The Anderson intelligencer. (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, September 22, 1897, Image 1
BY CLINKSCALES & LANGSTON.
ANDERSON, S. C, WEDNESDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 22, 1897.
VOLUME XXXIII.- NO. 13.
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RESULT :
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We have them in StocK
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The best and cheapest line of Ladies' Oxfords to be
found anywhere, and we are going to close them out at
Factory prices.
We also have leaders in Men's and Ladies' High Cut
Shoes?the best that can be bought for cash.
Call and see us at once and get a bargain.
mi
J.JL
Under Masonic Temple, Anderson, S. C.
We have made big preparations for
an immemse business this Fall. . .
WE have one of the LARGEST and best selected Stocks ever brought
to Anderson, consisting of?
DBY GOODS, NOTIONS, SHOES, ITS ? GROCERIES.
They vere bought very low, and are bound to go at the prices we?have
made on them.
REMNANTS.
We have been very fortunate, indeed, in our purchases of Remuants.
We have thousands of yards of Calicoes, Percales, Duck, &c. You cau find
just what you want at unheard of low prices.
STAPLE DRY GOODS.
Prints, Bleached Goods, Shirtings, Outings, Dress Goods, Sheetings, &c.,
at very low prices. 52 inch fast color Turkey Red Damask at 15c per yard.
MEN'S S HIRTS.
This is where we will do you good. Outing Shirts 15c, Buckskin Shirts
24c, Wool Overshirts 34c, Laundered Negligee Shirts 34c, 49c, 75c, worth
?1.25. Our line of White and Colored Shirts are unsurpassed.
SHOES.
This is our pet Hue. In our Shoe Department you can find anything
you waut, any style you want, from the cheapest to the finest pateut leather.
Remember, we are Headquarters for Shoes.
Now, one word in regard to our way of doing business. All our Sales
men are instructed to refund money as cheerfully as they receive it when
Goods are not perfectly satisfactory. We are always anxious to correct any
and all mistakes. Polite and courteous attention to all.
Very respectfully,
D. C. BROWN & BRO.
Now the time to select your Mower and Rake.
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Shipped in Car lots?the buyer gets the advantage in freight.
We guarantee these Machines absolutely. Unequalled, the
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And all kinds of Farm Machinery at figures to meet any hon
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SAM JONES.
Rev. Sam Jones Writes on Kow to Get
Dollars.
Atlanta Journal.
A man can vrork for a dollar, or
gamble for a dollar, or steal a dollar,
or borrow a dollar. There are many
ways to get money, but there is but
one right way, and that is to give in
exchange for the dollar you get value
received. When a man, white or col
ored, plows all day for seventy-five
cents or a dollar, he gives in return
for the dollarhe receives its full worth.
The men who wield the blacksmith's
hammer, the house carpenter's imple
ments, the miner'3 pick, the mason's
trowel, if they be honest men, give in
return full worth for all they receive.
Money that comes by inheritance is
not, as a rule, the best money. Money
that comes from a disreputable busi
ness, such as selling liquor, is bad
money from start to finish. Money
that a lawyer receives for doing a dirty
thing for his client will dirty the law
yer that gets it. So all the way down
the line, honesty is not only the best
policy but it furnishes the only basis
and foundation on which the perma
nent structure of good character can
stand.
I know, in these days, that money
not only makes the filly go, but it
makes everything else that wears hair
go ; and it moves a bald-headed man
tolerably well. And I know it is true
largely that a man's bank account de
termines not only his business stand
ing but his social position, and fre
quently his position in the Church of
God ' itself. In the last few weeks
gambling in stocks?futures, corn,
cotton and wheat, has made many rich
and many poor.
Klondike and dollar wheat catch the
boys coming nnd going. I wish i
could be so that every man who deal
in futures in the next ten years would
lose every dollar he put into it?bears
and bulls alike. That would have
tendency to check this greedy spiri
that speculates and gambles on the
bread and meat and clothes of the
honest laboring men of this country
We cannot legislate cotton and corn
wheat and oats exchanges out of the
country. The fellows that run'these
machines can buy legislation off ; an
can run and be assured of perfect im
muity in their reckless schemes an
dishonest methods. It is a sin in the
sight of God, and whatever is sin we
had better let alone. I have in a sense
k^pt the record of these speculators
from the millionaires down to the lit
tie patrons of bucketshops. Sooner
or later, as a rule, they go down in
financial ruin and moral wreck.
I wish the young men of this coun
try could see that a legitimate busi
ness, honestly conducted, giving value
received for all incomes, was the only
way to permanent success. Oh, the
wrecks along this river from source to
mouth?the river of speculation, of
gambling ; and I believe a buckctshop
is as much a gambling institution as
any faro bank run in Chicago or New
York. To play on the puts and calls
of the wheat pit is as much gamblin
as any game of studhorse poker ever
played in California. Some of the
brightest, brainiest, cleverest young
men Georgia ever produced have been
swallowed up in the maelstrom of spec
ulation. I see the Journal this week
reported that a game of poker was
going on in Atlanta undetected by the
police, and so on. I am as much op
posed to poker, faro banks and seven
up for the dollar as any man on this
continent, but one dirty buckctshop
in Atlanta will wreck more young men
in a month than every faro bank and
poker gam? that has been run in At
lanta since the war. I care not how
pure the motive may be, how honest
the endeavor may be when a man goes
into speculations?I don't care how
honest he thinks he is, he is like the
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A
'little child fondling and playing with
a rattlesnake in his hands. Neither
the enchantment nor pleasure of the
child in fondling the snake counteracts
the poison or saves its life after the
bite.
I keep saying that character out
ranks everything, but that manhood
outranks money and God is still above
gold. When I was in Texas a few
months ago I heard a well authenti
cated case of this kind whbh happen
ed in that community. ? local Meth
odist preacher?a plain, unassuming
man?was riding into town on horse
back. Passing one of his neighbor's
homes on the way the neighbor step
ped out of his gate and asked the
preacher if he would take a check to
town and bring back $5,000 in cash
for him ; that he had bought a piece
of land and the man was there with
the deed to deliver and he wanted to
pay him the money. The preacher re
plied he would certainly do him the
kindness to bring him the money.
Ile rode on into town and when through
with his business went to the bank,
got the money, put it in his pocket,
got on his horse and started home.
He hadn't ridden more than three or
four miles from town before a man
stepped out from behind some bushes
with a drawn pistol, saying : "Give
me that five thousand dollars."
The local preacher replied :
"I won't do it, sir."
"Well, if you don't I will kill you,"
replied the highwayman.
"All right," said the preacher, "you
can get the money after I am dead,
but not while I am alive."
"What do you mean ?" said the
highwayman, "don't you know that I
will kill you for that money if I must
kill you to get it ?"
"Yes," said the preacher, "I think
you will, but you will have to kill me
to get it."
The highwayman then said to the
preacher : "What do you mean by
this ? Do you think more of that
man's five thousand dollars than you
think of your life ?"
"No," replied the preacher, "but I
do think more of my character than I
do of my life. I have a wife and sev
eral boys and girls at home. Their
husband and father is known as an
honest, upright man. If I give you
this money and then go to the man
whose money it is and tell him that I
was robbed on the highway, he would
never believe me. My character
would be gone and my children dis
graced. So I affirm to you, sir, that I
think more of my character than I do
of my life. If you will have the
money, whack away with your gun."
The highwayman looked at him and
said :
"I haven't it in my heart to shoot a
man like you. Go on with your life
and money too."
A few month's afterwards this high
wayman did kill a man, was convicted
aud sentenced to be hanged. To a
visiting preacher he confessed, among
other things, these facts in reference
to the local preacher, The visiting
pastor went to the local preacher and
asked him if itwas true. "Yes," said
he, "it occurred just as the highway
man has related it to you."
"Why," said the visiting pastor,
"you never said anything aboutit."
"No," said the local preacher, "I
never have said anything about it. I
never told my wife about it."
"Why ?"
"Because I didn't think itwas any
thing to talk about. Some people
might have thought that I was telling
a falsehood or trying to give an illus
tration of my bravery or something of
that kind ; but the thing occurred just
as related."
"Oh, if we had a citizenship like
this, where every man and boy thought
more of his character than he did of
his life, and would die before he'd
bring reproach upon himself or his
family. Then we wouM have a world
worth living in. But chattels are put
above character now and men ruin
their character, kill their consciences
and damn their souls for dollars and
cents. And in the end they realize
that they made a bargain that -bank
rupted them here and ruined them
hereafter. Let every man be true to
his own character and honest with all
those with whom he has dealings.
Sam P. Jones.
A Boy's Wondrous Travels.
Traveling from Finland to Alaska
without speaking a word that anyone
uuderstood, without a single travelling
companion or without meeting a per
son who knew him, from one end of
the journey to the other, is no small
undertaking, but it has just been com
pleted by an eight-year-old boy.
Magnus Nessier left a pleasant home
in far-away Finland on June 3 to join
his father and mother, who are work
ing at Douglas City. He made his
long voyage across the great pond in
the steerage of one of the big ocean
steamers. Here he was not so lonely,
as there were other Finlanders on the
boat, who talked the language he could
understand. At New York there was
no delay, owing to a carefully written
shipping card which had been sewed
securely on the back of his coat before
he started on the long journey. This
did away with the necessity of talking
as far as his getting through without
delay was concerned. His ticket had
been purchased to cover the entire
distance, and the card directed him to
Circle City Hotel, at Juneau. He
reached Seattle in time to make good
connections with the Alaska boat, and
was forwarded to Douglas by friends.
His father and mother have not seen
him since he was a babj', over seven
years ago, when they left Finland to
come to the United States. Magnus
is a well-built boy, with hair and eyes
characteristic of his race. He is ex
ceptionally bright, and has already
picked up some English. He made
friends with everybody on the steamer
whom he came in contact with, al
though he could only talk to them by
signs.?Seattle Times.
? Wild horses have become so
much of a nuisance in Northern Ari
zona that Attorney General Frazier
has been asked if they may not legally
be slaughtered. That vicinity has
been overrun by several large bands,
hundreds in number, unbranded and
unclaimed by any one. They have
rapidly increased in number, and have
become wilder than deer and vicious
as well. The matter lias been referred
to the live stock board.
? In the house of a deaf mute
brother and sister, William and Julia
Panics, who have lived alone on a
farm near Columbus, Mo., an investi
gating committee of neighbors found,
after the death of the brother at 77
years, money to the amount of $5,000
hidden about in all sorts of places.
? A good ripe, raw apple is one of
the easiest of vegetable substances for
the stomach to deal with, the whole
process of its .digestion being com
uk^Jin eighty-five minutes.
WIDOW SKININER'S BIKE.
Jep Jones tells how it Aroused Public
Opinion.
Squan Creek folks never did take
kindly to the bike, but when it fust
appeared the town was agin it fur all
she was wuth. It wasn't a fish.-net, a
lobster-pot, a pair of oyster-tongs, or
anything else that could be made use
of in our bizness, and we set our faces
agin it, and determined to keep 'em sot.
Deacon Spooncr's son came up from
Philadelphia ridin' a bike; and the
Deacon met him at the gate, and sez:
"Jim, I'm powerful glad to see ye,
but we are all agin the rbikc in Squan
Creek."
"What's the matter of the bike?"says
Jim.
"Tain:t nateral. It ain't a wagin
nor it ain't a Avheclbarrer. It's jest
an invenshun of Satan's to captur'
more souls. Any pusson as will ride
around on one o' those things will
gamble, hoss-racc, chaw terbackcrand
steal a dead widder's gravestun. If
ye'll cast it aside and git a hand
sled, I'll kill the fatted calf; but
if ye won't, I'll hev to forbid ye the
house."
At that Jim got mad and rode off,
callin' his pop a lunatic and everybody
else a fuie, but Squan Creek was with
the Deacon. We called a public meet
in' and passed resolushions in his
praise, and sich was. the feelin1 to
wards him that he could hev borrow
ed a dollar of any man in town without
giving his note as security.
Two weeks later sunthin' more hap
pened?sunthin' that stirred up socie
ty clear down to the mud and kept
things bilin' fur several weeks. The
widder Skinner, who had all along
been daring public opinion by sittin'
on the fence, skatin' on rollers and
playin' billiards, scut to New York
fur a bike, ft got around town that
she was going to hev one, and we
talked it over and sent Silas Codding
ton to her to find out all about it. He
found her smokin' a cigarette, and as
soon as he could choke his hear? back
down into his chest, be sez:
"Widder Skinner, is it true that you
hev sent up to New York fur one of
them soul-destroyers called a bike?"
"You bet your life I hev!" replies
the widow.
"And ar' ye goin' to ride it?"
"I am, and don't ye fergit it!"
Silas had to wait until his knees
got over wobblin' before he could go
on:
"But rnebbe you don't know that
Squan Creek is agin the bike, even fur
men?"
"I don't know and I don't keer!"
says the widder, as she lighted anoth
er cigarette.
"It'll be the destruction of society,
and mebbe the town itself," sez Silas.
"Can't we coax ye to civc over on yer
idea?"
"Not a coax!" sez the widder.
"Then we might raise a purse of
?50 to buy ye off. Sodom aud Go
morrow was destroyed fur bein' wick
ed, and we don't want Squan Creek to
be sunk 50 feet in the mud. Will ye
gin up the bike and attend prayer
meetin' if wc raise$50?"
"No, nor fur $5,000!" sez she, and
she pitched into him and into the
town till he was glad to pick up his
hat and skip.
Three or four dayslatcr the bike ar
rived, and one evenin', jest as we had
all got through supper and turned out
on the street to smoke and tell lies
and scandalize everybody who was ab
sent, the widder Skinnerbrungouther
wheel and begun to perform. She
had never taken any lessons, but
meant to learn right there and then.
She had on a short skirt, and a shud
der of horror went up and down and
across Squan Creek. She had on leg
gins and a cap, and when Silas Cod
dington took notice of them of them
he fell agin a fence and smashed three
rods of it as flat as a pancake.
All that didn't begin with the wid
der's performance, however. She got
on and she fell off. She fell ker
splash and she fell kerplunk. Chil
dren wept, women turned pale and hid
their faces, and the men looked at
each other and felt chills crccpin' up
their backs. It was finally decided
that Joel Carter should wrassle with
the widder and let her know the drift
of public opinyun. Ile hated to do it,
but we urged him on and he finally
went up to her and said:
"Widder Skinner, if this thing gets
noised about, and of course it will,
town lots in Squan Creek won't be
wuth $50 apiece next week?"
"What d'ye want?" sez she, lookin'
up with both eyes full o' sass.
'We want ye to stop this perform
ance. I hev never bin to a circus,
and thar ain't money 'nuff in New
Jersey to hire me to go, but I guess
this is even wuss. Squan Creek calls
upon ye in the name of humanity to
quit!"
"Squan Creek kin go hang herself !"
sez the widder. as she tries to mcunt
and makes another tumble of it.
"Then let me appeal to ye in the
name of the Lord," sez Joel as he
grows more airnest. "He is lookin'
down on Squan Creek and on you, and
I'm fearin' you'll be turned into a
pillar of salt and the town overwhelm
ed by a high tide."
"Now, then," says the widder, as
she gits up with blood in her eye,
"I'm goin' to rido this bike or break
my neck, and all you can do or say
won't stop me! (?it outer my way
and gimme a show, and any of you
who don't like it can go hang ycr
selves!"
That was the last appeal made to
her. Everybody realized that she
was sot, and that tal kin' would do no
good. Jim Hopeful, the Constable,
ogcred to arrest the widder fur bein'
a circus without a license, but it was
decided to hold an indignashun meet
in' instead. One was called that very
night, and seven different speakers
got up and said that the morals of
Squan Creek was ruined forever, and
that bizness would fail off till a crow
couldn't find pickens. Then it was?
"Resolved, That the widder Skin
ner. bovin1 busted up Squan Creek by
pcrformin' on a bike, she ar' to be no
longer recognized in this community
as a female and a human bein', and
may ( ! od hev mercy on her soul!
Also, that special prayers he prayed
all next week tint the Creator don't
hold this thing up agin us and bint
out the town."
A copy of the above resolushions
was writ out and handed to the wid
der in person by I'hilctus Jackson,
but she tore the paper up and laughed
in his face, and within a week she was
cavort' 1 around on the soul-destroy
in' niashccn and makin' hogs and dogs
and human folks git outer her way or
take the consckenccs. Some folks
thought she'd move away, or that the
Lord would call her hence, but she
stuck right to Squan Creek for two or
three years, and when she left it thar'
was over 20 wimin folks ridin' wheels
and tellin' society to go to grass.
Even old Silas Coddington was coax
ed to try and ride one. and if he hadn't
broke two ribs and busted his shoul
der the fust time he got up thar' we
would likely hev bin treated to the
awful spectacle of a gray-haired man
goin' down to the bottomless pit at the
rate of 20 miles an hour.
M. Quad.
History of Horseshoeing.
The very recent strike of horsc
shoers in London, which was happily
of short duration, may serve to call to
memory some facts and traditions that
go to prove the high antiquity of the
craft, says the Pall Mall Gazette, and
its immense influence on the progress
of civilization, as far as the services
of the horse are concerned in advan
cing the interests of mankind. Though
the horseshoer is very often, if not
generally, designated, '"farrier," yet
this term is misleading nowadays, if
it ever was correct in indicating his
special function. The faberferrarius,
from which the term "farrier" is
doubtless derived, was a worker in
iron of any kind or fashion, and,
though in the earliest periods of his
history he shod horses and forged
various weapons and other articles,
yet the designation of "smith" was
usually applied to him in this country,
and when he began to be called a
farrier his vocation was morn than of
a shoer of horses, and later their
physician and surgeon in addition.
The antiquity of the horseshoer is,
states Mr. George Fleming, writing in
the Live Stock Journal, coeval with
the origin of the art, which is lost in
the mist of 2,000 years. In Western
Europe it was probably known to the
Celtic tribes at a very remote time,
and it may be that the Druid priests
were the teachers of horseshoeing in
those days, as they were the men who
were best acquainted with theprimi
tive arts and sciences, a knowledge of
which they contrived to surround with
a veil of mystery that clung to these
for centuries. The horseshoer was,
in the early centuries of our era, evi
dently considered a mysterious kind
of workman who pursued his calling
in a weird-like manner in a place where
no one was allowed to enter until the
steed was shod.
It is certain that for hundreds of
years the shoer was an important per
sonage, as he held a high social posi
tion and enjoyed certain special privi
leges in this country long before the
Norman invasion. This is shown iu
the Welsh triad of laws, which were
revised by Howell the Good in A. D.
911, Out which were doubtless in force
long before that date. In these laws
and regulations the Court smith, while
in the palace, was allotted a seat at
the e:ad of the bench, near the priest
of the household, and he was protected
from the time he began work in the
morning until he finished at night.
He was to be presented with clothes
for what he did for the officers of the
palace; he was entitled to the first
liquor that came into the hall, and he
was to have food for himself and
servant from the palace, as well as the
heads and feet of all cattle slaughtered
there, and other privileges.
In the Gwenthian code d*f these laws
it is stated that the smith was to sit
in a chair near the Judge beside a
column, and this columu was to be
struck by the silentiary on the side
farthest from the King when com
mandiog silence. Among the Anglo
Saxonn the shoer was also held in high
esteem, and would appear to have
received certain possessions in land
through his craft. Such was the case
with (Jamelhere, of Welbect Notting
hamshire, at the Norman invasion, as
he held certain lands on condition
that ho shod the King's horses when
ever the latter visited the Manor of
Mansfield. To Simon St. Lix, a Nor
man nobleman, who accompanied him
in his invasion, William the Conqueror
gave the town of Northampton and
the whole hundred of Falkley, to pro
vide shoes for his horses, while an
other follower, Henry de Ferres, or
Farrarlis, had bestowed on him the
honor of Tutbury, in the county of
Stafford, because he was intrusted
with the shoeing of the King's horses,
or perhaps the control of the shoers.
In 1235, during the reign of Henry
III, Walter le Brun, or Bruin, a
shoer, or mar?chal, as he was then
designated in Anglo-Saxon, had a piece
of land granted him in the strand,
parish of St. Clement's Danes, whereon
to erect '? forge, on condition that he
would render at the exchequer annual
ly for the same a quitrent of six horse
shoes with sixty-two nails belonging
thereto?-a payment, Etrange to say,
which it] still continued every year at
the sweiring in of the sheriff of Lon
don and Middlesex to the representa
tives of the sovereign, though the
said piece of ground has long been
city property. At this time, too, the
price of horseshoes and nails, as well
as shoeing, was regulated bylaws, and
these are still in evidence.
? Dr. D. C. Brinton, the archeolo
gist, said in a receut lecture that in
North and South America no less than
120 or 130 absolutely distinct languages
exist. As the growth of language is
very slow he thinks the fact of the
existence 'of so great a variety of
speech on the western continents
proves that the native red men have
inhabited them for many thousands of
years. Another proof of the antiquity
of the American Indians, according to
Dr. Brinton, is the fact that they rep
resent a distinct human type, and the
formation of such a type requires
thousands of years.
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BILL AUFS LETTER.
Arp Says that Happines3 is More Valua
ble than the Klondike.
Atlanta Constitution.
The poet says that "domestic hap
piness is the only bliss of paradise
that has survived the fall." If that
is so, and I reckon it is, what an aw
ful sin it is for a man or his wife or a
son or daughter to break it up. It is
wovse than murder, for there is only
one victim, and he is dead ; but the
destroyer of domestic happiness brings
misery to the family, and they must
live on in their sorrow. If domestic
peace and love could be purchased
with money, what a price it would
bring, and yet it can be had without
money if every member of the family
would do right. I was ruminating
about this and wondering if even the
devil was mean enough to take pleas
ure in destroying the peace of a house
hold. The book of Job does not make
him that mean, for Job suffered no
sorrow from any bad conduct of wife
or children. Satan wants worshipers,
and even dared to try to seduce the
Saviour to his allegiance ; but he did
it in an opeo, manly way, and lost.
He is an adversary?a bad one?a
powerful one ever since he was thrust
out of heaven ; but according to scrip
ture he has not yet lost his power or
his consequence, for the Lord talked
to him in Job and the Saviour had a
conference with him in Mathew, and
Michael, the archangel, had a dispute
with him about the body of Moses.
He is a bold, self-po?3ed, defiant spirit,
and uses many arts to seduce mankind
from their allegiance ; but surely he
wouldn't take away and destroy the
only bliss of paradise that is left us.
He hasent done it from Ingersoll, for
that notable man has a most loving
household, and so have many infidels
and atheists and skeptics. My opin
ion is that our original sin has more
to do with bad conduct than the devil.
We are born to sin as the sparks fly
upward, and the devil urges us on and
apologizes for every mean thing we do
and tries to comfort us, but I believe
that it is in the power of every man
and woman and son and daughter to
preserve the family peace and to make
home the most attractive place upon
the earth Then, why don't they do
it? It sickens us with sorrow to read
the family troubles in the daily papers.
Sometimes it is the husband, some
times the wife, sometimes the daugh
ter, but oftener than all together it is
the son that brings the blight and dar
kens the doors and makes parents and
sisters seek to hide from the gaze of
men. What makes the young men
do so ? Every day there is anew case
somewhere?murder, suicide, embez
zlement and all is mixed up with the
jails and courts and pictures in the
papers and the misery of kindred and
the world's cold criticism. How many
families that once moved proudly with
the social swelling throng have retired
from it to grieve over the crushing
fate of a wayward son or a daughter's
shame? How many families have
been broken down by reckless sons-in
law? I know some aged parents whose
hair has grown prematurely gray,
whose brows^are furrowed with lines
of sorrow and whose smiles are always
sad, if they smile at all.
Young men, please stop and think.
The happiness of home is worth mil
lions of dollars. It beats the Klon
dike, and is right close by, and no
frozen hills to cross. The pleasures
of a happy home excel anything upon
earth, and can be had so cheaply if
father and mother and children will
make.it so. "He thc.t troubleth his
own house shall inherit the wind."
A cross husband, a contentious, com
plaining wife, a selfish son or an indo
lent, discontented daughter can de
stroy the peace of the household.
There are some things that are worth
so much they cannot be valued.
Health of body is one of them, but
peace of mind is worth more than that.
Some years ago there was a verdict
rendered in our Court at Rome giving
$32,000 to a young man because of a
fall from the train at night and a per
manent injury to his ?pine. He was
a man of brilliant mind and high am
bition and splendid prospects, but the
doctors testified that be would be a
mental wreck, and his eloquent lawyer
drew such a sad pictura of the wreck
that the jury gave this large amount
as compensation. No bones were bro
ken nor did he suffer any pain. He
walked about and visited his friends,
and showed no sign of imbecility, but
his mental force was impaired, his
high ambition gone, and this verdict
was only an approximation of the
damage. ....
What, then, is the peace of a family
worth ? Not 'merely peace of mind,
but of heart, for the heart outranks
the mind as the miud c.oes the body.
I was ruminating about these ill-as
sorted, unhappy marriages that seem
in these later years to be more fre
quent than in the olden time, and are
the prolific source of so much domestic
trouble. The poet says :
1 How sad and dreary is the home
Where love, domestic love no longer nes
tles.
But stricken by some cruel doom
I s corpse lies on the trestlos."
I wonder how many modern marria
ges maybe called happy?in how many
families do peace and love rule the
household? Not many among the
children of the rich. I know, for they
have known no waut nor self-denial,
and cannot bear patiently any misfor
tune. And even among the poor there
is misery that the hard times have in
creased. Only yesterday a sad-faced
woman came to us begging food and
clothes for her children, and her story
was that her husband had to run away
for trying to make a living by running
a blind tiger. What a curse is this
marriage tic when hastily and unhap
pily made. If I was a girl, it seems
to me, I would rather remain single all
my life than bind myself bodj' and
soul to a young man who had no moral
principles to govern him. Tin; chains
of matrimony ! If a man commits a
crime he can give a bond and keep out
of jail, but there is no bond provided
for a poor woman who is chained to a
bad, unprincipled husband. She tim
idly shrinks from seeking a divorce,
for even that does not erase the scars
of the shackles she has won:. Her
life and her hopes arc blighted. There
is no more pitiful sight in all nature
than a good woman chained for life to
a bad unkind, unprincipled man. She
clings to her children as her only com
fort and lives only to shield them from
her shame.
But why write about these things
of sorrow ? I know they are unwel
come to my readers, but I have
thought it a duty, and that maybe
some one or more might be influenced
to stop and think. On yesterday I
received a long letter from an old
friend asking me to plead with the
young people and beg them to Btop
this mad career that seems to be in
creasing in our Southern land?this
unhallowed thirst for getting money
by short cuts and dishonest practices
?this drinking and gambling that
leads to suicide or the jail?this infi
delity to their marriage vows that de
stroys the happiness of the family.
But this will do for this time. It
is not a good day for me no how. It
is not Friday, but it is o:ae of these
hard, unlucky days that brings trou
ble in various forms. The old cow
got out last night and went foraging
in the suburbs and eat up a whole
cotton patch, and I'm expecting the
darkey every minute to come for his
damages. But that's nothing. A
little girl was rolling our little Caro
line through the long hall on a tricy
cle. The child is only two and a half
years old, and is my comfort, a little
blue-eyed beauty that we borrow
almost every day from her mother?
and I wouldn't take a million dollars
for her love. But, somehow, the
nurse cut the wheels around too sud
denly and threw Caroline violently
forward on to the iron shaft, and the
bolt on the top of it mashed out two
upper teeth and one lower one, and
bent the others in and cut her chin
badly and bruised her little lips to a
jelly, and when I took her up and saw
it all it made me heart sick. I wanted
to weep and cry aloud for grief. For
an hour or two I was nearly heart
broken, for I can't bear to see such a
helpless child suffer such agony. Her
little mouth was all broken up and
deformed. But the good Lord tem
pers such things to little children, and
now the dear little girl is getting along
nicely and sings a lisping song to her
dolly. The good book tells about a
place where there will be no more pain
or sorrow. Well, I want to go to that
place as soon as the Lord wills it ; aod
I want all my folks to go with me, and
everybody else's folks, too.
Bill Aep.
l'or the Housewife.
It is said that a good way to keep
flies from specking gilded frames is to
boil onions and dip a cloth in the
juice and rub the frames. The odor
is short lived and the flies avoid the
frames for weeks after their unique
bath. , .
Sometimes in preserving the syrup
begins to rise so rapidly that there is
scarcely a chance to remove the kettle
from the stove. In this emergency a
few teaspoonsful of cold water thrown
in will cause the syrup to subside im
mediately.
Just as good a way as any to clean
willow furniture is to make a good
strong soapsuds of some nice white
soap, with plenty of borax in the wa
ter. Use a clean scrub brush and
rinse in cold water; then place in the
bright sun to dry. It may yellow a
little, but that is not a bad fault.
Vaseline and lamp black mixed
make a good shoe black, better than
the liquid stuff you buy, but always
put it on aud set the shoes aside for
the blacking to dry in for at least 24
hours. Then rub the shoes well with
a flannel cloth, otherwise the dust will
gather on the leather and make it
grimy and gray.
Teach everybody about the house
to save all the strings that comes into,
it. Start a ball and wind, each new
bit of string on that. Don't tie it,
but just wind on. When about as big
as a baseball begin a new ball. Keep
these balls for ready reference all over
the house. You have no idea what a
convenience they soon become.
The greasy stains made by heads on
the paper back of the couch can often
be removed without trouble by mixing
pipe clay or fuller's earth to a paste
with water, of which apply a thick
plaster to the wall paper. Leave it
there to dry, and when brushed off it
will be found that the clay has absorb
ed all the oil. If not quite all gone
apply it again.
In preparing mashed potatoes, re
member that the potatoes should be
just done, and no more. Do not let
them wait until you are ready to mash
them, but pour off the water and mash
at once if you would have them light.
If they need to be kept hot, set on the
back of the range or over hot water,
covered with a coarse meshed towel,
that will allow the moisture to escape.
If treated in this way they will keep
sweet and light an hour or more; but
if they are covered close, they will be
heavy, dark and strong flavored.
To boil apples, and they are better
than baked ones, get them well of
size, wash and core. Put evenly in a
tin pan, pour over them a cup of wa
ter and let them cook for 10 minutes.
Then nearly cover them with boiling
water, fill the holes where the cores
were with sugar and pour two cups of
sugar to a dozen apples over the top
of all. Let the apples cook till done
turning over once. Pour ofl' the
juice and put it over the fire to cook
to a jelly. Then pour it over the ap
ples. A single clove in the boiling
juice gives a delicious flavor.
Never wash black hose in which
white clothes have been wash
ed, because the lint will stick to them,
and soon make them look gray. The
best way to wash black hose is to
take them by themselves and wash in
ammonia water with some good soap.
Rinse, in very blue water and hang
wrong side out, in a place sheltered
from the sun, but where they will dry
quickly. Always shake and iarush
stockings well before putting into the
water and turn all colors wrong; side
out. Then if they have a mind to
streak the streaks will be on the in
sides, where they will not show.
A new way of serving the large,
soft peaches is to cut them iu two,
that they may be eaten out of the skin
with a spoon. Always serve a doiley
with peaches, as there is no fruit
stain so difficult to remove. An old
housewife's superstition used to be
that if the peach stain of one year
laid aside until the next, when the
peach trees were in blossom,- the com
bined action of sun and grass bleach
ing would remove the stain. The
modern housewife, however, feels that
a year is too long to wait on a ven ture,
and, with characteristic promptness,
attacks the offending spit with renew
ed applications of javelle water or
chlorate of lime until it disappears.
? The railways of the world carry
every day between 10,000,000 and 17,
000.000 passengers.
? If a man has horse sense he al
ways knows when to say neigh.
How's This.
^BTc offer One Hundred Dollars reward for any
ca '( Catarrh that cannot be cured by Hall'?
Cai -rh Cure.
We, the undersigned have known F. J. Cheney
for the Ut 15 years, and believe h ira perfectly
honorable in all business transactions and finan
chilly able to carry out any obligations made by
their firm.
West A Truax, Wholesalo Orugelsts, Toledo, O.
Walding. Kinnan A Marv*. Wholesale Drug
gisti, Toledo. O.
a 'e Catarrh Cure is taken internally, acting
directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces oi
the s^lfm. T^?mcrnlftl? sent free. Price 75c.
pcrWttle 8dia orati druggflte.
STEAL THE NAME !
STEAL THE MAN!
Eight years ago we began busines
in Anderson, S. C, on an
principle. Oar capit?r?n"
sisted entirely of an "Idea."
If that Idea had been lost, all wont
have been lost. That idea was si
cash always, and the most goods
the least money?or better goods foi
the same money.
The. idea proved a good one and!
catching in the extreme. Oar little!
store-front was painted red. In ten
days another store was painted red.]
We marked at a certain and lew,
cent, and in less than a week anc
store opened up and advertised.
the same thing. We gave our am
significant name and in two wee)
terward one of our competitors!
out a sign bearing the same namejj
another sign bore a similar name<?
adopted Red wrapping paper, ani
less than two months two other et?jj
were wrapping with red papen
adopted a certain way of signing'<
name, and from time to time since);*
notice the same style is used,
sionally we have heard of otKer met
being called by the name originally!
given to the undersigned.
They take our name-andTadopt our
plans, but these eventually fall
through. They sometimes fall of their
own weight, as for instance, when
they are paying up old debts by con
tracting new ones. By buying old
and second-hand or auction-house
goods, in order to make a low price,
with which to meet onr figures on.
Fresh, new goods,, bought direct from
the manufacturers ioTr-.-spot cash and
shipped in oar load lots; thereby sav
ing from 40 to 50 per cent of the
freight.
They can steal everything but our
figures on first-class, new goods and
those they can't touch. As for in
stance, watch below. ^We have been
selling and will continue to sell
The Red Star Match at 3c. adosen <
boxes. The Parlor Match, 200s, at
10c. a dozen boxes. Extra LoDgSlale
Pencils, 3c. per box; short ones are
worth less money. 50 good sewing
Needles, 2 papers for lc; others
charge lc. to 2} cents per paper for
same. 6 good lead pencils for lc. or
2c. a dozen. Good envelopes, at lc.
per pack of 25. 2 pairs good heavy
Sox. 5c. 3 pairs good Black Sox, 12c.
Fine dress Shirts, already laundered,
at 15c. each, or 2 for 25c: 3 - battons
given free with each shirt. Good
Shirts, 10c. each. Children's waists,
10c. each. B oy's heavy Undershirts,
10c. or 12ic. each. 1000 good Pins
for 5c. 5c. Handkerchiefs, at % for
5c. Good table oil-cloths, 10c.-and
12}c. per yard. 10c. and 15c. grade
perfumery, at 5o. per bottle. 288
good shirt buttons for 5c. Good Tur*
key red Table-cloth, 15c. per yard.
Finest class Table-cloth, 24c. per
yard. A very heavy Jeans pants, at
50c. per pair.
But the thing of all others that tears
loose the very heartstrings of compe
tition is?well, shall we say it or not?'
Yesj let her gal Hew to the line, let
the chips fall where they may: Let
Competition stand it if they can.
It is! It is! It is our Free Silk
Soap! The largest bar of good Soap -
for 5c, and absolutely given away
with each bar a 10c spool of the best .
Silk. One barrel of Tea Spobnsto go
at lc. per set. One fair, legitimate
profit is all we want and all we expect
to get. If others want more don't pay
it. We have saved you money in the
past and will do so in the future..
Come to see us often.
Yours always truly,
CT S. MINOR and the
TEN CENT STORE,
27 South side of Public Square.,
6 big bars of good Soap and 600
yards of best Sewing Silk for 25c
READ, READ!
COLUMBUS BUGGY CO.,
Manufacturera of
FINE VEHICLES FOR THE TRADE,
' It
Columbus, Ohio, August 28,1897.
MR. JOSEPH J. FRET WELL, Ander
son, S. C.
Dear Sir : Throagh oar Mr. Ratherford
we are banded jour order for twenty
vehicles. We desire to thank yon for this
order and to say that wo-will do our part *ts
to try and send yon nice goods and each
as will help to sell themselves.
For the past year the Cjlumbns Boggy
Co. has been our. of active business, and a
great many competitors have given to the
trade the idea that we either would not
resume business, or that if we did, we
would not make the same high grada
vehicles which we have been building for
the past fifteen years
We want to say that we expect to be in
the trade and to get onr share of it, and
besides tbat we expect to build the same
bigb grade vehicles that we alwavs have
and improve wherever practical. We can
not afford to do anything else.
A great many concerns, and some of
them from this city, bave been selling
goods to dealers who bave given their ,
customers the idea that they wore boyhig_
a genuine Columbus Bag*y Co's. baggyT^^'
not doing their customers j astice In advis
ing them that tbere la a ' vast difference
between a Columbus buggy and a Coloni* ' .
bus Carriage Co's. buggy.
Dealers well know trn* reputation of our
goods and their high quality, and try io
give their customer the' idea tbat they are -
selling our goods. In this way' they un
willingly pay a tribute to onr work.
Anything tbat we can do for you to
correct this wrong impression or to assist
you in disposing of the vehicles, We shall
take pleasure in doing. Again thanking
you for the order given us, we are,
Yours truly.
COLUMBUS BUGGY CQ.
Sepfl5 1897 12
Take J?T???.
We hereby notify all parties
who owe Bleckley & Fretwell
past due papers that owing to^S:
the death of our senior, Syl
vester Bleckley, that the same
must be paid at an early day,|1
not later than Nov. 1st next,
as a settlement must be made
with the heirs at law. Your ^|
prompt attention to this notice
and a compliance with same
will be duly appreciated.
Yours very truly,
JOS. #
Survivor Bleckt
Sept 15,1897