Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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BILL A RP' Loaves N"oyjiv? ?'roh Than I (hiuta f '< I reckon then1 ari enough philoso ??hers to s<i?v>- (Ii?; race problem ami Have the country without further as sistance from mc, arni so 1 will swear oil for thc present I don't care much whether the negro goes to Africa or Arizona ?. r stays here. If he stays lo r< he I as got to stop his devilment or take the consequences, and I'm willina to trust thc people on that linc. Hut of all the absurd remedies that have been proposed none arc more so than a change of venue and a trial in five days in some distant county. County lines ?lo not bound the fierce indignation of a people hor- j rilicu and enraged over such fiendish I work a? that of Sam Holt and Will | Luca.-. And besides, just think of thc machinery that has to bo set in j motion to summons and convey thirty j or forty witnesses to a distant county. ! and even then perhaps no trial or a ' mock trial that disregards the forms of law and tht; rights ?d' the criminal. ? No. that is no remedy. Hut I've sworn olF. Let the wise i men settle it, though I confess I was j surprised when I read that Governor ! Candler had just discovered that ?-du- j cation was thc only remedy that would stop the commission of these heinous j crimes. According to statistics of New York and Massachusetts, taken from their State prisons and published j to thc world, education fosters and in- j creases crime-not a little, but im- ! mcnscly. Thc governor's theory has been long since exploded. And right here in Georgia thc uneducated negro before thc war and for a few years after was moral and law-abiding and now there arc 4,0(10 in thc State and county chaingangs, 77? per cent of whom can read and write. But 1 forbear. 1 had rather rumi nate about pleasanter things, though I must protest against this utterly un tenable basi> of all the negroes being good negroes excepting ."> per cent. Mr. Inman started it, and I see that Bishop Gaines takes comfort from it it in his beautiful and impressive ser mon of last Sunday. It is a delusion and a snare. Nearly i> per cent of their voting population arc now in thc chaingangs, and it is safe to say that if every one who steals was arrested and punished it would add 10 per cent more to thc black army of con victs. Petty larcenies arc common in every household where they are em ployed, but they arc not brought to court. These little pilfcrings are crimes, but the crimes are condoned overlooked-far they have some good qualities, and their service is needed. lt is a raco trait, and develops with education, especially among the young er necrocs. The records of thc courts prove that thc percentage of small lar ceny and burglary grows faster than their population increases. City ne groes and town negroes arc more ad dicted to it than country negroes, for they have more education and more opportunities. This fear of the law as it is now does not deter them. The fear of the lash would. But we can worry along with their little pilfcrings -on thc principle that a cook we once had declared to mc when I reproved her for stealing: ''You don't miss what I takes." It is thc greater crimes that now give our people deep concern and these will bc quickly and terribly avenged. Our people, especially thc country people, are in desperate ear nest, and neither law nor lawyers nor thc horns of thc altar will protect a brute in human form, whether he bc white or colored. But what makes my thoughts and my pen glide along on this subject? My wife is calling me now to come there and bring the stepladder. She wants thc vines on thc trellis tied up, and 1 am the buy. That ladder is old . and rickety and 1 am subject to verti go sometimes. I'm afraid of that lad der, but never in my life did I admit to her that 1 was afraid of anything, and so I will mount that ladder with all the alacrity I can. Thc time was when I had blackboys and white ones, too, to wait on me, but now I have to tote my own skillet and nurse the grandchildren, too. There arc two little ones here half the time and they love me dearly and I have to stop writing whenever they say so. They wart rae in the garden to get flowers or pick strawberries or ma';e sand houses or mud pies or get some water or something to cat, and I have to fol low them around or carry the little one while my wife is making some more little dresses for them. Their mother has no servrnt and lets them come up here by themselves to be pet ted while she is sewing or cooking or playing on the piano. My wife and 1 do more work nowadays than we ever did in our lives, hut it is sweet work and we like it. How the ohildren and grandchildren will get along when our time is out and we are off duty I can not see, but one thing I know, "ibo Lord wiii provide," for :'He tempers the wind to the shorn lamb." But about these negroes. Hardly a S LI HT ER. 1 < -III to Wiser trends I Iis. ?Iislittltiuii. 1 'iay passes but what I hear somebody >ay. "1 wish to the Lord that they were all out nj the country." I don't know about that. The iron makers and miners and lumber men and rail , road IIM'IJ and the bii_' fanners wouhl i object, for their labor is both useful and profitable. I wish we could scat . tor ami apportion them all over the country from the Atlantic to the Pa cific. There are at least 500 in thia little town that we would like to spare, but wc would like to pick them. There i arc no doubt 10.000 in Atlanta most ly young bucks and wenches who have ! been educated and are now vagabonds ! -parasites who live off the labor of ! good work i nc negroes just as the vag abonds do herc. We have many good negroes herc who are good citizens and give no trouble, and they arc our dray men, our carpenters, carriage makers, blacksmiths, barbers, gardeners, cooks and washerwomen. These trades arc shut out to them at thc north, but the north keeps on Bending money down here to educate them and to keep their leaders in linc politically. The truth is that all this devilment that has of late so agitated our people comes from politics. It is planned and designed for party purposes and Mr. McKinley was a party to it when lie appointed, negroes tobe postmasters and revenue officers in white communities. I have had no respect for him since he did it. They say that he has quit it, but he has not apologized. How much longer is he going to keep that educated ne I gro politician in office at Hogausville? j And yet. there are thousands of demo crats, men and women, in Atlanta who gave him welcome and threw him flowers and shouted ' All hail McKin ley!" I've no respect for them, either. I want to live long enough to sec a man in the presidential chair who is far above such machine politics. They say they want to break up the solid south and yet they do thc very things to keep it solid. Hut my wife is calling mc again. She says its about time for me to be gin to water the roses, lt takes about fifty buckets of water every evening, but the hydrant is near by and I don't mind it. Thc little chaps try to help me with little buckets and they get their clothes wet and of course I am scolded for it. If they get dirty or tako cold or run at the nose it's all my fault. They say that I spoil them so nobody else can do anything with them. I don't care. They shall have a good time as loni: as Hive, for there will be trouble enough after ? ora gone. Now about this thing that is called education I do not wish to be misun derstood. Millions are wasted on it to no good purpose. Every mother's son and daughter should bc taught to read and to write and multiply. Good reading books should be placed within their reach-books that teach a good moral lessons, books that exalt virtue and condemn vice-but work, toil, in-1 dustry is a bigger thing luau books. I Modern education is confined to the head, the intellect, and is mixed up with training the hands to play ball and the legs to run, and the boys tramp all over the country to play matoh games and the old man's money is spent for something that is not worth a cent to the young man when ho settles down to the business of lifo. The average boy has no more use for algebra or conic sections or calculus or astronomy or Greek or French than a wagon has for a fifth wheel. It is valuable time wasted. Outside of the professors I have never found but one college graduate who could translate a line of Greek or solve a problem in geometry. Perhaps one in a thousand shows a fitness for these higher branches and that one ?should have a chance at them if possible, far the world needs astronomers and mathe maticians and scientists and linguists, and will have them, even if the re quirement has to be hammered out at the anvil as F.lihu Burritt did. Work is the big thing in this practioal age. To make a living is imperative, and it -is a struggle. But to be a great ora tor or poet or preacher is a gift, and like Patrick Henry or Henry Clay or John Wesley, will como to fruition with or without a higher education. To read well and to read wisely is the best part of an education. It is strange that our schools do not teach their pupils to read-to read with emphasis and tone and accent. Not one preach er in ten can read a chapter or a hymn in an impressive manner. It was his happy faculty of reading well that made Bishop Beckwith a great man. It was a solemn feast to hear him re cito the litany or read a hymn or utter a prayer. Why do not the theologi cal seminaries teaeh the students to read and also something of elocution ? It is an imposition on a congregation to have to listen to the sing-song, childish, unimpressive readings of our nra r yillAM But this is enough on this line. 11 fear I am getting hypercritical. J BILL AEP. ! .... .. . \ , ... ;. > , , ' '. . ',-.'.(.*-".?:>?! tVY<&?!>C5?S?*. A Word From the Hero Himself. To llo Editor of the Sw:* omi ( '<,nrii r : In response to your request that I should give a sketch of the cavalry of the Army of Northern Virginia it has occurred to me that as the subject proposed is too large for a newspaper article, some incidents, showing the duties, the gallantry and the perform ances of those serving in that ann of the seraice. would not be unwelcome to many of my old comrade- on the ojcasion of our next reunion. While the cavalry of the Army of Northern V irginia could not compare in numbers with thc infantry nor rival the brilliant achievements of those incomparable wearers of gray jackets and bearers of bright bayonets, -till I hope to show that the duties of the trooper were more arduous than those of their comrades of thc infantry, and that through all trials they were brave and true-they thus proved them selves not unworthy comrades of that "incomparable infantry," which has left a record of unequalled and im mortal honor. Thc cavalry were the "'eyes and ears of the army:" they kept watch and ward while their comrades slept. As pickets they guarded against tho dan gers of a surprise. Important infor mation was often given to our com manders; on many occasions lar^e quantities of arms and ammunition were turned over to the general stock: wagons and mules in numbers were brought in. In one instance about two hundred of the former and about nine hundred of the latter, and on one occasion, at least, they gave to their comrades of Lee's army beef enough to allow a ration of one pound a day for forty days to ?O.OOO men! Beyond those services they really did fight sometimes, though their comrades of ?he infantry had their jest that no dead man with spurs on was ever seen! Hut that this harmless jest was with out foundation is proved by the graves ?jf many of the noblest men of the South who fell in the cavalry, and by many a mourning heart throughout the borders of our Southern land. South Carolina bears her full share of this deep and lasting sorrow, for many of her gallant sons who served in the cavalry died for their State and for our cause. One regiment of South Carolina cavalry, dismounted, and be hind only a frail rail fence, repulsed seven furious charges of an overwhelm ing force, leaving on the field 133 of its men, dead and wounded. One bri gade of cavalry, in which wore two South Coolina regiments, had twenty one ol its twenty-three field officers killed or wounded during the Gettys burg campaign. These were the men who bore sabres and wore spurs! But tho highest qualities of a great leader and the gallantry of men who would face any danger can be best shown by quoting from a report of a fight made by Gen. Bosser, than whom there was no better soldier in the cavalry corps: 'Gen. W. H. F. Lee, with his com mand, was on the occasion referred to at Hanover Court House, while some other portion of the cavalry corps were near Atlee's Station. On June 1, 1804, Lee was attaokedby Wilson's division's division, when he fell back in the direction of Ashland. Moving to his assistance with three regiments of Bosser's brigade we struck the rear of Wilson's column as he was follow ing Lee. This column was charged by Bosser as soon as it was discovered, and it was thrown into oonfusion. Following up his success, Rosser pressed the enemy vigorously, and in the series of brilliant charges-some of which were over dismounted men- j he drove Wilson into Ashland, cap turing prisoners from eight different regiments, about 200 horses and many arms." The report of this affair, which I regard as ono of the most brilliant during the war in Virginia, is given to show what could be and was effected by oavalry. One other point should be mentioned that regarding the number of prison ers taken by the cavalry in the last campaign. Thc returns of these are not full, but the report of the provost marshal, and thoce of commanding I officers account for 11,000. In the movement from Columbia to North Carolina, when Wheeler's command served with me, three or four thou sand prisoners were 'captured, so that in the last campaign, beginning on May 3. '04, more than twice as many prisoners were taken than there were men in our whole cavalry corps. During that fearful, dying struggle i of our heroio army, Gen. Lee issued I many congratulatory orders to the cavalry, and after the war, in a letter to myself, he paid a 'compliment to the oavalry corps, which should com pensate every living soldier of that I arm of the service for all the sacrifices made by him.. In this letter after l giving what", he thought were tho causes of the discomfiture of our troops at Petersburg, he said: "If you had been jthdre with all of our oavalry, the result at Fivo Forks would have been different." - So, old comrades of the cavalry, let us be oontent that we tried to do our ?Mtv anil ?Ka? f\ *. immnrtal /i Ki rv F to ns the highest honor that was n his power in speaking ?hua of his oavalry. WADS HAMPTOK.' (.routh of American ( ?ties. Next to "sticking up" for thia coun try thc average American ia active iu sticking up for his own town, and in order to do this most effectively he seems to regard it necessary first of all to make thc world think it big in the matter of population. Quantity is thc thing that counts in this partic ular, and if quality is not lost sight of completely it is at least very lightly passed over. The disposition to exaggerate in making estimates of population is well illustrated by the publication of a ta ble in a recent number of the Ameri can Land and Title Kegistry. The mavora of nearly all the American cities that had population of 10,000 and upward in 1890 have given figures that they think will be justified by the census of 1900, and the conclu sions arrived at are, in some cases, ludicrous to soy the least. Detroit, for instance, had a population of 205,. 87(5 in 1890. The mayor of that city estimates that it will have 425,000 in habitants next year, which will bc a gain of more than 100 per cent, in a" single decade. Detroit has never made any such gains in the past, and there is no apparent reason for con cluding that its growth has received a sudden impetus which would warrant the claim to such a population as is predicted for the place in 1900. The mayor of St. Louis is another hopeful soul. He places the probable population of the Mound City in 1900 at 1,000,000. In 1890 St. Louis had a population of 451,771?. so that if the mayor's estimate is well founded the town will show about as greata growth during the ten years ending in 1900 as Chicago did iu the decade between 1880 and 1890. This is extremely improbable. St. Louis had no such suburbs to annex as Chicago had, and the growth of the Missouri town itself has never been anywhere near as rapid as that of this city. In this connection it is inter esting to note that a popular estimate of the population of St. Louis in 1888 was 500,000, which was nearly 50,000 more than the United States census showed two years later. At the time -1888-Chicago's population was es timated at 800,000, which was nearly 300,000 short of the number of inhab itants given this city by thc census enumerators in 1890. The population of this city for 1900 is placed at 2,000,000 in the table pub lished in the Land and Title Registry, which is probably another low esti mate. In order to reach the 2,000,000 mark Chicago will not have to show as great a percentage in growth for the ten years from 1890 to 1900 as it did from 1880 to 1890, while estimates based upon the directory canvass shows that the rate of growth has been well maintained. One of the extravagant estimates in the table is given by the mayor of Baltimore, who thinks that city will have a population of 720,000 in 1900, beating the estimate of the mayor of Boston by 179,000. In 1899 Boston's population was 448,447 and that of Baltimore 434,439. Some of the other estimates for 1900 are: Cleveland, 420,000; Buffalo, 400,000; Cinoinnati, 400,000: Indianapolis, 200,000. The exploits of the Amerioan army and navy duiing the past year have served to forcibly impress Europe with the importance of our country, and all that is now needed to convince the people of the old world the United States "is the whole thing" is to fire a few of the population estimates of our mayors at them.-Chicago Tjmes. Disgust For Card Playing. Miss B- asked General S-, of Louisiana, if it was true that many of our solid citizens, while soldiers, re garded card playing and petty pilfer ing as among the acoompiishments of eamp life. General S- replied : "A base libel, madam-a oslumny. True they never left a friendless chicken to nod on its uncomfortable roost ; never suffered an overburdened apple tree to break down from its load of fruit; never removed a bee gum until the shades of night made the removal more to the comfort of, the bees ; never permitted the lacteal fluid to sour in badly ven tilated milk houses ; and never-No Never-left a wounded shoat to bleed its young life away by the roadside ; and as for cards, we give you our word that just before the battle of Seven Pines, of Perryville, of Murfeesb ro, we saw cards strewn all along the ?road, so great was the soldier's disgust for card playing !" Supreoe Ceart Denisia?. Since Chas. O. Tyner began the man ufacture of Ty ner'o Dyspepsia Remedy, many people have inquired as to its effioaoy. Chief Justice Bleekley, of Georgia, has tried it for indigestion and dyspepsia, and gives this as his deoisibn : "Atlanta, Ga., March 14.-Chas. O. Tyner, Atlanta, 6a.: I have used, sad am now using, Tyner*s Dyspepsia Remedy. It ia a mental as wail aa a physic BS elixir. 'With its aid anda pair of spectacles I can frequently see the. law in spite of unsuitable or toa much diet. "LOGAN E. BLSOKLXT." This is a splendid deoision and peo ple are profiting by it. For ??le by W?hl*? Wiifc?** ISample bottle free on application to Ty ncr's Dyspepsia Remedy Co., At? an ta, Ga. Would Abolish Chairs AD eminent English physician, Sir James Crichton Browne, announces that men and women would derive great benefit from sitting on the floor instead of chairs. Women would ben efit even more than men by the prac tice. The position of sitting on the floor or the ground is more natural than sitting iu a chair, he says. It was once general with the entire hu man race. It is both healthy and nat ural. The exercise of getting up from and down to the floor is beneficial. Through thc general adoption of the sitting position among the civilized races many musel?s have become stiff or obsolete. Persons who sit on the floor have strong back and thigh mus cles. Turks, tailors and shoemakers are examples of this fact. If you sit on the floor you can change your at titude as often as you please and can enjoy an endless variety of pose, and however often you alter it there is never any chance of you falling off. If you sit on the floor you can achieve all kinds of comfortable positions, which it is impossible to obtain even with the easiest of easy chairs. The influx of visitors need never cause anxiety to the well constituted mind on the subject of chairs. All he has to provide is a quantity of cushions cushions of every size and shape. Let the guests select any they please, and it will be their own fault if they are not comfortable and happy.-Phila delphia Record. mt ?-mm^ - Tue greatest town building rec ord in Ohlahoma has been won by Mountain View, Washita County. Monday, May 8, the town site was a prairie. The same day it was survey ed and platted aud a large portion of it sold and settled. The town in one day became a city of nearly 800 inhab itants, with a mayor and full comple ment of councilmen and minor officers of an organized town. Some of the lots sold as high as $000 within 30 minutes from the time the surveyor drove his stakes. - Leeches, when applied to persist ent cigarette smokers, drop off dead distinct traces of the dangerous oil given off by tobacco being found in them. Strangely enough, the same experiment tried upon excessive pipe smokers resulted in no apparent, in jury to the leeches. - Nursing your anger is nursing a viper. A Tandea, o What woman in all thc wide world would not be glad to be a tandem for two happy, healthy, kprattling babies? When Nature whispers the i sweet assurance ? in a woman's \ear that soon a little stranger ' Will come to kc are.s a with baby fingers her cheek and neck, she makes the fondest preparations far its arrivai. Everything that a woman's dainty taste can imagine is provided for the new-comer's wardrobe. Nothing is overlooked save one thing, and that one thing is the most important. Too many mothers forget that baby's strength and health, its ability to withstand the usual ailments of childhood, and its vigor and welfare, as a man or woman, are de pendent upon her own health and physical condition during the period of prospective maternity. If, during that critical time, she is weak, sickly, nervous and despond ent, because of troubles peculiar to her sezt these conditions are bound to have their influence upon her baby'a health Neglect of these conditions invariably means that'baby will be weak, puny and Seevish. Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription i an unfailing cure for all troubles of this nature, and it will reinforce a woman's bodily and nerve strength so that she can 6afel> undergo the trials of maternity. Jt gives health, strength, vigor, elasticity and endurance to the organs specially con cerned in motherhood. It gives bodily and nervous hardihood to the child. "After using fifteen bottles of your 'Favorite Prescription ' and a few vials of your * Pleasant Pellets,' I am entirely cured of uterine trouble. I had suffered for nearly three years," writes Mrs. F. W. Fogel. of 273 Highland Ave., Newark, N.J. "I had such terrible bearing down pains that I could hardly walk. My back and head ached, had terrible cramps in >uy legs, was very nervous at times, and felt miserable. With my first child I had to be chloroformed and the child was delivered with instrumenta. I took the 'Favorite Prescription' with my second child. und instead of suffering for two days. I was in labor only an hour ana a beautiful child was born. I waa able to leave my bed the fifth day. I commenced your medicine about four months before confinement. Mr baby is three months old now, and is a fine, big, f?f beby.' Z um in very good health ; have no more pains or .ches. I would be pleased to advise any woman who suffers aa X dla to use your medicine." If you want Bargains CHEAP JOHN'S, The Five Cent Store. IF you want SHOE9 cheap go to Cheap John's, the Five Cent Store. For your TOBACCO and CIGARS i t'a the place to get them cheap. Schnapps Tobacco. 374c Early Bird Tobacco.S.?... 374c Gay Bird Tob?ceo...36c Our Leader Tobacco. 274c. Nabob's Cigars.. . lc. each. Stogies.v...4 for 6c. Premio or Habana......8 for 6c. Old Glory...8c. a pack. Arbuck?o'a Coffee Ile. pound No. 9 Coffee 9o. pound. Soda 10 Ito. tor 25c. Dandles Gc. per pound. CHEAP JOHN ia ahead In Laundry uid Toilet Soaps, Box and Stick B?ne lo taos, everything of tatt kind. Good 8-day Clock, guaranteed fur flvo y sara, f ?95. Tinware to beat the band. y JOHN A, KAYES, w. a MCGEE; SMRa?4)N DBMtl?T. OFFICE- Prout Room, over Fanners >nA tkSrortshAntn Rank - ANDERSON, 8. O. : 11 ' i ?v^Scl?blcPreparalioaforAs slmilatirvg uteTottoandHegula ting ihe S?Qiii?xiiS amlBowels of IMAMS ( in?>Ki:.N' Prc?motesTJiigcstioaChB?rful mess and IfestCont?Jns neither OmuriTMorphine nor Mineral. NOT NARC OTIC. RU?? aroTditS^VELEnrnia/i Pimat?? Sm*' AbcSainm * Rm* ttl, SJtr - A perfect Remedy for Constipa tion. Sour Stomach,Diarrhoea, Worms .Convulsions .Feverish ness and Loss OF SLEEP. Fae Simile Signature of NEW YORK. .At.fa. rn?iiths old J5 Dosis-33 Ci NI s S??ACT COPY CT WTIASHE2. For Infants and dulden The Kind You Havi Always Bought Havi Always Bought TNIOERTAUR TOM PO Wt, tHWYOBK CITT. To the Unshod, Bare-oacked, and Hungry Population : HEAR ua for oar c&uae, for our cause ia your cause. It ia unseemly tot tJ and powerful nation* to shake from ita feet ita sandals, to divest itself of its clod and to scrape the&Jbottom of the flour barrel in ita efforts to eke out a Hri^l blackberries and melons. We are no Filipinos. What, then, shall ye weet wherewithal shall your appetites be clothed ? Verily, if ye would walk in pride, like the strutting peacock, ye rauat Y? like strutting. No man putteth on a paper-bottom Shoe, clotbeth himself inshoj raiment and eateth black Flour goetb out to parade himself as a ''good feeler." i be that wears our all-leather $1.00 Shoo?, buys our Standard Dry' Goods and i only Dean'a Patent Flour, is a hummer with chin-whiskers, and his name ?hilf Rockefeller, Mathnselah or "something better." We'll SAVE YOU MONEY and a peck of trouble. DEAN & RATUPFE, THE BARGAIN PRINCE! par- Parties owing us for FERTILIZERS will please call in and give Not?| same at once MOLASSES, MOLASSES. IF you need a Barrel Of Molasses you can't afford to buy unbT you haveseeJ We have iuat received a big lot-all grades-and know we can please yoi both quality and price. Also, new lot of Shoes, Dry Goods and Notions That we will seil cheap, and we have a few Shoes and other Goods that w* arti selling at 50a, and 75c.'on the dollar Here are only a few prices : Muscovado Molasses:. '?'Mc. Der gallon. Good Molasses.,. 12io. per gallon. Good Coffee. ll lbs. for $1.00. .loo. Tobacco in 10 lb. Caddlea for. 30c. Jeana Panta. 40c. Shirts. 150. FLOUR, CORN, MEAT, LARD, Etc., AT BOTTOM PRICES. Yours for Business, MOORE, AOKER & CO., EA8T SIDE PUBLIC SQUARE-CORNER 8T0^ FREE CITY DELIVERY. '. FOB Fancy and. Staple Ghroceri.es, ITloni?, Sngai?, Cof?ee, Molasses, Tobacco, A.ncl Cigars COME TO J. C. OSBORNE. South Main Street, below Bank of Anderson, Phpne and Free Delivery. ' . W. H. Harrioou's Old Sti YOU CANT JUDGE A SAUSAGE BY ITS ULSTER i Neither can you fix the valu of a BICYCLE by Its Enamel SENSIBLE people want SAFE BICYCLER, and safe Bicycles have the best material, the most careful construction, and must be people who know how-makers who have learned by experience, interest careful people in the construction of- . CRESCENT . ANO VIKING If they will give tm the opportunity. We'll show what gn*? Into the explain why they ere better than others. Come and see us. Headquarters for everything in the line of Bicycle Sundries and Fittings.