Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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MATR WI ion to Miirrv-K /.. ./. I ht Tilth ni At what rige should II Mian many? That nie)H;ml.s upon the man. Some men arc moro fitted for 111?. ros pon si - hi li ties ? i marriage at l?.'i than others at :!."?. ?* marriage, however, I"- post poned after this last figure a man i likely ti.t into what may be called thc habit of celibacy from which, as from other had habits, it ihard to break away. 1 ti this habit of celibacy he will cunt inn?! till he is about l>0 years ol' age, when a great desire will come uvcr him to try what matrimony is like jost before he dies, and he will propose right und left to everytliin in petticoats until at last ho is ?.i. !., d up, not fur himself, but for li i ^ money or for his position, or been UM* some om; is tired <d* being called Miss," and wants thc novel sensation ol' writing "Mrs." before he? name. An old mau told a friend t! it he wanted to marry before he died, if only lo I have SOUK; one to ejose his eye-. "Perhaps," suggest! d thefriend, ''you will get some one who will open them.'' It is not nal ural for a young girl to wish lo many an old man. A father said to his daughter, "Now, when it is time for you to marry, I won't al low you to throw yourself away on one of the frivolous young fellows 1 sec around. I shall select for you a staid, hcnsiblc middle-aged tuan - what do you say to a man about 50 years of age?" "Well, father," replied the giri, "if it's just (he same to you, 1 should pref'-r two ..f twenty-five." Perhaps i he be>i advice one could give- ii you mr man m this matter is to say, "Wau until you cannot wait any longer." Wait, that is to say, until she-that not impossible she-comes with Hiniles HO sweet and manners HO gracious that you cannot wait any longer, then marry, and may you be happy ever after! As to the age at which women should marry I am afraid of burning my lingers with tint question. All 1 shall say is that if Borne women are not worth looking at after thirty years of age there are quite as many not worth speaking to before it. Leta man please himself, but let him not marry cither a child or an old woman. I have heard of people marrying when only 20, or eveu IS years of age. Well, there is no usein talking to peo ple of that kind. They have not come to yours of discretion; they arc in fants in the eye of tho law and fools in those of every sensible person. When I see people of tender years like this marrying I always think of one stock of sweet pea trying to * support another. A man who lived to a great age was asked how he man aged to do so. He replied, "I never ran when I could have walked, never walked when I could have stood, never stood when 1 could have sat, never sat when I could have laid, married late and was soon left a widower." "Early marriages arc to be depre cated," said Lord Beaconsfield, "es pecially for men." TIUB doctrine does not find favor with the peasantry of Ireland. What thoy say is, "Eith er marry young, or become a monk young." Those who are accustomed to comfort exercise greater self-re straint in matrimony than do the poor. These lust rush in, reasoning, as they do in Ireland in this matter, "Shure, whatever we do wc can't be worse olf than we are." And yet many of the Irish poor enter into matrimony as a sort of investment for old age. When children come as quickly as they do to the poor into the little cabin of Pat and Biddy, they say, "Shure, they will bc a grate support to us in our ?u?d age." And this they generally are, for in no country is thc duty of children to provide rjr aged pareuts held so sacred as in Ireland. Hut indeed it is not possible to an swer the question when people should marry merely by discovering their age. To be ready to marry one must do more than merely live a certain time. We must think of physical and financial qualifications. It is time to marry only when people arc proper ly fitted to take that most important step. That some preparation for mar riage was considered necessary by the ancient State of Belgium I gather from a picture wich I once saw in the His torical Society's collection of paint ing;, iu NC^?T York. The scene *B *h? inside of a peasant's house in Bel gium. On an easy chair sits a fath erly old priest catechising a ah y, awk ward-looking bridegroom-to-be. Near him is his lady love. She would gladly prompt bim, only the priest keeps a sharp eye upon her. In the background is the old mother prepar ing a wedding feast in ease the young people succeed in passing their quali fying (good thing, it was not competi tive) examination for matrimony. In thc catalogue the picture was de scribed as "Catechism before Mar riage, according to tho ancient law of Belgium, as necessary for individual and state security." I think that this was a wisc law I \ 7 / \ ' \ i ? . i : 111 ? 1 Philosophy. / /.nuis Iti'imbliv, which provide.?] before people look UpO!) t ! l - - * r - - i.'- til?: gTCat |f H]>?>ti.sibiliti?*- 1 ! in ?n i l.'': they should have learned thin much ol'the calo oli ?HUI-how i" ?io llieir duty t-> their neighbor l'??r, though liushaud and wife are more than neighbors I?) each oilier, yet th? y are that at least, and ought t?? I-. have in a neighborly way: when they ?Io aol do th?-> Stair- are weak, MI I it r< illy was a matter l'or Stat?; cogiii Suppose a young man spent the ?lays ol' youth, Hoi in settling habits, as h<; j ought, lon in .-owing wild oats, he can i not l'ail l<i reap a crop ?if wild oats in I his home HIV. j Who. mi tie1 nther hau?], M th?: un j happy husband? II?' who ?oies not I bring (?i his marriage a cb'an bill of j moral health, who cannot make upon j his wife that best ?>f all marriage set I x lenients the .seltleiiieut ?d' habits in ;i right direct ??m. Kven young holies re?juire some preparation for marriage. The most important t i in?' of their lives is be tween school ami marriage. No one would begrudge them fun ami recr?a lion then, but still, if they are noth ing but frivolous and Hirty, and have no higher form of worship than to burn incense to vanity, they will not be happy themselves in marriage, and certainly will not make their husbands happy. Women look back with re morse upon their ill-spent time, when their children die, because they do not know the elements of nursing: when their husbands are cross, be cause they have not learned how to food them; or when the men despise them as companions because they can not take a serious interest in the bus iness of life in which they are en gaged. Nor is physical or bodil" health a less important part of readi ness for marriage. If a young mau is always ailing (sometimes the con.se ?IUCI1CC of ale-ing), he will not be able to support a family as he ought, and if a wife is always suffering from the "sofa disease," well, poor thing, ?he may from her mattress grave do some thing to regulate her home, but she must more or less feel that she has mistaken h??r calling in life when she married. Then there arc the medical man's bills to be thought of, and thc effect of hereditary diseases upon chil dren, so that some of the poor things may bc said to have been damned iuto this world. Oo one occasion, when Doctor Johuson was waiting for din ner in Mrs. Thralo's drawing-room, a young man came up and asked him: "Doctor Johnson, do you think that I ought to marry?'' The doctor, be ing nettled at the intrusion, growled: ilS?r, no man ought to marry, who is not likely to propagate understand ing." This applies to thc body and souls of children as well as to their minds. "Never take a wife." said Franklin, "till you have a house aud a fire (sic) to put her in." Asking a sensible woman the other day when peoplo should marry, she replied: "When they have en ?ugh money and can af ford it." That was a gc ,d answer, for marriage is a luxury which some cannot afford, and when this is the case thay are very selfish to indulge in it. li may be a blessing for a man to have a quiver full of children, but he has no right to shoot them on to relations and others to be reared. Some of us who are married lind that we have survived the opera tion, and also that we want a certain amount to live upon, and, therefore, we can sympathize with the girl who, having tried for some time a love-in a-cottage dietary, said that she thought that a kiss and a glass of cold water made but a poor breakfast. What should be said of a man who marries when in debt, and allows his bride, on returning from the honeymoon, to find bailiffs in his house? At the same time, the amount of money necessary to marry upon is of ten greatly exaggerated. Show me couple who arc miserable on acoount of straightened circumstances, and I will show you a dozen couples who are miserable on account of other circum stances. I suppose we all know bach elors who have plenty of money for courage, and they make "I can't af ford it" a mere excuse. This was the case with Pitt. When he was Prime Minister of England and had from all sources an income of about $30,000 a year, he used to say that he oould not afford to marry, and then somo one calculated that for eaoh of his ser-1 vants fourteen pounds weight ol meat | were allowed eaoh day. Surely for the mere economical arrangement of his household if for no other reason he ought to have married. I sometimes cay to extravagant young men, "I won der how you can afford not to marry I could not." Certainly, if a young man will smoke thc best cigars, and will give expensive ?liink- ii? every fool who claps Iiiiii M? thc backend calls him "old luau,'' ii?: cannot alford lo many, hccausi: he would not d< ny himself -mali hut not very elevating luxuries for thc -ake ul' gui ni m.' thai greatest of all luxuries a goo?! wife. Then if a man have a small income he must select a girl with a slender waist, not one who has made her waist slender by health-destroying em - ts, hut one who eau manage a sinai! income and make both ends meet with the least possible amount of wast". Mothers have much to do with this matter. They are alway-mi the look out for rieh husbands for ti.' ir daugh ter-, would it not bc better if they tit ted their daughters to be the wives of men who are not millionaires? lt' they did this more men would think that it was time to marry. A certain philosopher said that we should marry early and of ?ii. This advice cannot bo followed if we wait till all the preliminaries that have been enumerated in reference to char acter, health, money, age and so forth are quite satisfactory. Rather we .-hall have to enroll ourselves the disciples of another philosopher who said, "If young do not marry yet, if old do not marry at all." The advice of thc second piiiloso just quoted, about marrying early and often, suggests the question when a person should marry again whose lirst or second partner bas died. Hamlet has said some very hard things against a rapid succession in this matter, and certainly there ought to be a decent interregnum between the queens of a nian's hearth. If a man replace his wife too soon it looks as if he had been in love with her successor before his lirst wife died. On the other hand, if ho never marry again people may say of him "Once bitten, twice shy." Here, as in other cases, the happy cdium is best, aad I would plead for a little more sentiment than was shown by a certain Irish small farmer. Asked by his landlord if the report of his second marriage was true, he replied: "It is, yer bonner." "Hut your lirst has only been dead a week, Pat." "An' shure she's as dead now as she ever will he, yer hooncr." A famous American author inscrib ed upon thc gravestone of his wife, "The light has gone from my life." Time uot only modified his distress, but suggested a renewal of conjugal bliss. A neighbor had thc bad taste to banter him on his engagement, and to express surprise that he had so soon forgotten his words of lamenta tion. Ile replied: "So far from for getting them, I remember and repeat them now, as originating and confirm ing thc intention that you are pleased to criticise. I declared that the light was gone from my life, and it is for this reason that I propose to strike an other match." Near Valentine's Day in February is a favorite time for marrying. So is April, in spite of thc fear a few must have of making April fools of them selves. For some reason or another May is considered unlucky, though ouc would think that a time when ev ery bud in nature speaks of hope should be reassuring. June is a com fortable time for honeymooning, for hotels are not full and trippers have not yet started on their wild career. Any time, however, will do for marry ing, and should be taken advan tage of when the right person turns up._ - "Put your tongue out," said the doctor to little 4-year-old Gilbert. Little Gilbert protruded the tip of his tongue "No, no; put it right out," said the doctor. The little fellow shook his head weakly, and tho tears gathered in his eyes. "I can't doctor,'' he ventured at last. "It's fas ened on to mo." IT DOES NOT CONTAIN ALCOHOL, WHISKY, OPIUM, a** COCAINE or other Intoxicant or Narcotic. A TRUE TEMPERANCE MEDICINE. St. Peter Couldn't Keep Him Out. 'The brightest reporter I ever knew." said a MCWSpapei mau, "was Hilly Gaylor, who died ai HotSpringu in 181)5. Ho was a most persistent fellow after au item, au<l that reminds mc of a little story about tito last in cident ?d' his eareer. Ile had been as signed by a certain Chicago daily to interview au eminent bishop about a .schism in thc church. The bishop didn't want to talk ano wouldn't see him, but Gaylor bribe?! a servant to let him into the hall, ami he waylaid the dignitary as he was coming through. Ile was order? i ?"it for his pains, but next day he penetrated the house again on some pretext or other, and was again lired. Ile repeated thc exploit three or four times with similar results, and at last thc bishop, coming home late at night, found Hilly sittiu;.' in his study reading the Bible. Nobody could ex plain bow he got in, bul the prelate wilted and told him what he wanted to know, on condition that he would go away and stay away. '.Shortly afterword poor Gaylor got galloping consumption and died, and, happening to meet tim bishop at church conference, I told him that the young man who had once so molested him would never ?lo it again. " 'Let us hopo that he is in hea ven,' said a clergyman ?-tamling by. The bishop's eyes twinkled. Ile lov ed a joke. " 'No doubt he is,' li?; replied gent ly. 'I don't think they could keep him out.' " Miss Annie E. (?untiing, Tyre, Mich., says, *'I suffered a long time from dyspepsia; lost flesh and became very weak. Kodol Dyspepsia Cure completely cured me." lt digests what ytm eat and cures all forms of stomach trouble. It never fails to live immediate relief in the worst sanes. Evans Pharmacy. _ About th?- Filipinos. Major Putnam Bradlcc Strong, son of ex-Mayor Strong, spoke to the Plaza Republican club last night on expansion, as viewed in thc light of his experience as a soldier in the Philippines, lie was introduced by President James Yercance. '"There is a very general miscon ception regarding the Philippine Is lands as a place of residence," said Ma jor Strong. "The filipino is not thc wily, de ceitful individual he is generally sup posed to be. On thc contrary he is a most delightful man to know in his home. He is clever and imitative, and can do anything you show him how to do once. Twenty-two thous and children are attending the schools established by (?eueral Otis in Mani la and Illoila, and their rapidity in learning English is so great that they talk it among themselves commonly, and taunt one another over mispro nunciations. I predict that given time to develop, thc Filipinos wil prove a superior people to thc present natives of Cuba and Pucrtc Rico." Later, in response to a question Major Strong said that in his belie! thc Filipinos were not yet capable ol self-government, or the solution o! questions of broad national policies although local self-government niiglp prove successful with them at pres ent. - One who spends money impru dently is not apt to have money t< spend prudently. Mr. J. Sheer, Scdalia, Mo., save( his child's life by One Minute Cougl Cure. Doctors had given her up t< die with croup. It's an infallibb cure for coughs, colds, grippe, pneu monia, bronchitis and throat and lunj troubles. Relieves at once. Evan Pharmacy. COMING! A. K. HAWKES, The Famous Atlanta Optician, DIRECT from the home office of this Great Optical House, or one of his practical Opticians, and will remain at the Store of his Agent. HILL-ORR DRUG CO., Druggists, FOUR DAYS ONLY, beginning DECEMBER I6th. This will give the citizens of Anderson and vicinity a rare opportu nity of having their EYE SIGHT TESTED FREE by one of the most renowned and successful as well as reliable Opticians in the U. S. Mr. Hawkes has the modern appliances for scientific adjustment of glasees to the eye. There is no Optician in the U. S. who enjoys the confidence of the peo ple more than Mr. Hawkes. His name is a familiar word throughout a aec t icn of country inhabited by over twenty-five millions of people. Mr. Hawkes has probably adjusted glasses to the eyes of mere people of national and in ter national fame than any other Optician HviDg. This firm was established in 1870. EYE STRAIN is often the cause of headache, dizziness, nervousness and dimness of vision. This can be cured in many cases by the correct fit ting of the Crystal lenses to the eye. Call early, he positively remains but FOUR DAYS, as he has other engagements for later dates. CAUTION-I would caution the public against buying Spectacles from peddlers, goiDg from house to house with a lot of Spectacles, represent- i ing them to be Hawkes' or selling the same grade of goods. Hawkes' Spec tacles are NEVER peddled. Many of the inferior glasses that flood the country are positively injurious to the eye. FROM EX-PRESIDENT OP U. S., GROVER CLEVELAND. EXECUTIVE MANSION, WASHINGTON, Dec. 2, 1895. A. K. Hawkes, Esq.-My Dear Sir : I find your Crystalized Lenses well suited to my eyes for far seeing. And I shall enjoy them on my shooting trips. Yours very truly, GROVER CLEVELAND. THE GREAT WARRIOR AND STATESMAN. Mr. A. K. Hawkes-Dear Sir ; When I require the use of glasses I wear your Pantiscopio Crystalized Lenses. In respect to brilliancy and clearness of vision they aro superior to any glasses I have ever used. Respectfully, FITZ HUGH LEE, Consul Gen. to Cuba. ONE OF OUR GREATEST STATESMEN. Mr. A. K. Hawkes-Dear Sir : Tho Pantiscopio glasses you furnished mo some time since have given excellent satisfaction. I havo tested them by use, and must say they arc unsurpassed in clearness and brilliancy by any that I have ever worn. Respectfully. GEN. JOHN B. GORDON, EX-GOV. Ga. and U. S. Senator. A. K. Hawkes received Gold Medal, highest award Diploma of Honor, for Superior Lons Grinding and Excellency in the Manufacture of Spectacles and Eye-Glasses. Sold in over 8,000 Cities and Towns in the U. S. Estab lished 1870. CAUTION-These Famous Glasses are never peddled. SW WAIT FOR HAWKES and not only get Glasses scientifically adjust ed to your eyes, but secure a \air of his Crystalized Lenses, the most bril liant Spectacle Lenses in existence. _. A. K. HAWKES. Inventor and Sole Proprietor of all the Hawkes Patents. SW He will posstively remain but FOUR DAYS. STOVES, STOVES I Tlie Best Stoves in the W oriel. SOLD ON THEIR MERIT. They nevar fall to bake porfooUy oa bottom. Have voa not a Btovo that barns the bread dn the bottom. If yon boy of JOHN T. B?RRISS you will have a good meal three time? a day. I have tome Bare Bargains in Crockery, Of Patterns In Decorated Ware, that I mm running ont of Stock. Ton ahonld avail yourself of this opportunity to get something In bess Gooda at a rcdaocd price? Cheaper than any competition will sell yon. Don't forget this'Item of merchandise* It will pay yon to pr leo thia Tinware before bnylng. TOTS! You know too well that I am Headquarters in TOYS. Competition tries to copy by patting in Toys to draw trade. Don't be deceived by what yon hoar, but como and see fe? yourself. I sell more To yd for les* money than any one. An Iron Toy that you will be asked 50s. for you can buy the ?amo size of mo for 35o. Your trade and inspection soliolted. JOHN T. BURRISS. >im!i'iiiiittiiiin;iiiiimiiniiiwiniwiii!iiiniiiiiiiiunini AVegclablePrcparalioQlbr As similating llic "Food aiid Regula lillgtIl?StQlMlil5audBQYiCjb?f ilS?l'AN is . ( HlLl)Hi:\ PromotcsTJ?|es?on,Chcerfu? ncss andRest.Conta?ns neither Opmu^loiphin? nor Mn?r??. NOT NARCOTIC. ?M/W cfOIdllrSAMUELnr^nLil I\mrpiu* S etd-' Abc, S curta * ItocAtlU Sato - Anile Stitt ? J type nain t . Jil Certonal* So?o ? I firm Seed - ?'lcnfud Sugar . i'uJtrynxj* fian:: A perice t Remedy f o r Cons Upa lion. Sour Stotnac'h.Diarrhoea, Worms .Convulsions .Feverish ness and Loss OF SLEEP. Tac Simile Signature of NEW YORK. At bmouths ?jilli 35 DOSES ^35 Ci NTS EXACT COPY"OF WRAPPED. GASTORIA For Infants and Children. The Kind You Have Always Bought llways Bought. THC CIMTAUn COMPANY, NEW VOnK CITY. COUGH Is a Little Thing when it Begins ! THE longer you put it off the harder it is to eure. The longer it lasts the more serious it becomes. Let it run on and there's no telling what the end will be. The worst case of Consumption was a little Cold once. TAR MINT Will stop any Cough when it first begins. It will stop most Coughs after they get bad. But the best way is to take it at the first sign of a Cold. It ought to be right at your elbow all the time. Tar Mint Is the BEST REMEDY for COU3HS, COLD3, HOARSEN1 and all diseases of the Throat and Lungs. Don't buy any other kind. HILL-ORR DRUG CO NEW SHOES ! 'E bave just opened np tbs best and cheepi*4^ line of ?E.4VV SHOl that ever waa offered on thl* market Timi,, is-only one kind that wei not nor will not Handle, and that ls the ch? ap, shoddy stun: palmed off on unsa| pectins buyers. If we sell you Hhoe* they rau9t be solid leather or we didn't? 'em. 80 If you want Shoes to wear buy only the best-they are always theoheape DEAH'N PATENT FLOUR, Uko Mrs. Coojar, is aa pureas the Alpitj snows, thrice bleached by the hyperborean blasts. If yon want anything pur than that we bavn't got it. We have even more pure TEX AN REI? RV KT PROOF OATS than ter bad, and want to get rid of them-will sell them cheap. YOUTH for the S S S 3, DEAN & RATLIPPE. NT) -Parties owing us on either Note or open Account are Riven not! . Ay m that their Accounts are due, and that they are expected to Bet the same AT ONCE, or bear the coats of ?ending a man for our money. When oj Collector comes to see you, you will eave yourself a great deal of annoyance settling with bim at once. Ide will oall to see those whose Accounts are still unp on and after November 15th. D. & K Ten Dollars Prize To Wheat Growers. FOR the best five-acre yield of Wheat grown this season with our Fertilizers, and top-dressed with our Nitrate of Soda or other dressing, or dressed at all, we will award as a prize the sum of TEN DOLLARS. The award will be made on JULY 15, 1900, upon the affidavits of contestant for the prize and the several threshers. DKAN & RATLIFF S&- NEW GOODS always on hand. W Our specially prepared Wheat Manare makes the finest yield. 0. D. ANDMON & BRO. S FLOUR FLOUE COO TBAJWUBlfBKjm. GOT every grade YOU are looking for. We know what ron waut, we've sot the prices right. Can't give it to yoo, bat we will cell you grade Flour 25 to 35o cheaper than any comp?tition. Low grade ? 83.00 per barrel. / *~ * Gar BAR CORN and stacks of Shelled Corn. Bay while it is ch* advancing ramdly. We know Where to bay and get good, sound Corn cl . OATS, HAY and BRAN. Special prices by the ton. We want your trade, and if honest dealings and low priera com will get it. Yours for Business, O. D. ANDERSON & BRf n@- Now is your chance to get Tobacco cheap. Closing ont oddf ends in Caddies.