Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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HONOR. Say, what is honor? "Tis the finest sense Of justice which thc human mind can frame, Intent each lurking: frailty to disclaim And guard thc way of life from all offense Suffered or done. -William Wordsworth. .-..A.-^.--.A.-.A.-.A.-.A.-.A.-. ?* *: f "All's Well ( .?* = Tbat ? ? Ends Wen." ? ????? - * ^? A Story of Lovo and War. ? -T . . -T . The date, July 8, 1863; place, Vicks burg; dramatis persona?, 31,999 south ern soldiers and myself. The bot, dusty summer had dragged its slow, pestilent length, until, surfeit ed with the carnage, it stood blood red, feverish, giving its victims opportunity to do a little quiet writhing-to let conscience get' in its work and gnaw awhile. We had been penned in like so many animals since early May, if yon measure the period by the deliberate .calendar-for an age, if I may be per mitted to base a calculation on my per sonal experiences. We, at least I, had" been growing thinner, raggeder, hun grier,'every week, every day, hour and minute. This slump into the depths of physical helplessness and sartorial dis reputableness by no means surprised me. ? man cannot wear one snit of clothes two years, eat in it, sleep in it, wade rivers in it and fight in it and show np fit to have a tintype made of himself. It would have wrenched my faculties to have fixed upon the date when a tailor had last run his tape aronnd mo and noted the points of bis survey by French chalkings, and when I started ont to slay my quota of Yan kees the suit I wore was discarded for one much inferior in quality, although ^ et the time it represented to me some thing infinitely beyond computation in dollars or comparison in texture. I whs, however, a little nonplussed over my appetite. True, I could not have ?tated os solemn oath or affirmation when my legs had been stretched under bountifully laden mahogany. Bnt why even a semblance of an appetite was spared me was a gastronomic puzzle. For a month my eyes had met such sights as men in the clammy throes of death, men mangled by shel!?, men with bleeding stumps of legs and arms and .carcasses of animals rotting in tne snn. The air was foulness itself. By day the buming sun swung its scorching torch over this cesspool, creating odors inde scribable. When night fell* the slime and ooze from the ponds blown over the city received poisonous aids in the sul phurous spit of the screeching shells from Porter's besieging fleet. Besides, ?we lived in caves or holes in the ground. We had ta The rain of lead was terri ble. And the ventilation of onr abodes . was not np to modern sanitary raqui le nients. I am quite certain on this point. Spite of all this, I/had an adult appe tite. 1 have never been so hnngxy since, nor was I ever so hungry before. He was a very-discerning and phil osophic man-or, was it a woman ? who said that clouds have silver lining. Onr cloud was even finer than the phi losopher's. It was silver mounted-top ped oft with ornaments of the political metal of such massiveness as to defy the . corroding tooth. A courier passed through the camp heralding the news that "Old Pern" had grown weary ?whether of commanding 82.000 skele tons with ravenous appetites, or of shrieking shells, or of living under ground, or of all combined was not vouchsafed, bnt be had grown weary, and we were notified to prepare to sur render-rags, appetites and all-the following day. I cannot say what emo tions stirred me when I heard this an nouncement. My ambition had suffered .a collapse. The dream of my youth vanished like a nickel on a bot day .when exposed to the X rays of a large, cool schooner of beer. There was some consolation, however. The light of my life had not been entirely extinguished. * From the wreck and ruin, the chaos of this disaster, I had saved my appetite. If I could bnt work that off on some Yankee and sit down and see him wres tle with it, the spectacle would in part compensate me for the overwhelming humiliation under which I labored. The next morning I was np betimes. So also were the other 31,999 skeletons. There was an air of nnnsnal animation in camp. We seemed to be impressed with the fact that we were about co in augurate an epoch-two or three epochs perhaps. We were to let the world into the secret that we had reconsidered our former resolve to wade chin deep in Yankee gore. We were to give it ont flat that it was a physical impossibility for one southern American to annihilate seven northern Americans. We were to brighten np the historical tablets and give the glorious Fourth a nineteeth century significance-a sort of renewed vim and vigor. Naturally we didn't tbink we were engaged in all this gor geous rejuvenation business at the time, bnt that's what it amounted to in the long run. Americans are Americans whether they breathe the air of snowy Wisconsin or balmy Florida. We can see it now. We couldn't then. When the hour for surrender arrived, we were lined np ahd inventoried, rags and appetites,.in accordance with the rules and regulations in such cases made and provided, and formally trans ferred to the care and custody of the United States government-in this in stance Government with a very large and formidable G. As a company of Yankees swung down the line to add due impressiveness to the solemnities my attention was arrested by the bear ing of the officer in command. It wa3 not his dress that caught me, for, truth to say, that showed the effects of cam paigning, and, while not so tattered as my own, was decidedly rusty. But the walk, th? swing of the arms, the car riage of the head, were familiar. Pass ing where I stood, our eyes met, and my rags, appetite and utter despair were entirely forgotten. It was Charlie Cady, my old chum and the best friend 1 ever had on earth. Charlie and I had met at college. When our school days were at an end, we settled in the same city and roomed together. His friends were mine; mine were his. In all ways but one our habits, tastes and inclinations were alike. The excep tion was political. He had been born and raised np north, while my first glimpse of the light was through the magnolia trees in Dixie. This difference or opinion aia not aisruroour relations, however. Nothing could have done that. While both of us were headstrong and determined on the question, neither for an instant doubted the sincerity or honesty of pnrpose of the other. So it came about that when the sections called upon their children to come to their aid Charlie loyally shouldered a gun for his, and I as dutifully did the same for mine. We parted in sadness, but only as friends can part. At the end of the line, his duties being ended temporarily, Charlie at once made his way back to me, and I shall never for get his greeting. He grasped my hand with such fervor and emphasis and pulled me to him and hugged me with such ferocity that speech was cut of the question until his affectionate demon strations had partially subsided. He looked me over from head to feet, and I never knew him to laugh more heart ily. "Jim," said he, finally catching his breath, "this thing of busting up the United States government isn't as soft a snap as it's cracked up to be, is it?" "No, captain" "Charlie, if you please. " "Well, no. Charlie, it isn't. Least ways, I've discovered it isn't my forte. If you can get me eome place where I can hoe potatoes and eat a square meal every week or two, I shall be perfectly content to let this government go right along doing business at the old stand the balance of my days." . We held half an hour's conversation, devoted mostly to matters and things pertaining to our earlier and better days. I asked about Marion Dayton. Was she alive, and if so did he think she could ever forgive me for running off south and kicking np such a row that Charlie was compelled to go and capture and lock me np to make me be have? Marion Day ton 1 What delight ful memories were aroused at mention of her name. We used to call her our sweetheart, though I some way felt she was mere Charlie's than mine? being a northern girl and of a loyalty so pro nounced as to be with her a religion. She was as kind, as gentle, as gracious a girl as ever walked in the sunlight. And mentally aa, bright and witty as i she was gentle and gracions. It was re ! fresh ment to be in her company, even to be where one could now and then look into tte peaceful, lovable face of the dear giri How natural it came to ask Charlie what she wonld think of my conduct. "Why certainly, she'll forgive you, Jim. Marion couldn't harbor ill feeling against anybody, much less yon or me, I Jim. Ton know that as well as I do. But enough of that just now. Yon will go north in a few days. My com mand will be in charge and I hope to be able to arrange matters so that if you will agree to behave in future there will be no great difficulty in the way of getting you out of this pickle. Just keep your own counsel, obey orders and trust to me." He pressed my hand and was away. As he disappeared I made a mental re solve to the effect that Charlie Cady well, that Charlie and Marion were the best and dearest people in this world of ? sin and sorrow. Ten days later we were in a north ern prison. One morning an orderly came in and beckoned me to follow him. In an outer office I was put through the fenn of swearing on my honor as a soldier that until properly exchanged (which I hoped would be never) I would not attempt to overturn the United States government, and the door to freedom opened for me. On leaving my escort placed a note, in my hand. It was from Captain Cady, informing me that he lay ill in St Louis and asking me to call on him. I lost no time in complying with the request. That even ing I sat by his cot, forgetful of all my misfortunes in ministering to his com fort. Campaigning had broken him in health. It was plain to see that unless he could be relieved from duty he was not long for this world. I was therefore glad to learn that his application for discharge had already been filed and passed upon favorably and that as soon as the surgeon deemed his removal safe he wonld be restored to private life and his friends. For a month I remained with him, overjoyed at the end of that time to emerge from the hospital with my dearest friend on my aim. All that he now required was quiet and rest. With funds which he furnished-I was a hopeless financial wreck-I hustled around and secured apartments in a private family on a clean, quiet street in the west end and we settled down to a resumption of an easy antebellum ex istence. I had written for the press be fore the notion seized me to- go out with grim visaged war and whoop up things and had little difficulty, in se curing employment. Charlie gained health and strength daily, meals were coming with monot onous regularity, and, to cap it all, Marion, whose family had removed to the city, was located only a few blocks away. It was not long before Charlie was in charge of the books in a bank. Our situation, all in all, was so roseate, so replete with all the elements that go to make np "one glad, sweet song," that when I gave it the benefit cf delib erate contemplation I reached the con clusion that we were in clover head high. Besides, had I not eased my con science by expressing to Marion my re gret at having ever tried to set up a government in opposition to the one she loved so well, and hadn't that delight ful young woman laughingly forgiven me and admonished me to be a good and loyal boy in future? We were thr old, affectionate trio again, each con stantly doing something to enhance t.ie happiness of the others. So the months rolled by, Charlie won promotion at the bank, but in spite of all this he be trayed a restlessness at times which it was useless for him to endeavor to hide from me. This was not to my liking, and I determined to make him aware of the fact at the first opportunity. One chilly, disagreeable evening in the fall we were detained indoors by a depress ing drizzle of rain. Charlie could not entirely banish his "blues," and I took him in hand. In an honr I had learned enough to satisfy me that he was des perately in love with Marion, bnt that he could not make up his mind that he bad sense en/jugh to make her under stand his passion. I led him off into u political discussion and by retiring time he was glad to drop asleep and "leave the world to darkness and tome." And then I planned. The following evening I made an ex cuse to leave him and posted off to call on Marion. It was the first time I had ever oresented myself at her home un attended ny cn arlie, i saw at once tn;< she made a mental note of the oecnr renee. The evening passed pleasantly it could have passed in no other way in euch a girl's society-and I was about to take my departure. "Marion," I said, "yon have been a9 a sister to me. The deep respect-nay, affection-in which I hold you embold ens me to speak to yon in cc. ^dence on a subject in which I am profoundly in terested." She looked at me very, very seriously, but said never a word. I proceeded : "You and Charlie have been very quiet about the matter. I did not think either of you would treat me in that way." "Why, how you do talk, Jim! What in the world is the matter? Goodness me, what have we-what have I done ?" Her manner was amazement itself. "Why, Marion, yon two rascals have it all arranged very nicely, so yon think. Yon are to slip away and get married, then return and just knock me speechless with the news." "Well, did I ever hear such talk in my life?" She was making the house ring with her merry laugh. "My dear girl, let me speak serious ly. I have a little secret myself. I'm going to Cuba, to be absent quite awhile -several months, in fact. But before I leave I want to see you Charlie's wife. Now, I want you two to get your heads together'and reset that date^ bring it close to hand and permit me to witness the ceremony. Do this just to oblige me.1 I haven't broached the subject to Charlie, but I'm going to do so this very night* I'm sure he'll do anything for me, the dear fellow, and I don't see why you can't think as much of me and of my feelings as he does, do you?" "Indeed I don't,", she said, with sweet emphasis. When I reached home, Charlie looked up from his magazine and greeted me with: "Well, young man, give an account of yourself. Where have you been to? night?" "Been over having a talk with Ma rion." He was all attention. "Been talking mighty seriously to her," I went on. "Subject, matri mony." "The devil yon say!" "Pre-cisely. Asked her to get mar ried." "H-o-l-y M-o-8-e-s! And may I ask when this highly interesting event is to come off?" He never in his life addressed me so deliberately. His sarcasm hurt me, but I felt that I deserved it. "Whenever you say the word, Char lie." "Me? What have I to do with it?" "Why, can't you see, yon idiotic, loveable old fool? You're the chap who is to do the marrying, not me!" "Jim, for heaven's sake, speak with some degree cf sense. Yon haven't been drinking, I know, but you're befuddled some way, certain. Explain yourself, sir!" This just a bit savagely. I couldn't worry him longer, so I unfolded my scheme. I had simply paved the way for him. All he had to do was to go to the dear girl and avow himself like the noble, manly, brave fellow that he was, and-the minister wonld do the rest., "Remember what yon said to me that infernal hot day in July down in Vicksburg, Charlie? Yon said, 'Obey orders and trust to me. ' That's all I've J got to say to yon now. Obey orders and trust to me." A few evenings following this seance Charlie and I made a call on Marion. I managed to slip away unobserved. Well, you can guess. Charlie obeyed me ! to the letter. That was SO years ago. j Prosperity overwhelmed the couple with favors. He is a director in the bank, a stockholder in a big corporation and has a cash account that runs, away off into a string of figures. She is the same kind, gentle, gracions Marion. Time evidently thinks as much of her as I do, for he has not placed one gray hair in ber dark locks. They live away ont in the suburbs, and yon will see me every Saturday in this car on my way to spend the Sabbath with Charlie and Marion-and the rest of the family! They're all home but Jim. He's my namesake. Jim's just graduated from Harvard and writes me that be will go to the Columbia Law school, top off there and then hang ont; his shingle. I've got the letter here in my pocket, and his mother will be delighted to read it. I don't mind telling yon that it's my private opinion that one of the presidents of these United States will be named Jim Cady. And I want to live to witness the inauguration.-St. Louis Republic. Berlin contains 110,000 Jews, and 45 per cent of the houses of Berlin belong to Jewish owners. - Don't forget that looking solemn in church on Sunday does not give you license to sell cloth with a short yard stick on week days. - If all men threw away money as many throw away golden opportunities the world would bc full of paupers. - The first essential for enduring hot spells is to get plenty of sleep. There is eminent medical authority for the statement that heat prostra tions are due much more to the ex haustion incident to insufficient sleep on successive hot nights than to the actual intensity of the daily heat. - Ten cotton picking machines, invented by Angus Campbell and made in Pittsburg, are to be shipped to the South for service this fall, says the New York Tribune. Mr. Campbell has been at work on this invention for years, making one improvement after another as experience suggested. Last year encouraging results were attained and an order for ten machines was given. If this season's tests prove satisfactory it is probable that his backers, some Pittsburg men, will reap a rich harvest in thc next few years. CASTOR IA Por Infants and Children. The Kind You Have Always Bought Bears the Signature of She : "I wouldn't marry you if ; you were the last man on earth ?" j He: "You wouldn't get a chance. I I'd surely have my pick then.'' Vanity of Cannry Birds. "Do yon know," said .inobservant gentleman, "that, barring a man and a peacock, I believe a canary bird is the vainest of all creatures V Both ruy wife and myself are very fond of pets, and we keep several of these little sougsters always in the honse. One of the cages was an old affair, which had been in the family for years, and was used as much for tradition's as for economy's sake. 1 had frequently remarked to my wife that I believed the occupant cf this cage was somewhat ashamed of his shabby dwelling place and observed with envious eyes the fact that the oth er songsters were more artistically lodged. "Well, the old cage finally collapsed, and it became necessary to purchase a new one. In order to test my belief in the intelligence of my feathered friend I made it a point to get him the pret tiest little brass house I could find. The effect was magical. No sooner was he turned into his new home than he be gan to sing as ho had never sung be fore, completely drowning out the music of the other birds and behaving other wise in a manner altogether becoming his sodden rise in life. No proud panper coming unexpectedly into an inherit ance of great riches could more grace fully have assumed a greater degree of vanity."-Memphis Scimetar. Choosing: a Wife For Her Teeth. One of the most curious and interest ing of bridal customs among the Eski mos is the practice of choosing a bride, not for her face, her figure or her for tune, but for the excellence and strength of her teeth. Up in the polar circle, where a man's blood freezes and parts of him drop off at the touch of the icy blast, it is a difficult matter to keep the untanned skins from hardening and cracking. There is only one process known to the Eskimo, that of chewing. It is neces sary to perform this operation every two or three months, and it ia a. part of the wives' duties. It is for that reason that an Eskimo selects his future help mates for the size of their teeth and the strength of their jaws. Of conrse one wife cannot attend to all the skins, and so sometimes an Eskimo has as many as ten loving helpmates. Wives are bought, sold and- ex changed among the Eskimos. The price fluctuates like that of wheat or corn or stocks on Wall street. A father with growing daughter will be approached by a neighbor and offered one, two or three dogs for her, according to her maxillary powers. Sometimes a blue foxskin or a dozen strips of blubber may enter into the bargain, but dog are generally the factor used.-San Francisco Examiner. It Cauarht thc Congregation. How to interest and hold the atten tion of an audience is often a source of much work and thought, but the fol lowing incident astonished me by its power and effectiveness: The majority of those who worship in my congrega tion are as attentive as any audience in the west. Indeed I think they are exceptional in this respect. One Snnday morning I preached sermon on "The Good Fight of Faith.' As I got warmed np my hands kept pace with my tongue. The attention was far beyond the ordinary. Every eye in the honse was fixed on the preacher from start to finish. And I please do not accuse me of vanity thought, "Surely the sermon is a good one, or it bas strnck the right chord. ' And I felt splendid. The service closed, and the audience was dismissed. As I went down from the pulpit a brother whispered a few words to me ; then another. One lady invited me to her house as soon as I could get away. A dozen or more re peated the first brother's words. The exceptional interest in that sermon was due to the fact that the seam in the arm of my coat had parted, revealing a star tling flash of whitenees at every gesture. If attention lags, part a seam. Homiletic Review. He Knew HI? Bnalneaa. "I know a man of affairs in this city," aaid a close observer, "whose career has heen eminently successful and who enjoys great personal popular ity, but whose business house is one of the best hated concerns in the south. 'Mr. So-and-so himself is a capital fel low,' says nearly everybody, 'but he is surrounded by a set of the meanest ras cals on earth. If he had the least idiea how they are carrying on, he would fire the last one of 'em.' The member of his staff nvho is most cordially dis liked is a confidential clerk. Time and again people have gone to the proprietor with complaints against that individual and he has always expressed deep regret. 'I am extremely norry he showed you such little accommodationf ' he would reply, 'and really I would discharge him at once if it wasn't for his poor family.' "Some time ago I met the business man of whom I am speaking at lunch and took the liberty of hinting that he would do well to leave less to bia em ployees. In repsonso to a question I told him my reasons, and I will never forget his peculiar, quizzical smile. 'My dear fellow,' he said, 4a great many disagreeable things have to be done in business,- but it doesn't pay to do them yourself. ' "-New Orleans Times Democrat. Supcratlflons Fishermen. Herring fishermen in thc old world are, ninny of them, remarkably su perstitious. For instance, on some fishing boats whistling is forbidden, and neither milk nor burned bread is allowed on board. Furthermore, not even thc name of that unlucky animal, tho hare, may be mentioned, and a common method of punishing an euo my is to throw a dead hare into Iiis boat. Some of the fishermen believe in luck attending an odd numbered crew, but the good fortune may bo neutralized should one of the number have red hair. - She : "How that woman we just passed does hate mc." He: "She oertainly looked pleasant enough/' She : "That's all done for effect, but if you noticed she never turned to take in my new suit and hat." - Chollie : "It costs nie about four thousand a year to live." Dollie : "What a waste of money !" - "I don't like that cat any more," said a four-year-old child. "It's got splinters in its feet !" A QUEER OWL PARTS'. THE SOLEMN BIRDS RESPONDED TO THE WOODSMAN'S CALL An Uncanny Sort of Ktifertninntent That Was Given on a Cloudy, Mu? Ky MK ht In the WooJ* of Went Vir ginia-The Whippoorwill Call. "West Virginia seems to be a favor ite region for owls." said John Locblin of Pittsburg, "and I was a highly amused participant once in what they call an owl party down there. I was camping on a trout stream in the Cum berland mountains, attended by Jim Frazier, a grizzly old woodsman and mountaineer. Just as it was getting clark one muggy, cloudy day, I was sit ting in the cabin door smoking, and Jim, after an inspection of the sur roundings and conditions with his weather eye, said : " 'This is gointer be a fit night for an owl party. Shell I git ye up one V "That was the first I heard of such a thing as an owl party. " 'I don't know what you mean, Jim, ' said I. " 'This is gointer be a fit night for an owl party, ' he repeated. 'Shell I git ye up one V "Jim had a way of doing things and explaining them afterward, so I knew thal; if I wanted to learn what an owl party was I would have to wait and see. " 'Certainly,' I said. 'Get me up one, of course. ' "That was all that was said or done about it at the time, but when darkness had settled down Jim stood up in front of the cabin and sent out on the night wind a good imitation of the mournful cry of the hcot owl. After half a min ute of silence he repeated the cry. Pres ently from away off in the woods some where came an answer, mournful and prolonged: " 'Too-whoo! Too-whoo! Too-whoo o-o!' " 'That's one old chap that'll be to our party anyhow,' said Jim, and again he repeated the cry. It was responded to by the owl, this time nearer, and his notes had scarcely died away in the woods when from another direction a similar cry was heard. " 'Two of 'em,' said the old hunter. "And so he kept on simulating the notes of the owl until his calls were answered from every part of the sur rounding woods, each answering bird drawing nearer and nearer at every re sponse. In ten minutes' time, from the trees over our heads, in front and all around t!ie cabin, a dozen pairs of fiery eyes were glaring down at us from the darkness. When the old woodsman ut tered his cry softly, a chorus of soft, cooing responses met it from the owls in the trees. If he hurled it in resound ing volume at the ghostly assemblage, from each throat beneath a pair of blaz ing, eyes would come a collection of the mest unearthly sounds that a human being ever stood still and listened to. Short, staccato yelps, like the fright ened barking of a dog ; blood curdling gurglings and gaspings, as of a person being.strangled ; loud snapping of the hooked mandibles, and a hair raising finale of too-whoos, too-whoos. "For an hour this exhibition was kept up by the old woodsman's deft mane avering, sometimes with varia tions that were convulsingly ludicrous and sometimes with accompaniments sufficiently demoniacal to scare a man into fits. After he had ceased to.pro voke the owls to further performances they remained in the trees a quarter of an hour or more, snapping their bills together and giving voice to varions uncanny sounds. Then they began to flit away one by one in the darkness, until they had all disappeared. " 'Givin owl parties is a trick that's as old as the hills down in this ken try, ' said Jim. 'Owls ken be called jest like that 'most any night, but a muggy night like this one is the best. I don't know what' they think they come for, but if tha's an owl within sound of yer voice when: ye give the call--and an owl can hear considerable furder than two miles-it'll answer ye and gradu'ly make its way toward ye till at last its yer company come to visit. I've had as many as six-dozen of 'em hodnoddin with me all to wunst. Owls will put off everything else they've got on hand and set and visit with ye all night if ye'Il only keep on talkin to 'em, and they'll jaw back as fast and as sassy as ye ken jaw at them.' "Jim, just at dusk one evening, got me up a whippoorwill party. By imi tating the plaintive call of that noc turnal bird he soon had a score or more of them fluttering noiselessly about the cabin, never lighting, but swooping about and keeping up the curious clat tering and snapping of their hairy beaks that are characteristic of their kind. " 'I couldn't do that if it wasn't June,' said Jim. 'The whippoorwill don't whistle 'cept in that month, and it's always the he feller that does it That whistle is his love call, and ail them whippoorwills I had caperin round here so was of t'other sex and was spectin to find a mate here hearin the call.' "Jim assured me that I could get up an owl party or a whippoorwill party just as well as he could, but various persistent trials proved that he was wrong. It seemed to me that I imitated the cries of the owl and the whippoor will as closely as he did, but not a re sponse could I receive to my invitation. No sooner would Jim pipe up or hoot, though, than the answers would begin to come. It was most amazing, and from the way old Jim grinned I im agine he induced the test just to show me that you had to be born in the woods to call an owl. "-New York Sun. Thc Mushroom** Life. The mushroom's life is measured bf hours, but it flourishes long enough for an insect to hang ?ts egg on the edge of the "umbrella" and for the egg to become au iusect ready to colonize the next mushroom that springs up. "Mama," inquired Ethel, looking rather puzzled, "if little children have calves in their legs, do grown up people have cows in theirs-?" W. G. McGEE, SURGEON DENTIST. OFFICE-front il jon;, over Farmers sui! Merchants Bank ANDEK80N, 8. C. Feb 9, 1S9S 33 Thc JVrslnii Carpenter. lu accordance with- the invariable custom of all eastern artisans, the car penter sits upon the ground while :it work. Instead of a bench, a otrong stake :s driven down before him, leav ing about ten inches above ground, and upon this he rests his feet. The faculty with which the work is executed in this position has always been a matter of surprise to European workmen. In the royal arsenals English tools are used, and a better system of working has been introduced under the superin tendence of British officers, but in the native workshops the workmen are still to be seen squatting on the ground, and, being used to this position from infancy and their tools being formed to work with more efficiency when used in this way, any alteration is scarcely to be expected. Their princi pal tools are the frame saw, adze, planes, hammers, nails and a few smaller tools.-Southern Lumberman. A Crank on Shoes. "Du Maurier," says the man who made his shoes, "was a great lover of stylish footwear. He had small, well shaped feet and paid good prices. He always had a number of pairs of shoes on hand and did not contine himself to one shoemaker. "Du Maurier was the most particular man about his footwear I ever knew. His shoes had to bc perfect in fit and style, or ho would not take them. He would never wear a repaired shoe. "I remember Du Maurier coming to the shop for a pair of shoes. He told me that since he ordered them he had decided to have another style. After paying for the first pair he went to the shop door and gave them to a man who was passing, telling him that if they did not fit him he could give them to some other man. He then carno back and ordered the new style." THE FIRST BABY. Its Coming is Looked Forward to With Both Joy and Pear and its Safe Arrival is Hailed With Pride and Delight by AIL The arrival of the first baby in the household is the happiest and most im portant event of married life. Theyoung .wife who is to become a mother delights to think of the happiness in store for her , when the little one shall nestle upon her breast and latterly she shall hear it lisp the sweet and holy name, "mother." Bather happy anticipation quickly van ishes when she realizes the terrible pain and suffering through which she must pass while bringing the little one into the world. An indescribable fear of the danger attendant upon the ordeal soon dissipates her joyfulness. Thousands of women have learned by experience that there is absolutely no necessity for the sufferings which at tend child-birth; they know that by the use of "Mother's Friend"-a scien tific liniment-for a few weeks before the trying hour, expectant mothers can BO prepare themselves for the final hour that the pain and suffering of the dreaded event are entirely obviated and it is safely passed through with com paratively little discomfort. All women are interested, and es pecially expectant mothers who for tha first time have to undergo this trial, in such a remedy ; for they know the [nais and suffering, to say nothing of the dan? ger, which is in store for them. "Moth er's Friend" is woman's greatest bles sing, for it takes her safely through the severest ordeal of her life. Every woman should be glad to read the little book "Before Baby is Born," which con tain J information of great value to all,, If will be sent free to any one who sendi their address to The Bradfield Regu* la tor Co., Atlanta, Ga. DR. J. H. BURGESS, DENTIST. IN Pendleton every Mond ay, Tuesday and Wednesday. At Clemson College every Thursday, Friday and Saturday. April 26,1899_44__6m_ FURMAN UNIVERSITY, GREENVILLE, S. C. THE next Session will open September 27, ISP! i. Full and thorough instruc tion, leading to several degree?, te offer ed. Boarding in private families mode rate ; in the mess the fare is excellent and cheap. For Catalogue or further partic ulars, apply to the President. A. P. MONTAGUE. July 18, IS??? __4_ _ 4?_ - THE - PRESBYTERIAN COLLEGE, CLINTON, S. C SPECIAL offer of reduced rates for next session. A College education placed wubin the reach of every one. Matricu lation, Tuition, Boom Rent and Board for Collegiate year for $100 00. Full Fae ulty of experienced Teachers ; moral in iluences; healthful location , fine courses of stody ; lowest oossible cost Send for Catalogue to W. T. MATTHEWS, or A. F. E. SPENCER. GREENVILLE T FEMALE COLLEGE. Boom for Tr? Hoarders Enrollments. Graduates W. Able Faculty-Seventeen Teachers, Six men. Fourteen Schools. Seven Languages, Literature, Sciences, History, Minie Study, Music, Art, Elocu tion, Stenography, Bookkeeping. Type writing. Director of Music punil of Liszt and Sgambati. Graduate of Royal Academy of Music. Rome, Italy. Superb Teacher, Composer and Pianist. Health Unsurpassed. No death in school since it was founded. Elevation about 1100 feet. Diligent care of Boarders. College Physician. Fare Excellent. Rates low. Forty-sixth SesBion begins September 20, lg!??. Address M. M. BILEV. A. M., D. D., President, Greenville, S. C. .1 uly 28,1S!>P__5_ NOTICE. NOW is the time to have your Buggy Revarnished, Repainted, and new Axle Points fitted on. We have the best Wagon Skeins on the market. All kinds of Fifth Wheels and Dashes. Headquarters forCarriage, Buggy and Wagon Repairs. PAUL E. STEPHENS. I ^Mothers! I^HBdiscom i forts and ? dangers of child-birth can be almost en tirely avoided./ Wine of Cardui* relieves ex pectant moth ers. It gives tonetothegen italorgans,and puts them in condition to do their work perfectly. That makes preg nancy les9 painful, shortens labor and hastens recovery after child-birth. It helps a woman bear strong healthy children. wmm has also brought happiness to thousands of homes barren for years. A few doses often brings joy to loving hearts that long for a darling baby. No woman should neglect to try it for this trouble. It cures nine cases out of ten. AU druggists sell Wine of Cardui. $1.00 per bottle. For adrice in cases requiring: special directions, address, giving- symptoms, tha "Ladies' Advisory Department," The Chattanooga. Medicine Co., Chatta nooga, Tenn. Hrs. LOUISA. HALE, ? or JefoMon, Ga., says: 11 When I first took Wine of Cardui we had been married three years, but could not have any children. Hine months later I had a fine girl baby." STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, ANDERSON Coujrrz By li. Y. II Nance, Judye of Probate. WHEREAS, William A. Bowen baa applied to nie to grant bim Leiters of Ad ministration on tbe Estate and effects of William J. Boweo, deceased. These are therefore to <;ite and admon ish all kindred and creditors of the said Wm. J. Bowen, deceased, to baaed appear before me in Court of Probate, to beheld at Anderson C. H on the 21st day of Augu&t, 1899, after publication hereof, to show cause, if any they have, why the said Administration should not be granted. Given under my hand, thia 4th dav of August, 1899. R. Y. H NANCE, Probate Judge. Aug 9,_1S99_ _7__2*_ STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA," ANDERSON COUNTY. By li. V. H. Nance, Judge of Probate. Where s, R. A. Greer has applied to me to grant him Letters of Ad ministration on the Estate and effects of N. A. J. Greer, deceased. These are therefore to cite and admon ish all kindred and creditors of the said N. A. J. Greer, deceased, to be and ap pear before me in Coure of Probate, to be held at Anderson Court House, on the 23rd day of August 1899, after pub lication hereof, to shew cause, if any they have, why the said administration should not be granted. Given under my hand this 7th dav cf August, 1899. R. Y. H. NANCE, Probate Judge. Aug 9, 1890_7_2* THE STATE OF S>JUTH CAROLINA. Comm or ANDERSON. COURT OP COMMON PLEAS. Robert A. Lewis, Plaintiff", against Amos N. Bags- . dale, Mrs. Annie Ragsdale, ct al., Defendants. Summons for Reliel-Complaint Served. To the Defendants Amos N. Ragjdale, Mrs. Annie Ragsdale' William M. Razgdaie, J. S. Bagsdals, J. A. Bagidale, J. J. Ragsdale. W.C Stone. Mrs. Lana Poore, James D. Stone, Babba Daniel Lot tie, Wilson Loftia, Ada Loftia, Ratha Poora, Rebecca Cromer, Cornella C. Reece, Mary Shir lay and J. M. Cox : YOU are hereby summoned and required to an swer the Complaint in this action, of which a copy is herewith served apon yoa, and to terre a copy of your answer to the raid Complaint oa the subscribers at their office, Anderson Court House, South Carolina, within twenty days after the service hereof, exclusive of the day of s ach service; and if you fail to answer the Complaint within the time aforesaid, the Plaintiffs in titi? action will apply to the Court for the relief de manded in the Complaint. Dated Anderson, 8. C., July 24, A. D., 1899. BONHAM 4 WATKINS, Plaintiff's Attorney, [SEAL ] Jon* C. WATKUS, C. C C. P. To the absent Defendants Bubba Daniel Loftia and lin. Rebecca Cromer : You will take notice that the Complaint in thia action was flied In the office of tbe Cleric of the Court for said County on the 15th July, 1S99, and you must serve a copy of your answer thereto on the subscribers at their office at Anderson, 3. C., within twenty day? afear this service on you BONHAM & WATKINS, Plaintiff's Attorneys. July 24, 1899_5_ 60 YEARS' EXPERIENCE TRADE MARKS DESIGNS COPYRIGHTS &C. Anrone sending a sketch and description ma) quickly ascertain our opinion free whether au invention Is probably patentable. Communica tions strictly confidential. Handbook on Patents sent free. Oldest agency for securing patents. Patents taken through Munn & Co. receive special notice, without charge, in the Scientific American. A handsomely illustrated weekly. Largest cir culation of any scientific Journal. Terms, fa a year; tour months, IL 8oldbyall newsdealer*. MUNN ?Co.36,BTh?*' New York Branch Office. 625 F SU Washington. D? C. CHARLESTON AND WESTERN CAROLINA RAILWAY. AUGUSTA AND ASHEVILLE SHORT LI>' S In effect Joly 23,1899. 1 io pa? Lv Augusta. Ar Greenwood. Ar Anderson. Ar Laurens. Ar Greenville. Ar Glenn Springs.... Ar Spartanburg. Ar Saluda. Ar Hendersonville. Ar Asheville. 9 40 am 1150 am i 20 pm 3 00 pm 4 05 pm 3 10 pm F 33 pm 6 03 pm 7 00 pm 6 10 pm 5 J5am 10 15 wu 9 30 am Lv Asheville. Lv Spartanburg.... Lv Glenn Springs. Lv Greenville. LT Laurens. Lv Anderson. Lv Greenwood. Ar Augusta. Lv Calhoun Falls.. Ar Raleigh. Ar Norfolk. Ar Petersburg. Ar Richmond. Lv Augusta., Ar Allendale. Ar Fairfax. Ar Yemassee. Ar Beaufort. Ar Port Royal. Ar Savannah. Ar Charleston. 8 28 am 11 45 am 10 00 am 12 01 am 1 87 pm 3 40 p-Ji 4 00 pm 7 00 ?rai 7 00 am 2 37 pm i.?KM 5 10 pm ll 10 am 4 44 pu 2 16 am 7 30 am 6 00 am 815 am 10 05 am 11 15 am ll 30 am 1 20 poa . 3 10 pm 3 55 pm 4 20 pa 620 poi 5 35 pot 7 00 pm 7 30 pa Lv Charleston.1.1 ti 28 am Lv Port Boy al. L* Beaufort.... Lv Yemasaee.. Lv Fairfax., Lv Allendale.. Ar Augusta. 1 OG pm 116 pm 2 SO pm 7 10 am 7 20 aa S 20 am 9 20 am 9 S5am 1125 am Clos9 connection at Calhoun Falls for Athens Atlanta and all points on S. A. L. Close connection at Augusta for Cbarlestoa Savannah and all points. Close connections at Green wo-xl for all points oa S. A. L., and C. ? G. Railway, au i at Spartanburg with Southern Railway. For any information relat i 7e to tickets, ratea , schedule, etc., address W. J. CRAIG, Gen.Pas?. Agent, August*,Ga. E. M.North,Sol. Agent. T. M. Emerson .Traffic Manager.