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BT CLINKSCA.LES & LANGSTON. ANDERSON, S. C, WEDNESDAY MORNING, AUGUST 21, 1895. VOLUME XXX.?NO. 8. BOT! ALWAYS needs CLOTHES. He needs 'em often when you clothe him cheaply. Give him well sewn, strong Suits that will stand the strain. Now is the time for him to need a new pair of KNEE PANTS?the old ones are worn out We have received a new lot, (third shipment this season,) out of which we can please you. A good Pair for 35c. Something better for 50c, 75c. and $1.00. 98" Cell and see them. Have you seen our 25c. COATS ? B. O. EVANS & CO., Chattanooga Cane Mills, Chattanooga Galvanized Steel Evaporators, With the Patent Gups. Chattanooga Portable Furnaces Cook's Galvanized Steel and Copper Evaporators. Cook's Portable Furnaces. * 99- We invite your attention to the above, on vfhich we can save yon money. SULLIVAN HARDWARE CO. To the People who Know Us, To the People who don't Know Us, TO EVERYBODY, ONE AND ALL. - WE ARE - SELLING GOODS CHEAP FOR THE CASH. r>. P. SLO^JNT &d CO. OLD BACHELOKS Cannot fully appreciate the elegant assortment of Fancy and Fami? ly Groceries, Canned Goods, Confectioneries, Tobacco, Ci? gars, other Goods, that we are displaying on our shelves and counters, but we? WANT WIVES, And Housekeepers, especially, to come and see the nice things we can furnish them for their tables. We have the goods, guarantee them to be pure and fresh, and the prices VERY LOW. Give us a call. G. F. BIGBY. FURNITURE I FURNITURE!! LARGEST STOCK, LOWEST PRICES, BEST GOODS ! 40T COFFINS and CASKETS furnished Day or Night. WE have on hand the LARGEST and BEST-SE? LECTED Stock of FURNITURE in South Caroliua! bought this Summer when everything struck bottom, and while there was a big cut in freights. We have determined to.give the People the advantage of our BARGAINS ! Wo will Sell you Furniture at Prices below anything ever heard of in this Couutry before ! And prices it is impossible for any one else to buy the same quality of Goods for. When you need anything in the Furniture line give us a call, and? WE WILL SAVE YOU MONEY. Prices Lower than Cotton at 5c. Ymirs for business, G. F. TOLLY & SON, Tiie Leaders of Low Prices. J. P. SULLIVAN * CO., -Will Bell you the ? Best CoiTee, Th Cheapest Flour, Crockery, Decorated and Plain, Dinner and Tea Sets, AU for 1*S3 Money thia you have been paying. J. P.SULLIVAN & CO. BILL ARP'S LETTER. The Rich Say That Wealth Dees Not Bring Happiness. Atlanta Constitution. The blues are a masculine malady and afflict men more than women. Women have more grief and sorrow, but when there is no great trouble in the house they are naturally more cheerful than the men. I notice it very frequently about temporal things and can't see my way out and find myself in a fit of the blues, my wife and daughters keep their spirits up and other women come and go and talk and laugh and say bright things. That is all right. It would be awful for the whole family to have the blues at the same time. In fact, nobody ought to have them and nobody is obliged to have them. They creep stealthily upon a man sometimes, and if he does not fight them off he is very poor company. My wife says I look like I dident have a friend in the world. The best remedy is to quit thinking and go to work. Do some? thing?work in the garden, chop some wood, fix the window curtains, tie up the flowers, swing the grandchildren ?do something to divert your mind from yourself. It is better to read a story than to think and brood over trouble that may never come. The body is so mysteriously connected with the mind that the blues impair digestion and that causes loss of ap? petite and the first thing a man knows he is sick sure enough. It has been supposed that the heart was the seat of the affections and emotions, but that is a mistake. It is the stomach, and if that is out of order the whole body is sick. The Bible tells about bowels of mercy and bowels of com? parison. Anothor good way to drive off the blues is to write letters to kindred and friends and ventilate your troubles and abuse somebody. Give your feel? ings an explosion and you will find relief. I had such a letter from a friend the other day and he wound up by saying: "And now I think I feel better, plague take 'em." Sometimes a view from the other side produces a reaction. Consider the folks around you who are worse off and yet keep cheerful and thankful. "Yonder comes the old man with his wood," said my wife. Yes, he is about as old as I am and is wearing my old hat and coat that she gave him, and like the "son of Alkhomoc, he never com? plains." He lives six miles away. He cuts a load of wood one day and hauls it to town the next day with a yoke of steers, and when he can't sell it for 75 cents he knows he can haul it to my house and Mrs. Arp will take it. "We are getting along fairly well at my house?is your people all well?" He throws two or three chunks of lightwood on top so as to keep the cook in good humor. Oxen are an awful slow motor in these lightning times, but they are cheap and don't die and nobody will steal them and they suit an infirm old man better than mules. They never run away or kick or get out of temper. A man can drive oxen until he gets slow and amiable and serene. He becomes thankful for what little he has got and he goes to meeting on Sundays and chews his tobacco and enjoys his re? ligion. Poor folks ought to enjoy re? ligion, for they don't have much else to enjoy. Just think how many things the upper crust have to distract their minds from the comforts of religion. There are the shows and theatres and sewing societies and the parties and buggy rides and bicycles and shopping and fashion magazines and going to the springs and visiting and receiving visits, besides the do? mestic affairs of putting up jelly and jam and pickles and preserves. The old wood hauler has none of these things, but he does have a few texts of scripture that are worth them all and more, too. The meek shall inherit the earth and the poor iu spirit the kingdom of heaven, and if there is anything else to inherit I don't know it. Poets, philosophers and rich men have all testified to the vanity of riches, and yet every rascal of them wants more than they have got. And so do I. Some of us are fools enough to believe that we want money to do good with and help other people. There are a few rich men of that kind, but they are rare. There are still left here and there at lonely distances a Peter Cooper or Peabody or George W. Scott, who do not wait until they die to do good with their money. Carnegie and Rockefeller give off a slice occasionally, but they hold fast to the big end of the rope and keep on piling up. The New York World sent out inquiries not long ago to all of the millionaires to know whether or not great riches brought happiness. Car? negie said : "Wealth brings happi? ness only when the possessor feeds the hungry, clothes the naked, endows institutions of learning, founds hospi? tals and does other countless good works." Rockefeller said: "Wealth docs not bring happiness, for no man thinks himself wealthy. No man is so rich but what there are others richer than he is, and that fact makes him feel poor. Practically, there is no such thing as a rich man. Money is like strawberries and cream?nobody ever gets enough. 'Don't you think you have had enough, Ethel ?' said her auut. 'I may think so, auntie, but 1 don't feel so,' said Ethel. No, the fact is that great wealth brings unhap piness." Russell Sage said : "Riches are all vanity and vexation of spirit. Few people have any idea of the trouble and inconveniences that wealth brings. The rich never ask such a foolish question as 'Does wealth bring happi? ness ?' A rich man is constantly in the public eye. Privacy is impossi? ble for him. The public is curious even to know how he opens his letters and puts on his shoes and what he has for breakfast. An incognito is impos? sible. No, riches do not bring happi ncss nor contentment." Russell A. Algcr says : "Men are no happier when rich than when poor. A 'millionaire is no happier when driving a $50,000 horse than a clerk who gets only ?15 a week and is out driving a livery stable horse on Sun? day evenings with his best girl by his side." John W. Mackay said : "I am sur? prised that any one would for a mo? ment think that riches brought happi? ness. I was happier during my early struggles with poverty than I have ever been since. T enjoyed the toil, privation and hardship I endured to win wealth. When swinging pick and shovel as a miner I was as happy as I ever can be." Levi P. Morton said: "When T was a poor young man of twenty years clerking ia a country store I used to think that if I ever got to be worth $100,000 I should be the happiest man alive. Now I am worth that and more, but feel that I am no happier than in my poorer days." George W. Pullman said : "I am certainly no happier than when I had not a dollar that I could call my own save that for which I worked from morn till night. I can wear but one suit of clothes. I ate three square meals a day then and can eat no more now. Then I had no responsibilities and could go to sleep when my head touched the pillow. Now that I have vast interests and business cares rest? ing upon me, I cannot sleep like I did then. I was happier then than I am now." And many others answered on the same line. Now the question comes up why don't they lighten the load? If the surplus brings care and trouble, why don't they stop trying to make it bigger ? Why not divide out the responsibility ? I know lots of men who would help to carry the load. In fact, I would volunteer my own servi? ces. I don't understand why these men all write one way and do another ws.y. But maybe it is the force of habit?like the poor fellow who had staid in jail so long he wouldent come out when his time had expired. We all like to sec a man succeed in his business, but we like him still more if he becomes his own executor and docs not hold on to his riches until grim death ha3 to prize his hand open to make him let go. It seems to me there would be great reward in help? ing the uufortunatc. Some men say that poverty and misfortune come from bad conduct and bad manage? ment. Well, it does as a general rule, but there are so many exceptions that it can hardly be called a rule. Good luck has made many a man rich, but he thinks it was his smartness. And bad luck has made many a one poor. The Germans have a word for an un? lucky man that we have no equivalent for. They call him a schlemicl?that is a person who never prospers, with whom everything goes wrong, misfor? tune has marked him?bad luck fol? lows him. Yet, as though providence had pity on him, the schlemiel is al? ways good natured and light-hearted. A smile illuminates his face, just such a smile as our wood hauler wears. I reckon he is a schlemiel. But the good Lord shapes the back to the bur? den. The German schlemiel is con? scious of his misfortune and will say with a merry twinkle of the eye; "I ain't no goot. I got no sense. I ish a schlemiel." I know some such people?good people they are, too, but bad luck has followed them ever since I knew them ?bad luck in a money way, I mean, but I like to meet them ; they are so cheerful and amiable and they laugh so merrily at a joke, Bill Arp. Fathers and Daughters. No matter how stern he may be to others, a father has a peculiarly ten? der feeling for his daughter, and even though the spring is hidden the child knows where to find it. This being so, a father has great influence upon a daughter's character, but too often he fails to recognize the fact and to ac? cept the responsibilities which it brings. Surely this is a mistake. I believe there are elements of womanly character which a father can develop even better than a mother can. Take, for example, that most admi? rable quality in women, a business-like accuracy in money matters. The father who gives his daughter while still a little child her tiny allowance, paying it regularly at a stated time, and requiring her to render an account of how the pennies go, is laying the foundation of business honor and ac? curacy in the child. This course pur? sued throughout a girl's home life, in? creasing the allowance as the years go on, until she can be trusted to man? age her personal expenses entirely, produces excellent results. Business honor becomes second nature to her, while foolish extravacance is impossi? ble. A gracious and dignified manner in woman is something which we all ad? mire ; it gives to her her finest charm. The man who touches his hat to his little daughter, who steps back and al? lows her to enter the room first because she is a lady, does much to cultivate this manner; for a girl cannot be in the habit of receiving aud acknowl? edging such attentions without ac? quiring that grace which we desire for her, and the influence of it does not stop there. The little girl who is treated with such consideration inva? riably responds with a loving service which must endear her to her father's heart. What another child must be bidden to do, she does spontaneously. Her feet are ready to run, and her hands to work for him, so that courte? sy becomes what it should be, not merely a form, but the expression of love itself, but it is the habit of her life. Perhaps the truest gentleman I ever knew brought up his little daughter by the same standard of manly honor and courage that he did his son. Did he hear her retailing some bit of fool? ish gossip, "A gentleman never tells tales," would be the grave rebuke. Did she bump her head or pinch her chubby finger, her refuge was his arms, but his word was, "Courage, my soldier!" And sometimes when she had resisted a sharp temptation, or acted with spirit and decision in a crises, he would say, proudly, "That was done like a gentleman. Allow me to shake hands." Kisses were for every day. She was sure of his affec? tion even when she was foolish and naughty, but when ho said, "Allow me to shake hands," she felt that she had come up to his own high stand? ard, and had acted as he would have done in similar circumstances, and her heart swelled with such pride and joy that it was almost like pain. Every one acknowledges that such training is good for sons ; why not for daugh? ters also ? When a girl is a child no longer, but has crossed the borderland which leads to young womanhood, then a father's care and influence arc, if pos? sible, more valuable still. There would be fewer foolish marriages in this world if fathers possessed their daughters' confidence more complete? ly, and the girls had greater faith in their fathers' good judgment and af? fection.?Eleanor A. Hunter, in Advo? cate, und Guardian. $100 Reward. $100. Hie renders of tins paper will be pleased to learn I hut I here is at least one dreaded disease that sci? ence lias been able to cure In all its stages, and that Is Catarrh. Hall's Catarrh Curu is the only posi? tive cure now known to the medical fraternity. Catarrh being a constitutional disease rcq i'res a constitutional treatment. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system, thereby (le? st roying the foundation of the di-ease, and giving the pa tient strength by buildirg up the constitu? tion and assisting nature in doing its work The proprietors have ?o much frith in its curative powers, that they offer One Hundred J'ollars for any case that it fails to cure. Send for list of Icb timonys. Address F. J. CHENEY A CO., Toledo. 0, ?c!d bv Drqestots, 75c. HAMPTON AND THE SABRE Gallant Conduct of Two Officers of the Jeff. Davis Legion. To the Editor of the Xews and Cou? rier : In the Weekly Ncics and Cou? rier of the 15th May you give the first page up to an account of the visit to Charleston of Carolina's grandest son, Licutcnant-General, Governor, Sena? tor Wade Hampton. Anticipating this you had invited communications regarding incidents in his splendid career. In a letter from Mr. lloswell T. Logan incidents of Hampton's ser vices as a cavalry commander are given. In that paper he relates the incident at Frederick City as illustra? tive of the General's faith in the sa? bre. There are inaccuracies in Mr. Logan's account that I wish to cor? rect. I would have done so sooner, but I had forwarded the copy on the loth, which had been sent me by someone then unknown, to Col. W. W. Gordon, Colonel of the 5th Georgia Cavalry, and the paper had but re? cently been returned. On the 11th of September, 1861, as usual, the cavalry formed the rear? guard of the superb Army of Northern Virginia. The other arms of the ser? vice had marched westward for the at? tempt upon Harper's Ferry, Jackson's corps to invest the post, Longstreet's corps and D. H. Hill's division to in? tervene between Jackson and the Army of the Potomac ; also in case of need to assist Jackson in the reduc? tion of the Ferry. There had been some desultory skirmishing between the outposts of the two armies for some three or four days. The ever-cautiuus McClellan had been restored to the command of the Federal Army and, as is well known, he never pushed matters un? less, id his conservative judgment, he was sure of success. The cavalry oc? cupied the outskirts of the town of Frederick City on the evening before mentioned. A detail was ordered from headquar? ters from each regiment and command in Hampton's brigade for prevost and police duty in the town for the 12th. This consisted of twenty-four privates and non-commissioned officers, and two commissioned officers, the latter from the Jeff. Davis Legion. These two officers were First Lieut. David Waldhauer and Second Lieut. W. W. Gordon (now colonel of the 5th Geor? gia cavalry). The detail from the Jeff. Davis Legion was four men from Company "P, and to be accurate I will name them : Privates Thos. II. Heyward, Win. P. Lake, John M. Mc Intosh and the writer. Our duties the earlier part of the day (12th) were to police the town, ?preserve order and forward all strag? glers westward toward their commands. Sharp skirmishing had been going on during the morning and forenoon along the line of the Monocacy River. The Federals kept increasing their strength* extending their flanks and feeling for fords that they might make a lodg? ment on the west bank of the stream. In the afternoon the blue soldiers suc? ceeded in this, and to prevent being flanked, surrounded and captured our forces near the city withdrew from the river rapidly but orderly, passing thiough the town. The prevost guard had been assembled near the centre of the town in tho principal street, and were formed ready to move out, when the noise and commotion of some un? usual excitement attracted attention. A few moments and the cause was re? vealed in the head of a column of blue troopers comming up the street at a gallop. The townspeople welcomed them with demonstrations of joy. "White handkerchiefs and scarfs were plentifully waving from doors and windows encouraging the Federal cav? alry. Lieut. Waldhauer, with the instinct of a good soldier, had assembled his mixed detachment so that his left or rear rested a little beyond the apex of the hill, his right prolonged down its western slope. The enemy approach? ed to within two hundred yards and halted. Possibly the manner in which the detachment was formed, so that only part were visible, misled the Federal commander and made him fear a trap. The halt of the enemy was a fatal error to them. Gen. Hampton had remained in town to direct matters, and quickly comprehending the mistake of the en? emy, through Lieut. Gordon ordered Lieut. Waldhauer to charge. It is a well-known fact that cavalry should never receive a charge of like arm of the service at a halt. The impact of the moving force must be fatal. On the approach of the Federal force Lieut Waldhauer had reversed his for? mation, making left in front. His de? tachment was in this position when Lieut. Gordon transmitted Gen. Hamp? ton's order to charge. A little icicle was Lieut. Wald? hauer ; a cooler, braver officer never drew a blade or sabred a Yankee. As soon as the advancing column had halted the troops nearest unslung car? bines and began a sharp fire upon the Confederate detachment, and as soon as Lieut Waldhauer gave his orders they saw at once they were to encoun? ter warm work. On Gen. Hampton repeating the order Lieut. Waldhauer turned coolly to his detachment and commanded "Attention ! Draw sabres, horses well in hand, forward march !" The first movement prompted the en? emy to quicken their fire and we mov? ed down the street under a rain of bullets. In a minute the order "Trot" was given, then "Gallop," and almost instantly "Charge !" The enemy made another mistake ; they should have met us in motion. The head of their column broke and doubled in upon their main body, which speedily threw them into con? fusion. This was the Confederate op? portunity and we were not slow to avail ourselves of it. Into the disor? dered column we went and plied sabre and pistol and in five minutes the town was cleared. The attacking force con? sisted of two squadrons of the 13th Pennsylvania cavalry, with one piece of artillery, supported by the 30th Ohio infantry. Col. Moore, of the 30th Ohio, commanding a brigade led the blue troopers. Under the break? ing of his men he could not rally them. In the melee he became unhorsed and attempted to escape on foot. Darting down an alley he was overtaken by Lieut. Gordon who, covering him with his pistol, demanded surrender. To this the Federal Colonel demurred at first, requesting that official courtesy and etiquette should be shown, and that he must surrender to an officer of equal rank. Lieut. Gordon replied, "This is no time or place to parley," and placing his pistol uncomfortably near the Federal Colonel's head the latter handed up his weapons. It is related that the Federal ad? vance were bo sure of catching the retreating Confederates o.t a disadvan-1 tage that they had their piece of ar? tillery loaded with canister, with pri? mer and lanyard adjusted, ready to unlimber and turn loose upon their enemies. In the confusion of the rout the foot of a trooper got entan? gled in the lanyard and the gun was fired off in their own ranks with con? siderable damage. The gun was capsized on the su? burbs of the town and could -jnt be righted and brought back. We cer? tainly held possession, and but for the horses being shot and the gun being thrown down an embankment we would have had it as a trophy. The whole force was expelled from the town. Our loss was trifling. I think the en? emy's loss was twenty in killed and wounded and fourteen prisoners, in? cluding the brigade commander, Col. Moore. Mr. Logan's statement that the Confederate force was headed by six? teen Mississippiahs is in error. The detachment consisted of details from each command in Hampton's brigade, which consisted of the 1st North Car? olina, Hampton Legion Cavalry, Cobb Legion cavalry, Phillips (Ga.) Legion and the Jeff. Davis Legion. The Jeff. Davis Legion consisted of three com? panies from Mississippi, two from Alabama and one from Georgia, and it was the Georgia company (F) alone that furnished officers and men for the detachment. The charge was made under the eye and by direct order of our splendid old commander, and was as brilliant an affair, troops and surrounding cir? cumstances considered, as graced that wonderful summer's campaign. If other than the detail above mentioned from the gallant Hampton Legion par? ticipated the officers and men of that detachment were ignorant. All troops had passed through the town and this detachment was surely the rear guard of Lee's immortal army for that after? noon. Had the enemy continued their charge, when they entered the town, it is reasonable that they would have overridden and dispersed us. The cool manner in which Lieut. Waldhauer faced them forced upon them the fear of a trap. The manner in which he had placed his detach? ment, the rear extending down the hill, only confirmed their fear, and it was ours to take advantage of these accidents. In conversation with Col. Gordon regarding the "affair" he states that on regaining the street from the alley with Col. Moore as a prisoner one of the men claimed him as his prisoner, stating he had unhorsed him. Col. Gordon turned Col. Moore over to him without parley, instructing him to take the prisoner to the rear. These are the facts attending the capture of Col. Moore. The writer witnessed the capture of that officer. Lieut. Waldhauer, after the return of the writer to the army (he received a severe wound in the left hip), told him his personal experience during the charge. Heading the detachment he soon exchanged his pistol for his sabre, the latter hanging by the sword knot from his waist. Never for a moment did his cool nerve desert him. He told the writer that he never put the pres? sure of his finger upon the trigger un? til the pistol was within two feet of his victim. He rolled four men out of their saddles, the fifth receiving a se? vere scalp wound, having dodged just as the last chamber of the revolver was exploded. I think my statement of the ene? my's losses correct, as in the melee no man asked and no man gave quar? ter. The credit of this affair is due the prevost guard detachment and the of? ficers commanding. For this purpose I have elaborated perhaps longer than I should, but that honor may be awarded where it is due I have craved and trespassed upon your columns. G. N. Saussy. Tallahassee, Fla., July 27, 1805. Gen. Lee's Last Years. "Gen. Lee never left Lexington after he assumed the presidency of the college," said S. D. McCormick recently. "He had distinguished vis? itors from North and South, and from Europe, and they still come to visit his tomb. Hundreds of invitations came to him to attend army reunions and the like, but he always courteous? ly declined them. But every evening he would mount his horse and take an hour's ride. I have often met him at these times. He would always give the military salute. Sometimes he would rein in his horse and talk. "His demeanor was always digni? fied and serious ; indeed, sad. I nev? er saw him smile. One could feel the very personality of Lee pervading the atmosphere around old Washington and Lee University. Every student was on his honor. Not one of them would lie. You have some idea of what college boys arc and what many of them will do. They will^ stop at nothing in their pranks. Yet stu? dents in that university have convict? ed themselves of pranks that caused their expulsion because they could not lie when brought face to face with Gen. Lee. He was absolutely a pure man, if ever one lived. He neither drank, chewed nor smoked, nor ever used vulgar language. He was a clean man. "Washington was his idol. He patterned his life after that illustri? ous patriot. In his very bearing and personality he reminded one of Wash? ington. You know how closely he was allied to the family of Washing? ton. The name of Washington Uni? versity was changed by the Virginia Legislature to that of Washington and Lee University. Gen. Lee's wife, Mary Curtis, sleeps by his side in the tomb under the chapel platform of the university. "Directly opposite the crypt where Lee lies, and on the same floor, is his private office, with everything just as he left it?his chair, his pen, every? thing just as he had it in life. Above the crypt rises the mounmcnt, and upon it the reclining figure of the General in military trappings, executed in the finest marble by Valentine. Custis Lee, his son, is now president of the university."?Cincinnati Times Star. mm ? mm ? My little boy, when two years of age, was taken very ill with bloody flux. I was advised to use Chamber? lain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhea Remedy, and luckily procured part of a bottle. I carefully read the direc? tions and gave it accordingly. He was very low, but slowly and surely he be? gan to improve, gradually recovered, and is now as strong and stout as ever. I feel sure it saved his life. I never can praise the Remedy half its worth. I am sorry everyone in the world does not know how good it is, as I do.? Mrs. Lina S. Hin ton, Grahamsville, Marion Co.. Florida. For sale by Hill Bros. TO PEOPLE WHO EAT HONEY. A Few Words From a Producer to the Consumer. Tu the Editor of The News and Cou? rier: One person may successfully raise honey or other country produce, but where business success is looked for another individual claims consid? eration?the consumer. This appears to be a case where the ordinary rule is reversed, the demand being influenced largely by the supply. For where the supply is deficient in quantity the de? mand will soon die out. So far as honey is concerned in this State both supply and demand are at the lowest ebb. This article then in deference to the consumer, who is not in fault in this instance, isdesigncd to furnish some points for his especial consider? ation. Some one has well said, "Sugar is a modern invention ; honey is the gift of God." Unless we realize that for thousands of years man's only available sweet was honey ,its importance as an article of food to the ancients is not easily comprehended. One could not understand why Jacob's sons, jour? neying down to Egypt, carried among their presents some honey from the Land of Canaan, nor why the law-giver from Mount Sinai included special provisions concerning bees. The sa? cred writings are full of references to honey, while classical authors from Homer to Pliny thought bee culture worthy of a prominent place in their writings. Honey was a staple article of commerce when the Phoenecians controlled the trade of the world, (Ezekiel, xxvii, 17;) it was an item in the tithes paid to the priesthood, and often figured in the tribute exacted from conquered peoples. Among the Greeks and Romans it had a place in the worship of the gods at ceremonial feasts and funeral rites. So honey continued to be held one of the purest and most valued articles of human food until the use of sugar be? came general, less than three hundred years ago. That honey is immeasurably supe? rior to cane sugar as a food will appear from the following considerations: Probably sugar in some of its forms is the most important article of human diet. All grains and vegetables con? taining starch, such as wheat, corn, oats, rice, potatoes, etc., undergo a chemical change in the process of di? gestion, which converts the starch into a form of sugar. Fruits contain another form of sugar, so do many vegetables. Now, iu the case of cane sugar and the syrups made from cane juice, the process of digestion, by the agency of the gastric juice, splits up or divides the sugar into dextrose or starch sugar, and levulose or fruit su? gar, after which these products are absorbed for purposes of nutrition. "Where the digestive organs are wsak this process is often not effected at all, and the sugar cannot be assimilated. It then readily undergoes a fermen? tation, with disastrous consequences to the person using it, producing all sorts of gastric troubles. The indi? gestion produced by the use of sugar, syrups. and candy might almost be classed as a disease by itself. In the case of honey this danger does not exist. It is already an in? verted sugar, needing no action of the gastric juice, no chemical change whatever to fit it for absorption into the system. Honey is at once ready to be assimilated and is not liable to fermentation or decomposition. In plain every-day talk honey is sugar already digested, containing the de? licious aroma of flowers, and also a minute quantity of formic acid, which is added by the bees as a preservative or antiseptic. Clearly then this pro? duct is not merely a luxury, but a concentrated food of high nutritive value. It should be used alone as a relish, but as part of the every-day diet of every family which is able to procure it. Imagine how the children would delight in this return to ancient usage. The following quotation puts this point very strikingly: "The introduction of vile com? pounds, known as 'table syrups,' with their impurities and adulterations, has had the effect of opening the eyes of consumers, and of reopening for honey its God-given place as an article of food. Instead of dealing disease and death promiscuously to those who indulge in its use, as do these syrups, honey gives mankind, in its most agreeable form, both food and medi? cine. It gives warmth to the system, arouses nervous energy and imparts vigor to all the vital functions. To | the laborer it gives strength, to the business man mental force." The prefence-of that vile adulterant, glucose, in most of the commercial syrups, in candy and in a thousand manufactured compounds is a constant menace to health, for among other evil properties it is said to be a predisposing cause of Bright's disease, which pre? vails so much more generally in our day. And here lies another strong argument in favor of honey. It is a matter of experience that honey may take the place of sugar in almost every kind of cookery, as witness many modern cook books where are contain? ed a long list of cakes, preserves, pud? dings and candies which owe their superior qualities to this change. The medicinal properties of honey arc well understood by mothers and nurses, who have faith in old time "kitchen remedies." and are admitted by the medical profession. Its value in the treatment of coughs, colds and pulmonary affections, also in various kidney complaints, has been testsd and approved for ages. There arc many cases where sugar is prohibited in which honey is used with special benefit. In concluding this plea for the more general and daily use of honey it may be not out of place to give one or two recipes. Here is the "niiikand honey" of the ancients: "Take a bowl of milk and break some light wheat bread into it, also some white comb honey. Eat and be thankful." A refinement on this, for those who can afford it, is thus quaintly express? ed: "Bread broken into a bowl, covered first with honey and then with thick cream, will, when eaten, permeate the organs of taste, and give the whole system a foclinir of ecstacv and de light." This is commended to epicures in search of a new sensation. It is desired to give here a short postscript to the first article creating of great yields of honey. A letter just published in the American Bee Journal give-i some figures for the present season of 18U5. It in dated at Bloomington, Cala., July 17 ..nd is from Mr. J. H. Martiu, : regular contributor, and one of \c most re? liable men in the husiucss. Tie hays : "The honey crop of California is now nearly all harvested. In this (San Bernardino) county, and, in fact, all along this tier of counties, sixty miles back from the coast, the yield is equal to if not greater than that of 1893. Mr. D. A. Wheeler, of River? side, from about nine hundred colonies, gets nearly fifty tons of honey ; H. E. Wilder, with 120 colonies, gets twelve tons; M. Segars, of San Bernardino, from about three hundred colonies gets twenty tons. These are not the big yields that we should like to report, but they help to make up a very pass? able honey crop." _ We should think so in South Caro? lina, and yet the only remarkable fea? ture in this statement is the average yield, which is due to care and skill in management, for individual colonies in this State often give larger returns. The next article will treat of bee? keeping proper, and the way to produce marketable honey. A. T. Peete. OBranchvitte, S. C, Aug. 12,1805. The Garden of Eden. An English Egytologist, Mr. W. Marsham Adams, has been for some time engaged in an endeavor to solve the structural enigma of the great pyramid and to elicit from the ancient religious books of the Nile land, and especially from the so-called Book of the Dead, a clew to the creed of early Egypt. In the volumes embodying the outcome of his researches he ar? rives at interesting conclusions re? garding the simplicity and purity of the oldest Egyptian faith, and discerns it in a curious conformity, so far as the main lines are concerned, to Christianity. That to which, how? ever, we would at this time invite particular attention is the assertion that his readings in the sacred books of Egypt bear out the record of Gene? sis as to the seat of the earthly para? dise, and that, consequently, the cra? dle of the human race must be looked for in Africa at some point in the watershed of the Nile. Let us mark the ground for this at? tempt at a new identification of the Garden of Eden. Adams points out that in the region of the great lakes there are, as in the places described in Genesis, the "heads" of four rivers which "go forth to water the whole country." There beyond the Zambesi, lies the land of gold, with its mines of unknown antiquity, and bearing an oborous herb, of which the hierogly? phic name is betru, suggesting the original of the Hebrew word betelu, converted by the Greeks into bdellium. There is the fountain of the winding Niger, and there the source of the in undatitp'Nile. There, too, is the Congo, the river of "life," correspond? ing to the Hebrew Perith (fruitful), transformed by the Greeks into the Euphrates. What Mr. Adams deems more strik? ing still is the fact that in the east? ward portion of this great basin lies the Garden of Paradise, 3,000 square miles in area, described in glowing terms by Stanley as full of animal life, the sceptre expressing dominion over which was one of the insignia of the Egyptian deity, Amen. From that garden flows a single river, the Shari, exactly as in the scriptural account the single river flowed in the midst to water the garden, which was placed in the eastward part of the immense watershed of Eden. Thence, accord? ing to Mr. Adam's theory, the stream of human emigration found its way along the line of least resistance to the fertile plains of Egypt. Probably the scat of the most ancient civiliza? tion in the world, diffusing itself from the delta of the Nile, or along the shores of the Mediterranean. To a certain extent the ground was prepared for the effort to connect the record of Genesis primarily with old Egyptian rather than with the Chal daic traditions. Since Egyptian mon? uments have been studied in the light of astronomy there has been a ten? dency to hold that civilization of Egypt was derived from two sources of immigration, the one situated in the Abyssinian highlands or elsewhore in the watersheds of the Nile, the other in Mestopotamia. It is taught, however, that the northward stream of emigra? tion was the earlier. Morever, many Assyriologists concur in thinking that ancient Chaldasa was principally in? debted for civilizing agencies tc emi? grants coming by way of the Persian Gulf, from Abyssinia or soutiwest Arabia. It should be noted that sino? logues are now disposed to trace the origin of Chinese civilization to emi? grants from Chaldrca, whose own cul? ture, as we have said, is believed by many to be a derivative. So that there is something like a consensus of conjecture pointing to the water? shed Nile as the cradle of civilized man.?New York Sun. Twenty Tears on an Errand Wilmot, S. D., Aug. 14.?Twenty years in which to do an errand is a long time, but that is the period con? sumed by Charles Wright, aMonticello (Minn.) farmer, who arrived here with his wife and three children to-day. Twenty years ago the Wright family lived near Fox Lake, Wis., and one day Mrs. Wright, who was Mr. Wright's second wife, ordered Charles to go to town and get her a clothes line. Being offended, the boy started iu the direction of the town, and then ran away, going to Minnesota, where he has since been living, at Monti cello. Mr. and Mrs. Wright removed to this place, whore they purchased a farm. Some time ago Charles Wright, who had married, heard that a man named Wright, who formerly lived in Fox Lake, was living here. He found that it was his father. Bringing his whole family, he came here on a visit, and before going to the house pur? chased a clothes line, as his mother told him to do twenty years ago. Walking into the house he dropped the line at the feet of Mrs. Wright, who is now an aged woman, and calmly announced that he had brought the line. ? Miss Douglass, the champion amateur markswoman of England, re? cently scored fifty-seven bull's eyes in succession with a revolver at a 20-yard range. That girl will never enter a breach of promise suit. ?Since 1878 there have been nine ep? idemics of dysentery in different parts of the country in which Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy was used with perfect success. Dys? entery, wheu epidemic, is almost as severe and dangerous as Asiatic chol? era. Heretofore the best efforts of the most skillful physicians have failed to check its ravages; this remedy, how? ever, has cured the most malignant cases, both of children and adults, and under the most trying conditions, which proves it to be the best medi? cine in the world for bowel complaint. Fur sale by JXill Bros, All Sorts Of Paragraphs,, ? Go slowly to the entertainment of thy friends, but quickly to their misfortunes. ? Red used on a railroad signifies ^ danger, and says stop. It is the same W thing displayed on a man's nose. ? <;Oh, doctor, how do you do? You look killing this evening." "Thank you, but I'm not; I'm off duty, you know." |9 ? Visitor: "Your old subscriber, Jones, is lying seriously ill.". Editor^ "Well, if he's still lying he deservedH his fate!" ^ ? Belle: "Mr. Jolyer is such a? nice man. He said I had a voice like a bird." Nell: "Yes; he told me you sang like an owl." ? Tripper: "That love affair of Tom's has ended in smoke, eh?" Flipper : "I guess so. He wan burn? ing her letters last night." ? In Columbia constables black themselves after the manner of Negro minstrels and sneak around dark holes endeavoring to entrap blind tigers. ? Ella: "I wonder if he thought I was a goose for refusing him." Ma jorie: "Probably that's what he ' meant. He said you were no chicken after all." ? Looking at things with the other man's eyes would make you change your opinion of some of your fellow men. "As ye would that men should do unto you." ? Shirley Brooks says, "There are two periods in the life of a man at which he is too wise to tell won an the exact truth; when he is in love?and when he isn't." ? "Johnnie, dear," said his moth? er, who was trying to inculcate a les? son in industry, "what do you sup- - pose mamma would do for you if you should come to her some day and tell her that you loved your studies?" "Lick me for telling a falsehood," said dear little Johnnie, with the frankness of youth. ? "Young man," said the prison chaplain to the convict, "do you realize that you have blasted your brilliant prospects, thrown away your life, and willfully disgraced your family name ?" "Oh, no ; not that V&A said the prisoner, stoically. "I couldn't do it; my family name is. Smith !" ? Lititle Jack prays every night for all the different members of the family. His father had been away at one time for a short journey, and that night Jack was praying for him, as usual. "Bless papa, and take care of him," he was beginning, as usual, when sud? denly he raised his head and listened. "Never mind about it now, Lord," ended the little fellow, "I hear him down in the hall." ? Clarretta Avery, a little colored girl about nine years^old, is conduct? ing a religious revival at the Mace? donia Baptist Church. She is from North Carolina, and has been preach? ing in the Pee Dee section for some ?'? months. Her work is wonderful, and she seems to know the Scriptures by heart. She is drawing large crowds to the meetings, quite a number of white people attending the servi? ces.?Darlington News. ? The grumbler should have a cor? ner to himself, and not burder others with his complaints. He spoils the companionship of life and deserves no public recognition. 'There is too much to enjoy and too much to do to waste time upon the querulous and the fault-finding. Sunshine id what society needs, and the more we put it into speech, manner and deed,'the. sweeter and more inspiring becomes q our association and influence. ? Six weeks ago I suffered with a very severe cold; was almost unable to speak. My friends advised me to con? sult a physician. Noting Chamber? lain's Cough Remedy advertised in the St. Paul Yolks Zeitung I procured a bottle, and after taking it short while was eatirely well. I now most..;* heartily recommend this remedy to anyone suffering with a cold. Wm. Keil, 678 Selby Ave., St. Paul, Minn. For sale by Hill Bros. ? It is reported that a fanner in Salem recently sold thirteen acres of tobacco in the field for $1,300. One hundred dollars an acre for a growing crop is a profitable business, much more so than the shipment of watej^ melons by some of our SummertdjH farmers. We are told that a promi-^ nent Summerton farmer shipped a car? load of melons and the returns brought _ him out $11.40 cents in debt to the merchant.?Manning Times. ? They tell a story in Dalton, Ga.. of a recent revival meeting in one or the rural districts of Whitfield county. In the middle of the services the pas? tor said: "Will Brother Smith please lead in prayer?" Seven men arose and began praying at once. This em? barrassed the preacher, and he said hurriedly, "I mean brother John Smith!" At this announcement one sat down, and five more got up and be? gan praying. The preacher saw his mistake, said nothing, and let the eleven pray it out among themselves somehow. ? Where the diamond comes from nobody knows. You can no more pre? dict the existence of diamonds than you can the existence of genius, although, to be sure, all diamond fields to a certain extent, resemble each other, and all are found only in warm climates. Nor can you tell where the diamond goes to on com? bustion. Burn it, and it leaves no ash, the flame is exterior like that oT^ a cork, and when it has blazed itself out, there remains not even so much as would dust the antennae of a but? terfly. ? In taking a train on the Penn? sylvania Railroad to Washington Mon? day Engineer George Fredericks, with engine No. 92, made the run from London Park to the Navy Yard, a dis? tance of thirty-five and a half miles, in thirty-three and a half minutes. The five and one-tenth miles between Landover and Anacosta were covered in three minutes, a rate equal to 102_ miles an hour. This, it is said, beats the record for rapid railroad travel for that distance with a train. Engine No. 92 is a new one recently sent from the shops. ^ ? Every good housekeeper, says the New York World, saves her tea leaves. She knows that for cleansing purposes they are unequaled. After they have been saved for a few days steep them in a pan for half an hour; then strain through a sieve and use the tea to wash p'1 varnished paint. It will cleanse the paint from impurities and* make the varnish shine like new. Ita| should be used in cleaning window sashes and oilcloths and is said to wash window panes and mirrors much better than water. The good effects I of the leaves iu sweeping are already well knowq.