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BT CLINKSCALES & LANGSTON. ANDERSON, S. C, WEDNESDAY MORNING, JUNE 23, 1897. VOLUME XXXII.?NO. 52 SPECIAL FOR THIS WEEK : 15 doz Scriven's Drawers At 75c. . 0. EVANS & CO. NOW THE For your Hoes. Count's Home-made Grain Cradle, Victor and Terrell Heel Sweeps, Josh Berry 14-Finger Grain Cradle. Sullivan Hardware Co. THE PLACE TO BUY THEM. "Where can I get the very best fitting and most desirable as well as stylish Shoes ? Why, where have you been all this time ? Come with me and just look at the most complete stock of Shoes, Slippers, and everything in the way of Footwear, at? THE YATES SHOE CO., Under Masonic Temple, Anderson3 S. C, The only complete and special Shoe House in the City. Our prices are low because we buy close, and for cash, and we can certainly give you bargains and enable you to save'money. DON'T FORGET He Yates Shoe Co. THE DUTCHMAN ONCE SUNG : 'Meat means tings dat's good to eat, Meet also means tings dal's brober ; 'Tis only mete to measure dean tinge Ven Bteampoate meet the stabber." That Dutchman caught the idea on the first jump, and if you would be wise and want to get fat and jolly like ths typical Dutchman, (Mayor Tolly or our Senior,) you will lose no time to visit our Establishment, where you will find everything that is good to eat, such as? Fresh Meats, Vegetables, Fruits and Canned Goods, Cured Meats, Flour, Meal, Sugar, Molasses, And everything necessary for seasoning and shortening. We handle everything to eatt?the beet that can be procured, and at the lowest prices. F'ee City Delivery. Telephone No. 41. ?5. IT. POORE ?C CO., City Market. DEPOT STREET J. 0. WH?TBFIELD, DENTIST. OFFICE?Front Room, over Farmers' and Merchants' Bank, ANDERSON, S. C. Feb 10,1897 33 THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, Coukty of Anderson. IN COMMON PLEAS COURT. Rubinson Cator, William J. II Catorand others, under the style and firm name of Armstrong, Cator & Co , Plaintiffs, against B. Lafayette Ilogr, Thomas J. Nfartin, as Assignees of R. Lafayotte Hoeg, Defendants : ALL Creditors of R. Lnfayette Hogg are hereby authorized to? prove their cltims against the said R. Lafayette Hoj?g borore me on or before the let day of July, 1897, or eine l?R barred the privilepo of par ticipating in the funda in the hands of the Cou't.under the proceedings herein. R. M. BUEtRISS, Probate-Judgo and Special Referee. June 3,1897 49 5 THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, COUNTY OF ANDERSON. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS. A. C. Scudday, Plaintiff", against Mary Jano Scud day, A. ?. Scudday, Martha Watklns, II. G. Scudday, Ella Scudday, Belle Sharp?, Harper Scudday, Jet. Pruitt, Ida Scudday, Annie R. Hodges, Emma L. Davis, ICatc M. Davis and Daisey DaTis, heirs at law of II. H; Scudday, deceased. Defendant! - " mtnoni for Relief? Complaint not Served. To the Defendantsabovo named : YOU are hereby summoned *nd required to an swer the Complaint in this actioD, which Is filed In the office of tho Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for said County, and to sorve a copy of your answor to the said Complaint on the subscribers at their office, at Andereon C. II.. S. C, within twenty days after the eervlco hereof, exclusive of tho day of euch service; and If you fal! to answer the Complaint within the time aforesaid, the Plaintiff in this action will apply to tho Court for the relief demanded tu ti.o Com plaint. Dated J;.re 10th, A. D. 1S97. TRIBBLE & PRINCE, Plaint'fTs Attorneys, Anderson, S. C [Seal ] Joui? C Watkess, c C c. p. To the above named Defendants : You will tate notice that the Complaint In this action, together with tho Summons, of which a copy is herewith served upon yon, were tiled in the office of the Cl-rk of Court of Oinmon Pleas for the County of Anderson, Slate aforesaid, on this, 10th day of June, lSWT. No personal claim is made against you, or either of you. TfilBBLE & PRINCE, PlftiatuVd Attorneys. Joae 10, 1897 61 6 INTERESTING REMINISCENCES. The Sloans of the Fork. Editors Intelligencer : I made a visit to the old Sloan's Ferry place, on tho Sene ca, last week for tho first time in ten years. The occasion of my former visit was to attend the pic nie with which the completion of tho ill-fated iron bridge that promised so much for the lower Fork, but that was to go down before the mad dened flood within a few short weeks, was celebrated. That was a gala day, a day of gladness to many who saw in the finished structure a convenient outlet for themselves and the products of their farms. Mr. W. . Brownloe, who had passed his threo score and ton, mado an exultant talk, felicitating himself, every body and everything, and was proud. , The crowd swarmed across the pretty bridge that was; to defy tho swelling tide, and the belles and beaus were happy in each others' smiles. But how changed the scene to day?the bridge gone, the ferry abandoned, tho road well nigh im passable, and that merry crowd scattered, many to their long homes, old Mr. Brownlee and his yonng son throwing care to the winds that day in tbe posses sion of hie fair young bride of a week and rejoicing as a strong man to run a race, Miss Shirley in all the glow and exuber ance of a lovely young womanhood, Min nie Routh and Fannie Holland enthron ed in the affections of husbands and chil dren?these and others all gone so soon to the grave. But the object of my visit there this time was to soe if by a stroll about the premises I could pick up some additional facts which, with my siock on hand, would Inspire an article for The Intelligence)*. To contemplate tho obliteration of old landmarks?links that connect us with the past?to look upon the relics of a hundred years fast falling to decay and ruin throws one into a med itative mood and reminds him that the doom of all things is decay, decrepitude and death. Thore is a sort of eloquence in all this, to be sure ; but it is a sad elo quence, and growth always has moro of vital interest than decline, even as we gaze with more pleasure upon tho robust boy than the decrepit old man. Where David Sloan and his wife, who settled the Sloan's Ferry place in 1787, came from toSouth Carolina is not known to the public, but it appears that Mr. Sloan was of Irish etock and probably a native of Ireland. Some of tho older resi dents of the Fork, whose statements are worthy of all credence, believe they set tled first on the Tugaloo River above Ft. Madison, in Oconee, or on Cane Creek, near the present town of Seneca. They could not have remained long at either place, however, for according to a state ment by Mrs. Sloan herself, made many years afterward, they settled at Sloan's Ferry, on the Seneoa, at a date certainly not later than 1737. Another reason going to show tbat their stay on the Tugaloo or on Cane Creek was brief is that they had none of the plainest household utensils at a fire in the open air. When they first when they settled on the Seneca, for Mrs. Sloan once told her grandson, the late Stokes Strlbllng, of Oconee, that she cook ed her corn hoe cakes on a flat rock heated came to the Seneca they pitched their tent on tbe wooded "second bottom," just south of the house they afterward built and noarer the river. Roving parties of Indians often called on them for food and shelter, and Mrs. Sloan once said that her diplomacy was frequently severely taxed to manage them. It is clear to assume that Mr. Sloan ac quired the title to his land, how much I do not know, but in timo it extended lor some three miles along the river and em braced a thousand to fifteen hundred aeree, from the State which, although the Sresent Federal Constitution had not then eon adopted, still acting under the old articles of Confederation that h?d been of force throughout the Revolution had power to dispose of her public lands. William Moultrie, the hero of the battle of Sullivan's Island, was then Governor, and I have seen his signature to musty and faded land deeds of that period. Mr. Sloan and his wife were uneducated, and it is not likely that they had any profi ciency in the rudiments of learning. This is believed to have been particular ly true of Mrs. Sloan, who, in the early years of her residence there, 1790-95, would frequently inviteaneighbor living just below on the river tobring her Bible and read to her on Sundays. Just here I might properly say that neither Mr. Sloan nor his wife ever joined the Church. He inclined to Universalist notions of religion, and it is said tried to impress them upon his wife. During her widow hood, however, she attended preaching with considerable regularity, alternating among the Preebyterians at Roberts, the Methodists at Oid Independence, now Smith Chapel, and the Baptists at Old Hephzibah and DoubleSprings. Mrs.Sloan took a fancy to Rev. Sanford Vandiveras a preacher, and it was to hear him' that she would make the trip of eight miles to Old Hephzibah. Occasionally ehe would stop and dine with the preaoher's family on her return from Church. Why these two persons, exhibiting throughout their lives strong religious convictions, never united with the Church is something of a mystery; butit may be accounted for probably In the fact that they were beyond reach of an organization that embodied their peculiar views. But if they stayed out of the Church their children did not, and to day their descendants are found in all branches of protestantism, many of them being working Christians of the most pronounced type. When Mrs. Sloan died September 5, 1854, having outlived hor husband just twenty-eight years, and with her powers of mind and body but slightly weakened by the weight of nine ty-one years the funeral eervi? s were held In the family residence, the sermon being preached by the Rev. David Hum phreys, the long-time pastor of Roberts Church. It has been said that Mrs. Sloan pos sessed the butin'jBB faculty to a greater degree than did her husband. This may have been true, but I rather doubt It. That she was a woman of great energy and in dustry there can be no question, for she worked on with head and hands to the last. "The ein of laziness is next to 1 drunkenness," was an oft-repeated say ing of hors. Then, too, working through capable overseers she carried her large and constantly increasing plantation in terests well in hand and continued to ac cumulate wealth. But it must be borne in mind that the foundations for what | was a large fortune in that day were laid ! ! in Mr. Sloan's lifetime, and that the fam ily were already wealthy when death overtook him in 182G. During the forty ) ! years of his sojourn on the Seneca he ac I qnired a large landed estate at varions points always including large areas of the best bottom land, and it is doubtful if this was added to after his death. It is ; fair, therefore, to assume that he was en- . : dowed with more than an average stock ? ! of business ability and foresight. Wheth er Mr. Sloan took muoh interest in polit- : ical affaire I am not advised, but I am led to infor that he was a zealous supporter of the Government's war policy In 1812 by the fact of hie naming a son for the President. Mr. Sloan, it appears, did not remain long on the "second bottom" already mentioned bnt very soon began the ereo tlon of a substantial dwelling on a com FROM THE FACT THAT WE ARE Selline Goods to YOU must not infer that they are old and shop-worn or inferior in qual ity. We guarantee each article to be as represented, and will eheerfully re fund your money if dissatisfied. "We take especial pride in our? SHOE ZDEFJL-I?T^dlEIsrT, And will maintain in it that standard of excellency which will compel your admiration for the values offered. Most of the styles are exclusively our owD, and cannot be duplicated anywhere else in town. Our $1.25 Satin Finish, Solid Leather Shoe, in both Bal. and Congress, is stylish and durable, and ie as neat and handsome as any $2.00 Shoe on the market. We still have some of those $3.50 and $4.00 Gainesville Home-made Shoes which we are closing out at the uniform price of $2.50 per pair. The large stock of JEANS we bave on band are now being sold at WHOLESALE PRICES. Some of these are extra heavy Goods, but at the same time it will be judicious economy on your part to invest in a supply for next Winter. We always keep on hand a large and complete stock of? Groceries and Plantation Supplies, Which we sell as low as the lowest, and will be pleased to have either your cash or time trade. McCULLY HILL-ORR DRUC CO. Are you troubled by Mites, Lice or other insects with your Chickens ? MEDICAL EGGrS Will permanently destroy them. Do you intend sowing your stubble land when the grain is off? : : : Try German Millet. Do you ever drink anything soft Soda Water, Milk Shake, Coca Cola, Cherry Phosphate ? : : : : : : Try Frank Mollali. Do you ever need fine French Candy bought fresh every week ? : : : Try Hnyler's. Do you intend carrying out your promise of two or three years' and paint that house ? : : : : : Try the Mastic. 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Mr. John C. Gantt, himself a fine workman, was with me that day, and "wished he knew who did that carpen tering," a remark that all who know him will appreciate. From Mr. Gantt I learned that the first guano ever brought to the Fork was used on the Sloan farm in 1854. It wa* the Peruvian brand, an unadulterated article we may be sure, and produced a wonderfully stimulating offect upon the cotton under which it was used on the "second bottom." A large part of the old family residence has been torn away and all of tho old outhouses, the slaves' quarters and the old well, at which master and slave slaked their thirst generations ago, have long since disap peared. A few of the stately old shade trees are still standing, and the three or four white shining grave-stones in the old family plot, neglected and overgrown with weeds and bushes, keep lonely vigil over the solitude that, by comparison with the Bcene of busy farm life in the long ago when half a hundred slaves, happy and content in the plenty that streamed three times a day from Old Miss' kitchen, went forth with songs and laughter to their daily toil, is scarce bro ken by the family of colored people that now tenant the remnant of the old home stead. - W. A. D. TUlman and Evans'Confer. Washington, June 12.?A mysterious interview between Senator Tillman and John Gary Evans took place last night at the residence of the Senator. Ex-Gov ernor Evans arrived here yesterday, but he did not come to the Capitol, preferring that his presence in Washington should not be generally known. His visit is supposed to have some political beariDg upon the coming Senatorial contest. Senator Tillman was not inclined to disenss Mr. Evane' mission, simply saying -.t he stopped over in Washington a few <urs on his way to Baltimore on private w usin?es. It is believed that Senator Tillman was urged to come out In the open and assist Mr. Evans to defeat Senator McLaurin in the primaries when the race for the Sen atorship begins. Some of Senator Tillman's friends as sert that the Senator has carried John Gary Evans on his political shoulders long enough, and now he proposes to let him scramble for himself. Senator Till man will have a contest on his hands in a few years, and he proposes to reserve his personal and political strength to assist in securing another six years' term in the Senate. Personally, Senator Tillman may prefer John Gary Evans to Senator McLaurin as a Senatorial colleague, as the latter in sists upon acting independently of the senior Senator. John Gary Evans would be Tillman's "Me, too," while Senator McLaurin thinks and acts for himself in the Senate, and is fact winning popularity and influence in that body.?News and Courier. Looks Like Trouble Ahead. Since the dispensary ran against the Simonton decision snag and received such a severe puncture, developments have been anxiously awaited. The situation is assuming an interesting phase just now, brought about by the difference of opinion as to the construction of tho phrase "original packages," and the indications are that a squall ie ahead. The administration after many days hemming and hawing and scratching of its head, seems to have at last made up its mind as to what course it will pursue, and as this is in conflict with what others I believe to be the proper construction of the Simonton d?cision a conflict and more litigation eeems imminent. I The constables here are still idle await ing instructions, and meantime the orig inal package ehops (which would be blind tigers if the decision were disregarded) are having everything their own way. 1 At a half dozen places in the town ice cold beor can be obtained any time of the day and almost any hour of the night, and judging from the number of persons con stantly visiting these places, the sales must be very heavy. And as for whiskey, there is not much more trouble in obtain ing It now than when the bars were open. While Charleston is tho only town where an original package establishment Is be ing run openly, if other towns in tho 8tate are In the same condition as Green ville, whiskey is flowing very freely. The Governor has declared his policy and has issued orders to Chief Fant to oarry it out, as will be seen from the fol lowing paragraph sent out from Columbia in a special to the Constitution : "Chief Constable Bahr, of Charleston, held a conference with officials here to day, after which in talking to the Consti tution's correspondent, he said that unless otherwise instructed he would seize all liquors when a person attempted to open a box and sell from it one or more bottles, provided these bottles did not have upon them separate government stamps. In that case they will not be molested. Ac cording to the understanding now pre vailing any number of bottles may be sold individually so long as they have separate stamps upon them."?Greenville Noes. ? Germany has one doctor to 1,500 of population, France one to 2,107, the United Kingdom one to 1,234, but the United States one to 600. ? couple were married twice within one hour near Poplar Bluff, Mo., recently. The bride's father was asleep when the first ceremony was performed, and the second was for his benefit. Death Pul?s the Trigger. A man doesn't have to pull the tilgger himself in order to commit sui cide. He doesn't even need a gun or any kind of weapon. All he need do is work hard and at the same time neglect his health. Death will do the rest. Men nowadays are all in a hurry. They bolt their food, and get indi gestion and torpid liver. The blood gets impure. When the blood is impure, sooner or later something will "smash." The smash will be at the weakest and most overworked point. In a marshy country It will probably be malaria and chills. A working man will probably have a bilious attack. A clerk or bookkeeper will have deadly consumption. A business, or pro fessional mau, nervous prostration or exhaustion. It isn't hard to prevent or cure these dis eases if the right remedy is taken at the right time. 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V., for a paper-covered copy of Dr. Pierce's Common Sense Medical Adviser;?cloth binding ten cents extra. A whole medical library in one icoo-page volume. , BILL AKPS LETTER. Arp Says that Patience will Bring all Things. Atlanta Constitution. "Watchman tell us of the night." It has been often said that "old father time is a good doctor." I be lieve that he is about to cure the country o?, hard times. Certain it is that neither politicians nor legislation has done any good. The disease was not even diagnosed, but the patient is getting wsll. Neither Cleveland nor anti-Cleveland nor McKinley nor the tariff nor populism has had anything to do.with it. Time is the medicine, and when time cures a patieut he stays cured a good, long period. I had rheumatism several years and the doctors worked on me until they got tired and quit, but old Doctor Time came along, and after a while the rheumatism just quit me and went away of its own accord. For six years we have all been cussin' and fussin' and discussin' about the disease that afflicted the country. Every politician had a .emcdy, but somehow the people have lost confidence in our so-called statesmen and their medicine won't stay on the stomach. A first-class politician can argue the leg off an iron pot or the spots off a leopard. I heard Alec Stephens make a great speech away back in the 40's and he proved that the democratic party was respon sible for all the calamities that had befallen the country for twenty years, even to the high price of cotton and the low price of cotton and the yellow I fever in Savannah. I was ruminating about this because I have been traveling around a good deal of late, and if the times are not better, then all signs deceive me. Farming is claimed to bo the founda tion of all prosperity?the mudsills of the building?and if s;o, then I know the times are improving, for the dili gent farmer is prospering everywhere in the sunny south outside of floods and cyclones. The crops in South Carolina are well advanced and prom ising. Harvest is at hand in north Georgia and Tennessee, and was never better. Everything the farmer grows commands a fair price, and everything he has to buy is cheap. The price of wheat and corn and hay is better than it was from 1880 to 1890?wheat at $1.00 per bushel, hay at $1.00 a hun dred, corn at 50 cents, sweet potatoes at 75 cents, irish potatoes at 60 ; chickens from 15 to 20 cents and wood at $1.50 a cord. What is the matter with the farmer ? Suppose his cotton is down to 7 cents, he can make money on it at that. A man at Union, S. C, told me he made last year 800 bales on 800 acres, anc. cleared $8,000. How is that ? When I was a young merchant cotton averaged about 8 cents a pound ; corn 40 cents a bushel ; wheat75 cents, potatoes 25, wood $1.00 a cord. Shirting and calico were 12} cents a yard, sugar and coffee 12? cents a pound. Iron was 5 cents, and steel 75 cents and nails 8 cents. Now all these things except coffee arc half price, and all that the farmer grows for sale is 25 per cent higher, except cotton. But still he is not happy. Up north, of course, it's different, for it takes all they make in six months' summer to support them the six winter 1 months. I am sorry for those people, that is for all the clever ones, and wish they could sell out to the fanatics and fools p.nd come down here to this blessed la?d. Their laboring class who have no land and work about for wages say they are not coming, for they can get $25 a month up there and we pay our negroes only $10. That's so. That's the way it is put down in the last census. But the census don't tell how the farm laborer up there is wanted only three months and the other nine he jobs it around for little or nothing, and it takes his last nickel to keep from freezing to death. And the census don't tell how our negro laborers on the farms [ret their wages all the year round and get a comforta ble cabin rent free and have no fire wood to buy and every family has a garden and they raise chickens and eggs and a pig or two and have scraps enough from their table to support two hound dogs and a fice. Besides all this, they bait holes in the creek and catch suckers by night and hunt rabbits on Sunday. Talk about our cheap labor. There isn't a respectable negro man in Bartow county who isn't better off and happier than the average farm laborer at the north. That is one good thing the negro has dono for the south. He has intimidated the northern scurf and tho foreign scurf and kept them away. I saw in the columns of the Constitution not long ago a statement in figures that was taken from a Boston paper showing that since 1890 the foreign population, inclusive of their children horn since their arrival, has increased 78 per cent in New England, while the natives have increased but G per cent in all that time. The exact figures were given. Isn't that awful ? New Eng land had just as well give up their time-honored and historic country re ligion and all to these foreigners. When I was in Nashville the other day Hooked with pride at the exhibits of our southern industry that greeted me everywhere. In a former letter I made special mention of the magnifi cent display of the Nashville and Chattanooga railroad ; that includes the Western and Atlantic railroad of our State. But our other southern roads are emulating Major Thomas's example, especially the Georgia rail road, whose exhibit makes every Georgian feel proud. Besides the beautiful show of grain, fresh from the harvest fields, there are minerals of almost every kind from the granite of Stone Mountain to the gold and precious stones of Hall county. Just imagine a solid granite obelisk split out in the rough and unhewn that is forty feet high and five feet square at the base and that weighs 70,000 pounds. Then there is the Louisville and Nashville, and the Plant system, and the Seaboard Air-Line that the wondering visitor will not fail to sec. Well, now, of course, everybody knows that every man and corporation and State will show up tho very best they have got, for that is just human. Any good old country woman will put the cleanest eggs and the finest apples on top of the basket when she goes to town. But if the average products of our industry and resources arc nearly as good as those exhibits there wc have a wonderful country. Let a stranger look from the car windows as he rides along and he will not be sur prised when he gets to Nashville, for just now it is harvest time and tho scenery is as pretty as a picture. I doubted the propriety of the Atlanta exposition, but it proved itself a wise educational measure and now the Tennessee Centennial is already a grand success and will grow into greater importance as the weeks-roll od. Soon the farmers will have more leisure and at the low rate of travel will avail themselves of this great privilege?this kindergarten for their wives and children. An< ;? faith is that of all classes, the tar* .r is the best able to go, and will reap the greatest profit from his visit. Just think what is thrown in free to delight the senses?what beautiful grounds and shady walks ; Avhat beauty of architecture ,what wonderful paintings and works of the sculptor's art, and what grand fireworks by night, and what delicious music by day ! Where else can he hear Sousa and Innes with their orchestras without going a thou sand miles?and where that sweetest of all music, the piano, when it is touched by a master's hand ? Away back in the 40s I thought my wife could charm even the angel3 when she touched the chords of her old-fashioned piano, and subdued men to her will and wish with the power of music. But I was desperately in love with her then, and I reckon would have married her any how, music or no music?that is if she would have had me, and I reckon she would. Honors were easy. But "music hath charms to soothe the savage breast," and she soothed mine. "Oh, music! what is it and where does it dwell ?" My wife still plays when feeling sac., and can't tell why. One of our daughters has recently bought a baby Grand, and my wife plays on it a good deal, for her fingers, though not as angelic as they used to be, have not lost their magic touch, and she declares that if she had one like that in the house it would renew her youth. Well, it is comforting to feel assured that after all our troubles and appre hensions, thr south is again on top. As my friend Colonel Killebrcw says, "She is on top?and if there is any higher pinnacle, she will be on top of that." Bill Aep. Southern Cotton Mills. Some time ago the New England cotton goods manufacturers sent sever al of their leading experts into the South to investigate the conditions of manufacturing in that section. The mission was, of course, prompted by the increasing competition of Sonthern mills. The reports of the three gen tlemen who were sent practically agree, and that of Presiden tSandford, of the Sandford Spinning Company, is especially interesting. His chief re marks were as follows: "While the Northern manufacturer has been arguing and speculating as to what his Southern competitor would be able to accomplish, and while many people felt no fear of any dan ger that the South would be able to compete, much to my astonishment I find from a personal inspection during the last ten days among some of the mills of the South that they-have suc cessfully solved, the problem of cotton manufacturing, and are now making, and have been making for some time, fabrics and yarns equal to our New England mills, and for less cost. "They are selling them to our cus tomers, supplanting our productions to an alarming extent, and from figur es obtained of cost of same I find that they are enabled in their finely equip ped and well-organized mil's, by good and cheaper labor, to make a profit, even on present depressed market prices, while our own New England mills cannot manufacture without loss. "While this is a hard fact to face, nevertheless the condition confronts us, and is no longer 'theory' or specu lation, but fact. On* certaia fabrics and yarns, such as made in Fall Biver, New Bedford, Lowell and in New England generally, embracing goods and yarns up to and including 40s, they are masters of the situation, and claim they will soon make fabrics call ing for 50s and 60s yarn. "There has been a great deal said during the last five years about the inefficiency of the Southern operative that he is not able to do as much work uud as well as his Northern competitor I find the operatives are good native American whites. They very quickly adapt themselves to the work, are eager to learn, happy, contented, with no tendency to: strike or to join labor organizations. They want to work, are industrious, and are proud of the mills they work in. "Wood is used largely; two cords of wood, against one ton of coal, costing for same $1.15 per cord, or at the rate of $2.30 per ton of coal. Coal also can be had cheap costing, according to location, $1.50 to $2.50 per ton Some mills located on fine water pow. ers are making great saving. Alaba ma exempts from taxation for ten years all corporations locating within her borders. "In North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia taxes are very low. One mill which I visited, having $250,000 investment, pays a tax of only $2,400 per annum. Such a mill in Fall Biv er will pay $5,000 tax. All the large mills are paying almost no tax to speak of. ''The mills recently built and now under construction by our leading mill architects, located in the Piedmont belt, are the equal of anything in New England, both in design, construc tion aud equipment of machinery, nothing over-looked to make them complete. They have also reduced the cost of building of $20 per spindle formerely down to $15aud$lG, includ ing tenements for help. Owing to be ing able to run day and night, they arc also equipping mills with half of the machinery for carding and spin ning departments?say, for running 1.000 looms?operating their carding and spinning day and night, thus sup plying the looms for the day's run. This enables them to get the produc tion of a 40,000 spindle mill, and hav ing to buy equipment for only 20.000 spindles 'in carding and spining rooms. "It is very clear we cannot stand in Massachusetts any more adverse legis lation against our industries for the Southern mills can make dividends while their Northern competitors are selling ft' Js at cost. And, in proof of this, many of the Southern corpor ations have been paying steady and continuous dividends during the hard times of the last twelve months."? New l'nr!: Journal of Commerce. Deafness Cannot be Curtd by lcc.il applications, as they cannot reach the diseased portion of the car. There is only one way to cure Deafness, and that is by consiitu lional remeiies. Deafness is caused by an inflam ed condition of tho mucous lining of tho Eustach ius Tulio. When this tubo gets inflamed you have rumbling found or imperfect hearing, and when it is entirely c'oscd deafness is the result, and unless the inllamation can be lateen out and this tubo restored to its normal condition, hearing will be destroyed forever ; nine cases out of ten are caused by catar rah, which is nothing but an in flamed condition of the Elicona siirfaacs. Wc will give One Hundred Dn'.larj for any case of Deafness (caused by cater?hi that cannot be wired by Hall's Ca??rrji r>-r Send for eiMoJars, tiro. P. J. C??t**EY i CO., Tofeflo-, O. 4S-8oId by Dru&iil's, 75?. OUR FEATHERED FRIENDS. Usefulness in Destroying Insects and Seeds of Noxious wreds. To the Editor of The News and Courier: I have long marked with ap proval the intelligent and persistent effort of the News and Courier to arouse public interest in the preser vation1 of our birds. This, in my opin ion, is indeed a "campaign of educa tion," of infinitely greater value to the State than any we are likely to have upon political topics. With the view of contributing my mite to the cause, and at the risk of the suggested "writ de lunatico," etc, I again intrude upon your space. It is, in my opinion, a great mistake that more attention is not paid in the education of our youth to the study of birds. The greater part of our popu lation is, and it is hoped will ever re main, agriculturists, and our feather ed friends are of such inestimable val ue to the farmer that his children should be made well acquainted with them. Strange as it may appear to sone of your readers I fail to recall a single one of our native or migratory birds which is not of value to the "farm?even the predatory hawks. While they do levy occasional contri butions upon the poultry yard, they more than pay for this single item of damage by the destruction of the young of minks, weasels and rats, in keeping within reasonable bounds the numbers of black birds and crows, and in preventing the multiplication of rabbits to the danger point. The birds of prey, like beasts of prey, were de signed by Infinite Wisdom for wise purposes, and the absence of such (as in Australia, for instance,) would prove a great ourse to the country. The crow is generally under this ban, and as an outlaw is legitimate game at all seasons. Fortunately, perhaps, for us, he is very well able to take care of himself and defies all efforts to reduce his numbers. About the only two things I have ever had to complain of the crow was the pulling up of young corn in the spring and the destruction of melons later on, and I wish to tell my brother farmers how both may be avoided at little cost of either money or labor. As is well known the crow is the wariest and most suspicious of birds, and, taking advantage of this characteristic, sd? that is necessary to keep him away from any giv.en place is to string a lot of threads at intervals of not exceeding thirty or forty feet across the forbidden space, suspend ing small streamers of cloth or bolls of cotton lint therefrom at convenient points. If any farmer will buy two and a half cents' worth per acre of strong factory thread and string it across his corn field or melon patches, at the proper time, using canes or very small poles to hold it above the horses heads while cultivating, I guarantee that he will lose no corn in that field and that his melons will not be touch ed by them. This is infinitely better than wasting time hunting them with guns or killing out all the useful birds upon the land in the insane attempt to poison the crows. It is perhaps well within the truth to say that one hun dred partridges, doves and other use ful birds are poisoned every year to one crow, by use of strychnine in grain. Such folly ought to be prohibited un der the head of malicious mischief. ' All of the birds which winter here, excepting the hawk, owl, vulture ana prikerwood tribes, necessarily subsist during the greater part of that season upon grain, vegetables and grass seeds and without their assistance the nox ious weeds and grapes would take the land in spite of the farmers' efforts at destruction. The quantities of weed and grass seeds annually destroyed by quail, doves, field larks, thrushes, jorees, red birds, sparrows and snow birds is simply incalculable, while during<jthe summer each and every one of those tbat remain here'lives upon mixed rations of fruit and insects exercising a wisdom which might well be emulated by the human race in never bringing a family into existence until there ?3 plenty at hand to rear it upon. Of all our native "insect police" the quail is the most valuable. It never feeds its young, but as soon as hatched takes the whole brood, twelve to fourteen in number, abroad to be gin a summer campaign against every thing that creeps, hops or flies in the shape of bug. Their range is local and as well defined as the barnyard fowl, and within that range certain death awaits the bug or insect that shows himself by day. The mocking bird and thrush are almost equally valuable and much more domestic, al though more fond of fruit and berries. I remember on one cloudy morning (I am fond of cloudy mornings for that kind of job) I was hoeing in the gar den, where the cut worm was playing havoc among the young plants. A brown thrush, which had its nest and a lot of young just "over the garden wall," came near me and picking up a cut worm, flew away to her young, and this was repeated six times in fifteen miuutes. No reasonable sum could have induced me to harm that pair, for, aside from their beauty of form and melody of song, (one of the sweet est we have.) there was ocular demon stration of the vast utility of ? our friends from a practical point of view. "Sweet-mouth Kate," the beautiful and domestic cat bird, whose liquid notes at eventide are even sweeter than the mocking bird's, is an excel lent insect policeman and should be encouraged and protected. All of our migratory birds arc al most purely insectivorous?that is the reason they go South in winter, be cause they could not live here, as the lamented blue birds found out. I am greatly obliged to your Spartanburg correspondent for the hope that we will have them again?when they have time to multiply and replenish. To the migratory class belong the fly catchers and their name is legion, and the superb scarlet tawager, whose sweet notes in the oaks outside are ringing as I write. A prettier and more welcome visitor never made his appearance than this same gaudy wing tanagcr, with his little silent brown mate, nesting year by year on the very tip ends of the oak limbs just beneath my windows. Another very valuable bird of passage, which rarely ever nests here, is what is known as the robin red breast, really the mi gratory thrush. I regret to note .a rapid decrease in number at each ap pearance, and fear unless some means arc taken to prevent it we" may evi dently lose him entirely. About the first of March of each year they ap licar (formerly in vast numbers) drift ing slowly Northward, for they nest along the lakes and in Canada. Com iug just at the time of the first break ing of the soil for the yearly crops they follow the ploughman in the fur rows and destroy untold slugs, grubs, cut woman and other noxious* insects. ?S For fifteen to twenty days they arc ?JB with us, and then slowly disappear, to H come again in October, on their way ra back to the 'South. They are fairly good eating, very gentle, and fall easy .jj victims to the poorest gunner, and are ?jM evidently being rapidly destroyed. '}\ They should be protected by thc:^ But this letter is already too longue and will be brought to a close. What 1 I started out to say, and will say now?|3 is that at least a part of the time now -jg devoted in the public sohools-WVthlf^ acquisition of much less useful-know ledge might and should be given to tho | study of birds, their habits, uses and ? relation to the lives of our people, - with great advantage and pleasure to ;^ the students. ?s you so well say the*vj| hope of reformation lies with the ris-::|| I ing generation, and I may add in plain 1 intelligent and truthful information's^! re -ding this interesting and beanti-/; J I fui part of God's creation. W. B. Davi?. Landsford, S. C, June 3,1897. *J AH Sorts of Paragraphe. ? The 23,000 newspapers in Amer- \ ica employ 200,000 people. ? Word3 hurt worse than blows ' and heal more than balsams. J ? Palestine is about one-fourth as \ large as the State of New York. g ? A cheerful face is nearly as good for an invalid as healthy weather. ? Discontent is the want of all | self-reliance ; it is infirmity of will. ?JS I ? Better be called a fool for doing -1 right than be a fool i a doing wroog. I ? Brother Talmage says there are I lots of men who start for heaven too '.^ late to get past quarantine. ? Stockings were first worn in tho ;M Eleventh century : before that cloth bandages were used o;a the feet. v ? The queen of Shan has the small est feet yet seen on a titled woman. ] She wears one and and a half in boots. S ? When a man owes more to His hatter than he does to his shoemaker, in he supposed to be "head over heels ? - - in debt?" ?- W. T. Boberts, widower, aged seventy-six years, and Mrs. Mary Martin, aged seventy- ? years, are alleged to have eloped in Florida to . I get married. ? An old Georgia darky, on beingj asked if he believed that the whale ,:'M swallowed Jonah, replied : "Yes, suh ; J| Jonah didn't have nowhars else ter go; kase house rent wuz due an' do bailiffs wuz atter him !" ? A novel fight was witnessed in j Texas recently, where a negro was :f pitted against a wildcat. The negro'e flesh was fearfully lacerated, and after a half hour time was called and tho , wildcat declared winner. ? At San Meto, Fla., a team of j mules became entangled in a wild grape vine tnd disturbed a nest of hornets. Before the mules could be extricated the hornets had stung them to deatn,\ and all in the short space of five min- J utes. ? The poorest circumstances in life with a religious spirit of resignation, are far better than the greatest abun dance and highest honors without it ; for these cannot give that peace of mind which the others can never want. ? "You know," said the pastor to the newly wedded pair, "it's the wife'? duty to obey her husband and follow him wherever he may go." "I won't ; ?|| do it," pouted the bride. "You won't?" "How can you expect me ? He's a letter carrier." ? "A young man is coming to see 3 my sister right along now. Every time I go into the parlor he gives me some money to go out and buy some candy, "^fM and then when I come back sis won't j let me stay in the parlor 'cause my hands is sticky. That's why I don't see much of him." ? There is nothing better for a cut than powdered rosin. Pound it until j fine, and put into an empty clean pep perbox with perforated top, then.you ]v-vfi can easily sift it on the cut; pnJtj^oft^ cloth around the injured membcrTand wet it with cold water once in a while. It will prevent inflammation and sore ness. ? Mothers will find Chamberlain's .;?. Cough Bemedy especially valuable for croup and whooping cough. It will || give prompt relief and is safe and pleasant. We have sold it for several years and it has never failed to give the most perfect satisfaction. G. W. Bichards, Duquesne, Pa. Sold, by Hill-Orr Drug Co. ? A little grandchild of Mr. Hugh Helms, who lives in Mecklenburg county, North Carolina, pulled up an \ onion a few days ago and bit off the head and a small portion of the stem. The child's grandmother, discovering blood in its mouth, made examination. and to her horror found that the child had bitten ol? a snake's head and was chewing it with the onion. The stem of the onion was very large and hollow and had been broken off some distance from the top and the snake had crawled into the hollow of the stem. ? Mr. James Perdue, an old soldier ^ residing at Monroe, Mich., was se verely afflicted with rheumatism but received prompt relief from pain by using Chamberlain's Pain Balm. He says: "At times my back would ache so badly that I could hardly raise up. If I had not gotten relief I would not be here to write these few lines. || Chamberlain's Pain Balm has done me a gre&t deal of good and* I feel very & thankful for it." . For sale by Eill Orr Drug Co. ? "How far is it from here to Brushburg ?" asked a tourist of an old fellow who was hoeing weeds in a field of coin "down south." "Is it far?" "Waal, it hain't so very far, nor it hain'i; so very nigh. If you go around by the road it's ferdei nor it is nigh, but if you cutacrost country it's nigh er nor it is fer, an' if you keep right straight ahead it's kinder betwixt ' nigh an' fcr, but it's considerable of a ja'nt from byar no matter how you git thar." ? If it required an annual outlay j); of $100.00 to insure a family against any serious consequences from an at tack of bowel complaint during the year there are many who would feel it their duty to pay it; that they could not afford to risk their lives, and those of their family for such an amount. Any one can get this insurance for 25 ':.;? cents, that being the price of a bottle - *i of Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and "1: Diarrhoea Bemedy. In almost every ;? neighborhood some one has died from ' ^i an attack of bowel complaint before medicine could be procured or a phy?--^ ician could be summoned. One or .-.<-' two doses of this remedy will cure any ordinary case. It nevei fails. Can .'M you afford to take the riskjforso smallerai as Mj3unt? For uiale by Jftll-Orr ; ? Drug Cq. 7 V: