Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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BILL ARP A.rp AWites A bon A (hut I a Vt lucie Sam is dead. Good old Sam Pitts. He never changed his name when freedom came. "Myoid master was a good old man," he said, "har was good people den and had people jes' like dar is now-black and white; but de black hrs got wusser and wus sur since dey got free. Kflen a Mack man had a good master he was mighty well off. frr 'op. didn't have no sjionsi bility. Kffen I bin sh o of a good mas ter and my wife and children been sho of one and we all live togedder ontill wc die I wouldent keer anything bout freedom. Niggers got too much free- r dom anyhow. My old master used io make dc nigger gals get married and take a man and stick to him, but now adays dey don't marry at all hardly. I got a lot of grandchildren what haint got no daddy to speak of and I don't know my sons-in-law. Dey don't come about in daytime. Dat's what killed my old woman. She jes' so mortified and so shamed she never got over it. So mauy spurious children all round callin' her granny. lOffen a white wo man do dat way she is disgraced, but a black 'oman don't keer; she shine as big as ever and dey don't turn her outcn dc church. lu dc old times she got a whippin and dey ort to have it yet. White folks dun quit whippin bad niggers; dey send cm to chain gang, and dey don't keer for dat. I hear dat dar is four or Ave thousand in dar from Georgy. How's dat-dident have nary one before de war. (?wine to school too much 1 speck and work too little. Don't know what is gwinc to come of all dese growin' up niggers. Dar is a dozen or more round de depot or trampin' around town doing uuthin' all de time-livia' offen dey mammies 1 and smokin' dese little paper sec gars." < Old Uncle Sam dident talk too 1 much, hut sometimes he would lean on 1 his hoo or his ax and spross his feclins. ' It did him good. Ile has been chop-.1 ping my wood and helping me in thc 1 garden for thirteen years and we will miss him. Ile fell down paralyzed 1 wiih his hoc in his hand. Ile was 1 "the man with thc- hoc" to tho very ! last, but he never was poor, for ho made a good living and had many 1 friends ar I - jd a comfortable house 1 on i?ot. .i.?ey sent to my wife for 'ioinc grave clothes and he will bc ( buriod in a right decent suit of minc ( and wc will go to his funeral. I w*?8 ruminating about this good ' old negro who had seen thirty-three . years of slavery and thirty-seven of ? freedom and knew the good and the 1 bad of both conditions and then my thought wandered to thc malignity of 1 i those who have slandered us solong fi ??vItJio^t a cause. Herc is a book of " poems by John G. Whittier and thir- 1 tyscven of them arc pitiful appeals c for thc poor slave and invoking hcav- L en's curses upDn his master. Ile knew 1 no more about slavery as it really was 11 ' than he did about Barbara Frcitehic ' and he fed the young people of New * England upon poetic lies for thirty c years and instilled into their hearts that hatred from which they have c never recovered. Strange it is that c smart people will write about things c they have never seen. Now, thc idea 1 of an uneducated negro slave getiing ' down on 'his knees and making an c apostrophe to thc north star-and yet J that iSfcthe title of one of the poems- 1 "The Slave's Apostrophe to thc North Star." That nigger was 'possum hunt- ' -.jog right then, but thc poet makes him T ' io say: c c "Star of the North. 1 look to thee, j "Thy light and truth shall set mc ( free." , But enough of this. Thc question still survives what will become of thc negro. And that other question stilt looms up before us, what will we do with 10,000,000 more of them over in thc Philippines? A more senseless war was never waged. It was con ceived in sin and is being carried on in iniquity. Prosperity! Yes, it is war that glosses over suffering and death and grief with a coat of prosper ity. But it is nothing but a coat. War always produces a semblance of prosperity, for armies have to bc fed and clothed and equipped. Ships have to bo built and cannon made and a thousand things collateral to these show activity and give employment to labor and to capital. This activity began with tho Cuban cmbroglio and etill goes on, but in the long run some body will have to foot the money bill. Tho bill for blood and suffering will _i__:,i wu_i - ? i. "_ MU * t uv n ullin IUU ,mi but contractors who arc growing rich from their r ofits? When I was last in Texas I hoard a cattleman say he hoped that Russia and England would Set up a figki,, for he had 100,000 head of cattle that would go up 50 per cent, in a day. Daily wagos don't go up, but everything tho laborer is obliged .to consumo has advanced. How about S LETTER. tan Old f^x-Sl?ive. instil lit ?"li . clerk hire, mule und female, in thc towns and cilios. How about child labor in thc factories-not ia all ol' thc factories, but in most of them, for there arc not many (limby Jordans at the head of Southern cotton mills. What a beautiful tribute his people paid him in Columbus when he re turned from Europe. What a touch inir ovation those factory workers gave him. Why can't thc owners of every mill do the same by their operatives and secure their love, which is worth more than a crown of gold. I read in an Atlanta paper about n. noor woman who swore her son would not bc nine years old until next Christmas, but her husband certified to thc Superin tendent of thc mill that he was eleven so as to get him a place, for no boy under ten would bc employed. What a degree of misery must be in a family who have to resort to such methods. Thc poor have but few friends, but I hope they have enough to press that labor bill before thc next general assembly. Later-News has just como that old Uncle Sam is not yet dead. They be gan to dress him for thc grave and suddenly he showed signs of life. Maybe he will live to have his obituary read to him-who knows. I read my own many years ago in a western newspaper when thc original Hill Arp died in Texas and thc editor thought it was I. But Uncle Sam will hardly live through the night. HIM. AUP. - m ? 1 - Pleasures of Parachuting. It is not given to everybody to as cend midair in balloons and descend Lo mother earth in thc swaying para chute-yet such is human curiosity that many of us would much like to know what it feels like so to do. To this end an interviewer recently had in interesting chat with a parachut ist : "Coming down from thc clouds in a parachute is like a dream," remarked the artist in question. "Did you ever ircam of falling from a high place? Vou conic down, alight quietly, and wake, and you arc not hurt. Well, that's thc parachute drop over again. "No, thcro is no danger. A para diutc can bc guided readily on the lown trip, but you can't steer a bal oou. To guide a parachute out of tann's way, a practiced hand can tilt I one way or thc other, spill out air, md thus work it to where you want to and. "Circus ascensions arc generally ?ade in thc evening. When thc sun . ;ocs down tho wind goes down. The ( talloon then shoots into tho air, and ? ho parachute drops back on the cir ns lot, or not far away. A balloon is i nado of muslin, and weighs about 500 ( tounds. A parachute is also made of | nuslin. Thc aeronaut drops fully 100 cet before the paraohuto begins to fill, t must fill if you ate up high ? nough. "There are several hundred para bute men in tho business, and the ac- , ideals are loss in ratio than railroad lasualtics. Our business is new at hat. Af ter a while thc ratio will bc ess. A man cau't shake out a para ihutc if it don't open. A man in tho dr is powerless. Invariably thc fall s headfirst. "When thc parachute begins to fill he descent is loss rapid, and fiually vhen tho parachute has filled it bulges ?ut with n pop. Then tho aeronaut .limbs onto his trapezo and guides thc >arnchuto to a safo landing. In seven jases out of ten you can laud back on die place whence you started." After this one is tempted to indulge in mild speculation as to whether or not "parachuting" will ever become a fashionable pastime. Rheumatism- Catarrh in thc Blood. Trial Treatment Tree. lt is thc deep-seated, obstinate cases of catarrh and rheumatism, thc kind that have refused to heal under ordi nary treatment that H. H. H. (Botanic Blood Balm) cures, lt matters not what other treatments, doctors, sprays, liuiments, medicated air, blood purifi ers, have failed to do, B. H. H. always promptly reaches thc real cause and roots out and drains from the bones, joints, mucous membrane and entire system the specific poison in tho blood that causes Rheumatism or Catarrh. B. B. B. is tho only remedy strong enough to do this and cure, so there can never be a return of tho symp toms. If you have pains or aches in bones, joints or back, swollen glands, tainted breath, noises in the head, dischar^. s of mucous, ulceration of I thc mcviibranes, blood thin, get easily I ? :_~ J _ *_?-* ~:*i, rt Yt ii ~,;it ultu, ?. iicaiiuiuuu ii.v.. . . ..... stop every symptom by making thc blood pure and rich. Druggists $1. Trial treatment free by addressing Blood Balm Co., H80 Mitcncll Street. Atlanta, Ga. Describe trouble, ana free medical advice given. Bio jd Balm th tested for ftO years : over ft,01)0 voluntary testimonials of cures by B. B. B. Hill-Orr Drug Co., Wilhit'J & Wilhite and Evans Phar macy. ' { '< sass a.? 1.'. v.-??v..vr/.' Dawn tlicy go Without Sound. "In al! my experiences, ard I have had considerable at various watering I r^-orts, I have never known ol' a tin j gio instance of a drowning person call i ing for help," said one of the life ' savers at the bathing beach. "It is generally supposed that per Bons struggling in thc water call for assistance, but such is not thc ease. For home reason, which cannot ho ex plained, they never signal help. They simply throw up one baud, not both, mind you, and under they go. I have noticed this particularly at the Wash ! iugton beach. In not a single instance I has there been a call for help. I have pull ed persons from the water within a few feet of the raft who were strug liug for life and yet who never uttered a single cry. "It, was only that I happened to no tice their peculiar actions in the water, ane not the noise they made, that im pelled me to go after them. Time and again I have seen poor swimmers start from the shore and, after pad dling a short distance, throw up one hand and go under. It is thc most re markable thing imagineable that they give no signal of distress when help is so near. 1 have often asked rescued persons why they did not call for help, but they could give no explanation. They knew they wero drowning, but the only sign of their peril was the in voluntary raising of the arm. I have become so accustomed to this sort of thing-that peculiar manner in which a drowning person throws up his hand -that among a score of bathers diving, ducking and splashing about I can tell thc one in danger in an instant. "When he goes down it is with the head thrown far back. As thc water washes over his face up comes thc hand. Then it slowly disappears, going under inch by inch. "Then if anything is done it must bc done quickly. I have heard many stories of a drowning person making a great racket to attract attention, but I do not believe them. When more than one person is in danger I have known of calls, but invariably they came from thc one who could swim enough to save himself, but who could not bring tho drowning one ashore. The one in immediate peril simply goes under without a sound. I have been with fairly good swimmers who became ex hausted, and who, without a word of warning, threw back thc head as though about to float or swim on the back and go under. As they sank one arm came up. "One would suppose that a person who could swim would be exempt from' this dumbness in thc marnent of dan ger, get back without assistance, and would call for help before their enegy has been all spent. Possibly they may manage to keep afloat until assist ance comes, so when they cry out they are not actually drowning. When it comes to giving.up and going under they sink slowly without a sound. "Thc more I think of this phase of tho drowning question the more re markable it seems. Boys have drown ed here who would have been rescued had they but called once. They havo gone under surrounded by companions and so close to the life guard that res cue would have been assured had there been any signal whatsoever. "Tho impression that a drowning person comes to tho surface three times is a mistake. In fact in most oases he goes under once and stays there unless someone goes after him. Ordinarily a person overboard takes enough water into the body on first sinking to weigh it so that it will not risc to the surfaco, but there seems to bo no rule of nature governing this. "I suppose if one goos under with thc lungs full of air the body will come to the surface, but usually the first sinking is the last. "This is our experience at the beach. Coses have been quite numerous Afhere good swimmers dived from the raft and failed to como to the surfaco, going under and staying there until one of the guards went down for them. Of course they wore brought np un conscious and could not tell why they did not come up as usual. This is another of thc mysteries of drowning. If there aro more ways of killing u cat than one so thcro arc more reasons than one why people drown. Hood swimmers and those who can't swim at all go under and stay from time to time. If people will go in thc water people will drown. Wo guard against accidents to thc bosk of our ability, but occasionally someone goes down never to come up alive. Wo guards sit herc and watch, go in and drag out i all who appoar in distress, but despite our vigilance suddonly someone will be missed, going down without a word, surrounded by haifa hundred persons, any one of whom would possibly have been ablo to extend a helping hand." - Washington ?star. For sprains, swellings and lameness thcro is nothing so good as Chamber lain's Pain Balm. Try it. For salo by HillrOrr Drug Co. - A woman listens to tho advice of her husband, but she invariably docs as she pleases just the same. This is the season when mothers are alarmed on account of croup. It is quickly curod by One Minute Cough Cure, which children like to take. Evans' Pharmaoy. Bridegroom Wasn't There. iiaby Weighed Twenty Ounces. In Lippincott's Magazine is given an account by Cliloc, a young negro house servant in an Atlanta family, of i a wedding she had attended. The next day >'.<;. mistress said to j her: j "Well, Chloe, how did the wedding j go off?" "Oh, la, missy, it was de grandest I eddin' I ebbcrsaw! it was jess lub- j ly! Oh, yo' joss ought to ob seen de j flowahs an' dc bride-oh, de bride! .She had on de longest trail, an' a white veil all ovah her, an' a wreath ob flowahs, an', oh, it was jess dc nus' elegant weddin' !" "How did the bridegroom look?" An expression of infinite disgust came into the face of Chloe as she said,scornfully: "liftj missy, dat good-for-nothin', no 'count niggah nebbah come anigh!" It Happened in a Drug Store. "One day Inst, winter P. lady ctmo to ! my drug store and asked for a brand of cough medicine that I did not have in stock," says Mr. C. R. Grandin, the popular druggist of Ontario, N. Y. "She was disappointed and wanted to know what cough preparation I could recommend. I said to her that I could freely recommend Chamberlain's Cough Remedy, and that she could take a bottle of tho remedy and after giving it a fair trial if she did notfind it worth the money to bring back the bottle and I would refund the price paid. In the course of a day or two thc lady came back in company with a friend in need of a cough medicine and advised her to buy a bottle of Cham berlain's Cough Remedy. I consider that a very good recommendation for tho remedy." It is for sale by Hill Orr Drug Co. The tiniest mite of humanity New Jersey, perhaps, is thc new born baby boy of Mrs. William Leishman, of Cedar Brook, about five miles from herc. Though a physically perfect baby, with fully developed power to emphasize ? tc feelings in thc way that babies do, this newcomer weighed .two ounces less than two pounds wheo he was ushered into the world. The usual preparations for thc com ing stranger had been made with motherly care, but the mite disappear ed entirely in thc immaculate white frlips in which the nurse enfolded him. Au ordinary tea cup engulfed his tiny head, and his mother's wedding ring made him a bracelet which lay loose about his arm above the elbow. His tiny pink toes were like tea berries, and his wonderful, dark eyes like glis tening glass beads. The little fellow quickly developed a normal appetite and is flourishing, but his foi.ri mother says she can hardly realize that he is a real, live baby. Both parents are of the aver age size. - A remarkable engineer feat is soon to bc attempted in Boston-the moving of a six-story brick and stone building from one site to another with out taking it apart. The ground upon which the building now stands is of a swampy character and 780 piles will have to be driven around the founda tions of thc structure to support the 1,000 jaoks upon which it will be rais ed from its foundation prior to its re moval. It will be transported to its new location, 42 feet distant, on steel rollers. No other pills can equal DeWitt'a Little Early Risers for promptness, certaiuty and efficiency. Evans' Phar macy. __ D. 8. VANDIVER. E. P. VANDIVER. Vandiver Bros. Only ask a chance at your Fall bill of SHOES, JEANS. SHEETING, CHECKS, PRINTS, Etc. Large and splendid line of TOBACCO at wholesale prices. We can and will sell you the best FLOUR made if you will let us. Your patronage is highly appreciated. Yours truly, VANDIVER BROS. t&r P. S.-You don't know how we would appreciate an early settle ment of every account due us this mouth. V. B. f^lrL^leckrct Tr?r??nnt Pntouio\i H?ST?W Syracuse Chilled Plows? Dee ring Mowers and Repairs, Belting, Press Ropes, Oils and Supplies. BROCK BROS, Anderson? S. G. Anderson is TTp-to-?)ate, so are xne They have opened up a large and well-selected stock of House Furnishings, And everything that belongs to that line of businesa. Mr. Ben. B. Bleckley and Mr. Noel B. Sharpe are the man agers, anc*i will take pleasure in showing everybody their TvunwoTi omnnv_J *%vrm A\T% T?T?T?**? xiumxaipxi OAVUA auu VAAAJ. JL x*x.\tjua, , Their stock was bought; in car load lots and from the best factories for Cash, and they feel sure that the most fastidious can be pleased. Go to see them. They also have an elegant HEARSE, and carry a full line Caskets and Coffins. Thc Kind You Have Always Bought* und which has bern in usc for over SO ycur?, tiU? IJOTDO tho signature of anti has been made under hts pcr jLJ&^fty'f'jfas sonal supervision since ita infancy. W&ryy. /???tcAtat Allow no ono to deceive you in thia. Ali Counterfeits,' Imitations and " Just-as-good'' are but Experiments that trifle with and endanger the health of Infants and Children-Experience against experiment* What is CASTORIA ?astoria is a harmless substitute for Castor Oil? IY?c~ Korie, Drops aud Soc thiner Syrups, It ls Pleasant. It . contains neither Opium* Morphine nor otner liarcotio substance. Its age is its guarantee. It destroys Worm? and allays Feverishness. It cures Diarrhoea and Wind Colic. It relieves Teething Troubles? cures Constipation and Flatulency. It assimilates the Food? regulates the Htomacb ana .Bowels, giving healthy and natural sleep. The Children's Panacea-The Mother's Friend? GENUINE CASTORIA ALWAYS The KM You Have Always Bought In Use For Over 30 Years. THE CCMTAUft OOM PANT, TT ra un RH? STRICT, MB? ?OM OTT?. FRUIT JARS! FRU8T JARS ! Now is the time to buy your Jars before they advance in price. There being a big crop of fruit all over the country, Jars will be much higher later in the season. I have a big lot of them on hand at a low price Fruit Kettles, Fly Fans and Fly Traps, and all other summer goods. I have a lot of Decorated goods in odd pieces at a bargain. I am run ning out of stock at very low prices. Bring me your Baga and Beeswax. Your patronage solicited, JOHN T. B1JRR18S and Carriages To Please Every One, and at Prices to Snit Yon ! BABCOCK, TYSON & JONES, COLUMBIA, and J?WELL And a lot of other Standard makes of Buggies and. Oa??j?ia,^?es, And also for OLD HICKORY, TENNESSEE, MILBURN and PIEDMONT All Goods bought for Spot Cash, and will sell them to you on same basis, winch means a good deal to any ona that wishes to buy. I have on hand now a large and new line to select from, and if you are thinking.of purchasing an outfit it will not do for you to buy.until you visit my Repository and see my line of Goods. Will sell for Cash or on Time-with good papers-at CASH PRICES Call around and let us trade with you. > Respectfully, JOS. J. FRET WELL. GARDEN SEED. Buist and Ferry's. Remember when yon go to get your Seed to get fresh ones. As this is our first year in the Seed business we havfl no seed carried over from l?.st year. Yours, F. B GRAYTON & CO. - Near the Post Office. After Two Years Premiums have been Paid in the MUTUAL BENEFIT LIFE INSURANCE CO ! O? New Arle, N. J. YOUR POLICY HAS 1. Loan Value. 2. Cash Value. 8. Paid-up Insurance. 4. Extended Insurance that works automatically. 5. Is Nou-forfeitable. 0. Will be re instated if arrears be paid within one month while yt a are IjvJOM or "ithin three ^ests ?.Ter !srkse t!**oii sst?sf?otor" seidenes o? itsgg&sSlitz? ?n?* P** ment of orroars'wlth Interest * r 7. No Restriction after second year. 8. Incontestable. Dividends are payable at the beginning of tbe second and of each succocaiDi| year, provided the Premium for the current year be paid. They may be used 1. To reduce premiums, or 2. To increase the Insurance, or . 8. To make Policy payable os on Endowment during tho life-time of insured. Every member of the Mutual Benefit is.enr o cf Mr and liberal treatment ?na.*J all circumstances, and no matter what happens hs will get his money's wortn insurance, for lt is all put down ia blaek and white "In the policy." M. Mi MATT?SON, State Affent, Peoples* S?S- ?"ildls?, A??DSI?^ON, S. ?