Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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DILL AR F! \ r j ? i t ? 11 ts < ? i inc; i 'i c ' Vi A .Veteran call? d'i";'-??(' mc yester ?lay. II?: was not sr? \<'>y '>?ii. hilt was ..:ray and bent ami tired. II?- lia?! been to the great rciin'Min ami was mi iiis way ba?k 1?:? Mississippi. 'I stoppe?! overa day tu see you. he <aid, ''arni t?i i<. vi>it td?' place where I was horn, hut I couldn't Hud it and am very tired, for 1 have been tramp ing i>ver the hills and valleys above herc nearly all day." The ?dd mau fanned himself with his hat and lo?ik ed sad and disappointed. 1 learned from him that ho was horn somewhere between herc and ?dd ('ashville and his mother boarded some of thc hands who were at work building the Slate railroad and there was a spring not far from their humble home. "I thought," said he, 'that 1 could lind the spring and the branch and the walnut tree and blackberry patch, hut I walked and walked and nothing looked natural. Seemed to me that everything has changed and shrunk np. The hills have washed d?iwn and thc branches nearly dried up and nobody could tell mc anything. You sec, we left here away hack in the forties, when I was a lad, and there is a new set of people, but I thought I would lind somebody or something that I remembered." The old man looked away off and siulicd. Of course wc were sorry for him, and tried to ?dicer him up. I asked him about the Hoopers and Tripps and Akin and Underwood and Latimers and Arthur IIairt\ hut he ilident re member them. Ile was a poor boy and mixed with poor boys and they had gniwn up and gone w?;st. too. How thc obi people ?lo yearn for the friends and the scenes of their youth! After Hf ti' years' absence from his native State, Judge Warner, our hon ored Chief .Justice, had this yearning to ?-orne over to bim and he, too. re isited his boyhood's home in Massa chusetts. He went with fond expec tation and came back sad and disap pointed. "My relatives were all dead or gone away," bc said. "1 found but one man who remembered me, and he was blind and in the poor house. The hills where 1 used tt) pick blue berries had been cleared omi were not KO largo or so high. Thc little branches where 1 fished for minnows had all been ditched nnd were bridged where they crossed the highways. Everything was Btrangc and 1 took no comfort and have come back to good old Georgia, my adopted mother, and here I will stay until 1 die and I wish to bo buried in her friendly bosom." Lifo seems to be but a circle, and wo would all go back to the starting point if we could. The startled hare when pursued by thc hounds Bpeeds straight forward for a time, but after a mile or two begins to bend its course, and keeps on curving until it comes panting on the home stretch to its familiar nestling place. And the pioneers tell us that wheo a hunter gets lost in the forest on a cloudy day and tries to make a bee lino for home, he makcB a curve unconsciously and gets back to his starring point. Shake speare says that old agc is but second childhood, and so thc older wc grow .tho more affection we have for chil dren and their innocent sports and pleasures. How fondly our minds and memories live over again the little plays of blind man's buff, milybright, hide and seek, trimble-toc, club-fist, hide the switch, craney crow and many -titers. How wc admire their happy laughs and growing faces as we draw \aear to them now. No wonder that George Frances Train in his gloomy moods wandered to the park and drew as many children to him as ho could and played with them on the lawn. But time shrinks more than nature. The world is not so big nor tho trees so high as when wc were children; but a year is not half so long-not a tenth part so long-as it used to bo. The days were never too long then, for they were happy; hut it seemed like a lifetime from Christmas to Christmas. Children are the sweetest part of this great bin world. Not long ago a cynical friend who has none said they were an expensive luxury; fio they are-expensive not only in money and labor and toil, but in anxi ous care; but they repay it in love a thousand fold. They are the life and comfort of every good family. What Suppose they were all grown up and there were no more to como-no day Hchools nor Sunday Schools-no play houses or toys or picture books-no babies learning to talk and say mamma or grandpa-no little chaps to follow you about and love you, and, the sad dest of all, no more mothers to fondle and caress and hug them to their bosoms. What a cold and dismal world this would be-no mothers, no fathers, no grandmas, no nothing but grown-up people who never played , horse or sang u lullaby song. / My cynical friend says that children make no return except in filial duty and no recompense but affection. Well that is enough. Parents do not S LETTER. iii 'ii .i > ? i 111. I H*t it Ht IOU. ?is?; any III ort*. Tin love and obedi ence ni' ;i good cllihl is boyoipi |>ri. . . I he ?lisohcdicuci and ?iiirruliLiitli* ol a l?ad ?nie ? s i ho most : ritcii.se nt all miseries. The ni is n??l a (.'realer con* trust upon . arid than in the joy or the sorrow that < liihiron hiing to parents. From the time of old lili until now tili-, cont rast has been 'join / on. That pour old man had the curse of i<;..il upon him because his children were sile and lie restai tied them not. I i' ll you. young friends, who have mated and married and are rearing children, you had better read and pon der the story of old Eli. The first commandment says 'I will visit the sins of the fathers upon the children," hut in this story the Lord visited the sins of the children upon the parent. The old man was cursed and the priesthood taken from his house for ever. What il' all the preachers who have had children were deposed in thoo days? How many churches would bc closed against the married clergy? Wouldn't the young theo logiaus he in demand ami have a monopoly ol' thc business until they, tort, cot marri?-'! and raised had chil ?lren? There has been much said and moro written abo. how to raise chil dren; hut tlie obi landmarks arc the best. They must be restrained and. if example and commands will not ?lo it, tluin tlnr rod must help. Line upon line, precept upon precept-her?: a little and tiler?: a little, which I suppose means whip a little on this si'le and then a little on the other side. I heard a sensible and foml mother say yesterday: "I spanked Mary Lou twice within a few minutes, and it didn't ?hi her a bit of good. Then I spanked her a third time and she has been the best little child in the world ever since." Hut every parent knows as much about this as I do. and s?i I will refrain from further advice, livery mother knows how to raise other people s children, an?! 1 know of no one who says she is tempted to move away to get ber children away from the bad influence of her neighbors' children. Th?: neighbors smile at this, for they know that she has the worst in town and they are willing for her to go. Even my wife used to think that the school teacher ought to whip every boy but hers, lt is a touching and beautiful fact that however bad a boy may bc and however abused and con demned by the community and the lawB of the land, if he has a mother he has a friend. BILI. A UP. The Modern Boy. His loving mother said. "If you will take some of the caster oil, I will let you go to the circus." "How much?" he cautiously in quired. "Oh, only a spoonful-justa spoon ful." "And you will give mc some sugar besides"" "Of course I will; a big lump," she replied. He waited till she began pouring from thc bottle, and then asked: "And will you give me ten cents, too?"' "Yea, of course." "And you will buy me a kite?" he went on, seeing his advantage. "1 guess so." "No kite, no ile!" he said as he stepped back. "'Well, I'll buy you a kite," she said tilling up the spoon. "And a bicyole?" "I'll think of it." "You can't think no caster oil down me!" he exclaimed, looking around for his hat. "Here-I will, or I'll tease father, too; and I know he will. Como, now, swallow it f^own." "And you ll buy me a goat?" "Yes." "And a coach dog?" "I can't promise that.'" "All right; no dog, no ile." "Well. I'll ask your father." "And you'll buy mc 200 marbles?" ''Yes. Now take it down." "And a pony?" "Oh, I couldn't do that. Now bc a good boy, and swallow it down." "Oh, yes! I'll swallow that stuff, I will!" he said, as he clapped on his hat. "Yon trisv foo! some other bo*-' with a circus ticket and a lump of brown sugar, but it'll take a hundred dollar pony to trot that castor-ilo down my throat!" - "Hy thc word of my father" is one of the most convincing oaths a Frenchman can use. - T. B Iii cc, a prominent druggist of Greensboro, Ga., writes as follows : "I have handled Dr. Pitts' Carmina tive for eight years, and have never known of a single instance where it failed to give perfect satisfaction. 1'ar tif-8 who once usc it always make per manent customers. Wc sell more of this article than all the other Carmi natives, soothing syrups and colic drops combined." For teething chil dren it has no equal. For sale hy Hill-Orr Drug Co. AN EXPERT'S ADVICE. < uniitr I'CH Vine Hay ami j Turning i min tun i i'uit'i .1 //.</</</ t 'ftliJititUtiOH. To answer to several inquiries we . .<. thu Following ns the plan we have practiced for several year.-' with satis i ad"ry re hits. !. As to thc proper time ti? mow the vines. 'Mit- earlier they are eut thc more succulent they are arni thc more time required to cure; hut the leaves will shed less. Hut if cut before in full hinom t ?. . - hay will not be so rich and nutritious. As a general rule, the besl time to cut is after th*' vines have corni: into full bloom, and when ever a few full-grown pods an: tobe seen herc and there. When the leaves have commenced to turn yellow and drop oil', it is au indication that thc proper time for mowing has "come and gone." 1. Wait until the dew is off each morning-never cut when the vines are at all wet. Start the mower about '.i a. m.; let it run until noon and then stop for the day. Late in the after noon rake up the cut vines and place in sharp cocks about live feet high. Next morning, after the dew is off, open these cocks and spread the hay around on thc ground. In thc late afternoon put two or three of these eoek.s together, or into one, making the tops as sharp as possible. If thc weather remains clear thc cocks may remain undisturbed until dry enough to store away in the barn, which will be in the course of three or four days -the time varying according to the condition of the weather. In case of showery weather tho partly-cured hay may be'shocked around a pole placed firmly in the ground aud stauding about twelve feet high. The ground around thc pole should be first covered with au open platform made of rails or poles laid on stones or poles; and three or four long poles or fence rails should be placed upright around the centre pole, opened out at the base and fastened at thc tops to thc centre pole. After filling the pole with hay, ii ni sh off the top with straw or crab grass. Hay caps are no* much used in the North and West, and to some ex tent in thc South, and we have used them with perfect satisfaction for several years past. One kind is made of thick paper board, in the shape of au inverted saucer and about three and a half feet in diameter. These are inverted ono over each hay-cock and thc cocks arc not then disturbed until thc hay is dry enough for the barn. But a very good hay cap may be mudo of ordinary cotton drilling or heavy cotton sheeting, by sewing to gether so as to make a sheet about six feet square, with a round eyelet hole worked in each corner. These sheets, one to each cock, should be tied down aecurely ai each corner. The hay is considered to be sufficiently cured for storing when no moisture shows on twisting the larger stems be tween the thumb and fingers. 4. There are other methods of cur ing pea vine hay, each with its advo cates. One plan, often and long com mended, is to place the freshly cut pea vines in layers, alternating with dry wheat or oat straw. We cannot recommend this plan from experi ence. One rule should be especially ob served, viz, never handle the vines when partly cured, except late in the aftcrnoou or early in the morning. Indeed, thc vines should be handled as little as possible, in order to pre vent the loss of leaves. We take occasion again, as we have often done in the past, to disapprove the practice of turning under a crop Woman's power is largely dependent upon her ability to interest, entertain, at tract and please. It is for this reason that women strive to become accomplished. They study in order that they may converse intelligently on all subjects. They strive to become good musicians, graceful dan cers and amiable hostesses. All accomplishments arc unavailing if a woman suffers from ill-health in a womanly way. The special weakness peculiar to the womanly organism, will rapidly wreck the pe ne ml hr ni (li. The sufferer will lose her tizt'-irc! vivacity ter ~-:t, itr geed locks, and the ambition and power to display thc accomplishments at ber command. Any woman affected in this way should resort to Dr. Tierce's Favorite Prescription. It is a wonderful medicine for ailing-women. It is the invention of an eminent and skillful physician, ur. R. V. Pierce, for thirty years chief consulting physician to the Invalids' Hotel and Surgical Institute, at Buffalo, N. Y. It aims to cure but one class of dis eases, and claims to be good for nothing else. It imparts health, elastic strength, vigor and virility to the delicate feminine organs. It prepares a woman for wifehood and motherhood. Mrs. Ramon Snnchea? IVnasco, TaosfCounty. N. Mex., in n letter to Dr. Tierce says: V Krom a grateful heart my voice goes up to Cod both night and day in a solemn prayer tlint Ile may guard your health and preserve your life. I hereby ex press roy (rratitttde to you for the relief I have received from your wonderful medicine, ' Favor ite Prescription. . Arter suffering years of misery 1 nm to-dny n healthv and happy wife, ana can truthfully recommend to women the use of the ' Favorite PrescripUon1 as a regulator of the monthly periods.* . The quick constipation - cure - Doctor Pierce's Pleasant Pellets. Never gripe. of pea vine ?for thc benefit of thc soil, i dur objection is not based on the insistence that thc soil will no! he 1 more benefited hy turning under thc ; < uti rt.- growth! M c do not .-.ty that j tho land will he as much benefited by 'turning under tin; stubble only, after ! removing the vine in the form ot hay, as it would bc if thc entire crop bc permitted to remain. (Sut we insist that a farmer cannot afford to turu undera crop of pea vines, ready to cut and cure into a ton or more of hay per acre. Ile cannot alford to usc food that is ht for animai consumption for plant food; to turn hack into soill a highly o'-ganized product like poa vines. A ton of cured peaviucs is worth not less than $15 as food for animals. It would he worth about $0 or $7 as food for the soil, or as jdant food. That is to say, that thc cle ments of plant food that are found in one ton of pea vine hay can be bought for about $15 or $7 in the form of commercial fertilizers. So, then, to turn under $15 worth of hay in order to get into the soil worth of plant food is equivalent to throwing away about iii worth of value. Moreover, we get thc $15 value out of a ton of hay and then may return the result ing manure to thc soil, and in doing so we realize not less than $5 worth of fertilizer. In other words, if all thc manure-liquid and solid-resulting from a ton of peavine hay consumed by grown animals, bc carefully pre served and returned to the soil, thc value of the manure would amount to not less than HO per cent of its fertilizing value before feeding it, or before cutting it from the land. An excellent way to realize both thc food and the raanurial value of a crop of cow peas is to pasture the field, either with cattle or horses when in full growth, or ready to mow, or wi'h hogs after the peas are ripe; or eather the ripe peas and then pasture. But the best way is to make hay of thc vines, pasture off the stubble for a few days and then turn under. R, J. REDDIN(J. -????>?? - ": You pay too much attention to your husband, my dear. He will tire of you if you do." "Hut 1 don't care to flirt with other men." "You don't have to. Only make him think it pleases you to have him flirt with other women." - Mr. A. C. Wolfe, of Dundee, Mo., who travels for Mansur & Tibbetts, Implement Co., of St. Louis, givca traveling men and travelers in general some good advice. "Being a Knight of the Grip," he says, "I have for the past three years made it a rule to kee]; myself supplied with Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy, and have found numerous occasions to test its merits, not only on myself, but on others as well. I can truly saj that I never, in a single instance, have known it to fail. I consider it one ol the best remedies travelers can carry, and could relate many instances where I have used the remedy on skeptics, much to their surprise and rolief. ] hope every traveling man in 'he LL S wiii oarry a bullio of this remedy it his grip." For sale by Hill-Orr Druf Co. _ Les? Liquor Drinking. Thc bulletin for the Federal depart ment of labor for .July gives figures to .-how that ther?; has hoon a large de crease in thc consumption of intoxi cating liquors by the people of this country. In 18H0 the consumption of distilled spirits in the United States was 2i gallons for every man, woman und child; in 18?I0 it was less than one gallon. Such a eecrease in the use of strong drink probably never occurred before among any people. There has also been a decrease in the use of wine in this country. Tho per capita consumption of wine in 1880 was .2'.) of a gallon, and in 1896 it was .20 of a gallon. Hut while there has boer: some de crease in the use of wine and a very great decrease iu thc use of whiskey, brandy, gin and other spirits, the con sumption of beer has increased im mensely. In 1890 no less than 1,170,379,448 gallons of beer were used in this coun try. The beer used for medicines, in cookiug and for ether purposes except drinking is comparatively very small. The great bulk of the beor consumed in 1890 was drunk. The per capita consumption of beer iu 1880 was only 1.36 gallons. By 1890 it had increas ed to 15.10 gallons. In spite of this fact there is good reason to believe that there has been a great growth of temperance among our people during the past eighteen years. Their larger use of mild drinks is more than compensated for by thc great reduction of the quantity of strong and fiery liquors.-Atlanta Journal. - Charles Dudley Warner, in the Outlook, tells the story of his encoun ter with a bear last Summer. Brought into close quarters, some very serious thoughts quite overwhelmed him. "As I was cocking my gun, I made a hasty and unsatisfactory review of my whole life. The sins came out uncommonly strong. I recollected a newspaper subscription I had delayed paying, years and years ago, until both edi tor and newspaper were dead, and which now never could be paid to all eternity !" That is a warning that oughv. not to be neglected, lt may set some people to thinking of bears and unpaid subscriptions. We shall be awfully sorry if a bear shall come out of the mountains and devour any of our friends this summer.- Central Presbyterian. - He-That fellow called me a lob ster, said I was no good and that I never thought of paying my debts. She-Why, I did't know that he knew you at all! - Some time ago a little bottle of Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Di arrhoea Remedy fell into my hands, just at ? time when my two-year-old boy was terribly afflicted. His bowels were beyond control. We had tried many remedies, to no purpose, but thc little bottle of Colic, Cholera and Di I arrhoea itemedy speedily cured him. I -William F. Jones, Oglesby, Ga. Foi sale by Hill-Orr Drug Co. AND Hill-Orr Drug Co. PhLone IN"o. 8. SUMMER GOODS ANO FRUIT JARS. BUY A STEEL BANGE, ASBESTOS LINED. YOU save 50 cent In fuel, and does not heat np yonr cook-room by 50 per cent, as much as the Cast Stove. Iron King and Elmo is the best cheap Stove yon can bny. I have a large lot of nice DECORATED PIRATES of imported Goods, in va rious patterns, that I am running off at Bargains, an I will not carry the pattern any longer. Now ia yonr chance for nice Goods at a Bargain. I ara agent for the BRENNAN CANE MB 1,1, (self-oiling) and EVAPCEt TORS and FURNACES. To save money buy a Cane Mill and make your ono molasses. 1. I can save you rooney by you having your SMOKE STACKS for Engines made by me. I am still Buying Hides, Rags and Beeswax. GLASSWARE lower than you have ever bought. Qivo ma a call. Respectfully, JOHN T. BURRISS -TTT AVe?etablcT^cparationfor As similating ihcFoodandRegula ling the Stomachs andBoweb of IMA Vi s ( in L J) HI: N\ FromoteslM^s?on,Chse?fuI ness and Rest.Con til os neither SMutrT^orpt?n? nor ruinerai. OT NARCOTIC. PuntfJan S et il ~ Mx.Stnna * f?tdulUSJUi Anitt Seed ? J\vptmunt - JfiQuiana* Soda- * fKrmSetd - fianfud Sugar . Mm+yvu* fiann A perfect Remedy for Constipa lion. Sour Stomach .Diarrhoea, Worms .Convulsions .Feverish ness ?md Lo ss OF SLEEP. . Tax Simile Signature of NEW "YORK. At b fi\oi?.ll\*? olil J5 Dosi s- 3 3 C I N i s EXACT COPT OF VBAEBCB. GAS For Infants and ChildT/ The Kind You Have Always Bought The Kind Have Always Bought, TORI! Tri: CItlTAUK ?OM>*H?, HtWTOHK CITY. CEYLON AND INDIA TEA IS WHOLESOME. IT ia manufactured in a scientific manner by cleanly machinery, and bj PURE, so that a H hort infusion extracts all the good qualities. DIRECTIONS-Take balf UBual quantity, see water boils. Pour rf after five minutes steeps c TELLE Y'ci CE YLO N-INDIA TEA. "Two cups in one." Fragrant! Delicious ! ! SURPASSING COFFEE. Blue Ribbon, Genuine Mocha and Java, 25c. per lb. For strength anil richnesi of flavor in the cup it surpasses nuy coffee. on the market. It'ss| great seller. Don't Buy Fruit Jars-Buy Sealing Wax. Manufactured exnressly for putting up fruit. You can use "any old thiog.'j and we guarantee the fruit to keep perfectly. Soliciting your orders, Very respectfully yours, ._ JNO. A. AUSTIN & CC COTTON IS CHEAP A IN O SO AIRE CIBOCSI?BEBI LIVE AND LET LIVE IS OUR MOTTO! WE have a choice and select Stock of FAMILY and FANCY GROCERIES, Consisting of almost everything you may need to eat. Our Goods are fre?| were bought for cash, and will be sold as low as the lowest. Please give of a call before purchasing your Groceries. Thanking all for past favors and soliciting a continuance cf thc saoe-j We are yours to please, GK F. BIG-BY. THE OLE), RELIABLE Furniture Store 1 OF K F. Still in th.? Lead ! They have the Largest Stock, Best duality, and Certainly the Lowest Prices ! OTHERS try to get theie, hut they miss it every time. New, beautiful and select Stock of Furniture, ?sc, arriving eveagr <ty| and at PRICKS NEVER HEARD OF BEFORE. Here you have the Largest Stock ; therefore, you ?an get ;aat wbat jcs want. Here you have the Best Grade of Furniture ; therefore, you cang| Goods that will last Here you have the very LOWEST PRICES ; therefore, you save go? big money. .vj 19* Come along, and we will do you as we have been doing for toe m forty years-sell you the very best Furniture for the very lowest prices. 8&? The largest Stock in South Carolina and the Lowest Price ia Southern States. New Lot Baby Carriages Just Received. C. F. TOLLY &> SON| Depot Street, Anderson, 8. C. THIS IS NO FAKE ! That Jewelry Palace - or - WILL. R. HUBBARD'S, NEXT TO F. aid M. BANK, Has the Largest, Prettiest and Finest lot of . . . i XMAS *?> WEDDING PRESENT XN CITY. Competition don't ont any ice with me when it comes to prices. 1 ^ buy goods to keep. I want the people to have them. Gold and * Watches, Sterling and Plated Silverware, Jewelry, Clocks, L^mps, L Spectacles, Novelties of all kinds; Rogers* Tripple Plate Tabla Knives * per Set. A world beater. ".-?n WILL. R. HUBBARD