Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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SARGE PI Happy j?Lnticipation Lay-by Atlante Just think, two more months. June then July, and crops will be made and lay-by time will be upor as. ; What other class of people than farmers can claim sueh a blessed sea - son as a time for lay-by? Before one hardly knows it the crops are made j and a season of rest and peace coin?s to the fanner. One more month's work will virtually wind up the labor of making the crops of 1899. After a month now everything will be easy on the farm, fruit'will be in season, pleasures will be inaugurated and the plow-boys and oountry lasses will be romping in joyful glee while the old folks will fold their hands in rest upon the happy faith that God will do the balance. % How blesses are such conditions! Where else can it be found save in the rural pursuits? The country fam ily that has done its duty for the last four montes can trust the rest to providence in a confidence and rest fulness, that no other class on earth can feel. The mechanics of the towns must hammer on, the merchant broods over a dull and heated season and longs for cotton to hurry io, rich peo ple will be worrying to find the sum mer resort to give them a rest that the poorest clodhopper would refuse to accept if he were to find it in the mid ' die of the road, the quality of comfort and freedom from anxiety that comes to the farmer at lay-by is. found no where oo earth save. on the farm. They will ky up in the shade at noon time, play marbles under the big oaks, eat fruit from the trees and bring melons from the spring, sipping such pleasures without price that is found nowhere else nor by any other class. Along with the other pleasures will come the season of big meetisgs an d campmeetings. These are glorious for old and young. Old people are like old clocks-they need winding up, and the big meeting season is the key : that touches the old man's heart and ; sets him to ticking with a stronger lick and happier purpose. I pity the man that has never known the pleas ures of a big meeting in the country, .r. Ther? yon will find out all that has happened in' the past year. . Old * friends are renewed. Every death will be talked about. If any are sick t v they will be missed.. All the mar riages will be discussed. New babies will be there dressed to be admired and proud young mothers will show them to their "old mates with a holy pride ??hat- only comes through a mother's love. There is no matching this. Not on this earth is found such peace as belongs to the young country couples who come for the first time with their babies to a good old meet ing hourn in the country. No matter how long our fathers and mothers may live, nor how nor where, there wijl never be a happier time than through those years when the children were ' small and went and came as the par-1 ?nts did. The sociability of these big meet ings is beyond measurement. In j groups they sit around under the trees swapping gossip till the preacher ar rives. The arrival of the preacher marks an event of the occasian. After lie has tied his horse to a swinging limb he passes through the groups shaking hands, with a word for this 4'sister" and a chat with this "broth er," making impressions and bringing pleasures that will remain long after they have passed from their fields of action and other generations haye taken the place of the old. The con gregation now gathers inside the church, after the preacher's arrival. A good old hymp is otarted "All bail ibo power of Jesus' name, Let angela prostrate fall, Bring forth the royal diadem And crown Him Lord of all." Whoever has sat in one of these old churches and watched the congrega tion as they came in and took their seats has a memory to cherish as long as life "hail last. Young boys and girls, young mothers and old, old fathers and young fathers, together with the babies, wili remain as mem ories ?O sweeten many bitters of life and bounce us joyfully over many rugged ways. God bless these old churches. The benches were rough and the interior unfinished, but fres coed walls, shining chandeliers, cush ioned seats nor carpeted aisles never have and never will catch the affec tions of a people and hold them down through life as do these rough cid things. And the babies-a pretty babe in its mother's arms at an old fashioned church is the sweetest thing this side of heaven. If you will go to where they carry these babies to church and watch them one after the other as they nestle their little faces down in the folds of their mother's dress and fall to sleep, you will not think it coarse, not a bit, but you will rather find in it a rebuke to fashion and a promise for the future that can never be found in the children left at home with servants to nibble at a bot AJNKETT. LS for the Coming of Time. Journal. tie and cry for their mother's return. Children raised in thc.arms of a mother give promise of being a blessing for ever; children who are doomed to the care of servants and the nourishment of a bottle had better to never been born, considering, of course, that these conditions pertain because of the mother's desire to meet the demands of fashion. But I do not want to get off on any of the weaknesses of the day. It is a glorious thing to contemplate the peace and pleasure of lay-by time, and to know, too, that farmers can claim this as entirely their own. 1 heard a business man of Atlanta say once that if it was not for the rest of Sunday he would very soon land in the asylum. What a glorious thing if these hard-worked business men could have a lay-by. It would be so good for them and good for the world. But they can't have it. It is business, business. The world is running wild OD business. Night must be turned into day. The great 'wheels of the industries must turn and the clatter of machinery be heard through all the nights. They have no lay-by-they have no night. It takes millions of dollars to satisfy a man's ambitions where it used to cake only thousands. A man with a million dollars cannot rest-neither can a man rest who has his heart set on making a million. There is .too much strain, too little lay-by. We can see the need of rest and peace wherever we look. We are soon to have another big prize fight, and exciting games will be instituted to relieve the strain; but the strain remains, .and will remain until the world shuts down the machinery at night; stop craving for the millions and take a lay-by once in every year, trusting more in the Lord. A boy at ten years of age now knows more than they used to know at thirty-and yet they are all fools. Not a great states man in prospect that has been evolved under the culture of the last thirty five years. Try the country. Have a lay-by. Get back to old-time ways. This is my advice. New departures have proved a failure. Great wealth and the cravings for wealth is all vex ation.' After you get it, it will do you no good. Millions will not buy the peace of the countryman's lay-by, and fashion cannot supply the pleas ures of sra old-time big meeting at a country meeting house. SAKOE PLUNKETT. Bad management keeps more people in poor circumstances than any other one cause. To be successful one must look ahead and plan ahead so that when a favorable opportunity presents itself he is ready to take advantage of it. A little forethought will also save much expense and valuable time. A prudent and careful man will keep a bottle of Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Bemedy in the house, the shiftless fellow will wait until necessity compels it and then ruin his best horse going for a doctor and have a big doctor bill to pay, besides; one pays out 25 cents, the other is out a hundred dollars and then wonders why his neighbor is getting richer while he is getting poorer. For sale by Hill Orr Drug Co. - A person one year old may ex pect to live thirty-nine years longer ; of ten years, fifty one; of twenty, forty-one; of thirty years, thirty-four; of forty years, twenty-eight; of fifty, twenty-one; of sixty years, fourteen more; of seventy years, nine; of eighty years, four. Mr. P. Ketcham,of Pike City, Cal., says: "Duringmy brother's late sick ness from sciatic rheumatism, Cham berlain's Pain Balm was the only remedy that gave him any relief." Many others have testified to the prompt relief from pain which this liniment affords. For sale by Hill-Orr Drug Co. - Dixie Thompson, the <:bean king" of Ventura county, California, planted 20,000 acres of beans last year. The crop was 1,300 carloads, embracing more than one hundred varieties. The beans were sown and cultivated in the same manner as corn, and were har vested by special machinery. What is Kodol Dyspepsia Cure? It is the newly discovered remedy, the most effective preparation ever devised for aiding the digestion and assimila tion of food, and restoring the derang ed digestive organs to a natural condi tion. It is a discoveryjsurpassing anything yet known to the medical profession. Evans Pharmacy. - Snow fighters are at work with dynamite and shovels on the moun tain system of the Colorado and South ern road. Without the aid of dyna mite, it is claimed the banks would not disappear before the Fourth of July. No man can work well with a torpid liver or constipated bowels. A few doses of Prickly Ash Bitters will quickly remove this condition and make work a pleasure. Sold by Evans Pharmacy. - It's easy to find reasons why others don't do the foolish things we do. - A Cincinnati judge recently gave a man ten days for stealing an eight day clock. McQUIRE ON GEN. JACKSON. Why the North Never Produced Any Great Generals. ALEXANDRIA, VA., May 17.-Dr. Hunter McGuire, of Kichmond, deliv ered an address here to-night in the opera house on Stonewall Jackson which made a deep impression upon the large audience. The paper held and entertained the most attentive, the most intelligent and the most ap preciative audience that has honored a lecturer on any previous occasion for many years. It was, a's it were, a voice speaking from a sainted past, a voice which only such characters as Stonewall Jackson were moulded and made the idol of his country. The opera house was filled from top to bottom, while men disticguished in many walks of life sat on the platform around Dr. McGuire. The hour and a half he spoke was all too short for the men who wore the gray and the women who remembered the trying days of the Confederacy. Dr. McGuire said in part : "The two sections nf this country are not altogether dissimilar in blood and antecedents. It is, therefore, strange that the northern section has so far produced no great soldier. It has given birth to many gallant and meritorious men, but not one who by the world's estimate to-day is account ed a great commander ; not one whom the final verdict of mankind will al low io rank with Washington, Lee or Jackson. Not one was forthcoming in the revolution of '7? or the war of 1812, or in 1848, or in the sectional war of '61-65. I need not speak of the war with Spain, fresh in our memories. I do not think that even northern his tory will claim that one great soldier from that section was then in evi dence. Tress, pulpit and people have com bined in efforts to make Grant a great soldier. In truth lie was brave, honest and magnanimous ; but a general who in a short campaign-from the Wilder ness, to Cold Harbor-lost more men than his antagonist had, and who with anything like equal resource would have been annihilated by Lee will never be accepted by history as great." Sherman and Sheridan, have been regarded by some of their adher ents as great soldiers. The former gave up his claim to this title-if, in deed, he ever possessed it-when he said that on his march through*Georgia he had so devastated the country with fire and sword that no army could fol low him and live ; and the latter sign ed his own protest against his right to the title when he left the Valley of Virginia and its helpless people so poor 'that a crow would have to carry his rations if he flew across the land.' Both of these men were incendiaries, and such characters never had been and never will be accepted as 'great' in the estimation of the world. "Present company excepted, as al ways; and at the same time admitting and claiming the greater fighting effi ciency of the individuals of the Con federate army, I do not know that any more gallant private soldiers ever lived than the men furnished by the States of the north in the first years of the war. Repeatedly defeated and driven from the field by the Confederates ; losing in their flight flags and gMns and nearly all they possessed, they never entirely lost their courage. In a few weeks, when the next battle was joined, they would come forward with renewed courage, with as much assur ance of victory as if they had never been beaten. Directed by incompetent generals, I saw them at Fredericks burg lose hundreds and thousands of their men in as brave and gallant and hopeless an assault against our works as were ever witnessed. Yet these same men in a few minutes met us at Chancellorsville with a courage un subdued, with an assurance of success that seemed almost impudent. "They knew, too, that their leaders were incompetent men. Riding one day with Jackson to visit the pickets on the Rappahannock at a time when there was an agreement between them and the Federals not to fire upon one another (they were friendly enough for daily exchanges of newspapers, coffee, tobacco, etc.,) the Confederate pickets cheered Jackson when he left them, and after we bad ridden a short distance one of the federals came to the bank of the river and said. 'What are you yelling about, Johnnies and when told that they were hurrahi ng for Stonewall Jackson, the Yankee cried out to his fellow soldiers. Three cheers for Stonewall Jackson !' and they gave them with a will. "After the Federals surrendered at Harper's Ferry I went with General Jackson from Bolivar Heights down through the main street of the town very nearly to the river. We had no escort, but when the Federal privates found out in some way that Jackson was passing by they evinced the most intense curiosity to see him and thick ly crowded along thc roadside.- Some of them touched their hats as he pass ed, and '?ne of them cried out : 'If we had ou our .side one man like you we would soon clean out the rebellion.' "Th?*y ko?'? ?hey had no generals companilil?' m ours. But why is it that th?? i. nh lia- failed to produce a great soldier? I thiok that blood and occupation and environment had some thing to do with it, but one cause, and probably the main one, is to be found in the kind of education the Puritans forced upon the northern people for generations. In the system of teaching inaugurated by those old fathers in the beginning, and rigidly abhered to since, the quick attainment of practical results is the sole motive recognized. It is the be-all and end all of their method. This Puritan system existed over the north and west. Knowledge of principles is by them lightly esteemed-whether of mathe matics or of war-and without this knowledge masters of either science cannot be produced. With these men nothing that was not directly practi cal was to be considered. In fact, eui bono was their watchword. Their purpose in life was attained when re sults proved that they had learned how to convert one dollar into two. "Least of all did they seek to culti vate the imagination-the quality without which no man can be a great commander. Jackson once said, 'I never look at a dense forest that I do not try to imagine what is on the other side of it.' The exercise of this in dispensable quality enabled Jackson and Lee, as it did Wellington and Na poleon, to foresee the movements and thwart the designs of their foes. But this is a digression for which I beg pardon."-Richmond Times. Victim of Bigamist. The people about Allendale, in Barnwell county, seem to be consid erably stirred up over the fact that one of the most popular young women of the place ha.s found herself to be a victim of a bigamist. These details of the affair are from the Jacksonville (Fla.) Metropolis of Saturday evening last: "C. F. Pons, a citizen of Jackson ville, is in jail at Barnwell, S. C., charged with bigamy. "Mr. Pons is a well-known detective and has a wife and several children, who reside in this city. A few weeks ago he married Miss Ollie Brabham, a young woman of Allendale, S. C. The young lady was said to be the b'jlle of the place and the wedding was a nota ble event. The manner in which the exposure was made is most interesting and is af follows : "David Manier, trusted employee of the Matthews department store, is a native of Allendale, and was a friend and neighbor of Miss Ollie Brabham. His cousin wrote to him from that place stating that Miss Ollie had mar ried a Jacksonville man by the name of C. F. Pons. Mr. Manier at once investigated the matter and says that he learned that Mr. Pons had a wife and several children residing in this city on Beaver street, and he so noti fied the Allendale people, which re sulted in arrest of Pons, aud he was taken to the Barnwell county jail, where he is now incarcerated. "A reporter of the Metropolis was shown a letter this morning written by Hon. C. J. Connor, a lawyer of Allendale, v hich says that the people of that little city are very indignant, as Miss Brabham was one of the most popular young ladies in the place. The letter further says that Pons was removed to Barnwell owing to the in dignation of the people." "Mr. Manier was requested to find out all about Pons, which he says he did, and sent affidavits to the authori al Barnwell. Pons, he says, has ad mitted to his newly made wife that he had a former wife in Jacksonville, but had recently secured a divorce from her. Mr. Manier says that he went to County Clerk Cassidey this morn ing and secured from him a certificate stating that no divorce had been granted to Pons or suit entered for the came."-The State. * Prominent Doctor Speaks. He is not talking about medical ethics, quite the contrary. The sci entist is eager to grasp truth in what ever field it may be found, and the fact that Tyner's Dyspepsia Remedy is so meritorious calls forth from him ?c. testimonial : "Chipley, Ga., August 4, 1S94. Dr. C. 0. Tyner, Atlanta, Ga.. I thiuk it is due you that I should say that Tyner*fl Dyspepsia Bemedy has done more for me than all other pre parations that I have tried. I think it i? a valuable remedy for chronic d>np<-p.sia and indigestion. Et has cured me. I hope you may be able to cure all dyspeptics. They are legion. DR Q. T. RUSSELL. For sale by Wilhitc & Wilhite. Sample bottle free on application to Tyner's Dyspepsia Remedy Co., Atlan ta, Ga.___ - Three thieves in New York stole a valuable dog last week, and later the owner found the dog in possession of the thieves, ile claimed his prop erty and attempted to recover it ; but was brutally assaulted, when the dog came to his rescue with such good ef fect that when a policeman came the three thieves were glad to be arrested and thus escape the dog's fury. Wha1 you want is not temporary re lief from piles but a cure to stay cur ed. Dewitt's Witch Hazel Salve cures piles, and they stay cured. Evans Pharmacy. - Husband-Why are you so angry at the doctor? Wife-When ? told him I had a terrible tired feeling, he told me to show him my tongue. Ancient Corn. Mr. William McCabe, a resident of Riverdale, Md., has six kernels of corn which were found among others in a mountain cave of Arkansas, and said by those versed in fossil signs to be 5,000 or 6,000 years old. says a College Park, Md., special in the Baltimore Sun. Mr. John E. Burton, the send er of the precious grains, has in his office in Milwaukee, Wiss., 19 ears, in every respect like other corn, save that the grains are much larger, and in color a dark chocolate. Mr. Burton received the corn from Mr. George Barnum, of Columbus, Neb., and Mr. Barnum raised these ears from the original seed, discovered in a cave her metically sealed in some ancient and curious pottery. Mr. Barnum planted the corn last June, and the growth seemed to him to be marvelous. In spite of the dry and unfavorable season, this antedilu vian maize grew to the height of 10 feet, and in instances to 15 feet, tue stalks measuring in circumference 7 inches, with leaves 5 feet long, when other grain shriveled and perished un der the heat of the sun. Mr. Burton,' seeing some notice of the gigantic ce real, and thinking it a fake, wrote to Mr. Barnum about it. Mr. Barnum replied by sending him some of the seed. Mr. Burton has sent it to his old home, near Lake Geneva, where some of the farmers will see what can be done with it. It has been demon strated in the most satisfactory man ner that the corn was actually found in an old cavern in Arkansas. Mr. McCabe has planted what he has, and anxiously awaits the results. A great deal of interest in this matter has been awakened in this neighborhood. - In a criminal prosecution recent ly in York, Neb., the jury, after a brief deliberation, returned the fol lowing verdict: "We, the jury in the above named case, do not believe one word that the witnesses have sworn to; neither do we believe that any of the attorneys have spoken the truth, nor that either of them eould do so if he should care to take the trouble to try." - There's many a slip after the cup touches the lip. WILL BRIGHTEN WOMAN'S LIFE IF SHE USES IN ALL CASES OF FEMALE WEAKNESS. . If you want Bargains go to. CHEAP JOHN'S, The Five Cent Store. IF you want SHOE3 cheap go to Cheap John's, the Five Cent Store. For your TOBACCO and CIGARS it's the place to get them cheap. Schuapps Tobacco. 37?c. Early Bird Tobacco. 37ic. Gay Bird Tobacco. 35c. Our Leader Tobacco . 27?ii. Nabob's Cigars. lc. each. Stogies.4 for 5c. Premio or Habana..'i for 5c Old Glory. Sc. e. pack Arbuckle's Cottee Ile. pound No. i> Cottee 9c. pound. Soda 10 lbs. for 25c. Candies Gc. per pound. CHEAP JOHN is ahead in Laundry and Toilet Soaps, Box and Stick Blue in fact, everything of that kind. Good i>-day Clock, guaranteed for five years, ?1.95. Tinware to beat the band. JOHN A. HAYES. W. 6. McGEE, SURGEON DENTIST. OFFICE- ^ront lljoir, over Farmers ?nd M? chants Bank ANDERSON, 8. C. ^9 1898 33 Notice to Creditors. ALL persons having claims against the Estate of Mrs. Mary E Yandi vor, dflceanfld, are hereby notified to pre sent them to the undersigned, properly proven, within the t.me prescribed by law: N. E. SULLIVAN. Ex'x. May 31,1K99 49 3 ?V^cl?blcPrcparat?o?forAs siri?lating tbeToodandRegula ling ?heS toMichs and?Bffiarels of' I NI AX I S / C HIL1) Ki: X Promotes ?igcstioaClicctfuJ ness andBest.Cont??ns neither ChpnirinMorptiine nor Mineral. NOT NARCOTIC. tizof* af Old BrS.iMUH?ITC?ER Pumpkin S eli" Mx. Senna * JttA?USJu Anitt Seed * / yTyap fm in r " "* Bi Carbonate Sal* * tKmSttd t?m&d Sogar ? A perfect Remedy for Constipa tion, Sour Stomach.Diarrho?a, Worms .Convulsions .Feverish ness and Loss OF SLEEP. Tac Simile Signature of NEW YORK. Af b ?months old JJ DOSES-35 CE NT EXACT COPVOF WRAEEEB. wm For Infants and Children. The Kind You Have Always Bought The Kind Have Always Bought, THC CENTAUR COMPANY, NCW YORK CITY. To the Unshod, Bare-oacked, and Hungry Population : HEAR us for our cause, for our cause is your cause. It is unseemly for a grea and powerful nation to shake from its feet its sandals, to divest itself of its clothing and to scrape the bottom of the Hour barrel in its efforts to eke out a living on blackberries and melons. We are no Filipinos. What, then, shall ye wear and wherewithal shall your appetites be clothed ? Verily, if yo would walk in pride, like the strutting peacock, ye must FEEL like strutting. No man putteth on a paper-bottom Shoe, clotheth himself in shoddy raiment and eateth black Flour goeth out to parade himself as a "good feeler." But he that wears our all-leather ?1.00 Shoes, buys our Standard Dry Goods and eats only Dean's Patent Flour, is a hummer with chin-whiskers, and his name shall be Rockefeller, Matbuselah or "something better." We'll SAVE YOU MONEY and a peck of trouble. DEAN & RATLIFFE, THE BARGAIN PRINCES. j?fr- Parties owing us for FERTILIZERS will please call in and give Notes for same at once MOLASSES, MOLASSES. IF you need a Barrel of Molasses you can't afford to buy until you have seen us. We have just received a big lot-all grades-and know we can please yon in both quality and price. Also, new lot of Shoes, Dry Gv?ods and Notions That we will seil cheap, and we have a few Shoes ?nd other Goods that we are still selling at 50c. and 75c. on the dollar Here are only a few prices : Muscovado Molasses. 33ic. per gallon. Good Molasse?. 12$c. per gallon. Good Coffee.... ll lbs. for $1.00. 40c Tobacco io 10 lb. Caddies for. 30c. Jeans Pan ts. 40c Shirts. 15c. FLOUR, CORN, MEAT, LARD, Etc., AT BOTTOM PRICES. Yours for Business, MOORE, ACKER & CO., EAST SIDE PUBLIC SQUARE-CORNER 8TORE. FREE CITY DELIVERY. FOIR Fancy and Staple Groceries, Flour, Sugar, CofEee, Molasses, Tobacco, A.nd Cigars, COME TO J. C. OSBORNE. South Main Street, below Bank of Anderson, Phone and Free Delivery. W. H. Harrison's Old Stand. OUR RECENT TRADE HAS been extremely gratifying and we appreciate the very liberal patronage. We expect to make it pay you to trade with us, as we give our entire time, thought and energy to our business, and do, perhaps, the largest business, compared with the expense of running, of any Firm in this section, and are on the alert for Cash Bargains for our customers all the time. We want your Cash and Gilt Edge Time Trade, and will make it pay you to give it to us. We are in position to fill all or ders for your hands at prices to please them aud satisfy you. Just now we have some Bargains in FPI-JOLJIR. . MOLASSES. GOFPBB and TOBACCO. And lirmly believe we can save you money on anything in this line. ??r NEW DRY GOODS and SHOES constantly arriving. Yours to make you a customer. VANDIVER BROS. o. ?. ?MON & BRO. FLOURFLOUR! ?*500 BARRKL4. GOT every grade you are looking for. We know what you want, and we've got the prices right. Can't give it to you, but we will sell you high grade Flour 25 to 35c cheaper than any competition. Low grade Flom $3.00 per barrel. Car EAR CORN and stacks of Shelled Corn. Buy while it is cheap advancing rapidlv. We know where to buy and get good, sound Corn cheap. OATS, HAY" and BRAN. Special prices by the ton. We want your trade, and if honest dealings and low prices count w? will get it. Yours for Business, O. D. ANDERSON & BRO. Br&> Now is your chance to get Tobacco cheap. Closing out odds and ends in Caddies.