume of cite 0
capita more r 3
capita circulate
each head of
United States! c
This money w
priations of a b
and leave enoT
pay the expejlj
Congress. It [
over for our a
would pay the \
war. It woulcfl
plain fashion
union !
We do not p
figures with th
bring about a
but we believe
influence thoq
readers and ere
extravagance a
a temperance \
a statement of
the eyes of mi
tion of most 0
ing now pre
liquor and ft
frightful enoq
perity, but wh
these hard ti
tion.
a-^han
correspon
our entire
jjr H It is $27 per
?f jjjjp present per
? is $195 for
ry family in the
d pay all the appro
on dollar Congress
h to more than half
of another such
luld pay six times
al cotton crop. It
it of a long foreign
!cd and clothe in a
|ery family in the
ent these startling
hope that they will
onomic revolution,
t they cannot fail to
ds of thoughtful
a prejudice against
?ste. This is not
orial. It is simply
ts which must open
0 the true explana
poverty and suffer
ng. The American
co bill would be
in a period of pros
hall we say of it in
?Atlanta Constitv
? Counter!
circulated in
fraudulent bilj
photo, pernk"
counterfeit't
dangerous i~*
at first sigh'?lf'
point is of $ !)|
letter B, fory
and is signed,
N. Huston. H
is in the piety
a very poor^n
deuce that
circulated.
j $100 bills arc "nein ?5
York. T'"e latest
1 eduction of the
process. Such
fronounced to be
general appearance
[cellent. The bill in
jeries of 1890, check
ry number A 91,418,
IS. Eosccrans and J.
only striking defect
|)f Farragut, which is
liteition. There is evi
ulls are being liberally
Drtth to Worthless Dogs.
To the Editor of the News and Cou?
rier : It is gratifying to see that there
is at least one man in the Legislature
! who has enough courage to face the
cur dogs and the demagogues that are
in position to benefit the State, but
who prefer their own elevation to the
good of their constituents. The bill
has met the usual fate of such bills.
In the absence of arguments that can?
not be found to use against such a law
they .resort to ridicule, and such non?
sense as comparing the valuation of
sheep and dogs, to show that it was to
the interest of the people to have dogs
instead of sheep. This is certainly
nonsense, and ought to cause the de?
feat of any man who uses it, as an
evidence of his incompetency to rep?
resent a people who are trying to
make a living on a farm. Whenever
a member brings up the poor man's
dog you may look around and you will
see a demagogue who has not the in?
terest of poor people at heart, or is
too ignorant to know what is best to
do.
A wholesome dog law would be one
of the greatest boons that the poor
can have; to him more than the rich
would the benefit go. As it is, with
the dog above the law, at liberty to
range the country and kill sheep at
will, the poor man ean't have his lit
flock of sheep, that would clothe his
family and give them the luxury of a
lamb for the table, all at but little
cost, for fear of his neighbor's worth?
less dog. A tax of a dollar a head
would bring all such to the gallows,
and the sheep would grase day and
night without being molested. Aj
flock of sheep is often ruined by dogs
hunting in the pastures where the
sheep are ; because of their great fear
of the dog they become stampeded and
run for life as if the dogs were after
them, and this habit often causes the
young dogs to chase them and kill
them. The sneep regards the dog as
his natural enemy, and the dog seems
to regard the sheep as lawful game for
him to kill at will.
If any man prefers dogs to sheep
let him have them by all means, as
this is, or ought to be, a free country
but he should pay a per capita tax to
assist to pay for damages done by dogs
I know this is unconstitutional but it
oan be gotten over easily by calling it
a license to own a dog.
I have never advocated the total ex
termination of dogs, only to cut off
the worthless ones, on which the own
ers refuse to pay the tax. This would
take at least 90 per cent of them, and
those who own valuable dogs would
cheerfully pay the tax, and ought to
be protected in the ownership of their
dogs, as is done with other animals,
and, like other animals, the owner
should be held responsible for dam
ages done by his dog.
I hope to live to see sheep properly
protected against dogs. Then I would
expect to see a prosperous country.
We cannot make crops without ma
nure, and we cannot have manure
without animals to eat the products of
the farm, and there is no other ani?
mal equal in this respect to the sheep.
A well managed flock of sheep will
give its owner three crops; two, or per?
haps one of these will pay all expenses
on the flock. Is there any other ani?
mal, except perhaps the Angora goat,
that will do this ? Give u3 the proper
protection and we will raise the sheep.
J. Washington Watts.
Laurens, S. C, Dec. 16, 1893.
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. The Coop De Grace.
The true animus of the liquor law
enacted by the last Legislature is
clearly indicated by recommendations
contained in the recent message to the
Assembly. It is now as clear as the
noonday sun that the State authorities
desire to force liquor upon the people
regard leu s of their wishes. The osten?
sible aim of the dispensary is to regu?
late an evil; its real aim is revenue.
No one in his senses, it seems to us,
can for a moment doubt this. The
revenue feature has not been a con?
spicuous success, as shown by the
fact that the Governor has been forced
to include in his estimates, in order
to swell his figures to respectability
the theoretical profits on the jug of
whiskey to be sold next Christmai
Perhaps the whiskey will be sc/d,
But to say that such a procedure is
unfair and deceptive is statj^^^he
case mildly. ThiaJs not
though bad enough- A pretext is
found in the ncce-isity for revenue, to
strike a fatal b;,ow at the prohibition
counties i? the State. It is claimed
that the ^fcensary is paying a "hand?
some rejp1??" and yet the Pe?Ple of
the prjjVition counties must submit
to a sJr' fcax t0 enforce prohibition
in thoHf counties. Prohibition is to
be cw^ or blasted by this "heroic
measlJre," because prohibition is the
enCmiy of revenue, not of morals.
The {friends of temperance who have
been,* fondly cheating themselves into
the) belief that the dispensary was a
stej? toward prohibition may now open
th?ir eyes upon the lurid prospect and
iri the day of 'j^Jjjfnity "Moab may
},Jowl for Moab." The utter and
Remediless rooting out of prohibition
and the emphatic damnation of moral
principle is simply a question as to
whether the Assembly will be found
3ufficiantly servile and instrumental to
adopt the suggestions made in the
message. With local option dies the
last hope of prohibition.?Baptist
Courier.
? "Please, ma'am," said the boy,
"can't you help *ne ? I has to support
a wife an'three children." "You?
Why, you're not old enough to be
married." "No, but my father is.
It's his wife and three children J has
to support,"
State War Belle Museum.
A determined effort is to be made
looking to the establishment of a State
museum of Revolutionary and Confed?
erate war relics, such as flags, etc., in
which the State is so wealthy. The
object is to establish this museum and
set apart quarters for it in the State
Capitol building, where all strangers
and lovers of relics can go at any time
and inspect the exhibits.
Some weeks ago Adjt. Gen. Farley
received the following letter from
Gen. M. C. Butler, which letter has
caused the inauguration of this effort
which will likely result in the estab?
lishment of such a museum:
Edoepield, Nov. 30,1893.
Gen. H. L. Farley?Dear Sir: Let
me make a suggestion. I find there
are a great many relics of the Revolu?
tionary as well as the Confederate war
in the hands of private parties that
ought to be in a State museum. As
time goes on these parties take less
and less interest in them and my sug?
gestion is that you arrange to have
them deposited in the Adjutant Gen?
eral's office for osafe-keeping. Some"
plain glass cases along the walls would
not occupy muoh space and would not
cost muoh. Don't you think you
could get the Legislature, to allow you
a small appropriation to start it and
then invite- people to deposit their
relics ? Yours very truly,
M. C. Butler.
Gen. Farley has been thinking over
the suggestion of Gen. Butler for
some time. Yesterday Gen. Eershaw
came to the city and after a brief con?
sultation he and Gen. Farley called
upon Governor Tillman. A consulta?
tion was held by these three for quite
a time. It was decided to undertake
the establishment of such a museum:
at once. Governor Tillman and Gen.
Farley will not ask for an appropria?
tion at this session of the General As?
sembly, but will appropriate so much
of their contingent funds as may be
necessary to carry out the scheme,
request all parties who have relics of
either war to send them to Adjt. Gen.
Farley, together with a brief histori?
cal sketch of the articles. They will
be properly taken care of and marked
with the name of the owner. Any ar?
ticles that may haver* belonged to dis?
tinguished men, any battle flags, or
any articles with associations of an
historical nature, eto., are wanted.
The object is to get as many of these
relics as possible into the hands of the
Adjutant General by next fall, when
a grand meeting of the people of the
State will be arranged to be held in
the hall of the House of Representa?
tives, at whioh the' notable relics will
be presented and displayed by men
who know their history. This accom?
plished, the Legislature will be asked
to establish an attractive museum in
the Capitol building.
No doubt the plan will meet with
general favor and Gen. Farley's office
will soon be the depository of many
valuable relics.?Columbia State,
Travel to and From Texas;
It is surprising to observe the num?
bers of emigrants passing through At?
lanta every day on their way to Texas |
and the far west.
There was a time when the traffic
was not so much a matter of surprise.
Away baok yonder in the days when
everybody was going west or thinking
of going every train that left the city
about this time of year carried hun?
dreds of emigrants to the land beyond
the Mississippi.
But for the past few years this rush
ceased and there have been but few
to go west and grow up with the coun?
try.
The cry of hard times that has gone
up all over the country for the past
twelve months has given birth to an?
other movement among the people of
the South, for the most part the agri?
cultural class. . '/\
They are going West agajjL/not in
such droves as they wjytfonce, but to
a greater exten^iban has been noticed
by the namsenger agents here in At?
lanta Uh several years past.
Bu/t while this is true, there has
libjfwise alsp been a great rush of old
j^reorgians back to this State. The
cry of hod times last summer pre?
vailed in eslEry^quarter of the republic.
Of course, r theuj. it has the effect to
cause emigration? to start with a new
jpn in Texas,back..to^Georgia,
*ust as lfTlTotiB in Georgia ottKto
Texas.
Hard times always develops a heavy
emigrant traffic in the following fall.^.
It is interesting to hear the stories
of those who are coming back from
Texas. Some of them have been out
there for years, while others have just
been there one or two seasons, but
they all say they prefer to live and
die in old Georgia. It is still more
interesting to see the effect of their
talcs of woe on the emigrants around
the waiting rooms on their way out to
Texas. Some of them have been ob?
served to change their minds after
their tickets were bought and paid for
just on account of the uncanny stories
of their friends whom they met here
in the Atlanta depot and ventured to
ask about the advantages of the coun?
try out beyond the rolling waters of
the Mississippi.?Atlanta Constitu?
tion.
Bucklen8 Arnica Salve.
The best salve in the world for Cuts
Bruises, Sores, Ulcers, Salt Rheum,
Fever Sores, Tetter, Chapped Hands,
Chilblains, Corns, and all Skin Erup
tions and positively cures Piles, or no
pay required. It is guaranteed to give
perfect satisfaction, or money refund?
ed. Prise 25 cents per box. For sale
by Hill Bros.
? No one is useless in this world
who lightens the burden of it for
?notier.
All Sorts of Pw^^pto.^^B
? The wall-flower is ofteh^e. oa^|l
girl in the hall that can. make eakeV||
? Twenty-five per cent, of the-j^-a
ulation of England have theirj^^H
? The average r?heat orop;ofit^^P
country yields' - :*Dout:- ;.6%,'0(%wlfe
? In marriage announcetr^^R
Spain the ages cf. bo^^iiB
many piecen that ^'^^^i^^jj^^^
blade losing its tern per alit^^? I
that the former isbecorniingdui^
?the latter more cutting?-|^: ,' ;^^H|
? Most men bre^3^^E^w^|B|
afflicted with rhettmatijx^
would try ?Saiyatibn:;^flg^|SP^
find relief at once. . -^^'.-M
??Brown?V^t$^of^K^9
fills the bill." :^6nt^^0t0m.t^
than does it. The .last 01 s.fcha^i
in ran clear over to thVn| SflB^^p
? Over 90 per cenfe??||^SHi5wS
of this country is said W^i^m^?gm
check, says.an exohance.||MM
other 10 percent is Aon ^t^a^P/.^?
? "I do not- think Mr; i^os^^jiS
his wife any pin mooey|i^H
you think he doesn't ^'r^^^jffS
a pin the ottar d!a^
pushed into the mai^^by |ip^.aj^^^
tisements, ;Dr.';B??^ ;'C^0^),^^^M
still takes thelead; ^^gg^J^^^S
Kock, sir," said the^^^^^^^^0
lady. "Ahl thank yoii:.^*^!^
knew it was rock: o^somjj^^^i^^^J^
of draw at my best girTjgM
Harvey?"With'her fati^He;'^^
me to the front door: a^il?y-t^^i
rake-off from there to tli^xr^D^m^k
Two young mea^wer^l^^p^
similarly in .Brooklyn/a:'few^^s^s^^
about the same hour^in /the'^*jM^^
street and within a \)i6^M:'>.eiSij^#
other.- Both were pickifeto^pc^
scious and removed to^e'^s^b.hw-'o;
? A hen's egg rece'ntlyjipl^^j^jl
St. Johnsbury (Vt.) bakerywa^SUB
to contain a well develop*.???'if?^'^
nearly two inches, l?hy^^li^^
separated from the bodyofW^BfiSvm
a fi I m o f album en. Thefn^^HHB
to the egg. shell, is :??f?^^^^^f|
believed to have been the^^^^^^l
small fire which o:riginat^m^|^
nice cf the girls' - high--"t
Louisville, Ey., one day lately I ^
of the professorsjthinks. that .tSell I
flagration was caused :'bjf;a^^tofiSS
the birds' nest tiliat became
ignited in somejtfystmeus-in&j-?k-'m
? A Mr. SIocuiD,- of illegah;:cfljjM
ty, Michigan, had a piece ofMf
States money in hie po??e?iu'orrj^jl
he declares he wonld ' npt^ex'?iyjj I
evenly for 100 times its face l^ya^M
gold.' The piece in question/f HH
very first legal tender "grefehB I
note struck off by the United/]?
government. It bears date of An^Mf
2, 1862^d is marked^'Series^||H
? The eastern fad of having diarl
monds set in teeth filling has reached: 1
this city. A Cleveland woman .now J
has a "sparkler" in one of -het'fecnt ?
teeth. A Euclid avenue dentist fille^?
her teeth the other day, and set thefl
diamond in where it-T^show^^nffl
best advantage, an<t oJot^riflianjjH
when she smiles;' The sweetertbjfl
smile, probably.. t}ie''brighter.vi th^H
"sparkler" wili' "appear.?Cfetefan^lj
t ~? Those who believe that thirfeorjjJ|
is an unlucky number should:figp^'shy^'
of the American 25^?irtj^lece.. It
has thirteen eta.*,/hirteen letters in
the scroll held in the eagle's beak,
thirteen marginal feathers on each. .*
wing, thirteen tail feathers, thirteen %
parallel lines in the shield, thirteen
horizontal bars, thirteen arrow-heads
and thirteen letters in the "quarter
dollar." But most of us are mighty
glad to get them, thirteen or no thir?
teen. T*"1^?' "** *>,_??v
? The_A?*yssinians drop on their""
knees and kiss the earth when they
meet. In saluting a woman the Man
dinkas take her hand, put it to thci^
nose' and smell it twice. Tbjgjj
tians stretch out one hancl^xS^^^*
it on ?ekibttast.and bow thPnCuiu"^
Among the less civilized ^tribes of the
old world, say, the RalmtngtegOjl in
Polynesia, the custom- ^f^^^^j^
noses is pretty general. PerhapsSSa^S
I most extraordinary form of salutation
is to be found in Tibet, where the
natives put out their tongues, gnash
their teeth and scratch their ears.
? Hundreds of queer theories have
been advanced to account for the phe?
nomenon of hair turning gray in the
genus homo, the latest being this:
Each hair is a hollow tube filled with
granules of pigment and air bubbles.
As old age approaches the pigment
diminishes both in quantity and '
quality, the air bubbles enlarging and
expanding to take the place formerly
occupied by the coloring matter.. The
hair which is filled with these bubbles;,
turns white for the same reason-that
the crystals of white sugar appear of
that color, the phenomenon being due
to the reflection and refraction of
light. Why hair sometimes turns'"
"white in a single night" has never".:
been explained.^. True, a microscopic-^
examination of such hairs shows that
the granules of pigment have either ,
been abolished or forced out byth<?
air .bubbles,^hn^-ciactly how orwhy
S mystery. -. '>