Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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BILL ART' A.rp Says l-Io Tries t lica Ailiih iii Ct The Scriptures tell us to rejoice with those who rejoice and weep with those who weep. I am trying to do i it, but it is an awfulcstrain. When I meet a McKinley man I try to smile, but it is only a sickly grin and is only skin deep. They are cprctty thick around hero now since thc election and so between mourning with the Bryan men and rejoicing with thc Republicans my couutcnance has lost its normal and natural condition and it h hard to tell whether I am crying or smilliug. We did not know that there were mere than a dozen respec table Mclvialeyitcs in thc community, ! but it turns out that there were scores ' of them. Nearly all of the plutocrats | voted that way on thc sound money j platform. They lend money and want ? it paid back in gold. A good many ! farmers who have somo cotton on hand j were lcd to believe that it would go up | again to 10 or 12 cents if McKinley was elected, but it dropped 10 points the day after the election. But it is all over now and thc wheels keep roll ing on. Let them roll. Tho million aires and plutocrats can't cat their money or wear it out. It is obliged to go back lo thc toilers, thc people, in some way. Thc Standard Oil Com pany declared a dividend yesterday of 40 per cent., but Rockefeller don't hoard it. Ile gives away a big slice to education and utilizes thc rest. What a blessed thing it is, that a man can't take his money with him when he dies. If be could I reckon wc poor folks would perish out in a genera tion. After all it is not money that brings happiness. A ?rood living, u ( competency honestly earned, brings far more happiness than riches. This | kind of talk is 4,000 years old, but the people don't believe it yet; everybody wants money, a big pile of money; I \ would like it myself; 1 want "some for ; a rainy day and some to give away, , but wc are not in distress, ?nd never | have been, though for sonic years of , thc war aud just after, wc were on thc ( ragged edge. ( Talk about prosperity. I saw it last week over in South Carolina. There t is a nice little town over there called ^ Prosperity, but I didn't see it. I j .went to thc old town of Darlington. I [ was there eighteen years ?go. It was ^ a good old towu then, but it has rc- f newed its youth and taken on new \ life aud 1 hardly knew the place. \ Cotton mills and oil mills and good b farming have done it. The cotton crop of that County is 150,000 bales and tho tobacco crop was 0,000,000 pounds and it brought half as much money as tho cotton crop. Fifteen years ago there was not a pound for salo ^ raised in the County. They didn't j know it would grow there. Now there g -are three large warehouses, where it is auctioned off every day. I attended tho auotions and it was a revelation to j me. The farmers' wagons w-ro un- l loading all around and their tobacco j was piled up neatly in long rows aud ?? their names and the number of pounds j written on a oard and ?tuck in thc split , end of a little white pine stick and ? that was stuck in the center of the j pile. For an hour or two beforo the } auction begins thc buyers frof. ltioh- ] mond and Winston and Durham and ( Liverpool and other markets went all ' around and examined tho quality of ^ every pilo and took notes. The auc tioneer talked so fast I could not un- 1 derstand him, but thc buyers did. I reokon there were two or three hun- J drod piles in each warehouse, and the j auctioneer and thc buyers went from pile to pile and sold each one where it waa. I heard some knocked down as low as 3 et . s and some as high as 57 cents. There is one curious rule about tobacco auctions that do not ap ply to any other auction. The farm er can reject the highest bid and keep his tobacco. If he and his boys have resolved that their crop shall bring 20 cents a pound and it bringB ouly 10 ho turns thc card down and takes his to bacco home, or maybe hauls it around to another warehouse, whero the same buyers find it next day and maybe bid over 20 cents for it. This is one of the trioks of the trade. Tho differ ence between the grades was hardly perceptible to my eyes, but the buy ers know. It was all a bright yellow but some was brittle and wormcatcn and some was soft and pliant as a kid glove. This was bought for wrappers. This evolution has como within ten jyears, and is increasing every year,{for an acre of good tob?ceo will bring $100 ?and it costs only $25 to cultivate it. My friend, Mr. Williamson, the bank er, told me he had thirty-five acres planted this year and it netted him 477 per aero. There is another evo lntxOft in Darlington County. Ten S^sis ago nc wheat was grown there. Kow every farmer sows wheat and a ?arge flour mill has recently been built. It WAS the BLmo way in middle Goor da. Until about five years ago all S LETTER. o be Groocl to !Repub" 118. nmliiuiion. \ that region was under the ban, and thc fanners did not pretend to grow wheat. Now they make more wheat to thc acre, all around Griffin and Barnes ville, than wo can make in north Geor gia. And so evolution and revolution is going on, but they don't give Mc Kinley credit for it in South Curolina. It is amusing to hear them tell about the prosperous negroes over there, ilctwcen cotton and tobacco they pocket a pile of money, and spend nearly every dollar before tb?y leave town. One man sold them thirty-sev en Rock I ?ii! budgies in one week, and Mr. Williamson told mc of a darkey who drew $7)1 and spent %?>7t of it that day for a line gun and a pointer dog. Ile will bc begging his landlord for an advance before Christinas. I had a delightful time at Darlington and Benncttsvillc and Bishopvillc and last at Kock Hill. Bishopvillc ought to bc named "Sweet Auburn, thc love liest village of tho plain." I found old friends and acquaintances at every place and was honored far beyond my deserving. My wifo hasn't got me back in tho traces yet. Near Bishop villc I found an old time friend, Mrs. Reid, tho sister of my schoolmates, Ned (Joulding and John, and of Frank (Joulding, who wrote the ''Young Ma rooner." She is now 8i> years old and came nimbly down thc steps to meet me. Her husband preached iu Mt. /iou Church near by for 41 years, and is buried in the Mt. Zion graveyard, where that eminent mis sionary divine, Leighton Wilson, is buried. The tears glistened in the dear old lad}*'* eyes as wc talked of her honored father, Dr. Go.liding, and the old people of Columbus, who had passed over tho river. And Hock Hill was another revela tion. It is u beautiful lit.th1 city of >,000 people and four large cotton mills and tho largest buggy -factory in the South. It turns out 10,000 a your, til kinds and prices, from a darkey's ihcop vehicle for $?10, to a rubber tire 'or *ir>f?. And then thc college girls. Oh, my mun try. Four hundred full grown ;irls in uniform, and they looked so lappy, and healthy, and loving that I ound myself humming "Oh, would I vere a boy again." lt made me feel lad to reflect that all these girls were jorn to be mated as well as married, nit some would be neither, and alas, ionic would be married but not mated. BILL ARI?. Their Neighborly Way. A young woman of Washington )irth and rearing, who has made her ionic for these three years past in a miall Indiana town, says that for tact ind diplomacy sho knows nobody to !(]ual her neighbors out thcro. She iad soarcely Eottled herself iu her low homo wheo ono day she heard a ion proudly cackling in her back yard. 5ho went out to seo what could have irought a strange hon into her yard, ind found that thc fowl had just laid in egg in the woodbox outsido the citehen door. Whilo she was still pondering where on earth tho creature iad como from, the shock head of a ,hin and tall girl of 12, rose over tho fence which dividod thc yard from tho ,'urd of tho house next door. "Hollo," said the girl. "Good morning," answered thc Washingtonian. "Wo got plentv of eggs," remarked :he girl. "Maw says you kin havo .hat ono our hen jcs* laid in that wood-' jox of yourn."' "Thank you, very much," said the Washingtonian. Tho girl still hung on tho fence. "Wo ain't goin to oharge you nuth in' fer it." she went on. "That s very kind, indeed," an swered thc new neighbor. "It's a gift," remarked tho girl. Then there was silence for a few moments. Tho girl still clung to her side of the fence. ''Say," ?-he said finally, "maw says now you're acquainted with us folks she'd like to borrow a tack ham mer." Cures Blood ami Skin Troubles-Trial Treatment Free. Is your blood poor? Is it thin? Noso Meediog aud headache? Prick ing p. ins in the skin? Skin pale? Skin fool hot and swollen? All run down? Ia your blood bad? Havo you Pimples? Eruptions? Scrofula? Eat ing sores? Itching, burning, Ezema? Boils? Ulcers? Cancer? Scaly Erup tions? Shin or Scalp Itch? Blood, Hair or Skin humors? Tired out with aohos and pains in bones and joints? | Have you hereditary or contracted Blood Poison? Ulcers in throat or month? Swollen ?lands? Rheuma tism? Aa tired in" morning aa whon you went to bed? Havo they re si e ted medical treatment? Ir you have ?ny of the above troubles B.B.B. (Botanic Blood Balm) should be taken at once. B.B.B, has a peculiar offcot-different from any other blood medicine-it drains the impurities, poisons and hu mors that cauao all above troubles out of the blood, hones and entire system, healing every Hore, restoring to the Skin tho Bloom of perfect healtu, and making new, rioh Blood. W.O. T. U. DEPARTMENT. Conducted by tho ladies of tlic W. C. T. U. ot Anderson, S. C. AN APPEAL rOU TUE BOYS. HY c S. IJUtNKIT. A question in importance overshad owing all others faces UH to day. It is this: What is to be the character ~e.:.:.t.:_ .1_ -_? \JL vsui 1.1L i /. , ij .nu |/ i ij usu uun tvuiuijr wc arc so soon to enter? However great our interest in politics, in tariff, or silver or labor, we realize there is a still greater question-one which, indeed, is thc end of all politics and government-Thc Child. Building character is thc great work of our public schools. Wc want to place on this broad domain a people "who shall know their rights, ; nd knowing, dare maintain. ' Thc putting into thc generations that shall follow us thc character that can be trusted anywhere is thc thing to be aimed at. We want our boys to bc "Truly equipped for life's mystic bat tle, Helmet fastened and sword in hand."' We must light thc great battles of thc world through thc children. The secret which decides the fate of any battle is found in the preparation which goos before. It ls true of bat tles for reform. Thc eye of this generation should be fixed upon thc young. There is an army marching forward, in which every man may be a hero, made strong in mighty conflict. Put your car to the ground and you may hear them, '.Tramp, tramp, tramp, the boys are marching." Whether they march to victory over self, victory over foes without a3 well as foes within, depends upon the habits they are forming during child hood and youth. Within recent years an insidious vice has sprung up all over our land, and our brightest boys are falling vic tims to its prey. This vice is the narcotic habit ia all its forms, and especially in its worst form-thc cigarette. This evil has grown to such mighty proportions that State Legislatures and school boards have listened to thc appeals of the bravo band of white-ribbon women, and have given legislation and secured thc enforcement nf the laws rn many places. Parents, will you do your part? Will you aid in thc educational work? Will yon aid in thc enforcement of law? You can get evidence noeded for conviction if you try. I ask you , to look in the faces of so many of our boys who have formed this habit and see how the better nature is being 1 i t ... i_? t. : _ _j i_ i UrUSIll'U UUb ujf uni ?ice, uuu iv ww rr i that no boy is safe so long as our laws 1 are violated with impunity. Your boy may be tempted and may fall. Just ^ as good boys have fallen. Place thc ^ barriers of enforced law about them. Tho man who would wrong your son by selling this poisonous drug to him deserves greater punishment than he who robs you of your property; yet you are raising no voice, lifting no hand to protect them. Why? Partly because you do not know the danger ous nature of the "deadly cigarette." A committee of United States Senators appointed to investigate the nature of cigarettes, when legislation against their sale was pending, brought in a report that they are all injurious to youth, and Congress passed the law that the women petitioned for. A petition for this law was signed by tho teachers and ministers of the District of Columbia, and two hundred and fifty-seven physicians. The president of the Ada, Ohio, Normal school. where are over two thousand young people fitting them selves for teachers, says: "Several boys from here died last year from use of cigarettes." Two boys were Bent to the insano asylum from Hiram Col lege from their uso in one year. Tho school boards of New York, San Fran cisco, St. Louis and many smaller oities arc pushing vigorous campaigns against the habit. Why should not all schools take hold of this work? Why spend money so freely and per mit conditions that make it of none ?vail? Four girls are now graduating from our high schools to one bc, and wo men aro capturing all p1 "cs of honor and prod!, because her brain ia free from nicotine poison. Unless there is an improvement in tho personal habits of our young men in the near futuro, the bright young women going forth from our schools and colleges will capture even the government po sitions. Young women, be strong! Fit your selves for thc highest. In the mean time uso every power you possess to savo our boys from every vioe that is degrading them. Your frown upon theso bad habits will arrest the thought, of young men when ail else i f?alo. Demand in them as high a ? standard of morality as they demand in yon. Be kind bnt firm. Now, friends, to jon all we appeal. Can you see this destruction of our young manhood going on all around you and lift no warning voioe to save? Philanthropy and patriotism alika j i nrge yon by example, and counsel all your powers as citizens to save our | boys from this, their greatest foe. ! .?.'ave them from tobacco and you can save them easily from tho saloon. Wc appeal lo you in the name of all} you love and hold d<:ar to help us wrest this nation from the nicotine' habit.-The W. C. T. U. National 111 neat or. - A Brooklyn woman addressed a meeting of a branch of thc Woman's ? Mi ri u* ! 01 nm unri r. /> ri I .ri inn in a Cin cinnati church thc other night, and began by ordering her hearers to take off their hats. Most of them obeyed, but a few moved to the rear seats rather than do so. Then thc speaker said that she knew of many instances in which women did not dare to take of? their hats because curls and irizses were sewed to the millinery. Half a dozen of th?; audience retained their headgear even in the face of this inti mation. A Village Blacksmith Saved His Little Son's Life. Mr. II. H. Black, thc well-known village blacksmith at Orahamsville, Sullivan Co., N. Y., says: "Our little son, five years old, has always been subject lo croup, aud so bad have the attacks been that wc have feared mauy times that he would die. Wo have had thc doctor and used many medi cines, but Chamberlain's Cough Reme dy is now our sole reliance. It seems to dissolve the tough mucus and by giviug frequent doses when the croupy symptoms appear wo have found that the dreaded croup is cured before it gets settled." There is no danger in giving this remedy for it contains no opium or other injurious drug and may bo given as confidently to a babo as to an adult. For sale by Hill-Orr Drug Co. Split the Difference. "Where were you last night?" she demanded. "My dear," ho replied, pleasantly, "a court in San Francisco has decided that a man need not explain to bia wife a temporary absence from home until a late hour." "Oh, it has, has it?" she retorted. ' Wcli, I'd like to know what the San Francisco court has to say about it. Is the court your wife? If you're going to stick up for thc old court that j way you'd better go and marry it; that's what you'd better do. Is the court running this house?" "No, my dear," he answered,meekly, and then told her-about half the truth. Here's a Biscuit, Date of 1877. A busouit twenty-three years old. Did you ever here of one being this old before? It may seem strange to you, but it is true. Thirty-three years ago Mrs. Belle Charters, then Miss Belle Price, visited a relative down at Milner, Ga., while a little girl. Dur ing her visit Miss Belle prepared some dough and baked biscuit and a young lady, Miss Martin, put one away for a keepsafe. Bight recently Miss Mar tin married, who sent tho biscuit to Mrs. Charters in a nice little box. The biscuit has on it the day and date it was made. When you want prompt acting little pills that never gripe use De Witt's Little Early Risers. Evans' Phar macy. _ _ Syracuse Chilled Plows - ; > ; : >i^- . ~ : _... .. .'..;"i:*;,'f. * '.' ?, . ... ?v,?vir'-ft1'*-!-*3?sMB&' Are the lightest draft, Best braced, and Kost durable Flow on the market, And costs less for repairs. Have all the good features of any other Plow, And a large number that are not found on any other. Clark's Tarrant Cutaway Harrow, The perfection of Cutaway Harrows, will turn and thoroughly pulverize the soil from three to six inch? s deep ; have never heard of one that did not v\\ro nprCont Katisf??i>tinn. Tf vou will trv one vou will buv no other. -.- " " " The Empire Grain and Fertilizer Drill, The only Drill with tho absoluto force feed-will sow Oats where others fail, and will sow any grain better than any Drill made. They are strong built, light draft. Every one guaranteed to do perfect work. BROCK BROS, . And?monos. DEAN & RATLIFF'S LETTER I SOME PLAIN TALK. WHEN it comes to plain, open lyiog we are not in. it,, but when in the course of human events it becomes necessary for OB to tell just what we are doing we are bound to do it. Anybody that watches.tho intelligent-crowd of pleased customers who throng our Store from dawn, 'till dusk must know that we don't have to advertise in the newspapers to make ourselves known; The quantity and quality of Shoe3, Dry Goods, Jeans, Hats, &c.r that are carried out of our Store daily show that the wind is blowing in our favor, while the scores of wagons that we load every day with purest Flour--Dean's Patent aud those Pure Rust Proof Oat a, Rice, Meal, <&c, simply teU the tale for ua wherever they go. While we will see to it thateveiy one ia waited on in the rush, and while we want as many more to come in and gel happy as they deserve, but we must insist upon those who have already been made happy and who owe us for it by Note, Lien or open Account coming in to settle at j once, as all such Accounts and Notes are due on October 1st, and we must hnve our money or it miist bo satisfactorily arranged. Guano and other customers will bear this in mind and act accordingly. Yours for Business, DEAN & RATLIFFE. Sole Distributora of Dean's Patent Flour, And Headquarters for all Plantation Supplies. B. HILLMAN, EDECENTLY of Abbeville, who has opened the Store at NO. 18, BENSON \ STREET, desires the publio to know his success in purchasing his all and Winter Stock of MOD'S, Boys' andJMdran's Clothing, Stn AGO TTaro ann Tir?/! ??wrxroa.T?. WUVV?| MMIM UMBI* vuvtva <r* WMy At prices that will enable him to UNDERSELL any competion. A ?riai will convince everybody of the money he is able to save yon. A Specialty cf Sig Values in Three-Piece Suit? for Beys from tbr te to seven years of age, at pri?es to out to the bone. NECKWEAR; the latest styles. Sfir Finest Goods at lowest prices. B. EQ?X??t ft Benson Street, Miss Lucie Williams' Old Stand. Tho Kind You Have Always Bought* and -which lum been in uso for over at> years, has horne the signature of and has been made under his per* ?^VT^I, gonai supervision since its Infancy* '??t?CA4/Z4 A?iow no ono to deceive you ?u this. AU Counterfeits, Imitations and '? Just-as-good" are but Experiment a that trifle with and endanger the health of Infants and Children-Experience against Experiment* What is CASTORIA Castoria is a harmless substitute for Castor Oil. Pare goric, !>rc?s asid Swathing Syrups* It is Pleasant. It contains neither Opium, Morphine nor other Narcotic substance. Its ago is its guarantee. It destroys Worms and allays Feverishness. It cures Diarrhoea and Wind Colic. It relievos Teething Troubles, cures Constipation and Flatulency. It assimilates the Food? regulates the StcsTc!* aud HowelS; (riving healthy and natural sleep. The Children's Panacea-Tho Mother's Friend* CENUBNE CASTORIA ALWAYS Bears the Signature of TO KM You Hare Always Bought In Use For Over 30 Years. THE CENTAUR COMPANY, ff MURfUW STRICT, CUBS TOSH CTTV. D. 8. VANDIVEK. E. P. VAttDIVEB. Vandiver Bros. Only ask a chance at your Fall hill of SHOES, JEANS, SHEETING, CHECKS, PRINTS, Etc. Large and splendid line of TOBACCO at wholesale prices. Wo can and will sell you the beat FLOUR made if you will let us. Your patronage ii highly appreciated. Yours triily, VANDIVER BROS. t&F* P. S.-You don't knjw how wo would1 appreciate an early settle ment of every account due U3 this month. V. B. Anderson is Up-to-Date, so are the i \juin\jo i uiiiituiu \JV. They have opened up a large-and welkselected stock of Furniture, House Furnishings, And everything that belongs to that lina of business. Mr. Ben. B. Bleekley and Mr. Noel B. Sharp?are themas* agers, and will take pleasure in showing everybody their IMMENSE STOCK and CHEAP BEIGES. Their stock was bought in car load lots and from the beat 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 aftill lin? Gaskets and Coffins. FRUIT JARS! FRUIT JARS! Now is the time to buy your Jars before they advance in price. . There being a big crop of fruit ali over the country, Jars wiil he much higher later in the season. I have a big lot ot them on hand at a low FlW Fruit Kettles, Fly Fans and Fly Traps, and all other summer good?. I have a lot of Decorated goods in odd pieces at a bargain. I am run ning out Of stock at very low prices. SST* Bring me your "Raga and Beeswax. Yt nr patronage solicited, JOHN T. BUKRIS& GARDEN SEED Bxtist and Ferry's. O?m?mo?r wai? ??un ?gi? *G g?s? y??T ?55u w gC? - ones. Aa tkis is our first year in the Seed business we "na no seed carried over from last year. Tours. F. B. CRAYTON & CO. Near the Post Office,